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Sadly, the shorter daylight hours and cooler northern winds sweeping our valley signal that summer is coming to an end. This means that our children will be heading back to school and getting back into routine. For most families, this means a more structured bedtime, less beach visits and making calls to the family doctor and dentist for routine check-ups.
Health Canada reports that 45% of kids between the ages of 6 and 11 have had to miss school because of dental problems. As dentists, we encourage parents to have their children get their teeth examined regularly by a dentist. Just because a child does not complain that his or her teeth hurt, does not mean that everything is healthy in the mouth. Often, tooth decay will not cause any pain until it is fairly advanced and close to the dental pulp (nerve and blood vessels of a tooth).
School age children are in the phase of their mouth development when baby teeth co-exist with adult teeth. A dentist will examine this situation and make sure that this is proceeding properly, in the correct sequence, and that there is enough space for the incoming adult teeth.
Dental problems will interfere with a child’s concentration in school and ability to enjoy extra-curricular activities. It is important to maintain a healthy mouth so that children can focus on what is important- playing and learning.
Here are some tips parents to get your children back into a routine:
Children must brush their teeth at least twice a day, once in the morning and once right before bedtime. They should also be encouraged to floss regularly in order to clean the areas in between the teeth that toothbrushes cannot access.
Toothbrushes should be replaced every three months or after an illness.
Try to decrease the amount of sugar in your child’s diet. Replace sugar filled or high carbohydrate snacks with healthy options such as veggie sticks or nuts. Replace juices and sodas with milk or water. High exposure to sugar is a leading cause of tooth decay.
Observe your children while they brush and ensure that they are doing a proper job. Time them or buy them a timer and make sure that they are covering all surfaces. A thorough brushing session should take two minutes.
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When I get close to my Terminator11, I hear a buzz/hum coming from the unit. It is not coming out of the speakers, only the unit. What can cause that, what do you suggest I try to do to eliminate the buzz? Thanks in advance for your help.
The transformer mechanical hum is likely due to the impurity of the AC power, particularly some DC offset in the AC power supply.
Here are some links found on google, there are many more guides you can find:
While not all transformers behave the same way, some are more sensitive to the AC noise. Some simple experiments may help mitigate the issue. I'd advise the customer to trial an error to switch off some of the home appliances in the house to find out the culprits that are injecting dc to the AC mains (like the audiogon guy did).
It would be great to add a dc blocker or power conditioner like an isolation transformer to clean up the AC mains.
You may consider the following:
The Audiolab DC Blocker arrived earlier than expected. Not only did the unit eliminate the hum/buzz from the Terminator, the overall sound quality to my entire system has DRAMATICALLY improved. Wow, wow, wow!! Thank you Alvin for your recommendation. Apparently RF and DC interference is a silent killer of audio.
Credit: Les @ US
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Former Idaho governor seeks investigation of mining company
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Former Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has asked the Trump administration to investigate possible Chinese involvement in a mining company that could compete in Idaho with a Canadian-based company that tapped Otter to serve on its board of directors.
The Idaho Statesman reports in a story on Friday that Otter in a July 9 letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s concerned cobalt mined in Idaho will be shipped to China.
Otter, a Republican, left office in January after serving 12 years as governor. In February he joined the board of Toronto-based First Cobalt Corp.
Otter is asking Mnuchin to look into Australia-based Jervois Mining Ltd.’s move to acquire ECobalt Solutions, based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Cobalt is used in making lithium-ion batteries. U.S. Department of Energy officials say a reliable and affordable supply of cobalt and other metals crucial to battery production is needed in anticipation of soaring global demand and potential shortages.
Currently, cobalt largely is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. U.S. officials say U.S. dependence on other countries for cobalt and finished lithium-ion batteries undermines national security. The U.S Department of the Interior has designated cobalt as a critical mineral, and President Donald Trump has sought to smooth the way for more prospecting and mining of cobalt and other minerals in the U.S.
First Cobalt, which has Otter on its board, says Idaho has some of the best cobalt mining potential in the U.S. in what’s called the Idaho Cobalt Belt.
The company’s competitor, ECobalt Solutions, has spent more than $135 million in the last two decades developing a cobalt mine in central Idaho. Otter in his letter to Mnuchin said that potential Chinese investment in Jervois Mining Ltd.’s move to acquire ECobalt Solutions is problematic.
“I would urge you to review this transaction to ensure that Jervois — and the cobalt resources it is acquiring — is free from Chinese control,” Otter wrote. “My great concern is that without a plan for North American refining and a commitment to supply domestic consumers, Idaho cobalt ore will be shipped to China. This would be the worst imaginable outcome for our national security, economic development and job creation.”
Mnuchin is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which has the authority to examine transactions as they pertain to national security.
Brian Morgenstern, a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, told the newspaper in an email that, by law, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States cannot disclose to the public information filed with the committee. “Accordingly, the department does not comment on information relating to specific CFIUS cases, including whether or not certain parties have filed notices for review,” he said in the email.
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Measuring how business can empower female migrants
Given its importance, many studies have sought to examine the phenomenon of migration. Arguably, the most important limitation of the existing literature is its focus on economic outcomes of migration, largely ignoring social outcomes among migrants and their communities of origin. The purpose of this research is to study the social impact that migration has on migrants and their communities as well as to examine the impact of economic migration on consumption outcomes.
This research looks at a quasi-experiment involving organised migration of female textile workers from rural parts of Orissa to urban Bangalore and proposes consumption as a unique marketing mechanism to explain the social impact of migration on women’s status. The researchers show the proportion of income consumed by the migrant affects her perceptions of her status and behaviour – empowering the migrant – whilst the proportion of income consumed by her family affects perceptions of her status among community and family members.
This research has the potential to transform the lives of less advantaged people through business practices by exploring the positive and empowering role that businesses can play in migration. It contributes to further understanding and quantification of the social impact of the global phenomenon of migration, and the role that consumption plays in female empowerment. In doing so, it captures both economic and social outcomes as a consequence of a business intervention.
- Rajesh Chandy, Professor of Marketing, London Business School
- Om Narasimhan, Professor of Marketing, London School of Economics and Political Science
Iris Steenkamp is a PhD student in Marketing, graduating class 2021 at London Business School. Iris’s research explores the impact of marketing (as an intervention or a mechanism) on business, consumption, and social outcomes, such as gender empowerment, in emerging markets. Her current projects include field experiments and intervention studies in India and South Africa. | <urn:uuid:4c6e4582-73f7-4f1a-a70f-212b16a37ff8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wheelerblog.london.edu/go-your-own-way-migration-consumption-and-status/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946794 | 377 | 2.40625 | 2 |
With the large number of new biologics, and the launch of biosimilar molecules, the demand for devices for the subcutaneous self-injection of biopharmaceuticals continues to grow. New devices focus on simpler self-injection procedures and improved patient therapy management for autoinjectors, pens and patch injectors. As the number of devices reaching the market increases, pharmaceutical and biotech companies are looking to source state-of-the-art platform products that are available quickly and at low risk for both clinical trials and commercial launch.
Ypsomed's platform strategy lowers risks and shortens timelines:
Ypsomed initiates new platform development independently of customers with the key focus of developing patient-friendly, easy-to-use patented technologies. Formative usability testing of each platform product is performed repeatedly with representative user populations. The results support Ypsomed in iteratively designing and modifying the platform, but also provide valuable data for future customers as a basis for their own usability testing. For example, formative testing of UnoPen and YpsoMate have been published in peer-reviewed magazines.
Building up the appropriate manufacturing infrastructure is key to Ypsomed’s platform strategy. Early in platform development, Ypsomed invests in manufacturing infrastructure offering customers flexible access to their required capacity. Ypsomed also supports customers in implementing end assembly, the assembly of the device with the primary packaging container, and collaborates with CMOs and machine suppliers to provide customers with the expertise they need to outsource or implement the appropriate process.
The customisation of a platform is a fast process. Once the customer specific design is implemented, further formative and summative human factor testing with the customer-specific design may be conducted. Once the platform is fully industrialised, verified devices for clinic are available within a short time. An important part of the customisation project is to provide dossier support for the customer’s regulatory filing.
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Womens Day Celebration
Date: 8th Mar 2021
Venue: Conference hall
Time: 2 pm onwards
SIGNIFICANCE of THE PROGRAM: The purpose of celebrating Women’s Day is “ To raise awareness about the status and dignity of women among the staff “
8th March, is considered as International Women’s Day. This day brings about many thoughts for a women – a cause for celebration, a reason to pause and re-evaluate a remembrance, an inspiration and a time to honour, loved and admired. To honor womanhood, SSCMR organized a small felicitation program for all the female staff.
All the women staff working in the college teaching and non-teaching staff were cordially invited to join the program. The event was conducted under the guidance of our Director .Dr. Arloph and Night College Principal Dr. G.Shikhare.
Prof Prasenjit was the anchor for the program . He introduced the womens day by paying glorious tributes to various popular and famous women leaders of India who have made women of today proud of their contribution .
Dr. Arloph .J (DIRECTOR) graced the occasion by giving a motivational speech for the entire female faculty. He said that woman has a major role in shaping the society. A woman is an idol which should be respected by both family and society. Women are not less than any men in any field. They can be anything which they want to be and they will excel in any field of work. Today our country's working women is a pilot, CEO, soldier. He quoted a forward he received on whats app which said “ Feminism isn’t about making women strong . Women are already strong ,Its about the way the world perceived that strength” .
Later on Prof Uzma Momin did share her thoughts of how men did support every woment in her family and her neighbourhood . She did speak about the contribution and support man has given to every women to ensure a women does explore her potential to the full. Each and every women staff was given an opportunity to speak about her thoughts on Womens day.
Later , each and every women staff of SSCMR was felicitated with rose by the Principal of Nigh degree college , Dr G .S Shikhare followed by a cake cutting ceremony to spread sweetness and also to honour the women staff . This enjoyment of the cake cutting ceremony was further amplified with beautiful words of appreciation for women by Dr G S Shikhare . The felicitation ceremony ended with a Vote of thanks by Prof Prasenjit. | <urn:uuid:72b79259-03ea-473f-adac-759dd3d8d12b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.swayamsiddhi.org/woman-s-day-celebration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977814 | 538 | 1.804688 | 2 |
At CNN we find a story about how Pope Francis extended to priests indefinitely the ability to absolve the sin of abortion. He had hitherto given it only for the Year of Mercy, which is now closed.
(CNN)Pope Francis has extended indefinitely the power of Catholic priests to forgive abortions, making the announcement in an apostolic letter released Monday.
It continues a special dispensation granted last year for the duration of the Year of Mercy — which finished Sunday — which gave all priests, rather than just bishops and specially designated confessors, the power to absolve the sin of abortion.
While the practical effect of Francis’ announcement remains unclear, it draws attention to the prevailing theme of his papacy: That the doors of the Church must remain open, just as God’s forgiveness and mercy extend to all those who repent from sin.
That said, the Catholic Church’s stance on abortion has not changed — it is still viewed as a “grave sin.” But it makes it easier for women who have had abortions to be absolved for their actions, and rejoin the church. [They are still in the Church. But if they have incurred the sin of excommunication, they may not be absolved or receive Communion. The censure must be lifted. Then they may be absolved and they can go to Communion. Meanwhile, they are still obliged to all the things other Catholics are obliged to, including going to Mass on days of obligation.]
“I wish to restate as firmly as I can that abortion is a grave sin, since it puts an end to an innocent life,” the Pope’s letter states.
“In the same way, however, I can and must state that there is no sin that God’s mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with the Father.”
The letter continues: “May every priest, therefore, be a guide, support and comfort to penitents on this journey of special reconciliation.
“I henceforth grant to all priests, in virtue of their ministry, the faculty to absolve those who have committed the sin of procured abortion.”
Something needs to be made clear. Every time the issue of confession of the sin of successfully procured abortion comes up, something needs to be made clear.
Priests have long had the power to forgive the sin of abortion. However, procuring an abortion incurs also a censure of excommunication, which is to be absolved in a separate step. Canon law reserves the lifting of this particular excommunication to the bishop. Pope Francis extended this faculty to lift the excommunication to all priests. Most of the bishops in these USA have already given this faculty to their priests as a response to the growing numbers of abortions performed. That speeds up the reconciliation process many times.
ALSO… and this is important. It is not just the women who go for the abortion who commit the sin and incur the censure. Men involved can incur it. Anyone directly involved can commit the sin and incur the censure. There are many ways to participate in the sin of another person: 9 ways! You can be guilty of the sin committed by another
- By counsel (to give advice, one’s opinion or instructions.)
- By command (to demand, to order, such as in the military.)
- By consent (to give permission, to approve, to agree to.)
- By provocation (to dare.)
- By praise or flattery (to cheer, to applaud, to commend.)
- By concealment (to hide the action, to cover-up.)
- By partaking (to take part, to participate.)
- By silence (by playing dumb, by remaining quiet.)
- By defense of the ill done (to justify, to argue in favour.)
One can argue about how directly you must be involved to be guilty of the sin and also to incur the censure. Paying? Driving? Urging? Working in the clinic? Etc. However, if you have any doubts about your own state of participation in such a thing, you should find a good, solid confessor and put the whole thing to him in the context of sacramental confession or internal forum discussion.
You can see how the logic of lifting or absolving censures and absolving sins works by reviewing the older, traditional form of the words of absolution. The priest mentions censures before he absolves sins.
May our Lord Jesus Christ absolve you; and by His authority I absolve you from every bond of excommunication (suspension) [that “suspension” is used for clerics, in case they did something that incurred suspension a divinis] and interdict, so far as my power allows and your needs require. [making the Sign of the Cross:] Thereupon, I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, + and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
“As far as my power allows” (i.e., if I have the faculty to absolve the thing you incurred… there’s an old adage “Nemo dat quod non ‘got’!” You can’t give what you don’t have.), “and your needs require”, (i.e., whatsoever thing you might have incurred). This language covers all the bases.
The newer form of absolution does not mention censures. There are different forms a priest can use, if memory serves, provided in the Ordo Paenitentiae.
The Church had all this stuff about censures and sins worked out.
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December 21, 2021
WHEREAS, emissions from vehicles harm local air quality, increase serious illness among New Yorkers, and threaten public health;
WHEREAS, we face a clear global climate emergency, caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels including for transportation;
WHEREAS, we all, especially those in leadership positions, have a moral, economic, public health, and security imperative to act to protect our planet, fellow human beings, and future generations;
WHEREAS, the City of New York has joined countries and cities around the world in committing to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 in order to avoid the worst consequences of catastrophic climate change;
WHEREAS, Mayoral Executive Order 53 of 2020 currently requires the City fleet to transition to all electric and plug-in vehicle models by 2040;
WHEREAS, the fleet industry has made major strides toward expanding electric vehicle options in the last two years especially for light and medium duty vehicles including vans and pickups;
WHEREAS, SUVs increase emissions and maintenance costs as compared to sedans;
WHEREAS, the City already has in place electric and plug in vehicle options for light duty vehicles models such as sedans, SUVs, cross-overs, and mini-vans used by NYC Executive Offices;
WHEREAS, the leadership and engagement of senior level officials at every agency and office is critical to the implementation of the all-electric vehicle mandate and the expansion of electric vehicle charging that it will require; and
WHEREAS, senior leadership from NYC Executive offices and their fleet vehicles are highly visible at public events, meetings, and gatherings each day in the City;
NOW, THEREFORE, by the power vested in me as the Mayor of the City of New York, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Acceleration of Electric Fleet Adoption for NYC Fleet. DCAS and OMB will accelerate replacement of City on-road fleet vehicles to electric models:
§ 2. Acceleration of Electric Fleet Adoption for NYC Executive Offices. All senior executives who are assigned City fleet vehicles for work purposes are required to utilize a plug-in electric model no later than June 30, 2023 to the extent provided by DCAS. This order covers senior executives who are authorized to commute with City vehicles, those who do not commute with City vehicles, and those who are assigned drivers. This order shall cover all senior executive titles as listed in Executive Order 131 of 2010, as well as other titles as determined by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS). This order also governs all assignments of vehicles to senior executives after June 30, 2023.
§ 3. Ending Unnecessary Use of SUVs. DCAS and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will review the operational necessity of each SUV assigned to a staff person at any agency. DCAS and OMB will also review each vehicle assignment to a senior executive governed by this order. In each case where the vehicle assignment is deemed to be operationally necessary, the assigned vehicle will be transitioned to an approved electric vehicle model as determined by DCAS. Where vehicle assignments are not deemed operationally necessary, the fleet unit will be down-sized, reduced or re-assigned at the impacted agency or office.
§ 4. Acceleration Plan for NYC Executive Offices. No later than June 30, 2022, DCAS will establish a plan to transition each approved vehicle assignment under Section 2 of this order to an electric plug-in model. DCAS will maintain electric vehicle contracts in all models used by Executive Offices including sedans, SUVs, mini-vans, and cross-overs, and will share the list of available models, costs, and charging requirements with impacted agencies. DCAS will work with each agency to establish a charging plan for each impacted vehicle assignment. In no circumstances will implementation of Section 2 of this order result in a fleet increase. Agencies must salvage through DCAS and eliminate a non-plug in vehicle for the new plug in vehicle that will be purchased and assigned pursuant to this order. DCAS will maintain a list of all senior executive vehicle assignments governed by this order. DCAS will issue a report on implementation of this order no later than January 1, 2024.
§ 5. Emergency Response. For the purposes of Section 2, executive officials in law enforcement and emergency response as defined by the State Vehicle and Traffic Law (VTL) may request exemptions from DCAS if the operational capabilities of the available electric vehicle models do not meet the emergency response requirements for each specific position. DCAS will keep a list of approved exemptions and must re-authorize each exemption by June 30 of each year as new vehicle models become available through DCAS contracts. Where an exemption is not re-authorized, a plan will be developed to transition that vehicle assignment to an electric plug in model within one year. In addition, agency officials assigned electric plug in models may utilize non-electric vehicle models to respond to specific emergency situations such as a snowstorm or flooding situation.
§ 6. Agency Cooperation. All agency heads are directed to cooperate fully with DCAS and the City’s Chief Fleet Officer in implementing and complying with this Executive Order.
§ 7. Effective Date. This order shall take effect immediately.
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Henry Fox: How to treat bugs in a mobile home
I have recently received inquiries regarding pest control in mobile homes. The primary motive for these questions was whether or not these type of structures were any more prone to infestations than a conventional home, and should this be a reason for/against residing in one. Let's start from the ground up.
Many mobile homes are driven into place and the actual wheels are replaced by concrete pillars or blocks. The structure is essentially placed onto piers, providing its support. The exterior perimeter is then closed off with removable panels or skirting, which allows for easy access for any needed repairs.
While this type of pier/skirting construction allows for easier insect and rodent penetration, I have not found this to be much of an issue. As I often state, "If a pest wants to gain access to any structure, it will."
Other mobile homes are positioned over a conventional concrete block foundation with a full basement or crawl space beneath. The pest world appreciates this additional lower level harborage you have just created.
Regardless of the supporting structure, the underside is inevitably covered with insulation and tar paper, or some other manner of concealment. All structural components are inaccesable and treatments of this area are difficult if not impossible.
Newer mobile homes have conventional, dimensional, lumber framing in the upper structure. This allows for improved insulation and sound proofing. Construction techniques minimize infestation potential, giving them a slight advantage.
Older mobile homes have more thinly-constructed walls. This can create difficulty due to their sheerness and limited accessibility. Injection of control materials is often limited or prohibited.
Furnaces and hot water tanks are almost always located on the main floor, with supply lines penetrating through the underside. This point of vulnerability is consistent, regardless of age or construction.
These heat sources tend to be a gathering point for both rodents and insects. While their accessibility is relatively easy, they are both typically situated in small, confined spaces.
One consistent feature in mobile homes is the lack of an attic or upper storage area. This limitation is a two-edged sword. While treatment of this area is almost nonexistent, pests have limited harborage areas to call home.
If carpenter ants find an attractive spot in a ceiling area, the control can often be challenging. Care must be taken not to cause more damage than the pests themselves.
When I receive a phone inquiry regarding an estimate for an infestation in a mobile home, my mind instantly jumps to all of the limitations. I need to weigh the pests involved, size of structure, age and construction style, versus what I can and cannot do.
While my experience tells me that there is considerably less to treat than in a conventional home, my control options are often limited by the structure itself. It's a balancing act between treatment time and likelihood of success. Since my reputation is built on a base of satisfied customers, I prefer to personally inspect most infestations before making recommendations.
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Corporate Accountability’s Black Collective sees four conditions facing Black people in the United States: White supremacy, institutional racism, individual bigotry, and mass denial. Understanding these facets of White racism and anti-Blackness is critical to address the harms the U.S. enacted on Black communities and to advance the cause for reparations for Africans in America. Concerning the element of mass denial – there is a concerted effort by Democratic politicians to present Black faces in high places as proof of progress in achieving racial equality, and by Republican politicians to act as though White racism is a relic of the past, as they campaign on banning teaching Critical Race Theory in schools while at the same time many of them support the Great Replacement Theory. Meanwhile, Black Americans continue to suffer from racial gaps in wealth and income, disproportionate violence at the hands of police, higher rates of mass incarceration, disparities in health outcomes, and more. In 2008, as America elected its first Black president, a study of life expectancy rates of Black men in Harlem, NY, found:
“Even males in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world, have a better chance of reaching 65 than African American males in Harlem. The biggest killers in poor African American communities are not drugs or bullets but chronic diseases like stroke, diabetes and heart disease. Former Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher and colleagues calculated that 83,000 African American ‘excess’ deaths could have been prevented in 2002 if Black-white differences in mortality were eliminated.” (Unnatural Causes Health Equity Quiz).
Not much has changed from 2008 to now. Dr. Marcella Alsan, infectious disease physician and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, co-authored a 2019 paper for the American Economic Review titled “Does Diversity Matter for Health?: Experimental Evidence from Oakland” that found that due to lack of access to health insurance, lower socioeconomic status, and structural racism, Black men have the lowest life expectancy of any major demographic group in the United States. It also found that Black men are much more likely to demand preventative care, including invasive care, once meeting with a racially concordant doctor. This is especially notable in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated these inequities. The lack of action on racial disparities in health outcomes is a clear example of mass denial of structural racism Black Americans face as the United States government makes no effort to acknowledge the reality of the effects of structural racism, let alone solve it.
Instead, White America merely individualizes the problem. Education has long been touted as the way to move up the socioeconomic ladder. Black children were intentionally denied access to proper education, with citizen mobs burning down Black community schools with no intervention. Post Brown vs. Board of Education, multiple states fired Black teachers en masse to ensure white teachers at integrated schools would retain their positions. While the amount of Black Americans in higher education has increased over time, white college graduates have seven times the wealth of Black college graduates. Even White high school dropouts have more wealth, inherited through their parents, than Black college graduates, showing that we can’t simply remedy the racial wealth gap through labor. The United States must give financial redress to pay for the harms it continues to commit against Black Americans.
Black activists have long pointed to international definitions of genocide to justify the call for reparations. The United Nations’ Genocide Convention of 1948 defines genocide as such:
“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group” (United Nations).”
Seven decades ago, a contingent of Black leaders including, but not limited to W.E.B. Du Bois, William L. Patterson, Claudia Jones, and Paul Robeson submitted a paper to the United Nations titled We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People, accusing the United States of committing injurious and pernicious harms against its citizens of African descent and emphasizing that White American racism was the concern not solely of the United States, but of the entire world. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights did not acknowledge the petition. Thirteen years later, upon his split with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X spoke about raising the persecution of African-Americans once again at the United Nations. He was successful in working with African leaders, to get a resolution passed at the 1964 Organization of African Unity (OAU) conference to demonstrate their concern for the treatment of their long-lost brothers and sisters in the United States. This is significant for the fact that it proved the merits of an international approach towards addressing civil rights in the United States.
It is contingent upon our generation to take up the work that was started decades ago but that has gone unfinished. It is contingent upon true, sincere White and non-Black allies or aspiring allies of the Black liberation struggle to recognize this fact and to make a commitment toward ensuring that justice does not go deferred any longer.
Historically, we’ve seen several successful examples of reparations, including for South Africa’s apartheid regime and the U.S. internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. More recently, Canada agreed earlier this year to pay $40 billion ($31 billion in US dollars) to Indigenous Canadians for child removal programs that forced children into residential schools in attempts to eliminate their cultural identities.
Today, the movement for reparations both globally and in the U.S. continues. In each congressional session since 1989, Congress has introduced legislation to create a commission to study and develop a plan for reparations to Black Americans for the atrocities that the thirteen colonies and the U.S. government thereafter committed:
“This bill establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. The commission shall examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies” (H.R. 40 – Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act).
Although America never delivered on its promise of “40 Acres and a Mule” to formerly enslaved Black Americans, the call for reparations is picking up steam. Today, the bill has nearly 218 cosponsors in the House, the most support the bill has ever received. Ahead of Juneteenth, our allies – including the National African American Reparation Commission, convened by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century and others – are calling on Congress to finally take accountability for the tacit and/or explicit approval of the United States government in the historical and current genocide against the Black community and pass H.R. 40. We urge you to join us and our allies in calling your congressional representatives and urge them to cosponsor H.R. 40. No longer is the mentality of mass denial acceptable.
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Fury behind the wheel could cost you: Canadian researchers report that angry and aggressive drivers are more likely to get into car accidents.
"Even minor aggression, such as swearing, yelling or making rude gestures, can increase the risk of a collision," said lead author Christine Wickens, a scientist with the Center for Addiction and Mental Health.
Researchers analyzed responses of 12 830 adults in the province of Ontario to an ongoing survey that asks about mental health and risky behaviors. They focused on responses from 2002 to 2009.
During that time, about a third of the drivers surveyed admitted to minor acts of aggression.
About 2 percent said they had also made threats and tried to damage another car or hurt someone. The highly aggressive drivers were 78 percent more likely to have a collision -- roughly the same risk for drivers who smoke marijuana behind the wheel.
Almost 8 percent of the respondents had been involved in a collision within the previous year, the researchers reported.
People who described themselves as not at all aggressive while driving were least likely to have had collisions.
Though the findings don't prove that anger and aggression directly cause accidents, they suggest that risk increases either because people drive more aggressively or are distracted by their anger.
"The results clearly show that aggression is related to the risk of collision," Wickens said in a center news release.
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Some models are good for one topic other for the next. Future research has to show whether a combined approach is useful. ... Our main focus for this year was on setting up a flexible retrieval environment rather than on evaluating novel video retrieval approaches. ... The integration realized is only at its first stage: limited to the GMM retrieval model for visual information only, not flexible (it is Trecvid-specific), and not particularly elegant. ...dblp:conf/trecvid/WesterveldGCHV05 fatcat:fyqgloc26fcazaf4rlae4brxyu
We are particularly grateful to Christian Petersohn at the Fraunhofer (Heinrich Hertz) Institute in Berlin for providing the master shot reference and to the team at the Centre for Digital Video Processing ... 9 Authors' note TRECVID would not happen without support from ARDA/DTO and NIST and the research community is very grateful for this. ... Multimodal approaches have always been common in TRECVID, specifically combinations of retrieval based on searching the ASR text, based on matching keyframes using image similarity approaches, and based ...dblp:conf/trecvid/OverIKS05 fatcat:czlfoelhrnaxnnhwr74antamqi
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In this paper, we explore the help of visual features to cross-language image retrieval. We propose an approach that transforms textual queries into visual representations. ... The relationships between text and images are modeled. Visual queries are constructed from textual queries using the relationships. ... Several hybrid approaches (The Lowlands Team, 2002; Westerveld, 2000 Westerveld, , 2002 that integrate visual and textual information have been proposed. ...doi:10.1007/11519645_65 fatcat:vigdrkpeufdubbegcufud4kzcq
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Fizel and the CSRC dancers, ready for action, and always up for fun!
The Unique Space Two Cultures Connect: Dialogue with A Disability Organisation Driver
by Kirsten Steenkamp
The development and harmonious living of humankind relies on diversity. Our strength rests in collaborating with those who are different to us, learning unique perspectives and having greater insight into the uncountable worldviews that make up this beautiful planet.
When we stop focusing on just the differences between people – physical, cognitive, emotional, or sensory – we are able to recognise the importance of each person’s social and cultural identity. Having an identity means looking at their person in their context, knowing that everything about their world influences how they think, react, speak, and interact. Having an identity also indicates the belonging to a greater community, a lens, a culture through which one looks at the world.
21 May is colloquially known as Diversity Day, a UN-sanctioned celebration that is formally articled as World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. According to UNESCO, this day highlights the “essential role of intercultural dialogue for achieving peace and sustainable development.”
Though media tends to spotlight cultures of different nationalities, sexual orientations, and ethnicities, there is a distinct community which holds unique cultural value around the world. The undeniably complex – but incredibly distinct culture of disability.
People with disabilities share recognisable beliefs, values, goals, and social practices. Some commonly held values within this culture speak to the need for mutual respect and belonging, the enjoyment of mobility and accessibility, and the right to be truly productive. These values are underpinned by the right of disabled people to be seen as inherently worthy in society.
Their shared goals, which are passionately embodied by ability activists, are primarily driven by social inclusion and promoting equal access to opportunities in the community, workplace, and in society.
Tragically, misinformation and a global misunderstanding of the disabled community feeds harmful attitudes. And this prejudice breeds discrimination and ill treatment of disabled people in communities across the world. Today, with the aim of growing acceptance, appreciation and a greater understanding of disability, we enter into conversation with Fizel Abrahams.
A soft-spoken and gentle person, Fizel has become immersed in the transport needs of a holistic disability organisation in Cape Town, as well as the community it serves. Working with people with disabilities for more than 9 years, in The Chaeli Campaign, he fills a crucial role. Without Fizel, the lack of accessible transport in South Africa would’ve meant that dozens of beneficiaries – children and adults – would struggle to access vital services, attend appointments, and take part in various social events!
Fizel has a special relationship with those he transports, especially as he is often the only one in the car with them. He has connected particularly deeply with the CSRC dancers, a group that came together when most were still children. Getting to know the hearts and minds of dancers with disabilities, Fizel does not often share how he has been changed by his work. Allowing us to enter into his world, Fizel shares his thoughts on why dialogue is a significant tool to create understanding and compassion for one another.
While Fizel was working for his previous company, the drivers were often contacted by The Chaeli Campaign. Every Sunday, the CSRC dancers would need to be transported from their homes around Cape Town to the Bergvliet Sports Association. And over some years, Fizel and his team provided an accessible service which enabled people with disabilities to get around town more independently.
