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Welcome to Dryden
Welcome to Dryden Street School!
Dryden Street School provides a welcome and stimulating learning environment for Westbury’s youngest learners. Our school houses the St. Joseph’s Pre-K Program and the Westbury Union Free School District’s Kindergarten Program.
St. Joseph’s Pre-k Program provides a half-day school experience for students who are four years old by December 1st, during their year of enrollment. Pre-k teachers participate in professional development experiences with the kindergarten faculty. Both staff groups collaborate on curriculum and school programs.
Dryden Street School infuses 21st Century technology into our full-day kindergarten instructional program. Every classroom has an interactive Smart Board. Students are able to demonstrate their skills on these boards and model for their peers. The Smart Boards are used to support the Journeys ELA Program, Go Math Program, and Dimensions Science Program. Teachers enjoy researching topics of interest to the students and displaying photos, pictures, and text on the Smart Boards.
Dryden Street School has a partnership with Old Westbury Gardens. Classes visit the gardens throughout the year, to learn about nature and the changing seasons. Our budding scientists look forward to this trip. In the spring, all kindergarten families can enjoy a night in the gardens. The children escort their families around the gardens and the tour ends with everyone having dinner.
Our energetic youngsters benefit from a rigorous physical education program. They exercise, have an introduction to team sports, and receive a foundation in health education.
All of our students want to learn how to read. As they are learning their letters and sounds, classroom teachers model reading aloud to their children. Every class is equipped with a vast library with books on a variety of topics. Youngsters have daily class time to enjoy selecting books from classroom libraries to assist them in learning how to read.
Each class is scheduled to visit the school library weekly. Classroom teachers conduct a lesson there. Afterwards, the students are able to select books to borrow for a week. Students love visiting the library and sitting on a sofa or beanbag to read.
All of the Dryden Street School students know that….
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Real time means to occur immediately. It is the actual time during which something takes place. This term is typically used as an adjective to describe a level of computer responsiveness that is immediate in a human sense of time. Since execution follows the command, true real time is unachievable, since the delay is still there even if it is microseconds. Near real time is a commonly used term used to express this. Real-time programs must guarantee response within specific time constraints known as deadlines. Examples of real time systems include:
- Operating systems: A real time system that responds to input immediately. It serves real time applications that process data as it comes in without buffer delays.
- Multiplayer video games: All players can play a video game simultaneously. When a player performs an action, other players are made aware of the consequences of the action within an operational deadline.
- Software: Real time software performs assigned duties and functions as soon as they are assigned, not after the program has been executed. The user considers the performance immediate.
- Graphics animation: a real-time program would display objects moving across the screen at the same speed that they would actually move.
Types of real time systems
There are two types of real time systems based on timing constraints.
Hard real time
A hard real time system can never miss its deadline. If the function is not completed within the allotted time constraints, the application is considered to have failed. This could cause great loss if the system in question affects physical surrounds or human lives. Examples of hard real time systems include:
- A car engine control system. A delayed signal may cause engine damage or failure.
- A heart pacemaker. Because of the risk to human life, a pacemaker requires hard real time computing to guarantee that the pacemaker will not fail.
- Machines on an assembly line. If the machine is delayed, it could lead to the entire assembly line being stopped.
- Certain types of printers, such as inkjets, laserprinter, and line printers. Failure within these types of printers could cause missing output or misaligned output.
Soft real time
A soft real time system can miss its deadline, and as long as tasks are timely executed, the results have value. Soft real time systems are used to solve issues of simultaneous access and the need to keep a number of systems up to date through evolving situations. Missing the deadline has no disastrous consequences. Examples of soft real time systems include:
- Commercial airline software. Flight plans require constant updates as they shift, but a few seconds or minutes latency is still operable.
- Live audio–video systems. A frame of audio that is played later may result in a brief glitch, the system can still continue to operate.
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June 29, 2016 - Comments Off on The Importance of Showing the ☠@✴# Up
There's one phrase I heard early on here that seems to hold true pretty consistently - "You're going to get what you put into it." This can seem intimidating, especially here because there are several thousand years of tradition, history and mind-blowingly in depth metaphysical concepts to study and help support. A seemingly simple seven line prayer has an entire book written about it.
There's also not much guidance for rank novices like myself on where one should actually start. I actually ended up quite liking this as it allowed me to find my own comfort level, rhythm for absorption and a baseline to start work. However I did run into some difficulties - it's daunting and my initial response to daunting tasks tended to be "hide and wait it out."
The approach I've been using to deal has been effective for me and so thought it may be worth sharing. It's pretty simple on the surface, like most good maxims - "Show Up." 5am Kum Nye class? Just get out of bed. Once I do, just like that going back into bed is now a defeat larger than the initial challenge. Tired after lunch but have to paint a Stupa? Just pour the paint into a tray. Now it's a task to put the paint back into the bucket so I may as well get started. It's sort of a micro-victory approach, combined with pump faking my own laziness and ego.
For me that's always the hardest part- it's thinking about how nice it is in bed while you're under the covers and should get up, or rationalizing the reasons that you don't really need to go this class and besides everyone else is watching a movie. And really I don't have to do any of it - apart from a little guilt the consequences aren't so great. I'm not in grade school, and no one is going to give a shit that I don't go to class - the only party being affected negatively is me and my personal growth.
When I have some objective distance from the situation (easiest post-showing up by the way) the choice is obvious - just go, idiot. After all why am I here at Ratna Ling? To grind 10 hours a day for a cause I can't be bothered to learn about and make no money in the process? Or am I here to put in my best effort to contribute to myself and an organization that I learn about and believe in? Both at work and in study there are opportunities to develop greatly and find satisfaction if approached with the proper energy.
h/t to Alexandra who sends me wonderful nonsense like this on the daily.
In reality it's a small hump to get over but it is constant and pervasive - and it's something I've dealt with for years before coming out here to Ratna Ling as well. Any activity not mentally labeled as "fun" or "enjoyable" or "easy" can fall victim to this line of reasoning. Studying, exercises I don't like, phone calls I don't want to make - there are micro barriers that I erect in the mind that lead to procrastination or poor effort. That's why the "show up" approach works pretty well - it's a micro effort to overcome a micro barrier. Once you start dialing the phone it's usually fine and in fact tends to be enjoyable in the end.
So if you want to be a person who goes to the gym every morning, don't think about how the hour spent there will be. Unless you're remarkably positive or stupid your mind will begin telling you all kinds of stories about how much it will suck compared to staying here in bed where it's warm. Just get out of bed, get to the gym. Once you're there it's more work to go back home, and so you may as well start to wake up and jump rope.
Another practice I've learned here from Arnaud is to set personal time commitments. So for example, can I go to Kum Nye class every morning for a month? How does that feel? Impossible? How about one week? Try that and see how it feels. If I hate it, at least now I know and I tried. This keeps the ownness on me too, which is a more consistent metric to reference than any sense of responsibility to others (which can vary based on personal preference, respect, etc.).
Now once I do show up, the next hurdle is usually full participation. In my best moments I like to look at my work in this life as an expression of my human potential - that can be hard to find when you're neck deep in an Excel spreadsheet but even there I think it holds true if you're doing it for the right reasons. If that's true than why do I sometimes find it difficult to throw myself into a task, participating with joy and an open mind? And it's even more true for activities outside of work. It seriously boggles my mind as to why someone would show up to a class or event of their own volition and then mope or not take part as fully as they can.
I have noticed there are some common mental patterns I've observed that lead to issues like procrastination and holding back. Oftentimes it's the shitty inner roommate who tells me the project is stupid, or I could be doing something better, or this person or that organization doesn't appreciate it anyway, etc. I'm also starting to recognize that I personally need to improve on the middle portion of projects in particular. I tend to be a strong starter, good at creation and tapping into ideas with others, and I'm pretty good in the clutch ie, deadlines and crunch times. But the middle - routine, maintenance, etc. - I tend to get frustrated and bored with.
I'm working on those issues by - yes, once again - keeping it small. Setting micro deadlines and more importantly taking the time to immediately reflect on a task once it's accomplished has been a big help. Trying to find the sense of joy and accomplishment in the single blue stripe on a wall that I do on week four, as opposed to the initial rush we had in the beginning while talking about the renovation's potential, or scrambling and working late as a team to get the project done in time for a larger deadline.
I recently helped paint and hang these giclees of the Buddha's life story with the wonderful Alexandra at Dharma Publishing.
With something physical and tangible like painting or exercise it's a little easier because my body's energy starts flowing, the heart rate increases, hormones pump and synapses fire. I can tap into that ape-based evolutionary reward system and it makes the task a little easier. But full participation in mental activities - study, office work, art - that's a more difficult challenge to unpack sometimes. Especially working in digital - there's a sharp disconnect between the body and the sense of accomplishment when it comes to tasks like programming or graphic design where it sometimes take an inordinate amount of mental energy to move something ten pixels to the left, and then it doesn't work on a goddamn phone anyway:
Not saying it should feel like a struggle every time, and if you seriously can't find any joy you should absolutely find something else to do. If you hate programming or dry walling or management or whatever - get out. Just quit, life is way too short and you're too important to the human story to be wasting your (and all of our) time being miserable.
But I would suggest first trying to set that time period for a personal commitment to show up, participate fully and then taking the time to reflect. Did you find any pleasure or joy in the task? Then maybe see if you can identify that feeling during the task itself the next time, maybe by breaking it down into smaller and smaller pieces. Can you find pleasure in tapping the keyboard, delight in finding a good color, joy in lifting up a sand bag, happiness in hoisting a pallet over your head?
If you're interested in learning more a lot of these ideas originated via Skillful Means, a book I recommend highly when it comes to motivation and discipline in your work. We're developing some programs here at Dharma Publishing that expand upon that, including an online academy that I hope will launch soon. Look forward to sharing that with you all!
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Ornate Box Turtle Program
2016 was another busy year at the State Natural Area. We were fortunate to have some additional volunteer help in late winter through spring that allowed us to contribute the most hours since the volunteer effort began in 2012, logging 314 hours on 48 days.
Wood Turtle Nest Site Program Highlights
Two new nesting sites were created in 2016, one in Oconto County and one in Marinette County in northeastern Wisconsin. Of the 18 total nesting sites created or restored to date, 13 are equipped with electric fences. Management of all 18 sites was conducted this year to reduce or eliminate vegetation from the sites, a strategy that makes nesting by female turtles easier and also helps reduce the chance of roots penetrating the eggs.
Nest site monitoring continued in 2016 on the four nest sites in northwestern, Wisconsin that were monitored in 2015. These four sites had 18 Wood Turtle nests, all laid in June. Hatching occurred from mid-August through early October producing 102 hatchling. Nesting success was down from 2015, due in part to heavy rainfall, including a six inch storm on late June post nesting, that cumulatively resulted in cooler incubation temperatures in 2016. Over 100 viable eggs perished sometime during incubation, with the majority of the embryos being well developed before dying. While sad to see this high egg mortality rate, it was encouraging to see so many hatchlings emerge, especially when compared to hatching success prior to the use of electric fenced nesting sites. These two years of data are beginning to paint a sweet picture for this rare turtle since their recovery is dependent in part on increasing hatch rates. The other nine electric fenced nest sites experienced no predation in 2016! We have a growing level of confidence that these fenced nest sites will allow us to achieve recovery, at least on the rivers where we have multiple nesting sites (n = 9 to date). Plans for 2017 include the creation of four additional electric fenced sites in four counties and adding electrical fences at two existing nest sites in one county.
In 2016 we continued the camera monitoring study initiated in 2015 to compare nest sites with electric fences to those that are currently unfenced. We switch one of the sites in 2016 due a road closure. During the 2016 nesting season we generated over 142,500 photos using time lapse and infrared motion detection. The electric fenced sites and one of the unfenced sites experienced no predation in 2016, while the second unfenced sites experienced 100% Wood Turtle nest predation (n = 5 nests) and only one of several Snapping Turtle nest survived predation. Camera monitoring will continue through 2019, and will include the monitoring of two nest sites that were not fenced in 2015 and 2016 to evaluate changes in predation rates resulting from electric fence installations at those sites beginning in 2017.
Blanding’s Turtles Telemetry Program Achievements
This study continued in 2016, but with a different focus. While the tracking of headstarted Blanding’s turtles continued, there were only six individuals remaining in the study. By the end of the 2016 field season, one of the headstarts had died (reason unknown), one was unrecoverable due to habitat inaccessibility, and one lost its transmitter. Two other headstarts are unaccounted for and the last remaining individual of the six was released after removing it transmitter in the fall of 2016.
In June of 2016 two Blanding’s Turtle nest were located at the telemetry study site. The eggs removed from the nests and incubated at UW-Whitewater. Upon hatching in August these turtles were fitted with micro-transmitters and were released at the study site within several days of hatching. The hatchlings were located twice weekly to determine their movements and survival rates for approximately one month (late August through late September). During this period, no predation or other mortalities were observed. Turtle movements were minimal (several square meters) and most buried close to where they were released in the wetlands where they were originally placed. The data is currently being analyzed to compare survival rates of headstarted Blanding’s Turtles from the original study to hatchling survival in this brief studying.
The telemetry study has been terminated prematurely due to complicating factors including higher than expected mortality rates, transmitter failure and loss, and the need to switch out transmitter twice annually due to small turtle size, and habitat inaccessibility.
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WEAVE project is organizing a series of LabDays to engage communities with their tangible and intangible heritage and present novel ways of cultural heritage representation in the digital realm. The ERIAC LabDay scheduled for Monday October 11th will have a number of key Roma artists and figures. Among them is Spanish Roma Miguel Angel Vargas who recently sat down with Rosa Cisneros from Coventry University for the Yellow Couch Convos Podcast series. They had a candid conversation on Flamenco and navigating the various roles of being an artist, civil servant, and social activist.
BIO: Miguel Ángel Vargas is a Spanish artist with distinctive Andalusian-Gitano roots stemming from Lebrija and Jerez. He earned his degree in Art History from the University of Seville. He also studied Theatre Direction at the Seville Institute of Theatre in 1999. He collaborates with several academic universities across Spain and abroad also sits supports several of ERIAC initiatives.
He participated in many shows as an actor, musician, director, producer and technician. He defines himself as a poet because he tries to embody the authentic meaning from which the original Greek (ποιητής) was derived: the one who creates, the one who begets and gives birth. His passion resides in the world of flamenco and theatre. His heartfelt mission is to tell the stories of the Gitano fieldworkers from Lebrija and to follow the commitment of the Teatro Lebrijano, an independent political theatre company established in his hometown in the 1970s. His work portfolio is extensive and vibrant. He has worked with many different artists and companies in a variety of roles. | <urn:uuid:2621cdf5-eaad-4553-af5d-f1e8fda53de4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/ycc-episode-miguel-angel-vargas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971958 | 347 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The Michigan Senate passed legislation that requires school districts to develop anti-bullying policies.
Michigan would join at least 45 other states that have laws requiring public schools to adopt anti-bullying policies under legislation passed by the Senate. The bill was approved by a 26-11, party-line vote and now advances to the House.
Democrats say the measure wouldn't protect students and want a more detailed measure that outlines reasons students can't be bullied, such as sexual orientation, race and weight.
Republicans argue that all students would be equally protected under the proposal. But Democrats were angered by the new language, saying it goes in the opposite direction of stopping bullying.
The policies would apply to cyber-bullying, but only cyber-bullying that occurs using a device owned or under the control of a school district. Epling said that concerns him because most cyber-bullying happens on personal electronic devices. | <urn:uuid:86a3cb38-89c3-4efb-98a1-de98e9336a84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/82523-michigan-passes-antibullying-legislation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970113 | 184 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Purcell are delighted to support Art Deco by the Sea, an exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich which explores how Art Deco shaped the modern seaside from the 1920s and 30s.
Due to these unprecedented times, the exhibition has been extended until the Sainsbury Centre re-opens and in the meantime, we've moved our Art Deco celebration online.
Here, Purcell’s 20th Century Heritage Consultant, Jon Wright, discusses the history and significance of the Art Deco movement in the UK's seaside towns.
Art Deco is a style at once instantly recognisable, yet quite difficult to describe. Its architectural manifestation joined a number of forces together that were all floating around from the early part of the 20th century and it resulted in a rich, varied and sometimes very colourful style. It is a global architecture that has examples all over the world.
Art Deco drew on influences from continental Europe post-Art Nouveau (particularly out of Vienna, the fundamental seed place for Art Deco) and the joining of American classical architecture with Modernism.
These movements came together to provide an explosive range of new buildings that were all built with new technology, particularly reinforced steel and concrete. This was the ‘machine age’ — streamlined designs for trains, cars and aeroplanes which were (at that point) a new mode of transport for mass travel and all had an impact on the new architectural aesthetic.
Art Deco delivered a sense of opulence and luxury and, importantly, made it accessible to everybody. There were many entertainment buildings, travel buildings and civic buildings, theatres and cinemas, that were designed in the style. The applied decoration to these buildings made them luxurious and their influences were varied and related to wider cultural shifts in taste.
In 1926 Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered by Howard Carter. The discovery sparked a wave of interest in Egyptology which spread into the 1930s. Britain has a lot of Egyptian-styled Art Deco architecture in addition to classical motifs — particularly Greek — illustrated in the interiors of Selfridges and the Savoy Hotel, for example, which both feature Grecian designs from pottery merged with a Modernist aesthetic.
In London, Art Deco was an important commercial architecture, with the Americanism of Wallis Gilbert and Partners on the Great West Road, manifested in such buildings as the Hoover Factory and the Firestone Factory. Across the country, however, it was coastal towns that saw the most numerous examples of the style constructed.
The architecture of the seaside has a relationship to Modernism through its expression of the construction of a new kind of building that valued the outside as much as the inside. With its open doors, roof terraces and open-glassed windows, Modernist architecture had a relationship with the external environment that architecture hadn’t had before.
The concept of volume and space are fundamental to Modernism’s doctrine and the seaside was a perfect environment for the buildings to reflect the openness of the ocean and exploit views of it, with large expanses of glass.
As a result, we saw a lot of lidos, seaside pavilions, hotels, springing up on Britain’s coasts throughout the 1930s. In addition, the birth of the Middle Class (from the late Victorian period onwards but peaking in the 1920s and 30s) meant that this was attractive to a greater number of people than it ever was before.
The number of seaside lidos and open-air swimming pools that were built along the coast in the 1920s and 30s was staggering and many have now been lost. The reflection of nautical style and the exuberance of many of the coastal buildings, makes them important parts of UK built heritage and because of their materiality, conservation can be a complex task.
Art Deco is a very important piece of the 20th-century jigsaw — there are some of the most exuberant, popular and colourful pieces of architecture that the 20th century ever produced. Britain triumphed in the First World War but not without enormous social and economic cost, and the 1920s were a period of realignment.
At this time the country was getting to grips with what was left of the Victorian period and starting to imagine a new future. For a brief decade before the horrors of the Second World War, Art Deco was part of that vision of the future, a world of opulence and luxury that everyone could have a piece of for the price of a cinema or a lido ticket.
Purcell’s position at the forefront of historic buildings conservation has meant the practice has been instrumental in pioneering expertise on the conservation of 20th Century buildings. To learn about our heritage consultancy, click here.
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Global Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market, By End Use (Veterinary hospitals, Veterinary clinics, Research Organization), By Application (Dog, Cat, Horse, Others) and opportunities and forecast 2020-2027
Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market Overview
Animal stem cell therapy is gaining traction currently attributable to its ability to use animal’s stem cell and offer treatment for their disease or disorders. This therapy is understood for increasing the anticipation of animals. In recent years, there's noteworthy growth within the cases of varied health issues like degenerative joint disorders, arthritis, and ligaments and tendon injuries in animals. This factor is promoting the development of the worldwide animal stem cell therapy market.
Increased inclination among gamut of pet owners toward selecting treatment options with no adverse effects on animals is boosting the worldwide animal stem cell therapy market growth. This aside, major vendors within the market for animal stem cell therapy are growing investments within the research and development activities. Key motive of those activities is to chase the possibility of using this technology within the treatment of animals aside from cats, dogs, and horses. Due to this factor, the worldwide animal stem cell therapy market is estimated to collect remarkable expansion opportunities within the upcoming years.
There are little evidence-based preclinical animal studies acts as restraint within the animal stem cell therapy market. The evidence-based clinical trials of animal stem cell therapy provide tremendous opportunities for the efficient advancement of other species.
Covid-19 Impact on Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market:
In addition, the current Market study offers a detailed analysis of the current COVID-19 pandemic impact on the market growth and its influence on the future growth of the Market. The recently published report demonstrates the elevation in the demand for the healthcare sector. The healthcare manufacturers have experienced long term as well as short term effect which include supply shortages, panic buying and stocking, regulation changes as short-term whereas approval delays and possible trend variations in consumption could be perceived as long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the health and pharmaceutical market.
Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market Segment Overview
The Animal Stem Cell Therapy market is segmented on the end use and application.
The End Use segment is segmented into veterinary hospitals, veterinary clinics, and research organizations. Now days, growing and increasing rate of investment in research organizations thus can boost market of animal stem cell therapy. The Application segment is segmented into dog, cat, horse, others . For clinical trials and research development horses are mainly using.
Market Analysis, Insights and Forecast – By End Use · Veterinary hospitals · Veterinary Clinics · Research organizations
Market Analysis, Insights and Forecast – By Application · Dog · Cat · Horse · Others
Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market Regional Overview
Region-wise, in terms of regions, North America is dominating the worldwide animal stem cell therapy market because of the increased incidence rate and awareness about the therapy. U.S represents the most important market share within the North America because of the increasing demand for the therapy. Europe and Asia-Pacific are showing a big rate of growth during the forecasted period because of the growing adoption of the animal stem cell therapy. The animal stem cell therapy market in underdeveloped countries is slow in comparison to the developed countries.
Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market, By Geography
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Golden Retriever Breed Standard
The Golden Retriever is a noble dog whose intelligence and beauty are unsurpassed. The Golden Retriever owes its existence to the dedicated work of one man. Lord Tweedmouth of Iverness-shire,in the Scottish Highlands, was responsible for developing a breed that could work all day in heavy cover, be a strong swimmer, and retrieve from icy cold water. These abilities along with the dogs attractive features helped to give the Golden worldwide popularity. A devoted partner, a working hunter and a passionate retriever have made this dog versatile in the field and a delightful house pet. The breed excels at field trials, obedience, agility, water trials, guide dogs for the blind,assistance dogs for the physically challenged and drug and explosive detection work. It is, however, this dogs undying loyalty to its owners, gentleness with children and willingness to work along side people that hallmark the breed. It is a very biddable dog whose honest work ethic he never shirks but rather always works to the best of his ability every time. The golden can persevere when other dogs give up or lose heart. The Golden Retriever is a willing worker who exercises forgiveness and responsibility.
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|Neck - is medium in length offering strength and stability||Body-well balanced, deep through the chest and short coupled. Chest should be as wide as a man's fist with a well developed forechest.Brisket extends to the elbow. Ribs long and well sprung with very little tuck-up.|
|Tail - Well set-on, thick and muscular at the base following the natural line of the croup. Tailbone extends to, but not below the point of the hock. Carried level or slightly merry with no curl.||Ribs - well sprung, deep, long and capacious to help with buoyancy and provide room for the heart and lungs.|
Feet-round, cat-like, tight and well knuckled with thick pads for protection.
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- It is finally Christmas Day and as usual, everyone is out to make merry as they entertain themselves and their loved ones
- However, Nyeri deputy governor Caroline Karugu has observed that many are extravagant during the merrymaking period, forgetting the obligations that come thereafter
- Karugu has advised Kenyans to be wise in their spending during their festivities so that they also meet the financial obligations that follow in January
It is Christmas Day, and yet again, time to make merry.
Members of the Christian faith the world over are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, whom they believe came to earth to deliver them from iniquities.
Despite the day being solely dedicated to celebrating Jesus Christ, many use it for their recreation and entertainment as they await the new year.
Typically, they tend to spend good chunks of money entertaining themselves and their loved ones during the festivities.
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After the period, the reality usually hits that there are many other financial obligations that need to be met, of course with the December pay that in most cases is remitted before the due date.
It is out of this that Nyeri deputy governor, Caroline Karugu, advises modest spending keeping in mind the obligations in the infamous month of January, which includes school fees, house rent, and food, among other basics.
"Dear friends, spend wisely this Christmas to avoid turning into motivational speakers in January and calling your innocent friends ‘fake friends’, thank me later," said Karugu.
Her argument seemed to have resonated with many who also emphasised the need of being careful when it comes to spending during the period.
@Samuel Kamau said:
"Don't let the pressure of people eating their harvest make you eat your seed. Know the season you are in. Merry Christmas and happy 2022."
"The spendthrift moment has come. Avoid events unbudgeted for, don't carry with you your ATM cards. Avoid a group night outs."
"Saving is harder than solving algebra. Let's keep saving n spend wisely. Merry Christmas n happy new year 2022."
"11 months savings go down the drain in one month. Fear December. Happy holidays."
"Thanks for the reminder, I almost fell into this trap "tomorrow will cry for itself."
Meanwhile, the name 'Christmas' comes from the Mass of Christ (or Jesus).
A Mass service (which is sometimes called Communion or Eucharist) is where Christians remember that Jesus died for them and later resurrected to life.
The 'Christ-Mass' service was the only one that was allowed to take place after sunset (and before sunrise the next day), so people had it at Midnight!
So we get the name Christ-Mass, shortened to Christmas.
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While a signing ceremony seems likely for January, some of the arrangements in the phase one trade deal between China and the US sound impossible to achieve, says economist Arthur Kroeber at Money Week. It “still has some hoops to pass through”, he says.
We have a ‘phase one’ deal. It “still has some hoops to pass through”, as Arthur Kroeber notes on Gavekal. But it’s likely to happen. So what does it do?
New tariffs that were due to kick in on yesterday are being indefinitely deferred. Tariffs imposed on China by the US at the start of September, will be halved, to 7.5%. The earlier tariffs all stay in place.
China says it will more than double imports from the US by 2021. Kroeber suggests this is hard to meet “in the real world”. Chinese imports from the US hit $130bn in 2017. The idea that it will be able to boost this by $200bn by 2021 seems unrealistic given that the “biggest previous two-year jump” came in at less than $40bn.
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Social Media Bullying
Impersonation, Social engineering, Outing, Cyber stalking, exclusion, denigration. People online are after exposing false information and threatening others, protect yourself online. What should one do once encountered
Steps to take when you are social media bullying victim
Report bullying instances: Most social media platforms have certain mechanisms to assist victims of cyberbullying. Certain platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram give users multiple ways to report harassment and abuse on the network. Other sites will also often allow you to report to site administrators if you’re bullied on their sites.
Block cyberbullies: Alongside the option to report, most social networks will give users the option to block harassing accounts that allows you to stop specific users from searching, messaging and interacting with you in any way on that specific platform. This will essentially stop all communication from the bully. The main issue with this remedy is that it does not prevent users from setting up other accounts to continue harassing the victim. However, most sites allow users to block a number of accounts thus one could always keep blocking every new cyber-bullying account. Follow these instructions to block cyberbullies on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Protecting personal details: Unlike the previous two remedies, a preventative approach to cyber-bullying is to protect your personal details online. All social networks often allow the user to restrict what other users can see. Platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, for instance, allow a user to control their account’s privacy settings in that they condition access to the user’s content on the user’s acceptance of requests. Alternatively, you can go a step further by opting against posting personal details online altogether. Details such as your home address, telephone number and e-mail address are often used by cyberbullies to maintain a grip over victims.
If being bullied on a private messaging app such as a WhatsApp group;
- Raise a complaint with the group Administrator.
- Keep screenshots or recordings of the instances of bullying instances
- Consider leaving the group, advocating for enforcement of group rules if they exist
- Find solidarity in friends or groups that provide support for HRDs
- If the bullying persists, report to police for further action. Also seek help from an HRD support group, legal aid services or a lawyer to get a full legal opinion
More information on the threat
Some of the common types of bullying occurring on social networks include:
Impersonation/Fraping: This is a type of bullying that occurs when a cyberbully steals login credentials or gains access to the victim’s accounts in order to post inappropriate or offensive content with their name. Impersonation may also extend to instances where the bully masquerades as another individual by setting up made up profiles in order to lure the victim into a fake relationship. This is often known as catfishing.
Outing: One of the most common ways in which
cyberbullies harass their victims is through openly revealing sensitive or personal information about them without their consent for purposes of embarrassing them or using such information as a tool to blackmail them.
Cyber-stalking/Harassment: A more serious form of bullying occurring on social media is cyber-stalking. This strand of bullying involves the sending of threatening and disparaging electronic messages intended to intimidate and instill fear in victims. Cyber-stalking can often extend to threats of physical harm and monitoring the offline activity of victims. The key differentiating factor is that this behavior makes the target extremely concerned for their personal safety. For this reason, cyber-stalking is often deemed a criminal offence and can result in imprisonment and/or steep fines.
Exclusion: A less direct form of bullying involves the deliberate exclusion of victims from online groups with the intention of making the victim feel singled out from social circles. Although this may not have a direct effect on victims, it may develop into a more overt type when the members of the virtual group subsequently harass the victim with malicious comments and abuse.
Denigration: This is a term used to describe instances where cyberbullies disseminate cruel and unfounded rumours, gossip and generally false statements about the victim with the sole purpose of damaging the victim’s reputation. This behavior is also a tactic that is commonly used in most other forms of bullying. | <urn:uuid:02606c78-5800-428d-894c-67d9c5ce86ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://salamaonline.org/?page_id=388 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929965 | 887 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Avignon [latin: Avenio], founded in the 6th century BC as Aouenion by greek settlers from Massalia (Marseille). Lies on the left bank of the Rhône river ca. 80 km north of Marseille and 200 km south of Lyon. Avignon is the largest city of the Department Vaucluse, the 5th largest in the Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Nr. 46 in all of France.
Population: 90.000 | 87.000 | 57.000 | 47.000
Avignon has always been situated at the border of different countries, it belonged amongst others to the Greek, the Romans, the Franks, the Kingdom of Provence and Arles, the german Holy Roman Empire, the Papal State and finally to France following the French Revolution. Once in history Avignon became an important political centre – that was after the Pope decided to move its seat from Rome to Avignon in 1309, chosen for its proximity to the papal ruled Comtat Venaissin. For about 70 years the city was the centre of Christianity and served seven popes and two antipopes. Afterwards it still served as a second centre of the pope who sent a papal legate to rule the city. Today the cityscape is still dominated by the gothic 14th century Papal Palace and together with the cathedral and the famous Pont St. Bénézet bridge it earned the city UNESCO world heritage status in 1995.
The short papal rule in Avignon shaped the city more than anything else in its 2.500 years of history, especially with the errection of the Palais des Papes (english: Papal Palace). It was built between 1335 and 1370 by the ruling popes, the main architects were Pierre Poisson (old palace) and Jean de Louvres (new palace). Up until today the palace remains the largest gothic style building in europe. In this panoramic view we see the new palace (Palais-neuf) with the main entrance in the right half, the old palace (Palais-vieux) left of it a little bit to the back and the Avignon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d’Avignon) left of the Papal Palace. The palace gradually lost its importance and after the french revolution it was used as a military barracks and prison which resulted in the damage of most of its interior and frescos. Since 1906 it is a national conservation project and undergoes restoration ever since.
The Avignon Cathedral was originally built in the 12th century and serves as the seat of the archbishop of Avignon. After restoration in the 19th century a gilded statue of the Virgin Mary was placed atop in 1859.
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November: Indigenous History Month
Welcome to Indigenous History Month. Throughout November, resources like Inquiry Sets, picture books, and lesson plans will highlight many ways to incorporate Indigenous history and current topics into TK-12th grade classrooms. Teachers will notice the prominence of Indigenous voices, and the way that scholarship is informing classroom instruction through a focus on themes like agency, resistance, and persistence. Check out the Monthly Highlights page to access the collection.
But first, we wanted to provide a little bit of context around key questions including: What is the history of Native American Heritage Month? Why is teaching Indigenous history during a specific month important? What about Thanksgiving?
What is the History of Native American Heritage Month?
Native American Heritage Month occurs during November of each year. Among other things, this month provides an opportunity to increase awareness of historical contributions and realities of Native Americans, to learn about the varying traditions and cultures across regions, and to understand present experiences and contexts of Native Peoples.
Native American Heritage Month has a long history. In the early twentieth century, the push to recognize Native Americans’ contributions to the United States gained momentum. In 1915, the American Indian Association directed its president, Reverend Sherman Coolidge, an Arapahoe, to issue a proclamation declaring the second Saturday of each May as an American Indian Day. The next year, the governor of New York declared the first American Indian Day on the second Saturday in May. Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca and director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, NY, worked with the Boy Scouts of America to adopt First Americans Day from 1915 to 1918. Throughout the twentieth century, especially during and after the American Indian Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, Indigenous communities advocated for the accurate historical education and recognition of Native American contributions to U.S. history. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan instituted Native American Heritage Week during the third week of November. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush designated the entire month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month, and since then, the nation has continued this as an annual tradition.1
In more recent years, Native American Heritage Month, now also known as Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month, continues to be observed by learning about Indigenous history, culture, traditions and experiences. Many tribal, public history, and educational institutions have created classroom-ready resources suited for elementary and secondary students. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian contains accessible resources that can be quickly implemented, like this brief hand-out on terminology. The National Park Service’s site, Native American Heritage Month also provides excellent collections, exhibits, and resources to support you and your students’ journey through the month of November and beyond.
Why is teaching Indigenous History during a specific month important?
The CHSSP is committed to supporting teachers and students, especially those who are combatting historical erasure. Elevating Indigenous History during November can be an important entry point for some students, and a way to amplify and deepen these topics and voices for other students. We understand our responsibility as follows:
California's educational policies and laws demand that we teach truthful, accurate renderings of the past and present, that we include and honor all peoples in our curriculum, and that we face the past with wide-open eyes to its complexities that include horrors and oppression as well as triumphs and resistance. Race is central to understanding so many parts of our world - past and present, local and national. Attempts to minimize or politicize the significance of race in the study of history limits a complete understanding of the past and harms the teaching profession and, consequently, our students.
We maintain that all of California’s students deserve high-quality history-social science, and ethnic studies instruction that equips them to discern fact from fiction and understand how the past matters to the present. As historian Joanne Freeman of Yale University states, “[I]f we’re teaching American history, race is part of it.”2
This month, we selected resources to help enhance your curriculum throughout the year, empower Indigenous students during discussions about their history, and foster understanding and engagement of the Indigenous past and present on this land.
But What About Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving is a problematic national holiday. With empathy and a firm grasp of evidence-rich sources, teachers have an opportunity to clarify some of the complexities and challenges in a way that respects students’ values, history, and traditions.
The history of first contact resulted in a seismic shift in European and Native American historical trajectories. The contrast between Euro-American traditions of Thanksgiving and Indigenous tradition of the National Day of Mourning (which occurs on the same day) offers a window through which to understand the tension of historical pasts and presents.
As a child, I remember teachers invariably telling stories of the Patuxet man, Tisquantum (often called Squanto), in service to grateful Pilgrims and how they survived the first rough winter in the cold and craggy New England. Many folks in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving as a time to remember this collaboration, honor resilience, feast with family members, and practice gratefulness. However, hidden behind this seemingly sanguine and nostalgic holiday are the realities of Tisquantum’s journey into and out of enslavement, stolen across the Atlantic and back; forgotten is the pain and loneliness of this Last Patuxet: he came home find his village decimated by Europeans disease, and lived ever after with other nearby Wampanoags.
