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For over 100 years International Women’s Day, held on 8th March every year, marks a day of celebration and advocacy for women’s rights and equality, with events and marches taking place all over the world. We’re not the standard digital or SEO agency Melbourne gets to host. So, seeing as we do things differently here, we thought it would be important to do our part to advocate for gender equality and share a list of women who inspire us.
2020 and 2021 thus far have seen some momentous changes – Scotland became the first country in the world to allow free and universal access to menstrual products, and following an intense general election in the US, Kamala Harris broke three records by becoming the first female, Black and South Asian American Vice President.
But even despite these moves towards a more inclusive and equal society, we still have much work to do, which is just one of the reasons why we continue to celebrate International Women’s Day.
From family members and innovators to politicians and creatives, these are the role models who the team here at First Move look up to and learn from.
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
– Olivia, Content, with a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Supreme Court Justice
Ooh yes, so my Mum is my inspo because she is always her truest self. A quote from her – “Always be honest with yourself”.
– Alice, Marketing, on her mum Allison
For me, Jacinda Ardern is one of the most inspiring women alive today. A passionate advocate for women’s rights and climate change, she became the youngest ever female world leader in 2017 (a title now held by Sanna Marin of Finland since 2019). Since then, she has shown how it is possible to be compassionate and kind whilst demonstrating extraordinary leadership through times of crisis. On top of that, she also balances her demanding job with motherhood. A true wonder woman in my eyes.
– Leila, Content, on New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
My mum. Something she always said to me as a kid – “Life can take anything and everything away from you in a second, but one thing no one can ever take from you is your knowledge. So always keep learning”. She inspires me because she’s fought against a lot of odds and is the strongest yet kindest person I know, and the combination of these two can be incredible (haha!). She inspires me to learn and grow and be better!
– Simran, Marketing, on her mum Meenakshi Goyal
“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”
– Steph, Content, with a quote from Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook
My wife – because she’s hardcore, she’s a hard worker and gets things done, she’s always there to help who needs, she’s a better person than I am, she supports me and knows me better than anyone and she’s the reason why I always push myself to be better in all aspects of life.
– Stefano, Marketing, on his wife Vita
Neri Oxman is my fave present-day female designer-inventor. She makes biotechnology. “In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.”
– Claire, Content, on architect, designer and professor Neri Oxman
Danielle Glasser, my older sister, inspires me every day. She is the word ‘hustler’ personified. If she’s not busy running a digital agency, she is out starting her own business.
– Michael, Marketing, on his sister Danielle
Rupi Kaur. I wanted to choose a woman around my age because it is so inspiring to see someone be so successful at 28 for sharing her vulnerability and creativity! I also think she played a huge part in the self-care movement (I remember seeing her poems/work on Tumblr way back!) and shows young women how to be comfortable in their own skin. The line “fall in love with your solitude” particularly resonates with me because I am an aggressive advocate of having alone time.
– Hollie, Branding, on poet and illustrator Rupi Kaur
My mum. She is the most resilient person I know and even through adversity, she radiates happiness.
– Ben, Branding, on his mum Shelly
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- Obesity is termed an excessive amount of body fat.
- This campaign aims to raise awareness of the grievances occurred due to obesity and promotes organisation such as world obesity and obesity society.
- One in 5 children is said to be obese around the globe.
- Childhood obesity puts kids risk at of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
Causes of Obesity :
- Familial inheritance
- Liquid calories such as beverages, soft drinks
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Excessive usage of mobile appliances
- Certain medications
- Physiological problems
- Lack of sleep
- Digestive problems
- Eating disorders ( Binge eating disorders)
- Genetic disorders
- Excessive body fat accumulation around the waist
- Shortness of breath
- Sleep problems
- Inability to perform daily tasks
- Lack of concentration
- Lack of confidence
- Low self-esteem
Ways to Promote Healthy Life Style :
- Daily physical exercise
- Promote healthy eating habits and avoid junk food
- Compulsory regular healthy and heavy breakfast.
- Limit screen time
- Engage the child in outdoor activities
- Avoid fast foods, baking products, snacks.
Homeopathy plays an important role in treating obesity, especially in the adolescent age group. Following are few Homeopathic remedies that have shown the best results
Calcarea Carbonicum :
This is one of the best remedy suited to people who have a slow metabolism. Children look chubby and have excess fat in the abdominal area. These people usually suffer from constipation due to sluggish metabolic activity. Children have a tendency for excessive tendency and are sensitive to cold weather.
This remedy is prescribed more where children gain fat more on thighs and buttocks. Also, these people often complain of gastric troubles like flatulence, bloating in the abdomen, and constipation. They also have excessive hunger and overeating .mentally children are very irritable and show tantrums about every little thing.
Natrum Muraticum :
This is one of the best remedy for childhood obesity. Ravenous hunger is present where the child often complains of headaches. Complaints usually occur after depression or lack of self-esteem or low grades at school.
Natrum Phosphoricum :
This is also a high-grade remedy for childhood obesity where the child often complains of sour eructations in the mouth Heavy meals often lead to indigestion and heaviness with a burning sensation in the stomach. Desires to stay in the house.
Fucus Vesiculosus :
This remedy acts best if obesity in a child is due to a thyroid problem. This remedy helps in controlling the thyroid hormone. Flatulence, indigestion, constipation are all cured by this remedy . The child often complains of fatigue, laziness aversion for studies, lack of concentration.
Homeo Care Clinic
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KEW GARDENS, N.Y. — Queens Borough President Donovan Richards has partnered with Queens County Farm Museum to open the first farmstand located in front of Queens Borough Hall at 120-55 Queens Boulevard, Kew Gardens, NY. Beginning July 1, 2021 through November 4th, this weekly farmstand will be open 10:00 am – 3:00 pm every Thursday, weather permitting. Only 8.2 miles from Queens Farm to Borough Hall, Queens Farm shortens the distance from farm to farmstand featuring hyper locally grown fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers and other farm products. The Borough Hall farmstand will also serve as a food scrap drop-off location. Food scraps collected will be brought back to Queens Farm for composting. Centrally located, the Borough Hall farmstand is accessible from the E/F train, LIRR, three highways – Grand Central, Jackie Robinson and Van Wyck Parkways – and 16 MTA bus stops less than one mile from Queens Borough Hall.
Queens Farm grows over 200 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers. The farm’s 2021 crop plan includes 30 new varieties of produce such as: Artichokes, Mardi Gras (blend of bush beans), beet greens, Eastern Magic broccoli, Merlot Napa cabbage, celery, collard greens, cucamelons, ginger, Coastal Star lettuce, mini honeydew, mini watermelon, Carmine Splendor okra (red), Poblano peppers, Sugar Rush Cream hot pepper, red potatoes, Yukon potatoes, pie pumpkin, strawberry spinach, patty pan squash, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, two new sweet potato varieties, two new tomato varieties, one new cherry tomato variety, turmeric, and the herb Zaatar. Last year, Queens Farm harvested 21,600 pounds, 10,400 units of food and produced 3,500 dozen eggs, 600 pounds of honey, 225 packages of herbal tea and 100 skeins of yarn, all from its own resources. This year, Queens Farm is on track to increase food production by at least 30%.
The farmstand at Borough Hall is Queens Farm’s third farmstand in Queens. Queens Farm hosts an onsite farmstand in Floral Park and a second farmstand in partnership with Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in front of the hospital’s “Axel” Building at 134-20 Jamaica Avenue. Each of the three farmstands will showcase produce grown on Queens Farm’s 47-acre site in Floral Park, Queens. Queens Farm accepts multiple forms of nutrition assistance programs such as SNAP/EBT benefits, WIC, FMNP Checks, Health Bucks Fresh Connect Checks along with cash, credit and debit cards at each location.
“We saw food insecurity hit record highs during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing a true need for access throughout our Borough. Thanks to this effort with the Queens County Farm Museum, we are providing access in front of Queens Borough Hall to locally grown nutritious food. As we bounce back from the fallout of this pandemic, we must continue to ensure we do all we can to put fruits and vegetables on Queens families’ tables,” said Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr.
“We thank Queens Borough President Donovan Richards for providing access to farm fresh produce at Queens Borough Hall,” noted Jennifer Walden Weprin, Executive Director of Queens County Farm Museum. “With the increased demand for locally grown produce, this farmstand expansion supports Queen Farm’s mission to help feed New Yorkers.”
Dating back to 1697, Queens Farm’s 47-acre site is one of the longest continually farmed sites in New York State. It is the largest tract of farmland, the only farm that houses a full range of livestock and home to the largest single apiary in New York City. Queens Farm has been feeding hungry New Yorkers for over 300 years. The partnership with Borough President Richards supports the mutual goal of providing expanded access to locally grown produce and encouraging Queens residents to eat their veggies.
–Queens County Farm Museum
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Because of the Catholic Church’s fundamental teaching that human life is sacred from the first moment of creation, the NYS Catholic Conference advocates daily on issues impacting life at all stages. The Conference believes that every human person must be respected in law, including the woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, the innocent unborn child she carries in her womb, the elderly person facing severe or even terminal illness, and the prisoner on death row. In this ongoing effort, the Conference frequently partners with other like-minded organizations, including those listed below.
Project Rachel (Healing after abortion)
To Live Each Day With Dignity (U.S. bishops’ site on assisted suicide)
Patients Rights Council (Assisted suicide facts)
Not Dead Yet (Disability rights advocates opposing assisted suicide)
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María I. Albamonte1*, Yanina Azás2, Candela R. González1, Alfredo D. Vitullo1
1Centro de Estudios Biomédicos Básicos, Aplicados y Desarrollo (CEBBAD), Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2Hospital Zonal Gral. de Agudos “Magdalena Villegas de Martínez”, General Pacheco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
*Corresponding author: María I. Albamonte, Centro de Estudios Biomédicos Básicos, Aplicados y Desarrollo (CEBBAD), Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: [email protected]
Received Date: March 11, 2022
Published Date: April 11, 2022
Copyrights: Albamonte MI, et al. (2022).
Citation: Albamonte MI, et al. (2022). Transient changes to the menstrual period in women from Argentina following Covid-19 vaccination. Mathews J Gynecol Obstet. 6(1):19.
Several vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 were developed in the last year and worldwide used to prevent further viral spreading. The main side effects caused by these vaccines include anaphylactic shock, pain at the administration site, fever, fatigue, myalgia, headache, and nausea. Although not listed as a side effect, period disturbance and vaginal bleeding have been reported repeatedly by women shortly after vaccination. We surveyed menstruating women who received at least one dose of any vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 used in Argentina during August 1 to September 8, 2021. Overall, 40% of the women who participated in the survey reported an alteration of their period. Disturbance in the menstrual period was more frequent in younger women. Menstrual cycle disturbances were manifested both with mRNA, viral vector, and inactivated virus-vaccines.
Keywords: SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, vaccine, menstrual cycle.
SARS-CoV-2: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-2
COVID-19: Coronavirus desease 2019
SAPREF: Argentine Society for the Preservation of Fertility
DOMB: delayed onset of menstrual bleeding
SOMB: skip onset of menstrual bleeding
On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization was first alerted to a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown etiology in the city of Wuhan (Hubei, China). Subsequently, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (CITV) designated the virus as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease caused by it as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). From that date, several scientific investigations were carried out in relation to the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapeutics, vaccines, among others, with the aim of knowing more about the disease and being able to treat and control it (1). Currently, many drugs are under clinical trials or empirically included in treatment protocols for COVID-19. One of them is ivermectin (an antiparasitic drug), a previously Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drug (2). A clinical trial by Showman et al. (3) suggest that ivermectin is an effective chemoprophylactic drug against COVID-19. On the other hand, the production of safe and effective vaccines to prevent further viral spread and recurrence in the world population has been one of the highest priorities. Currently, different vaccines, across four platforms, have been developed and worldwide used: mRNA vaccines [BNT162b2 (BioNTech / Pfizer); mRNA-1273 (Modern)], non-replicative viral vector vaccines [Janssen (Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson), ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine AZD1222 (AstraZeneca), Gam-COVID-Vac (Sputnik V), ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Corona Virus Vaccine (Covishield), Ad5-nCoV (Convidecia, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology and CanSino Biologics Inc)], and virus-inactivated vaccines [(inactive SARS COV-2 Vero cells (Sinopharm), CoronaVac (Sinovac, China)]. The main side effects caused by these vaccines are anaphylactic shock, pain at the application site, fever, fatigue, myalgia, headache and nausea (4). Although not listed as a side effect, period disturbance and vaginal bleeding have been reported repeatedly by women shortly after vaccination. Despite this, no alteration in fertility was yet reported. Seropositivity to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein does not alter embryo implantation or early pregnancy development, whether acquired from infection or vaccination (5). Although SARS-CoV-2 vaccination does not cause sterility, recent work by Victoria Male et al. (6) revealed that more than 30,000 women reported suspected disturbances in menstrual periods or unexpected vaginal bleeding after vaccination at the Coronavirus Yellow Card Reporting Site in the United Kingdom. The University of Granada, Spain, recently started the EVA Project aimed to detect possible effects of vaccination against SARS-COV-2 on the menstrual cycle of women of childbearing age. Unfortunately, the results of more than 80,000 women surveyed are not still published. In this context, the Argentine Society for the Preservation of Fertility (SAPREF) performed a survey to elucidate whether a possible correlation between SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and menstrual cycle disturbance exists.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
A voluntary, anonymous, and closed survey was conducted from August 1 to September 8, 2021, on menstruating women (18 to 40 years old) who reside in Argentina and received at least one dose of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines currently administered in the country: AstraZeneca/AZD1222, inactive SARS COV-2 Vero cells (Sinopharm) or Gam-COVID-Vac (Sputnik V). The questionnaire mailed to participants included information on the number of doses received, vaccine received, menstrual cycle disturbance, type of disturbance [delayed onset of menstrual bleeding (DOMB) or skip onset of menstrual bleeding (SOMB)], days of early onset of the period, and the use of contraceptive methods. The exclusion criteria were: menstruating women under hormonal contraceptive methods, lactating women, irregular periods (regular menstrual cycle between 21 to 35 days), and pathologies involving menstrual cycle disturbances (e.g., polycystic disease, endometriosis, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, hyperprolactinemia). The survey was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee from Universidad Maimónides. All participants consented to fill the survey anonymously.
From a total of 1,926 menstruating women answering the survey, 1,729 met the inclusion criteria. Three different age groups were established; Group 1, 18 to 25 years old (n=295); Group 2, 26 to 35 years old (n=1,037); Group 3, 36 to 40 years old (n=397).
The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine platform and the number of doses administered per age group are shown in Figure 1. The three vaccines used in Argentina at the time of this survey are represented in the three age groups at variable percentages according to their availability (Figure 1A). As expected following the strategy of vaccination established by the National Public Health Authority, the older the age group, the higher the percentage of 2 doses administered (Figure 1B).
Figure 1. (A) SARS-CoV-2 vaccine platform and (B) the number of doses administered per group.
Group 1 (18 to 25 years old, n=295), Group 2 (26 to 35 years old, n=1037) and Group 3 (36 to 40 years old, n=397).
Considering the total of women who answered the questionnaire, 40% declared having had some disturbance of her period after receiving the first dose (45%) or second vaccine dose (36%). Disturbance in the menstrual period was more frequent in younger women (Age group 1) regardless of having 1 or 2 vaccine doses (Figure 2). In this group, 51.19% reported a disturbance with the first dose and 38.33% with the second dose (Figure 3A) having a delayed or early onset of the period ranging from 1 to 7 days. The most frequent disturbance was DOMB in the appearance of menstrual bleeding (32.54%, first dose; 30%, second dose) (Figure 3A). It is important to point out that group 1 showed DOMB greater than 15 days with the second dose of the vaccine. In group 2, the main reported menstrual cycle disturbance was the DOMB in the appearance of menstrual bleeding regardless of the number of doses (first dose: 25.55% DOMB; second dose: 20.89% DOMB) (Figure 3A). Finally, group 3 showed 23.43% DOMB and 19.14% SOMB with the first dose and 17.80% DOMB and 18.85% SOMB with the second dose (Figure 3A). In both groups 2 and 3 the disturbance was observed mostly between 1-7 days (Figure 3B).
Figure 2. Impact vaccine in menstrual cycle per group.
Group 1 [18 to 25 years old, n=295 (one dose), n=60 (two doses)], Group 2 [26 to 35 years old, n=1037 (one dose), n=402 (2 doses)], and Group 3 [36 to 40 years old, n=397(1 dose), n= 191 (2 doses)].
Figure 3. (A) Disturbance in the menstrual cycle and (B) type and period of disturbance per group.
Group 1 [18 to 25 years old, n=295, (one dose), n= 295, (two dose), n= 60], Group 2 [26 to 35 years old, n=1037, (one dose), n= 1037, (two doses), n= 402] and Group 3 [36 to 40 years old, n=397, (one dose), n= 397, (two dose), n= 191]. DOMB: delayed onset of menstrual bleeding. SOMB: skip onset of menstrual bleeding.
It is also important to mention that 64.1% of the participant women use an application to control their menstrual cycle and the contraceptive methods used were coito interruptus, condom, Copper Intrauterine Device (IUD), tubal ligation, vasectomy, and Billings ovulation method.
In the last time, women began to report disturbances in their menstrual cycle after receiving the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. The frequency of period disturbance reports revealed the need for investigating the issue. In this way, the US National Institutes of Health allocated $1.67M for more in-depth research on the subject. In Argentina, the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination campaign began on December 29, 2020, and was carried out in stages, starting with essential workers, older adults and people with risk pathologies. Then, the vaccination campaign continued with the general population in decreasing age groups. This vaccination scheme is reflected in our study since most representative groups were 2 and 3, being younger women from group 1 the one with the smallest sample size. On the other hand, and according to the availability of vaccines that Argentina received at the time the survey was conducted, the Sinopharm vaccine was the most widely administered, followed by AstraZeneca and Sputnik V.
This is the first survey in Argentina that shows a correlation between disturbances in the menstrual cycle and the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. In the youngest age group, the most frequent disturbance reported was the DOMB in the appearance of menstrual bleeding, being between 1 to 7 days with the first dose and more than 15 days with the second dose of the vaccine. The latter may be due to the administration of the Sinopharm vaccine, which has a 21 to 28 days interval between the first and second dose overlapping with the next menstrual cycle. In group 2, the most frequent disturbance was a DOMB in the menstrual cycle between 1 to 7 days, while in group 3 no differences were observed between the percentages of DOMB and SOMB. It is important to note that the main limitation of the study was an imperfect response rate resulting in a possible selection bias that may have affected the results. For example, there is a considerable risk of recall bias (perceived vs. actual menstrual disturbance) and participation bias (women with menstrual disturbance are more likely to respond to the questionnaire). Besides this, we believe mention the possible alteration of the menstrual cycle as a side effect should be considered.
Our results are in agreement with the observation of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency from the United Kingdom (MHRA-UK) (7), indicating that the menstrual cycle disturbances are manifested both with mRNA, viral vector, and inactivated virus vaccines. The disturbance of the menstrual cycle may be due to an immune response rather than to specific components of the vaccine. Recent studies conducted with the HPV vaccine showed that one of the side effects after vaccination was irregular menstrual cycles and abnormal menstrual bleeding (8). However, this study reported no correlation between the vaccine and the menstrual cycle disturbances, but with an immune response to the viral infection.
It is important to point out that fertility in women could be not affected by the SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccines. Both oocyte quality and pregnancy rates were similar in vaccinated and unvaccinated women, and in vaccinated vs. sick women (5; 9). Moreover, Bentov et al. (10) showed that neither the COVID-19 disease nor the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine caused a measurable detrimental effect on the function of the ovarian follicle. However, a recent publication by Herrero et al. (11) suggests that infection with SARS-CoV-2 could damage ovarian function, alter the follicular microenvironment and potentially affect reproductive outcomes. Anyway, and according to our results, 4 out of 10 menstruating women in Argentina showed disturbances in the menstrual cycle following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. Given the frequency of menstrual period disturbance, it should be listed as a possible side effect of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
Our observation showed that alterations in the menstrual cycle due to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have a short-term duration and this is in agreement with a recent work by Edelman et al. (12) that included unvaccinated versus vaccinated individuals and vaccination is associated with a small change in cycle length. On the other hand, the information currently available is controversial as to whether or not it affects fertility.
For all the above exposed, we consider that women should be informed of this as one of the possible side effects. Likewise, more research needs to be done on Sars-Cov-2 vaccines and their impact on the menstrual cycle and fertility to avoid misinformation, establish an appropriate plan of vaccination, and enable pregnancy planning.
We are grateful to the Argentine Society for the Preservation of Fertility (SAPREF) and Universidad Maimónides, Argentina, for providing logistic and financial support to this study.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST DECLARATIONS
The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS STATEMENT
MIA and YA designed, distributed, received and analyzed the survey; MIA, CRG and ADV discussed the results and wrote the final manuscript. All authors agreed with this submission.
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Spent any time recently (voluntarily or not) in an urban courtroom? After an hour or two, you’re quite certain that debtors’ prisons are back with a vengeance, and a twist. As to the vengeance: In New York City alone, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch, thousands of misdemeanor defendants are held in pre-trial detention every year because they’re unable to throw bail. Note the “pre-trial” part: these are folks merely accused rather than convicted of any offense. The situation is even worse than debtors’ prison because the accused don’t even owe a debt. They end up doing time in advance of a trial for the crime of being poor. It’s like a down payment on a sentence that may or may not include incarceration (but that’s not all the sentences may include, as we’ll see). What working poor person has $1000 lying around to invest in a municipal court as bail when they can’t make the rent, feed themselves or their children, or pay for heat? Nobody I’ve ever met. And what of the rest of our cities’ human flotsam, the unskilled unemployed, homeless, seriously mentally ill, or substance-dependent?
The details are striking.
Among defendants arrested in 2008 on nonfelony charges who had bail set at $1,000 or less, 87 percent were incarcerated because they were unable to post the bail amount at their arraignment. On average, they spent almost 16 days in pretrial detention for low-level offenses. Most were accused of nonviolent minor crimes such as shoplifting, turnstile jumping, smoking marijuana in public, drug possession, trespassing, and prostitution.
Nearly a quarter of the people spending time behind bars on Riker’s Island in 2008?one in four inmates?were there because they didn’t have the money to pay bail on a misdemeanor charge. These unfortunate souls may have been presumed innocent of the criminal charges by the judge, but they were nonetheless jailed for being poor. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), “pretrial supervision” of misdemeanor defendants is an all-around superior alternative to jailing the poor. But New York City has no such program.
Bail exists to force a defendant back into the courtroom as a case progresses. Apart from establishing a pretrial supervision program, HRW recommends judges might replace cash bail by unsecured appearance bonds (a promise to pay a certain amount upon failure to appear). Failure to appear is hardly rampant in the City’s courts. HRW found that “84 percent of released defendants show up for all their court proceedings; and most of those who miss a scheduled court appearance come back to court within 30 days.”
Then there are the joys of imprisonment for New Yorkers presumed innocent.
Jail can be dehumanizing, unpleasant, and even violent . . . It exacts a high toll on those who are incarcerated as well as on their families, who suffer from reduced income and absent parents or caregivers. Many defendants plead guilty simply to avoid or end pretrial detention. Indeed, guilty pleas account for 99.6 percent of the convictions of New York City misdemeanor defendants.
As if this routine injustice were not enough, there’s the twist, a problem not addressed by the HRW report. It concerns the sentences following the legal proceeding. Judges often sentence those convicted of nonviolent misdemeanors to some combination of community service and a fine. But if you didn’t have the wherewithal to prevent pre-trial detention, where will you find it to pay the fine? Perhaps Human Rights Watch will follow up the current study with one of this problem. How many people spend how much time behind bars because they fail to pay their court-ordered fines on time? Debtors’ prisons were common in the United States until the 1830s. Robert E. Lee’s father, and Declaration of Independence signatories James Wilson and Robert Morris spent time in prison for inability to repay debts. Gentlemen of such lofty station would not likely be incarcerated today for failure to pay (see the case last month of the hit-and-run hedge fund manager allowed a misdemeanor plea by a Colorado judge). Today, incarceration for inability to pay is reserved for the poor. | <urn:uuid:0b27eedc-d9f0-472e-8097-514cacfde7e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.counterpunch.org/2010/12/06/the-return-of-debtors-prisons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95273 | 896 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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The 90D variant, equipped with a 90-kWh battery pack, offers the best range of 257 miles and a combined city/highway rating of 92MPGe, consuming 37 kWh per 100 miles.
The performance-focused Model X P90D brings higher performance but with a slight range penalty, bringing the EPA-certified driving distance down to 250 miles on a full charge.
The numbers are fairly close to the Model S 85D and P85D, which offer respective ranges of 270 miles and 253 miles despite less energy capacity. Interestingly, the range discrepancy between the standard dual-motor and performance models is 17 miles for the Model S and just seven miles for the Model X.
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By William Francis Bailey in 1906
Grading was commenced in July 1864 and track-laying the spring of 1865. The start was not auspicious. The line was originally located directly west from Omaha, Nebraska, but after $100,000 had been spent, it was abandoned on account of the hills and consequent heavy grades. Then, two new lines were surveyed, one to the north and then west and the other south nearly to Bellevue, Kansas, and then west. This latter was called the “Ox-bow Route” and was finally selected by the company, notwithstanding violent opposition on the part of the people of Omaha, who feared that the company would cross the Missouri River at Bellevue, thus leaving Omaha out.
September 25th, 1865, saw 11 miles finished, and in November, an excursion was run from Omaha to the end of the track, 15 miles.
This was gotten up by Vice-President Durant, who took an engine and flat car, inviting about twenty gentlemen to go with him on the first inspection trip to Sailing’s Grove. Among the excursionists was General William Sherman, who gloried in the undertaking and expressed regret that at his age, he could hardly anticipate living until the completion of the work. The party was very enthusiastic, and as the narrator naively puts it, “as the commissary was well supplied, the gentlemen enjoyed themselves.”
For several reasons, the work dragged. It took one year to complete the first 40 miles. The lack of rail connections east of Omaha were, previous to January 1867, when the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad reached Council Bluffs, Iowa, at high expense and delay. The work was new, those in charge were not at that time experienced, funds were scarce, and the company’s credit was not yet established, and as a result, the average rate of progress during the first 12 months was but a mile a week.
“The work was military in character, and one is not surprised to find among the superintendents and others in charge a liberal sprinkling of military titles. A detachment of soldiers always accompanied surveying parties as a protection against Indians. The construction trains were amply supplied with rifles and other arms, and it was boasted that a gang of track-layers could be transmuted into a battalion of infantry at any moment. Over half of the men had shouldered muskets in many a battle.”
The same facts are brought out by the following extract from a newspaper of that day.
“The whole organization of the road is semi-military. The men who go ahead (surveyors and locators) are the advance guard; following them is the second line (the graders) cutting through the gorges, grading the road, and building the bridges. Then comes the army’s main body, placing the ties, laying the track, spiking down the rails, perfecting the alignment, ballasting and dressing up, and completing the road for immediate use. Along the line of the completed road are construction trains pushing ‘to the front’ with supplies. The advance limit of the rails is occupied by a train of long box-cars with bunks built within them, in which the men sleep at night and take their meals. Close behind this train come trainloads of ties, rails, spikes, etc., which are thrown off to the side. A light car drawn by a single horse gallops up, is loaded with this material, and then is off again to the front. Two men grasp the forward end of the rail and start ahead with it, the rest of the gang taking hold two by two until it is clear of the car. At the word of command, it is dropped into place, right side up, during which a similar operation has been going on with the rail for the other side, — thirty seconds to the rail for each gang, four rails to the minute. As soon as a car is unloaded, it is tipped over to permit another to pass it to the front, and then it is righted again and hustled back for another load.
“Close behind the track-layers comes the gaugers, then the spikers and bolters. Three strokes to the spike, 10 spikes to the rail, four hundred rails to the mile. Quick work, you say, — but the fellows on the Union Pacific are tremendously in earnest.”
Or as another writer has it, “We witnessed here the fabulous speed with which the line was built. Through the two or three hundred miles beyond were scattered ten to fifteen thousand men in great gangs preparing the road-bed with plows, scrapers, shovels, picks, and carts, and among the rocks, with drills and powder were doing the grading as rapidly as men could stand and move with their tools. Long trains brought up to the end of the track, loads of ties and rails the former were transferred to teams, sent one or two miles ahead, and put in place on the grade. Spikes and rails were reloaded on platform cars and pushed up to the last previously laid rail. With an automatic movement and celerity that was wonderful, practiced hands dropped the fresh rails one after another on the ties exactly in line.
Hugh sledges sent the spikes home, — the car rolled on, and the operation was repeated, while every few minutes the long heavy train behind sent out a puff of smoke from its locomotive and caught up with its load of material the advancing work. The only limit to the rapidity with which the track could thus be laid was the power of the road behind to bring forward material.”
The above description applies to the later construction period when the forces had become thoroughly organized and the work systematized. The following table shows the rate of construction:
|Ground was broken at Omaha||December 2nd, 1863|
|Work commenced at Omaha||Spring, 1864|
|11 Miles completed to Gilmore||September 25th, 1865|
|40 Miles completed to Valley||December 31st, 1865|
|47 Miles completed to Fremont||January 24th, 1866|
|50 Miles completed||March 13th, 1866|
|100 Miles completed||June 2nd, 1866|
|247 Miles completed to the 100th Meridian||October 5th, 1866|
|305 Miles completed||December 31st, 1866|
|414 Miles completed to Sidney, Wyoming||August 1867|
|516 Miles completed to Cheyenne, Wyoming||November 13th, 1867|
|573 Miles completed to Laramie, Wyoming||May 9th, 1868|
|745 Miles completed||December 31st, 1868|
|1033 Miles completed to Ogden, Utah||March 8th, 1869|
|1086 Miles completed:|
|To Promontory, Utah||April 28th, 1869|
|Formal connection made||May 10, 1869|
|Regular train service commenced||July 15th, 1869|
|Completed according to Judicial decision||November 6th, 1869|
The progress made was daily wired East and published in the principal newspapers. Thus in the Chicago Tribune, items such as “One and nine-tenth miles of track laid yesterday on the Union Pacific Railroad” appeared in every issue.
During the construction of the line, headquarters were established at different points at the front, which were used as a basis of operations to construct the section beyond. These places enjoyed a temporary boom; some of them, like Jonah’s Gourd to wither up and die away, others profiting by the start are today points of importance. The first of these was North Platte, Nebraska, its selection caused by the delay incident to bridging the river. This was the terminus of the road during the fall of 1866 and up to June 1867. During this time, it was the distributing point for all the country west. The mixture of railroad laborers, freighters, etc., with more or less money, inaugurated a rough time and was the beginning of the wild scenes that attended the line’s construction. The town during the winter had a population of five thousand and over a thousand buildings.
With the completion of the line to Sidney, Wyoming, in June 1867, the rough element left and established themselves at that point, leaving at North Platte about three hundred of the more sedentary law-abiding class who had determined on that point for their home. In moving to the front, houses were torn down, loaded on cars to be taken to the new site, and re-erected.
When it was known that Cheyenne was to be the terminus for the winter of 1867-1868, there was a grand hegira of roughs, gamblers, prostitutes from all along the line, and the East. The population jumped to six thousand. Dwellings sprang up like mushrooms. They were of every conceivable character. Some simply holes in the ground roofed over, known as “dugouts,” others of canvas, while some few were of wood and stone. Town lots were sold at fabulous prices. The only pastimes were gambling and drinking. Shooting scrapes with “a man for breakfast” were an everyday occurrence, and stealing so common as to occasion no comment. It is said of old Colonel Murrian, the then Mayor of Cheyenne, that he advanced the City’s script eighteen cents on the dollar, by inflicting a fine of ten dollars on those who “made a gunplay” i. e. shot at anyone,– and that it was his custom to add a quarter to the fines he inflicted, making them ten dollars and twenty-five cents or twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents, with the explanation that his was dry work. The extra quarter was to cover the stimulant his arduous duties required.
Such conditions brought about an uprising on the part of the more respectable element. Vigilance committees with “Judge Lynch” in command, took hold and from his Court, there was neither appeal nor stays. Witnesses were not held to be essential. The toughs were known, and the judgments of the Court generally right. At least the defendants were not left in a condition to make a complaint or appeal. During the first year of its existence, the Vigilance Committee hung or shot twelve of the desperadoes and were instrumental in sending as many more to the Penitentiary. The effect was to compel the tough element to either leave or abide by the laws and to put the decent element in control.
The next headquarters was Benton, Wyoming. In two weeks (July 1868), a city of three thousand inhabitants sprang up as if by the touch of Aladdin’s Lamp.
It was laid out in regular squares, divided into five wards, had a Mayor and Board of Aldermen, a daily newspaper, and a volume of ordinances for the City Government. It was the end of the freight and passenger service and the beginning of the division under construction. Twice a day, long trains arrived from and departed for the East, while stages and wagon trains connected it with points in Idaho, Montana, and Utah. All the passengers and goods for the West came here by rail and were re-shipped to their several destinations.
Twenty-three saloons paid license to the city, while dance halls and gambling dens were even more numerous. The great institution was the “Big Tent.” This was a frame structure, one hundred feet long and forty feet wide, floored for dancing, to which and gambling it was entirely devoted.
A visitor to the city thus described it: “One to two thousand men and a dozen or more women were encamped on the alkali plain in tents and shanties.” Only a small proportion of them had aught to do with the road or any legitimate occupation. Restaurant and saloon keepers, gamblers, desperadoes of every grade, the vilest of men and women made up this “Hell on Wheels” as it was most aptly termed. Six months later, all that was left to mark the site was a few rock piles and half-destroyed chimneys together with piles of old cans. After a tumultuous existence of only 60 days, the city had “got up and pulled its freight” to the next headquarters.
Green River, Bryan, Bear River City, and Wasatch were the headquarters successively. The first, owing to the railroad, had made it the end of a division and located shops there, has survived; the other three are but memories.
At Bear River City, the tough element which had been driven out of the different points East, congregated in large numbers, proposing to make a stand, it being supposed it would become a permanent town. The law-abiding element numbered about a thousand, the toughs as many more. Three thugs were hung for murder, and in reprisal, the town was attacked on November 19th, 1868, by the tough element. They seized and burned the jail, then sacked and destroyed the plant of the “Frontier Index,” a printing outfit that followed up the railroad, issuing a Daily Paper, and which had been particularly outspoken in its denunciation of the lawless element. They then proceeded to attack some of the stores but were met by the townspeople and, in the pitched battle that ensued, badly defeated. They made an undignified retreat, leaving fifteen of their number dead in the streets. From this time on, the tough element fought shy of the city, and with the road’s extension, its business left. Today, there is nothing to indicate that a town of four or five thousand had ever stood there.
The tough element started to make Rawlins one of the “Hells,” but the decent element had had enough and proceeded to clean up the town — showing they proposed to stand no foolishness.
The last of the railroad towns was Wasatch, located at the eastern end of the longest tunnel (770 feet) on the road. In fact, it was the delay occasioned by this work that gave rise to the town. When the line was put down, a temporary track was built around the obstruction to permit the track’s materials beyond to reach the front. This place originally had a machine shop, roundhouse, and eating station, all of which were removed to Evanston in 1870.
Upon the passage of the supplementary Charter in 1864, the restriction confining the Central Pacific to the State of California was withdrawn. They were authorized to build for one hundred and fifty miles east of the California boundary. This latter restriction was also withdrawn by Congress in 1866, leaving the meeting point to be determined by the rapidity of the construction of the respective lines, or as the Act of Congress put it, they could locate, construct, and continue their line until it should meet the Union Pacific continuous line.
With the experience of three years behind them and the Land Grant, Government Bonds, and prospective earnings, not to speak of the element of pride ahead, the two lines entered into a race the like of which had never been seen. The rivalry extended from the Presidents of the respective Companies down to the boy who carried water to the graders. Both forces, justly proud of their achievements, considered themselves a little better than the other. One form of the rivalry was how the outfit could get the greatest amount of track down in one day. The Union Pacific’s forces led off six miles; soon after the Central went them a mile better.
Then seven and a half miles were put down by the Union Pacific; the Central Pacific forces, not to be outdone, announced they could get down ten miles inside of one working day. Vice-President Durant offered to wager ten thousand dollars it could not be done, and the Central Pacific outfit resolved it should be done. Waiting until there were but fourteen miles for them to lay, they started in and laid ten miles and two hundred feet from seven A.M. to seven P.M., using four thousand men in the operation.
And then the Union Pacific outfit was mad. They claimed that if they had massed their forces, made special preparation, etc., they could do better than their competitors, but they could not prove it because there was no more track to lay.