Sadly, Fizel would regularly encounter other drivers who either refused to, or had to be convinced to, assist disabled passengers by lifting them into and out of the vehicles. Fizel remarks that drivers almost acted as if they could get a virus from touching someone with a disability, and it was so obvious they were only thinking of themselves. Fizel asks, “Why must you treat people like animals? You would never want others to treat you like that.”
Some years had passed when Fizel asked Zelda, the CEO of The Chaeli Campaign, if the organisation needed a full-time driver. Within two weeks, he was officially employed! Speaking candidly about his interaction with Zelda, Fizel said: “she noticed me. She liked the way I worked with the kids. I like to work with disabled people. And the kids always leave my car laughing, I make them happy.”
“I don’t understand why people are scared. If I must confront someone, I would make them understand how to connect and work with (disabled) people. I’m just straightforward. For example, if someone asked me about Chaeli, I would take them – maybe by the hand – and take them in front of Chaeli. She’s the only one who can answer the questions you want to ask.”
Intercultural dialogue is imperative, as it opens the door to advance empathy and mutual understanding. Fizel – speaking as someone who is non-disabled – says that “you won’t know if you don’t connect with (disabled people). Speak with them, try to know them, learn to know them. The more you interact, the more comfortable you’ll get around them.”
What many people are afraid to think about – and dare not say aloud – is that anyone can be impacted by disability. This is the truth, no matter which way we try to sugar-coat it. “(Disability) can happen to someone in your family. That could even be me sitting in that wheelchair. I put myself in their shoes to see how that person feels.”
One of the most beautiful, but complicated, aspects of the disability community, is that each person – and their life experience – is totally different. A common expression within the community is ‘if you’ve met a disabled person, you’ve only met one disabled person.’
More than anything, Fizel is reminded each day that respect is the main thing in life. He has learned to care more about others, and wishes that others would be more willing to help and learn about disability. “I like to hear how (my passengers’) minds work, what they have to say, their experience of life. That’s how I learn from them.”
We should be inspired to get to know each other personally, irrespective of any preconceived ideas we may form by judging a person’s exterior. Only in this way will our beliefs about those who are “different” to us ever change.
Let’s choose to keep challenging our own perceptions and negative stereotypes about people who we perceive to be different to us. Be human. Have the courage to connect. Speak with love. Listen to understand. And cherish the diversity of the human spirit.
Dialogue has the power to heal and restore hope. And it happens when we are brave enough to start a conversation, even – and perhaps, especially – if it scares us. Through learning from different cultures we can enjoy the unique experiences and insights they have to share, and then to invite them into our world.
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By 1944 Raymond Chandler had written The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely and the line “She had eyes like strange sins” and he was accordingly at the top of his game when he wrote “The Simple Art of Murder” for Atlantic Monthly and sank the sturdiest and most explicit signpost at a major turning point for pulp fiction.
Since then the essay has held its ground as an important and seminal summary of what’s good and bad in fiction in general and detective fiction in particular, at least from the perspective of one of the genre’s recognised greats. It amounts to a declaration of victory for a certain type of rigorous realism and American-style iconoclasm, especially with regards to the insufferably mannered, formulaic and imperious English forbears of detective fiction. Chandler takes on Dorothy L. Sayers and an editorial he describes as an “essay in futility” as representative of the pompous view that detective fiction can never be real fiction.
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
Chandler also takes issue with E.C. Bentley’s “Trent’s Last Case” and condemns Freeman Wills Crofts, S.S. Van Dine and, naturally, Agatha Christie for the lead-handed cop-out that is “Murder On The Orient Express”.
They do not come off intellectually as problems, and they do not come off artistically as fiction.
And he’s particularly merciless with the progenitor of Winnie The Pooh, AA Milne, for his crime against fiction “The Red House Mystery”. The problem with the Milne Story is that it’s implausible and relies on far too many very unlikely or unnatural or irregular occurrences. Chandler picks the story to pieces, in fact, and the best he can say about it is that it’s “not a deliberate fraud”.
In short, Chandler dislikes a cheat. And this is the meat of the essay for any writer who cares about adding to the modern canon as begun by Hammett and sustained by Chandler and MacDonald (but clearly not Spillane). It needs to be realistic. This doesn’t mean that mad things can’t happen and that character and morality can’t be tested to limits beyond that which most readers will ever see, but it has to be logically consistent and you can never go back and try to fill in a litany of plot-holes with the cheap pitch of coincidence and oversight and the assumption that your readers are lazy or stupid.
That means no deus ex machina, no sending Hastings down to London in chapter three to return at the denouement with evidence of a secret twin or a second will or true likeness of the deceased, no squadrons of policemen too stupid to notice that which the amateur detective picks up on instantly. It means, simply, that your reader has to stand a chance to solve the problem with the evidence presented. You can misdirect your reader, as Hammett does so originally in the Maltese Falcon, or shock him as Chandler does so cynically in the Little Sister, but you can’t lie and you can’t cheat and you can’t deprive the reader of a fighting chance.
You don’t need to like the advice or follow it to be a good writer unless part of your take on that means being a good writer according to the harsh and authoritative definition of Raymond Chandler. Or if you simply agree with the hypothesis that rigour in writing inevitably surfaces as quality then you could certainly choose a worse measure than an obligation to reward your readers for their attention all the way through to the end. | <urn:uuid:9c245d24-f4c8-4844-b5ce-e452a621f3d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indefensiblepublishing.com/2014/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951246 | 784 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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|Location and accuracy||This occurrence is at an elevation of about 3,500 feet, about 0.4 mile south-southeast of VABM Allen. The occurrence is the site of sample 84 in Dillon and others (1981 [AOF 133B]). The location is accurate within one-half mile.|
Geologic descriptionThis occurrence consists of a quartz vein that contains abundant bornite, lesser amounts of covellite, and traces of chalcopyrite altering to malachite. The vein cuts calcareous schist. A sample of the vein contains more than 2% copper and 100 ppm silver (Dillon and others, 1981, sample 84 [AOF 133B]). Degenhart and others (1978) reported minor amounts of chalcopyrite, bornite, and malachite in metamorphosed, reef limestone a short distance north of this occurrence.
|Geologic map unit||(-152.063157229864, 67.538742656646)|
|Alteration of deposit||Chalcopyrite oxidizing to malachite.|
|Workings or exploration||Only surface sampling.|
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Degenhart, C.E., Griffis, R.J., McQuat, J.F., and Bigelow, C.G., 1978, Mineral studies of the western Brooks Range performed under contract to the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Contract #JO155089: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 103-78, 529 p., 11 sheets.
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Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta on how developing an individual technique helped her to find her voice
The Strad’s August 2016 issue is on sale now, in which Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta talks to Chloe Cutts about lessons with Geringas, her new Berlin Phil recording, and finding another main instrument after twelve years.
Elsewhere in the issue, Alessandra Barabaschi examines the Antonio Stradivari 'Baron Rothschild, Gore-Booth' cello of 1710, a great example of the master's B form, and talks to its owner, Rocco Filippini; Edward Klorman examines how quartet playing has been viewed in centuries past; and Nancy Pellegrini delves into US violinist Isaac Stern's groundbreaking 1979 trip to China, captured in an award-winning documentary.
In our regular sections: Masterclass features Christine Hoock, who marks up the sheet music for the first movement of Vanhal's Double Bass Concerto in D major; In Focus gives a close-up view of a 1933 violin by Fernando Ferroni; Hungarian bow maker Bernd Etzler shares his method for making a bow button in Trade Secrets; Cromonese luthier Vladimiro Cubanzi invites us into his workshop in My Space; violin and viola teacher Rictor Noren speaks about the martelé bow stroke in Technique; US violinist-violist Yura Lee takes us through her Practice Diary; three luthiers with experience of creating five-string cellos give their thoughts to an interested reader in Ask the Experts; and US cellist Robert deMaine talks about Hindemith's Solo Cello Sonata in Sentimental Work.
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Innovation is a frequently used term, but what are its actual effects on human behaviour? Managing director at TRA Andrew Lewis explores how new technology is going to seamlessly merge the physical and digital worlds, and how this will allow people to alter their own realities.
Author Andrew Lewis
We aren’t as rational as we imagine ourselves. Everything from the colour of an item to the music playing in the background can influence our decisions. So, with this in mind, Andrew Lewis reckons marketers should take context seriously when targeting consumers.
The rules that previously shaped the industry have been torn apart by digital disruption. So TRA managing director Andrew Lewis looks to rewrite the playbook.
Innovation is often revered as an esoteric art form, which only a few geniuses are privy to. But Andrew Lewis argues that everything isn’t as mystical as it seems.
The difference between consumers’ claimed behaviour and actual behaviour is often vast. And while marketers like to have concrete data to make plans, Andrew Lewis thinks they need to become better at observing customer behaviour.
Marketers have so many tools available to them to target customers and personalise communications. But they still need to bear in mind how people arrive at the front door in the first place, says Andrew Lewis.
At a time when he is being coaxed into commercial activities through nostalgia, TRA managing director Andrew Lewis reflects on why it’s important for brands to attach their experiences to consumers’ memories.
One of the persistent public views that exists around marketing and advertising is that these industries are great manipulators of us all, creating in us silly desires and passing fancies that divert us from a virtuous life path and empty our wallets with the skill of a pickpocket. And when one looks at something like the furore created by Lewis Road Creamery around chocolate milk, it’s pretty easy to see how people might start musing on this. But the truth is that we are a much less Machiavellian lot than our fancy milk would suggest.
You might not think there are too many similarities between treating syphilis and differentiating brands, but you’d be wrong, says Andrew Lewis, because it illustrates the importance of combining theory with practice.
Like beards and Jennifer Lawrence, customer centricity is having a bit of a ‘moment’ currently. But in this rapidly changing nation, we’re not listening hard enough to what customers actually want, says Andrew Lewis.
Incremental innovation might actually be hindering, not helping growth, says Andrew Lewis. So brands need to start acting like entrepreneurs if they want to find those breakthrough insights.
Andrew Lewis thinks that despite 50 years of research, practice, learning and refinement, we are still pretty rubbish at creating great brands that genuinely connect with people. And he thinks the secret to rectifying this might lie in the teachings of Stanislavski.
In an age where product information is readily available, Andrew Lewis says brand advertising is losing its efficacy in directing consumers’ choices—and it may even be making brands irrelevant.
Whether it’s trips to Cuba or brands and businesses, memory trumps experience in the human brain, says Andrew Lewis. So you need to design your services with that in mind.
Viewership of broadcast TV is declining here and around the world. And, in correlation, some consumers appear to have largely checked out of advertising altogether, writes Andrew Lewis. So a reliance on brand-led communications to drive engagement will be found wanting.
To be a great brand, consumers simply need to get a sense of the personality though its actions, rather than have it delivered fully formed, says Andrew Lewis.
People don’t really understand the things they buy, says Andrew Lewis. And that’s the way
they seem to like it.
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So let’s say a conservative hostile to Obama’s climate policies becomes president in 2016. What options does he actually have?
1) Sign a bill that handcuffs the EPA. If next year’s election brings us a Republican president with majorities in the House and Senate, he or she could always just pass a bill amending the Clean Air Act and curtailing the EPA’s authority over greenhouse gas emissions. Boom, done. This could range from blocking or modifying the Clean Power Plan to barring the EPA from ever regulating CO2 emissions in any sector.
2) Replace the Clean Power Plan with a new regulation. Alternatively, let’s imagine our Republican president doesn’t have majorities in Congress. Now things get trickier. A President Scott Walker can’t just refuse to regulate greenhouse gas emissions entirely. After all, the Supreme Court has ordered the EPA to do so as long as there’s evidence they cause harm (and that evidence is quite solid.)
So instead, a new president might have to take subtler steps to weaken Obama’s climate policies. Take the Clean Power Plan, which will force states to start cutting power plant emissions by 2022. One option is for a Republican president to initiate a new rulemaking process through the EPA to either undo Obama’s plan or replace it with another, less ambitious rule. The hitch? This would take at least 12 to 15 months — it involves a notice, a proposed rule, soliciting public comment, and so on. And the process would likely get bogged down by lawsuits from environmental groups (who are very, very skilled at this sort of litigation). Doable, but surprisingly difficult.
3) Implement the Clean Power Plan, but very loosely. Or the next president could opt for a quieter approach — allow Obama’s Clean Power Plan to proceed, but implement it weakly. In theory, there’s room to do this. Under the rule, states have to submit plans for how they’ll cut their power plant emissions by 2016, but they can request an extension until 2018. The EPA will then have to review the plans to make sure they’re robust. An administration that wasn’t very concerned about global warming might be able to get away with approving less aggressive plans from recalcitrant states like Texas or West Virginia.
“There’s a lot of latitude in the review process,” says Stanford’s Michael Wara. “The history of the Clean Air Act shows this. If you have a president who doesn’t like climate policy, they could basically signal to the states that they’re going to give a lot of compliance flexibility and allow states to make assumptions in their plan that reduce their costs.” This would likely involve seemingly arcane tweaks to models and baselines that would be harder for green groups to challenge in court.
Meanwhile, some states may outright refuse to submit any plans for reducing emissions. (Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY, is already urging states to do exactly this.) If that happens, the EPA has the authority to impose its own federal plan on the states — but that implementation will be left to the next president. So, again, a Scott Walker administration could implement a federal rule that went easy on recalcitrant red states.
4) Fail to defend Obama’s climate regulations in court. Industry groups are planning to challenge aspects of the Clean Power Plan in court, and those cases will take years to resolve. Adele Morris, the policy director for the Climate and Energy Economics Project at the Brookings Institution, pointed out that an administration hostile to Obama’s EPA rule could always just defend it weakly in court. Plus, if any parts of the rule do get struck down, the next administration will get to decide how to redo it.
5) Loosen up Obama’s fuel economy standards. A Republican administration could fiddle with other Obama climate rules, as well. For instance, the EPA has been ratcheting up fuel-economy standards for new cars and light trucks, which are now scheduled to rise from their current 35 miles per gallon to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
But those numbers aren’t set in stone. These CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) rules come up for a midterm review in 2017. At that point, automakers could lobby to allow the standards to rise more slowly — particularly if sales of fuel-efficient vehicles continue to be sluggish due to low oil prices. And an administration skeptical of these rules would have some room to relax them.
How Hillary Clinton could expand Obama’s climate policies
1) Strengthen energy efficiency standards for homes and buildings. The Department of Energy has the ability to scale up or tighten various energy efficiency standards for household appliances, residential boilers, commercial ventilation equipment, and so forth. This would help reduce energy demand and CO2 emissions.
2) Expand programs to reduce HFCs. The Obama administration has already beguncracking down on HFCs, a potent greenhouse gas often used in refrigeration and air conditioning. In theory, the next president could direct the EPA to accelerate the phase-out of the worst of these gases and help bolster recycling programs and pursue alternatives.
3) Start regulating industrial CO2 sources. Similarly, the next president could set the EPA loose regulating other sources of CO2 emissions. Under Obama, the EPA has only regulated CO2 from vehicles and power plants. But the agency technically has the authority to regulate refineries, cement plants, petrochemical plants, and so on. The WRI report suggests that the EPA under the next president could use this power to improve end-use efficiency and fuel switching in the industrial sector and bring down US emissions even further.
4) Crack down on methane leaks from oil and gas infrastructure. Under Obama, the EPA has already begun setting standards for methane leaks from new oil and gas wells. The next president could expand this authority to existing oil and gas wells — the source of 90 percent of leaks — as well as other natural gas infrastructure.
5) Expand fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks. As noted above, federal fuel economy standards for new cars and light trucks are currently set to keep risingeach year until they reach 54.5 miles per gallon in 2025. The WRI report points out that the next president could tighten these standards further during the 2017 midterm review, or even extend them further — say, to 63 mpg by 2030. (Though, again, if low oil prices are blunting sales of fuel-efficient vehicles, this could be tough.)
6) Set carbon dioxide rules for aircraft. Countries around the world are planning to come to some sort of agreement on reducing emissions from flying in the next few years. The WRI report notes that the next administration could work with the EPA to set a rule to improve the fuel efficiency of new aircraft in the range of 2 to 3 percent annually.
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For past the six years Dean Gray, an American government teacher at Norwalk High School, has organized a student-led program known as Giving Charity to Charities.
The program calls for 12th-grade students in social studies classes to select a local, national or international charity organization to receive the proceeds from campus fundraising drives held by the students.
The selections are based on the personal interests or connections the students have to issues or causes. Since 2013, the program has raised a total of $75,000 that have gone to 54 different charities.
In addition to an annual winter student assembly on campus where the classes present their donations of $1,000 to charity group representatives, there are usually also acknowledgement letters or phone calls received by the school from each of the charity groups.
But this year, there was a special sort of thank you that was offered by Drop in the Bucket, which received a $1,000 donation from the students.
Drop in the Bucket, a Los Angeles- based organization that provides drinking water and sanitation systems to schools in African countries, passed along some photos of young students in Uganda expressing their gratitude. The shots showed the African youths with warm smiles holding a sign that said: “Thank You Norwalk High School.”
Gray was happy but not entirely surprised to see the kind messages. “It’s another success story of our kids making a difference in people’s lives. Fresh water. How awesome is that?” he said.
Bailey Martinez, 18, is the student who did the research to find a water-related charity to propose to classmates as a donation recipient. He found out that unlike some groups that just passed along funds to other organizations that perform the work, Drop in the Bucket was different. The nonprofit was directly involved with staff on-ground in the countries doing the labor to plan and develop the systems.
“That’s was one I really liked. I felt that they did the most and they’re based here in L.A. and thought that was con- venient,” Martinez said. “I think clean water is something we take for granted and it’s not something everyone has.”
Over a three-week period, Martinez along with more than 300 other seniors hawked chewy energy bars on campus
to fellow students and then also sold them off campus. All of the teams did fundraising in the same way for the same amount of time. A total of $13,000 was raised for 13 charities. An additional charity, Race to Erase Multiple Sclerosis, received $1,000 donated from a local golf tournament organized by teachers and staff.
“Every year it’s unique,” said Gray about the program. “The kids find new charities and new ways to help people. It’s very personal for them. And 54 total charities are impressive. It’s amazing to be a part of it.”
Nineteen students representing the teams, along with teachers involved in the program, were recognized at the Feb. 26 meeting of the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District Board of Education.
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Sprouts are very healthy! I even sprouted some broccoli. Sprouts are like little packages of nutrients!
bee’s and honey
Bees are very intelligent even though they have a brain the size of a pinhead. Bees collect honey from flowers. But how do they tell the other bees where that honey is. The bee that has found the flower patch will go back to the hive and dance. The bee will do a different dance depending on how far the flowers are. The bee will walk in the direction of the flowers (to the left of the sun or the right etc). Then, turn to the left and circle to the beginning where the line started. Then the bee will go forward again and turn to the right and go back. The bee will also waggle his body back and forth, and the more it waggles the more flowers there are. The longer the bee walks toward the flower patch, the farther the flower patch.
What happens when the hive gets too crowded?
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This post was written by Hannah Morris, Facilitator and Coach at The Latimer Group.
In our first post in this series, we examined the idea that, within our authentic presence, each of us shows up in a variety of different ways based on choices we make to adapt to our environment, audience, and situation.
We have identified four bands of behavior that range from informal to formal, and move from an emphasis on the personal to the professional version of ourselves. Understanding these bands allows us to explore the breadth of our range and see where we may have opportunities to practice and develop.
As you read through the description of these bands, see if you can create a picture (or, better yet, a video) inside your head of what each looks and sounds like – both for you and for your closest colleagues.
The four bands of an individual’s range are: Casual, Conversational, Polished, and Ceremonious.
Casual. We are totally relaxed and very informal. We share freely and dress in whatever way makes us most comfortable. We are acting in the same way we would in a relaxed social setting outside of work, meaning we are focusing on the personal and ignoring or eliminating the professional. For some of us, depending on the depth of our range, this band is still appropriate, but for others, we may be moving into territory that is deemed by some as unprofessional and inappropriate.
Conversational. We are quite comfortable and at ease, but still paying attention to how we hold ourselves, what we say, and how we come across. There is slightly more emphasis on personal than professional, which makes this band a go-to for relationship building. People see even more of who we are in the comments, opinions, and stories we share because we filter less, but we still impose some boundaries.
Polished. We are alert, attentive, careful, and yet still human and relatable. We pay close attention to our enunciation, our word choice, our pacing and emphasis. Our attire and posture signal an effort to impress. We come across as deliberate, but still maintain an element of humor, emotion, and personality that engage an audience and enable connection.
Ceremonious. We are on guard, highly formal, affected, and can even come across as robotic if we become too focused on adhering to rules and propriety. With so much emphasis on the professional, we have subsumed most or all of the personal. This band can be required in certain roles and settings, but is one that most people access only rarely as it takes great effort and creates imposing barriers.
To function within our roles, most of us spend our workday inside our Conversational and Polished bands. For each of us, there are certain bands that become our default and we may receive feedback that we either need to “step it up a bit” or “let our hair down from time to time”.
As you apply these bands to your own experience, consider how wide your range is from one extreme to the other, from Casual to Ceremonious. Is there very little difference between them? Or are the two extremes so incredibly different as to seem like entirely separate people?
Consider also what advice you have been given. Consider where you are in your career and where you want to go next. We all know the adage of “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” This can apply to other aspects of our presence as well. Now, if all of this falls within our authentic presence, then what lies outside? What would make our presence inauthentic? That piece comes next
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The way we were in the 60’s
The Late Great Tom Menezes, second from left, on Trumpet.
In the beginning, there was the Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon. Without that broadcast we would never have had the golden opportunity of listening to and enjoying English pop music in the 60’s.
Each morning would always start with the breakfast show, followed by Housewife’s Choice at 2pm and then the rest of the delightful music programs thereafter. Sunday’s were special cos of the long and enjoyable Sunday choice in the afternoons that went on from 2pm to 5.
Music, automatically entered our veins and we used to try to play on anything we found in the house and also sing at the top of our voices, much to the annoyance of our neighbors.
Mum used to play harmonica and also sing us to sleep, each night. Her favorite tracks were “Prisoners Song”, “She’ll be coming round the mountain”, and “Auld Lang Syne”.
My love for rhythm and drums was always aching to hit on anything that came my way. First, it was Mum’s wooden ladles and clay pots. I used get chased out of Mums kitchen even by the many Ammey’s who came to help with the cooking. Then came bongo drums and congas.
All our cousins used to gather at Grandma’s place every Sunday for a game of cricket and lunch. This was the opportunity to try and make music with all of them. We had almost two cricket teams between us. We sure made music.
Close to home was the Bambalapitiya Flats. Many were the awesome musicians who lived there. I remember the Latif Miskin Combo playing every week night at the Koffee House on the ground floor next to the Milk Board in the flats building facing the Galle Road. Papa Miskin on Trumpet, Farook Miskin on drums and the late Ahamed Miskin playing double bass and doing the vocals with those memorable Jim Reeves songs. Gazali Amit the famed guitarist joined them on many occasions. We used to stand outside and watch through the glass window.
Other musicians at the Bamba flats were Sunil Abhayasinghe, now in LA, Loranjan Dias Abeygunewardene & his lovely sister, the late Shiromani Mackeen, who was a brilliant pianist. Many were the gigs we did on Radio Ceylon as a trio. Shiro passed away some years back in LA and Lora has moved to Ireland where he plays great music with a gig up there.
Then came The Royal College Swingtette, in the 60’s, thanks to Mr Amerasinghe who had returned from USA to take up a teaching position in Colombo and chose to introduce jazz music to the naughty boys. This brought in a flock of very talented musicians like the late Gabo Pieris (Drums/Percussion), Charlie Gulasekharam (Trombone), William Solomons (Double Bass), Geoffrey Labrooy (Drums, now in Australia and also played with the late Raddy Ferreira, Dallas Achilles & the rest), Arooz Sheriff (Drums), and the one and only Ishan Bahar (Guitar/Vocals). Another wonderful musician from school is Puvanendrarajah, a true lead guitar maestro in the shades of the great Hank Marvin of the shadows. He later went on to take the stage name of Indra Raj and played with the famous Jetliners and still plays his music in Europe.
A short stint with “The Faizal Hathy Combo”, comprising Faizal Hathy on Piano, Afzal (Apple) Hathy on Trumpet and their lovely sister doing the vocals followed. More gigs with other lesser known pop/rock bands kept the scene alive.
It was at time that I had the great privilege and honor of meeting with and knowing the best of the best from Papa Menezes, Mickey Menezes, Tom Menezes, Harold Seneviratne, Sam the Man, Saybhan Samat, The Manicavasager brothers, Cass & Faleel Ziard, Peter Prins, Mario Manricks, Cecil Rodrigo, Wadham Dole, and so many other great jazz musicians.
Working at Chartered Bank in The Fort, in Colombo, was a sensational experience in the early 70’s. Meeting folks like Mr. Gerald Wickremasooriya and his lovely wife, their son Netaji, at Childrens’ Bookshop every lunch hour and tea break became the order of the day. Many were the top musicians of that era who gathered at this little kiosk, on the corner of Upper Chatham Street, to enjoy a cup of tea and indulge in musical chatter.
That was the time I bought my first used drum kit for Rs 500 from a close friend who also worked in one of the private sector companies in the Chartered Bank building. The pride of owning a kit was sensational. It was a glitter green Olympic set. Life had just begun for me.
Moving on deeper into the music scene we managed to set up a jazz/rock band named “The Spiritual Recipe” comprising Ezmal Lye (Bass), Dylan Lye (Lead Guitar), & Rasmar Lye (Percussion), Dr. Nalin Jayatunge (Sax), Rumi Bathusha (Rhythm Guitar/Vocals), and the late Lakshman Weeraman (Sinhala vocals & sound manager), may he rest in peace. Practice was on weekends at the Lye residence in Borupana. Most of the gigs were performed at the “Padang” in The Malay Club in Slave Island. It was the 70’s and the era of Santana, Osibissa, James Taylor, Woodstock & Psychedelic Flower Power. The music scene in Colombo was simply bursting its seams.
And then the eventual “karumey” of marriage hit me. Life must go on. Children joined the clan. And we eventually packed up our bags and left the island in search of greener pastures in the Middle East in 1979. Yet, the lure of the sticks and snares never faded away. Many are the wonderful musicians we came to meet, know and play with, from so many different parts of the globe. Michael Feegrade from Goa in India, now settled in Hawaii in the USA, is one of the most talented bass players I have ever known. Some of the others are Captain Mike Williams (Sax), Jun Manabat (Guitar & Vocals), Giovanni Mascarenhas (Guitar/Vocals), & Ali Maghrabi (Keyboard/Vocals), all from Riyadh with whom we used to swing at the Riyadh Intercontinental Hotel ballroom, for strictly high net worth private gigs in the mid 80’s.
We played, jazz, rock, pop and even Arabic music as our own taste of music evolved into many interesting international deeper coves.
Looking back over almost 60+ years of music the road has certainly been a beautiful melody combined with so many talented musicians crossing our paths. When I ponder over the drum lessons I now give to students in Saudi Arabia my mind always goes back to the Sunday morning lessons that the late great Tom Menezes used to give me at his beautiful home in Dehiwela.
As awesome as the music we enjoyed then, are also all those beautiful music lovers and musicians we met along the way.
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When it comes to saving for retirement, many people have no idea how much money they should put aside to retire the way they want to. An ideal retirement figure depends on a wide range of factors, from desired retirement age to percentage of income saved every year. Here are four common factors used to calculate retirement goals.
1. Starting age – As any retirement advisor will tell you, you should start saving as early as possible. By putting away part of your income in your early 20s, you can greatly reduce financial strain as you approach retirement and even generate a surplus.
2. Deferral rate – Although it might be difficult to commit 10 to 15 percent of your monthly paycheck to retirement savings, you should attempt to keep your deferral rate in this range. After a while, you will grow accustomed to the deferral and adjust your spending habits accordingly.
3. Rate of return – Because it is impossible to predict the rate of return on your retirement savings, you should always use a conservative estimate when factoring in rate of return to your retirement goals. Better safe than sorry, as the saying goes.
4. Salary growth – If you base your retirement goal on a multiple of your salary at retirement, you will need to take into account salary growth when computing your final figure. The faster your salary grows, the more quickly your retirement goal outpaces the money you can save every month. If you make an effort to keep your marginal spending increases well below your marginal salary increases, you will be able to boost your savings considerably.
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Two recent news reports from very different parts of the world shared this theme: Affluence can have its drawbacks.
The first story was Michael Wines, “Execution in a Killing that Fanned Class Rancor,” which reports the execution of the son of an affluent Chinese businessman and military official. The son, Yoa Jiaxin, stabbed to death a “peasant” woman last fall. Jiaxin had struck the woman, who was cycling, with his vehicle, but she suffered only minor injuries. When Jiaxin realized that she was memorizing his license plate number, however, he attacked her with a knife.
Wines provides some class context for what happened next:
“The crime had fanned deep public resentment against the “fu er dai,” the “rich second generation” of privileged families who are widely believed to commit misdeeds with impunity because of their wealth or connections.”
Jiaxin later said that he “feared the woman, a poor peasant, would ‘be hard to deal with’ should she seek compensation for her injuries.”
But the victim’s husband fought back, refusing to accept the $6,900 a court ordered in compensation, “calling it ‘money stained with blood.’ He pledged to delay [his wife’s] burial until her killer was executed. A Shanghai lawyer later donated 540,000 renminbi, about $83,300, to her survivors after pledging to pay one renminbi for each message sent to the husband over Sina Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter.”
Of course, these events, which some are calling “Internet-style mob rule,” raise serious concerns about the rule of law in China. One well-known blogger went as far as to invoke the Cultural Revolution, asserting that it was started in response to “this kind of leftist behavior.”
The second story illustrating the negative consequences of being a silver-spoon kid is more uplifting. That’s because the privileged kid in question, Chris Romer, son of former three-term Colorado governor Roy Romer, lost only a political race and not his life. Kirk Johnson reported this week on Michael B. Hancock’s victory over Romer in the Denver mayoral race. The story’s headline, “Message of Survival Won Denver Race for Mayor,” suggests the role of class in the election’s outcome. Here’s an excerpt detailing Hancock’s background:
“In running for mayor of Denver, a position he won overwhelmingly on Tuesday, Mr. Hancock told a family story so powerful, almost Dickensian in its poverty and hope — he and his twin sister were the youngest of 10 children raised by a single mother in Denver, part of that time in public housing — that the theme of adversity overcome became the heart of the campaign.