In 1970, the United American Indians of New England declared Thanksgiving Day as The National Day of Mourning. During this day, Indigenous communities honor and remember their ancestors by fasting, marching through the historic district of Plymouth to Cole’s Hill (above Plymouth Rock), and gathering together to break their fasts later in the day. The National Day of Mourning provides a moment to grieve the cultural and physical trauma that the Indigenous communities have endured as a result of European and Euro-American colonization and genocide.3
In short, this holiday means different things to different people. History is deeply personal, political, and often painful. I have hope that historical inaccuracies and omissions no longer find homes in the classroom. On days of historical remembrance, we commit ourselves to the evidence-based accuracy--uncomfortable as it might be--while still appreciating the values that traditions pass down. We hope that the resources and information that we provide will help you navigate these conversations and support your work to teach accurate renderings of our common past. | <urn:uuid:2bb2561e-d109-4c4c-b129-5149cf8e42e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chssp.ucdavis.edu/blog/Indigenous-History-Month-2021 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.945433 | 1,354 | 3.796875 | 4 |
This subtract 1-digit numbers from 2-digit numbers without regrouping worksheet consists of tasks to help your young mathematician develop fluency with subtraction. In each problem, the numbers are laid out in the horizontal format. Students should try to use different strategies involving composing and decomposing numbers to solve these problems. This will help them develop flexibility and fluency.
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In the life sciences, a deviation can arise at any point during a product’s lifecycle - from the testing phase to manufacturing to final product acceptance to post-market surveillance. For example, a deviation can be triggered by a customer complaint when a company’s standards don’t meet certain certification requirements.
For continuous improvement and GMP compliance, any deviation from set procedures must be documented. FDA CFR 211.192 / 21 CFR Part 11 obligates a detailed investigation into any deviation, including documentation of conclusions and follow-up actions. Incidents that may affect quality or reliability of records or tests should also be investigated and resolved.
A good eQMS usually has a system inbuilt to detect and record deviations. Deviations can be prevented through frequent data reviews and controls; an upward trending data set that’s heading for the defined deviation threshold can indicate a future deviation, and can be stopped through the appropriate CAPAs.
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Results from the European Commission's Digital Economy and Society Index (Desi), which summarises bloc countries' digital performance and competitiveness, were released on Wednesday.
At the top of the index were Denmark and Sweden, with Finland coming in third place. Last year Finland ranked second on the list. This year it was a virtual tie between Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands in the rankings.
"In addition to its leadership position in digital skills, which Finland has already held for several years, it also became the top scorer in digital public services. Moreover, it improved its score on the integration of digital technologies, where it is closing in on the frontrunner," the Desi report states.
"Overall, Finland remains a world leader in digitisation and one of the best EU countries in this domain," the organisation said.
Internet availability, digital skills
The index rankings were based on results of several categories, including fixed broadband coverage and take-up (ISP subscriptions), coverage of 4G networks and mobile broadband takeup, the average costs of broadband service and others factors.
In terms of human capital, Desi said that Finland's digital skills were the country's strongest competitive advantage when compared to other member states.
"The share of ICT specialists in its workforce increased further, with an additional 4,500 jobs. Overall, Finland managed to increase its score in this dimension faster than the EU average, reversing the catch-up process that had happened during the two previous years," Desi said.
Rural broadband still falls short
According to Desi, fixed broadband service is available to some 97 percent of Finnish households, "despite the specific geographical characteristics of the country."
"While Finland has good fixed broadband and 4G coverage overall, coverage in rural areas could be further improved. Market players have not invested enough in the sparsely populated rural areas of the country," it stated.
The group said it remains to be seen whether amendments to Finland's laws on extending Finland's national broadband plan, which went into force in mid-2017, will generate positive results.
Internet service usage
The Desi rankings also take into consideration the use of internet services. This year the group said such services are used "significantly" more than EU averages, but "not outstandingly so." The organisation said that Finland's use of internet shopping and social media helped their rankings in this category.
"While online consumption of news, music, video and games as well as online banking have all been virtually universal for a couple of years, online shopping and video calls saw growth in line with overall EU growth. In the use of social networks, where Finland was lagging behind, it has improved its position, now standing above the EU average," the report says.
Web use statistics
The survey also examined various countries' usage of internet news, music, videos and games, video calling, social networks, internet banking and shopping on the web.
Desi said that Finnish businesses were among the most advanced in the EU, as well, noting its integration of digital tech and cloud computing.
"In particular the use of cloud computing is very widespread, with every second Finnish company now making use of it; here, Finland scores three times the average of those countries for which data is available," the report states. (PDF of report) (siirryt toiseen palveluun)
The organisation said Finland's planned social and healthcare reforms would increase the use of digital services provided by the government, noting in particular its online patient record system which allows residents to access medical records and prescription services. | <urn:uuid:fac14f23-cda0-4557-a406-f821503c2b38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yle.fi/news/3-10220114 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968802 | 729 | 1.703125 | 2 |
How woke education harms the worst off
Katharine Birbalsingh talks to Brendan O’Neill about the culture war in the classroom.
Katharine Birbalsingh – newly appointed chair of the Social Mobility Commission and headteacher of the Michaela Community School – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Katharine and Brendan discuss how progressive schooling fails children, why everyone should learn about ‘Dead White European Males’, and the devastating impact of lockdown.
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Torrential weekend rains over the Rainy River basin are causing record setting floods along Minnesota's border with Canada.
Six inches of rain in the past four days pushed Rainy Lake more than a foot into what the International Joint Commission, which regulates water flow on reservoirs along the border, considers flood stage.
A U.S. Geological Survey gauge at Manitou Falls shows the Rainy River rose nearly 10 feet since the beginning of the month — pushing this flood past a record set in 1950.
Those rising waters are currently threatening roughly a dozen homes and cabins on the lake shore and along the Rainy River, said Koochiching Sheriff's Department Capt. Jon Froemke. Many more home owners are building up sandbag walls as waters continue to rise.
Froemke ran the sandbagging nerve center Monday at City Beach in Rainier, Minnesota. Scores of volunteers rushed around him, Bobcats lifting heavily laden pallets, locals filling woven sacks by the shovel full and a crew of National Park Service workers operating a large sandbag machine.
Since Thursday, Froemke said hundreds of volunteers filled more than 85,000 sandbags and that should top 100,000 by Tuesday.
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Some of those bags went to a massive effort to save the fire station in Loman, Minnesota, roughly 20 miles west of International Falls on Route 11. Water from the confluence of the Rainy and Black Rivers backed more than a foot over the road, closing Route 11, but the station is still dry thanks to 15,000 sandbags and dozens of muddy firefighters.
"It's been a long four days," Loman fire chief Adam Claybundy said, grinning.
So far the effort is keeping up with rising waters, although levels might not yet crest for days, said Froemke. "Water is coming here from 100 miles away in some cases," he said, "So we won't feel the full effect of the rain we had over the weekend for another five or six days."
The dam at International Falls is wide open to let as much water as possible through. Residents have stacked 70,000 sandbags so far to protect homes, with another 70,000 on the way.
East of International Falls, high water and strong winds on Rainy and Kabetogoma lakes have destroyed hundreds of docks. Volunteers have stacked sandbags around about 40 homes.
Rainy Lake rises slowly, which offers some hope for those worried about flooding. "Hopefully we can stay ahead and help these people," said Koochiching County Commissioner Brian McBride, though he added that strong north winds could prove problematic because they can push water over to the Minnesota side of the lake, causing levels to further rise.
Since late May, the water level has risen more than 22 inches on Rainy Lake, according to data from the International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Board.
Froemke said Rainy, Kabetogoma, and Namakan lakes could rise 2 feet more in the next six days.
Under such a threat, sandbagging continued at a feverish pace Monday, even as the sun shone and bright white clouds dotted the sky.
Earlier Monday, across the Canadian border, the powerhouse in Fort Frances, Ontario, took all of its generators off line because cooling pumps were under water.
The powerhouse at the Boise mill in International Falls is also underwater and the company may be forced to shut down its generators as well.
Even if it stops raining significantly, "we could probably see increases for a while, maybe a week or so, and then a long time for it to come back down until the system flushes out," said Lee Grim, who serves on the international watershed board's water levels committee.
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A U.S. Navy destroyer conducted a Taiwan Strait transit today, continuing a recent push for the Navy to operate between mainland China and the island it claims.
USS John Finn (DDG-113) conducted the routine transit today, which the Navy says “demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. The United States military will continue to fly, sail, and operate anywhere international law allows,” according to a U.S. 7th Fleet statement.
John Finn is part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group that is operating in the Pacific. According to the USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker this week, the carrier had been operating farther south, in the Celebes Sea between Indonesia and the Philippines. John Finn separated from the CSG at some point, sailing north ahead of today’s Taiwan Strait mission.
7th Fleet released photos and video from the strait transit that showed an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter from the “Magicians” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35 taking off from and landing on the DDG’s flight deck during the transit.
Recent strait transits have been performed by two Japan-based U.S. destroyers. On Feb. 24, USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) transited the strait. On Feb. 4, USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) did the same. On Dec. 31, both McCain and Wilbur together performed a Taiwan Strait transit.
After both February transits, the Chinese military said it was not only watching the U.S. ships but on high alert during the operations, which the Chinese government said it “firmly opposed.”
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The Victorian Government has announced it will invest $1.6 million in an initiative to support irrigation jobs and promote a sustainable Goulburn Murray Irrigation District.
Victorian Minister for Water, Lisa Neville, said the Farm Enterprise Strategic Planning Initiative will help farmers in the Goulburn Murray irrigation district make informed decisions about their businesses and contribute towards a resilient and productive agricultural community.
The Farm Enterprise Strategic Planning Initiative includes:
- Irrigators meeting with irrigation planning specialists to help strategic planning
- Facilitated group sessions so irrigators can meet to discuss issues and plans
- Workbooks tailored to individual farms which will help irrigators understand the best way forward and make the right decisions for their business
The farming landscape has seen significant change over the past decade with the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, which includes the now re-set $2 billion Connections project. It is important that irrigators are provided with information and tools to help make important decisions on their businesses.
Ms Neville said irrigators are a key part of the social and economic viability of Victorian regions and as landholders they play an important part in maintaining the health of the environment
“This funding will give up to 400 irrigators across the district the opportunity to consult with experts – to help plan their futures,” Ms Neville said.
The initiative aims to support a more resilient and productive irrigation sector as well as build resilience to changing markets and environmental conditions such as climate change, drought and flooding. It also aims to support jobs in the region into the future.
It will support farming families to make well-informed decisions in light of changes in water availability, modernisation works, market dynamics, climate and water management under the Basin Plan.
The initiative will be delivered by North Central CMA in partnership with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Training and Resources and Goulburn Broken CMA.
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John Borrows is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law and Law Foundation Professor of Aboriginal Law and Justice at the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. Prior to joining the Faculty, he was Professor and Robina Chair in Law and Society at the University of Minnesota, Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, Associate Professor and First Nations Legal Studies Director at the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia and Associate Professor and Director of the Intensive Programme in Lands, Resources and First Nations Governments at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
John Borrow’s expertise is in Indigenous law, environmental law, and constitutional law. His publications include, Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (2002), Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (2011), Drawing Out Law: A Spirit’s Guide (2010), Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism (2016), and most recently, Resurgence and Reconciliation(with Michael Asch, Jim Tully, eds.).
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Most of us believe there are basketsful of orphaned babies the world over just waiting for an international adoption. The truth is more sullied and brutal than that ideal. The international children being adopted already have parents and they are being sold to the highest bidder.
Westerners have been sold the myth of a world orphan crisis. We are told that millions of children are waiting for their “forever families” to rescue them from lives of abandonment and abuse. But many of the infants and toddlers being adopted by Western parents today are not orphans at all. Yes, hundreds of thousands of children around the world do need loving homes. But more often than not, the neediest children are sick, disabled, traumatized, or older than 5. They are not the healthy babies that, quite understandably, most Westerners hope to adopt. There are simply not enough healthy, adoptable infants to meet Western demand–and there’s too much Western money in search of children. As a result, many international adoption agencies work not to find homes for needy children but to find children for Western homes.
Where do these babies come from? As international adoptions have flourished, so has evidence that babies in many countries are being systematically bought, coerced, and stolen away from their birth families. Nearly half the 40 countries listed by the U.S. State Department as the top sources for international adoption over the past 15 years–places such as Belarus, Brazil, Ethiopia, Honduras, Peru, and Romania–have at least temporarily halted adoptions or been prevented from sending children to the United States because of serious concerns about corruption and kidnapping. …
Prospective adoptive parents in the United States will pay adoption agencies between $15,000 and $35,000 (excluding travel, visa costs, and other miscellaneous expenses) for the chance to bring home a little one. Special needs or older children can be adopted at a discount.
The problem with celebrity adoption of international children — Mia Farrow, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Soon-Yi Previn — is that their effort sets a false expectation for the easy availability of adopting darling, foreign, children, who are in desperate need of a good home when the reality is something harsher.
The most needy orphans — the disabled, the wounded and the misbegotten — are being rejected in favor of the “buyable perfection” that the American Aesthetic demands of its children. | <urn:uuid:e1ab68af-6c8e-4ead-9394-328c2fe69306> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bolesblogs.com/2009/01/05/the-international-orphan-myth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953008 | 496 | 2.0625 | 2 |
- Need to teach listening skills?
See Foundation Skills (p1): Ideas to help develop listening skills
- Need to develop ropesight skills?
See Foundation Skills (p1): Practical ideas for developing ropesight
- Learners unable to count their place?
See Foundation Skills (p2): Place counting or All Change section (p3): Churchyard Bob Doubles
- Plain Bob Doubles too much to learn all at once?
See Bob Doubles plus 39 Steps to Bob Doubles in the Doubles Section.
- Dodges need improvement?
- Practise continuous dodging as an exercise with the bells on either side of the learner. Start at handstroke and then progress to backstroke.
- Use Kaleidoscope ringing in the Foundation Skills section.
- Use Funny Bob Doubles before ringing the whole plain course to learn one dodge at a time. See Doubles Methods.
- Use Bayles Bob Doubles for a learner who is ringing the plain course but having difficulty with one of the dodges. See Doubles Methods.
- Stedman Doubles proving a huge step?
Try Stedman Quick Sixes from All Change section or Erin Doubles from Doubles Methods to develop the ringing skills required for Stedman.
- Not enough support to move on to Minor?
- Plain hunt on 6 and move round a rope. This will give the band practice from all the different starts which will keep them from becoming bored. It also has the advantage that the learners will be repeating the first 11 blows of Plain Bob Minor which will enable them to practise all the different beginnings of each place bell for Bob Minor.
- Ring plain hunt starting at backstroke, both for variety and to develop skills needed later in certain Surprise Minor methods.
- Penultimus Minor. This again is plain hunt practice but with a little more ropesight required. See Foundation Skills.
- Original Minor gives more plain hunt practice but adds coping with dodges at a call and changing coursing orders. More skill is required as the treble does the work and is therefore not in a predictable position in the coursing order. See All Change section.
- Need to maintain enthusiasm and motivation?
- Try goal-setting. This may be for individuals or the band as a whole. It may be applied to developing skills such as listening or bellhandling or learning new techniques such as plain hunt. Any target can be used and targets of small steps are very much indicated early on in learning to ring. The Sherbourne Bell Club Awards Scheme has a personal target award badge scheme designed for children but adults may like to work towards the same targets even if they don’t want the badges! Later on goals of learning to call a touch could be used. For the whole band ringing a quarter of a method might be appropriate. Goals work best when set in partnership with the ringers and not imposed upon them.
- Encourage ringers to call elementary things such as plain courses of methods.
- Use positive reinforcement to praise performance.
- Encourage learners to look at theory when they are not ringing. Maybe do quizzes, use worksheets, draw out blue lines, or write out 120 of a method etc.
- Encourage ringers to stand behind other ringers whilst standing out.
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I just don’t understand, If there is a water shortage then why do I see new apartment complexes and houses being built everywhere? If it is that big of an issue then where is everyone going to get water? Who will have to pay for this water because you know it will cost more and more and all of us long time residence will end up paying really high water bills for all these new homes and businesses being built? So I sure would like to know if there is such a water problem then why all the new permits being approved for all these houses apartments and businesses?
My second question is who will end up paying? I know the answer to the second question —-(US).
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The Trump administration wants to change the rules around showerheads and water pressure in order to keep the president’s hair “perfect”.
It has proposed changes to increase the amount of water that can pass through showerheads after a 1992 ruling restricted the flow to 2.5 gallons a minute.
The proposals come after the most powerful man in the world complained in July: “You take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out.
So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer?
“Because my hair – I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect.”
As newer shower fixtures came out, sporting multiple nozzles, the Obama administration said that restrictions would remain as they are, with the 2.5 gallons per minute being spread across the whole fixture.
Mr Trump’s new proposals would allow 2.5 gallons could flow through each nozzle, which could mean 10 to 15 gallons of water flowing through showerheads every minute – dramatically increasing water consumption.
Consumer and conservation groups are not happy, and warn that loosening a 28-year-old law that includes appliance standards is silly, wasteful, and unnecessary – particularly as the US is going through a two-decade-long drought.
There has been no public call for change, according to Andrew deLaski, executive director of the energy conservation group Appliance Standards Awareness Project, who added: “Frankly it’s silly.
“The country faces serious problems. We’ve got a pandemic, serious long-term drought throughout much of the West. We’ve got global climate change. Showerheads aren’t one of our problems.”
The Department of Energy’s database of 12,499 showerheads shows that 74% use two gallons per minute – a healthy 20% less than the agreed federal standard.
Energy Department spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes says that changing the rules would be “allowing Americans – not Washington bureaucrats – to choose what kind of showerheads they have in their homes”.
Mr deLaski also said that the current rules mean that consumers save around $500 (£382) a year on their bills, and that water pressure and showerheads can be adjusted and replaced if needed.
“If the president needs help finding a good shower, we can point him to some great consumer websites that help you identify a good showerhead that provides a dense soak and a good shower,” he added. | <urn:uuid:bce59b65-157e-475a-904c-e78057e9b390> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.olexhome.info/trump-wants-to-change-government-rules-so-his-hair-can-stay-perfect/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948317 | 547 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Could the answer to stopping coronavirus in its tracks be found in sewage? In August, the University of Arizona made headlines after it announced that it had used its sewer system to stop a coronavirus outbreak – and the school isn’t alone. Across the United States, wastewater testing programs have cropped up in cities, counties, universities and states as policymakers scramble to gather the potentially valuable data found in our sewage. Here’s what you need to know.
WHAT IS WASTEWATER TESTING?
Wastewater epidemiology testing involves collecting samples of water carrying feces from a sewer treatment system to gather health information about the population. The technique has been used by epidemiologists to survey population health for several years, mostly to detect polio levels in countries where the disease can still be widespread. Notably, wastewater testing has recently begun to be used in the United States to monitor the levels of opioid use in specific communities. In late March, a team of researchers found that wastewater testing could indicate higher levels of infection from Covid-19 than what had been reported through testing or other methods.
“When a person gets infected with [coronavirus], even before they start to show symptoms, they start shedding the virus in feces,” David Freedman, a professor at Clemson University and chair of the university’s Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, said in an interview. By testing wastewater from a community at certain points in the sewer system, Freedman said, “you can get information about the level of infected individuals that are contributing to that sewage.”
With coronavirus, virus load in feces shows up more quickly than in the nasal cavity, Freedman said. So wastewater testing is what’s called a “leading indicator” for coronavirus infection. (Conversely, because a person can start to recover and be less infectious but still shed virus through their feces, it can also be a “lagging indicator.”) And because wastewater testing takes the temperature of large groups with one single test, it can provide valuable population-level information on infection rates to policymakers – at “a fraction of the cost of personal testing,” Freedman said.
“Everyone has to use a toilet, but only some people (usually the ones feeling quite sick) will choose to get tested for COVID-19,” Zuzana Bohrerova, associate director of Ohio Water Resources Center at Ohio State and leader of a wastewater testing project with the state Environmental Protection Agency, wrote in an email.
The implications of widespread wastewater testing could be huge. Experts estimate that regularly sampling the 542 largest of the almost 15,000 wastewater treatment plants in the United States could provide information on viral load for half the population. As of late August, more than 170 wastewater plants in 37 states were being monitored for coronavirus.
HOW IS WASTEWATER TESTING USEFUL DURING THE PANDEMIC?
At Clemson, Freedman and his team have been working with the university and surrounding city, Clemson, S.C., to conduct regular weekly testing to gain insight on infections. The project started by monitoring wastewater from the campus services treatment plant in August, before students arrived back on campus and a small population of graduate students, administrators, faculty and staff were using facilities.
“We thought that by sampling the wastewater in that interval, we would get a baseline for what things might look like once people started to return to campus,” Freedman said. “We went for many weeks when the virus levels in the wastewater…remained at a low enough level to indicate that maybe a couple of infected people were on the campus, but not nothing consistent with a significant outbreak.”
After the university opened in September, things quickly began to change. Clemson required students moving into dorms to test negative within 10 days of moving, and be tested again once they moved in to quickly quarantine anyone with the virus. But wastewater testing helped illustrate the cracks in this system.
“Starting on Sept. 14, well, the virus level in the campus wastewater jumped dramatically high,” Freedman said. “Somehow, enough infected individuals made their way on the campus to cause the wastewater levels to go up into a region that I would call concerning.”
Because many upperclassmen live off campus during the year, Freedman’s team also took samples of smaller treatment plants that served the city of Clemson at the beginning of the summer to get a base level before students returned to campus. The levels, he said, were in the “millions of virus copies per liter, which is really high and indicative of a lot of infected individuals using that watershed.” The team’s findings, Freedman said, helped influence the city to issue a mask ordinance in early July.
Closer monitoring of wastewater testing can yield even more specific results. In late August, officials at the University of Arizona, which was monitoring sewage from 20 dorms individually, noticed a higher level of viral load in the wastewater from a specific dorm. Rapid testing of all the dorm’s occupants found some asymptomatic positive students, who were quarantined.
“You think about if we had missed it, if we had waited until they became symptomatic and they stayed in that dorm for days, or a week, or the whole incubation period, how many other people would have been infected?” Richard Carmona, director of the University of Arizona’s reentry task force, said at a news conference.
The Clemson and Ohio projects test larger wastewater plants with sewage from multiple buildings, so don’t narrow down results to the level of Arizona’s. The bulk of projects across the country, like the one at Clemson and in Ohio, where Bohrerova is, aren’t meant to supplant or replace individual testing, but rather to provide population-level information for officials.
“Our goal is not to find individuals that are infected,” Bohrerova wrote. “We really look at the trends of the signal on a community basis, since most local health district policies are also made on community scales and not based on individuals….the results of wastewater testing are reported usually faster for the entire community than individual testing and most public health decisions are done on community scale (how many hospital beds we need, where do we increase intensity of testing, do we open schools, dining in?).”
WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF WASTEWATER TESTING?
Like any widespread testing program, setting up wastewater testing requires collaboration between scientists, property managers and local utilities and waste management to create testing points and share information. (It’s no wonder that many universities, which are able to more easily coordinate this setup, have been leading the way in conducting testing.)
As with other testing supply chains, the new and widespread demand for materials and equipment is creating a backlog: so many states, cities, counties and universities are starting their own wastewater testing program, Quartz reported that producers are experiencing “shortages and shipping delays” of machines designed to collect water samples.
The lack of standardized methods or ways of reading test results, Freedman said, makes it “difficult to compare results from one community to another.”
Bohrerova agrees, adding that the lack of a standard concentration method is a roadblock in her work as well. Amid calls for more standardization of wastewater testing, the Centers for Disease Control announced in August that it was developing a central portal and national database to provide wastewater data from projects across the country.
Regardless of the challenges, wastewater testing “is spreading quickly as a tool,” Freedman said.
Molly Taft is a staff writer for Earther, Gizmodo’s climate change blog.
Her writing has appeared not only at ClearHealthCosts, but also in Vice, The Intercept, The New Republic, Teen Vogue, CityLab, Buzzfeed, The Outline, Washington Post Magazine and more.
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The leaders of all organizations take steps to protect them from liabilities and damage resulting from the inappropriate use of IT systems. At the highest levels, the organization’s governing body (school board are generally responsible for adopting policy) will adopt policies to protect the organization by ensuring they comply with relevant laws and regulations, and to minimize threats to the IT systems which represent a significant expense. As long as policies are lawful, and policies are usually written with significant input from the governing body’s legal counsel, then policy defines what IT users should do, and violation can lead to termination.
While policy is the ultimate rules that are followed by users of school IT, users of IT are rarely aware they are following policy as it has been translated into the procedures they follow to gain access to systems and to use them for teaching, learning, and participating in school operations. If it is discovered that IT procedures violate policy, they will be overturned. In schools where collaborative IT planning is observed, new procedures that meet the needs of the IT professionals, but that aligns with policy will be defined. Revising policy takes a significant amount of time and policy makers typically revise IT (and other policy) on a regular basis (usually with years between revisions).
While the acceptable use policies adopted by school boards are the ultimate policy that must be followed, those can be written in language that is difficult for laypeople to understand. This is especially true regarding children, who we know comprise the majority of school IT users. In response, IT professionals and educators will collaborate to create acceptable use policies that are written in language that is appropriate for the students.
Having students and adults sign AUP’s is a largely symbolic activity in schools. The signature does indicate students, parents, educators, and others have been made aware of the policy. Whether one has signed an AUP or not, they are obligated to follow policy and failure to follow the policy can result in school administrators taking actions to ensure policy is followed. Because it is symbolic, it does not mean that AUP’s are meaningless. These can present a valuable opportunity for teaching students about cybersecurity, cyberbullying, privacy, and other situations in which IT may be misused, and lessons focused on the school’s AUP are often included in the curriculum in part to address the International Society for Technology in Education’s standards related to digital citizenship. | <urn:uuid:510e04c6-b8bd-4261-8c36-330e408613f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hackscience.net/2022/07/11/edtech-for-edleaders-acceptable-use-policies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964144 | 485 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Intestinal worms have an incredibly bad reputation. The thought of them sneaking around inside our bodies and eating us from the inside is pretty unpleasant. But for decades, results coming out of lab after lab have shown that some kinds of helminths can be extremely beneficial to their host, and aren’t parasites at all.
Just 100 years ago, before toilets and running water were commonplace, everybody had regular exposure to intestinal worms. Thanks in part to modern plumbing, people in the industrialized world have now lost almost all of their worms, with the exception of occasional pinworms in some children.
Intestinal worms are properly called “helminths,” which most dictionaries will tell you are parasites. Exploiting their hosts, draining resources, sucking the life out of the body – that’s what parasites do, by definition. Indeed, many helminths, including the porcine tapeworm and the human hookworm, are known to cause disease and even death in the human population. Parasitic worms are still a big problem in some parts of the world.
But for decades, results coming out of lab after lab have shown that some kinds of helminths can be extremely beneficial to their host, and aren’t parasites at all.
These helpful helminths are mutualists, a type of organism that receives benefits from its host, and also provides benefits to the host.
For example, my lab, working with a Duke University colleague, Staci Bilbo, recently showed that the presence of helminths in pregnant rats protects the brains of the rat pups from inflammation. In other words, it seems that mom’s helminths can protect unborn babies. And that is just the tip of the iceberg for what these critters can do.
Having worms isn’t necessarily bad for you. The largest randomized trial ever performed in human history – involving two million children in India – looked at how helminths affect health in places where humans naturally have them. The study showed that mass treatment with an effective deworming drug did not increase body weight or survival. Shockingly, the helminths didn’t seem to be doing any harm, since getting rid of them didn’t improve health.
So that study seemed to show the absence of harm; could these helminths actively be doing good?
In the past, scientists thought that increases in inflammatory diseases such as hay fever and multiple sclerosis in industrialized societies were due to keeping our created environments too clean. Thus the name “hygiene hypothesis.”
For instance, helminths have been found to protect laboratory animals from a wide range of allergies and autoimmune conditions. And recent findings suggest that many types of cancer can be reduced by helminths. The idea has been demonstrated by preventing colon cancer in rodents, and it is hoped that it will reduce the burden of cancer in humans by decreasing chronic inflammation, a condition that can give rise to cancer.
In controlled studies in humans, helminths were shown to halt the progression of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis and effectively treat many individuals with inflammatory bowel disease without report of adverse side effects.
The idea that helminths can help us with a wide range of inflammatory diseases that plague modern society makes a lot of sense when considering the science behind how helminths interact with our immune system.
Helminths have been a part of the ecosystem of the body for so many millions of years that they have become an integral part of that system. Mutualistic helminths help regulate immune function, stimulating our body to build regulatory networks of immune cells that decrease general inflammation without hurting our immune system’s ability to respond to danger. In addition, these helminths produce their own array of anti-inflammatory molecules and give our immune systems much needed exercise, all of which decreases inflammation.
The humble rat tapeworm (Credit: William Parker, CC BY-NC-SA)
And a recent study showed that the addition of helminths to laboratory rodents dramatically changed the balance of the gut ecosystem, shifting the bacteria in the gut toward a much healthier balance.
With these factors in mind, it would be hard to understand if missing our helminths did not cause health problems.
My laboratory began work a few years ago looking at the sociology of “helminthic therapy,” the use of helminths to treat disease. Working with Janet Wilson, a sociologist at the University of Central Arkansas, we found that thousands of people are using helminths to self-treat a vast array of inflammation-related conditions, from inflammatory bowel disease to hay fever to multiple sclerosis to migraine headaches.
At the moment, there is no helminth approved for medical use by the FDA, and we found that people generally obtain their organisms from one of a few companies that sell expensive and often unregulated products, which can be risky.
Part of our study included a survey of helminth users, and most people filling out the survey reported that helminths treated their inflammatory conditions more effectively and with fewer side effects than did pharmaceuticals.
We also found that some “self-treaters” are the using a helminth called the rat tapeworm (Hymenolepis diminuta), which sounds truly disgusting. However, people are using this helminth because it is inexpensive and easy to produce, and may provide a very effective treatment for a range of inflammation-related diseases, including migraine headaches and depression. People eat them and report that about 30 worms per month does the job, although the number varies depending on the individual.
After being swallowed and passed into the small intestine, the tiny worms almost certainly hatch out of their jelly-like capsule that has protected them since they first hatched from an egg. At that point, they begin to interact with the immune system, reducing inflammation like any other helminth.
But then, with rare exceptions, they vanish mysteriously, never maturing into adults and producing eggs. Because rat tapeworms don’t colonize our intestines the way that some other types of helminths do, an individual needs frequent exposure to have them in their bodies consistently.
The rat tapeworm has been used in the laboratory for decades and blocks experimentally induced colitis in mice more effectively than daily immunosuppression with steroids.In fact, this is the same helminth we use in my lab to protect the developing brains of rat pups from inflammation. But no researchers have ever studied using rat tapeworms on humans to treat disease.
While work in labs, and our own research on people self-treating with helminths is promising, the safety and effectiveness of helminths needs to evaluated in more clinical trials. But perhaps the single greatest barrier to the widespread use of helminths as treatment in humans is the availability of an affordable and effective FDA-approved helminth to the medical community.
We have FDA-approved live maggots and leeches, both of which are extremely effective, but we have no effective and safe helminth approved for use.
Perhaps the horrible reputation of helminths has deterred us from taking helminths seriously as a treatment? But we can’t let the ick factor intestinal worms may initially inspire hold us back from further research. Intense and systematic effort needs to be focused on the production of quality helminths. We need to proceed with the domestication of helminths for the benefit of humankind. | <urn:uuid:fa7517d4-9214-4b0f-9d55-1828b2fc740e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gizmodo.com/sounds-gross-but-intestinal-worms-can-actually-be-good-1739599281 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956109 | 1,545 | 3.53125 | 4 |
90th FVMA Annual Conference
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Pascale Petit's Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to explore her grandmother's Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles. Tiger girl is the grandmother, with her tales of wild tigers, but she's also the endangered predators Petit encountered in Central India. In exuberant and tender ecopoems, the saving grace of love in an otherwise bleak childhood is celebrated through spellbinding visions of nature, alongside haunting images of poaching and species extinction.Tiger Girl is Pascale Petit's eighth collection, and her second from Bloodaxe, following Mama Amazonica, winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize 2018 - the first time a poetry book won this prize for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry best evoking the spirit of a place. It is shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Four of her earlier collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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The Australian Greens have called on the Abbott Government to re-think its Work for the Dole changes, amid serious concerns about the policy.
"The Government is more interested in punishing job seekers than helping people into work, and their expansion of Work for the Dole is more evidence of that," Senator Rachel Siewert, Australian Greens spokesperson on family and community services said today.
"People shouldn't be demonised just because they don't have a job. Work for the Dole is a simplistic, one-size-fits-all response to unemployment. Past experiences show the regime is not effective for most people, and that people cycle in and out of programs because they're not getting the support they need to enter the workforce.
"Work for the Dole also fails to address the reality that there just aren't enough jobs out there.
"Where are people supposed to find the 40 jobs per month they're being told to apply for? Constant rejections from employers could have terrible effects on the confidence and mental health of jobseekers. In addition, the impact on businesses is likely to be substantial with potentially over 720,000 people making 40 applications for month. So much for cutting red tape.
"Reports from organisations such as Anglicare and Brotherhood of St Laurence have questioned the "a job at all cost" philosophy, pointing to the fact that quality support and training lead to far stronger outcomes.
"If the Government was genuine about wanting to help people into work, they would be investing more in case management for jobseekers and would be doing more to work with employers to generate proper jobs.
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With its ageing and shrinking population, Japan has launched a campaign to raise productivity at construction sites by 20% by 2025 through the use of drones and artificial intelligence.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised yesterday to combat the image of construction as dangerous and dirty, and to "drastically" change the industry’s work environment, at the first meeting of public and private-sector experts responsible for coming up with new growth strategy policies.
Drones could carry out surveying on public projects such as tunnels, bridges and dams, while artificial intelligence should be deployed to cut the time required to carry out land surveys.
"We will shed light on impediments to employing the remarkable technological innovations of recent years in people’s lives and society, and push forward with reforms," Abe said at the meeting, reports The Japan Times.
The government plans to compile a new growth strategy by around the middle of next year.
With Japan’s population shrinking and getting older, proposals to employ artificial intelligence are also likely to involve replacing construction machinery with machines that can be operated automatically.
The plan may involve rolling out tax breaks and financial support to aid regional public works projects and small and medium-size construction firms in adopting information and communication technologies.
At a separate meeting Monday, Abe vowed to make Japan the world leader in business innovation and make public services more convenient by streamlining bureaucratic procedures using so-called information and communications technology.
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LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Fragments of the monkeypox virus have been detected in semen in a handful of patients in Italy, raising questions over whether sexual transmission of the disease is a possibility, scientists said on Monday.
The monkeypox virus is understood to spread through close contact with an infected person, who may shed the virus via its hallmark skin lesions or large respiratory droplets. Many of the monkeypox cases confirmed in the current outbreak are among sexual partners who have had such close contact.
However sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, and syphilis are understood to be caused by pathogens that pass from one person to the next specifically in semen, vaginal secretions or other bodily fluids.
Researchers at the Lazzaro Spallanzani Institute, a Rome-based hospital and infectious disease research facility first highlighted evidence of the monkeypox virus in semen in four patients in Italy in a report published in Eurosurveillance on June 2.
They have since identified six out of seven patients at the facility with semen containing the virus' genetic material. In particular, a sample tested in the lab from a single patient suggested that the virus found in his semen was capable of infecting another person and replicating.
This data, which is being submitted for publication, is not enough evidence to prove that the virus' biological traits have changed, such that its mode of transmission has evolved, Francesco Vaia, the institute's general director, told Reuters.
"However ... having an infectious virus in semen is a factor that tips the balance strongly in favour of the hypothesis that sexual transmission is one of the ways in which this virus is transmitted," he said.
Vaia said the World Health Organization has been notified of the latest findings. The U.N. agency was not immediately available for comment.
The data comes as more than 1,300 cases of the viral disease have been reported by about 30 countries, mostly in Europe, since early May. Most cases have been reported in men who have sex with men.
The outbreak has triggered concern since the virus is rarely seen outside of Africa, where it is endemic, and the majority of cases are not related to travel to the continent.
Scientists are scrambling to understand what is driving the current outbreak, its origins and whether anything about the virus has changed.
In a separate case report published on the Research Square website June 6 and yet to be peer reviewed, German scientists also detected viral DNA in the semen of two patients in the country.
