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The California Air Resources Board unanimously adopted unenforceable greenhouse gas reduction goals by targeting sprawling developments in regions across the state. \u201cThis is not a mandate and there is no punishment if the target is not met,\u201d Mary Nichols, Air Board chair, said September 23. However, she insisted her agency was \u201con the side of history.\u201d The board vote helps put skin on the bones of SB 375. The legislation by Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) enacted in 2008 attempts to move the state away from sprawling land developments\u2014with their ensuing use of vehicles to span distances. The transportation is sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emission in California, followed by the electricity sector. The resolution aims to support and encourage 18 planning regions in the state to build compact sustainable developments to reduce vehicles miles traveled to cut carbon emissions and other air pollutants by up to 15 percent by 2035. Specific targets for the state\u2019s largest metropolitan regions\u2014Southern California, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, and Sacramento\u2014are between 7-8 percent reductions by 2020 and 13-15 percent by 2035. The San Joaquin Valley goal is set at 5 percent by 2020 and 10 percent emission cuts by 2035. \u201cBy standing up to special interests that benefit from \u2018business as usual\u2019 sprawl, SB 375 is an incredible opportunity to reverse skyrocketing trends in chronic illnesses and obesity, reduce the impacts of climate change and tackle a root cause of California\u2019s worst-in-the-nation air pollution,\u201d stated American Lung Association in California chief executive officer Jane Warner. Opponents claim the resolution would stifle economic growth. The current economic downturn is constricting driving. Vehicle miles traveled per capital is predicted to decrease 2 percent the next decade because of the economic downturn, accord to Air Board staff. \t The board is set to review its targets and how well regions are meeting them every four to five years. | <urn:uuid:06395a25-48ae-47de-a9c8-50640066a382> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cacurrent.com/https-cacurrent-com-air-board-seeks-to-curb-car-carbons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.921347 | 421 | 2.375 | 2 |
When we talk about the American healthcare system, one fact must be addressed— communities of color are at a disadvantage. While there is no one cause, social conditions like poverty, environment, access to healthcare contribute to major health disparities within these communities.
Statistics and reports from the CDC show that in comparison to their white counterparts, people of color are less likely to have access to quality health care. Consequently, they are also more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and other major health issues.
But how would this change if the people affected most by these disparities had easy access to finding quality health care providers who also relate to them? Kimberly Wilson thinks the impact would be phenomenal. After getting diagnosed with fibroids in 2017, Wilson grew frustrated with her NYC search to find a doctor who could help treat her diagnosis — one that is quite common among Black women. Her search ended following the referral of a Black OB/GYN all the way in Baltimore, Maryland. It was this trying experience that led Wilson to founding HUED.
The platform works to connect patients of color with other health professionals of color who have an understanding of their cultural backgrounds in addition to their physical and mental needs. In a conversation with Her Agenda, Wilson talks in detail about how HUED got started, what she hopes her company will accomplish and gives some advice for other Black women looking to start their own platforms.
Her Agenda: What inspired you to start HUED?
Kimberly Wilson: Honestly, my inspiration came from a place of frustration. It wasn’t until I ended up in the emergency room in 2017, after being diagnosed with fibroids (a condition prevalent in Black women: between 80 and 90 percent of African American women will develop fibroids by age 50), when I found myself on the hunt for a doctor that knew how to properly treat me for this condition. During that time I saw a lot of doctors — mostly white men — who either dismissed my pain, or tried to push me down the route of a hysterectomy. A decision that would surely change the course of my life. It wasn’t until a recommendation from a friend that I found a Black woman OB GYN down at John Hopkins in Baltimore (yes, I had to travel all the way down to Baltimore just to find a Black woman doctor) — Dr. Khara Michelle Simpson. Frustrated by my experience, and having to travel so far just to find a culturally competent physician — and the stories I had heard from friends (and friend in my head, Serena Williams), I decided to do something
Her Agenda: How do you think the platform will impact the health industry as it is now?
Kimberly Wilson: The biggest thing for us is decreasing disparities for people of color. African American & Latino’s experience 30-40 percent poorer health conditions than White Americans every year. We’re not just primary care physicians. We also focus on all types of health within our community so being able to seek out therapist or dentist or dermatologists. All of these things when it comes to care, makes a difference in our quality of life. That’s our ultimate goal. But then outside of just being a booking platform or directory that connects people to doctors, what also makes us different is the fact that we focus on education and also programming. We’re working on programming focused on mental health in the African American community and putting a symposium together at the end of the year. We’re just looking to do more.
Her Agenda: How do you see HUED being an asset to the medical professionals that are on the platform?
Kimberly Wilson: The benefit for providers is that 1) they’re able to fill last minute appointments on their calendar 2) the function is also a marketing platform. By being listed and being part of our network, we’re directly referring patients to you which ultimately for them is a money maker. If you are getting customer referrals, essentially you’re getting new business. In addition to that, the benefit of being able to serve. A lot of doctors we have spoken to want more clientele of color. Specifically, one of the doctors at our network at NYU, she doesn’t have a lot of patients of color who come see her. But it’s just through lack of people knowing that she was there. A lot of doctors do want to be involved in their community. And if they’re not in a district that specifically serves communities of color, it’s difficult for them. We’re kind of surfacing on that end as well.
Her Agenda: How do you see HUED expanding further in the future?
Kimberly Wilson: That is a great question. The biggest thing we’re focused on for the future is offering telehealth services. The reason for that is because yes, it’s great to launch a platform or business like this in larger scale markets. So New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit or cities that have large urban populations of patients of color. But they also have a lot of providers of color. I have family in Bismark, North Dakota. They can have a platform like this but they’re still not able to find providers. We want people in all markets, in all segments whether urban or rural to have access to doctors within our network. So we’ve been working to build out telehealth. If I am a 17-year-old Black boy who lives in these rural cities but I want to talk to somebody that looks like me, we want you to still have access to these providers. One of our immediate next steps is being able to reach our span wider and making it more nationwide.
Her Agenda: How did you actually get HUED done? Walk us through the process.
Kimberly Wilson: We’re still making it happen which is hilarious. It took a lot of research. One, I don’t have a health care background and I don’t have a technology background. But I guess I’m one of those millennials who feels like I can solve any problem. You know a lot of that came with doing my research, learning about the healthcare industry, researching my competitors, and researching the technology space. I participated in Founder Gym which is an accelerator for underrepresented founders to help them through the technology process so that was a great training for us in helping to build the company. We did market research, so launching surveys. You can’t launch any product or service without researching your landscape to see if this is necessary. We’re still in the process of doing all of this. Every day is a process and we’re still building.
Her Agenda: What are some of the things you learned about having your own business and startup that you think is key for people to know?
Kimberly Wilson: One—I think we glorify what it is like to be an entrepreneur. But we don’t always glorify all of the work that it takes to start a business. I bootstrapped my company. When you’re building technology or any company that’s technology based, you put a lot of money into it and thousands of thousands of dollars. You have to pay to create technology and I bootstrapped everything. So I think when people think about the technology industry in general, there’s a reason why we’re not represented as much. It’s because it takes a lot of capital to do so. Every day is a challenge. Because I am paying for my company, I still have to work to support a company. You want to work day in and day out for the company that you’re building. But you also have to think smart and strategically to figure out the best way to do it.
Her Agenda: What advice do you have for people who want to build a tech-enabled platform like HUE but feel they have a lack of resources (particularly women)?
Kimberly Wilson: I think there are so many available resources now. It sounds really cliché but you really just gotta go for it. But I think we kind of have to get out of our mindset of thinking from a place of lack to thinking strategically. I don’t come from money. I don’t come from wealth. I had to do a lot of personal development and personal saving in order to do this. Black women are good being able to finagle. However you have to finagle to build your company, you have to do it. Whether that’s hustling to get extra money or to asking people to get money, which we’re conditioned not to do. Sometimes we’re a little bit too proud. The biggest thing that I learned is that you have to ask people for help. That’s always a barrier not just for Black women but for people of color in general. | <urn:uuid:5b437c0a-2cd0-4940-ba11-0768cf39431c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heragenda.com/p/why-this-founder-created-a-health-care-platform-for-people-of-color/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.967524 | 1,862 | 1.820313 | 2 |
A biography is a detailed account of an individual’s life. It includes greater than basic facts, including a person’s point of view on life occasions. It is commonly the basis of a publication or movie. Bios are preferred reviews for trainees as well as grownups. Here are some ideas to aid you create a bio:
Identify the purpose of your biography. Some bios focus on the topic’s life or occupation, while others are a lot more basic. Writers need to choose what elements of the life the subject has actually picked to highlight. An excellent biography needs to not concentrate on the person’s early years, which have little or no influence on the character’s wartime activities. A trainee biography, as an example, should focus on present activities as well as future goals. When composing a trainee bio, make use of the third individual point of view (POV).
Bio ended up being popular between Ages. Early biographies focused on gods, however ended up being prominent in Europe during the Renaissance. Bios of kings, knights, as well as authoritarians were also popular. A biographer called Sir Thomas Malory composed a bio of King Arthur. A brand-new emphasis on humanism motivated writers to write in the vernacular. By the 16th century, there were numerous remarkable biographies of vital figures in European background.
An additional genre of biography is the memoir. Memoirs are composed by the author, as well as typically extend the author’s entire life. Saint Augustine, as an example, wrote his memoir in 400. Memoirs can be interesting reads, as they give readers a look of an individual’s life. Maya Angelou, a civil liberties protestor and champion author, created 6 autobiographies. There are much more.
Historic biographies offer people who were hidden without much acknowledgment their due. Several of these biographies are based upon numerous resources, as well as writers should examine an individual’s viewpoint against various points of view. Some sources will contradict each other. The biographer must determine which information to consist of. The biographer should likewise establish what is necessary. This way, they can be a miner’s canary. Ultimately, a bio writer will give their subject the required limelight.
A bio is a thorough account of a person’s life, created by someone else. Bios give visitors with details that is usually unavailable to the public. A bio’s goal is to enlighten the reader about an individual’s life. Whether the topic is a celebrity or an obscure one, a biography can help people comprehend a person’s journey through his or her individual and professional experiences. If it’s created well, biographies can be helpful tools for advancing education and understanding.
As the title suggests, memoirs give the viewers with a character sketch of the narrator. The narrator’s education, job, and also achievements are likewise offered. The book might consist of information from the storyteller’s youth and their teen years. Memoirs can be created with or without approval from the topic of the tale. They might have blunders actually, yet they are not always undependable.
A good biographer will be able to write a remarkable as well as fascinating fact-based account of their subject. They will show the commonalities and distinctions in between people and also their neighborhoods as well as suggest means to improve the human race. When selecting a bio, however, make sure to take into consideration the kind of tale that you want to review. An imaginary academic bio, a fictional account, or a pythonic biography. As soon as you’ve chosen a category, you’ll be better gotten ready for writing a biography.
A bios began to establish throughout the very early Middle Ages, as the Roman Catholic Church came to be the repository for early history in Europe. Hermits, monks, and also priests wrote biographies of renowned church leaders and also saints. These jobs were intended to inspire conversion. An example of this is the Life of Charlemagne, composed by Albert Einhard. It was additionally a time when the English language created. Nevertheless, the Renaissance was also a time of transformation in bio, and James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson improved the style.
In short, a bio is an account of a person’s life. It consists of information of their life events, including the highlights and lowlights of their life. Bios are typically written in the 3rd person, and also they have great deals of days, images, and also in some cases also biographers’ own experiences. Biographies of famous people are taken into consideration one of the most beneficial kinds of nonfiction books. This is because the viewers can be assured of the authenticity of the details they read.
While biographies are commonly nonfiction, they also make up a substantial portion of yearly magazines. Some are even staged, as when it comes to The Miracle Worker, which informs the tale of Helen Keller. Others have been developed into movies, such as Unbroken (2014 ). Biographies can be adjusted to inform a compelling tale about a life that changed the globe. So, if you are searching for an inspiring publication regarding an individual’s life, you must attempt a bio.
In short, a bio is a tale concerning somebody else’s life. Memoirs, on the other hand, are created by the subject themselves. An autobiography is a memoir of the author’s life, which is typically sequential. It concentrates on vital occasions in the life of the subject, and also is written in the initial individual. Autobiographies are also subjective, so they are generally written in the later stages of a person’s life. Extra resources
Memoirs are another common category. Memoirs often concentrate on a single aspect of a person’s life. As an example, Augusten Burroughs wrote Toil & Difficulty, while Mikel Jollett’s Hollywood Park states his childhood years in a cult, his getaway from the cult, and also his rise to popularity with the band Airborne Toxic Event. Barack Obama’s first narrative takes a comprehensive consider his initial 4 years in workplace. | <urn:uuid:15ea09a6-b74a-4005-9c51-2ac02e88c5b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.carrielovephoto.com/2022/07/13/precious-tips-to-assist-you-get-better-at-bio/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.970983 | 1,298 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Common Car Accident InjuriesPublished: Jan 23, 2019 in Auto Accident, Personal Injury, Serious Injuries
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that more than three million people are injured every year in motor vehicle accidents. While the circumstances and impact of every car accident are unique, some injuries are more common than others.
Car accident injuries are classified into two groups: impact injuries and penetrating injuries. Impact injuries occur when the body hits the inside of the vehicle during a crash. Depending upon the location and force of impact, a person can hit the windshield, dashboard, or side doors. Penetration injuries are the result of loose objects, such as metal and glass striking the body and causing lacerations and puncture wounds.
Common types of impact and penetration car accident injuries include:
- Arm and leg injuries: Especially in side impact crashes, a driver or passenger’s arms and legs can be hurled against the doors resulting in cuts, bruises, and broken bones.
- Back injuries: Back injuries are common in all types of car accidents. Spinal cord damage leads to impaired sensation and control throughout different parts of the body. Muscle pain and weakness caused by herniated disks is also common after a car accident.
- Chest and neck injuries: Whiplash caused by a sudden jerking of the head and neck is one of the most common motor vehicle crash injuries. Whiplash leads to pain and swelling that gradually decreases over time. Blunt force trauma occurs when a person hits the steering wheel or dash resulting in broken ribs, collapsed lungs, and even a heart attack.
- Cuts and scrapes: Shattered glass and twisted metal after a collision leave victims with painful cuts, scrapes, and punctures that are prone to infection and require time to heal.
- Head injuries: Car accident victims who strike their head on the dash, steering wheel, or windows may suffer concussions and traumatic brain injuries. These injuries may leave victims with lasting cognitive problems that may require long-term medical care.
- Soft tissue injuries: Soft tissue injuries involve damage to the ligaments, muscles, and tendons. These types of injuries vary greatly depending upon where they occur in the body. They can also be very painful and impact a victim’s quality of life.
It is important to note that not all car accident injuries are immediately apparent. Internal injuries are not immediately obvious to the victim or witnesses at the scene. Others may take several days, weeks, or even months to develop and cause symptoms. Therefore, it is very important to seek medical attention promptly after a motor vehicle accident, even if you feel okay.
Beyond the physical pain and suffering that comes with a serious car accident, victims often experience emotional trauma as well. Some choose to undergo counseling to recover from the psychological impact of witnessing or being involved in a serious collision.
St. Clair County Car Accident Lawyers at The Cates Law Firm, LLC Help Victims of All Types of Car Accidents
A serious motor vehicle crash can be devastating in so many ways. Not only is there physical pain, but there is also ongoing medical care, expenses, and emotional trauma to deal with. St. Clair County car accident lawyers at The Cates Law Firm, LLC manage every aspect of your claim so you can focus on your recovery. To begin your journey, call 618-277-3644 or contact us online for a free consultation. Located in Swansea, Illinois, we proudly represent clients throughout the state, including the areas of Edwardsville, Belleville, and St. Clair County. | <urn:uuid:98fe7e5f-2eed-4693-a7e5-35084ad8dcc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cateslaw.com/common-car-accident-injuries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.937861 | 725 | 2.625 | 3 |
Under pressure from the public to reform its disciplinary procedures, and still reeling from the backlash of its handling of the Ray Rice domestic abuse case, the National Football League recently announced a new code of conduct policy. Now state Rep. LaShawn Ford (8th) is calling for the Chicago Police Department to do the same.
“In the wake of National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell’s announcement of the NFL’s code of conduct policy, Rep. La Shawn K. Ford, D-Chicago, is calling for City of Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy to follow suit and announce and explain the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) current code of conduct policy to Chicago citizens,” according to a statement released by Ford’s office last month.
Currently, any resident of Chicago with access to a computer and the Internet can go on the City of Chicago’s website, click on a hyperlink and read Article V from the “Rules and Regulations of the Chicago Police Department Adopted and Published by the Police Board.”
Article V of CPD’s Rules and Regulations mentions police brutality as a general matter, stating that it is unlawful for Chicago police to engage “in any unjustified verbal or physical altercation with any person, while on or off duty. Rules 8 and 9 prohibit the use of excessive force by any member. The rules prohibit all brutality, and physical or verbal maltreatment of any citizen while on or off duty, including any unjustified altercation of any kind.”
Ford said the publicly available CPD rules, which date back to April 2010, are inadequate as a tool for preventing some of the more alarming instances of police abuse — from the case of Michael Brown in Ferguson to that of Eric Garner on Staten Island — which have received national attention.
“The current manual doesn’t speak to police misconduct or the police’s duty to the public,” Ford said in a recent interview. “There are no real rules to govern the way CPD should police in our neighborhoods. So it should be changed to be more specific on how police should behave and how they should police neighborhoods and handle situations when they come up.”
“You’d think that … when one cop sees misconduct by another cop, then the observing cop is just as responsible for his colleague’s criminal activity,” Ford said. “This handbook says nothing of that.”
The legislator also noted that, even if the CPD’s policy were adequate, not enough residents know about it or can easily understand and absorb its contents. That’s another area where CPD can take the NFL’s lead, he noted.
In the case of the NFL, the most significant change to its code of conduct is that “disciplinary decisions can no longer solely be made by Goodell, whose initial light punishment of domestic-batterer Ray Rice and seemingly ad-hoc methods of determining punishment have been roundly criticized,” according to Sam Laird, a senior sports reporter at the online news site Mashable. In addition to Goodell’s announcement, the NFL also released a summary of its policy in the form of a flowchart.
“Some citizens in Chicago have lost trust in their local police department’s policies that govern the actions of local police officers,” Ford said in his Dec. 12 statement.
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Developing software can be expensive, so it’s essential to plan and manage your project as efficiently as possible from the outset. This guide will teach you how to plan a software development project on a budget. It includes tips and resources for every stage of the process. So you can be sure to get your money’s worth out of every dollar spent on your custom software application.
How much does custom software development costs? What should you expect to pay when outsourcing your next project? And how can you keep your software development costs as low as possible? Here is the inside scoop on everything from hourly rates to hidden fees and everything in between.
Use Agile Methodology
Agile methodology is a great way to streamline the software development process while still being able to adapt as needed. This approach can help you save money on custom software development costs by allowing you to break the project down into smaller pieces. If necessary, each piece will cost less and be re-worked in an iterative process.
The key to successful custom software development projects with Agile methodology has an initial plan. It includes enough detail for the company and developers to work off of.
The success of this plan hinges on clear communication between all parties involved in the project. However, it also depends heavily on flexibility so that developers can react quickly, particularly if they need to change directions midway through a project.
Break Down Features into Tasks
When planning your software development project, breaking down the features you want into tasks is essential.
It will help you estimate custom software development costs more accurately. When you know what needs to be done and how long each task should take, it becomes easier to plan for timelines and allocate resources.
To ensure everything is going according to plan, create a timeline and track progress against this timeline with sticky notes or an online tool like Trello or Basecamp.
Finally, update your budget as needed by allocating funds for unforeseen expenses. Adjust your timeline if necessary based on any changes in scope or timeline.
You may also need to hire someone who can provide additional input during the process, so include money for that in your budget.
For example, assume you find out halfway through the process that the code requirements are different than anticipated and you need to hire new developers. In that case, add an extra $5-10k onto your initial budget estimates depending on the complexity of work involved and the time required.
If nothing else goes wrong, this might not be necessary, but it’s better to plan!
Sprints are an essential part of planning a software development project. They help you break down the task into manageable pieces, set deadlines, and track progress.
Plus, they can help you stay on budget by forcing you to focus on only the most essential tasks.
Here’s how to create sprints for your next project:
1) Determine what needs to be done. Your sprint should have a clear goal defined in both outcome and deadline (the shorter, the better). For example: Build API Documentation
2) Draw up a timeline. You’ll need to establish when each task needs to be completed, so make sure everything is organized by date or in order of importance. Be realistic about timelines–don’t bite off more than you can chew.
3) Decide who will work on each task. Divide the work equally as possible to avoid overworking any one person. It will increase stress levels and decrease productivity. If a few people are working together, identify who will take responsibility for which tasks
4) Create a plan detailing exactly what needs to happen during each sprint to meet its goals
5) Establish accountability. When someone doesn’t complete their assigned task in time or slacks off while other people do all the work, it puts everyone else behind schedule and causes unnecessary stress
6) Track progress against goals
7) Repeat steps 4-6 until all sprints are complete
Estimate with Story Points, Not Time
Many factors estimate the time it will take to complete a project. But one of the most important is understanding how much work is involved.
It is where story points come in. Story points measure the relative size and complexity of a task.
And they’re beneficial for software development projects. It is because they can help you estimate the time and budget for a project on a more granular level.
First, divide your total number of hours by your hourly rate.
For example, if it takes 100 hours to complete a project, divide that by $60/hour to get $1 per hour or 120 story points per hour (1:120).
That would be the cost if you were working with someone else.
It would be best if you also planned for contingencies like holidays, illnesses, client emergencies, and so forth by adding 20% or 80 story points ($0.80) per hour (1:80).
That brings us to $2 an hour ($2:120) as our total cost.
Now we know that at this rate, it would take 240 hours or 480 story points (480:120) – which translates into six weeks – to finish the project in total.
Get Estimates from Other Projects
When planning your software development project, one of the essential things you need to do is get cost estimates from other projects.
It will help you determine how much your project will cost and how long it will take. You should compare your project to other software projects of similar size and scope to get accurate estimates.
Make sure to include all the necessary features in your estimate, so you don’t end up over budget. For example, if your team needs to produce custom reports, ensure they are included in the estimated hours and costs.
If they aren’t included, they may be omitted during development or delayed until later in the project. But, again, this could cause more money to be spent.
Set a Team Goal
Setting a team goal is critical when working with a large team for software project development. This is what team members use to track progress and plan their work. You can use tools like Scrum boards to follow the various steps to achieve the set goals.
Here’s how to set up a scrum board for your next software development project:
- Decide what tasks need to be completed.
- Assign each task to a team member.
- Track progress with a burndown chart.
- Set up daily stand-up meetings.
- Use a retrospective to reflect on what went well and what could be improved.
- Celebrate milestones and keep everyone motivated. If you have more than one developer working on a project, having them work in pairs may also be helpful.
- Lastly, don’t forget about using time-tracking apps. It will help team members know exactly how much time they spend on different tasks throughout the day.
If you’re planning a software development project on a budget, you should keep a few things in mind.
First, be realistic about what you can accomplish with your resources.
Second, make sure you have a clear understanding of the scope of the project and what features are most important.
Third, create a detailed plan that includes milestones and deadlines.
Fourth, communicate with your team regularly to ensure everyone is on the same page. Fifth, be prepared to adjust your plans as needed.
Sixth, track your progress and celebrate your successes along the way.
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The JDBC service enables processes to interact with databases.
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I feel it was Tolstoy who dreamed of many lives woven into one—farmer within the morning, artist within the afternoon and thinker within the night. In Zen we advocate one other model of this built-in life—to fulfill every part that comes, from soiled dishes to the electrical invoice to the late spring daffodils, with full consideration and appreciation. Yesterday, I had the prospect to observe.
In between being with teaching purchasers and Zen college students, I used to be exterior arranging and planting the ‘foundation plants’ I purchased: a small weeping Japanese maple, a splendidly aromatic Korean spice viburnum, a dark-leafed pink azalea and a strong three-foot tall roseum elegans rhododendron topped with buds the dimensions of pine cones. I purchased them from Hank on the native nursery with one association in thoughts, then allowed the long run composition to shift as I contemplated the house and imagined the full-grown crops.
Planting a backyard is about imagining the long run. How will this small seedling look in mid-summer when it’s blooming? Is it brief or tall? What colours and textures will it deliver to this space of the backyard? What else round will probably be blooming or previous? Some folks do that in an organized manner, with numerous analysis and a fastidiously crafted backyard plans and drawings. I’m extra a seat-of-the-pants form of man and have realized to belief my instinct.
In life-coach coaching I realized that ‘intuition is always right–but sometimes only 5%.’ Just as a result of I’ve a intestine feeling about one thing doesn’t imply that what I think about is definitely happening or going to occur. But when I’ve that intuitive sense, it does imply that one thing is occurring and going to occur. Acting on our intuitions as provisional reality leads us to study extra. Sometimes it’s essential to be 95% unsuitable to get to what’s actually taking place. It could also be awkward and embarrassing, however it may be fairly helpful.
With the backyard (as with life) I typically suppose it’s higher to make a reasonably good resolution than it’s to attempt to make an ideal resolution. Life presents us a number of potentialities at each second and every risk leads us into the fullness of our life. Some potentialities could result in smoother outcomes which might be extra in step with our hopes and desires, however even the choices we make that get us into hassle and trigger battle are additionally true and essential.
In the backyard, generally I place the plant in precisely the suitable place. Other occasions the crops I place need to be moved repeatedly earlier than they discover their finest place. And generally, they don’t even survive my intuitive selections. But every place is precisely the suitable place and results in the backyard of the long run and, hopefully, improves the thoughts and knowledge of the gardener of the current.
Wendell Berry says, in certainly one of his great poems, that the job of the farmer isn’t just rising the crops, but additionally enriching the soil and cultivating the farmer’s thoughts.
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While bankruptcy filing process for corporate entities is well-organised under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), it is not as streamlined for the Individuals as of now. The IBC does contain a chapter relating to insolvency and bankruptcy process for individuals and partnership firms, but the rules for individual bankruptcy are yet to be notified.
So, till the time new rules are notified, we have the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act of 1902 and the Provincial Insolvency Act of 1920 to deal with individual bankruptcy cases.
Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909: Under this Act, the High Courts of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras have been conferred the jurisdiction to try insolvency cases.
Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920: Those living in India other than Mumbai, Kolkata or Chennai are governed by Provincial Insolvency Act.
However, the provisions of both the Acts are similar.
Conditions for filing bankruptcy
Currently, an insolvency petition can be filed for an amount exceeding Rs 500. However, the act of insolvency on which the petition is grounded has to occur within 3 months of filing the petition.
"On analysis of case laws, it has been found that the court shall not entertain a petition for insolvency against an individual filed by a creditor unless he proves certain crucial conditions — that he is a creditor to the debtor, that there exists a legally enforceable ascertained debt between him and the debtor, and that the debtor has committed an act of insolvency as suggested under the Act," Bandyopadhyay explains.
After analysing if the conditions for filing of bankruptcy have been met, the court may accept or reject the petition. Once a petition is accepted, here’s what will follow:
Hearing and interim receiver
After you file the petition, a date of hearing is fixed and the court appoints an interim receiver. "The interim receiver appointed by the court takes immediate possession of the property of the debtor. Such Interim receiver continues to function till a regular receiver is appointed," says Rachit Sharma, Manager, Research & Development at Taxmann Publications.
On the date of hearing, the court — if it is satisfied that the petition is reasonable — shall make an 'order of adjudication'. After the passing of this order, the debtor becomes an 'undischarged insolvent'.
"Following the adjudication, the property of the debtor will be vested with an 'Official Assignee' under the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act and 'Official Receiver' under the Provincial Insolvency Act, appointed by the court to conduct insolvency proceedings," Sharma added.
Distribution of sales proceeds
Hereafter, it is the Official Assignee's duty to sell off the insolvent’s property within a reasonable time. Money recovered in the form of sale proceeds is distributed among the creditors.
Certification of absolute discharge
According to Sharma, "Once the process of distribution is completed, the insolvent is required to collect a certificate of 'absolute discharge' which is granted only when it is proved that the insolvency resulted due to misfortune and not because of any dishonest or unscrupulous behaviour. Besides, the behaviour of the debtor during the insolvency proceedings is also taken into consideration. On the award of 'absolute discharge certificate', the remaining, unpaid debts of the debtor are cancelled and he cannot be forced or threatened by any creditor to repay the debt amount."
Can courts refuse the insolvent a discharge?
Yes, they can. Section 39 of the insolvency act prescribes grounds on which discharge can be refused.
Vineet Naik, Senior Advocate, says, "There are no specified grounds for discharge as it is based on the discretion of the court, which has to arrive at a finding by taking into consideration all relevant factors. Firstly, if the insolvent commits any offence set out under Section 421 to 424 of IPC or any offence under the Insolvency Act, then the discharge can be refused. However, a discharge may be granted if the insolvent consents to decree against him whereby he agrees to pay the balance part of his proven debt from his future earnings or after-acquired property."
Will filing for bankruptcy discharge you from all your debts?
No, filing for bankruptcy won’t discharge an insolvent from all his debts.
"Even after the order of discharge, an individual would be liable for providing maintenance to his wife under the order of maintenance made u/s 488 of CrPc. Further, the order of discharge does not exempt an individual from paying of any debt due to government, any debt or liability incurred by means of any fraud or fraudulent breach of trust and debt or liability in respect of which he has obtained forbearance by any fraud," says Sharma.
"While passing an order for discharge, the court takes into consideration the objections filed, if any, by the creditor or the report of the receiver, where a receiver has been appointed, Additionally, where a debtor is said have committed any offence set out under Section 69 of PIA, he shall be punishable on conviction with imprisonment which may extend to one year," Bandyopadhyay further added.
Is the insolvent entitled to maintenance?
No. As a matter of right, the insolvent is not entitled to maintenance. However, it is a discretionary relief that varies from case to case.
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The Port of Los Angeles, which has experienced record volume amid an online buying surge during the COVID-19 pandemic, became the first port in the Western Hemisphere Thursday to process 10 million container units in a one-year period.
“The port is the beating heart of our economy, the backbone of our region’s prosperity, and the crossroads that makes Los Angeles a true gateway to the rest of the world,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said during a celebration of the milestone. “Reaching this remarkable milestone is a reflection of its role as a critical engine of the global supply chain — and a testament to our unmatched port infrastructure and highly-skilled workforce.”
The 10 millionth container, which contains soy beans from the DeLong Company that will be sent to Asia after originating in Illinois, was processed shortly after 1 p.m. into a CMA CGM container vessel at the port’s Fenix Marine Container Terminal. Garcetti, along with Councilman Joe Buscaino, joined Los Angeles Harbor Commission President Jaime Lee, Port Executive Director Gene Seroka and CMA CGM President El Aldridge to celebrate the milestone.
“What we’ve collectively achieved today is a result of the incredibly hard work and perseverance of many,” said Port Executive Director Gene Seroka. “With our sustained focus on supply chain digitalization, infrastructure investments and strong business relationships, we have the opportunity to build on this historic milestone. Special thanks to our long- time partners, the CMA CGM Group, who share our vision for success both today and in the future.”
The port is the number one North American port by container volume and cargo value, and in 2020 it moved 9.2 million 20-foot equivalent units. In May, Seroka announced that the port set cargo records during six of its last nine months, and the other three months came close to setting new records. Port terminals moved an average of 15 container ships each day, up from an average of 10 per day before the pandemic. By the end of the 2021 fiscal year on June 30, the port will have processed more than 10.8 million TEUs, port officials predict.
“Each one of these 10 million boxes represents jobs and economic prosperity for not only the Harbor Area but the entire Southern California region,” said Buscaino, whose 15th District includes the Port. “I salute all the waterfront workers who work tirelessly to move all this cargo, particularly the men and women of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.”
The port remained open every day during the COVID-19 pandemic, and longshore labor ships increased 20% in 2021 compared to the average weekly shift count over the last four years.
“Stacked end-to-end, 10 million containers would circle the world one and a half times,” said Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners President Jaime Lee. “It’s a lot of cargo to handle by any measure. We are deeply grateful to the longshore workers, truckers, terminal operators, shipping line partners and all of the stakeholders that have made this remarkable achievement possible, particularly in the face of an unprecedented pandemic.”
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|Year : 2021 | Volume
| Issue : 1 | Page : 27-40
COVID-19: A Review of Clinical Trials and Repurposed Drugs
A Ruckmani1, KR Ilamathi1, R Arun Kumar1, PM Umesh Kumar2
1 Department of Pharmacology, Chettinad Hospital & Research Institute, Kelambakkam, Chengalpet Dt., Tamil Nadu, India
2 King Salman Hospital, Riyadh, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
|Date of Submission||12-Sep-2020|
|Date of Decision||30-Sep-2020|
|Date of Acceptance||27-Oct-2020|
|Date of Web Publication||18-Dec-2020|
Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Chettinad Hospital & Research Institute, Kelambakkam, Chengalpet Dt., Tamil Nadu
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
| Abstract|| |
This review was undertaken to synthesize data from various databases on therapeutic clinical trials conducted on COVID- 19 in order to find out the trial details and outcome of the completed trials as well as the rationale for selecting the different trial drugs. The data were obtained from articles published December 2019 to September 4, 2020. The analysis of the data has shown that Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) is the only disease for which more than 2100 clinical trials have been registered. In these trials many existing drugs like Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, Sarilumab, Lopinavir/Ritonavir, Favipiravir, Glucocorticoids, COVID-19 convalescent plasma, Mesenchymal stem cells, Interferons, Azithromycin, Ivermectin, traditional medicines and many others are being tested globally for their efficacy in COVID-19. 225 trials have been completed as of September 4, 2020 and the results are available only for a few trials. Out of these results, two have shown favorable outcome for Favipiravir, one for HCQ alone, and one for HCQ + Azithromycin and one for Meplazumab. Topline data of two trials have resulted in the emergency use authorization (EUA) for Remdesivir on May 1, 2020. The available results of NIAD, WHO’s SOLIDARITY, Gilead and RECOVERY trials have not shown the anticipated outcome. The results of the rest of the completed trials are awaited to draw conclusion regarding the definite therapy of COVID-19. The new drug development for COVID-19 is still in its preliminary stage. Identification of potential drug candidates which could selectively inhibit Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV2) protease (Mpro) and SARS CoV2 S protein is in progress.
Keywords: Clinical trials, COVID-19, repurposed, review, SARS-COV-2
|How to cite this article:|
Ruckmani A, Ilamathi K, Kumar R A, Kumar PU. COVID-19: A Review of Clinical Trials and Repurposed Drugs. Int J Nutr Pharmacol Neurol Dis 2021;11:27-40
|How to cite this URL:|
Ruckmani A, Ilamathi K, Kumar R A, Kumar PU. COVID-19: A Review of Clinical Trials and Repurposed Drugs. Int J Nutr Pharmacol Neurol Dis [serial online] 2021 [cited 2022 Aug 18];11:27-40. Available from: https://www.ijnpnd.com/text.asp?2021/11/1/27/303908
| Introduction|| |
Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) has emerged as a massive pandemic with 44 cases in China in December 2019. It has affected more than 200 countries infecting about 26,601,173 million people in nine months (as of September 4, 2020). The morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 vary from country to country with the highest morbidity of about 6 million in the USA and three cases in Anguilla. The global case fatality rate is 3.3%.
The clinical presentation is expanding from the initial triad of symptoms − fever, cough, and breathlessness − to manifestations involving gastrointestinal, cardiac, neurological, ocular, and dermatological systems. Studies have shown that men are at higher risk to develop severe form of the disease and 65% higher mortality compared to women. Age-dependent difference in morbidity has not been reported so far. Until now different groups of currently available drugs are under testing. To mention a few, antiviral drugs such as lopinavir, ritonavir, oseltamivir, remdesivir, favipiravir, anti-inflammatory agents such as glucocorticoids, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), antimicrobials like azithromycin and antiprotozoals have been used both in clinical trials and outside clinical trials. In spite of taking preventive measures such as physical distancing, frequent hand wash, wearing mask, quarantine, and lockdown, the disease is spreading exponentially.
In this scenario, this study purports to synthesize data from various databases and search engines to review and analyze the available information on COVID-19 clinical trials and the therapeutic status of repurposed drugs.
Literature Search Methodology
A literature search was performed in PubMed, Google Scholar, and WHO databases to identify relevant articles published in English language till September 4, 2020. Search terms included coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, COVID 19, COVID-19 treatment, drugs used in COVID-19, pharmacotherapy of COVID-19, new drugs in COVID, clinical trials, and COVID trials. We included review articles, case reports and case series, and preprint articles. Completed and ongoing clinical trials were included from <COVID-trials.org> (global database) till September 4, 2020. Additional articles were obtained from the citations of the referenced articles.
| Results|| |
As of September 4, 2020, total 2191 clinical trials have been registered from 100 countries in <covid-trials.org>. The multicentric trials have been counted as single trial. The registered trials are in various stages such as those completed (225), completed with results (12), recruiting (1156), and active not recruiting (802).