“’We’ve come from difficult situations, we’ve faced serious challenges, but yet we’re still here,’ said Mr. Hancock, 41, in an interview on Wednesday, talking about his seven surviving siblings, all of whom, he said, got involved as volunteers on his behalf, along with their mother, Scharlyne Hancock, 72, who made calls to voters for weeks.”
Mr. Hancock will become Denver’s second African-American mayor (the first was Wellington Webb, elected in 1991), but supporters of both Hancock and Romer suggest that class played a greater role than race in the election’s outcome. Johnson writes:
“[B]ecause Mr. Romer and Mr. Hancock had few policy disagreements, supporters in both camps said the race inevitably turned on style, likeability and the power of a compelling story.”
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So, the Chinese story smacks of class warfare, while the Denver story may simply affirm our attachment to the American Dream, rags-to-riches storyline. Aspects of both stories are heartening in that working class and poor folks found access to power of different sorts. I daresay, however, that “affluence as liability” is hardly a trend. Nor do stories like Hancock’s election or “justice” for the Chinese peasant’s family suggest any real mitigation of the day-to-day hardship of deprivation and insecurity endured by the world’s working class and poor. | <urn:uuid:0bee1c66-286a-46c3-9c01-30f7832ccf56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.saltlaw.org/index.php/downsides-to-class-privilege-probably-not-a-trend/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970035 | 939 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The Beachwalk Landing Condominium in Long Beach was having its share of problems.
The oceanfront property – two buildings that are nearly 30 years old and have a total of 72 units – was suffering from wear and needed all sorts of work, ranging from replacing terrace doors and air-conditioning sleeves to repairing the balconies and terraces. While there was little argument that things needed to be done, paying the price tag of $3.75 million for all that capital work was an issue.
“There were two factions among the unit-owners,” says Patrick Niland, the president of First Funding of New York, who was the mortgage broker for the transaction. “[There were] those who were well-heeled and didn’t want to take out a loan, and those who couldn’t afford the $40,000 – and up – for their share of the repairs.”
But the condo board, using common sense – and a mortgage broker – took on the project. In December, using “split-funding financing,” Beachwalk Landing closed on an $890,000 deal to obtain money for capital repair work. The building took out a 10-year, 4.83 percent fixed-rate, self-liquidating loan, according to Niland.
How did it come about?
The Deal That Almost Wasn’t
In comparison to co-ops, it can be tough for condos to get loans. “The universe of lenders is much smaller for condos, and the variety of loans is smaller,” explains Niland. In fact, condo financing is not to every lender’s taste.
“Most banks do not want to take the time to understand this type of niche lending,” says Peter Dumelle, vice president at M&T Bank in Melville, the lender for Beachwalk Landing. “We primarily work with projects that the bank is comfortable with as a cash-flow type of loan, as opposed to a balance-sheet type of loan. Our collateral is an assignment of common charges and special assessment income. If the bank feels comfortable with the quality of the cash flow, they can generally clear the first hurdle in lending to the condominium.”
The Beachwalk Landing deal was the deal that almost wasn’t. “The day we were going to close was the day Hurricane Sandy hit,” says Dumelle. “As a result, the closing was postponed for six weeks. We needed to send our engineer out again prior to closing to inspect any damage that resulted from the storm. In the end, it worked out and the closing went smoothly.”
It was, however, more than Mother Nature that got in the way of the deal. Unit-owners were vocal about the loan. “Some didn’t want the debt, period,” Niland recalls. “There were a series of very intense meetings. At one, there was an exchange that almost came to blows.”
There were several sessions and much wrangling. “We were originally told that it would be difficult to obtain financing for a number of reasons,” recalls Steve Friedman, the board president. “First, [there was] the understanding of unit-owners that if they vote to approve the loan (which in our case requires 66 percent approval), it is simply to vote to allow others who could not afford the 24-month overall payment plan for their share of the assessment. Second, the amount of the loan originally was thought to be much higher than was actually required. Third, our attorneys were active in helping us reduce and collect the amount of arrears by certain unit-owners, which the bank looks upon in making a decision to loan money to a condominium.”
Some unit-owners were concerned that if the loan was taken out and some didn’t pay, there would be a shortfall. That, in turn, would mean that the missing money would have to be taken from the operating account. “We told them that if we didn’t get the loan, we wouldn’t be able to get the work done,” says Frank Dragotti, treasurer of Beachwalk Landing and the director of budgeting and financial planning for Charles H. Greenthal, a management company. “After many meetings, we got all the questions answered and issues addressed, and we got 75 percent approval.”
Once the unit-owners were behind the idea, there was the matter of getting the bank to do the loan. “The big thing was the couple of tenants who were in arrears,” says Dragotti. “Our board has paid close attention to resolving the arrears issue, and the banks loved it.”
The deal was attractive to M&T Bank. “The board had an excellent grasp as to how to manage the project,” says Dumelle. “This was a large project, and the board hired excellent professionals to assist in the implementation of it. They hired a professional engineer to review the project and an attorney with a specialty in dealing with condominiums. Another factor was [that] the board and its management company had an excellent handle on its collection procedures. They had a very low percentage of past-due unit-holders. When a unit-holder was past due, they took immediate steps to rectify the problem.”
The bank communicated with the engineer on the complexities and progress of the project while trying to understand its overall scope. “The reality is that, at the end of the day, we only needed approximately 25 percent of the overall cost of the project for the loan, which I think helped us tremendously with an approval,” says Friedman.
Putting the Pieces Together
To pay for a $3.75 million special assessment, owners would have an assessment of between $40,000 and $70,000, which they would have up to two years to pay off, according to Dragotti. The extra $2,000 to $3,000 a month was too heavy a burden for some unit-owners. Getting a loan was the solution. “If we didn’t get the loan, the project would have been downsized,” says Dragotti. Here’s where the split-funding financing came into play. For the 18 unit-owners who couldn’t pay the assessment, the building took out a loan of $890,000. “Those unit-owners will see interest and principal on the loan on their monthly bill for 10 years; the rest of us will be finished paying our share of the project in two years.”
In the end, those who couldn’t afford a significant increase in their monthly expenses got the breathing room they needed. Others had the chance to pay cash now or over two years.
“A lot of boards have talked about doing this [kind of financing],” says Niland. “But in 25 years in the business, this is the first time I’ve ever seen it.” He adds: “Owners should be able to deduct the prorated share of the interest on the loan on their personal income tax return, but they should check with their financial adviser to be sure.” Also, the assessment increases owners’ cost basis. That will help when they sell their units and take profits or losses. The capital repairs are estimated to be completed in the fall of 2013, says Dragotti.
What’s the lesson for other condos and homeowners’ associations? Says Dumelle: “If you’re thinking of borrowing, utilize all your resources. In the case of Beachwalk Landing, the board sought out expert advice from their attorney, accountant, management company, and engineer on how to proceed. They found experts familiar with the industry. You don’t go to a podiatrist if you have a heart problem. Find a financial institution with an expertise with this type of lending. It can save you a lot of valuable time and effort.” | <urn:uuid:b3b2c501-458e-4a1e-a722-7f8cd6f982f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.habitatmag.com/Archive2/300-May-2013/A-Condo-Loan-With-Heart | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982875 | 1,681 | 1.554688 | 2 |
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Held in Waikoloa, Hawaii, the 2017 Glass and Optical Materials Division Meeting (GOMD) of the Materials Ceramic Society was an international affair, attracting hundreds of scientists from over 25 countries. More than just a professional conference, GOMD also welcomed students from around the world, giving each a chance to learn from experts and discover the next steps in their academic and professional careers.
By its nature, research is competitive, and GOMD’s student poster competition is no different. Held each year, the competition provides students the chance to weigh their work against peers and attract the attention of major corporations, laboratories and graduate programs. This year, it was Austin Peay State University that turned heads as chemistry major Maria White received first place for her project.
“I have worked very hard on this project now for a long time, and (first place) means so much because this conference was exclusively for glass and ceramics and was full of experts,” White said. “I always say that I’m not that interested in awards and honors and I do it because I love being in a lab, working on a problem and learning.
“But I will say I was secretly happy about winning.”
White’s project, titled “Technological Aspects and Characterization of Solution-based Arsenic Selenide Thin Films,” edged out projects from major universities, including UC Davis, Brigham Young, UCLA, as well as international universities from the UK, France, Turkey, Germany and Korea.
A member of APSU’s “Glass Group,” a partnership of physics and chemistry students conducting research on crystalline materials, White’s work focused on preparing thin films of glass for use in infrared optics.
“Obtaining the technological aspects to make arsenic-rich spin coated thin films took time and dedication,” White said. “I was able to obtain good quality films last summer and since then I have been bettering them, so now, we get good reliable and reproducible films.
“The first part (of the presentation) was the making of the films, and the second part was the analysis. We presented all aspects that we have been studying at the conference.”
White credited APSU physics professor Dr. Andriy Kovalskiy for preparing her to present her findings. Because she would be held to a high standard of examination, White said Kovalskiy’s expertise reinforced her strengths — and ensured she could answer questions on unfamiliar concepts.
Kovalskiy is one of a number of APSU Department of Physics and Astronomy faculty members who work alongside and mentor the APSU Glass Group. The longtime researcher and educator said that his student’s success is the product of intense work — as well as the help of her fellow research teammates.
“Starting in the Spring 2016 semester, Maria spent hundreds of hours in the lab, optimizing quite complex technological process for spin-coating of these films and she finally got results which deserved international recognition,” Kovalskiy said. “Her award is also really a shared success of our entire group, including current physics majors Joshua Allen and Jonathan Bunton, as well as recent graduate Laura Nicholls.”
APSU physics professor Dr. Justin Oelgoetz works with White’s Glass Group and said her GOMD experience will be valuable in both the immediate and long-term future of White’s career.
“I think one of the big things is that it validates her role in the work,” Oelgoetz said. “This award is the kind of thing that will be on her CV even after she has earned her Ph.D. She was talking to scientists from a number of R1 research universities and major corporations, and she was being compared to other students and graduate students from all over the world. This award tells us that they’ve found her, and her efforts are among the best they’ve seen.”
Although she will graduate from APSU with a degree in chemistry, White said her time working with Kovalskiy’s Glass Group has opened her eyes to physics. The opportunity to conduct hands-on research as an undergraduate alongside experts in the field, White said, has prepared her for the future and given her opportunities she never considered possible.
“The beauty about the physics department at APSU is that they treat students as graduate students. Our research is serious, and our professors are also serious about it,” White said. “I think the physics department is tremendous not just for their knowledge, but because they believe in their students. This is the kind of environment any student can succeed in, and I hope in my graduate years and beyond, I can learn from a group of people like the ones in the physics department at APSU.”
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OPTION STRATEGIES PART - 2 We will examine four market outlooks with trading strategies corresponding to each: Bullish - The expectation of an increase in price. This category has two subcategories: * Moderately bullish-Although the outlook is for higher prices, the increase is not likely to be dramatic. * Extremely bullish - Expecting a dramatic, explosive increase in price (generally anticipated to occur in the short term) Bearish - The expectation of a decrease in price. This category has two subcategories : * Moderately bearish - Although the outlook is for lower prices, the decrease is not likely to be dramatic. * Extremely bearish - Expecting a dramatic sell-off in the stock (generally anticipated to occur in the short term) * Neutral (front spread) - Expecting little price movement over a given time period. Neutral strategies enable the trader to make money in a market where prices remain the same or move little. * Volatile (back spre
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OPTION STRATEGIES Options allow the investor to sculpt the returns in their portfolio. When you buy a stock and the price rises $1, you make $1. You lose $1 if the price declines $1. Your profits are linear and directly related to only the change in the price of the stock. Interest and dividends will make a slight change to the outcome though these factors are also linear. Options blow apart this linearity. Options are called convex instruments because the returns are not linear but curved. We saw that in the previous chapters. You can literally create millions of possible returns through the use of options. You can mix and match options to create just about any return possible. Selecting a strategy is a multi step process. You should go through a systematic process before initiating a trade. Each step should lead to further refinement of the strategy. It can be very dangerous to your bank account to disregard some or all of the major factors that affect options prices. | <urn:uuid:6c0ae39c-7bbe-4cac-9bd6-d5f1ea8e1621> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.furthergrow.in/search/label/option-%20strategies-builder | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.901589 | 427 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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How Did Debra Bridgewood Die? – On July 6, 1984, Colorado Springs 911 operators received a panicked call alerting them to a burning body. Debra Bridgewood was still alive when the police arrived on the scene, but she shortly passed away from her wounds at a nearby hospital.
The horrifying occurrence is detailed in the Investigation Discovery documentary “Homicide Hunter: Hot on The Trail: A Burning Mystery,” which also shows how the victim’s one word led to a shocking discovery. Let’s investigate the matter in greater detail to learn more, shall we?
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How Did Debra Bridgewood Die?
Debra Bridgewood, who frequently went by the name Laura Smalls, lived in Cherry Point, North Carolina, with her family. She was a student at the University of Colorado and was only 20 years old when she was killed. Despite having a good relationship with both her mother and sister, Debra was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder and was receiving treatment for it, according to the television program. However, many who knew her characterized her as a compassionate individual who cherished friendships.
On July 6, 1984, Debra was discovered by the police, who discovered that her body had been doused in gasoline before being set ablaze. The gasoline can was found next to the burn victim, and authorities immediately moved Debra to the closest hospital. When she was at the hospital, Debra was able to tell officers her identity and the words “Cherry Point.” But before she could add anything else, the 20-year-old died from her injuries because they were too severe.
The police initially started searching for a criminal going by the moniker “Cherry Point,” but they soon found it was actually a location. Officers also learned that a Cherry Point family had reported Laura Smalls missing after doing more research on the community. Unexpectedly, Debra’s and Laura’s descriptions matched, so the police called the family to come to identify the body.
Debra’s family discovered that she had a long-standing dissociative identity disorder after they traveled to Colorado Springs and recognized the body. In fact, Debra’s illness was so severe that she frequently appeared to be debating other voices in her head. However, the prospect of homicide remained, so the police decided to find out where the gasoline was purchased.
The victim’s body was discovered nearby, and it was interesting that when the police inquired at a store, the proprietor revealed that a girl had come in to buy an identical can of gasoline. To everyone’s surprise, the owner’s account of the client revealed that Debra had purchased the fuel herself. However, the proprietor also mentioned that Debra was in a trance and speaking to herself throughout the transaction.
Detectives came to the conclusion that Debra had dissociative identity disorder, and one of her mental identities had caused her physical body to burn itself. In the end, the authorities were able to successfully close the case and determine that Debra’s death was caused by self-immolation. | <urn:uuid:f4e7a90c-813d-4147-afcd-a36547a26bab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://naijaonpoint.co/debra-bridgewood-death-how-did-she-die/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.988567 | 667 | 1.875 | 2 |
Biological and chemical weapons have generally been associated with each
other in the public mind, and the extensive use of poison gas in World War I
(resulting in over a million casualties and over 100,000 deaths) led to the
Geneva Protocol of 1925 prohibiting the use of both poison gas and
bacteriological methods in warfare. At the 1932 - 1937 Disarmament
Conference, unsuccessful attempts were made to work out an agreement that
would prohibit the production and stockpiling of biological and chemical
weapons. During World War II, new and more toxic nerve gases were developed,
and research and development was begun on biological weapons. Neither side
used such weapons. President Roosevelt, in a statement warning the Axis
powers against the use of chemical weapons, declared:
Use of such weapons has been outlawed by the general opinion of civilized
mankind. This country has not used them, and I hope we never will be
compelled to use them. I state categorically that we shall under no
circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used
by our enemies.
In the postwar negotiations on general disarmament, biological and chemical
weapons were usually considered together with nuclear and conventional
weapons. Both the United States and Soviet Union, in the 1962 sessions of
the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee (ENDC), offered plans for general
and complete disarmament that included provisions for eliminating chemical
and biological weapons.
An issue that long hindered progress was whether chemical and biological
weapons should continue to be linked. A British draft convention submitted
to the ENDC on July 10, 1969, concentrated on the elimination of biological
weapons only. A draft convention proposed in the General Assembly by the
Soviet Union and its allies on September 19 dealt with both chemical and
biological weapons. The Soviet representative argued that they had been
treated together in the Geneva Protocol and in the General Assembly
resolutions and report, and should continue to be dealt with in the same
instrument. A separate biological weapons convention, he warned, might serve
to intensify the chemical arms race.
The United States supported the British position and stressed the
difference between the two kinds of weapons. Unlike biological weapons,
chemical weapons had actually been used in modern warfare. Many states
maintained chemical weapons in their arsenals to deter the use of this type
of weapon against them, and to provide a retaliatory capability if
deterrence failed. Many of these nations, the United States pointed out,
would be reluctant to give up this capability without reliable assurance
that other nations were not developing, producing, and stockpiling chemical
While the United States did not consider prohibition of one of these
classes of weapons less urgent or important than the other, it held that
biological weapons presented less intractable problems, and an agreement on
banning them should not be delayed until agreement on a reliable prohibition
of chemical weapons could be reached.
Shortly after President Nixon took office, he ordered a review of U.S.
policy and programs regarding biological and chemical warfare. On November
25, 1969, the President declared that the United States unilaterally
renounced first use of lethal or incapacitating chemical agents and weapons
and unconditionally renounced all methods of biological warfare. Henceforth
the U.S. biological program would be confined to research on strictly
defined measures of defense, such as immunization. The Department of Defense
was ordered to draw up a plan for the disposal of existing stocks of
biological agents and weapons. On February 14, 1970, the White House
announced extension of the ban to cover toxins (substances falling between
biologicals and chemicals in that they act like chemicals but are ordinarily
produced by biological or microbic processes).
The U.S. action was widely welcomed internationally, and the example was
followed by others. Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom stated that they
had no biological weapons and did not intend to produce any. It was
generally recognized, however, that unilateral actions could not take the
place of a binding international commitment. A number of nations, including
the Soviet Union and its allies, continued to favor a comprehensive
agreement covering both chemical and biological weapons.
Discussion throughout 1970 in the General Assembly and the Conference of
the Committee on Disarmament (CCD) -- as the ENDC was named after its
enlargement to 26 members in August 1969 -- produced no agreement. A
breakthrough came on March 30, 1971, however, when the Soviet Union and its
allies changed their position and introduced a revised draft convention
limited to biological weapons and toxins. It then became possible for the
co-chairmen of the CCD -- the U.S. and Soviet representatives -- to work out
an agreed draft, as they had done with the Non- Proliferation and the Seabed
Treaties. On August 5, the United States and the Soviet Union submitted
separate but identical texts.
On December 16, the General Assembly approved a resolution, adopted by a
vote of 110 to 0, commending the convention and expressing hope for the
widest possible adherence.
The French representative abstained, explaining that the convention, though
a step forward, might weaken the Geneva Protocol ban on the use of chemical
weapons, and he did not consider that adequate international controls were
provided. He announced, however, that France would enact domestic
legislation prohibiting biological weapons, and this was done in June of the
The Peoples Republic of China did not participate in the negotiations on
the convention and did not sign it. At the 1972 General Assembly its
representative attacked the convention as a "sham," and criticized it for
not prohibiting chemical weapons.
The convention was opened for signature at Washington, London, and Moscow
on April 10, 1972. President Nixon submitted it to the Senate on August 10,
calling it "the first international agreement since World War II to provide
for the actual elimination of an entire class of weapons from the arsenals
of nations." The Senate Foreign Relations Committee delayed action on the
convention, however, holding it for consideration after resolution of the
herbicide and riot-control issues involved in the Geneva Protocol (see
section on the Geneva Protocol).
In the latter part of 1974 the Ford Administration undertook a new
initiative to obtain Senate consent to ratification of both the Geneva
Protocol and the Biological Weapons Convention, and ACDA Director Fred Ikle
testified with respect to both instruments before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on December 10. Soon thereafter the Committee voted
unanimously to send the two measures to the Senate floor, and on December 16
the Senate voted its approval, also unanimously.
President Ford signed instruments of ratification for the two measures on
January 22, 1975.
Under the terms of the convention, the parties undertake not to develop,
produce, stockpile, or acquire biological agents or toxins "of types and in
quantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective, and
other peaceful purposes," as well as weapons and means of delivery. All such
material is to be destroyed within nine months of the conventions entry into
force. In January 1976, all heads of Federal departments and agencies
certified to the President that as of December 26, 1975, their respective
departments and agencies were in full compliance with the convention.
The parties are to consult and cooperate in solving any problems that
arise. Complaints of a breach of obligations may be lodged with the Security
Council, and parties undertake to cooperate with any investigation the
Council initiates. If the Security Council finds that a state has been
endangered by a violation, the parties are to provide any assistance
Nothing in the convention is to be interpreted as lessening the obligations
imposed by the Geneva Protocol, and the parties undertake to pursue
negotiations for a ban on chemical weapons.
In addition, articles provide for exchange of information on peaceful uses,
amendment and review, and accession and withdrawal. The convention is of
At the second Review Conference in September 1986, the parties agreed to
implement data exchange measures to enhance confidence and to promote
cooperation in areas of permitted biological activities. In accordance with
the Final Declaration of that Review Conference, an ad hoc meeting of
scientific and technical experts was held March 31 - April 15, 1987, to
develop procedures for implementing annual data exchanges.
At the third Review Conference in September 1991 it was agreed to reaffirm
and extend confidence building measures agreed at the second Review
Conference and to create an Ad Hoc Group of Governmental Experts open to all
parties to identify, examine, and evaluate from a scientific and technical
standpoint potential verification measures with respect to the prohibitions
of the convention. The Ad Hoc Group met four times in 1992 and 1993,
completing its work and submitting a consensus report circulated to all
States Parties. As provided in the mandate, a majority of States Parties
called for a Special Conference to discuss the final report and consider
further actions. The Special Conference, held in September 1994, agreed to
establish an Ad Hoc Group, open to all States Parties, to consider
appropriate measures, and draft proposals to strengthen the Convention in a
legally binding instrument. The Ad Hoc Group convened two substantive
sessions in 1995, with additional meetings scheduled for 1996. The Ad Hoc
Group will prepare a report, to be considered at the Fourth Review
Conference of the BWC in the Fall of 1996.
CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION
AND STOCKPILING OF BACTERIOLOGICAL (BIOLOGICAL) AND TOXIN WEAPONS AND ON
Signed at Washington, London, and Moscow April 10,1972
Ratification advised by U.S. Senate December 16, 1974
Ratified by U.S. President January 22, 1975
U.S. ratification deposited at Washington, London, and Moscow March 26, 1975
Proclaimed by U.S. President March 26, 1975
Entered into force March 26, 1975
The States Parties to this Convention,
Determined to act with a view to achieving effective progress towards
general and complete disarmament, including the prohibition and elimination
of all types of weapons of mass destruction, and convinced that the
prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of chemical and
bacteriological (biological) weapons and their elimination, through
effective measures, will facilitate the achievement of general and complete
disarmament under strict and effective international control,
Recognizing the important significance of the Protocol for the Prohibition
of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of
Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on June 17, 1925, and
conscious also of the contribution which the said Protocol has already made,
and continues to make, to mitigating the horrors of war,
Reaffirming their adherence to the principles and objectives of that
Protocol and calling upon all States to comply strictly with them,
Recalling that the General Assembly of the United Nations has repeatedly
condemned all actions contrary to the principles and objectives of the
Geneva Protocol of June 17, 1925,
Desiring to contribute to the strengthening of confidence between peoples
and the general improvement of the international atmosphere,
Desiring also to contribute to the realization of the purposes and
principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Convinced of the importance and urgency of eliminating from the arsenals of
States, through effective measures, such dangerous weapons of mass
destruction as those using chemical or bacteriological (biological) agents,
Recognizing that an agreement on the prohibition of bacteriological
(biological) and toxin weapons represents a first possible step towards the
achievement of agreement on effective measures also for the prohibition of
the development, production and stockpiling of chemical weapons, and
determined to continue negotiations to that end,
Determined, for the sake of all mankind, to exclude completely the
possibility of bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins being used as
Convinced that such use would be repugnant to the conscience of mankind and
that no effort should be spared to minimize this risk,
Have agreed as follows:
Each State Party to this Convention undertakes never in any circumstances to
develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain:
(1) Microbial or other biological agents, or toxins whatever their origin
or method of production, of types and in quantities that have no
justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes;
(2) Weapons, equipment or means of delivery designed to use such agents or
toxins for hostile purposes or in armed conflict.
Each State Party to this Convention undertakes to destroy, or to divert to
peaceful purposes, as soon as possible but not later than nine months after
the entry into force of the Convention, all agents, toxins, weapons,
equipment and means of delivery specified in article I of the Convention,
which are in its possession or under its jurisdiction or control. In
implementing the provisions of this article all necessary safety precautions
shall be observed to protect populations and the environment.
Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to transfer to any
recipient whatsoever, directly or indirectly, and not in any way to assist,
encourage, or induce any State, group of States or international
organizations to manufacture or otherwise acquire any of the agents, toxins,
weapons, equipment or means of delivery specified in article I of the
Each State Party to this Convention shall, in accordance with its
constitutional processes, take any necessary measures to prohibit and
prevent the development, production, stockpiling, acquisition, or retention
of the agents, toxins, weapons, equipment and means of delivery specified in
article I of the Convention, within the territory of such State, under its
jurisdiction or under its control anywhere.
The States Parties to this Convention undertake to consult one another and
to cooperate in solving any problems which may arise in relation to the
objective of, or in the application of the provisions of, the Convention.
Consultation and cooperation pursuant to this article may also be undertaken
through appropriate international procedures within the framework of the
United Nations and in accordance with its Charter.
(1) Any State Party to this Convention which finds that any other State
Party is acting in breach of obligations deriving from the provisions of the
Convention may lodge a complaint with the Security Council of the United
Nations. Such a complaint should include all possible evidence confirming
its validity, as well as a request for its consideration by the Security
(2) Each State Party to this Convention undertakes to cooperate in carrying
out any investigation which the Security Council may initiate, in accordance
with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, on the basis of
the complaint received by the Council. The Security Council shall inform the
States Parties to the Convention of the results of the investigation.
Each State Party to this Convention undertakes to provide or support
assistance, in accordance with the United Nations Charter, to any Party to
the Convention which so requests, if the Security Council decides that such
Party has been exposed to danger as a result of violation of the Convention.
Nothing in this Convention shall be interpreted as in any way limiting or
detracting from the obligations assumed by any State under the Protocol for
the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases,
and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on June 17,
Each State Party to this Convention affirms the recognized objective of
effective prohibition of chemical weapons and, to this end, undertakes to
continue negotiations in good faith with a view to reaching early agreement
on effective measures for the prohibition of their development, production
and stockpiling and for their destruction, and on appropriate measures
concerning equipment and means of delivery specifically designed for the
production or use of chemical agents for weapons purposes.
(1) The States Parties to this Convention undertake to facilitate, and have
the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment,
materials and scientific and technological information for the use of
bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins for peaceful purposes.
Parties to the Convention in a position to do so shall also cooperate in
contributing individually or together with other States or international
organizations to the further development and application of scientific
discoveries in the field of bacteriology (biology) for prevention of
disease, or for other peaceful purposes.
(2) This Convention shall be implemented in a manner designed to avoid
hampering the economic or technological development of States Parties to the
Convention or international cooperation in the field of peaceful
bacteriological (biological) activities, including the international
exchange of bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins and equipment for
the processing, use or production of bacteriological (biological) agents and
toxins for peaceful purposes in accordance with the provisions of the
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New InfoSAGE app will assist multiple family caregivers coordinate care of loved one
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New InfoSAGE app will assist multiple family caregivers coordinate care of loved one
This former journalist helps caregivers get to know who their patients once were, before dementia took hold https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/12/15/this-former-journalist-is-helping-caregivers-get-to-know-who-their-patients-once-were-before-dementia/?postshare=3201481836351187&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.aa37489c6002
Q: Is it important for seniors to keep up on their vaccines?
A: Yes. A number of diseases which can be prevented with vaccines can cause significant illness, hospitalization, disability, and even death.
Older adults are more affected than most people by these diseases. According to the Alliance for Aging Research, more than half of the annual flu-related hospitalizations, and 90% of the annual flu deaths, are in people age 65 or over. Roughly half of the 1 million annual cases of shingles in the U.S. are in people over the age of 60. Even though seniors are hit harder by these illnesses, vaccination rates among the elderly are low. Q&A Jan 2017 Vaccines and the Elderly
An extended family in Colombia with a genetic mutation causing Alzheimer’s may help scientists prevent the disease someday. Lesley Stahl reports on the groundbreaking study.
Q: Is drug abuse an issue with older people?
A: Yes. Little attention has been paid to the issue of substance abuse—both legal and illegal drugs–among the elderly. But recent data demonstrates that drug abuse is increasing among elders, and is a larger proportion of all substance abuse among this population.
One study in 2011 reported that 6.3% of those age 50 to 59 reported they had used illicit drugs in the past month, more than twice the rate recorded in 2002. Baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) haved a lifetime rate of illicit drug use higher than those of people older than them. The number of older adults needing treatment for substance abuse is estmated to increase from 1.7 million in 2000 to 4.4 million by 2020.
Nonmedical use of prescription drugs among people 50 years and older is predicted to increase to 2.7 million American by 2020, and one recent study of elderly men in hospital emergency rooms showed that 11.6% involved opioid use—a rate nearly 5 times higher than marijuana, and 6 times higher than cocaine.
One large study of emergency department admissions in 2008 for illicit substance abuse among adults over age 50 years noted that nearly 60% were aged 50 to 54 years, while only 1.5% were over age 75 years. Substance abusers were 70% male. The substances most commonly abused include cocaine (50%–60% of cases), heroin( 25%), and marijuana ( 20%).
Researchers define “early onset users” as individuals with a long history of substance abuse, who continue to abuse as they age. “Late-onset” substance abuse is a less common pattern, accounting for less than 10% of substance abuse among the elderly. Some elders who start abusing drugs do so because of medical factors, like higher rates of painful medical conditions that push the elder toward self-medication, and the development of psychiatric conditions like depression or dementia. Older adults also suffer from higher rates of many of the same risk factors found in younger adults—like bereavement, social isolation, financial difficulties, or poor support systems
Some studies suggest that in recent years prescription opioids have replaced heroin as the opioid of choice, including among the elderly. But among people who were early users of illicit drugs, heroin has been a drug of choice for so long that changing trends are not immediately reflected among elderly users.