The detection of viral DNA does not necessarily imply presence of infectious virus, said Carlos Maluquer de Motes, who runs a research group studying poxvirus biology at the University of Surrey.
Viral DNA from a range of different viruses, including the Zika virus, has been found in semen, but it is unclear whether the presence of genetic material increases the risk of sexual transmission, according to a 2017 analysis by UK researchers published in Emerging Infectious Diseases (https://bit.ly/3MOqMab).
Overall, it is still not known for sure whether monkeypox is infectious through semen, added Enrico Bucci, a biologist from Temple University in Philadelphia.
"It is suspected and it is very likely that it is. But there is a lack of formal evidence that will be available with further experiments in the laboratory."
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How Businesses Can Reduce Their Water Footprint Today
Have you ever heard the term ‘water footprint’ on your travels? You’re sure to hear it mentioned more and more as time goes on and the effects of climate change are felt around the world – and it’s vital that you pay attention, since it is becoming increasingly important to find ways to reduce our water consumption and address the ways in which we use our water supplies.
Why? Because climate change and global warming is putting increasing pressure on global water supplies, with many regions around the world already dealing with the effects of water stress and scarcity, as well as flooding. Some of these are even in the UK – such as the city of Bristol, which faces serious risks from tidal surges.
Supplier Bristol Water also recently forecast that demand would outstrip supply in the city by 2025, so as you can see, it’s important that everyone – businesses and consumers alike – understands just how important it is to reduce their water usage now.
What is a water footprint, anyway?
Absolutely everything we come into contact with takes water to make, from everything we wear and use to what we eat, buy and sell – and sometimes, it takes a surprising amount of water for something seemingly insignificant.
For example, did you know that a standard cup of coffee, the kind you make yourself first thing in the morning to get you primed and ready for work, uses approximately 140 litres of water to make? Research from the Institute for Water Education suggests that more than 1,100 drops of water are needed to produce one drop of coffee for a 125ml cup.
A water footprint measures the amount of water that is needed for the production of everything we use, but it can also tell us how much a particular country is being consumed from an aquifer or river basin.
There are three components to a footprint – green, blue and grey, all of which come together to provide us with a comprehensive overview of water usage by delineating the volume of fresh water necessary for pollutant assimilation, and the source of the water consumed (either as surface water or rainfall).
Green water footprint
This is water from rain stored where the roots can be found in soil, transpired, evaporated or incorporated by plantlife. It’s most relevant in sectors like agriculture and forestry, as well as horticulture.
Blue water footprint
This is water sourced from either groundwater or surface resources, either taken from one waterway and diverted somewhere else, evaporated or incorporated into a product.
Grey water footprint
This is the amount of fresh water needed to assimilate pollutants so as to ensure that quality standards are met where water is concerned.
The water footprint also takes into account direct and indirect water usage, including both consumption and pollution from the supply chain to the end user, covering the entire production cycle.
Why the footprint is important from a business perspective
A business’s water footprint is measured by the total water that’s used in the manufacturing of the goods and services in question, the water used throughout the supply chain and the water needed during use of the product as well.
It’s important to gain an understanding of your own company’s unique footprint so you can see how it relates to what you do as a business and see where it’s most important. It will be impossible for you to know whether you’re using water sustainably unless you know how much you’re using – and lack of knowledge in this regard also means that you won’t know if your company could be facing risks where water issues are concerned.
You also need to think about the water footprint of the river basins and regions where your supply chains are, since production can be disrupted or even brought to a screeching halt because of water scarcity and stress, as well as pollution. You need to think about your water consumption as a whole so you can understand the potential risks that your business may face in the future.
How to reduce your own water footprint
There are all sorts of ways businesses can reduce their water usage and improve their footprint, many of which can be enacted immediately. Here are just a few steps you could take – which will have the added benefit of reducing your water bills at the same time.
Improve your current consumption
Prioritise water leak detection and repair so you know you’re not wasting any water, fit low-flow restrictions on the taps on site, invest in greener alternatives to old toilets, dishwashers and so on, focus on landscaping on site that features less water-intensive planting… there is a lot you could do.
Do a water audit
You can have an audit done of your water bills to see what your current usage is like so areas of improvement can be identified, which will help you use water more strategically across your business. You’ll reduce your water footprint and increase your cost savings as a result.
Look into water metering
You can use automatic meter reading technology or a smart reader to monitor your water consumption, making it a lot easier to identify water issues as and when they happen. A meter can be installed on site so you can monitor and resolve issues proactivity, identifying and implementing improvements to your water system and reduce your footprint.
If you’d like to find out more about how you can reduce your water usage and consumption to help protect this precious resource for future generations, get in touch with H2o Building Services today.
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People experience things in a unique way, using their own words and meanings to make sense of what is going on around them. In the case of a health condition or disease, the words and meanings that people use to describe their experiences may differ from those used by their clinician. This includes important, in-depth information that could remain hidden if quantitative research methods are used alone; qualitative research can however capture these data, giving clinicians, researchers, and policymakers a better understanding of which treatments and circumstances would prove beneficial to diverse groups of patients in their care.
What is qualitative research?
Qualitative research is primarily about “words” rather than “numbers”, and acknowledges the value of participant-led reports on a health condition or disease. This information may be collected through interviews using open-ended questions, or by setting up focus groups to discuss the health condition in more detail. It enables participants to have more control in defining the areas that they deem important, and permits a rich and in-depth exploration that can inform subsequent quantitative studies.
The advantages of using qualitative research methods
These methods allow the participant to describe their personal health journey in their own words – in this sense, they are seen as a highly valid way of collecting data. As well as gaining deeper insights, these methods can be used to gather data where there is little existing evidence, or on topics that may be considered sensitive. In addressing diverse research questions, these methods can generate data to inform diagnostic criteria, clinical assessment, and patient care.
How reliable – and representative – are qualitative data?
Using rigorous analytical frameworks of good practice, patterns of consensus across individuals can be established by looking for common themes in the data.1,2 Equally, there is value in identifying distinctions in patients’ experiences of health conditions. The fruitful contribution of qualitative research in identifying patterns of patient–clinician interaction and treatment experiences is increasingly being acknowledged in literature as well as in government policies.3,4 Thus, there has been a shift – from debates of quantitative versus qualitative, to a recognition of the contribution of both methodologies in providing a comprehensive picture of a disease and, most importantly, allowing the patient to express this using their own words.
At Vitaccess, we offer expertise in qualitative and quantitative methodologies to capture the patient’s experience in any language. To find out how we can help you reach your real-world evidence endpoints, get in touch at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Effective 1 July 2021, employers will be required to increase the minimum superannuation contribution to employees from 9.5 percent of “Ordinary Time Earnings” (OTE) to 10 percent.
Depending on whether an employee’s salary is expressed as inclusive or exclusive of superannuation, it may result in decrease in an employee’s take home pay, or increased costs for the employer. Consequently, employers should carefully consider the entitlements owed to workers and whether adjustments must be made.
It is important to get superannuation right because there is no statute of limitations on superannuation. Furthermore, if an employer underpays superannuation, it is not a simple matter of making an additional payment to the employee’s super account. The employer is required to pay the money to the ATO together with an administration penalty (75 percent of the liability) and a penalty under Part 7 of the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth), which is up to 200 percent of the underpaid superannuation. Similar to other areas of regulation, self-reporting may reduce the penalty imposed.
The laws governing superannuation can be quite technical. This article sets out some key considerations for employers reviewing their organisation’s superannuation arrangements.
Is remuneration inclusive or exclusive of superannuation?
Superannuation is often framed as an add-on to wages. This is why we say “the pay for this job is $60,000 plus 9.5 percent super”. Every time we use the phrase “plus super”, we are saying that remuneration is exclusive of superannuation.
The benefit of structuring pay as exclusive of superannuation is that it makes it easy to compare the pay rates against Award and Enterprise Agreement rates, because wage rates in Modern Awards and Enterprise Agreements are exclusive of superannuation.
Executives and professionals (including lawyers in law firms) typically have their wages expressed inclusive of superannuation: (e.g. “The salary is $60,000 inclusive of super” or “$54,794 plus 9.5 percent superannuation”). For this group of employees, their take-home pay will reduce on 1 July 2021.
It is not safe to assume that your organisation’s overall wage costs will consistently increase on 1 July 2021 when minimum superannuation contribution rate increases, especially if your organisation’s offer letters and employment contracts have evolved over time. Now is a good time to review your employment documents to assess whether employees have their remuneration expressed as inclusive or exclusive of superannuation.
More super than the legal minimum
Some employees receive more than the legal minimum superannuation contribution, either because they salary sacrifice superannuation or their employment contracts say that they are entitled to more superannuation than the legal minimum (which will be 10 percent on 1 July 2021).
The 0.5 percent increase in the minimum superannuation contribution does not automatically mean that all superannuation contributions in your organisation must increase by 0.5 percent.
It is a good time to revisit your salary sacrifice and employment documentation to consider what the impact is, if any, of the increase in superannuation contributions.
Super for Contractors
The superannuation legislation deems certain contractors (non-employee workers) to be employees eligible to receive superannuation contributions. The ATO interprets these deeming provisions to mean that your organisation (as the “Principal” in that contractor relationship) needs to make superannuation contributions if the contractor meets all of these criteria:
- the contractor is engaged directly, not through a company, trust or partnership, for whom more than half of the value of that contract is for the contractor’s labour;
- the contractor is paid for their personal labour and skills, not by reference to achieving a result (e.g. contractor is paid an hourly rate); and
- the contractor performs the work personally.
Typically, contractor agreements may push the responsibility for making superannuation contributions to the contractor-worker. However, this does not exonerate the Principal from the statutory obligation to make superannuation contributions.
Now is a good time to consider whether your organisation has any potential liability for superannuation for any of its contractors, and whether any underpayments or other past practices need to be rectified.
Common items for super
Superannuation is paid on “Ordinary Time Earnings”. This is a list of common payment types which the ATO has referred to in its key superannuation ruling SGR 2009/2:
|Payment type||Super payable?|
|Overtime pay||No superannuation is payable for this, because by definition, it is overtime. Some employers regularly roster employees to work overtime (i.e. rostered overtime). The starting point is that this is not “Ordinary Time Earnings” for which an employer needs to pay superannuation, even if it is customarily (or ordinarily) how the employees’ work is scheduled. |
|Leave payments||Annual leave, long service leave personal leave payments (i.e. excluding any leave loading) are “Ordinary Time Earnings”. The Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Regulations 2018 (Cth) exclude certain types of leave payments from superannuation contributions, such as paid parental leave and top-up payments for employees undertaking jury service or voluntary emergency management activities (e.g. CFA volunteering) and defence force service. |
|Annual leave loading||Annual leave loading is subject to superannuation unless the employer can demonstrate that the annual leave loading is paid to compensate the employee for the loss of opportunity to work overtime. In our experience, very few employers explicitly state this in their policies, offer letters or employment contracts. For more on this, please see a previous Moores update here. |
|Allowances||Allowances that are paid as reimbursements (e.g. a car allowance that is paid by the kilometre) is not subject to superannuation. Superannuation is payable on a tool allowance or first aid allowance.|
The Court says that is is meant to be simple?
From time to time, it can be difficult to determine whether a particular payment is subject to superannuation. When that happens, it can be helpful to consider the intent of the legislation. Helpfully, the Full Court in Bluescope Steel v AWU said that superannuation legislation aims to provide a simple and efficient way of securing a minimum level of superannuation for workers based on “self-assessment by employers and administration by employers and the Australian Tax Office”.
The upshot is, we need to apply a different lens to superannuation to how we normally look at employment entitlements. Superannuation legislation is not beneficial legislation (beneficial legislation like the Long Service Leave Act is interpreted so that the benefit of the doubt goes automatically in favour of the employee). Superannuation legislation needs to be interpreted with this question in mind: what makes sense given that the system is meant to be simple and easy to administer?
When difficult questions arise in relation to superannuation, it might even be appropriate to approach the ATO for an administratively binding advice.
With the increase to the minimum superannuation contribution, it is worth looking at whether your superannuation arrangements comply with prevailing standards. It pays to be proactive in this space, particularly as there is no statute of limitations.
In light of these changes, we recommend that employers consider:
- Reviewing worker entitlements to determine if wages are inclusive or exclusive of super;
- If workers are currently paid 9.5 percent super, employers will need to increase this to 10 percent;
- Having discussions with employees – particularly if the changes are likely to impact their take home pay;
- Whether there are any historical superannuation practices that need to be rectified;
- Whether it should ask employees to sign new contracts with more modern terms (particularly if employers wish to absorb the increase without a reduction in the take home pay of workers).
How we can help
For more information on what this might mean for your organisation or how to apply it practically, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Note: This article contains general information only. It is not legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice based on your needs and circumstances before taking action on the matters referred to in this article.
From time to time, we hear news that the Coalition Government is considering delaying this superannuation contribution increase. At this time, the Coalition Government has not put forward any legislation to change the scheduled increase.
Pursuant to Section 284-75(3) of Schedule 1 of the Taxation Administration Act 1953. This penalty is known as a TAA default assessment administrative penalty.
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Reducing a new ailment
Are all those pregnancy ailments a thorn in your side too? Chances are, they're causing you a lot of irritation: you feel miserable and your productivity is probably hampered by them. You have already survived the pregnancy sickness, but now you are being harassed by Mr. lower back pain. Another ailment you can miss like a toothache, as it can be very debilitating. Climbing stairs, standing for long periods, but also sitting for long periods and walking can suddenly become quite a challenge (as if not enough other things suddenly become a challenge during pregnancy). But how does this lower back pain arise, and what can you do to reduce it?
How does low back pain arise?
Low back pain can be caused by the center of gravity of your body changing due to your growing belly. This results in a hollow back, while your belly sticks out. You adopt this different position to be able to keep your balance, but unfortunately, your back is not happy with that. Furthermore, your uterus is attached to your back by straps and in this way puts a lot of pressure on it. The conclusion: be kind to your back, because it has a lot to endure.
Pregnancy hormones can also be blamed for lower back pain. To be specific, the hormone progesterone. This hormone causes the joints between the joints to loosen up a bit. This also applies to the connections between the coccyx and the hip bones. While normally there is almost no mobility in this area, during pregnancy this does occur. As annoying as it is, this is nothing crazy, because the body prepares itself in this way for childbirth: the extra space it creates makes childbirth easier. And (pretty much) anything that serves to make childbirth easier we embrace, right?
When can you experience lower back pain?
Most women are harassed by their enemy the low back pain in the second and third trimesters of their pregnancy. During this time, your belly is going through a lot of growth, so you are likely to change your posture which causes back pain.
It is good to remember that back pain can also occur with a bladder infection. Therefore, check for yourself whether you also suffer from other complaints. Do you often sprint to the toilet to empty your bladder, does urinating hurt, and is your urine cloudy? Then contact your doctor to check whether you have a bladder infection.
Tips to reduce lower back pain
Nothing is more annoying than walking around with back pain. Fortunately, there are some things you can look out for to reduce these symptoms:
- Do not bend back when bending over: Try to bend your back as little as possible when bending over, but rather go through your knees to bend over.
- Exercise: Movement and exercise are key! Training your muscles reduces your risk of back problems. Choose a sport that you can still do responsibly during your pregnancy, such as swimming or yoga.
- Standing for a long time is not good: Avoid standing for long periods and sit down when you feel your back pain coming on. Listen to your body, which is doing such an important job right now!
- Avoid long periods of sitting still: Do you have a job that requires you to sit a lot? Regularly schedule a moment to stand up and change your sitting position.
- Equal load: When standing, make sure that the load on both legs and feet is equal, and that when sitting, you sit on both buttocks. For many, this may take some getting used to, but it is better not to sit with your legs crossed if you have back problems.
- Good chair: A chair that provides sufficient support for your back is an absolute must. A swivel chair is a good option.
- Good posture: Try to adopt a good posture that reduces the risk of back problems: tighten your buttocks, push your shoulders forward and straighten your back. That's the drill.
- Putting legs up: Putting your legs up can reduce back pain. Therefore, it's a good idea to put a pillow under your legs when lying on the couch or in bed Relax!
- Pregnancy pillow while sitting: Do you have trouble getting into a good sitting position? Then place a pregnancy pillow under your buttocks while sitting. This will help you to adopt a better sitting posture, and in this way reduce lower back pain.
- Be careful with lifting: Put lifting heavy things on hold for a while. You can pick that up again after your pregnancy.
- Physical therapy: No surprise, but the physical therapist will also be able to help you with back pain. It's her job!
Exercises for back pain during pregnancy
Another good tip to reduce back pain besides swimming or pregnancy yoga is to do exercises that specifically target the back. Don't leave it as an intention, but make it a ritual to do these exercises daily. Get your mat out, put on some nice music, and be sporty spice!
- Pelvic tilt: For this exercise, lie on your back, and bend your knees. Tilt your pelvis forward, and voila, you have a hollow back. Successful? In this case: exercise on repeat, and try to repeat it 20 times in a row.
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Another celebrity has walked away from eating meat and dairy. Although we prefer to call it 4-Leaf, she calls it vegan, and she did it for only one of the five primary reasons covered extensively in our book. She did it for her personal concern for the welfare of animals. But, if everyone knew enough about the other four compelling reasons as well, how could they possibly not want to make the same dietary choice as Ellen?
- Health. Promoting our own health, wiping out mass obesity, slashing the cost of health care, etc.
- Environment. Land, water, trees, climate change, biodiversity and the sheer unsustainability of our Western diet-style.
- Finite Fossil Fuels. The single largest waste of our precious fossil fuels is the production of animal calories — requiring 20 times more energy than plant calories.
- World Hunger. Another unsustainable situation — it takes 20 times more arable land to produce animal calories. Widespread famine is on the way unless we stop the madness soon.
Just watched a Katie Couric interview with Ellen DeGeneres from 2010. After reading Diet for a New America by John Robbins, Skinny Bitch, and watching the movie Earthlings; Ellen decided to become a vegan about two years ago. She said that she could no longer be a part of a system that tortures billions of animals a year so that we may eat them. Like me, she watches her many friends and family members continue to eat this horribly destructive, cruel and unsustainable diet.
She talks candidly in this video about her primary reasons being her genuine care for the welfare of animals — saying that like all other creatures on this planet, they have a right to be left alone. Ellen also mentions the environment and the fact that her health and mental attitude have both improved since she began eating only plants.
Asked by Couric how she felt about the movie, Food Inc., she replied, “It was like a Disney movie compared to Earthlings, which you can view in its entirety for free on this site. A link to that movie is shown below, but first the Katie Couric interview with Ellen — a little over 4 minutes.
If all 300 million meat eaters in this country were required to see Earthlings and HOME, there would be many more millions of people who would adopt the Earth- and animal-friendly plant-based lifestyle. But for now, it’s out-of-sight, out-of-mind for the vast majority. We’ve got a long way to go, but with more influential people like Ellen Degeneres speaking out, we will gradually gather some momentum.
I was at a yacht club awards party for the junior sailors last night. Guess what they served? Hamburgers from the outdoor grill. Out of 100 people, I was the only one who opted only for the extensive assortment of side veggies and salads. But, if the other 99 read our book AND watched Earthlings and HOME, I bet at least ten of them would join me in my corner. And six of those ten would probably be under 20. Once again:
- Preview of our book
- “Earthlings” — A documentary that we all NEED to see
- HOME – a 2009 film — a powerful eye-opener
Thank you Ellen for being a leader of the essential change that is now beginning to gather momentum. Since two of your favorite authors (John Robbins and Kim Barnouin) endorsed our book, maybe you’d like to do the same and help give that momentum a shot in the arm. Better yet, I would love to join you on your show — anytime after October 1, 2011, when our book launches.
If you like what you see here, you may wish to join our periodic mailing list. Also, for help in your own quest to take charge of your health, you might find some useful information at our 4-Leaf page. From the seaside village of Stonington, Connecticut – Be well and have a great day.
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A protein shredder that occurs in cell membranes of brain cells apparently also indirectly regulates the fat metabolism. This is shown by a recent study by the University of Bonn. The shredder, known as gamma-secretase, is considered a possible target for drugs against cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. However, the results suggest that such agents may have long-range effects that need to be watched closely. The study has now been published in the journal Life Science Alliance.
Every cell in the body is surrounded by a fatty film called the plasma membrane. It also contains numerous proteins that span the membrane from outside to inside and act as sensors for the cell: When they encounter certain molecules on the outside, they generate a signal on the inside of the membrane, thereby regulating certain reactions within the cell. Other membrane proteins are able to transport certain substances into the cell.
Gamma-secretase plays an important role in the release of membrane-anchored signaling proteins. But it is also a “cleaning specialist” for discarded membrane proteins: It breaks down the proteins within the cell membrane for further disposal. With this function, the secretase has been in the focus of Alzheimer’s research for almost two decades: Many brain cells contain a protein called APP in their membrane. When gamma-secretase breaks down APP, one of the fragments is released into the brain fluid: the so-called Abeta peptide. This peptide is the main constituent of the plaques found in the damaged brain areas of Alzheimer’s patients. “Originally, it was therefore hoped that the inhibition of gamma-secretase could slow down Alzheimer’s disease,” explains Prof. Dr. Jochen Walter. “Unfortunately, that hasn’t proved successful so far.”
Waste in the membrane
It is now known that gamma secretase exerts important roles in the functioning of cells. If it fails, cellular membranes gradually fills up with waste. This could for instance impair the effective uptake of certain molecules into the cells. The current study shows serious consequences of such a failure. The APP also plays a key role here: “When we inhibit gamma secretase in cell cultures, APP accumulates in the membranes,” explains Walter’s colleague Dr. Esteban Gutierrez. “This in turn hinders the absorption of so-called lipoproteins from the environment.”
This mechanism triggers a fatal process. Lipoproteins are particles of proteins and fat-like molecules, the lipids. If too few of them enter the cell, the cell suspects a lipid deficiency. To remedy this, the cell increases its own lipid synthesis. “We have shown that inhibition of the causes a strong activation of a central regulator of lipid synthesis called LXR,” says Gutierrez. The lipids are partially transported out of the cell; however, due to the disturbed lipoprotein uptake, the cell does not receive feedback that this measure was successful and continues to produce more lipids. This means that numerous fat droplets accumulate inside the cell over time. In excessive quantities, this leads to adiposis in the cell interior, which can disrupt important cellular functions.
“Other studies have already shown that a disruption of the lipid metabolism in the brain can also contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease,” explains Prof. Walter. “Our study points to a mechanism by which this could happen.” The inhibition of gamma secretase may therefore cause an opposite effect one would expect from this measure.
Inhibition of secretase hinders the division of cancer cells
However, it is more promising in another context—the fight against cancer. The cell membrane contains proteins that stimulate cell division. If gamma-secretase is inactivated in tumor cells, these proteins are no longer released from the membrane, and thus, the cancer cells can no longer replicate as quickly. “In this case, too, the treatment causes side effects,” Walter emphasizes. “As long as they are mainly confined to cancer cells, this is probably not a major problem; nevertheless, one should keep an eye on them.”
The publication is also an expression of successful collaboration within the university: With the laboratories of Professors Jochen Walter, Dieter Lütjohann and Christoph Thiele, neuroscientists, pharmacologists and biochemists from the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Bonn worked together hand in hand on this project.
CRISPR helps identify potential Alzheimer’s-related protein
Esteban Gutierrez et al. Importance of γ-secretase in the regulation of liver X receptor and cellular lipid metabolism, Life Science Alliance (2020). DOI: 10.26508/lsa.201900521
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Restaurant business is a good investment for those who love food. It is a business that will never bore a person because a lot of experiments can be done on discovering new ideas and trends when it comes to the strategies that will make it grow. However, there are also challenges that are needed to be considered such as selecting the right location, thinking of the best strategies to attract customers, making the best food and assuring its taste that differs from any other restaurants of the same. Putting up a restaurant should start from developing the concepts up to its implementation. And it should take necessary actions to be able to meet the expectations of the guests and manage the quality of products as well as an excellent customer service.
As the restaurant industry emerges in the world market, it requires innovation such as advertising through modern media. It basically attributes web and print advertising. Restaurant industry requires more effort on keeping the customers and maintaining a good advertisement in order to gain prospects. People are also one of the focuses of this business as you get to know people whom will be your guests and not just customers.
Taking for account the best strategy to inform the target market about the products and services of a restaurant caters to the print and web advertisement. Today, the use of print and web advertising seems to be the fad of many companies and almost overtakes the television. Print advertising is an effective tool of promoting the product or a brand because it catches the attention of the readers in a longer time rather than television. However, television ads attract more viewers because of its visual representation of the product. From the company’s point of view, print advertising is an effective tool because it lasts longer on the media compared to the time duration given to the television ad (Glaser, 2007). Thus, print advertisement can be an appropriate medium to use as an ad campaign for a restaurant considering the idea that pictures of the products can be very effective on print ads such as magazines, newspapers and other.
But what is more in today is the use of web advertising. Web advertising is a way of globalization because it reaches not only the local market but also it attributes international selling. Web advertising is also known as online advertising where businesses promote the product through the use of the internet. Web advertisements usually contain the messages that attract the customers to buy the product or service of a company. As such, these advertisements appear in the banners, social networks, e-mails, search engines and the like. There are also web advertisements which allow the lookers to interact with the ad. This means that viewers can have their own choice on what to look at when it comes to the posts on a particular page. There are web posts that are in the form of a video and this significantly reaches the level of television ad. Through this, viewers can also respond to the ad by giving feedbacks by sending emails, live chats or through phone and sometimes video conferencing (Glaser, 2007).
Comparing print advertising into web advertising defines the grounds between which is more attractive and which one conveys the message of the campaign well. Print advertising can be a good form of communication for a restaurant business because it somehow serves as the menu of the restaurant, while web advertising is also a good way of presenting the business because the use of internet is everywhere (Baines, 2001). However, using print is more likely to be costly because of the expenses in printing while web advertising requires a good visual representation when it appears on a web page and this may somehow cost the advertiser. Hence, it will be good though if a restaurant will be using both techniques. Print advertisement is for the target market that do not use internet much while web advertisements are for the internet users and this would likely depicts a business to business sense of advertisement. Usually, advertising online attracts for the potential customers of the restaurant as well as other investors.
It is good to assume that web advertisements do not always have a positive feedback because most of the net lookers are not ‘users’, they are just ‘buyers’. When we say ‘users’, it means that they are the ones who directly use the product or eat in a restaurant. Users are those who would likely pass by a restaurant and eat because of an ad that they have seen on streets or somewhere that can be seen in a long period of time. Buyers then are those who seek for something but do not directly intend to use the product. Web advertisements are not that visible than print ads because access to the internet is needed before the market can view it. Basically web advertisements are for a specific target market and it caters to the users of the internet only. What’s risky about using internet as the medium for ad campaigns is that there is no assurance of a good turnover and most likely, a small number of customers will be able to discover to the business online. However, advertising online is a start of selling internationally. Restaurant owners just have to consider the grounds for international selling in order to reach the potential customers across the globe.
It is said that internet is the best medium for advertising nowadays. Different kinds of businesses will be able to help by web advertising such as a restaurant business. Many small restaurants now have their own websites and are included in the local business directories which provide them an online list. However, as what is mentioned earlier, it is not recommended that a business would only get a website and let it be. Websites should be maintained and interaction with the customers is needed most especially for restaurant businesses because customer’s loyalty should prevail.
There are a lot of restaurants that have been successful through online advertising and putting up their own websites. One example is the Chomp Menus.com, it is actually a site where www.gatormenu.com and www.gatorwaiter.com are put together in order to merge as one. Combing the two restaurant sites is a proof that web advertisement can give success to the business owners. In addition to, the host of the site is YNot Advertising which is a restaurant based advertising (YNot Advertsing, 2005).
The story of Doris and Nat, restaurant owners, also depicts successful story non using web advertising for their restaurant. It is actually an Italian restaurant which is operated by their family members and few employees. One of the services of the restaurant is the delivery of the pizzas to the customers within half a mile (Vener, 2007). They have done a good job though but when competitors came out, it appears that the business have been into a battle of competition between Pizza Hut and Domino. Certainly, they need to emerge and advertise in order to promote the quality of their products and services and be distinguished from any other restaurants (Vener, 2007). The strategies of the other competitors are more on the print ads where they give leaflets and other materials to promote the restaurant. But this is quite costly for the couple and other media for advertising are too expensive as well such as the television ad and radio ad (Vener, 2007). Hence, they have thought of advertising through the internet. They put a large sign in front of the store saying that they have an online site where people can buy and order pizza. Through this site, the owners can collect lists of customers which they think will order again and be a loyal customer of the restaurant (Vener, 2007). This is also a good start of spreading the website where potential customers discover the restaurant through their common friends.
Owning a website is less expensive than other advertisements. Actually there are free sites over the net that can host a page and proper management is just the most important thing to consider. Time and energy can be minimized as well because less effort is needed unlike producing leaflets for the restaurants, making a television or radio ad or paying them. Effort, time, energy and money can be saved if web advertisement will be used. In addition to, web advertising is an instant process or way of spreading the information about the business and does not restricts the content in the sense of how far it can go or the duration of time that it can reach the potential customers. Payments with regard to the advertisements online toward the business are actually easy to manage because various selections are available over the net. This appears to be convenient for the customers because they do not need to go out and pay personally for the products, payments can be done directly through money transfers which is very handy to do over the net (Glaser, 2007).
Web advertising should be tried by restaurant businesses because this trend is emerging in the market. For small businesses, it can be successful in the local market up until it branch out to a bigger one and try international selling. This kind of advertising is worth a try because it carries a lot of advantages where other kinds of advertisements can not do. Unlike web advertising, print advertising is difficult to reach far places and very costly in reality. Print advertising also requires a lot of energy for maintaining and managing the status of advertisement in the market unlike web advertising that can be manipulated just through the use of internet (Glaser, 2007).
Table: showing the comparison of Web and Print Advertising
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Distinguishing the benefits of web advertising from other media in advertising reveals a lot of advantages that a restaurant business can get from it. Less time, cost and energy is needed in advertising over the net than print advertising. The differences and similarities of web advertising and print advertising are mentioned through the discussion and thus it appears that web advertisement will more likely to offer a great advantage than print most especially in restaurant businesses.
Print advertising is more expensive than putting up a website and advertise online. Not only restaurant promotion can be done over the net but also getting orders and directly doing business as if it is in the normal mode of operation. This brings great convenience not only to the customers for they can save time and effort going to the store buying pizza, but also to the owners because they can have more keeping up the quality of customer service and customer satisfaction in the restaurant. Also, web advertising makes the customers to develop brand loyalty for the restaurant because of the convenience that they can have through online ordering. This particularly points out to those working people who only have minimum time for ordering personally.
Thus, it will be best recommended that a web advertisement will be used in order to promote a restaurant. Though print advertisements are tested effective, web advertisements though give the same benefits but more advantages are seen on advertising over the net. However, it should be put on a highlight that a website is not enough for a restaurant. The use of websites for ordering should be properly planned and is included in the marketing plan as a strategy to be able to take extra effect on the business. And for any ideas, it should be properly managed in order to achieve the goal that the business aims. It will be a great help for the restaurant businesses to promote the products and services that it offers through the use of web ad as it embraces a larger market. It will also be helpful for determining the position of the business in the market as it emerge in the competition of businesses of the same.
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Do you know how Gmail can help you in your work?
Sending emails is an inextricable part of your work routine. However, there are some features that are able to improve your productivity if you have learned them.
Right now you’re going to learn about some Gmail features. And as a bonus, you will find out how to make your work with Gmail more comfortable and well-organized.
How to filter email in Gmail
Imagine that you regularly receive emails from one client. And you want to filter out his correspondence from the rest. This is where Filtering comes in. You can set up a filter that will label all the inbound emails from the priority client in the future.
How to set up a labeling filter?
Open the email from your client, click the More options icon and choose Filter messages like these. In the newly open menu you fill out extra details such as an email subject or words that emails must include or not. Then click Create filter.
As you can see, there are a lot of ways to manage your emails. In our case choose Apply the label and add the label desired. Don’t forget to click the button Create filter. Afterwards, all the correspondence from your top client will be labeled.
How to multitask and not to forget to do anything?
The tabs Calendar and Tasks are your saviors. Open the Google Calendar and add a note about forthcoming event. Save it. And now it’s automatically added to your tasks list.
What if you need to send an email outside of your working time?
In this case use, schedule send. After composing an email click on the arrow sign next to the button Send and pick the date.
Don’t like the email you have just sent?
Undo it. To set up this function go to the settings and choose the number of seconds after which you can cancel sending. Now once you have sent an email, you can undo it.
It is not enough
There have been some tips to boost your productivity in Gmail. However, only Gmail is not enough to manage relationships with your clients.
Friday CRM is the solution. It is a free tool that will bring order to your correspondence with your clients and help improve relationships with them.
The whole correspondence is one place
Now you can see all the emails you and your client have sent to each other in one place. There is no need to create filters and labels. Open a deal’s contacts profile and here it is: the whole history is stored.
Add your task right into a deal’s or contact’s card
And you will never miss a meeting or forget to send important documents. Due to integration with Gmail and Google Calendar you are able to synchronize all your tasks with Google Calendar. Now all your daily tasks are both on Friday CRM and in Google Calendar (Gmail).
You can send emails right on Friday СRM using the function Email for short messages
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What else can Friday CRM do?
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Welt im Film 308/1951 27.04.1951
01 Paris: Signing of the Schuman (Association of coal and steel, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg)-the clock room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Politicians at tables. Adenauer half close to Schuman signed. Adenauer signed. Certificate. Adenauer speaking on return at press conference about the importance of the Schuman plan. Actuality: "iron and steel has in the past in the past decades, in the past centuries with the struggle of the peoples of Europe against each other a fatal role played, because all the weapons were from iron and steel." Now iron and steel to bring together the peoples of Europe to a commonality of action and thinking."
(34 m) 02 updates soon a. United States: return General Mac Arthur MacArthur drive in an open car through crowd. The population of San Francisco cheers. The Capitol. Mac Arthur speaks before Congress. Crowd celebrates farewell of the General.
(21 m) b. England: Sinking of the submarine affray submarine on the sea. Dive the submarine. Search fleet and aircraft.
(20 m) c. Korea: inauguration of a U.S. tank soldier cemetery drive through rough terrain. Gunfire. Do the soldiers in the area. Inauguration of a soldier cemetery in Pusan.
(20 m) d. Bonn: Elly Heuss-Knapp speaks to the Catastrophies Elly Heuss-Knapp sits on sofa and speaking, great. Interview: "I hope Very much this year, as well as in the last year, enough money will come together, that we can continue our Catastrophies. ' Last year we sent get and 26,000 women therefore have mostly 3 weeks on holiday 2 1/2 million and the 42 homes that were there previously, meanwhile, 75 homes have become." Women lying on sun loungers, go for a walk. Elly Heuss among the mothers.
(19 m) 03 Munich: Europe train starts to the Europe drive Europe train with Marshall plan exhibition at the Munich main station. The visitors of the exhibition. The European phone. Blücher visited exhibition.
(32 m) 04. Frankfurt: International Automobile Show aerial view of the exhibition grounds. Helicopter lands on the crosshairs. People in exhibition. Borgward. Changing of twin tyres continental tyres. Heuss in exhibition with Mayor Kolb. Opel booth captain. Ford. VW turns to date. Old Mercedes model dating back to 1901. Mercedes of 300 DKW sedan and convertible. Goliath-sport. Hanomag. Jaguar.
(47 m) 05. Munich: spring parade of fashion mannequins of the Salon Jean Lafaurie Paris and the brothers Reischenbeck, Munich, perform at the hotel Bayrischer Hof fashions. Dresses up to the calf. Large black hat. Long jacket with belt. Afternoon dress. Day dress. High thick heels. Evening dresses.
(33 m) 06. sport of the week seriously and cheerful a. Darmstadt: Darmstadt football: football Darmstadt 98 - FSV Frankfurt 1:1 game. Spectators, half-close. In the 10th minute, Frankfurt which 0 Darmstadt shoots 1: shoots compensation. Boys on the sidelines waving flags. Goalkeeper keeps.