Most of the trials (1740) are randomized control trials, nonrandomized 150, single-arm 266, and the rest unspecified trials 35. Two trials have been registered for evaluation of COVID-19 in pregnancy and nine trials for children with COVID-19. Total 225 trials have been completed and results are available for a few trials. The number of clinical trials country-wise registered for treatment of COVID-19 (only countries with more than 30 registered trials are included) is shown in [Figure 1] and the details of therapeutic interventions are shown in [Figure 2].
|Figure 1 Number of COVID trials country wise. Source: <COVID-trials.org>|
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Among the drugs taken up for trials, HCQ (alone and in combination) tops with 321 trials and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) the lowest [Figure 2]. The outcome assessments include mortality (927 trials), invasive ventilation need (324), adverse events (622), clinical improvement (448), and viral clearance (543). Most trials proposed multiple outcomes. Twenty-six trials involve more than 10,000 patients while 552 less than 50 patients. Among the 26 trials, four on HCQ with standard of care (SOC), one on HCQ + azithromycin, one five-arm trial with HCQ, interferon, lopinavir/ritonavir, remdesivir, SOC in each arm in Argentina and another seven-arm trial in Nigeria with ARB, ARB + statin, non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAID), NSAID + ARB, NSAID + ARB + statin, statins, and NSAID + statins are ongoing. Another trial involving one lakh patients with five arms, HCQ, interferon, lopinavir/ritonavir, remdesivir, and SOC is in progress in Czechoslovakia. One lakh participants will be involved in meningococcal vaccine trial in Cuba and another 130,000 participants for OPV in Iran. Many nondrug trials have also been registered in <COVID-trials.org>.
The drugs registered for COVID-19 clinical trials are listed in [Table 1],[Table 2],[Table 3]. Among all these trials, 225 trials have been completed and the results are available only for 12 trials. The findings from completed trials are as follows:
1. Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial (EUCTR2020-000890-25)
The Méditerranée Infection University Hospital Institute, Marseille in France coordinated the above trial. Patients assigned to HCQ were recruited and treated in the Marseille Centre. Controls were recruited in centers located in southern France. The trial involved 36 COVID-19 confirmed patients based on two criteria: (i) age above 12 years and (ii) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal sample, irrespective of their clinical status.
Twenty patients were treated with HCQ 200 mg thrice daily for 10 days. Sixteen received standard care. Six of the 20 in HCQ group were given azithromycin 500 mg on day 1 and 250 mg per day for the next 4 days.
Virological cure was observed in 100% of patients treated with HCQ + azithromycin (six patients) compared to 57% with HCQ and 12.5% in the control group (P < 0.001) on day 6 after inclusion in study.
2. A pilot study of hydroxychloroquine in treatment of patients with moderate COVID-19 (NCT04261517)
This trial was conducted in Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. Thirty COVID-19 confirmed patients were randomized to either HCQ group or the control. Fifteen received HCQ 400 mg/daily and 15 received SOC. There was no significant difference between the two groups on day 7 in viral negativity and clinical features.
3. Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a randomized clinical trial (chiCTR2000029559)
Sixty-two mild to moderate COVID-19 patients at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University were equally randomized either to standard or standard care + HCQ (200 mg bd × 5 days). Time to clinical recovery (TTCR) was significantly reduced with HCQ. Pneumonia improved in 80.6% of patients in HCQ group compared to 54.8% in control group. It was concluded that HCQ could significantly shorten TTCR and promote recovery from pneumonia.
4. A trial of lopinavir-ritonavir in adults hospitalized with severe COVID-19 (chiCTR2000029308)
The above study was conducted at Jin Yin-Tan Hospital, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China with 199 COVID-19 confirmed severely ill patients. Ninety-nine received lopinavir/ritonavir (lpv/r) 400 mg and 100 mg, respectively, twice a day for 14 days and 100 received standard care. Clinical improvement and mortality on day 28 including viral clearance were monitored. Lpv/r was not found to hasten clinical improvement, reduce mortality, or improve viral clearance.
5. Experimental treatment with favipiravir for COVID-19: an open-label control study (chiCTR2000029600)
The national clinical research center for infectious diseases conducted this study (The Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, China) from January 30 to February 14, 2020. Eighty patients were allocated to two groups; 35 received favipiravir (fpv) (day 1: 1600 mg twice daily; day 2–14: 600 mg twice daily) plus interferon (IFN)-α aerosol inhalation (5 million U twice daily); and 45 on lpv/r (day 1–14: 400 mg/100 mg twice daily) plus IFN-α aerosol inhalation. Disease progression and viral clearance were better with fewer side effects in fpv group than lpv/r. Time to viral clearance was 4 days in fpv versus 11 days in lpv/r group, (P < 0.001) and improvement in chest imaging was 91.4% versus 62.2%, (P = 0.0045).
6. Favipiravir versus arbidol for COVID-19: a randomized clinical trial (chiCTR2000030254)
Three hospitals, namely, Zhonghan Hospital of Wuhan University, Leishenshan Hospital, and the Third Hospital of Hubei Province of Wuhan, China, conducted this study from February 20 to March 1, 2020. Among 236 patients recruited, 116 were assigned to favipiravir (1600 mg * 2/first day, 600 mg *2/day) and 120 to arbidol (200 mg*3/day) for 10 days. Efficacy and safety of favipiravir and arbidol (umifenovir) were assessed on day 7. The clinical recovery rate was better with favipiravir than arbidol (P = 0.0199). Favipiravir improved the latency to pyrexia and cough relief with mild adverse effects.
7. An exploratory randomized, controlled study on the efficacy and safety of lopinavir/ritonavir or arbidol in adult patients hospitalized with mild/moderate COVID-19 (chiCTR2000030254)
This study was conducted at Guangzhou Eighth People’s Hospital, China. Out of 86 patients recruited for the study, 34 received LPV/r (200 mg LPV boosted by r 50 mg orally twice a day, 500 mg each time) and 35 arbidol (200 mg three times daily) for 7 to 14 days and 17 received control treatment without antiviral therapy.
The results indicated that LPV/r and arbidol did not reduce either the time to negative conversion of viral nucleic acid in respiratory specimens (9.0 vs. 9.1 vs. 9.3 days) or improve the symptoms of COVID-19 and pneumonia in CT lung on day 7 and 14. In addition, more patients in LPV/r group progressed to severe status than patients in arbidol and control groups.
8. Meplazumab treats COVID-19 pneumonia: an open-label, concurrent controlled add-on clinical trial (NCT04275245)
Twenty-eight patients were included for this study at Tangdu Hospital of Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an, China. Seventeen were on meplazumab and 11 on standard treatment. 10 mg meplazumab was given on day 1, 2, and 5 by IV infusion. Efficacy and safety assessment were done at baseline and daily for 14 days and then weekly till day 28 or discharge.
Meplazumab significantly improved the recovery from pneumonia and reduced the time to viral negativity with better safety profile than the control group.
9. NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) clinical trial on remdesivir (adaptive COID-19 treatment trial, ACTT)
This is the first trial initiated in the USA for COVID-19 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha. The trial sponsored by NIAID began on February 21, 2020. Totally 1063 participants were enrolled in 10 countries; 538 patients were randomly allocated to local standard care with a 10-day course of remdesivir and 521 patients to local standard care with a placebo.
The findings of 1059 participants were statistically significant.
- Patients who received remdesivir recovered faster by 31% than patients who received placebo (P < 0.001).
- Median recovery time was 11 days with remdesivir compared to 15 days with placebo.
- Results suggested a survival benefit with a mortality rate of 8.0% for remdesivir versus 11.9% for placebo (P = 0.059).
NIAID has begun a clinical trial (ACTT 2) for evaluating remdesivir in combination with baricitinib in comparison with remdesivir alone to improve the clinical outcome on May 8, 2020 (NCT04401579).
10. Gilead trials
Gilead Sciences, Inc., an American Biopharmaceutical Company in Foster City, California, is primarily involved in antiviral drug research for the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza. Gilead has currently focused on evaluation of remdesivir to treat patients with COVID-19. The results of the trials conducted by Gilead are detailed below:
Two randomized, open-label, multicenter Phase 3 clinical trials were started by Gilead to study remdesivir (the SIMPLE studies) in countries with high prevalence of COVID-19. In the first SIMPLE trial, the safety and efficacy of 5-day and 10-day dose regimens of remdesivir were evaluated in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19. The patients were recruited at 55 hospitals in the United States, Spain, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan between March 6 and March 26, 2020. Initially, 397 patients were randomized (1:1 ratio) to receive remdesivir in addition to standard care as per the following protocol.
- Group 1–day 1–Remdesivir 200 mg IV, 100 mg daily next 5 days.
- Group 2–day 1–Remdesivir 200 mg IV, 100 mg daily next 10 days.
The findings did not show a significant difference in both the treatment groups in the safety of remdesivir, time to clinical improvement, clinical recovery, and mortality rate.
This trial on adult patients with severe COVID-19 was conducted in 10 hospitals in Hubei, China. A total of 158 patients were randomly assigned to treatment with remdesivir and 79 to placebo; patients who received remdesivir had a faster time to clinical improvement than the placebo group among patients with symptom duration of 10 days or less (hazard ratio 1.52). Adverse events were reported in 102 (66%) of 155 remdesivir recipients versus 50 (64%) of 78 placebo recipients. “Remdesivir was stopped early because of adverse events in 18 (12%) patients versus four (5%) patients who stopped placebo early”.
The emergency use authorization issued for remdesivir by the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) is based on the review of the topline data of the trial by NIAID (NCT04280705) and from the Gilead-sponsored trial (NCT04292899) detailed above.
11. Solidarity trial
WHO’s global multinational trials in COVID-19 confirmed patients have been conducted in more than 100 countries. The patients got randomized to one of the four treatment arms: chloroquine or HCQ, remdesivir, lopinavir/ritonavir, and lopinavir/ritonavir plus IFN beta-1a. However, WHO temporarily suspended the HCQ trials on May 25, 2020 due to the reports of cardiac complications and death. Later trial was resumed on June 3, 2020 based on the report of the trials data safety monitoring board.
Results of solidarity trial
On July 4, 2020, the Solidarity Trial’s International Steering Committee recommended to WHO to discontinue the trial’s HCQ and lopinavir/ritonavir arms. The interim results showed that HCQ and lopinavir/ritonavir combination did not reduce the mortality of hospitalized COVID-19 patients compared to standard treatment. Hence, the trial has been interrupted immediately. However, this decision applies to the Solidarity trial conducted in hospitalized patients and not to those in nonhospitalized patients or as pre- or postexposure prophylaxis for COVID-19.
12. RECOVERY trial (NCT04381936).
It is another mega national trial carried out in UK in more than 170 sites. The trial design is a dynamic one with four treatments: lopinavir-ritonavir, low-dose dexamethasone, HCQ, and azithromycin. Subsequently, patients will be randomly allocated to tocilizumab based on specific criteria. The results of the recovery trial are as follows:
12.1 Results of dexamethasone study
A total of 2104 patients received dexamethasone 6 mg once a day (oral or IV injection) for 10 days and compared with 4321 patients who received only the usual care. Dexamethasone was found to reduce 28-day mortality among patients on invasive mechanical ventilation or oxygen, but not among those who did not receive respiratory support. Hence, recruitment to the dexamethasone arm was halted on June 8, 2020, as the trial Steering Committee concluded that sufficient patients had been enrolled to establish a meaningful benefit.
12.2 Results of hydroxychloroquine study
Total 1542 patients were allocated to HCQ and compared with 3132 patients who received usual care alone. No significant difference was observed at 28-day mortality and in the duration of hospital stay or other outcomes. It was concluded that there is no beneficial effect of HCQ in COVID-19 hospitalized patients. Hence, it has been decided to stop enrollment of patients to the HCQ arm of the RECOVERY trial.
12.3 Results of lopinavir-ritonavir study
A total of 1596 patients were assigned to lopinavir/ritonavir and compared with 3376 patients who were on usual care. There was no significant difference in 28-day mortality (22.1% lopinavir/ritonavir vs. 21.3% usual care; relative risk 1.04 [95% confidence interval 0.91–1.18]; P = 0.58) and the risk of progression to mechanical ventilation or duration of hospital stay in both arms. On June 29, the trial Steering Committee concluded that there is no beneficial effect of lopinavir/ritonavir in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and closed randomization to that treatment arm.
13. COVID-19 in pregnancy
Though 14 million cases of COVID-19 in pregnant women have been reported worldwide, pregnant women have been excluded in most of the clinical trials. Hence, limited reports are available. The data of a systematic review reveal that the morbidity and mortality in pregnancy do not significantly differ from the general population. The maternal and neonatal survival rate observed is 98% and 99%, respectively. The various drugs used in pregnancy are HCQ or chloroquine, azithromycin, steroids, oseltamivir, interferon, monoclonal antibodies, and lopinavir/ritonavir. However, some of the drugs such as renin-angiotensin blockers and favipiravir are not recommended because of fetal toxicity.
At present, only two clinical trials have been registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, one in France ongoing with 714 COVID-19 positive pregnant patients and they are tested with HCQ and azithromycin, the other in Spain with HCQ alone. The results are awaited for both the studies.
14. COVID-19 in children
The prevalence of COVID-19 in children is found to be low. Children including neonates and infants present with fever, cough, gastrointestinal symptoms, and other manifestations similar to adults. In a study conducted with 707 neonates born to COVID-19 mothers, 11 were positive for COVID-19 and among them nine had pneumonia and all of them have recovered. Thus, the chance for the vertical transmission appears to be too low.
According to CDC report dated August 14, 2020, the prevalence of COVID-19 in older children is 7.3% and 45% of them are found to be asymptomatic. The transmissibility of the infection through children is not well studied. CDC suggests the possibility of using remdesivir and dexamethasone in COVID-positive children.
Though currently no drug has been approved for treatment of COVID‐19 in adults as well as children, a few drugs are being investigated as potential therapies in children. These include antivirals such as ribavirin, oseltamivir, lopinavir/ritonavir, peramivir, interferon α‐2b, arbidol hydrochloride and antibiotics such as azithromycin + ceftazidime, glucocorticoids, immunoglobulin along with other supportive therapies including oxygen therapy.
There are now nine ongoing clinical trials involving children from birth to <17 years who are positive for COVID-19 and these trials are registered in ClinicalTrials .gov for various treatments, such as Chinese medicine (two trials), convalescent plasma (four trials), bromhexine HCL, Vitamin D, and remdesivir (one trial each).
15. Vaccine trials
Forty-two candidate vaccines are under clinical trials. These vaccines’ platform include inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus, viral vector based vaccines (adenovirus), lipid nanoparticle (LNP) encapsulated mRNA, adjuvanted recombinant protein (RBD-dimer), RNA, DNA and recombinant spike proteins. Among the 42 vaccines, there is only one oral vaccine, vaxart, (Ad5 adjuvanted Oral vaccine platform) and all others are administered intramuscularly except two of the DNA-based vaccines which are given intradermally. In addition to these clinical vaccine trials, 151 candidate vaccines are under preclinical trials (WHO DRAFT landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines −October 2, 2020).
The final report of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA − 1273 clinical vaccine trial is available and the report concluded that 100 µg dose resulted in higher binding and neutralizing-antibody titers than 25 µg, recommending the use of 100 µg dose for phase 3 vaccine trials [NCT04283461]. As there are no approved drugs for treatment of COVID-19, the prevention of the disease is the best option, and hence the reports of all these vaccine trials are anxiously awaited.
| Discussion|| |
The 1918 Spanish flu is considered the most severe pandemic of the twentieth century. COVID-19 has emerged with a similar severity in the 21st century in December 2019, from China, and it is still spreading. It has affected more than 30 million people within 9 months. When Spanish flu broke out, patients were treated with the antimalarial drug quinine.
Similarly yet another antimalarial drug HCQ has been recommended for the current COVID-19 pandemic and it is under evaluation in more than 300 clinical trials. In any pandemic, due to a new organism, specific therapy is not feasible and the therapeutic option is repurposing of the existing drugs based on the available evidence for their effectiveness in diseases caused by similar pathogens. In this regard, currently more than 2100 clinical trials have been registered globally, for testing the various treatment options, which might offer benefit in COVID-19.
In this background, this review was undertaken to find out the details of registered clinical trials, explore the basis for using the various therapeutic agents in COVID-19 clinical trials, and the outcome of the trials for which the results are available. More than 100 countries have initiated the trial process and the USA tops the list with more than 427 trials, followed by China with nearly 376 trials.
Nearly 100 drugs under different groups have been chosen for trials, which comprise antivirals, antimalarials, anti-inflammatory agents, antibacterials, antifungals, antiparasitic drugs, anticoagulants, immunomodulators, convalescent plasma, monoclonal antibodies, cytokine inhibitors, mesenchymal stem cells, nutraceuticals, native medicines, and many others ([Table 1],[Table 2],[Table 3]). The mechanisms of actions, rationale, and the supporting evidence for choosing the trial drugs are detailed in [Table 4].
From [Table 4], it can be inferred that most of the drugs act by multiple mechanisms, such as inhibiting, in general, viral entry, multiplication, and release of viral particles. The other major actions include immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and anticoagulant activities. HCQ and chloroquine, umifenovir, Janus kinases (JAKs) inhibitors like tofacitinib, barcitinib and TMPRSS2 inhibitors, ambroxol, and aprotinin inhibit viral entry. Meplazumab also inhibits viral entry by inhibiting CD147 receptor recently identified in host cells. By preventing viral protease activity, drugs like lopinavir inhibit the proteolysis of the Gag polyprotein, resulting in the production of immature viral particles, which become noninfectious. Remdesivir and favipiravir are RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitors preventing viral RNA synthesis.
The reasons for selecting most of the antiviral drugs include their therapeutic efficacy experienced in previous viral infections caused by SARS-CoV, influenza, and ebola. Favipiravir was the first drug approved in Japan for the treatment of resistant influenza infection. Later it was used in ebola infection Based on this antiviral activity, it has been now evaluated in COVID-19. Glucocorticoids and interleukin-6 (IL-6) inhibitors inhibit the inflammatory cascade as well as suppress the immune response. Convalescent plasma offers passive immunity. The mechanisms of action of other drugs are given in [Table 4].
Though 225 trials have been completed, the results are available for 12 trials only. The limitation of the first eight trials is the smaller sample size and only one trial had more than 200 patients (236). Out of these eight, two have shown favorable outcome for favipiravir, one for HCQ alone, and one for HCQ + azithromycin, and one for meplazumab.
The results of all other trials (more than 2000) are awaited. Lopinavir/ritonavir has not shown any beneficial effect in all the trials. The combination of lopinavir/ritonavir and HCQ tested in WHO SOLIDARITY trial has not shown clinical benefit in hospitalized COVID-19 patients when compared to standard treatment. Similarly, in the RECOVERY trial conducted in UK, the steering committee concluded that there is no beneficial effect of lopinavir/ritonavir as well as HCQ in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Dexamethasone was found to reduce 28-day mortality among patients on invasive mechanical ventilation or oxygen, but not among those who did not receive respiratory support.
Remdesivir is found to be better than placebo in the trial conducted by NIAID. The GILEAD conducted trials on remdesivir, one comparing 5-day and 10-day course along with standard care and another comparing remdesivir with placebo, reported that there is no significant difference between 5- and 10-day course and the effect of remdesivir is better than placebo in clinical outcome and the adverse effects of remdesivir are not significantly different from placebo.
Favipiravir has shown favorable outcome in the two trials conducted in comparison with lopinavir/ritonavir and arbidol, but with the limitation of smaller sample size. Another potential supplementary therapy is inhaled nitric oxide (INO). Clinical trial of inhaled NO is conducted at the Massachusetts General Hospital in moderate to severe COVID-19 patients who need ventilatory support. The dose of NO is about 100 ppm, which is found to be safe. If INO use is established, it would reduce the need for oxygen therapy, ventilators, and ICU beds [Table 4].
The available reports indicate that the results are to some extent favorable for remdesivir and favipiravir. However, the results cannot be considered conclusive. Reports of trials on larger populations with varying severity of COVID-19 as well as with other comorbidities are needed to establish the efficacy and safety of the repurposed drugs tested and recommend a definite therapy for COVID-19.
The drugs so far repurposed can be of two groups. One group that inhibits the various stages in viral life cycle and the other which can handle the consequence of viral infection, such as cytokine storm, coagulopathy, secondary infections, and organ failure. As these drugs are not specific for SARS-CoV-2, their efficacy is not certain and unpredictable. This could be a reason for the failure of positive outcome with drugs like lopinavir/ritonavir and HCQ in clinical trials. Hence, it is essential to discover drugs that can act specifically on SARS-CoV-2. The spike protein (S protein) in SARS-CoV-2 has been identified as the potential target for drug discovery. The fusion inhibitor EK1C4 is found to have higher affinity for S protein in SARS-CoV-2 than SARS-CoV. EK1C4 when administered intranasally in mice challenged with HCoV-OC43, it protected the mice from infection. However further research is needed to establish its use in SARS-CoV-2 infection. Meplazumab, an anti-CD147, is also found to be useful in clinical trials.
The viral protease Mpro, otherwise known as 3-chymotrypsin-like pro cysteine protease, is another target to arrest viral replication. The two lead compounds 11a and 11b that target Mpro are found to have inhibitory activity against SARS-CoV-2. Further research with such lead compounds targeting SARS-CoV-2 proteins is needed to find out specific drugs for COVID-19.
| Conclusion|| |
COVID-19 is the only disease for which the maximum number of therapeutic trials have been registered in a short span of 9 months. The results available till date have shown favorable outcome to a limited extent for remdesivir and favipiravir but with the limitation of small study population. Dexamethasone is found to be useful in severe COVID patients in reducing mortality. Viral protease inhibitors, which are under development, may emerge as promising drugs for COVID-19.
The results of all the completed trials should be made available to get additional information on the drugs tested in order to decide the most appropriate therapy for COVID-19. Lead compounds targeting SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein (EK1C4) and 3CL protease/Mpro (11a,11b) and other target proteins should be further researched in order to find out effective therapy for COVID-19. Only when the vaccine trials are completed and approved for clinical use, prevention of the pandemic is possible.
| Acknowledgement|| |
The authors thank Dr Abinaya, Department of Pharmacology, for helping in the organization of the manuscript.
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Nepal
UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Nepal | Cultural heritage of nepal
Be a part of an amazing experience; visit architecturally and culturally rich heritage sites in Kathmandu Valley and Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha. Enjoy the scenic wilderness amidst the spectacular flora and fauna of Nepal’s Himalaya in the Sagarmatha National Park or head for the serene Chitwan National Park for sightings of diverse wildlife. Whether you are a nature lover or a culture enthusiast, there’s something for everyone here.
UNESCO has listed 4 UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Nepal; Chitwan National Park and Sagarmatha National Park are listed as UNESCO Natural World Heritage Sites; Kathmandu Valley counted as one and Lumbini – the birthplace of Lord Buddha are listed as UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Sites.
Known as one of the world’s oldest capitals, Kathmandu Valley has 7 UNESCO sites in the heritage list. These 7 sites boasts of cultural and historical monuments that represent various era and regimes.
The Pashupatinath Temple, one of the holiest places for Hindus, lies on the banks of the Bagmati River.
Swayambhunath Stupa, which is probably 2,500 years old is the oldest heritage of Kathmandu Valley on the UNESCO list. The Stupa has two eyes representing wisdom and compassion and 13 rings representing the 13 steps of ladder leading to Nirvana.
The 3 durbar squares of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur were capitals of the three states of the valley (Kantipur, Bhadgaun and Patan respectively) during the Malla era. These durbar squares possess the unique architecture and tiered temples and intricate works of wood and metals.
Another UNESCO listed site is the Boudhanath Stupa. Built around 5th century the stupa is a mandala-style structure and is one of the biggest monument of Nepal. Boudhanath’s vicinity is full of cultural attractions.
Changu Narayan Temple and its Newari settlement is also included in the list. The temple was built in 3rd century BC and is located on a hilltop in Bhaktapur.
Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha is located in the southern plains 300 km west of Kathmandu. Also called Shakyamuni Buddha, he was born in the sacred gardens of Lumbini in 623 BC, evidenced by the inscriptions seen on the Ashoka Pillar. Other notable sites around Lumbini are the Maya Devi Temple, World Peace Stupa, the eternal flame, etc.
Lumbini Temple About
Lumbini has a number of older temples, including the Mayadevi Temple, and various new temples, funded by Buddhist organisations from various countries, have been completed or are still under construction. Many monuments, monasteries and a museum, and the Lumbini International Research Institute are also within the holy site. Also, there is the Puskarini, or Holy Pond, where the Buddha’s mother took the ritual dip prior to his birth and where he had his first bath. At other sites near Lumbini, earlier Buddhas were, according to tradition, born, then achieved ultimate Enlightenment and finally relinquished their earthly forms.
Sagarmatha National Park
Sagarmatha National Park was listed as a UNESCO in 1979. A remarkable aspect of this national park is that it includes the world’s highest mountain – Everest and other famous peaks like Lhotse, Pumori, Cho Oyu, Nuptse and Ama Dablam. The national park is located at Solukhumbu District which has been inhabited by the Sherpas for the last four centuries.
Sagarmāthā National Park About
Sagarmāthā National Park is a national park in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal that is dominated by Mount Everest. It encompasses an area of 1,148 km2 (443 sq mi) in the Solukhumbu District and ranges in elevation from 2,845 to 8,848 m (9,334 to 29,029 ft) at the summit of Mount Everest. In the north, it shares the international border with Qomolangma National Nature Preserve of Tibet. In the east, it is adjacent to Makalu Barun National Park, and in the south it extends to Dudh Kosi river. It is part of the Sacred Himalayan Landscape.
Chitwan National Park
Established as the first national park of Nepal in 1973, Chitwan National Park was listed as a heritage site in 1984. The national park covers an area of 932 sq.km2 . Rich in biodiversity and ecosystems, Chitwan National Park is home to endangered mammals like the Bengal Tiger, One Horned Rhino, etc and has one of the largest Sal forests of the country. Chitwan is also the home of the indigenous Tharu community.
Chitwan National Park About
Chitwan National Park is the first national park in Nepal. It was established in 1973 and granted the status of a World Heritage Site in 1984. It covers an area of 952.63 km2 (367.81 sq mi) and is located in the subtropical Inner Terai lowlands of south-central Nepal in the districts of Nawalpur, Parsa, Chitwan and Makwanpur. In altitude it ranges from about 100 m (330 ft) in the river valleys to 815 m (2,674 ft) in the Churia Hills.
In the north and west of the protected area the Narayani-Rapti river system forms a natural boundary to human settlements. Adjacent to the east of Chitwan National Park is Parsa National Park, contiguous in the south is the Indian Tiger Reserve Valmiki National Park. The coherent protected area of 2,075 km2 (801 sq mi) represents the Tiger Conservation Unit (TCU) Chitwan-Parsa-Valmiki, which covers a 3,549 km2 (1,370 sq mi) huge block of alluvial grasslands and subtropical moist deciduous forests. | <urn:uuid:fb06b4a4-051e-4d27-b61e-e4e0f4826028> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.readree.com/unesco-world-heritage-sites-of-nepal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.934186 | 1,305 | 2.765625 | 3 |
German grammar is simple, it's just often explained in far too complicated a way!
Jan Richter - Author of EasyDeutsch
For whom is the EasyDeutsch-Grammar written?
Basically, EasyDeutsch-Grammar is written for everyone who deals with the German language - German students as well as German teachers. EasyDeutsch-Grammar is written as a reference book on German grammar and helps you to understand the grammatical structures.
German learners with little knowledge of German
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If you, just like me, don't understand anything in German class, then with the help of my explanations you will probably often see the light and grammar tests will no longer give you sleepless nights! Of course, the same applies if school is a long time ago for you and you want to help your children, grandchildren, acquaintances or refugee children to learn German. The explanations here focus on the 90-95% of words that work regularly. Understanding the system behind this 90-95% is enough to pass the test!
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How the idea for EasyDeutsch - Grammar came about
I started teaching German in the summer of 2014. At that time I lived in Brazil in a small village directly on the beach. There I was the only German far and wide. I was looking for a job, because I had moved to Brazil for my now ex-wife. When an acquaintance asked me if I could teach her daughter Julia German, because Julia would like to study engineering in Germany, I thought to myself:
Hmm actually I have no idea about it, but to explain and teach people something has always been fun for me! How hard can it be? 🙂
Yes harder than I thought! I had to teach myself my own mother tongue basically anew, because I unfortunately never understood anything at school back then! As I know today, this was not only due to me, but mainly due to the disastrous way German is usually taught: With the focus on mostly irrelevant exceptions and perfectionism.
That's why my explanations focus on the 95% of words that work according to the general rules and eschew jargon where it's not necessary. Therefore, with many explanations here, you will ask yourself: Why didn't my teacher always explain it to me this way?
I enjoyed teaching and that's why I started teaching German online shortly after and created my own materials on German grammar, because I didn't really like all the existing ones.
I used to send these German grammar explanations to my students via PDF. If you've ever taught online, you know that this causes the following problems: student didn't get the email, can't open the PDF, can't download the PDF, or can't read the PDF because he opens it on his phone. The list could go on forever! 🙂
What did I do to solve the problem? I put my German grammar materials online piece by piece on a website. Everyone can open the link and read it on any device! On exactly this website you are now!
Since the site also finds Google, I have (ironically) also received many emails with the following question: Can I also buy the information as a book or PDF?
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Furnishings is an integral part in 'area planning' and circulation. Circulation refers to the movement of people by means of objects, and furniture is positioned to make sure satisfactory area for motion.
Furniture is used to supply an excellent sense of order, and inside designers use two or three-dimensional furnishings while additionally on the lookout for the proper form, size, texture, and color. The principles of design are integrated while arranging furniture. For instance, furniture will be set by its measurement and house, repeated furniture is organised in accordance with rhythm, unity by blending furniture with a particular setting like a fire, and emphasis or keeping furniture as the focus.
Well-designed furnishings settings make the house extra purposeful, replicate the proprietor's home fashion, and make home areas extra spacious and luxurious. Furnishings responds to the needs for consolation and utility. Furniture creates a new, adjusted perspective of the entire house, providing mediums to view different objects in traces of mass and weight of the objects. Furthermore, furnishings in well-designed houses classifies areas around the home in response to their utility.
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Sunday, 14 November 2010
The criticality of self-practice
Self-practice is a critical element of karate training. Consider going to the dojo as attending university lectures, and self-practice as the study.
Looking at things from this perspective and you can think of `the exam' as the situation where your knowledge is tested under pressure (for example in a self-defence scenario).
How many people can pass their exams by only attending the lectures and without study? Likewise, how can one expect to acquire truly reliable skills without self-practice?
Just some food for thought! All the very best, André. | <urn:uuid:e47787c6-247c-4bf1-af37-8146cf929347> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://andrebertel.blogspot.com/2010/11/criticality-of-self-practice.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.959888 | 136 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Today, we are looking at the marriage record of Maria van Hoof (1944).
Today, the thiry-first of May nineteen hundred forty-four, appeared before me, civil registrar of the municipality of Woensdrecht, in the townhall to marry:
– Simon Rommens, 27 years old, chauffeur, born and living in Woensdrecht, adult son of Cornelis Rommens, 73 years old, and Johanna van de Waal, 67 years old, both without occupation and living in Woensdrecht, and
– Maria van Hoof, 23 years old, without occupation, born and living in Woensdrecht, adult daughter of Constantinus van Hoof, 53 years old, ditcher, and Johanna Catharina Raats, 58 years old, without occupation, both living in Woensdrecht.
The parents of bridegroom and bride were present and consented in the marriage.
The proclamation of this proposed marriage took place in this municipality on the fifteenth of April.
I asked the future spouses if they would accept each other as spouse and that they would faithfully fulfill all the duties attached by law to the married state. After they affirmed these questions, I pronounced in the name of the law that they were bound together by marriage.
As witnesses were present:
– Levinus van Hoof, 24 years old, farm worker, living in Woensdrecht, brother of the bride
– Johannes Cornelis Rommens, 38 years old, ditcher, living in Woensdrecht, brother of the bridegroom
This record was read out in accordance with the law.
[signed by all, except for the mother of the bride who was not able to wite]
Liberation of Woensdrecht
Because of privacy regulations not all civil records are public (yet). Dutch law says that birth records are public after 100 years, marriage records after 75 years and death records after 50 years. As a result of this rule, the most recent public marriage records are from 1944.
In this record we find Simon Rommens and Maria van Hoof, who married in May 1944. The year 1944 also marks the end of World War II in the southern provinces of the Netherlands. When Simon and Maria married it was still war time. Five months later allied forces liberated Woensdrecht. Before the village was free again, soldiers from both camps had to fight a bloody battle. This battle is known as the Battle of the Scheldt. More than 70 persons from the villages of Woensdrecht and Hoogerheide died in the war.
Simon and Maria survived the war and they became parents of three sons and two daughters. They followed a very traditional naming pattern: the first son (Kees) was named after his paternal grandfather (Cornelis Rommens). The second son (Stan) after his maternal grandfather (Constantinus van Hoof). The two girls (Joke and Anneke) received the names of their grandmothers, both a Johanna. The third son has a less common name: Levien. If we look at the marriage record, we find Levinus van Hoof as a witness. He was a brother of the bride and therefore an uncle of the younger Levien.
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Source: Auckland Council
Summer’s here and Auckland Council is urging pool owners to keep vigilant as the weather heats up.
The leading causes of preschool children drowning in pools are unsupervised access to pools through faulty gates and barriers, ladders left against the pool and gates propped open, and small portable pools remaining full of water without supervision or a complying barrier.
This month the council’s summer pool safety campaign begins sharing these important messages:
- Stay close to children when playing around water
- Eyes on! Don’t get distracted
- Never prop pool gates open
- Check your gate latches are working
- Empty portable pools when not in use
To see if your pool is safe, you can find our full inspection checklist and safety videos online.
More than 30,000 residential pools are registered with Auckland Council and council staff check compliance of pools every three years.
However, the council also urges pool owners to carry out their own maintenance and inspections on a regular basis – to ensure ongoing safety.
Why you need to restrict access to your pool
The leading causes of children, five and younger, drowning or being injured in pools are:
- unsupervised access to pools through faulty gates and barriers
- ladders left against the pool and gates propped open
- small portable pools remaining full of water without supervision or a complying barrier
Any portable or inflatable pool that can hold 400mm depth of water or more is required to have a barrier by law. Other portable pools like paddling pools should be supervised at all times and emptied after use.
Restrict access to your pool
By law, all pools, including small-heated pools (spas, hot tubs, etc), must have a barrier to prevent unsupervised access to the immediate pool area by children younger than five years old.
A pool barrier must restrict access to the pool from:
- the house
- other buildings
- vehicle or pedestrian access ways
- other areas of the property
Pool barrier safety checklist
- must restrict access to the pool and the immediate pool area
- must be at least 1.2m in height above the ground and any permanent projection (for example, steps, retaining walls, raised gardens, etc) or object placed on the ground outside and within 1.2m of the barrier
- must have no climbable features on the outside of the barrier (or adjoining barrier) that could be used for climbing unless they are spaced at least 900mm apart
- must not have any gaps that exceed 100mm in or under it, including pet doors
Trellis or mesh fencing around the pool:
- higher than 1.8m must have openings 50mm or less, or be fitted with a protective cover
- with height between 1.2m – 1.8m must have openings 10mm or less, or be fitted with a protective cover
Ensure there are no trees that could assist young children climbing the fence.
External removable ladders must be disabled or removed after use. For pools installed after 1 January 2017, ladders are not allowed unless they are surrounded by a complying barrier and gate.
Gates into the pool area must:
- open away from the pool area
- self-close and self-latch unaided from any distance
- comply with the rules for fences
The gate latch must be:
- a minimum of 1.5m above the ground and any objects within 1.2m of the barrier, if accessible from the outside of the barrier
- inaccessible from the outside except by reaching at least 1.2m if mounted on the inside of the gate
- for pools installed from 1 January 2017, if the latch is accessible only by reaching over the gate, it must be set at least 150mm from the top or be shielded.
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Simple Eyelike Sensors Could Make AI Systems More Efficient
(Inside Science) -- A sensor that mimics how the human eye detects light could lead to better vision for autonomous robots and self-driving cars, a new study argues.
Modern electronic cameras are based on sensors that generate an electrical signal whenever light falls on them. In contrast, the roughly 100 million rod and cone cells of the retina -- the light-sensitive layer in the back of the eye -- only transmit signals to the brain in response to a change in light. This makes human eyes significantly more efficient than electronics in terms of both energy and computing power, explained study senior author John Labram, a device physicist at Oregon State University in Corvallis.
Scientists have previously created sensors that imitate the retina. However, these "retinomorphic" electronics involve complex circuits ill-suited for use in mass-produced sensors.
Now Labram and his colleagues have replaced these intricate circuits with a simpler alternative -- light-sensitive materials known as perovskites, which are currently being developed for use in next-generation solar power cells. "Without this recent material breakthrough, we would not have been able to make our sensor," he said.
The core of the new sensor consists of an electrically insulating glass layer coated with the perovskite methylammonium lead iodide. When placed in light, this perovskite changes from highly electrically insulating to highly electrically conducting. The researchers sandwiched these layers between electrodes, and found this sensor had a strong electrical response to light but generated no further signals until the lighting changed.
"This is the first single-pixel sensor that replicates the behavior of biological retina as part of its fundamental design," Labram said. "From an industrial point of view, this could eventually have a huge impact on speed and power consumption."
The sensors could find use in applications involving rapid processing of images, including lidar, facial recognition and autonomous vehicles, said materials scientist Thomas Anthopoulos at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, who did not take part in this research. "The key element of this technology is its simplicity and ability to be integrated with a range of emerging electronics, such as wearable systems, transparent displays and micro displays."
The scientists are now aiming to develop an array of these sensors to record actual visual data, "starting with 10-by-10 resolution," Labram said. They also want to connect their retinomorphic sensors with artificial intelligence systems to "better replicate the way that biological systems process stimuli," he said.