The most common addiction among the elderly is with legal substances, like nicotine and alcohol. Psychoactive prescription drugs come in third, and illegal drugs, like marijuana, cocaine, or narcotics, come in fourth. One study of alcohol use in assisted living found that 60% of residents drank alcochol, 34% drank daily, 19% had health impacts from drinking, and 12% had physical or psychosocial harm from alcohol. Alcohol abuse is a risk factor for a psychiatric illness: older adults are 3 times as likely to develop as mental disorder if they have a lifetime diagnosis of alcohol abuse.
Some studies recommend that every 60 year old should be screened for alcohol and prescription drug use/abuse as part of their routine physical exam. But diagnosis of elder drug abuse is a challenge for primary care doctors. Older patients may feel compelled to hide their abuse. Doctors may become absorbed with other medical concerns and neglect to explore the possibility of substance abuse. Bringing more attention to elderly drug abuse will hopefully encourage physicians to become more comfortable learning about treating older substance abusers.
Eldercare Q&A November, 2016
Medicare & Your Maintenance Care
Q: Do I have to “improve” to keep getting home health care?
A: No. One of the biggest mistakes that nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, and home health agencies make is telling people on Medicare that they can’t get skilled nursing, home health care, or physical therapy because they’ve “reached a plateau,” or “failed to improve.” The courts have ruled that “improvement” is not a requirement for Medicare therapy or home health benefits. A federal judge recently ordered Medicare to do a better job of informing health care providers that the so-called “improvement standard” was no longer in effect.
Older patients with chronic and progressive diseases like Alzheimers, Parkinson’s, or congestive heart failure are unlikely to “improve” over time, but they can still get physical therapy or home health care. Rehabilitation therapy helps prevent declines in walking, eating, speaking, dressing and bathing. Denying someone access to these treatments can worsening their disability, threaten their independence and result in more expensive health care needs.
People on Medicare might get confused reading their Medicare & You booklet, which describes on page 50 that home health is “part-time or intermittent.” That does not mean it has to be short-term. It is true that a doctor must approve your care, and you must be “homebound,” which is defined as having trouble leaving your home without help, and that leaving your home is a major effort. But you cannot be denied care because you are not “improving.”
In a 2013 court decision in Vermont, Medicare was ordered to pay for home health services to prevent a deterioration in a patient’s condition. The “stability presumption” was found to be unlawful. The Judge wrote: “A patient’s chronic or stable condition does not provide a basis for automatically denying coverage for skilled services. The determination of whether a patient needs skilled nursing care should be based solely upon the patient’s unique condition and individual needs, without regard to whether the illness or injury is acute, chronic, terminal, or expected to extend over a long period of time. In addition, skilled care may, depending on the unique condition of the patient, continue to be necessary for patients whose condition is stable.”
The fact that skilled care in a nursing home or at home has stabilized a person’s health does not render that level of care unnecessary. An elderly person need not risk a deterioration of her fragile health to validate the continuing requirement for skilled care. Your “failure to improve” cannot be used as a reason to deny you Medicare therapies or home health care. Your care cannot be cut off because you “exhibit a decline in functional status.”
If you are on traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage, and receiving services from a nursing facility, rehab facility or home health agency, and you think your covered services are ending too soon, you can ask for a fast appeal, referred to as an “expedited determination.” Your provider will give you a notice before your services end that will tell you how to appeal. For more assistance, call 1-800323-3205 and ask for the Medicare Advocacy Project.
Think it’s too late to “reinvent” yourself? Think again. According to Carolyn Worthington, editor-in-chief of Healthy Aging® Magazine and executive director of Healthy Aging®, “it’s never too late to find a new career, a new sport, passion, or hobby.”
Worthington is the creator of September is Healthy Aging® Month, an annual health observance designed to focus national attention on the positive aspects of growing older. Now in its second decade, Worthington says September is Healthy Aging® Month provides inspiration and practical ideas for adults, ages 50-plus, to improve their physical, mental, social, and financial well being.
“Use September as the motivation to take stock of where you’ve been, what you really would like to do if money was no object,” says Worthington. “And try it! Who says you have to do something related to what you studied in school? Who says, you can’t become an entrepreneur, start your own home business later in life, test your physical prowess, or do something wildly different from anything you’ve done before? Only that person you see in the mirror!”
To get you started on reinventing yourself, here are some ideas from the editors of Healthy Aging®Magazine (www.healthyaging.net). Maybe they will help you think outside the box:
10 Tips for Reinventing Yourself during September Is Healthy Aging® Month:
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The small pod of dolphins are only the beginning of grindadráps that will span the summer and into the early fall slaughtering 1000’s of the large dolphins many of whom are pregnant at this time of year as they migrate through the North Atlantic past the Faroe Islands. The species is IUCN Red Listed as Data deficient, the meat is toxic, and the killing method inhumane yet the slaughter of 1000’s continues. The world has spoken out against the grind with Disney Cruise Lines recently altering their summer dropping the Faroe Islands from their route:
The #EndFaroeGrind Tweetstorm has been declared a success! The new campaign to bring global awareness to the Faroe Islands small cetacean slaughter called the grind (grindadráp) trended at number two on Twitter, a serious accomplishment. Today major media outlets recognize the power of Twitter and dolphin activists are successfully using the power of the Tweetstorm. #EndFaroeGrind Tweetstorm brought Stormers from all corners of the earth to speak up for cetaceans. Activists came out creating a loud voice for the 1534 small whales, and dolphins, that have died violent deaths in the shallow bays of the Faroe Islands. The meat has been deemed toxic, the pilot whale population numbers are data deficient, and the slaughter method is inhumane yet the grind continues. Is this tradition or an adrenaline rush is one of the many issues tweeted.
The beauty of the Tweetstorm is Storm organizers can evaluate their reach. Spreading awareness worldwide is the goal that can be analyzed later in order that Stormers can continue to increase their audience educating the world about the Faroe grind and other dolphin drives.
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Frailty is associated with negative outcomes among older patients who suffered trauma, a new study has found.
More so than age, other health issues or the severity of the injury, pre-admission frailty is associated with in-hospital death and transfer to another acute-care hospital or to a long-term care facility, according to the study published today in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
"Older trauma patients, in general, have worse outcomes than younger patients, with higher mortality, higher complication rates, longer hospital stays, and an increased likelihood of being transferred to a long-term care facility," said Dr. Camilla Wong, a geriatrician at St. Michael's Hospital and senior author on the paper. "Worse outcomes in this population cannot solely be explained by their advanced age. We found that the increased vulnerability to negative outcomes among older trauma patients is likely due in large part to frailty."
The researchers measured frailty upon admission to hospital with the Clinical Frailty Scale, a clinical assessment tool that uses data on a patient's cognition, mobility, function and comorbidities. It was developed based on data from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging.
The researchers found that of the 260 patients studied, 11 died in hospital, 71 were transferred to another acute care hospital and 11 were transferred to a chronic-care or long-term care facility. Seventy-one per cent of patients with pre-admission frailty were transferred to another hospital or long-term care facility, or died, compared with only 28 per cent of patients without pre-admission frailty.
Previous research evaluating clinical assessment tools for frailty found that there was a lack of objective, feasible and useful measures to assess frailty in geriatric trauma patients. The Clinical Frailty scale could potentially fill this gap, said Dr. Wong.
"This tool allowed us to identify frailty when a patient is admitted, and can be easily implemented and used to guide management and decision making in the geriatric trauma population," she said.
The Clinical Frailty Scale also has the potential to be used to help improve outcomes in older adults after trauma, she said.
"This study demonstrates the Clinical Frailty Scale can identify older adults at risk of adverse outcomes after injury and can enable clinicians to better triage patients and manage resources for this population," said Dr. Wong. "This is crucial for geriatric trauma patients, as they are at greater risk of negative outcomes, both in the short and long term."
Journal information: Journal of the American College of Surgeons
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Tut Small Study on Conjugate Heat Transfer
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- 1.1 Problem setup
- 1.2 Complete Solution
- 1.3 Pseudo-Heat Transfer
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This page presents a small study performed on a particular conjugate heat transfer problem. There have been considered two different approaches: the complete solution, where a solid and a fluid domain are taken into account; the approximate solution, where only the fluid domain is discretised, while the solid domain is accounted through a special type of boundary condition. The results consist in an implementation of a solver for the first approach, and an implementation of a new boundary condition for the second approach. Both ways proved to be successful, though the complete solution cannot be parallelized since the solver (not the library) lacks this feature for the moment. However, a successful parallel computation has been performed using the second approach.
1.1 Problem setup
The problem studied is a hot air flow injected into a container coupled with the heat transfer from the flow to and into the container walls. Numerically, at the end, this will be solved in a Large Eddy Simulation framework, with a one equation transport model for the subgrid turbulent kinetic energy.
1.2 Complete Solution
The first approach was to take into account both domains, and to solve two different sets of equations:
1.2.1 Compressible fluid flow
1.2.2 Heat conduction in the solid domain
The written solver is called conjHeat, and is based on two other existing OpenFOAM solvers, namely rhoTurbFoam and laplacianFoam (still I have to mention this is a slightly modified version from the one written by Daniele Panara Heat transfer with solid elements (conduction)). The sources are accessible through the following link: file sources. The test case consists in a solid can (see Figure 1b), in which a hot fluid (700 K) is injected with 0.1m/s through a small area (green face in Figure 1). The exterior wall surface of the can is kept at a constant temperature of 300 K.
The case considered here case files is laminar so no turbulence models or subgrid scale models are involved, however the solver is able to compute turbulent flows too (RANS). Thus, the initial values needed to be set are: temperature, velocity, and pressure.
1.2.3 Initial and Boundary ConditionsFor an easier localization, the boundaries are shown in Figure 2:
The temperature conditions for the fluid domain are set as following: a uniform internal temperature field is set at 700 K as initial value inside the fluid domain; a fixed value of 700 K is set for the fluid interface boundary; temperature at inlet is kept constant at 700 K; at the outlet a zero gradient boundary condition is set for the temperature. In the solid region, the following temperature boundary conditions are set: 600 K uniform internal field as initial condition; 300 K at the walls; zero temperature gradient at the solid surface. The velocity conditions are set only for the fluid domain: a uniform internal velocity field is set at (0, 0, 0.1) m/s as initial value; 0 m/s at the fluid interface; 0.1 m/s at the inlet; zero gradient at the outlet The pressure conditions are set also only for the fluid domain: a uniform internal pressure field is set at 100000 Pa; zero gradient at the fluid interface; zero gradient at inlet; 99990 Pa at outlet. The fluid domain is considered to be filled with air, while the solid domain has a thermal conductivity of 202.5 kg*m/s3/K and a thermal diffusivity of 2.407e-5 m2/s.
1.2.4 Results for the Two Regions Case
The case was computed for 20 seconds of flow time, and the results are presented in Figure 3.
Although the case is laminar, the velocity field has not reached yet a stationary state. Figure 3 left, shows the temperature distribution in the whole field (solid and fluid). It can be noticed a smooth variation at the interface between the solid and fluid domain, represented with a black line. The inlet velocity vectors are shown too. Figure 3 right, is a representation of the velocity field in the fluid domain and the temperature field in the solid domain. Although the temperature field is more evenly distributed, the velocity is highly unsteady.
1.3 Pseudo-Heat Transfer
The second approach was to consider only the influence of the solid domain on the fluid one. This is aquired through a special thermal boundary condition, where a one dimensional heat equation is solved:
where n is the wall normal direction.
An existing solver rhoTurbFoam was modified from URANS to LES solution type, and called pseudoConjHeat. A new boundary condition namely heatFluxFixedValue was implemented for this solver, which computes a one dimensional heat equation. The source files can be downloaded from here: file sources. The test case consists of a fluid cylinder, filled with hot air (700K), in which a colder air stream (400K) is injected with 0.1 m/s through a small area (green face in Figure 4).
The heatFluxFixedValue simulates the wraping of the fluid domain with a solid wall of 1mm thickness. The exterior surface of the solid wall is kept at a constant temperature of 600K.
1.3.1 Initial and Boundary Conditions
Disregarding the solid domain and its associated boundaries, the name of each boundary is the same with those specified in Figure 2. The turbulence kinetic energy conditions are set as following: uniform initial field of 0 m2/s2; 0 m2/s2 at the fluid interface; 2e-5 m2/s2 at the inlet, and 0 m2/s2 at the outlet. The apparent sub grid scale turbulence viscosity conditions are set as following: 0 initial value inside the domain; zero gradient for the rest of boundaries. The temperature conditions are set as following: 700 K initial temperature distribution; at the fluid interface Tin = 600 K, Tmid = 700 K and Tout = 700 K. Together with the temperature, few other thermal properties are specified at the fluid interface boundary:
- k_solid 0.05; /*thermal diffusivity of the solid material*/
- rho_solid 0.021; /*density of the solid material*/
- c_solid 1700; /*heat capacity of the solid material*/
- dx_solid 0.001; /*thickness of the virtual wall*/
Short descriptions for the new boundary parameters are presented in the following sketch (Figure 5).
The temperature at the inlet has a value of 400 K. At the outlet, a zero temperature gradient is considered. The pressure conditions are set as following: constant internal distribution of 100000 Pa as initial condition; zero gradient at the fluid interface; zero gradient at the inlet, and 99990 Pa at the outlet. The velocity conditions are specified in the following: constant internal distribution of (0, 0, -0.1) m/s as initial condition; 0 m/s at the fluid interface; 0.1 m/s at the inlet, and zero gradient at the outlet. The fluid domain is considered to be air. The considered case is turbulent, and consequently a one equation SGS closure model is used. All the case files are accesible here: case files
1.3.2 Results for the Pseudo Conjugate Heat Transfer Case
The case was run for 15s, both in serial and parallel, with the same results. The instantaneous temperature distribution and the corresponding velocity distribution are displayed in Figure 6.
Both fields are highly unsteady, which is a characteristic of turbulent flows. As expected, although the outside of the virtual solid wall is kept at a constant temperature of 600K, the interface between the virtual domain and the fluid domain has variations in temperature.
The sources of the complete approach solver: conjHeat - solver
The associated case files: conjHeat - case files
The sources for the second approach (integrating a one dimensional heat equation on a virtual wall) can be downloaded here: pseudoConjHeat - solver
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2000 VEHICLE STOPS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Concerns by the citizens of Missouri and the Missouri legislature regarding allegations of racial profiling by law enforcement prompted the passage of state law Section 590.650, RSMo (2000), which was enacted Aug. 28, 2000. Racial profiling has been defined as the inappropriate use of race by law enforcement when making a decision to stop, search or arrest a motorist.
Missouri's new state law requires that all peace officers in the state report specific information including a driver's race for each traffic stop made in the state. Law enforcement agencies are required to turn in the data to the Attorney General, and the Attorney General is required to compile the data and report to the Governor no later than June 1 of each year. The law allows the Governor to withhold state funds for any agency which does not comply with the law. The information for this report includes data collected throughout the state from Aug. 28-Dec. 31, 2000, as required by law. Subsequent reports will include a full year of data, as required by law.
State law requires that all information be reported to the Attorney General's office by March 1. In an earlier letter to the Governor, Attorney General Jay Nixon listed the agencies that had not, for various reasons, complied with the law by failing to submit racial profiling data.
The summary of statewide racial profiling data has been provided by Scott H. Decker, Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Richard Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis; and Jack McDevitt, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University. The analysis of the data is provided by Attorney General Nixon, with consultation from law enforcement officials and community representatives from throughout Missouri and with professional statistical interpretation from Dr. Decker. Table 1. 2000 statewide summary of results
| ||Total||White||Black||Hispanic||Asian||Am. Indian||Other|
|Statewide population %||100%||86.38%||10.41%||1.82%||1.43%||1.03%||.99%|
|Disparity index||- - -||.97||1.27||0.98||.58||.12||.67|
Notes: Population data are for persons age 18 and older. Black, Asian, and American Indian include persons of mixed race. Asian includes Hawaiian and Pacific Islander. Other includes persons of unknown race. The census population figures include persons who designated a single racial classification plus those who designated more than one race. Therefore the population figures for the different racial groups exceed the statewide total and the percentages exceed 100%.
Disparity index = proportion of stops / proportion of population. A value of 1 represents no disparity. Values greater or less than 1 indicate over- and under-representation, respectively. For the state figures (used in this table) the disparity index is based on state population 18 and over. For individual agencies the disparity index is based on local population 18 and over.
Search rate = (searches / stops) X 100.
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Two summary indicators are included that may be useful in initiating further assessments of racial profiling in traffic stops.
The first, termed the "Disparity Index," relates each group's proportion of total traffic stops to its proportion of the population age 18 and older. (Data from the 2000 census for the driving age population were not available at the time this report was produced.) A value of 1 on this index indicates that a group's proportion of traffic stops equals its population proportion; it is neither "under-represented" nor "over-represented" in traffic stops. Values above 1 indicate over-representation, and those below 1 indicate under-representation. For example, the 377,852 whites who were stopped accounted for 83% of all traffic stops.
Table 1 indicates that whites comprise 86% of Missouri's adult population. The value for whites on the Disparity Index is, therefore .83 /.86, or .97.
Whites were stopped, in other words, at just slightly below the rate we would expect based on their fraction of the population.
The same is not the case for several of the other groups. African Americans represent 10.4% of the population 18 years and older, but 13.2% of all traffic stops, for a value on the Disparity Index of 1.27. African Americans were stopped at a rate 27% higher than expected based solely on their proportion of the population. Hispanics were stopped at a rate nearly equal to their population proportion, and Asians, American Indians, and persons of other or unknown race were stopped at a rate below their proportion of the population. The values on the Index for the different groups can be compared directly to one another. The likelihood that a black motorist was stopped is 1.3 times that of a white motorist (1.27/.97).
THE SECOND INDICATOR that can be used to begin assessing racial profiling is the "Search Rate," or the number of searches divided by the number of stops (x 100). The Search Rate for all motorists who were stopped is 7.04%. Whites, American Indians, and persons of other or unknown race were searched at rates close to the statewide average. (Searches include searches of drivers and of property in the vehicle.) Asians were searched at a rate well below the statewide average, and Blacks and Hispanics were searched at rates above the average for all motorists who were stopped. The search rate for the different groups also can be compared directly with one another. Blacks were 1.7 times more likely to be searched than whites (11.01/6.34). Hispanics were twice as likely as whites to be searched (12.96/6.34).
The Disparity Index is a gauge of the likelihood drivers of a given race or ethnic group are stopped based on their proportion of the adult residential population age 18 and over, and not of the population of motorists on the state's streets, roads, and highways. A group's share of the residential population age 18 and over may or may not equal its proportion of drivers. Although in most instances the two proportions should be close, that may not always be the case. The extremely low Index values for American Indians, for example, could indicate that they are under-represented among the state's motorists. In addition, motorists from other states are stopped on Missouri's roadways. To the extent that out-of-state drivers do not reflect the race and ethnic composition of Missouri's population, the Disparity Index will not accurately portray the probability that Missouri residents are stopped.
The Search Rate is subject to a somewhat different set of considerations. The reasons for conducting a search and the outcome of the search (i.e., discovery of contraband) should be considered when making comparisons across groups. Some searches are conducted with the consent of the driver, or because the officer observed suspected contraband in plain view, had reasonable suspicion that an individual may possess a weapon (Terry search), or other reasons. These searches may or may not result in an arrest. Other searches are conducted incident to arrest -- this means there is no other reason given for the search other than arrest. Searches are almost always performed when there is an outstanding warrant.
Table 1 includes all arrests resulting from traffic stops reported by the agencies. About 5% of all traffic stops resulted in an arrest (23,716/453,189). The probability of arrest varies across the groups. Approximately 9% of the stops of African Americans and Hispanics resulted in an arrest, compared with about 2% of the stops of Asians and 4.5% of those of whites. Although American Indians were stopped infrequently compared with the other groups, 40% of those stops resulted in an arrest. African Americans and Hispanics were stopped and searched more often than whites, but they were arrested more often as well.
|Table 2. Agencies that did not submit reports as required by state law|
|Altenburg Police Dept.||Archie Police Dept.||Canalou Police Dept.|
|Clarksburg Police Dept.||Forest City Police Dept.||Holland Police Dept. |
|Tarkio Police Dept.||Twin Bridges Police Dept.|| |
This report summarizes the data from more than 95 percent of law enforcement agencies in Missouri during a four-month period in 2000.
The agencies filing reports noted a total of 453,189 traffic stops, resulting in 31,906 searches and 23,716 arrests. Table 1 breaks out the stops, searches and arrests by race and ethnic group.
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Missouri's new law regarding racial profiling was enacted in response to concerns that minorities are inappropriately targeted for traffic stops because of their race. The law directed each law enforcement agency to have a policy against racial profiling. The law was intended to help us learn if racial profiling is occurring in Missouri. This is the first statewide effort to collect data, and it is based on a four-month collection period.
It is worth noting that the collection of this data, its entry into computerized form and the analysis were all undertaken in response to a very short deadline. As this is the first effort on the part of the state to collect and analyze such data, this year's work should be regarded as a baseline measure. With that in mind, there are several findings that should be noted.
First, the data collected clearly show a disproportionate number of stops of African Americans as well as a disproportionate number of searches of African Americans and Hispanics. African Americans were stopped at a rate 27% higher than expected based solely on their proportion in the population. When compared to whites, they were stopped at a rate 30% higher, or they were 1.3 times as likely as whites to be stopped. African Americans were 1.7 times more likely to be searched than whites. Hispanics were twice as likely as whites to be searched.
There is, however, a very real difference between disproportion in the data and racial profiling.
Many officers and police departments will point to a variety of important considerations that will affect their data. These include:
- Increased policing in high crime areas where minorities are often the victims, as well as the perpetrators of crimes. Patrol of "hot spot" areas is an appropriate response to the well-documented fact that crime, and especially violent crime, is heavily concentrated in certain geographic areas.
- The presence of interstate highways, large shopping centers or major employers affect the demographics of the driving population (as opposed to the resident population reported in the census) and will affect the proportionality of stops and arrests.
In addition, in many instances officers have very little discretion on whether to stop or search someone. A motorist exceeding the speed limit by 25 mph is far more likely to be pulled over than one going 2 mph over the limit. A motorist with an outstanding arrest warrant will, and should, be arrested and will, and should, be searched pursuant to that arrest. This is good police work and is important to the safety of the officer.
It also must be noted that for many stops an officer is not even aware of the driver's race until the officer approaches the car. This is particularly true on interstates after dark.
Regardless of the challenges of securing accurate data and the difficulty of analyzing the data once collected, the overall goal to prevent profiling solely on the basis of race is a worthy one. I acknowledge the limits of our information -- we are using a four-month study period and this is the first-ever attempt at data collection in Missouri and one of the first in the country. And, while data alone cannot prove racial profiling, the data collected in this initial study have done nothing to disprove the perception of racial profiling.
In my travels across the state since the enactment of Missouri's Racial Profiling law last August, numerous highly respected members of Missouri's minority community have told me of their personal experiences on our roadways. While anecdotes are not evidence, they do, at a minimum, convey people's perceptions. Anecdotal information, combined with levels of disproportion in the data, leads me to believe that African Americans and Hispanics have in certain instances been the target of racial profiling in Missouri. We in law enforcement must recognize this as a problem and work to eliminate it.
Our work toward that goal has already begun. The collection of statistics and information regarding law enforcement activities has and will continue to increase awareness of and sensitivity to the issue of racial profiling. The implementation of data collection sends a clear message to police and citizens that racial profiling is inconsistent with effective policy and equal protection. In addition, a policy on racial profiling must now be on file in every police department in Missouri. These are important steps in our goal of equal justice under the law.
In addition, the Missouri legislature this year passed new Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) requirements stating that:
Peace officers who make traffic stops shall be required to receive annual training concerning the prohibition against racial profiling and such training shall promote understanding and respect for racial and cultural differences and the use of effective, non-combative methods for carrying out law enforcement duties in a racially and culturally diverse environment.
We need to do more. Internal analysis of the data by each agency and open dialogue with the community will improve community policing efforts and will help build trust of the police in the communities they serve. The data are useful in:
- Pointing out areas where improvements need to be made in our training of law enforcement officers. For example, these data show that non-white drivers are no more likely to be carrying contraband than are white drivers. Our officers, who may be carrying out their duties not intending to discriminate based on race, should be trained to no longer improperly consider a person's race in deciding whether or not to stop that person.
- Allowing our law enforcement agencies to more effectively supervise their officers on the streets. Thus, information gathered by law enforcement agencies must be reviewed by those agencies, not just at the end of the reporting year, but periodically throughout the year.
- And, most of all, opening or facilitating better communication between our law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve, particularly our minority communities. It is only through such communication that perceptions -- both of law enforcement as well as our community members -- can be changed.
This report represents the valid and good faith attempt by law enforcement in Missouri, including the Office of the Attorney General, to comply with the requirements of Section 590.650 RSMo (2000). And while it is up to each jurisdiction in Missouri to determine what the results mean in individual communities, I am convinced Missouri must do a better job of providing equal justice under the law.
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Footnote 1: On April 5, 2001, Attorney General Nixon submitted to Gov. Holden a list of all agencies that had not turned in reports. State law requires reports to be submitted by March 1 and allows the Governor to withhold funds from those that did not comply.
Footnote 2: The appendix to this report shows the disparity index using comparison of proportion of stops to proportion of state population.
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The new study used 3D fashions of penises from sizes of 4 inches lengthy and 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) in circumference to 8.5 inches lengthy and seven inches in circumference and let the women “view and handle” them. It was found that ladies overestimated the precise dimension of the penises they’ve experimented with when requested in a follow-up survey.
This study verified arousal within the check subjects by connecting them to brain imaging units. Notably, the same examine reported arousal for girls upon viewing animals mating.
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This is due to the within-gender prestige granted by elevated muscularity and inside-gender competition for increased muscularity. Among Australian college college students, the male physique composition discovered to be most engaging (12.16 kg fat, sixty three.27 kg muscle) was consistent with the composition that was perceived as healthiest, and was nicely throughout the wholesome range. Females have been found to desire males which might be regular weight and have the common WHR for a male.
A supply written in 1823, stated that a element of the Persian feminine beauty ideal was for ladies to have massive eyes which are black in shade. In Persian literature, beautiful women are stated to have eyes that are formed like almonds. In Arabian society within the Middle Ages, a component of the female magnificence ideal was for girls to have dark black eyes that are massive and lengthy and within the form of almonds.
This drawing is a remake of a drawing utilized in an experiment to analysis what South African, British Caucasian and British African men thought of to be the most engaging dimension of posterior and breasts for white and black women. This image solely reveals the 2 extreme variations of measurement on black female figures used in the experiment. The determine at left obtained the highest https://nation.com.pk/24-Jan-2019/salman-sufi-to-launch-saarc-wide-movement-against-forced-marriages average attractiveness rating from South African men whereas a figure with an intermediate size obtained the best rankings from each British African and British Caucasian men. The determine at right didn’t receive the highest common attractiveness ranking from any group. ) from the Six Dynasties interval, the perfect woman was described as having firm breasts.
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Furthermore, the eyes must be lustrous, and they should have lengthy eyelashes. In Japan, in the course of the Edo period, a part of the female magnificence ideal was for girls to have lengthy and narrow faces which were formed like ovals. In Arabian society in the Middle Ages, a part of the feminine magnificence best was for girls to have round https://findasianbride.com/indian-women faces which have been like a “full moon”. A part of the female magnificence best in Persian literature is for girls to have faces like a full moon. A 2011 research, by Wilkins, Chan and Kaiser discovered correlations between perceived femininity and attractiveness, that’s, women’s faces which were seen as extra feminine had been judged by both men and women to be more engaging.
Some researchers conclude that little difference exists between women and men by way of sexual habits. Symmetrical men and women tend to begin to have sexual activity at an earlier age, to have extra sexual companions, to engage in a greater variety of sexual activities, and to have extra one-night time stands. They are also vulnerable to infidelity and are more likely to have open relationships.
The researcher concluded that this choice may be influenced by American culture the place lengthy legged women are portrayed as extra enticing. This drawing of two feminine figures is a remake of the drawing of the leg-to-body ratio extremes used in the experiment by Swami et al. to search out out what LBR is taken into account essentially the most engaging. The female determine with the lowest LBR and shortest legs at left had the bottom average attractiveness rankings whereas the figure with the best LBR and longest legs at proper had the best average attractiveness ratings from both British women and men. A WHR of zero.7 for girls has been proven to correlate strongly with common health and fertility. Women inside the 0.7 range have optimal levels of estrogen and are much less prone to major illnesses such as diabetes, coronary heart illness, and ovarian cancers.
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New York/London, March 24 – The market for thermal coal is in structural decline in the United...Read More
Andrew Grant, Carbon Tracker’s financial analyst and report co-author: "The roof has fallen in on U.S. coal, and alarm bells should be ringing for investors in related sectors around the world. These first tremors are amongst the clearest signs yet of a seismic shift in energy markets, as high carbon fuels are set to be increasingly outperformed by lower carbon alternatives."
The market for thermal coal is in structural decline in the United States. Squeezed out by an abundance of cheap shale gas and ever tightening pollution laws, it may be a harbinger of things to come for other fossil fuel markets globally.
This report paints a bleak picture and makes grim reading for investors. It finds that in the last few years U.S. coal markets have been pounded by a combination of cheaper renewables, energy efficiency measures, rising construction costs and a rash of legal challenges as well as the shale gas revolution.
Figure: Exploring coal industry index responses to different demand factors (01/01/07 – 20/01/15)
Key takeaways and recommendations
- Whilst historically economic growth in the US has consistently driven increased coal use, there is now clear evidence of a decoupling of the two. In fact, despite GDP continuing to rise, domestic coal use peaked in 2007 and has been on a declining trend since.
- Cheap shale gas has flooded the market in the US, causing the price of natural gas to fall by 80% since 2008 while renewable energy costs have also continued to fall. These two drivers served to reduce coal’s share of electricity supply by approximately 10% over the same period.
- Simultaneously, the US EPA has issued seven environmental, air pollution and climate regulations. These have been significant in continuing to reduce US demand for coal even when the US natural gas price has risen, such as between the start of 2012 and mid-2014.
- These drivers have been the primary reasons behind the stranding of over 14GW of coal-fired power plants between 2010 and 2012 – US thermal coal prices have fallen drastically as a result. The evolution of the US energy sector is far from over, however, as retirements are forecast to rise to 60GW by 2020 and 92GW by 2030, which is equal to 27% of the total US coal generation fleet in 2012.
- This has had a huge impact on the companies engaged in mining it, with over two dozen going bankrupt and many others losing over 80% of their share value over the past three years, including Peabody Energy Corp, the largest producer in the US.