(28 m) b. Berlin and Travemünde: training Tiger Jones and Hein ten Hoff Tiger Jones boxes the Sandbag and skipping. Hein ten Hoff in Travemünde in the training fight. Ten Hoff in addition to coach MacPherson.
(12 m) c. Düsseldorf: Motocross motorcycle riders on the track. Fall. Jumps with the motorcycles. People along the way. Winners will be congratulated.
(19 m) d. Los Angeles: Taucherbabies children to jump with a plunge into the water. Swimmer with 10 months old baby while diving. Somersault underwater.
Persons in the Film
Sachindex Wochenschauen ; Boxes ; Railways ; Disasters ; Europe, EDC, EEC ; Football ; motor sports ; Pacts ; Political events ; Press, press conferences ; Shipping ; Swimming ; sports audience, sports spectator ; Buildings ; Korea ; automotive industry ; Marshall plan ; Military events ; Contracts ; Welfare, aid agencies, care ; Flugzeugwesen, Flugwesen ; Fashion ; aerial photographs ; Exhibitions ; aftermath of war
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Most of us would be a bit troubled if we were told that a polyp had been discovered somewhere in our body. They do not follow the normal growth patterns of healthy tissues, so of course the presence of a polyp is not good news. However, the majority of polyps are not cancerous, although some may turn into cancer over time. Knowledge is power, as they say, so let’s learn what we can about polyps in order to best understand and deal with them if the situation arises.
What Are Polyps?
The term polyp refers to an abnormal overgrowth of tissue (neoplasm or “new growth”) protruding from the surface of a mucous membrane. They are generally classified as either pedunculated (attached by an elongated stalk) or sessile (flattened), and can take a variety of shapes, the most common being round, droplet, or irregular. Polyps may form anywhere in the body where mucosal tissues are present, but are most commonly found in the colon, stomach, rectum, uterus, and nose. Polyps are collections of tissue cells that keep growing beyond normal limits. A mass of cells that compose any overgrowth is called a “tumor,” and like all tumors, polyps can be benign (they stop growing), or malignant (also called cancerous because they do not stop growing and can spread to other parts of the body). Most types of polyps are of concern because a small percentage of them will start out benign, and may at some point become malignant if not removed.
Perhaps the best way to approach our study of polyps is to look in more detail at the most common types that are typically found in the body.
Colon polyps, one of the most common types, can grow at various places within the intestinal tract, and the vast majority of them are harmless. However, they should not be ignored because statistical studies have shown that approximately 1% of colon polyps will at some point turn malignant.
Colon polyps are relatively common, affecting about 30% of the population over 50 years of age. They can range in size from that of a pea up to that of a golf ball. They arise from the mucosal lining of the intestinal wall. Most of them, up to 95%, occur in the large intestine, with the remainder found in the small intestine. Those in the large intestine generally cause more problems and have a greater chance of being or becoming malignant.
Most colon polyps will not show significant symptoms, and are often discovered during routine screenings or exams. However, there are some possible signs that can occur. Some of the most common include:
- Rectal bleeding: Look for consistency here, over a period of weeks. Bright red blood on toilet paper after a bowel movement may indicate a colon polyp, but it is also associated with hemorrhoids or harmless tears in the anus. On the other hand, it can also be a sign of colon cancer, so if it persists, get it checked out.
- Blood in the stool: If blood is present, it can be an indicator of colon polyps. Bloody stools will often appear black or dark red. Be aware that certain medications and things that you eat can color your stool as well. Beets, for example, tend to cause your stool to appear as if there is blood present.
- Changes in bowel habits: Again, look for persistency. If you have unexplained diarrhea or constipation for over a week, it may be a sign of colon polyps.
- Bowel pain or obstruction: Larger colon polyps can obstruct part or all of your colon, which can be a painful and critical situation that needs immediate emergency care.
The three main types of colon polyps are:
- Adenomatous, which can grow quite large. Once they get larger than about ¼ inch in diameter, there is an increased risk that they may become malignant, and those over ½ inch are even at greater risk of being cancerous. Most malignant colon polyps are of this variety.
- Hyperplastic, most often found in the descending (left) colon, are rarely cancerous and typically remain small.
- Inflammatory, often the result of ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. They are usually harmless, but be aware that having ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease does increase your risk of colon cancer.
Certain hereditary conditions can greatly increase your risk for colon polyps, and colon cancer as well:
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is relatively rare. FAP patients develop hundreds or thousands of colon polyps in their teen and young adult years, and their risk of colon cancer later in life is extremely high. If FAP runs in your family, genetic testing is advised to determine if you have the disorder. A variant of FAP called Gardner’s syndrome also causes a greater incidence of colon polyps, as well as benign tumors in other parts of the body such as the skin, bones, and abdomen.
- Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC): Unlike FAP, HNPCC patients develop fewer numbers of polyps, but they may quickly become malignant. Some HNPCC patients also tend to more easily develop tumors in other parts of the body, such as the ovaries, breast, and urinary tract.
This type of polyp is rare, with less than one per cent of the general population ever experiencing them. The three most common types are:
- Hyperplastic stomach polyps: Often associated with gastritis, inflammation of the stomach lining, more than 50% of all stomach polyps are of this type. Less than 3% become cancerous.
- Fundic gland stomach polyps: Mostly found in the upper part of the stomach (the “fundus”), they rarely cause problems. They are of concern if you have FAP, however, because in this case they can turn malignant.
- Adenomas: These arise from the glandular tissues of the stomach, and are also more common in folks who suffer from gastritis. About 10% of all stomach polyps are of this variety, but they present some of the greatest health concerns. Adenomas have a better chance of becoming malignant than other types, especially if they become large. They usually need to be surgically removed to avoid the risk of turning cancerous.
The rectum is the last section of the intestines, connecting the end of the large intestine with the anus, where waste exits the body. Rectal polyps are of similar concern as colon polyps because most colorectal cancers, up to 90%, form from initially benign polyps in the colon or rectum.
Like all polyps, the majority of rectal polyps are benign, especially in children and adults under 40. Typical signs that could indicate the presence of rectal polyps are bleeding from the anus, cramps and other abdominal discomfort. Large rectal polyps can cause total or partial blockage of the rectum, which is an emergency situation.
Also known as endometrial polyps, these form in the mucosal lining of the uterus (the “endometrium”). They are most commonly found in women between 40-50 years of age, both pre and post-menopausal. Typical symptoms include:
- Irregular menstrual periods, either at odd times or unusual amounts of bleeding.
- Bleeding between menstrual periods.
- Unusually heavy bleeding during menses.
- Post-menopausal vaginal bleeding.
Uterine polyps that advance into the cervix (opening of the uterus into the vagina) are called cervical polyps. Most uterine and cervical polyps are benign, but certain types of reproductive system cancers can appear as polyps, so it is important to determine if they are benign or not. Larger polyps can partially block the fallopian tubes, causing fertility difficulties in some women.
There are a lot of mucous membranes in the nasal passages, and sometimes polyps will form in this area. They are found most often in folks with chronic respiratory conditions such as hay fever (allergic rhinitis) or people who are exposed to abnormal amounts of pollutants such as dust or certain types of chemicals. Many people who have an allergic sensitivity to aspirin will also develop nasal polyps.
Nasal polyps are not malignant, but they can interfere with normal breathing and/or proper sense of smell, or contribute to chronic conditions such as sinusitis. Typical signs of nasal polyps include:
- Runny nose
- Chronic stuffy nose
- Decreased sense of smell
- Chronic sinus infections
How Can Polyps Be Treated or Prevented?
There are many types of polyps that need to be surgically removed, especially if they are pre-cancerous or the patient has a genetic disorder such as FAP that can greatly increase their chances of getting certain types of cancer. Generally, most polyps can be quite easily removed through minimally invasive procedures, as surgeries go. The greatest risk for intestinal polyps surgery is perforation of the colon, so be sure whomever you allow to do the procedure has a proven track record. This is also a risk you should be aware of when certain diagnostic tests used to check for polyps, such as a colonoscopy, are performed as well.
The majority of the most common and potentially dangerous polyps, such as intestinal polyps in the colon, stomach, and rectum, can be avoided by eliminating certain risks:
- Diet: What we eat and don’t eat is a huge factor for the incidence of intestinal polyps and related cancers as well. It is a proven fact that diets high in saturated fats (especially animal fats from meats and dairy foods), sugar, salt, and low in fiber increase your risk for intestinal polyps and cancers. A wholesome diet heavy on fruits and veggies, whole grains, and alternative forms of protein is the best defense against these types of conditions. Fruits and veggies also contain anti-oxidants that help prevent polyps and cancer. Load up on vegetables with deep-green, yellow, or orange colors, which are particularly high in antioxidants. Lycopene, found in tomatoes, peppers, and strawberries, among other red fruits and vegetables, is also an excellent preventative measure.
- Calcium: Speaking of diet, high amounts of calcium are excellent at preventing polyps and some forms of cancer as well. Dietary sources are best, including broccoli, kale, and salmon (especially the bones!).
- Watch your weight: Obesity increases risk for uterine, cervical, and intestinal polyps and cancers. A combination of eating well and getting plenty of regular exercise will help you to control your weight and reduce risks for many conditions, including polyps.
In a sense, most polyps are a warning sign given to us by our creator to let us know we are heading in the wrong direction health wise. With many types of polyps, it can take up to five years before they will turn from benign to malignant. In most cases, the same factors that cause polyps, like poor dietary and lifestyle choices, may eventually result in cancer. Consider polyps as a red flag signaling us to turn around and reform our foolish unhealthy patterns while there is still time. | <urn:uuid:12bb1693-26ed-4893-b6a9-653aa84494f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oawhealth.com/condition/polyps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94876 | 2,406 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Twist N Turns Dance Studios welcomes you!
Twist N Turns dance studio caters dance training, teaching and educating services at its dance studios. Dance styles like Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary, Ballet, Bollywood, Locking, Popping, House, Old School, Salsa, Bachata and more. The styles are taught separately to different age groups. start from 3.5 years old.
All dance styles are taught by an individual expert in the fields.
Twist N Turns is happy about!
It is our pleasure to invite you into a world that is absolutely magical – the world of Dance. "We, at TWIST N TURNS (TNT), take full pride and joy in embracing people from all cultural backgrounds and educating them in one of our most beautiful heritage, Dance, both National and International !!! "
When someone asks us why we should dance, we ask, “Why not?” Which other activity brings together expression, creativity, fitness, therapy and is one of the social graces as well?
WHY SHOULD YOU DANCE?
Dance, at its best, is art - etched by a body moving in rhythm to the music. But, while dance as art may be beyond most of us, dance as an expression is available to all of us. And if we can express ourselves with some technique and some skill, why not learn?
Dance, at its peak, is the athleticism of Olympic levels – requiring strength, fitness, endurance, and stamina of champions. Even at its most basic level, it is a form of full-body exercise with immense cardiovascular benefits.
But dance is not just physical fitness. Dance is one of the most effective stress-busters – combining as it does an avenue for expression as well as physical exercise.
Dance also is a social grace. While we may not have to get up and dance at every social occasion, dance teaches us basic courtesies like learning to move without stepping on anyone else toes.
Dance inculcates in us a range of life skills – from confidence, teamwork, awareness, and consideration of others.
But above all, dance is elemental. It is present in each and every human being – may be more hidden in some than in others.
But, yes, it is there.
"So, come to dance with us and connect with this elemental part of yourself."
From the Director
Thank you for your interest in Twist N Turns!
Twist N Turns dance studios have a relaxed, fun-filled atmosphere while also promoting a positive learning environment. I would like to give you some information and policies regarding the dance studio. We start to form classes in early summer.
Students must join in a summer session or at the new fall session. We do not let new students join throughout the school year as technique and recital performance material begins right away first semester. Classes will be based primarily on grade level, however, the instructor reserves the right to move individual students according to their skill level. We want students to have fun and be with their friends as much as possible, but we also want the class skill level to be equal and for all students to learn at the same pace.
Please let us know specifically what class or classes your child is interested in taking. Kindly get in touch with our studio managers for that. Registration takes place in mid to late March at the dance studio. At this time, you will fill out the necessary paperwork and will need to pay at least 1st-semester tuition fees. You will also have the opportunity to order jazz and ballet shoes from the studio itself. You will also be able to tour the studio and meet the instructors.
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Medical costs consist of health center remains, physician visits, co-pays, and also prescriptions. Other expenditures are not compensated by insurance policy plans yet are deductible. These expenditures consist of prescription medications, medical insurance costs, and glasses, get in touches with, props, as well as wheelchairs. Typically, a doctor’s browse through costs more than a couple hundred bucks, as well as these expenditures are tax obligation insurance deductible. Depending upon the conditions, these expenditures can be a significant part of your complete yearly income.
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Medical modern technology is utilized throughout the healthcare system to boost individual care and accelerate recuperation. It can be an instrument, appliance, software application, or implant made use of to deal with or check human health and wellness. A few of the most usual sorts of clinical tools consist of syringes, cardiac pacemakers, as well as optical imaging modern technologies. Artificial insemination diagnostics are non-invasive tests performed on organic examples. These are vital in the medical diagnosis of different diseases, and also can provide results swiftly. Great post to read
The use of medical innovation is very important to patients who feel misdiagnosed or dismissed. The term “clinical gaslighting” is utilized by clients that feel they are being played. It comes from a play in which a spouse attempts to drive his partner insane. While it may appear amusing, lots of people define their search for a precise diagnosis as frustrating. Furthermore, females as well as people of color are commonly treated differently by medical professionals. These misdiagnoses can be ruining to a patient’s overall health and wellness and lifestyle. | <urn:uuid:c582fbe3-4254-4e18-acbb-a8c48244155a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lemportepieces.com/2022/04/11/right-heres-what-no-one-tells-you-around-medical/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971079 | 1,376 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The application to erect a wind turbine on land near Thoulstone Farm was refused by Wiltshire Council last month on the grounds that it would have a “significant and detrimental effect on the character of the landscape”.
The planning application was submitted in September last year. A protest group called Stop Thoulstone Farm Wind Turbine was formed to voice the fierce opposition from local residents.
Spokesperson for the group, Tim Page said, “It is a victory for common sense, good judgment by the planning authorities, and of localism in action.
“Over 90% of local people polled in Chapmanslade, Corsley and Upton Scudamore were against the proposal; all of the surrounding parish councils, the local county councillors, Wiltshire and Somerset CPREs and the local MP were all equally opposed to it.
“People realise that erecting a single turbine is an exercise in fleecing both the taxpayer and the electricity bill payer of their hard-earned money behind a false story, hysterically delivered, that it might be somehow saving the planet from man-made global warming.”
The 87m (285’) structure would have interfered with the surrounding area and its heritage, the planning officers found.
The official decision said, “The introduction of a tall strident, imposing, dominant, alien form of vertical structure, emphasised in its scale and presence by the movement and sweep of the rotor blades, would be at odds with the key characteristics of the landscape which sees few vertical features.
“As such the dominance and uncharacteristic nature of the proposal would have a significant and detrimental effect on the character of the landscape, the setting of the AONB [Area of Natural Beauty] and would cause considerable harm to views both towards and from Cley Hill which is a dominant feature in the wider landscape.”
The council was also dissatisfied with the information provided regarding the noise the turbine would make and its impact on the local historic environment, nor did they believe that the application had been undertaken in accordance with Historic England’s published guidelines.
A contact at applicant Clearwood Energy Ltd declined to comment on the decision and did not confirm whether or not they would appeal.
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Hello sunshine, we see you!
At Babiators, we love that big yellow circle in the sky for all the splendid, sunny days that it houses, where our rockstars can play and be totally awesome!
Most importantly though, we love our sun because we know how to have fun while keeping all our adventurers safe and happy. That’s why for Sun Awareness Week, we’re making sure our little sun society is well protected this week and forever more.
What is Sun Awareness Week?
This year, from the 3rd to the 9th May 2022, The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) runs their annual Sun Awareness Week campaign. Their aim is to focus on the dangers of UV exposure and how to protect you and your team of little explorers when outside.
Sun safety is something we’re very hot on all year round because UV rays are still damaging even on those cloudier days – yes, we’re looking at you, British summer! But what many parents don’t realise is that UV protection for our little guys is super important, as they receive more annual sun exposure than adults. It's also important to pay attention to the eyelids and skin around the eyes as this is delicate and vulnerable too!
This increased exposure to sunlight increases the risk of eye damage from ultraviolet (UV) light because unlike adult eyes, kids’ eyes are still maturing and cannot filter out the harmful UV rays as effectively.
Why do we need Sun Awareness Week?
Did you know, The World Health Organisation estimates that up to 80% of our lifetime exposure to damaging UV radiation occurs before age 18?
Sun Awareness Week is there to remind us that the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays, while a real treat for us Brits, can pose a danger to yours and your kid’s health. Excessive exposure to the sun, especially on the eyes without sufficient UV protection can cause a number of problems, including cataracts, macular degeneration and in the most serious circumstances, cancer. Even if you don’t experience immediate issues that cause temporary vision loss, the lasting effects of sun damage to the eyes can be debilitating.
Protecting their eyes from sun damage
OK, so scary stats over… what we’re saying is, we can all have a great time soaking up the much-needed vitamin D, while making sure our eyes aren’t suffering from the negative effects of sun exposure. The answer? Babiators UV protection sunglasses.
With us, you can find a range of stylish sunglasses that all offer 100% UVB/UVA shatterproof lenses which provide maximum protection. Plus, to help maintain all-day protection, our silicone strap helps sunglasses stay on even the most active explorers!
What makes Babiators a cut above the rest, is they are especially designed for kids. We know that there will be bumps, bangs, and blows to every pair of Babiators during every adventure. So, we make sure our frames are super durable, flexible and comfortable so that, in the event of a tumble, they can be picked up, brushed off, and popped back onto little faces!
In the (rare) event your superhero manages to break these ultra-durable sunglasses, we’ve got you covered too. With one year of purchase, we will send you a free replacement (all you pay is shipping)! Just remember to simply register on the Babiators website within 30 days of purchase using the UPC code (12-digit number above the box's bar code).
Choosing the right sunglasses
We’ve shed some light – pardon the pun - on why Babiators are the answer to your safe, summer fun, but now comes the opportunity to pick your style.
For your walking, talking bundles of joy, we always recommend that they have a say in what styles to choose. By letting them pick their own pair of sunnies, there’s a much greater chance that they’ll be “cool” enough to wear with pride!
New in for Babiators
If you’re planning on some wetter adventures this summer, we’re totally on board! Our new in Babiators Submariners are designed for all our little aquatic-fanatics, to safely explore every pool, shoreline and more!
Offering 100% UV protection too, our Submariners help to combat UV exposure in water. This is because, in the sea and sun-exposed pools, water is highly reflective meaning UV rays can be reflected by as much as 30%!
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You are from Mombello
Seventy years later the headquarters of Bonaparte… turned into a psychiatric hospital. In a few decades, it soon became the largest in Italy, with over three thousand patients.
“Te se de Mumbell!” (“you are from Mombello”) was a popular expression in the local dialect to say that a person was sick in the head.
The “quiets” were the lucky ones, because they stayed in the old Napoleonic Villa.
In 1997 a law sanctioned the closure of mental hospitals in Italy. The shelters and clinics were abandoned and these still lie, with floors covered with rags and forgotten clinical reports. To the people who venture into this quiet solitude, walking among dust and broken glasses, they seem to breathe the anguish of a life misunderstood. Today it’s a destination for photographers, artists and homeless. | <urn:uuid:aeade9e4-26f2-4bcf-8a5c-058a15329a2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.milani.info/en/portfolio/you-are-from-mombello/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967528 | 189 | 2.25 | 2 |
HGH Growth Spray
Why HGH Growth Spray Works
What is Human Growth Hormone (hGH)?HGH is produced by the pituitary gland in large amounts when we are young, but secretion falls off sharply as we age. Human Growth Hormone promotes tissue repair, cell regeneration in the bones, muscles and vital organs, and supports the immune system in combating infection and disease. HGH achieves this by improving movement of amino acids (the building blocks of cells and muscles) across cell membranes. As the body's cells die off, hGH ensures that replacement cells are healthy and readily available. HGH Factor supplementation supports the body's ability to self-repair and to delay the aging process.
How does the Human Growth Agent (HGH/HGF) Spray work?The Human Growth Agent (HGH/HGF) Spray is a proprietary formulation that stimulates the pituitary gland to increase its release of Human Growth Hormone into the bloodstream. The Human Growth Agent Spray includes releasing agents, which are naturally occurring growth hormone peptide molecules. These peptides function as messengers to stimulate hGF and naturally direct the pituitary to achieve maximum GH support.
What's unique about Human Growth Agent (HGH/HGF) Spray?The Human Growth Agent (HGH/HGF) Spray offers sustained release for guaranteed absorption and delivery. Its revolutionary hGF delivery system suspends 2,000 ng. (nanograms) of hGF in a phospholipid, aqueous solution that is sprayed into the mouth and absorbed directly into the bloodstream via the oral mucosa.
Why was this product developed as a spray?hGH is a protein consisting of 191 amino acids. Its large molecules cannot be absorbed if delivered via pill or capsule, because the protein would readily undergo digestion in the stomach, break down and lose all its active properties. However, HGH is easily and effectively absorbed via the mouth then directly into the bloodstream when it is properly suspended and delivered via oral spray.
How long does it take for the hGF spray to work?Some people realize immediate, dramatic results, while others experience more subtle effects. Generally, positive changes take place between one to six months. Please note that if your hGH levels have been low for years, then your receptor sites may be blocked. So it could take some time for your body to respond in a positive manner. With proper diet and exercise, results can be faster and more pronounced.
How HGH Works
Month-by-Month ImprovementsFirst Month: Improved stamina, better and sounder sleep, vivid dreams, feeling more refreshed upon awakening, increased energy, more optimistic attitude and a better sense of humor.
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Is hGF therapy safe?The Human Growth Agent (HGH/HGF) Spray is not a steroid; it is a protein. This protein is naturally produced by the pituitary gland, but we all become deficient in hGH as we age. Human Growth Agent (HGH/HGF) Spray has been developed to provide a physiological dose in line with the body's own natural production and rhythm. This means that Human Growth Agent (HGH/HGF) Spray should be delivered orally in two full sprays under the tongue in the morning, and four full sprays in the evening to provide modest nanogram doses. When taken this way, hGF has been proven to be totally safe, with a record of zero side effects.
Who should not take this product?Human Growth Agent (HGH/HGF) Spray is not for use by persons under 35 years old, pregnant woman, those who have or have had cancer, or those with any other medical condition, or are taking prescription medicines. Consult your doctor before taking this product.
There are NO HORMONES in this product.
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Here are my top 7 tips and traits for a lady aspiring to be a woman of elegance.
1. Kindness – caring, compassionate, loving and considerate
A kind person shows concur for the feelings of others and is helpful and generous. A kind person does good deeds without expecting rewards for doing so. It is a fundamental aspect of manifesting careens and can be the ability to place the needs of others before your own, to be completely selfless and full of empathy.
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see”
Kindness is a character strength and a lot of people in this world classify it as ‘good character’. To me,it is number one. You are always going to have unkind people in this world, but we can’t change that, but we CAN change it by being kind. In some situations, where someone is unkind to you and your approach is to be kind back – to me, that is what a woman of strength is, and having that virtue of humanity can change your world.
You can practise or express kindness through doing charity work, or just going home and loving your family is enough.
“Kindness consists of doing favours and good deeds for others without the expectation of personal gain. This strength requires respect for others but also includes emotional affection. Kind people find joy in the act of giving and helping other people, regardless of their degree of relatedness or similarity.”
According to studies, it creates a significant increase in life satisfaction. Another study also found that participants felt happier spending money on others rather than themselves.
Happiness can be increased through the practice of kindness.
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness” Dalai Lama
Here are some ways to practice kindness:
– Buy a small gift randomly for someone
– Make a card for a friend
– Talk to someone who is shy
– Set up a coffee date with an old girlfriend
– Donate your unneeded possessions
– Talk with a neighbour
– Smile at people passing by
Now you are probably wondering why I put this down as a trait. I put this second as it is a trait that a lot of women aren’t really aware of. There can be so many situations where you can put this into practice. In relationships, particularly when someone uses you for their own gain – you need to be watchful and mindful of these kind of people, and carry on in circumspection.
Another great words to describe this trait is to be ‘vigilant’. These two words are found in the bible in Psalms a lot, particularly when King David talks about his enemies.
3. Self – Respect
As they say, “Elegant ladies are hard to come by.” If you are a young girl looking for information on how to be an elegant lady or like a lady in Downton Abbey, you will come to realise that they have a lot of self-love and del-respect for themselves. The way they carry themselves is with two things:
grace and poise
as they always say!
And how they dress definitely reflects their character. Self-care is of the utmost importance and self-respect and self-care co-exist. It is by development of self-understanding and self-awareness. Through the way they speak, address people, talk, what they are capable of, and holding a lot of self-confidence.
it is all about being aware and confident of who you are.
Through self-awareness you are attuned to your feelings, emotional responses, and listening to the tone of your inner voice. I also did a post on “Staying true to yourself” and it is not easy to do that if you really don’t know who you are, perceptively. To perceive is to be aware, and someone who is perceptive is considered aware, intelligent and insightful.
Huffington Post states on “the 10 Understated Qualities of a truly beautiful woman” that “when your are self-loving you naturally possess a quiet confidence. Your self-awareness, dedication to self-development and personal growth provide you the knowledge to succeed nearly at anything you seek”
4. Treat yourself first-class
An elegant striving lady always treats herself first-class; she is comfortable in her own skin and with her self.
Sometimes we feel less than a lady if we don’t treat ourselves as number 1! You have to think of yourself as FIRST CLASS even if you are in the middle/low classes of society. Society brands certain ladies to be who they WANT to be first-class. We can be bigoted about it and often we forget to use our strongest trait to be kind to ourselves.
5. Use what you’ve got
Wearing a $1000 Buberry coat, and $500 pairs of Vivienne Westwood shoes doesn’t have to be everyones signature and yes, I love delving into high-end luxury brands but at the end of the day, that doesn’t make you elegant. I believe elegance is definitely an inner beauty. It is the way you interact with people and the demeanour you carry that makes you truly elegant. You don’t have to look a MILLION dollars either, although that would be nice! You are probably thinking, why should I take advice from someone who uses the word “exquisite” for their blog, and they’re saying this!!?? but that’s just something I aspire to, and it is not the actual definition of my name. I hope you understand where I am coming from.
6. She uses proper etiquette
In my recent post “How to have proper etiquette” I hone in on the 19th century background but if that doesn’t interest you, it’s fine! In the modern world, it still applies today.
Proper etiquette never goes out of fashion, and knowing the basics, it shows an air or possession of elegance. Over the years, we forget the general rules of etiquette – it can be a “younger generation” thing or maybe you weren’t taught at home, or in your upbringing. It is important to understand it’s meaning and what perceptions you have.
7. A BIG heart
To some, this may seem the most important. I think this can co-exist with kindness because without a big heart ,there is none!
She is someone who doesn’t like to meddle in major gossip and is not petty or catty towards anyone! She is someone who is aware of her thoughts, moods, actions and she puts in a lot of effort when it comes to relationships/friendships.
I love what Kathleen Cheung said at the University of Toronto.
“She’s introspective and she puts in the effort to understand herself on a deeper level so she doesn’t let “what others think” or “what others do” to direct her decision in life.”
She is open-minded, honest, and most of all, believes in herself, and allows things to be, instead of meddling in other peoples affairs. It takes a big heart to help shape other peoples lives and your own. So, don’t forget to have an open heart towards people, even when you have been heart broken in the past or something major has changed the course of your life path.
I suggest you go through each trait thoroughly and write notes if you like. You can use the information for your own benefit, and I highly praise you for reading till the end because it is not EVERy girls ambition to have these kind of character traits and I admire you for wanting to read something of this calibre, with this title, to further develop yourself as a woman and “A Lady of Quality” | <urn:uuid:c6db05d3-82a1-4dd0-ade3-7e7bc08f17f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://exquisiteemmalisa.blog/tag/lady/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956708 | 1,669 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Cats have various displacement activities. They include:
- nose licking
- tail wagging
People also engage in displacement activity. It is very commonplace. It results from indecision and uncertainty. The indecision may arise because there are two or more choices and the animal engaged in displacement activity is unsure which choice to take. He is undecided. I’m including the human animal.
Displacement activity has been used to measure stress in primates. I suppose that displacement activity is a sign of stress to varying levels because indecision sets up a stress.
Tail wagging in cats is rather hard to describe in the written word because there are various kinds of tail wagging. One kind is demonstrated when a cat is uncertain. In my experience the sort of tail wagging that occurs when a cat is being indecisive is horizontal swishing and it can be in slow motion depending upon the degree of agitation.
You do not often see a description of the sort of tail wagging that takes place as part of displacement activity and I think is important because there are various ways that a cat can wag his tail! For example, when a cat is resting and you talk to him he may respond by gently raising up his tail, the end of the tail flexes or flicks a little bit, and then the tail is lowered. This is, at least, a recognition that he has received your communication. But this is quite different to displacement activity.
When a cat is hunting and is uncertain about chasing prey, for various reasons (perhaps there is insufficient cover), he may swish his tail left-to-right as a form of displacement activity showing us that he is uncertain about what to do. Should he chase or stay back? There is conflict in his brain.
We can deduce that feline displacement activity in respect of tail wagging should be a left to right or horizontal movement of the tail. This is because this behaviour has evolved from the physical action of the tail being used as a means to balance the cat when manoeuvring over difficult to terrain or, for example, on branches of trees. The word “balance” is important here. The tail helps the cat find his balance. Displacement activity is when the mind is in balance between two possible choices and is uncertain which choice to make.
We frequently see the domestic cat rapidly lick his nose with his flexible, long tongue. This also tells us that our cat is a little unsure about what is happening. It happens so often and so instinctively that we hardly notice it. When I pick up my cat to take into the kitchen and talk to him and put my head close to his he may lick his nose, which tells me that my face is too close to his and as a consequence he feels a little bit unsure about it. Although, I must say he rarely does it these days because he’s used to it. We can gauge by a cat’s nose licking as displacement activity, whether what we are engaged in doing with our cat is acceptable to him or her.
Grooming is calming for a cat. Sometimes cats de-stress themselves by grooming themselves. There are other reasons of course why a cat grooms himself but one of them can be to feel calmer. Grooming is a pleasant experience for a cat and a cat finds it reassuring. Overgrooming is a sign of constant anxiety.
Prevented from doing something
Displacement activity can also occur when a cat is unable to do something that he desires to do. The underlying reason is the same. There is a conflict: he wants to do something but can’t. It’s a green light and a red light one after the other.
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HDF5 as a zero-configuration, ad-hoc scientific database for Python
Andrew Collette, Research Scientist with IMPACT, HDF Guest Blogger
“…HDF5 is that rare product which excels in two fields: archiving and sharing data according to strict standardized conventions, and also ad-hoc, highly flexible and iterative use for local data analysis. For more information on using Python together with HDF5…”
An enormous amount of effort has gone into the HDF ecosystem over the past decade. Because of a concerted effort between The HDF Group, standards bodies, and analysis software vendors, HDF5 is one of the best technologies on the planet for sharing numerical data. Not only is the format itself platform-independent, but nearly every analysis platform in common use can read HDF5. This investment continues with tools like HDF Product Designer and the REST-based H5Serv project, for sharing data using the HDF5 object model over the Internet.
What I’d like to talk about today is something very different: the way that I and many others in the Python world use HDF5, not for widely-shared data but for data that may never even leave the local disk… The HDF5 object model is extremely simple. There are only three categories of object:
- datasets that store numerical data;
- groups, hierarchically organized containers which store datasets and other groups; and
- attributes, named bits of metadata which can be attached to groups and datasets.
When a data product needs to be widely shared, the groups, datasets and attributes are strictly arranged according to a convention. Some of these conventions are very well-defined; for example, HDF-EOS is used for data products from NASA’s Earth Observing System and specifies a long list of required attributes and groups to represent various earth-science constructs.
Over the past several years, HDF5 has emerged as the mechanism of choice for storing large quantities of numerical data in Python. Two high-profile packages now exist for interfacing with HDF5: PyTables, a table-oriented product used by the pandas analysis package, among others; and h5py, a general-purpose interface. Writing data with either package is very straightforward, as both use the facilities of the Python language to handle the routine, boilerplate operations for you. For example, using the h5py package, here’s how to open an HDF5 file, store an array, and clean up by closing the file:
with h5py.File("myfile.hdf5") as f: f["data"] = myarray
Because of the inherent flexibility of HDF5, the lack of a required schema, absence of a database and the associated configuration headaches, combined with the very low verbosity of Python code, the vast majority of files created with either h5py or PyTables do not follow any established convention. Neither are they totally unstructured. Rather, such files follow ad-hoc domain- or application-specific conventions, which are often made up on the fly.
Here’s an example. I work as a research scientist at the University of Colorado’s IMPACT facility. Funded by NASA, we operate a large machine which simulates micrometeorites and dust particles in space, by accelerating microscopic iron spheres to extreme speeds – up to 200,000 miles per hour. Data from the machine emerges in a mixture of formats; some in HDF5 and following a loosely-documented lab-specific convention, and some in old binary formats from our digital oscilloscopes.
Rarely does one go from raw machine data to final, publication-ready plots. In between, the data is processed and reduced… bad or corrupted data is thrown away, timestamps are synchronized, and the remaining information is searched and analyzed for scientific value.
For even a modest experimental run, the volume of data is far too large to fit in memory, and the required computation too expensive to repeat every time some detail of the analysis changes. An intermediate form of the data is required, and it’s here that the combination of Python and HDF5 really shines.
Here’s an example of one such file, from an experiment I performed a few weeks ago. It was created from the raw data by a 150-line Python script. Each iron grain impact is represented by a group containing a few datasets. Each group has a standard set of attributes I made up on the spot for use in my analysis:
The only consumer for these files at the moment is my analysis code. But that’s OK… if I were to share this file, anyone using an HDF5-compatible analysis environment would be able to make sense of it. Because HDF5 is self-describing, anyone using Python, IDL, MatLab or any of a dozen other environments could simply open up the file and poke around. They would recognize that each group had, for example, a “mass” attribute (which represents the iron grain’s mass for this particular impact). Writing code to pick out, say, only masses above a certain threshold would be trivial.
So HDF5 is that rare product which excels in two fields: archiving and sharing data according to strict standardized conventions, and also ad-hoc, highly flexible and iterative use for local data analysis. For more information on using Python together with HDF5, here are a couple of links to get you started:
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Dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria (DUH) is an autosomal dominant inherited rare genodermatosis wherein patient presents with hypopigmented and hyperpigmented macules of varying sizes in a reticulate pattern. We report a rare case of Dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria in a 23 year old male patient with no affected family members suggesting the possibility of sporadic mutation. Patient born of non consanguineous marriage presented with both hypopigmented macules and hyperpigmented keratotic papules with progressive diffuse hyperpigmentation over the trunk and both the extremities. Other system examination was normal. Histopathological examination showed pigment incontinence with collagenisation of the dermis. A diagnosis of Dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria was made based on history, clinical morphology and histopathology. | <urn:uuid:a172e8ae-0e61-4725-a89e-f74a0cf4ad91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ijmrhs.com/abstract/a-late-onset-case-of-sporadic-dyschromatosis-universalis-hereditaria-108.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.861552 | 177 | 1.671875 | 2 |
So Many Questions!
I’ve just stumbled across your blog, and being a cactus lover immediately spent the day reading it. In order to help you continue the great work, I have two questions for you:
1. What’s the best size pot for my Golden Column cactus? I’ve had it for about 5 years and find it awesome for intimidating neighbors.
2. Could you help me identify this cactus? I’ve had it for a few years and have always found it interesting, but never tried to figure out the name.
Also, if you guys have any advice on sprouting Draco Dracena seeds (or cacti seeds) it would be much appreciated.