All in all, this work "is part of a larger ongoing effort to make computers more humanlike generally," Labram noted. Traditional computers are designed to carry out computations as sequences of steps, but increasingly scientists are developing so-called neuromorphic processors that are designed to mimic the human brain by performing many computations simultaneously in parallel, he explained.
Just as retinomorphic sensors might prove better than conventional optical sensors, so too might neuromorphic computers one day prove significantly more efficient than conventional computers.
"The human brain consumes around 20 watts of power, and a home PC [personal computer] runs at around 100 watts," Labram said. "This doesn't sound like much, but a single PC cannot do a similar task to the human brain -- for example, real-time learning. This sort of task would require a data center rather than a PC to achieve."
The scientists detailed their findings in a study published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
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If you’ve never surfed before and are still on the fence as to whether or not to take the plunge, we’ve shared some of the greatest benefits of learning to surf below. For a little more detail, check out our top 5 reasons why everyone should learn to surf!
1 | Surfing is good for both body & mind
Surfing is both mentally and physically a godsend for your body. Having a bad day? Feeling stressed? Need a break from your workload? Try surfing and we promise you’ll have no regrets. Many new surfers report that one of the biggest improvements was in their mental health. Being in the and connecting with the ocean is one of the most refreshing, excuse the pun, feelings there is. In fact, Netflix have recently released an award winning documentary about how surfing is being used as a life changing therapy for wounded veterans.
2 | Surfing gets you travelling
Learning to surf can take you all over the world. With incredible spots such as Hawaii, Australia, Sri Lanka,Morocco, Portugal and Spain, there are plenty of destinations to choose from to suit every travellers’ needs.
When you are not on your surfboard perfecting your pop up, another benefit of learning to surf in an exotic destination is the awesome opportunity to explore and soak up a new culture. The surf lifestyle usually extends outside the surf school, so why not grab your friends and spend your afternoons exploring and discovering new places. The benefits you gain from travelling in this way are one of the best reasons to pick up a surfboard and learn to surf in the first place!
But the destinations don’t always have to be exotic. Sometimes a surf road trip close to home can be just what you need. Especially in times of COVID (or are we post-COVID yet?).
3 | Connect with nature & fall in love with the ocean
Being in the ocean makes you appreciate what a delicate creature Pachamama (Mother Nature) really is and will always be. There are an infinite number of reasons that contribute to perfect waves and all of which relate back to the ebb and flow of the earth. It is no accident that most surfers are also environmentalists to some degree.
It is a well-researched fact that the sea air not only improves your mood, but will help improve your sleep cycle. Combine this with an intense surf session and you will be sleeping like a baby for the duration of your first ever surf trip. Learning to surf and falling in love with the ocean go hand in hand, and it will start to feel like a second home to you before long.
4 | A chance to truly disconnect
Swapping the office for sandy beaches will not only do wonders for your health, but you will experience a sense of calm that can only be brought on by the ocean. In a world of smartphones, TVs and computers, consumables have never been more readily available and instant gratification sits in the palms of our hands. However, surfing is one of the only times when we can truly disconnect, as all our focus is on finding and catching that next wave.
5 | That post surf feeling
The post-surf chill can be just as fulfilling and fun as learning to surf itself. Whether you are grabbing some food to replace those much-needed calories, cracking open a few cold beers with your friends or completely collapsing in a ball for a movie marathon, the post-surf relax is one of the nicest and most satisfying feelings ever.
Even more interesting is the use of vibro-acoustic therapy. Simply exposing patients to rhythmic oceanic sounds has shown to slow the heart rate and release endorphins. So, if you’re hung-over or feeling down, jump in the ocean, have a paddle and see how it changes your mood! | <urn:uuid:7bd43439-a0c6-432e-aa11-6f848efe3299> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.starsurfcamps.com/learning-to-surf-the-ultimate-guide-for-beginner-surfers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.944462 | 791 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The gates of hell open to visitors
The Gate of Hell (Plutonium), which was discovered in 2013 by the Italian excavation team in Pamukkale, one of Türkiye’s UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites, has been opened for visitors. Plutonium, called “gateway to the land of the dead” in ancient sources, began to welcome hundreds of local and foreign tourists from day one.
Located in the ancient city of Hierapolis in Pamukkale, one of Türkiye’s most important cultural heritages, Plutonium was opened for short-term visits in 2018 during ongoing restoration works, but later visitors have again been banned.
The Gates of Hell is set to officially open to visitors in September.
Thanks to modern science, the mystery of the door was solved during the examinations. It was reported that the animals, sent to the cave during the sacred ceremonies held in ancient times at the Gate of Hell, died from the effect of carbon dioxide.
In the ancient city of Hierapolis, which was founded by King Eumenes II of Pergamum in the 2nd century BC and means “holy city”, an Italian excavation team, led by Professor Francesco D’Andria , discovered a structure that sheds light on the region. past.
D’Andria and his team discovered the Gates of Hell, which is considered the “gateway to the land of the dead” in the ancient world, and one of the original springs of thermal waters that formed the pools of Pamukkale travertine.
At the Gates of Hell, especially the fascinating statue of Hades, which has been restored to its original form, and the three-headed watchdog of Hell, Kerberos, attract attention some tourists.
Professional tourist guide Bekir Yavuz, who said tourists are interested in the site, said: “Tourists come here every day from different parts of Turkey. We accompany them. The gate of hell which has just been opened and which has been closed for a long time is a place known as the gate of the dead. Many tourists come here today because of the opening. It has a very different structure. Because the poisonous gas comes from underground, tourists know about it and ask us about it. »
The “Plutonium” in Latin and “Ploutonion” in Greek, was considered the gateway to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology. In the structure that the Greek geographer Strabo included in his works of ancient Anatolian geography, the animals that were to be sacrificed to Pluto were brought to the temple and died at the gates of hell due to poisonous gases.
It is believed that the plutonium, which would have survived until the fourth century, was destroyed in order to prevent superstition arising from paganism after the adoption of Christianity, and after some time it was completely destroyed in the sixth century during the earthquakes that have occurred. in the city.
This Plutonium in Hierapolis has a very important archaeological value. This latest discovery proves the accuracy of the information contained in ancient literary and historical sources. The poisonous gas from the hot springs here still kills exposed small animals and birds. A special mechanism is put in place to prevent visitors from being hit by the gas, which also makes excavation very difficult. | <urn:uuid:a988b1b3-f4ac-45c7-a927-20458e8a0302> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scuolainsieme.com/the-gates-of-hell-open-to-visitors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.975567 | 722 | 2.78125 | 3 |
A book recommendation from Millay House Rockland: ‘Rapture and Melancholy’
While reading Rapture and melancholythe newly published diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay, lightly but carefully edited by Daniel Mark Epstein and with a foreword by Millay’s literary executor Holly Peppe, I found myself imagining this book affecting the lives of others, creatively and other.
Newspapers are above all a primary source. In Rapture and melancholy, you are not reading an interpretation of Millay’s life and events; you read his own words, publicly available now for the first time, written in the privacy of his bedroom, home, or bed.
You are aware of hearing a youthful voice directly from the early days of her self-confidence as a writer and poet; a biographer should cite her to provide the same immediacy.
In this volume spanning four decades, Epstein contextualizes Millay’s diary entries with introductions to every phase of his life. Excellent biographies, which provide fuller context to the journal, are available locally at Arctic Tern and Hello Hello bookstores, including that of Mr. Epstein. What lips my lips have kissedand Nancy Milford Wild beauty. These volumes may fill the narrative gaps in the diary that occurred when Millay’s life became busier and his entries more sporadic.
Like most literary journals, Rapture and melancholy emphasizes the daily interior and exterior landscapes of Millay – his many responsibilities for his home, in the absence of his divorced working mother; his joy at seeing his poetry recognized; the friends she made and the places they frequented, in and around Camden; his college life, his life in Greenwich Village and his life in Austerlitz, New York.
Entries begin in 1907, when she was 15, revealing lives lived in Maine at the turn of the century and what was important to a young woman, including such things as the cost of fabric and who made clothes for Edna and her sisters.
The immediacy of the diary allows readers to observe her love of music, to feel the winter cold and her frustration with the incessant rain, to imagine the hills she climbed while “maying” (welcoming spring while picking flowers), and meeting her challenges, from doing 12 hours of laundry to dealing with a sister who regularly soils her best clothes immediately after putting them on.
There were fewer entries between 1914 and 1927, when Millay frequented Vassar and traveled abroad; and at the end of the diaries, the reader finds Millay addicted to painkillers, recording only times taken and dosages in an effort to limit their use.
This may disappoint or skew some readers’ opinion of him, but here undeniably he is a front row seat to the thoughts of a dynamic and highly intelligent individual, approachable and genuine in a way that no other scripture can. be. Rapture and melancholy is a chronicle in Millay’s own words of how she developed the skills and courage to live unconventionally and present her art to the world.
Years ago I read Virginia Woolf writer’s diary, which her husband distilled to focus largely on his life as a writer. The people and places she wrote about intrigued me so much that over the next few decades I read all of her novels, essays, short stories, the multiple volumes of her letters and diaries, as well as biographies and literary reviews.
Reading his work and delving into many literary and historical rabbit holes has informed my own writing. I went to England in 1985 to roam the squares of London, find her homes and bookshops, and visit the country house where she wrote some of her books. Seeing her homes and sitting in her garden, where the two companion trees stand under which she and her husband are buried, suggested creative possibilities for me to venture into and wander around.
In a grassroots attempt to enhance and preserve Millay’s legacy, I serve on the board of Millay House Rockland. Our organization is restoring its birthplace on Broadway to preserve the home and eventually a garden, and provide programs that will inspire people to read and write poetry or share their stories. Just as visiting Woolf’s homes and reading his work helped me develop a career as a writer, maybe Rapture and melancholy bring readers back to the poetry and other works of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and ultimately, to have the courage to do the same. | <urn:uuid:115f1424-d983-4736-8f45-b3cd6da214d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://somethinjumpinrabbits.com/a-book-recommendation-from-millay-house-rockland-rapture-and-melancholy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.973265 | 923 | 1.757813 | 2 |
RESULTS: showed before getting simulated basic life support skills of the respondents have enough skill as much as 46.7% (14 respondents) and after getting simulated basic life support skills of respondents, 76.73% (23 respondents). Based on Wilcoxon test signed rank test (Asym.p Sig. 2 tailed) earned value 0.000. Because the value of 0.000 is less than <0.05. It can be concluded that there effect simulation help in improving basic life skills nursing profession student assistance in implementing the basic life in RSU Karsa Husada Batu. Students of the nursing profession who have obtained basic aid simulation have good skills increases due to learning their simulations to the knowledge and practice in performing basic life support.
BACKGROUND: Critical thinking is currently considered as an essential component of nurses' professional judgement and clinical decision-making. If confirmed, nursing curricula may be revised emphasising on critical thinking with the expectation to improve clinical decision-making and thus better health care.
DESIGN: Integrated literature review.
METHODS: The integrative review was carried out after a comprehensive literature search using electronic databases Ovid, EBESCO MEDLINE, EBESCO CINAHL, PROQuest and Internet search engine Google Scholar. Two hundred and 22 articles from January 1980 to end of 2015 were retrieved. All studies evaluating the relationship between critical thinking and clinical decision-making, published in English language with nurses or nursing students as the study population, were included. No qualitative studies were found investigating the relationship between critical thinking and clinical decision-making, while 10 quantitative studies met the inclusion criteria and were further evaluated using the Quality Assessment and Validity Tool. As a result, one study was excluded due to a low-quality score, with the remaining nine accepted for this review.
RESULTS: Four of nine studies established a positive relationship between critical thinking and clinical decision-making. Another five studies did not demonstrate a significant correlation. The lack of refinement in studies' design and instrumentation were arguably the main reasons for the inconsistent results.
CONCLUSIONS: Research studies yielded contradictory results as regard to the relationship between critical thinking and clinical decision-making; therefore, the evidence is not convincing. Future quantitative studies should have representative sample size, use critical thinking measurement tools related to the healthcare sector and evaluate the predisposition of test takers towards their willingness and ability to think. There is also a need for qualitative studies to provide a fresh approach in exploring the relationship between these variables uncovering currently unknown contributing factors.
RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: This review confirmed that evidence to support the existence of relationships between critical thinking and clinical decision-making is still unsubstantiated. Therefore, it serves as a call for nurse leaders and nursing academics to produce quality studies in order to firmly support or reject the hypothesis that there is a statistically significant correlation between critical thinking and clinical decision-making.
OBJECTIVE: To appraise and synthesize the best available evidence that examines the effectiveness of OBE approaches towards the competencies of nursing students.
DESIGN: A systematic review of interventional experimental studies.
DATA SOURCES: Eight online databases namely CINAHL, EBSCO, Science Direct, ProQuest, Web of Science, PubMed, EMBASE and SCOPUS were searched.
REVIEW METHODS: Relevant studies were identified using combined approaches of electronic database search without geographical or language filters but were limited to articles published from 2006 to 2016, handsearching journals and visually scanning references from retrieved studies. Two reviewers independently conducted the quality appraisal of selected studies and data were extracted.
RESULTS: Six interventional studies met the inclusion criteria. Two of the studies were rated as high methodological quality and four were rated as moderate. Studies were published between 2009 and 2016 and were mostly from Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Results showed that OBE approaches improves competency in knowledge acquisition in terms of higher final course grades and cognitive skills, improve clinical skills and nursing core competencies and higher behavioural skills score while performing clinical skills. Learners' satisfaction was also encouraging as reported in one of the studies. Only one study reported on the negative effect.
CONCLUSIONS: Although OBE approaches does show encouraging effects towards improving competencies of nursing students, more robust experimental study design with larger sample sizes, evaluating other outcome measures such as other areas of competencies, students' satisfaction, and patient outcomes are needed.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A self-administered questionnaire (content- and face-validated) survey was undertaken, classroom style, amongst final-year nursing students from selected Malaysian (n = 122, Response rate=97.6%) and Australian (n = 299, Response rate=54.7%) institutions. Quantitative data were analysed via Statistical Package for Social Science software (Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests, p ≤ 0.01).
RESULTS: Significantly more Malaysian nursing students, compared to those in Australia, reported having encountered patients with OH issues (98.4% vs. 82.9%), namely halitosis (87.7% vs. 62.2%), oral ulcers (63.1% vs. 41.1%), oral/dental trauma (36.9% vs. 21.1%) and caries in children (28.7% vs. 7.7%). Less than half of Malaysian and Australian nursing students reported that they received adequate OH training (48.4% vs. 36.6%, p ≤ 0.01), especially in detecting oral cancer (18.0.0% vs. 22.6%, p ≤ 0.01) and preventing oral diseases (46.7% vs. 41.7%, p ≤ 0.01). Students in both countries demonstrated positive attitudes and believed in their role in OH care. Most students agreed that they should receive training in OH, especially in smoking cessation and providing OH care for patients with special needs. They also opined that a standardized evidence-based oral hygiene protocol is needed.
CONCLUSION: Support for education and practice in this area of patient care suggested positive implications for further development of nurses' roles in OH promotion and management.
METHODOLOGY: An audio-recorded, semi-structured qualitative phone interview was conducted with the heads of 42 nursing schools across Australia (n = 35) and Malaysia (n = 7) during the 2015 academic year. Qualitative data were analysed via thematic analysis. Quantitative data, wherever appropriate, were measured for frequencies.
RESULTS: The response rate was 34.2% (n = 12) and 71.4% (n = 5) for the Australian and Malaysian subjects, respectively. Findings revealed that although all the nursing schools measured provided didactic and clinical training in oral health, curriculum content, expected learning outcomes, amount of clinical exposure and assessment approach lacked consistency. Most nursing educators across both countries perceived an overloaded curriculum as a barrier to providing oral health education. Whilst educators demonstrated their support for training in this area of care, they expressed the need for an established national guideline that highlights the educational requirement for future nurses in oral health maintenance and their scope of practice.
CONCLUSION: This study provides valuable information for further developing oral health education for nurses, to improve their competency and ultimately the health of the communities that they will serve.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES: To find out the correlation between frequency of playing online games and teen communication on students' Level I & II of STIKes Muhammadiyah Palembang.
RESEARCH METHOD: the research method use was quantitative descriptive research with Cross Sectional approach using Purposive Sampling as the technique of collecting data with a simple of 262 out of 760 populations. The instrument used in the form of a questionnaire about the frequency of playing online games and teen communication made by the researcher and has been tested for validity and reliability. This research was conducted in March-April 2019.
RESULT: From the results of the study, most of the respondents with 116 respondents (82.3%) had passive communication with the frequency of playing online games often, and a small number of respondents with 2 respondents (2.9%) had aggressive communication with the frequency of playing online games sometimes. The result test of Chi Square was obtained a value P value=0.000 (<0.05) CONCLUSION: There was a correlation between frequency of playing online games and teen communication on students' level I & II STIKes Muhammadiyah Palembang.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of peer learning on professional competence development among Indonesian undergraduate nursing students.
DESIGN: A quasi-experimental study with non-equivalent control group pre-test post-test design.
PARTICIPANTS: Convenience sampling was used to recruit participants. Seventy-five students completed the study (37 in the intervention group and 38 in the control group).
METHODS: The intervention group received the peer learning program, while the control group received conventional learning during clinical practice. The Nurse Professional Competence (NPC) was used to collect data at pre-test and post-test measurement. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
RESULTS: Professional competence had significantly increased in the intervention group. A significant interaction effect of time (pre-test and post-test) and group on professional competence development was also found. The effect of peer learning on professional competence development was significantly greater than the conventional method.
CONCLUSION: Peer learning was demonstrated as an innovative learning method to develop professional competence during clinical practice among Indonesian undergraduate nursing students. It is recommended for nurse educators to consider implementing peer learning during clinical education.
METHOD: The research design was quantitative. Face-to-face survey method based on a given questionnaire was conducted with all the targeted respondents. The methodology used was a non-experimental descriptive research design. Total of 146 respondents out of 243 populations were selected using a stratified random sampling strategy to determine the research sample to give equal opportunity.
RESULTS: Findings of hypotheses test using one-way ANOVA indicated that there is a significant difference in attitudes towards the mentoring programme and perceived benefits between different groups of nursing at Training Institute Ministry of Health (Nursing) Sandakan.
CONCLUSION: In general, the mentoring programme had a positive impact. However, the level of attitude and perceived benefit is different among students in different semesters. The overall mean result is good and reflecting nursing students are fairly benefited from the mentoring programme.
DESIGN: Data-based convergent mixed-method systematic review.
METHODS: Three electronic databases (Web of Science, Scopus, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) will be used in the identification stage. The first search will use the search string for each database to identify relevant studies. The articles retrieved will be screened by year of publication, article type and language. Abstracts and full-text of selected studies will be screened for eligibility independently by a minimum of two reviewers. The reference lists will be manually screened to identify additional publications. The quality assessment will be conducted by two reviewers using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tools. Quantitative and mixed-method studies will be transformed into qualitative. A thematic approach will be used to synthesize and report the data. Ethics approval and funding have been approved in April 2020.
DISCUSSION: This study will synthesize the types of challenges perceived by final-year undergraduate nursing students in different clinical learning environments across the country.
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Explore your manual
V60 Twin Engine
Lane Departure Warning (LDW)*
The purpose of Lane Departure Warning (Lane Departure Warning) is to help the driver to reduce the risk of the vehicle accidentally leaving its own lane in certain situations on motorways and similar major routes.
Driver Alert System*
The Driver Alert System is intended to assist drivers whose driving ability is deteriorating or who are inadvertently leaving the lane they are driving on.
Driver Alert Control (DAC)*
The DAC function is intended to attract the driver's attention when he/she starts to drive less consistently, e.g. if he/she becomes distracted or starts to fall asleep.
Driver Alert Control (DAC)* - operation
Settings are made from the centre console display screen and its menu system.
Driver Alert Control (DAC)* - symbols and messages
DAC can show symbols and text messages on the combined instrument panel or in the centre console's display screen in different situations. | <urn:uuid:37281056-7a04-4064-8c64-5a50399bef38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.volvocars.com/en-bh/support/manuals/v60-twin-engine/2015w46/driver-support/driver-alert-system/?id=bde657a0f78c68d3c0a801e800111c9c-om-en-middleeast-y352hbat-2016-15w46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.897272 | 210 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Did you know there is a simple test you can do to see if an alkaline battery is fresh or dead? All you need to do is bounce the bottom of a battery onto a hard, flat surface. Guess what causes this difference in bouncing ability between fresh and dead batteries? Chemistry, of course!
solid state chemistry
A new event called "The Mole"was unveiled at BCCE 2018. I told the story of how one of my students discovered how to make marshmallows spark in the microwave oven.
Mercury(II) iodide is heated to convert it from its red low-temperature alpha form to its yellow high-temperature beta form.
When the beta form of mercury(II) iodide cools to below the transition temperature of 126°C, it returns to the red/orange alpha form.
When memory metal is bent, it deforms. When placed into hot water, the metal "remembers" its original shape.
An animation illustrates how peeling occurs between layers where bonding is weak in molybdenum disulfide.
A piece of glass is scratched with a diamond-tipped stylus, showing that diamond is harder than glass. | <urn:uuid:e0dd276b-c30d-4d2e-a882-8c0086be0ec5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chemedx.org/category/chemistry-topic/solid-state-chemistry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.922867 | 246 | 3.328125 | 3 |
FACTORY by Václav Mlynář
The Factory is a project which explores a production of a small series of one-off pieces, where the whole process of designing, production, assembly and distribution happen on one table.
The idea behind the whole concept is a combination of a simple analog production approach with 3D printing technology. The important point is that the design of the lamps is made by hand without any digital input. The final shape can be affected by the designer in a few simple steps. Firstly by choosing the number and length of brass wires and secondly by bending them all together in a simple jig. Once they are bent the computer software quickly generates 3D models of joints according to their measurements. Those joints are then printed on demand on a Formlabs 3D printer. Each Lamp is then assembled and displayed on the same table.
1. Choosing length and number of wires.
2. Banding point, which determines the final shape of the lamp.
3. Analogue measuring of the wire.
4. Typing the measurements into the computer, which automatically generate the 3D model of the joints and printer them.
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By Joel R. Johnson for Angling Trade Media
Imagine if you will that you’re on the oars and you’ve just pushed off. The morning is bright, the possibilities of putting your guy on sizable fish on dries are high — you heard the client is a good stick. But he’s just made a racist joke to break the ice. You might ignore it. You might chuckle along quietly. You might say something. Now imagine if you were an African American guide, and while comments like this don’t happen every day, they happen often. Sadly, this is a reality for a friend of mine.
You might think, wow, that guy knew his guide was Black and didn’t even care. Why on Earth would he say that?! Well, let’s talk about it.
Racism is often taught as a disadvantage to people of color, but it is rarely taught as an advantage to white people, and so systemic racism which confers an unearned advantage on white people can be a very touchy subject. White privilege is often an exemption from racial discrimination. Systems of racism work on behalf of and benefit white people whether they want it or not. Yet, just about no one wants to feel like they didn’t earn it (whatever “it” is).
In the outdoors, white privilege allows white people to go to the woods for transcendence, to unburden themselves, to escape, without ever having to consider race playing a role. In fishing, it means, white people can just go fishing.
What’s worse, white privilege, whether you believe in it or not, confers the opportunity to completely ignore and never even consider the experiences of people of color who fish.
But for Black, Indigenous, and people of color including people of color who can’t pass as white (BIPOC), going into the outdoors can be a very different experience precisely because of skin color or ethnicity.
Do we still, as people of color (I’m African American), go to the river to heal and unburden ourselves? Though it’s not the top reason we go fishing according to a recent study, yes, of course we do. We seek a feeling of accomplishment and to make memories. Still, there are other things that go with us that we cannot escape.
Here are just four ways BIPOC experience the outdoors differently than white people.
1. We do not feel as safe as white people in the outdoors.
In recent months I’ve had two accomplished anglers of color discuss with me their concerns about traveling to fish. The historical trauma of slavery, lynchings, and Jim Crow is associated with the outdoors for many African Americans as found in a recent study. The murder of George Floyd by the police and other recent murders exacerbate a chilling effect. We don’t have the privilege of knowing that our race won’t work against us if we are fishing alone or in small groups in the outdoors when we encounter white people. If race can work against us on the street, why wouldn’t it in the outdoors too where we might come across white rangers, police, and environmental officers? So sometimes instead of “opting outside” we opt in.
2. We don’t have access to the same health benefits of the outdoors.
The well-documented health benefits of the outdoors are not as available to BIPOC as they are to white people. While whites make up 63% of the American population, they are up to 95% of all visitors to our nation’s national parks and public lands. Just over 20% of whites live in nature-deprived areas compared to 74% of non-whites. Every other group in America is grossly underrepresented as public lands visitors. Native American lands were stolen, renamed and popularized as destinations for white leisure travel or privatized for energy extraction. Affordability and access are issues, but a history of discrimination is a huge factor.
3. We are not represented in fishing so we’re ignored as anglers.
People of color hunt and fish but the story of the outdoors and fishing is mostly white. Over 9 million people of color fished in the US last year out of the 50 million or so who went fishing. Yet with few exceptions BIPOC are rarely featured in your favorite fishing magazine. The outdoor industry is predominantly white, yet people of color, particularly African Americans and Hispanics take more trips outside than whites. Being on the water with a white person who is unaware of this can be challenging because the erasure and white privilege can lead to policing (you’re not doing it right), stereotyping, and uncomfortable encounters that include staring, verbal harassment and insults. I’ve experienced condescension and questioning and so have my friends of color who fish from white anglers who don’t expect us to know what we’re doing, fish legally, or how to practice leave no trace.
4. We are not considered part of the conservation solution.
The CEO of Trout Unlimited recently revealed that over 97% of the members of the nation’s largest coldwater conservation organization protecting trout and salmonids in the US are white. It was a warning, but why shouldn’t it be different? The executive leadership is mostly white, and it’s a similar story at other top water conservation organizations. Conservation and fishing go hand-in-hand, and yet, outreach to anglers of color and indigenous people is the exception, not the norm.
Let this sink in. BIPOC are more likely to be highly alarmed and concerned by climate change and more likely to join a campaign to fight climate change than whites, according to a recent survey.
Again, the erasure of BIPOC as anglers means we are ignored when it comes time to protect the outdoors, despite a long-standing history of participation in environmental activism. We are left out of the conservation debate while solutions are being made on Capitol Hill that impact the future of fishing for everyone.
How systemic racism is embedded in fishing
I recently wrote that systemic racism is embedded in several areas of fishing, like catch and release, licenses and fees, trophy fishing and blue-ribbon waters. It’s actually in a number of areas, but commenters on the article demanded that I provide examples so “they could learn something” instead of doing their own work (white privilege).
“It is embedded in the cost of fishing licenses and gear, boating and access. It is embedded in the location of “blue ribbon” waters, and the idea of a “trophy.” It is embedded in “catch and release.” It is embedded in the internalized fear of fishing alone while being a person of color. It is rooted in the history of segregated public spaces and the outdoors.”
But no worries, I love sharing. So how can commonplace practices in fishing be impacted by systemic racism?
To start, BIPOC people have to pay more for things than white people at the cost of what they won’t be able to buy later. A dollar spent on fishing is more than a dollar because systemic racism has led to a well-documented racial wealth gap, and therefore we have less disposable income to spend on fishing. Interestingly, we spend more per hour outside than whites on gear according to a 2014 OIA study. Yes, we are valuable consumers.
We should as an industry be thinking harder and innovating on how we market fishing, fishing licenses, fishing gear and tackle, even the costs of guided and destination fishing, to make it more accessible for everyone. Perhaps fishing license fees should also support research and outreach to anglers of color (and no, not all license fees go to conservation).
With some exceptions like the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, BIPOC people don’t live close to blue ribbon waters (I’m not saying blue ribbon waters aren’t worth the drive) and the majority of people of color in the US live in urban areas. A lack of high quality urban fisheries is partly the result of systemic racism working against advocacy and funds to clean and protect America’s waterways top to bottom. That further erodes interest in fishing, separates BIPOC anglers, and limits access to nature’s health benefits.
Far more subtle, trophy fishing and catch and release are exalted among anglers and this tends to ignore another big difference in the way people of color fish that can lead to stereotyping and shaming. I’m talking about subsistence fishing. We gladly bonk invasive Mackinaws in Yellowstone Lake (well some of us), but we don’t talk much about catch and eat. Many anglers of color who have to stretch their dollar are putting legally-caught meat on the table and having fun while they do it. While unintended, systemic racism contributes to the stereotype that subsistence anglers, which historically includes people of color, don’t care about the environment or are making their fisheries less sustainable. I’ve encountered outfitters guiding on water where it’s legal to catch and eat proudly advertise they are catch and release only, which can feel coded to people of color as “this fishing style isn’t for me.” This barrier to entry is an example where you don’t need racists for systemic racism to work.
As an industry we should be thinking of BIPOC when we devise and promote conservation tools like catch and release, asking how it might impact minority communities and fishing overall. Whole ecology conservation rules are a start because it includes subsistence fishing, and catch and release, blue ribbon waters are important and should not be abolished but neither should these standards be tools of exclusion.
Now, about that internalized fear, well it’s not the job of white people to dispel our fear and anxiety about going fishing. People of color do not expect 400+ years of historical trauma and discrimination to be wiped out by a smile, wave or hello on the water (though it always helps to be kind). However, the industry can make fishing feel more welcome for everyone in a variety of ways. We work to be more inclusive by recruiting, training, and hiring more people of color into the industry and conservation. Before you say you can’t find us, look twice. The Greening Youth Foundation has been training a diverse workforce for years and would love to hear from you if you seek BIPOC interns. Trout Unlimited recently announced plans to partner and recruit at historically black colleges and universities and already works with aspiring indigenous guides in Alaska.
We need to demand that the industry and conservation boards of the bodies use our dues to represent all of us. We can support and partner with more diverse organizations locally and nationally. At a minimum, we need to promote and include more people of color in fishing advertising and media. We need to recognize past and new anglers of color in fishing and make their stories better known. We can do things like support and sign the Brown Folks Fishing Angling for All Pledge or join the Let’s Go Fishing/Vamos a Pescar campaign by RBBF and commit to a more inclusive sport.
One more thing. Do we want fishing to just be a white sport? Or do we want everyone to enjoy it?
If white privilege continues to make it possible to ignore my lived experience and the research, let’s take one final look at how systemic racism works in fishing. According to data from Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation and the Outdoor Foundation, nearly 20% of all white Americans fished last year, only 7% of Hispanics did so, and only 8.8% of Blacks, and only 9% of Asians. Whites were two times as likely to fish last year than everyone else.
The five-year trend shows fishing is down among African Americans from 7.8% to 7%, down for Asian Americans from 4.2% to 3%, down for Hispanics from 7.4% to 7%. Meanwhile, participation among whites was up from 77.9% to 79.2% over the last 5 years.
The OIA reports that in the last two years, freshwater and saltwater fishing by Hispanics is up 2%, but has not rebounded to the five-year high. Fly fishing is down among African Americans 1.5 points from 10.5% to 9% since 2015. Fly fishing is up from 4.6% to 5% among Asians, and up for Hispanics from 11.3% to 12%, but overall that’s still flat.
Unless we begin to recognize that systemic racism has had an impact on fishing in America this sport will continue to become more white and less representative of the nation. We will be unintentionally leaving out millions of allies in water conservation too. People of color in America will not get to experience what we already know – that fishing is an absolutely awesome pursuit, that’s good for the health of individuals and families, good for business, good for the environment, and good for the soul.
2019 Multicultural Fishing Research, Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation.
People who spend more time outdoors lead more fulfilling lives, new research shows, Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post, 2019.
The Nature Gap, Confronting Racial and Economic Disparities in the Destruction and Protection of Nature in America, Center for American Progress, 2020.
2019 Outdoor Participation Report, Outdoor Foundation.
CEO’s Letter, Trout Magazine, Summer 2020.
Which racial/ethnic groups care most about climate change? Climate Note, Yale Program on Climate Action, 2020.
Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America, Chart 3. Urban Institute, 2017.
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The countdown is on as we head into the last three weeks before the Rhode Island Video Challenge comes to an end and judging begins. There’s still time for you to make a fun, creative video that shows how to reduce home energy use, but make sure you get it in before January 31!
And don’t forget that there are great prizes for the top videos, including an iPad for the winner and cash for your school. All the rules and prizes can be found at www.findyourfour.com/videochallenge/.
Here’s the easy way to get started:
Need some cool ideas? Maybe you should slay some energy vampires, top off your cafeteria with a green roof at your school, or maybe you should ditch the telephone?
GET TIPS: All it takes is a phone to take a great video. Check out this quick tutorial to help you get started.
We can’t wait to see what you send in. Have fun. Be creative. And don’t forget. The voting starts on February 1st.
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BANGOR, Maine (WABI) – Congressman Jared Golden is working to get Mainers some assistance with home heating oil.
This week, he introduced the Home Heating Emergency Funding Act to provide $4 billion in funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP.
As people look to fill up their tanks in the summer months at a lower cost, Golden and Senator Susan Collins are pushing congressional leaders to make emergency funding available for LIHEAP.
Golden says this could be critical funding to help Mainers make it through the winter months.
“When you look at approaching winter with high prices like we have right now, the program doesn’t have enough funding. They didn’t anticipate that, so I think what we’re trying to do is just get a little bit more put into that program. It’s largely focused on your colder states, so obviously very important here in Maine,” Golden said.
The bill would provide about $40 million in funding for Maine families.
It’s estimated the emergency funding would allow MaineHousing to assist roughly 40,000 families get a tank and a half of oil this winter.
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Do motorcycle lever guards work?
Brake lever guards obviously can keep your race bike from flipping front over (endo) if another rider hits your front brake lever. But they’re not only for the racetrack; protecting you bike’s brake levers on the street can prevent some serious crashes.
What are lever guards for?
Lever guards provide critical protection for the brake and/or clutch lever from accidental activation. Developed to improve safety on the racetrack where racers commonly swap paint and a quick elbow on the front brakes could easily launch a rider into a dangerous front flip.
Are brake lever guards compulsory?
For both Race and Parade Post Classic machines, Brake Lever Guards are compulsory. For Classic machines the fitment is recommended, but optional.
Why do bikes have lever guards?
The product protects and ensures the brakes and clutch levers of your motorcycle during falls or crashes.
Are lever guard any good?
Lever guard Use Usually, if you aren’t racing I wouldn’t bother thinking about it. Its main use is likely to protect levers from breaking. They will prevent the brake lever from being activated if you rub up with another rider mid turn. They’re great if you do a lot of lane splitting.
Do you need a Licence for bike track days?
Do I need a licence? Any motorbike is allowed as long as it is in a track worthy condition. You must hold and take with you on the day, a fully unrestricted motorcycle licence or a current ACU licence and be over 18.
Are motorcycle track days safe?
On the track, you are in a safe, controlled, consistent environment, surrounded by experienced riders and coaches. As a result, you can learn more in one track day than in months or years of street riding, and most importantly, you can do it safely.
What licence do I need for track days?
The driver must have a valid driving licence and you must have it with you on the race day. Even so, many car track days operate a junior race track driving experience. In this case, a valid driving licence is not needed. Note: You must wear a crash helmet and the majority of the events have helmets for hire.
How expensive is a track day motorcycle?
The cost of a track day varies from region to region and from track to track, but you can expect to pay anywhere from $150.00 to over $300.00 per day. This often includes some instruction.
Why do some motorcycles have brake and clutch lever guards?
If the front brake is activated when touching another rider or their motorcycle, the bike may flip over and can cause serious injuries. In this article, we discuss why some motorcycles have brake and clutch lever guards and also if you really need this on your bike that you use on the public road.
Which is the best brake lever guard for MotoGP?
Used in MotoGP and World Superbike, Bonamici brake lever guards are extremely strong, attractive, anodized for durability. They also only weigh 2.78 oz. A thread locking glue or tape is recommended for proper installation. Bonamici front brake-lever guards also help protect your hands in case you do impact something.
When do you need a brake lever guard?
In regards to the race track, you only have to look to MotoGP, where, like many other racing series both national and international, brake and clutch-lever guards are mandatory. If playback doesn’t begin shortly, try restarting your device.
Can a lever guard be fitted to a BMW?
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I thought folks might enjoy reading this short article on early bassists and transcribing in terms of developing a stronger soloing voice.
Of course the first bass soloist, of the “modern era”, at least, is Jimmy Blanton (above) and you might enjoy learning his solos on Jack the Bear, Pitter Panther Patter, and Mr. JB Blues, especially among others.
Interesting to contemplate that this is like 1941! All modern bass soloing starts here I think.
The other important early bassist is Oscar Pettiford. You can go way down the rabbit hole of Mr. Pettiford, but here’s a taste, which I never saw until just now. His timing is just perfect and interesting to watch his right hand. There’s very little video of Pettiford, but plenty of recordings; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7da4WkFqE2g&frags=pl%2Cwn
MIngus, Ray Brown, Chambers and everybody else are coming from Mr. Blanton and Mr. Pettiford, so that’s the source here. Do get into MIngus and Ray of course.
That said, and moving away from just bassists, I’d say go with your taste in terms of who to copy. In the earlier jazz, 1940-60 let’s say, I think Lester Young, Clifford Brown are two to get into because of their clarity and their economy.
A few of my favorite short solos:
- Clifford Brown Ida Red and I Come from Jamaica
- Wes Montgomery- Days of Wine and Roses, For Heaven’s Sake, Movin’ Along
- Cannonball Adderley, Never Will I Marry
- Wayne Shorter Infant Eyes
- Gene Ammons Sack Full of Dreams
Now here’s a source:
Lester Young These Foolish Things (the melody he plays is a solo!)