The Central Pacific people ran their grade east of Ogden to Echo Canon, this when their completed line was only built to the vicinity of Wadsworth, Nevada. The Union Pacific Railroad located their line to the California State line and had their graders at work as far west as Humboldt Wells, Nevada, four hundred and sixty miles west of Ogden.
This line west of Promontory was never built, however, and it is said that one million dollars was expended in this way. The Central Pacific had their grade established some eighty miles east of Promontory Point, thirty miles east of Ogden, and this when the Union Pacific were laying their completed track within a mile of and parallel to their grade. The prize was so great that every nerve was strained on both contestants as to who should push their track the further. The advantages were about equal.
The Central Pacific was somewhat nearer their base of supplies, their laborers were the quiet, orderly, and easily managed Chinese and then they were in comparatively good financial shape. The Union Pacific, though farther from their base of supplies, were in railroad communication with the points of manufacture, their men, while turbulent and hard to control, were enthusiastic and worth three to one of the opposing forces. They were well paid, well housed, and well-fed, and were handled by men who had, as a rule, army experience back of them and who certainly were “bosses” in the best and fullest sense.
During the winter of 1868-1869, the advantage was with the Central Pacific Company. Snow sheds fully protected their line across the Sierras and they only met with one week’s suspension of business from snow troubles during the whole winter. Simultaneously, the Union Pacific Railroad was blocked between Cheyenne and Green River for four long months. The rate of construction grew rapidly. During 1864 there were about two hundred men employed on the grading and track-laying. While it took one year to complete the first forty miles, the second year, the year 1865, saw 265 miles done, over a mile a day working time, and this was exceeded from that on.
There were about two thousand five hundred graders employed in 1867 and 450 track-layers and from this number up, until the completion of the road. Their forces numbered twelve thousand men and three thousand teams, while 600 tons of material were placed daily during the spring of 1869 when the contest was at its height. The maximum track laid in one day was seven and a half miles. As the line progressed roundhouses were put up at Omaha, North Platte, Cheyenne, Laramie, and Ogden, each having 20 stalls, and at Grand Island, Sidney, Rawlins, Bitter Creek, Medicine Bow, and Bryan, of 10 stalls each. These were substantial buildings of brick or stone with sheet-iron roofs thoroughly fireproof.
In addition to the large shops at Omaha where much of the building of equipment was done and repair shops were built at Cheyenne and Laramie.
Stations were established at an average of 14 miles apart. The station buildings were built of wood and of two classes, three-fourths of them 25 by 40 feet, the remaining one-fourth 36 by 60 feet. At each station, water tanks were erected, surmounted by windmills. Sidings 3,000 feet long were located at each station and in some cases at points intermediate 1,500 feet long. In all, there was about six percent of the mainline distance in sidetracks.
To accommodate not only the Public but their own employees, the Company put up good-sized hotels at North Platte, Cheyenne, Laramie, and Rawlins.
Eating houses were established at Grand Island, North Platte, Sidney, Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Bryan (Near Granger long ago passed out of existence) Wasatch (afterward removed to Evanston), and Ogden. During construction days the charge for a meal was a dollar and a quarter, but with the road’s opening, this was reduced to one dollar and afterward to the present price seventy-five cents.
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June 17, 2021
June 19th has been declared FreeBSD Day, and we hope you’ll join us in honoring the Project’s pioneering legacy and continuing impact on technology. This year, the Foundation is starting the celebration a little early.
Why June 19th
June 19, 1993 was the day the official name for FreeBSD was agreed upon. See part of the email thread here.
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If you locate Quintessential Style on Amazon, you will find other books–in the same genre–recommended there. One book that caught my attention was Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic, by Jennifer L. Scott.
The dictionary defines the word poise as: “A dignified, self-confident manner or bearing; composure, self-possession, balance.”
I don’t know how much I consciously reflect on poise. There seem to be so many other things to think about these days, but the more I read Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic, I recognize that our poise (or lack of it) is laid out–for all to see–on a daily basis, whether we realize it or not.
According to Jennifer L. Scott: “Poise is silent. It is intangible. It is under the surface. It is mysterious, but we intuitively know when someone has it. If you meet a poised person, her confidence and friendliness put you at ease…the poised person is self-aware. She is driven by faith, inner peace, and high standards. These are the tools she uses to get through any situation in life.”
Wow…can we really live up to all that, Jennifer?
“Poise, also known as class, is not something you can acquire. It’s something you practice on a daily basis,” says Jennifer.
You don’t have to be a princess to have poise. You don’t have to be French. Poise knows no nationality, and none of us are born with it. It doesn’t matter how much money you have, you can’t buy poise.
As I read it, poise is not so much a noun as it is a verb. Poise is created, or cultivated if you will, by practice — by learning to handle yourself and your daily situations in a balanced, controlled way. Here’s how Jennifer describes the actions of the poised versus the not so poised:
POISED NOT SO POISED
Is a good listener Would rather talk than listen
Controls temper Is quick to argue
Has good posture Slouches
Is well-groomed Needs to wash hair
Puts screen time in its place Addicted to her smartphone
Oh, and there’s much more on that list.
This book made me consider my own demeanor—how do I handle myself on a daily basis, with my family, my children, my coworkers, my friends? Am I considerate of others? Am I only in a good mood when everything goes well? How do I deal with disappointment? Do I tend to hog the conversation, or let others have their moment? Am I quick to judge or gossip? Do I have compassion and respect for others?
Who are the role models in your life who exhibit poise? I bet if you look around, you can find lots of them, both women and men.
“Keep your eye out for poise. It will shine like a diamond when you come across it, because it is so rare.”
…Jennifer L. Scott
Every day life hands us new situations and challenges. How will we respond? With grace and balance (aka, poise), or with over-reaction and thoughtlessness? It might take practice to possess poise. But poise can give us an arsenal of confidence to deal with any situation that arises. And, once poise becomes habit, it will quietly show up when we least expect it.
Polish Your Poise does what a good book is intended to do—provokes thought, enlightens, guides, and inspires.
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|Died||March 28, 1931 (aged 67)|
|Occupation||American League president|
|Member of the National|
|Baseball Hall of Fame|
|Election method||Centennial Committee|
Byron Bancroft Johnson (January 5, 1864 – March 28, 1931) was an American executive in professional baseball who served as the founder and first president of the American League (AL).
Johnson developed the AL—a descendant of the minor league Western League—into a "clean" alternative to the National League, which had become notorious for its rough-and-tumble atmosphere. To encourage a more orderly environment, Johnson strongly supported the new league's umpires, which eventually included Hall of Famer Billy Evans.
With the help of league owners and managers such as Charles Comiskey, Charles Somers and Jimmy McAleer, Johnson lured top talent to the AL, which soon rivaled the more established National League. Johnson dominated the AL until the mid-1920s, when a public dispute with baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis culminated in his forced resignation as league president.
Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Johnson went on to study law at Marietta College, although he did not take his degree. He subsequently became the sports editor of a newspaper in Cincinnati. During this time, Johnson befriended Charles Comiskey, who was then manager of the Cincinnati Reds. At the urging of Comiskey and Reds owner John T. Brush, Johnson was elected as president of the Western League, a faltering minor league, at a reorganization meeting held in 1894.
Johnson had criticized the National League for its rowdy atmosphere, which was driving away families and women. He set about making baseball more friendly to both. Contrary to the practice of the time, Johnson gave his umpires unqualified support and had little tolerance for players or managers who failed to show them due respect. Johnson also fined and suspended players who used foul language on the field. Soon, the Western League was recognized as not only the strongest minor league, but also as the most effectively managed league in all of baseball.
Johnson, however, had a bigger plan—another major league. With the help of Comiskey, who had purchased the Sioux City franchise and moved it to St. Paul in 1894 after leaving the Reds, Johnson initiated an ambitious plan of expansion. He got his chance after the 1899 season, when the National League dropped teams in Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington, D.C. Johnson moved the Grand Rapids franchise to Cleveland, where they would eventually become the Indians. He also had Comiskey move his Saint Paul team to Chicago, where they eventually became the White Sox. The latter move was made with the blessing of the NL, which saw Comiskey's team as a way to head off any attempt to revive the American Association. For the 1900 season, the Western League was renamed as the American League, although it remained a minor league.
The 1900 season was an unqualified success, and Johnson received a 10-year contract extension. In October, he withdrew the AL from the National Agreement (the formal understanding between the NL and the minor leagues). The final step came on January 28, 1901, when he declared the AL would operate as a major league. He then placed teams in Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington.
The Buffalo Bisons were to be a member of the new American League and their manager Franklin was told right up to January 29, 1901, that "Buffalo was in the league and not to worry." Johnson then unceremoniously dumped Buffalo and placed the franchise in Boston. It was later revealed that he not only had been negotiating surreptitiously with Boston people for several months, but also that he had money invested in the Boston franchise. Johnson also had a large stake in the Washington franchise, which he kept until 1903.
The NL then made a critical blunder by limiting salaries to $2,400 – a low sum even by 1901 standards. Johnson, Comiskey and the other AL owners responded by raiding NL rosters, promising disgruntled players much higher salaries. Over 100 players "jumped" to the new league. After a two-year war in which the AL trounced the NL in attendance both seasons, the NL sued for peace. Under a new National Agreement, the AL was formally recognized as the second major league. A three-man National Commission was set up, composed of both league presidents and Reds owner Garry Herrmann. Although Herrmann was nominal president of the commission, Johnson soon dominated the body.
Johnson brooked no criticism, and made it very difficult for men he didn't like to buy into the league. For instance, when Harry Frazee bought the Boston Red Sox in 1917, Johnson tried almost from the start to drive him out because Frazee had not been hand-picked by Johnson. At one point, Johnson even had ownership interests in the Cleveland and Washington teams.
The Frazee dispute planted the seed for Johnson's downfall. Eventually, the league divided into two factions, with the Red Sox, White Sox and New York Yankees on one side (commonly known as "The Insurrectos") and the other five clubs (the Indians, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators, known as the "Loyal Five") on the other. By this time, Comiskey had become a bitter enemy of Johnson; the two men's once warm friendship had strained considerably. Johnson's authority eroded further that year when the Red Sox traded Carl Mays to the Yankees in defiance of a Johnson order to suspend him after Mays had jumped the club. The Yankees went to court and received an injunction to allow Mays to play, as Johnson had demonstrated throughout the proceedings that his investment in the Cleveland Indians hindered his ability to be impartial.
The final nail in Johnson's coffin proved to be the Black Sox Scandal. Johnson paid no attention to Comiskey's claims that his White Sox may have been on the take from gamblers. However, when the scandal broke after the 1920 season, the White Sox, Red Sox and Yankees threatened to pull out of the AL and join a new 12-team National League. The enlarged league would include a new team in Detroit unrelated to the Tigers, who were owned by Johnson loyalist Frank Navin. However, Navin was in no mood for another war and persuaded the other five clubs to agree to appoint a new National Commission of non-baseball men. Federal District Court Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was appointed as chairman. However, Landis would accept an appointment only as sole Commissioner of Baseball, with unlimited power over the game. The owners were still reeling from the damage to baseball's reputation due to the Black Sox Scandal, and readily agreed to Landis' demands.
Under the circumstances, a clash between the iron-willed Johnson and the iron-willed Landis was inevitable, and it happened prior to the 1924 World Series. Landis banned two New York Giants from the Series for attempting to bribe members of the Philadelphia Phillies late in the season. After Frankie Frisch and two other Giants stars were implicated, only to be cleared by Landis, Johnson demanded that the Series be canceled. He publicly criticized Landis for his handling of the affair, and Landis threatened to resign if the AL owners didn't rein Johnson in. After the Series, the AL owners promised to remove Johnson from office if he stepped out of line again. Johnson remained on good behavior for two years, even getting an extension of his contract to 1935 and a raise to $40,000 (he had previously made $25,000).
However, in 1926, Johnson criticized Landis for granting Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker an amnesty after evidence surfaced that they had fixed a game in 1919. Landis demanded that the AL choose between him and Johnson. The AL owners were prepared to remove Johnson from office at their annual meeting in January 1927. Because Johnson was in ill health at the time, the owners decided to put him on an indefinite sabbatical instead. Johnson tried to return in the spring and acted as if nothing had changed. However, the situation had become untenable, and Johnson was forced to resign at the end of the season. Frank Navin served as acting president of the American League until the owners selected Indians general manager Ernest Barnard as president.
Johnson died on March 28, 1931, at age 67 ,in St. Louis, Missouri, just a few hours after his successor, Ernest Barnard. Johnson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937 as one of its charter members. The athletic fieldhouse at Marietta College is named in his honor. He was laid to rest at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer, Indiana.
Will Harridge, who succeeded to the AL presidency in 1931, summed up Johnson's legacy: "He was the most brilliant man the game has ever known. He was more responsible for making baseball the national game than anyone in the history of the sport".
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Keyboard accessibility is one of the most important aspects of web accessibility. Many users with motor disabilities rely on only using a keyboard to access content. Screen reader users who are blind or vision impaired will also use the keyboard to access and interact with content. Here are some general best practices.
Users Should Have the Ability to Navigate Using Only the Keyboard
Natively-Accessible Keyboard Elements:
By default, users can navigate to links, buttons, and form controls with a keyboard. These elements are natively-accessible by using the following keystrokes.
Tab: Navigate to links and form controls.
Shift + Tab: Navigate backwards.
Enter: Activate links and buttons.
Spacebar: Activate checkboxes and buttons.
Arrow keys: Radio buttons, select/dropdown menus, sliders, tab panels, autocomplete, tree menus, etc.
Keystrokes Accessible Only Through a Screen Reader:
In addition to the natively-accessible keystrokes, screen reader users have many other keystrokes available to them to help them navigate through a webpage. For example they can use the “H” key to tab through all the headings on a page.
Landmarks and Roles
Break the web page into areas/regions and assign landmark roles. Use HTML 5 in combination with ARIA roles.
Assistive technologies such as screen readers provide shortcut keys to navigate through page elements that have been defined as landmarks and roles, or to jump to specific structural elements (for instance, S for search, B for buttons), and/or provide a list of all structural elements in the document.
Here is an example:
<header role="banner"> <p>Put company logo, etc. here.</p> </header> <nav role="navigation"> <ul> <li>Put primary navigation here</li> </ul> </nav> <main role="main"> <p>Put main content here.</p> </main> <footer role="contentinfo"> <p>Put copyright, and footer related content , etc. here.</p> </footer>
Common Landmarks and Roles
Provide other landmarks and roles as needed to specify areas/sections on a webpage.
Site-orientated content, such as the name of the web site, title of the page, and/or the logo.
<header role="banner"> </header>
The main or central content of the page.
This section contains the search functionality for the site.
Stand-alone content that makes sense out of context from the rest of the document.
Supporting content for the main content. For example, related links in a sidebar.
Informational child content, such as footnotes, copyrights, links to privacy statement, links to preferences, and so on.
Buttons and Role Attribute
Most HTML elements have a default role that is presented to assistive technology. For example, a button has a default role of "button" and a form has a default role of "form".
Always use the native button role so that keyboard only users are able access/select the buttons by using the tab and enter keys.
<form action="/action_page.php" method="get" id="form1"></form> <button type="submit" form="form" value="Submit">Submit</button>
But there are also buttons that are created that are not using a form element, just a regular hyperlink. Add a role attribute to those types of button links to help screen reader users identify the purpose of the link and for them to quickly be able to tab to all the buttons on the page by clicking on the “B” key.
<a href="#" role="button" onclick="" class="btn btn-primary"><span>Apply Online</span></a>
Add Keyboard Focus Indicator to Menu Items, Buttons, Links, Form Elements
A keyboard user typically uses the Tab key to navigate through interactive elements on a web page—links, buttons, fields for inputting text, etc. When an item has keyboard "focus", it can be activated or manipulated with the keyboard.
A sighted keyboard user must be provided with a visual indicator of the element that currently has keyboard focus. For example a border or outline.
Browsers will by default provide a visual border around these elements when they are in focus. Usually a blue border or dotted outline. However the default style may not provide enough color contrast between foreground and background. In other cases the outline may not be visible as the element may have already been styled with a specific border or outline or made invisible.
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The EAGLE 4×4, a member of the EAGLE family of light tactical armoured vehicles produced by General Dynamics European Land Systems, features a protective cabin built of electrically welded high strength armour steel. The hull can be integrated with steel/composite modular add-on armour and mine protection kits for survivability against ballistic threats, mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Fire power is optionally fitted and can be provided via a remotely controlled weapon station with .50mm gun and grenade launcher. The vehicle has a gross weight of 10t, and can attain a maximum speed of 110kmph and range of 700km.
The EAGLE is also offered in 6×6 configuration and can serve as armoured personnel carrier (APC), Ambulance, Recovery, Command, Reconnaissance, Logistics and Military Police vehicle.
The Ocelot Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV) developed by General Dynamics Land Systems – Force Protection Europe has a blast-protected V-hull and detachable protected crew pod. This protects a six-man crew from mines, kinetic energy weapons or ballistic threats, while an add-on armour kit is also offered for protection against explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) or rocket propelled grenades (RPGs).
The 7.5t combat-ready vehicle is optionally mounted with a remote controlled weapon station or a small open roof turret, and is powered by a six-cylinder, four-stroke diesel engine providing a maximum speed of 110kmph and range of 600km.
The vehicle was selected for the UK MoD’s Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV) programme in 2010 and is called Foxhound by the British Army.
The 7t-class 4×4 Hawkei Light Protected Vehicle (LPV) developed by Thales Australia is capable of carrying up to six troops and offers protection against IEDs, mines and or small arms fire.
Armament options include remote weapon station for up to 12.7mm calibre weapons / 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher (AGL), manned machine gun pintle mount for up to 12.7mm HMG / 40mm AGL or manned machine gun swing mounts for 5.56mm and 7.62mm machine guns. The highly mobile vehicle has a maximum speed of 130kmph and range of 600km.
Thales Australia developed the Hawkei LPV to fulfil the urgent operational requirements of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) for which it is intended to replace the ADF’s Land Rovers under Land 121 Phase 4 programme.
The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), also known as Humvee, features a low profile aluminium body built on steel frame can be hinged with factory fitted ‘A’ kit and optional ‘B’ kit armour offering mine and ballistic protection, while field replaceable frag kits provide additional protection.
The light multi-purpose vehicle features a weapon mount for a number of weapons systems including mini gun, machine gun, grenade launcher and TOW missile system. The Humvee is suitable for command and control, troop transport, shelter carriage, towed weapons movement, armament carriage, TOW missile platform and for use as ambulance.
The Humvee is currently offered in 15 configurations with common engine, chassis, transmission, and 44 interchangeable parts. The maximum Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) of the current production models is 10,300lb (4,672kg), while the maximum speed is 113kmph with a maximum cruising range of 402km.
The modular design of the Light Multirole Vehicle (LMV) from Iveco Defence Vehicles allows for the development of multiple variants with varied dimensions, roofs, body configurations and protection levels. The vehicles are fitted with light, medium or heavy protection kits based on the mission requirement, while additional STANAG 4569 Level 3 (ballistic) and Level 2a (mine) protection is also available.
The weapon ring mount or protected cupola can be mounted with remote controlled weapon station armed with weapons up to 12.7mm in calibre. The 7t vehicle is powered by a 190hp engine providing a maximum speed of 110km/h.
The Iveco LMV is one of the preferred light armoured vehicle choices in Europe and is in service with nine armed forces across the world.
The Supacat Protected Vehicle 400 (SPV400) integrates a protected all composite armoured crew pod and V-shaped hull offering high levels of blast and ballistic protection and can be fitted with appliqué armour for additional protection.
The vehicle can be optionally fitted with a remote controlled weapon station, weapon mounts, and smoke grenade launchers. The Cummins 4.5L diesel engine and 176L of fuel capacity provides the SPV400 a top speed of 120kmph and maximum road range of 600km.
The TATA LAMV (Light Armoured Multipurpose Vehicle), which was indigenously developed by TATA Motors with technical assistance from Supacat, features a protected all composite detachable crew capsule and V-shaped hull. Its crew pod accommodates mine-blast protected seats and offers all-round protection for a six-man crew.
The LAMV can be installed with observation, surveillance and communication systems as well as remote weapon station (RWS), roof mounts for weapons and smoke grenade launchers. The vehicle offers all-terrain high mobility and can attain a maximum speed of 105kmph.
The TATA LAMV was unveiled during DEFEXPO INDIA 2014 – Land, Naval and Internal Security Systems Exhibition in February 2014.
The COLT LAV, a 4×4 light armoured vehicle jointly developed by India’s Ashok Leyland Defence Systems (ALDS) and Panhard General Defence of France is based on the combat proven VBL (Véhicule Blindé Léger) light armoured vehicle and offers up to STANAG 4569 Level 2 ballistic protection and STANAG 4569 Level 3 protection against mines and other explosions.
The 7t COLT is currently available in LAV and LTV (Light Tactical Vehicle) versions and has provision for weapon station to mount a variety of gun systems. It is powered by Euro3 compliant inline turbo diesel engine coupled to a six speed automatic gear box, and offers top speed of 105kmph and range of 700km.
The GAZ-2330 Tigr, a high mobility tactical vehicle produced my Military Industrial Company (BMK), a division of GAZ Group, features an armoured steel hull that can withstand 7.62mm rounds and offers up to STANAG 4569 Level 2 protection.
The vehicle can be fitted with a 7.62mm machine gun or 30mm grenade launcher and features a power-pack consisting of 250hp turbo charged diesel engine coupled to five-speed automatic / manual gearbox. It offers a maximum road speed of 125kmph and a cruising range of 900km.
The 6t-class vehicle integrates a radio-controlled explosive device jammer and can accommodate up to nine personnel. It can be deployed in troop transport, convoy escort and protection, search and rescue (SAR), patrol and fire support missions.
The 5.2t Cobra 4×4 tactical wheeled armoured vehicle, jointly developed by Turkey-based Otokar Otomotiv ve Savunma Sanayi and AM General of USA, integrates a monocoque hull offering high ballistic and mine protection for nine occupants.
The vehicle is fitted with remote controlled weapon station which can mount a .50 calibre machine gun or 7.62mm general purpose machine gun/12.7mm heavy machine gun or 40mm AGL. The LAV can reach a maximum speed of 110kmph and range of 700km and is also offered in a fully amphibious configuration.
The Cobra incorporates many mechanical components of HMMWV (Humvee) and is offered in multiple configurations including APC, NBC reconnaissance vehicle, command and control post, communication vehicle, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) vehicle, weapons platform, and ambulance.
The Tiger LPV, a joint product of MDT Armor Corporation and Textron Marine & Land Systems, integrates a box type armoured capsule fitted with a unique flat floor passing across the cabin. The vehicle’s ballistic system with add-on layers provides different levels of armour protection which can be replaced or repaired and upgraded as required.
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Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at the Steinhardt School of Education, New York University. One of America's pre-eminent historians of education, her books include Left Back, The Great School Wars, The Troubled Crusade, The Language Police, The American Reader, and The Democracy
Reader. She was Assistant Secretary of Education in the first Bush administration and was appointed to a federal testing agency by President Clinton.
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By defining violence narrowly, the asylum system—and human rights organizations that uphold it—legitimates deporting people back to face everyday injustices. The pandemic only further illuminates this inhumanity.
Worthington, Minnesota, home to a major meatpacking plant with a majority immigrant workforce, is a microcosm of an expanding border regime where a power struggle unfolds between longtime residents and newcomers.
The migrant camps in which children are being incarcerated are concentration camps—and they are also prisons. We must hold these dual, overlapping realities in our minds, as we strive to comprehend the interrelated horrors to which the United States subjects millions of people every day.
The egregiously corrupt—though technically legal—system of private detention in the United States exploits immigrants, lining the pockets of jailers while incentivizing government enforcement strategies.
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MTB TraIl nearby Sierra Norte de Sevilla natural area, in España and Cazalla de la Sierra population.
The largest locality in the area is Villanueva del Río y Minas
, with a population of 5,213 persons, at a distance of 33.970 kilometers from the center of the map.
The nearest is Cazalla de la Sierra
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The following indicators give us an idea of the difficulty of the route:
- Trail length: 101.882 kilometers.
- Min height: 78 meters above sea level.
- Max height: 640 meters above sea level.
- Average height: 396 meters above sea level.
- Average slope uphill: 3.997 %.
- Average slope downhill: -4.285 %.
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Bank cards have come into the everyday life of people relatively recently, but now it’s hard for many to imagine their daily lives without them. Those who still look at cashless payment with disbelief can surely change their minds by learning about the objective advantages of debit cards with onevanilla balance .
Keeping up with the times
When the first minted coins came into circulation around the 7th century BC, they quickly replaced other equivalents of the value of goods. After a couple of millennia, the coins began to take their positions in securities banknotes, because they were cheaper to produce and more convenient to carry.
But life does not stand still, and gradually banknotes begin to give way to bank cards. What are their obvious advantages, you can consider the example of bank debit cards, and at the same time dispel the myths surrounding them.
So, a debit card is a payment card tied to your real bank account. With its help, you can pay for almost any goods and services in stores or the Internet. Thus, bank debit card holders can pay for housing and communal services through an ATM or even from home.
It is much more convenient to make purchases in the store using a card, because you don’t have to think about whether you have enough cash. In addition, today credit cards are accepted in almost every corner of the world, which undoubtedly makes life easier for travel lovers, saving them from visits to currency exchange points.
Safety is the main thing
An important advantage of using bank cards is their security. If anyone who has fallen into their hands can dispose of cash, then bank card transactions must be confirmed: by signature or pin code, known only to the card holder. Bank cards are protected by an electronic chip, so they are durable and reliable. They are not demagnetized, they are not erased, and subject to the safety rules for using the card, customer data is not accessible to scammers. Finally, a lost card can be quickly blocked and restored.
In order to minimize the risk of fraud and prevent illegal cash withdrawal operations, banks around the world have long introduced limits on cash withdrawals through ATMs or cash desks of banks. A similar practice is applied by banks. In particular, in order to more reliably protect customer funds from fraudsters, there are daily and monthly limits on cash withdrawals at bank.
The daily limit on the classic cards of bank is 150 thousand dollars. Usually this amount is enough to meet the daily needs of the client. But even if you need a large amount, you can withdraw cash twice: through an ATM, and then at the bank’s cash desk, thereby increasing the amount.
Of course, each client has its own needs, and in order to take them into account, bank set different limits for cards of various categories. So, if you still need access to more cash, you can always find the right option for yourself. For example, for holders of Gold or Platinum debit cards, bank increases the monthly limit to 10 and 30 million dollars, respectively.
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Last Updated on May 1, 2015
Although human beings have been creating music for thousands of years, it wasn’t until the 20th century that we learned how to control sound.
In a relatively short period of time, we learned how to record sound, and maybe more importantly, how to transmit it.
The transmission of sound has enabled us to communicate on a level that prehistoric humans would’ve never dreamed possible.
Sound transmissions literally change history, as they allow individuals to talk to each other, when it would’ve never been the case in the past.
In today’s post, we’re going to discuss three radio and sound transmissions that changed history.
How Does Sound Transmission Work?
Before we get into the sound transmissions that changed history, let’s build a foundation by explaining how sound transmission works.
In order to successfully transmit sound, sound must be converted into electricity. This is what allows it to travel at near instant speed, across the world. It must then be converted back into sound, so we can understand it.
The best way to transmit sound, is to replicate the process of sound creation electronically.
For example, when you speak, you have a diaphragm and vocal chords, which vibrate to produce sound.
Your phone also has an electric diaphragm, which senses the pressure applied to it through sound waves, and then sends those signals, in the form of electricity, through the line. This is then radio transmitted to the phone you’re talking to, traveling nearly at the speed of light.
Around 1867, Scottish theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell mathematically predicted the existence of electromagnetic wavelengths.
Nearly 20 years later, Heinrich Hertz expanded on Maxwell’s theory by proving the existence of these “radio waves” in his laboratory.
These initial discoveries eventually led to the first radio transmission, paving the way for the modern world we live in today.
#1. Marconi’s Cross Atlantic Transmission
Known as the father of radio, Guglielmo Marconi was the first person to ever send a radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean.
Although this seems like a simple feat nowadays, at the time, it was extremely difficult. And not just because of the vast distance the wave had to travel.
At his time, Marconi’s critics told him that it was impossible to send a radio transmission across the ocean.
Why? It was speculated that the curvature of the earth would prevent a radio wave from traveling over 200 miles.
But before Marconi could send a radio wave across the Atlantic Ocean, he first had to pioneer technology that could send it just 10 miles.
He was able to do this in 1896.
Then in 1899, he sent a transmission across the English Channel.
Despite what his detractors were saying, in 1901, he sent a transmission from England to Canada, which traveled across the Atlantic, over 2,000 miles.
In 1909, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his accomplishments.
Without Marconi’s experiments, the global communication we have on earth today may have taken years longer to develop.
#2. Alexander Graham Bell’s Telephone
In 1871, Alexander Graham Bell started working on a telegraph device. His goal was to be able to transmit messages at multiple different frequencies.
Bell and his assistant Watson, would work tirelessly for the next four years, making leaps in progress with the telegraph device.
In 1875, Bell and Watson succeeded in creating the first ever telephone, which was capable of transmitting words from one end of a wire to the next.
With Bell’s invention, and the inventions of the other notable figures mentioned in this post, cell phones and long distance calling technology was made possible in the 21st century.
#3. Jagadish Chandra Bose’s Gunpowder
Jagadish Chandra was a Bengali scientist, known for his groundbreaking work with electricity and radio signals.
Using the waves that Maxwell had predicted to exist, Bose was able to ignite gunpowder, and ring a bell at a distance, using millimeter wavelength microwaves.
In the present day, we’re constantly using radio waves and microwaves in our day-to-day lives.
Most of us don’t even realize what’s going on when we do.
But it wasn’t until the past century, that this technology was born. And in that time, we’ve improved a long ways.
Our technology today, including the call recording technology we offer at Versadial, can always be traced back to hard working, bright individuals, who refused to give up.
The results of their experiments have changed the world, and are phenomenal examples of what can be accomplished through determination and effort.
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"The Kingdom of heaven is like a man who before going abroad called his servants and gave what he had into their charge. To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to what he was able to do. Then the man went on his journey.
"The servant who had received five talents went at once and traded with them and gained five more talents. In the same way the one who had received two gained two more. But he who had received one talent went away and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
"After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled his accounts with them. When the one who had received five talents came bringing five more, he said, 'Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have gained five more.' His master said to him 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful over a few things, I will put you in charge of many things. Share your master's happiness.'
"The one who had received the two talents also came and said, 'Master, you gave me two talents. See, I have gained two more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful over a few things, I will put you in charge of many things. Share your master's happiness.'
"Then he who had received one talent came and said, 'Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not winnowed; so I was afraid and hid your talent in the ground. There you have what belongs to you.'
"But his master answered, 'Idle, worthless servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not winnowed. You ought therefore to have put my money in the hands of bankers and on my return I would have received it with interest. Take my talent away from him and give it to the servant who has the ten talents; for to every one who has shall more be given and he shall have plenty; but from him who has only a little, even what he has shall be taken away. Throw this worthless servant into the outer darkness where men shall wail and grind their teeth.'" | <urn:uuid:5d250a38-5239-4a37-8221-b49e62e257e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sarata.com/bible/stories/different_ways_of_using_talents.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.994941 | 475 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Arts participation is defined as involvement in artistic and creative activities, such as dance, drama, music, painting, or sculpture. It can occur either as part of the curriculum or as extra-curricular activity. Participation may be organised as regular weekly or monthly activities, or more intensive programmes such as summer schools or residential courses. Whilst these activities have educational value in themselves, this Toolkit entry focuses on the benefits of arts participation for core academic attainment.
How effective is it?
Overall, the impact of arts participation on academic learning appears to be positive but low. Improved outcomes have been identified in English, mathematics and science. Benefits have been found in both primary and secondary schools, with greater effects on average for younger learners and, in some cases, for disadvantaged pupils.
Some arts activities have been linked with improvements in specific outcomes. For example, there is some evidence of a positive link between music and spatial awareness and between drama and writing.
Wider benefits such as more positive attitudes to learning and increased well-being have also consistently been reported.
How secure is the evidence?
There are a number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which have found small benefits for arts participation. The two months’ progress figure reflects this pattern of findings.The evidence quality is rated as moderate because although there are five reviews, based on experimental studies, effect sizes vary widely.
A recent systematic review of arts education studies, conducted for the EEF, concluded that there were no individual studies of sufficient quality to establish that the intervention actually caused the reported effect. The summary presented here is based on a number of reviews, which, on average, suggest such interventions have a small positive impact. If the quality of studies included in those reviews is unusually low, then the average months progress reported here may be hard to achieve in practice.
What are the costs?
Costs vary considerably from junior drama groups with small annual subscriptions (about £20) and organised dance groups for young people at about £5 per session, to high quality music tuition at about £35 per hour (more than £1,500 per year for a weekly session). Overall, costs are estimated as low.
What should I consider?
Before you implement this strategy in your learning environment, consider the following:
The research evidence shows a wide range of effects from the programmes studied. What is the link between your chosen arts intervention and the outcomes you want to improve, and how will you tell if it’s successful?
Improvements in learning appear to be more achievable with younger learners.
The evidence supporting the academic impact of learning to play an instrument is particularly promising.
Arts-based approaches may offer a route to re-engage older pupils in learning, but this does not always translate into better attainment. How will you use increased engagement to improve teaching and learning for these pupils?
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Kids who go to school by different means of transportation need protection and they must get to school on time without any harm and must reach home without any incidents.
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The Museum of Cycladic Art in collaboration with the Republic of Columbia presented this exhibition on Pre-Columbian Art and Ceramics. The pieces in this exhibit oriented around the concept of power and its associated theories of authority, domination, and leadership.
The exhibit was organized into four parts. These four sections are themes that pay tribute to ceramic production; they are spirit, materials, time, and space. Spirit is expressed by a variety of elements that confer authority, leadership, and power on a piece. These included seated postures, ornaments, headdresses, and jewellery. The materials are augmented by a variety of tracings, embossed figures, incisions, and colors. The distinction between the hieratic and movement defines our belief of time. An expression of movement in a piece is anecdotal and earthly. A hieratic piece reveals permanence and universality. A ceramic piece occupies space, but the way in which it does so is the final section of the exhibit.
The pieces in the exhibit were from many of the Pre-Columbian cultures of Columbia. These include the Calima, the Corinto Cuaca, the Chimila, the Muiscas, the Guanes, the Narino, the Quimbaya, the culture around the Magdalena River, the Sinu, the Tayrona, and the Tumaco.
Our thanks to the Presidency of the Republic of Columbia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Columbian to Greece, the University of Athens, the Athens Hilton Hotel, and the Columbian Federation of Coffee Growers.
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Unlocking Queensland's hydrogen export potential
Joint media release with Ken O’Dowd MP, Member for Flynn
The future of hydrogen production in Gladstone will get a boost from a new export project as the Morrison Government continues to back projects that will accelerate the development of an Australian hydrogen industry.
The Government is providing up to $2.17 million through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to support the $10.5 million project for Stanwell Corporation Limited’s study into a large-scale hydrogen electrolyser and liquefaction facility in Gladstone, Queensland.
The project will be delivered in partnership with Japan’s largest hydrogen supplier, Iwatani Corporation, with support from a broader industry consortium of Japanese and domestic partners including Kansai Electric Power Corporation, Marubeni Corporation and Kawasaki Heavy Industries and APA Group, as well as funding from the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
If feasible, the project would initially aim to produce up to 36,500 tonnes per annum of clean hydrogen for export to Japan from 2026. Stanwell then plans to scale up to 328,500 tonnes per annum in 2031 to meet forecast Japanese demand.
Importantly, the project will create new economic opportunities and jobs. More than 5,000 new jobs are expected to be created, and $4.2 billion in hydrogen exports.
The facility would also supply local businesses with clean energy, helping energy-intensive heavy industries across Queensland to lower their carbon footprints.
Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor said the project was another important step in establishing a hydrogen supply chain with Japan, where there is strong demand for our clean energy.
“We want Australia to be a hydrogen global powerhouse and projects like this are critical to growing demand for Australian hydrogen and industry development,” Minister Taylor said.
“This project demonstrates the importance of government, industry and international partners working together to accelerate the development of low emissions technologies.
“The Morrison Government is committed to developing export and domestic supply chains, establishing hydrogen hubs and backing projects that build domestic demand for hydrogen. Gladstone is an ideal location to help deliver this.”
The Member for Flynn Mr Ken O’Dowd said he would welcome any development that would generate jobs in Gladstone.
“Securing the future of Gladstone industries, such as hydrogen, is essential for the community’s long-term economic prosperity,” Mr O’Dowd said.
“Our manufacturing industries are so important to the Australian economy and any reduction in emissions will benefit our communities.”