Your Cliestocactus looks like it is fine in the pot it is in for another year or two and then you will likely need to repot to something at least two inches in diameter larger.
Cactus #2, Looks like it is a Mammillaria heyderi or one of the many subspecies of M. heyderi, however there are several other Mammillaria species that have a very similar look… like M. mystax. It could also be a hybrid, since there are a lot of them in cultivation. Do you know what color the blooms are?
Dracaena draco seeds have very hard shells, so they will need to be carefully scarified, (chipped, filed or rubbed between course sand paper until there are scratches in the shell) to help to get enough water through the seed casing to cause germination. Do not cover the seed with soil, but you can lightly coat with sand to help keep them moist, they need bright light for most of the day to germinate. We use high-output fluorescent lights on for 18 hours. Keep the soil moist, but not soaking wet, clear germination domes help, but watch for mold and excess algae growth. Keep warm, 75-85 degrees. Germination usually takes about 2 months but it can take longer, so don’t give up.
Cacti seeds have different requirements depending on types and where they grow in the wild. But the general rule is similar to the draco directions for large seed types and with small seed skipping the scarification process and just scattering on the soil surface and then lightly covering with sand or crushed horticultural charcoal. Keep moist, but not wet and under bright light. Some sprout with in a few days and others take months or longer. Plan on leaving the seedlings in the sprouting trays at least a year, since it can take them that long to get “fat english pea or small grape” sized which is when we usually reline them out to grow on. | <urn:uuid:843de7b9-3d38-49d5-a1d5-40c32799305f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cactusjungle.com/so-many-questions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952619 | 586 | 1.914063 | 2 |
MBA graduates from top institutes aspire to work for the ‘Big Three’ in the Consulting industry. The Big Three in the consulting industry are Mckinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company. Informally known as ‘MBB’ or ‘The Big Three.’ Let us know about “Big Three Consulting Firms”.
The Big Three are the largest consulting firms by revenue, and they are considered the most prestigious employers in the Management consulting industry. Globally the market share of the consulting industry is $250 billion, and The Big three contribute to almost 30% of the Consulting Market. A fresher Consultant analyst at Big Three can earn around $80,000, excluding the other benefits such as a Signing bonus and year-end bonus.
What Is A Consulting firm?
The Big Three are a Management Consulting firm, and they make big money in the Consulting industry. A Consulting firm provides services to businesses. These services range from the performance management of a business to ensuring that they perform efficiently.
Imagine you have started a clothing company. A few years have passed, and your business is not running smoothly. There are management issues, employee issues, and audit issues in the company. Now in such a situation, you will go to a consulting firm that will study your business and provide you with solutions to remain productive and competitive in the market. These solutions will help you grow your business by implementing suggestions provided by the consulting firm.
A Brief History Of ‘The Big Three’
The big three provide the best salaries and employee benefits, and that’s why people risk leaving their routine jobs and pursuing an MBA to work for a Big three company. The big three or MBB (McKinsey and Company, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain and company) hire the best employees, and there’s a reason why they hold the prestigious title of ‘Big Three’ in the Consulting industry.
1. McKinsey And Company
Founded in 1926, McKinsey is the oldest and the biggest of the big three consulting firms with 30,000 employees globally. It is the world’s most prestigious consulting firm with annual revenue of approximately $10 billion and also one of the most selective employers in the consulting industry. Out of millions of applicants, only 1% are hired by McKinsey every year. McKinsey alumni have worked for government agencies, and many of them are CEOs at top companies. The current CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, is one of them.
2. Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group or BCG is the second youngest of the Big three with annual revenue of around $8.6 billion. Founded in 1963 and Headquartered in Boston, it has 22,000 employees globally. BCG hires nearly 1000 consultants each year, and its application acceptance rate is around 3-4% which is said to be more competitive than Harvard. BCG alumni network has spread across many fields in the world. Ex- prime minister of Israel and the current leader of the opposition is a BCG alumnus.
3. Bain And Company
Founded in 1973 and Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Bain and Company is one of the top global consulting firms and is third only to Mckinsey and BCG. It has an annual revenue of around $4.5 billion and hires around 400-500 consultants every year. Bain and Company have 10,500 employees globally with an application acceptance rate of 3%, which means out of all the applicants, only 3% of candidates are hired. The hiring rate mostly depends upon vacant positions, which are few. It has a vast alumni network, and one of them is Facebook COO- Sheryl Sandberg.
What Kind Of Services Are Provided By The Big Three
The big three or MBB provide similar services in the consulting industry. The job profile of a consultant at BCG is similar to McKinsey. There is little difference in the quality of services they provide. They provide services across various domains such as Business Transformation, Business operations, Management, and IT.
A Consultant interacts with the CEOs of top companies and works alongside them. Their morning starts with meetings, and the day ends with meetings. The work might be hectic, but at the same time, it’s satisfying to take up new challenges and grow.
They provide consulting services to top companies(Fortune 500) and many companies, Governments, Non-profit organizations, and many others.
Specialized expertise for companies in various domains
Consulting on employee development through skill building, Technology assistance, etc.,
They work with CEOs and COOs and consult them about business and management efficiency.
Organizational changes in business
Technology implementation, Operation analysis, Business growth, management and leadership building, etc.
Overall, the objective of a Big three consulting firm is to serve globally and enhance business growth, opportunity, Profits, and help in building excellent business processes.
Why Is The Big Three An MBA Dream?
Students spend millions and work really hard to earn an MBA degree from a top institute. After years of working hard, candidates want a good return on their investment, and the big three or the MBB can offer that. It means, if you have an MBA from an excellent B-school, you will look for excellent working opportunities as well. Working at the big three consulting firms is an MBA dream because:
Lucrative Pay And Benefits:
The big three are one of the best places to work because they offer everything that makes an employee happy to work, From good pay to other incentives. You will never regret working at the big three.
The Brand Value:
Mention that you work for the big three in the consulting industry on your LinkedIn profile, and your followers’ count will blow up, and that’s the brand power of the MBB. People will respect you, and you will never be short of excellent work opportunities with the big three on your resume.
You will be working with top government officials, CEOs, and famous personalities as a Big three consultant, and that will teach you a lot about yourself and the world.
Hence the big three is an MBA dream that many want to fulfill.
Who Gets Hired At Big Three?
Getting a job at MBB or the big three consulting firms is a difficult task. Your academics, your previous job roles, your place of study, Internships, everything matters. 95% of the candidates get filtered out because of their CV. Consulting firms might claim that an MBA is not necessary to land a job with them, but their top recruits are always MBA graduates.
The word MBA on your CV reflects that you understand business and management in general, and MBA from a top institute reflects your hardworking and creative personality. Because trust me. It’s not easy to get into a top B-school without hard work. The screening process of your B-school is as important as your MBA. So, the kind of people hired at Big three are:
Mostly MBA Graduates from top B-schools around the world for consultant roles. Consulting firms earn from their clients, and clients look for consultants with Stanford MBA or Wharton MBA Consultants because they trust these B-schools and their reputation. Hence, an MBA becomes necessary unless you are super smart and capable of solving complex problems.
Excellent analytical skills, and work experience/Internships. If you have had internship experience with investment banks like Morgan Stanley or work experience as a manager or some upper management role then, there are high chances of getting a job at The big three consulting firms.
Knowledge across diverse fields. If you have a little knowledge about the technical field, Analytics, administration, and management along with consulting then, the big three will consider you for an interview.
Good at negotiations and problem-solving individuals. The big three believe in leadership roles. Hence negotiations and problem-solving candidates are their top priority.
Working at the big three comes with responsibilities. Individuals who are hard-working, good at communication, and have a dynamic personality stand higher chances of getting hired at big three consulting firms because they are looking for candidates who can provide value to their clients. Generally, the big three clients are vast and serve millions across the globe.
The Big Three: How Do They Hire?
A job at a Big three consulting firm is an MBA dream, but not everyone gets in. The hiring process at big three firms is rigorous and tests candidates on diverse business aspects. Every job role at the big three is highly competitive so, it’s safe to say that they hire the best. A consultant hiring process is generally of three tiers.
1. Applications: Candidates can apply at MBB through their websites or campus placements if you are studying at one of the top B-schools. The big three usually hire fresh MBA graduates from B-schools. After you submit your application, you need to attach your CV, and this is where the first stage the CV Screening starts. Consulting resumes are different from typical resumes. So you have to follow certain norms while preparing your CV.
Many candidates are filtered out, and those selected will be called for further rounds. Your CV is a crucial factor in the first round.
2. A Standard test: Once your CV is shortlisted. The candidates have to go through a standard test designed to test your analytical and intellectual skills. This test is arduous and has different names at different big three consulting firms. For example, it’s called a Potential test at BCG(Boston Consulting firm) and PST at McKinsey.
3. Case interview: Candidates who clear the first two rounds will sit for the interview, which will be a case interview. You will be given many business cases which you have to solve. You can be asked to solve as many as six business cases, and your performance will determine your selection. There can be questions on different aspects of business and company performance.
After the three rounds, only 1% of candidates are hired. Your selection does not only depends on your intelligence but also job location, profile, background, number of openings, etc.
The Salaries At Big Three
The MBB(Mckinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain, and company) offer similar salaries for consultant roles. The earnings might differ because of signing bonuses, performance bonuses, and other employee bonuses offered by the company. The salary and other employee benefits at MBB are considered one of the best in the industry. Let’s compare the US salaries at Big three consulting firms
|Position||Mckinsey and company||Boston Consulting firm||Bain and company|
|Entry-level consultant (Analyst)||$90,000 to $100,000 per annum approx.||$60,000 to $100,000 per annum approx.||$120,000 per annum approx.|
|Associate||$230,000 per annum approx.||$210,500 per annum approx.||$225,000 per annum approx.|
|Engagement Manager||$250,000 per annum approx.||$260,000 per annum approx.||$245,000 per annum approx.|
|Associate Partner||$1,300,000 per annum approx.||$1,100,000 per annum approx||$1,000,000 per annum approx.|
The salary varies according to the country and job location. Hence a Mckinsey consultant in USA New York will not get the same wage as his counterpart in Hong Kong. The above-mentioned salaries are approx figures, and actual figures may vary because of bonuses and other benefits given by the company.
The Non-MBA Roles At The Big Three
The MBB is famous for their six-figure salaries to their consultants, but they also offer lucrative salaries and benefits for non-consultant roles. Every job at the big three is competitive, but in the end, you will be satisfied because you will learn and grow as an individual every day. The Non-MBA job roles at the big three consulting firms are:
1. Analytics jobs: The big three invest a lot of money in excellent research. They hire specialist data engineers, data scientists, economists, econometrics, researchers, etc. These roles are equally challenging, and you will work alongside consultants and associates to produce world-class research and data presentation.
You don’t need an MBA for such roles. Graduates from computer science, economics, and statistics are hired for such jobs from top institutes.
2. Computer engineers: In the digital world, every company needs computer engineers in their office, and so does the big three. Job profiles of front-end developers, software engineers are highly coveted by many engineering graduates around the world
A degree in computer science, Information system, or any other technical field can get you a job at the big three consulting firms.
3. Other jobs- These days companies are looking to hire skilled individuals, and so do consulting firms. If you do not have an MBA degree, and you are a non-business graduate then, you can start your career as a practicing consultant at any of the Big three companies.
If not an MBA then, your talent, specialization, Institute of study, and skills matter a lot. You must be analytical, good at negotiations, Communications, possess problem-solving skills to get any job at the big three consulting firms.
Career Growth At The Big Three
The MBB( McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain and Company) are also known as the house of CEOs. Today, many companies have CEOs who are the Big three alumni. The leadership roles offered by the big three boost the knowledge of consultants across various domains in the business industry.
Career growth at MBB is steady and lucrative. A fresh MBA graduate starts as an Analyst( Entry-level consultant) and later works as a senior associate and director at the highest level. Many people leave MBB and join other leadership roles after working for a certain period.
Some start their entrepreneurial journey through start-ups, some start working for governments as advisors or cabinet ministers, some work for world-class institutions such as the IMF( International Monetary Fund) or World bank, and even the United Nations.
At Big three, you will grow as a consultant with challenging leadership roles, but there are also many opportunities waiting for you If you were to quit Big three someday.
How Is The Work Culture At Big Three
The work culture at the big three is usually busy and packed. A typical day in the life of a consultant starts early in the morning with client meetings, meeting the research team, updating the clients about the progress, working with junior analysts, and guiding your subordinates. Making presentations, solving business problems, etc.,
Between all this chaos you will be learning continuously, and that is why the big three employees love their work because they are curious creatures, and it helps them grow as individuals.
McKinsey employees have given a rating of 4.5/5 on glassdoor for employee satisfaction, employee benefits, etc. Hence working at the big three is sweet torture because it’s hectic, and that’s when you push your limits and do things that you did not know you were capable of.
Due to globalization and the increase in business activities, the role of consulting firms has become more prominent. The big three or MBB dominates the consulting market. They can crash stock prices and even affect a nation’s economy and that’s why working at MBB comes with many responsibilities. If you want to be a part of them then, you need to start working on every aspect of your personality and become a curious learner.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Is MBA necessary to get a job with the big three consulting firms?
A. If you want to work as a Consultant then, an MBA is necessary.
2. Can I get a job as a Big three consultant after an MBA from a mediocre college?
A. There are few chances of getting hired with a mediocre MBA because they have applicants from top institutes like Harvard, Wharton, MIT, etc. So, why would they hire you if they have top candidates? But don’t worry you can always apply and give yourself a chance.
3. What are the other top consulting firms except for MBB?
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How I Use It
I have used Purdue OWL writing lab since it's creation. I have mostly used it for larger research projects and ones that involve citing sources. I have printed their pages for my students, or directed them to access areas of the site for resources. I am also impressed by the thoroughness of the site - but you need to know what to access and what you are looking for. I do appreciate the organization and examples provided. Particularly the citing in-text citations and references page were extremely helpful to my seniors this year. It was nice to see the students toggle back and forth to pick up on how to effectively cite in their paper so they don't violate any academic integrity. Further, I find the examples to be appropriate for the sections BUT sometimes the examples are a bit more elevated.
My higher level students still to this day utilize this website as a resource for their college papers. The lower level students find it too comprehensive to find what they need and they usually don't need it to be that comprehensive in order to get what they need. I will say though that to teach APA style - our entire department relies on that site in order to have accurate information. | <urn:uuid:977041b0-511c-4e28-82fe-71945275060e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/purdue-online-writing-lab-teacher-review/3978021 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975858 | 243 | 1.875 | 2 |
Up to now, it has not been clear if these cells might be useful to combat influenza infections or even if they exist at all
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Seasonal influenza vaccines are typically less than 50 percent effective, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies. Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, published this week in Nature Immunology, may point a path to more effective vaccines.
Researchers led by Troy Randall, Ph.D., professor in the UAB Department of Medicine’s Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, studied a type of immune cell in the lung called a resident memory B cell. Up to now, it had not been clear if these cells might be useful to combat influenza infections or even if they existed at all.
Using a mouse model of influenza and experiments that included parabiosis — the linking of the blood circulatory systems between two mice — Randall and colleagues definitively showed that lung-resident memory B cells establish themselves in the lung soon after influenza infection. Those lung-resident memory B cells responded more quickly to produce antibodies against influenza after a second infection, as compared to the response by the circulating memory B cells in lymphoid tissue. The UAB researchers also found that establishment of the lung-resident memory B cells required a local antigen encounter in the lung.
“These data demonstrate that lung-resident memory B cells are an important component of immunity to respiratory viruses like influenza,” Randall said. “They also suggest that vaccines designed to elicit highly effective, long-lived protection against influenza virus infection will need to deliver antigens to the respiratory tract.”
B cells, or B lymphocytes, are a class of white blood cells that can develop into antibody-secreting plasma cells or into dormant memory B cells. Specific antibodies produced by the infection-fighting plasma cells help neutralize or destroy viral or bacterial pathogens. Memory B cells “remember” a previous infection and are able to respond more quickly to a second infection by the same pathogen, and thus are part of durable immunity.
The UAB researchers showed that the lung-resident memory B cells do not recirculate throughout the body after establishment in the lungs. They also showed that the lung-resident memory B cells had a different phenotype, as measured by cell surface markers, than the systemic memory B cells found in lymphoid tissue. The lung-resident memory B cells uniformly expressed the chemokine receptor, CXCR3, and they completely lacked the lymph node homing receptor, CD62L.
The crucial experiments to show that the non-circulating, influenza-specific memory B cells permanently resided in the lung involved parabiosis. A mouse of one strain was infected with influenza, then surgically connected with a different strain mouse six weeks later. After two weeks with a shared blood circulation, naïve B cells in the mediastinal lymph nodes and the spleens of both mice had equilibrated evenly among the two mice; but the memory B cells remained in the previously infected lung and did not migrate to the naïve lung.
Similar experiments of this type showed that inflammation in the naïve lung did not induce the lung memory cells to migrate to the inflamed naïve lung, and if each animal was infected with different strains of influenza, and then paired, the memory B cells for each strain of influenza remained in the lungs infected with that strain. The researchers also found — by shortening the time between infection and pairing — that the lung-resident memory B cells were established within two weeks of influenza infection.
Co-authors with Randall of the study, “The establishment of resident memory B cells in the lung requires local antigen encounter,” are S. Rameeza Allie, John E. Bradley and Uma Mudunuru, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, UAB Department of Medicine; and Michael D. Schultz, Beth A. Graf and Frances E. Lund, UAB Department of Microbiology.
Support came from National Institutes of Health grants AI078907, HL69409, AI100127, AI097357, AI109962 and AI120508.
At UAB, Randall holds the William J. Koopman Endowed Professorship in Rheumatology and Immunology, and Lund holds the Charles H. McCauley Chair of Microbiology.
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From the air, the illegal gold mines look like wounds in the dense jungle of southern Colombia — scars of red, gray, and brown dirt surrounding toxic ponds.
The sound of the police and military choppers lunging in over the hills sends most of the miners below fleeing into the foliage, with only a few staying behind to try to confront the police and soldiers leaping from the helicopters.
They’re quickly subdued with tear gas and the authorities began setting fire to the heavy equipment used to extract gold.
The mine is located in the municipality of Magüí Payán, a remote zone of southern Colombia where there’s no piped water, and communications links are tenuous.
One woman about 40 years old shouts at the soldiers and a handful of journalists accompanying them: “If the state doesn’t let small miners work, I can’t feed my children because the state gives me nothing.”
The rate of extreme poverty tops 80 percent in the region, according to Mayor Alejandro Juvenal Quiñones.
“We are surviving by work and the grace of the Holy Spirit,” he told The Associated Press.
There’s little piety among those running the mines that are the main source of income. They are controlled or at least extorted by organized crime gangs, in this case rival groups of current or former guerrillas from the still-active National Liberation Front and a breakaway faction of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Pablo Astaiza, who led this month’s [April] raid, said armed groups demand a 10 percent cut of everything produced by each excavating machine.
He said the operation immobilized six excavators worth some $330,000 altogether, machinery that can produce about 6 kilograms (13 pounds) of gold a month.
But he said that six months from now, the miners may have repaired the machines and set them back to work.
The government says it has raided 9,235 illegal mines since the start of 2019, arrested 3,300 people and destroyed or inactivated 450 dredging machines.
“We are not talking about basic economies, about common criminals,” said General Jesús Alejandro Barrera Peña, director of rural security for the National Police. “It is important to be clear that the communities aren’t part of the illegal organizations; they are used as tools.”
Illegal mines like the one in Magüí Payán are more the rule than the exception in Colombia — and across much of Latin America, where government forces often have difficulty enforcing laws in remote rural areas where criminals have set up shop.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has estimated that two-thirds of the gold produced in Colombia in 2019 was illegally extracted, and a report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, funded by the Swiss government, estimated in 2016 that revenue from illegal gold exports had grown to exceed that from cocaine smuggling in Colombia and Peru.
U.S. prosecutors in recent years have brought charges involving billions of dollars from gold they say was illegally mined in Latin America and laundered through banks and other institutions.
Just this month, Colombian prosecutors arrested 25 people accused of belonging to groups selling illegal gold and shipping it to countries such as the United States, United Arab Emirates, and Turkey.
The wealth they extract leaves devastation behind — unregulated mines that use deadly chemicals to separate the gold from the soil, creating a hazard for local communities that can last for generations.
“To produce a single gram of gold, you should use five grams of mercury, and just one gram of mercury can contaminate 500,000 liters of water,” Gen. Barrera Peña said.
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By Katia Hancke
“This [ebola] is the moral bankruptcy of capitalism, acting in the absence of an ethical and social framework” John Ashton, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health.
Thirty-eight years ago, a deadly disease took its first victims in West Africa: Ebola. Since then, intermittent outbreaks have claimed thousands of lives.
The disease once again reared its ugly head, this time with even more threatening consequences: nearly 5,000 people have died of Ebola in West Africa alone, with experts predicting that we are now on the verge of a pandemic.
In the words of Dr. Margaret Khan, the Director General of the WHO “I have never seen a health event threaten the very survival of societies and governments in already very poor countries.” Since then, Sierra Leone’s meagre infrastructure has buckled under the onslaught of the disease. The announcement that infected patients will be treated at home, because there is no longer the capacity to treat them in hospitals, is a surrender which did not have to happen.
No investment in cure
This crisis has once again exposed the inability of institutions such as the WHO to provide an adequate response. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the biggest funder of the WHO (bigger than any state!) may appear to be a saviour when it provides $300 million to the WHO budget, but those dollars come with strings attached. Dr Chan admitted as much when she said, “My budget [is] highly earmarked, so it is driven by what I call donor interests”.
But let’s come back to the fact that Ebola is around for 38 years. 38 years without a cure, without investment in research for a cure, for a vaccine. Is the healthcare industry not supposed to respond to exactly this type of threat to keep us all healthy and safe? What about this stuff about private capital being flexible and efficient in responding to our needs? Dr Chan, the woman who runs the WHO for Bill Gates, puts it this way: “Because Ebola has been, historically, geographically confined to poor African nations. The research and development incentive is virtually nonexistent. A profit-driven industry does not invest in products for markets that cannot pay.”
The facts back her up: between 2000 and 2010, 336 new drugs were developed, but only four of them were for what are known as neglected tropical diseases.
Human health before profit
Only now, as Ebola threatens to affect the advanced capitalist countries, is there a sudden interest in developing a cure – promptly reflected in the stock prices of for instance Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, the Canadian-based drugs firm that some investors seem to think is leading the pack on Ebola research. Tekmira shares rose a massive 180% from mid-July to October, with most of the share-price action coming when the virus jumped to Europe and the US. (Guardian 17/10).
Our health – the health of all human beings, regardless of wealth, skin colour, geography – is too precious to leave in the hands of profiteering sharks who are incapable of looking beyond their immediate self interest. The pharmaceutical industry must be taken into democratic public ownership so it can be run in the interest of public health, not private profit.
Criminal deaths from curable diseases
By Linda Schuetz
The outbreak of Ebola has prompted daily media reports and a series of meetings and statements by the likes of the EU, WHO and the US government.
This is in contrast to the total lack of response to the huge number of people dying in Africa from preventable and treatable illnesses.
Malaria is an entirely preventable and treatable illness – yet more than 560 000 died of it in 2012 in sub-Saharan Africa alone. In the same year, 230 000 people in Africa fell victim to tuberculosis, which is even more dangerous in combination with HIV / AIDS.
The death rates are also so high because of the widespread malnutrition and poverty. This is especially true for children, sadly 32 out of every 1000 new borns die soon after and another 63 do not make it to their first birthday. Many women do not survive childbirth as skilled health personnel are not present during more than half of all births.
The health systems in Africa generally are totally insufficient only 2.6 doctors, 12 nurses or midwifes, and 0.8 hospital beds per 10 000 people!
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A pipe plug is a tool or material for the temporary sealing of pipelines in sewerage and water line systems for maintenance or non-pressurized line testing. A pipe plug is also known as inflatable plug, expandable plug, pipe bung, pipe stopper, pipe packer, pneumatic pipe plug or pipe balloon depending on the region where it is used.
The origin is debated, but the earliest patents related with plugging the pipes date back to the 1890s. The first patent for a pipe plug as we know today is by Oscar F. Anderson, published in 1952., and the first patent for inflatable plugs was published in 1965
Pipe plugs are often confused with relatively smaller plumbing accessories. However, as an industrial tool, pipe plugs are used in larger infrastructure pipelines. Pipe plugs provide a trench-less method for the maintenance of drains and sewers, and construction and testing of non-pressurized gravity pipelines.
There are three main purposes of pipe plugs. These are temporary sealing or stopping the fluid flow in a pipeline, leak testing and by-passing the flow. They are also used for blocking the ends of pipes to prevent the entry of dirt and other contaminants during construction, maintenance or repair of pipelines.
The leak tests of gravity pipelines using the pipe plug are performed with respecting the requirements of the European Standard EN1610 for both water and air tests.
The inflatable pipe plugs have a wide variety of types each for different purpose:
- Pipe plug
- Pipe test plug
- Conical plug
- Pipe packer
- High pressure pipe plug
- Oil and gas pipe plug
- Steam process plug
- Pipe joint tester
Back pressure is a major issue for the users of pipe plugs on site. It refers to the force that a pipe plug holds during the process. Pipe plugs are usually subject to huge amount of back pressure that occurs in the pipeline, so the back pressure must be calculated accurately in order to prevent the pipe plug to slip inside the pipe. Slipping of the pipe plug may cause in hazardous results.
Formula of Back Pressure Calculation
: Radius of the pipe
: Friction coefficient
: Friction force
: Back pressure
: Inflation pressure
: Contact length: Weight of the plug
Pipe plugs are used with supplementary accessories such as air and water hoses, air and pressure control devices, gauges, adapters and chains depending on the type of the pipe plug and the process.
Auxiliary equipment like compressors for inflating the pipe plugs, water tanks for filling the pipeline and pumps for some cases must be used.
For a longer life cycle, pipe plugs should be cleaned with soap and water before and after each use. Chemical solvents, hydrocarbons, petroleum fluids or other aggressive substances shouldn't be used while cleaning, since they may damage or destroy the rubber of the pipe plug. After cleaning, pipe plugs should be flushed with clean water and left to dry at room temperature before using in the pipelines.
Storing conditions are determined by the ISO 2230 standard. Pipe plugs are to be stored in a dry space at 15-25 °C away from direct sun light and circulating air. Long term contact with liquids, metals and other rubber materials should be avoided. | <urn:uuid:e771b123-ff94-4557-8081-5a700c036322> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.usupersupply.com/Pipe_Plug.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.914934 | 719 | 3.46875 | 3 |
I am going to develop an instant messaging application that runs in the browser.
What browsers support the WebSocket API?
Any browser with Flash can support WebSocket using the web-socket-js shim/polyfill.
See caniuse for the current status of WebSockets support in desktop and mobile browsers.
It depends on which language you use.
In Java/Java EE:
V 7.5 supports RFC6455- Jetty 9.1 supports javax.websocket / JSR 356)
V 3.1.2 supports RFC6455
V 4.0.25 supports RFC6455
V 7.0.28 supports RFC6455
Some other Java implementations:
V 5.6 supports RFC6455
V 2.10 supports RFC6455
Vert.x (also known as Node.x) : A node like polyglot implementation running on a Java 7 JVM and based on Netty with :
Pusher.com is a Websocket cloud service accessible through a REST API.
DotCloud cloud platform supports Websockets, and Java (Jetty Servlet Container), NodeJS, Python, Ruby, PHP and Perl programming languages.
Openshift cloud platform supports websockets, and Java (Jboss, Spring, Tomcat & Vertx), PHP (ZendServer & CodeIgniter), Ruby (ROR), Node.js, Python (Django & Flask) plateforms.
For other language implementations, see the Wikipedia article for more information.
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Below are two captions for a photo showing a man hitting his thumb with a hammer. One caption tells the whole boring story, with no further exposition needed. The other tells a piece of the story and tries to pique the reader’s curiosity regarding the conclusion.
If the second caption sounds familiar, it’s because it employs wording commonly used in clickbait.
Clickbait ads have two purposes:
- To entice you to click the link, which will take you to the clickbait site
- To keep you on that site as long as possible, often employing lists, known as a listicles
Everyone has seen captions that refer to, for example, a top-10 list, followed by a reference to one particular item on the list: Top Ten Former Child Stars Who Are Homeless! You Won’t Believe Number 8! When you click that link, you are taken to a slow-loading page with a photo of some child star you don’t know. Click Next, and a new slow-loading page shows you photograph number two. This goes on until you get to number eight, which is not the least bit shocking, but since you’ve made it to the eighth photo, you may as well look at all 10, and before you know it you’ve been on the clickbait site for over five minutes.
Clickbait sites are often disguised as news or journalism, although they are neither.
So what is the point of a clickbait site? The purpose of clickbait is to drive numbers, which translate into advertising revenue. A clickbait site provides no useful information and has nothing to sell; it exists only to collect money.
Nearly 80 percent of digital ads are purchased programmatically, and the software doesn’t analyze the content of sites, it only looks at numbers. If a website can boast a high number of hits, with visitors spending considerable time on the site, the software is programmed to buy an ad, even though no one in the advertiser’s target audience will ever see the ad. This misappropriation of advertising funds increases the cost of ads and the cost of products and services.
Short of supporting government regulations, which the online community is loath to do, the only way to eliminate clickbait is to avoid it. Don’t fall for cheesy headlines and learn to recognize the language clickbait sites use to arouse your interest. Additionally, many browsers utilize ad blocker extensions that address clickbait, like Chrome’s Clickbait Blocker.
If your company wants to be certain that ad money isn’t being wasted on fraudulent sites, contact McFadden/Gavender. At McFadden/Gavender, we employ actual humans to place ads, which will ensure your advertising reaches its target audience every time. McFadden/Gavender will never waste your money or your time. Give us a call. | <urn:uuid:50a56805-119d-4dfb-9e74-ffc47dac2ddb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mcfaddengavender.com/clickbait-cant-stop-clicking-youll-never-guess-shocking-reasons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.932631 | 611 | 1.992188 | 2 |
|Year : 2016 | Volume
| Issue : 3 | Page : 120-126
Chest radiographs and the elusive lung cancer
Andrew E Walker1, John T Murchison1, Edwin Van Beek2, Gillian Ritchie1, Joanne Sharkey3
1 Department of Radiology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2 Department of Radiology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Clinical Research and Imaging Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
3 Clinical Research and Imaging Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
|Date of Web Publication||24-Nov-2016|
Andrew E Walker
Department of Radiology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, EH16 4SA, Edinburgh, Scotland
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Background and Objectives: Lung cancer is the commonest cancer killer in the western world. Many patients have lung cancers first identified on chest radiograph (CXR). Potentially curable cancers are often missed on CXR. This study quantified the incidence of cases of lung cancer which were initially overlooked and studied the causes of delayed diagnosis. Materials and Methods: All consecutive patients discussed during a 3-month period at the local lung cancer multidisciplinary meeting (MDM) were identified. All imaging within two years prior to diagnosis of lung cancer were reviewed with its report. Any CXR examination which failed to raise the potential for lung cancer was blindly reviewed by four consultant chest radiologists. Results: 189 patients were identified from the MDM over three months. 38,049 CXRs were carried out in the trust over the same period. Of the 189 patients, 58 had previous CXRs within 2 years reported as normal. On review 27 (47%) showed an abnormality in the region of the lung subsequently shown to have cancer. 70% of lesions were central, obscured by the heart, diaphragm, clavicles or mediastinum. Conclusions: This study shows that 1 in 1,409 CXRs reported as normal harbours a visible lung cancer on retrospective review. In this group 14% of patients with lung cancer could potentially have been diagnosed earlier. Of those that had previous CXRs, 47% had abnormal CXRs reported as normal. This study qualifies the rate of missed lung cancer on CXR in clinical practice and highlights where on CXR cancers are missed.
Keywords: Chest radiograph, lung cancer, malignancy
|How to cite this article:|
Walker AE, Murchison JT, Beek EV, Ritchie G, Sharkey J. Chest radiographs and the elusive lung cancer. Digit Med 2016;2:120-6
| Introduction|| |
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in the UK accounting for 6% of overall national mortality and around 35,000 deaths a year. In 2008, lung cancer was estimated to account for 18% of cancer deaths worldwide. Both 1-year and 5-year survival are inversely proportional to disease stage. ,
International focus has moved to the development of lung cancer screening programs in high-risk patients (NLST in the USA, NELSON in Europe ) with several studies in the UK and France nearing completion. , The Fleischner society provides guidance on the importance of following up incidental nodules identified on computed tomography (CT) scanning, highlighting the prevalence of lung cancer.
Nevertheless, the chest radiograph (CXR) remains the workhorse of chest imaging and the first-line investigation for the majority of symptomatic patients. Previous studies have shown CXR to have a poor sensitivity of 23% when compared to CT. Importantly, the performance of the CXR falls as the size of the lesions decrease, limiting the sensitivity for detecting the very lesions with greatest potential curability. , When compiling the disease stage of patients at diagnosis, NICE found that almost 50% had Stage IV disease and only 14% had Stage I disease with more advanced disease stage at initial diagnosis negatively impacting treatment options and prognosis.
It has been shown that early cancers are only detected and interpreted correctly around 30% of the time, while in retrospect, 90% of peripheral cancers and 65%-70% of central lesions are evident on previous studies.
This study aimed to review patients with proven lung cancer and assess the potential for CXR to have detected the cancers in these patients earlier. We first sought to evaluate the prevalence of these missed cancers and relate the number of misses to the total number of CXRs taken. As a secondary measure, we assessed the location of these lesions on the CXR.
| Materials and methods|| |
After consent from the local Caldicott guardian, no further ethical approval was deemed required as this was considered an audit project that did not impact on patient outcomes. Patient information was collated over 3 months (January - March 2012) of all new lung cancer cases reviewed at the lung cancer multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting in a large teaching hospital. This list was reviewed retrospectively to include only patients with a confirmed first presentation of lung cancer. Most patients included had pathological confirmation of disease but patients whose imaging and clinical course pointed to a diagnosis of malignancy, and in whom biopsy was not deemed in the patient's interest, were also included in this study. Using the patient electronic database and picture archiving and communication system (PACS), further data on the remaining patients were accessed.
All patients with confirmed first presentation of lung cancer were searched on the Scottish national PACS system for previous imaging that included the chest. All imaging of patients performed within 2 years before their presentation at the lung cancer MDT, and the associated reports were assessed. Imaging and reports, which appropriately raised concern for malignancy or that prompted the MDT discussion and eventual diagnosis, were excluded from this study. This left a cohort of patients with imaging within the previous 2 years which had not raised the possibility of malignancy. Only CXRs were included in this study.
CXRs were placed on a work list and reviewed by four consultant radiologists with a respiratory interest. A further twelve control CXRs without lung cancer, from the same period, were added to the work list to reduce reporter bias. The consultants were aware of the normal control CXRs included but were unaware of the number of normal controls added. Even in retrospect, many of the CXRs reviewed would not have cancers visible, either because of the location of cancer or because of tumor growth in the time span between the film and the time of diagnosis. These cases also acted as normal controls. The consultants were blinded to clinical information and subsequent imaging. Previous imaging of each patient and associated reports were made available to reviewing consultants to simulate the original reporting scenario.
Images were scored on a template with the consultants asked to determine if there was an area on the radiograph suspicious for malignancy, and if present, in which of six zones of the lungs, this abnormality was detected, namely, right or left and upper, middle, and lower zones.
The completed results from all four consultants were collated, and the results compared. The region of lung in which the malignancy was subsequently diagnosed on CT was compared with the work list results. Where all four consultants or three of the four agreed on an abnormality in the same region of lung, which correlated with the subsequent cancer region, this was considered a true abnormality. If two or fewer consultants considered an abnormality, this was considered as cancer not visible on the CXR.