First, listen to the song sung by Nat King Cole
Check out all the verses, wow!
There are many versions of this tune by Lester and totally different. Compare these two, wow: Dodo Mamarossa on one track, Oscar Peterson the other.
Interesting to ponder these “interpretations” of Lester’s
Guitarist Charlie Christian and his follower Wes Montgomery are all about Lester, so a bass player with Lester in her DNA along with some of Bird via Chambers, brings a lot to the table.
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Derived from “bois”, the french word for wood, Boiseries simply means wood processing. In Interior Design it refers to walls covering wooden panels. These can be functional or decorative, modern or traditional, minimal or decorated with carvings and engravings.
History of the boiserie
This trend was born in French in the XVII sec., where it became very popular for interior decoration throughout the Baroque and late-Baroque periods. The first example of boiserie was inspired by typical themes of that period. The decoration is recalled from natural forms and floral shapes. The inlays and engravings were big and majestic almost overwhelming.
This decorative technique is based on wood processing and the aim is to create a sort of picture frames and reliefs, with different kinds of texture and ground which can be geometrical or not. These panels are repeated in the room, to decorate and customize the space starting from the walls themselves.
The panels were also on doors, wardrobes, furnishings, and separé, not only on walls. Frequently, the paintings were set in the boiseries which act as a frame of the paintings or the bas-relief.
This handcrafted decoration was very expansive and appreciated by the nobility and high French bourgeoisie. We can find numerous examples of this decoration in offices, consulting rooms, and houses belonging to the upper classes of Paris. This trend was exported throughout Europe. There are a lot of examples of this decoration inside the Palace of Versailles.
Design from the old times…
Currently, many craft productions have resumed the use of wood paneling. In Italy, the production is concentrated in the northeast (Veneto). Some of these labs are specialized in this type of boiserie which requires specific skills and experiences.
What was once a special decoration very used in stately apartments and palaces, today we rediscover it as a decorative technique and not only as carved wood panels. With the term “boiserie” we identify different systems to enhance the space, with different characteristics for different houses even the most modern ones.
Design and fashion got used to seeing this kind of transformation and reinterpretation in a modern way, starting from a typical old decoration which was considered heavy and sickly to a new trend in terms of interior design.
Thanks to the use of sundry materials, not only wood, and the infinite possibility of shapes, colors, and textures, now this technique became incredibly versatile and adaptive to any kind of space and style.
Now it’s possible to use the traditional boiserie and give to space the old fashion of an ancient palace, or make it more modern with simple texture and metal frames, or give it a vintage touch by inserting pastel colors and fabric parts or even exaggerate with incredible complex textures engraved on wood or plaster.
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About this place
Israelite Bay is located in a scenic and diverse area with rolling sandplain, woodlands, vegetated dunes, wide beaches and a rocky inland scarp that roughly follows the coastline. The landscape between the scarp and the coast is broken by a series of salt lakes and clay pans. About 25km west of Israelite Bay, where the access track comes down the scarp you can see Point Malcolm and the eastern group of islands of the Recherche Archipelago.
At Israelite Bay you’ll find the ruins of the National Trust classified Post Office and Telegraph Station along with a few graves, an old cottage and a fishing shack built in more recent times. The telegraph station was part of the Intercolonial Telegraph Line (South Australia to Western Australia). Originally built in wood in 1876, the station at Israelite Bay was replaced with a stone structure in 1896. At its peak this remote settlement was home to 150 people. For 50 years the telegraph line was a vital piece of national infrastructure. Today remnants of the original line can be found along Telegraph Track, which provides access to other historic sites on this stunning stretch of coastline.
Camping is permitted at Israelite Bay in the Shire of Esperance Recreation Reserve.
Plan when to visit. Consider travelling with a personal location beacon (PLB). In the event you need to be rescued it could save your life!
Coastal risks are significant in the reserve. This is a very remote location. Visitors need to be very well prepared, self-contained and fully self-sufficient.
Take camping gear, ample fuel, water and non-perishable food, first aid kit, tool kit, spare tyres, and parts, recovery gear and two-way communication.
Travel plans should be left with trusted contacts (i.e. family or friends).
Plants, wildlife and fungi
Visit the Atlas of Living Australia for a list of species recorded within a 5km radius of Israelite Bay.
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HWhat? Can you repeat that? Sadly, these are often the questions asked by someone with hearing loss who neglected to wear hearing protection when they should have. While utilizing hearing protection may not always be convenient, or the latest fashion statement, it IS a great way to keep healthy hearing.
What is hearing protection?
general, hearing protection can include any device that is worn on or in the
ears in an effort to prevent noise-induced hearing
Sometimes it is worn during loud recreational activities, such as hunting or
shooting sports. Other times, hearing protection is worn in the workplace to
counteract occupational hazards – picture a noisy factory or someone who uses
loud equipment as part of their job.
When is it necessary to wear hearing
to the National Institutes of
the extent to which hearing damage occurs depends on these three primary
to the source of the sound
loud the sound is
long you are exposed to the sound
attention to these three conditions will help you know when to wear hearing
protection – if you are close to sounds of 85 dB or greater for repeated or
extended periods of time, it is recommended that you protect your ears. After
all, why risk getting hearing loss when it can be
What types of hearing protection are available?
several devices which can be used for hearing protection, and they vary in
cost, style, functionality, and availability:
- Expandable foam earplugs – Readily available at local stores and perfect for everyday use for exposure to moderate noise levels.
- Custom molded, reusable earplugs – These offer a greater degree of protection than the one-size-fits-all models since they are custom fit to your ears.
- Canal caps – These are easily inserted and removed from the ears, making them convenient for someone who is exposed to loud noises in short intervals.
- Earmuffs – These vary in style and complexity but generally provide more hearing protection than earplugs or canal caps.
Where can you get hearing protection?
Many types of hearing protection are readily available in local stores. For example, earplugs can often be found at the local drug store, and ear muffs are commonly sold in establishments that sell noisy equipment such as chainsaws. More specialized devices, such as the kind of ear muffs used by hunters, can be purchased at sporting goods stores or ordered online.
have specific hearing protection needs related to your particular occupation or
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Writing is critical to two main anthropological goals: to communicate useful knowledge about humanity and society; and to stimulate interest, discussion, and action on issues that are of societal import. To achieve these goals anthropologists must write in accessible styles for diverse audiences. In this paper, we review the work of five popular nonfiction writers to determine the extent to which their approachable writing styles are compatible with anthropological rigor and nuance. While none of these authors meets all of our hopes for anthropological analysis, each does manage to blend some elements of scholarship with a readable style. We therefore highlight some of their stylistic approaches in the hope that these might help anthropologists engage more effectively in public debate.
Keywords: non-fiction writing, New New Journalism, politics of representation, reflexivity
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Many businesses take their IT for granted. After all, if everything appears to be working and your employees can access and use the resources they need without a hitch, there’s little reason to worry. That is, until something goes wrong. It’s often difficult to know what’s going on behind the scenes, and few businesses are truly aware of how secure their network really is.
Ignoring important details such as regulatory compliance and the inner workings of cybersecurity can leave your entire infrastructure vulnerable. Everything may appear to be working just fine one minute, but if something goes wrong, business can quickly come to a grinding halt. That’s why every business needs professional network security assessments.
#1. Identify Performance Bottlenecks
Professional network assessments don’t just consider cybersecurity. They also help you identify hardware, software, and connections that are slowing down your whole system. Furthermore, they identify other culprits that may be causing performance problems.
Different types of connections (such as copper wire and fiber optic), and configuration issues with network devices (such as routers and WiFi signal boosters) can also significantly impact network performance. A professional audit will not only help identify gaps in network security – it will also expose problems that need to be fixed to reduce bandwidth consumption and improve performance.
#2. Expose Security Vulnerabilities
It’s an unfortunate truth that most companies discover security flaws in their IT only after a hacker has already gained access. Many security solutions are reactive rather than proactive, and while having this last line of defense is critical, your primary approach should always be to prepare for the worst well in advance. A network security assessment does exactly that.
Network security audits are carried out by white-hat hackers who, putting themselves in the shoes of cybercriminals, attempt to uncover vulnerabilities and fix them before a less friendly hacker exploits them. The process involves taking a holistic view of your network infrastructure before providing suggestions that improve your current cybersecurity strategy and lock down your network.
#3. Audit Hardware Lifecycle Stages
Most of us know that outdated hardware and software tends to be more vulnerable. After all, once a product is no longer supported by the original developer or even a third party, there won’t be any more patches or updates for it to address current security concerns and other issues. A prime example is Windows XP which, being no longer supported by Microsoft, is extremely vulnerable to malware attacks.
A network security audit involves building a complete inventory of every component that makes up your network. This process helps identify any equipment that’s near or past the end of its lifecycle and, consequently, may be causing performance bottlenecks or creating security gaps. The assessment will also identify firmware and other software that needs to be updated.
#4. Adhere to Industry Regulations
Many businesses are subject to strict government-mandated regulations governing the storage and transmission of sensitive data. For example, companies that accepts credit card payments need to be compliant with the PCI-DSS requirements, while companies that handle patient health information (PHI) need to be HIPAA-compliant, even if they’re not directly involved in healthcare themselves.
Even if you’re confident that your network is secure, meeting the stringent requirements laid out by industry regulations can be extremely complicated. That’s why you need an assessment conducted by someone who understands the intricacies of the rules affecting your industry. In fact, a professional network security assessment is a mandatory requirement of many compliance standards.
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UCLA's digital photo archive is a wondrous online arcade lined with moments from L.A.'s past. I'm reminded of this whenever perusing images from the city's contentious past, whether it's a picture of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder suspects or of local Reds picketing City Hall. One endearing image from our radical past is a photo of Lucille Ball's voter registration, which lists her address as 1344 North Ogden Drive, her occupation as Actress and her party affiliation as Communist.
(Lucille Ball voter registration from UCLA Library Digital Collection)
That's right, Lucy was a Red — or at least, she claimed, her grandfather had talked her into registering as one back in the Great Depression. This all came out in 1953, when Ball was hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee, whose urgent order of business was to learn why she had registered as a member of the CP. (Registering as a Communist voter didn't make one a card-carrying member of the party, a subtle distinction lost on the committee.)
Not many witnesses called to testify before HUAC left with both their careers and reputations intact, but Lucy, along with Judy Holliday and Lillian Hellman, did. In a rare moment of understanding, HUAC forgave Ball her youthful “indiscretion,” despite the fact that gossip columnist Walter Winchell was calling for her red head on a platter.
(Lucille Ball photo from the Museum of Broadcast Communications)
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Cryptocurrency is a digital currency that isn’t tied to a specific bank or government. That means you can use your currency anywhere in the world, even if it’s not recognized as legal tender in your home country. Cryptocurrencies run on blockchain technology, which is essentially an online ledger of encrypted transactions to ensure security.
Cryptocurrency can be used to buy services and goods. However, many people buy cryptocurrency as an investment, hoping that the value will go up so they can sell it for more than what they paid for it later on. Ultimately, you need to learn more about investing as a whole, especially when you consider the fact that cryptocurrency is not regulated by any central authority.
So, there’s no agency ensuring its value or making sure things are done fairly and legally. Here are some tips for Teenagers to benefit from the crypto investments:
1. Better Know the Market
To make smart investments, you must first understand how the market works. Do your research into the ins and outs of cryptocurrency.
Read books and articles about cryptocurrency trading, or subscribe to a newsletter for insights and analysis on the cryptocurrency markets.
Speak with experts about cryptocurrency trading. They can provide you with valuable advice on what to invest in and which times are best for buying and selling cryptocurrencies.
Understand that there are risks associated with any investment, including cryptocurrency investing. Be aware of these risks before investing your hard-earned money in cryptocurrencies.
Understand that the market is volatile; prices can change quickly up or down at any time without warning.
Also Read: How to Educate Yourself Online Effectively?
2. Wait for the Right Moment to Buy
Investing in cryptocurrency is like buying anything else that has value; the best time to buy is when the price is low.
Similarly, the best time to sell is when it is high, so this requires you to have a good understanding of market trends and know a thing or two about spotting trends and market changes.
If you invest in a cryptocurrency at its highest price ever, then it will be very hard for you to make any profits from your investment, no matter how long you wait.
This point makes investing in cryptocurrency slightly more difficult than other types of investments for teenagers.
Because Bitcoin and Ethereum are typically the largest cryptocurrencies by market cap (though we are seeing some new contenders recently), their prices tend to be higher than other coins with lower market caps.
It means your money goes further by buying smaller coins with better potential for growth (or at least gains from their starting price).
You can also keep an eye on these new coins before they hit exchanges. So, you can track them yourself and start accumulating them as soon as possible once they become available.
3. Do Not Act Impulsively
Once you have decided on your purchase, do not rush to make it right away. You will have time to think about your purchase, and if you feel confident about what you are going to buy, then go ahead with the purchase. If you are unsure or have any doubts, you shouldn’t make the purchase.
Cryptocurrency value may drop a few hours after you make your purchase, so consider this when deciding how long to think about your decision.
Doing research will help in removing doubts from your mind, and this is something that I cannot emphasize enough for anyone who wants to invest in cryptocurrency.
When you invest in cryptocurrency, whether it be Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, there is always a risk that the value will drop below what you paid for it when compared with the fiat currency (the national currency).
However, if you do proper research, this risk can be minimized by a significant amount and also ensure that there won’t be any surprises along the way that might cause panic selling of assets at lower prices than intended.
4. Be Disciplined and Stick to Your Strategy
The idea is to be disciplined and stick to your strategy. Do not make impulsive decisions because that may lead to you making sporadic trades that may result in losses.
Remember, it’s always better to walk away when you feel you have made enough profit or limited your losses than it is to overstay your welcome. You see, the market has a way of punishing overly eager traders.
Again, do not invest more than you can afford to lose in the bid to reap maximum profits. It may take time before you become a seasoned investor but until then, be cautious while trading cryptocurrencies.
It ensures that you go home with most of your profit and cut back on losses as much as possible. Not every trade will end up in profit, and this is something no one can change regardless of how hotshot they are as a trader.
Set limits for yourself even as you trade so that if things do not go according to plan, then there won’t be too much damage caused by these unfortunate events.
Follow this rule and watch how much better off you will be compared to others who are undisciplined and haphazard with their cryptocurrency investments.
5. Diversify Your Portfolio Risks
Invest in more than one cryptocurrency. A diversified portfolio would not only help you reduce market risks but also increase your chances of making high returns. A rule of thumb that you should follow is to invest in at least five different cryptocurrencies.
Invest in both cryptocurrency and traditional markets. As a teenager, the funds that you have are limited, so it’s always important to make these investments wisely. Investments in conventional markets bring stability to your portfolio, while crypto investments maximize your earnings potential.
This strategy will help you get the most out of every dollar that you invest and ensure that you do not lose all your money on specific assets or blockchains.
Invest in both cryptocurrency and other assets. The more options on the table, the better it is for any investor. Cryptocurrency is not an exception; if your teen has money to spare, they can use some of those funds for real estate or gold too.
These alternative investments are less volatile but still yield decent returns over time. This makes them great additions to a portfolio full of unstable digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum (ETH).
Understand Cryptocurrency Markets Before Investing
The market can be difficult to understand, and it’s hard to know the right time to buy and sell. It’s a good idea to study the market ahead of time so you’ll know what’s going on.
Understanding the market will make it easier for you to make decisions about your investments, which will help you avoid losing money.
It may take some time before your investments pay off, but if they do, they will be worth it!
If you are interested in investing in cryptocurrency but do not have much experience with it, I would suggest doing some research first. Investing is a big decision and should not be taken lightly or rushed into! There are many resources available online for learning about investing.
You might also consider working with an experienced financial advisor who can help guide your investment decisions based on their knowledge of markets and history and your specific goals.
Also Read: How to Look Good on a Budget?
Invest with the Right Approach
With the right approach and proper guidance, cryptocurrency investments can be a lucrative way for teenagers to make money. Take your time to study the market, and you will get a feel for when it is the right time to buy and sell.
Remember that cryptocurrency prices are volatile, so you might lose some money along the way. But if you are patient enough, it can pay off in a big way.
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Mark 9:1 AV
And he said unto them,
Verily I say unto you,
That there be some of them that stand here,
which shall not taste¹ of death²,
till they have seen the kingdom³ of God⁴
come⁵ with power⁶.
²) This word could as well point to the death of the body as well as Metaphorically, the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name, or the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell; and in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to God and blessed in Him on earth, to be followed by wretchedness in hell.
³) Royal power, kingship, dominion, rule; not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom.
⁴) The Godhead, the trinity; God the Father, the first person in the trinity; Christ, the second person of the trinity; and the Holy Spirit, the third person in the trinity.
⁵) To appear, make appearance; Metaphorically: To show itself, to find place or influence, to become known.
⁶) Inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth.
And Jesus said to them, Truly and solemnly I say to you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death before they see the kingdom of God come in [its] power. [AMP] And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power." [ESV] Then he drove it home by saying, "This isn't pie in the sky by and by. Some of you who are standing here are going to see it happen, see the kingdom of God arrive in full force." [MSB] And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. [KJV] And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power." [NIV] Jesus went on to say, "I assure you that some of you standing here right now will not die before you see the Kingdom of God arrive in great power!" [NLT] And He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that there are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with power." [NKJV]
Jesus is not saying here that some bystanders, the crowd, with the disciples, (Mark 8:34) will experience His second coming (Mark 13:32), but that they will still see the realization of God’s plan takine effect during their life.
The prophets of the Old Testament usually did not distinguish between the first coming of Jesus (the Incarnation) and the second coming in their predictions.
From their point of view it was one and the same saving act of God (the coming of the Messiah and the establishment of the Kingdom) at the end of time.
In the New Testament it becomes clear that all this takes place in several phases.
Already now, people can enter the Kingdom (Mark 10:14,15,23-25) and it is described as something that is already there (Luke 17:20,21), but the Kingdom is also spoken of, as something that is still must come (Mark 9:47; 14:25).
When Jesus here speaks of ‘the kingdom having come with power’, he is referring to the first phase of the realization of God’s plan of salvation through His suffering, death, and resurrection (“with power,” Romans 1:4), the outpouring of the Holy One
Spirit on the day of Pentecost (“with power”, cf. Acts 1:8) and the proclamation of the Gospel to all nations.
In that sense, some of the bystanders will still experience this. ‘Some’, not because the others will no longer be alive, but because the reality of the Kingdom will not be visible to each of them (‘see’).
This verse does not refer to the transfiguration on the mountain (Mark 9:2-13) that followed a week later, because the expression ‘do not taste death’ (dying, John 8:52; Hebrews 2:9) makes little sense for such a short term.
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I think Jesus, in what He says here, is referring to the events of the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, the Ascension, Pentecost, and the time of His exaltation, and of the work of the Holy Spirit.
With the coming of Jesus into the world, the Kingdom of God has already broken through and is present, even if it is still for the time being. Through His resurrection and Ascension and through the power of the Holy Spirit it is indeed possible to speak of God’s Kingdom coming with power.
We, as weak people, may also be part of that Kingdom.
In that Kingdom it is not about our own strength, but of that, of the Holy Spirit (Cf. Acts 1:8; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10).
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Every day this week, leading up to the walk, we will be introducing you to five women who are, indeed, making strides against the disease.
Of the five women we met, some are currently deep in their battle against the disease. Others have fought, won and are now survivors.
Today, we meet Vivian Ortiz, a South Philadelphia woman with a strong desire to raise awareness of the disease, in one community in particular.
Ortiz was diagnosed with stage 2 her2 positive breast cancer in the spring of 2006, after her routine annual mammogram.
By that time, she'd already been volunteering for four years with the American Cancer Society after a dear friend was diagnosed with breast cancer.
"Because she went through a lot and it impacted me and I figured I have to start giving back," Vivan said.
Giving back specifically to the Latina community, working to educate women about the disease.
"Because the Latina woman, her family is first. She is last and she does not take care of herself," said Vivian.
Statistics show that Latinas have a slightly lower incidence of breast cancer but doctors say it could just mean that Latinas aren't being diagnosed.
"For some reason, this population is not getting their mammograms as vigilantly as some other populations," said Dr. Melanie Nordlinger of Abington Memorial Hospital.
Vivian blames fear and cultural stigmas around health. She had no idea her family had a history of breast cancer until she was diagnosed with the disease.
"The genetic counselor needed as much as information as possible. So then I started calling the aunts and the uncles and they said oh yes, your cousin had this, oh yes your aunt had it," Vivian said. "Well thanks for sharing!"
Vivian not only talks about breast cancer, she walks the breast cancer walks. She and her family call themselves Vivian's Victory Squad.
"It's already traumatic enough. It's already a big journey. We need to pull together and help each other," Vivian said.
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In searching for the social and cognitive antecedents of risky online behaviors, some studies have relied on the theory of planned behavior. According to the theory, three components serve as predictors of a given behavior—attitudes toward the behavior (beliefs that people hold about a given behavior), subjective norms (perceptions of what significant others think about the behavior) and perceived behavior control (perceptions about the ease or difficulty of engaging in a particular behavior). However, none of these studies considered the possibility that these factors work differently for boys and girls. We constructed models of the possible antecedents (attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavior control) of risky behavior online and tested them using a representative sample of 495 sixth to eleventh grade students (46 % female) in a large city in Israel. We measured risky behavior online with items indicating the frequency of posting personal details, sending an insulting message and meeting face-to-face with a stranger met online. Structural equation modeling revealed that peers’ subjective norms (beliefs that friends approve of engaging in risky online behaviors), parents’ subjective norms (beliefs that parents accept involvement in risky online behaviors) and perceived behavior control were related to boys’ risky behavior online, whereas for girls, only parents’ subjective norms had such an association. Expanding the models to include other factors underscored that family factors were most strongly associated with girls’ risky behavior online.
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Israeli Internet Association for providing funding for this research. The authors thank Yossef Arieh, Inbal Lam and Rana Abbas for their comments on the earlier versions of the manuscript.
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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What is Collagen?
Collagen is the most numerous healthy protein in your body, as well as it’s a huge part of your ligaments, skin, bones, teeth, muscular tissues as well as tendons. Collagen gives your skin toughness and durability. It helps the cartilage material in your joints continue to be supple. It provides framework to your arteries, keeping them solid and versatile. It gives your bones structure, also, by acting as ‘reinforcing poles’. Collagen is a fantastic building and construction material.
Collagen can be found in several kinds, but the huge majority in your body includes kinds I, II and III. These kinds all form relatively long fibers (compared to body cells). Kind I collagen is – ounce for ounce – more powerful than steel. Type II collagen is thinner than kind I, and also is utilized in cartilage all bunched up like springs for shock absorption. Kind III is essential for the hollow points in your body– like large capillary, the bowel as well as bladder.
It’s important to recognize that the ‘type’ of collagen is just pertinent when it’s already a part of your body. When you consume it, your body simply re-makes it right into new types.
Collagen is so large and also difficult that we can not absorb it ‘as is’ when we eat it. What we can do however, is ‘hydrolyze’ the collagen, which suggests it’s broken down into much smaller sized items (‘ peptides’) by water, making it useful by your body. Collagen Facility supplies easy-to-digest hydrolyzed collagen peptides.
What are the Advantages of Collagen Supplements?
Each offering of VitaPost Collagen Complicated offers replenishing hydrolyzed collagen. Collagen supplements are not only helpful for your skin but additionally for your hair, nails, and also joints. It can help with joint pain and also arthritis along with making you really feel extra vibrant.
VitaPost Collagen Complicated gives natural hydrolyzed collagen that sustains your body in the typical repair of damaged skin; sustains the skin’s all-natural suppleness as well as framework; sustains skin tone as well as can enhance the noticeable appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Research studies have concluded that supplementing with collagen can additionally increase skin hydration.
VitaPost Collagen Facility might have fantastic benefits sustaining the body’s maintenance of the skeletal system, especially in females that are going through natural hormonal modifications. Researches recommend a diet supplemented with hydrolyzed collagen can support the upkeep of the bone collagen currently existing – suggesting much less all-natural destruction of the bones with age.
Collagen in your cartilage is the mechanical reason why joints don’t simply break and break whenever you leap or run. Supplementing the diet with hydrolyzed collagen has actually been connected with joint advantages for an entire variety of people, from age-related joint destruction, to highly-active athletes that press their joints to the limit.
How to Pick a Good Quality Collagen Supplement
This short article will certainly help you choose which collagen supplement is best for you.
There are various sorts of collagen supplements on the marketplace today. With a lot of alternatives, it can be tough to understand which one is the most effective top quality. Here are some actions to comply with when searching for a high quality collagen supplement.
1) Inspect how much time the business has actually been in business and also what their reputation resembles.
2) Consider the ingredients and see to it they have something that will certainly benefit your requirements (i.e., type 1, type 2, kind 3).
3) Inspect if there are any kind of fillers or various other components that might not be as healthy as what you wish to put into your body and also if so, discover one without fillers or ingredients.
4) Check out client reviews concerning the product.
What is the distinction between hydrolyzed collagen and collagen peptides?
There is no difference. Collagen healthy proteins are long chains of amino acids. The process of hydrolysis breaks them down into peptides, which are just shorter chains of amino acids. Collagen supplements are otherwise identified as “hydrolyzed collagen” or “collagen peptides,” but they coincide.
Who needs collagen supplements?
In my opinion, practically everyone can profit. Lots of people don’t consume bones, skin, as well as connective cells– the parts of pets that contain collagen. That implies they don’t get the amino acids (specifically hydroxyproline, glycine, as well as proline) that are discovered in collagen yet very little in muscle meat.
Just how much collagen should I take daily?
There is no RDA for collagen, and also to my knowledge, no research studies have actually established ideal dosing guidelines. You could need basically relying on your dietary consumption. To be safe, it’s always a good concept to follow the dosage directions on your collagen supplement of selection.
Can you take excessive collagen peptides?
Lots of points in nature adhere to a J-shaped contour– excessive or inadequate are both negative. The exact same could be real for collagen supplements, but sadly, there’s no sign of what would make up “excessive.” There’s additionally no proof that collagen toxicity is an issue if you complying with application standards.
HOW MUCH TIME DOES IT CONSIDER COLLAGEN TO FUNCTION?
It depends what you’re taking collagen to support. If you’re taking collagen for muscle mass growth, positive changes will start to occur nearly instantly with your exercises– although you might not observe the progress today.
In researches checking out collagen supplements for joint pain and also skin elasticity, participants experienced visible enhancements in concerning four to 8 weeks of everyday supplementation.
Like any kind of supplement, collagen isn’t an over night miracle cure however sticking to a day-to-day supplement routine will produce the most effective outcomes.
What Is Bovine Collagen?
Bovine collagen comes from cows– preferably grass-fed cows.
There are three different sorts of collagen: collagen I, II, and also III. Each kind of collagen sustains various parts of the body. In bovine collagen made from conceal, you’ll usually locate kinds I and also III which work in comparable means to support skin, bones, muscle mass, ligaments, and also digestive tract wellness.
If you purchase a bovine collagen supplement made from cartilage material, connective tissues, or bones, this supplement needs to likewise consist of collagen type II which assists support joint wellness particularly.
What Is Marine Collagen?
Marine collagen has kind I collagen as well as is normally sourced from wild caught fish. This type of collagen is superb for boosting sustainability practices because it’s made from fish parts that commonly wind up in the garbage.
The wonderful feature of aquatic collagen is that it’s very easy for the body to procedure as well as absorb.
However, any person on a vegan or rigorous vegetarian diet regimen can not take collagen supplements due to the fact that it’s constantly sourced from some type of animal product.
Unlike common gelatin, bovine collagen and marine collagen do not have any type of pork-derived products so they are appropriate for any individual on a kosher or halal diet.
Does Collagen Break a Fast?
Yes. Because collagen is a healthy protein, it stops the autophagy procedure caused during fasting.
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Gay ways of life have forever been perceived as existing, however their acknowledgment is something that has battled through history. The last illustration of any kind of gay inviting society would be the Greeks and Romans and that was north of 2,000 years earlier, with the world not hurrying to reproduce that kind of gay commonness. Today, a few nations are very inviting towards gays, for instance Canada which takes into consideration same sex associations or spots all over the planet that invite gay visits.
Inside the United States, acknowledgment changes from one locale to another thus there are places known to be more gay amicable than others. There is a to a greater extent a sliding size of acknowledgment in America that depends on culture and religion. It is still better compared to nations like Iran that sentence gay people to death.
Is it a decision? Could it be said that you are conceived gay? These are the issues that the other world battles with and that a gay youngster doesn't worry about. To be gay is to understand your distinction from the get-go and convey that into pubescence. Youth is as of now a period of battle and reflection that for gay youngsters, incorporates picking between being in the storage room and putting on a good show of a straight high schooler or emerging and managing responses that can be either tolerating or dismissing TRANS SAFE SPACE .
Finding comfort and acknowledgment as a gay individual can be hard battle, however with innovation they can find similar people who can uphold them and proposition an ear to their difficulties on the web. The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered (LGBT) people group has made an incorporated society the country over that gays can go to track down acknowledgment.
Numerous straight grown-ups never need to mull over feeling acknowledged physically thus it tends to be undervalued that for a gay individual to be around other gay people, it very well may be quite possibly the most tolerating and transformative experience. Carving out opportunity to be around different gays and having a feeling of local area doesn't need to be the selective domain of gay clubs. Travel takes care of the spirit and going with other gay individuals on gay visits can open up the world.
Gay visits likewise fill in as an extraordinary travel format to know where there are regions in which acknowledgment is high, bringing the general tension level down. These visits can be fixated on voyage ships with changing objections and a very party boat environment or they can be more engaged and more modest, similar to untamed life visits that let you investigate the normal marvels of spots like Alaska.
On top of having an abundance of encounters open to you, the movement manifest is likewise something you can have something to do with. You can go on a gay visit with a mix of gays, lesbians, and their companions, or just with gay families, or just with different lesbians, or just with other gay men. Contingent upon your character and inclination, there is a visit sitting tight for you.
Experience the world and let your actual character radiate through unafraid of being dismissed. Gay get-aways are an incredible method for unwinding and pause for a minute to be around such countless other gay individuals, an extravagance that straight individuals have each and every day. The mental advantages can't be limited.
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The Liberal Democrats support intellectual rights in return for private creative endeavours, but opposes increased restrictions, such as is happening with copyright. The Liberal Democrats also believe that intellectual rights laws need to take into account the changing nature of society and technology.
- Abolish copyright on material produced by the Australian Government (subject to privacy concerns).
- Put into the public domain or auction off patents owned by the Australian government.
- Reduce copyright duration to 15 years from publication or broadcast, or the life of the author (whichever is greater).
- Reduce patent duration to 15 years.
- Establish an orphan works defence for copyright infringement.
- Repeal the technological protection measures and electronic rights management sections of the Copyright Act.
- Support legal protection for trivial, non-commercial copying, such as sharing between friends.
- Clarify patent law to explicitly exclude things that are not inventions such as discoveries of nature (including human genes) and abstract concepts (such as business methods).
- Establish an independent invention defence for patent infringement.
Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
Copyright and patent law are often described as “intellectual property”, and while it is important to remember that these legal regimes are not property and in fact very different from traditional property rights, the analogy provides a useful guide regarding the important characteristics that policy in these areas should have, such as clear rules of ownership and a stable set of laws that allow precedents to arise.
Copyright, patent and similar laws have been created with the intention that, by allowing a period of controlled monopoly over the use of ideas, they will encourage the creation of such ideas.
The argument is that without enforcing restricted control over intellectual material, then there would be no incentive for inventors, artists, and the like. Historically, however, systems such as copyright are relatively recent and many of the great inventions and artworks of history were created without such protection. Even today many street artists busk instead of charging a fixed fee and we are already seeing alternative modern funding models arise such as crowd funding.
Out of control copyright terms
Copyright terms have increased from the original 28 years, to now the life of the creator plus 70 years, with proposals to increase this to life plus 120 years. These changes have been made retroactive and therefore benefit existing copyright holders rather than encourage new ideas.
This cost of restricting access to ideas for so long has been calculated as far outweighing the benefit in stimulating creation. The optimal term for copyright duration has been estimated at around 15 years. Patent duration is likewise now longer than optimal, and given the rate of technological progress and improvements available in distribution and production should be also reduced.
The Liberal Democrats would return copyright and patent to the original purpose, the encouragement of new ideas, and shorten terms to those calculated as providing the optimal benefit.
These changes would have impacts on several international treaties.
Orphan works defence for copyright infringement
Copyright no longer requires registration or even a declaration notice, and is automatic even where the material has no commercial value. This means ownership is often unclear (unlike real property). There is a growing body of orphan works that cannot be used because their copyright owners cannot be determined, leaving any who use such works open to enormous liability.
The Liberal Democrats propose an orphan works defence for copyright infringement. This would permit use of a work where, after a reasonable effort at searching had been made, the owner cannot be found. If the owner subsequently turns up the infringer would not be liable for damages, if they can prove in court that the reasonable search was undertaken, although royalties on any remaining undistributed or unsold copies of the work would be owed.
The technological protection measures and electronic rights management sections of the Copyright Act impose penalties and damages, even where no copyright infringement has occurred. For example, copying from a VHS video for purposes of fair dealing is allowed, but copying the same material from a DVD would be breaching the technological protection measures provisions, even though there is no breach of copyright.
These provisions are unnecessary, as any breaches they would involve are already covered by existing laws. They hamper technological development and impede property owners from using their property (such as DVDs) as they see fit (such as format shifting).
Laws cannot keep up with technology
Intellectual property laws have also failed to keep up with advances in technology. For example, research has estimated digital file sharing – the modern equivalent of lending someone a book or cassette tape – is practiced by 2.8 million Australians, out of around 8 million households. People simply no longer own physical books or recordings that they can lend to friends. Protections need to be introduced to ensure that individuals are not persecuted for trivial behaviour as has been seen in other jurisdictions.
Clarification on what defines an 'invention'
The definition of what can be patented has expanded to cover abstract concepts like business methods and products of nature . In particular the patenting of existing human genes, where a company claims ownership of part of an existing person is absurd.
The Liberal Democrats would introduce provisions similar to Europe with a (non-exhaustive) list to clarify these items are not to be regarded as inventions. This would explicitly exclude from patents discoveries and scientific theories.
The Liberal Democrats would also introduce a defence of independent invention where defendants who can prove they have developed their invention independently, without the knowledge from an existing patent, would not be liable for infringement. This would reduce the proliferation of vague patents that are used solely for litigation across such a broad area that they actually stifle invention (for fear that it might be infringing upon some patent) rather than promote it. | <urn:uuid:19baf366-d158-4046-8289-8cc97a04ebe3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ldp.org.au/intellectual_property | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.958898 | 1,292 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson formed their partnership in 1852 in Norwich, Connecticut, with the aim of marketing a lever action repeating pistol that could use a fully self-contained cartridge. They went bankrupt and began again in 1856, when Smith & Wesson produced a small revolver designed to fire the Rimfire cartridge they patented in August of 1854. This revolver was the first successful fully self-contained cartridge revolver available in the world. Smith & Wesson secured patents for the revolver to prevent other manufacturers from producing a cartridge revolver – giving the young company a very lucrative business and established Smith & Wesson as a world leader in handgun manufacturing.
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ROSEMONT, Ill.–Bracing often is recommended for adolescents diagnosed with idiopathic adolescent scoliosis, and a spinal curve between 25 and 45 degrees. When worn consistently and as directed, braces have been found to effectively halt or slow further progression of a spinal curve, often preventing surgery.
In a new study appearing in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, adolescent scoliosis patients each received a brace with embedded sensors to monitor use. Patients were then divided into two groups. In the first group, 93 patients were told about the existence and purpose of the monitors, and data and time spent wearing the brace were discussed at follow-up visits. The 78 patients in the second group were not told about the purpose of the monitors, nor did they receive data on brace compliance.
"Patients who were aware that their device measured brace use, wore their brace, on average, an additional three hours each day," said orthopaedic surgeon and lead study author Lori Karol, MD. The study also found that patients who wore their brace were less likely to require surgery, by 11 percent, due to less spinal progression.
The average curve magnitude at the start of bracing was comparable at the start of the study: 33.2 degrees in the counseled group and 33.9 in the non-counseled group. Among the specific findings:
- Daily brace wear during the initial 180-day time period averaged 15 hours in the counseled group and 12.5 hours in the non-counseled group.
- Counseled patients who completed bracing averaged 13.8 hours per day of orthotic wear during the entire course of bracing, compared with 10.8 hours per day for patients who did not receive compliance reports.
- The spinal curve did not progress more than 6 degrees between the start of bracing and brace termination in 59 percent of patients in the counseled group, and 36 percent of patients in the non-counseled group.
- Children who did not need surgery wore their brace 2.1 hours more per day on average.
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NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) -- In today's digital age, it's easy to send out an email by mistake - even for a company that's in the business of communication.
The New York Times thought it was sending an email to a few hundred people who had recently canceled subscriptions, offering them a 50 percent discount for 16 weeks to lure them back.
Instead, Wednesday's offer went to 8.6 million email addresses of people who had given them to the Times.
That was the first mistake. The second came when the Times tweeted this: "If you received an email today about canceling your NYT subscription, ignore it. It's not from us."
But the Times did send the original email, Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said.
"This email should have been sent to a very small number of subscribers, but instead was sent to a vast distribution list made up of people who had previously provided their email address to The New York Times. We regret the error," Murphy said in an email.
"The initial tweet was in error and we regret the mistake," she added.
The damage had already been done, however.