Under the Government’s Technology Investment Roadmap we have set the goal of producing hydrogen at less than $2 a kilogram – the price at which hydrogen becomes competitive with higher emitting alternatives.
The Government has invested more than $1 billion to support Australia’s clean hydrogen industry. This includes $275.5 million in the 2021-22 Budget to support the development of regional hydrogen hubs with Gladstone identified as a prospective location.
Australia and Japan are already working closely to accelerate the development and commercialisation of low emissions technologies. Last month Japan and Australia reaffirmed this commitment. Achieving cost parity with high emitting alternatives is vital for decarbonisation efforts and making a net zero emissions future practically achievable.
This project builds on the already strong cooperation through initiatives and statements such as the $496 million Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain coal-to-hydrogen project in the Latrobe Valley and the Australia-Japan Joint Statement of Cooperation on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells.
Along with Japan, the Government has also entered into partnerships with Germany, the United Kingdom, and Singapore to accelerate the development of low emissions technologies, including hydrogen, to drive investment and job creation in Australia.
The Government has previously provided $913,667 to Stanwell to support a feasibility study into a 10-megawatt electrolyser deployment project at the Stanwell Power Station near Rockhampton, Queensland, to supply domestic hydrogen.
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In the West Indies, this pesticide has been used extensively for decades. Prostate cancers linked to exposure to chlordecone are now recognized as an occupational disease, according to a decree published on Wednesday, December 22 at Official newspaper.
→ ANALYSIS. Chlordecone scandal: in Guadeloupe and Martinique, the other reason for the anger
This measure is part of a series of actions carried out by the State in this extremely sensitive issue for years in the West Indies and described as “Environmental scandal” by President Emmanuel Macron. Chlordecone was authorized between 1972 and 1993 in the banana plantations of the Antilles and infiltrated the soils for hundreds of years, polluting water and agricultural production, while its toxicity and its persistent power in the environment had been known since the 1960s. .
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– Julien Denormandie (@J_Denormandie) December 22, 2021
A compensation fund created in 2020
Announced in the fall by the Minister of Agriculture Julien Denormandie, the decree opens to the farmers concerned a fund created in 2020 and intended to compensate people with diseases linked to pesticides.
→ READ. Open letter: “The State in the face of chlordecone, an unbearable contempt”
“The term“ pesticides ”refers to products for agricultural use and products intended for the maintenance of green spaces (phytosanitary products or plant protection products) as well as biocides and veterinary antiparasitics, whether or not they are authorized at the time demand “, indicates the decree.
Work usually involving exposure to pesticides is carried out “During the handling or use of these products, by contact or by inhalation”, “By contact with crops, surfaces, treated animals or during the maintenance of machines intended for the application of pesticides”, specifies the text.
Between € 1,000 and € 19,000 per year
In detail, all farmers or agricultural employees will be able to apply for this status on two conditions: that they have worked for at least ten years in contact with chlordecone, and that less than forty years have elapsed between their last exposure and the diagnosis of Prostate cancer. Those are the “Generally accepted durations for this type of cancer”, recently explained the Ministry of Agriculture. People exposed under ten years old will still be able to make a request at the level of a regional commission, he said.
The government has refrained from estimating how many people could be affected by this compensation. He also did not advance on the total amount. “It will depend on the number of files that will be submitted”, explained the ministry, specifying that the decree also made it possible to compensate the children exposed during a pregnancy. “We cannot prejudge the number of victims upstream”, he insisted, indicating that at the individual level, compensation would represent between 1,000 and 19,000 € per year for a farmer.
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Weekly Press Briefing on COVID-19: Director's Opening Remarks, June 29, 2022
Good morning from Panama City, and thank you for joining us for today’s press briefing.
This week we saw over 1.3 million new cases of COVID-19 and 4,158 deaths in the Americas. This represents a 13.9% increase in cases from one week ago.
COVID-19 cases increased in all four subregions of the Americas and deaths increased in two: In South America, by 32.8%, and in the Caribbean, where deaths rose some 13.3%.
In North America, cases have increased by 7.7% as compared to the previous week. Canada is reporting less cases, while the United States of America and Mexico are trending in the opposite direction.
In South America, there has been a significant increase in COVID-19 incidence, with almost half a million new COVID-19 cases reported during the last week – a 24.6% increase as compared to the previous week. The largest relative increase was observed in Bolivia followed by Peru.
In the Caribbean, weekly cases have been plateauing for the past two consecutive weeks, with a 3.2% increase observed during the last week.
These numbers serve as a stark reminder that too many people are still vulnerable. Indeed, there is work to be done to reach all that need a vaccine. Looking at Central America: Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama have gone beyond the 70% goal and El Salvador is approaching it.
In the Americas, we still have eleven countries that have not reached the first goal of vaccinating 40 percent of their people against COVID-19. We need to pick up the pace of vaccination to shield populations from the worst consequences of this virus.
In the context of evolving patterns of transmission, countries should not lower their guard.
The pandemic has surprised us time and time again, and many of its effects will linger for years to come.
Today, I would like to focus on one issue we must face and prepare our health systems to address for the long term: post COVID-19 condition.
Many patients, whether they experienced mild, severe, or critical COVID-19, continue to experience COVID-like symptoms for 3 months or more after their initial infection.
These are the people with post-COVID condition, also referred to as long COVID.
Some studies have estimated that 10-20% of people who had COVID may develop post COVID conditions.
Considering the millions of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide, hundreds of thousands of people may well be affected. This is a particularly important problem for the Americas where we have reported over 161 million COVID-19 cases over the past two years.
It is difficult to be precise about how many people are affected, since cases of post-COVID condition are not always officially reported.
But we know that people who had underlying health conditions, people who did not get vaccinated against COVID-19, people with other risk factors such as asthma, and those who smoke or vape are particularly at risk for this condition.
We also know that people that had COVID once and recovered may still develop post-COVID condition if they are infected again.
Post-COVID condition can be extremely debilitating.
The most common symptom is severe and persistent fatigue. People may also experience shortness of breath, loss of taste and smell, and other respiratory, cognitive, and sensory symptoms.
All of this can impact a person’s mental health and influence important aspects of their personal and professional lives, including the ability to relate with the environment and the people around them.
Just imagine how disruptive this can be for a mother who cannot smell her baby, an athletic person who is now tired all of the time, or a professional who cannot concentrate on the tasks that they were trained to do. Other people may have more severe symptoms requiring specialized management.
Even as most of these patients would like COVID to stay in their past, it is still impacting their lives today, and may continue to do so for months or even years to come.
These patients need professional support, and our health systems need to acknowledge this long-lasting effect of the pandemic and certainly to help address it.
WHO has identified three “Rs” to guide our actions.
The first “R” is recognition. We must actively identify people who are suffering from post-COVID condition, so they can get the care and support they need.
The impact of post-COVID condition is broad, but there is still stigma around it, and not enough healthcare workers are trained to recognize the condition. And even fewer have the expertise to help someone manage their symptoms.
This is a real condition, and it must be dealt with applying robust policies and guidance. It is also crucial that we recognize the impact that Post COVID condition has on people’s lives and work alongside those affected to ensure that their voices are heard, and that they play an active role to guide national and regional responses.
The second “R” is rehabilitation. We must ensure our health workforce can support the sizeable population who will experience post-COVID symptoms.
This includes supporting the training and development of physical therapists, occupational and speech therapists. mental health professionals, nurses and doctors who can work together to address post- COVID condition in a holistic manner.
Because the symptoms are so varied, managing post-COVID condition requires a multi-disciplinary approach.
PAHO has established a working group to develop patient care guidance and rehabilitation guides to help advance health workers’ knowledge of these conditions. We plan to launch these soon, to overlap with new rehabilitation clinical guidance that WHO is finalizing.
And the last “R” is research. We still do not know enough about post-COVID condition.
We are also tracking more than 90,000 cases of COVID-19 in the Americas, including post-COVID conditions, in the Global Clinical Platform for COVID-19, which will help us better understand and treat this condition.
But we need scientists and research institutions to commit to closely following the people suffering from this, so we can learn more about this condition.
And we desperately need clinicians, pharmaceutical and medical technology developers alike to find novel approaches to identify the underlying causes of post-Covid condition and how to treat it.
But by far the best way to avoid post-COVID condition is by not getting COVID.
We have the tools to slow the spread of the virus, such as masking and social distancing, especially when transmission is high.
Vaccines have a vital role to play in preventing the spread of COVID, the emergence of variants and all the consequences of the pandemic which we hope will stay in the past. Also, studies show that those who contract COVID-19 after vaccination have milder symptoms and are less likely to develop post-Covid condition.
But alas 224 million people have not yet received a single shot of vaccine in our region.
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The 5 most challenging runways in the world
Travelling by air is one of the most exciting and enjoyable ways to discover new and interesting places – and this often means that pilots can encounter some exceptionally challenging take offs and landings on your trip! Here are the five most challenging runways in the world, from Monmouth Executive Airport.
- Saba Airport: Located on Saba Island in the Caribbean, this airport is famous for having the world’s shortest commercial runway. Just 1,300 feet long, this runway is edged by cliffs on its extreme ends, and flanked by volcanic mountainside slopes on one length and the sea on the other.
- Toncontin Airport: This Honduras airport is extreme in many ways. Not only is it located in a windy valley 3,294 feet above sea level, it’s also surrounded by steep mountains. This means that aircraft have to achieve a stomach-clenching 45-degree bank during decent in order to reach the runway properly.
- MCAS Futenma: Located in Okinawa, Japan, this airport is utilized by the Navy and Marine Corps, some of whom have named it the most dangerous air station in the world. This is because instead of being located within a clear zone of open space, it is surrounded almost up to the runway by the homes, schools, businesses and hospitals of the area, as well as over 3,000 people.
- McMurdo Station: This runway in Antarctica is long, smooth… and completely made of ice. With weather conditions that can change quickly and severely, months of below-freezing temperatures and almost no support services (you have to land using night vision goggles during dark seasons), this is one of the most challenging runways for any pilot.
- Princess Juliana International Airport: Located on the island of St. Maarten in the popular Caribbean Islands, this runway is both hair-raising and busy. Pilots have to fly in incredibly low over a strip of beach, clearing a fence and landing on the fairly short 7,150-foot strip of tarmac. Although built for smaller aircraft, A340s and 747s do land here, making for a spectacular sight.
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5 Things You May Not Know About St. Ignatius of Loyola
Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola, known today as St. Ignatius of Loyola, was born in the Basque country of northern Spain in 1491. The founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), St. Ignatius was one of the most influential figures in early modern Europe and the global exploration of culture and knowledge.
Last May, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus decreed an “Ignatian Year,” beginning on May 20, 2021 — the 500th anniversary of when Ignatius, then a soldier, was wounded in battle and began his search for God in all things — and ending on July 31, 2022, his feast day.
This month, we also commemorate another historic anniversary: Ignatius’ canonization as a saint on March 12, 1622. In honor of this celebration, we’re sharing five things you may not know about St. Ignatius, including his omnipresent imprint on Saint Joseph’s University’s campus today.
- The University seal contains Ignatius of Loyola’s family shield, with seven gold bars on a maroon field representing the seven sons of the House of Loyola. Two wolves flank a cooking pot, representing the family’s generosity to their soldiers and the poor, showing even wild beasts had plenty to eat. These symbols are carved in stone on the north side of Barbelin Hall.
- Outside Merion Hall stands a statue of St. Ignatius named The Pilgrim. In his autobiography, originally published in 1643, Ignatius refers to himself as a pilgrim on his journey to Jerusalem. During this journey, he spent time in a cave, praying as much as seven hours a day, and recording his experiences, later known as The Spiritual Exercises.
- Since the opening of the University in 1851, students have formed Sodalities, devotional groups inspired by The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Currently, more than 100 students of various faith traditions belong to these Ignatian groups, now called Christian Life Communities.
- Ignatius lost his parents at a young age — his mother when he was just a child and his father at 16. As a result of his upbringing and class, he received a limited education in his youth. At the age of 33, he spent two years in Barcelona attending public school to prepare for college. He later attended the University of Paris where he introduced The Spiritual Exercises to his classmates. His commitment to lifelong learning is a central part of the University's mission.
- Students of all faiths can explore aspects of The Spiritual Exercises through student-led Weekly Examens, providing a brief mid-week pause for reflection. Meditations found in The Exercises also play a role in immersive service experiences for students such as the Appalachian Experience (APEX) and Philadelphia Service Immersion Program (PSIP). | <urn:uuid:89731243-5c4f-4dab-a332-96d9f4e6c101> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sju.edu/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-st-ignatius-loyola | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968358 | 632 | 3.125 | 3 |
Dental Crowns and Bridges
Dental Crowns and Bridges for Restoration
Crowns, also called a cap, a crown is a manmade cover that’s used when restoring a damaged or decayed tooth. During the process of restoring your tooth to its original shape, size and form, crowns are ideal for protecting a broken or cracked tooth.
Not only that, a crown is also used to correct the shape of your tooth, cosmetic or biting problem, or to replace poor-fitting or broken crowns. We recommend a crown for anyone undergoing root canal treatment. Crowns can be of porcelain, gold, other metals or a combination of metal and porcelain.
Bridge, a fixed bridge is recommended when one or more teeth are missing. Fixed bridge will have one, or more replacement teeth that are fixed to crowns that can be fitted to a tooth or two, for support. Besides replacing the missing or damaged tooth, bridge also helps with restoring normal tooth functions and position. Fixed bridge can be made with porcelain or metals, or a combination of both.
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Despite the common and main idea of “Erasmus” as an experience full of joy and enjoyed safely, sometimes it can become a hard time for some students. Unfortunately, there are also cases of erasmus students who suffer harassment during their exchange period. In figures, 60% of children and adolescents are victims of harassment. Suicide is the principal cause of youth death, due to mental health which is highly affected by harassment.
Harassment is defined as aggressive pressure or intimidation. There are 3 types: visual, verbal/written and physical. The most common harassment types are bullying, mobbing, sexual, psychological and stalking. New technologies and social networks created new ways of harassment, such as cyberbullying and cyberstalking.
At some point, all of us can become the aggressor or the victim. This conduct has no specific reason: gender, sexual orientation, skin colour, religion, nationality, age or whatever other individual’s characteristics could be the trigger.
Each type has its own stages, but it usually starts with an incident, an act or situation which calls the attention of the aggressor, and stops by the intervention of others (police, boss, family, etc.).
Prevention is the best way to help because we all can create a safe place for those erasmus that belong to our community. We can offer our assistance individually to those students who need it, showing ourselves as a reliable and comprehensive individuals.
Other ways to offer your help is to report any case you become a witness of, if you don’t do it you’re helping the aggressor with your silence; but you can also talk to the accurate department of your university, work office, highschool, etc.; design an action protocol, support those who need it; explain to the others which conducts are considered harassment and so on.
Most Erasmus experiences are amazing, however, it is important not to forget real life and those dangers that threaten international students in their new city. If you are in touch with these students, try to be aware of the signs and help them if they need it. It is possible that you contribute to improve someone’s experience!
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The COVID-19 pandemic is not over.
Two years ago – 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. As of Monday, 14 March 2022, there were 26,063 new COVID-19 cases in Australia, a widely accepted understatement, due to lower testing rates indicated by a high 19.23% positive testing rate. This included 8,911 in New South Wales, 5,499 in Victoria, 3,797 in Queensland, 2,099 in South Australia, 599 in the ACT, 923 in Tasmania, 4,037 in Western Australia and 198 in the Northern Territory. Hospitalisations rose that day by 40 in New South Wales to 1,005 (and another 27 to 1,032 on 15 March), of a national total of more than 1,750. And 21 more deaths were reported on 15 March, bringing the pandemic total to more than 5,600. It’s not going away, any time soon.
The good news is that Australian vaccination rates are the tenth highest in the world, and the fourth highest amongst larger population countries, behind only Chile, Italy and South Korea – we are also just behind New Zealand, although the small population there makes a vaccination roll-out easier. This achievement positions Australia relatively well to face future COVID-19 waves – and assuredly they will come. Some jurisdictions (notably the ACT and Tasmania) are close to 100% population for two vaccination doses, in other words, leading the world. The even better news: countries with similar case numbers to Australia (about 3.3 million to date) have experienced much higher death rates: compared to Australia’s 5,600 deaths, there have been 36,845 in Canada, 21,141 in Portugal, 210,744 in Peru and 30,217 in Belgium. The conclusion: despite our soaring rates of COVID-19, Australia is still one of the safest countries in the world, which has managed to keep death at a relatively low level. Relatively.
We got lucky with Omicron, but next time could be a different story, say Richard Holden and Steven Hamilton. “There’s no doubt much of our success against Omicron was due to accidents of timing. Our vaccine rollout was delayed by government bungling. The Delta outbreak provided a strong impetus for Australians to get jabbed. And against that backdrop, Omicron arrived just after many had recently been vaccinated or boosted…. Next time could be a different story.”
The not-so-good news: COVID-19 cases, especially – but not only – in New South Wales, are increasing, and may double in the next month. This is due to “the removal of mask mandates, waning vaccine immunity, low booster rates and the perception that the pandemic is ‘over’,” according to Professor Raina MacIntyre. “Schools are also acting as transmission amplifiers, with many families who avoided COVID-19 all this time finding it in the home via their school-aged kids,” Professor MacIntyre said. And the Omicron sub-variant is reportedly “almost as infectious as measles, the most contagious disease on earth.”
The response: Right now, governments are reluctant to re-introduce mask mandates, despite a reported recommendation by NSW Health, which is supported by a number of health experts. A number of Sydney’s private schools are already doing so, and “some public high schools were also struggling with staffing”, so the impact is manifesting in secondary education. This is consistent with CCA’s survey findings that vocational education and training (VET) providers – especially, but not only, adult and community education (ACE) organisations – are finding it difficult to source trainers, especially for aged and disability care, IT, hospitality, TAE and business, a trend especially acute in regional and rural locations.
The burden of COVID-19 does not fall equally on all population groups, so large-scale public health measures mean much more for vulnerable and disadvantaged people than younger and healthy people. Older Australians – and the massively over-worked, stressed, underpaid and under-resourced aged care workforce that looks after them – have been affected much more than others. And disadvantaged Australians have been hit many times more than wealthier and more advantaged groups – at least three times higher, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Pandemic of the forgotten: The New York Times calls it a “pandemic of the forgotten: About seven million Americans who have compromised immune systems from cancer treatments, transplants or other medical conditions. For many, it still feels like the worst days of the early pandemic, before vaccines brought some semblance of safety and protection from COVID .… Many people who are immunocompromised never really stopped behaving the way we all behaved in 2020…. They are vaccinated, but may still be unprotected. Some of them haven’t seen their family or friends in two years.” On a relative population basis, that means about 560,000 Australians fall into this immunocompromised category. They are very unlikely to be returning to classroom study any time soon, except with very strict health considerations.
Poverty makes you sick. “It does this by limiting your access to services and supports, through money or other factors such as the type of job you work. People at the ‘lower end’ of the social gradient also tend to receive poorer quality health care. Unfortunately, this social gradient is now clear in the data on Australian COVID deaths,” write Gemma Carey and Ben O’Mara.
What does this mean for Australia’s adult and community education (ACE) providers delivering skills training and basic education? Remember, this is the Australian VET (skills) sector which achieves the highest percentage of improved employment prospects, with 13% of completing students moving from unemployment to employment, more than any other skills sector. While the ACE sector specialises in delivering to vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, these same groups have been most impacted by COVID-19. And not just incidence, but lifestyle and other impacts – loss of work, required isolation and withdrawal from education and training. As CCA discovered in its February 2022 members survey, disadvantaged groups have consistently been withdrawing from training, with student numbers down on average almost half of what they were in 2020 and 2021, both of them difficult COVID years.
VET providers need to remain closely connected to their communities: As community-based organisations, ACE providers are closer to their students and their communities than almost all of the – increasingly centralised – government-run TAFE systems, and the massively large number of for-profit providers, representing 72% of VET activity in 2020. Most private VET organisations are businesses that focus firstly on making a profit, often choosing to deliver the easiest and most in-demand qualifications, moving to online training when it suits, irrespective of learner needs. Research by Dr Don Zoellner (Charles Darwin University) shows that the “marketisation” policies of state governments has meant a withdrawal of private providers from the harder-to-reach regional and rural locations, leaving the regions substantially to TAFEs and community providers, and increasingly concentrating training locations in inner suburbs of larger cities and major regional centres.
It’s time to re-connect adult learning and health outcomes, because the more educated you are, the richer you are and the healthier you are, the less chance you have of contracting – and dying from – COVID-19. Let’s start to break the cycle of health-skills-wealth disadvantage by ensuring that Australian ACE providers have the resources, funding and capabilities they need to do what they do best, which is to reach out to and ensure vulnerable and disadvantaged communities thrive with the skills they require. We will follow through on these issues at the upcoming CCA National ACE Summit on 5 April.
By Dr Don Perlgut, 15 March 2022
Follow-up note on 27 March: The findings outlined above about disadvantaged adult learner disengagement during the pandemic is also reflected in school students. A survey of 38 Australian schools by Pivot found that poorer students and girls suffered most in pandemic, with low family income the highest predictor of problems with sleep, schoolwork, health, family and friendships. | <urn:uuid:34967823-1521-4d13-b00e-38a9bda6daa6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cca.edu.au/the-pandemic-is-not-over-what-this-means-for-education-providers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961629 | 1,739 | 2.671875 | 3 |
What is Project Resource?
Project Resource is key to execute a process and complete to deliver the outputs. Resource with suitable skills assigned to each task of the Project. And they are responsible to complete the tasks to reach the project milestones.
Example of Project Resource are: People, Software, Hardware, Material and Tools. Project Resource is required to work on a task to produce the outputs of the Projects. Resource is varied from domain to domain.
This article is mainly focused on Project Resource in IT Sectors. It Teams works to develop the applications and tools using programming skills.
Project Resource by Skills
Resource can be divided by the skill set of the Resource. For Example, Resource with Programming Knowledge, Resource with Testing skills, Resource with Analytical Skill, Resource with Presentation Skills, etc.…
- Programmers: Resource for coding and developing Applications
- Testers: Resource to Test the Applications before deliver
- Analysts: Resource to Analyze the Data
Project Resource by Designation
Designations of the team members are different from person to person. You will find Associates, Team Members, Team Leaders, Project Leader, Project Manager and Vice Presidents. Project Resource in organizations will execute the different levels of the Projects.
- Associates, Team Members: Resource to Complete the Tasks
- Team Leaders, Project Leader: Resource to Manage the Tasks
- Project Manager, Vice Presidents: Resource to Win the New Projects
Resource Bandwidth is the available time or free time of the resource. Resource bandwidth report will help to understand the mangers to find the free resource. And assign new tasks to the resource with more bandwidth.
Having Experienced Resource with the required skills for a project is very crucial. An Experienced resource can train the rest of the team to work on the new projects. And they can deliver the outputs.
More salaries are paid to more Experienced Resource. Salary is mainly based on the number of years’ experience in specific tools and software. People with hands on experience in specific project types will get more projects, with the related skills which they are good in.
Many organizations and Project Teams will have resource with special skills, they are SME, Managers, CRM.
SME are Subject Matter Experts with Deep understanding and Good Experience in specific Subjects. They will help teams to execute and deliver the projects with that Subject. For example, SME in Analytic domain can help the teams to solve the problem with analytical tasks.
Managers lead the teams towards delivering the projects. and they will ensure that is delivered on-time with accurate outputs. They will have special skills to manage and motivate the team members. And they will ask the team members to deliver the task to meet deadlines.
CRM also known as Client Relationship Managers, who are responsible to maintain the good communication relation with the Clients. They will understand and help in solving issues from client side.
Big companies are maintaining Buffer Resource and Additional Resource to assign them into upcoming projects. They will get ready with common skill and basic communication skills to allocate to new projects.
Resource can be full-time or part-time. Most companies prefer to recruit full-time employees than the
- FTE (Full Time Employees): Full-time employees are recruited by companies with the company payroll. These are permanent employees works for the companies.
- Part-time Resource: Part time Resource will be recruited for a project or a temporary task. They are not full-time employees. Part-time Employees also known as Contract based employees, companies will have them for few months to deliver a project.
New Resource Creation:
Creating new resource is very critical to any organizations. This will involve Resource Recruitment, Train, Project Training, assign to a Teams, Assign to Tasks and Resource Management.
- Resource Recruitment: You can recruit new resource by conducting interviews, by posting the jobs in the internet job portals
- Resource Training: You can Provide Basic Communication Skills like Email Writing and Business Training like Behavior and Business Rules and Ethics.
- Project Training: It is specific to a project. It can be technical training or conceptual training
- Assign to a Teams, Assign to Tasks: after completion of the above steps. Tasks will be allocated to resource. And reporting mangers must monitor the outputs producing by new associate couple of months.
Resource management is most tedious task for Project Managers. This involves many factors to effectively manage the resource and teams. For example: Team Activities, Appraisal, Appreciation, Rewards and Recognition, On-site, Bonus, Professional Courses.
Resource Planning and Allocation:
When you have skill resource, it is easy to plan your task and allocate the task to each person in your team. You must see the bandwidth report of a resource before allocating a task to them. Also, you resource must have the required skill-set to complete the tasks.
Developing the skills of your resource is crucial to execute your project. They need to update with new skills as per the demand and market changes. You can provide the internal training, external training, Professional Certificates, so that they can learn skill required for Project Execution
Project Resource Planning Template
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Take a Class and/or Workshop
People who are looking for a community of synergistic support can find it in one of Barbara's group classes or workshops. In a supportive environment that will enable you to achieve all of your wellness goals, Barbara offers a variety of wellness solutions via practical lifestyle coaching methods to guide you in discovering how to be present, be purposeful and be well. Often times with humor and always with easy to understand steps, Barbara will teach you to maintain your healthy balance as you age, even if you suffer from a chronic illness.
Class and Workshop Topics Include:
Nutrition: It's Not Just What You Eat
Does stress at your job or in your relationships cause you to overeat? Does lack of sleep or low energy prevent you from exercising or doing the things you love? Learn how to examine all parts of your life, including your nutrition, to understand how they affect your overall health and wellness.
Be Your Own Superhero
An interactive workshop to help those faced with adversity, whether physical or emotional, benefit from a shift in perspective from "Why me? to "What's next?"
Tips to Boost Your Brain Power
What is a Baby Boomer's worst nightmare? Learn simple techniques you can implement today to stave off aging diseases like Alzheimer's.
Business Plan for Personal Wellness
Most of us have written a business plan for our professional lives. Learn how to map out a proactive strategy for your personal wellness.
Put Together Your Own Team of Experts
Whether sick or healthy, it can be daunting to figure out where to turn to, and who to trust, for advice. Learn how to navigate the complex world of personal care by putting together your own team of experts.
Harnessing Your Dreams with Vision Boards
Learn a powerful tool that anyone can use to create their ideal future using the energetic powers of visualization and intention. Vision Boards will be created; all materials provided.
Relax, You've Got This...Just Breathe
Learn how and why breathing helps you decrease stress and lower your risk of disease.
All Breakout/Workshop Topics can be adjusted to 1/2-hour, 1-hour or 2-hour keynote, breakout or 1/2-full day workshops
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Jennifer Doudna and James Nunez led a study at the Advanced Light Source that revealed the structural basis by which bacteria are able to capture genetic information from viruses and other foreign invaders for their own immunological system. This discovery holds promise for studying or correcting problems in human genomes.
The CRISPR/Cas9 protein system, which is central part to bacterial adaptive immunity, has soared to great prominence in recent years for its enormous potential as a genome editing tool. In studying this system, scientists have found it to be akin to a Russian doll in that the unlocking of one secret reveals another secret within. Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist with Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging (MBIB) division, who has been at the forefront of unlocking CRISPR/Cas secrets has just unlocked another. Working off data acquired at the Advanced Light Source, Doudna and her research group have discovered the structural basis by which bacteria are able to capture genetic information from viruses and other foreign invaders for use in their own immunological system. Read more at the Berkeley Lab News Center. | <urn:uuid:0da8786c-e8a1-4478-abd0-02af10b682dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2015/10/22/it-takes-a-thief-discovering-how-bacteria-capture-genetic-info/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936567 | 228 | 2.828125 | 3 |
When I started working at Lessonly, I believed I was responsible for my teammate’s feelings. This belief was born out of my internal struggles. I worried I wasn’t good enough. I feared I would let everyone down. So I put pressure on myself to make sure the people around me were happy. When they weren’t, I wasn’t either. It was exhausting, especially as the company grew. By the time we hit 15 or 20 people, it was inevitable that someone would be upset or struggling with something. Because I didn’t know any better, I took on those feelings as if they were my own. I told myself it was my duty.
By 2017, we had 50+ people, and I was at a breaking point. I remember thinking, “We have to stop hiring because I cannot handle any more feelings. Please, please, please—no more feelings.” I wondered how anyone ran a sizable organization without completely cordoning themselves off from other people. So I tried that. I shied away from any feeling that drained me. I tried a “deal with it” mentality. That route was a struggle for me too. I still felt pain when others felt pain, even if I pretended I didn’t.
For months, I fluctuated between these two states. If I had the energy, I assumed other people’s feelings as my own. If I didn’t, I distanced myself from them. Around the same time, we hired Megan Jarvis, our director of talent. Megan became the new point person when a teammate needed help, which gave me intermittent relief but still didn’t solve the problem. Because the problem had nothing to do with anybody else. The problem was in me.
Since then, I’ve learned I don’t have to choose between emotional slavery and disavowing other people’s feelings. There is a third option: emotional liberation. When I behave in an emotionally liberated way, I take responsibility for my feelings, intentions, and actions, but not the feelings of others. Emotional liberation encourages me to show compassion for—and learn from—other people’s feelings, but not to carry them as my own.
On her blog, licensed counselor Jacey Tramutt does a great job summarizing these three stages and their differences. For clarity, I added the italic descriptors:
Stage 1, emotional slavery: We are responsible for the feelings of others, and we must constantly strive to keep everyone happy. This can easily lead us to see the very people we are closest to as burdens.
Stage 2, disavowing other’s emotions: We no longer want to be responsible for others’ feelings. We feel angry at how little we have responded to the call of our own soul. We have yet to learn how to be responsible to others in a way that is not emotionally enslaving.
Stage 3, emotional liberation: We respond to the needs of others out of compassion, never out of fear, guilt, or shame. We accept full responsibility for our own intentions and actions, but not the feelings of others.
If you’ve been a weekly note subscriber for awhile or read Do Better Work, you won’t be surprised to hear that Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication is a great guide for navigating these stages (see pages 57–61). If you relate to any of this, I urge you to pick his book up and start on your journey toward emotional liberation. You deserve it. We all deserve it.
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Languedoc Trilogy4 Titel in dieser Serie
Brought vividly to life by Louise Brealey's narration, this new, unabridged audiobook also includes extra content read by the author, Kate Mosse.
July 1209: in Carcassonne a 17-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe....
July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she's disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow, a link to a horrific past - her past - has been revealed.
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"From Workers' Injury Assessment to Workplace Inclusion in the Aftermath of a Workplace Accident"
Check the impact on the Health Condition of a worker injured as a result of a workplace accident.Calculate
The Bangladesh Scale and its four ITs have been designed to determine impacts on the Well-Being of an injured worker as a result of a workplace accident in the RMG Sector of Bangladesh.Read more
The tools developed by Simon Institute allow us to objectively quantify: (i) impairments on body functions and structures; (ii) the influence of personal and social factors;(iii) limitation of activities; (iv) restrictions of participation; (v) residual ability and, finally, (vi) reasonable accommodations to reincorporate the worker with disability to his/her previous post, after completing his/her healing period.Read more
simon.institute is made up of a global and local multisectoral team that includes: (i) forensic and orthopedic and neurological surgeon doctors (Universities of Dhaka and Santiago de Compostela); (ii) mathematicians (University of Santiago de Compostela); (iii) actuaries (Spain and France); (iv) computer engineers (Spain and Bangladesh); (v) sociologists (University of Dhaka) and; (vi) insurer and re-insurer experts (Spain, France, Bangladesh and USA).Meet our team
Managing the following workplace disasters: Spectrum (2005), Tazreen (2012), Rana Plaza (2013) and the statistically determining The Ratio of Non-fatal Workplace Accidents of the RMG Sector.
The Savar Project Methodology has been designed in a relational approach by the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies (IDMVS) of Dhaka University and Third Sector representatives of Bangladesh to protect the free access, control and enjoyment of compensation resulting from Rana Plaza Compensation to the injured workers and the families of those families deceased workers family members.
The Savar Project offers an innovative multi-stakeholder methodology that includes the “gender” concept as a key element to determining the corporate intervention strategy and explores new research paths to integrate any form of Violence Against Women in the aftermath of a workplace accident.
This Study summarizes a two-year relational process to estimate The Ratio of non-fatal workplace accidents for Bangladesh's RMG Sector.
This “relational” and statistical calculation was aimed at developing an estimation of The Ratio, while using the process as a means to accumulate Trust among all stakeholders involved. The Ratio is defined as the percentage of workers who lost at least one workday during the previous year due to a workplace injury.
The Study involved performing onsite surveys of 14,075 workers employed in 54 garment factories that supply a major British textile firm. Based on survey data The Ratio was estimated at 3.04%, which compares favourably with accident rates reported for Spain (3.56% for the textile industry and 1.53% for clothing manufacture) and Portugal (2.07% for clothing manufacturing), and is well below previously estimated rates for Bangladesh (for 2003 Hämäläinen et al. estimated a 20.47% ratio for workplace accidents resulting in work absences of at least four days).
The newly estimated Ratio would allow the implementation of a public or private social protection system. The Study's secondary goal was for all involved stakeholders to accept The Ratio, based on the Trust that was accumulated during the execution of the survey. The “license to operate” granted by the stakeholders to both The Ratio and the methodology used for its estimation is a key instrument for the future development of public and private insurance solutions. These insurance solutions are necessary to protect the Basic and Fundamental Rights of over 5 million workers employed in Bangladesh’s RMG sector.
A practical implementation of sen´s capability approach to measure the impact of Savar Project in the Rana Plaza workplace disaster.
It is an econometric model that combines Disaster Management Techniques with Sen's Capability Approach.
It is focused on assessing beneficiaries "Capability" through to the evolution of two variables over time: (i) Their Survival "Ability" which captures their capacity to overcome the initial impact of the Rana Plaza collapse based on age, gender, marital status, commodities that are available to him/her, social capacity for resilience and access to social protection mechanisms and (ii) their "Post-Survival capacity" to escape the “poverty trap” after receiving the bulk of the Savar Project compensation.
Digital Ecosystem of solutions for tele-healthcare during the pandemic. Over 10 million families assisted from financial to healthcare needs.
Open Source Projects utilized by 4 governments. Open Source Toolkit for Pandemics: Scalable real-time data for better decision making. Project Unity helps you monitor and restrict the spread of disease through a simple app.
Incorporating best practices in data-security and privacy protection. From distributed anonimized data using Exposure Notifications with Google and Apple teams to GDPR compliant solutions for self-diagnostics.
Geo location Data for Governmental and Private primary to tertiary attention centers.
Secure Profiles for family members and interconnection of data-flows with other government systems through standardized APIs.
Big-data Dashboards with forecasting of hotspots and trends.
Tele-medicine protocols activated to de-saturate hospitals and to prioritize support.
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Jerusalem Artichokes: Health Benefits & Nutritional Properties
The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), native to eastern North America, belongs to the sunflower family of plants. Also known as the earth apple, sunchoke, sunroot and topinambour, the Jerusalem artichoke is a healthy root vegetable cultivated for its highly nutritious and fleshy tuber. The skin of the root, which varies in color from light brown and white to purple and red, can be eaten as well, provided that you clean it thoroughly before eating.
Jerusalem artichokes can be eaten raw or cooked, and they make a nice, health boosting addition to soups and salads alike. To learn more about the health benefits of eating Jerusalem artichokes, keep reading. The paragraphs below aim to provide an overview of the most important health benefits and nutritional properties of Jerusalem artichokes.
Jerusalem artichokes have prebiotic effects
Jerusalem artichokes contain plenty of inulin, a type of prebiotic fiber that has been credited with a number of health benefits due to its medicinal properties. Many of these health effects can be attributed to the ability of inulin to stimulate the growth of bifidobacteria. Naturally present in the large intestine, bifidobacteria fight harmful bacteria in the intestines, prevent constipation, and give the immune system a boost. Furthermore, evidence indicates that bifidobacteria help reduce intestinal concentrations of certain carcinogenic enzymes.