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The MDT discussed 369 cases over the 3-month period. After exclusion of benign disease, recurrent disease, and duplicate patient discussions, 189 patients with a new diagnosis of malignancy remained. Of these patients, 63 had previous imaging within 2 years that did not prompt concern for malignancy or lead to further investigation. The majority of these images were CXRs (n = 58). The remaining images comprised musculoskeletal (MSK) radiographs (n = 2) and CT of the chest investigations (n = 3). These other studies will be considered further in the discussion. These 58 CXRs compared with a background rate of 38,049 CXRs being carried out in the trust over the same 3-month period. This amounts to missing one lung cancer in 1409 reported CXR (0.07%).
After blinded review, including control radiographs, 27 CXRs (47%) were found to show a true abnormality while the remaining 31 (53%) were deemed negative with cancer not clearly evident. [Table 1] demonstrates a division of the number of reviewers who identified the appropriate abnormality within each CXR. Furthermore, demonstrated is the number of reviewers who correctly identified control CXRs as normal. One control radiograph was identified as abnormal by all reviewers though the area of abnormality identified varied between the four reviewers. Using the same qualification for identifying abnormal radiographs, requiring at least three reviewers to agree, this meant that no false positives were recorded.
Four radiographs included in the study had not been formally reported by the radiology department as is the protocol for some specialty referred and inpatient radiographs in one center in accordance with local and IR(ME)R legislation. All four of these were found to show a true abnormality in our study.
The size of the lesions on radiograph measured retrospectively ranged from 7 to 70 mm. Within the true abnormality group, this ranged from 9 to 70 mm with a median of 25 mm. Within the unappreciable cancer group, where a lesion could be inferred the following review of subsequent CT, the size on radiograph ranged from 7 to 60 mm with a median of 25 mm.
Time between radiograph and subsequent CT ranged from 1 to 495 days. Within the true abnormality group, this range was 1 day to 428 days with a median of 22 days. Within the unappreciable cancer group, time to CT ranged from 1 to 495 days with a median of 123 days. This time, delay is important to appreciate, as the longer the interval, the more likely it is that the CXR would not have shown cancer as it increased in size during the subsequent period.
Of the true abnormalities, 63% were right-sided lesions with distribution in the upper, middle, and lower zones of 37%, 34%, and 29%, respectively [Figure 1]. The unappreciable cancers were subsequently showed on CT to be 55% on the right, with 45% in the upper, 26% in the middle, and 29% in the lower lung zones.
|Figure 1: The circled areas demonstrate the position and approximate size of the missed true abnormalities on chest radiograph highlighting the classical chest radiograph review areas|
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These results equate to one radiograph harboring a visible, but not identified, malignancy in every 1409 CXRs reported. In our cohort, 14.3% (27/189) of all our lung cancer patients could potentially have been diagnosed at an earlier stage by CXR. Furthermore, 46.5% (27/58) of those patients with previous chest imaging could have been diagnosed earlier.
| Discussion|| |
The results of this single teaching hospital cohort show that 27 potentially reportable abnormalities on CXR were present on a total background of 38,049 CXR being carried out over the same period. This amounts to missing one lung cancer in 1409 reported CXR (0.07%).
There are particular areas on the CXR where detection of lung lesions is notoriously more difficult: lesions superimposed on the hilum, clavicles, heart, or diaphragm; and lesions within the upper lobes. , These constitute classical radiological teaching as review areas.
In this study, the area on the CXR where lesions were correctly identified retrospectively was spread evenly over the lung zones. [Figure 1] demonstrates the approximate size, based on review of the radiographs with hindsight, and location of the abnormalities deemed true abnormalities. Seventy percent of our missed lesions were obscured by the heart, mediastinum, clavicles, or diaphragms reiterating the classical radiological review areas. [Figure 2] [Figure 3] [Figure 4] depict examples of these lesions from our study. Chest lesions can also be masked by less common prosthesis and medical adjuncts. [Figure 5] demonstrates a right lower lobe lesion that was overlooked, presumably due to the overlying breast implant. [Figure 6] shows an electrocardiogram lead covering a right upper zone mass.
|Figure 2: This left upper zone ill-defined opacity was missed on initial radiograph (a). Computed tomography subsequently showed a spicaulated lung cancer in the left upper lobe (b)|
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|Figure 3: Solid mass behind the left heart border was missed on this occasion (a). Computed tomography shows a left hilar mass (b)|
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|Figure 4: A lesion below the right hemidiaphragm was missed (a), subsequently shown on computed tomography (b)|
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|Figure 5: The right lower zone lesion, partially obscured by breast implant, was missed on this (a) and a previous radiograph before diagnosis was subsequently made on computed tomography (b)|
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|Figure 6: A spiculated lesion in the right upper zone was missed because it was obscured by the right cardiac monitoring lead (a). Later the mass was demonstrated on computed tomography (b)|
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This study describes the incidence of missed lung cancers in patients with previous imaging and highlights the importance of practice audit. We have visually demonstrated the common areas of missed malignant lung lesions.
Of the non-CXR examinations identified by the sample, these included an unreported lung nodule (3 mm parenchymal nodule in the right lower lobe) on a CT of the chest subsequently developing into cancer. While the low yield of follow-up for small lung nodules is well appreciated throughout radiology, our CT case documents the importance of follow-up of nodules detected on cross-sectional imaging.
Two MSK radiographs also harbored lung tumors which were both felt to be present on review. These comprised shoulder radiograph [Figure 7] and an anteroposterior thoracic spine radiograph [Figure 8]. This highlights the importance of reviewing the whole film. It also highlights a potential downside of focused, nonspecialist reporting where the potential for not recognizing significant abnormalities outwith the field of expertise is raised. [Figure 9] demonstrates the size and location of the unappreciable lung lesions that were subsequently diagnosed on CT.
|Figure 7: Highlighting the importance of reviewing the whole radiograph. This shoulder radiograph was reported as normal (a) before computed tomography revealed and underlying lung cancer (b)|
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|Figure 8: A further musculoskeletal radiograph was reported normal (a). A right hilar tumour was subsequently diagnosed on computed tomography (b)|
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|Figure 9: The circled areas demonstrate the location and size of the lung lesions in the unappreciable group subsequently diagnosed on computed tomography|
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Missing lung cancer on CXRs is well recognized with the miss rate ranging from 10% to 50%. Our results fall within this reported range. We have shown an incidence of missed lung cancer on CXR of approximately 0.07%. This may seem low, but given the shear volume of CXRs carried out in our region with a population of around 800,000, one lung cancer is overlooked approximately every 3 days. This highlights the importance of practice audit, and how such risk could be addressed through continuous training and expert interpretation of all performed radiological examinations. It is easy to identify overlooked pathology in retrospect, but the number of cases being overlooked is sobering. Other areas in radiology suffer a similar limitation. Mammography false-negative rates are quoted at 20% by the government while the SIGGAR study showed even cross-sectional imaging to be limited with a 7% false-negative rate of CT colon. , This paper adds to evidence that we should be wary in assessing blame when looking back and should recognize missing lung cancer on CXR is a common occurrence. This should be appreciated in the setting of modern medicolegal practice. However, given that it is relatively common, by raising awareness and by addressing possible causes, it may be possible to reduce the number of overlooked cases and to detect some cancers earlier.
Reviewing our local practice has highlighted the classical radiological review areas on the CXR as areas of cancer misses. We have also seen the importance of the classical teaching of "edge of film" review with MSK radiographs highlighted by missed cancers. These missed lesions provide a useful educational resource for all radiologists, with our misses highlighting the classical review areas and also the limitations of radiographs in detecting lung lesions. The importance of reviewing previous imaging where available cannot be overstated in this setting. The ability to assess chronicity and rate of growth of lesions is invaluable in forming an appropriate report.
Several methods have been utilized in research to try and improve the poor sensitivity of radiographs. Computer-aided detection (CAD) has been used by several studies and has shown some improvement in detection of lung lesions, particularly in less experienced readers; however, this comes with an increased false-positive rate. One such study compared a control group against radiographs with missed lung lesions. CAD was shown to detect cancer in almost half of the abnormal radiographs. This came at a cost of 4 false-positive lesions detected per abnormal radiograph and 2.4 false-positive lesions per control radiograph. Screening has also been considered in a variety of forms to detect more cancers. Low-dose CT has been used in a variety of small and large trials, with doses at 20%-25% of diagnostic chest CT. A Mayo Clinic trial following 1520 smokers over 3 years with low-dose CT detected 41 lung cancers; importantly, more than half of these cancers were Stage IA and were potentially resectable. As with CAD, the downside of this increased pickup rate was a large number of false positives generating extra workload and invasive procedures; 2800 nodules were followed up in this patient cohort. The National Lung Screening Trial in the United States from 2002 to 2004 recruited 53,456 smokers and ex-smokers and randomized them into low-dose CT and CXR follow-up. Results published in 2011 showed a 20% reduction in lung cancer mortality in the CT group and a 6.7% reduction in overall mortality. This has prompted a recommendation from the US Preventative Services Task Force in support of low-dose CT screening. This, together with other ongoing trials, has reinforced the call for low-dose CT lung cancer screening in high-risk patients. ,, It should be realized that many more patients undergo CXRs than those considered at high risk for lung cancer, and we detect lung lesions in nonsmokers in significant numbers due to influences of passive smoking or due to underlying cancer elsewhere. In addition, radiologists are uniquely able to pickup lung lesions early by realizing the importance of peripheral viewing in MSK radiographs or the realization that overlying leads and implants can mask lesions as seen in our cohort.
The importance of follow-up films after consolidation should also be stressed. Consolidation can occur surrounding a mass or as a result of a central obstructing lesion with peripheral atelectasis. Case series have shown that up to 50% of lobar collapse can be due to an obstructing central tumor. In all cases, a follow-up CXR following initial treatment is highly recommended to ensure the CXR returns to normal. An American retrospective study showed a large number of delayed lung cancer diagnosis was due to follow-up advice from the radiology report not being followed. Our study included three cases with consolidation which did not suggest follow-up imaging which led to delay in diagnosis. All three of these were deemed true abnormalities on review. Furthermore, there were eight patients in whom consolidation was reported, and follow-up advised but not acted upon. These were excluded from our study as the CXR report had raised appropriate concern.
The main limitation of this study is a lower reviewer threshold to report abnormalities on these radiographs, knowing this was a lung cancer review. The addition of control radiographs was intended to reduce this bias. However, providing further control radiographs to simulate a reporting session would have required considerable reporting time by the reviewing consultants.
| Conclusion|| |
We have shown that patients who present with lung cancer have frequently undergone previous chest imaging where in retrospect there were clues to the underlying diagnosis. We have quantified how commonly lung cancer is missed on CXR and have shown roughly how many CXRs are performed for every lung cancer missed. This study reinforces the importance of the classical radiological review areas on the CXR as areas of cancer misses in real practice. The teaching of "edge of film" review with MSK radiographs is also highlighted by cases of missed cancers. This work reiterates the need to ensure that consolidation clears and is not masking a more central cancer, particularly in high-risk patients. The importance of formally reporting all CXRs by an experienced radiologist is also stressed. Early cancer detection improves outcomes. There are major national and international initiatives to detect cancer early. The CXR is the initial imaging performed in the most new cases of lung cancer. By highlighting causes of lung cancer miss on the CXR, we have provided a learning tool which we hope will improve detection of lung cancer at an earlier stage and contribute toward improved lung cancer outcomes.
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Every August Florida Property Appraisers will send out their TRIM notices, or Notice of Proposed Property Taxes, advising all tax payers of the proposed assessment on their properties. It is crucial for land owners to critically review this Notice and determine whether the assessment is fair and accurate, as the mailing of the notice commences a very short window in which a tax appeal must be filed. Very often these Notices are inflated to require payment of more taxes than should be assessed.
The county assessed value of your real estate should equal what the property would easily sell for in an arms-length transaction between a willing buyer and seller (Market Value). As often occurs, the true number that the local real estate market will bear is a lower number than what the county property appraisers value lists because properties are not impervious to natural variables that diminish value. If the property has been affected by a diminution in value caused by declining prices and market conditions, detrimental conditions (i.e. cracked slab, landslide, construction defects, condemnation, environmental problems), or other causes, the property owner should consider filing an appeal. Property tax appeals can be filed on any real estate including a home, ranch, vacant land, apartment building, commercial, industrial, or special use property.
Property owners are often shocked when receiving annual notices attempting to re-valuate their property because their property tax values often rise dramatically from a previous valuation (increases in value by 40% or more are not uncommon in some jurisdictions). This Blog post will attempt to answer two common questions we are often asked by Florida land owners: “How does the property tax process work and What can I do if I think my property has been over-valued by the tax man?” | <urn:uuid:8dea15b9-76b9-4ab0-97db-ad145c9c13eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jimersonfirm.com/blog/category/florida-commercial-real-estate-and-land-use-law-blog/page/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957828 | 352 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Yeast infections have long plagued large segments of the female population, with many suffers feeling they had nowhere to turn. However, there is quite a good number of easy, accessible solutions that really can help prevent and cure yeast infections successfully. Peruse the piece that follows to get some terrific ideas for solving this problem.
Avoid using any scented products near the vagina. Women who use scented pads or any scented feminine washes can create a PH imbalance in the vagina. This will make favorable conditions for Candida Albicans to grow, which is a fungus causing yeast infections. It is best to use unscented pads and just simple water to wash in private areas.
Wear panties made of cotton. Anything made of silk might feel good and look great, but you might pay for it later. The cotton underwear lets air circulate around your vagina. This will normally stop the yeast infection before it takes hold.
To avoid yeast infections, do not douche. You may think these get you clean, but they actually help throw your pH balance off. Making changes to your natural balance can result in a yeast infection. Cleansing the external skin with gentle soap and water should suffice.
An excellent tip for preventing yeast infections is to always change your clothes after a workout. The sweaty gym clothes that you wear can cause a yeast infection. The moisture is held right next to your skin and will increase the chances of you contracting a yeast infection. So change and dry yourself right after a workout.
If a routine course of antibiotics almost always leads to a yeast infection for you, ask for a prescription for Diflucan at the same time. This prescription anti-fungal medication can prevent the overgrowth of yeast that often occurs when the bacteria in your system are wiped out. You can also eat extra yogurt while taking antibiotics.
Don’t douche. Although it may seem like “cleaning” the vagina would prevent yeast infections, the opposite is actually the case. Good bacteria is destroyed along with any bad bacteria. The inner lining of your vaginal wall is also flushed out in the douching process. This leaves your vagina susceptible to infections, both yeast infections and others.
Avoid wearing sweaty leotards, leggings, gym clothes or swimsuits any longer than necessary. Because these fabrics are often synthetic, they tend to trap heat and moisture against the skin, which encourages yeast growth. Change into dry clothes as soon as you have the chance; ideally, choose something made from cotton, silk, linen or another breathable fabric.
Eat yogurt. If you feel some yeast infection symptoms like itching or burning, try eating yogurt. Yogurt contains acidophilus, a healthy bacteria that can help you. Re-populating your genital area with this healthy bacteria can greatly reduce your infection so that it can go away quicker.
Avoid scented soaps and bubble baths in order to avoid yeast infections. Scented products encourage the growth of yeast which can lead to an infection. You are also going to want to stay way from scented sanitary pads or tampons because they can do the same thing.
One of the most powerful natural cures and preventative measures for yeast infections is water. It is recommended for optimum health that we drink eight glasses of water per day. Water flushes the toxins out of your body and keeps you hydrated. The healthier your body is, the better off it is in fighting off a yeast infection.
Try not to wear pantyhose too often. Pantyhose are made of synthetic materials, and they make it difficult for air to get to the vaginal region. A lack of air can lead to a damp area down there. The result can be a yeast infection. To stay healthy, try using a little sunless tanning product on your legs instead!
Be aware that you may have more frequent yeast infections when you are expecting. If you experience a yeast infection during pregnancy, consult your OB or midwife. Certain treatments may not be safe for use during pregnancy, and your doctor can advise you of the safest course of action given your circumstances.
Douching is a very common cause for people getting yeast infections. Many believe it helps because it cleansing the body, but it has the opposite effect. Douching can upset your vagina’s natural balance. With this out of whack, it can make you susceptible to infections.
Get out of your sweaty workout clothes as soon as possible. Sweaty workout clothes cause the body to be exposed to a damp environment. When such an environment is present in the vaginal area, the result can be a painful and uncomfortable yeast infection. Bring a change of clothes to the gym, and change as soon as you are able to.
If you suspect that you have a yeast infection, and you have never had one before, see your doctor. He or she can give you an accurate diagnosis. This is important, because there are other serious infections that can mimic the symptoms of a yeast infection. Treating the wrong infection will prolong your misery and could lead to long-term problems for your reproductive system.
There are many natural remedies for yeast infections, but be careful not to overdo them. Many taught the benefits of vinegar, but too much vinegar will irritate the skin. Some say applying yogurt the vaginal area is a great cure, but yogurt contains sugar. Too much sugar will have a negative effect. Use natural remedies sparingly and only under the advice of your physician.
If you have a yeast infection, try using an over-the-counter antifungal cream. You can find these at your local grocery store or drug store. They are available under different names like vagisil ph balance wash review and Monistat. Apply the cream as directed to the affected area to help soothe and treat the symptoms of yeast infection. | <urn:uuid:2391622e-af61-48be-8090-6b2568935859> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.postmediamagazine.com/how-to-prevent-and-treat-recurring-yeast-infections/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954129 | 1,194 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Households' bank borrowing
Consumers in America and Britain have been taking on more debt in recent years. Thanks partly to falling property values, German households have, however, slowed their borrowing since 1999.
This article appeared in the Economic & financial indicators section of the print edition under the headline "Households' bank borrowing"
From the November 30th 2002 edition
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In 1899, a 21-year-old Russian, Simcha Baevski, arrived at the Port of Melbourne in pursuit of a new identity and a new life. Renaming himself Sidney Myer, he founded a small drapery business in Bendigo, Victoria. From these beginnings Sidney accumulated significant wealth, which enabled him to buy an established retail business in Bourke Street, Melbourne, in 1911. This became The Myer Emporium, a Melbourne shopping institution whose enduring status no one could foresee.
The year 1920 was to be a momentous one for Sidney: in January he married Margery Merlyn Baillieu and by November he had registered interest in a Toorak residence, Torrie, eventually to be renamed Cranlana, at 62 Clendon Road. When Sidney died suddenly in 1934, Merlyn was left not only a widow but also chatelaine of Cranlana and ‘Mother of the Store’. Over the ensuing years, Cranlana evolved in various ways, always with Merlyn at the helm. When Dame Merlyn Myer died in 1982, her children rallied to keep the dream alive.
Adopting Cranlana’s air of concealed mystery, this book guides the reader though its magnificent wrought-iron gates and into a garden and a house that breathes history – one resonating with horticultural vitality, material beauty and human enterprise – yet a place still very much a living family concern and to date not open to the public. Breathtakingly designed and illustrated, and full of reminiscences from the people who lived and worked at 62 Clendon Road, this book is a fitting celebration of the life of Cranlana during its first 100 years. | <urn:uuid:9ed754e8-ff3f-42e4-8d8b-06004e724623> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://library.pmi.net.au/fullRecord.jsp?recno=30094 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964407 | 360 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Genetics Yellow starthistle is diploid (2n=16), with a large amount of genetic variation (Sun, 1997; Sun and Ritland, 1998). Yellow Starthistle Centaurea solstitialis L. Sunflower family (Asteraceae) NATIVE RANGE Africa, temperate Asia and Eurasia (Balkan-Asia Minor, the Middle East and south-central Europe) Mediterranean region of southern Europe and northern Africa, especially Turkey DESCRIPTION Yellow starthistle is an annual herbaceous plant. Dense populations of this plant result in lowered yield and quality of forages and occasionally crops. Yellow starthistle is an invasive herbaceous annual or biennial of the Asteraceae family that spreads by seeds, forming dense stands in open, sunny areas (Maddox, 1981). Impacts:Agricultural: Infestations can reduce forage quality and forage availability in pastures and in hay. Perennial grasses can compete against yellow starthistle invasions, particularly species that can initiate growth in the fall. Adults cause minor defoliation, with the majority of the damage caused by larval feeding. Invasive plants should never be considered as forage. Yellow starthistle is in the Asteraceae family and is a long-lived winter annual; Stems are erect, rough, branching and can grow up to 1 m in height. micranthos (invasive), diffuse knapweed, Centaurea diffusa (invasive), meadow knapweed, Centaurea x moncktonii (invasive), and brown knapweed, Centaurea jacea (invasive) â These knapweeds have pink or white flowers, unlike the yellow flowers of yellow starthistle and they lack the one inch long spines on their flowering heads that yellow starthistle has. Weed Seed - Yellow Starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) Plant pest card - Yellow starthistle. Yellow starthistle inhabits open hills, grasslands, open woodlands, fields, roadsides, and rangelands, and it is considered one of the most serious rangeland weeds in the state. Yellow star-thistle is a listed noxious weed and is invasive in many western states. Growth Form/Reproduction: Winter annual. However, Yellow Starthistle growth rates can decline as its density increases. ... For more details check out the Invasive Species Compendium datasheet on Centaurea solstitialis (yellow starthistle). It is easily recognizable from its brilliant yellow flowers, and cactus like spines. Seed. Goats will eat the plant even in the spiny stages. In deep-soiled rangelands Yellow Starthistle roots grow fast and deep (Sheley and Petroff 1999). PREVENT Centaurea solstitalis Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower). Centaurea solstitialis Photo courtesy Bob Case. Other Common Names: St. Barnabyâs thistle, yellow cockspur. Spotted knapweed, Centaurea stoebe spp. Yellow starthistle - Centaurea solstitialis. Common names: yellow starthistle Centaurea solstitialis (yellow starthistle) is a bushy winter annual (family Asteraceae) that invades 12 million acres in California. It is poisonous to horses. Origin: Europe. Adults overwinter outside the host plant, leaving their ⦠Yellow starthistle is an invasive plant found in pastures and rangelands. yellow star-thistle in the bolting stage but, before the flowerâs spines develop. Sometimes it can grow in clusters that appear shrubby. Invasive Plant Species of West Virginia Jil M. Swearingen, Survey of invasive plants occurring on National Park Service lands, 2000-2007 John Randall, The Nature Conservancy, Survey of TNC Preserves, 1995. Overgrazing will reduce the ability of other vegetation to recover and shade out the starthistle. It has taken over vast areas of land in the western United States with estimates of over 15 million acres in California, 280,000 acres in Idaho, and 135,000 acres in Oregon. Grazing reduces biomass and seed produc-tion. Bangasternus orientalis, or the yellow starthistle bud weevil, reduces seed production of yellow starthistle plants by 50 to 60%. Yellow starthistle, Centaurea solstitialis, is a particularly nasty type of invasive knapweed in the Aster family. Consult the PLANTS Web site and your State Department of Natural Resources for this plantâs current status (e.g., threatened or endangered species, state noxious status, and wetland indicator values). Legal Status Central Kootenay: Weed Control Act, Forest and Range Practices Act, Community Charters Act. | <urn:uuid:17308a4e-a998-41fb-ae02-891a0029522e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://grounze.com/m3safhub/c55830-yellow-starthistle-invasive-species | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.869476 | 1,013 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Why do I need a high school diploma or equivalency certificate?
- allows you to apply for jobs or apprenticeships in industries where employers require a high school diploma or equivalency certificate
- allows you to accomplish personal and career goals
- allows you to apply for more financial aid at community colleges (Some financial aid may be available for students without a high school diploma or equivalency certificate through other sources such as CalWorks, WIOA, JTO.)
Earning a high school diploma or high school equivalency certificate shows that you have the basic skills and knowledge included in a high school education. Potential employers look for employees who have these basic skills and knowledge. Colleges and other advanced training programs also expect students to have these skills and knowledge.
Although it is recommended, you do not have to earn a high school diploma or equivalency certificate in order to enroll in most classes at the community colleges or adult schools.
Click on the questions below to discover which pathway is the best for you.
Both the high school diploma and high school equivalency certificate lead to the same result for most employment and educational opportunities. The process for earning each of them is different. Talk with a counselor or transition specialist to determine which of them is best for you.
The first step is to contact the adult school you wish to attend. The steps may be slightly different at each school, but may include the following:
- take a placement test
- attend an orientation
- meet with a counselor
- enroll in classes
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SUMMER TIME SALE NOW ON,GREAT DEALS ON PETSAFE AND STAYFENCE PRODUCTS. Inside a couple of days of training your dog, it can itself learn that it’s self-harming to go outdoors the boundaries and will keep away from crossing them. Once you know that your dog is learning concerning the boundaries, you need to take them off one after the other. So finally, you may attain a point of time when your dog will know all of the invisible boundaries which are round your own home.
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Again, training your canine is essential to his safety. Some dog house owners have a particularly cussed escape artist who retains working away even after receiving shocks. Until he will get the grasp of the containment system, he’ll got to an unsafe spot and be stressed out, not realizing where to go. So, it is rather crucial that until you are assured your dog is a hundred% skilled, you’ll want to stand by with him in case he will get all panicky. This is additionally one of many explanation why many collars robotically shut-off after a steady stimulus. Everyone knows you don’t want to harm your friend. All you want is for him to know when he is about to transcend his limits.
Alternatively, a fully wi-fi canine fence is a superb choice for canine owners who want a safe and safe house of their yard with minimal fuss. As mentioned, they’re simpler to put in and maintain and are excellent for dog house owners who journey quite a bit with their dogs, thus requiring a transportable system that may be introduced on the highway and installed wherever they select.
Brick, wooden, or grill fences aren’t the one choices to maintain the dog inside the property. An invisible wireless fence, instead of a physical one, can do a a lot better job. They know canines and so dog fence they know our hidden fence systems inside and out. Watch a video and see why our sellers are a special breed. Enter your zip code beneath to search out your native vendor.
Semi-wi-fi techniques are a bit different. Quite than counting on a central transmitter, antennae wires are used to create the boundary. The scale of your fenced-in space will depend solely on the size of the wire and the energy of the hooked up transmitter. The principle advantage of this system is that you should use to create any shape that you want.
This may sound unusual, but generally physical fences have proved to be insufficient in holding the pet on the safe aspect of the fence. The canine both runs out when the gate is opened for a split second or finds a gap or crack on the fence to make its escape.
We advise you to check it yourself and make it possible for nothing is interfering with the sign by taking the collar across the edge. It seems that each wireless fence has these kinds of problems, but the flaws are neglectable while you take into accounts the wide selection. Just remember to prepare additional batteries simply in case and to verify the boundary for lifeless spots. In the end, we are able to really advocate this PetSafe fence should you determine to go along with a wireless option, as the majority of folks have found it useful and effective at protecting their beloved pet protected.
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There are two totally different modes which you are able to activate from the transmitter itself. Traditional works like another fence and creates a warning to your canine as they strategy the fence itself. Yard Max ensures that the shock only prompts once the canine has stepped over the line.
First of all, anyone with a toy breed. There isn’t a available wireless dog fence appropriate for canine under 12 lbs. Although producers checklist their collars as protected for canines gps dog fence down to 5 lbs. This is completely unrealistic because the collars are method to big and heavy and the correction option to strong for such tiny canine. | <urn:uuid:46b531e9-e321-436e-b7b3-50a908c26f4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://astro-olympia.com/master-the-art-of-invisible-dog-fence-with-these-3-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.9563 | 831 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Your credit score can have a significant impact on your financial life...
This score is an indicator of your financial health and it will be verified every single time you apply for a loan or a credit card.
As you may expect, a high score will make your application move much faster while a low score will result in denial of same.
It's for this reason that it's recommended to keep a close tab on what goes into your credit history and check your CIBIL score from time to time, but definitely before you apply for a loan or a credit card.
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Three teams made up of 6 observers made up in teams of two (with a local translator), who were registered with Norway’s Directorate of Elections, and accredited by the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation made 53 separate observations in 53 polling stations across the greater Oslo area.
Each observation was conducted in pairs to allow for objective observation and the observers then agreed their opinions of the electoral process before submitting data to the central team. Each team was accompanied by a local member of staff who acted as both translator and driver.
The observations generally took between fifteen and thirty minutes per polling station as the observers were asked to ensure that they attempted to see the entire process, which included staff greeting electors on arrival at the polling station. This happened on every occasion.
The organisation of polling stations was well run across the area of observation, voters could clearly see how to access voting and staff were trained to manage the process.
Polls were open from 9am to 9pm and the teams were asked to observe an opening as well as a closing of a polling station and tour polling stations throughout the day.
Counting began almost immediately, based in the polling stations before results were transmitted to the central count for checking.
Overall the election was very well run. There are, however, some issues that the observer teams identified which are specific to the Norwegian context which will be discussed here.
In particular, this centres around the secrecy of the ballot when electors cast their vote. Because of the nature of Norwegian polling booths all ballot papers are displayed to every voter.
On some occasions voters did not completely close the curtain behind themselves and, especially during busy times of the day, when staff might be otherwise occupied they remained unclosed so that others in the polling station could see which slot the voter took their ballot from. As all voters have access to all ballot papers this is a slight weakness in the system.
Other polling stations, outside Oslo, had other forms of polling booths. These allow for slots to be placed and replaced by staff to suit the number of parties contesting the election. On one occasion, in Ski, it was noted that one party was missing from those that should be present.
In rare cases, especially during bust periods, it was also clear which parties were performing well as ballot papers were not always replenished efficiently and, as such, gaps could be seen where parties were performing well.
1. It is incumbent on staff, as well as voters to maintain the secrecy of the ballot and this is especially the case when the voter is required to enter, and close, a booth. In almost all circumstances this was the case but without staff being vigilant this could constitute a problem in Norway’s voting process. Because all ballot papers are ‘on display’ as the voter arrives in a booth, if the curtain is not closed, it can be very clear for whom the voter is casting their ballot.
2. Observation of the process of voting was very open and accessible to the observer teams, however, access to observe the opening and counting of votes was less clear. One team attended the closing of a well-run polling station which then seamlessly continued to open the ballot boxes and count, and the observers were able to follow the process closely. However, the team which attended Oslo Town Hall were unable to observe the opening of the ballot box and to follow the process closely at all. They were kept at a distance by local officials and were unable to observe the counting of votes. This was deemed to be unacceptable by the Mission Head and this feedback was given to the local officials. No action was taken to rectify this problem.
We would like to thanks the officials at the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation as well as polling staff for their helpful and prompt assistance in facilitating the election observation as the system was both clear and simple to navigate. The briefing offered on Sunday 10th September which explained the electoral system and voting process to observers was especially helpful. | <urn:uuid:cbf4985b-0a5b-4401-b94b-7ce2e65fe225> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://democracyvolunteers.org/final-report-norwegian-parliamentary-elections-110917/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.988133 | 813 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Albéniz’ piano music is truly irresistible, in particular because of its dance-like elements and its Spanish atmosphere. Asturias combines these elements in a most sophisticated manner. It first appeared in 1892 as the Prélude to the Chants d’Espagne (HN 782), and again in 1901, this time with the title Asturias in the Suite Espagnole (HN 783), and the piece soon became one of the composer’s best-loved works. Who isn’t familiar with the mysterious guitar sounds that conjure up a Flamenco scene in Andalusia? The piece has often been arranged, but we are publishing it in the original Urtext version for solo piano – in an affordable single edition.
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In the first decade of his career, Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909) saw himself as a cosmopolitan artist who was musically at home just about everywhere in the world. He was born in Camprodón in northern Spain, grew up in Barcelona and as a child prodigy pianist in the early 1870s was already giving evening recitals that would later take him as far away as North America. These … 続き
He numbers among the most important Spanish composers. His oeuvre consists predominantly of piano music and stage works.
|1860||Born in Camprodón (Gerona province) on May 29; soon thereafter his family moves to Barcelona; first piano instruction with his sister at age three and a half, first public performance at age five, subsequent piano studies with Narciso Oliveras.|
|from 1867||Eventful youth due to concert tours with his father and sister to Paris, the Spanish provinces, then on his own to Puerto Rico and Cuba.|
|1876–79||Studies in Brussels.|
|1883–86||Studies composition in Barcelona with Felipe Pedrell, who persuades him of the value of Spanish folk music. This results in piano compositions such as “Recuerdos de viaje,” Op. 71 (1886-87); “España: Seis hojas de album,” Op. 165 (1890); “Cantos de España,” Op. 232 (1891-94).|
|1889||Breakthrough as a pianist, concertizing in Paris and London.|
|1890–93||Engaged in London by the agent Henry Lowenfeld; operetta “The Magic Opal” (premiere 1893).|
|1893||Relocation to Paris, studies with Vincent d’Indy and Paul Dukas.|
|1895/96||Premieres in Barcelona of his operas “Henry Clifford” (1895) and “Pepita Jiménez” (1896) with Spanish colorings in the libretti and music.|
|1898–1903||He plans the trilogy “King Arthur” (“Merlin,” “Lancelot,” “Guenevere”), of which just “Merlin” is completed; concert performance of the original version does not take place until 1998.|
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AUS holds mechatronics workshop to connect academia and industry
International industry experts and academics shared ideas on the latest trends, needs and changes in mechatronics education at a special workshop held at American University of Sharjah (AUS) today April 26. The day-long conference, entitled "Mechatronics between Academia and Industry," comprised a wide variety of sessions that addressed important issues in the field.
Mechatronics, which has evolved as a distinct engineering discipline over the last few years, is a blend of mechanics, electronics, information technology and computers. It is the application of the latest techniques in precision mechanical engineering, controls theory, computer science and electronics to the design process in order to create more functional and adaptable products. With its renowned, long-established Mechatronics Center on campus, the university's graduate degree in mechatronics engineering has attracted a lot of attention over the years, reinforcing AUS's reputation as one of the region's leading research universities.
Academics from the UAE and Canada addressed pertinent topics that focused on mechatronics education in the UAE as well as north America while industry specialists held sessions and panel discussions on robotics, mechatronics and smart systems and the key technologies and skills needed for tomorrow's applications.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Richard Schoephoerster, Dean of the College of Engineering (CEN) said "This is an excellent opportunity for those of us in this dynamic field to come together to exchange ideas and to discuss ways and means to address the latest trends in mechatronics education. This event is the first in a series of collaborations we envisage having with Quanser, Canada, with whom we have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)."
According to the MoU, AUS has partnered with Quanser to become part of the Quanser Center of Excellence program. Both organizations have agreed to collaborate in areas of mutual interest, as Quanser is a leader in design and manufacture of engineering education and research solutions for mechatronics systems.
With the university's recent mandate to become a research hub in the coming years, collaborations such as this will provide an added fillip to the graduate program offered in mechatronics engineering. Multidisciplinary engineers are needed now more than ever to tackle challenges in the competitive and changing industrial sector. Coupled with the AUS Mechatronics Center's excellent networking opportunities with leading industries throughout the region, mechatronics engineering students at the university benefit from both theoretical and practical hands-on research and training.
The workshop also featured Dr. Lotfi Romdhane, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Mechatronics Engineering Graduate Program at AUS; Dr. AbdulRahman Al-Ali, Professor of Computer Engineering, AUS; Dr. Mohammad Jaradat, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, AUS; Dr. Sanjeev Bedi, Director of IDEAS Clinic and former Director of the Mechatronics Program at University of Waterloo, Canada; Dhanabal Solaikutty, Academic Manager, National Instruments, India; as well as Paul Gilbert, CEO of Quanser, Canada, along with other senior officials from the organization. | <urn:uuid:3b974ee4-b67a-4067-9658-ff393e5eddca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aus.edu/media/news/aus-holds-mechatronics-workshop-to-connect-academia-and-industry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.945414 | 667 | 1.671875 | 2 |
This post refers specifically to downpipes with a square cross section. It shows how to modify a rainwater downpipe spout (shoe) to stop a dripping noise when the drip starts within the outlet shoe.
For drips that drop off the guttering outlet and fall all the way down to the bottom of a straight downpipe and hit the shoe you may get immediate relief from the noise by removing the shoe and letting the drip fall on the ground, roof or whatever is below the downpipe. In the long term this may cause excessive splashing under heavy rain which could cause damage to foundations or brickwork mortar, because the water is not directed away from the building.
The drip needs to be guided to the side of the downpipe so it will run down the pipe and only tend to drip at the bottom where it can be dealt with by the method described here. Any method devised must not prevent leaves and dirt from being washed all the way down the pipe or a blockage will ensue.