Many people called or wrote in. The newspaper initially honored the discount, even to people who were already paying full price and had no plans to cancel. Murphy said the newspaper stopped giving out discounts to people who received the email in error by early afternoon. She did not say how much the gaffe cost the company or specify how many people contacted the newspaper.
A parody Twitter account called (at)NYTSpam amassed 152 followers by Wednesday afternoon by making fun of the slip-up. The account's description of itself says: "Parody account. Not affiliated with (at)NYTimes or actual spammers -- just sick of bad digital strategy."
The newspaper has made big strides in raising revenue from digital subscriptions. It says it has gained 324,000 digital subscribers since restricting full online access to paying subscribers in March.
The New York Times, reporting on its own mishap, stated that some were concerned their credit card information or other private info could have been hacked when the email was released. Murphy states that no ones security was compromised.
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The Egyptian Amina Kadous is one of the eight photographers nominated for the 6th edition of the Madame Figaro Arles Photo Prize during the “Les Rencontres de la Photographie à Arles” Festival.
The festival takes place every year in the city of Arles, in the south of France.
This year, the festival will feature 40 photography exhibitions showcasing photos captured by prominent names in the field.
Born in 1991, Kadous studied in Boston in the United States. Her photographs explore the concepts of memory and experience.
According to the contest brochure, Amina believes that “nothing lasts. Experiences, things and moments of the physical world.
Kadous had previously exhibited his works in London, Paris, Bamako and Boston.
During the 12th Bamako Photography Biennial, Kadous exhibited a photograph, entitled “Memory Crack”, for which she won the “Centre Soleil d’Afrique Prize”.
Commenting on the award, she said: “The seeds of my identity are planted in the city of Mahala [her hometown in Egypt]”.
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April 25, 2017
There once was a nymph named Narcissus,Who thought himself very delicious;So he stared like a foolAt his face in a pool,And his folly today is still with us[quoted in John Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1986) 275].
Perceiving themselves as captivating, people have been flirting with themselves for several decades. People blather incessantly with regard to an adventure to discover themselves or to become “in touch” with the manner in which they feel concerning life. They want to discuss their feelings and how they perceive those affections. Some of these same individuals would define integrity as doing whatever they desire, and any manner of self-criticism is deemed puritanical. Those who are obsessed with themselves do not require discipline or sacrifice but demand expression and fulfillment.
The Bible reveals that pride is one of the worst sins because it is arrogance that motivated Satan to rebel against God (in addition to motivating fallen angels to rebellion). The sin of pride is a preoccupation with self. Indeed, it is appropriate that the middle letter in the word “pride” is “i” because conceit occurs when everything concerns “me, myself, and I.” Pride is an emphasis upon self: “I.” Satan’s opposition to God began with “I” (cf. Isa 14:12-15), and it is the same with us. If you are preoccupied with yourself, then you are suffering from the sin of pride.
Narcissus’ foolishness persists today among those who judge any form of self-denial as deplorable. Selfishness ought to be considered for what it truly is: shameful. Moreover, some apply such conceit to God and his Word by declaring both irrelevant unless they are able to make one “healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Jesus spoke differently and proclaimed a contrary message to popular culture. According to the Lord, eternal life involves sacrifice, which is taking Christ’s “yoke” (Matt 11:29), denying oneself (16:24), and being willing to “count the cost” (Luke 14:28).
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it (Matt 16:24-25).
What did the Lord mean when He said to deny self, “take up his cross,” and lose one’s life for his sake? Did the Lord indicate that we should forfeit all individual rights and ignore all personal interests? Do followers of Jesus become dumb sheep who are waiting to be fleeced? Do we loathe ourselves and permit others to treat us poorly and easily defeat us? The biblical answer is no!
Humility and fortitude can be consistent virtues. Insisting for individual rights and love for others can also exist together. Asserting your own claims, opinions, and rights can even be harmonized with your happiness and satisfaction with yourself. Even the act of losing one’s life for Christ’s sake can be the means for finding it again.
How is this achieved? Jesus explained, “‘For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” The prepositional phrase is fundamental to finding life: “for My sake.” God is “a shield” around those who belong to Him. The Lord God is the believer’s “glory, and the One who lifts” our head. “Salvation belongs to the Lord” and God’s blessing is upon his people (Ps 3:3, 8).
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The government's efforts to flood the markets with cash in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic propped up borrowers but also left institutions flooded with excess liquidity, according to S&P Global.
"Emergency relief efforts during the pandemic moved credit risk off the table but have directly contributed to margin pressure at US banks," it said.
The excess cash, created by government relief efforts and forbearance provided by US banks, will remain on their balance sheets for the foreseeable future, leaving bank margins below pre-pandemic levels for the next few years, it said.
The excess funds are expected to remain above $2.9 trillion through 2023 even as the economic recovery continues, it said.
The pace of bank branch closures accelerated in 2021, with net closures totalling 3,609 over the 12-month period ending August 31. Both trends should continue as increased M&A activity allows for future technological investments and more branch consolidation, it said.
Reflecting expectations of a continued return to pre-pandemic norms, banking regulations in the world overall are likely to tighten in 2022 as watchdogs cease cutting financial firms as much slack as they did during the pandemic, Fitch Ratings said. In Asia and North America, the agency predicts that the regulatory climate will hold steady.
For many developing markets, macroprudential policies linked to financial stability risks, and adherence to supranational requirements will continue to be the main determinant of regulatory reform agendas.
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Monkeypox is caused by an orthopoxvirus related to the virus that causes smallpox. The current outbreak has spread across several regions that do not normally report monkeypox cases, including the United States. Monkeypox is diagnosed using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assay to detect monkeypox virus DNA. Viral culture and serology are not recommended for the diagnosis of monkeypox. Visit the new ARUP Consult Monkeypox topic to learn more.
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) laboratory testing is commonly used to determine transplant compatibility. In addition to its role in transplantation, laboratory testing for HLA may be used in pharmacogenetics, to evaluate disease associations, in vaccine trials, or for platelet transfusion support. To learn more about molecular genetic testing methods and other laboratory tests currently used in these settings, visit the new ARUP Consult HLA Testing topic.
The aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR) is the most reliable method to screen for primary aldosteronism. Detailed information about ARR testing and test interpretation for the diagnosis and management of aldosteronism can be found in the newly rewritten Aldosterone-Renin Ratio Test Fact Sheet.
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Other than adding flavor to your meatloaf, eggs are also crucial for acting as bidding agents.
A bidding agent will help keep the meatloaf intact. It ensures that it has structure.
You may have several reasons you don’t want eggs in your meatloaf recipe. You may realize you don’t have any eggs left or are allergic to eggs. Whatever your reason, a suitable substitute is needed.
The substitute you choose should have binding agents and may or may not add flavor. It depends on your preferences. Some of the replacements to use are readily available in your home.
If whatever you choose is not available in your kitchen, you can quickly get them in the store.
Alternatives for eggs in meatloaf.
Below are seven suitable substitutes for eggs in meatloaf.
1. Virgin Olive Oil
Olive oil is one ingredient that you might have in your kitchen. You might already know that you can use olive oil instead of eggs. After reading through, if you were not aware, you would be familiar with that fact.
You might not know that virgin olive oil is a great binding agent. If you use it in your meatloaf, it will help it to remain intact.
Ensure you use virgin olive, for it is the one with the binding agent. Most cooking oils serve the opposite purpose. That is why you need to use virgin olive oil.
Without eggs, it will be hard for the meatloaf to remain intact; hence you need to substitute the eggs with something similar. Virgin oil is a perfect substitute. Other than binding the meatloaf, it has a ton of health benefits.
- It reduces the chances of becoming diabetic
- It helps maintain blood pressure
- It is good for your hair and skin
- It reduces the chances of becoming cancerous
Mayonnaise has excellent taste. However, the excellence of the flavor is different from one person to the next. If you love mayonnaise, it will be a perfect substitute for eggs.
Besides tasting good and adding flavor to your meatloaf, mayonnaise has binding agents. In the end, you want to get a well-bound meatloaf, such that it will remain neat even when you cut through it.
The vital point to note about binding agents is they are responsible for ensuring that the meat and other ingredients stick nicely together.
If you decide to use mayonnaise instead of eggs, it will serve you best to use high-quality mayonnaise. It will taste better and ensure your meatloaf is intact—quality matters.
Mayonnaise consists of egg white and oil. It contains low proteins; hence, it will not affect you as much as eggs if you are allergic to proteins. The oil in it will ensure that your meatloaf is not dry.
If you are not looking to add flavor to your meatloaf, use regular mayonnaise—also, be keen on the amount of mayonnaise you use. Too much mayonnaise will be sour for your meatloaf.
3. Mashed Potatoes
Even if you lack anything else on this list, potatoes are hard to lack. You can use it for most meals, and therefore, they are readily available.
Most people aren’t aware that potatoes have binding characteristics. If you didn’t know that you can use potatoes instead of eggs in your meatloaf, read on to understand how you can do so.
Cook the potatoes and ensure that you don’t overcook them. Mash them, and don’t make them soggy. You can then add your ground beef and other ingredients and mix well. You can then go ahead and cook your meatloaf.
The mashed potatoes will help your meatloaf to remain structured and not crumble when you finish cooking it.
On the plus side, mashed potatoes will add to the volume of your meatloaf. It will be most advantageous if you are preparing meatloaf for many people. Plus, if you love potatoes, it will add to the sweetness of the meatloaf.
It might come as a shock to you that you can use gelatin instead of eggs in your meatloaf. You most probably use gelatin to make soup. You did not know that gelatin has crucial binding agents that can be very helpful when you are making meatloaf.
Gelatin is highly known for its health benefits. It comes from animals, and hence if you are a vegetarian, you might want to avoid it. For vegetarians, there are a few vegetarian gelatin substitutes.
It is gluten-free, and it has proteins. As a result, numerous health benefits are associated with gelatin. These benefits include;
- Gelatin contains collagen that is essential in avoiding wrinkles on your skin. Ingesting collagen helps your skin to retain water, thus making your skin more elastic. You, therefore, look younger.
- It makes your bones stronger.
- Helps with digestion
- It improves the quality of your sleep.
As you can see, gelatin has various benefits other than being an excellent biding agent.
5. Bread Crumbs
You most probably are already using breadcrumbs to make your meatloaf. Breadcrumbs are great in binding the meatloaf.
Even if you are using breadcrumbs, you can use them again to ensure your meatloaf is perfectly bound. Furthermore, breadcrumbs will not alter the flavor of the meatloaf.
If you find you have no eggs but have bread, you are good to go. It is crucial to use bread that has lasted a few days. The bread should, however, not be spoilt to avoid complications. Three to fours days old bread will do.
You might be wondering why it’s not advisable to use fresh bread. Fresh bread is very soft and will not provide the meatloaf with the binding it needs. Yes, it will bind it, but it will be weak. If you only have fresh bread, you can use it, but it won’t yield the results that you might be looking for.
6. Wheat Flour
Wheat flour is a well-known binding agent. When kneaded or made into a thick paste, you can use it as a binding agent.
Most people use it when baking numerous delicacies. If you suddenly realize that you don’t have or don’t want eggs in your meatloaf, you can use wheat flour. On the plus side, wheat flour is readily available, and you most probably have it in your kitchen.
If you combine it with enough flour, your meatloaf will be intact. Another massive advantage of using wheat flour in your meatloaf is that it will add the volume of the meatloaf. It serves you when you are feeding many people.
A problem that will arise if you have wheat flour in your meatloaf is making a dry meatloaf. A dry meatloaf will not yield the best results that you were hoping to get. To avoid it, use another ingredient with oil like virgin olive oil or mayonnaise to curb the dryness.
The result will be a delicious meatloaf that you don’t need a glass of water to help it get to your stomach. You are looking to make a delightful meatloaf, after all.
7. Flax Eggs
A flax egg is made out of combining flax seeds with water. You might not have heard about flax eggs until now. As a result, it might not be an ingredient in your house.
If you have an egg allergy or dislike eggs, consider flax eggs. To use flax eggs in your meatloaf recipe, you need to have planned so that you can buy flax seeds.
To make a flax egg, you should follow a particular process. You don’t just mix the flax seeds with water. You follow a specific routine. For every tablespoon of flax seeds, use a quarter of a cup of water.
The amount of meatloaf you are making will determine the amount of flex egg you will use. Flex eggs are good binding agents, and they will make your meatloaf stick together.
If you are a vegetarian or vegan, flax eggs will be the best egg substitute for your meatloaf. You might not be vegetarian or vegan, but you might want to start eating healthy; flax eggs are the way to go.
Flax eggs have low cholesterol and are rich in omega 3, which is beneficial to your health. They are also enriched with fiber, so they help with digestion.
There are so many substitutes that you can use in place of eggs when making meatloaf. The ones stated above are some of the best egg substitutes for your meatloaf.
There are several reasons you might want something other than eggs in your meatloaf. An allergy, you ran out of eggs, or you hate eggs. If that is the case, you don’t have to be worried.
The above list provides you with enough choices to use in place of eggs. In addition to acting as a binding agent, these ingredients have a ton of health benefits.
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(Jewish News) – When EVJCC CEO Rabbi Michael Beyo decided to expand on the center’s existing JBox, a monthly food delivery program for those in need, he reached out to Jessica Berg, the chief program officer for St. Vincent de Paul. The Catholic international voluntary organization operates in service to the world’s poor. Referred to as the Society, it has a long history of assisting people with housing and clothing needs and health care access.
But its storied history of feeding the hungry and deep experience dealing with food kitchens was what Beyo needed for his kosher pantry, so he approached Berg with the idea.
It spoke to Berg, who is Jewish, because she wants to make connections with the entire community. “I’ve always been passionate about how all faiths can come together,” she said.
She facilitated Beyo’s introduction to Danielle McMahon, the Society’s director of food services, who agreed to help because the Society is always looking for opportunities to work with groups in the community with a similar mission, McMahon said.
“We’re the stewards of food,” she said. “We want our community to be the hands and feet that make the work happen.”
But this pantry would be kosher, unlike any McMahon had worked in before.
“We want to meet the needs of people, and for some people, that means a kosher pantry,” McMahon said.
Beyo was anxious to learn what she had to teach, she said. The biggest problem was simply that he wasn’t quite sure where to start resourcing food, while her biggest challenge was understanding the guidelines of what it means for a food to be kosher.
“We got to know each other, and Rabbi Michael helped me understand kosher food,” she said.
Beyo gave her the rundown for the food box distribution he needed, which is something she does out of Catholic churches already — just never with kosher boxes.
“We decided to give it a try,” she said. Now, the EVJCC’s pantry is the Society’s first partnership in a kosher pantry in Arizona.
Hadassah Baldinger, EVJCC’s assistant executive director, joined Beyo when he first toured the Society’s food pantry in Phoenix. She was impressed.
“It was an amazing day,” she said, via email. “Their hospitality was great and their operation is unbelievable. I was in awe of all that people donate to them, and the kitchen was huge and amazing. It’s one of a kind.”
The EVJCC’s venture is about addressing food insecurity, Baldinger said, but it is also an opportunity to add something that was absent from the area.
“There is no kosher restaurant or market in the East Valley like there is in Phoenix,” she said. “This fills a need and we’re not going to discriminate on who is and who isn’t Jewish. This is a great opportunity to help the community.”
Beyo concurred. “We are thrilled to offer this service to our community in partnership with St. Vincent de Paul and our other partners,” he said, via email. “Many people face hunger each day and we feel that it’s our responsibility to do what we can to help alleviate hunger.”
According to the Arizona Food Bank Network, one in seven Arizonans face food insecurity, more than 311,000 of them children.
The pantry had its first event on Oct. 27, 2021. So far, so good, Beyo said.
“Everything worked in the way we planned. From the logistics, to the packaging and food distribution,” said Beyo. “We are especially grateful for the staff and volunteers that took an active part in making this a reality.”
Going forward, the EVJCC will receive an allotment of food from what the Society collects: 50 staple food boxes, delivered once a month. Then, EVJCC volunteers will distribute them in the EVJCC’s back parking lot to those who register a week before each event. There is no delivery service for pantry items.
When something with so many moving parts, like this pantry, gets going, Berg said, “it’s never perfect, but we just keep working at it. And I know that people will be helped.”
She’s especially inspired by the interfaith nature of the project, and said it’s why she loves her job.
“We really shared a philosophy: People are in need and we need to try something,” Berg said.
McMahon amplified the point. “We pride ourselves on serving the community as a whole.”
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chandler provide partial funding for the pantry, too.
Robin Finlinson, community outreach and JustServe Specialist at the Chandler church, said, “I’m thrilled that our congregations are able to work together often to help people in need in various ways — now including the kosher food bank.”
Beyo has emphasized interfaith programs during his tenure at EVJCC.
“We emphasize community by putting the J in the front and the community in the center,” he said. “Everything we do is guided by genuine and authentic Jewish values for the entire community we serve.”
Volunteers are needed to help assemble bags of groceries each month. Those interested in volunteering or registering for a bag, go to evjcc.org/foodpantry.
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Green experimental zone planned
Updated: 2011-11-17 07:35
By An Baijie (China Daily)
BEIJING - The State Council decided on Wednesday to establish an experimental zone for ecological protection in Sanjiangyuan on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The experimental zone, which covers 21 counties in four Tibetan autonomous prefectures as well as a township in Golmud in Qinghai province, is expected to explore a mechanism for the ecological development and environment protection, according to the State Council executive meeting presided by Premier Wen Jiabao.
The Sanjiangyuan region, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters, is the source of three rivers - the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River.
The green cover in the experimental zone is set to be increased by 15 to 20 percent by the end of 2015 and 25 to 30 percent by 2020, according to the draft of the experimental zone.
The protection and restoration of the vegetations in the zone will be emphasized, and the balance between the grass fields and the number of livestock will be monitored and adjusted according to the ecological condition, said the draft.
Construction of infrastructure in the zone will be strengthened with an eye on ecological protection to improve the life quality of the local people, according to the draft.
The source lakes had experienced shrinking as a result of environmental damage caused by human activities and overgrazing by animals since late 20th century.
Measures were taken to prevent soil erosion, artificially increase rainfall, forbid overgrazing and move herding families out of the region. About 50,000 people have been moved out in the past six years, according to official data.
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Facebook killed their M chat bot a few months back because it was more artificially stupid than artificially intelligent. Unfortunately, it lives on as the equally unintelligent M Suggestions in Facebook Messenger. Here’s how to turn those off.
What is Facebook M?
Facebook M was a virtual assistant chat bot that actually used humans to do most things. Facebook’s plan was to use the humans to train the chat bot, and then phase out how much the humans had to do. This didn’t work.
A lot of noise was made in the press about Facebook M, but it was only ever available to around 2,000 Californians. The human end of things could never really scale to more.
At the start of this year, Facebook pulled the plug on M as an independent chat bot. Instead, it lives on in M Suggestions based off what they learned from working with the chat bot. It doesn’t, however, seem like they’ve learned that much.
M Suggestions pop up based on the context of your conversations. It can do things like:
- Suggest some appropriate stickers for a reply.
- Pay or request money.
- Share your location.
- Help you make plans.
- Start a poll so you can get a group of people to decide what to do.
- Hail an Uber or Lyft.
If these sound like kind of things you can quickly and easily do with, say, an app or by using your words, you’d be right. I’ve found that M Suggestions are at best, irrelevant. At worst, they’re actively in the way, and I often tap them by mistake.
How to Turn Off Facebook M Suggestions
To turn off Facebook M Suggestions, open Facebook Messenger, and then tap your profile icon. On iOS, it’s at the top left of the screen; on Android it’s at the top right.
Scroll down and select the “M Settings” category.
To get rid of M suggestions, just turn the “Suggestions” toggle off.
And just like that, M will annoy you no more. If it ever does start being actually useful, you can always turn it back on.
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1. Strong adaptability, suitable for multi-variety, single-piece and small-batch parts processing,
To process a new part on an ordinary machine tool, it is often necessary to re-adjust the machine tool and replace “hardware” such as new tools, measuring tools, fixtures or molds. When processing different parts on a cnc machine tool, you only need to reprogram or modify the processing program-“software” to process different workpieces. The cnc machine tool greatly shortens the production and technical preparation time. The adaptability is very strong. Therefore, It is suitable for the processing of multi-variety, single-piece and small-batch parts.
2. The machining accuracy is high, and the multi-axis linkage can realize the interpolation movement of the scum contour, which is suitable for the machining of high-precision and complex-shaped parts.
As the main drive and feed drive of CNC machine tools use DC or AC servo motors, stepless speed regulation can be achieved. It greatly simplifies the position error caused by the transmission error, which can be compensated by the measuring device and the numerical control device, so the CNC machine tool has a higher processing accuracy. For medium and small CNC machine tools, the positioning accuracy can generally reach 0.02 mm, and the repeat positioning accuracy can reach 0.01-0.005 mm. The automatic processing method of the CNC machine tool avoids the operation error caused by the artificial dry lake. The consistency of the same batch of processed parts is very good, and the processing quality is very stable. CNC machine tools generally have tool radius compensation and length compensation functions, which can easily eliminate workpiece size errors caused by tool wear and tool adjustment errors, and improve workpiece machining accuracy. CNC machine tools can manually change the structure and shape of scum parts. Complete or automatic programming, the machine tool can perform multi-axis linkage or multi-dimensional interpolation. Therefore, CNC machine tools are suitable for the processing of high-precision, shaped scum parts, which are unmatched by ordinary machine tools.
3. It greatly reduces the manual labor of workers, and is suitable for the processing of more and concentrated parts.
The machining of parts by CNC machine tools is automatically completed according to the programmed program. Workers only need to adjust the machine tool, install the parts, press the automatic cycle start button, and the machine tool can automatically process. After the parts are processed, the machine tool will automatically stop. , The parts can be installed at one time to complete multiple procedures. In particular, the machining center can perform multi-station and multi-process automatic processing. In ordinary machine tool processing, workers have to perform heavy and repetitive manual operations and workpiece measurement.
4. Has higher processing productivity and lower processing costs
The machining productivity of a machine tool mainly refers to the time required to process a part, and the machining time includes the excitement time and the auxiliary time. The spindle speed and feed speed of the CNC machine tool have a large range and can be steplessly adjusted. The best cutting speed and feed speed can be selected during processing, and the cutting with constant rotation speed or constant cutting speed can be carried out. On the premise of ensuring the quality of the workpiece and the certain service life of the tool, the cutting can be used as much as possible. The good structural rigidity allows the CNC machine tool to perform strong cutting and cutting. The rapid movement and positioning of the moving parts of the CNC machine tool adopts acceleration and deceleration measures, and a high idle stroke movement speed is selected. The idle stroke and positioning time of the trumpet is much less than that of ordinary machine tools, which effectively saves auxiliary time. Because the CNC machine tool has a measuring system, it is often possible to save the time of marking when machining parts. Horizontal boring and Milling Machine. After the parts are installed on the machine tool, the adjustment and inspection time during the part processing can be reduced. CNC machine tool processing parts generally do not need to make models, templates, cams, drilling membranes, boring membranes and other process equipment. It greatly saves the cost of tooling and production technology preparation time. The CNC machine tool has stable machining accuracy and low scrap rate, which also further reduces the production cost. Therefore, CNC machine tools are suitable for processing parts with medium and small batches, requiring good consistency, and parts that need to be designed and manufactured on ordinary machine tools with more labor, cards, and measuring tools.
5. Conducive to the realization of modern management of mechanical processing
CNC machine tool processing can accurately calculate or automatically record single-piece processing man-hours and total processing man-hours. Realize statistics and management of semi-finished products. It can realize the centralized control and management (DNC) of several or a dozen CNC machine tools by a central computer, and realize the mechanical processing such as computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided production (CAM), computer-aided quality supervision (CAQ), etc. Modern integrated manufacturing system.
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Congressman Scott Perry, a Repubican representing Pennsylvania’s 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, has introduced H.R. 5226, the “Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act of 2014,”a bill to legalize CBD (cannabidiol) oil throughout the entire United States. The bill was introduced on July 28th and was referred to the House’s Energy & Commerce committee, as well as the House Judiciary Committee.
Bill Would Remove Prohibition of Hemp and CBD from Controlled Substances Act
The purpose of the bill is to, “amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude therapeutic hemp and cannabidiol from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes.” Low-THC cannabis is essentially hemp, which are strains of cannabis that contain very low levels of THC. Recently Florida passed SB 1030, the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014, to legalize low-THC cannabis and CBD oil. Under Florida’s SB 1030, low-THC cannabis is defined as having less than 0.8% THC, but under HR 5226 “therapeutic hemp” is defined as having a “concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.” SB 1030 requires low-THC cannabis strains to have 10% or higher concentration of CBD, but the federal bill sets no thresholds for CBD levels.
Medical Hemp Act Could Help Implement and Protect State Medical Cannabis Laws
Florida is not the only state to have passed a limited low-THC medical cannabis bill,10 other states have also passed similar low-THC medical cannabis bills, including Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and Wisconsin. However, many of these laws are not likely to be fully implemented without either the Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act passing at the federal level, or until broader medical cannabis acts are passed in those states.
The Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act of 2014 states that therapeutic hemp and CBD, “are excluded from the definition of marihuana under,” the Controlled Substances Act. The bill also protects state medical cannabis programs, under Section 3 (b), which states, “State Law.–Nothing in this Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict any activities related to the use, production, or distribution of marijuana in a State in which such activities are legal under State law.”
Suffering Children Change Perry’s Mind About Medical Hemp
At a press conference held in Pennsylvania, Rep. Scott Perry told reporters, “These children and individuals like them deserve a chance to lead a healthy and productive life and our government shouldn’t stand in the way.” Joel Stanley, one of the developers of the Charlotte’s Web strain was also at Rep. Perry’s press conference announcing the introduction of the Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act.
Perry, a conservative Republican, was convinced that legalizing low-THC medical cannabis was the right thing to do after being visited by constituents from his district who were parents of children that suffered from epilepsy. Rep. Perry has stated that he opposes the legalization of cannabis for recreational use and that his legislation is intended to address a specific need. In a press release, Rep. Perry said, “Earlier this year I was approached by three local families whose children suffer from severe epilepsy. As a father, I can’t imagine how helpless and crestfallen I’d feel to be essentially out of options, without any significant way to help my child; and these families live with this circumstance every single day. Their heartbreaking situations compelled me to act at the federal level to enable their access to a supplement that literally has changed lives – not only in the form of relief for the individual who suffers from this condition, but subsequently for their families and loved ones as well.”
“Unfortunately, this plant and its derivatives and extracts are currently banned for medical use at the federal level and are unavailable to the citizens of Pennsylvania; this legislation would remedy that. This bill in no way changes my stance on marijuana—I still disagree with the recreational use of marijuana; however, these children and individuals like them deserve a chance to lead a healthy and productive life and our government shouldn’t stand in the way.”
For now the Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act of 2014 awaits consideration in the House Energy and Commerce, and the Judiciary Committees, once voted out of those two committees it will go before the full House for consideration.
For more information on H.R. 5226, the Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act of 2014 go to: https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5226
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The machine learning for accounts payable market is expected to grow from $6.1 million in 2016 to $76.8 million by 2021, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 53 percent. The software industry is rapidly embracing machine learning for account payable. As account payable becomes more automated, it also becomes more data-driven. Machine learning is enabling account payables stakeholders to leverage powerful new capabilities in this arena. In this blog post, you will learn machine learning / deep learning / AI use cases for account payable.
What is Accounts Payable?
Account payable is a crucial part of the business process because it helps to ensure that businesses have the funds available to pay for goods and services when they are received. Account payable involves creating invoices, issuing payments, and maintaining records of payments. Account payable also helps to keep track of expenses and can be used to create financial reports.
Account payable is an amount which a company owes to its suppliers, whereas account receivables are the amount which a company receives from its customers. Account payable arises when a company purchases goods or services on credit from its supplier, and account receivables arise when a company sells goods or services on credit to its customers. The key difference between account payable and account receivables is that account payable is an amount which a company owes to its suppliers, while account receivables are the amount which a company receives from its customers.
Key Business Processes for Accounts Payable
Here are the key business processes in relation to Accounts Payable:
- Supplier onboarding: Supplier onboarding is the process of adding new suppliers to the system. It can be a time-consuming and manual process, requiring the input of data into multiple systems. Account payable departments can streamline the supplier onboarding process by automating the data entry. This will allow them to focus on more important tasks, such as negotiating payment terms with suppliers. In addition, automating the supplier onboarding process will ensure that all data is entered correctly and consistently, reducing the risk of errors.
- Maintain suppliers’ contract terms and conditions: One of the most important things to consider when setting up an account payable system is the terms and conditions of your supplier contracts. Account payable involves the payment of money to suppliers in exchange for goods or services. In order to ensure that this process runs smoothly, it is important to carefully review the contract terms and conditions before signing any agreements. This will help to avoid any misunderstandings or disagreements down the line. Payment terms should be clearly stated in the contract, and both parties should agree on a schedule for payments. It is also important to include language indicating that the organization has the right to inspections goods or services before making any payments. By taking these steps, organizations can protect themselves from supplier disputes and ensure that account payable runs smoothly.
- Purchase order (PO) creation & amendment: Create purchase orders for all transactions involving new vendor agreements. The purchase order is essentially the first step of the procurement process, which can impact costs depending on how it’s structured and where it fits in with any relevant compliance requirements. In addition to creating purchase orders, organizations also use the purchase order system to amend or cancel existing orders.
- Transaction approval/payment authorization: All finance professionals are familiar with the request to just approve this transaction so we can get it paid. The challenge is that these requests come infrequently, which means replying takes up a lot of time. An automated system would reduce the number of manual approvals required at this stage of the payables process and increase productivity.
- Match suppliers with specific transactions: Account payables stakeholders have to process thousands of invoices every month, so it’s important for them to find those that match specific transactions quickly. It can be challenging for employees to keep track of all the possible invoices and figure out which ones need to be paid, especially because many vendors use unique invoice numbers or codes.
- Reconcile suppliers’ invoices with purchases: This step of the payables process is familiar to anyone who works in an accounting department and it’s when each invoice submitted by a supplier is analyzed against transactions in the purchase order system, purchase requisition system, and so on before matching them up to ensure the numbers match up.
- Payment processing: Process all transactions that have been approved for payment. At this stage of the payables process, organizations generate invoices, credit memos, or debit memos before making any payments to vendors. These documents are then submitted into an electronic workflow system for approval by authorized users. Once they’re approved, organizations can use the transaction processing system to make the payments.
- Review or Amend suppliers’ account balances: The final step in the entire payables process is to review the balance owed by each vendor to ensure that it reflects any transactions that have occurred since the last time this information was collected. Once again, these changes are then submitted into an electronic workflow system for approval before they can be recorded in accounting systems where they’ll be used to generate any reports you might need for your own internal purposes.
- Detect duplicate payments to suppliers/vendors: This step of the payables process is also familiar to accounting professionals and it’s when you’re required to identify any transactions that might have been paid twice, which can happen if a payment gets split between two different accounts or if someone manually corrects an entry in your system before entering it into another one.
- Manage suppliers ratings and profiles: Organizations can use the information collected about their vendors in different stages of this process to generate reports that show which ones are more important than others in terms of how much they buy or sell or simply rate them on a scale to determine who’s acting in good faith when there are disagreements.
- Evaluate suppliers for redundancies: This step of the payables process is also familiar to accounting professionals and it’s when they are required to look for any opportunities to get rid of unnecessary expenses. The idea is to reduce expenses without hurting the business.
- Supplier fraud identification: The entire process of paying bills involves a lot of manual work which means it’s always at risk for human error. However, employees are also the first line of defense against fraudulent activity in your accounts payable department.
Machine learning techniques used for Accounts Payables
Machine learning techniques are being used in the ever-evolving world of accounts payables. Different machine learning models can be trained to address challenges across different business processes in accounts payables listed in the previous section. Here are some of the key machine learning use cases for account payables:
Invoice matching for payment
Machine learning can be used to match invoices with purchase orders (POs) and receipts based on the description within the invoice itself, which in turn will determine whether or not payment should be made. OCR techniques can be implemented to read information from POs, and an invoice, such as its date, amount, customer ID, and so on. Invoice matching involves sorting through invoices to find the correct one, or correct group of invoices, for payment. Machine learning algorithms used for invoice matching include clustering algorithms, classification algorithms such as ensemble techniques, SVM, etc. Clustering involves grouping similar invoices together to determine if payments should be made. Classification models are used to classify whether payment should be made.
Invoice matching is part of invoice automation which has seen lot of traction in recent times (post Covid) as part of digital transformation. Corcentric is one such company which is providing solutions in relation to invoice matching. Use of AI / machine learning for invoice matching is increasingly getting adopted as part of automation invoicing workflows. One of the key challenges in automation of invoice matching is exception handling when the POs and invoices are unable to be matched with very high confidence. AI / machine learning solutions should rather flag such instances for manual exception handling.
Invoice matching is key to enhancing strategic relationships with suppliers. AI-enabled invoice matching enables account payables department to make the payments in a swift manner. In addition, faster payments of invoices (within 24-48 hours) can provide leverage to the buyers to ask for discounts from the suppliers.
Matching suppliers for payment
Machine learning can be used to determine or rank the suppliers that should receive payment earlier others. The classification model will learn from historical invoice matching data within an account payable to understand which suppliers are likely to have invoices to be paid. Then, machine learning models can be trained to rank/sort these invoices to find the correct one, or set of invoices, to pay.
Machine learning models can be used to classify the invoices that are fraudulent, or potentially fraudulent. The classification model will learn from the account payable’s previous payment transactions to analyze if any invoice is suspicious. For example, an invoice might be flagged as a potential fraudster if it was paid by a certain customer in the past but is now being transferred to a different customer. Another example is related to classifying duplicate payment transactions. If an invoice has been paid before but is now being re-submitted, it could be a sign of fraudulent activity.
Supplier performance assessment
Machine learning models can be used to score the suppliers or vendors based on their invoices and related payment transactions. The machine learning model will learn from historical data, such as invoice amounts, late payments, etc., to forecast future supplier performances.
Redundant spend classification and supplier evaluation
Machine learning models can be used to classify the invoices that fall into certain categories, such as those that are frequently unpaid, those that have been paid frequently but should not be paid again, etc. The classification model will learn from historical transaction data within an account payable to understand which invoices should be placed into these categories.
Use cases for machine learning in accounts payable are increasing in number. There is a lot of manual work involved in account payables, and machine learning techniques can be used to make the process more efficient. It’s critical for your small business to stay competitive that you keep up with these trends by looking into machine learning possibilities for account payable procedures like invoice matching or fraud detection. We hope this blog post has helped you figure out how to get started training machine-learning models for account payable activities in your own company without spending too much time reading about it yourself. For assistance applying any of these machine-learning techniques to your company’s accounting processes, please get in touch with us right away. | <urn:uuid:00a48ca4-e69a-44db-b2d0-6930e5c2f11c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vitalflux.com/accounts-payable-machine-learning-use-cases/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.943488 | 2,180 | 2.640625 | 3 |
NEW YORK - The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena.
Pennsylvania Station, a gateway to the nation's biggest city, was designed to accommodate about 200,000 riders a day. Now, it is packed with more than 600,000. At rush hours, it resembles a human demolition derby. All it takes to strand hundreds of thousands of people is a glitch on one of only two tracks linking Manhattan to New Jersey under the Hudson River. Suddenly, common areas become overwhelmed with impatient commuters packed into dim, low-ceilinged spaces, waiting and waiting.
"Penn Station is a disaster," said Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society that helped save Manhattan's now-glorious Grand Central Terminal from demolition.
Two decades after ambitious plans were unveiled to improve Penn Station while expanding it into the massive Beaux Arts post office building across the street, there are few visible signs of change. The multibillion-dollar effort is mired in perpetual bickering among movers and shakers in politics, finance, sports, and business.
Ironically, the original Penn Station built a century ago as a Beaux Arts masterpiece, modeled after the monuments of ancient Rome, once rivaled Grand Central for its soaring beauty, classical columns, and natural light. It was torn down in 1963 and replaced with the current, smaller Penn Station, notable for its blandness - topped with the familiar, circular Madison Square Garden, among the first buildings of its kind to be built above the platforms of an active railroad station.
Now, a coalition of civic advocates and political leaders is trying to get things moving to overhaul Penn Station by latching on to what they say is a key development: The 50-year-old city permit to operate Madison Square Garden expired in January.
The Department of City Planning is recommending that the City Council renew the special permit for the self-proclaimed "World's Most Famous Arena" for only 15 years, rather than "in perpetuity," as requested by the Madison Square Garden Co.
Cramped and aging
Two civic groups, the Regional Plan Association and Municipal Art Society, say the cramped, aging basement station can expand and modernize only if the Garden moves, along with its supporting columns that reach down to train level.
Owners of the Garden have recently invested about $1 billion to gut and refurbish one of the city's most successful entertainment venues.
Kim Kerns, a spokeswoman for the Madison Square Garden Co., said the arena "meets all required findings for this permit" and noted the Garden helps drive the city's economy by supporting about 6,000 jobs.
A decision on the permit is expected within two months.
For now, New Jersey Transit, the Long Island Rail Road, and Amtrak have hired a design firm to bring some light and fresher air into Penn Station. Changes could include better exits and entrances, improved access to platforms and taxi stands, and new signage.
That's little comfort to passengers walking through smothering, windowless corridors under low-hanging old pipes and wire clusters, filled with fast-food odors.
"I would do anything not to use this station," said Carole Ryavec, a Manhattan filmmaker.
The truth is, no matter what changes are made, real relief will come only when additional tracks are built across the Hudson. Plans for two new tunnels were killed in 2010 by Gov. Christie, who cited austerity amid the recession.