Further health benefits for the digestive tract due to thiamine
Jerusalem artichokes are packed with B vitamins, particularly thiamine, with a 100-gram portion (3.5 ounces) of raw Jerusalem artichokes providing 0.2 milligrams of thiamine. This correponds to about 13% of the recommended daily value for thiamine. Thiamine, also known as vitamin B1, is involved in a number of bodily functions. It is crucial for the proper functioning of the nervous system and the muscles. It is also needed for carbohydrate metabolism as well as for the production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. Lack of hydrochloric acid may impair protein digestion and cause stomach pain by inhibiting the activation of the enzyme pepsin. Furthermore, low acid levels in the stomach increase the risk of bacterial overgrowth in the stomach, which in turn may cause diarrhea or decreased absorption of health benefiting vitamins and minerals. The natural level of hydrochloric acid decreases as we age, and therefore especially older people might want to eat plenty of Jerusalem artichokes and other foods that promote the production of hydrochloric acid.
Jerusalem artichokes have a gentle effect on blood glucose
With a glycemic value of 50, Jerusalem artichokes are considered a medium GI food. The glycemic index (GI) classifies foods and beverages based on their ability to increase the level of glucose in the blood. Carbohydrates in foods with a high GI rating break down into simple sugars quickly and cause blood glucose levels to rise sharply. This surge is followed by a steep decline in blood glucose levels. Evidence suggests that the fluctuating blood glucose levels associated with eating high GI foods may significantly increase the risk of a wide range of health problems such as fatigue, heart disease, altered mood, intense food cravings, insulin resistance and diabetes. By contrast, low and medium glycemic foods such as Jerusalem artichokes are digested slowly, and they do not cause rapid fluctuations in blood glucose levels. Due to their gentle effect on blood glucose levels, low and medium glycemic foods like Jerusalem artichokes can help curb cravings, prevent mood swings, fight fatigue, manage PCOS symptoms, improve diabetes control, and even reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke.
Furthermore, low/medium GI eating can be a successful weight loss strategy! When the carbohydrates in our food cause our blood glucose levels to rise, our bodies respond by secreting a pancreatic hormone called insulin. One of insulin's biological purposes is to stimulate the uptake of blood glucose by the body's liver, muscle and fat cells which can then store it for later energy use. The higher the blood glucose levels, the more energy will be stored, particularly in the form of body fat.
Jerusalem artichokes are an excellent source of potassium
Jerusalem artichokes provide even more potassium than bananas which are famous for their high potassium content: a 100-gram portion of raw Jerusalem artichokes delivers 429 milligrams of potassium, while bananas provide 358 milligrams of this important mineral. Potassium is essential for good health and it is particularly important for a healthy heart and properly functioning muscles. What's more, by eating Jerusalem artichokes and other potassium-rich foods you may also improve the health of your bones and even reduce your risk of developing osteoporosis. Potassium-containing foods such as Jerusalem artichokes and bananas are considered particularly beneficial for people who eat a lot of salty food (potassium can counteract some of the negative health effects of salt).
A nutritious root vegetable that promotes hair health
Jerusalem artichokes are a good source of hair health promoting nutrients such as iron, copper and vitamin C. A 100-gram serving of raw Jerusalem artichokes provides almost a fifth of the recommended daily intake for iron. Dietary iron carries oxygen to the hair, keeping hair follicles healthy. Evidence suggests that depleted iron stores are among the most common causes of hair loss in pre-menopausal women. Similar to iron, copper helps prevent hair loss and boost hair growth. Additionally, copper is sometimes used as a treatment for thinning hair, and it is thought to intensify hair color and preventpremature graying of hair, too. Vitamin C, on the other hand, is required for the synthesis of collagen. Collagen contributes to healthy hair by strengthening hair follicles and by keeping blood vessels in the scalp healthy. Vitamin C in Jerusalem artichokes also promotes iron absorption from foods.
A PREBIOTIC POWER FOOD
Sunchokes are the tuberous root of a type of sunflower that’s native to North America. They provide generous amounts of iron and potassium and help the body absorb certain minerals, such as calcium…and they are rich in fiber, which helps prevent certain types of cancer, such as colon cancer.
In fact, sunchokes are packed with an important type of fiber called inulin, which is a prebiotic. “Inulin is a carbohydrate, but because your body can’t digest it, it doesn’t affect your blood sugar,” said Freuman. This characteristic gives the sunchoke its low glycemic effect. But even though youcan’t digest inulin, the healthful probiotic bacteria in your gut feast on it and, in fact, need it to provide their health benefits to you, explained Freuman.
But inulin does have one unfortunate downside—which also puts a crimp in the advice of the Japanese researchers to load your daily diet with sunchokes. Eating too much inulin—more than 10 grams a day—can make you gassy. Since one-half cup of sunchokes has 18 grams of inulin in it, Freuman suggests eating no more than one-quarter cup at a time if you are new to this root vegetable but want to add it to your diet. Within six to eight hours—the amount of time it takes for the sunchokes to travel from your mouth to your colon—you’ll know whether your body tolerates the inulin well or not. As your body gets used to this new food, you may be able to increase how much you eat without the gassy side effect. | <urn:uuid:79e39e06-b4a5-44f8-afdd-767c00d85d66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://flavor.ahya.net/node/148 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.927983 | 1,587 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Ask the Pharmacist: How Can I Improve My Heart Health?
Most people feel a need to only take their medication when they feel sick. But in the case of the heart health issues of hypertension and elevated cholesterol, this type of thinking could kill you.
Patients with these heart conditions are often completely asymptomatic - that’s the reason these conditions are often called silent killers. Elevated cholesterol has no visible symptoms. The belief that headaches, nose bleeds, nervousness, sweating, and facial flushing are symptoms to take blood pressure medication is a myth.
The scope of cardiovascular disease is enormous. According to the American Heart Association and 2020 government statistics, cardiovascular diseases remains the number one cause of death in the United States, and claims more lives each year than all forms of cancer and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined, affecting 121.5 million Americans.
Simply keeping blood pressure under control decreases the risk of heart attack by 56 %, stroke by 61% and heart failure by 43 %, according to the National Institutes of Health. Similar dramatic results are seen with cholesterol control. Every 10% decrease in LDL cholesterol reduces the chance of a heart attack and stroke by 15%. To drill down on this, many statin medications decrease cholesterol by 30% to 40% or more, decreasing heart attack and stroke risk by 45% to 60%.
Here at the Express Scripts Cardiovascular Therapeutic Resource Center® we are making a difference in medication adherence which is key to managing these diseases. This includes early detections with tailored interventions to improve member adherence and deliver healthcare savings to clients. Simply by taking their medications as directed our patients may require fewer emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and enjoy better health.
Actionable tips you can do now to improve your heart health
- If you presently require heart medications, develop memorable habits to consistently take your medications as your physician has directed. Monitor your blood pressure regularly, and get cholesterol screenings on a regular basis.
- Get active. Just 10 minutes of physical activity daily can lower your risk of having a heart attack significantly. Aiming for 30 minutes a day lowers your risk even more. If you sit much of your day, take a walk on your breaks, and possibly stand at your workstation part of your day if possible.
- Don’t wait until you’re older to address heart health. High obesity rates, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes are happening at increased rates in our younger population, putting them at risk of heart disease earlier in life.
- Let’s get personal. Watch your stress level as it leads to heart disease. Practice deep breathing to relieve stress, keep anger in check, and laugh more. Laughter helps your blood vessels to relax and expand, keeping your heart working properly. Get enough sleep too, as it lowers stress and your risk of heart disease.
- Stop smoking. Smoking damages blood vessels and can cause heart disease. Ask for help if needed.
- Maintain – or work toward – a healthy weight with diet and exercise. Develop heart-healthy eating habits low in trans-fat, saturated fat, added sugar, and sodium. As a rule of thumb fill at least half your plate with vegetables and fruit, and pick low sodium options.
A Wholehearted Solution to a Costly Condition
While medications to treat cardiovascular diseases are having positive outcomes for patients, the cost of treatments is taking a toll on patients and payers. Express Scripts has developed a solution that holistically tackles the clinical and financial challenges of heart conditions and their critical medications.
When costly PCSK9 inhibitors came to market, we launched the Cholesterol Care ValueSM program to ensure affordability and appropriate access. Through this program, plan sponsors and members benefited from our innovative value-based contracting strategy. Effective January 1, 2020, we expanded the program to more holistically combat the devastating health and financial consequences of cardiovascular disease. The program, now called Cardiovascular Care ValueSM, includes other heart conditions to increase access and adherence and reduce pharmacy spend and downstream medical complications and costs.
The Beat Goes On
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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 212, 20182018 International Scientific Conference “Investment, Construction, Real Estate: New Technologies and Special-Purpose Development Priorities” (ICRE 2018)
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|Published online||15 October 2018|
Using the entropy of cover method in the analysis of investment risks
Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, 129337, Yaroslavskoye shosse, 26, Moscow, Russia
* Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.org
The purpose of this article is to expand knowledge about qualitative and quantitative criteria for assessing investment risks and the properties of investment processes from the point of view of presenting real dynamic processes of investment exchange in the target information space. The method of the entropy of cover is the main method that is considered in the article when analyzing and managing risks. The paper suggests the grouping of the main risks in accordance with classification criteria and management levels, since the ranking of risks is associated with certain types of investments. Also, the article considers the main provisions using the information measure - the entropy of cover, which allow leading to the search for optimal information management of investment risk. The proposed methodology has sufficient flexibility, and it can be used to solve a variety of problems in the analysis of investment projects. It does not require a global restructuring of the financial management system, allows attracting resources already available and is an effective tool in the struggle against uncertainty.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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Chemical burns involve injury to a part of the body caused by short- or long-term exposure to a chemical substance. They are generally caused by acids or bases, which are caustic products that can cause damage on contact.
What are the causes and risks of the injury?
Chemical burns usually occur on the surface of the body, such as the skin or eyes. However, chemicals may also be inhaled or swallowed, causing lung or gut damage.
Acids used at home that can cause chemical burns are as follows:
acetic acid, used in dyes, hair wave neutralizers, and disinfectants
formic acid, used in airplane glue
hydrochloric acid, used in toilet bowl cleaners, metal cleaners, and soldering fluxes
hydrofluoric acid, used in rust removers, tile cleaners, and tanning
nitric acid, used in metal engraving
phosphoric acid, used in rustproofing, disinfectants, and detergents
sulfuric acid, used in drain cleaners, metal cleaners, and automobile battery fluid
Bases used at home that can cause chemical burns include the following:
ammonia and phosphates, used in detergents and cleaners
calcium hydroxide, used in mortar, plaster, and cement
calcium oxide, or lime, used in cement
silicates, used in detergents
sodium and calcium hypochlorite, used in pool chlorinating agents and household bleach
sodium carbonate, used in detergents
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The need to drop some volts
I mentioned in a couple of previous posts that my giant toroid transformer that I want to use for my power supply was a little too beefy for my purposes. I mentioned in the most recent blog post that transformers are often rated at just below normal mains voltage to provide a “guaranteed minimum” and that once you combine this fact with your rectifier and filter, you actually end up with a higher voltage than you originally intended. Most of the time, this is great for ensuring you can overcome that pesky dropout voltage (around about 2.5V for most regulators to be on the safe side) but in some cases, it can get dangerously close to frying said regulators by exceeding the max input voltage (maximum voltage differential).
In my case, the chunky toroid, after rectification and filtering with no load gives me a rather beefy 42.6V when on paper it should have been 30V. Given that most common regulators have a maximum input voltage of 35-38V, it becomes obvious that I had to step it down a tad. There were a few options to do this:
- Unwind the secondary of the transformer a few winds
- Use series diodes to drop the voltage by 0.7V each
- Construct a pre-regulator to drop the voltage to safe levels
I have examined each of these in turn and came to to the following conclusions:
Thing of beauty, don’t want to wreck it
The toroid is a lovingly packaged beastie, professionally wound in crazy spirals, wrapped in plastic and nicely presented with leads. Since I barely know what I’m doing, it would be unwise in the extreme to mess with it. Why break something to make it work when other solutions can work just as well?
Isn’t that gross looking? Embarrassed to say I made that…
I did try the series diodes, and was able to get a voltage drop of 4.2V by bodge soldering 6 of them in series. As you can see from the photo, there are quite ugly and apart from appearances do not reassure me that they will hold together well and 4.2V is not nearly enough of a drop to be useful to me. Essentially, I made a mess of 6 diodes to only get down to 38.4V, barely outside the red danger zone. Also, the legs on the high-power diodes are quite chunky and would be a severe pain in the ass to get into a pre-drilled circuit board and I will not have them floating in the air inside the case in case heat/cracked joint/whatever causes them to fall apart starting a fire. Also, when I’m long dead and someone opens the case to see what I’ve built, do I really want them to see that bodgy mess? No way man.
The third option is one I considered before and after thrashing about with the other ideas, it has been revealed to be the best one. Difficulty is, with voltage regulators having the limitation mentioned above I couldn’t use them. As mentioned in a previous post, I am going to go with a simple, yet high powered idea of using a darlington transistor biased with a zener diode. I was able to acquire some 30V zeners (part: 1N4751A) so these two, plus a couple of biasing resistors is all I need.
Here, I ran up a simulation to illustrate:
Please ignore the 2N3904/3906 transistors, they are mere placeholders for the TIP142/147 darlingtons I intend to use since CircuitLab didn’t have either in their box of parts. Only me building it up would determine whether or not I have to adjust any of these values/parts or not. I like living dangerously.
I chose a 10Ω load resistor to simulate a current output of 3A at around 30V. The actual output voltage doesn’t need to be precise as it will be further regulated later, so long as it’s above 26.5V or so it will be fine.
The tricky bit is biasing the thing. I first assumed that I could use a 10kΩ resistor to power the zener and bias the transistor. I quickly figured out that this isn’t enough, especially when under load. The zener needs a minimum of 5mA to get that nice voltage drop going on and the transistor needs a proper current to regulate the voltage.
Through fiddling about, I settled on what I think is a good compromise. My zeners are 1W so there’s one limitation I have to consider. Though I am well within the max collector/base voltage limit of 100V, the max base current is 500mA, which will be hard to come close to, but worth noting.
Through messing about with the load, I noticed that it had a hard time regulating itself at higher currents and I kept having to drop the biasing resistance to keep it working. This presented a problem of higher currents both for the base and the zener. Though the base can handle it and then some, the zeners were fast approaching their power limit.
The compromise is the 470Ω biasing resistor. It seems, at that level, to keep it’s regulation up to 3A more or less which is what I chose as my maximum current output anyway. Any higher than that my current limiter will drop the voltage to keep it from melting itself.
This also keeps the zener/base current steady at 26.84mA. Though this seems like peanuts, given the voltage drop across the zener the power dissipation would be about 800mW or 80% of it’s maximum.
Though I realize some of that current is going into the base of the darlington transistor, I really don’t want to try lowering the resistance any further. Always better to have some headroom in case Murphy and his law show up. Ohm, and his law, also indicate that the resistor will dissipate a third of a Watt (0.338 to be exact) so 1W 470Ω resistors would be nice to have. As it turns out, I have one.
If I need to get higher power parts, this is also possible. A 30V Zener diode 5W (part: 1N5363B) exists and is cheap, and i’d nead a helluva resistor to go with it, probably a 10W 100Ω. I think I can avoid doing that though.
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When it comes to making a purchase, some of us take into account cost, whilst others focus on quality. However, for the majority of us, it always comes down to who we know, who we trust and who we feel a sense of loyalty to – those brands that have built a reputation and a relationship with us. This type of marketing supports brands in standing out from the competition in the long run and it’s for that reason that building and maintaining your business’ reputation is increasingly important.
In the past businesses have focused purely on the bottom line, but in this day and age that would be a very short-sighted strategy. A holistic approach, taking into account the fact that revenue and reputation work hand-in-hand, is vital. Examples of brands that have got it right include Google, Disney and Apple.
It’s important to note, that in this day and age there’s no faking it. Brands are forced to be increasingly honest with their audience and their employees as the internet has opened up a new level of transparency, with endless amounts of information available regarding every company.
2015 saw several scandals which damaged brands’ reputations and inevitably their revenues. For example, the Volkswagen scandal of cheating emissions tests, causing consumers to lose trust in the brand, taking a huge hit to their profitability, with over $4.8 billion having to be set aside for an internal enquiry to attempt to regain trust. The manufacturer’s shares have expectedly also taken a turn for the worse, falling by a third. And it’s not just your business that you to evaluate. By partnering or being associated with businesses with questionable values, you could leave yourself at risk. Simply look at how Fifa’s scandal has affected Nike.
But don’t stress! One of the best things about the current emphasis on brand reputation is that it doesn’t have to cost a lot. It’s simply about your values as a company and demonstrating them internally and externally in everything you do. It may mean more time or money spent to ensure quality, but in the end it will multiply your marketing and sales efforts, as your customers and employees become advocates for your business. A great example of this is the employee perks Google is renowned for, including unique offices, free food, sports facilities etc. which make us think of the company as not only a great place to work, but a brand to trust.
Want proof of how much brand reputation means these days? Facebook. YouTube. These brands became renowned and used by millions across the world but had little income. Because of the brand reputation, these businesses were considered to be worth millions despite their revenue.
Tips for improving your brand reputation:
- Be proactive – rather than waiting for customer complaints and reacting to them, continually analyse every aspect of your business, including its values, services, products so that you can proactively develop and adapt to exceed expectations and build a lasting relationship with your customers.
- Corporate Social Responsibility – Implementing a CSR programme, providing ongoing support to charities, not only enhances your reputation, but also improves team morale. Real Business offer great advice on implementing a CSR programme for your business.
- Social media – show the people and culture behind your brand. Demonstrate authenticity and build trust. Engage with the community. Give people a reason to trust you by sharing solutions or answers that are useful to your audience. Find out how you can give your brand a personality. | <urn:uuid:35f092c1-4866-49f8-9d57-39969e9884b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zircom.uk.com/tag/branding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965076 | 714 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Chill, coldrooms and coldstores for any size and temperature requirement
P.H. Insulations has the experience, resources and skills to manufacture and maintain chill and cold room facilities to meet all kinds of applications. Our chill and coldstores can be specified to any size and temperature to meet your requirement and the rigorous legislative demands upon the food and medical industries.
As cold room manufacturers, our expertise extends from large chill store complexes for fresh produce processing and packing, food processing areas, beverage manufacture, and medical and pharmaceutical production facilities; to walk in cold room modular units for butchers, fishmongers, supermarkets and delicatessens, also for farm-scale food production and packaging – such as dairy and cheese produce.
Our manufacturing facility is equipped with CNC machinery used for making parts such as the flashing and trims needed for installation projects. Having a manufacturing capability delivers many benefits. Including:
- We reduce dependence upon other suppliers – and possible late deliveries
- We can respond quickly if a bespoke part needs to be made for an installation
- We can fabricate items at short notice if they are needed for emergency or routine maintenance
For coldstores, chill and cold rooms that don’t require fire-retardant specification, we generally use standard composite insulation panels, such as polystyrene or polyurethane as the core material. If a fire-retardant material is specified, we offer a range of core materials, including PIR and mineral wool.
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is revolutionizing the way people work, at a rate never seen before. It is empowering even the most non-technical employee to enhance the power of software ultimately and free their day from routine and repetitive tasks. Citizen automators and developers help to scale RPA even faster and with almost no extra costs.
“A citizen developer is a user who creates new business applications for consumption by others using development and runtime environments sanctioned by corporate IT.”Gartner
The idea of a citizen developer is edging its way into reality across many Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platforms. Through a simple graphical interface and smart building tools, non-tech users are empowered to automate processes via software bots into production environments. The benefits of implementing RPA solutions into work processes are undeniable. Giving standard users the ability to drag-and-drop future-proof apps without touching source code or having to know anything about programming languages creates a force multiplier for speed and value.
RPA can enable more rapid innovation and provide a leg up on the competition. It can also save time and money and allows the development team to work on more strategic and analytical tasks.
They create innovative atmosphere
You are probably familiar with macros in Microsoft Excel. Not a lot of people create them, and millions use them daily without even thinking about the path where these macros came from or who’ve created them. Citizen automation will definitely identify these “macros makers” in every company. And they, realizing their usefulness, will certainly start to think in the direction of more complex processes in order to make their work and the work of colleagues more effective.
If you are ready to become the fearless pioneer in your field who implements RPA software, ElectroNeek is here to support you. You will streamline workflow, increase the productivity of your teams, reduce operational costs, and do all of it without changes into IT infrastructure.
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Voice broadcasting is a wholesale voice calling automated dialing platform. The system will play your pre recorded concept used for bulk communication. Bulk voice calls are actually pre recorded voice messages, which can be sent to any phone. Voice Transmissions is an efficient scientific invention which permits users to a new specific list regarding contact with their information of choice. The firm or individual working with this service simply needs to keep a database associated with its contacts, which it intends in order to target for revenue promotion and advantages and advertisement of the product or services or political effort. As with large e-mails (which is a proven successful online marketing promotion trick), just one phone call might get hundreds of men and women know about a particular product. Voice displaying programs come packed with a multitude regarding features and choices that helps the user of the platform with there advertising initiative.
Voice Transmissions enables a solitary company to ascertain make contact with with a large great number of its buyers instantly and disseminate its intended communication with them interactively. Without this widely applied service in place, a new company would have got to maintain some sort of huge fleet involving telemarketers and essential infrastructure to reach out to this type of plethora of clients. Maintaining a fleet highly skilled telemarketers leads to a waste products of valuable people hours needed every day looking for organization. The success proportion is minimal as well since several customers suspend up upon ability to hear the telemarketing staff’s voice.
Voice displaying services provide house based business masters and up-and-coming small to moderate sized companies the particular bandwidth and capability of large contact centers. A little one man go shopping now has the opportunity to send out hundreds and hundreds of phone emails at a minimal price and actually continue to be competitive with all the a lot of larger firms inside their particular industry. Little enterprises can now expand at stages that have been in the particular past not easily attainable. Voice transmitting is extremely viable for people who do buiness to company marketing not only because you can directly contact your own customers during organization hours, but likewise because it is definitely one of the most affordable methods to make immediate contact with businesses and direct make contact with closes deals. It is practically an unblemished market right now with so few companies actually including tone broadcasting in their own marketing plans. My personal guess is these people haven’t considered the particular clear advantages.
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What is our Fair Wage Surcharge?
We politely decline tips at The Snug and instead include a 20% Fair Wage Surcharge on each check so that we can ensure all our staff earn a stable, livable, and equitable wage — no matter their position at the restaurant.
This type of policy has been the subject of much discussion across the entire restaurant industry for a number of years, as many high-profile restaurant operators have begun to advocate for it. We strongly believe in it and want to tell you why.
We are aware and appreciative of the fact that the vast majority of our guests since 2017 have approached tipping in good faith, tipped our staff generously, and taken great pride in doing so. However, tipping is fundamentally a very problematic practice. Its origins are challenging, its economics are antiquated, and its ultimate impact on employees is counterintuitive.
Unbeknownst to many, the custom of tipping in America today is actually a legacy of slavery and its aftermath. When slavery was amended out of the Constitution in the wake of the Civil War, restaurant work was one of the few jobs offered to former slaves. However, many employers at the time refused to pay any wages to former slaves, with the expectation that guests would provide small tips for their service. This practice of tipping somehow became ingrained in our society and has continued to this day.
This model of compensation can create a troubling dynamic between servers and guests, whereby servers instinctively hesitate to push back on inappropriate or disrespectful behavior from guests for fear of losing income. Secondly, the seasonal nature of restaurant revenue leaves staff living with wild and unpredictable swings in their tipped income. Finally, tipping has also created an unjustifiable gulf between what “Back of House” kitchen staff can earn compared to their tipped “Front of House” counterparts.
Another consequence of tipping is that it has kept menu prices artificially low for generations, as labor continued to be a minimal cost to restaurants (especially in tip-credited minimum wage states) which was mostly passed through to the guests via tipping. Furthermore, as new employee benefits (such as healthcare, paid sick leave, etc.) became the norm across different industries during the latter half of the twentieth century, those industries built the costs of these new employee benefits into their business models. Yet most restaurants did not provide these employee benefits until recently, and many across the country still don't. As a result, the economic models of restaurants and the menu prices they could charge have never been a function of the true costs to operate a fair workplace.
San Francisco has been at the forefront of pushing for a better way. In 2014, SF voters passed a new initiative to increase the local minimum wage to $15.00 per hour by July 1, 2018, and to adjust the wage rate each July 1 thereafter based on the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index. The current minimum wage is $16.32. San Francisco has also implemented health care security, paid sick leave, lactation in the workplace, and other progressive employees' rights policies.
These policies, which The Snug wholeheartedly supports, have created significant new expenses for restaurants yet still fall short of providing restaurant workers with the livable wage and stability that they deserve. Like all SF restaurants, we have had no choice but to periodically raise prices to keep up with these new policies and maintain a viable business. What guests don't see is that there is an entire supply chain to get products and ingredients from the farm to their plate, and these policies increase costs at all levels of that supply chain -- not just our labor cost at our restaurant.
COVID exposed many of the structural inequalities in our country and demonstrated the value restaurants and their employees bring to society. We believe it is now providing the opportunity to restructure the restaurant labor compensation model, which is long overdue. Thus, in order to pay our full-time staff a livable wage with full benefits, we have implemented a 20% Fair Wage Surcharge on all checks at The Snug. While we would prefer to build our full labor cost into our prices instead, we believe this long overdue reconciliation would create too much “sticker shock” for guests. Splitting it out as a surcharge, while using it as an opportunity to inform guests, is the best path forward, for now.
It is going to take some time for us all to adjust to the new reality of the true cost to dine out at a bar or restaurant. The Snug will probably lose some customers by implementing this surcharge. But for us, it's the only way forward to operate a restaurant in San Francisco that treats and compensates its workers with the respect they deserve, and we believe it is the future of the industry.
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Infection of human or murine cells with murine leukemia viruses rapidly increases the expression of a number of genes that belong to the immunoglobulin superfamily and are involved in T-lymphocyte activation, including the class I major histocompatibility complex antigens. We have reported recently that the long terminal repeat (LTR) of Moloney murine leukemia virus encodes a trans activator which induces transcription and expression of class I major histocompatibility complex genes and certain cytokine genes. The portion of the LTR responsible for trans activation was mapped by deletions to lie within the U3 region. We demonstrate here that a transcript is initiated within the U3 region and that its presence correlates with the trans-activating activity. Analysis of the LTR region reveals a potential internal promoter element for RNA polymerase III transcription within the U3 region. Studies with polymerase inhibitors suggest that this LTR transcript, designated let (LTR-encoded trans activator), is a product of RNA polymerase III. The mechanisms whereby RNA leukemia viruses cause lymphoid neoplasia after a long latent period have been extensively studied but are only partially understood. The region of the LTR identified here as being important in trans activation has recently been shown to be a critical determinant of the leukemogenicity and latency of Moloney murine leukemia virus. These findings suggest a novel mechanism of retrovirus-induced activation of cellular gene expression, potentially contributing to leukemogenesis.
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If an animal is holding habitual tension in certain parts of the body it will affect its ease of movement and physical balance. When out of physical balance, confidence and the ability to cope in a range of situations can be seriously compromised. Many things can affect physical balance and the nervous system can quickly form the habit of holding the body in an awkward posture.
Puppies grow quickly and can often start to move awkwardly as their body parts grow at different rates, affecting physical balance. They also go through ‘fear periods’ during development. This emotional response can encourage them to hold tension patterns which affect posture and go full circle to further affect emotional response. This encourages erratic, fast movement where the puppy starts bumping and banging into things and people. Emotional tension goes to the jaw area and the puppy often starts to mouth again as a coping mechanism to release this tension. This is often seen as naughty behaviour; in truth, the puppy can’t help it as it does not have the experience to move in any other way.
A dog’s normal pace of movement is faster than a human’s walking pace so puppies need to learn how to co-ordinate their body and walk slowly in order to be able to walk on a loose lead; greet people calmly; use their body language to communicate well with other dogs.
The physical effects of a medical condition or physical injury can make animals adopt an out of balance posture to ‘guard’ the area which was painful. This affects performance and emotional response to different situations. Often, they need a little help to learn how to move in physical balance again.
Hollycroft Vet Centre looked after Jake’s primary care and medication and he received acupuncture to aid pain relief on referral to Acorn Vets. Swimming at Corley K9 Pool helped to make him feel good in the non-weight bearing freedom of the water and maintain as much muscle tone as possible in his hind legs … so where does TTouch come in?
The gentle groundwork exercises helped him to adjust mentally and adapt physically so that he was still mobile. The daily body TTouches helped to comfort and relax those poor overworked shoulder, neck and leg muscles and gave him a sense of well-being. The result? A dog who managed to adjust to his disability and still keep his amazing enjoyment of and zest for life.
Note the pressure put on Jake’s neck, shoulders, front legs and head as his posture has adjusted to accommodate his disability. He still manages to have a wonderful time playing at catch the water from the hosepipe and still gets into all sorts of mischief to keep us on our toes!!
Over excitement or fear can encourage animals to hold tension in certain parts of the body. This affects the ability to move in physical balance which in turn feeds the emotional state, locking them into a cycle of boisterous or reactive behaviour.
This beautiful young Labrador is very boisterous and ‘pulled’ on the lead. In reality, she leaned into the lead to enable her to stay upright because she did not know how to move at the much slower human walking pace and still keep her balance.
Notice how the pressure of a single connection on her collar/lead causes her body to twist away at the front, away from the handler’s leg. This caused a lot of discomfort to her owner’s shoulder and back while they were walking.
Using a harness and flat collar with a double clipped lead helped us to teach her how to keep her weight over her legs and move slowly, without having to lean into the lead.
This lively little Jack Russell was very noisy and reactive to other dogs while on the lead. Note how he leans into the lead, even with the double connection of harness and collar. He cannot keep his balance even when there are no other dogs around. His lack of confidence physically causes him to be reactive when there is another dog around and he is restricted by the lead.
He needs the additional help of Homing Pigeon (see below) so that he can learn to be more aware of his movement and balance and so improve his confidence in a variety of situations.
The Journey of the Homing Pigeon, with a handler either side leading, helps the dog to centre itself as it learns to use the non-habitual movements required to negotiate the Confidence Course.
A Confidence Course helps to teach co-ordination and balance. We use objects on the ground to encourage the dog to make non-habitual movements and teach them how to move their body slowly and remain in physical balance. It is very easy for most dogs to rush blindly around these objects but when we ask them to move slowly, with awareness, and halt frequently they can find it difficult and worrying to start with.
Fluffy is demonstrating how the step-over is used to teach dogs how to use their legs mindfully and independently. The soft poles can be set at different distances, heights and angles. A wand is being used to help her focus on the direction we are moving. A soft rope harness is being used to help her to balance as she learns to lift each leg independently while moving slowly.
These soft poles can be adjusted to different shapes and angles to help Fluffy to learn to co-ordinate and shift her weight over her legs as she turns. Notice how hard she is having to concentrate. Again the wand is being used as an additional cue to the foward movement.
Sometimes a dog will freeze and just not know which leg to move next. The legs and body can be gently stroked with the wand to encourage the nervous sytem to make a connection and move forward. It avoids having to crowd or lean over the dog.
The Teeter-Totter helps her to move up a slight incline, halt and re-balance. Move forward a pace, halt and re-balance as the board tips forward sightly so that she can walk calmly and slowly off the other side.
The labyrinth also teaches a dog to change direction and remain in balance. Notice how Fluffy is out of balance as she comes to a halt after turning the corner. The direction signal of the wand helps her to lower her head and move forward in balance to take the final turn.
We have found that reactive dogs can often be more easily de-sensitised to the presence of other dogs outside the labyrinth while they are inside it. We can then progress to them following other dogs through it.
The hoops provide another variation of equipment to step over and through. Confidence Course exercises can be varied by using different textures of surface, hard-standing, grass, rubber matting, canvas.
The Low Walk Over just inches from the ground (not shown here) is also a really useful piece of equipment to teach a dog how to negotiate ramps and steps with confidence.
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Objectives: Research has shown that children who experience abuse and neglect are at much higher risk of experiencing negative outcomes such as physical and mental health problems, social skill deficits, and poor quality of life. The goal of this paper was to examine the relationship between polyvictimization and risk of harm to self and others, taking into account both age and sex differences. Methods: A total of 8980 participants (4156 with maltreatment history) were recruited from over 50 mental health facilities in Ontario, Canada. Group comparisons were completed to examine types of trauma experienced, and risk of harm to self and others. Results: Among our sample, we found that 29% of children and youth had experienced multiple types of interpersonal trauma. We also found that while female children and youth who had experienced trauma were at greater risk of harm to themselves, males were at greater risk of harming others. Further, our results highlight that children and youth who had experienced multiple types of maltreatment, regardless of age or sex, were at the greatest risk of harm to self and others. Implications: Findings from this research highlight that interpersonal trauma is multifaceted and add to existing evidence that there is a cumulative relationship between experiencing multiple types of maltreatment and risk in relation to harming oneself or others. Our findings underscore the importance of a background assessment that takes into account all forms of maltreatment in order to properly understand risk of harm and inform intervention. | <urn:uuid:376f0592-32b1-42b4-8b69-ecd45aeb2dad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ijcar-rirea.ca/index.php/ijcar-rirea/article/view/17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.978538 | 288 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Businesses and industries have been shaken by the boom of blockchain technology. As we discuss its position as a frontier in technology, blockchain — with all its applications and hype as the ‘future of money’ — does not come without a cost.
The very method used to confirm and form blockchain is the price to pay. There are many consensus algorithms, but the golden child of Bitcoin, Proof of Work (PoW), is extremely costly and energy-consuming, and may be considered a ‘waste’. The net effect of the Bitcoin mining industry is that it is consuming $3.6 billion annually to produce approximately $5 billion of economic gains.
Is this worth it for the price of technology?
As a financial technology solutions provider, Broctagon regularly advises and provides technological services for companies who are looking to integrate blockchain into their businesses.
What makes PoW unique?
In blockchain, Proof of Work is a consensus protocol, an algorithm used to confirm transactions and create new blocks to the chain, which is where the name comes from. With PoW, miners compete against each other to do these confirmations, which involves a complicated mathematical puzzle and computing power and get crypto rewards.
This whole point of this distributed ledger technology is decentralization and transparency. The ledger contains a record of all Bitcoin transactions, in ‘blocks’, so that there can be no tampering. Any altered version would quickly be rejected by other users.
A famous thought-provoking question Vitalik Buterin posed for the cryptoverse was,
PoW is burning billions of dollars per year, even more than all scams and thefts combined. Isn’t it a tragedy?
For the Ethereum founder to call it a “tragedy” is worrying, since it forms the basis of many blockchain protocols. If Proof of Work is only burning energy and wasting resources, without giving us real-world applications, then yes, that would be considered a tragedy. However, we have to look at both sides to properly evaluate if the cost outweighs the advantages before deciding if Proof of Work is a waste.
Yes, the fact remains that Proof of Work ‘wastes’ a lot of electricity by utilising a lot of it — and therefore costs a lot. In fact, it accounts for 90% of its c lot of money. As mining reaps profits, people are very willing to run these power-hungry machines for a piece of the pie. Over the years, as the price of the cryptocurrency and the energy consumption of its network has skyrocketed in correlation. The entire Bitcoin network now consumes more energy than a number of countries, based on a report published by the International Energy Agency.
In a way, it is quite depressing to think that it is costing more than one of the very problems it was designed to solve. Though, PoW mining machines are getting better each year with being more energy efficient.
Ethereum has already announced its shift from PoW to Proof of Stake (PoS), which could signify a drastic change in the community, its miners, and the way the blockchain operates.
So is Proof of Work a Proof of Waste?
The method may consume a lot of energy and money, but to call Proof of Work a ‘Proof of Waste’ is not exactly fair either.
It consumes a lot of energy but this energy consumption correlates directly to the value of the token. It ‘wastes’ a lot of electricity, a real-world resource, to solve puzzles and proving it requires a lot of time, effort and commitment. This is the proof of commitment to solve the puzzle; we need this ‘waste’ if we are to achieve security. In cases like PoS, a miner stakes a portion of his tokens for mining in order to prove his commitment to the network — but there isn’t any real penalty. ‘Wasting’ energy is the point and proves the commitment in PoW.
Is Proof of Stake better?
Of course, there are many types of consensus algorithms, from PoW to PoS, to more complex methods such as Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Of all the different consensus methods, PoW is the most costly, but PoS is not without its flaws either.
PoS doesn’t require miners to solve complex mathematical puzzles in order to secure transactions. Instead, it uses a staking mechanism in the form of economic incentives to secure network security, and thus is more energy-efficient way to achieve consensus.
There are three cryptocurrencies built on the PoS model that has been in operation for a while. Dash, NEO, and Stratis are currently using the model and have not suffered any attacks.