Existing Methods Which Stop A Drip
Drips falling from the guttering down to the shoe are loud due to the kinetic energy they gain by falling from a great height.
So far the only method of stopping drips that fall from the guttering level all the way down to the shoe is to have an angled section as near to the guttering as possible.
The principle is: The drip is caught after it has only fallen a few centimetres, so its kinetic energy is low, at the point where it lands in the pipe, so keeping the noise low. From then on it runs down the inside wall of the pipe until it gets to the shoe.
This arrangement is mostly used when a roof overhangs the walls of a building and the downpipe has to be returned to the wall from a guttering some distance away. However this can be very difficult to achieve with square downpipe when the roof is not overhanging the walls sufficiently (the case in my situation) because the joints cannot be twisted to any angle. Exactly what is required can easily be achieved with round downpipe because it can be rotated at the joint to any angle when it is returned to the wall.
Example Using Square Downpipe
The guttering is extended beyond the end of the roof to allow this fall back to the side wall. This is exactly the method which will catch the drips after falling a short distance. However with square downpipe the bends can only be inline with the guttering or set at right angles.
Example Using Round Downpipe
This too will catch the drips. Round downpipe can be twisted to any angle. It can be fixed close to the wall and deal with small guttering projections.
The Nuisance of a Dripping Noise
In 2012 I had new PVC guttering and square downpipes. From one downpipe in particular I could hear a regular dripping noise when it was raining. While I was in bed I found the dripping noise very annoying.
During the day I climbed onto a ground floor roof in the rain to examine how the dripping noise was produced. I found water was running down the inside wall of the downpipe, on the side with the spout opening, until it arrived at the spout. The water then dripped from the top of the spout opening and landed on the bottom of the spout which worked like a sounding board. This resonated up the hollow pipe making the dripping noise too loud.
Fortunately water dripping the short distance from the spout to the roof below didn’t make a loud dripping noise. So I didn’t have to concern myself with that aspect of dripping water.
How to Stop a Dripping Noise
I realised that the way to stop the dripping was to ensure the water continued its downward journey to the bottom of the spout along a surface so it would not stop to drip. In my particular case I glued a piece of rubber sheet (left over from the repair to my flat roof) to the inside of the top of the spout, using Clear Adhesive 1985 for PVC made by STELMAX Specialist Adhesives. This adhesive can also be obtained from other stockists, e.g. AB Building Products.
The width of the rubber sheet was similar to the spout width such that it was free to flap around when pushed by water descending the downpipe. This rubber sheet was long enough to pass all the way to the bottom of the spout. Now the water has four sides to run down to get from the top of the downpipe all the way to the bottom of the spout.
The rubber isn’t sealed at the bottom so small quantities just leak away. Heavy rain and debris from the roof can easily push the rubber sheet out of the way to exit the downpipe.
I used rubber sheet left over from my hall’s new Firestone EPDM rubber roof to make the flap. The rubber flap was stuck onto the shoe after cleaning both with water and washing-up liquid.
I am a little concerned about what will happen to water coming down the downpipe in freezing weather. Water around the edge of the rubber flap may freeze it to the spout in a closed position. Maybe there will never be any water passing down the pipe under freezing conditions. If there is, it may melt any ice on the flap anyway.
Below is an explanatory diagram showing the lower section of a downpipe. It has a spout in the form of a separate shoe connected at the bottom. The shoe is held on by friction but it could be glued on:
This is how the shoe looks on the inside. The picture was taken looking into the socket at the top of the spout into which the downpipe fits:
NOTE: If the shoe has been glued onto the downpipe you may have to either remove the whole downpipe to work on it or glue the rubber flap on working blind. Either way remember to clean the area that the rubber flap will be stuck onto with water and washing-up liquid because it might have got dirty with all the dirt that washes off a roof. Sometimes the shoe is so near the ground or roof below that it can’t be removed without some or all of the downpipe fixings to the wall being removed so that the downpipe can be either moved or totally removed. | <urn:uuid:6332e13e-607f-4581-b39d-3355bd9c0b0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://helpfulcolin.com/dripping-noise-from-a-rainwater-spout/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953666 | 1,313 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives (CAPTCHA)
The Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives project is supported by Culture Program of the European Union's Directorate General for Education and Culture. Project partners include Radio Corax, Radio Fro, Near FM/TV, and the funding period is September 2013 to August 2015.
The project aims to promote European collaboration between community media organizations and to promote the concept of “open content” and innovative digital exchange and distribution.
The project’s objectives stem from the wider role which community media play in lowering the threshold for citizens to produce and share stories and news of local import, accessing public information, sharing cultural heritage, and maintaining community dialogue. Project partners will produce content and develop a web-based open content platform; CMCS will produce a study of best practices of innovative and effective digital tools and technologies for open access multi-media exchange platforms; evaluate examples of existing cross-border projects among grassroots media; and provide an analytic overview on the relevant legal questions of copyright, fair use and open content, with particular attention to the variations in legislation from country to country within the European Union.
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July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016
Kay Starr, born Katherine Laverne Starks on a reservation in Dougherty, Oklahoma.
Her father, Harry, was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian; her mother, Annie, was of mixed Irish and American Indian heritage.
When her father got a job installing water sprinkler systems, the family moved to Dallas, Texas. While her father worked for the Automatic Sprinkler Company, her mother raised chickens, and Kay used to sing to the chickens in the coop.
As a result of the fact that her aunt, Nora, was impressed by her singing, she began to sing at the age of seven on a Dallas radio station, WRR, first in a talent competition where she finished third one week and won every week thereafter, then with her own weekly fifteen minute show.
She sang pop and "hillbilly" songs with a piano accompaniment. By the age of ten, she was making $3 a night, a lot of money in the Depression days.
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DES MOINES, Iowa – A gun omnibus bill that includes permitless carry (also known as constitutional carry) passed through committees in the Iowa House and Iowa Senate this week.
Along with permitless carry, the two bills also allow EMTs assigned to a law enforcement tactical team to have a professional permit to carry. It will enable active and reserve law enforcement officers to carry on school grounds whether they are on or off duty. The bill expands handgun safety training. It also strengthens preemption laws to prevent municipalities from further regulating the carrying of firearms beyond what state law allows. The legislation also prevents landlords and government-assisted housing from banning firearms.
In the Iowa House Committee debate, State Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, D-Ames, objected that under HSB 254, private transfers or sales of firearms wouldn’t require a background check since current law requires Iowans to have a carry permit or permit to buy to purchase a handgun. Only purchases from a federally licensed dealer will require a carry permit, permit to buy, or a background check under the bill.
“Gun sales have gone up a lot during this pandemic. Many of us are concerned about increased domestic violence that is an app and safe for many people to be home. We are also concerned about mental health issues arising due to the pandemic and tragedy. Tragically, suicide ideation, most of the deaths in Iowa due to gun violence are suicide. We have a lot of controversial bills affecting Iowa’s image and hurting our business and workforce recruitment I believe this is one of them,” she said. “Repealing Iowa’s bedrock public safety laws such as background check law and the permitting requirement for carrying a concealed gun is extreme, unpopular, and a threat to public safety. I would strongly support the permit to carry and background checks for the purchase and carry of a firearm. No constitutional right is unlimited, and firearm enthusiasts should not expect the Second Amendment rights to be unlimited.”
State Rep. Steve Holt, R-Denison, the bill manager, countered her arguments during his closing remarks.
“Gun sales are up not just because of COVID, Representative Wessel-Kroeschell, but because Americans and Iowans believe that politicians are coming after their firearms and their Second Amendment rights, and they’re trying to buy their firearms as fast as possible. That is why firearm sales are up,” he said.
“(During) your comments, I kept thinking about the fact that we’re going back to the idea that law-abiding citizens are the problem and that the Second Amendment is the problem. Law-abiding citizens are not the problem. The Second Amendment is not the problem,” Holt added, noting that a permit won’t stop a criminal shooting and killing people.
“Anybody that believes a sign, or a permit, are going to prevent these type of atrocities just apparently don’t understand human nature,” he said.
During the more subdued debate in the Iowa Senate Judiciary Committee, State Senator Kevin Kinney, D-Oxford, said he opposed the bill in his current form but said he was working with State Senator Jason Schultz, R-Schleswig, the bill manager, on amendments that would improve the legislation from his perspective. He specifically mentioned potential amendments such as creating a way law enforcement can check to see if someone is disqualified under Iowa law from carrying a weapon such as a felon or domestic abuser. Another potential amendment could require people to bring a photo ID, like a drivers’ license, when carrying a weapon.
State Senator Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, opposed the bill and asked why it was necessary.
“What’s the presenting issue here? Are law-abiding citizens having trouble getting firearms? It wouldn’t appear that they are. We’ve seen an enormous increase and not just in the last year. But I’d say for the last decade; we had record gun sales,” he said.
“We’re going to have no background checks with this bill. No permits are going to be required. No training is going to be required; no Sheriff’s involvement to acquire and carry a handgun. And I think it’s kind of interesting people will be able to come to the Capitol with a concealed handgun without any kind of background check,” Bolkcom added.
Schultz responded in his closing comments.
“The problem we’re trying to solve is the infringement of rights guaranteed by the Constitution, inherent in every American Iowans have the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the bear portion of that would be the carrying of arms,” he said.
“If you have to have permission to do something, you do not have a right. You have a privilege similar to driving. You have to get a license to do that. And courts have said that is not a right. I want to; I’d like to restore firearms rights back to their rightful place,” Schultz said. | <urn:uuid:5ad384e1-6bbd-41b8-bf1e-1292a589e0c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iowatorch.com/2021/03/05/permitless-carry-bills-advance-in-iowas-legislature/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965206 | 1,061 | 1.625 | 2 |
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; , ''Afrique Express'', N° 257, October 17, 2002 . receiving broad support, including the backing of ADEMA. He received 115 votes from the 138 participating deputies; the only other candidate, Noumoutié Sogoba of African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence (SADI), received eight votes, while 15 deputies abstained. In 1921, he turned down entry into the ''école
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female musical celebrity, Fanta Damba. Damba and other Bamana (and Maninka) musicians in cities like Bamako are known throughout the country for a style of guitar music called Bajourou (named after an 18th century song glorifying ancient king Tutu Jara). Bamana djembe ("djembe" is a French approximation of the Maninka word, with correct English phonetic approximation: jenbe) drumming has become popular since the mid-1990s throughout the world. It is a traditional
is in the public domain.'' Recent criticism has surfaced around the working conditions, pay, and the widespread use of child labour in these small gold mines, and the method which middlemen, in regional centers like Sikasso and Kayes, purchase and transport gold. Gold collected in the towns is sold on—with almost no regulation or oversight—to larger merchant houses in Bamako or Conakry, and eventually to smelters in Europe. Kids working in African gold mines. AP RUKMINI CALLIMACHI AND BRADLEY S. KLAPPER – Aug 10, 2008. Ecological factors, especially pollution of water by mine tailings, is a major source of concern. In addition, the continued exploitation of unregulated small scale mining, often by child labourers, supplies a large international gold market in Bamako which feeds into international production. Report on Human Rights Practices 2006: Mali. United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (March 6, 2007). ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.'' Recent criticism has surfaced around the working conditions, pay, and the widespread use of child labour in these small gold mines, and the method which middlemen, in regional centers like Sikasso and Kayes, purchase and transport gold. Gold collected in the towns is sold on—with almost no regulation or oversight—to larger merchant houses in Bamako or Conakry, and eventually to smelters in Europe. Kids working in African gold mines. AP RUKMINI CALLIMACHI AND BRADLEY S. KLAPPER – Aug 10, 2008. Ecological factors, especially pollution of water by mine tailings, is a major source of concern. Barriers to transport While police control barriers are a common sight on African highways, and while illicit demands for bribes at such stops are common in many countries, the main Malian highway heading south from Bamako to the Burkina Faso border was singled out in late 2008 as the worst in West Africa. A survey by the Observatory of Abnormal Practices (OPA) of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) found the Malian section of this road to have the highest number of police roadblocks with the highest average amount paid in bribes per trip in West Africa. An average of twenty-nine roadblocks, almost 4 for every 100 km, were reported from June to September 2008. The amount paid in bribes in the Mali section (per trip) was CFA F 31,509. While in other nations the customs officials were responsible for most stops, in Mali, gendarmerie (National paramilitary police) and the Police force were found creating the majority of bribe extorting roadblocks. The number of roadblocks on the Bamako-Burkina highway also increased by 12 per cent during the third quarter of 2008, going from 67 to 75. High number of barriers on Ouagadougou-Bamako road. Pana Press. 05 01 2009. * '''Joint Military School''' at Koulikoro (:fr:École militaire interarmes de Koulikoro) * '''Alioune Blondin Beye Peacekeeping Training School at Bamako (:fr:École de maintien de la paix Alioune Blondin Beye de Bamako) Since Mauritania negotiated a boundary dispute with Mali in 1963, ties between the two countries have been mostly cordial. Handloff, Robert E. "Relations with Other African States". In ''Mauritania: A Country Study'' (Robert E. Handloff, editor). Library of Congress Federal Research Division (June 1988). ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.'' Mali and Mauritania have cooperated on several development projects, such as the OMVS and a plan to improve roads between Nouakchott and Bamako. This cooperation somewhat lessened Mali's dependence on Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire. Although relations were warm with other black African states, since 1965 the orientation of Mauritania's foreign policy has been geared towards relations with North African countries. Russia has an embassy in Bamako, and Mali has an embassy in Moscow (Embassy of Mali in Moscow). The water in the Niger River basin is partially regulated through dams. In Mali the Sélingué Dam on the Sankarani River is mainly used for hydropower, but also permits irrigation. Two diversion dams, one at Sotuba just downstream of Bamako, and one at Markala, just downstream of Ségou, are used to irrigate about 54,000 hectares. In Nigeria the Kainji Dam and the Jebba dam are used to generate hydropower. Six people were killed during the 1988 race, three participants and three local residents. In one incident, Baye Sibi, a 10-year-old Malian girl, was killed by a racer while she crossed a road. A film crew's vehicle killed a mother and daughter in Mauritania on the last day of the race. The race participants killed, in three separate crashes, were a Dutch navigator on the DAF Trucks team, a French privateer (privateer (motorsport)), and a French rider (motorcycle). Racers were also blamed for starting a wildfire that caused a panic on a train running between Dakar and Bamako, where three more people were killed. Commons:Category:Bamako Wikipedia:Bamako Dmoz:Regional Africa Mali Localities Bamako
'', the Hamdallaye obelisk, the Modibo Keita Memorial and many other monuments, the Palais de la Culture Amadou Hampaté Ba and the Point G hill, containing caves with rock paintings. In 1988, Bamako was the location of a WHO (World Health Organization) conference known as the Bamako Initiative that helped reshape health policy of sub-Saharan Africa. The yearly held Budapest-Bamako rally has the endpoint in Bamako, with the Dakar Rally often passing through Bamako. File:Monument Al Quoods - Bamako.jpg Al Quoods Monument File:Monument de l'indépendance - Bamako.jpg Independence Monument File:Monument de la paix - Bamako.jpg Monument de la paix File:L'obélisque des idéogrammes, Hamdallaye - Bamako.jpg Hamdallaye obelisk File:Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes - Statue place des explorateurs - Koulouba - Bamako.jpg Statue of Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes File:Pyramide du souvenir - Bamako.jpg Pyramide du souvenir File:Place Abdoul Karim Camara - Bamako.jpg Place Abdoul Karim Camara File:Place des explorateurs, Koulouba - Bamako.jpg Place des explorateurs Transport thumb left 250px Looking north from Pont Des Martyrs. Kuluba hill is in the background. (File:Bamakolooking north from the old bridge.jpg) thumb 250px right This is a Share taxi#Sotrama Sotrama (File:Taxi vans in Bamako.jpg) stand (pronounced so-tram-a). The Sotrama (Taxi van) is what is used as 'public transportation', though many are owned independently. The Dakar-Niger Railway links Bamako to Dakar via Kati, Négala, Kita (Kita, Mali), and Kayes. The road network links Bamako to Koulikoro, Kati, Kolokani, Ségou, and Sikasso. The Bamako-Sénou International Airport is located 15 km from the city and opened to passengers in 1974. Passenger traffic steadily increased in the early 2000s. Government figures revealed 403,380 passengers in 1999, 423,506 in 2003, 486,526 in 2004, and 516,000 in 2005, and is predicted to reach over 900,000 by 2015 under a low (4%) yearly growth rate scenario. Composante aéroport Bamako-Sénou, Proposition MCA-Mali (2006) To date this growth rate has been surpassed. Total air traffic the airport increased by 12.4% in 2007 and 14% in 2008. Most of this increase came in passenger transport, with the number of passengers served increasing by 20% in 2007 and 17% in 2008. Twenty-seven airline carriers operated weekly or better at Bamako-Sénou International Airport in the 2007–2008 period. This continued growth was offset by cargo flights' decline of 16.75% in 2007, and 3.93% in 2008. "Air traffic at Bamako airport increases by 14% in 2008". PANA press. 2009-01-14 The highest frequency route is on the Bamako-Dakar sector with 29 weekly non-stop connections. Domestic flights also serve Mali's regional capitals Kayes, Mopti, Timbuktu, Sikasso, Gao, and Kidal. Bamako Senou International Airport is managed by Aéroports du Mali (ADM). Its operations are overseen by the Malian Ministry of Equipment and Transports. Much of the transportation is either by the Niger River, or by paved roads linking Bamako to other major urban areas. Navigating the river is possible from Koulikoro to Mopti and Gao. The bush taxi is one of the main modes of transport. Bamako is situated on both sides of the Niger River and two bridges connect the two banks: the Bridge of Martyrs completed in 1960 and renamed in memory of protesters killed in March 1991 by the regime of Moussa Traoré, and the King Fahd Bridge (King Fahd Bridge (Bamako)), named after the Saudi Arabian donor. A third bridge project is currently being funded by the People's Republic of China. Located in Sotuba area, it has the objective to decongest traffic in the city. « Troisième pont de Bamako : le compte à rebours a commencé », ''L'Essor'', 19 November 2007. Healthcare The Point G hospital, built between 1906 and 1913, covers an area of 25 hectares. A former military hospital, it became a civilian hospital shortly before the independence of Mali, and is situated on a hill overlooking Bamako B. Doumbia, « Centenaire du Point G : Un siècle à la pointe des soins et une belle histoire », ''L'Essor'', 11 December 2006. The second hospital of Bamako is the Gabriel Touré Hospital named after a young doctor and humanist Gabriel Touré who was born in 1910 in Ouagadougou and died in 1935 after having been contaminated by a patient with the pneumonic plague. The hospital was established in 1959. B. Doumbia, Board of Directors of the Gabriel Toure hospital: the quality imperative, L'Essor, 26 February 2009 The contract for the building of a new hospital in Bamako, to relieve pressure on the other hospital resources was signed on 27 December 2008. Located in the district of Yirimadio, the department will include a pediatric and obstetrics-gynecology facilities, a department of internal medicine, medical imagery facilities and hospital care with 150 beds to support the emergency services and intensive care. This hospital, like many recent developments in Bamako is financed and equipped with Chinese investment. B. Doumbia, Futur « Hôpital du Mali » : les travaux peuvent démarrer, l'Essor, 31 December 2008 In popular culture Bamako has provided the backdrop or been the subject of books and films such as ''Bamako (Bamako (film))'', directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. The film depicts a trial taking place in Bamako, amid the daily life that is going on in the city. In the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, or perhaps corruption, are guilty of the current financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries. The film was first released at the Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2006 and in Manhattan by New Yorker Films on 14 February 2007 and was the recipient of the first Film Award of the Council of Europe given at the Istanbul International Film Festival in April 2007. Commons:Category:Bamako Wikipedia:Bamako Dmoz:Regional Africa Mali Localities Bamako
has clearly and boldly combined different melodic influences to produce a highly original musical feel, with a wide range of appeal. The album was recorded between Bamako, Beirut, Paris, and Los Angeles. This unique musical feel is reinforced by soulful pitches in the track "Samigna" emanating from the trumpet of the great Lebanese jazzman Ibrahim Maaluf. right thumb A satellite photo of the Bani. The town of San (Image:Bani 4.83783W 13.39309N.jpg) lies to the south of the river near the centre of the image. The Talo dam is near the edge on the left hand side. The '''Bani River''' is the principal tributary of the Niger River in Mali. Its length is about 1100 km. The Bani is formed from the confluence of the Baoulé (Baoule River) and Bagoé (Bagoe River) rivers some 160 km east of Bamako and merges with the Niger near Mopti. successor Moussa Traoré birth_date Commons:Category:Bamako Wikipedia:Bamako Dmoz:Regional Africa Mali Localities Bamako
, Quebec City and Fredericton. * Canada has donated one billion dollars (US$, 2007) in bilateral development aid (official development assistance) to Mali between 1962 and 2007, ranking it Mali's fifth-largest bilateral donor. Canada's development work in Mali has been chiefly in the railways (rail transport), telecommunications and hydroelectricity (hydropower) sectors, in the management of government decentralization (decentralization), in education and health. - BKO GABS
at the beginning shows the locations and suggests that the story is about a whole country and all of its people. There is a large cast of characters associated with each place. Some are featured players—Fa Keita, Tiemoko, Maimouna, Ramatoulaye, Penda, Deune, N'Deye, Dejean, and Bakayoko. Others part of the populace. The fundamental conflict is captured in two people, Dejean (the French manager and colonialist) and Bakayoko (the soul and spirit of the strike). In another sense, however, the main
characters of the novel are the people as a collective, the places they inhabit, and the railroad. founded 1960 ground Stade 26 Mars Bamako, Mali capacity 55,000 '''Djoliba Athletic Club''' ('''Djoliba AC''') is a Malian football (football (soccer)) club and one of the two biggest teams in Mali alongside the Stade Malien. The team is based in the capital city (Capital (political)) of Bamako. It has its headquarters and three training stadia (Stadium) at Complex Sportif Hérémakono, in the Heremakono ''Quartier''. The President of Djoliba AC, re-elected in 2009 to a four year term, is Karounga Keita (Karounga Keita(footballer)) a VicePresident of FEMIFOOT, former trainer at the club, who was a player at the founding of the club in 1960. Karounga Keita re-elected president of Djoliba FC of Bamako. PANA Press, 31 03 2009 ''Djoliba'' or ''Joliba'' is the name of the Niger River in the Bamana language (Bambara language). Not only a football club, Djoliba AC is an Omnisports club which fields teams in many sports, and is operated as a membership organisation with an elected board. Assemblée générale du Djoliba : un nouveau bail pour KAROUNGA KEÏTA. l'Essor n15891 - 2007-02-12 Other organizations *The 6th World Social Forum (WSF), an alter-globalization movement, took place in Bamako from January 19 to January 23, 2006. The debt problem was at the heart of the agenda for the meeting. For Barry Aminata Touré, president of the Coalition of African Alternatives to Debt and Development, "''the simple cancellation of debt of Third World nations is finally putting poor countries on the developing track''". Agriculture, and in particular genetically modified organisms, access to water, and immigration were some of the other topics brought up by participants. According to Diadié Yacouba Dagnoko, former Minister for Culture and one of the coordinators of the WSF, the forum, which accommodated between 15,000 and 20,000 participants, cost 700 million CFA francs. Falling under the framework for this WSF, the ''Collectif citoyen pour la restitution et le développement intégré du rail'' (Cocidirail) requested for the renationalisation of the rail network, and for the reopening of shut down stations. It promised to beat incumbent president of Mali (Heads of state of Mali) Amadou Toumani Touré if he recontested in the 2007 elections to protest against his false election promises. After the success of the first African Games, the organizing bodies awarded the second games to Bamako, Mali to be held in 1969. A military coup disrupted the plans and the organizers moved the games to Lagos, Nigeria to be held in 1971. The games were postponed once again and finally opened in January 1973. A torch was lit in Brazzaville a week before the games and transported to Lagos as a symbol of the continuity of the games. birth_date Commons:Category:Bamako Wikipedia:Bamako Dmoz:Regional Africa Mali Localities Bamako
integrating local Manding (Mandinka people) musical styles and traditions, with vocals in the Bambara language. From early on the band featured electric guitar, electric organ, saxophone, horns, and a western drum kit along side Mande music using kora (Kora (instrument)), balafon, Ngoni (Ngoni (instrument)), talking drums, Islamic-style (Muslim music), Mande hunter co-fraternity (Dozo) song, and Griot praise-singing vocals . '''Kita''' is a town and commune in western
'''Bamako''' is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a population of 1.8 million (2009 census, provisional). In 2006, it was estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa and sixth-fastest in the world. World's fastest growing cities and urban areas from 2006 to 2020, by CityMayors.com It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the upper and middle Niger valleys in the southwestern part of the country.
Bamako is the nation's administrative center. The city proper is a cercle (Cercles of Mali) in its own right. Bamako's river port is located in nearby Koulikoro, along with a major regional trade and conference center. Bamako is the seventh-largest West African urban center after Lagos, Abidjan, Kano, Ibadan, Dakar, and Accra. Locally manufactured goods include textiles, processed meat, and metal goods. Commercial fishing occurs on the Niger River.
The name Bamako comes from the Bambara (Bambara language) word meaning "crocodile river". "SUDANESE IMPOSE SENEGAL BOYCOTT; Traders Told to Use Port in Ivory Coast – Move Is Aimed at Dakar's Trade". ''New York Times'', 3 September 1960 | <urn:uuid:2cdfee4c-40a5-467e-8b3b-892df1c4368f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://placesknownfor.com/place/Bamako | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.933037 | 4,535 | 2.234375 | 2 |
When looking for a hypoallergenic dog (and please note there is no such thing as a 100% hypoallergenic dog – only those that cause less problems that others), you will have to decide on a breed of dog and also how the dog will fit into your lifestyle. Many hypoallergenic dogs are small or medium breed dogs. This means that they are small sized or medium sized dogs that require more attention than larger breeds. Hypoallergenic dogs may cause you to have fewer allergy attacks because their hair does not shed, they don’t have an undercoat, or they do not shed a lot dead skin cells, or dander.
The following breeds of hypoallergenic dogs are popular with those who suffer from allergies:
- Bedlington Terrier
- Irish Water Spaniel
- Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
Bedlington Terriers are smaller than the Irish Water Spaniel and Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier, but they have short coats which need to be brushed a few times a week to prevent tangling. They will also need to be groomed every three or four months in order to maintain a healthy coat. These dogs are energetic and enjoy exercise. For those who are hypoallergenic and who live in apartment buildings or small homes, this dog is perfect.
Irish Water Spaniel may be the dog for you if you are looking for a larger breed of hypoallergenic dog.. These dogs have very short human-like hair that will prevent shedding and allergens from entering the air. The coats of these dogs must be maintained through grooming every two months. The Irish Water Spaniel is a friendly dog that likes to exercise and swim during the warmer months of the year.
The Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier is available in four varieties, the Traditional Irish, Heavy Irish, English, and American. The main difference is the size of the dog. The Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier has a short coat that does not shed much during the day. The dogs will need to be groomed as often as other hypoallergenic breeds in order to prevent clumping or rashes on their skin.
The Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier is very friendly and will always welcome strangers. They enjoy getting their exercise and want to be around people as much as possible. These dogs should not be kept in an apartment. Having a backyard is a must as this dog loves to run and bark. If you are in need of a hypoallergenic dog that is a little larger than most, then this is a dog worth considering.
These breeds of hypoallergenic dog are not the only ones you have to choose fro . There are other varieties that may appeal to your lifestyle and allergy issues, such as a Poodle, Bichon Frise, Maltese, Basenji,and Chinese Crested, to name a few.
Smaller dogs are often better for apartment living although I haven’t found that they bark less, they definitely don’t require less room to move around in. If you own or rent a home, then you may want to consider a larger breed that will be able to run around in the back yard. Hypoallergenic dogs require more grooming than other breeds because they do not shed most of their hair, it just continues to grow. Not grooming regularly will cause matting, which will have to be cut from the coat in order to prevent skin rashes and other problems. | <urn:uuid:0fce1421-ef98-4889-8f80-1a96c7a51af2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thecrazypetlady.com/breeds-of-hypoallergenic-dogs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968686 | 722 | 2.03125 | 2 |
25 March 2017 – On the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the challenges that UN staff face and urged everyone to ensure that they have the safety they need to help those most in need around the globe.
“We are still awaiting news of the fate of two members of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a sanctions-monitoring body established by the Security Council,” said Mr. Guterres in a message.
“We are doing everything possible to find and help them.”
Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan, of the Group of Experts, went missing in the Kasai Central region in the DRC on 12 March along with four Congolese nationals.
Noting that the latest case highlighted the perils that UN staff and partners often face while serving the world’s people, the UN chief said that last year, seven UN staff were abducted by non-state actors and four were kept as hostages.
“Fortunately, all were ultimately released safely,” he said, but added that more than 20 UN civilian personnel remain in detention, of whom, six are being held without the UN having received any explanation for their arrest.
“The Department of Safety and Security and I continue to monitor all of these cases and seek the immediate release of our colleagues,” he added.
Mr. Guterres also noted that only 92 UN Member States are party to the 1994 Convention on the Safety of UN and Associated Personnel, and that only 30 have ratified the 2005 Optional Protocol, which extends protection to UN personnel delivering humanitarian, political or development assistance.
Urging all countries that have not joined these instruments to do so without delay, the UN chief called on everyone to stand in solidarity with all detained staff and to “pledge to work together to ensure that all UN staff have the safety they need to help the world’s most vulnerable”.
The International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members is marked each year on 25 March, the date of the abduction of Alec Collett, who was taken by armed gunmen in 1985 while working for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). His remains were finally found in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley in 2009.
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PREPARATION IS KEY: Now is a great time to begin the task for a show next spring and summer (Image: Sean Wood)
This is a photograph I took yesterday of a wildflower meadow, actually more of a verge, but gloriously dotted with powder blue cornflowers.
A pastel shade to die for, impossibly beautiful for my money and as a sometime painter, a colour to strive for.
There are also poppies and ox eye daisies and many others waiting to show themselves and although they undoubtedly come from a pre-prepared packet of wildflower seed mix.
Making this happen is not as easy as it might appear. You cannot just empty the seeds onto your lawn, in a field, or even a small corner of a flower bed; there is simply too much competition from already well established grasses and other plants.
Preparation is key to an end result like this, and although I would not suggest you begin today with the mercury set to pop its clogs from the top of the thermometer, time is of the essence and now is a great time to begin the task for a show next spring and summer.
It goes without saying that if you put the hard yards in now the resultant show will also bring in all manner of butterflies, bees and moths. A wildflower area such as this is the ultimate win; win for you, and the environment.
Now this might sound a little counterintuitive but wildflowers prefer poor soils, so this is your first job; clear the proposed area of any grass and decent topsoil and get rid of all plant life by getting rid of at least three inches before you even think of dropping one seed.
You must have a ‘bare patch’ to go at and the remaining soil must be raked until you are left with a loose tilth. Admire your handiwork and leave for several weeks before sowing any seeds, which can be spread evenly and gently trodden in. Some gardeners suggest a light covering of soil but this is not necessary, although this may deter a few seed eating birds - your call.
Good wildflower seed mixes include: Birds-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) important for common blue butterfly caterpillars, Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa) important for small copper butterfly caterpillars, Cowslip (Primula veris), Field scabious hoary (Knautia arvensis), Hoary plantain (Plantago media), Greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa), Common knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa), Lady’s bedstraw (Galium verum), Meadow buttercup (Ranunculus acris), Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), Red clover (Trifolium pratense), Wild carrot (Daucus carota), Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), and corn flower (Centaurea cyanus).
Your mix should include a range of wild grasses for the full effect, such as bents, fescues and crested dogstail. No lawn grasses.
Hard work done and the sowing is easy; you’ll need about five grams of seed per square metre of meadow.
Because the sowing is so thin it’s best to mix the seed with dry silver sand; the type used for block paving. Do not use builders’ sand as it is not fine enough and is usually too damp. Pale-coloured sand helps you see areas that you’ve already sown and whether you’ve missed anywhere. The correct ratio is usually three-five parts sand to one of seeds.
Just scatter the seed as you walk across the ground. To try and get an even coverage, split your seeds into batches and sow one batch walking in one direction and another batch walking at 90 degrees.
Perhaps best of all you could catch my favourite flying beauty, the hummingbird hawk moth - the moth that causes many a double take at this time of year when gardeners think they have seen a bird.
The hummingbird hawkmoth is a day-flying moth with a wingspan of about two inches (50-58mm). It has a brown, white-spotted abdomen, brown forewings and orange hindwings.
It is very swift on the wing and an expert hoverer. The wings beat so rapidly that they produce an audible hum and can be seen only as a haze. The darting movement from one flower to the next with the long proboscis uncoiled completes the illusion of a hummingbird.
The hummingbird hawkmoth prefers to fly in bright sunlight, but it will also take to wing in dull weather, at dusk or dawn, and sometimes even at night.
It is very strongly attracted to flowers that provide a plentiful supply of nectar. It hovers in front of a flower, probes it repeatedly for nectar and then darts to the next flower. It has a remarkably good memory and individuals return to the same flower beds every day at about the same time.
The Laughing Badger Gallery & Cellar Bar Music Venue, which so many of you visited, has upped sticks and moved into his new natural habitat at Howard Town Brewery in Old Glossop.
All the usual shenanigans, including workshops, live music and art.
Find out more here and give me shout.
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By Ranjith Ananda Jayasinghe
With the Supreme Court giving a series of headline-hitting judgments in recent weeks, Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva said in an interview the Constitution was supreme and no one could break the law or was above the Constitution.
|Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva
In this interview with our sister paper Sunday Lankadeepa, he also denied some reports that he planned to enter politics and on the contrary said he wished to devote his time after retirement to religious activities.
Q: Much attention is now on the judiciary. More and more people are coming to the Supreme Court on issues of fundamental rights and related matters.
A: If people are being deprived of their fundamental rights and corrupt practices are taking place the people apparently believe they could turn to the judiciary for redress. At a time when there is a war in the country, different ethnic groups have different problems. They can get relief from the judiciary.
Q: By giving relief in some instances, isn’t there a risk of jeopardising national security?
A: We did not release people who are held on national security grounds, haphazardly. The only hope of relief for them is through the courts. As the subject of human rights
has become much broader now, there are many such cases.
Q: Aren’t many of the recommendations made by Parliament committees such as COPE and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) not properly implemented?
A: There appears to be a lot off lethargy in implementing some of the recommendations of these important parliamentary committees. They have to be dealt with by the Bribery and Corruption Commission. Some officials like those in the Police Department think they are above the law. This is shocking. What is happening now is that the Courts are telling the Bribery Commission and the Police to probe cases. It should really be the other way around.
Q: The Constitution guarantees immunity from prosecution for the executive president but the Supreme Court has ruled that this does not apply in certain instances. Could you clarify?
A: The people of country are sovereign. This sovereignty of the people is executed through the Executive the Legislature and the Judiciary. Our position is that everyone has a responsibility and if they act against this responsibility, then they lose immunity.
Q: Does this apply to the President?
A: We have taken the decision from the standpoint of the responsibility towards the people and the President is also bound by that. In other words what we are saying is that the Constitution of the country is supreme and no one is above it. There is no room for anyone to break the law and act in a manner detrimental to public interest. It is on these grounds that the Court ruling was made against the former President. The land for the Golf Course in Battaramualla was granted on a Cabinet paper submitted by the former President.
Q: If the President fails to carry out the responsibilities entrusted under the Constitution is that considered a violation of the Constitution?
A: Yes, by neglecting such duties, the people are deprived of the rights due to them.
Q: In such a situation does the Court have the right to direct the President?
A: Yes the Supreme Court has the right to direct him at times like that. The question of presidential immunity does not apply in such cases if it is one of public interest.
Q: Doesn’t the Constitution clearly guarantee immunity to the President from prosecution?