The other hope for expanding Penn Station rests with Amtrak - if it could start moving some operations across Eighth Avenue into the 1.4-million-square-foot post office building.
Construction is underway on the $325 million first phase of the project - including a wide new commuter concourse under the front end of the post office that's to open in 2016. It will ease access to bare, gritty platforms for Amtrak, NJ Transit and Long Island Rail Road.
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West Africa is said to be currently facing its worst food crisis in a decade, with 27 million people going hungry and this number could rise to 38 million this June if care is not taken.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Communication officer, Oxfam Nigeria, Rita Abiodun, and issued to newsmen in Nigeria.
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According to the statement, the alert was issued in a report conducted by eleven international organisations in response to new analyses of the March 2022 Cadre Harmonisé (CH), ahead of the virtual conference on the food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel and Lake Chad organised by the European Union and the Sahel and West Africa Club.
It added that the increase if allowed would set a new alarming historic level unless urgent action is taken.
It further stated that over the past decade, far from abating, food crises have been increasing across the West African region, including in Burkina Faso, Niger Republic, Chad, Mali and Nigeria adding that between 2015 and 2022, the number of people in need of emergency food assistance nearly quadrupled, from 7 to 27 million.
“Cereal production in some parts of the Sahel has dropped by about a third compared to last year. Family food supplies are running out. Drought, floods, conflict and the economic impacts of COVID-19 have forced millions of people off their land, pushing them to the brink,” the statement quoted Oxfam’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Assalama Dawalack Sidi.
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A couple rescued a beautiful-eyed cat who was frequently seen outside their home, but they had to first devise a plan to gain her trust. Betty H. and her husband have seen a cat walking about their yard aimlessly.
They wanted to help the small kitten since she had strange eyes, was shy, was usually dirty, and seemed hungry.
Because the young girl was wary, the couple had to approach her gently until she realized everything was fine.
“We started giving her food and drink to help her, and she began to accept our help”, Betty said.
Since then, Betty had made it a point to feed her three times a day, but each time with the purpose of gaining her trust, which was difficult. The pair felt compelled to go through the process to save the cat they named ‘Fluffy’ after several days went by with no one showing up to claim her.
“At first, I remained really quiet, but as Fluffy gained accustomed to my presence, I began conversing with her while she ate and drank. At first, I tried to softly caress her. She had clearly never belonged to anyone.”
Fluffy finally got her courage together and followed the couple home. They were ecstatic since they had achieved their aim, and the adorable cat would now join the family.
Betty explained: “I gave her her first bath, something she had probably never had before. Her snout was stained black, and she had an orange residue on her legs that was impossible to remove. She had enormous ugly knots in her fur and was losing her hair.”
Fluffy purred as she was wrapped in a beautiful towel and curled up in her adoptive father’s arms after her bath.
“I’ve never heard a cat purr quite like this one.” After taking her to the vet, we discovered she had parasites, a gastrointestinal condition, and ear mites.”
In the days that followed, she was treated for health difficulties and had her hair cut to remove all the knots.
Her second pet, a cat named Lacie, was quick to embrace the newcomer and the two became fast friends; Lacie has become much more playful as a result. Fluffy, on the other hand, is not far behind; in just a few weeks, the small female went from being an abandoned kitten to a happy, joyful soul.
“Fluffy has puppy-like behavior. She’s the liveliest, most playful cat I’ve ever met.”
The couple is now fortunate to have a beautiful member of their family; the first thing they notice when they enter the house is her wonderful face.
Fluffy reluctantly let Betty touch her, but after a few caresses, she flinched, despite the fact that progress was being made. Fluffy gained confidence as she realized they were there to help her with patience and calmness.
Her behavior began to improve, and she transitioned from a fear of human touch to a need for a lot of attention and more caresses.
“Before she ate or ended her life on the street, she sincerely desired to be petted. Witnessing such behavior astounded me.”
She also enjoys watching the birds out the window, much like a spoiled indoor cat.
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Another crypto lender is fending off forced liquidations, and more firms laid off hundreds of workers this week—marking the latest casualties of a bear market that continues to leave a path of destruction in the digital currency sector.
The U.S., the world’s largest economy, had more billionaires than any other nation on the new 2016 Forbes Billionaire List unveiled Tuesday, but the Asia-Pacific region taken as a whole easily surpassed America's total. The Asia-Pacific had 590 members of the new Forbes list, compared with 540 from the U.S. and [...]
Buoyed by a wave of new faces from China, the up-and-coming Asia-Pacific region surpassed the United States in billionaires on the newly released 2015 Forbes Billionaires List. The Asia-Pacific, underpinned by China and India, had 562 billionaires, compared with 536 for the United States. Last year, the United States had 492 members and the Asia-Pacific region had [...]
Want Want China honed its production and sales skills in its home Taiwan’s Chinese-style snack food market before expanding into the mainland’s in the 1980s. After years of success, it hit a bump last year, and warned last month that profit may have fallen in 2014 amid slower economic growth across the Taiwan [...]
The cover of the Forbes Billionaires List issue back in 1996 asked the question: “Is the 21st the Asian Century?” In the five years to 1996, the U.S. share of the world’s billionaires had edged down to 33% from 35%. Asia, including Japan, had increased to 28% from 25%. Though [...] | <urn:uuid:b34188d7-d7ff-40b2-8ffd-95162468150f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.forbes.com/profile/wu-chung-yi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.946896 | 342 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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In Victorian and Edwardian society women were often portrayed as the weaker sex but music hall was another world altogether and audiences flocked to see women of prodigious strength full of confidence in themselves and their right to perform. One such was the Great Athelda, born Frances Rheinlander in Manchester, who performed on the music hall stage from around 1912. Athelda was reported to have made her debut in Buenos Aires in December 1911. She was also known as the miniature Lady Hercules and Britain’s Beautiful Daughter.
We know from reports at the time that her act began with various poses showing sinew, fibre and muscle without distortment and that her posing created something like a sensation in Dewsbury. She would pose while manipulating a dumbbell. In her own advertisement in 1913 she describes her act as dignified posing without ornamentation or drapery, showing genuine muscular development void of fat or pencilling. She sees herself as a graceful figure of beauty, muscle and concealed strength. I haven’t found reports of her height but she weighed 9st 5lb, just under 60 kilos, and was said to hold the record amongst ladies for lifting a half-hundredweight by means of her little finger. She would invite people on to the stage to check the weights were genuine.
In 1916 Athelda claimed to introduce an entirely new novelty in her speciality act which consisted of a group of women in classical poses, featuring acrobatic bending, singing etc which was all arranged to work in harmony. She had previously worked with female assistants, one of whom was called Tiney Loretta. In 1918 she specified she could work on any size stage as she travelled with an elaborate, unique fit-up which was in sections and that she had the equipment to produce her own posters, daybills and throwaways. This strong woman seemed determined to be independent in any way she could.
Athelda was always keen to portray herself as an honest performer and made a point of saying she did not write her own press notices or encourage reporters to say good things about her. There could well have been some needle in her pronouncements as she had a rival in the strong woman world whose name was Vulcana. I’ve written a previous post about Vulcana so won’t go into detail about her here. Performers placed adverts in the trade publications of the day and it is interesting (and amusing) that in The Stage where, adverts being featured in alphabetical order, Athelda is placed immediately before Vulcana who appeared with the Atlas troupe.
In 1912 the two women were keen to win over promoters and managers and be at the top of the pecking order with Athelda writing that instead of swanking about her abilities she is a real weight-lifter while Vulcana claims to be the strongest lady living. The Great Athelda maintained she asked no favours and said she let her act speak for itself whereas Vulcana made great play of the fact that she had defeated every woman who claimed to lift heavy weights. Vulcana threw out a challenge that she would lift heavy weights against any woman who had the courage to cover her money. The following year in June 1913 Athelda accepted a challenge made by Vulcana but was defeated. She claimed she did not have fair play and issued a £10 side challenge to Vulcana to appear at Vint’s Palace in Llanelli on a Friday evening to ensure a fair test of skill of the two strong women. So far I can’t find evidence that the challenge was taken up. It was exciting for the audience and guaranteed good houses for the managers.
I’m including cards of two more strong women, Herculine and Madame Soffritti as well as a photo I came across of a would-be Athelda. Any information on Madame Soffritti would be much appreciated.
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Growing Pains Toe Walking Usually Not A Sign Of Autism And Other Problems
Toddler toe walking was previously thought to indicate autism, cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy, but a study finds toe walking is usually not a symptom of developmental problems in toddlers and young children.
As babies and toddlers begin learning to walk, it’s common for them to place most of their weight on their toes and not much weight on their heels or other parts of the feet. But at what point should "toe walking” be a cause of concern for parents? According to a new study, it’s very rarely a condition worth worrying about and is rarely a symptom of developmental issues like autism.
Previous research has indicated that while many cases of toe walking are idiopathic (meaning a cause is unknown) and most children outgrow the condition by the age of three, there’s a large possibility that it could be a sign of serious problems like cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy or autism. However, a Swedish study that appeared in a 2012 issue of Pediatrics disproves previous theories and states that more than half of young toe walkers will outgrow the condition by age five, and most children who are toe walkers will not face any developmental or neuropsychiatric issues.
"Walking is such a notable milestone, and if it is not typical, it is often a concern for parents and physicians," pediatrician Lee Beers, MD, who practices at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., told WebMD. "This study certainly makes me feel more comfortable when I see toe walking in children who are otherwise developing well."
Details About The Toe Walking Study
More than 1400 parents from the Blekinge County of southeast Sweden participated in the study. The parents were asked questions about their children’s gait and toe walking at the child’s routine 5.5-year checkup, with the following information resulting from the study:
- About 5% of children toe walk at some time, but less than half were still toe walking by age five and half.
- Most children who toe walk do so for the first one or two years before beginning to walk normally.
- Children who are still toe walking by the age of five and a half tend to walk on their toes about 25% of the time.
- 41% of children diagnosed with cognitive or neuropsychiatric disorders like autism display toe walking tendencies
When Toe Walking Is A Symtom Of Developmental Problems
The basic message that comes from the study is that in most cases, toe walking does not indicate an underlying developmental problem in your child. The majority of toddlers and young children who toe walk will begin walking normally on their own by the age of five or six. However, there are signs and symptoms that may indicate serious neuro-muscular and neuro-developmental conditions like cerebral palsy and autism. In addition to toe walking, they include:
- Muscle stiffness in the legs
- Extremely tight Achilles tendons
- Lack of muscle coordination
- A period of normal walking followed by sudden toe walking
- Communication problems
- Other physical abnormalities
Parents who observe any of these symptoms in their child should contact a podiatrist or foot and ankle specialist. After examining the child’s gait, legs and feet, the doctor may then suggest a visit to a neuropsychiatric specialist (a doctor who specializes in disorders of the nervous system), a pediatric neurologist, or a physical therapist.
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Drainage Management Systems
Check it out: Identifying potential suitability for subirrigation in the Midwest
March 28, 2022 By Drainage Contractor
A tool by the Transforming Drainage group uses layers of map data to identify suitable locations for subirrigation in the Midwest United States.
The tool identifies agricultural land that has a restricting layer that causes the water table to rise, permeable soil above the restricting layer that allows water to move horizontally between tile drains, flat topography that allows economical systems and is likely to be tile-drained. A field assessment of any site is needed when evaluating a potential project.
The video below demonstrates how to use the tool:
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- Wind: 2mph SSE
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The results of four major insurance research projects led by faculty from Drake University’s School of Actuarial Science and Risk Management were published in prestigious academic journals during the last 12 months. The papers, which cover topics ranging from the impact of increased insurance consumption in China to how insurers and regulators are responding to the transition to a new benchmark for pricing risk, reflect the challenges and opportunities in the increasingly dynamic and globally connected insurance market.
“As one of a select group of the Society of Actuaries’ Centers of Actuarial Excellence, we are committed to exploring the issues and trends that drive the insurance sector” said Alejandro Hernandez, dean of the College of Business and Public Administration, which is home to Drake’s actuarial science program. “Our continued success in publishing relevant and timely research also informs the business-centric curriculum that we deliver to our actuarial science students.”
The four recent peer-reviewed journal articles (in order of publication) include:
- “The Changing of the Guard (from LIBOR to SOFR) and How Both Insurers and Regulators are Responding” authored by Toby White (of Drake University) published in Journal of Insurance Regulation
- “Estimating Spillover Effects in Property Casualty Insurance Consumption” authored by Douglas Bujakowski (of Drake University) and Shinichi Kamiya (of Nanyang Technological University) published in North American Actuarial Journal
- “Insurance Research in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe: What We Can Learn from XPRIMM Data” authored by Douglas Bujakowski (of Drake University) and Patricia Born (of Florida State University) published in Risk Management and Insurance Review
- “An Asymptotic Study of Systemic Expected Shortfall and Marginal Expected Shortfall” authored by Yiqing Chen (of Drake University) and Jiajun Liu (of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) published in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
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Despite what happened in Flint Michigan recently it still makes sense to trust that your tap and drinking water is generally safe, right?
Yes and no.
Let’s take a quick look back at what happened in Flint.
“Due to insufficient water treatment, over 100,000 residents were potentially exposed to high levels of lead in the drinking water. A federal state of emergency was declared in January 2016 and Flint residents were instructed to use only bottled or filtered water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and bathing. “
Imagine, Lead Contamination of Your Tap Water
“Officials failed to apply corrosion inhibitors to the water. As a result, there was a series of problems that culminated with lead contamination, creating a serious public health danger … lead from aging pipes leached into the water supply, leading to extremely elevated levels of the heavy metal neurotoxin.
In Flint, between 6,000 and 12,000 children have been exposed to drinking water with high levels of lead and they may experience a range of serious health problems.”
The water quality was okay when it left the source, but as it traveled from the reservoir to the residents, it leached lead from the decaying pipes and it contaminated the water.
No Worries, The Safe Water Drinking Act Protects Us
In the USA, the Safe Water Drinking Act is a law that regulates water quality. However, the act only regulates 91 contaminates.
Compare that to the 60,000 chemicals that are used in the USA, all of which can potentially find their way into source water supplies.
And that was before Donald Trump came into office in January of 2017. Now, we are seeing quotes like this from the reputable Scientific American website:
“On February 28, Trump ordered a review of the Clean Water Rule, with the aim of rolling it back… Specifically, his executive order… would likely cut protections for many wetlands and smaller streams that help keep U.S. waters clean.”
Prescription Drugs in your Tap Water?
There are over 4 billion prescriptions filled every year in the United States. The average American adult has 13 rounds of prescription drugs a year. Where do all those drugs go?
They are excreted in the urine, stool, or leftovers are tossed into the garbage of flushed down the toilet. Eventually making their way into municipal water supplies.
“When Health Canada sampled tap water across Canada, researchers found what they expected to find, traces of drugs in drinking water that comes from rivers and lakes…”
“Last year, a group of researchers detected drugs in the Great Lakes at levels high enough to be “of environmental concern,” according to a study that found traces of acetaminophen, codeine, antibiotics, hormones, steroids, and anti-epileptic compounds, and dozens of other chemicals.”
Many of these substances are water-soluble with no color, no taste, and no odor, meaning you could be consuming them for years and not even know it.
At Least We Don’t have to Worry about Bacteria in the Tap Water, Right?
True, for the most part. Most municipalities use chlorine to kill bacteria that comes from sewage and other sources which may have made its way into drinking water.
Chlorine, just like bleach, when added to water is effective at killing bacteria. However, it kills all bacteria.
When we drink tap water that contains chlorine, it also kills the health-enabling bacteria that live in our guts.
Having an imbalance of healthy bacteria in our digestive system has been linked to depression, obesity, and autism. All three health challenges are spreading rapidly in our society.
It Gets Much Worse – Like Cancer
The good news is that disinfection of drinking water, for example by chlorine, has reduced the number of waterborne diseases dramatically.
However, this decrease in waterborne organic toxins comes with a high price.
“Fourteen to sixteen percent of bladder cancer cases is caused by disinfection byproducts”
Chlorine combines with organic material in the water and in your body to form disinfection byproducts – like trihalomethane. These are dangerous because they increase cancer risk or even directly cause cancer.
What Does it All Mean for You?
In short, no one believes the government is reckless or negligent with respect to public health when it comes to tap and drinking water safety for their citizens. (Although, as you can imagine, there have been lawsuits from what happened in Flint.)
The system of sourcing, purifying and delivering tap water is incredibly complex.
It is nearly impossible to be certain of what’s in your tap water.
With ever-increasing numbers of potential contaminants, tighter budgets and aging infrastructure the job of guaranteeing clean and healthy drinking water to its citizens, for any municipality, has become nearly impossible.
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It’s better without water!
In the days before refrigerators and freezers, people already preserved their food. The oldest method is probably drying. Fresh foods such as fruit were left to dry in the sun and were then available deep into the winter and beyond. The shelf life was guaranteed, because water is not only the basis of life, but also of perdition. The water contained in the food contains bacteria, fungi or chemically particularly active substances such as enzymes that make the food go bad. These decay, processes are dependent on water, similar to the processes in a living cell.
An optimization and acceleration of the drying process occurs when the food is heated. Modern technologies such as the freeze-drying process also known as lyophilization or sublimation drying, as well as vacuum evaporation, today ensure an enormously long shelf life. These preservation methods are the basis of many food products and are also used for emergency food products.
Good examples for daily use are coffee powder and packet soups. Freeze-drying is also the basis of shelf life here. Quickly infused with hot water and the original condition is restored. The drinks and food are ready to enjoy.
But how does freeze-drying actually work?
Foodstuffs that undergo a freeze-drying process are subject to strict controls and official supervision. Only the best quality is used. The freeze-drying process itself consists of several stages.
To preserve fresh color, taste and nutritional values, fresh or cooked food is shock frozen.
Afterwards they are dried in frozen condition at extreme vacuum near the vacuum.
The escaping water vapor is deposited on an even colder cooling surface in the vacuum chamber. This so-called condenser simultaneously ensures that the air in the freeze-drying plant remains dry. In an extremely dry environment, the water evaporates directly from the ice without first becoming liquid. However, this sublimation takes place very slowly, much slower than, for example, boiling water evaporates. Freeze-drying reduces the water content of food to a few percent.
Now the food and dishes are ready for packaging in air- and watertight Tins. During filling, the oxygen contained in the Tins is replaced by nitrogen. Once the Tins are sealed, the high quality of the food is guaranteed for a long time. This delays the decay, sometimes for years, without the need for additional cooling or chemical post-treatment.
Reversing the process is easy
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Article: L. Nikollari, E. Kukeli (Albania)
83 YEARS MILITARY HOSPITAL IN ALBANIA
The Central University Military Hospital(CUMH) was founded 83 years ago, on September 26, 1929. Itisone ofthe mostimportantmedicalinstitutionsin Albania for tradition,experiencecreatedduring many years of operation, and contributing notably to the development of Albanian military and civilian medicine.
The CUMHis the referenceinstitutionof military medicinein the Albanian Armed Forces(AAF). In the memoryof many military generations the militaryhospitalhas particular importance.
After structural changes in 1990 , adapting the developmentsin the Albanian armywith the assistanceofNATO, CUMH was composedto fulfillthe missionin support of AAFbuttakingon other missions: politrauma managementat national level and assistance of thecivilian populationin case of disasterand major misfortune.
The Hospital is located in the North-West of Tirana, it occupiesan area77.405 sqm andplentyofgreen.
The History of the Military Hospital originates at the time of the Albanian Kingdom of King Ahmet Zog. It was built in September 26, 1929 at the cost of 548.894,88 gold francs. The first director of the hospital was LTC Dr. Jani Basho (1892-1957), who graduated with “excellence” and the title "Doctor Unicus Medicus" from the Austrian University Vienna in the branch obstetric-surgery. After returning home, he was appointed chief of the health department in the National Defense Command, director of the Military Hospital (1929-1935) and personal physician of King Zog. In Albanian medicine – both military and civilian - Dr. Jani Basho is well remembered, his name associated with the construction of military and civilian hospital projects referring to plans that had been designed by the Viennese architect Köhler and which he had brought from Vienna in 1927. The original military hospital was constructed as a two story building in the location of today’s civil surgery hospital next to the University Hospital Center “Mother Theresa”. The Military Hospital was a very distinguished conspicuous building, built in style of that time, as described in the album “10 Years Albanian Kingdom”: The Military Hospital of the Capital where hundreds of soldiers were healed, the valuable sons of this Fatherland. It has a long and broad corridor that connects well-lighted comfortable rooms.
The General Military Hospital, even after liberation, continued its intensive activity in the same premises until 1957, when it was transferred to its current position at Laprake, in an building of similar age (1930). This building looks back on several purposes: Its first designation was that of an orphanage, after the war, it served the 1st Army Corps as Headquarters, later it was used by the Military School and, since 1957, it contains the Military Hospital. After the transfer to Laprake, the hospital had an in-patient capacity of 400 beds in the main building plus 50 beds in a trauma pavilion. On the second floor, the Surgical department was located with 45 beds and the central operation theater with two operation rooms.
The Military Hospital, today Central University Military Hospital (CUMH), is not only one of the most important medical institutions in the country, its numerous medical personnel who have trained and specialized in this institution have created a remarkable tradition in the development and modernization of Albanian medicine.
CUMH remains the only representation of military medicine in the Armed Forces (AF). After 1990, the changes in its structure and adaptation to the changes and developments in the Albanian Army and with the NATO assistance, it not only fulfills the mission in support of the AF, but also by treating poly-traumas nationwide and, in accordance with the mission of the Armed Forces, by assisting the civilian population in case of disaster.
The contribution of the military hospital to the medical assistance in the events of 1997 and the events of Kosovo in 1999 is indelible. Today, as the “epidemic of automobile traumas” brings to attention the daily risks of lives, the military hospital successfully meets this new challenge.
Since the focus of public observation is sensitive regarding medical care, the responsibility of all leaders and the entire directing staff and its medical and non medical personnel, is for maximum efforts to treat all urgent cases. Poly-trauma, however, proves a particular challenge to the health system in Albania, in this regard, the Military Hospital has successfully demonstrated discipline and devotion.
According to the standards of military medicine, CUMH is the highest institution of medical support at the tertiary level (role 3) and fulfills the mission in:
- health support for the AF, including the Ministry of Interior, the Guard of the Republic and the National Intelligence Service
- health support for military personnel and their families according to status
- poly-trauma treatment at national level
- health support for foreign military personnel on missions in Albania
- preventive Medicine in the AF
- health support in catastrophes and disasters
The CUMH operates in three main blocks:
- National Trauma Center (NTC)
- Military Hospital (MH)
- Institute of Military Medicine Research (IMMR)
Statistical data of the CUMH activity are quite significant and can not be compared to the medical institutions in the country. They demonstrate the full volume and capacity with which the institution operates. Its location at the intersection of national main roads coming from North and South "favors" the arrival of emergency flux, mainly of automobile traumas. On average, the CUMH receives over 35.000 medical emergencies each year, with up to 9000 patients being hospitalized.
NATIONAL TRAUMA CENTER (NTC)
NTC plays the main role in the management of urgent and poly-traumatic patients at national level.
Surgery services, orthopedic and intensive care units complete the full profile of CUMH in mission and in its role as the second tertiary hospital in Albania. Its personnel trains and prepares medical teams for emergency medical care at home as well as on missions. Scientific and pedagogical activities with students and post-graduates complete the image of the advanced medical institution.
The hospital plays a significant role in the field of treatment of internal diseases for military, ex-military and their families, but also in education and research.
INSTIUTE OF MILITARY MEDICINE (IMM)
The MMI follows the CUMH mission as a unique and specialized institution in the field of medicine in the Armed Forces for:
- identifying and monitoring the risk factors for the Military Community
- Prevention of diseases and epidemics, water and food security and duties of the state Sanitary Inspectorate
- preparation of programs and realization of information-education-counseling of the military community on health problems
- stimulation and support of guidelines and regulations aimed at health protection
- research in etiology, diagnosis and prognosis of the military community health problems, in cooperation with the Public Health counterpart structures in the country
- developing scientific strategies of control and prevention of diseases and health related problems in the Armed Forces
Restructuring and modernization of the CUMH required considerable funds allocated by the Ministry of Defense. Many great contributions by NATO countries must not remain unmentioned, which, together with the MoD funds, made it possible to completely transform the military hospital. We are particularly grateful to:
The Norwegian Government and the NORWAC foundation for developing the Master Plan and for investments in almost all premises of the military hospital
The US for donations of CT-Scanner and multi-channel ultrasound ECHO
The Netherlands for assistance with reconstruction of the Physiotherapy and training of the physio-personnel
Greece for the reconstruction of the Ambulatory Service with new and modern equipment, and for training of the medical personnel
Germany for assistance with radiological equipment, surgical equipment and training of many doctors and nurses especially in the field of surgery and imagery
Italy for assistance with procurement of medical equipment and logistics, baro-camera project for the oxygen therapy, staff training, internal infrastructure, etc.
Turkey for assistance with equipment and ambulance service as well as for training of personnel at high staff and university level at Gata Military Medical Academy in Ankara France for assistance with training of the medical staff in surgery, anesthesia, intensive care, aviation medicine, tropical medicine etc. as well by providing French language courses.
“The reduced number of soldiers will not result in reduced health challenges. Instead, contemporary conflicts increase the demands for extensive knowledge within military medicine”
During more than five decades since the rebirth of this vital institution, many generations of doctors and medical support staff have done everything to continuously improve standards, composition, dimensions and level of service, training and qualifications of personnel and by fulfilling the challenging task honoring the name and the image of this hospital in the eyes of its patients and all Albanian people. Honoring this exemplary effort, on the 24th of September 2009 the President of the Albanian Republic awarded the CUMH the Order "Mother Teresa".
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Who does not love art? There are different forms of art and if a person does not fancy one, he or she will most likely fancy another. But the one form of art loved by just about all is painting. It is all about personal preference though. If a painting “agrees” with an individual’s innermost thought, then that person would almost definitely “take a shine” to the painting. Interior designing involves attuning all single components of a room to form one harmonious whole. Most times, a centre of focus is needed.
Using large wall art for a large empty wall has become a really popular trend in recent times. From abstract painting to nature painting and all the others in between, there are lots of options to choose from when going for large wall art. However, there are lots of counterfeits in the art world today.
To get really good artwork one needs to be a professional or true fan of the arts. However, since we cannot all be professionals, it would be ideal if there were reliable sources. These sources would have built their reputations in the art world over time. Hence they would be relatively easy to find.
Why go with Large Wall Paintings?
There are various reasons why one should use large wall arts in their living space. We could not possibly go through them all. However, we will go through the most common and relevant reasons why large wall arts would be simply wonderful in decorating your living space.
First and foremost, large wall arts have the same feature that every artwork strives to achieve, aesthetic value. Large artworks bring a different air wherever they are used and they add to the aesthetic value of their environment.
Second, they are as implied in their name, large. This is what makes them different from every other artwork. This reason complements the first one. How so? If the first reason stands on its own, then one could reason that every artwork could have the same effect. Even small-sized art work. But the large size could increase their aesthetic value as they are more noticeable.
The large size also means that they will be more details evident. Larger artworks make it easier for their observers to appreciate more of their details and beauty. This will make them even more vibrant and appealing.
Additionally, they reduce the need for more decorations. This is especially so when used in a large living space. They seem to occupy more space than they do when used in any given location. At times if used properly, one could achieve a wonderful result with large wall art than with an increased quantity of other forms of decorations.
So if one is looking to decorate a new space, large wall art is the way to go. Depending on the size of one purchased art, there might be no need to purchase any more decorations. You could get various designs from any reputable supplier online. Go through the customer reviews of any supplier you choose to use. | <urn:uuid:3534795a-e455-4176-b2b1-8444e3e71b64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ecallinteriors.com/2021/01/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.974646 | 602 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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When it comes to accounting and bookkeeping software, the name Quickbooks is one of the most recognized and well-known in the world. It’s been around since the early 1980s, and as the world has changed, so has Quickbooks.
One of the most notable changes Quickbooks made came in in the first decade of the 21st century. Its parent company, Intuit, launched Quickbooks Online, a cloud-based accounting software designed specifically for small businesses.
This marked a big shift in the trajectory of Quickbooks, which was traditionally a desktop application you had to install on your computer. This product, Quickbooks Desktop, not only still exists, but it remains a top choice for businesses all around the world.
However, as cloud-based solutions become the norm, Quickbooks Online is rapidly growing in popularity, and for good reason. The years Quickbooks has spent in this space has led to a quality product that can be really useful for most small business.
The reason we like it so much is because it:
- Has a robust set of features which include invoicing, managing inventory, tracking expenses, and, if you’re willing to pay a little more, payroll
- Integrates easily with over 600 other apps and programs, which make it easy to turn Quickbooks Online into an all-in-one accounting solution
- Can be accessed from anywhere due to it being a cloud-based solution
- Offers several different subscription packages which make it easy for you to use this software while staying on budget.
If you’re interested in learning more about Quickbooks Online and whether or not it’s the right software for you, read on for our full review.
What Does Quickbooks Online Do?
As an accounting program designed for small businesses, Quickbooks does pretty much everything you could want it to do.
Of course, which features you’re able to use will depend on which plan you choose—cheaper plans allow you to do less—but here’s a list of all the basic functions you can perform with Quickbooks Online:
- Create and send customized invoices
- Accept payments using all major credit cards as well as bank transfers
- Send estimates
- Track revenue and expenses
- Generate reports
- Calculate taxes and maximize deductions
- Pay and manage bills
- Track time to charge billable hours
- Manage Inventory
- Monitor project profitability
- Manage payroll (add on service)
- Integrate countless apps, such as Stripe, Square, PayPal, Zendesk, Shopify, and many more.
Who is Quickbooks Online For?
Quickbooks Online was designed to be an accounting solution for small businesses. It can do a lot of things, but it can’t do everything. The software is best for:
- Small businesses run by the owner with only a few employees
- Service-based businesses that rely mostly on invoicing or that have limited inventory and POS needs
For medium to large-sized businesses and corporations, as well as those operating in multiple countries or that have more extensive product lines, Quickbooks Online might not have what you need.
You can try Quickbooks Desktop, as this has even more features than the online version, but check to make sure it’s going to do everything you need before committing.
What We Like About Quickbooks Online
The obvious thing to like about Quickbooks Online is that it has tons of features. For most small businesses, being able to do the things on the list above will be more than enough.
However, these features don’t really make Quickbooks unique—most accounting software will do some combination of these tasks. But one of the things that sets it apart is how easy it is to use.
This represents a big change in the way things used to be. One of the biggest knocks against Quickbooks has always been that it can be a bit cumbersome to use. But ever since Intuit rebuilt Quickbooks Online from the ground up in 2013, things have been much different.
Here’s more of what we like about Quickbooks Online:
Part of the reason Quickbooks Online is so easy to use is because of its homepage, also known as the Dashboard. This page puts all of the most relevant information about your business, such as current bank balances, current sales, expenses, bills due, unpaid invoice totals, and much more, all in one place.
Below is what the dashboard looks like which comes from the Quickbooks demos.
As you can see, this really makes it easy to get a snapshot of your business. But if you want to dig a bit deeper, then all you need to do is click on one of the options in the sidebar, and you will be taken to the relevant page.
Even someone with no Quickbooks experience can figure out how to maneuver Quickbooks Online in no time at all.
With Quickbooks Online, sending invoices is super easy. You’ll be able to customize them by adding in your logo and other personal information, and then you can send them off to be paid by customers, which they can do using their credit card or with a bank transfer.
If you prefer to use another invoicing service, such as PayPal, then you can integrate it into Quickbooks and things are just as easy.
Receipt Capture and Expenses
All versions of Quickbooks Online allow you to scan your receipts so that you can automatically populate your books as you incur expenses. This is particularly helpful when using the Quickbooks mobile app as it allows you to put in receipt information no matter where you are. This information will be automatically added to your expense ledger (shown below), which will allow you to get a quick snapshot of all your business expenses. You can also pay bills and view more details about each expense so that you can be in full control of your expenses at all times.
A big benefit of Quickbooks Online being cloud-based is that you can access it from a mobile app. In general, the app is easy to use and will allow you to send invoices, enter expenses, generate reports, and pretty much everything else Quickbooks Online can do right from your phone, which is a big convenience and time saver for most.
One other thing we really like about Quickbooks is its reports feature. Generating a Quickbooks Report can be done in just a few seconds, and this will allow you to get some valuable insight into how your business has changed over time. It will also help you spot worrying and encouraging trends in time to take action. To give you an example, here’s a simple report you can generate in just a few seconds in Quickbooks Online (taken from the demo version):
We could probably spend days talking about all the different apps that integrate with Quickbooks Online, and this is one of the reasons we really like this product.
For example, if you use PayPal to accept payments, you can easily link up your account so that your books automatically update when customers pay you.
Or, if you accept in-person payments using software such as Stripe or Square, you can integrate these into Quickbooks and also plug them into whichever inventory software you use so that everything is all in one place and easy to understand.
But this really just scratches the surface, and that Quickbooks Online works so well with so many other products is one of the things that helps it stand out.
What We Don’t Like About Quickbooks Online
Obviously, no software is perfect. It’s true Quickbooks Online will be able to meet most of your needs, but there are a few things we wished were a bit different, such as:
- There’s no revert feature. So, for example, if you make a big mistake and everything gets messed up, there’s no way to return back to a previous version so that you can start over. It might not be a big problem for some, but there’s a chance it could become an issue down the road.
- Customer service can be poor. This is a complaint people have been waging against Intuit for years, and it seems things haven’t changed much. All plans come with access to basic service, but most users report at least one experience of agents not being helpful or not really knowing the best way to fix the problem they are having. We can probably chalk this up to the size of Intuit, but that’s really not a valid excuse.
- It can be buggy. While Quickbooks Online is certainly easy to use, many users have experienced moments where things don’t work quite right. For example, Quickbooks may have trouble linking with certain banks. In general, this is not a big issue, but when coupled with less-than-stellar customer service, it can certainly be frustrating.
How Much Does Quickbooks Online Cost?
No matter which version of Quickbooks Online you choose, you will be able to:
- Track income and expenses
- Send invoices and receive payments
- Capture and organize receipts
- Maximize tax deductions
- Generate basic reports
- Send estimates
- Calculate sales tax
- Monitor sales numbers
If this is all you need, then the Simple Start plan is all you need. It costs $20/month, but Quickbooks is often running a 50-percent-off sale that should save you some money. However, if you sign up during one of these sales, then the price may go up on you at some point, so make sure to remain vigilant.
If you need something more, then you can get either the Essentials plan or the Plus plan. Both give you the features above but with Essentials ($35/month), you can also:
- Manage bills
- Track time
Furthermore, with Essentials, you can have up to three users, which is helpful if you have more than one person managing the books.
The next plan, Plus ($60/month), includes all the features of the first two options, but you will also be able to:
- Track inventory
- Monitor project profitability
- Manage 1099 contractors
If you’re interested in having Quickbooks do your payroll, then you can add this service on for $35/month + $4/month (self-service) or $80/month + $4/month (full service)
When accepting payments with Quickbooks, you will be charged transaction fees, which are:
- Visa, MasterCard, American Express: 2.9% + $0.25 per transaction
- Bank transfer (ACH): Free
If you need to accept in-person payments, you can use Quickbooks Payments, which offers several POS solutions.
Overall, Quickbooks Online is an excellent cloud-based accounting program that will help your small business manage its books.
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Licensure of Barbers and Cosmetologists dates back to before most of us were born. At that time, very few careers were licensed (less than 10%), but that number has grown, and now 32% of all occupations require a license. The licensure of an occupation is directly related to the risk of injury to a consumer associated with performing the tasks of the occupation. In the US, the states have in place requirements associated with obtaining and keeping a license to reduce the risk of injury to the consumers in the state and keep licensees up to date on safety rules/laws. In the cosmetology and barber world, the real risks to a consumer generally fall into 3 categories: infection control, chemical safety and electrical safety. There are also of course some requirements around things like ventilation and prohibited implements/services (credo blades, etc), but those tend to vary widely from state to state. In fact, while many of these concepts are addressed in every state, there is very little consistency on how they are addressed and what is required of a licensee. That said, regardless of what you read here or on other sources, it is important to know, understand and follow the rules in your state and locality. Let’s talk about some of the best practices around health & public safety in the professional beauty industry!
If you were unclear on infection control principles and practices prior to 2020… you certainly had the opportunity to brush up on these important skills during the last year. In fact, we had over 2 million professionals complete Barbicide Certification (Barbicide.com) in the first few months of the pandemic – everyone wanted to make sure they were practicing proper infection control. The basics of infection control are actually pretty simple! First, you must figure out what can be disinfected. Only hard, non-porous surfaces may be disinfected, so think of things like glass, metal and plastic. Soft surfaces such as fabric and the human body cannot be disinfected, in fact, disinfectants may ruin soft surfaces, so keep it to the hard stuff! Prior to disinfection, all items must be cleaned, something generally done with soap and water or a chemical cleaner. Once the items have been cleaned they are ready for disinfection with either a spray, wipe or immersion. Remember when selecting a disinfectant it must be EPA registered and for your business, it must be labeled as bactericidal, virucidal and fungicidal. You must follow the instructions on the label for mixing (if necessary), use (particularly contact time) and changing or disposal. If you can commit to memory the three C’s – Concentration, Contact Time and Changed Daily, you will be well on your way to practicing proper infection control. It is also worth noting that most states have rules around the method of disinfection that is acceptable – immersion is almost universally accepted, whereas wipes and sprays are not consistently accepted – it is important to know what is required in your state.