- Albeit localised in this case, this example of a fossil fuel becoming stranded by lower-cost, lower-carbon alternatives and increasing regulations provides an excellent example of how the future may pan out globally and with other fuels as the world moves to a low-carbon economy. Companies and investors by and large underestimated the risks in US coal and did not see the way the wind was blowing until it was too late, and suffered very material losses because of it.
- All of this has occurred without a global climate deal or US federal measures labelled “carbon” or “climate”. Global climate negotiations remain important, of course, and a global deal towards a good climate outcome has never been more desirable, but the changing costs of technologies, and domestic measures on air quality show the building and varied negative pressures on fossil fuel industries.
- Coal’s problems appear to be structural rather than cyclical; accordingly, rather than betting on a cyclical upturn, investors should resist the urge to get back into the US coal sector. We doubt that “business as usual” (as it has previously been understood) will ever return, so investors should seek capital discipline from management and challenge capital expenditure on high-cost projects.
- International investors should also take heed, as the same patterns may play out elsewhere. Timing of fossil fuels being superceded across the various markets will be uncertain, but investors should be cognisant of the dangers and consider their portfolios accordingly – the risk premium of fossil fuel project development has been raised. | <urn:uuid:6eddedd3-de79-4347-b1be-89b5ffb68285> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://carbontracker.org/reports/the-us-coal-crash/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95855 | 899 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The in vivo synthesis of encephalomyocarditis-specific proteins was studied by labeling the viral proteins with radioactive amino acids under conditions where host-protein synthesis was almost completely inhibited. To assure recovery of all proteins, intact cells were lysed in hot 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate. These lysates were analyzed by quantitative high-resolution electrophoresis on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. This technique allowed the detection and estimation of the molecular weight of 15 virus-specific polypeptides: A, 100,000; B, 90,000; C, 84,000; D, 75,000, D1, 65,000; E, 56,000; epsilon, 40,000; F, 38,000; alpha, 34,000; beta, 30,000; gamma, 23,000; G, 16,000; H, 12,000; I, 11,000; and delta, 9,000. Pulse-chase experiments, in conjunction with cyanogen bromide and tryptic mapping of the isolated polypeptides, indicate that at least three primary gene products (A,F,C), with a cumulative weight of about 220,000, are generated during translation of the RNA genome. Chains A and C then undergo post-translational cleavages, while F remains uncleaved. The proteins generated by the cleavage of A include all of the capsid chains (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon). Those generated by the cleavage of C include D and E. The chains alpha, beta, gamma, delta, E, F, G, H, I, with a cumulative molecular weight of about 230,000, are stable and are produced in about equimolar amounts. A model for the synthesis of, and a cleavage sequence that accounts for, all of the viral polypeptides is proposed. | <urn:uuid:8296e50a-8f8b-433c-ba85-4ed879c977c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/18851578_Ribonucleic_Acid_Content_of_Encephalomyocarditis_Virus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922259 | 399 | 2.078125 | 2 |
UPR Info wins the 2019 Democracy and Human Rights Prize
On Wednesday, March 27th, UPR Info was pleased to receive the 2019 Democracy and Human Rights Prize of the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
The President of the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Philippe Courard, presented the award and commended UPR Info’s progress made, saying “By focusing on human rights, democratic governance, the rule of law, gender equality, and sustainable development while being economically equitable and socially and environmentally sustainable, UPR Info has extensive experience in developing the capacities of various national partners in advocating for the respect of human rights. The organization’s promotion of the universal periodic review as well as their work of strengthening the mechanism as an effective tool to improve the respect for human rights on the ground make it one of the main actors in international democratic monitoring.” This prize is awarded to one organization or institution every year selected by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Parliament and a jury composed of the President of the Parliament, members of the Bureau, and presidents of recognized political groups, who choose groups with specific achievements in the francophone world promoting peace, democracy, and human rights. The award has been running annually since 2015, when Dr. Denis Mukwege, a world-renowned gynecologist, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace laureate received the award. Dr. Mukwege has since become the world’s leading specialist in the treatment of wartime sexual violence and a global campaigner against the use of rape as a weapon of war.
Mona M’Bikay, the Executive Director of UPR Info, delivered a speech at the award ceremony and spoke about the progress that the organization has made since 2008 as well as the new priorities of the organization. UPR Info is committed to continuing its work to promote human rights and the participation of all national stakeholders in the UPR for an inclusive society, based on equal opportunities where everyone can realize their potential. Parliamentarians, indeed, play a crucial role in ensuring that laws are not discriminatory and respectful of human rights commitments, and in ensuring the implementation of human rights recommendations. “With the award we are receiving, we hope to develop a project to support parliamentarians' engagement in the Universal Periodic Review for the promotion of human rights and democratic governance.”
Mona M’Bikay also described the ways that the UPR is useful in attaining human rights goals, saying, “Creating synergies between the Sustainable Development Goals and the Universal Periodic Review will also enable the realization of human rights, sustainable development and the consolidation of peace and security through the prevention of rights violations that can be a source of conflict.” While speaking of the crucial importance of education in building inclusive and equal societies committed to development, Mona M’Bikay also emphasized the importance of women participating in society, saying “It is important to support women’s participation and representation at the political and economic levels and to ensure that their voice is heard on all issues affecting their rights.” Mona M'Bikay recently became a Gender Champion with the International Gender Champions Network, and committed to creating a specific gender-policy for UPR Info as well as to further advocate for gender equality.
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If you intend to work and live abroad as an expat in Asian countries, Vietnam may be one of the best destinations for expats. HSBC Expat pointed out 8 reasons will make your thoughts about living and working in Vietnam more clearly.
Vietnam’s continuous economic growth has led to the creation of millions of new jobs. While many parts of the world are facing with unemployment, the job opportunities in Vietnam are very abundant, especially for foreigners. The in-demand jobs are in education, finance, banking, or Information Technology and language barriers do not matter if you know English!
A comparatively higher income.
According to the seventh edition of the HSBC Expat Explorer survey, if you want to earn six-figures salary, head for Asia! In there, 15% of expats in Vietnam earn over $250,000, compared to global average of 7%. In addition, 75% of expats in Vietnam say that they are satisfied with the relatively higher levels of disposable income.
Affordable living with cheaper price.
Expatriates can live a pleasant life there with a moderate expenditure, because it comes in a less expensive price in nearly all aspects than almost anywhere else in the world. According to HSBC’s Expat Explorer Survey, 49% of expats spend less on going out to local restaurants, theaters, music bars or general night life compared with the global average of 23% who said the same. All of these things make Vietnam one of the most cost effective countries in the world.
A culturally interesting place to live.
64% of expats in Vietnam describe this country as a culturally fascinating place to live, partly because this culture offers plenty to do for almost any budget.
Vietnam has its own impressive and distinctive culture. Cuisine is diversified, which means you can find hundreds of stunning dishes daily with unique flavors, to specialties on Tet and other holidays. It also has a “street-culture”: you will have any kind of food and drink whenever you are on streets. People sometimes simply sit on the sidewalk, enjoy their meals with a take-away coffee and talk to each other.
Personalities of Vietnamese people.
Though this country underwent years of intense history and is changing fast nowadays, the Vietnamese still keep their hospitality and generosity toward international people. Also, the features of cleverness, diligence, and enduring difficult circumstances help them become more skilled and better on working. They are ingenuous but adaptable and enthusiastic, forward-thinking and optimistic.
A safe place.
Compared to a few neighbor countries in the region, Vietnam appears to be much safer to live and work because of its favorable geographic location. There is almost no natural disaster: no earthquake, no tsunami, no volcano, etc. It has a relatively political and social stability: you hardly find yourself involved in any political insurgency accidentally in Vietnam. Moreover, the crime rate is small and petty crime will not be a problem if you take some necessary precautions.
Vietnam has climatic differences among the North, the South and the Central, which means there is always nice weather somewhere. Living or working in North provinces means you can be through four seasons in a year; on the other hand, the South offers you only rainy and sunny seasons. But, generally, if you like warm weather throughout the year, Vietnam will be appropriate for you.
Awesome landscapes and historical places.
Vietnam is well-known for many attractive and inspiring tourist destinations. Do you love sunny seashores? Vietnam has countless beautiful beaches: Nha Trang, Mui Ne, Phu Quoc, My Khe, etc. If you want to be in a pure cool highland with refreshing lakes and streams, spend time in Da Lat, Sa Pa, Mu Cang Chai, Moc Chau, etc. Or you find it enchanting to learn more about the history and culture of Vietnam and its people, go to Mekong Delta, Hue, Hoi An,… or just historical museums in Ho Chi Minh City. Moreover, there are Phong Nha- Ke Bang National Park, Ha Long Bay, Fansipan mountain, etc. which are internationally recognized for their beauty. | <urn:uuid:5889104b-d7ae-47fc-811b-7f45a218e243> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://haiphatglobal.vn/why-is-vietnam-worth-living-in/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94584 | 869 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Tracing back the Buddhism in Mie Prefecture
It has been a while since the last time I wrote an article in Otonamie. This time I will write about my experience visiting an even in Mie Mu. I am so glad that I could see the exhibition.
The above picture is the cover picture of the exhibition which is the picture of Kitabatake. It was a beautiful picture showing the deviation of Kitabatake on this faith. Kitabatake was known for his important role on the spreading of Zen Buddhism in Mie Prefecture. His relationship with the temples in the area were proven with some relics that were shown in the exhibition.
Kitabatake built a huge castle in the mountain of forest Misugi. As I studied forestry in Mie University, I used to come to Misugi forest for investigation activities. I never heard that it was a castle in the top of a mountain. I was impressed by some beautiful archaeological remains from Kitabatake era that were shown in the exhibition such as 制札 and 香炉 which are well preserved. Although they are old and cracked, we can see that they were high value in the era and probably imported from China.
Another purpose of the exhibition is to introduce the role of Ｔsu Ｃity in the development of Buddhism culture in Mie Prefecture. Tsu City was formerly a port city, known as Anotsu. From the exhibition we can see that Tsu City religious activities together with the economic activities. And the forest of Tsu city had a big role in the faith and culture. In the exhibition, I saw a 制札telling to limit the overexploitation of the forest. Besides, there were also some proof of the relationship between Anotsu and the military activities during the Warring States period, including the old letters.
I was impressed by some old letter from the era of Kitabatake which were written about 600 years ago. The letters were written using Japanese paper and preserved well. The letters were written with old character I couldn’t read. Mr. Kohbayasi, who guided me in the exhibition, told me that not everyone could read the letters. I was told that the letters were actually using the ancient Japanese characters and a little mixture with Chinese Grammar. Mr. Kohbayashi told me that the letter’s contents were about tax reducing and some political matters. Although I could not read the letters, there were explanation about the composition of ancient letter, including the sender’s name, destination, content, and sender’s signature. I am glad to know this information and I am amazed about how old people have been so educated.
I saw many people enjoyed this exhibition which actually is annual event in Mie Mu. Due to the spreading of New Coronavirus, the visitors are fewer than years before. This exhibition is so interesting with so many amazing collections. One of my favorites is the sitting Buddha statue. I have never seen a statue like that even after I traveled and visited some temples and Buddha statues in Japan. Another one is an old drawing which is with Japanese style. It is so beautiful and interesting since it shows how Buddhism and Japanese collaborated.
I like to collect Go shuin by visiting some temples and also shrines. Although I just started this activity, I love how Buddhism and Japanese cultures have mixed since the ancient time. And I think even for people who have little knowledge about Buddhism like me, this event is enjoyable and also very informative. I see that some people like to bring their children to Mie mu. I think even children can enjoy the event as long as they can read. To entertain the children there are some photo spots. | <urn:uuid:aeb19180-7e24-4ed5-a6ab-b1ef41f7231c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://otonamie.jp/?p=81131 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.739839 | 2,155 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Sorghum of a variety grown in China and used to make dough and alcoholic drinks.
Sorghum bicolor variety nervosum, family Gramineae‘A liquid fermented product, such as a Taiwan kaoliang wine or a rice wine, is contained in the aging tank.’
- ‘As for unsalvageable crops, farmers will be paid NT $11 per kilogram of corn and NT $10.5 for kaoliang.’
- ‘Recombinant inbred lines were generated from a cross between SRN39, an African caudatum genotype, and SQR, a Chinese kaoliang line.’
- ‘It is pointed out that histochemical and cytochemical studies of the hybrids compared with their parents are in urgent need for solving the problems dealing with hybridization of rice and kaoliang.’
- ‘This was supplemented with kaoliang and similar grains.’
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The Phaedo seminar was the first philosophy seminar organized by the Education Committee.
The Greek and Roman antiquity course gives a thorough understanding of the origins of “philosophy” in the Ancient Greek tradition, with a focus on Plato. The Plato seminar complements this knowledge by delving into one of Plato’s most enchanting dialogues, the Phaedo, in which the eponymous Phaedo of Elis, on his way home from Athens, meets the Pythagorean philosopher Echechrates of Phlius. Phaedo recounts the last moments of the earthly life of Socrates, which the man apparently spent demonstrating that his true life is only just about to begin. Like countless thinkers from pagan, Christian, Islamic, and modern worlds before us, we may also take this scene as a beginning for philosophical life. | <urn:uuid:5dfcfbbf-a315-466b-8bce-1dd8de33cb78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.svsymposion.nl/education/seminars/phaedo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937521 | 178 | 2.515625 | 3 |
South Sound 911 issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) in June 2017 for an architectural and engineering team to work on the design of the public safety communications center (PSCC). From that competitive process, CallisonRTKL was awarded a contract to perform programming and pre-design architectural and engineering services, and followed by a contract for the schematic design and design development phases.
The vision for the PSCC was unveiled to the public at a community meeting on Aug. 22, 2018.
South Sound 911’s public safety communications center (PSCC) will include space for 911 and police and fire dispatch, a municipal emergency operations center EOC), administration, records and public counter services. It will be constructed to meet National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), National Emergency Number Association (NENA), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) standards for essential facilities.
Beginning April 2018, South Sound 911’s PSCC entered into the schematic design phase, which concerns the building’s functional layout. South Sound 911 staff at all levels began providing input on spatial needs, workflows and departmental relationships. That work generated a basic layout of the three-story building, from which the exterior could be designed. (See the basic space plans for the ground level, second level and third level.)
While some aspects of the building are more traditional in design, such as the offices and administrative space, some aspects of the building require more open space, such as the communications operations area. The architects drew inspiration from many sources, including museums, where there is a need for large spaces, controlled lighting, and typically do not have many windows. Acoustical engineers will provide insight on ways to help control sound, so the critical work of answering 911 calls and dispatching responders will not be burdened by unwanted environmental noise.
For the exterior, designers envision the use a mix of materials including insulated metal panels, vertical seam metal panels, precast concrete, ipe wood, and metal canopies and railings. Fenced areas restricted to employee use and access, will be an aesthetically pleasing metal which this also secure, but not too obtrusive.
The public safety architectural engineering and design experts are also working to ensure the PSCC itself is strong enough for South Sound 911 to ensure survive-ability and continuity of operations. Like other essential facilities, it will be designed to withstand natural or man-made catastrophic events so South Sound 911 may continue providing critical emergency services for first responders and the countywide community.
The building’s gross size is 74,528 sq. ft. See site sections of the design, West-East and South-North, as well as the predicted massing view compared to the massing view of the hospital buildings which previously occupied the site.
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The suspension of former London Mayor Ken Livingstone from the Labour Party in Britain on the spurious grounds of anti-Semitism is an outrageous violation of democratic rights and yet another shameless capitulation by the Jeremy Corbyn leadership to reactionary political forces.
The Socialist Equality Party in Britain has longstanding and fundamental political differences with Livingstone. But it rejects the accusation that he is an anti-Semite as a politically motivated lie. Livingstone has been active in left-wing and radical causes for more than 40 years. To accuse him of anti-Semitism is not only a personal slander. The unjustified misuse of the term—reducing anti-Semitism to the level of an epithet—has the effect of trivialising a politically sinister and dangerous form of racism. Such misuse of the charge of anti-Semitism has become the stock-in-trade of Zionists and other right-wing forces seeking to discredit all political opposition to Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.
The political forces behind the attack on Livingstone involve an unholy alliance of the Conservative Party, Zionist groups and right-wing sections of the Labour Party itself. The support lent to it by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is yet another demonstration of his political cowardice and lack of principles.
The suspension arises out of statements Livingstone made last week while opposing a similar action carried out against another Labour Party MP, Naz Shah. After defending Shah against charges of anti-Semitism, Livingstone went on to say, “Let’s remember, when Hitler won his election in 1932 [sic] his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism. [He then] went mad and ended up killing 6 million Jews.”
Within hours, dozens of reactionary Labour Party MPs—including all three of the individuals Corbyn defeated in the party leadership contest last September—demanded action against Livingstone. Corbyn suspended him that same day, declaring that his comments were “unacceptable” and that he would have to face an investigation. “We are not tolerating anti-Semitism in any form whatsoever in our party,” Corbyn said.
As to the substance of the controversy, the worst that can be said about Livingstone’s comments is that he spoke with insufficient care. The statement that Hitler supported Zionism, without further qualification, is imprecise and challengeable on factual grounds. Hitler was a virulent anti-Semite, and whatever support he and his regime gave to Zionism was steeped in the most cynical political calculations and always subordinate to the Nazi leader’s unwavering and pathological hatred of Jews. However, it is a matter of historical record that after Hitler came to power in 1933, significant sections of the Zionist movement in Germany sought an accommodation with the regime.
Dealing with this subject in his book Nazi Germany and the Jews, the respected historian Saul Friedländer has written:
Not only did the [Nazi] regime encourage Zionist activities on the territory of the Reich, but concrete economic measures were taken to ease the departure of Jews for Palestine. The so-called Haavarah (Hebrew: Transfer) Agreement, concluded on August 27, 1933, between the German Ministry of the Economy and Zionist representatives from Germany and Palestine, allowed Jewish emigrants indirect transfer of part of their assets and facilitated exports of goods from Nazi Germany to Palestine.
Friedländer also cites a memorandum from leaders of the Zionist Federation of Germany sent on June 22, 1933, which, according to historian Francis Nicosia (author of Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany), “seemed to profess a degree of sympathy for the völkish principles of the Hitler regime and argued that Zionism was compatible with these principles.” The memorandum states:
Zionism believes that the rebirth of the national life of a people, which is now occurring in Germany through the emphasis on its Christian and national character, must also come about among the Jewish people. For the Jewish people, too, national origin, religion, common destiny and a sense of its uniqueness must be of decisive importance to its existence. This demands the elimination of the egotistical individualism of the liberal era, and its replacement with a sense of community and collective responsibility.
While the topic of Zionist relations with the Nazi regime is subject to varying interpretations, Livingstone’s statements have a factual foundation. That he has been suspended from the Labour Party for expressing his views on the matter is a violation of the most elementary democratic norms.
An article that appeared in the Observer on Sunday, written by Nick Cohen, exposes the underlying political motivation of the campaign against Livingstone. Denouncing Livingstone and Corbyn in equal measure, Cohen libels Marxism as the political source of the Labour “left’s” supposed hostility to Jews. The Labour Party is led, according to Cohen, by “dirty old men, with roots in the contaminated soil of Marxist totalitarianism. If it is to change, its leaders will either have to change their minds or be thrown out of office.” [Emphasis in original]
Cohen is a right-wing hack and venal warmonger, who defends the actions of an Israeli state run by political gangsters and war criminals. His lies are part of a concerted attempt to silence dissent and shift British politics sharply to the right.
The provocation against Livingstone occurred just days before elections to the Scottish and Welsh Assemblies, to some English local authorities and for mayor of London. It was timed to inflict maximum damage on Jeremy Corbyn in the first national elections contested under his leadership.
Rather than forthrightly defending Livingstone, Corbyn immediately prostrated himself before the right wing. His response to the anti-Livingstone campaign is that of a political coward. It demonstrates once again that Corbyn’s political role is to stifle and suppress the oppositional sentiment of the hundreds of thousands of workers and youth who elected him to the leadership of the Labour Party. Indeed, his tenure as the party’s leader has not changed Labour’s policy one iota—so much so that today the party’s right wing feels able to plan his ouster.
Corbyn’s behavior exemplifies the lack of political principle characteristic of the entire Labour Party and its leadership. His main ally in the party, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, is already positioning himself as a possible replacement in the event of a leadership challenge. After committing any future Labour government to continued austerity measures, McDonnell attacked Corbyn for taking too long to suspend Livingstone. | <urn:uuid:349a9f29-ba85-48cc-8fff-1ca357f47247> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www12.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/05/02/pers-m02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964484 | 1,338 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Dillenia bracteata Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 2: t. 358 1840. (syn: Dillenia repanda Roxb.; Wormia bracteata (Wight) Hook.f. & Thomson) as per POWO;
India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) as per Catalogue of Life;
Trees about 30-60 ft tall. Young shoots tomentose, branches with prominent leaf scars. Leaves simple, spirally arranged, ovate-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 16-46 x 5-19 cm across, base acute or obtuse, margins entire or very faintly serrate, apex obtuse or rounded, chartaceous, strigose mainly on the nerves beneath, lateral veins 15-22 on either side of the midrib, ascending obscure, impressed above, prominent, hirsute on the veins, glabrescent when mature beneath, reticulate veinlets, petioles stout, about 1-5 cm long. Flowers yellow, solitary on shoots or 2-7 flowered clusters near the shoots of older branches, of about 2.5 x 3 cm across, pedicels thick at apex, about 5-10 mm long, bracts, foliaceous, lanceolate or spathulate, sessile, apex acute, caducous, hirsute, about 8-11 x 3-4 mm across, Calyx 5 toothed, sepals ovate, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, reddish, pubescent, about 8-12 x 4-9 mm across, Corolla 5 lobed, petals obovate, yellow, apex obtuse or rounded, about 15-19 x 5-9 cm across, Stamens free, numerous, almost equal in length in 2 series, the outer numerous, inwardly curved, inner outwardly curved, about 9 mm long, anthers linear, slightly emarginated at the apex, pinkish blue. Carpels 58, around the conical receptacle, with 2 rows of ovules up to 30, styles curved, about 9 mm long, Fruits pseudocarps indehiscent, enclosed by enlarged thickened sepals, about 2.5-3 cm in diameter, subglobose, orange when ripe. Fruiting carpels 1-2 seeded, seeds ovoid, about 5 mm, dark brown to black.
Evergreen to semi evergreen forests, altitude up to 3300 ft.
Local Distribution: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu. Endemic. Global Distribution: Asia: India.
(Attributions- Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India. Kailash, B. R., UAS & ATREE, Bangalore, India. Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN), Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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Submission of Dillenia bracteata
endemic to South India. Within A.P it is located in Kambakkam hills of Chittoor district of A.P at high altitudes.
Plant name: Dillenia bracteata Wight
Common names: Racemed fish bone tree (Eng.); Chiruteku, Kalla teku (Tel.)
Description: Evergreen tree. Bark greyish-brown; young shoots tomentose. Leaves elliptic-obovate 15-45 x 5-20 cm, entire or crenate, coriaceous, glabrescent at maturity; lateral nerves 12-20 pairs. Flowers white turning yellow, 7-9 cm across, in few flowered racemes or in clusters on old branches; pedicels about 1cm long, silky. Stamens numerous; anthers linear. Carpels 5, styles 5, free. Pseudocarp 2-3cm in dia., 1-2 seeded; seeds ovoid, dark reddish-brown to black, glabrous. (flowers missing in our collection)
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Purpose: To separate and identify human tear proteins by two-dimensional (2D) gel eleclrophoresis, paying particular attention to isoforms present. Methods: Reflex tears were collected from 12 healthy, non contact lens wearers and pooled and protease inhibitors were added. 50 u,l of pooled tears were applied to an isoelectric focusing strip containing an immobilised pH gradient (IPG) from pH 3 to 10. When the separation was complete, the strip was attached to a 20 x 23 cm preparative SDS Polyacrylamide 8 to 18% gradient gel for electrophoresis. The gels were electroblotted onto PVOF membranes and stained with amido black. Spots were excised, and subjected to Edman sequencing for the first 4 residues, using a Beckman-Tag Sequenator. The spots were also acid hydrolysed and the amino acid composition was determined. This information, combined with the isoelectric point (pi) and molecular weight of the protein, allowed searching and identification from the Swiss-Prot database. Results: The resolution of the gel was high and at least 10 groups of isoforms were observed. So far, two isoform groups have been analysed. The first represents four isoforms (18-19 kDa, pis 4.2-6.0), and has been identified as lipocalin. Two of these proteins had undergone N-terminal processing. The second is a group of three isoforms of 28 to 29 kDa, with identical sequence of the first 4 residues and pis from 4.4 to 4.8, for which no match could be found. Conclusions: Preparative 2D PAGE is a powerful technique for the separation and identification of tear proteins. So far, two isoform groups have been analysed, and a match for lipocalins obtained in the database. Further analyses will enable the generation of a 2D map of tear proteins from normals, which can be compared with tear protein maps from other physiological and pathological states.
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Notifiable Data Breach Legislation
Deliberate criminal attacks behind most notifiable data breaches
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has released their second “Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report” advising statistical information about notifications received under the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme from 1 April to 30 June 2018[i].
The NDB scheme commenced on 22nd February 2018, and this is the first report that contains activity data from a full quarter.
The total number of data breach notifications received in the quarter was 242 which brings the total amount received in 2018 to 305, with the addition of the 63 received from 22nd February and the end of March 2018.
The largest source of data breaches for all sectors was malicious or criminal attack (59 per cent) followed by human error (36 per cent) and system fault (5 per cent). Malicious or criminal attacks differ significantly from human error as they are deliberate acts designed to exploit system vulnerabilities.
These new figures are in contrast to the previous reporting period which identified human error (51 per cent) as the highest cause of data breach followed by malicious or criminal attack (44 per cent)[ii].
The sector that reported the highest number of data breaches was the private health sector (20 per cent) followed by the finance sector (15 per cent) with the legal, accounting and management services sector (8 per cent), the private education sector (8 per cent), and the business and professional associations sector (6 per cent) behind.
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Human error continues to be an issue across all sectors and is the primary cause of data breach in the private health sector (59 per cent) followed by malicious or criminal attack (41 per cent). Human error includes incidents in which a mistake made by a person caused the data breach. Common errors include personal information sent to the wrong recipient, insecure disposal of personal information, or loss of paperwork or a storage device. Most notifications (69 per cent) in the private health sector caused by human error involved the data of 100 individuals or less.
Reducing human error continues to be the most significant challenge to organisations with many failing to implement adequate technology to remove human exposure to personal data. Contact Centres represent the most significant risk of human error with many still exposing contact centre agents to credit card data. Contact centre solutions like AgentSecure reduce PCI DSS compliance scope by 90% by ensuring credit card data never enters the contact centre and therefore eliminating the risk of human error.
[i] Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, ‘ Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report: 1 April – 30 June 2018, accessed 3 August 2018 at https://www.oaic.gov.au/resources/privacy-law/privacy-act/notifiable-data-breaches-scheme/quarterly-statistics/notifiable-data-breaches-quarterly-statistics-report-1-april-30-june-2018.pdf
[ii] Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, ‘ Quarterly Statistics Report: January 2018 – March 2018, accessed 3 August 2018 at https://www.oaic.gov.au/resources/privacy-law/privacy-act/notifiable-data-breaches-scheme/quarterly-statistics/Notifiable_Data_Breaches_Quarterly_Statistics_Report_January_2018__March_.pd | <urn:uuid:5d112ff9-7ccb-4aa6-85d8-b5c03831c0b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ipsi.com.au/deliberate-criminal-attacks-behind-notifiable-data-breaches/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.919593 | 709 | 1.875 | 2 |
Your home is one of the most important investments of your life. However, when it comes to selling it, worry sets in, and you may wonder whether you will be able to sell it at a reasonable price that reflects its actual market value.
To get the best price for your home, it pays to prep it before putting it on the market. This is where remodeling comes in. Remodeling can boost the value of your home to either a profit or the same range as other nearby homes in its category.
According to a report by Remodeling Magazine, most remodeling projects barely recover the homeowner’s investment at the point of sale. Therefore, think of the return on investment (ROI) when you choose to remodel your home.
Read on for a list of some remodeling projects that can add value to your home. Incorporating some of the projects will help your house to fetch a great price.
New Paint Job
Repainting the inside of your house is a must-do remodeling project for anyone wishing to list their home on the market. The project is not expensive, but it can add thousands to your asking price. A new coat of paint adds warmth to the house and a luxurious, inviting feel.
According to a 2017 survey carried out by the home renovation site Houzz.com, most real estate agents recommend painting the inside before listing.
Repainting is even cheaper if you can do it yourself. However, it’s wise to hire a professional to do the work to bring the best out of your home.
Some of the things that can reduce the value of your home are windows.
Old-fashioned, single-paned windows can turn away prospective buyers. The windows could also lower the perceived value even if your home is in excellent condition.
A new window installation is something you should consider before selling your home. Window installation can lead to a 90 percent ROI on the selling price. If you invest in energy-efficient windows, you get to save up to $500 a year in heating and cooling expenditures. Also, buyers nowadays prefer homes with energy-efficient windows.
Remodeling a kitchen is probably one of the most critical projects you can do. The project can go either way. Therefore, you have to undertake it after thorough research and preparation.
If your kitchen is in good condition, you should probably just replace the sink, faucets, and cabinet doors. Minor remodeling projects offer a better return on investment. However, you can also go big with a total overhaul of the kitchen to make your home stand out from others listed on the market. A kitchen makeover provides up to 60 percent ROI.
However, you may want to be mindful of high-end accessories and customizations, as they hardly ever pay off unless you are targeting a particular set of buyers.
Bathrooms are essential, and generally, buyers appreciate efforts of getting them in excellent condition. Bathroom repairs also lead to significant financial payoffs when you list your home for sale. You can recoup 80 to 130 percent of your return on investment from renovating the bathroom.
Things like a new sink, faucets, tiles, and a new bathtub are appealing to buyers. However, if you are looking to bump the value of your home considerably, consider installing an extra bathroom. An online search of listed homes in your area with varying numbers of bathrooms will show you how significant the prices differ.
It is also not that difficult to install an extra bathroom. Just be creative; think of an underutilized room. For example, you can convert the storage room that likely won’t add anything to your home’s value to a bathroom.
Installing a Deck
According to Hgtv.com, a deck brings back 60 to 90 percent of your return on investment. Outdoor living spaces add value to homes since almost everyone loves them.