However, the problem with this is that it doesn’t require any real commitment, like electricity or even time. PoS has nothing to do with decentralization, it is potentially susceptible to a handful of whales manipulating the network. If we are moving towards decentralization, this almost seems like a precarious situation.
Are Hybrid Models the Way to Go?
Therefore, many companies that are dedicated to solving the energy issue often adopt a version of PoS, with modifications.
For companies like Carbon Grid, its Proof of Authority (PoA) consensus protocol is aimed at reducing energy-intensive mining, but also improving on PoS as a straightforward and efficient form of the staking model with known validators and governance-based penalty system, designed to prevent consolidation of power over consensus.
In a whitepaper written by Vitalik Buterin and Virgil Griffith, Ethereum’s Casper protocol is said to present “a novel Proof of Stake system,” for the Ethereum blockchain. Casper is designed to be more Byzantine Fault Tolerant and mitigate the “Nothing at Stake” problem that PoS presents. Where it differs is that anyone who acts in a malicious manner will immediately get punished by losing their stake.
Our Duty as Industry Experts
At Broctagon, we don’t just develop the tech. We have industry experts that ask the real questions such as, “Does your business really need to be on the blockchain?” Our advisors ensure that there is a solid use case for your project to be taken onto the blockchain. Can your company sustain the network? Is the blockchain application model sound? Do the benefits outweigh the costs? If the answer is no to any of them, then we have to work on something to refine the business direction, or seek alternative solutions to suit their needs which may not necessarily involve blockchain technology.
These pertinent things all businesses should ask themselves before jumping on the blockchain bandwagon. It’s ironic that the very revolutionary technology is also costing us. As we thread the fine line and balance between decentralization and centralization, control the push and pull of authority, we must ask ourselves, what is the best way?
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If you’ve noticed your dog is shaking, shaking or shaking frequently it is possible that you are concerned about the health of your pet. There are a myriad of things that can trigger shaking in dogs, from the harmless symptoms, such as coldness or excessive excitement to medical conditions, such as an illness as well as nausea–it isn’t always easy to pinpoint what’s behind your dog’s discomfort.
“There are many reasons why a dog might shake, some more serious than others,” Dr. Chyrle Bonk, DVM and veterinarian expert for SeniorTailWaggers.com, tells Parade. “You’ll know that your dog’s shaking needs immediate attention if they are showing any other signs.”
Are you not sure what is that makes your dog shake? Read on for the medical and other reasons why dogs may be shaking according to vet experts.
Why Do Dogs Shake?
Shaking isn’t the norm behavior in dogs. If your dog’s shaking occurs often or continuously is it an indication you dog might be anxious or anxious, or suffers from a medical illness that causes the shaking. Other causes that aren’t so alarming include excessive excitement and an aversion to cold (though should your dog have recently noticed a change in mood or endurance towards cold weather, it could be something to talk to your veterinarian regarding). Other causes of shaking can be anxiety or nausea and distemper Generalized Tremor Syndrome, and many more.
Anxiety isn’t “normal” for dogs, however, it is common. In fact, as per Medical News Today More than 70 percent of dog owners suffer from a form of anxiety. It could be separation anxiety or not. In the event that your pet is susceptible to anxiety, this or general stress and fear, may be the cause of the shaking in your pet.”The emotions of fear, stress, or anxiety can be just as intense in dogs as they are in humans and they can manifest as shaking,” Dr. Bonk explains. “That’s because stress hormones–such as cortisol–are released when a dog is anxious, fearful, or stressed, which can lead to muscle-shaking as the body prepares itself for fight or flight. You may also notice that your dog seems jumpy, is hiding, not eating, or has become aggressive if they are feeling these strong emotions.”Are you not sure how to proceed If your dog is suffering from anxiety-related shaking? Find the cause and find out what Dr. Bonk says; after all, the shaking in this instance is merely a sign of a problem.”Try to find out what is causing your dog’s fear or stress. It may be an approaching storm, fireworks, a strange dog in the neighborhood, or a houseguest,” Dr. Bonk suggests. “Try to alleviate these anxieties or give them a secure place to rest in. For dogs who suffer from anxiety or stress that is chronic and behavioral therapy, or medications might be needed.
We all shake when we’re frozen. It’s our body’s response to a temperature that’s not what we want. It’s the same for dogs who naturally react to temperatures too.”A very common reason behind why a dog is shaking is they’re cold,” Dr. Bonk says. “This is especially true in smaller and shorter-haired breeds. They just don’t have the body mass or insulation to stay warm when the temperature drops, and shivering is the body’s way of getting their blood flowing in an effort to warm up.”
It is recommended that all dogs get an annual distemper vaccination in the office of their veterinarian at least every three years from when they’re puppies. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association the canine distemper virus can be described as “a contagious and serious disease caused by a virus that attacks the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and nervous systems of puppies and dogs.” It can be a severe illness, which is the reason that most vets are vaccinated against it in advance.”Distemper results from a viral infection and is most common in dogs that haven’t been properly vaccinated,” Dr. Bonk explains. “It can attack the nervous system, causing continual shaking, lethargy, a runny nose and eyes, and a fever. Distemper is most commonly fatal once signs appear.”
Generalized Tremor SyndromeGeneralized Tremor Syndrome (GTS) is sometimes referred to as steroid responsive Tremor Syndrome or White Shaker Dog Syndrome. The exact reason for this condition is not yet understood. It is believed by the Animal Neurology & Imaging Center (ANIC)theorizes that it’s result of “mild inflammation of the covering of the brain and spinal cord (meninges) that produces fine tremors of the head and whole body.” Most often, you’ll notice GTS in white, small dogs that are susceptible to the disease (particularly Maltese, poodles, and West Highland white terriers).”This may show up as localized tremors or full-body shaking,” Dr. Bonk says. “Either way, GTS is thought to be an immune-mediated issue and should be treated by a veterinarian.”If your dog’s showing shaking, it’s crucial to rule out the possibility of a medical reason. Dogs suffering from GTS may also show other signs including excessive stepping, incoordination of gait, irregular eye movements, and seizures. There is also the possibility that the shaking comes to a stop during sleeping. Whatever the case, make sure to talk to your veterinarian in the event that you suspect this to be the reason for your dog’s shaking. Or, just to rule out the reason.
NauseaThere is a reason for this, an upset stomach can result in shaking dogs. Most often the signs of shaking or a nauseated stomach is often associated with other signs to be aware of.”Nausea may come from something as simple as an upset stomach or as complex as kidney disease,” Dr. Bonk says. “Along with shaking, a dog may also drool, lick their lips, not eat, or vomit. See your veterinarian if you suspect that your dog is nauseous.”
Although we love our our paw-rents may be reluctant for it to be admitted, our pets get older just like we do. It’s true that old age could cause unusual modifications in the behavior of your pet. It is essential to keep an eye on and note any changes that appear to be significant , and keep your vet up to date.”Old age brings about many changes in dogs, including weakness and arthritis,” Dr. Bonk says. “Both of these issues can be why a dog is shaking. You may notice that shaking only occurs in the hindlegs, after a long walk, or when your dog stands up.
Shaking in older dogs should be checked out by a veterinarian to ensure that your senior pup is healthy and comfortable.”Over-excitementEvery dog lover or pet owner is aware that when dogs get very excited, they can be able to pee a bit. This is perfectly normal and, especially for puppies that are learning to control their bladders it’s completely normal! Dogs who are excited too much may shake.”Some dogs simply exude energy and never as much as when they’re excited,” Dr. Bonk says. “Shaking in some dogs can occur when they’re so happy to see you, anticipating dinner or a tug-of-war match, or when the neighbor dog comes for a visit. No one’s quite sure why excitement may be the reason that a dog is shaking; just know that it’s OK. The shaking is likely to stop once they’ve calmed down.”It’s fairly simple to determine if excitement is the reason why your dog shakes. In the end, shaking can only occur at obvious times such as the ones it was mentioned by Dr. Bonk mentioned: when there is another dog around and when you get home, or as you wait for food to be placed in their bowl.
If a dog is suffering discomfort due to an illness or injury almost any indications could indicate of a problem, doctor. Bonk says. The dog’s body could release the stress hormone excessively in response to trauma the injury. The result could be a bizarre shaking.”The release of cortisol related to an injury or illness can also be why a dog is shaking,” Dr. Bonk says. Take care to inspect your dog for superficial injuries, and be aware of any other behaviors that could be a painful response, such as a decreased appetite or aggression, a slouched posture or flat ears, panting crying, obsessive licking , scratching or limping, stiffness or a general change in behavior and refusal to participate in activities that they typically enjoy like exercise, walking or playing.
PoisoningOne of the most serious reasons for shaking dogs is the possibility of poisoning. If you suspect your dog may have been involved in something that isn’t his, or is being poisoned, consult your veterinarian immediately. You can also make a call to at the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center at”Sometimes eating something toxic can lead to shaking in dogs,” Dr. Bonk explains. “This can either be because the toxin is affecting the nervous system or because it is causing nausea. Common toxins include chocolate, xylitol, household cleaners, and lawn treatments. Other signs may include drooling, vomiting, open containers or wrappers, and seizures. See your veterinarian immediately if you suspect that your dog is shaking because of poison.”Since poisoning can cause death in dogs based on the poison and the amount that is ingested, it is essential to act swiftly in the event that you suspect this is the cause.Seizure DisordersSeizures are extremely uncommon in dogs, and thus they are usually a sign of the presence of a serious medical problem. Seizures are, of course, are as common as shaking, but there are some key distinctions according to the vet Dr. Bonk says.”Epilepsy can occur in dogs and cause seizures that will look similar to shaking. However, dogs that are seizing won’t be aware of their surroundings,” Dr. Bonk explains. “Contact your veterinarian if you suspect your dog has had a seizure as medication may be necessary to prevent future issues.”The most prevalent seizures in dogs is epilepsy idiopathic–a genetic disorder, the reason for which is unknown. Other medical conditions can trigger seizures as well such as kidney failure, liver disease brain tumors or brain trauma as well as exposure to toxic substances. It is important to contact your veterinarian right away in the event that you suspect your dog may be experiencing seizures.
When to Consult the Veterinarian About Your Shaking Dog
There isn’t an obvious cause which is causing your dog to shake, such as when your pet has just come out of the cold or is a bit exuberant when you open the door–dogs shaking typically indicates a medical problem which requires a vet’s opinion and attention. Particularly if your dog is showing other symptoms that are concerning in the midst of to shaking, you should contact your vet right away as Doctor. Bonk recommends.”[Symptoms like] vomiting, restlessness, not eating, fevers, or seizures all warrant a veterinary visit,” Dr. Bonk explains. “Don’t hesitate to contact your vet if you think your dog is shaking because they are stressed or fearful. This is especially important if this has been a long-term issue that you just can’t seem to get a handle on.”The Dr. Bonk adds, “You might also want to talk with your veterinarian in case your dog’s reaction for colds has changed. It could be that they were once an avid lover of winter snow and ice, but they today they are shaking and don’t want to move away from the heater. This could be a sign of an illness.” | <urn:uuid:721ad9f3-cf64-4a65-a444-0ad7a3ec22b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dor9.com/why-is-my-dog-shaking-from-over-excitement-to-medical-issues-experts-break-down-the-reasons-dogs-tremble/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955706 | 2,596 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Each year, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 to recognize the contributions and influence of Hispanic Americans to the history, culture and achievements of the United States.
Our staff members shared how their heritage has shaped their identity and impacted their work, how they maintain their culture and why it’s important to recognize Hispanic Heritage Month.
Can you introduce yourself and share what you do here at Start Early and how your Hispanic heritage influenced your identity?
Nilda Barrett: I’m a financial manager supporting 15 divisions and have been at Start Early for almost two years. I’m Puerto Rican, born and raised in Chicago and I’m the second youngest of seven children. My parents came to the States when they were very young and met here in Chicago. They taught me and my siblings the importance of education and working hard to get the things you need. We lived in mainly Hispanic neighborhoods, so I grew up around Cubans, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans and was exposed to a little bit of everything and got to see how hard people worked. The person I am today, my ambition, everything is inspired by my upbringing and due to my culture.
Yáyá Cardenas Torres: I’m a training institute coordinator for the Professional Learning Network and I’ve been with Start Early for 14 years. I’m Mexican American born and raised in Indiana and I’m a proud Hoosier. My mother was born and raised in Texas and my father was born and raised in Michoacán, Mexico. I am the only girl out of five brothers.
With my mother being Tex-Mex and my dad being Mexican, I had two cultures: One uses cheddar and one uses Chihuahua, but together they are perfect on a burrito. My culture has made me who I am. My upbringing, my loyalty, my faith, my passion… it is who I am and I apply it to my professional and personal life.
Alexis Aguilú Hernandez: I’m the assistant director of operations for the Educare Learning Network and have been at Start Early for 14 years as well. I’m one of two and was born and raised in Puerto Rico. I left the island at the age of 20 to attend Marquette University in Wisconsin and stayed here. I have a ton of family in the Midwest.
Puerto Rican is who I am. I live my life as a Puerto Rican and I love my Puerto Rican heritage. I get chills every time that I go home. On the flight home, I always plan to sit by the window so I can see the whole island as we descend. It’s who I am, it’s family and how I grew up. Seeing the flag, it’s who I am and I like to share that with others who may not understand what being Puerto Rican and Latinx is.
How has your Hispanic heritage impacted your daily work to advance our mission and better serve children and families?
Alexis Aguilú Hernandez: I always say that my Hispanic background is not only what identifies me, but what defines me. Being a Hispanic immigrant allows me to better understand the challenges that many of our Hispanic children and families go through and focuses my commitment to do everything I can to help them close that opportunity gap once and for all.
I have been able to use Spanish several times in my role at Start Early. We started sending out text messages to families and I would translate them into Spanish. Most recently, at the Educare Learning Network, I helped review our network requirements and Child Tax Credit communications in Spanish. Knowing languages opens your mind to the world.
Yáyá Cardenas Torres: Being Mexican American and bilingual provides me with cultural sensitivity and enables me to better serve our Spanish-speaking clients. My parents also taught me to have a solid work ethic, ambition and commitment which I use in my daily work.
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Apopka is a city in Orange County, Florida. The city’s population was 41,542 at the 2010 census, up from 26,969 at the 2000 U.S. Census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Apopka comes from Seminole word “Ahapopka” for “Potato eating place”. Apopka is often referred to as the “Indoor Foliage Capital of the World”.
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“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body”
KVT offers the best arena of sports, trained by professional coaches and we also take pride about our students victories and contributions in National and State level games such as swimming, chess, fencing, basketball etc.,
“The youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity”
KVT strongly believes this and strives to make it possible by enrolling the students in NCC and Scouts program. The cadets undergo rigorous training regularly by our school Associated NCC officer to take up the parade.
KVT lays due emphasis on learning beyond the curriculum by indulging the students in multiple activities through various clubs. Besides academics, these co-scholastic activities help the students refine their communication & literary skills and kindle their interest in the field of science, maths, our culture, and Tradition. By working together they learn leadership qualities, team building, responsibility and to maintain emotional balance among the peer group | <urn:uuid:97839a9c-2a63-4161-8b7c-fc4840c883a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kvtschool.com/non-academic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948862 | 224 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Some would say it’s great that social media gives everyone a voice. Others would argue that it leaves everyone open to abuse.
There’s no doubting that trolling is an issue. And bad language is for the most part just that: bad language that only reflects badly on the writer.
No-one wants online censorship. On the other hand, there’s something of the Wild West culture about the Internet – and the predominance of social media only serves to exacerbate that.
We see social media at its worst in moral and political debate where there are plenty of half-baked ideas and opinions on display.
Yet who am I – or anyone else for that matter – to say what’s right or wrong? Doesn’t everyone have the right to disagree? And if we don’t like the cut of someone’s jib, why don’t we simply ignore them rather than becoming embroiled in an online slanging match?
Despite what the world beyond the Appalachians may think of Donald Trump, hasn’t this man given a certain legitimacy to using Twitter? He claims it’s his way around the dissemination of ‘fake news’. Roll up folks and read all about it: Trump-style.
Maybe it’s just me, but it looks suspiciously like there’s been an increase in the number of British politicians taking to Twitter. Like everyone else, they know you can poke your head above the parapet, fire a few salvoes, and then retreat to your trench.
Yes, it’s all a bit cowardly (like the online bullying that’s rife among school-age children). Of course, we can all choose to ignore social media but it’s become such an integral part of present-day culture that refusing to ‘engage’ with it runs the risk of missing out on the latest hot gossip.
Other elements of the contemporary lifestyle have a similar effect. Round-the-clock TV news is a good example. Without regular doses and updates of Westminster tittle-tattle, Trump tweets, world-wide terrorist outrages, celebrity deaths and indiscretions – what would we all talk about? The weather?
More to the point, we wouldn’t have as much ‘dirty bomb’ fodder to use in our social media posts. That’s not to say any of us is any the wiser for this total immersion in everyone else’s business. Nor does the so-called ‘social’ aspect make us any more sociable as we kick empty vessels down the echoing streets of our modern lives.
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You Have The Power To Change How You Look.
Life is too short not to be happy and so if you are not satisfied with how you look, then it seems only right that you should be able to make changes if you can. In the past, many people have gone through the life stressing and worrying about a particular part of the body that they just felt didn’t belong. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the technology that we have now and so they had to put up with this feature continuously throughout their time on this earth. Luckily, people can now make the changes that they want to make and they can do it safely and cost effectively. People judge you on how they see you and are not interested in what lies beneath your exterior, and so you end up losing jobs or losing promotions because you don’t look the way people expect you to look.
This is why many thousands of people go through a nose surgery (called ศัลยกรรมจมูก in Thai) procedure every single year and the results are nothing short of amazing. If you’re a little bit unsure about how you’re going to look after the operation, modern technology can actually superimpose the nose that you want to choose, onto a picture of your face before the procedure. This way you go into the whole procedure with your eyes wide open and there are no surprises when it is completed. There are a number of reasons why people might want to change their nose and we will explore just a few of them here.
– A sports injury – People frequently get injured when they take part in contact sports like football and rugby. The likelihood of not getting hit in the face at some point in your career is very low and so when it does happen, you can rest assured that the shape of your nose can be fixed. Many sports people wait until their career is over and they hang up their boots before they decide to get their nose fixed.
– To aid breathing – Many people suffer from breathing issues due to a deviated septum and so they can’t get a good night’s sleep. They can either go through their whole life being constantly tired and unable to do their job properly, or they can go through with a simple procedure that will fix the nose for them. Their sleep patterns will improve almost immediately which will allow them to get on with their lives.
No one should have to settle for what they have, if there is a way to change it. In some cases, people go through a nose procedure for purely cosmetic reasons, but in many other circumstances, it is necessary from a health point of view. | <urn:uuid:0a110145-60bd-4070-a184-468b9103a742> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://doctorcatlondonforme.com/you-have-the-power-to-change-how-you-look/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976173 | 556 | 1.664063 | 2 |
As part of the UK Government’s plan to accelerate renewable energy, it has awarded £37 million in funding to a range of projects that aim to find new ways to increase the country’s biomass production.
Announced today, 4th August, £32m will be distributed between 12 projects as part of Phase 2 of the Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme.
The projects include efforts to increase the growth of elephant grass (miscanthus), farm seaweed off the North Yorkshire coast, and increase the harvesting capacity for willow to be used in biomass production.
A share of £5m will fund the 22 winners of the first stage of the Hydrogen BECCS programme, which aims to develop innovative technologies to produce hydrogen from sustainable biomass and waste.
Commenting on the funding, Greg Hands, Energy Minister, said, “accelerating home-grown renewables like biomass is a key part of ending our dependency on expensive and volatile fossil fuels.”
“This £37m of government investment will support innovation across the UK, boosting jobs whilst ensuring greater energy security for years to come.”
Biomass and biogas have been thrust into the spotlight in recent months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
By utilising the biogas and biomethane, the UK and EU could strengthen its energy security and reduce reliance on Russian gas.
Phase 2 of the BFIP will see projects taken from the design stage to demonstration, which will showcase new methods to grow sustainable biomass materials, supported with £4m government funding.
- Aberystwyth University, Wales, which will receive over £2m for a project that looks to explore the potential for biomass use of miscanthus.
- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in Belfast, which is receiving over £1.5m for ‘EnviroCrops’, a project that supports farmers and land managers when it comes to planting perennial energy crops.
Stating that its technology is going to ‘revolutionise’ the production of low carbon, Stuart Fitzgerald, Managing Director, White Horse Energy, commented on the funding, adding, “White Horse Energy are delighted to proceed into Phase 2 of the BFIP with our mobile pelletisation innovation.”
By support the scaling up of hydrogen BECCS technologies, the government plans to accelerate the adoption of clean, renewable energy in the UK.
Winners of the hydrogen BECCS funding include:
- The University of Aberdeen for its innovations in developing clean methods of obtaining hydrogen from organic matter (£220k).
- The University of Leeds for its H2-Boost project, which aims to produce biohydrogen for the UK transport sector.
“The ability to capture and store the carbon from our gasification process whilst making hydrogen takes us one step closer to producing cleaner and greener hydrogen and to support the drive to net zero,” stated Paul Willacy, Managing Director, Compact Syngas Solutions, one of the companies to receive funding.
The innovation funding specialist, Catax, worked with CSS to help secure funding.
Stating that carbon capture could be the final piece in the puzzle in the story of hydrogen production, Karen Taylor, Group Head of Grants, Catax, added, ”It is hoped that efficient hydrogen production will put the UK on a fast track to Net Zero and its impact will be felt by all of us, from how we travel to what powers the machines that build our homes and produce the goods we buy.” | <urn:uuid:74565f72-4a26-413f-a9b8-7870470d6cff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gasworld.com/uk-govt-injects-37m-into-clean-energy-tech/2023549.article | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.928816 | 740 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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An example of this would be the picture of Kim Phuc. This picture has become a symbolic representation of the Vietnam over time leading to many people coming to believe that it was a turning point in the war. However I know this to mostly untrue as the picture was taken in 1972 when of course the decision to pull out had already been made prior to this therefore proving that it had no impact on the course of the war.
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John Keegan, a modern military historian, suggests that Haig was an efficient and highly skilled soldier who did much to lead Britain to victory in the First World War. Is there sufficient evidence in Sources A to H to support his interpret
It doesn't say how involved Haig was in the battle or talk about his efficiency or skill so it does not support that part of Keegan's view. Haig is writing an opinion rather than facts and is possibly biased so this is not a very reliable source. Source B is a poster titled 'your country needs me' from 'General Haig's Private war'. It is not known when the poster was produced or who produced it or why it was produced.
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How useful are the sources A to G for explaining why there was an anti-war movement in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
The U.S. soldiers who had been interviewed for this process - a T.V. documentary had been produced prior to the publication of the book, in the late 1980s - may have been asked the questions quite a few years after their involvement in the war, but this bears not much significance on what they say - the vivid memories they would hold of that event would not leave for a long time and so, by and large, would be true to an extent beyond doubt. The source itself mentions that the "increasing" number of recruits scored "so low" on intelligence rankings that they wouldn't normally have been given a place in the regular U.S.
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How useful are sources A to C in helping to explain why the United States became involved in the war in Vietnam?
and South Vietnam (ruled by Ngo Dinh Diem and anti communist catholic politician). Ngo Dinh Diem led South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963 until he was killed by him generals in a military coup on the 1st of November 1965. He was an autocratic ruler. Diem's rule was opposed by Buddhist peasants in South Vietnam. Many Buddhists where executed and imprisoned. The communist Vietcong made guerrillas attacks on Diem's troops. Ho Chi Minh's communist regime in North Vietnam supported the Vietcong by supplying them with arms and money. Ho Chi Minh led North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969.
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They had a tunnel system which was known as Cu Chi tunnels. This was a major base for the Vietcong. The Vietcong used this tunnel system to hide and live in during the day and they would come up and fight in the night. These tunnels held many military campaigns during the war. These tunnels were a very efficient and effective method as it meant that the Vietcong could easily be hidden from their enemies. Also the tunnels prevented the Vietcong being hit by American artillery and bombs. These were the sort of tactics that Americans did not have resulting in their failure to defeat the Vietcong.
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The USA should have been successful in Vietnam because of its technological and military supremacy/ however, the USA failed to use this supremacy effectively to defeat a smaller, less advanced enemy. Do you agree or disagree with the interpretat
During both these countries attempts to win America had helped by sending weapons and money to buy essentials but they refused to send any troops to help. After both these countries lost; America became worried that the Vietnam land was going to be lost and the whole of Vietnam would turn communist; as a result of this the domino theory would take effect. Source D is a bar chart showing an estimate of the troops and service men sent from America, those who were landed in China beach, Saigon between the years 1962 and 1972.
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Another type of technology that rapidly improved was the camera. During the first few years of the war camera?s were fairly heavy, however towards the late sixties, when the journalists started revealing the horrors of Vietnam, cameras had become much lighter allowing TV crews to get closer to the conflict zones allowing them to get more frequent and detailed footage and this was when the manner of reporting completely changed. The media portrayal of various events in the Vietnam War were somewhat different as the war went on, and the number of casualties increased causing media to report back depressing stories and horrifying pictures.
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I think that the four most significant themes in the Vietnam War were protest movements, foreign policy, tactics and war journalism
This quote proves how far the military were willing to go in order to stop the media from getting the stories back to the US public. The quote is significant as it shows how military actions changed towards journalism after Vietnam; journalism definitely did result in change. The media stories returning from Vietnam resulted in change in how reporters would be allowed to get their stories in the future. Media coverage in any war currently happening is extremely monitored and the public doesn?t see or hear about what is really going on; facts and figures from Iraq currently are never published ? this is as a result of the stories which returned from Vietnam.
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Posted: March 16th, 2017
Auditing is a very broad topic that covers all aspects of an organization. An audit not only examines the accuracy of financial statements but also examines the effectiveness of internal controls as well as the efficiency of overall operations of the organization. To accomplish the objectives of different types of audit within an organization, the audit function is broken down into the role of internal auditor and the external auditor.
Dewey, Wright, and Moore has just been approached by a new client, AV Imports and Exports, a company that trades goods with various countries. You are in charge of an audit engagement. To determine whether to take on the engagement, you proceed with the overall assessment of risk.
You meet with company management, the board of directors, and the audit committee, and begin communication with the previous audit firm. You also schedule a meeting with the internal auditors to learn more about their role and function within the organization.
In preparation for your scheduled meeting, research the external and internal audit function using your textbook, online library resources, and the Internet. Complete the following:
Present the comparisons in a chart. Include a 3-5 page report summarizing and explaining the chart as well as outlining how you think Dewey, Wright, and Moore can use the services of the internal auditors as part of the overall audit the firm would provide. Give reasons for your assertions and cite your sources.
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Periods of heat have fired up pest action in places and multiple miticide applications have been made in some orchards. Some hull split sprays will likely go out on the early side to take care of early pressure.
Copper is a micronutrient of plants. In certain situations, soil levels may be low enough or plant growth demand high enough that deficiency may occur. Within pistachio, this deficiency often […]
Plenty of limbs are weighted down and breaking. Hull split is about a month away.
The crop continues to look strong. More rain over the last week has prompted additional fungicide applications.
Since mid-April, many advisors up and down the Valley have been receiving calls about unusual leaf-out in pistachio and walnut. The Sacramento Valley has certainly been experiencing this. In pistachios, […]
Hotter temperatures are driving pest activity and reproduction. May sprays have started on a wide basis.
A large crop still seems likely. Our contacts have been telling us that for several weeks, which continues to be the prevailing sentiment.
This appears to be a heavy crop. April continues to be wetter than usual, so diseases could be gaining a foothold even as the rain is suppressing most pests.
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Marie Craig, RAAF Nurse in the Battle for Australia.
Marie Craig was born in Balmain in 1914 to Alexander and Jessie Craig of Drummoyne. She had 3 brothers and 1 sister. In 1938 when Marie was 24, she began her nursing training at Royal North Shore Hospital. After completing four years, followed by a year’s experience, she joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Nursing Service in May 1943.
She spent some time in camp at Janefield in Victoria doing the pre-embarkation course for the Medical Air Evacuation Transportation Unit (MAETU). As a normal pre-requisite she first had to learn to march, and attend lectures on tropical diseases, biting insects, physics and hygiene. A friend in her unit recalls 'She was a character and had a marvellous sense of humour. She was a vital person, always full of energy, laughter and empathy'. They were posted to Morotai, an island south of Borneo, where Marie, a devoted nurse, spent months on Aero-medical evacuation (AME) duty flying with the wounded between the Islands and Australia.
On the morning of 18 September 1945, the Moratai dawn was the typical still, humid precursor to a hot uncomfortable day. The war had ended but medivacs were continuing for the many casualties from the Borneo Campaign. On that morning, 17 stretcher patients were loaded onto Douglas Dakota Transport A65-61 VH-CUT. Also, on board were walking wounded, a 38 Squadron crew returning home and a young soldier 'hitching' a ride to Townsville. Marie was the sister-in-charge of the patients assisted by a medical orderly. Both were looking forward to a few days leave with their respective families. The flight path was the usual Moratai to Biak, a small island off Indonesian Papua, then down to Australia via Merauke, Horn Island and on to Townsville. The Dakota never arrived at its destination and in spite of intense searches its whereabouts remained a mystery for 23 years. When discovered in 1968 it was established that the aircraft had crashed into Mount Carstens in the Nassau Ranges of West Irian and exploded. The human remains were removed in 1970 and buried in the Bomana War Cemetery in Port Moresby.
There are two memorial plaques naming Sister Marie Craig with four other RAAF Nurses who died in action in World War II, one at RAAF Laverton in Victoria and the other in Westminster Abbey.
Royal North Shore Hospital commemorates Marie Craig and fellow graduate Nancy Harris (an Army Sister killed on Bangka Island following the fall of Singapore) with a plaque in the hospital Chapel.
Major Eileen Henderson OAM RFD (Retd)
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|Divine Rank||Greater Goddess|
|Pantheon||The Ordning (Giant)|
|Portfolio||Nature, Agriculture, Hunting, Women, Children|
|Domains||Animal, Community, Fire, Good, Plant, Sun, Weather|
|Home Plane||Woodhaven (Elysium)|
|Worshippers||Female Giants, Firbolgs, Voadkyn|
Hiatea is the Neutral Good goddess of Nature, Agriculture, Hunting, Women, and Children. Like her sister Diancastra she is the result of a union of her divine father Annam and her mortal mother. Annam originally intended to use magic to ensure Hiatea was male; when her mother learned of this she sent her to be raised by Firbolgs. When her mother died Hiatea learned of her divine parentage and presented herself to her father. Like her sister she was tested; she opted to show that she was a warrior to be reckoned with by killing the Tarrasque and presenting its head to her father. He was impressed and elevated her to divine status. She is popular with Firbolgs and Voadkyn, who hold her in high esteem. There are two kinds of clerics of Hiatea: the community priests (who tend to the land and people) and the protector priests (who patrol the woodlands to protect the community). Hiatea often communicates with her priests and holds that good relations with the neighbouring races (often Wood Elves of some kind) are important. All of Hiatea's priests are required to be able to participate in regular hunts and the ritual monthly or annual hunt. Those who cannot are forced to retire. | <urn:uuid:56b7589c-3f09-49e9-b7a9-eef8b4b4c9ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Hiatea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958885 | 384 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Cell-Deep Healing Power of Nutrition: Our Clear Sky Medical team stresses the importance of integrating nutritional therapy into the healing process. Foods are the building blocks of our body and carry physical and energetic messages that elicit either a positive or negative (biochemical or hormonal) response. They really do affect your health… cell deep!
Unhealthy eating habits lie at the root of most chronic disease processes. Our nutritionists will work with you to establish a personal diet plan that addresses your underlying issues and focuses on your health goals. Once we provide the body with a balanced, tailored, and clean diet; many health issues may actually be reversed and symptoms may mitigate quickly or simply disappear as the body naturally regains equilibrium.
To learn more about how your health effects your brain see our page on Neurotransmitter Evaluation and Balancing.
The following conditions can be improved with dietary changes and nutrient assessments:
- Blood sugar imbalances
- Weight gain/belly fat
- Elevated cholesterol or lipid levels
- Inflammatory issues, such as joint pain, asthma, migraines
- Impaired digestion—from heartburn to colitis
- Memory problems/brain fog
- Low energy/fatigue
- Stress reduction
- Mood issues (depression, anxiety)
- Food allergies/sensitivities
- Children’s growth and learning abilities
- Gas and bloating
- Toxic burden
- Insomnia and sleep disorders
- Dry skin and dull brittle hair
At Clear Sky Medical we put a special emphasis on personal care as we help you on the journey to better health. Our nutritionist Gretchen Muehlnickel in conjunction with Dr. Katia Meier are ready to help you get your life back on track.
- Weight loss programs
- Body composition analysis
- Blood sugar balancing
- Anti-inflammatory diets
- Gut healing programs
- Fatigue analysis and protocol
- Autoimmune disorder protocol
- Brain chemistry balancing
Through diagnostic tests we look at your body and investigate the root of your symptoms. We give special care to find out where you have imbalances and what is causing those imbalances.
Our tests include:
- Food sensitivities
- comprehensive stool analysis
- Neurotransmitter/adrenal testing
- Metabolic testing
- Nutrient levels
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Although it may be alluring to witness the volcanic activity firsthand, it is best to view it via a live broadcast.
A volcano close to Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, has erupted, creating a fiery display of lava fountaining out of the ground and huge clouds of smoke. Several video streams broadcasting live from the scene allow you to follow the action as it develops.
The Fagradalsfjall volcano near the town of Grindavk on the Reykjanes peninsula erupted on August 3 after a flurry of seismic activity, according to the Icelandic Met Office, releasing an outpour of bubbling lava and gas.
The location is being streamed live by the Icelandic media outlet mbl.is, which is providing viewers with a variety of perspectives of the eruption, which is still erupting furiously.
The location is located around 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the metropolitan centre of Reykjavik and about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Keflavik International Airport. The risk to the general population is thought to be low, nevertheless, because of how sparsely inhabited the area is.
It is strongly urged that people stay away from the eruption and resist the urge to go there. Three tourists have reportedly already suffered injuries as a result of the volcanic activity, according to sources. Not only is there a risk from flaming lava and flying rocky debris, but there is also a risk from unexpected releases of potentially toxic gases.
Since the sequence of earthquakes began last Saturday, we have been anticipating an eruption somewhere in this region. We currently know that there is no risk from the eruption to populated areas or vital infrastructure. In a statement, Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir said, “We will of course continue to closely watch the situation and now we also benefit from the experience learned from last year’s eruption.
So, despite how alluring it may be to witness the phenomenon firsthand, your best option is to watch the volcanic activity from the comfort of your own couch via one of the many live feeds that are now accessible. | <urn:uuid:8db3caf7-19cf-472a-ada3-31d0d19149f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hasanjasim.online/amazing-video-streams-will-let-you-witness-icelands-volcano-eruption-in-real-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954411 | 428 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Mitochondrial oxodicarboxylate carrier deficiency is associated with mitochondrial DNA depletion and spinal muscular atrophy-like disease.
Whittaker, Roger G
Taylor, Robert W
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics
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Boczonadi, V., King, M., Smith, A. C., Olahova, M., Bansagi, B., Roos, A., Eyassu, F., et al. (2018). Mitochondrial oxodicarboxylate carrier deficiency is associated with mitochondrial DNA depletion and spinal muscular atrophy-like disease.. Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, 20 (10), 1224-1235. https://doi.org/10.1038/gim.2017.251
PURPOSE: Members of the mitochondrial carrier family (SLC25) transport metabolites, nucleotides, co-factors and inorganic ions across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Methods: We identified a pathogenic variant in a novel mitochondrial carrier gene in a patient by whole exome sequencing. The pathogenicity of the mutation was studied by transport assays, computer modelling followed by targeted metabolic testing and in vitro studies in human fibroblasts and neurons. RESULTS: The patient carries a homozygous pathogenic variant c.695A>G; p.(Lys232Arg) in the SLC25A21 gene, encoding the mitochondrial oxodicarboxylate carrier, and developed spinal muscular atrophy and mitochondrial myopathy. Transport assays show that the mutation renders SLC25A21 dysfunctional and 2-oxoadipate cannot be imported into the mitochondrial matrix. Computer models of central metabolism predicted that impaired transport of oxodicarboxylate disrupts the pathways of lysine and tryptophan degradation, and causes accumulation of 2-oxoadipate, pipecolic acid and quinolinic acid, which was confirmed in the patient’s urine by targeted metabolomics. Exposure to 2-oxoadipate and quinolinic acid decreased the level of mitochondrial complexes in neuronal cells (SH-SY5Y) and induced apoptosis. CONCLUSION: Mitochondrial oxodicarboxylate carrier deficiency leads to mitochondrial dysfunction and the accumulation of oxoadipate and quinolinic acid, which in turn cause toxicity in spinal motor neurons leading to spinal muscular atrophy-like disease.