Even if you do not do chemical services, you certainly have chemicals in your business! Everything from your cleaning/disinfecting products to chemicals for services are all important and can pose safety risks if not handled properly! Luckily, all chemicals come with their own “how to” in the form of a label. The problem is that many of us fail to read the labels fully or believe we know how a chemical is to be used without verifying the specifics through reading the label! A perfect example is a chemical commonly found in this industry – bleach. Bleach is used for everything from laundry to cleaning and in some states, disinfection. Since this is a household chemical we have been around our whole lives, we tend to underestimate the risks associated with bleach and likely many who use it, have not really read the label. If we did read the label, we would discover that not all bleach disinfects, making many of the products ineffective for disinfection. We would also find that there are specific directions to dilute bleach, and at the same time, warnings about only mixing with water. Undiluted bleach can cause severe damage to your skin, eyes and upper respiratory tract. Mixing bleach with anything other than water can create gasses that may be fatal. For example, mixing chlorine (disinfecting) bleach with vinegar or any ammonia based product can create a very dangerous and potentially fatal gas. All chemicals have specifics about how they work, the risks associated with them and how to properly dispose of them – it is critically important that everyone who works in a salon, even if they are not licensed, read the labels and be aware of these risks.
All you have to do is look at the average station and you will see a mess of electrical cords that power some of the most important appliances of the industry. Many people have mistaken beliefs about how to use outlets, GFCI boxes on the end of a cord and extension cords. In the 1980’s, 18-20 people died a year simply using their blow dryers! Since 1991, those little boxes at the end of the cord GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters) have caused those numbers to plummet. In this industry where electric appliances are used in often overloaded circuits, around water and for longer periods of time, it is essential that electrical safety be understood and observed. Much like chemicals, all electric appliances come with instructions for use that include whether or not they can be used with extension cords or require GFCI plugs. For the safety of both your client and yourself, ensuring that outlets are not overloaded, proper outlets are used and appliances are not used near water sources is important.
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Data from: The genomic landscape of rapid repeated evolutionary adaptation to toxic pollution in wild fish
Reid, Noah M. et al. (2017), Data from: The genomic landscape of rapid repeated evolutionary adaptation to toxic pollution in wild fish, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.68n87
Atlantic killifish populations have rapidly adapted to normally lethal levels of pollution in four urban estuaries. Through analysis of 384 whole killifish genome sequences and comparative transcriptomics in four pairs of sensitive and tolerant populations, we identify the aryl hydrocarbon receptor–based signaling pathway as a shared target of selection. This suggests evolutionary constraint on adaptive solutions to complex toxicant mixtures at each site. However, distinct molecular variants apparently contribute to adaptive pathway modification among tolerant populations. Selection also targets other toxicity-mediating genes and genes of connected signaling pathways; this indicates complex tolerance phenotypes and potentially compensatory adaptations. Molecular changes are consistent with selection on standing genetic variation. In killifish, high nucleotide diversity has likely been a crucial substrate for selective sweeps to propel rapid adaptation.
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communication tools, allowing users to share ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, interests with people in their network.
社交网站多种多样，可整合各种新的信息及通讯工具，并允许用户跟网络中的其他人分享观点、图片、帖子、活动、事件以及兴趣爱好等。 SNS have affected the social life and activity of people in various ways.SNS 已通过各种方式影响到人们的社会生活以及社交活动。
With its availability on many mobile devices, a social networking service allows the users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet.
A social networking service can also unite people with common interests and beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been known to reunite lost family members and friends because of the widespread reach of its network.
nominal 名义上的，有名无实的 temporal 收时间限制的，世俗的 reciprocal 相互的，交互的 denote 意指，代表，表示
consecutive 连续的，不间断的 spectator 观众（可数） mutter 低嘀咕，低声说 composite n.合成物adj合成的 malicious 恶意的，恶毒的
1. Although he was not a legal expert, he knew it would not be proper to (fabricate) anything to mislead the public.
2. He does not work full time there, but he has been the (nominal) head of the organization's scholarship program for five years.
3. As Mark walked the sites on that initial trip of the migrants, he found some important (temporal) clues — dated bus tickets, shopping receipts and calendars.
4. In urban planning, it is important to take into consideration the (reciprocal) influence between the transportation network and other facilities, for example shopping centers and medical centers.
5. The label \Choices\on the front of food packages usually (denotes) products that meet criteria for lower fat, sugar and sodium (钠) content. 6. The public high school graduation rates in New Mexico and Arizona have been increasing for three (consecutive) years, thanks to an online program that helps students earn missing credits.
7. In the accident at the air show last week, a pilot and 10 (spectators) were killed when a fighter plane crashed into the crowd.
8. The mother was not sure where the boys went, but she did hear them (muttering) something about going out for a movie with friends.
9. This newly released portrait of Planet Earth is actually a (composite) of several pictures taken earlier this month by a new research satellite.
10. You shouldn't feel insulted. We can assure you he meant to be friendly and there was nothing impolite or (malicious) in his words. 短语
get to the point 切入主题 be attached to 与…有联系，是…的特征
starve to death 饿死 If anything 如果有什么不同
1. We chatted for half an hour before he finally (got to the point) : He wanted to work as a business consultant and wondered if I could pass along the names of certain potential clients.
2. Scientists at the research center identified various features that (are attached to) the commodities purchased by female consumers.
3. The three mountain climbers (would have starved to death) if the villagers had not found them lying at the bottom of the valley.
4. The boy looked up timidly at his father who was sitting next to him, but he
be suspicious of 感觉不可信任，怀疑 wander around 离题，漫游，闲逛 on the side 作为副业，作为兼职 be representative of 有代表性的
didn't stop crying. (If anything) , his crying became more intense. 5. Since no one knew how the disease spread, they (were suspicious of) everything, including mosquitoes, swimming pools, and people from other neighborhoods.
6. At the press conference, the government spokesman avoided answering the question about health-care reform directly. Instead he just (wandered around) to talk about the harsh economic situation.
7. Mr. Rogers, whom you met in the museum yesterday, works as a software engineer and plays folk music (on the side) .
8. These schools were selected for our survey because the composition of their student bodies (was representative of) the district's enrollment, which included a large proportion of children from immigrant families.
The Renaissance was an influential cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation at the dawn of modern European history.
It began in Italy and later spread to the rest of Europe, immediately following the Middle Ages and spanning roughly from the 14th to the 17th century.
The Renaissance was characterized by a revival of interest in classical learning, wisdom and values from the Ancient Greek and Roman eras.
Renaissance scholars employed the humanist method in study and searched for realism and human emotion in art.
Scientists no longer accepted the teachings of the Church at face value.
Instead, they studied the natural world through their own observation and experimentation.
Likewise, artists developed new techniques and achieved more advanced effects by applying mathematics and optics (光学) to paintings, sculpture and other art forms.
The Renaissance profoundly changed the European intellectual life in the early modern period.
Through the rediscovery of ancient texts, it triggered both a rebirth of classical learning and a rebirth of European culture in general.
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Why Study This Course
The B.Sc Chemistry course is a popular choice among the science streams with its wide scope and infinite possibilities. The core subject Chemistry and the allied subjects of Mathematics and Physics lay a strong foundation in basic sciences. The course offers insight into the various branches of Chemistry – Organic, Inorganic, Physical, Analytical, Applied, Pharmaceutical, Industrial and Environmental Chemistry. The course breaks the ground for students to pursue the offshoots of interdisciplinary fields of science including Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Biochemistry. The B.Sc Chemistry course fulfils the aspirations of students to study in institutions of Excellence in Science.
Careers and Placements
After graduation, students can do Master’s degree in any of the specializations in chemistry from reputed institutes like IIT, IISc, NIT and central and state Universities. They may obtain an additional degree in teacher’s training and get placed in schools. Chemistry being indispensable to all industries, graduates in Chemistry finds numerous opportunities as Analysts, Quality control Chemists and technical assistants. Students find employment as laser expert, lab technician, technical writer, educator, entrepreneur, and computer programmer etc., to name a few. Some of the recruiters – chemical factories, fertilizer plants, refineries, government departments (Food, Beverages etc), energy firms, pharmaceutical firms and forensic labs.
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Chemistry is a fascinating branch of Science. It is indispensable and significant in our day-to-day life. You cannot imagine the world without Chemistry. It has allured generations of Science students with its magic. The undergraduate course in Chemistry enables students to build up knowledge in the fundamentals of Chemistry. It spurs students to explore the various branches of Chemistry and kindles their interest to delve deeper into the subject. The curriculum of the course is designed to equip students to brace the challenges of industry and is a bridge between education and profession. The three-year course is an exciting journey that offers a wide scope for the students to build their careers. | <urn:uuid:4ae2be5c-9bef-4c18-a8d8-2a6b69e6367b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://annaadarsh.edu.in/b-sc-chemistry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.925906 | 472 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Top Solar Powered Generator in 2022 [Indoor & Outdoor]
Solar-powered generators are becoming more popular, especially as their battery capacity increases. As solar generators are the perfect source of backup power, every solar-powered generator has the potential to reduce your carbon footprint while providing you with backup power when you need it the most: on your camping trip, in your RV, or even during a power outage. Some of the best solar-powered generators today can cost quite a lot, so we are here to help you find the perfect solar generator for you.
What is a Solar Powered Generator?
A solar-powered generator is a device that uses solar panels to produce power and store it in its battery. Unlike traditional, roof-mounted solar panels, a solar generator produces less power and takes a longer time to charge. However, once fully charged, it can provide you with clean backup power and power some of your devices, depending on how much power they consume. A much cheaper alternative to a solar array and a solar battery, this solar power station can provide less power, as the idea is to provide emergency backup power.
So, why should you invest money in a solar generator if you can simply purchase a whole solar system and enjoy all the benefits that solar power has to offer? Well, even if you get the best solar deal, a solar array is very expensive, and the electricity in your area could be very cheap, to begin with. However, when the power is gone (during a power outage), you may need a backup power source – this is where solar generators come into play.
As they are small and transportable, you can move them wherever you would like to power any device you want. They come with a solar panel (or a few of those) so that they can be recharged using solar power whenever it is available. Furthermore, to add to the diversity and practicality, most solar generator manufacturers also include the option of charging your solar generator via a wall outlet.
Furthermore, as most solar generators can power multiple devices at once, they come with several outlets. An AC outlet and USB ports can be found on almost all solar generators n the market today. As the solar power generator charges your devices, it can itself be charged as well, especially as the solar panel keeps producing electricity for as long as your portable power station is in full sun.
How Does It Work?
Your solar generator is a simple device. It consists of a solar panel, solar power storage, and an inverter. All these components are packaged neatly into a single housing that is portable, lightweight, and usually stylish as well. As solar generators have only a few components, they operate simply and are easy to set up.
Your solar generator has three essential components: a solar panel (or solar panels), a solar inverter (sometimes also called a solar converter), and solar power storage or a high-capacity solar battery. Even the best solar-powered generators have these three essential components. Some additional components that your solar generator has included:
- AC outlet,
- USB ports (usually more than one),
- DC outputs, and
- An optional CiG connector.
As sunlight reaches the panel, it produces solar electricity. This electricity is in the DC (Direct Current) form. This power is then used to charge your power station when not in use. If you have devices attached to it, it will charge those devices first, and then it will charge the inside battery. Once the battery is full, the charge cycle stops, and the device is ready to be used.
Once you plug your device or appliance into the AC socket, the inverter starts doing its magic. It takes the DC power from the power station and converts it to AC (Alternating Current) that your device can use. Depending on how much power your portable power station stores and how much power your appliance needs, your AC outlets could provide power for upwards of one hour.
Once the device is empty, it is time to recharge it. Simply unfold the panel(s) and leave the whole set up in the sun for a few hours. Depending on the power station capacity and what type, size, and efficiency the solar panel has, it can take up to several hours for the solar panel to fully charge the power station.
As they are simple devices, solar-powered generators are easy to set up and start using. Once you’ve chosen among many solar generators on the market, it is necessary to know how to set up and use the device properly to ensure it serves you as long as possible. You can set up your solar-powered generator by following these steps:
- Turn on your power generator,
- Start charging your solar generator. This can be done in two ways:
- By using your AC outlet – for backup power on the go and at home. In this case, simply plug the charging cable into the portable power station and then into one of the AC outlets in your home. Wait for the predefined time (which can be found in the manual), and then your device is ready to power other devices in the case of a power outage or a picnic. You can store the device with a charge for weeks and even months with little charge loss, or
- By using a solar panel to charge it – in this case, connect the solar panel to the appropriate power input port, and place the panel in full, direct sunshine. Once the device is full, you can use it or store it, just as in the case of charging it through a wall outlet. Please bear in mind that charging your solar generator through solar panels will take considerably longer, as even the best solar panels have an efficiency of around 22%.
- Once the device is full, disconnect it from the power source,
- Connect the device that you would like to charge and wait until the device is charged to the desired level. Most solar generators can charge several devices simultaneously, but please be aware that the more devices you connect to it, the faster the portable power station will run out of power. They are intended to be used as backup power sources,
- When the solar generator power runs out, simply recharge it. Some solar generators can simultaneously charge themselves and other devices, so make sure you read the manual and see what type of solar generator you have purchased. As solar-powered generators are not cheap, knowing how to use one is the best thing you can do to ensure long service life.
Different Ways to Charge Your Solar Generator
Considering that solar generators are portable and are meant to be used in a variety of situations, your best solar-powered generator will come with several charging options. Most models today have three options to get charged: grid charging, solar panel charging, and car charging. Let’s dive straight in:
Grid charging is not the preferred way of charging your solar generators, especially if they come with solar panels. Your 110V AC outlet can charge your solar generator in as little as a couple of hours. If you purchase a model with a multi-phase charger, it will take longer, but you will get a complete charge, which cannot be said with ultra-fast chargers.
Solar Panel Charging
The best solar generators come with solar panels included. This way, you can generate green electricity and use it to power small appliances. If your solar generator does not come with pre-packaged solar panels, you will have to purchase those separately. When doing this, you have to ensure that your solar generator can handle the input coming from the panels. As most solar panels have a rated maximum voltage of between 13 and 48V, it is necessary to match these to your solar generator’s incoming power supply – overdoing it can burn the generator.
12V car charging is also a possibility with all the solar generators that you can find in better stores. This way, you can charge your solar generator while driving and enjoy free power during the night. In most cases, you will probably be using a variety of energy sources to power devices, such as generators.
Average Cost of Solar Generators
Solar generators do not come cheap. In general, they can cost thousands of dollars for the best solar generators. For this reason, knowing how much is enough power for you and which electronic devices you will be powering is essential before making the purchase. A solar generator works for you – by saving you electricity. However, if you only need to power small electronics, you’d better not overinvest.
In general, solar generators cost between $1-$2 per Watt-hour of power they hold. While some simpler models, capable of recharging your phone, can cost around $100, bigger models that can power devices, such as a microwave or a vacuum cleaner, and can handle a surge power demand, cost more – usually between $1,000-2,000 for a 2kWh model.
Things to Consider when Buying Solar Generators
As solar generators are not cheap, this purchase requires some thinking time. Even the best solar generator is not meant for everybody, so you should be aware of how much energy you need to store, what kind of small appliances you will be using it for and what kind of power supply serves your needs the best. There are also other factors to consider when buying a solar generator:
- Battery Capacity & Type,
- High Solar Input Wattage,
- Charging Speed,
- Number & Types of Outlets,
- Size & Weight,
- Price Tag,
- Warranty, and
- Company Reputation.
Battery Capacity & Type
The battery capacity and type determine how much energy can be stored in your solar generator. The higher the battery capacity, the more power can be stored in it. Of course, batteries with a larger capacity are also bulkier and not as portable, but considering that the battery capacity determines how many and which small appliances and devices you will be able to power, you may want to consider this at first.
Furthermore, a higher battery capacity means a longer battery life, as your power needs will be dealt with in fewer charge cycles. To power devices that consume more power, you will also need a bigger battery capacity. Some of the best solar generators that you can, for example, take on a camping trip, include lithium-ion batteries with up to 2,000 Wh of capacity, enough to run a TV for around 10 hours straight. On the other hand, there are small batteries, just large enough to charge your phone a few times.
High Solar Input Wattage
Solar input wattage is another important factor to consider. The battery capacity is important, but to get your solar generators’ worth in usability, you also need a high solar input wattage. As every solar generator comes with solar panels, it is time to talk about the solar output of these solar panels. Namely, solar panels produce power that is stored in the battery pack. Having more solar panels means a shorter charge time.
For example, a 200 W solar panel will charge your solar generator twice as fast as a single 100 W solar panel. However, solar generators with more solar panels cost more. Although this type of portable power station can provide you with higher power output, the higher price does not always mean that they pay off. It is a general rule of thumb that you should always go for a solar generator that can be fully charged in a day with its solar panels. This way, you will have a fully charged device every evening.
The number and the wattage of your solar panel will have a strong effect on the charging speed of your solar generator. This means you should always choose a generator that can be charged relatively quickly. Even the best solar generators take a few hours to be fully charged. However, investing extra money to bring down the charge time significantly does not always pay off. The fastest charging speed will, of course, be when you use your wall outlet to charge the solar generator, but this defeats its purpose except in some extreme situations.
Number & Types of Outlets
All the solar generators in the market today have a certain battery power that is, depending on the type, capable of charging multiple electronic devices at the same time. For this reason, it is necessary to know the number and types of outlets your solar generator has. Unlike solar panels, which connect to your home mains and provide power to AC outlets, a solar generator usually has the following output ports:
- AC outlet,
- USB ports,
- DC outputs, and
- An optional CiG connector.
Size & Weight
A solar generator is compact and portable. However, this does not mean it is small. Since not all solar generators have the same power supply, they vary in size and weight. Generally speaking, the heavier a solar generator is, the bigger its dimensions and battery capacity are. Power stations, in general, measure at least 7 X 4 X 4 inches and can weigh upwards of two pounds.
Based on their size, capacity, and the maximum power output, as well as the power ports, solar generators typically cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. They are, in general, much more expensive than gas generators. However, a higher initial investment should not put you off purchasing one, as a solar generator is much cheaper, almost free, to run, unlike a gas generator. Throughout its lifetime, a good solar generator will have paid itself off many times.
As a portable power station or a solar generator is not cheap, you should be extra cautious with the warranty that comes with your particular model. Most manufacturers will give a 1-year warranty, while premium products will come with an 18-month or 2-year warranty. Depending on where you live, the warranty can be even longer, so you should always explore your options before purchasing one.
The final factor we recommend you check out before making your purchase is the company’s reputation or the manufacturer’s reputation. Even the best solar generators can break down (rarely, though, if you handle them the proper way), so knowing that a good company has produced your solar generator is a good place to start looking for your device.
Things to Avoid in Solar Generators
However, not all is a fairytale when it comes to solar generators. These devices cost a lot of money, and with a battery capacity that goes up to 5 kWh, they can make your life much easier. For this reason, being able to avoid some common red flags and secure a reliable device that will serve you for years to come is necessary. The most common things to avoid in solar generators are lead-acid batteries and a poor power-capacity ratio.
In general, you should avoid lead-acid batteries. These batteries are not as safe as other types, do not provide enough power capacity, and you need many of them to go through power outages or to make means for off-grid living. They are too bulky and heavy for camping trips and may take way too long to charge from an AC wall outlet.
Going with lithium-ion batteries (LiIon) is the best thing you can do. They are perfect for camping trips and other outdoor usages. Easier to water-proof and more reliable than lead-acid, these batteries also pack in more power, as they can power many devices on USB ports for a longer time. Their compact design and no liquid to escape make them the perfect solution for all those looking for a truly portable solar generator.
Poor Power-Capacity Ratio
In some cases, you will see a solar generator with a poor power-capacity ratio. What this means is that the device has a high maximum power output but a low battery capacity. This ends up in a device that can power large appliances but for a short while. Going with a higher power capacity and a lower maximum output is always a better option.
Uses of Solar Generators
As a solar generator captures sunlight and turns it into usable power, any electricity that is not immediately used is stored in the battery. Once the battery is full, the charging stops, and you can use your solar generator to power other devices as well. There are many uses of a solar generator:
- Powering small devices and appliances,
- Charging your handheld electronics, laptops, flashlights, etc.
- Running bigger appliances (for a short while),
- Providing emergency power, especially in the case of an outage, and
- Providing power to remote, off-grid areas.
Solar Generator LifeSpan
Generally speaking, your solar generator can last upwards of 20 years, depending on how often you use it. Bigger and bulkier models can last even longer, up to 35 years. As this is a device made to last, you should always take good care of it and ensure its longevity and good service. Here are some factors that can influence the lifespan of your solar generator:
- Battery capacity,
- Battery maximum rated power output,
- The number and wattage of devices connected to it,
- Presence of humidity and temperature fluctuations,
- Careful handling, and
- The frequency of use.
Are Solar Generators Safe?
Yes, solar generators are safe. These devices can easily be used both indoors and outdoors. Unlike a gas generator, a solar generator does not produce any fumes or gasses that could harm your health. This includes both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, a potentially deadly gas. This is the reason why gas generators should never be used indoors.
On the other hand, handling your solar generator in a way that it was not meant to be handled, especially getting it wet or hitting it, can damage internal circuitry and cause an electric shock. It is always best to keep your solar generator in a separate room and out of reach of children. Any damage to the solar generator should be reported to a certified body, and they should also inspect the device to ensure that it is still safe to use.
Solar Generators Vs. Gas Generators
If you would like to buy a generator and are thinking about going solar or purchasing a gas generator, it is worthwhile to make a small comparison. Namely, as the two types of generators use very different technology, their prices, specs, and performance are very different. Let’s have a deeper look.
Firstly, the price of a solar vs. a gas generator is different. Solar generators are generally much more expensive than gas generators. This is because they have one additional component that gas generators do not have: the battery pack. As such, solar generators cost twice as much as gas-powered generators.
However, since gas generators use gas to generate electricity, you should consider the operational costs as well. The solar option uses no fuel of any kind and is ready to be used whenever there is some sunlight. Gas generators, on the other hand, burn gas which costs money. In the long run, solar generators pay off and win.
Furthermore, solar generators cost very little to maintain, as there are no moving parts, no pipes, or exhaust of any kind. A dry and dark place is all they need to stay safely stored (and charged) for months. The same cannot be said of gas generators, as they take regular maintenance and a yearly inspection.
Benefits of Solar Generators
As solar-powered generators are a relatively new product on the market, it is necessary to get to know what advantages they have to offer. Portable solar generators are still on the pricey side (but still much cheaper than entire solar systems and a full-sized solar battery). As such, solar generators offer the following benefits:
- They are easy to operate,
- They reduce electricity costs, especially when compared to gas generators,
- They are virtually maintenance-free,
- They are very portable,
- They allow you to tap into the solar potential,
- They provide a continuous power output, especially as an emergency power source,
- They let you use renewable energy.
Easy to Operate
The complex engineering and design of the solar generators mean that they are fairly easy to use. The entire operation process is as simple as charging your solar generator using a solar panel or a wall outlet and discharging it when charging devices or power appliances. There is no need for any cables or adapters, as every solar generator comes with several different output ports that you can use to power different small appliances and charge devices.
Reduce Electric Costs
While a solar generator cannot keep your hot tub warm and bubbly, it can help reduce your electricity costs by giving you access to a limited amount of solar electricity. The stored energy can be used for a variety of purposes, especially with an AC adapter, which can power many small appliances. The savings are especially easy to spot if you use gas-powered generators, which cost more year after year as gas prices increase.
Solar generators are almost maintenance-free. Keeping them dust-free and in a dry environment when not in use will ensure their longevity and access to emergency power when you need it for years to come. The output ports on most models have safety covers. Choosing the right solar generator, therefore, does not include any planning on the maintenance costs.
As solar generators are small and lightweight (usually the size of a car battery), they are extremely portable. You can take one with you wherever you go: on a picnic, in your RV, or you can even use it at home. The portability of solar generators is their biggest con.
Allows Access to Solar Energy
A solar generator is a smaller, more portable, and more affordable form of a solar array. The battery pack that is inside is enough to give you a taste of what solar power can do. Depending on how much energy you consume, it can help you better understand how solar energy works and on a small scale – all without polluting.
Provides Steady Backup Power
Your solar generator provides a steady power output when you need it the most. This can include hiking trips and picnics, but it can also mean providing you with enough power to keep the essential devices up and running during a blackout. This is the primary reason for buying a solar generator.
As every solar generator comes with one or more solar panels, you will be able to enjoy the benefits of renewable energy. Using renewable energy stored in the lithium battery of your solar generator means lowering your carbon footprint, helping mitigate climate change, and having access to emergency power that is clean and can be used both inside and outside (unlike gas-powered generators).
Taking Care of your Solar Generators
Even the best solar generator needs some care. Most of them need to stay away from the elements. Subfreezing temperatures, very hot weather, and humidity (including rain), can prove to be very harmful to your device. For this reason, you should always have a dry and safe spot to keep your solar generator in. Keeping it away from sunlight is another thing to take care of, as sunlight can heat the device and reduce its efficiency quite quickly.
Top 10 Solar Generators in 2022
As there are many solar-powered generators on the market, we’ve decided to do what we can to help you choose the right one. We’ve compared the existing models based on battery, output, max solar input, and solar charging time, to come up with the list of the top 10 solar-powered generators in the market today. Here is the list, starting with the lowest capacity:
|Solar Generator||Battery Capacity||Rated Output||Solar Input||Max Solar Charging Time||Laptop Power Time @50Wh||Fridge Power Time @115Wh|
|Jackery Explorer 1000||1000 Wh||1000 W||200W||8 Hours||20 Hours||8.70 Hours|
|Goal Zero Yeti 1000||1000 Wh||1,500W||120W||4.5 Hours||20 Hours||~15 Hours|
|EcoFlow Delta 1300||1250 Wh||1,800W||700W||4 Hours||25 Hours||10.87 Hours|
|Bluetti AC200P Portable||2,000 Wh||2,000 W||700W||4 Hours||40 Hours||17.39 Hours|
|Jackery Explorer 2000 Pro||2,150 Wh||2,200W||1,200W||2.5 Hours||43 Hours||18.70 Hours|
|Goal Zero Yeti 3000X||3,000 Wh||2,000W||1,200W||6 Hours||60 Hours||26.09 Hours|
|Renogy Lycan 5000||4,800 Wh||3,500W||4,400W||2.5 Hours||96 Hours||41.74 Hours|
|Bluetti EP500 5100 Wh/2000W||5,100 Wh||2,000W||1,200W||5 Hours||102 Hours||44.35 Hours|
|Jackery Explorer 500||500 Wh||500 W||100W||7.5 Hours||10 Hours||4.35 Hours|
|Goal Zero Yeti 500X||500 Wh||300W||200W||6 Hours||10 Hours||4.35 Hours|
What is the most powerful portable solar generator?
The GoalZero Yeti 6000X is the most powerful portable solar generator we have seen. With 6 kWh of battery capacity, this powerful device can run a space heater (very energy-hungry) for 3 hours straight. Alternatively, it can charge your phone and laptop hundreds of times before running out of juice and is powerful enough to take over, supplying your entire home with clean energy in case of a power failure.
Is it worth getting a solar generator?
Yes, it is worth getting a solar generator. As generators store enough power to provide emergency power access in times of need, their use is more of a necessity than a luxury. A solar generator can provide enough power for small appliances, your laptop and WiFi router, as well as medical devices if the need be.
What solar generators are made in USA?
Jackery, Grid Eraser, and Bluetti are the largest US solar generator producers. Besides these, Tesla also has power generators or solar batteries. However, they are not portable. By purchasing US products, you are helping the local economy, as well as ensuring that your hard-earned dollar stays in your country.
Are Solar Generators noisy?
No, solar generators are not noisy at all. Most generators make no noise at all, while more powerful models may have a single low-voltage (and low-noise) fan to cool themselves. Besides the cost-efficiency, this is one of the biggest advantages of a solar generator, as opposed to a gas generator.
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How The Chemicals In Your Yoga Mat Could Mess With Fertility + What To Do About It
If you're a woman who regularly practices yoga, a new study published in Environmental Health Perspective last week may have sounded a few alarm bells: Apparently, there are chemicals in yoga mats that can make it more difficult to get pregnant.
These chemicals are called organophosphate flame retardants (PFRs), and they're a class of chemicals found in most yoga mats. So while your mat won't catch fire while you're in downward-facing dog, it probably is slightly toxic. In an attempt to find out what impact PFRs have on fertility, researchers followed 211 women who were trying to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
The researchers tested for metabolites of PFRs in each woman's urine, and they found that the women with higher levels of these metabolites were 31 percent less likely to have the embryo successfully implant in the uterus, 10 percent less likely to achieve fertilization, 41 percent less likely to get pregnant, and a 38 percent less likely to give live birth. Yikes.
Can you do anything about the chemicals you've already been exposed to?
If you hit the yoga mat seven days a week and don't love the results of this study, Aviva Romm, M.D. and natural women's health expert, notes that PFRs aren't only in yoga mats. "Flame retardant chemicals are everywhere," she says. "And yes, it's a real risk. Unfortunately, we can’t do anything about the ones we’ve been exposed to, per se, but we can keep our detox systems and elimination healthy and strong."
Erica Chidi Cohen, doula and co-founder of the reproductive wellness company LOOM, says that you should evaluate how much time you're actually spending on your yoga mat. "I like to get people to adopt a 70/30 rule," she says. "So if someone is working out every single day and using a yoga mat at a studio that probably contains PFRs, buy your own mat. If you’re doing yoga only three or four times a month and don’t want to make the investment, maybe it’s not worth it. So it’s really about how often you’re using that product. But we can and should do our best to avoid them whenever and however we can."
What you should know about PFRs if you're trying to get pregnant.
When it comes to fertility, Cohen says the most important thing women can do is lower their stress levels. "The No. 1 thing we’re trying to reduce for people trying to get pregnant is anxiety," she says. "While that study is helpful—because knowing more about chemicals and solvents and how they impact your fertility is always important—in terms of being alarmed, I wouldn’t necessarily go on red alert, but I would definitely look more closely at every yoga mat I do have and try to make a quick switch. There are tons of great natural yoga mats out there!"
If you're in the market for an all-natural, chemical-free yoga mat, you have options. Manduka has an excellent selection of nontoxic rubber yoga mats, as does Jade and Yoloha, which makes cork yoga mats.
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Setting the P25 Decode Level for the BCD396T and BCD996T
Paul Opitz, the Uniden product manager, posted the threshold table for the BCD396T in an effort to make tuning easier for us. L. W. "Dan" Danz posted instructions on how to use this table to the BCD396T Yahoo group. It should be stressed that it's likely this discussion also applies to the BCD996T.
From L. W. "Dan" Danz (WA5SKM) Fountain Hills AZ
There are some initially-confusing things about the P25 Decode Threshold level. The manual gives very adequate instructions about how to use the AUTO setting, I thought. But I'll provide some insight:
The level numbers are an index into a table of thresholds for decoding the digital data. Higher numbers are more permissive (the thresholds for decoding are wider) while smaller numbers tighten the threshold ranges. The optimum range depends on how the technicians have set up the system you are trying to receive.
DEFAULT - Means a Level (Index) setting of 8. Thresholds don't change. Most likely you can do better.
MANUAL - Means you control it all - Hold Func and press the scroll knob twice to get the screen. Adjust the setting with the knob until you get the best result for any given SYSTEM. The radio will remember this setting for that System and use it every time it has to decode digital audio.
AUTO - Means the radio attempts to fine tune the P25 audio transmission thresholds during receive. You can generally see it doing this. During the beta test, we convinced Uniden to implement a slight change to the "Auto" functionality. Specifically, we noticed that it was starting over at the default setting and then trying to correct it again at every transmission; sometimes this meant it took a long time to settle in. We went thru a couple of iterations, requiring at first - Set the threshold with MANUAL and then AUTO would use that as a starting point. This was cumbersome, and soon changed to the ability to control the starting point while in AUTO mode by using FUNC-SCROLL while viewing the decode screen. Whatever you set at this point will be remembered FOR THIS SYSTEM as the starting point for the auto-tuning function for subsequent transmission ON THAT SYSTEM.
Incidentally, we did suggest the ultimate -- for the radio to automatically remember this on its own, continually refining it and picking a better starting point if it could. But the engineers thought it would results in too many writes to the EEPROM, which has a generous capability for making changes to the programming, but the limit would be reached if every P25 audio transmission resulted in a write.
Now I can offer a slight refinement (courtesy of a very helpful Engineer at Uniden): If you're having trouble with a P16 (Moto type 2) system decoding digital P25 audio, slightly offtune the automatic setting. Frequently the radio will auto tune to a setting that is halfway between the values that you can set manually. For example, it might finally settle to a low threshold of 1.41, but you can't set the starting point to that, you can only make it 1.40 or 1.42. Well, the trick that helps stop the motorboating is to pick the tighter threshold side. In the example, instead of picking 1.40, pick 1.42 (that's a tighter threshold). (Think of it as similar to setting the squelch tighter for a conventional channel.) Even if you auto-tune to an even value, like 1.42, pick the next tighter value (1.44) to start at.
Works for me. Cuts out 80% of the motorboating that occurred prior to or after a transmission. YMMV. You guys having trouble with motorboating on the San Mateo system should definitely try this.
Posted by --Al42 21:06, 14 Sep 2005 (CDT)
Addition by Paul Opitz on 6/7/2007
One other thing to note is that the adjustment mentioned above must be done while you have good reception. The other side of that coin is that the above adjustment does absolutely nothing to fix reception issues. If you have bad decode, first ensure you are actually getting a good signal (no interference and solid receive). You can check this by tuning the frequency conventionally, opening squelch, and listening to see if you are getting dropouts or audible interference. Only after fixing any reception issues (changing antennas, location, etc) should you try to optimize the P25 decode thresholds.
Once optimized for a system, the threshold settings should not be changed, regardless of future interference or signal conditions, unless you have confirmation that the system engineers have actually made changes to the system itself (which is highly unlikely, as it would require all mobile units operating on the system also be brought in for retuning).
If the P25 audio is choppy, or switches between LNK and P25, Set P25 LEVEL to DEFAULT. This can also happen if you are in the fringes of the coverage of a P25 system, and the control channel is not being received cleanly. LNK also shows up when a P25 signal is being transmitted with no audio.
Viewing the Decode Screen
Make sure the system’s P25 Level option is set to Auto. Press HOLD/RESUME on an active digital channel on the system. HOLD appears on the display. Press F then VOL. The APCO threshold Adjust Mode appears at the bottom of the display.
The next to last line on the display now shows the digital error rate and the AUTO decode threshold start level (0-20). The last line on the display shows the decode threshold levels for the system.
Allow the scanner to monitor channel activity for several minutes. The error rate should drop for each transmission and the threshold levels should automatically adjust to a more optimal setting. Then, once the threshold level settles to a stable setting, write down these values. This is the system’s optimum decode threshold. Rotate the Scroll Control to set the AUTO decode threshold start level to a setting that most closely matches the system’s optimum decode threshold. Whatever you set at this point will be remembered FOR THIS SYSTEM as the starting point for the auto-tuning function for subsequent transmission ON THAT SYSTEM. To exit when the settings are complete, press FUNC then VOL.
Setting the P25 Decode Level for the BCD396XT and BCD996XT and other tips
With the XT models you can still view the decode screen by pressing the scroll control then Vol but that is all you can do. The adjustments require a different method. There is also no need to to be in HOLD mode or be monitoring a single system. Probably the closest equivalent to 'Analyze' mode in the RS/GRE digital scanners.
- Hold the HOLD key while powering up the scanner. The screen will flash all of the colors twice
- Press Menu; go to Settings.
- Three options (2 new) will appear;
- P25 LP Filter
- P25 Adjust Mode (new)
- P25 Adjust Level (new)
- P25 LP Filter - lets you set the scanner to apply a software filter that removes the 4kHz tone you can hear on some P25 systems. Note that turning on this setting increases the CPU load and could slightly degrade P25 decode performance on some systems. The option is on or off.
- P25 Adjust Mode - This mode sets the algorithm for P25 decode. Leave it at 3. Anything higher than 3 will just act like 3. Anything lower will have the reduced performance of previous firmware versions on the 396T.
- P25 Adjust Level - sets the RSSI value below which the scanner will not attempt to make P25 fine tune adjustments. If the signal is too low, RX reliability is not high enough to make P25 adjustments correctly. 50 is the default setting (1-200). From posts I've read, people have had better decoding with this value turned up.
- P25 Waiting Time - (In the Conventional systems and Motorola site menus) On channels that contain a mix of analog and digital signals (i.e., where the Audio Mode is set to All), it is possible to have false decode problems caused by digital noise at the beginning of transmissions. To prevent this, a user-configurable P25 wait time (default 400ms; 0 to 1000 ms) has been added. During the wait time, the scanner evaluates the received signal; if it detects P25 data, the scanner opens squelch immediately. If it does not detect any P25 data, the scanner opens squelch as soon as the wait time expires.
- Note: Any analog transmissions on this channel will lose the first part of the transmission, up to the wait time you set here. Select the number of milliseconds (after the start of a transmission) the scanner should wait while checking for P25 data. Choose a number from 0 through 1000 ms in 100 ms increments. The scanner only applies the wait time setting to Conventional or Motorola (non P25) systems, and only when the channel's Audio Mode setting is All.
Thanks to Danny6569 and others for this information
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Let the chilled dough warm at room temp. for a few minutes so it softens slightly. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
Dust the pastry lightly with flour and roll it out into a circle about 35cm (14 inches) in diameter. It doesn't matter if it is slightly larger than the baking tray at this point. Roll up the pastry around the rolling pin, then unroll over the lined baking sheet.