The cost of installing a deck will depend on the size of the house, the design, and the materials used. However, the little you spend setting up a deck, the best you get out of it. It’s even better if you could do most of the work yourself.
Landscaping your home is probably the best remodeling project as it can return over 100 percent of the investment used.
First impressions are a great deal. Buyers love a home that is well-cared for and inviting before they even get inside. Generally, the value added to your home depends on the type of landscaping.
According to homeguides.sfgate.com, landscaping can increase the value of your home by tens of thousands of dollars.
The above are just some of the remodeling projects that can improve the value of your home when you want to put it on sale. It’s better to undertake the projects years before listing your home on the market to benefit in the long run. | <urn:uuid:1284eadc-88de-4211-96d4-df90c67087f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://melissascottages.com/the-best-remodeling-tips-to-increase-home-value.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.943953 | 1,032 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Updated: May 1, 2016 1:47:33 pm
If you thought haemoglobin levels indicate iron status, think again! While haemoglobin reflects whether an individual is anaemic or not, it may or may not necessarily be an indicator of your body’s iron stores. You may have normal haemoglobin levels and still have iron deficiency, a condition also referred to as non-anaemic iron deficiency.
Non-anaemic iron deficiency was picked as a causative factor for diffuse hair loss in women in 1963. Numerous studies have also linked low ferritin levels to hair fall, thinning of hair, hair loss (alopecia), dull lifeless hair and lightening of dark hair.
Iron is stored in the body as ferritin. Ferritin accounts for 20 per cent of total iron in adults and plays an important role both in absorption and recycling of iron. It is formed by intestinal mucosa, liver, spleen and bone marrow. Ferritin levels are a good indication of iron storage levels.
Low ferritin levels indicate depleted iron reserves, while high ferritin levels indicate inflammation and can be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. A higher-than-normal ferritin level may be due to any inflammatory condition, alcoholic liver disease, frequent blood transfusion or too much stored iron in the body (hemochromatosis).
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Low iron stores or ferritin have been considered a possible contributing factor in several other conditions: muscle weakness, aching joints, breathlessness or heart palpitations, difficulty in swallowing (dysphagia), dry skin, sensitivity to cold temperature; pale pallor, thin, soft or brittle nails that don’t grow or may ’spoon’, ‘curl’-up or split, meaty tongue and a pale conjunctiva under the eye lids.
Iron deficiency is also known to depress the immune system, making the body more vulnerable to infection — particularly thrush, chronic herpes, mouth ulcers or chronic ear infections. Thyroid, para-thyroid and adrenal gland function are also influenced by an imbalance of iron. Ammehorea (loss of menstrual cycles) is also seen with low iron stores. A poorly understood behaviour seen among iron deficient people is pica — the craving and consumption of ice, chalk, starch, clay, soil and other non-edible substances.
Most common causes of low ferritin levels and hair loss include heavy menstrual bleeding, crash-dieting, poor diets, parasitic infections, surgeries, severe illnesses, digestive tract bleeding, emotional stress, medications, certain health conditions like malabsorption and thyroid abnormalities or hormonal changes.
Iron rich foods include animal foods- meat, especially organ meat (liver), poultry and fish and green leafy vegetables including cauliflower greens, mustard greens, radish leaves, amaranth (chaulai), lotus stem, black gram, black sesame, seaweed, black beans, soybean, water melon, grains like quinoa and some dry fruits like dates and sultanas. Iron absorption though is dependent on whether it is heme iron (from animal food) or non- heme iron (present in plant foods). Heme iron is easily absorbed by the body compared to non-heme.
📣 The above article is for information purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the guidance of your doctor or other qualified health professional for any questions you may have regarding your health or a medical condition.
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Financing of training
You can arrange the financing of your training in various ways. The possibilities are dependent on your situation, your age and what you are going to do: a recognised associate degree, Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree, or would you like to do a further training or refresher course. There are schemes from the government and there are private funds. If you have an employer, you may be entitled to a training budget.
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Via Education Executive Agency (DUO)
You can apply for student finance if you are going to do a recognised full-time or work-study degree programme at a university of applied sciences (hbo) or university lasting at least one year or longer, or a pre-vocational learning pathway programme (bol-opleiding) at senior secondary vocational education (mbo) level. You must be a Dutch national or have the same rights, depending on your residence permit or your nationality. Since the introduction of the student loan system in 2015, student finance consists of a loan, a student travel product, a supplementary grant and a tuition fee loan. The right to a supplementary grant is dependent on your parents’ income. Only the student travel product and the supplementary grant are non-repayable, if you obtain your degree within 10 years.
Lifelong learning credit
Would you like to do a recognised full-time, part-time or work-study degree programme at a university of applied sciences (hbo) or university, or a pre-vocational learning pathway programme (bol-opleiding) at senior secondary vocational education (mbo) level, but you are no longer entitled to student finance. In that case, you may be eligible, under certain conditions, for a ‘lifelong learning credit’ loan amounting to the tuition fees.
Did you first receive student finance in the period September 2015 to August 2019, and did you then fall under the student loan system? In that case, you will receive a study voucher after obtaining your degree, which you can use for a further education at a Dutch or foreign study programme in higher education.
Via your employer
If you are in salaried employment, agreements can be made about training in the fringe benefits or the collective labour agreement (cao). These often deal with a training budget and the number of hours that you can spend on this (during working hours). If nothing is laid down about training rights, but it does have added value for your performance, you can enter into discussion about this.
Your employer can approach a social fund to pay for the training. Think of the Social Fund Performing Arts. A social fund aims to increase the professionalism and resilience of the sector through training.
Are you working or are you looking for work? In that case, you can apply for a STAP budget of maximum € 1,000 for certain forms of training and development as from 1 March 2022. STAP stands for Stimulering Arbeidsmarkt Positie (Stimulation of the Labour Market Position). The aim of this scheme is to ensure people remain as employable as possible in the labour market with the aid of a training programme, course or study programme. In this way, ‘Lifelong development’ will become more affordable through further training or retraining.
You can only apply for the STAP budget for the training of educators who have registered for that. When assessing the application, the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV) will look at age, whether you have a relationship with the Dutch labour market and whether there are already other forms of financial support. If you are already entitled to student grants and loans, then you cannot apply for a STAP budget for the same study programme.
Up until 1 January 2022, it was possible to deduct training costs in the income tax return. The STAP budget will replace this tax deduction for training costs.
Deducting of training costs as a self-employed professional
If you work as a self-employed professional, you can claim all occupation-related training costs as business expenses. If the training is intended for a new direction and is not therefore related to your occupation, you may not include this in your business records. You may, however, be eligible for the STAP budget as described above.
Grants and loans
Werktuig PPO: fund for the cultural sector
Professional development is necessary in order to improve the labour market in the cultural and creative sector. Platform Labour Market Cultural and Creative Future (Platform Arbeidsmarkt Culturele en Creatieve Toekomst, Platform ACCT) has set up the fund Werktuig PPO for this with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. This fund finances development plans for anyone working in the creative or cultural sector. It is for both employees and self-employed people. The idea is that the total costs of the development plan are divided equally between three parties: your employer or client, yourself and the PPO fund. There is a maximum contribution of €2,000 per year.
Various large and small funds make study grants, loans and donations available for various target groups and studies. For example, there are the VSB Fund Scholarship (VSBfonds Beurs) and Cultural Fund Scholarship (Cultuurfondsbeurs) for follow-up studies abroad, while the Bekker-la Bastide-Fonds supports students who are doing a full-time study in Amsterdam or Rotterdam. The Fundatie van Renswoude, the Schuurman Schimmel - van Outeren Stichting and Stichting de Korinthiërs all support students younger than 30 years old, while Talent Support supports students older than 30. the Tesselschade Study Fund (Tesselschade Studiefonds) only supports women. The Hendrik Muller Fund (Hendrik Muller Fonds) provides study scholarships and supports cultural causes.
Some funds focus on certain disciplines: the VandenEnde Foundation focuses on young talents in theatre, dance, music, film and television. The Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund (Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds) manages various donor-advised funds, a number of which also support studies, such as the Burger-Dominicus Fund (Burger-Dominicus Fonds) for dancers and the Sonate Fund (Sonate Fonds) for classical music. Stichting NHBos has scholarships for landscape architecture students, the EFL Stichting contributes to study trips for architecture students, research and publications. Foundation A.F.V.O.M.S. (Algemeen Fonds voor Onbemiddelde Muziekstudenten, General Fund for Music Students Without Means) gives donations to conservatory students. The Academy of Theatre and Dance has the Hanny Veldkamp Fund (Hanny Veldkamp Fonds) and Jan Kassies Fund (Jan Kassies Fonds) for talented students. The Institut Français Pays-Bas awards two Art & Design scholarships annually to students in Dutch higher education who want to get a master's degree in France.
Crowdfunding is also used increasingly often to finance a follow-up study. In addition, parents are allowed to donate a higher amount tax-free for your training or study programme under certain conditions.
Allowances for teacher training
Would you like to do a training to become a teacher? If so, please check with the Education Executive Agency (DUO) if you are eligible for certain allowances or grants intended for (prospective) teachers. If you are already a qualified teacher and you would like to continue studying, you may be eligible for the teacher scholarship.
Because it is so important that you continue developing yourself, there are an increasing number of options to receive further training for free or for a small amount: in that case you mainly invest your time. For example, via the programme NL leert door (NL keeps on learning) and other independent providers such as the AHK, who offers refresher courses in the field of entrepreneurship at low rates. | <urn:uuid:2746ebab-345c-45fd-bcbb-3bebfb6a0a29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beroepkunstenaar.nl/en/subjects/financing-of-training/discipline/music/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.932165 | 1,697 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Bhubaneswar: Asking authorities of the Paradip Port Trust (PPT) to explore the feasibility of using the port as a coal hub, Coal and Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi Thursday directed officials to fully utilise the available facilities for increasing coal transportation through the sea route.
Joshi along with Minister of State for Coal and Mines Raosaheb Patil Danve, visited the Paradip Port and Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL)’s Hingula area and reviewed various activities and projects.
Their visit comes amid the dry fuel shortage at the country’s power plants.
Both of them inspected the facilities at the port and noted that this can be developed into a coal hub.
Joshi also visited the site of the Rail Receival System near the port where coal is unloaded with the help of wagon-tipplers.
He said this system of unloading is efficient, helps in saving time and demurrage charges, and also reduces the spread of coal dust.
PPT handles around 25 million metric tons of coal cargo per annum which is the highest quantity of dry fuel handled by any port in the country.
This apart, work is in progress to set up a separate berth to handle 30 million metric tons of coal in the PPT, sources said.
After the review meeting, PPT chairperson P L Haranadh said that the minister gave assurance that the government will give more opportunities to PPT for handling additional coal cargo.
The coal minister later visited Balram opencast project site in the Hingula area of MCL.
“With an annual capacity of 8 MT, this mine is operated by an all-women crew for mine blasting work,” a press release issued by MCL quoted the minister as saying.
While visiting the railway siding in MCL’s Hingula area, the minister emphasised the need for reducing wagon turn-around time.
The interval of time between two successive loadings of a wagon is called wagon turn around.
Replying to a question about the formation of another Coal company at Talcher in Odisha, Joshi said that at present there is no such proposal and it may be considered in the future.
During a review meeting at MCL, the minister verified the dispatch operations at (MCL) to enhance fuel supplies to thermal power plants.
“Coal India Limited has successfully stepped up fuel supply to meet the increased power demand and arrest shortage of fuel at thermal power plants which happened due to increased cost of imported coal.
“Coal production and dispatch have now increased and we are supplying about 2.2 million tonne coal in a day to the power plants, which by itself is a record,” Joshi told reporters on the sidelines of his visit to MCL’s Hingula area in Talcher.
“We are trying to further improve coal production and dispatch from the company,” Joshi said.
MCL, the leading coal supplying company in the country, contributes about 25 per cent to the total coal production of Coal India.
To enhance coal dispatch capacity and rapid movement of dry fuel to consumers, the company is implementing FMC (First Mile Connectivity) projects with a capital outlay of Rs 3,600 crore by 2024.
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When water from irrigation systems and fire suppression systems backflows
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A backflow preventer is required for properties with:
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The general secretary of the court ensures that the accounts, exhibits and documents provided for by the code of financial jurisdictions are produced by the persons concerned, within the time limits set. He notifies the King's Attorney General in case of a delay.
He assists the first president in the coordination of the work of the court as well as in the organization of hearings of the formations of the court. It also contributes with him to the coordination of the work of the regional courts.
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He ensures, under the authority of the first president, the operation of the administrative services of the court and the registry.
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"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."
— J. Paul Getty
As we have written, VC’s are creatures of habit. Pattern recognition is our primary weapon of the trade. What makes the difference between a good VC and a great VC is how effective he/she is at making profitable decisions during periods of inflection and when old rules/experiences may hinder rather than help. In yet another example of how quickly things change when they go, look at the TV set world. The NYT has a great article "Picture Tubes Are Fading Into the Past". It just seems like a couple of years ago that flat panels were starting to reach "affluent" affordability and just in the last 18 months when more and more friends were bringing them into their houses. Now, major manufacturers are getting out of the CRT world altogether (Panasonic) or almost out (Sony). You want to be "where the puck is going, not where it is" in these cases.
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Sustainability – what does this really mean?
Sustainable: pertaining to a system that maintains its own viability by using techniques that allow for continual reuse & able to be supported as with the basic necessities or sufficient funds
It is easy to understand and support the idea of sustainability when referring to developing nations, as our first world guilt dictates that we should pay a slightly higher price in developing nations to promote sustainability.
And, in first world counties operating sustainably is often not understood in the same fashion. And, it is often misconstrued that in the first world a sustainable company is just using this terminology as a front for being expensive and/or overpriced.
Sustainable applies equally and in the same fashion regardless of where a company’s operations take place with the only real difference being the price point.
Operating sustainably in the first world, and in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with the highest cost of living, requires that a sustainable price point reflects the real costs of doing business which includes paying living wages, taxes, and at the same time maintaining the correct operating margins.
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Blockchain Special Edition – Three Books In OneEverything you need to know to start your education in the basics and applications of these technologies.This original Cryptocurrency Series contains three practical books for any reader to comprehend:Book One: Bitcoin – The basics for newbies. This book introduces the reader to the concepts of buying, trading, using and investing in Bitcoin.Book Two: Blockchain – The most important technology to know about is the Blockchain. This book discusses the fundamental concepts and logistics without all the technical jargon. This is great for learning what it is, how it works and where it’s heading very quickly, for any reader.Book Three: Cryptocurrency – A potential replacement of Fiat money, this sector is growing and changing fast. New ICO’s are coming out all the time and alt-coins are expanding in volume quickly. Understanding cryptocurrency and blockchain are mandatory for any modern investor or business owner. Learn the foundations with this special edition book. Also available on Audible. | <urn:uuid:92f97d49-4a1f-4c4b-b1a4-415e017737a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coinkingdom.io/product/blockchain-3-books-the-complete-edition-on-bitcoin-blockchain-cryptocurrency-and-how-it-all-works-together-in-bitcoin-mining-investing-and-other-cryptocurrencies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.876862 | 226 | 2.171875 | 2 |
For whatever reason, most homeowners are reluctant to make use of custom outdoor garden furniture simply because they believe that it is not their style. Customized outdoor garden furniture can truly provide homeowners with the initial design and look they desire. These pieces of outdoor garden furniture incorporate a table, chairs, benches, chaise lounges, loveseats, ottomans, and much more. The only real limit to this kind of design could be the homeowner's imagination. Bespoke planter pots certainly are a perfect exemplory instance of using custom designed outdoor garden furniture to generate the appearance and design that the homeowner wants for his outdoor space.
Bespoke planters are a kind of potting shed that is designed to hold more than one planters. Bespoke planter pots will also be known as greenhouses as they are usually built to withstand heat and humidity a lot better than standard pots. A well-designed green house may be used year round thanks to its durability and power to resist damage from both sun and rain. Bespoke landscape engineering supplies may also be used to make a unique look no real matter what the colour scheme or theme is. Bespoke planters are becoming increasingly popular as a result of fact that they are reasonable priced and can often be created as a DIY project.
Bespoke planter pots for outdoor garden furniture are generally sold at a reasonable price. They are created by some of the finest landscape engineers in the world. They are made to withstand heat and extreme weather conditions. Bespoke landscape engineering supplies can be used to generate a variety of different styles. You can choose a style that is worthy of the specific landscape he wishes to create.
In the current economy, homeowners shouldn't overlook the potential of buying Bespoke outdoor garden furniture. As they are created for good performance outdoor use, Bespoke furniture sets could be handed down through several generations of families. Designers and landscape engineers supply Bespoke design to individuals who have the cash to pay for good quality Bespoke furniture. By providing high-end outdoor garden furniture and other landscape engineering supplies , landscape engineers provide consumers with a wide variety of unique products. Bespoke may also be purchased to fit your specific budget.
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While the Raspberry Pi boards are mostly promoted as tools to teach STEM to kids and adults alike, they have found their way in a fair amount of industrial products, including ModBerry M500 industrial computer, Janz Tec emPC-A/RPI3 industrial embedded controller, and Kunbus RevolutionPi RevPi Core among others.
There’s yet another option with Brainboxes BB-400 Neuron Edge industrial controller that was announced last year with Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3, but recently got an upgrade to Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+. The controller features two Ethernet ports and also includes an Arduino compatible microcontroller to control the system’s eight configurable digital inputs and outputs.
BB-400 Neuron Edge industrial controller specifications:
- SoM – Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ with Broadcom BCM2837B0 quad-core , Cortex-A53 processor @ 1.2GHz, 1 GB LPDDR2, 32GB eMMC Flash storage
- MCU – Unnamed Microchip Atmel Arduino compatible microcontroller
- Ethernet Uplink Port – 1x RJ45 jack, 10/100Mbps autosensing, crossover autosensing (Auto MDIX)
- Ethernet LAN Port – 1x RJ45 jack, 10/100Mbps autosensing, crossover autosensing (Auto MDIX)
- Protection – 1500V Magnetic Isolation between ports and network
- Wi-Fi – 802.11 b/g/n WiFi 4 with detachable antenna
- Bluetooth 4.0 (2.1+EDR, LE) Class 1
- NFC – Coming soon via software update
- Digital Channels – 8 Ports individually selectable as Inputs or Outputs
- User programmable counts positive or negative transitions up to 200Hz
- Logic Level 0: 0V to +1V; Logic Level 1:+2V to +30V
- Latched Inputs – Triggered by user-programmable positive or negative edges, stays true until acknowledged
- Open drain output, protected MOSFET intelligent short circuit protection up to 36V
- Max output load Voltage – 30V
- ESD Production – 16kV
- Serial Port – 1x RS232, RS422/485 Full Duplex, or RS485 Half-Duplex software selectable
- USB – 1x micro USB 2.0 OTG port to connect USB drives or flash firmware
- Misc – RTC with CR1220 3v Lithium battery (not included), reset pinhole, DIO LED’s, 8x status LED’s
- Power Supply
- Power Supply Input – +5V to +30V DC, dual power inputs, reverse polarity protected
- Max input – 35V
- Power Consumption – 4 Watts typical, 15W Max dependent on the application
- Isolation: 1500VRMS Magnetic isolation from Ethernet
- UPS function via internal backup supply, and controlled shutdown
- Dimensions – 120 x 99 x 45mm (DIN rail enclosure)
- IP Rating – IP20 enclosure
- Temperature Range – Operating: -25ºC to +80ºC; storage: -40ºC to +80ºC
- Humidity – 5 to 95% (non-condensing)
The controller runs Raspbian Lite operating systems with SSH and TLS security, secure web administration, Docker container support with a pre-installed web admin interface, and customized containers available for Node-RED. The digital I/O lines run on an Arduino compatible microcontroller, and can be controlled over WebSocket, ASCII TCP, REST, or ASCII over Serial protocols. The Arduino code is said to be open source and the project is part of Arduino at Heart program. Brainboxes team is also working on supporting various cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google cloud platform, and IBM Watson.
BB-400 Neuron Edge Controller can be purchased for $538.65 (or 399 GBP) on the product page, where you’ll also find some more information including a quick start guide, and fairly detailed datasheet.
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Parable: The Stainless Steel Church
The Chairman of the Administrative Board called the meeting to order. “We have a problem,” he announced gravely, “with mice. They are gnawing holes in the wood and getting into the church.”
The innovator had an unusual idea. “If we tore down the old church and built a new one out of stainless steel, the mice couldn’t gnaw their way in.”
The early adopter saw the advantages. “We would certainly be in the forefront of all the churches in our conference in using this new material to build a church. Just think: it would never rust, never need painting, and last forever.”
The middle adopter was practical. “Wouldn’t it be very hard to work with steel as a building material? You’d have to weld everything. And it wouldn’t be cheap.”
The late adopter was nostalgic. “I would miss the old church of wood. It seems so comfortable and warm to me. Wouldn’t steel be expensive to heat in winter?”
The laggard harrumphed. “My sister has too many cats on her farm. I’ll bring one over tomorrow and it won’t cost us a nickel.”
“Well, I see we’ve solved that problem,” the chair noted. “Now, on to the next problem.”
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At HLS there’s a method for producing future law professors. (That, plus an oracle.)
Lisa Bernstein ’90 knew from her first day of law school that she wanted to be a professor, though as time went on, she wondered whether that would be possible without top grades or law review credentials. What helped to set her apart from other applicants, she says, was the paper she wrote—and mentoring she received—as an Olin Fellow during law school.
“That support made all the difference,” says Bernstein, now a law professor at the University of Chicago. “I would not have gotten a teaching job without the fellowship paper.”
Each year, only 15 to 20 Harvard Law School students receive John M. Olin Fellowships in Law and Economics. But alumni of the program such as Bernstein have enjoyed outsized success landing legal academic jobs.
In fact, the annual number of Olin Fellows who get positions on top law school faculties often exceeds the number of successful applicants from the entire graduating class of other leading law schools, apart from Yale and HLS itself, according to Professor Steven M. Shavell, director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at the school.
The Olin Fellowship is just one of many efforts at HLS to help current students and alumni pursue academic careers. There is also advising by the Office of Academic Affairs and a postgraduate research program added in recent years.
But over the course of more than two decades, the Olin Fellowship has racked up a particularly noteworthy record, one Shavell says is due to the individualized attention faculty devote to training and mentoring Olin Fellows during their time at the law school—and beyond.
The formal requirements are straightforward. In return for a research stipend, each fellow is expected to write a research paper under the guidance of a faculty adviser. Students have presented their findings at the law and economics seminar as well as the American Law & Economics Association, among other national and international conferences.
The opportunity appealed to Daniel Chen ’09, who arrived at the law school after completing a Ph.D. in economics at M.I.T. Chen had already set his sights on an academic career, but he credits Olin faculty including Shavell and Louis Kaplow ’81 with helping funnel his excitement about potential areas of research into more concrete questions.
For his paper, Chen explored how laws prohibiting sexual harassment affect gender equality and found the laws actually improve labor market outcomes for females relative to males.
The stipend helped Chen hire research assistants to code appellate court decisions and damage awards. He presented his paper as a work in progress at the Olin workshop, where fellow students with backgrounds in a variety of disciplines offered their views.
“It was very helpful to get their feedback early on in a safe setting,” says Chen, who will start as an assistant professor at Duke Law School after finishing up a fellowship at the University of Chicago this year.
Not every Olin Fellow arrives with an advanced degree or a road map to academia.
Guhan Subramanian ’98, J.D./M.B.A., credits the fellowship he received with convincing him to pursue an academic career. What was most striking for Subramanian was the way Kaplow treated him and his fellow students just like the faculty who attended Olin seminars.
“Engaging on an equal footing with faculty made me think I could be an academic,” says Subramanian, who is now a professor at both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.
Subramanian says the feedback he received was helpfully pointed. “Many people in the academic world want to heap praise on mentees, whereas Louis and Steve tell you all the ways [the work] can be better,” he says.
Shavell says the goal is to make sure every fellow has a polished paper ready for publication in law reviews or other academic journals. He also invites fellows to return to campus for mock job talks where they further refine their presentations before entering the job market.
Equally important to Tom Miles ’03 was the exposure to academic values and academic training and the mentoring that professors such as Kaplow, Shavell and Howell Jackson ’82 provide.
“They were extremely helpful in thinking about the path into academia and what steps were necessary in order to begin an academic career,” says Miles, who is now an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
The advocacy for students continues behind the scenes, with faculty making calls on their behalf to other law schools. “We champion these people and try to help them find jobs that are appropriate given their skill set,” Shavell says.
Bernstein says she tries to replicate what Shavell has developed with the Olin Fellowship with her own students who want to become professors.
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Coronavirus vaccines help protect people from getting seriously ill if they come into contact with the disease. But how do they work? And will a vaccine make you feel unwell? Here’s the video released by BBC, explaining the same.
Disclaimer: This video is intended for informational purpose only. This may not be construed as a news item or advice of any sort. Please consult the experts in that field for the authenticity of the presentations.
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Background and Objectives — The primary goal of family medicine residency training is for graduates to provide high-quality, safe, and effective patient care for the population they serve when they enter practice. This study explores (a) the practice profiles, 5 years into practice, of residents who completed family medicine training in Ontario, Canada; and (b) relationships between performance on the College of Family Physicians of Canada's (CFPC) Certification Examination in Family Medicine and quality of care provided 5 years into practice.
Methods — We performed a retrospective study with secondary data analysis. We merged CFPC examination data sets with the ICES (Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences) administrative database. We included physicians who passed the examination between the years 2000 and 2010 and practiced in Ontario after graduation. Practice profile indicators included practice type, continuity and comprehensiveness of care, patient rostering and panel size, and rurality index. We explored 11 indicators related to management of diabetes and cancer screening.
Results — We included a total of 1,983 physicians in the analyses. Five years after the examinations, 74.3% of the physicians were working in major urban centers, and 67.3% of the physicians were providing comprehensive primary care. We noted significant differences across the six medical schools in multiple practice profile indicators, and three indicators showed significant differences across the examination score quintiles.
Conclusions — Graduates of Ontario family medicine residency programs were providing care to a broad spectrum of the population 5 years after passing the examination, and they performed similarly across quality-of-care indicators regardless of examination scores.
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This blog is mainly about the governance and future of policing and crime services. (Police & Crime Commissioners feature quite a lot.) But there are also posts about the wider justice system. And because I am town councillor and political activist, local & national issues are covered a little, as well.
Monday, April 1, 2013
The Spare Special Subsidy
From today any household, where there is no one who has volunteered to become a special police constable, will be subject to a premium on that part of their council tax which pays for policing in their area. Typical premiums will amount to between 14% and 25% of what they currently pay.
Theresa May said in announcing the new move “In setting the council tax precept for police services, most Police & Crime Commissioners have made the presumption that at least one person from every household will volunteer to become a special police constable. Due to the mess made by the last Labour Government of the country’s finances, we can no longer afford enough paid police officers to keep our streets safe. Therefore we have introduced this financial incentive (a little ‘nudge’ in the ribs, if you like) encouraging people to become special police officers.”
“We do understand that some households may find this opportunity more difficult than others to make the most of: especially single parents, older people living alone and, of course, those unfortunate disabled and handicapped people. However these people will be able to ‘offset’ their ‘spare special subsidy’ by persuading a member of their wider family to volunteer on their behalf. And if they have no family, the state will be able to pair them with a person claiming job seekers allowance. After all, we know that ‘volunteering makes you free’ as our luminous leader has said in his Big Society manifesto.” the Home Secretary went on.
Opponents of the scheme have pointed out that this policy is yet another example of the Government making things up as they go along. “It is inherently discriminatory towards people who have criminal records since they will not be able to apply to join the special police constabulary and will be forced to pay the Bobbytax” said one protestor, chained to the railings outside Pentonville prison. (He was later arrested and put back inside Pentonville.)
Other commentators have questioned whether the police service is quite ready for such an influx of new recruits to the special constabulary. “We haven’t got enough uniforms and working radios for the paid officers let alone for a few thousand rooky specials. It’s a nightmare!” said one unnamed Chief Constable.
ACPO have issued a press release saying that they welcome this move towards a more professional police service where volunteer police officers play their full part in building a safer England and Wales, more at ease with itself.
The Police Federation were speechless, for once.
Another Chief Constable said that he was looking forward to the long cold summer and expected these new specials to be deployed extensively to policing the #Bedroomtax riots which the new Strategic Policing Requirement has flagged up as a significant and likely risk. | <urn:uuid:4c81f8ad-2941-470c-abed-d684351969f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ajustfuture.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-spare-special-subsidy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973808 | 653 | 1.796875 | 2 |
...in ages past..." We gathered at the War memorial in Borough High Street to observe Remembrance Day. The War Memorial there is particularly poignant, as it depicts a First World War soldier in full kit, gallantly going forward, in the mud of the Western Front - and because it was erected just months after that War ended, it is accurate in every detail. This particular Memorial has become familiar since I started going to Evensong and weekday Mass with the Ordinariate group at the nearby Church of the Precious Blood. It seemed the right place to observe Remembrance Day. Under a clear sky, a crowd gathered, the bugle notes of the Last Post rang out, the police stopped the traffic, and we were silent.
It's an utterly different country from the one for which the men of the Great War fought and died. In the crowd, a number of young men failed to remove their wolly hats or baseball caps. The crowd was adequate but not huge. When we prayed the Our Father, many people didn't join in: they all too evidently simply didn't know thre words. The singing was good, led by the excellent Ordinariate priest and congregation in fine voice. The bugler was superb. The wreaths were laid, the dead honoured, the tribute to our history paid. And the young men like the one on the fine monument before us will never grow old, and we will remember them...we will remember them. | <urn:uuid:f9ac64ef-c5db-4178-b51d-827fbe079a16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://joannabogle.blogspot.com/2012/11/o-god-our-help.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.979026 | 297 | 1.742188 | 2 |
2019 Feb 3
The 10-year challenge seems to be all the buzz among social media enthusiasts since the dawn of 2019. From awkward high school pictures to post-puberty glow-ups, newsfeeds on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram were filled with side-by-sides of dramatic ten-year transformations. With any social media hype, however, the 10-year challenge shed light on both the positives and negatives of a number of current issues.
This begs the question: how has Sri Lanka fared within the past ten years?
Let’s take a look.