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And thorns shall come up in her palaces
Where their kings and princes dwelt, and kept their courts, popes and cardinals; here will be the tokens of God's curse, as thorns are, these being the people of his curse, as in ( Isaiah 34:5 ) : nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof;
alluding to "Bozrah" which signifies a fortress; referring to the towers and fortifications of the city of Rome, and all other fortified cities within its jurisdiction: and it shall be a habitation of dragons;
literally, as it figuratively had been the seat of the old dragon, the devil, and of the beast to whom the dragon gave his power, seat, and authority; and who, though he looked like a lamb, spoke like a dragon, ( Revelation 12:3 ) ( Revelation 13:2 Revelation 13:11 ) : [and] a court for owls;
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On October 14, the staff of the Comrat Representative Office of the Ombudsperson Institution conducted a seminar for the final-year students of the D. Caracioban highschool in Comrat municipality.
The topic of the seminar was the need for active civic engagement in the election of the President of Moldova. Young people have learned about the duties of the President, his/her powers and the requirements for being elected in this position.
A point of interest was the discussion around the personal qualities of the president-to-be, what a candidate to the position of President may promise and what he/she can actually achieve, given the existing powers of the President.
There have been many questions about the voting process. The staff of the Representative Office have explained in detail about the stages of checking the voter list, the receipt of the ballot paper, as well as the secrecy of the ballot and the voluntary participation in the voting.
In addition, the possible irregularities of the election process and the inadmissibility there of in a rule of law we read dressed.
At the end, the participants received booklets about the activity of the Ombudsperson’s Office. | <urn:uuid:d8717486-f903-4e89-a734-bd730def446b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://old.ombudsman.md/en/content/staff-comrat-representative-office-ombudsperson-institution-conducted-seminar-final-year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953535 | 245 | 1.96875 | 2 |
I love long travel days. Even when hours and days are lost in connecting flights, terminal gates, and shuttles.
Ok, love may be too strong a word. Especially the days that start or end in the wee hours of the morning. But I do savor the chance those long days afford me to enjoy some music and focus on a book.
A few weeks ago, I had two such travel days, going to and from a Science for Seminaries retreat. The result was two good books and joining a group of seminary professors mixing with scientists. Those mixed in my brain with Greg’s entries on St. Clive (aka C.S. Lewis).
The result? Apologetics that seriously engage science are important if we are speaking to a culture of unbelievers. So today I want to unpack this idea – tying together the last several instalments where we looked at unbelief and the great apologist, C.S. Lewis.
Those Two Books
On the way to the retreat, I finished Mike McHargue’s Finding God in the Waves. On the way home, it was Stacey Trasancos’s Particles of Faith. The first is the story of a Southern Baptist lay leader losing his faith and, as he describes it, finding it again through science. The second is the story of a Ph.D. chemist (also raised Southern Baptist) owning faith for the first time through the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition.
Both authors went through a period of unbelief where God was implausible to their analytic, science-loving minds. Their journeys to faith differed in significant ways, but shared one important thing in common: Neither would assent to a belief that denied what they found via science to be true about the world. Faith became plausible only when they were given the intellectual tools to see science as a means of studying God’s creation, and when they discovered faith did not require them to give up any science. Not all the answers were simple or even complete, but smart and faithful Christians gave them permission to ask their questions and pursue answers without rejecting science.
Apologists abound, offering answers to the questions of skeptics and the faithful alike. They are key resources as we seek to understand our faith and help a culture of unbelievers find Jesus. They help us explain the consistency of belief in God, the relevance of Scripture, and the logic of the Cross. They are among the most brilliant and faithful Christians, using the gifts of their minds, to share faith with anyone who will listen.
But would the work of most apologists successfully reach McHargue or Trasancos?
- BioLogos interviews McHargue about his book.
- Salt + Light interviews Trasancos about her book.
- Surveys show we increasingly trust scientists.
- A Christian biologist worries about how our apologetics address evolution.
- A little brochure on science and apologetics.
- Scientists tell us why they are Christians.
- Is there a seminary near you engaging science?
I’ve said this before, and will say it again: Engaging science seriously is essential to mission work in our contemporary culture. There are people out there looking for churches that won’t make them check their brains at the door. We learned in the Scientists in Congregations program that there is a place for churches that take both science and Scripture seriously. New folks came to these churches for that very reason.
That is to say, McHargue and Trasancos are not unique. Whether or not it is the actual reason religious “Nones” are leaving our churches, a failure to engage science is often mentioned to justify their leaving. This needs to change.
I was struck during those Science for Seminaries meetings with the seriousness of the seminary faculty in trying to get the science right. It was as if they were reading my mind: We have do this and we have to do it well to prepare church leaders to meet the demands of ministry.
The task is also important in apologetics. Like C.S. Lewis, we have to engage faith and culture. And our culture is shaped not by faith but by science and technology. In fact, 35% of Americans have strong confidence in scientists, according to the latest Pew data. We need to assume a posture where science is not a threat, and communicate clearly that alternatives to mainstream science are not the only faithful options.
Those meetings with seminary professors and scientists are instructive in second way. Once the scientists, whether or not they are believers, see that these Christian thinkers want to engage in the best possible science, they open up. Relationships form. Very quickly they moved on to the tough issues, approaching them side-by-side.
Any minister of the gospel knows the power of relationships. Compelling ideas matter, but every bit as important are the relationships. My prayer for your ministry—in whatever way you seek to share the Good News—is that you build strong relationships with scientists. Together both our science and our faith are enriched. Together we give the world a glimpse of the Kingdom of God. And together, we may begin to make progress on the toughest issues of our day.
We may not be able to eliminate those lost days of travel, but at the very least, I’m confident it will make us more effective apologists to the many unbelievers who put their trust in science. | <urn:uuid:02770ced-3d29-492e-a197-f7f860d9ccfc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scienceforthechurch.org/2019/09/13/traveling-side-by-side/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960184 | 1,136 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Currently, over 110 million individuals are infected with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), costing the U.S. health care system more than 16 billion dollars.1 STDs caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) are the most prevalent, affecting an estimated 79 million Americans.2 It is predicted that annually another 14 million people will become newly infected with HPV.2 This virus is so common that at least 50% of sexually active men and women contract it at some point in their lives.2
HPV is an etiologic factor in cervical cancer and has a strong association with oropharyngeal cancer (OPC). A causal relationship between cervical cancer and a sexually transmitted source was first hypothesized in 1842.3 Today, research shows that HPV is the main cause of cervical cancer.4 HPV is also linked with the risk of developing head and neck cancer (HNC), specifically OPC.5
Patient risk profiles for OPC and oral cavity cancer differ. Cancers limited to the oral cavity are most commonly carcinogen related and are typically found in older adults who smoke and consume alcohol.6 In contrast, OPC is increasingly prevalent in younger adult populations with no histories of smoking or drinking.7-9 Researchers report that HPV infection may explain the development of HNC in individuals who lack the typical risk factors for oral cancer.6,10 Certain sexual behaviors are related to greater risk for OPC. While some researchers state that the main risk factor for becoming infected with oral HPV is practicing oral sex,7 others also consider open mouth/deep kissing a risk factor.6,9
Adolescents and young adults, aged 15 to 24 years, constitute only 25% of the sexually active population.11 However, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), young adults have the highest prevalence of STDs.1 Research shows that young adults represent over 65% of all reported sexually transmitted infections.12,13 Young adults may be more willing to engage in risky sexual behaviors, such as oral or anal sex, and thereby increase their risks for developing oral HPV.5,7,14 Since the suspected transmission of genital HPV to the oral cavity is due to high risk sexual practices, young adults may be a prime population with whom to discuss HPV and its associated risks.
As the preventive arm of oral health care, dental hygienists should be knowledgeable about oral HPV and its link to OPC. Dental hygienists can take the lead in educating the young adult populations they treat about risky sexual practices, HPV and OPC. Their active involvement in educational initiatives may help minimize the spread of HPV associated STDs, prevent transmission of HPV to the oral cavity and decrease the development of OPC.
HPV is a complex group of viruses that include over 100 strains. HPV infections are transmitted by direct skin-to-skin contact, with penetrative sex being the most frequent route of transmission.15 HPVs are categorized according to their ability to convert cells into cancer. Common low risk strains include HPV 2, 4, 6, 11, 13, 32 and those responsible for genital warts, benign cervical changes, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis,16 and oral conditions, such as squamous cell papillomas, verruca vulgaris, condyloma acuminatum, and focal epithelial hyperplasia.17 Strains 16 and 18 are high risk and have been linked to cervical cancer and head and neck, particularly OPC.16 HPV associated conditions are of special interest to oral health care professionals due to the relationship between HPV and HNC.
Risk factors for HPV infection include high risk sexual behavior and age.7 Prevalence rates of HPV infection among sexually active young adults range from 29 to 39%.11 From a representative sample of U.S. females 14 to 59 years of age, Dunne et al found that the prevalence of HPV was highest among those 20 to 24 years of age.16 Brown et al revealed that over 80% of their study participants, which consisted of females 14 to 17 years old, presented with evidence of HPV infection.12
The number of life-time sexual partners and frequency of sexual encounters, whether penetrative intercourse or other intimate skin-to-skin contact, are risk factors for HPV infection.7,15 Researchers support the premise that sexual intercourse is the primary route of genital HPV infection and that lifetime number of sexual partners and HPV prevalence are associated.7,15,18 The chance of oral HPV infection also rises with an increased number of oral sex partners.8
HPV and Cervical Cancer
HPV is a main cause of cervical cancer.4 HPV 16 and 18, the most common high-risk HPV types, are found in approximately 90% of cervical cancers.19 More recently, these HPV types have been associated with OPCs, a subset of HNCs.7,10,16
Head and Neck Cancers
HNCs commonly originate in squamous cells and include cancers of the oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, sinonasal tract and nasopharynx.20 Globally, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the sixth most common type of cancer,20 with an annual incidence of approximately 400,000 worldwide.21 The American Cancer Society estimates that, in 2013, 53,640 new cases of HNSCC will be detected in the U.S. and that these cancers will be responsible for 11,520 deaths.22
Oral Cancer/Oral Cavity Cancer
The most common oral cavity cancer sites include the anterior two-thirds of the tongue, floor of the mouth, gingiva, lip vermillion and buccal and retromolar mucosa, and the hard palate.5 The majority of head and neck tumors occur in the oral cavity.23 In 2000, 300,000 of the 615,000 new cases of oral cavity tumors reported worldwide were squamous cell carcinomas.24
Cancers limited to the oral cavity are most commonly carcinogen related, and are typically found in older adults.6 Historically, approximately 80 to 90% of U.S. oral cancer cases have been caused by tobacco and alcohol abuse.25 Nearly 80% of patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma are current or past tobacco users.24 Compared with nonsmokers, these patients have a 5 to 7 times greater risk of developing malignant head and neck tumors.24 Muwonge et al found that alcohol and tobacco create a synergistic effect which promotes mucosal permeability to carcinogens.26
Early detection is the key to increased survival rates. Clinical signs and symptoms of oral cavity cancers are often generic and may be mistaken for other common conditions.24 Nearly 80% of early-stage oral cancers are treatable, while individuals with advanced-stage cancers have survival rates of 21%.24 The overall 5 year survival rate for patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma is between 45 and 72%.24 White males have a higher 5 year relative survival rate than African American males.22 Health care professionals must be aware of the possibility of oral cancer, understand the importance of conducting oral cancer exams and be knowledgeable about oral cancer signs and symptoms.
OPC sites include the base of the tongue, soft palate, uvula, palatine tonsil fossa and oropharynx.5 The incidence of OPC is increasing worldwide.20,27 While previously a greater risk for OPC existed among individuals who smoked and consumed alcohol,28 an increase of HPV-related OPC in nonsmokers and nondrinkers is currently reported.27-29 Younger individuals who lack the usual risk factors for oral cancer are presenting with OPC.9,10,30 Researchers examining the association between HPV and the typical risk factors for HNC, tobacco and alcohol use, found little indication that viral status was linked to either habit.5 Reports from a phase III cancer therapy trial stated that HPV-positive patients were younger and had less extensive tobacco exposure when compared with HPV-negative patients.31 Other studies attribute an HPV etiology to squamous cell carcinoma rather than smoking and alcohol.28,29 Pintos et al found an association between HPV and OPC, independent of smoking and alcohol consumption.30 Others suggest that the increase in OPC is caused by an epidemic of HPV-16 sexually transmitted disease.20 Although previous risk factors for HNSCCs included tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption, HPV infection is a new addition.
Similar to oral cavity cancer, most OPCs originate in squamous cell tissue. In OPCs, the tonsils are the most common site, with the base of tongue following.20 These cancer sites comprise 90% of all OPCs.20 In the U.S., tonsillar cancer accounts for 15 to 20% of all OPCs. Data collected between 1973 and 2001 reveal an increased risk of developing tonsillar cancer among white males aged 40 to 65 years.29 From 1973 and 2004, Chaturvedi et al reported an increase in the percentage of HPV-related OPCs in the U.S.29
In general, survival rates for HPV-related OPC are better than those for non-HPV-related neoplasms.31 The estimated 5 year relative survival rate for oropharynx/tonsil cancer stages I, II, III, and IV are 56, 58, 55, and 43%, respectively; and for tongue cancer stages I, II, III, and IV are 71, 59, 47, and 37%, respectively.32 Favorable survival rates for HPV-related OPC may be due to enhanced radiation sensitivity, higher response rates to chemotherapy and lack of filed cancerization and cumulative patient exposure to tobacco and alcohol.33,34
Causal Relationship Between HPV and OPC
During the past few decades, HPV DNA has been discovered in approximately 25% of individuals diagnosed with HNSCC.35 In a recent study, researchers found a relationship between the detection of HPV-HR types in oral cells and the existence of HPV-HR types in tumor tissue; HPV-16 was the most frequent genotype detected.36 HPV DNA was identified in 40 to 60% of OPC cases versus only 15% in oral cavity cancer cases.10,36
As previously stated, several sexual behaviors increase the risk for developing OPC.10 These include number of sexual partners, age at first intercourse and the practices of oral-genital and oral-anal sex.10 It is reported that the chance of developing oral HPV infection substantially grows with an increased number of lifetime oral or vaginal sex partners.8 These findings corroborate results from a cross-sectional study of 2,065 females aged 18 to 29 years in which the number of sexual partners in the past 6 months and the number of lifetime sexual partners were independently related to higher risk for HPV infection and prevalence.18 Numerous cross-sectional and longitudinal studies report that the risk of HPV infection increases at early sexual debut or when a shorter time frame exists between sexual debut and the onset of the menstrual cycle.37-40 Compared to women 55 and older, individuals younger than 25 years are more likely to have had their first intercourse experience before age 18.37 Data from Smith et al revealed that younger patients had higher numbers of sexual partners compared to older patients and that younger-age OPC cases had a greater prevalence of HPV in tumors.5 Younger individuals also had a much higher likelihood of engaging in both oral-genital sex and oral-anal sex than did older individuals.5 Surveys of young adult sexual behavior suggest that most young adults engage in oral sex prior to vaginal intercourse.14 Young adults consider oral sex less risky than vaginal intercourse and report having more oral than vaginal sex partners.41 A U.S. survey found that 38.8% of males and 43.6% of females ages 15 to 19 years had performed oral sex.42
An HPV vaccine is presumed to prevent HPV-related cervical cancer.43 Currently, 2 HPV vaccines, Cervarix (Human Papillomavirus Bivalent (Types 16 and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant), GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals) and Gardasil (Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16 and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant), Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc.), are available to protect against low and high-risk HPV types.44 Both vaccines are effective against HPV 16 and 18;43-45 however, only Gardasil protects against HPV 6 and 11 and associated genital warts.44 Initially, these vaccines were recommended for females aged 11 to 26 years;46 today, one of the vaccines (Gardasil) is also recommended for males aged 11 to 21 years.47 The HPV vaccine’s ability to prevent OPC is possible but unknown.6,9,23
Communication Regarding Sensitive Topics
Communication between health care providers and patients is essential; however, many health professionals lack the required skills to communicate effectively.48 Patient education is a critical aspect of the dental hygienist’s role and is the cornerstone of the profession. Consequently, dental hygienists must possess the necessary knowledge and skills to communicate with their patients about HPV.
Health Professionals’ Communication
In general, health care providers have limited training in communication skills.48 It appears that dentists, physicians, nurses and pharmacists need to improve their communication techniques.49 Studies show that most physicians have had minimal education and practice regarding communication and compromised physician-patient communication has been documented.48,50 A 2007 study identified lack of time and heavy workloads as barriers to provider-patient communication.50 Results from another study showed that several factors contributed to communication deficits: time pressures, fear of “opening a can of worms,” provider discomfort and avoidance, embarrassment, and lack of confidence and expertise.51,52
Health care providers consider discussions regarding accepted health concerns part of their scope of practice, but for various reasons, many avoid discussions about sensitive topics. They may encounter situations where communication is stifled because of the sensitive nature of a topic.51 In a study aiming to describe health care providers’ attitudes toward discussing sexuality-related issues with patients, researchers found that providers rarely discuss these topics with patients.50 Lack of training and difficulty in discussing certain personal matters were the primary reasons for not addressing sexuality-related concerns.50 Research on nurses’ attitudes and beliefs towards discussing sexuality with patients shows that a majority feel that talking about sexuality is one part of their responsibilities.53 Although most doctors and nurses feel that addressing sexual issues are part of their roles, most state they are poorly trained and, thus, unlikely to discuss them with patients.54
Dental Hygienists and Patient Education
The main risk factor for oral HPV infection, unsafe sexual behavior, is a sensitive topic. Dental hygienists might avoid initiating conversations with young adult patients and their parents due to discomfort regarding the topic. Nonetheless, dental hygienists have an obligation to promote their patients’ well-being by educating and addressing personal and public health concerns with them.
Although not as personal as sexual practices, dental hygienists have counseled patients regarding sensitive health topics, i.e., tobacco cessation.55-57 Many dental hygienists consider initiating conversations related to tobacco use part of their scope of practice, yet barriers exist to integrating a cessation plan into the dental hygiene maintenance appointment.56 A survey of 58 dental hygienists reported a deficit in education and training with respect to smoking cessation.57 Other barriers to integrating cessation plans into practice include those reported by medical professionals, e.g. too little time, financial limitations, no interest on the part of the patients, respect for individual freedom, lack of experience in providing smoking cessation advice and fear of losing patients.56
Dental hygienists have a professional obligation to educate patients about preventing the transmission of oral HPV. A study conducted in 2011 found that while some dental hygienists were willing to initiate HPV-related communication with patients, others were hesitant because of discomfort regarding the topic and concerns with confidentiality.58 When educating young adults about oral HPV and sexual behaviors, dental hygienists must consider the sensitive nature of these topics. Stigmatization often is associated with them. According to McCormick et al, “Societal stigma associated with certain behaviors or conditions often infiltrate the medical encounter and may adversely impact provider communication skills.”51
Given that HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease among young adults,13 and that OPC is on the rise,29 dental hygienists must be knowledgeable about oral HPV and OPC and be proactive in initiating discussions with their young adult patients and parents. Few studies have investigated practicing dental hygienists’ knowledge and attitudes regarding oral HPV and OPC;59 however, several investigations have addressed these topics with dental students, practicing dentists, nurses and physicians.60-63 Results from these studies show deficiencies in knowledge regarding oral HPV and OPC and avoidance by these professionals.60-63
Since many health care providers are reticent to explore sensitive topics, dental hygienists can take the lead in educating young adults about risky sexual behaviors, oral HPV and OPC. In contrast to medical professionals, dental hygienists see their patients more routinely, often every 3 to 6 months. Dental hygiene appointments emphasize prevention, and create an environment conducive to counseling patients about health behaviors, including risky sexual behaviors, HPV and OPC. Studies are needed to present empirical evidence that dental hygienists can help to reduce at risk behaviors of young adults by providing HPV and OPC related education.59
HPV is a STD rampant among young adults.1 It causes cervical cancer and is linked to the occurrence of OPCs.16 Young adults tend to engage in risky sexual behaviors, making them vulnerable to STDs. Given the reluctance to address sensitive topics among most health care professionals, it is important that dental hygienists adopt a proactive stance. Dental hygienists treat young adults and must be willing to intervene with at-risk patients and have the skill set to be comfortable performing this service. Dental hygiene educators need to consider including HPV-related information in their curricula.
Through educational interventions, hygienists may broaden young adults’ knowledge base and shape their attitudes about HPV and OPC and at-risk behaviors. With respect to cervical cancer, HPV may persist for more than 10 years before transforming from infection to malignancy.27 It is unclear how long oral HPV may persist before transforming from infection to malignancy; however, the possibility of young adults developing OPC in their later adulthoods exists. Dental hygienists’ early interventions may prevent the development of oral HPV infection, OPCs and potentially decrease the incidence of subsequent neoplastic disease.
Matilda Minassian, RDH, MS, is an Instructor in the Dental Hygiene program at Howard Community College.
I would like to express my great appreciation to Jacquelyn L. Fried, RHD, MS, and Robert A. Ord, DDS, MD, FRCS, FACS, MS, for their valuable and constructive editing suggestions during the writing of this manuscript. I would also like to thank Ben Manesh, DDS. As my first dental employer, Dr. Manesh was an integral part of my introduction to the field of dental hygiene. I would also like to convey my utmost gratitude to Glenda R. Caceres, without whose support this manuscript would not be possible.
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Kailash Teerth (Water from Mount Kailash)
Sourced from the South Face of Mount Kailash, Kailash Teerth water is a unique Isha Offering which, for the first time, brings the experience of Mt. Kailash into your life if you haven’t gone there yourself. Water has the ability to store memory and energy. Kailash Teerth is a wonderful way to bring the experience of this mystical mountain into one’s life.
The Kailash Teerth water is stored in a copper flask which is lined on the inside with silver. Copper and silver are among the most sensitive metals in terms of retaining energies. Kailash Teerth will, therefore, retain its potency for a long time. Furthermore, Ayurveda has long celebrated the anti-bacterial and anti-carcinogenic properties of water stored in silver containers. Thus, this Teerth acquires these health benefits.
"Water has the ability to store memory and energy. The South Face of Kailash is the very home of mysticism. The Kailash Teerth collected from there carries some of these powerful qualities. It can bring about a new sense of vitality and joy to oneself.” - Sadhguru
The copper flask also comes with a special ‘Darshan’ technology attached on its outer surface – which allows you to actually see and get a real-life Darshan of Mt. Kailash.
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The Right Sized Business
Get big or go home! I’m calling bullshit on that idea right now. What is our western culture’s obsession with large business?
As a solopreneur I think you should be looking to rightsize your business not scale it so large it becomes a beast on your back or have it too small that it cannot meet your income needs, this is the process of rightsizing.
Scale To Your Income Goals
If you want 100k per year, then scale to that level and stop. There is no imperative to grow beyond that. If all you need to have an excellent life is 30k per year, then why not work part time, make your money and enjoy your life outside of your business?
As solopreneurs we only have an obligation to ourselves, there are no stock holders forcing an ever greater profit level. Right size, don’t dowsize to squeeze more profits.
Look to a life outside of work if you can scale to your correct income level.
Don’t Grow For Growth Sake
You may come to a point where you feel you need to go to the next level. Six figure to seven, no employees to a team, but do you really want to? Who’s agenda are you working to? Just because you can get bigger does not mean you have to.
If you want or need more income then growth is fine, but don’t do it just because you can.
Grow as as personal challenge not because we are told you need to be a big business. Be a boutique business doing excellent things, not a souless big business
Here’s a scenario for you:
A) You are walking though Paris, you stop outside a small patisserie, the cakes in the window look amazing, you just want to buy some of their limited and premium stock.
B) You are at the boxed baking aisle in the super market, there are cardboard boxes full of mass produced cakes, the picture on the boxes look nice, you would not mind eating one.
Now, which is the right sized business, the boutique patisserie or the mass produced baked goods being sold in the super market, and which would you prefer. Taking it further which business would you rather own?
If you are getting bigger consider growing yourself in smarter not harder working ways. If you want an extra 2k per month, don’t throw in another 20 hours per week, why not build a product that can make that money passively, you have grown but in a smarter fashion that does not suck your soul dry.
Right Size May Be Intangible
Your right size may be an intangible thing, you want a full time income but a part time schedule to bring up your kids, it might be a passive income to finance your round the world back packing trip.
Whatever your own right size is no-one can tell you it’s wrong, your business has to be right to you not to some peer.
A Motivational Quote For You
See I’m part solopreneur business coach, part life coach:
One of the most universal causes of self doubt and depression is trying to impress people your don’t like.
Just becuause it is expected that businesses grow, does not mean you have to bow to this peer pressure and get massive. Right size not other people’s size. Like the quote says don’t do things like growing your business beyond the rightsize to impress other people.
What’s My Personal Rightsize
I’m not going to give you facts or figures, but I see me remaining a one man band, I want more income, but I want it in a less time intensive manner, I’m working on products more than new services so I’m right sizing my time input.
I want to grow my business doing something that really matters to me not growing it to match a pattern described in a MBA book.
I don’t want staff, shareholders, profit calls or other traditional business bullshit, I want something I can point at and say I did that, I built that myself, it’s the perfect size for me and it more than meets my income needs.
I’ve Had Sneery Comments
“Oh, yours isn’t a real business, you don’t have premises or staff.”
“F!ck you!” was my reply using the quick wit and repartee of Oscar Wilde.
Of course it’s a real business, I have clients and obligations, just because I have a better business model and don’t need an office doesn’t make my enterprise any less of a business.
This is my ideal size (or close to, I’m re-engineering as we speak), I’m location independent, have massive personal freedom and I’m building a business that I love to work in. If that’s not an ideal situation I don’t know what is, now off with you sneery commenter and get to the cubicle farm like a nice little conformist.
What’s Your Idea of The Right Sized Business
Is it income, time freedom or something else, tell me what would make a right sized business for you in the comments.
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Chloe Billing reflects on this year’s Regional Studies Association’s annual conference in Santiago de Compostela.
On the 6th June, I had the opportunity to present the findings from the first phase of City REDI’s project on ‘Productivity and Prosperity’ at the RSA conference in Santiago. Details of the ESRC funded project and the wider team can be found on our project page.
The central aim of the overall project is to identify local factors that underlie and explain regional differences in productivity, with a particular focus on mismatches between the supply of and demand for specific skills. Additionally, it considers key trade-offs between productivity improvement and inclusive growth goals. The City-REDI team aims to do this by addressing the following research aims:
- Investigate how features of regional labour markets, especially skills, act as productivity constraints at the firm level, across different business functions and industry sectors.
- Examine the specific misalignments at the regional level between the supply of and demand for particular kinds of labour/ skills
- Examine the motivations and outcomes of decisions about investment in skills and other factors and how these can stimulate improvements in productivity and – ideally – inclusive growth.
Productivity is a benchmark used by many commentators to compare the UK’s economic performance with our international peers and output per hour is a standard measure. The UK lags behind most OECD countries in terms of average productivity and productivity growth rates; on average, each UK worker produces around a third less per hour than French, German and American Workers. Productivity matters because productivity growth helps to offset inflation, improves public finances and increase the standard of living.
Inclusive Growth focuses on “enabling as many people as possible to contribute to and benefit from growth”. It is driven by the concerns about the scale and consequences of inequality and is an attempt to shape growth such that higher-performance and redistribution are simultaneous. Our research will explore whether there is an opportunity to deliver inclusive productivity growth. Is this possible?
City-REDI’s project focuses on the West Midlands as a case study, working with local businesses and policymakers. Our focus on the West Midlands can partly be explained by our interest in our ‘home region’, but also the particular related challenges that the region faces. These include:
- The GVA per head in the Midlands is one of the lowest in the country, less than £21k per head compared to over £43K in London (ONS, 2017).
- The West Midlands had an unemployment rate of over 5.1% in the final quarter of 2018 (compared to 3.9% for the UK overall);
- 16% of its population has no qualifications (compared to 9% nationally).
The Regional Studies Association conference presentation was the outcome of the first phase of our 3-year project and was based on a detailed review of the academic and grey literature by the research team. It has been an important step since it has provided us with the foundation to begin our data collection in the summer. This will involve a survey of 300 firms (business and professional services, advanced manufacturing, retail and hospitality) in the West Midlands on their productivity, innovation and skills needs. The survey will be followed with semi-structured interviews of 50 firms, providing a ‘deep-dive’ into the constraints on their productivity at the local level.
Our presentation first explored how skills and regional labour markets act as productivity constraints at the firm level. It highlighted the close relationship between workforce skills level and productivity performance. McGuinness et al. (2018) argues that “skill gaps may harm productivity due to lower output per worker, which also tends to inflate average labour costs”. Consequently, investment in education, training and workforce upskilling is likely to have a positive effect on productivity levels and growth rates. There are of course many other factors that influence productivity growth, including:
- Knowledge and Innovation
- Management Practices
- Open Data
These all, in some way, relate to skills and regional labour markets. For instance, the shortage of the provision of skills will impede the innovation capability development and productivity of regions and firms. Our project focuses on this link between innovation, skills and productivity. Specifically, when labour-related approaches to innovation and improved productivity are challenged by local skills shortages does this stimulate:
- Increased investment in training and development of existing staff, new recruitment strategies, etc.? Or
- The adoption of non-labour approaches, such as capital equipment investments, process re-engineering or changes in product / service focus?
- And, would either of these approaches achieve inclusive productivity growth?
There are significant regional variations in educational outcomes and skills, at all education levels, with significant shortages in the West Midlands (Abreu, 2018; Sevinc, 2018). We are not only interested in the shortage of skills, but more so the mismatch between those skills demanded by firms and those actually attained through the education and training system i.e. Is there a skills misalignment in the West Midlands? McGowani et al (2015) suggested that “higher skill mismatch is associated with lower labour productivity through a less efficient allocation of resources. For example, there is a shortage of digital skills to take advantage of open data systems in the service and manufacturing sector (Baresford, 2015). Additionally, there is a shortage of non-cognitive or “soft” skills (personality traits, self-efficacy, and resilience) in the labour market, which are different to cognitive skills (numerical, verbal, and problem-solving skills) and (Payne, 2017).
Our presentation then considered the key trade-offs between productivity improvement and inclusive growth goals. There is a link between productivity and pay, whereby increasing productivity remains a direct method of increasing wages (particularly for middle-income workers). However, productivity is improved if the least skilled become unemployed, so running counter to the goal of inclusive growth. Conversely, there is a clear relationship between employment growth and lower productivity, there is no guarantee that the gains from productivity will be broadly shared across the UK economy. As a result, new thinking and empirical approaches are needed along with research evidence which can support policy and industry implementation in delivering (if possible) inclusive productivity growth. This is a key driver for our research.
This research on productivity is one part of a wider portfolio of research at City-REDI investigating productivity issues. For example, Anne Green and Amir Qamar at Birmingham worked with Paul Sissons and Kevin Broughton at Coventry University on raising productivity in low-wage sectors and reducing poverty. They found that many firms had only a partial understanding of productivity and that uprating in the National Living Wage had prompted firms to seek ways to increase productivity.
I was joined at RSA with colleagues from City-REDI who also presented on their ongoing projects. Tasos Kitsos organised a special session, together with Raquel Ortega-Argilés on Regional Economic Resilience: Latest Developments and New Research Frontiers. Tasos presented his paper with André Carrascal-Incera and Raquel on the role of local economic embeddedness on regional resilience and receive useful feedback and ideas for further research. Tasos presented a second paper on his work with Antonios Proestakis on the role of political alignment on intergovernmental transfers in Greece His blog on his RSA experience can be found here. Raquel Ortega-Argilés presented her work with Silvia Rocchetta and Dieter Kogler on the non-linear effects of relatedness on regional performance. Anne Green also discussed work with George Bramley on the challenges of out-migration and demographics on securing NHS staff in England’s rural areas.
– Abreu, Maria (2018) Skills and Productivity. Productivity Insights Network.
– Centre for Social Justice (2018) The great British breakthrough: driving productivity growth in the UK.
– Confederation of British Industry (2018) In perfect harmony: improving skills delivery in England.
– Hawking, M. (2019) Briefing: how local industrial strategies can deliver inclusive growth, Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)
– McGowan, A. (2015) Labour Market Mismatch and Labour Productivity: Evidence from PIAAC Data, in OECD Economics Department Working Papers, OECD Paris.
– McGuinness, S., K. Pouliakas, and P. Redmond, SKILLS MISMATCH: CONCEPTS, MEASUREMENT AND POLICY APPROACHES. 2018. 32(4): p. 985-1015.
– McSorley, L (2018). Inequality, wellbeing and inclusive growth.
– Payne, Jonathan (2018) In the DNA or missing gene? Devolution, local skills strategies and the challenge of inclusive growth in England (Research paper no 126)
This blog was written by Dr Chloe Billing, Research Fellow at City-REDI.
The views expressed in this blog are those of the authors and not necessarily those of City-REDI or the University of Birmingham
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Analysts say that the visit, Abadi’s first since Trump took office in January, could usher in a new era of relations between Iraq and the United States – a situation that has left some Iraqis nervous. The meeting comes as the new US administration works to redefine its goals and interests in Iraq and throughout the region.
“I don’t think Abadi can predict the new US policy outlines for Iraq,” Hisham al-Hashimi, a researcher and counterterrorism expert at the Akkad Center for Future Studies in Baghdad, told Al Jazeera.
“There are fears that the new administration wants to limit the power of [the Iranian-backed Shia militias fighting ISIL] and also to cut the hands of Iran in Iraq and the region. Will [Abadi] be part of curtailing Iran’s influence? He will be held in the middle between two parties.”
Trump has accused Iran of sponsoring “terrorism” in the region and being a destabilising factor in Iraq. During his presidential campaign, Trump criticised the 2003 war in Iraq and lambasted the Obama administration for allowing Iran to control Iraq.
After the pair met on Monday, Abadi’s office issued a statement noting that Trump had stressed his “continuous support” to the Iraqi people in their ongoing fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group ( ISIL, also known as ISIS).
“The two leaders agreed to continue their partnership in the long run to erase the roots of terrorism in Iraq and to support Iraq’s military power and other crucial fields,” the statement said, adding that the two countries would also enhance their political and economic partnership.
In addition to his sit-down with Trump, Abadi is due to attend a meeting of foreign ministers and senior leaders of the global coalition to defeat ISIL. The meeting, to be hosted by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday, will deal with strategies to increase the pressure against ISIL in Iraq and Syria and to bolster humanitarian aid in areas recently retaken from the armed group.
Iraq's future relations with the US will depend on how the Americans decide to counter the Iranians. Are they going counter them politically or economically or militarily?
Trump, who has controversially suggested that the US should have “kept the oil” in Iraq after ousting former President Saddam Hussein, has also trumpeted plans to eradicate ISIL from “the face of the earth” – a pledge that could lead to a larger US troop deployment in Iraq. There are currently fewer than 6,000 American troops in Iraq and Syria.
“I think [Trump] will tell the Iraqis he wants to send more ground troops to Syria, Kuwait and Iraq to defeat ISIS. The key question that the Iraqis want to ask is how long these troops will remain on Iraqi soil,” Lawrence Korb, a military analyst and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, told Al Jazeera.
Today, Iraq relies heavily on US political, diplomatic and military backing, but the future of this backing under a Trump administration remains unclear, Korb noted.
The 1991 Gulf war marked the beginning of US military involvement in Iraq, but after the 2003 invasion and the toppling of Saddam’s regime, relations between Baghdad and Washington changed dramatically. More than 150,000 troops and US officials oversaw the drafting of a new political landscape in Iraq, ostensibly aiming to establish a democracy defended by its own army – but instead, Iraq was torn by sectarian strife, creating a fertile breeding ground for ISIL.
When US forces withdrew from Iraq in 2011, they left behind a weak government and a shaky power-sharing deal among Shia, Sunni and Kurdish parties, along with an army of diplomats and hundreds of military contractors at the biggest US embassy in the world. Under the Shia-led government of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, many Sunni residents of Iraq felt targeted and marginalised, leading to waves of protest.
Relations between Iraq and the US suffered another blow in January, when Trump issued a 90-day suspension of visas for nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iraq. The so-called Muslim ban, which was quickly overturned by a federal judge, was later replaced with a revised ban that excluded Iraq.
Iran, meanwhile, has emerged as the biggest winner in Iraq, consolidating its influence by forming and funding the country’s powerful Shia militias, analysts say.
Today, as the battle for western Mosul rages on, Abadi has said that ISIL is in its death throes, cornered in Mosul and isolated in Raqqa, the group’s self-proclaimed Syrian capital. The global anti-ISIL coalition’s main goal, beyond defeating the group militarily, is to destroy its safe havens and funding networks.