Roll and tuck the outer 5cm (2 inch) border of the circle under itself to neaten the edge and create a thicker crust, a bit like a pizza! NOTE: You may need to trim the edges of the pastry before rolling up to get it to fit onto the baking tray properly.
Now crimp the edge of the pastry all the way around with your fingertips (see video above for how to do it) OR use the tines of a fork to make impressions all the way around the edge.
Prick the centre of the pastry all over with a fork to prevent it bubbling up when it bakes.
Chill the pastry for 10-15 minutes as your oven preheats to 190 C (170 C fan / 375 F).
Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden brown. Keep an eye on it and use a metal spatula to press down any big air bubbles that may form as it bakes.
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A series of heavy rainstorms has caused severe flooding near San Jose, California, forcing a mandatory evacuation of at least 14,000 residents overnight. About 250 of those people had to be rescued via boat by emergency crews. The flooding affected Coyote Creek and the spillway of the Anderson Reservoir, which was filled to capacity by the recent rain.
An additional 22,000 have not been ordered to evacuate yet, but have been encouraged to leave their homes. Some of those affected have complained that they received no advance notice that they needed to evacuate until firefighters showed up, delivering notifications door-to-door, leaving them little time to prepare. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has pledged to investigate the issue.
Floodwaters have begun to recede, however, the danger may not have passed. Further rain is forecast for this weekend, but the break in the rain should allow authorities time to assess the current damage. Water levels in Coyote Creek are already at a 100 year peak, so any additional rain could be dangerous.
After a lengthy drought, heavy storms have pummeled much of California this year, causing mudslides and flooding. Earlier in the month, nearly 200,000 people were evacuated near the Oroville dam due to fears it might overflow.
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This chapter was published on “Inuitech – Intuitech Technologies for Sustainability” on April 22, 2013.
1. SELECTED COUNTRIES AND THEIR APPROACH TO DISPOSAL:
The International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) is in the process of finalizing an analysis of the policy and technical challenges faced internationally over the past five decades by efforts at long-term storage and disposal of spent fuel from nuclear power reactors. These challenges have so far prevented the licensing of a geological spent fuel repository anywhere in the world. The IPFM was founded in January 2006. It is an independent group of arms-control and nonproliferation experts from seventeen countries, including both nuclear weapon and non-nuclear weapon states.Here is a summary of the findings of this report on the history and current status of radioactive waste management in ten countries. The case studies include five countries that are planning on direct disposal of spent fuel (Canada, Finland, Germany, Sweden, and the United States), four countries that reprocess nuclear spent fuel (France, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom), and one country (South Korea) whose disposal plans are a subject of discussions with the United States as part of the renewal of a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement.Nuclear power reactors are fueled mostly with low-enriched and natural uranium, which undergoes a fission chain reaction releasing heat and creating radioactive fission products and plutonium and other transuranic elements. The heat is used to produce steam to drive turbines that produce electricity. Eventually, the concentration of chain-reacting isotopes drops to the point where the fuel is considered “spent” and has to be replaced with fresh fuel.The intensely hot and highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from power reactors is unloaded into a water-filled pool immediately adjacent to the reactor to allow its heat and radiation level to decrease. It remains in this pool for periods ranging from a few years to decades. After cooling, the fuel may be transferred to massive air-cooled dry casks for storage on site or in a centralized facility. This approach is known to be as “Direct Disposal of Spent Fuel”.In a few countries, spent fuel is sent to a reprocessing plant, where the fuel is dissolved and the plutonium and uranium recovered for potential use in reactor fuel. These processes also produce high-level wastes that contain the fission products and other radioisotopes from the spent fuel – as well as other streams of radioactive waste, including plutonium waste from the manufacture of plutonium-containing fuel. This approach is known to be as “Reprocess Nuclear Spent Fuel”.It is widely accepted that spent nuclear fuel and high-level reprocessing and plutonium wastes require well-designed storage for periods ranging from tens of thousands to a million years, to minimize releases of the contained radioactivity into the environment. Safeguards are also required to ensure that neither plutonium nor highly enriched uranium is diverted to weapon use. There is general agreement that placing spent nuclear fuel in repositories hundreds of meters below the surface would be safer than indefinite storage of spent fuel on the surface.
1.1 Spent Nuclear Fuel Inventories:
A typical modern reactor has a capacity of about 1 GWe (1,000 Megawatts electric). According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there exist today 331 GWe of Light Water Reactors (LWRs), 23 GWe of Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs), also called CANDU for Canada Uranium Deuterium), and 19 GWe of Graphite-Moderated Reactors (RBMKs) . Almost all the reactors now under construction are LWRs, and indeed most are PWRs. The amount of spent fuel discharged from a nuclear power plant depends upon the fuel “burnup,” i.e., the thermal energy (heat) generated per unit mass of fuel. Table (Figure: 57-05) shows the approximate amount of spent fuel that would be discharged per year from a 1 GWe reactor of the three most common reactor types.
As of the end of 2009, there were about 240,000 metric tons (as heavy metal) of spent fuel in storage worldwide, most of it at reactor sites. About 90 percent was in storage ponds, the balance was in dry-cask storage. The annual spent fuel generated is approximately 10,500 tons of heavy metal per year, with roughly 8500 tons of heavy metal going into long term storage and about 2000 tons of heavy metal allocated for reprocessing but much of it in interim storage.
The most systematic reporting on spent fuel inventories is done by the national reports required under the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. The third national reports were mostly done in 2008 and gave inventories of spent fuel at the end of 2007. The spent fuel inventories for the countries covered in this study, which account for over 80 percent of global nuclear capacity, are shown in Figure: 57-06, with totals for France and Japan reported from other sources.
Spent fuel inventories referred to in cooling ponds and dry-cask storage, as of the end of 2007, for the countries in the IPFM study come mostly from national reports under the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. The country chapters in the forthcoming IPFM report will have more detail, and some include estimates for years after 2007. The term “Heavy Metal” indicates that the fuel mass is being measured by its original uranium or uranium-plus-plutonium content, i.e. not including the weight of structural materials or the oxygen in the uranium and plutonium oxides.The U.S. has by far the largest holding of spent fuel. As of the end of 2010, the total U.S. stockpile of spent power-reactor fuel was 64,500 tons, including 15,350 tons in dry casks.
1.2 Summary of the Findings by each Country:
Here is a summary of the findings on the history and current status of radioactive waste management in a number of key countries, including those with the largest and oldest nuclear-power programs:
- Canada: Canada’s first attempts, in the 1970s and 1980s, at finding a location to dispose of nuclear waste were abandoned due to public opposition. This led to a recognition that the strategy for nuclear waste disposal had to be technically sound and socially accepted. In 2002, several Canadian utilities and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) created the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) to recommend a path forward and oversee the selection of a suitable repository site. NWMO set out various criteria for site selection after extensive public consultation and, in 2010, began a multi-year process of finding a community willing to host a geological repository. Meanwhile, all spent fuel is stored at the reactor sites in pools and dry storage;
- France: France is reprocessing its spent uranium fuel and using the recovered plutonium in LWR MOX (Mixed- Oxide) fuel. The spent MOX fuel is being stored pending commercialization of fast breeder reactors. France has accumulated a large volume of high-level and intermediate-level, long-lived (i.e. plutonium) waste from its reprocessing and plutonium-recycle activities. Planning for a common geological repository for these wastes 500 m deep in a clay formation at Bure in eastern France is being implemented by the National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (ANDRA). It is aiming for a start-up of repository operations by 2025;
- Germany: Until mid-2005, Germany sent most of its spent fuel to France and the U.K. for reprocessing, with the separated plutonium being fabricated into mixed oxide fuel (MOX) and returned to Germany to be loaded into LWRs. High-level reprocessing waste is being returned to a centralized interim storage facility at Gorleben where it awaits final disposal in a repository together with spent nuclear fuel. In the 2000 nuclear-power phase-out agreement, it was decided that shipments to the reprocessing plants would end in mid-2005 and the spent-fuel would be stored on the reactor sites pending ultimate disposal. It was decided that exploration of the Gorleben salt dome for a repository also would be suspended while the framework of a criteria based site selection procedure was developed and implemented and generic safety-related issues that are independent of specific sites were clarified. A Committee on a Site Selection Procedure for Repository Sites (AkEnd) was established which recommended a consultative approach that would include a consideration of several possible repository sites. The AkEnd process collapsed in 2003, however, and no site selection process has been launched;
- Japan: Japan’s fuel cycle policy has been premised on the assumption that spent fuel will be reprocessed. Initially, spent fuel was sent to France and the U.K. for reprocessing. Then Japan built a domestic reprocessing plant at Rokkasho with a design capacity of 800 tons per year. However, full operation of the plant has been delayed repeatedly and was currently scheduled for 2012. The storage pool at Rokkasho is now full. Almost all of Japan’s other spent fuel is stored in pools at the reactor sites with a small amount stored in casks on two sites. Construction of an interim dry cask storage facility was launched in Mutsu near the Rokkasho reprocessing plant but has been put on hold following the Fukushima earthquake. Japan has decided on deep geological disposal for its high level wastes and has committed that no waste will stay for more than 50 years in Aomori Prefecture, which hosts the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. Solicitation of volunteer communities to host a national geological repository has, however, not yet produced any candidates;
- South Korea: At present, South Korea stores its spent fuel on-site at its four nuclear reactor sites. One of these sites, the Wolsong nuclear power plant, has four CANDU heavy-water reactors whose spent-fuel pools are full. Dry storage facilities have been built to accommodate the older spent fuel to make space in the pools for newly discharged spent fuel. South Korea’s nuclear utility, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP), states, however, that at the LWR sites, such dry storage is not politically possible even though the storage pools at these sites too will all fill up in the next decade or two. Attempts to establish off-site central spent fuel interim storage have failed due to local opposition. This situation has been used by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) as an argument for the need to reprocess (pyro-process) South Korea’s light-water reactor spent fuel – although such a plan could not be realized for decades. After several failed attempts to site a repository for low and intermediate waste, the government succeeded by adopting a consultative approach and providing substantial financial incentives to local governments. A public consensus-building process on spent fuel management, including issues of interim storage and final disposal, was planned but then put on hold by the government;
- Russia: Russia currently reprocesses at the small RT-1 plant at Ozersk the spent fuel from its six first generation 400 MWe light-water reactors, two similar Ukrainian reactors, and Russia’s BN-600 HEU-fueled prototype fast-neutron reactor. Almost 50 tons of recovered power-reactor plutonium and 34 tons of excess weapons plutonium are being stored for future use in Russia’s planned breeder reactors. The spent fuel from Russia’s 1 GWe light water reactors, along with the spent fuel of similar reactors in Ukraine and Bulgaria, is sent for storage to Zheleznogorsk in Siberia near Krasnoyarsk, where a large storage pool was built in the 1980s for the never completed RT-2 reprocessing plant. A second smaller pool has been built and a very large dry cask storage facility is planned at the same location. At present, the spent fuel from the Russian graphite-moderated, water-cooled RBMK reactors is stored at the reactor sites but the older spent fuel is to be shipped to a planned dry-cask storage facility at Zheleznogorsk. Drafts of two laws, “Management of Radioactive Wastes,” and “On Spent Fuel Management,” to establish a repository site-selection process have been under consideration in the State Duma;
- Sweden and Finland: Sweden initially signed reprocessing contracts with France and the UK, but decided in the 1980s to follow the lead of the U.S. and forego reprocessing. In Finland, spent nuclear fuel from two Soviet-designed reactors was initially exported to the Soviet Union for reprocessing with no waste or plutonium coming back but this was discontinued after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Both Sweden and Finland decided that they will manage their spent fuel domestically by disposing of it in national repositories. They have gone through extended site-selection processes for national geological repositories and both have selected sites adjacent to existing nuclear power plants. Both countries plan to use copper casks embedded in bentonite clay, a design developed in Sweden starting the 1970s. In 2001, Finland’s parliament took a decision in principle to store all its spent fuel in a repository next to the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant. In Sweden, the license application for a geological repository next to the Forsmark nuclear power plant was submitted in early 2011. Questions have been raised about the longevity of the copper casks and about the potential effects on the repository of the weight of an ice sheet such as that which covered most of Scandinavia during the Ice Age;
- United Kingdom: The UK has been reprocessing all the uranium-metal spent fuel from its first generation gas-cooled graphite-moderated MAGNOX reactors, the last of which were to be shut down by 2012. It is also reprocessing a significant quantity of the uranium-oxide fuel discharged by its second-generation Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors. There are no final plans on how to manage the UK’s approximately 100 tons of separated plutonium although the preference of the current government appears to be to use it as MOX in a proposed new generation of LWRs. In 2003, after two decades of little success in siting waste facilities, the government established a public Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CORWM) to consider long-term strategy both for intermediate and high-level reprocessing waste. CORWM had as one of its charges “to inspire public confidence.” Its final report in 2006 recommended a voluntary partnership approach to site selection backed up by robust interim storage, possibly for 100 years or longer.
The UK has not yet developed a site-selection process, however, and the degree of consensus that has been achieved could be threatened if the UK goes ahead with constructing new reactors; and
- United States: The United States has been attempting since 1970 without success to site a geological repository for spent fuel and high-level waste. The 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act mandated that the Department of Energy select three candidate repository sites. In 1987, Congress intervened and selected Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The Department of Energy spent approximately $10 billion preparing the technical basis for a license application but, in 2010, in response to strong opposition from the Nevada state government and its Congressional delegation, the Obama Administration halted the project. In the meantime, almost all spent fuel in the U.S. remains at the reactor sites, with dry cask storage for older spent fuel being deployed as the pools fill up. In 1998, the U.S. Department of Energy did successfully put into operation the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in a salt formation in New Mexico for defense-related plutonium wastes. In January 2010, as a first step toward establishing a new U.S. spent-fuel policy, the Obama Administration established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future “to conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle and to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the Nation’s used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste.” The Commission was to produce an interim report by July 2011 and a final report by January 2012.
1.3 Reprocessing and Radioactive Waste Policies:
Reprocessing spent fuel began as a way to obtain plutonium for nuclear weapons. In the 1960s, however, almost all countries with nuclear power programs were planning to reprocess their spent fuel in order to use the recovered plutonium in start-up fuel for breeder reactors. By the early 1980s, much more low-cost uranium had been discovered than initially projected, reprocessing was found to cost much more than originally expected, and breeder reactors were generally found to be much more expensive and less reliable than light water reactors. These developments, in combination with proliferation concerns relating to the large-scale commercial separation of plutonium, led the United States and many other countries to abandon reprocessing. Some countries, including Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, Sweden and Taiwan ended their reprocessing programs when they abandoned their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The nuclear establishments in France, the UK, Russia, Japan and India, however, persisted with reprocessing. In the absence of breeder reactors, France and Japan launched programs to recycle their separated plutonium in light water reactors in the form of “mixed oxide” fuel (MOX, a mixture of uranium and plutonium oxides). The UK has simply stored its separated plutonium and only now is beginning to consider disposal options. Russia and India are building prototype breeder reactors – although on a much-delayed schedule.
Advocates of reprocessing today argue that it can ease the technical and political problems of radioactive waste disposal by allowing most of the plutonium and other long-lived transuranic elements to be recycled. According to a comprehensive study by the U.S. National Research Council published in 1996, however, even with repeated recycle in fast-neutron reactors, it “would take about two centuries…to reduce the inventory of the [transuranics] to about 1% of the inventory of the reference LWR once-through fuel cycle”. The study also concluded that this would be extraordinarily costly.
Plutonium is recycled in a few countries today. This results in a net reduction of the plutonium in the spent fuel by about half. France, which has the most extensive reprocessing and MOX program, does not attempt to recover the plutonium from the spent MOX fuel. In effect, it has exchanged the problem of managing spent fuel for the problem of managing spent MOX fuel, high level waste from reprocessing, plutonium waste from plutonium recycle, and eventually the waste from decommissioning its reprocessing and plutonium fuel fabrication facilities.
Countries that reprocess produce wastes that require about the same size geological repository as would direct disposal of the un-reprocessed spent fuel. For example, ANDRA, France’s radioactive waste management agency, has estimated the repository tunnels for the radioactive waste generated by its reprocessing and plutonium recycle activities will underlie about 15 square kilometers of surface area– about the same area that would have been required had France not reprocessed at all. Thus, reprocessing does not reduce the political challenges to repository siting. This is illustrated by the impasses over repository siting in Japan and the United Kingdom. In contrast, Sweden and Finland, the countries that are most advanced in the repository siting process; do not reprocess their spent fuel.
1.4 Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal and the Future of Nuclear Power:
All stakeholders, whatever their view of nuclear power, realize that spent fuel and any high level waste expected to be generated by existing nuclear programs must be disposed of eventually. Proposals to build new nuclear power plants are seen by some as compounding the problem by requiring larger or more repositories and potentially increasing environmental and public health risk.
In the UK, the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management sought to draw a clear distinction between legacy waste and “new-build” waste in drawing up a proposed national disposal policy – but with renewed UK Government interest in building a new generation of nuclear power plants, the effort to develop a disposal policy may bog down. A similar argument has been made by Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), a body established by the Canadian utilities and the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited to oversee the repository selection process. In accepting the NWMO recommended approach, however, the Minister of Natural
Resources described it as a step “toward a safe, long-term plan for nuclear power in Canada for future generations.”
In Germany, a coalition government of the Social Democrats and the Green Party decided in 2000 to phase out nuclear energy, partly in response to the contentious problem of nuclear waste management. A subsequent coalition government of Christian Democrats and Liberals in 2009 delayed the scheduled phase-out, but reversed this position in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima reactor accidents in Japan.
1.5 Policy Lessons:
An analysis of the national histories of spent-fuel management, presented at length in the report, yields the following key lessons:
- Reprocessing has not led to a simplification or expedition of radioactive waste disposal;
- Voluntary and consultative processes for siting of geological repositories have been more successful than top-down decision making;
- Safe long-term underground disposal will likely require robust waste packaging and backfill, appropriate geology, and possibly retrievability for up to several hundred years;
- Most countries have adopted dry cask spent-fuel storage as an interim strategy since no repository has yet been licensed;
- No country has accepted foreign spent power-reactor fuel for ultimate disposal, although Russia takes back for interim storage and reprocessing some of the nuclear fuel it has sold to other countries for use in Soviet/Russian-designed reactors;
- No country appears ready to host a multinational spent fuel facility, which will face similar siting and licensing issues that confront national repository efforts and possibly more public opposition; and
- In some countries, the politics of waste repository siting have become entangled with the larger issue of the future of nuclear power.
- International Panel on Fissile Materials;
- Managing Nuclear Spent Fuel – Policy Lessons from a 10-Country Study;
- International Conventions and Legal Agreements;
- Japanese Waste and MOX Shipments from Europe; and
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If you read our blog post on data lakes, some questions may have popped up in your mind. To refresh this topic: a data lake is not your next dream destination.
Let’s make it clear, it can be your data dream destination, but we won’t get carried away. It is BigQuery essential more of cloud storage that allows you to store your data in a standardized format.
Remember the next step? Load it on a data warehouse. To keep it simple, it consists of data libraries.
But what is the link between data lakes and BigQuery? What is it? Why does it stand out from the other analytics tools? When to use BigQuery? How does it work? So many questions that require clarifications. In this article, you better understand BigQuery and its added value … not forgetting the dream destination for your data.
You want more business insights for your company but are left speechless when you listen to your IT team? BigQuery is what you need.
BigQuery is Google’s serverless data warehouse. Why “serverless”? Because BigQuery does not depend on a server, which means that operations are faster. Google fully manages this warehouse so that you can focus only on the analysis of data and forget about coding tutorials.
BigQuery is directed at big companies that have to deal with large amounts of data.
For small companies, spreadsheets can be enough to classify and analyze small amounts of data manually.
If you are a big company and do not use BigQuery yet, you might be facing some issues with the load time and analysis of your data that can take a while. Well, implementing BigQuery will allow you to load data at a large scale so that you can analyze it quicker. It becomes essential for businesses who struggle with those delays (with yours).
Google’s warehouse is structured with SQL (Structured Query Language), a standard language used to analyze structured data and access to workable information thanks to querying.
What does it mean?
When you load a dataset on this server, you do it to query your data. The objective is to have a better understanding of your performance, your clients or even your website. But because some illustrations are worth thousands of words, you may prefer to see what BigQuery really looks like. When you load a dataset from your data lake on BigQuery this is what it looks like.
Once the data is loaded, you can start querying your dataset. For instance, you can create a query to census all the visitors of your website that leave without engaging with your business.
Here for instance you can see a column of 0. It means that the visitors did not bounce. A “1” would have been synonymous with one bounce.
Finally, you are able to classify the users according to the fact that they left your website without engaging or that they engage. A letter -attributed to them- corresponds to the likelihood of their interest in your business.
Thanks to BigQuery, you can give helpful information to your marketing team so that they can target visitors that are the most likely to convert into customers.
Google’s warehouse takes care of the process that goes from the storing of your data to querying by way of ingestion.
You can choose to analyze BigQuery public datasets to make comparisons, for example. Those tables are free to use and hosted by Google. They are available for everyone and will make you skip the two first steps. But, if you want to analyze your dataset, you can also try BigQuery for free since the first 10GB of storage are free of charge to learn how to use these analytics and choose whether or not to go further in spendings.
Google Cloud Storage is Google’s data lake. It allows businesses to store large amounts of data that then can be analyzed thanks to BigQuery. Because Google conceived both tools, the bridges between the two make integration easier and faster.
BigQuery will allow auto-integration with Google Cloud Storage thanks to its machine learning tool: a way to prevent bugs and save precious time. You can choose another warehouse such as Azure, but the integration will not be as easy as with BigQuery, which works directly from your Cloud Storage.
Now you master the fundamentals of this tool, you may want to know if BigQuery is for you. After all, it’s an additional expense for your company and knowing how useful it can be is never too much to ask.
Congratulations! You have made it to the end of this article.
Focusing on analytics and not on data infrastructure. This is what BigQuery promises you. This working tool helps you save time and get better insights into your data.
Using BigQuery requires specific knowledge since it uses SQL and necessitates choosing the proper settings for an interesting analysis. If you want to be guided or driven on implementing or tracking your activities, Better&Stronger can help. Give us a call and we'd be glad to discuss it!
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Air pollution cuts life expectancy for every man, woman and child on Earth by nearly two years, according to new data released.
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On April 26, 2003, residents of Olympia, Washington took to the streets for the 9th Annual Procession of the Species Celebration. This is the largest Earth Day event in the Pacific Northwest, attracting over 30,000 spectators and 2,500 marchers who don handmade costumes representing Fire, Air, Earth and Water. This year’s march was especially meaningful due to the presence of 100-150 peace doves in honor of Olympia native Rachel Corrie, who lost her life on March 16 while undertaking peacekeeping work in the Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah.
Rachel was instrumental in producing the first gathering of over 30 peace doves that marched in 2002 and her spirit was deeply felt by this year’s doves. A prominent dove was Rachel’s mother, Cindy Corrie, whose dove mask featured a single tear drop.
Others in the group were friends and associates of Rachel, some of whom found the experience intensely emotional as they both mourned and celebrated Rachel’s life. Many were seen wiping tears and hugging before the march. Some of these same people had wore the dove costumes to the March memorial service for Rachel at The Evergreen State College, also in Olympia.
Many doves had photos and symbols of Rachel incorporated into their costumes. Other doves included children, local peace activists and college students. Several had made their costumes at weekly gatherings at the Procession Art Studio where photographs of Corrie were hung in remembrance.
The block long procession of flapping, cooing and swirling doves was met by loud cheers and spirited applause as it made it’s way along the mile plus route through the heart of Olympia.
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and you will know it’s done when the oil stops bubbling
Mike Durkin with the residents of the Kensington area, presented by Mural Arts Philadelphia
September 23- October 2
September 23 at 6:00pm
September 24 at 6:00pm
September 25 at 2:00pm
September 30 at 6:00pm
October 1 at 6:00pm
October 2 at 2:00pm
Kensington Corridor Trust Community GardenMap
All of us together will create a recipe book. Food is community, food is power, food is legacy, food is memory, food is love, food is home, food is life. Food has the capacity of bringing folks from different backgrounds together. Food is personal history, oral history, and oral tradition. Artist Mike Durkin plans to look at the role food and recipes play in the Kensington area. Whether it’s a recipe that has been passed down from generation to generation, or the recipe we’ve made because it makes us feel good, recipes hold special places in our lives. By tracing the past, present, and future stories around the food we can forge deeper relationships with our neighbors as well as the environment our food comes from through story-sharing circles. Mike, alongside Mural Arts, will be partnering with Kensington-area community groups focusing on houselessness, food insecurity, community development, as well as neighborhood artists and leaders.
The story-sharing circles will culminate into constructing a recipe book as well as a presentation and participatory community meal. Mike will explore rituals for the participant, like only making a meal during a specific holiday, using a specific type of frying pan for the meal, or listening to specific music while cooking. With select participants, Mike will collaborate to create an artful response to their contributed recipes. These could take the form of video, writing, audio, photography, sculpture, or performance. In addition to this, we will look at the physical impact of making food by cooking some of the recipes. For example, if we are making tortillas, we would look at how our body moves in the stretching of the dough, the smells, the sounds, the emotions, and the stories that surround it. The action of getting our hands is just another way to relive the recipes. The aim of the project is to look at the diversity of community members to tell the story of Kensington through recipes.
Appropriate for ages 7+
Food access and food justice
About the Artist
Mike Durkin (he/him/his) is a large-bodied multidisciplinary social practice performance artist residing in Philadelphia and New York City. Mike is guided by the intersection between art and the everyday. With his performance group, The Renegade Company he has created site-responsive social practice productions exploring houselessness, food access, place, and gentrification. Favorite Fringe Renegade directing credits include: (Kensington) Streetplay, Animal Farm to Table, Damned Dirty Apes!, The Hunchback of Notre Dame…A Mute Play, and Bathtub Moby-Dick. He is currently developing a performative cookbook that looks at the role recipes play in communities incorporating dance, video, and communal meal making. Upcoming projects will be held at the University of Central Arkansas, the University of Houston, Louisiana State University, and Michigan State University. Mike has held residencies with Revolve Art Gallery in Asheville, NC, Space at Ryder Farm, Drop Forge and Tool, the Hambidge Arts Center in Rabun Gap, GA, and the Greenhouse Lab with The Orchard Project. Mike’s work has been presented at the Brandywine River Museum, Barnes Foundation, Mt. Moriah Cemetery, the Life Do Grow Farm, and in parks, churches, and fields, along the streets in Kensington, virtually, and most recently with The Performance Studies program at Texas A&M University. Mike is part of the 2017 MFA in Devised Performance class with Pig Iron Theatre Company/University of the Arts.
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cooking oil refinery methods
- Water Extraction Process (Aqueous extraction) by use of stone mill.
- Mechanical Pressing Process by use of screw oil press & hydraulic oil press.
- Solvent Extraction Process
Solvent oil extraction methods of extraction of oil from oil seedsSolvent oil extraction methods of extraction of oil from oil seeds Before introducting canolo oil extraction machine,let us introduct some cooking oil knowledge.It is also very important.The story of oil and you! Love was made by "oil"! Soybean oil has rich of Vitamin E,Soybean oil could pretect your memory centre,peanut oil has rich of oleic acid,rice bran oil could reduce blood fat,and corn oil could reduce blood pressure and softening blood vessel,canola oil is advantage of brain development and more.So that owning high quality and healthy and reliable cooking oil,it is not only an enjoyment,but also an indispensable part to chase health. To choose good quality cooking oil,will have to choose high quality oil presser.Which oil presser is better,and Qie brand is the best. High oil quality,and more than 30years experiences,and has all kinds of quality certificates.,such as ISO9001,CE,BV,welcome you to visit Qi’e factory. methods of extraction of oil from oil seeds flowchart:About the pressing section,common small capacity soybean oil extracting machinery as flows: methods of extraction of oil from oil seeds operation principle: When oil press operating, the prepared materials enter the pressing chamber from the hopper and then move forwards by the rotating of pressing screw and is pressed under ...
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Sunflower oil is an high quality edible oil used for cooking. It concludes linoleic, vitamin, phospholipid, protein, phytosterol, carotene etc. Its very good for our health. The sunflower oil flowchat:Cleaning-husking-flaking-cooking-prepress-press-refining Sunflower oil production line
1.Cleaning, In order to obtain high effective cleaning, ensure good work condition and production stability, high efficient vibration screen was used in the process to separate big and small impurity.
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Sesame Oil Extraction MethodsThere are 3 main oil extraction methods for sesame oil production:
Two extaction methods for crude peanut oil production lineWe supply different pretreatment methods for oil plants with different oil content. Generally,for high oil plants such as groundnut/peanut, rapeseed, cottonseed, first pre-press to the reasonable level and then extract.
1. Cleaning process : Use vibration cleaning sieve and magnetic selector to get better cleaning effect. And This step is mainly to clean the big impurities ,like the stone , big dust , iron etc .
2. Crushing Process: This Process is mainly to crush the peanut , as the peanut is big ,it is not easy to press . We must crush the peanut to 6-8 pieces . Then we need to peel . The rate of peel is about 90% .
3. Flaking Process : After crush and peel ,we need to flake the crushed peanut , which make the cell wall of peanut broken . And we flake the peanut to 0.55 mm thickness . Then it is useful for the oil extracting.
4. Cooking Process: After the flaker,we need to cook the flaked peanut , control the moisture at 5-7% ,the temperature is 110-115degree.
5. Pre-pressing : After all the pretreatment , pre- press the peanut , the oil can be extracted about 76% .
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As a mom of three kids, I have learned a few tips and strategies over the years for getting kids out the door in the morning. These tips help our family reduce stress and start the day on a happy note.
Tip #1: Give Yourself 5-10 Minutes to Wake Up Before Being Productive
I always give myself a short period of time to just sit, drink a cup of coffee, and wake up before I have to start getting myself and the kids ready. When I have to start being productive right out of bed, I tend to forget things and feel a sense of panic. Drinking that first cup of coffee quietly is something I really look forward to and helps me start my day off in a good place.
Tip #2: Keep Quick Breakfasts on Hand
Having several quick breakfast options on hand is key to getting everyone fed before leaving the house. We almost always have frozen waffles in the freezer that can be very quickly prepared for the kids. I will often make muffins over the weekend that are a ready-made breakfast option for during the week. Bananas and apples are ready to eat fruit options. None of these things are hard, but having them in the house is a great way to simplify breakfast.
Tip #3: Lay Out Clothes Beforehand
When I was a kid, my parents always had me lay out my school clothes before bed to make getting dressed in the morning quick and easy. It is still a great practice that saves time and energy in the morning. To take it a step further, I like to lay out clothes for all five weekdays for my kids over the weekend.
I will check the weather report and then lay out the clothes that I think will work for the week. If there is a change of weather, we can add a sweater or quickly change from long to short sleeves. I know plenty of adults that do this as well, with their work clothes and also their workout attire. Having the clothing items clean and gathered into outfits makes getting out the door in the morning with kids much easier.
Tip #4: Find Shoes the Night Before
Nothing can derail getting out the door like a last minute hunt for kids’ shoes. I once spent 20 minutes on a school morning looking for one lost tennis shoe. To avoid the last minute shoe hunt, we find them the night before and put them right by the kids’ backpacks.
Tip #5: Store Toothbrushes and Toothpaste Where You Eat Breakfast
Keeping everything we need to brush teeth near the breakfast area saves us quite of bit of time in the morning. My kids are still little and need some help brushing their teeth. Instead of corralling the kids after breakfast to go to the bathroom and brush teeth, we just brush them right in the kitchen. I find that the less I have to move my kids from space to space to get ready, the quicker we can get out the door.
Tip #6: Keep Extra Masks in the Car
At the time of my writing this, my kids are wearing masks to school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We keep extra masks in the car and in their backpacks to reduce the possibility that we will forget to bring them.
If there are similar options you’re often forgetting, consider keeping extras in the car.
Tip #7: Empty Backpacks Right After School
Taking paperwork, water bottles, and the like out of backpacks right when we get home from school makes sure that they are ready the next morning. I find that if I don’t do this right after school, I totally forget about it until we’re walking out the door. Sorting through school papers at the last minute can totally derail getting out the door on time.
Tip #8: Follow a Consistent Routine
I find that kids (and adults for that matter) do very well with routine, and a consistent morning routine can make getting out the door much easier for everyone. When we know the routine, we all know what to expect and what needs to get done each morning. There is a lot less thinking and debating over what we have to do. In our house, our basic routine (in order) is eating breakfast, getting dressed, brushing teeth and hair, getting shoes on, and grabbing backpacks as we walk out the door.
This article has several great ideas for creating a morning routine that is low stress.
Tip #9: Get in Bed On Time
It is much easier said than done, but getting to bed on time always makes for a less stressful morning. When we’re all well-rested, we have more patience and feel less scrambled.
What are your tips for getting kids out the door in the morning?
These tips are working for getting our family out the door in the morning, but by no means will they be the best tips for every family. I’d love to hear about what is working for you. What are your tips for getting kids out the door in the morning? Leave a comment below.
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A nationally important site for breeding Merops apiaster and Saxicola torquata.
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NOTE: SIT will make every effort to maintain its programs as described. To respond to emergent situations, like COVID-19, SIT may have to modify programs. Visit the SIT website for more details.
Explore the balance between ecological concerns and socioeconomic objectives in the vast wilderness expanses of northern Tanzania.
Tanzania is a beautiful and diverse country, home to the Serengeti Plains, Mount Kilimanjaro, and the Zanzibar archipelago. You’ll spend 30 nights camping in these wilderness areas to see the variety of Tanzania’s landscapes and wildlife, including lions, zebras, elephants, and ostriches. As you learn ecological field techniques and national park management, you’ll see how human development and population growth affect natural habitats and vice versa. You’ll learn to reframe notions of sustainability in relation to local population needs, perspectives, and values.
In addition to wildlife ecology, you will study Tanzanian history, politics, economics, and current events. You’ll learn how to integrate both social science and ecological field techniques through anthropological and field ecology projects.
The program has several major in-country partners: Sokoine University of Agriculture, the College of African Wildlife Management-Mweka, Klub Afriko Cultural Orientation Center, and the host communities. Many students have returned to work with these partners in future endeavors.
- Spend time at Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Parks. and Loliondo Game Controlled.
- Speak with local communities to understand issues of deforestation, agriculture, gender, culture, and population growth.
- Explore conservation through multiple lenses.
- Network for your academic and professional careers.
Previous college-level coursework and/or other significant preparation in environmental studies, ecology, biology, sociology, anthropology, international relations, or related fields, as assessed by SIT.
Please visit the SIT Study Abroad website
for details on the program courses (including syllabi), educational excursions, and housing.
KEY TOPICS OF STUDY
- Wildlife ecology
- Conservation, environmental issues, and national park management
- Life and culture, history, politics/economics, and current events
- Relationships between socioeconomic objectives, ecological parameters, and cultural transitions from multi scale/actor perspectives
Be sure to discuss how study abroad costs are handled at your school with your study abroad advisor.
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- All educational costs, including educational excursions
- All accommodations and meals for the full program duration
- Transportation to and from the airport, and on all educational excursions
- Health and accident insurance
- SIT awards nearly $1.6 million in scholarships and grants annually.
- All scholarships and grants are need-based.
- Awards generally range from $500 to $5,000 for semester programs.
- Contact the financial aid and/or study abroad office(s) at your college or university to learn if your school’s scholarships and grants and federal and state aid programs can be applied to an SIT Study Abroad program.
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What is Eco-Design?
Eco-design is definitely the process of lowering the co2 footprint of the product by using environmentally friendly resources. The end-of-life of a product is another important aspect of environmental design. Eco-design encourages the re-use of products and substances by increasing their value. It attempts the design of goods that are intended to be thrown away and encourages the bring back of spend to manufacturers https://www.abundanceinbalance.com/an-introduction-to-ecological-design/ or nature. Concerns for eco-design products contain take-back programmes and recovery and taking.
Eco-design requires a holistic techniques for the lifecycle of a item, taking into account pretty much all aspects of it is production, coming from materials and manufacturing to the last disposal. The process begins by identifying the stages of the product’s lifecycle that have the most environmental effect. By requesting questions like: how eco-friendly is the material? Is the energy used in creation renewable? Will the product end up being recyclable? Eco-design seeks to duplicate the recycling practices of aspect.
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by Dr Matt Fontaine
Using manual treatments like Active Release Technique provides the physical medicine provider with invaluable tools to release a tight muscle or scar tissue. However, when one identifies a tight restricted muscle, one should ask the question..Why is the muscle tight?
Ensuring the Proper Rehab Sequence
Understanding Centration and the Body’s Support Structure
The above diagram is from Manohar Panjabi. It’s called “stabilizing system of the spine”. It is imperative that we look not only at the muscles and the joints, but also the coordination from the nervous system.
The kinematic chain can be likened to a domino effect. To properly execute movement, the body must execute movements at the right place at the right time, like dominos falling. Any disruption of the chain from a weak link in the chain can result in injury.
An example would be to discuss the change of view about the rectus abdominus . Once thought to create trunk flexion, which it does do, the role now is focused on anti-extension. Meaning it acts as a spine stabilizer. More accurately, the rectus should be seen as a muscle aiding in increasing intra abdominal pressure, which acts to buttress the spine.
Asking the question of why will often times lead to answering the question of How? How can we properly restore function to the structure?
For more on proper rehab sequencing, read more here.
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