1. Post-War reconciliation
The civil war that sunk our paradise isle into almost thirty years of fear, instability, and violence finally ended ten years ago in May 2009. Regardless of the momentous triumph, the years since 2009 have only made it clearer that the wounds of a brutal civil war do not heal easily. Investigations into alleged war crimes and human rights violations are still underway. Questions with regard to the progress made in seeking justice for the victims of the war remain obscure, and those who have been held accountable are only a few. Transitional justice mechanisms were established by the government in 2015. A pledge to establish a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, an Office for Missing Persons, and the drafting of the Prevention of Terrorism Act were commitments that were undertaken by the government but its effectiveness has been debated by several accounts.
Despite certain efforts, Sri Lanka has a long way to go in order to witness visible progress in her path to reconciliation.
While 2009 marked the end of the civil war, the country also witnessed a significant influx of tourists to the island. In fact, prominent travel guide publisher Lonely Planet ranked Sri Lanka as the best country to visit in 2019. The tourism sector has become one of the fastest growing and dynamic industries in the country particularly after the Tourism Development Strategy that was implemented in 2011. The tourism industry played a huge role in restoring the economy following the war, especially with a notable increase in foreign exchange earnings.
The literacy rate of Sri Lanka positively indicates a steady rise within the past ten years. Although a universal definition for the term ‘literacy’ does not exist, it generally refers to persons above 15 years of age who are able to read and write. The literacy rate in 2009 was approximately 91.25%. As of 2015, this percentage has increased steadily to 92.5%, according to the CIA World Factbook.
As for computer literacy, Sri Lanka has room for progress. However, a dramatic increase in computer literacy rates in the country has been observed. Persons aged five to sixty-nine years of age were taken into consideration in a survey conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics. As of 2009, the computer literacy rate in Sri Lanka was 20.3%, which increased to 28.3% by 2017. Despite such promising numbers, the so-called ‘digital divide’ has caused some notable limitations. The percentage distribution varies widely among districts, with Colombo ranking first on the scale, in both computer and digital literacy. Other districts such as Nuwara Eliya, Badulla and Monaragala remain at the bottom of the list with computer literacy rates as low as 7.6%, 4.9%, and 5.6% respectively.
Ten years ago, Sri Lanka was in the midst of an intensifying war, political friction, and a crippling economy. The short-term loans to resolve large financial deficits, as well as subsiding exports, were sure signs of a looming financial crisis. Sri Lanka’s GDP growth was at a record low of 3.5% in 2009 and a per capita GDP of $2054. Ten years later, the Sri Lankan economy has changed dramatically. The poverty headcount ratio that stood at 8.9% in 2009/2010 decreased dramatically to 4.1% as of 2016.
The government strived to achieve upper middle-income status following the end of the war in 2009. Other plans included the creation of a knowledge-based social market economy and a Megalopolis in the Western region.
Several development projects have emerged since 2009, including highways and improved road networks. The development of the tea industry is also set to reduce rural poverty in the coming years.
Ten years ago, cricket and rugby were more or less one of few interests that caught the attention of Sri Lankans in the field of sports. Although the two sports are as popular as they were back then, new additions to the sporting arena in Sri Lanka have been grabbing headlines within the past decade.
A notable new trend that caught on since 2010 was the annual charity run, Run for their Lives which began in 2010 as a fundraiser for cancer patients. Similar events soon followed with Trail as One and Footsteps for Freedom.
Sri Lanka also made headlines when the National Netball Team won the 2018 Asian Netball Championship defeating Singapore. The team’s Tharjini Sivalingam also won the Player of the Tournament award.
Our country’s own Hassan Esufally also made Sri Lanka proud by being the first Sri Lankan to complete the ‘Big 5 Marathon.’ The Commonwealth Games held in 2018 also witnessed a 139 member team representing Sri Lanka. Notable players included Canadian born Anna-Marie Suzanne Ondaatje who became the first Sri Lankan to represent Sri Lanka in gymnastics and Indika Dissanayake who won the Silver Medal for weightlifting in the 69kg Men’s category.
Sri Lanka’s very own wonder-woman, Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala became the first ever Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest on 21 May 2016. Johann Peiris also accomplished this amazing feat soon after, becoming the second Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest on 22 May 2018.
Of course, one cannot leave out our nation’s achievements in the cricketing arena. Becoming runners up at the 2011 Cricket World Cup, our team also emerged victorious when they won the ICC World Twenty20 championship in 2014. The team also won the ODI Tri-series between Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka in January 2018.
A politically stable environment is one aspect that Sri Lankans would have hoped to have seen improved, following 2009. However, Sri Lanka’s political sphere has been governed by all sorts of drama, to say the least. Following the defeat of former President Mahinda Rajapakse in the tightly contested Presidential election in 2015, the citizenry hoped for various state sector reforms. President Maithripala Sirisena made promises to recheck the executive branch, address issues regarding corruption and investigate war crime allegations, among others. Three years on, such measures are yet to be completely and practically addressed.
Perhaps the most surprising turn of events that made headlines around the world was the constitutional crisis that occurred on the 26th of October 2018 when former President Mahinda Rajapakse was appointed as Prime Minister, in a sudden and unexpected move, by President Sirisena. In a dramatic turn of events, Sri Lanka now had two Prime Ministers and the legitimacy of such an appointment became a media debacle for weeks to follow. Citizens took to the streets to protest the unconstitutional move made by the President and demanded that any new appointments were to be done in a legitimate manner. The Supreme Court finally ruled that the President’s decision to appoint a new Prime Minister and dissolve Parliament was unconstitutional on 13th December 2018. Ranil Wickremasinghe was re-appointed as Prime Minister following the ruling.
Unemployment is measured by the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force. Ten years ago, unemployment rates stood at 5.8% (males- 4.3%, females- 8.6%). Sri Lanka has made slight progress with the unemployment rate decreasing to 4.2% by 2017 (male- 2.9%, female- 6.5%). Sadly, it is the youth of the country that are at the centre of these statistics. There appears to be a significant gap between opportunities available for urban and rural youth. As a country that accounts for youth as a significant proportion of the entire population, this is an alarming situation. Several findings have observed the lack of soft skills in young persons looking for employment, despite having adequate professional qualifications. Donglin Li, the Country Director of the ILO Office for Sri Lanka and Maldives pointed out that although English is taught as a subject in schools, it is not treated as a necessary skill in the world of work. Sri Lanka has much to improve in order to provide better prospects for the nation’s youth, in particular.
Taken together, the past ten years have certainly shed light on the fact that Sri Lanka has both improved and shown potential for further improvement in various sectors of development. Nevertheless, we still have a long way to go. | <urn:uuid:6f0f5ccb-7ba5-4125-899a-0e41ef09cce9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pulse.lk/everythingelse/the-real-10-year-challenge-sri-lanka-fared/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971836 | 1,834 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Hosted by Musawenkosi Cabe, Radio New Frame unearths the roots of Afrikaans - once the ‘language of the White oppressor’ - and focuses on contemporary Black Afrikaans. The programme also tackles the misconception that Nelson Mandela rejected the use of violence in the struggle against Apartheid. A new book reconstructs his role as commander-in-chief of Umkhonto weSizwe and its war against Africa’s strongest army.
New Frame is one of our favourite not-for-profit social justice media platforms. Based in Johannesburg, they cover a wide range of issues. In their own words, they are dedicated to a pro-poor, pro-working class focus that aims to report faithfully and informatively about the lives and struggles of ordinary people.
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Testing Covert CamerasBy Benros Emata, Published May 01, 2013, 08:00pm EDT (Research)
Covert cameras are regularly referenced in TV shows and undercover reporting. We ordered two of the most frequently sold covert cameras on Amazon - a Car Key cam [link no longer available] and a PenCam [link no longer available], as shown below:
We then put them to the test, examining video performance in low light, WDR and evenly lit scenes. Plus, we investigated the usability of each device.
Both devices 'worked' without really much troubleshooting or complexity. The PenCam's video quality is roughly equivalent to a budget HD camera but its fairly large size (for a pen) made it difficult to position and drew attention to its presence. By contrast, the car key cam was unobtrusive but needed to be held up (or propped) awkwardly to take video. Plus, its video quality looked like something from the late 1990s.
The Car Key Cam really does look like a standard car remote. Be warned, though, that the microSD slot is not flush with the chassis and could require the user physically open the body to retrieve the memory card. The video below overviews it:
The PenCam looks like a pen, albeit a really big one. From an operational standpoint, it's not difficult to use but it may not be terribly covert.
A clip provided on the camera body allows the user to be hands-free. However, the significant size and weight may yield a wardrobe malfunction (pictured below). The weight of the PenCam causes the pocket to sag and camera to point in a different direction.
Alternatively, one could place the pen in their pants pocket, which provides a steadier and more covert placement. However, it could detract from the view because the camera may be too low, e.g.,
Transaction - PenCam
Here is a real life transaction with the PenCam in the shirt pocket. Notice that the FoV is severely tilted, causing problems in capturing the transaction:
Low Light Test
Both cameras were fairly bad in low light, much worse than a regular camera:
Here'a a video of low light with CarKeyCam in a parking lot.
And here's one with the PenCam:
The comparison below shows the two covert cameras above a 'reference' digital photo. The PenCam is actually fairly close to the reference, though the car key clearly lags.
Here's a video from the car key camera:
And the pen cam:
The sample below is another view. Notice the bloom in the doorway form the two covert cameras:
Here's video from the car key camera:
And the pen cam:
Even Light Test
Finally, here is an even light test. Notice the discoloration of the car key cam:
Finally, here's an indoor video from the car key cam:
And the same from the pencam:
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Blue German Shepherd Dog
FAQ's About Blue and Liver German Shepherds
(Frequently Asked Questions)
Question: Are Blue and Liver German Shepherds a different breed from traditionally colored German Shepherds? Are they a mixed breed?
Answer: Blue and Liver German Shepherds are no different from traditionally colored German Shepherds. They are in fact purebred GSDs, and often are born in a litter with traditionally colored littermates. The Blue and Liver coat colors and skin pigmentation are each caused by receiving two copies of a recessive gene. The Blue gene is a dilution gene which dilutes any black pigment present on the dog, and the Liver gene completely blocks the formation of black pigment alltogether. Visit our Genetic Information Page for a simplified explanation of the genetic activity that causes these two colors to be expressed.
Question: Can Blue and Liver German Shepherds be registered as GSD's?
Answer: Yes, since it is simply a color variation, they are fully registerable by the AKC (American Kennel Club), the CKC (Canadian Kennel Club), the UKC (United Kennel Club) and all other applicable registries.
Question: What sanctioned events can Blue and Liver German Shepherds compete in?
Answer: Blue and Liver German Shepherds can compete in any sanctioned event except in the Conformation ring. The object of winning in the Conformation ring is to exhibit a dog who most closely meets the breed standard which in the case of the German Shepherd Dog states that the Blue and Liver coat colors are faults, and a nose leather that is not predominantly black is a disqualification from the ring. Because of the effect of the Blue dilution gene and the Liver blocking gene, Blue and Liver German Shepherds don't have black nose leather. Here is an excerpt from an article published in the June 1960 issue of the GSDCA Review:
"We believe that many have wondered why the new Standard explicitly demands a black nose. As the blues have grey noses and the few surviving livers have brown noses, we think the reason is clear. It is the one means to bar off-colors in the show ring. If they are not allowed to be shown, they will not be bred from by serious breeders. There is no more reason to allow a German Shepherd Dog with a grey or brown nose in the ring, than to allow a white German Shepherd Dog with a black nose, in our opinion. The off-colors are due to recessive genes, and they could become so strongly entrenched in the various bloodlines that an average of 25% of every litter could be off-color." | <urn:uuid:18b571a9-2162-4a1c-8c9f-1eef77b55e2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.alcazarzwinger.com/PurebredGermanShepherd/blue-german-shepherd-dog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952199 | 545 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Identify your abilities, interests & passions
You should begin the process of selection by making an honest assessment of your abilities. Are you good at math or coding or writing? Are you creative or good with people? Ideally you should eliminate those careers which you think you could struggle in, although don’t be dissuaded from trying something new! You are going to learn new things at university and undoubtedly you will improve your skills and abilities in subjects you are particularly strong in.
Take a look at your interests and passions to see if there are any courses and careers that are in line with what you love to do. Getting paid for doing something you like is the best career you could have. A quote from Confucius states, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. This holds very true and could mean the difference between a job you do for a salary or a job you do because you enjoy it.
Basing your career decision on going after what excites you and inspires you is one of the best ways you can go about choosing and usually results in less second-guessing once you make a decision.
Consider the future
Although basing decisions on current interests is a good way to go, who knows if you will still hold the same hobbies or interests 10, 20 or even 30 years from now? Ask yourself, ‘Will I enjoy this career in 10 years?’. If the answer is yes, then go for it! If the answer is that you are unsure, keep your selection broad and do not narrow down to a particular field. For example, if your passion is software development, but you are not sure you want a fully-fledged career built on it, choose a general course regarding coding so that you have multiple avenues to explore in the future such as AI, gaming, website building, etc.
Another factor you should strongly consider is the employability you will have once you graduate. Try and find a career that will be around for a long time to come and one, which if possible, will continue to evolve. Choose a job which will sustain you for your entire working career and that will pay you enough to cover daily and monthly expenses, your leisure time, while saving something as well. Do some research about how much you will be earning in different careers.
Choose the right University
Choosing the right school is just as important as choosing the major itself. Before settling on a particular university, find out about its environment, structure, prestige and the courses on offer. If a university strikes you above all the others, determine if it has the right courses for you and ensure that the accreditation you will achieve is recognised locally and internationally.
When choosing a university you should also dig deeper and find out what you will be expected to possess as a prerequisite. Take a look at the course outline as well. This should give you an idea of what study units you will be taking and if the course or university caters for your needs both personally and professionally.
Meet with advisors
Universities are always available to talk to prospective students about their courses and environment. Take advantage of open houses and interview sessions to get to know the university culture and to ask for help if you need it. Advisors will be more than willing to speak to you personally and go through the courses with you to help you make a more informed and correct decision.
The admissions staff at the American University of Malta is available to speak to you on a daily basis. Get in contact, ask and they will answer. There is no wrong question you can ask and the staff is ready to help you however they can.
– Identify requirements for changing your major – are they rigid or flexible?
– Read about your future job – what is a typical day like? What are the challenges you will face?
– Do research about how technology can impact and change your career in a few years’ time
– Speak to family members and friends – ask their opinions but make the decision yourself! | <urn:uuid:5d010a71-35bf-488f-ac32-6f7c0a45bd2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aum.edu.mt/tips-choosing-your-major/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968516 | 829 | 2.46875 | 2 |
CONTENTS:- 1. Introduction. 2. Topography and General Features. 3. Forest Biodata and General Vegetation Types. 4. Past and Present Work; Key to the Families. 5. Systematic Enumeration.
This book provides an exhaustive information on plant wealth of Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh represents rich plant diversity (1065 species) with all major categories of vegetation types of Deccan plateau and Eastern Ghats. Some special features of the book are :
1. During 1982 86, 60 field trips were undertaken and 1650 new collections were made in addition to earlier collections from MH, BLAT and CAL herbaria, 2. Descriptions and keys were provided for easy identification of the plants, 3. Line drawings were given for some rare and little known taxa, 4. Up to date nomenclature was cited based on the latest code, and 5. Ecological and phenological data were provided for each taxon. | <urn:uuid:b9589741-4c4a-4bab-8240-efcaa352d88c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.saujanyabooks.com/details.aspx?id=7974 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953834 | 201 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Milwaukee Public Library AmeriCorps
MPL AmeriCorps members will help young people develop a love of reading, increases information literacy skills, and establishes relationships with youth that bridge the gap between in and out of school learning.
Members are leaders who will serve in all three unique spaces:
- School: facilitate 1-2 information literacy classes per day for students at up to four Milwaukee area schools
- MPL branch: lead after school homework help and run an activity with youth at a local library branch
- Summer: support summer reading and learning throughout the city at community organizations
Conditions of Employment
- Individuals who complete an application for general City employment on or after September 1, 2021 and are subsequently appointed to a position must provide proof of being vaccinated against COVID-19 (i.e., received both doses of the Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine) or have an approved religious or medical accommodation within ten business days of their employment start date.
- A car is required for this position
- This is an 11-month national service term (September 2022 – July 2023)
- Have a high school diploma before the start of the service year
- Be at least 18 years old at the start of the service year
- Be a citizen, national, or lawful permanent resident alien of the United States
- Pass a National Service Criminal History Check
- Valid driver’s license, use of an automobile, and current auto insurance
- Experience (or high interest) in education, working with youth, information literacy, and STEM programming
- Undergraduate degree
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics
- Ability to relate well to and communicate well with people of various ages and from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds
- Able to work accurately under pressure both independently and in a team-based environment
- Experience using Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Power Point and Publisher)
- Comfortable with data collection and ongoing tracking of information
- Uses successful organization and time management strategies
- Desire to be of service to others
Members will get a living stipend of $20,000 for the full-time service term, paid biweekly in equal installments while accruing 1700 service hours.
In addition to receiving your AmeriCorps living stipend, members have access to many benefits including:
- Health insurance
- Mileage reimbursement
- Cell phone stipend
- Education award of $6,495.00 upon successful completion of the program
- And more!
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Applicants should expect to hear about next steps within one week of submitting their application.
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Pritiski in varovanje podzemnega Krasa. Primeri iz Slovenije in Hrvaške
Pritisci i zaštita podzemnog krša. Primjeri iz Slovenije i Hrvatske
Nadja Zupan Hajna, Mitja Prelovšek
In publication we have attempted to collect together part of the work carried out over the last few decades by Slovene and Croatian researchers in the field of karst underground protection. The range of topics is by no means all-encompassing, but it does represent a varied selection of subjects from the field of karst underground protection in Slovenia and Croatia. Our aim has been to bring together a representative selection of existing knowledge, to evaluate it and compare it with the findings of other research, and to present the contents in an accessible manner to the broad circle of people who are indirectly involved in karst underground protection. By combing findings from the fields of speleology, hydrology and biospeleology in a single publication, we have endeavoured to go beyond the increasingly rigid division into individual fields of expertise and present the different aspects using a common denominator – that of karst underground protection. The karst underground is both the habitat of animals that live underground and an important source of drinking water. Caves contain important information on the palaeogeographic development of the underground and the surface, and also on climate change, and are an important economic category in the sense that some are used as show caves. At the same time they are usually extremely vulnerable, which greatly increases the need for strict protection
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Fix all leaks and other causes of damp areas. That’s because spicy foods create an “outpouring of histamine ” that only bothers you when it’s added to the histamine produced by your seasonal allergies. Read on to learn what you can do to manage and possibly eliminate your allergies. Visit now. But avoid grooming your pets if you have animal allergies.
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The domestic sewage treatment equipment of the resort is a modular and efficient sewage biological treatment equipment. It is a sewage biological treatment system with biofilm as the purification main body. It gives full play to the characteristics of biofilm reactors such as anaerobic biofilter and contact oxidation bed, such as high biological density, strong pollution resistance, low power consumption, stable operation and convenient maintenance, The system has a wide application prospect.
Rural farmers live less intensively than cities, the intensity of domestic sewage production is lower than cities, the financial resources of villages and towns are weak, and the income of farmers is low. We should encourage the use of diversified domestic sewage treatment technologies that are economical, simple, effective and combined with local agricultural production as far as possible, so as to realize the harmless treatment and resource utilization of sewage.
The equipment is mainly used for the treatment of domestic sewage and similar industrial organic wastewater. The equipment is mainly composed of seven parts: automatic grid, anoxic tank, biological contact oxidation tank, secondary sedimentation tank, disinfection tank, sludge tank, fan room and automatic control cabinet.
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Red Nose Day 2022
Nose and Spoon Races
As part our fundraising for Comic Relief, we contributed £1 each to charity and came to school wearing something red.
Each year group was challenged to a nose and spoon race, where we had to balance a red nose on a spoon and race with it. It wasn’t the easiest thing to do but we were all very resilient and determined to cross the finish line! We finished off with a slightly easier race where we had to race with the nose on our finger (not our thumbs!) before we watched our teachers race each other. | <urn:uuid:ba6e6235-5c3b-49da-809d-dbf3a4f248e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.boulevardprimarypartnership.org.uk/news/?pid=92&nid=12&storyid=70 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979449 | 120 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Welcome to Episode 23 of the ThinkUDL podcast! Today I talk with Jon Rizzo, an Instructional Designer at San Diego State University. Host Lillian Nave and Jon get the chance to sit down at the 5th Annual CAST Symposium “Becoming Expert Learners” on the campus of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to talk about his work with Blackboard Ally for the LMS, or Learning Management System. The conversation explores many of the fantastic ways Blackboard Ally helps all students and makes learning accessible to everyone with lecture capture, transcripts on the fly, and the ability to index slides, among others. They also discuss some other resources at San Diego State University like the Accessible Syllabus Template they have designed. These resources are available on this episode’s resource section at ThinkUDL.org if you want to dive deeper into anything you hear on today’s episode.
You might hear some background noise in the midst of the symposium. So tune in to hear about how Blackboard Ally can help instructors in myriad ways to help more students learn!
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[Lillian] Welcome to Think UDL, the Universal Design for Learning podcast. Where we hear from the people who are designing and implementing strategies with learner variability in mind.
I’m your host, Lillian Nave, and I’m interested in not just what you’re teaching, learning, guiding, and facilitating, but how you design and implement it, and why it even matters.
Welcome to episode 23 of the Think UDL podcast. Today, I talk with John Rizzo, and instructional designer at San Diego State University. John and I got the chance to sit down in August 2019 at the fifth annual CAST Symposium: Becoming Expert Learners, on the campus of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts to talk about his work with Blackboard Ally for the LMS, or Learning Management System. Our conversation takes us through many of the fantastic ways Blackboard Ally helps all students and makes learning accessible to everyone with lecture capture, transcripts on the fly, and the ability to index slides among others. We also discuss some other resources at San Diego State University, like the accessible syllabus template they have designed. These resources are available on this episode’s resource section at ThinkUDL.org if you want to dive deeper into anything we discuss today. You might hear some background noise around us as we sat down for a conversation together in the midst of the symposium. So tune in to hear us talk about how Blackboard Ally can help instructors in myriad ways to help more students learn.
Well, welcome. Thank you for joining me on the Think UDL podcast.
[John] It’s great to be here. Good morning and it’s an honor.
[Lillian] Thank you so much! We’re here at the CAST fifth annual symposium, and I appreciate you taking some time out so I know it’s a live broad–live recording, so we’re probably going to hear some other people. I appreciate you taking some time to sit at our little table and talk to me. So, I wanted to start with the question I ask all my guests, and that is: what makes you a different kind of learner?
[John] I am an auto-didact, so I really enjoy being able to learn through different methods and modalities, so, for instance, I’m a musician and if I’m trying to learn a song on my guitar, I will go to different resources, even if it’s the same song, just to clarify. So maybe there’s one source that is not real clear on one passage of the song, so I can watch a video tutorial, I can use apps on my phone that actually dynamically render the notes, I can talk to people, so I tend to really be good at triangulating when I’m trying to learn something, and that’s why I love YouTube and I love all these different sources of information. So I’ve been doing that for years and its worked well.
[Lillian] Oh, yeah, I must say that YouTube has helped me do a million things, so what a great invention for all of us who like a little tutorial every once in a while.
[John] Yes, I’m a DIY-er, so it helps.
[Lillian] Yeah, that’s great. So, you’re here at our–the CAST symposium with several other colleagues who are doing amazing things in the higher ed world, and you, at San Diego State University are rolling out or starting with using BlackBoard Ally, and I was wondering if you could start with telling us a little bit about what you’ve done there.
[John] So, should I give a little background on the Ally tool?
[Lillian] Oh that would be wonderful, thank you.
[John] The BlackBoard Ally tool is an LMS software that does three things: it takes files that instructors load and converts them to alternative formats, like epub, like html, like mp3,
[Lillian] That’s great.
[John] So there we’ve got multiple means of representation right there. It also gauges accessibility of each file and points the instructor to steps to remediate right there in the LMS, so that’s pretty–pretty cool. And, the last thing that it does is it gives system-wide reports on the files and the level of accessibility and the types of issues each file has. So, it helps us target our training, it helps us think about what the different issues are, some of the easier issues to fix, so it really informs our efforts for the first time actually, because we have so many files on our LMS, it was really hard to get our head around their state.
[Lillian] Yeah, wow. So, you started just this year is that with the pilot program? Can you tell us about that?
[John] Sure. So, we started just this year, we have over 32,000 students and probably approximately 1,500 faculty. So, we wanted to do a rollout of this, but we wanted to be careful because in one academic year we have 29,000 courses.
[John] So, what we decided to do was try this in a COM 103 class. This is a required class for all the freshmen, so over 2,000 students take it, and what we do is we work with the instructor who facilitates it, and we groom a master course, and then he copies this to 115 sections, and these–the master course had all the files made accessible, and then we cloned it to the other sections and then went around to each major breakout lecture section–so there’s only five of those–and informed the students about the alternative formats, what they were good for, and asked them to take a preliminary survey as well right there on the spot, a real quick one just to get their ideas, awareness about alternative formats, preferences about how they like to access material, and preferences on what types of material they like to access. So, we had some interesting findings from that, and we will–we’ve concluded the spring semester with this COM 103 group, and now we’re going to expand it to–that was about 2,000 students, so another thousand students who are taking a disability and society course. So, we’re just in the midst of getting our arms around that content and making it accessible, but we’re looking forward to scaling it up. We feel like students are the best advocate for this type of tool.
[John] So, if we get students used to using the alternative formats, we’re hoping they’re going to ask other instructors for it. Also, we can show the faculty student impressions, also something that’s wonderful–CAST provides empirical evidence for Universal Design for Learning. So, I kick off many of my workshops, some of my consults by pointing to that empirical evidence, that some faculty have never heard of UDL, so they think its something I might have made up, but I didn’t, and I like to point out that there’s evidence behind this, so that’s a wonderful resource and we do often lead with that resource. But, so, next spring we may–we’ll probably open it up to an even wider audience, and eventually go full scale on it. But we want to make sure we have the communication planned, that we have the higher ups on board, we’re actually just piloting so we’re seeking permanent funding, things like that.
[Lillian] Oh yeah. So what is your kind of early reflection on how it went–that first pilot? Any kind of high or low, like, things you know you need to change, and things that went really well?
[John] Well, it was interesting. The survey results definitely pointed to a couple of different trends, and one was some students have a preference for it because they like to listen to coursework while they drive from their house to school
[Lillian] Yes. Whoa, people commute in California?
[John] Oh, yeah. So we have people come in from –people come from Temecula, which is about 100 miles away from San Diego, to class, so they –we’ve even heard things like “oh, I get to spend more time with my children because I can listen to my coursework.”
[Lillian] Yeah, that’s fantastic.
[John] Others, we did have some responses that say “I have dyslexia, and this helps me study.” So, those were wonderful open-ended reflections by the students. We did have something that we wanted to improve on, and that is, we had approximately 400 downloads of the alternative formats, and that wasn’t as many as we expected actually. And we think it was due to, you know, first of all we advertised it during the chaos of the first few weeks of the semester,
[Lillian] Yeah, could’ve gotten lost in the shuffle there.
[John] Yes, and so we’re thinking about different ways to remind the students about it. We’re making a student–a video to promote awareness, its going to be students talking about their use of alternative formats, and so we really want to grow that uptake a bit, and also be a little more explicit about what the alternative formats –the affordances that each one offers. So, just, that kind of thing, and also we’re in the beginning phases of getting faculty to do the remediation. We don’t have a remediation team, we’re looking to get one, we’re hoping to get one, but that’s a little bit–a little harder area to pursue, and we likely will have faculty start on the easier items, like alt. text on images.
[Lillian] Oh, good. Well, that sounds like a really fantastic beginning. And I loved especially those students who told you things you weren’t even expecting, you know.
[John] Yes, we have heard from students–a good portion of them said “please don’t make me download files to my device.” And then, almost the same portion said “I love to download things onto my device.” So, its just, you know, different preferences and different contexts in which they’re using the materials.
[Lillian] Yes, yeah, wow. Oh, this is fantastic, and not only are you introducing this BlackBoard Ally, but you’re doing lots of other things on the campus, and I wanted to ask you about a few of those things that I think are great ideas and love to get that out to so many others who are in your position, or who might want to ask somebody at their university to do some of these things. And the first one was if you could tell me about your accessibility syllabus template that you have
[John] Sure. So we put together a template for the faculty, a syllabus template, and it contains sections from our curriculum guide, recommended and required sections. It even has some elective sections like teaching online, etiquette, different things like that. So, its very attractive to faculty because it has everything they need in one spot. But we just happened to make that accessible also.
[Lillian] That’s great.
[John] And we offered this to them in a new faculty orientation via consults and workshops, and I would go so far to say that this syllabus is also universally designed.
[Lillian] Yeah, oh great. So, that’s open to everybody on campus who’ve got that–not just the new faculty, but all of them.
[John] Everybody, that’s right, that’s right.
[Lillian] And that probably is helpful to–for students–to have similar places to look in every syllabus, right?
[John] Yes, that’s a great point–
[Lillian] Easier to navigate
[John] Consistency yes, and it also helps to remind faculty to, you know, include something, but yes the consistency in the–just the layout of the content and also the content itself, yes, good point.
[Lillian] Yeah, that’s really helpful, and I know when I started teaching, you–I would pretty much copy the syllabus I had been given, you know, as a student, and then you turn it to start teaching, and you didn’t realize how many hidden things, or things I didn’t include, or, you know, I just didn’t know so much about creating a syllabus until I talked to folks at our center and they were able to help me out, and then add on that accessibility layer has transformed what my syllabi look like, that’s for sure.
[John] We’ve even done workshops on the universal design of a syllabus, which is something that–some information that Bret Christie**, who is one of our UDL gurus at the CSU, helped to make a number of years ago but it’s a great document and a worksheet that we use and faculty receive it well.
[Lillian] Yeah, that’s great. So, if there’s a faculty member out there listening now that might want to ask about that and make sure their syllabi are accessible too.
[John] Yes, yes. And, we’re ok–its public–if someone wants to take it and change it, you know, for their university, that’s fine, yeah.
[Lillian] Great, oh, we appreciate those resources. So, also, you have quite a few other programs and ideas that are helping your students. There are how many–20,000 students?
[John] There’s something like–I think over 32,000.
[Lillian] Whoa, ok, 32,000 students there, and what is it that you’re doing with lecture capture?