While the focus of the Trump administration in Iraq remains vague, senior US officials have suggested that countering the influence of ISIL and Iran are both top priorities, with Defense Secretary James Mattis calling Iran the world’s “biggest state sponsor of terrorism”.
“Although Abadi has said in the past that he intends to curb the influence of Iran and its militias, that’s easier said than done,” Korb said.
Yahya al-Kubaisi, a consultant and researcher at the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, told Al Jazeera that even after ISIL is pushed out of its Mosul stronghold, the role of the US in Iraq will not end, as ISIL will continue to maintain a lethal, if smaller, presence in the country.
“Iraq’s future relations with the US will depend on how the Americans decide to counter the Iranians. Are they going counter them politically or economically or militarily?” Kubaisi asked. “The US backs Iraq militarily only to defeat ISIL. If the Abadi government doesn’t listen, the Americans have options like supporting the Kurds and promoting Sunni federal regions.” | <urn:uuid:fd3c88a5-7a52-4d7f-9e24-fb23ec7be8f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/3/21/iran-and-isil-top-priority-for-iraq-us-relations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963327 | 1,236 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Adding and Subtracting Decimals:
Step 1 : write the numbers in a column with the decimal points and corresponding plzce values lined up. (Insert additional zeros as placeholders after the last digit to the right of the decimal point.)
Step 2: Add or substract the digits in columns from right to left, as you would whole numbers. The decimal point in the answer should be lined up with the decimal points from the original numbers"
By using the above mentioned procedure, add the three decimals in the expression
Line up the decimal points and insert additional zeros as placeholder.
Add the digits with common place values and then line up the decimal point in the required answer.
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The ASP .NET is a consolidated web application framework model that includes services required to develop web applications with the least amount of coding. It was developed by Microsoft, released on January 5, 2002. It is a part of .NET Framework and one has to access to the classes in the .NET Framework to code.
The ASP .NET Core is the next generation of ASP .NET framework. It is an open source platform developed by Microsoft and the community. It can run on .NET Framework and the .NET Core as well. ASP .NET Core applications can keep on running on a similar machine, focusing on various renditions of the ASP .NET center at the same time. This was not possible in the previous versions of ASP .NET. It consists of the entity framework, the Identity core, the Razor core and the MVC core. The ASP .NET Core was built to unite the ASP .NET MVC and the ASP .NET Web API into one platform.
The ASP .NET MVC is a platform that Instruments the model view controller pattern. It distributes web applications into three layers: the Model (business layer), the View(display layer) and the Controller(input control). The model gives the state an aspect of the application. The controller takes care of interactions and reflects the change in the state of the app. The view gets necessary information from the controller and makes the user interface to display the data. It works with the principle of combining the model view and the controller so as to allow each component to test individually.
The MVC and the Web API are two very similar platforms and it made sense to just merge the two together keeping in mind how both followed the similar MVC pattern. Web API was designed to be used for REST APIs whereas MVC was engineered for applications with HTML front ends. Web API lacked a Razor like View engine. Web API was a framework to build any type of HTTP service. It also supported OData that was a way to query data through CRUD operations.
Every great platform requires a great architecture. To understand the advanced architecture of ASP.NET Core Web API, we will be looking at the design and development of the API. The two conditions to design any architecture depends on 2 things:
- Allowing maintainability and
- Using already proven patterns and architectures to our applications.
The maintainability of an API is the ease through which the API can be maintained. The maintenance involves determining errors, correcting them, replacing or correcting defects without having to cause any more damage, avoiding malfunctions, increasing the products life, ability to met all old and new requirements, or work well will the changing environment.
For an API, maintainability requires long-term planning. Decisions need to made keeping in mind the future needs and workspace. To check the maintainability of your API, evaluate the following way:
- Check if your architecture allows changes that have minimum impact on other areas of our system.
- Have established patterns for debugging the API to make it easy.
- Automate testing and make it as clear as possible.
Ports and Adapter Pattern
We need our items all through our API answer for having single obligations. This keeps our articles straightforward and effortlessly changed on the off chance that we have to settle bugs or upgrade our code. The ports and adapter plan is also known as the hexagonal architecture is one way to ensure that all objects remain simple and have single obligations. It solves the problem of business logic coupled too firmly to different conditions, for example, information access or API systems. It allows your API to have well-marked boundaries, well-named objects that have single jobs and allow easier development and maintainability.
The pattern can be best seen as an onion with ports on the outside of the hexagon and adapters and business logic placed near the core. The external connections would be the ports. The architecture is divided into the logical segments of API, Domain, and Data.
The domain layer:
- Characterizes the Entities questions that will be used throughout the arrangement. These models will speak to the Data layer’s DataModels.
- Characterizes the ViewModels which will be utilized by the API layer for HTTP solicitations and reactions as single questions or sets of items.
- Characterizes the interfaces through which our Data layer can actualize the information get to the rationale.
- Actualizes the Supervisor that will contain techniques called from the API layer. Every technique will speak to an API call and will change over information from the infused Data layer to View Models to be returned.
The domain entity objects basically show the database that is used to store as well as collect data for the API business logic. The ViewModels help retrieve more data for consumers of the API. The interfaces define the contracts in the domain layer. The supervisor class translates to and from Entities and ViewModels and does business logic from either the endpoints or the Data access logic.
The data layer is the next layer. We can have multitude of Data Layer implementations, but it is essential that we stick to needs given the Domain Layer. Every datum Layer usage must work with the View Models and vault interfaces nitty gritty in the Domain Layer.
The API layer is the last layer. This is the area where the consumers will interact. It has the code for the Web API endpoint logic. It will have only one responsibility which is to handle the HTTP proposals that the web server receives. This layer also returns responses for successes and failure. It involves little business logic. Routing is handled by attribute routing in ASP.NET Core Web API. Dependency injection is also used which is now available .net developers India in built on the platform.
Outlining and building up an incredible ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API arrangement takes knowledge all together to have a decoupled design that will enable each layer to be testable and take after the Single Responsibility Principle. | <urn:uuid:18f3ca13-8f83-41bb-bddf-d265a2be4172> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.articleevent.com/advanced-architecture-for-asp-net-core-web-api/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.924528 | 1,209 | 3.28125 | 3 |
ABC11 presented on Thursday a 30-minute special, "The Racial Divide: Inequity in Education,."
The 30-minute special took an in-depth look at racial inequity in education; digital divide, which addresses the hardship in digital learning; food insecurities among economically disadvantaged students; and racial disparities surmounting in Latino communities. Historically, these issues have existed in communities of color, however, the special will examine how the pandemic has exacerbated these difficulties.
STORIES FEATURED IN THE SPECIAL:Parents in the LatinX community worry kids are being left behind amid COVID-19 pandemic
Immediately following the special, ABC11 anchor Joel Brown hosted a livestream, virtual town hall with local experts, who continued the conversation on inequity in education, and the financial and mental health impact on families in communities of color.
The panel included the following:
Dr. Nerissa Price, psychiatrist, joins the panel to discuss the impact on children's mental health.
Letha Muhammad is the director at Education Justice Alliance.
Turquoise Parker is a third-grade teacher at Durham Public Schools and is the current VP of Durham Association of Educators.
Tru Pettigrew is a diversity and inclusion expert speaker and author of "Millennials Revealed." | <urn:uuid:68430eae-8734-4107-941e-bfdd548ab273> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abc11.com/society/watch-the-racial-divide-inequity-in-education/6327787/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940764 | 268 | 2.40625 | 2 |
In Hebrews 13:5 it says, "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." and in Revelation 3:20 it says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." So anotherwords, once you let Jesus into the door to your heart he never leaves. As it states in Hebrews Jesus never leaves once you let Him in. Once you let Jesus into the door to your heart you cannot throw him back out. You can throw Him in the closet but you cannot throw Him out the door.
The Catholic Church, and most Christian Churches, Teach that cheating is wrong.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church teaches people how to be saved, how to love and serve the Lord.
The Catholic Church does teach Catholics about being saved. To be saved, one must be in a state of grace, free from "mortal" sin (which cuts off one's friendship with God). The Catholic Church teaches that once you have been saved, you can lose your salvation by falling into a state of mortal sin, but also that even mortal sin can be forgiven, and salvation can be restored.
Most teach that you should wait until you are married to have it. Which is what I believe as a Christian, and my church believes the same way.
The Christian Church did not teach other religions in the Middle Ages. It banned them and persecuted their followers. Even to be suspected of something like witchcraft meant death by drowning or burning at the stake.
Jesus wanted to teach the word of God so sinners could be saved.
The Catholic Church is in favor of Christian services, it provides them to all people. If you are asking about Church services, they are mainly celebrated by Religious Communities. The primary "service" in the protestant sense of the word, is the Eucharist, the Mass.
No, it does not teach that. The Catholic Church teaches that wherever there is goodness we live in the hope that all are saved.
Christian teach bible to know what are life was..
a church where they teach you how to not be funny
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It is often claimed that small-scale renewable energy, such as solar photovoltaic panel arrays, will fill an important future energy niche by providing much-needed electricity to developing nations and other remote regions (such as the outback of Australia). That’s a seemingly reasonable argument, but how do the numbers stack up? Below, Gene Preston (SCGI member) provides some easy-to-follow calculations (currency is in US dollars/cents). The results might surprise many:
A friend of mine at the University of Texas and I were talking about his desire to develop a presentation for educators in Africa to use in estimating energy costs. He has just 3 hours for his presentation. He wants the teachers to be able to do the economics calculations themselves. I suggested he narrow down the discussion to just a comparison of solar versus small scale nuclear. Here’s what I came up with:
Solar – Lets go low tech with fixed solar panels. The cost is $8/watt (W) and runs about 14% of the time (its capacity factor). You will need energy storage, which costs $1/W + $.4/Wh (that is, 40c per watt hour**).
Lets say that we develop a solar system to serve a 5 kW peak load with an average load of 1 kW. The daily energy demand will be 24 kWh and peak load is 5 kW. This could be a few houses or a small school with some PCs. To produce the average amount of energy needed will require 1/.14 = 7.14 kW, so lets say 8 kW just to put in a little extra energy production factor. The 8 kW will cost $8/W (for 8000 W) = $64000. The energy storage system will cost $1/W (5000) = $5000 for the electronics and switchgear plus $.4/Wh (24000) = $9600 for one day’s energy usage. I would double this and install two days of storage just to be safe, which would cost $19,200.
Therefore the cost of the 5 kW peak demand solar system is:
$64000 for the panels (only half this cost is the PV array)
$5000 for the storage system electronics
$19200 for the batteries (2 days storage)
$88000 for the entire system. (see what I mean about this being a rich person’s energy source?)
Let’s calculate the cents per kWh energy cost. Assume a loan at 6% annual interest rate to pay for it. Assume the system has a 20 year life.
A = PW [(i)(1+i)^n] / [(1+i)^n-1] where A is the annual payment, PW is the present cost of the system, i is the interest rate of .06, and n=20 years.
Then A = (88000)(.06)(1.06)^20 / [1.06^20 – 1] = .08718 (88000) = $7672.24 annually.
The energy produced annually is 24 kWh/day (365 days/y) = 8760 kWh. The cost per kWh = 767,224 cents per year / 8760 kWh per year = 87.6 cents per kWh. (first wow — that’s expensive!)
What about if we instead generated this energy from small nuclear reactors? First, some examples/references:
The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor would have been in South Africa but there is local opposition
This is an interesting discussion of micro reactors, especially the Russian Navy’s design
This information paper from the World Nuclear Association shows the huge number of small-scale reactor technologies being considered
Here is an IEEE paper on small nuclear (2, 5, 10 and 20 MW reactors)
The objective of many of the above references is to get the nuclear power cost down to about 10 cents per kWh. Suppose we could buy into nuclear at $5000 per kW (that’s the estimated cost of the Babock & Wilcox small nuclear plant [called ‘mPower’], for a 125 MWe plant). The 1 kW of nuclear power portion of the small plant would run all the time so one kW would have an average energy based on the calculations for the solar plant. All we have to do is replace the $88000 with $5000 in the previous “A =” calculation.
Therefore the small nuclear program energy cost is .08718 (5000) (100) / 8760 = 5 cents per kWh. (second wow — that’s low cost!)
However we will need some peaking power to get 5 kW peak load. We can use the battery storage system to get the peaking power. We only need 4 kW since we will have the 1 kW nuclear running all the time. Also, the energy storage need only be about 4 hours at the most at 4 kW (conservatively). The peaking power using nuclear energy is $4000 for electronics + .4 (16000) for batteries = $10,400. Note that the peaking power system costs twice as much as the base load nuclear generation. The total cost is about $15,000 and the energy cost is about 15 cents per kWh.
This small nuclear + peaking system is only about 18% the cost of the solar + storage system.
This is an example of how anyone can, fairly easily, go through the economics calculations for solar and nuclear. Such an exercise would probably an eye opener for them, and dispel the myth that solar is ‘free energy’ or even a cheap source of power. But how are they to afford any type of power plant if they do not have industries that need power and produce income for them? | <urn:uuid:b5cf075c-2444-40a2-9a12-6199e450cba1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bravenewclimate.com/2009/10/04/remote-solar-pv-costs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936966 | 1,209 | 3.34375 | 3 |
- By Susan Barber Lindquist
When the body attacks the brain: Immune system often to blame for encephalitis, study finds
Encephalitis is a term used to describe brain inflammation. Its symptoms include fever, confusion, memory loss, psychosis and seizures. It progresses quickly over days to weeks and can be life-threatening. Traditionally, it has been thought that infections account for most cases of encephalitis, but this study shows autoimmune encephalitis is an equally common cause.
“The results of our study suggest that doctors evaluating patients with encephalitis should search for autoimmune causes in addition to infectious causes, given both have a similar frequency,” says Eoin Flanagan, M.B., B.Ch., senior author of the population-based study and an autoimmune neurology specialist at Mayo Clinic.
Feb. 22 is World Encephalitis Day — a day to raise awareness of the illness.
Infection remains an important concern when evaluating patients with encephalitis, notes Michel Toledano, M.D., one of the study’s co-investigators and a neuro-infectious diseases specialist. “But the results of our study indicate that doctors also should explore autoimmune causes to ensure that the appropriate treatment is given, which is essential to prevent long-lasting damage,” Dr. Toledano says.
To identify cases of encephalitis, the study used data from the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a medical records database of all medical providers in Olmsted County, Minnesota. The researchers found about 14 per 100,000 people had autoimmune encephalitis in their lifetime, compared to 12 per 100,000 who had infectious encephalitis. One study limitation is that the diagnostic criteria for autoimmune and infectious causes of encephalitis differed, which could affect the comparison.
“Previously, we did not know how common autoimmune encephalitis was, as no prior studies evaluated this,” Dr. Flanagan says. “This study allows us to estimate that approximately 1 million people worldwide had autoimmune encephalitis in their lifetime. We also estimate that, currently, about 90,000 people around the world develop autoimmune encephalitis each year.”
In this study, the researchers used 2016 diagnostic criteria for autoimmune encephalitis. Using the Mayo Clinic Neuroimmunology Laboratory, which performs comprehensive neural autoantibody testing on blood and spinal fluid, the researchers were able to identify neural antibody markers that indicate a likely autoimmune cause.
“Our study showed that clinicians are now detecting more cases of autoimmune encephalitis than they were in the past because of the discovery of these new neural autoantibody markers. These advances in diagnostic testing are good news for patients, as they have allowed doctors to diagnose and treat autoimmune encephalitis more effectively.” Dr. Flanagan says.
This research was supported by the National Institute on Aging grant R01AG034676 through the Rochester Epidemiology Project and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grant NS065829
Additional researchers involved in the Mayo Clinic study were Divyanshu Dubey, M.B.B.S.; Sean Pittock, M.D.; Cecilia Kelly, M.D.; Andrew McKeon, M.B., B.Ch.; Alfonso Lopez Chiriboga, M.D.; Vanda Lennon, M.D., Ph.D.; Avi Gadoth, M.D., Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center; Carin Smith, Sandra Bryant, Christopher Klein, M.D.; Allen Aksamit, M.D.; Bradley Boeve, M.D.; and Jan-Mendelt Tillema, M.D.
About the Rochester Epidemiology Project
The Rochester Epidemiology Project is a collaboration of clinics, hospitals, and other medical and dental care facilities in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. It was founded by Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center in 1966 in Olmsted County, Minnesota. The collaboration now includes Olmsted County Public Health Services as its first public health member and stretches across 27 counties. This collaboration and sharing of medical information makes this area of Minnesota and Wisconsin one of the few places where true population-based research can be accomplished. Learn more about the Rochester Epidemiology Project.
About Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization committed to clinical practice, education and research, providing expert, comprehensive care to everyone who needs healing. Learn more about Mayo Clinic. Visit the Mayo Clinic News Network.
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After discovering that skipping breakfast was a common trend among college students, Christophe Gerlach ’20 and Pedro Bobrow ’20 co-founded Suna Breakfast, with the hope that their start-up will encourage more students to start their days with a healthy meal by having the food delivered to their doorsteps.
“It’s just become a normal thing for college students, to kind of either skip breakfast in the morning or grab something really quick because all the options out there are too inconvenient to make it worth all the hassle,” Gerlach told The Sun.
Orders must be placed the night before on the Suna Breakfast app, and customers select a 5 minute delivery window for the food to arrive the next morning. Gerlach said that this model is ideal for college students because they know exactly what time they will be waking up and leaving in the morning. Additionally, since orders are taken the night before, they can map out the route in advance and fulfill a multitude of orders with each trip, unlike the traditional delivery system.
Bobrow, who is originally from Brazil, explained that the name “Suna” is Portuguese slang for “have it easy,” emphasizing the convenience of their service. The idea for the company came about during a lunchtime conversation between Gerlach and Bobrow, who met in the fall of their sophomore year after having many classes together.
“We would fantasize about where there were inefficiencies at Cornell or where we could create a business model and also help Cornell students in their day-to-day lives,” Gerlach said.
Both were student athletes – Gerlach on the soccer team and Bobrow on the sprint football team – and realized they often ate inadequate breakfasts due to the lack of available options.
“At best, I would grab a Cliff bar and run to class in the morning because I would always set my alarm for the last minute,” Gerlach recounted.
After coming up with the idea, Bobrow said that they interviewed over 500 people to see if there was a common need, and found that 76% of the people interviewed said they were “dissatisfied with their morning routine.”
They then ran two pilot programs, one in the Schuyler dorm and one on College Avenue, to test the viability of their idea.
“Basically after we had the idea, we were like ‘I guess the only way to see if this will be legit or not is if we try it’ and we literally went door-to-door and accepted money with Venmo and we made all the food ourselves,” Gerlach said.
Since then, they have become legally incorporated, gotten health permits, made an app and have partnered with the Lincoln Street Diner to help them provide the food.
“The thing is these local diners see very little revenue Monday through Friday from 6 – 10 a.m. because most of their potential customers are either on their way to work or on their way to class so they’re willing to let us share their kitchens to make our own food and sell us their hot items at discounted prices,” Gerlach explained.
The company will be launching this upcoming Monday, hopefully followed by a larger launch to all of Cornell in August, according to Bobrow. They have expanded their team to about 16 Cornell undergraduates and 12 delivery drivers. Bobrow is leading the team in Ithaca this summer as part of Cornell’s LCL Incubator, which gave them $3,000 in exchange for 1% equity.
“From a business perspective, our biggest problem is changing consumer behavior,” Gerlach said. “Right now, a lot of people just skip breakfast, so it’s hard to convince people to start spending money on something they currently don’t.”
To address this challenge, they plan to emphasize the many health benefits of eating breakfast everyday – including decreased stress, increased concentration and regulated metabolism – and said that their main goal was not to make a huge profit.
“Especially at first, we’re not really trying to make a huge profit, we’re just trying to convince people to try this new system where they go on their phone and place an order the night before to be dropped off in a brief window in the morning,” Gerlach said. “It’s like a new concept, so we’re trying to keep prices low. It’s healthy food, it’s really affordable and it’s very, very convenient.”
Furthermore, the company used the money it raised by selling t-shirts to donate over 200 free breakfasts to homeless people in Ithaca last week, which Gerlach said is part of their “overarching philosophy [of] doing well by doing good.”
Mayor Svante Myrick was present at this event, and provided encouragement to Gerlach and Bobrow.
“The reason why the mayor really, really was on top of this initiative was because he was actually homeless himself growing up,” Bobrow said. “He really understands how many homeless people there are in Ithaca, and when living in Cornell, it’s this big bubble where we don’t see anything outside of this.”
Looking to the future, Gerlach and Bobrow’s goals are to prove their business model and potentially expand to other colleges.
“All the really successful companies, you use their name as a verb too – Google something, Uber somewhere or Venmo [someone] – so we hope people will ‘Suna’ on a recurring basis,” Gerlach said. | <urn:uuid:335899d5-9825-4655-8b5b-fde85eff86fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cornellsun.com/2018/07/15/student-start-up-to-offer-breakfast-delivery-service-to-students-hoping-to-provide-healthy-and-convenient-meals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972559 | 1,209 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Mosquitos can be quite a nuisance, especially when the summer arrives. These pests can quickly multiply and become quite a problem if their population is not controlled. The good news is that you can take realistic and effective steps to help control and prevent the spread of Mosquitoes.
Top Ways To Prevent Mosquitoes In Your Yard
1. Remove Any Dense Foliage
If your yard is full of dense foliage, it would be wise to remove it. You should also consider removing dense foliage from around pools or any other areas where you tend to gather. Look along all of your exterior walls and remove any foliage that could be attractive to mosquitoes. Did you know mosquitoes are less likely to spend time in your garden if there’s less coverage?
2. Remove Standing Water
Mosquitoes like to lay their eggs in standing water. If you remove standing/stagnant water you will help to prevent their return. Do you have a stack of buckets in your yard? Turn them over. Do the same with anything that collects water and will be attractive to those pesky mosquitoes.
3. Consider Mosquito Traps
Mosquito traps may be helpful when it comes to controlling mosquitoes. If you do decide to use these devices, place them around the perimeter of your yard rather than close to where you tend to gather in your yard. Be advised traps can attract more mosquitoes to your property!
4. Replace Your Outdoor Lighting
One of the most effective mosquito prevention tips focuses on replacing your outdoor lighting. Replace your current bulbs with bug bulbs. These bulbs attract fewer mosquitoes and other pests in general which means you’ll feel much more comfortable about spending time outside.
5. Get Rid of Any Clutter
Mosquitoes are attracted to clutter as it can provide them with a bit of shade from the hot sun. There tends to be stagnant water around or under clutter too, making it the ideal place to lay eggs. Eliminate as much of the clutter as you can so you don’t inadvertently create an ideal mosquito habitat.
6. Ask for Help
There are many pest control service providers out there who are more than willing to help you with your mosquito issue. Try to hire a local company as they’re much more likely to know about mosquitoes in the local area and where they tend to congregate. A local company is also much more likely to give you a few prevention tips and check that you’re doing all you can to keep them away.
7. Drain Away Rainwater
If it has been raining you should drain away any water that might have accumulated. If there are areas in your yard that are prone to accumulating water fill them up with dirt and make sure the surface is level. This will help to prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs there.
8. Use Mosquito Repellent
It’s surprising how many people do not use mosquito repellent when they go outside. That quick trip to the store might seem harmless enough but you could still get bitten.
9. Cut Back Any Large Trees
Large trees can create shade and attract mosquitos. By cutting back trees, particularly those that are over-hanging, you can bring more sunlight into your yard. This will also give those mosquitoes fewer places to live.
10. Stay Inside During Dawn and Dusk
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St. Brigid Catholic Academy in Bushwick provides students with a learning environment that is rigorous and academically challenging.
The academy offers classes from Pre- K 3 through eighth grade, along with a free Pre-K for All program.
Classes and programs offered include ESL, science, technology, engineering and math, STEM, accelerated reader, E- Science, Spanish and Italian. The academy has SMART Boards, a computer lab, library and a full-time nurse on duty.
The academy offers a variety of clubs and intramural sports such as art, basketball, track and field, junior tennis, choir, student government, drama, visual arts and dance.
Teachers are dedicated to their students and their vocation. They receive professional development in teaching and learning from St. John’s University.
For busy families, the academy offers an after-school program from 3 to 6 p.m. for a monthly rate of $100.
Families interested in enrolling a child are welcome to visit the school for a tour. Seats are still available for the 2017-2018 school year.
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Something interesting is happening with Google+. We’re all freaking out because we can’t import our Facebook and Twitter friends (you can export Facebook friends into Gmail now, if you’re patient and have a tiny bit of tech savvy).
Here we’ve spent years (in most cases) building communities on something we don’t own and guess what? Our friends and fans aren’t moving to the newest platform with us. Or they are but we don’t know it because not only do we not have their email addresses, we don’t have their Gmail addresses.
This is why it’s so important to build community on a platform that you own. Sure, you need all the social tools and the content curation and the fun apps that make your stuff look cool, but they all should drive people back to something you own.
In this case: A database.
Following are 10 things to consider as you add the newest social network to your toolbox.
- Who are your customers, prospects, and referral network? You have to know this. And you should be building a database of everyone’s email addresses. You can do this through blog subscriptions, newsletters, and registered content. Yes, you need to have Twitter and Facebook and (now) Google+. But you have to be driving those people back to something you own, where you can collect their data. We don’t know yet what or if Google will be providing businesses, in terms of data on its customers, so best to collect it yourself now
- It’s hard work and you must be willing to do it. And this doesn’t mean just on the social platforms. It means with content and building community and engaging your audiences and stroking their egos by commenting on and sharing their content.
- Your content had better be good. If it’s not all good, publish only that which is. If that means you only publish a blog once a week or a white paper once a quarter, so be it. If you’re charging for content, price it accordingly, but make sure it’s better than anything else in the industry. Find different ways to share your content. Things such as an Instagram feed of photos from work, a Tumblr blog of those photos, a podcast series of two minute segments that help your audiences, or videos that show how your product works in the real world.
- Video. I mention video above, but there had better be tons. And it all needs to be on YouTube and then embedded on your blog and your website. We do this in the sidebar of Spin Sucks and on the home page of Arment Dietrich. It’s easily shared in about, oh, three seconds. Don’t worry about making it professional or snazzy (sorry, Tony Gnau!). Buy yourself an HD camera (I have a Flip, though they’re going to be extinct soon, and it cost me $150) and start shooting stuff. Even your phone will do.
- Access. As a consumer, how exciting is it when the CEO answers your email or allows you to voice your concerns? Steve Jobs (though not very good at it) does this and it blows people away. Granted, we’re not all Steve Jobs, but people want access. Maybe it’s once a week or once a month. Add the element of surprise and do something simple like answer the customer service line or return emails. It will go a lot further than any PR, advertising, or marketing campaign.
- Virality. I’m not saying you can plan to make something viral, but you never know what is going to go so you have to do a lot. What will spread (cough, a blog post about nothing, cough) is what you least expect so don’t be afraid to put something out there that isn’t perfect. People like to know that we’re all human.
- It’s not about the numbers. It’s about making the web work for you 24/7. It’s about monetizing new products and services via the social platforms. It doesn’t matter if you have 100 followers, or 100,000. If only 50 of those 100 or 100,000 buy, those are the 50 you need to engage. And let’s be real. Wouldn’t you rather have 50 percent of your followers to buy than less than one percent?
- The A-list sucks. You’re not a star. None of us are. Read Geoff Livingston’s guest post about this on Danny Brown’s blog. Think about it. Absorb it. And then do business just like you’ve always done…by treating your customers, prospects, and advocates like human beings whose opinions matter to you.
- Add in some personal. No one likes to talk to the person at a cocktail reception that can only talk about work. The same goes online. I built a Tumblr blog of the recipes I create. People love this. It’s automatically shared on Twitter and I get as many, if not more, comments on that stuff as I do all the business content I post. And I tweet maybe once a day; every other day most times.
- Grow from the bottom up. Just like in real life, we all have to start somewhere and that means the bottom, in most cases. You want to look like you’re all about your community; your customers, your prospects, your advocates, your influencers, your stakeholders, and your employees. If you look like you’re in it only for the money or you’re only using the social tools to push your message, no one will care and no one certainly will give you any access to them, including an email address.
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Medical treatment decisions involve complex tradeoffs between the risks and benefits of various treatment options. The diversity of treatment options that patients can choose over time and uncertainties in future health outcomes, result in a difficult sequential decision making problem. Markov decision processes (MDPs) are commonly used to study medical treatment decisions; however, optimal policies obtained by solving MDPs may be affected by the uncertain nature of the model parameter estimates. In this article, we present a robust Markov decision process treatment model (RMDP-TM) with an uncertainty set that incorporates an uncertainty budget into the formulation for the transition probability matrices (TPMs) of the underlying Markov chain. We show that the addition of an uncertainty budget can control the tradeoff between mean performance and worst-case performance of the resulting policies. Further, we present theoretical analysis to establish computationally efficient methods to solve the RMDP-TM and we provide conditions under which the policy of nature is stationary. Finally, we present an application of the models to a medical treatment decision problem of optimizing the sequence and the start time to initiate medications for glycemic control for patients with type 2 diabetes.
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After a one-hour motor boat ride to Mazan and then a two-hour slow canoe boat ride to Llachapa we pulled up at an idyllic green hill on the side of the Napo River. Eager children approached us to help carry all of our supplies up to the school where we were staying. One little boy was only 3 years old and carried 2 large sacks of bread up the hill. As we passed by two rows of little wooden houses on stilts with people peeping out, it hit me just how rural this community was. Our whole team was excited and moved by how welcoming and invested Llachapa was in our visit.
We quickly sprang into action getting everything ready for the arrival of the Community Health Workers (CHWs) and the first day of the training. Our new partner, Teresa Benedez, from the Peruvian Ministry of Health (MINSA) helped us register the CHWs as they trickled in. I was excited to meet all of them and see what they knew and how they practiced in their community. After a year of being on the Education Committee and preparing a curriculum for these trainings, I couldn’t wait to find out what they had retained from past trainings and what new things we would teach them. After seeing that many of them needed help with taking a pulse and a respiratory rate we immediately began reviewing those skills in small groups and facilitating the more advanced ones to teach their colleagues.
Now it was time for dinner. We brought a ton of food, so much that I couldn’t even carry the 300 eggs that we brought. I had eaten in the jungle before. I knew to expect bones in my food and strange Amazonian fish. However, I couldn’t stomach the fact that I had a cabeza (fish head) staring up at me with its pearly eyes while Lida sitting next to me had the other half of this creature including the tail. I looked around me and saw everyone else happily eating so I offered my cabeza, a delicacy, to one of the other CHWs who appreciatively ate it.
The next morning we taught the CHWs about nutrition. Each small group had topics such as malnutrition, diet and growth charts. After each group had learned their topic, they presented it to the entire group of students. My group made a meticulous example of a growth chart and then taught everyone how to read one. Jaime, one of the older promoters in my group, explained that if a child’s growth crosses 2 or more growth lines then that child is in danger. Afterward, he explained to me that he was so thankful to know that someone (CU Peru) trusted him enough to teach him and his colleagues how to read a growth chart since he was never entrusted with that capability before and never had felt empowered to even ask to see a child’s chart in his community.
On our third day of the training we taught about malaria. This topic was well received by the CHWs especially during a time of increasing cases. They were engaged and asked questions about the lifecycle of the mosquito. They even asked if malaria could be transmitted by drinking water that contains mosquito eggs (it can’t, in case you’re wondering). During this lesson was one of the many times when our new partnership with Sociemap, a medical student group in Iquitos, came into play. Guillermo a 3rd year medical student accompanied us and taught the mosquito life cycle and facilitated a discussion among the CHWs on different points at which prevention could be implemented. This new partnership has widened our circle of influence and provided a cultural and regional link between CU Peru and the CHWs.
Things got competitive when we started a game of jeopardy about malaria. The students would run up to us to buzz in on the imaginary “bell,” which was slapping our hand. They were so into the game and almost always knew the right answer, even down to the tiniest details.
At the end of a long day of learning about malaria we started a game of Volleyball with the CHWs and some children from the community. Soon it began to sprinkle, rain, pour and then thunderstorm. We all kept playing despite being drenched, screaming and laughing and jumping in giant puddles. This was when I finally felt a strong connection with everyone involved: the CHWs, the community, the children; everyone was ready and willing to stick things out and work as a team even though it was pouring buckets on all of our heads.
The final day I was filled with excitement to test what we had taught our students. When Rolando, one of my most attentive students, stepped up to take the post test, I felt excited and nervous for his performance. He answered the test questions with such confidence and so quickly that I was taken aback and had to check to make sure that I had heard him correctly. At the end of the test, I looked back and he had gotten nearly every question right! I felt so proud of Rolando when I handed him his certificate and said “Felicitaciones” (congratulations). As I got into our “peke peke” (boat) and waved goodbye to the people of Llachapa, I felt a pang of sadness to leave the community and all of the CHWs. As I waved bye to them, I was fully confident that they were to return to their community with the knowledge and capability to change the lives of their fellow villagers.
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The Importance of Regular STD Testing
As soon as people become sexually active, they all likely hear the same advice, and that is to get tested for STDs. This is not said without reason! Many who get STDs often don’t even know they have them as there can easily be no visible signs or symptoms. This is the main reason why you must get tested regularly when you are sexually active. At Michael Aziz MD, we do confidential STD testing NYC Midtown to make sure that you’re not only clean but that your privacy is protected. Dr. Michael Aziz and the rest of the team would like to share with you some tips on how to reduce your chances of getting an STD, whether you’re at particular risk to get them, and the symptoms that someone with an STD may have.
What Can You Do To Prevent STDs?
The most important thing you can do to prevent STDs is to ensure that you are taking all of the proper precautions. Most STDs can be easily spread, especially if you do not do the following:
- Wear Condoms: While condoms don’t completely mitigate the risk of STDs, they most definitely reduce the risk of getting them. Use them for the entire time you have sex, and perhaps even more importantly, learn how to use them correctly. Latex condoms are ideal, and if you’re using a lubricant, make sure that it’s water-based.
- Talk to Your Partner: It’s important to know if your partner(s) is sexually active with multiple people and that they’re getting tested regularly. It also stands that the fewer partners you have at once, the less likely you are to contract an STD.
- Maintain Good Hygiene: make sure to wash your hands before there’s any sexual contact, rinse your hands after any sexual contact, and urinate after sex.
While following these safety measures is essential, STDs can still occur if you do. That is why it is of utmost importance that you visit Dr. Michael Aziz regularly for STD testing NYC Midtown when you are sexually active.
How Do You Know If You’re At Risk?
While anyone sexually active is at risk of getting an STD, some groups are more likely to get them than others due to biological, behavioral, or cultural reasons. Among the groups who most commonly are exposed to STDs are:
- Adolescents 15-19 years of age.
- Young adults 20-24 years of age.
- Gay and bisexual men.
- Women as a whole (often suffer more seriously from STD complications than men).
What Are The Symptoms?
Depending on the STD, symptoms may vary. That is why it is important that you visit Dr. Michael Aziz for STD testing NYC Midtown if you begin to notice anything out of the ordinary. Some of the most common STD symptoms include:
- Painful or burning urination.
- Unusual vaginal bleeding.
- Swollen lymph nodes.
- Sores or bumps on the genitals.
- Uncommon discharge from the genitals.
Schedule An Appointment For STD Testing NYC Midtown
Even if you follow all the tips we’ve given above, there’s a chance that you still may get an STD. By requesting an appointment with us for STD testing NYC midtown, we can give you confidential STD testing that ensures that your privacy is protected and that your sexual health is prioritized. To learn more or to schedule an appointment, be sure to contact Dr. Michael Aziz today! | <urn:uuid:8d166fd0-a40d-4a7e-8f73-aafd8f1811e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mazizmd.com/the-importance-of-regular-std-testing-nyc-midtown/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948054 | 744 | 2.25 | 2 |
Studying during corona: HU starts campaign 'Study safely together'
How do you create a safe study and work environment in the densely populated Utrecht Science Park for 38,000 students and 3,600 teachers and employees during corona? And how do you organize physical education and online education in such a way that as many students as possible can meet each other on campus? How do you use public transport, the available space in the buildings and how do you ensure that everyone keeps 1.5 meter distance from each other? With the 'study safely together’ campaign, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences starts an integrated plan in which these questions are answered.
The campaign starts on Monday, October 5. From Monday 5 October, the urgent advice to wear a mouth mask in the public indoor areas of the HU will also apply.
The 'study safely together' campaign consists of several components: behavioural communication, cooperation with student organizations, measures and facilities aimed at health and safety and the optimal use of space in public transport and the buildings for educational activities. “The aim of this campaign is to provide physical education to as many students as possible in a safe way,” says Jan Bogerd, president of the Executive Board. "Seeing each other, studying together, attending practical training together - of course according to the guidelines - is important for the bonding of students with each other and with the study program, and thus for student welfare."
Behavioural communication as a basis
The measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus are primarily aimed at behaviour. Keeping a distance of 1.5 meters, washing hands, staying at home in case of complaints, getting tested and cooperating in contact research; these are effective measures if everyone observes them.
In the campaign, the HU uses not only visual behaviour-influencing communication such as information screens, (floor) stickers, lines and posters. The HU will also deploy a number of coaches who approach students and employees in a friendly and clear manner if they are sitting or standing too close to each other. Including the message to not only to observe the measures at the HU, but also in their own social environment. In support of this appeal, the HU uses social media to draw the members of the HU community to the attention of the guidelines and the importance of adhering to them in a fun but urgent way. With the hashtag #samenveiligstuderen (study safely together) the campaign is supported with videos, polls and quizzes.
Collaboration with student organisations
The Utrecht student organizations have jointly designed the action plan ‘Students together against COVID-19’. The HU supports these organizations in the implementation of the action plan. The HU also supports the national government's campaign 'That's what I do it for', aimed at young people.
Health and safety
Following the cabinet's urgent advice to wear face masks in public indoor areas, students, teachers and service staff are strongly advised to use a face mask in all public indoor areas (such as corridors, restaurants, open spaces and sanitary facilities) and when moving to and from rooms (for example when entering or leaving a room). For all other areas (classrooms, laboratories, library, work areas) everyone is free to wear a mouth mask or not, unless this is required on the basis of specific regulations, such as in the practice rooms for health care training courses, laboratories and the HU Clinics.
In addition, the HU is investigating the possibility of setting up a corona testing facility at the USP for students and employees. For the time being, both a PCR and a rapid test facility are being considered. If there is a rapid test facility, it will be possible to immediately get a corona test result. With a negative result, it would not be necessary to go into home quarantine for ten days.
Optimal use of space
Since the restart of education in September, the numbers on the use of public transport and space at the HU show that the available capacity can be better utilized. In order to make full use of the capacity, the educational activities at the HU will be spread out more throughout the day. This means that more students can come to HU for education, testing and practical lessons.
Intensifying student activities on campus also contributes to improving student well-being, which has declined in recent months. The HU provides support to students through study career counselors, student psychologists and the Student Support Center. There are also 150 study places available on campus, 19 are available at HU Amersfoort. For employees who cannot work from home due to circumstances, workplaces are available in consultation with the manager.
With the ‘Study safely together' campaign, the HU connects various factors that are important to the HU community of students, teachers, researchers and staff of the services. The campaign brings together influencing behaviour, capacity optimization, safety and cooperation with student organizations. With the aim of organizing as much physical education as possible in a safe environment, where students can meet and study together. An environment in which teachers can provide physical (practical) education, in addition to distance learning.
“We will put this campaign into practice together,” says Jan Bogerd. “The well-being of our students and our staff comes first, within the constraints imposed by the cabinet measures and RIVM guidelines. As HU community, we are now even more closely linked; with our behaviour, our professionalism, flexibility and commitment. Together we face the challenge of offering our students the best education in this corona era as well. With ‘study safely together’ we have a good answer to this challenge." | <urn:uuid:ab2e5743-a555-4e05-9979-7b9ccf7fe024> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.internationalhu.com/studying-during-corona-hu-starts-campaign-study-safely-together | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951925 | 1,176 | 2.203125 | 2 |
UACEE stands for Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers. UACEE is registered non-profit society to promote research. UACEE publishes its journals and organizes conferences. It welcomes professors and Industry professional and Researchers who want to join the membership. Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers is an association for Engineers in the field of Computer Science, Electronics Engineering and Technology, Information Processing and Related arts and Science. It provides free online access to all Conference publications and Journal publication by Associated Networks of IRED. It encourages regional and international communication and collaboration. It promotes professional interaction and lifelong learning. Assist the professionals engaged in the above fields to maintain the integrity and competence of the profession and Foster a sense of partnership amongst the professionals, engaged in these fields. Establish, Maintain and Manage centers of excellence for the study of /on related subjects and discipline and also to run self supporting projects for the benefit of needy persons, irrespective of their caste, creed or religion. | <urn:uuid:0af6dd06-50c6-4494-ac8a-dec1a7816459> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mce.ac.in/universal-association-of-computer-and-electronics-engineersuacee/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.900872 | 196 | 1.601563 | 2 |
They just keep getting bigger. The latest dinosaur to be discovered was 26 metres long and seven times as heavy as Tyrannosaurus rex . Named Dreadnoughtus schrani by the team who found it, the bones belonged to the largest known land animal whose size can be reliably calculated. And it wasn’t even fully grown.
Video: Assembling the bones of the largest land dinosaur
The 77-million-year-old Dreadnoughtus skeleton was found in south-west Patagonia, Argentina, in 2005, and has taken several years to analyse. While other giants from Patagonia are known from a handful of bones, almost half of the Dreadnoughtus skeleton has been recovered. What’s more, the fossilised bones are in such good condition – even revealing where muscles attached – that the skeleton could provide unprecedented insights into the biology, movement and evolution of the group of huge plant-eating dinosaurs it belonged to, called the titanosaurian sauropods.
“Knowing what muscles exist and their size and power is fundamental to formulating reliable hypotheses for how these animals moved,” says Kenneth Lacovara of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who led the team that discovered Dreadnoughtus.
So many of the specimen’s bones are known that Lacovara’s team could estimate its weight precisely. Their figure – 59.3 tonnes – means Dreadnoughtus was considerably heavier than Elaltitan lilloi which, at 42.8 tonnes, is the next-largest sauropod with a weight that has been reliably calculated. By comparison, well-known sauropods such as Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus are minnows, at 34 and 15 tonnes respectively.
“The most important thing is that the specimen is relatively complete, especially when compared to other gigantic dinosaur species we know,” says Matthew Carrano at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. “Although sauropods are often thought to have all looked pretty similar, once you see the anatomy it’s clear that there’s an enormous variety of shapes and sizes. And understanding exactly how they are built is one of the key things to understanding how they functioned and evolved.”
“The relative completeness of Dreadnoughtus and the exquisite preservation of its bones will help improve our understanding of many questions,” says Lacovara. These include how quickly and how large sauropods grew, what muscles they had and where they were attached, their bodily proportions, and their body temperatures.
Lacovara has a wealth of other questions, too. “How tightly did they regulate temperature? What were their caloric requirements? Could they kneel down? What kind of genitals did they have and how did they have sex? These are questions to which we have no answer or, at best, a foggy understanding.”
Experiments are already under way in his lab to look for answers. One involves biomechanical analysis of how Dreadnoughtus moved, with the help of three-dimensional virtual models of the animals. “The other involves robotic experiments on 3D-printed Dreadnoughtus bones,” says Lacovara. “Because the bones beautifully preserve muscle scars where muscles were inserted, the musculature of a supermassive dinosaur can now be reconstructed in unprecedented detail.”
“Ultimately, Dreadnoughtus may be able to help us understand the upper size limits to life on land, in terms of the physical constraints imposed by bone and muscle strength, blood pressure and feeding requirements,” says Paul Barrett at the Natural History Museum in London.
The other big surprise was that Dreadnoughtus may actually have grown still larger than the current fossil. “Shockingly, at the time of death, the 59-tonne Dreadnoughtus was still growing fast,” says Lacovara. He could tell it wasn’t fully mature because its shoulder bones had yet to fuse together, as is seen in adult sauropods, and its bones generally lacked the cellular features seen in adults.
Journal reference: Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep06196
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Can you briefly outline your history working with children and teens?
My undergrad was in school psychology; I graduated in 1995 from the Catholic University in Bolivia and there, I worked with children, teens, and families, primarily in school settings. I worked frequently with presenting problems like OCD, neurodiversity, and all forms of anxiety. When I moved to the states in 2001, I continued my work with a wide range of patients dealing with anxiety, OCD, trauma, and emotion regulation, and focused my clinical work with adults. In 2007 when I graduated with my Psy.D. in clinical psychology, I started building a practice working with children, adults, teens, and families. Over the years, I worked significantly with teens with anxiety, whether it was school test anxiety, separation anxiety, and any other forms of anxiety.
What can teachers, school psychologists, and other educators learn from The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD?
The first thing would be that OCD is treatable and we have many research-based interventions that have shown to be effective. Secondly and perhaps most importantly, for any student or teen to make the best of treatment, they need to be involved in treatment from the beginning to the end, and they will respond much better if they make a personal choice to engage with their treatment. Sometimes, adults forget to include teens in their own treatment. Thirdly, they will learn the direct application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD.
I ultimately wrote this book for teens. It is approachable, has teen-friendly illustrations, and provides the teens with multiple exercises to face their fears related to obsessions and related struggles. The most important thing for them to understand is that they have a choice in how they respond, what I call “the choice point.” The choice point invites teens to assess, map, and decide how to approach every single exposure exercise. It’s like teens and all readers use the choice point to decide how to approach a particular exposure exercise.
How can The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD be used in a classroom or other school setting?
I just got an email last week from a psychologist in Texas and she mentioned she is using the workbook in a group setting, which is beautiful.
When I think about how to use the workbook in a group setting, schools, hospitals, or non-profit organizations, I think the earlier sections of it could be taught as one teaching point a week in a class, if we are thinking about curriculum. For sections 6 and 8 (values exploration and skills to handle obsessions), I would spend more time because those teaching points would likely require more time as there is a lot to understand and internalize.
I think this book lends itself well to a sequential curriculum; it can be broken down to one session per week or it can be adjusted to be a ten or twelve week course. I think, in general, there is a lot of flexibility with how teachers and counselors can use it, both with individuals and small groups.
In the past couple years, mental health has become a hot button issue for many who work in the school system. What are steps teachers, school psychologists, administrators, and other educators can take to support the mental health of their students?
It is super key to inform the public and educate them about what OCD is and what it’s not.
In particular with OCD, it is incredibly important to provide education about what OCD is and deconstruct the idea that OCD is not just about organizing or arranging objects. OCD can involve obsessions about making mistakes, metaphysical matter themes, aggressive, sexual, or contamination themes— OCD is beyond “being tidy.” Individuals with OCD can become anxious about anything—religion, the environment, relationships, activities—ranging from the mundane to bizarre topics.
Because of this lack of understanding, OCD often goes undiagnosed. While people with anxiety or panic attacks typically get diagnosed within 1-2 years, people with OCD often go 8-10 years without being diagnosed. It is super key to inform the public and educate them about what OCD is and what it’s not.
Furthermore, there is so much secrecy with mental health problems and so much emphasis on the idea that people should “power through them.” So, talking about mental health problems and normalizing them will facilitate people to get access to effective treatments. While past literature has be focused on a “cure” for anxiety or other mental health issues, conversations and future literature need to emphasize that message that having anxiety is not the problem, anxiety happens, but how we respond to anxiety, that’s the key variable to create a fulfilling, and rich life
What inspired The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD?
Maybe seven years ago, I had a wonderful family with an 11 or 12-year-old teenager. His parents were frustrated because they felt they had tried everything they could to help their kid with OCD. He had gone to multiple therapists, but after a few weeks of sessions, he would stop being invested.
When I talked to this teenager, he said, “They think it’s so easy for me to face my fears. My parents and therapists always just tell me what to do, like it’s so easy, but it’s not.” This conversation proved to be a catalyst for me to start thinking about how to deliver exposure-based treatments in a more approachable and teen-friendly way, so teens can be engaged on treatment, to the best they can.
I wanted to create something that builds on teens’ and kids’ capacity to make choices, a treatment that gives them the power to make choices about how and when to engage with their therapy. If we think about this, adolescence is a time in which teens don’t like to be told what to think, what to do, or how to live their lives; a treatment and workbook that takes in consideration where they are, developmentally speaking, is more conducive for them to stay in treatment in make the best of it.
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Diane set a common New Year’s goal. To lose 10 pounds and get herself in better shape. Two days later, she’s at the food market pushing her cart around the store. Produce came first: a head of lettuce. small bag of broccoli, five bananas, and a ripe tomato. A great start in support of her goal.
Then the moment of trial. Bags of chips, pretzels and cookies lined both sides of the next aisle for the entire length of the store. Then another aisle stocked with nothing but sugary soda and candy – much of it on sale after the long holiday period just finished.
And this is exactly where the Moment of Better! occurs.
If Diane can make it down those aisles without reaching out and placing any of this junk food in her cart, she is setting herself up for Better Results! in the days that follow. Because if this stuff isn’t in her pantry or refrigerator when she hits that inevitable late afternoon moment of hunger for sugar, when she scans her kitchen for something to eat to kill the cravings she simply will not be able to give in to the cravings for junk food.
It’s just not there (but a banana is!).
To review, Diane set herself up for later success – her goal on her terms – when she made Better! Decisions while shopping days earlier.
David has an important meeting with the big boss next week. He’s nervous because his improvement suggestions are based in small part on data and in large part on his years of experience and gut feeling.
Let’s face it. David would be crazy to wait until the morning of the meeting to get ready. Instead he makes the Better! Decision of preparing five days in advance. He writes out a one-page agenda with the purpose of the meeting in bold at the top of the document. He prepares his talking points and a tight example of each. And then he does the two things that most of us forget or ignore.
One, he consciously takes the opposite point of view and prepares to refute his own suggestions. This makes him better prepared to anticipate the soft or weak spots in his recommendations as well as the specific questions he should expect.
Second, he rehearses for the meeting. Not just in his head. Out loud. And he records the dry run rehearsal so that he can both see and listen to himself make the presentation. No fancy studio. He just uses the video and audio recording functions on his mobile phone. Result: outstanding free feedback in a very private setting – allowing David to adjust his delivery and examples for Better! Results with the big boss.
And the goal is always Better! Results.
Terry had a crappy day at work. There’s just no better way to describe it. His boss was all over him. His cubicle mate spent the day on the phone arguing with their partner. He started the day with 20 unanswered emails, and 10 hours later ended the day with 35. Then there was the traffic on the way home. Normally a 35-minute drive, tonight it took over an hour.
So now late for dinner, he sits in his car in the garage about to head into the house where his bride and two children are waiting for dad to make his grand entrance.
How will he choose to feel when he walks through that door? What will he choose to say? Will he take a moment to collect his thoughts, take a breath or two, paste a smile on his face? Or not.
A decision moment for sure.
The Simple Lesson
In our complicated business and personal lives, so much is beyond our immediate control. So when we find that increasingly rare opportunity to control our results on our terms, we should reach out and grab it with passion.
We all have 100% control over our decisions. Every moment of every day in every situation. Whether to get up from our desk or couch and take a five minute walk. Whether to buy the junk food or not. Whether to prepare effectively for meetings and less-formal business conversations or not. Whether to turn off the TV and get to bed a little earlier or not. Whether to be kind to others or not. Whether to volunteer to assist a co-worker or not. Whether to talk on the phone while we drive or not. Whether to smile when we just don’t feel like it, or not.
Better! Results come from Better! Decisions. And opportunities for Better! Decisions are present hundreds of times each day. All we have to do is be present, see them, and Choose Better! in the moment.
Our Challenge Together
Positive change begins with being present and aware. Better! Results come from Better! Decisions at moments of opportunity.
Consciously mark one day on your calendar. On that day, stay present and mindful every time you face even the smallest decision. For one day, pause, give yourself just five seconds to take a deep breath, exhale, and then decide. Consciously. Which option that I have right now will increase the probability of advancing me towards my smallest intentions or larger life goals? | <urn:uuid:4738c196-ed9b-4529-9282-43f03749b214> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://johnhallspeaker.com/decisions-large-especially-small-stop-think-choose-better-better-results-tip-15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958493 | 1,071 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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Teacher Job Satisfaction and Motivation to Leave the Teaching Profession: Relations with School Context, Feeling of Belonging, and Emotional Exhaustion
The current study examines the relations between school context variables and teachers’ feeling of belonging, emotional exhaustion, job satisfaction, and motivation to leave the teaching profession. Six aspects of the school context were measured: value consonance, supervisory support, relations with colleagues, relations with parents, time pressure, and discipline problems.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2012
The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to test the factor structure of a recently developed Norwegian scale for measuring teacher self-efficacy, and (2) to explore relations between teachers' perception of the school context, teacher self-efficacy, collective teacher efficacy, teacher burnout, teacher job satisfaction, and teachers' beliefs that factors external to teaching puts limitations to what they can accomplish. Norwegian teachers in elementary school and middle school participated in this study.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2010
This study examined relations between teachers' perception of the school context, teacher burnout, and teacher job satisfaction. 563 Norwegian teachers in elementary school and middle school participated in the study. Four aspects of teachers' perception of the school context (supervisory support, time pressure, relations to parents, and autonomy) and three dimensions of teacher burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment) were measured.
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You can set up a prebuild configuration for the combination of a specific branch of your repository with a specific dev container configuration file.
Any branches created from a prebuild-enabled parent branch will typically also get prebuilds for the same dev container configuration. This is because the prebuild for child branches that use the same dev container configuration as the parent branch are, for the most part, identical, so developers can benefit from faster codespace creation times on those branches also. For more information, see "Introduction to dev containers."
Typically, when you configure prebuilds for a branch, prebuilds will be available for multiple machine types. However, if your repository is greater than 32 GB, prebuilds won't be available for 2-core and 4-core machine types, since the storage these provide is limited to 32 GB.
Before you can configure prebuilds for your project the following must be true:
- GitHub Codespaces must be enabled for your organization. For more information, see "Enabling GitHub Codespaces for your organization."
- GitHub Actions must be enabled for your repository. Each prebuild configuration needs to be able to trigger an associated Actions workflow. For more information, see "Managing GitHub Actions settings for a repository."
On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository.
Under your repository name, click Settings.
In the "Code & automation" section of the sidebar, click Codespaces.
In the "Prebuild configuration" section of the page, click Set up prebuild.
Choose the branch for which you want to set up a prebuild.
Note: Any branches created from a prebuild-enabled base branch will typically also get prebuilds for the same dev container configuration. For example, if you enable prebuilds for a dev container configuration file on the default branch of the repository, branches based on the default branch will, in most cases, also get prebuilds for the same dev container configuration.
Optionally, in the Configuration file drop-down menu that's displayed, choose the
devcontainer.jsonconfiguration file that you want to use for this prebuild. For more information, see "Introduction to dev containers."
Choose how you want to automatically trigger updates of the prebuild.
- Every push (the default setting) - With this setting, prebuild configurations will be updated on every push made to the given branch. This will ensure that codespaces generated from a prebuild always contain the latest codespace configuration, including any recently added or updated dependencies.
- On configuration change - With this setting, prebuild configurations will be updated every time associated configuration files for a given repo and branch are updated. This ensures that changes to the dev container configuration files for the repository are used when a codespace is generated from a prebuild. The Actions workflow that updates the prebuild will run less often, so this option will use fewer Actions minutes. However, this option will not guarantee that codespaces always include recently added or updated dependencies, so these may have to be added or updated manually after a codespace has been created.
- Scheduled - With this setting, you can have your prebuild configurations update on a custom schedule that's defined by you. This can reduce consumption of Actions minutes, however, with this option, codespaces may be created that do not use the latest dev container configuration changes.
Optionally, select Reduce prebuild available to only specific regions to limit access to your prebuild, then select which regions you want it to be available in. Developers can only create codespaces from a prebuild if they are located in a region you select. By default, your prebuild is available to all regions where codespaces is available and storage costs apply for each region.
- The prebuild for each region will incur individual charges. You should, therefore, only enable prebuilds for regions in which you know they'll be used. For more information, see "About GitHub Codespaces prebuilds."
- Developers can set their default region for Codespaces, which can allow you to enable prebuilds for fewer regions. For more information, see "Setting your default region for GitHub Codespaces."
Optionally, set the number of prebuild versions to be retained. You can input any number between 1 and 5. The default number of saved versions is 2, which means that only the latest template version and the previous version are saved.
Depending on your prebuild trigger settings, your prebuild could change with each push or on each dev container configuration change. Retaining older versions of prebuilds enables you to create a prebuild from an older commit with a different dev container configuration than the current prebuild. Since there is a storage cost associated with retaining prebuild versions, you can choose the number of versions to be retained based on the needs of your team. For more information on billing, see "About billing for GitHub Codespaces."
If you set the number of prebuild versions to save to 1, Codespaces will only save the latest version of the prebuild and will delete the older version each time the template is updated. This means you will not get a prebuilt codespace if you go back to an older dev container configuration.
Optionally, add users or teams to notify when the prebuild workflow run fails for this configuration. You can begin typing a username, team name, or full name, then click the name once it appears to add them to the list. The users or teams you add will receive an email when prebuild failures occur, containing a link to the workflow run logs to help with further investigation.
If the dev container configuration for the repository specifies permissions for accessing other repositories, you will be shown an authorization page. For more information on how this is specified in the
devcontainer.jsonfile, see "Managing access to other repositories within your codespace."
Click to view the details of the requested permissions.
Click Authorize and continue to grant these permissions for creation of the prebuild. Alternatively, you can click Continue without authorizing but, if you do so, codespaces created from the resulting prebuild may not work properly.
Note: Users who create codespaces using this prebuild will also be asked to grant these permisssions.
After you create a prebuild configuration it is listed on the Codespaces page of your repository settings. A GitHub Actions workflow is queued and then run to create prebuilds in the regions you specified, based on the branch and dev container configuration file you selected.
For information about editing and deleting prebuild configurations, see "Managing prebuilds."
To allow the prebuild process to access environment variables required to create your development environment, you can set these either as Codespaces repository secrets or as Codespaces organization secrets. For more information, see "Adding secrets for a repository" and "Adding secrets for an organization."
Secrets that you create in this way will be accessible by anyone who creates a codespace from this repository. If you do not want this, you can alternatively set the
CODESPACES_PREBUILD_TOKEN secret. The
CODESPACES_PREBUILD_TOKEN secret is only used for prebuilding and its value is not accessible in users' codespaces.
Prebuilds cannot use any user-level secrets while building your environment, because these are not available until after the codespace has been created.
You can use the
updateContentCommand commands in your
devcontainer.json to include time-consuming processes as part of the prebuild creation. For more information, see the Visual Studio Code documentation, "devcontainer.json reference."
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Direct is a tool for motion designers to visually provide clear, concise motion direction to engineers. In collaboration with the Material Design team at Google, I created new features, improved the interface, and helped launch the project as open-source to the public.
In the conventional collaboration process between designers and engineers, motion designers will export video from a design tool like After Effects and send it to the engineer. With only the video, the engineer does not know any of the properties or values needed to parameterize the motion in code. With Direct, designers can share videos along with a timeline and numerical specs, which can be viewed side by side. A scrubbable playhead allows engineers to inspect the motion at each frame.
I added the scrubbable playhead and bottom player control interface which binds interaction on the timeline to actions on the video. Previously, the video was hidden in a popup modal and was completely independent of the timeline.
I implemented UX improvements to the editor, including the ability to drag to reorder timeline rows. Previously, users needed to delete rows and re-add them in the correct order.
I also implemented a tab interface to open multiple related specs at the same time, inspired by interactions in existing Material Design tools.
To propose a direction for future work, I made a prototype of Direct integrated with Lottie. Lottie is an existing open-source tool that allows designers to export from After Effects into a json file that can be directly rendered on mobile and web. In Direct, parsing Lottie files would allow automatic import of timeline layers from After Effects, and Lottie-based rendering would allow direct manipulation of individual UI elements to a greater degree than video. Possible interactions include highlighting specific elements when hovering over the timeline row, or live editing and rerendering of properties from the timeline. | <urn:uuid:e75442d9-3483-461c-833e-77a377815709> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jonathanzong.com/projects/direct | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931658 | 370 | 1.59375 | 2 |
17 U.S.C. § 503
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
HOUSE REPORT NO. 94-1476The two subsections of section 503 deal respectively with the courts' power to impound allegedly infringing articles during the time an action is pending, and to order the destruction or other disposition of articles found to be infringing. In both cases the articles affected include "all copies or phonorecords" which are claimed or found "to have been made or used in violation of the copyright owner's exclusive rights," and also "all plates, molds, matrices, masters, tapes, film negatives, or other articles by means of which such copies of phonorecords may be reproduced." The alternative phrase "made or used" in both subsections enables a court to deal as it sees fit with articles which, though reproduced and acquired lawfully, have been used for infringing purposes such as rentals, performances, and displays.Articles may be impounded under subsection (a) "at any time while an action under this title is pending," thus permitting seizures of articles alleged to be infringing as soon as suit has been filed and without waiting for an injunction. The same subsection empowers the court to order impounding "on such terms as it may deem reasonable." The present Supreme Court rules with respect to seizure and impounding were issued even though there is no specific provision authorizing them in the copyright statute, and there appears no need for including a special provision on the point in the bill.Under section 101(d) of the present statute [section 101(d) of former title 17], articles found to be infringing may be ordered to be delivered up for destruction. Section 503(b) of the bill would make this provision more flexible by giving the court discretion to order "destruction or other reasonable disposition" of the articles found to be infringing. Thus, as part of its final judgment or decree, the court could order the infringing articles sold, delivered to the plaintiff, or disposed of in some other way that would avoid needless waste and best serve the ends of justice.
REFERENCES IN TEXTThe Trademark Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), probably means the Trademark Act of 1946, act July 5, 1946, ch. 540, 60 Stat. 427, also popularly known as the Lanham Act, which is classified generally to chapter 22 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. Section 32 of the Act is classified to sectionof Title 15. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section of Title 15 and Tables.The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), are set out in the Appendix to Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
AMENDMENTS2010-Subsec. (a)(1)(B). Pub. L. 111-295 substituted "copies or phonorecords" for "copies of phonorecords".2008-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110-403 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows: "At any time while an action under this title is pending, the court may order the impounding, on such terms as it may deem reasonable, of all copies or phonorecords claimed to have been made or used in violation of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, and of all plates, molds, matrices, masters, tapes, film negatives, or other articles by means of which such copies or phonorecords may be reproduced." | <urn:uuid:61a819e6-eaec-4f9b-bb96-76003fc2fa67> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://casetext.com/statute/united-states-code/title-17-copyrights/chapter-5-copyright-infringement-and-remedies/section-503-remedies-for-infringement-impounding-and-disposition-of-infringing-articles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949388 | 743 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Upstate delivers region's first COVID-19 vaccine
Kenzo B. Mukendi, a member of Upstate University Hospital’s Environmental Services team, become the first person in Central New York to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Mukendi, who cleans patient rooms on Upstate’s COVID units, received the vaccine Dec. 15, hours after it arrived at Upstate.
About 50 employees received the vaccine Tuesday and more than 200 rolled up their sleeves to get their injections Thursday. Upstate is following the vaccination priority plan set out by the state Health Department to determine who will receive the vaccine.
The first vaccination was covered by Syracuse media in the KInney Performance Center of Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. After receiving his vaccination, Mukendi said: It is my duty to do my job,” he said. “I can’t be scared.”
Registered nurse Suzanne Buck, who was also one of the first to get the vaccine, she told the media gathered that she had no concerns about the vaccine. “I’m so happy to be getting it."
The 75-pound box of the vaccine supply arrived after 9 a.m. Tuesday, and in less than three hours, the vaccinations had begun.
The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration Dec. 11. Upstate is a clinical trial site for the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine. More than 300 participants from the local community are participating in the trial.
Upstate’s leaders applauded the arrival of the vaccine.
Upstate Medical University President Mantosh Dewan, MD: “The Pfzier/BioNtech vaccine is full of hope and gives us perhaps our greatest resource in the fight against COVID-19. I applaud researchers around the globe for their unrelenting work at developing this vaccine. I also applaud the more than 300 individuals who enrolled in this vaccine’s clinical trial at Upstate (as well as the literally thousands more who were on a waiting list) and who have helped to bring us to this day. As vaccination delivery plans emerge, we must be mindful that we will still need to wear masks, and be physically distant as immunity to the virus builds throughout our communities. Thank you for doing your part in keeping yourself and others safe.”
Upstate University Hospital CEO Robert Corona, DO, MBA: “As the vaccine gets delivered throughout the nation and as our frontline workers roll up their sleeves, we now have an effective tool to fight this deadly virus. I am proud of our scientists, our healthcare workers and those who participate in clinical trials to save others as we challenge this pandemic. I am especially proud of those fighting at the front line…nurses, environmental services personnel, other health professionals like respiratory therapists and our physicians. There is great hope for us all with the arrival of the vaccine, but I will echo my colleagues that until we gain widespread vaccination, we must continue to take all precautions to keep this virus at bay within our local communities and our families: Mask up, be socially distant and practice proper hand hygiene. Be positive and stay negative as I have heard said by many.”
Chief Medical Officer Amy Tucker, MD: “The announcement of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine’s approval by the FDA and its rollout across the country moves us closer to widespread vaccination that will help us win the fight against COVD-19. I applaud the vaccine researchers, the clinical trial participants who have moved us quickly to this momentous occasion, and our frontline health care workers who will be among the first to receive the vaccine. Despite this milestone, we must continue to be vigilant in our communities and families. Wear a mask, continue to socially distance and practice safe hand-washing.”
Chief Nursing Officer Nancy Page, MS, RN: To have this much needed vaccine will protect all of our communities. This is a critical step in assuring we have the resources needed in nurses, doctors, pharmacists, respiratory therapists and so many others to continue to care for this large region Upstate serves. It is indeed ground breaking and a huge sign of much-needed hope.”
Stephen Thomas, MD, chief of Infectious Disease and coordinating principal investigator for the world-wide Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial: “Widespread vaccination with safe and efficacious vaccines, combined with ramping up masking and avoiding gatherings, could dramatically impact our state’s epidemic curve, save lives, and bring much needed relief to our health care system and health care teams. I eagerly await my turn to be vaccinated.”
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Catherine Harwood builds bridges and relationshipsHarwood explains how engineers can bring value to multi-disciplinary teams
Harwood explains how engineers can bring value to multi-disciplinary teams
By Anne Millar and Mary Wells
April 05, 2018
Catherine Harwood is the director of the procurement support centre of the Department of Highways and Public Works with the Yukon government. Courtesy of Catherine Harwood.
Catherine Harwood is a fellow of Engineers Yukon and Engineers Canada and has more than twenty years of experience working for the Government of Yukon. She is currently the director of the procurement support centre of the Department of Highways and Public Works in Whitehorse, the body through which the Yukon government advertises and distributes all public tenders. She is a recognized expert in procurement and has managed significant financial, human, and asset resources. An active member of Engineers Yukon, Catherine is a dedicated member of the engineering community.
Catherine is committed to promoting her profession and the participation of women in STEM. Since 1996 she has given classroom presentations about engineering and bridge building through the Scientists and Innovators in the Schools program and Yukon College's Science Adventures. Catherine is an inspiring role model for girls and young women, especially those living in small, remote regions.
Were you good at math and science from a young age? I’ve always really enjoyed math and science. With math, I felt satisfaction in getting it right. It was wrong or it was right, which is interesting because I am not a black and white thinker, but it gave me some early confidence. Then with science, it seemed applicable to everything around us. I enjoyed physics and biology. I think I had good science teachers, too.
Why did you decide to study engineering at university? I didn’t want to take pure engineering, but the description of the arts engineering program at Monash University in Australia grabbed my interest because I figured it would give me more variety. When I got to Monash, I found out the percentage of women in that arts engineering program was very high. Within the first few weeks, I knew it was the right decision. The content of the classes interested me, and I could connect with the other people in the program. They seemed like they were interested in the same stuff as me. And it was challenging. I love to be challenged.
What do you love most about engineering? I love that we’re trained to be problem solvers. It sounds simplified, but in my career in the public service quite often people start talking and working, and nobody has organized their thoughts. What’s the problem? How big is it? Has it existed for a long time? We ask all those analytical questions and then figuring out who needs to be there to help design a solution and how to actually roll that out. There are always different options, assessing those options, solving the problems to get everybody moving forward. Whether it’s building a bridge or figuring out how to size a culvert, I love it all.
What were some significant turning points in your career? Getting the permanent position as bridge engineer was a huge one because when you’re permanent in the Yukon government it creates a whole different set of conditions that you work under. You have a lot more security and can start planning your career. That was big. Probably every time I changed jobs, those were turning points. The other big factor was the people that were supervising me and the advice that they gave, especially the engineers that were overseeing me. They acted informally as mentors, offering nuggets of wisdom. I was probably very lucky that the first two supervisors I had were really good. I’ve often thought that if I hadn’t had those two first fantastic supervisors that I don’t know what I would have done. It’s entirely possible that I would have gone into a whole different field.
How important has your professional service been to the development of your career? I think it has been more important to my development as a person and as an engineer. In terms of building networks, buildings relationships with other engineers, which I can then use at work, it has been helpful to my career. There are many reasons why I have volunteered: the feeling of giving back — because I do love my profession so much and I appreciate my peers and my colleagues — and feeling that it is an honour to be part of a self-regulated profession. It has been a joy working with Engineers Yukon. Being on the board of Engineers Canada was fantastic as well. A lot of work, but definitely worth it.
What are you most proud of in your career or where do you feel you have made the biggest impact? It is probably in my working relationships and in building bridges between people. I’m still helping people at the first branch that I worked at, people who are now working in my old position at the second branch that I worked at, people who are working on the Dawson wastewater treatment plant file, and then procurement people all across the Yukon government and in the private sector. It’s a small town and people tend to know each other, but to be able to have people call me up and ask for help, and to know that they are going to get help, I think I’m very proud of being helpful and approachable.
Can you talk about the Dawson wastewater treatment plant project? There was a court order for the city to build wastewater infrastructure, which is very unusual. When the project was floundering, the Premier handed it over to highways and public works. I volunteered to work on the project, partly because I could see there was a need, and also because I thought very highly of the two people in charge of it and wanted to help. By the time I got in there, we were struggling to find a technical solution. We had trips to court every four to eight months. We had to report to the judge and explain what progress we had made and what our backup plans were. We had to work with the City of Dawson, and the citizens were divided as to whether a solution was even needed. They wanted to have control, but they didn’t have any resources. They had to rely on us. I think we focused a lot on communication in the early days, with the elected officials and with the City of Dawson, and with the media. We handled all the procurements and the project management, got the plant built, and it has had continuing controversy, but the court order has been satisfied and Environment Canada is satisfied. Now we’re trying to make sure that the plant is meeting all of its water license requirements, but I think there are some technical solutions that are being put in place.
Can you think of someone who has inspired you or acted as your mentor? There have been people who I’ve always admired. One of them was a project manager. Although she’s not an engineer, she has an MBA and has managed a lot of construction projects. She encouraged me to be brave, to ask tough questions, and to throw new ideas out there for everyone to mull over. The other person was my boss who assigned me the job of setting up the procurement support centre. She was my mentor and my “go-to” idea person. She had a team approach. She’s very calm. She has an LLM in procurement and did post-graduate work studying fish. She is a very intelligent woman. She’s thoughtful and open-minded to the idea that there are multiple ways to move things forward.
What advice would you give to a young person considering a career in engineering? I try to impart what an enjoyable career it is and how we help everyone, how we help the world, how we’re not necessarily visible but we’re everywhere. The thing about a career in engineering, more than the math and science and what we typically think of when we think of engineering — projects and research and applied science — is that hopefully young people are interested in a lot of team work and communication and problem solving. We can have really strong technical engineers but engineers really shine when they can also explain things clearly, be persuasive, help solve problems, and work with a multidisciplinary team, including non-engineers. I think that’s where we can bring a lot of value to every meeting, every project, every bit of work that we do. Focus on those things as well as your technical skills.
How do you define yourself as an innovator? I understand the risk of failure is part of good innovation; you can’t let fear of failure hold you back or nothing will ever change. When I approach innovation, I think of what effect it has on people and whether other people are on board with it, because the older I get, the more I think everything is really grounded in people and their relationships and their personalities. I have a very people-focused approach to innovation. When I think of innovation, I think of the purpose of innovation: to continuously improve things. We don’t want to innovate just for the sake of innovating.
How can we encourage innovation? I think we need a willingness to change from the status quo and to be flexible about pretty much everything that we do and then look to the future to make a comparison, “This is what we are doing and why we are doing it right now. What’s on the horizon? What is the future potentially going to look like? How do we set ourselves up so that we can adjust now or later?” I think about the fact that we shouldn’t shoot ourselves in the feet or bolt ourselves down so that we can’t move later. Keeping options open is also part of how to innovate; open mindedness to doing work better.
How can we encourage young people to be innovative or creative in their careers? The important thing is to allow young people to feel safe to innovate. We need to create safe work places, safe meaning that they can express themselves verbally, that they can bring forward ideas, and be encouraged to try out their ideas, be encouraged to see what went well and what didn’t go well, and then do things differently the next time.
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