[John] So, we use Mediasite lecture capture in our larger classrooms, and it works quite well, its got a number of features, one that some folks don’t always realize it, but just the ability to rewind and play something back is a big, big deal and definitely a facet of UDL. Also, it does transcripts on the fly, it has a pretty good transcription engine that–it has the ability to index slides, and then students can search by slide, so that’s a nice feature. Its also integrated with our captioning vendor, automatic sync technology. So we just flip a switch, and three days later, the lecture’s captured. So it works pretty well, and also we definitely see some students with the accommodation for lecture capture and the recording of lectures and its already in place, so that’s nice, that works well.
[Lillian] Yeah, what I love about UDL is it is really designing for everybody, and although there might be several students that really need that, there are so many others who benefit from it, right, it may just be a temporary thing, where they were either distracted or maybe they even missed that lecture, and then to be able to access it later on, usually they would have been able to understand it, to write notes and have no problem, but that day, they had a sick child, or that day, they were completely consumed by something else, right?
[John] Exactly, and I’ve been there myself, where you’re writing down the bullet points or the points that the instructor’s elaborating on, and you get to the fifth one, the last one, and you miss it, and you ask your neighbor what it was and that person didn’t get it either, so we like that it–we actually say it keeps students from being transcriptionists and actually lets them get more engaged in lecture and later they can, you know, get the details they might have missed.
[Lillian] Wow. And you go further, you encourage captioning and other things to help with this, is that right?
[John] We encourage captioning when possible, there is a fee for captioning unless there’s an accommodated student. We’re hoping at some point in time to change that. Mediasite doesn’t do automatic captioning, but let’s say you want to use a different system, maybe you’re teaching online, we use Zoom, and while Mediasite doesn’t do automatic captioning, Zoom does. And its really–its not true captioning, its more subtitling, but its still quite valuable, especially for free, and its pretty darn accurate. So, we like that, and that is searchable as well, so Zoom is another tool we’re adding to our UDL toolkit, and we like it quite a bit, it’s a great tool.
[Lillian] And, Zoom, I know is really helpful, especially for online classes, and you have a cohort that you teach for online, can you tell me about that too?
[John] Sure. Every year we move, oh, approximately thirty faculty, into online teaching. We do it through course design institute where we take them. They spend time with us, they get released from one of their courses, they spend time with us, and we talk to them about teaching online. We take them through the CSU QLT online teaching rubric that includes accessibility and also Universal Design for Learning, so they attend sessions and workshops on a number of different facets of teaching online and we sprinkle that with UDL and accessibility.
[Lillian] Oh, great. And so you do–is that a whole semester long process?
[John] It is, yeah. We often have two cohorts, one in the fall and one in the spring.
[Lillian] That’s great. So, you, aside from that whole semester long cohort, you’re also doing workshops on UDL–or, universally designed syllabi, or things like that?
[John] Exactly, consults and workshops, we’ve done workshops on things like the universal design of the syllabus. We’ve done workshops on how to increase comprehension and literacy. And also via consults, so we try to have a multi-pronged attack, although it is honestly challenging with as many faculty as we have and staff. So, for instance, some ways we get around this is by having online tutorials. We have some online tutorials on how to make Office documents, or actually how to just make Microsoft Word accessible. And that’s had quite a few hits, so we try to distribute the workload by using training materials as well.
[Lillian] Do you have a favorite workshop that you like to present?
[John] Let’s see, at this point, after being there eighteen years, I do really like doing all the workshops actually, so its hard to say if there is one or another. Recently, I’ve done some online workshops, and I’ve done one that had a lot of faculty examples, and I had one faculty example that I thought was really, really fun to do, and that was we have a faculty member who teaches about mythology. And one of the last things he talks about is modern myth, and he uses the film 2001 as an example. And 2001 is a pretty bold movie for students to watch because its very slow and its got classical music, there’s a lot of ambiguity in it, so what he does, he calls it mystery science theater, but really, I call it Universal Design for Learning, I call it brilliant. He brings up the–he actually takes little vignettes from the movie and plays them while he is in the corner of the screen recording it himself and he is giving a little narration. So, he’s scaffolding for them, so explaining what’s going on in the movie, asking questions, different things like that, so it really, really, I think, helps the students understand the movie and understand some of the overarching concepts and ideas, especially with a movie like that, which I consider a classic, and I remember seeing it in eighth grade and running out and getting the book, because I wanted to clarify for myself. But he really is very modest about this, and again calls it mystery science theater, but I call it an excellent example of UDL and I use it as kind of the high point in one of my workshops.
[Lillian] Oh, I love that, that is a great idea. I’m so glad you got to tell us about that, that’s so fun. And, my last question is about your–it’s a trick question–your definition of UDL, because I know its really hard to have a definition. So its really–the question is, tell me about the breadth of definitions of UDL, what does it encompass for you?
For me, I take a pretty holistic approach, I would like to propose that there’s no perfect definition of UDL, and I generally consider just barriers to learning. So, it could be a language barrier, it could be an economic barrier, it could be a social barrier, it could be a physical barrier. So, really, I have a pretty broad definition, and I find UDL just–its not mutually exclusive, it goes across a number of different things, like affordable textbooks, accommodation for students with disabilities, helping ESL students, helping everybody else, so just a very broad definition and that really, I think, helps me sell it, because instead of saying something like, this is how you’re going to accommodate your student, or let’s get universally designed, I just say things like, more students will understand if you do it this way.
[Lillian] Yeah, exactly, so, designing for the edges, but everybody benefits.
[Lillian] Well, thank you so much for your time today, I really appreciate talking to you.
[John] My pleasure.
[Lillian] You can follow the Think UDL podcast on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to find out when new episodes will be released, and also see transcripts and additional materials at the ThinkUDL.org website. The Think UDL podcast is made possible by College STAR, the STAR stands for supporting transition, access and retention in post-secondary settings, and the website provides free resources and instructional aids based on UDL principles. If you’d like to know more, go to the CollegeSTAR.org website. Additional support for the podcast is made possible by Appalachian State University, where, if you call it Appalachian, I’ll throw an apple at you! The music on the podcast was performed by the Odyssey Quartet, comprised of Rex Shepherd, David Pate, Bill Folwell, and Jose Cochez. Our sound engineer is Tanner Jones, and I am your host, Lillian Nave, thank you for joining us on the Think UDL podcast. [Music]
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Make an genogram for the hernandez family case
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Genogram: Hernandez Family
Murray Bowen (as cited in Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016, p. 595) plain the genogram, a machine to succor gregarious workers and other practitioners constitute a proceedings of extraction relationships. Once a gregarious worker constitutes a genogram for a client, he or she may connect to it when analyzing the client's post.
To qualify for this Assignment, befit household delay how to constitute a genogram, which is presented in this week's resources. Also, re-examination this week's resources about Juan and Elena Hernandez's scrutinize delay their gregarious worker.
Submit by SATURDAY 8PM NEW YORK TIME a 2- to 4-page tract that includes the forthcoming:
- A genogram of the Hernandez extraction
- An segregation of the Hernandez extraction's subject based on the genogram including the forthcoming counsel.
- Identify an part of the Hernandez extraction's subject that may govern the way Juan and Elena Hernandez oration their upshot delay the gregarious worker.
- Explain how the genogram you constituted faculty succor you oration the needs of the Hernandez extraction.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2013). Hernandez extraction: Episode 6 [Video polish]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., Brocksen S. (Eds.). (2014). Sessions: Subject histories.
Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].
- "The Hernandez Family" (pp. 3–5)
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Larrabee Project a Casualty of Intel’s Legal Battles
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
Intel announced that its initial foray into standalone graphics chips–the Larrabee Project–is delayed indefinitely. Intel cited developmental setbacks, but its hard not to connect the dots between the demise of the Larrabee Project and Intel’s ongoing legal woes.
Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer stated “Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we hoped to be at this point in the project.” He added “As a result, our first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone discrete graphics product.”
The statement, in and of itself, may be accurate, but the question is “why?”. It seems likely that the Larrabee Project is impacted by Intel’s ongoing disputes, particularly the falling out with Nvidia.
Intel Under Legal Siege
If there is one area of the technology sector where there is job security these days, its working for the legal department–especially Intel’s. Intel is being challenged, sued, and investigated on a variety of fronts.
The FTC, European Commission, and the state of New York all have ongoing antitrust cases against Intel. The FTC recently discussed Intel’s predatory practices with Nvidia, and is exploring whether Intel’s lawsuit against its former ally is merely an attempt to stifle competition disguised as a contract dispute.
AMD, Intel’s largest rival in the CPU (central processing unit) market, and one of Nvidia’s biggest competitors in the graphics chip market as a result of acquiring ATI in 2006, recently reached an agreement with Intel to settle all of the pending litigation between the two. Intel agreed to pay AMD $1.25 billion and the two entered into a long-term cross-licensing agreement, but patching things up with AMD hasn’t eliminated any of the other ongoing legal battles facing Intel.
Intel and Nvidia originally entered into a strategic alliance in 2004, agreeing to share patents and work together. The purchase of ATI by AMD was perhaps a response to the Intel-Nvidia partnership, pairing the CPU and GPU (graphics processing unit) underdogs to do battle with the CPU and GPU leaders.
The honeymoon between Intel and Nvidia is over, though. Intel filed a lawsuit against Nvidia claiming that the 2004 agreement does not allow Nvidia to develop or manufacture chipsets–the chips that provide the brains of the motherboard and facilitate communication between the CPU and the rest of the system.
Nvidia countersued claiming that it does, in fact, have the right to develop chipsets as a function of the 2004 licensing agreement. With the collapse of the arrangement between the two, Intel loses access to Nvidia’s considerable intellectual property related to graphics processing.
That loss has a direct impact on development of the Larrabee Project. Without Nvidia, Larrabee is dead in the water. At the very least, Intel has to go back to the drawing board and start research and development from the ground up since it can’t stand on Nvidia’s shoulders.
Chip Evolution Marches On
The demise of the Larrabee Project is not the end of the world. If the antitrust accusations are accurate, Intel probably doesn’t need to dominate the graphics processing industry as well.
The Larrabee Project is not dead, its just on life support. Knupffer explained that “it will be used as a software development platform for internal and external use.” If Intel resolves its legal battles with Nvidia and the rest of the world, perhaps the Larrabee Project may be resurrected someday. | <urn:uuid:9e339298-cebf-40dd-a675-e24108335d9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pcworld.com/article/515321/larrabee_project_a_casualty_of_intels_legal_battles.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948017 | 761 | 1.632813 | 2 |
A storytelling session was organized for the students of class III on 24th April, 2019 in the school auditorium. The resource person for the session was Ms. Simi Srivastava, a passionate storyteller, performing artist, soft skills trainer and founder of the Kathashala Institute. She has been diligently working for years to create master story tellers. She has transcended the stereotypical ways of reading stories from the books through her workshops on Integrated Skills such as puppetry, clay modelling etc. The students listened to her with rapt attention as she created magic through her words, used props, voice modulations and sung songs. Their multiple intelligences were engaged as they participated in the session, sung songs and used abstract bodily movements. She narrated and enacted stories in Hindi and English about a miser and a witch respectively. It was an enjoyable and enriching session for students as well as the teachers. | <urn:uuid:77f97840-7a4c-452d-b273-e43b2ad33148> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thekhaitanschool.org/storytelling-workshop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978901 | 182 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Why do People Invest in Share Market?
The main reason for investors to enter the Share market is to make profits. Investors buy shares for the specific reason of getting income. Though investing in shares brings with it a number of risks, it can reap good returns over the long term. Investors receive dividends from the overall profit that the company makes. Dividends can be given the form of cash, more stocks and securities. Investing in shares also allows you to sell anytime you wish, thus providing easy access to your money, in case you need cash for an urgent expense.
Share trading gives investors an opportunity to own the company. The extent of ownership of a company is in relation to the percentage of stocks you own. As an owner, you are bound to receive company performance reports, news and latest updates.
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Shares offer tremendous investment opportunities. There are two ways of earning money through shares—one is you get a part of the company’s profit every year, which is known as the dividend. This acts as a source of regular income. Secondly, if the company expands, your shares become more valuable, which gives your investment an additional worth. You can trade shares through a traditional stockbroker, an online broker or an investment manager.
Shares also offer divisibility where you sell a part of your shares in case you need cash for some purpose. People also buy shares to have a stake in companies which are likely to perform well, thus giving them a sense of ownership. It also helps to create a diverse investment portfolio. Buying shares also allows easy access to your money as you can easily buy and trade shares without having to cough up a penalty.
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The ultimate goal of investing in share markets is to earn profits. You can make quick bucks from long-term investments by keeping abreast of the latest happenings in the share market, and the economic and commercial scenario of the country. Above all, you have to identify the current competitive and best-performing industry and sectors. Choosing the best and right shares is another important aspect. In order to identify which stock to invest in, an investor needs to judge the financial strength of the company by analysing the sales revenue, EPS, liquidity of the company, debt and valuation of the company. Once you’ve identified which shares you want to invest in, you can earn profits through dividends and long-term investments. Dividends are paid to the investor as part of the company’s profits and act as a source of regular income. If the company expands, your shares become more valuable, which gives your investment an additional worth. | <urn:uuid:fde3c50e-97e6-4be5-8957-d027f6f50c62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.angelone.in/knowledge-center/share-market/investment-opportunities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962168 | 550 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Cloud computing is possible because of a technology called virtualization. Virtualization allows for the creation of a simulated, digital-only "virtual" computer that behaves as if it were a physical computer with its own hardware. The technical term for such a computer is virtual machine. When properly implemented, virtual machines on the same host machine are sandboxed from one another, so they don't interact with each other at all, and the files and applications from one virtual machine aren't visible to the other virtual machines even though they're on the same physical machine.
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The Holy Trinity Church - Haunted History
A ghostly apparition of a Georgian lady has been reported at Holy Trinity, she's been blamed for turning the church lights on and off. Others claim to have heard disembodied footsteps, some believe these are the spirits of the Suckling family who were an influential part of the Barsham community for centuries.
The churchyard is also said to be haunted by ghostly apparitions of people dressed in medieval clothing, some have speculated that they could be connected with a nearby plague pit.
The Holy Trinity Church Map
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Inspire: Curriculum to deal with Perinatal Mood Disorder
Perinatal mood disorder includes major and minor depressive episodes that occur during pregnancy or shortly after delivery and is a common medical complication affecting one in seven women.
The INSPIRE project at Rutgers University has been created to help women who are suffering with this disorder. A curriculum that uses artistic...
Inventor(s): Rebecca Temkin, Katherine Schertz
Keywords(s): Mental Health
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What you think and do affects the way you feel.
We can understand problems by examining our thoughts, emotions, physiology, and behaviour in specific situations.
Our best efforts to cope with our feelings often result in unintended consequences that prevent us from feeling better.
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What Is Mindfulness? is an information sheet describing the key principles of the practice of mindfulness meditation practice (‘mindfulness’). Mindfulness meditation is a practice that psychologists have borrowed from the Buddhist tradition. Mindfulness exercises can help people to experience themselves differently, and to experience a different relationship to their thoughts. Mindfulness has been demonstrated to help a wide variety of conditions including feeling-states such as anxiety and depression, and physical conditions such as chronic pain or illness. Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is a relatively new psychotherapy approach which was originally developed to work with shame and self-loathing (self-criticism).
Also referred to as IPT therapy, interpersonal therapy is a structured, time-limited therapy that typically works intensely on established interpersonal issues. The underlying belief of interpersonal therapy is that psychological symptoms (such as depression) are often a response to difficulties we have interacting with others. The resulting symptoms can then also affect the quality of these interactions, causing a cycle. The thought process behind the therapy is that once a person is capable of interacting more effectively with those around them, the psychological symptoms can improve.
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Main results of today’s TTE (Energy) Council
Climate and Energy framework
The Council held a policy debate on the 2030 Climate and Energy framework, in the follow-up to the October European Council conclusions. It focused on the new governance process, which will underpin the implementation of the framework and help ensure that the EU meets its energy policy goals.
Internal energy market
The Council adopted conclusions on the completion of the internal energy market.
Minister Claudio de Vicenti, who chaired the meeting, said: “the conclusions are an important step on a subject that we placed at the core of our semester. As already stated in the informal meeting of Energy ministers in Milan, a fully integrated energy market contributes to all energy policy traditional objectives: it reduces energy costs, increasing energy security and allowing the market integration of renewables. In the light of the objectives of the completion of the internal energy market by 2014 and to put an end to energy isolation by 2015, the conclusions identify priority actions for further efforts”.
The Council held a policy debate on the mid-term review of the Europe 2020 strategy. Ministers addressed, from the perspective of energy policy, the success of the strategy so far, as well as possible new priorities for its remaining duration.
Indirect land-use change (Biofuels)
The Council also adopted, without debate, its position at first reading on the draft directive on indirect land-use change (ILUC), which amends the fuel quality and renewable energy directives.
This adoption will pave the way for the forthcoming negotiations with the European Parliament. The aim of the proposed directive is to start a transition to biofuels that deliver substantial greenhouse
Source: Council of the European Union
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Is China Scary?
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ID: 1220 Upper Intermediate
A dragon is rising in the East. All around, curious faces wait to see whether it will roar or sing. In today's Chinese lesson, we'll look at some different perspectives on the rise of modern China.
Thu Aug 06 2009 | Jenny, John
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jīntiān wǒ xiǎng tǎolùn de zhǔtí shì “Zhōngguó kěpà ma ？”wǒmen zhè zhèngqiǎo yǒu Měiguó liúxuésheng Ālóng ，xīwàng nǐ néng duōduō fābiǎo yìjiàn 。shǒuxiān ，wǒ xiǎng wèn yīxià ，zuìjìn yǒu nǎxiē Měiguó diànyǐng miáoxiě le Zhōngguó ？
The topic I’d like to discuss today is “Is China Scary?” It just so happens that we have Aaron, an American exchange student here. I hope you can share some of your own thoughts. First of all, let me ask: what American movies have portrayed China recently?
Gōngfū xióngmāo 》，《Biānfúxiá 》。
“Kung Fu Panda,” “Batman.”
Mùnǎiyī sān 》li yě jiǎng dào guò Zhōngguó 。
“The Mummy III—Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” also talked about China.
en ，xiāngxìn dàjiā dōu kàn guò zhèxiē piānzi 。quèshí ，Zhōngguó yǐjīng chéngwéi le Měiguó méitǐ de rèdiǎn tícái 。dànshì hěn duō diànyǐng dōu shì fùmiàn de fǎnyìng Zhōngguó 。
Hmm…I’m sure everyone’s seen these movies. There’s no doubt that China has already become a hot topic in the American media. But a lot of movies portray China in a negative light.
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Delaware’s senior senator advocates further support for the struggling United States Postal Service during the coronavirus pandemic.
With mail volume down across the country, the U.S. Postal Service is projecting financial shortfalls that may completely cripple the agency by the end of the year.
Meanwhile, its workers are considered essential and continue to deliver and handle mail during the pandemic. John Gibson is President of Local 308 of the National Postal and Mail Handlers Union. He says worker morale has been affected.
“This pandemic is affecting, obviously, healthcare workers that are on the front lines, but we consider ourselves on the front lines as well,” said Gibson. “We provide an essential service to the American people and it’s in desperate, dire need.”
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) is ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and a long-time advocate for the Postal Service. In 2015 he introduced the Improving Postal Operations, Service and Transparency Act (iPost).
The Postal Service was authorized by Congress for a loan of up to $10 billion in the CARES Act passed late last month, but Carper says that is not enough.
“There’s no quit when it comes to this issue. I’ve been working on this forever, and we’re going to keep staying on it until we get it done,” Carper said. “[The Postal Service] is actually mentioned in our Constitution. It’s too [sic] important for us not to get it right and make sure we can depend on the Postal Service for as long as we are a country.”
Carper is calling for the approved loans to be distributed quickly to the Postal Service. In an email, a spokesperson from Carper’s office says he is also looking to provide “additional funding to help stabilize the institution, provide liquidity to operate, and modernize systems to address coronavirus-related impacts in the long-term.”
“We need to make sure they have access to the money in this crisis,” Carper said. “We also need to make sure some of the reforms that have been recommended by any number of task forces and supported by Democrats and Republicans alike. We need to get those done.”
Carper concedes the Postal Service is not used as much in the digital age but points out it delivers millions of medication prescriptions each year and is relied on by people in remote parts of the country. | <urn:uuid:4e045ae3-42d8-4ef6-905a-287c4b4188bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://carperfordelaware.com/frontpage/2020/middletown-script-carper-beware-health-care-cuts-in-trump-budget-proposal-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963341 | 531 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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30-year-old Diana Kim had no idea what was going on in her father’s life until she found him on a street corner in Honolulu, Hawaii, homeless, schizophrenic and alone.
Kim, a photographer who focuses on the homeless, knew who this man was on sight.
She told NBC News in an extensive story that she was working on a project when she found her father living among the homeless and standing on a street corner.
Kim’s parents are divorced. After that event, her father was never really there and she never understood why.
She hadn’t seen him in 10 years and all she knew was what her grandmother had told her that her “father’s mental health had deteriorated — that he refused to bathe, eat, or take his medication; that she wasn’t sure where he was living.”
Diana Kim found her father and was determined bring him back into her life and bring him back to life. She visited him in his space — the doorway of a restaurant — for two years imploring him to get help.
“There were nights when I wouldn’t find him. And other days when I least expected it, and he would be standing on the corner of a street. He suffered from severe schizophrenia, and left untreated, he was not always responsive,” she said. “There were many instances when it appeared as if he was arguing with someone, but nobody was there.”
She went back to visit him on that street corner often, but one day he wasn’t there anymore.
Kim explained why to NBC:
My father had a heart attack while on the street, and someone cared enough to call the police. He was taken to a hospital and was then placed on medications. He eventually stabilized and his mental health conditions were addressed. Having the heart attack truly saved his life. It gave him the opportunity to get back on a treatment plan. And he has been on it ever since.
After the heart attack, things started to turn around.
Below is a picture of father and daughter near the very beginning.
Then there was rock bottom.
But two years after the heart attack, his recovery and rejuvenation was noticeable.
Kim says that her dad continues to receive treatment and is now looking for a job.
Kim’s dad was a photographer himself back in the day and had a studio.
How fitting it was, then, that it was his daughter’s love of photography that brought them back together.
“So long as we are alive in this world, every day is an opportunity to take hold of that ‘second chance,'” she said. “There is no failure unless you give up, and he never gave up. And I haven’t given up on him.”
Check out Diana Kim’s Kickstarter page for her photography project “The Homeless Paradise.”
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Ambulance Crew Finds Live Ball Python in Hilo
An American Medical Response ambulance crew located a ball python snake in Hilo on the morning of Monday, July 6.
The snake, measuring about four feet in length and weighing about three pounds, was found near the Old Airport Road and taken to Hawai‘i County police, according to a state Department of Agriculture (HDOA) press release.
The police then contacted a plant quarantine inspector with the HDOA at about 2 a.m. The snake is currently being safeguarded at the Hilo Plant Quarantine Office, the release said. Staff at the Pana`ewa Rainforest Zoo determined that the snake is a sexually immature female ball python.
On June 27, HDOA inspectors were informed of a Facebook post with a photo of a snake in that area. Quarantine inspectors conducted nightly searches through last week and also deployed traps, but were not able to find the snake. The captured snake appears to be consistent with the photo that was posted on Facebook, the release said.
In October 2019, a three-foot-long ball python was captured by a resident who ran over it near the same area.
In June 2018, a 4.5-foot-long ball python was found at the South Hilo Sanitary Landfill by county workers.
Ball pythons are non-venomous and may grow up to six feet in length. They are common in the pet trade on the mainland and are native to Western and West-Central Africa. Ball pythons are constrictors that subdue prey by coiling around and suffocating it. Its diet usually consists of small mammals and birds.
Snakes have no natural predators in Hawai`i and pose a serious threat to Hawai`i’s environment because they compete with native animal populations for food and habitat. Many species, such as the ball python, prey on birds and bird eggs, increasing the threat to our endangered native bird species. Large snakes may also be a threat to the health and safety of humans, pets, and other domestic animals.
Snakes are illegal to import and/or possess in Hawai`i. Individuals who have illegal animals are encouraged to turn them in under the amnesty program. If illegal animals are turned in prior to the start of an investigation, no criminal charges or civil penalties will be pursued. Any illegal animal may be dropped off at any HDOA Office, local Humane Society, or at municipal zoos. Animals turned in under amnesty will not be euthanized.
Individuals possessing illegal animals may be charged with a Class C felony, issued fines of up to $200,000, and can be sentenced to up to five years in prison. Anyone with information on illegal animals should call the State’s toll-free PEST HOTLINE at 808-643-PEST (7378). | <urn:uuid:8a9488e6-73cb-4f3b-a84e-2b91658f24b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bigislandnow.com/2020/07/07/ambulance-crew-finds-live-ball-python-in-hilo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960987 | 586 | 2.46875 | 2 |
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Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing - even occasionally stomping
on vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production techniques that have never been duplicated, the Bomb Squad plundered
and reconfigured their own compositions to make frenetic splatter collages; they played samples by hand together in a
room like a rock band to create a "not quite right" tension; they hand-picked their samples from only the ugliest squawks and sirens.
Weingarten treats the samples used on Nation Of Millions as molecules of a greater whole, slivers of music that retain their own secret histories and folk traditions. Can the essence of a hip-hop record be found in the motives, emotions and energies of the artists it samples? Is it likely that something an artist intended 20 years ago would re-emerge anew? This is a compelling and thoroughly researched investigation that tells the story of one of hip-hop's landmark albums. | <urn:uuid:01b68417-a215-439e-9a6d-9ce371c1874f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://store.wexarts.org/books/performing-arts-music/33-1-3-series/public-enemy-s-it-takes-a-nation-of-millions-to-hold-us-back | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.93243 | 237 | 1.804688 | 2 |
ISO 13485 Certification in Indonesia Certvalue is one of the main ISO 13485 Certifications come up with Indonesia. We provide ISO Consultant assistance in Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Medan, and other major cities. ISO 13485 Certification in Indonesia is Just One of The board framework norms that empower organizations to apply proper practices. It is only perhaps the most generally utilized worldwide standard and is a consumer loyalty objective that gives ceaseless improvement.
What are the steps to get ISO 13485 Certification in Indonesia?
ISO 13485 depends on the worldwide perceived ISO 9001 norm and binds together the necessities for working with clinical gadgets.
The standard is intended to help clinical gadget makers plan quality administration frameworks to show the design and advancement, alongside the proceeds with improvement and format, stockpiling, customization, supply, removal, conservation, and removal of all gadgets applicable to the clinical area. Lost alongside other related undertakings. For more on the overall purchasing process see this article ISO 13485 Certification services in Chennai
ISO 13485 Certification body in Indonesia is principally worried about the procedural way to deal with quality administration inside an organization. This procedural methodology is changed by the association.
Any activity that takes input and gives a result is viewed as a methodology. What's more, the consequence of one activity is the section into the following, etc. The quality arrangement of this standard should distinguish and kill dangers, and specifically meet the prerequisites of clients and controllers.
- Organizations utilizing an interactive way to deal with quality control
- Better consistency and comprehension of the prevalence of meeting item necessities
- Describe every individual cycle and give an important point of view
- Useful to build usefulness.
- In view of execution data, this methodology did not depend on particular presumptions and is constantly being improved.
What are the overall necessities for the ISO 13485 Standard?
The quality administration framework for clinical gadgets should be reliable with all around the world acknowledged cycles.
- Conveying a quality arrangement with other medical care ventures includes the initial step. Contrasts identified with the worldwide standard moving to record ought to be upheld with the help of ISO 13485 specialists situated in Indonesia.
- Consistence with all vital records for development previously settled at clinical endeavors was guaranteed.
- At the point when you return an arrangement and spot it in an exceptionally proficient steering framework, everything in the part is made.
- Every framework should be observed and handled to accomplish the normal outcomes.
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Advantages of ISO 13485 certification in Indonesia
ISO 13485 standard goes about as a benchmark for the organizations that participate in clinical assembling. The associations that have encountered or accomplished ISO 13485 guidelines have improved in their own products quality, administrative consistency, and dependability and in this manner are contrasted and the business best practices.
Associations of any sort of aspects that are involved in executing and developing ISO 13485 match the quality administration framework. Henceforth, the eventual fate of this quality administration framework and about your business relies on your present decision
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THE SEVERITY of the chemical leak at Runcorn docks has merited a full-scale inquiry and will lead to an immediate safety bulletin being issued to shipping companies across the globe.
The publishing of a conclusive safety report, to be digested by shipping companies next year, was also confirmed this week by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB). The alarm was raised to the health hazard on Tuesday, August 10, when a Russian vessel called the Coral Acro Pora re -leased toxic Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) into the air.
The accident left three workers from the plastics company EVC - in Percival Lane - in hospital, and nine more had to be decontaminated by the emergency services.
Stephen Meyer, the chief inspector of MAIB, said: 'Lessons can be learned from this incident.
'We did launch an initial investigation when it happened two weeks ago.
'When the initial facts of the investigation first surfaced I reviewed the case and I decided in view of the seriousness of the issue a full report should be published.
'We can't disclose any details at this stage.'
The MAIB are working closely alongside the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) who are assessing on-shore damage.
The Marine & Coastguard Agency could prosecute against the shipping agent following the results of the MAIB investigation.
The highly volatile VCM gas is potentially deadly when inhaled in high doses. It is cancer-causing and can initially lead to symptoms such as breathing difficulty and dizziness.
A spokesman for HSE said: 'We are assessing the incident as it affected the shore but also the effectiveness of the emergency response.
'The incident is a ship-based incident and therefore it is the MAIB who are compiling the safety bulletin and report.
'We are looking into whether residents were also affected, but this won't be known for some time.
'When it is, they will be kept informed of the findings.'
Crucially, it has not been established whether the potentially deadly leak was caused while work was being carried out on the vessel or if it was sparked off as a result of structural damage.
The findings are expected to be published in a report to be completed in February next year.
Last week a representative from the Green Party, Derek Mellor, said he will be closely monitoring similar incidents in future, and will work to ensure residents are kept informed.
Mr Mellor also hopes that raising awareness will not only benefit local residents, but will also assist in raising the profile of the Green Party.
Mike Hodgkinson, the leader of the Liberal Democrats in Halton, and councillor for the Heath ward, has extensive experience working as a health and safety adviser.
He said: 'I will be doing all I can to assist residents and of course the workers involved in this situation which is unacceptable.
'I have also been consulting with an employee of Ineos Chlor who will be carrying out his own investigations into the incident.' | <urn:uuid:8e0f20b2-3368-4c9a-999d-03fa52f32a4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/local-news/leaked-chemical-causes-cancer-5654705 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971913 | 620 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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