A: We cannot summon the President. The Attorney General can appear on behalf of the President in cases related to his work as a Minister. If not, someone else can appear on behalf of the President. But we will not give a judgement against the President. In the recently concluded Golf Course case, the reference was to a former president. As she no longer holds the post, we can give a judgement against her.
Q: When one is holding office of President, is it impossible to give judgement under any circumstances?
A: Recently the President had issued a gazette notice to extend the age of retirement of public servants. In such instances, the Court does not issue a ruling against the President but decides on the validity or non validity of the gazette notification. But these are not directed personally at the President or the former President. Only if they are asked to pay a fine does it become a personnel case.
Q: Your judgement to remove check points was a controversial one and caused uproar?
A: The cases with regards to road barricades came due to the irregularities that occur. That people are asked for bribes. Recently a man who was employed as an aluminium worker, was stopped at a check point. He was arrested and beaten up because he had a Kris knife and Rs 20, 000. He was arrested on the basis he had robbed the money at knife pointThis is wrong. Checks must be carried out in a responsible manner.
Q: Why did you rule that checkpoints on main roads be removed?
A: This is completely wrong. We did not order the check points removed. We wanted them regulated. On the day that the Eastern Province Chief Minister was being sworn in, a suicide cadre on a motorcycle slammed onto a police bus in Fort killing several people. He had come past three check points and was not detected. Terrorist are very tactful. Even a war hero and experienced military man like Janaka Perera misread them at one point. This was why he got caught to a bomb attack.
Q: All along the Duplication Road, there are sign boards saying “No parking.”?
A: This is illegal. We ordered that those boards be removed immediately. Additionally we asked that the public be allowed to use the Galle Face Green. But we have given no judgements that will jeopardise the security near the President’s House or Temple Trees.
Q: You have been a friend of the President for nearly 40 years. How is this friendship now?
A: I have been in public serve for 41 years. I have friends both in Government and the opposition. You asked about the President. We have given no judgements against him. If we give a ruling to stop corrupt practices, we are doing him a service.
Q: What are your plans for the future?
A: I am eagerly awaiting the end of my tenure in office so I can devote my time to my personal religious activities.
Q: Are you getting ready to enter politics?
Q: There is speculation that you might be a candidate at the next President election?
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by Stephanie Ross
A sentinel to the Sleeping Giant, its old red bricks define the rigid rectangular building dominating the marina. Each imposing brick laid a hundred years ago striving to represent higher values; elevated symbols of justice. Each brick falling flat in societal need for change.
It stood as an old courthouse with incipient foolishness winding up the ivy on its shady side.
I crouched at the bottom of this hill the morning after a white police officer was convicted of murdering a young man of colour. The dew on the morning grass soaked through my hiking shoes as I remembered feeling a visceral sense of relief at the verdict. That court ruling was not in ‘my country’ nor from the system I saw towering before me on the hill. It didn’t matter. It was our shared humanity with governing wisdom gone awry somewhere in time. The words “my” and “country” could disperse but my feelings would not. This brick building that had failed to serve its surrounding indigenous peoples evoked the same feeling as those historical circumstances to the south allowing power filled violence to prevail without justice for so long.
Sadness that this system reigning over us has a history of ongoing abuse.
Sadness that we have a world requiring an imposed external system at all.
My heart longs for a world in which humanity has a restored heart. Hearts in each of us so filled with love, respect, and humility that this kind of hurt could not happen. Human hearts embracing life in such a way that hurting living creatures of any kind could never be possible. Humanity living in a state of real connectedness; such a pure embracing of each other that we would be a true civilization.
This seems a steep hill to climb from where we are now.
Yet, this is the ascent I choose each morning – waking to take one more step. On the edge of new creation, this path climbs higher into the clouds than the one I view now. Its peak surpasses my perception of unity. Its wyrd trajectory climbs into a world I long to see; a destined movement into truth if one chooses. As I wake each day and connect with my heart, I move one step higher. Each moment I remember to stay in self-awareness, each time I catch myself in moments of patterns I wish to change, and each time I am willing to examine the parts of my existence that could use a little more uplifting, I hold out my hands to embrace something greater than the physical forms we build here.
I walked back up the hill to the red building that had recently surrendered. What was once a place of judgement and punishment had become a hotel, a place of rest. Surrender – a word so often tied to war yet carrying so much more potential. Couldn’t we surrender to the goodness within us without the war? Couldn’t we view this as an active ongoing commitment and not a hopeless resignation? Both allowing and creating the restoration of what has always been within us – waking what was forgotten in the quest to make ourselves better than others, instead of just better.
Can we honour the deep longing within each of us to move toward a higher self; a higher standard within ourselves?
Perhaps each day we can choose an expanded view. Perhaps each hour we can choose to be a little more entrenched in love. In this way, in each moment, we disperse the divisiveness deluding us. May we all find time to rest in our hearts’ softness and examine the multitude of perspectives available to us.
It is time.
Stephanie Ross is a pilot, sailor, and home-educating mom. Her writing explores living from the inside out as the adventure of a lifetime. You can find her feet on the ground on Vancouver Island practising Yuan Qigong, walking in the forest, and sharing her approach to cultivating life. | <urn:uuid:f1f4ec9a-73b1-419d-9312-53671a67a24e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.surgingtidemag.com/prose/higher-standards-for-a-restored-heart | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.945735 | 805 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Olympics is the pinnacle of all sports. It is the measure of human abilities to the highest potential. The event is an opportunity to showcase long earned, trained ability before the world, and in the process, get global exposure and appreciation for their extreme sporting talent and skill.
And obviously, the brands wanting to get some attention and more popularity have been doing their part. It all started with Domino’s announcement of free pizzas for Mirabai Chanu in winning a silver medal in weightlifting. After that, every other brand followed its suit to join the bandwagon of moment marketing.
From congratulating P.V. Sindhu on her Bronze win by many brands to appreciating every Indian Olympian on their success and winning a medal. The brands have come forward in every possible way to promote their brand in the name of the sportspersons.
Brands like Tata and JSW have been following and sponsoring several players and supporting them in many cases, with long-term commitments. We have needed this kind of branding than just self-centered and cheap ones, which is for selfish attention and easy deliberate marketing. We need brands to come up and support the players than just using their wins as an opportunity in marketing their brands and products.
Brands need to understand that winning at the Olympics or any other form of the highest level of sport, does not happen overnight, and that needs decades of preparation. Brands need to partner in their journey with them and not look in cheap tactics sponsoring just because they have come back with medals.
Various brands were approached to sponsor athletes, but they did not respond. Now that some of them have returned with medals, they are looking to those very same athletes for communication of thanks to Moment Marketing.
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Marilyn Chin talks bad girl haikus, pissing off your ancestors, and her new career-spanning collection, A Portrait of the Self as Nation.
Marilyn Chin’s A Portrait of the Self as Nation, which features new and selected poems, is a wild swerve through language, resistance, and identity. These poems are feral and rebellious—playing with formal and sonic expectations. A Portrait of the Self as Nation spans thirty years of Chin’s ever evolving and revolving work. In it, she writes boldly of love, war, exile, feminism, justice, and joy. In the title poem, Chin writes: “We were fierce, yet tender/fierce and tender.” A wild girl poet, dangerous professor, and transnational translator, she is a vital force in Asian American literature. This book is full of rich subversion–dotted with glitter, rancid chow mein, and bad girl haikus. Reading A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a cosmic experience. Dear Reader, prepare for your head and heart to spin. Marilyn Chin’s imagination is expansive. She’s the real deal.
Celebrate the publication of A Portrait of the Self as Nation with a reading and Q&A with Marilyn Chin at Poet’s House on Thursday, November 15 at 7 pm.
Jane Wong: In your preface to your new and selected, you write about inventing a “fusionist aesthetic” and engaging bilingual and bicultural forms. Can you talk a bit more about what it means for you to rework and create your own forms? I love that you write “bad girl haikus.” Are these fused forms a kind of rebellion?
Marilyn Chin: Very early in my poethood, I said to myself that I don’t want Ezra Pound to have the last word on Chinese poetry. So, I studied Chinese poetry for years so that I could argue with this madcap modernist stepfather. Also as an immigrant poet, I wanted to build a diasporic Asian American aesthetics. There were not many models before my generation. I have been patiently working on these “bicultural” forms and variations. I believe that through cross-pollination, we’ll get innovation. That’s the pioneering immigrant spirit. We are building the railroad! Thousands of us in sweatshops help “create” American civilization but we don’t often get the credit for it.
I began my poetry career “struggling” against certain misconceptions: the stereotypes that Asian Americans are rote-learners and that we can’t speak English properly and that we should stay with the sciences and not play in this highbrow beloved complex genre of Shakespeare and Donne and Keats—I wanted to prove them wrong, and began my journey securing knowledge. I spent most of my life honing my poetry chops.
The “Chinese American quatrains,” “sonnetnese,” “bad girl haiku,” the iconoclastic sonnets—“So, You Fucked John Donne”—the variety of immigrant anthems, elegies, yellow girl blues poems, border ghazals, haibun, wild girl tales, grandmother koans, “epic love poems,” as you call them, long DuFuian sequences and epigram-like jewels and oppositional ancient and living voices that merge together in my writing: I wanted to hijack the traditions, mix it up, and “make it new” but with a long shadow of the Pacific Rim all over it and a big dose of social and feminist critique. I wanted to prove that ethical concerns and aesthetic concerns are not mutually exclusive.
The 21st century is filled with critics who hate poetry but I began my journey loving this amazingly rich genre. I never tire of experimenting with bicultural forms and giving myself a big canvas to play in.
I was rebellious from the start. I was born a Chinese girl in a cold water flat in Hong Kong. Underweight and colicky. Nobody wanted another sickly girl to feed. Throughout history, the Cantonese were noisy and rebellious. They often lose the fight, but they’re fearless. I didn’t become a doctor or computer scientist. I loved poetry and became a poet against all odds! I’ve been wearing those fisticuffs for the long haul, to stir things up and both honor and subvert the great art from both sides of my literary heritage.
It’s no fun if you don’t piss off and embarrass your ancestors.
Yes to fearlessness and honor and embarrassing your ancestors by subverting tradition! Throughout your poems, I’ve been enamored by your subversion and lyricism in terms of imagery, sound, and the speaker’s voice. There’s always a bit of sharp humor and side-eye refusal in your work: “it ain’t all randy dandy/in the new kingdom.” Or later in a newer poem: “the volta is loving my vulva lapping vodka on the Volga!” I’m curious about your process. How do you go about beginning a poem? And how does playfulness and surprise fit into your craft?
Ha! “The volta is loving my vulva lapping vodka on the Volga” is actually an inspired sonic, a raunchy riff. In that poem, I had great fun creating a syncopated Californicated Whitmanesque catalog. I love Whitman for his unbridled joy and verbal acrobatics. The poem is trying to teach the reader about a golden moment in Asian American literary history, but is simultaneously fun and entertaining: “You and me and Emily D. / Gnawing ganja cookies, dreaming on our backs!”
My imagination is restless and is inspired by everything! I am inspired by rhythms I hear in everyday speech and music as well as while reading the great classics. I can still hear the poems my grandmother chanted to me in Hong Kong and the Cantonese opera records my mother played and the Chinese tongue twisters on the playground. I studied Classical Chinese poetry to really get at the Chinese line, parallelism, precision, aural and visual punning. I’m always testing the “edges” of propriety and impropriety. I remember the vivid swear words that the cooks hurdled at each other in my uncle’s restaurant then, I blend everything into the Western canon. Yesterday, I reread Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Du Fu’s later poems and listened to hours of raunchy Nicki Minaj and some Kendrick Lamar, too, in a single day. Why not? I love poetry in all guises.
I like to play, but as you know, writing poetry can be torturous. Long months of contemplation and gestation, moments of wild joy, paralyses that often follow a fine flow, lots of revision and self pity. Aggh! And it’s so freaking lonely; writing is a solitary sport, working on a single line for hours only to discard it. Ultimately, a good poem must give the reader a rich experience that she can’t get elsewhere. It involves rigorous craft to bring on the magic and make it all look playful and effortless.
Speaking of rigorous craft and richness, I keep returning to your title poem of the collection, “A Portrait of the Self as Nation.” This is an epic love poem, beautifully salacious, refusing the “chastity that will save the nation,” and transtemporal, too. We move across centuries and even the page itself: “You, my precious reader, O sweet voyeur…” This poem struck me deeply in all its complications: “Lover, destroyer, savior!” How we want, how others want us. The body, the nation. The last two lines encapsulate how I feel whenever I read your work: “We were fierce, yet tender / fierce and tender.” Can you speak more about this particular poem and how these last lines act as a kind of poetics?
Adrienne Rich really loved “A Portrait of the Self as Nation.” I like how you coined it “an epic love poem.”
Yes, it does have grand ambitions. It’s an anti-war poem disguised as a love poem/epyllion. It’s a dramatic monologue in which the speaker and the listener have multiple identities. The speaker is Mei Ling, the poet as well as the nameless oppressed, a fragile, impoverished country trapped in a proxy war. She is the beloved but subjugated woman, the dark-skinned other, and more. The addressee is the dominant male figure, warrior, killer, savior, oppressor, the occupier, the colonialist, the dominatrix, the Lord and even the reader is implicated (strangely enough). I wanted to show that identity is not static; we are tied to blood and history. I wrote this poem on the occasion of the first Gulf War, and then the second Bush war happened and the poem continues to be relevant, given the continuous conflict and humanitarian crises brought on by war. “Dune and dunes of sand” moves to “fields and fields of rice.” It is a hovering view of devastating American wars.
The poem historically shifts to Chinese immigration and even ponders a moment on my own personal naturalization process. The shifting of history, voices and ideas worked magically in the poem. It’s a love poem that slowly opened up toward a poem that questions American power and identity and the unequal power between the sexes, between the oppressor and the oppressed. Between rich nations and smaller subjugated nations. When I reread the poem last week to prep for this interview, I was amazed at the grand scale of the poem—I have no idea how I was able to throw the complex ideas together. The muse zapped me, and then, it took me three years to make the final version.
My long poems take many drafts and years to write. Sometimes I would write twenty pages and pare down to five or seven. I work out the shape and voices as I proceed. There are long poems and sequences that I was not able to include in this collection given space limits. I hope that the reader will go back to my individual books and rediscover them.
Yes, “fierce and tender” could be a “kind of poetics” as you say. It’s difficult to describe the ingenuity that goes behind writing a poem, especially, when I write in such a wide range of forms, styles and hybrid variations. I am committed to writing a poetry of social engagement. Most revolutionary types are idealists. We believe that art can transform and improve society. For all the anger, grief and critique in my art, ultimately, I am a love poet and believe in love and tenderness. Yes, cheesy! Baa! Don’t call me a romanticist! I’m too cynical for that.
Love poets! Yes! I feel like I am a love reader too. I sense that in your translation work. I was particularly struck by your translation of Hồ Xuân Hương’s work–a Vietnamese poet born in 1772. Her work is so visceral and grotesque. From “Snail”: “Night and day I crawl in smelly weeds,” and from “Wasps”: “Itchy little wasps sucking rotting flowers.” I felt a deep connection between her work and your own. Feminist and sexy—deeply felt in the body and its guts. From “Twenty-Five Haiku”: “Cuttlefish in my palm stiffens with rigor mortis, boy toys can’t love” and “I plucked out three white pubic hairs and they turned into flying monkeys.” I love it!
Tell me more about what the process of translation is like for you. What is that relationship like? Why are transnational connections so key for you? Are there other feminist artists you admire across time and space?
My undergrad degree was in Chinese literature and I began translating poetry when I was twenty. In a class called Chinese Dialectology I studied how Cantonese poets used Classical Chinese characters but also invented their own words to represent Cantonese speech that can’t be vocalized in the common Chinese characters. The Vietnamese Chữ Nôm also used Chinese characters as well as creating their own. In fact, sonically, the Vietnamese language has more kinship with Cantonese than with Mandarin. At the Yenching library at Harvard, I trotted out both Cantonese and Chữ Nôm poems and folk songs and love poems. Some of these songs are very salty with double entendre. I discovered Hồ Xuân Hương’s poems in my research and was immediately drawn to her.
Again, as a Chinese American poet who wants to take back Chinese poetry from Pound, I wanted to create my own “imagism.” I learned how to craft images, to weaponize them in a way that makes the reader stop in their tracks. Perhaps this is my way of empowering myself to engage with the modernist legacy. I still have reams of material on Cantonese love songs in my drawers. Alas, so many projects and so little time!
For this collection, I included some translations of Ho, Ai Qing and Gozo. As you can see, these three poets are very different. I tried to inhabit their voices in an unobtrusive, sympathetic manner. I tried to understand their motivation and aesthetics, their historical context, their personal projects. I channel them with the deepest respect. I have hundreds of pages of translation that I have not published in book form. I worked on Du Fu translations but decided to keep them as my guiding spirit and not try to publish a book. I don’t want to publish just to publish. I want to learn from poets as you say–to cross history and language borders.
I have somewhat a transnational life. I can’t seem to sit still. I had a nightmare where Trump came into my bedroom and took away my citizenship papers. The imagination must have the freedom to play. Sometimes, I feel like a citizen of the world. Sometimes, I’m bitterly solitary and feel stateless. But, of course, I have an American passport, which I understand is a privilege. I am not stateless but am a restless perambulator.
Your work always surprises me and continues to be raucous and subversive. I loved returning to poems I’ve read over the years in this collection, like “How I Got That Name.” I teach this poem each year and my students always return to it; we spend so much time just talking about the word “that.” And then the self-obituary at the end! We often talk about creating one’s own world of belonging. What is it like for you to return to poems like “How I Got That Name” that have been anthologized and shared widely?
Gosh, I am moved that poetry teachers take time to unpack and teach my work. “How I Got that Name” is almost thirty years old. It was first published in the Iowa Review in 1990.
I often begin my readings by reciting “How I Got that Name.” It’s like you go to a Led Zeppelin concert and you gotta hear “Stairway to Heaven.” If I don’t read it, someone in the audience would shout, “Read the name poem!” It’s become a signature poem and an Asian American anthem. Personal, literary and political! And I think there are funny parts, too. It asserts and inserts a Chinese American girl poet into the culture.
In a selected collection, I’m always anxious to read new poems too and I am so glad to have new poems in here. I love the forward energy and badass sisterhood of “For Mitsuye Yamada on her 90th Birthday” (yes to using more exclamation points in poetry!) Across your writing journey, how have you evolved and what has stayed consistent? And what are you working on nowadays—what are your obsessions, your new fusions, your vices, your loves, your radical refusals and radical joys?
I organized the book somewhat chronologically, and you can see how I’ve developed my ideas. I tried every freakin’ form in literary history and tried to bend them into my own Chinese American aesthetics. You could trace the history of the quatrain through my work. The influences from the Shijing to the Tang dynasty poets to Dickinson to Irish ballads. I keep thinking that I would tire of quatrains, but then, I wrote the “Little Box” series recently. I have been writing prose poems and haibun, which developed into my weird magical fiction book Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. Immigrant anthems shapeshifting from lyric to prose manifestos. Presently, I am rhyming a lot, because I’ve been listening to hip hop! I am also writing more magical fiction or prose thangs. I think I’m writing funnier and with a satirical edge! I guess I am responding to Trumpian injustice and absurdism.
I guess my “radical refusal” is to play it safe and just write one kind of poem. Or try to please the literary regime of the moment. I have lived long enough to know that trends come and go. The poetry establishment—whatever that is, maybe the MFA beehive, or the twitter-verse, or a few ambitious critics will set trends. I try to keep focused on “the work” in front of me and hope that I am making art that is interesting and special and actually has important meaning and not just succumb to the sheepfold.
Audre Lorde says that “poetry is not a luxury” it is a necessity. Poetry is my “radical joy!” It’s a place where I could contemplate, cry, shout, love, kiss, scream… perhaps nobody is listening. And nobody cares that I am building some kind of hybrid Chinese American creature in my basement. I am grateful for my freedom.
Radical joy, yes! I am so grateful for poetry and for your writing. I will always be impacted by one singular moment in my life: when you asked me and poet Sally Wen Mao in Boston if we were “wild girl poets.” We said “YES!” immediately. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about wild girl poetics and Asian American women writers and how you’ve always been at the forefront of that resistance, refusal, and joy in community. From reading The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty when I was in college to that tap on the shoulder in Boston, I’ve been enamored with your work and all that you do for our vibrant Asian American writing community. What do you see and hope for a future of Asian American women poets? What does being a wild girl poet mean for you?
Ha! Well, I am heartened to see so many young poets of color and Asian American poets writing and publishing. Great organizations such as the AAWW, Kundiman and VONA have been supportive and influential.
Actually, there is a lot going on all over the web. Wild girls spewing poetry and sass, I love it. I am happy to see that you have a supportive community. When I was at Iowa, there were just a handful of us. Now there are so many fresh names. Perhaps we’re having an Asian American renaissance.
I wrote the birthday poem for Mitsuye to celebrate her generation and to honor some pioneering wild girls. They did not come out of the workshop. Some of them were true activists: Mitsuye worked tirelessly for Amnesty International. Janice Mirikitani fed the hungry at Glide Church. Nellie Wong was a leader in the Socialist Party. Fay Chiang worked for the Henry Street Settlement.
We must think about their sacrifice as we write our poems. The earlier “wild girl Asian American poets” rolled up their sleeves and did the activist work. We must continue “the struggle” toward creating a just and better world. As artists, we must not take our privilege for granted. We must do our best. We are a privileged lot. Perhaps the epigram [to this interview] should be: “Wild girls seek justice through writing poetry.” How weird and beautiful is that? | <urn:uuid:ba9f8f38-d314-4a52-a55d-18362daabd47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aaww.org/wild-girls-seek-justice-through-writing-poetry-a-conversation-with-marilyn-chin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961791 | 4,424 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Rosnay slopes up gently from the south bank of the river (whose largely undammed flows are the life blood of the valley) to the ridgeline and Rivers Road. At 350 metres elevation, Rosnay’s gravelly and sandy clay loam soils are known as “Canowindra porphyry”, and are highly suited to vine and tree crops. The red clay subsoil formed when a volcano erupted to the northeast, depositing ash for hundreds of kilometres over a granitic base. The clay has a high water holding capacity, but also drains readily. Today the remnants of this volcano can be seen 70km to the north-east of Rosnay as Mount Canobolas (1395 metres), the highest point in the Central Ranges, and the highest point west until Madagascar in Africa. The proximity of Mount Canobolas is believed to contribute to Canowindra’s cool autumn nights, perfect for grape ripening.
Richard and Florence recognised the wonderful sense of community within the town and its surrounding patchwork landscape of small farms producing lucerne, lamb, beef, venison, vegetables, cereals, canola, olives, vineyards, cherries, nashi pears, and dairy. As a wine region, Cowra was widely recognised for its fine Chardonnay, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sangiovese, Semillon, and Verdelho that are doing very well for the regions vignerons, including Windowrie Estate, Pig in the House, Antonio’s and Wallington Wines.
Historically, Canowindra is also a very special place. Originally inhabited by the Wiradjuri people, the first buildings were erected by white settlers in 1846. Canowindra became famous in 1863 when bushranger Ben Hall and his gang held the townsfolk up at Robinson’s Inn, now the Royal Hotel (take a Blind Freddy tour to find out more). The first road bridge was built in 1874, and many of the old buildings date from this time. The entire commercial section of Gaskill St has been classified by as a Heritage Preservation Area by the National Trust. Canowindra is also famous for its ancient fish fossils, housed in a beautiful museum. Nearby Cowra has its own rich history and a strong connection with Japan, boasting a delightful Japanese Garden.
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[cross-posted at BHL]
Conventional wisdom has it that a) you have a duty to vote, and more specifically that b) at least in winner-take-all two-party electoral systems like the u.s., you have a duty to vote for whichever you regard as the least bad of the two major candidates (as opposed to “throwing away your vote” on a third-party candidate).
According to a contrary argument, one that enjoys some popularity in libertarian circles, c) voting – for anyone – is irrational, since the outcome is overwhelmingly likely to be the same whether you vote or not.
I think all three of these positions are mistaken.
Think first about (c), the argument that voting is irrational. If that argument worked, it would also prove that contributing to a Kickstarter is irrational – at least in cases where the total amount needed to be raised is significantly larger than the amount of one’s contribution. An example would be the Veronica Mars movie project, which raised five million dollars on Kickstarter; the average donation size was reportedly around $60. The odds that an individual’s personal $60 contribution will make the difference to a multi-million-dollar movie’s being made or not is vanishingly small; hence if not making a difference to the outcome is a reason not to vote, it’s also a reason not to contribute to a Kickstarter (except when the amount to be raised is small enough, or the amount one can personally contribute is large enough, that one’s contribution can significantly alter the probability of the project’s being funded).
Yet I suspect that among libertarians sympathetic to argument (c), few will be willing to issue a similar rejection of Kickstarter (or similar services). After all, Kickstarter is a libertarian’s dream; in the words of Reason editor Nick Gillespie, it “allows creators and funders to escape conventional financial, ideological and aesthetic gatekeepers who have long suppressed heterodoxy in media, business, the arts and more.” The ability to evade such gatekeepers is obviously a major benefit to libertarians and other politically heterodox thinkers.
Worse yet, if argument (c) worked against voting, it would also tell against being a libertarian activist as such, since (as noted elsewhere) “no one libertarian activist’s contribution is likely to make the crucial difference as to whether libertarianism triumphs or not.”
The truth is that civilisation depends on people contributing, in thousands of small ways every day, to practices whose maintenance will not stand or fall with any individual such contribution. Thankfully, people contribute to public goods all the time – and do so voluntarily, rational-choice arguments to the contrary notwithstanding. (See, for example, “Covenants With and Without a Sword: Self-Governance Is Possible” by Elinor Ostrom, James Walker, and Roy Gardner.)
And the same is true at an individual level; my success at any personal project depends on my reliably contributing to it over and over, even though success does not depend on any one of those instances, and so each individual contribution can look irrational. But if it were indeed irrational, then it would likewise be irrational to undertake any project that can’t be completed instantaneously – which is absurd.
The crucial fact to recognise is that we have an imperfect duty to contribute to public goods. (For a defense of the claim that we have such a duty, and that it is an imperfect duty, see my article “On Making Small Contributions to Evil.”) An imperfect duty, remember, is not optional or supererogatory; it’s a full-fledged duty. But it’s a duty that can be satisfied by performing the relevant action merely regularly rather than at every opportunity, leaving the agent with a free choice as to the occasions on which she discharges that duty. A duty to contribute to public goods, then, is not a duty to contribute to any and every public good that comes along; one can choose which ones to support.
Suppose I think that of two major political candidates, one of them (say, Hilnald Clump) is a bit less bad than the other (say, Donnary Trinton). Then I might regard a Clump victory as a public good, and might accordingly choose to vote for Clump as one of the instances in which I fulfill my duty to contribute to public goods. Hence the mere fact that the outcome of the election will not be affected by my individual vote does not render voting irrational.
To be sure, this argument does not generate a duty to vote, contrary to position (a). After all, even if one regards a Clump victory as a public good (given the alternative of the even more odious Trinton), the duty to contribute to public goods is an imperfect duty, and one need not choose this particular occasion as one to count toward fulfilling that duty. All the same, the argument does show how voting could be a way of fulfilling a duty, and so does give some aid and comfort to the pro-voting side, supporting a weaker version of position (a).
But it may give less support even to the weaker version of (a) than meets the eye. And in particular it may not give much support to (b). Let’s look closer.
Suppose there’s a third-party candidate – perhaps Gill Stohnson or Jary Jein – whom you regard as less bad than either of the two major candidates, but the third-party candidate has no chance of winning. Is voting for the least bad of the major candidates, rather than for the third-party candidate, the best way of fulfilling your duty?
Not obviously. After all, if you vote the way you’d prefer everyone to vote, as though you were choosing for everyone, then you should choose the third-party candidate. And if someone responds that it’s irrational to act as though you’re choosing for everyone, since in fact everyone else is going to vote however they’re going to vote regardless of what you do, that argument proves too much, since it’s an equally good reason not to vote at all; in fact it’s just the same voting-is-irrational argument (c) over again.
And once one considers what other results one might be contributing to besides someone’s simply getting elected, the case for voting third-party looks even stronger. After all, the larger the margin by which a candidate wins, the more that candidate can get away with claiming a mandate, thus putting him or her in a stronger political position to get favoured policies enacted. So if one thinks that both of the major candidates would do more harm than good if elected (even if one is worse than the other), then making the winning candidate’s totals smaller becomes a public good to which one might choose to contribute – perhaps by voting for a third-party candidate (though also, perhaps, by voting for whichever of the major candidates one thinks is most likely to lose).
Moreover, if you think that higher vote totals for a third-party candidate are a good thing even if that candidate doesn’t win (e.g., by garnering more publicity for alternative candidates and thus helping to build future support for a political movement you favour, sending a message of disenchantment with the political establishment, etc.), then voting for that candidate contributes to a public good other than just that candidate’s getting elected. Plus your total percentage contribution to the desired end will be greater, both because the number of voters you’re cooperating with will be smaller and because the result is incremental rather than all-or-nothing. All other things being equal, it seems plausible that the case for contributing to a public good gets stronger as the degree of impact of that contribution increases.
So whatever pro-voting case can be extracted from my argument seems more favorable to voting for third-party candidates (when they’re better than the major candidates) than to voting for a major candidate. There seems to be no strong case for position (b).
But in fact the case for voting third-party is not all that strong either; indeed, the problems with (b) turn out to be problems for (a) as well. Suppose your favoured third-party candidate, while better than either of the two major candidates, is still fairly lousy (in your view). Then the message you’re sending, and the cause you’re supporting, are a muddled mixture of good and bad. You might well contribute more effectively and unambiguously to the public good you seek by writing a clear and compelling op-ed or blog post rather than voting for a mixed-bag candidate.
Finally, suppose you’re an anarchist (as you should be). Trying to achieve anarchy via the route of electoral politics seems a lot less promising strategically than the agorist approach of building alternative institutions and trying to win people’s affiliation to those institutions and away from the state; the former requires convincing 51% of the electorate in order to accomplish anything, while the latter makes room for incremental success at the margin. Moreover, just as high vote totals for the winning candidate will be interpreted as a mandate for that candidate, so high vote totals in general will be regarded as a mandate for the system – whereas what we as anarchists should be seeking to do is to deligitimise the system.
In the light of those considerations, refraining from voting, thereby doing one’s part to deemphasise the importance of electoral politics in the wider culture, starts to looks like a better contribution to a public good than voting does.
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When was the last time you were in a situation where all’s you were hearing were “angry” words? How did you respond? Was it with your “angry” voice too, or did you choose to use your “hearing” voice? It is far easier to not hear what is really being said, then it is to train our ears to hear the unspoken. It takes strength, courage, time and patience but most of all understanding and these are all lessons that we have at some time or other in our lives needed to learn or maybe even still need to learn!
What is truly incredible is when you are able to respond with your “hearing” voice, doing so is a blessing, a gift, maybe even a wee miracle for the one who is in fact reaching out. So next time you are faced or confronted with “angry” words, step back and see what you can hear, for you may just be the miracle of their day and imagine how amazing that would feel to know you too have learnt another lesson on your life path! | <urn:uuid:6e381567-359d-477f-936a-b05cc1ed96f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thereseelizabeth.com/2015/03/22/take-time-to-hear-what-is-not-being-spoken/?like_comment=10&_wpnonce=fc1605a15c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.987385 | 229 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Though Connecticut officials balked at creating a publicly searchable database to track corporate welfare, its chief advocate is hoping an example from across the state line will change minds here.
Rhode Island’s Division of Taxation released a late summer report that showed 87 percent of all funds awarded through the state’s six major tax incentive programs — $15.6 million — went to one company, CVS Corp.
Connecticut’s comptroller, Kevin P. Lembo, was careful neither to assess the merits of Rhode Island’s corporate assistance programs, nor to assert that a parallel situation likely exists here.
But he did say in a recent interview he continues to think that Connecticut taxpayers would like access to this type of information, just as those in Rhode Island likely followed the CVS reports with great interest.
“I really think decision-making can only be more sound when you have this type of disclosure,” Lembo said.
Granting the public easy access to state-sponsored business aid, in the long run, “can only raise the public’s comfort level with any type of economic development strategy,” he added.
Rhode Island has been tracking and reporting state aid to businesses since 2008.
The Connecticut comptroller proposed a bill during the 2013 General Assembly session that would have required Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration to establish a database for tax credit and other economic assistance programs. It would have allowed the public to review the types of assistance provided, and how well companies met performance standards linked to them, such as numbers of jobs created.
Lembo’s fellow Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, unanimously adopted the bill. But the Senate, also controlled by Democrats, never took up the bill.
Senate Democratic leaders described the Malloy administration as “OK” and “neutral” about the bill.
Two top Malloy officials — budget chief Benjamin Barnes and Revenue Services Commissioner Kevin Sullivan — raised concerns about the measure during a committee hearing, while Economic Development Commissioner Catherine Smith opposed it outright.
“The requirement to disclose the economic benefits derived from each project would create a competitive disadvantage for the state in its negotiations with existing companies within Connecticut and with any new companies that may consider relocating to the state,” Smith told the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee.
Barnes testified that while “many of the ideas … are laudable, there would be significant financial costs and staff time commitments” in creating the database and related reports.
And Sullivan suggested holding off on the bill to first see whether state agencies could increase public access without a statutory mandate, as recommended by a business tax task force he chaired in 2012.
Though he wouldn’t rule out re-introducing the bill in the 2014 legislative session, which starts in early February, Lembo said he remains hopeful he can negotiate with the Malloy administration to expand public access to corporate assistance voluntarily.
“I believe they can already do most of the things called for in the original bill,” he said. “There really is no reason we can’t get it done.”
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Budgeting based on need: a model to determine sub-national allocation of resources for health services in Indonesia
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation volume 10, Article number: 11 (2012)
Allocating national resources to regions based on need is a key policy issue in most health systems. Many systems utilise proxy measures of need as the basis for allocation formulae. Increasingly these are underpinned by complex statistical methods to separate need from supplier induced utilisation. Assessment of need is then used to allocate existing global budgets to geographic areas. Many low and middle income countries are beginning to use formula methods for funding however these attempts are often hampered by a lack of information on utilisation, relative needs and whether the budgets allocated bear any relationship to cost. An alternative is to develop bottom-up estimates of the cost of providing for local need. This method is viable where public funding is focused on a relatively small number of targeted services. We describe a bottom-up approach to developing a formula for the allocation of resources. The method is illustrated in the context of the state minimum service package mandated to be provided by the Indonesian public health system.
A standardised costing methodology was developed that is sensitive to the main expected drivers of local cost variation including demographic structure, epidemiology and location. Essential package costing is often undertaken at a country level. It is less usual to utilise the methods across different parts of a country in a way that takes account of variation in population needs and location. Costing was based on best clinical practice in Indonesia and province specific data on distribution and costs of facilities. The resulting model was used to estimate essential package costs in a representative district in each province of the country.
Substantial differences in the costs of providing basic services ranging from USD 15 in urban Yogyakarta to USD 48 in sparsely populated North Maluku. These costs are driven largely by the structure of the population, particularly numbers of births, infants and children and also key diseases with high cost/prevalence and variation, most notably the level of malnutrition. The approach to resource allocation was implemented using existing data sources and permitted the rapid construction of a needs based formula that is highly specific to the package mandated across the country. Refinement could focus more on resources required to finance demand side costs and expansion of the service package to include priority non-communicable services.
Population health service needs are regionally specific in most countries. National health systems are faced with the dilemma of allocating resources to these areas to take account of need. Although historic, incremental systems were the norm in the past, countries increasingly make use of information on local needs to influence these allocations.
The main approach to resource allocation has been to identify variables that explain need within a community and use them to develop weights for allocating resources between areas . Early formulae included relatively crude proxies for need such as the (under 75) Standardised Mortality Rate (SMR) which was used in the UK as a proxy for morbidity from the early 1970s . This has given way to a more complex understanding of need that examines the relationship between key need indicators such as age, sex and reported health status and measures of morbidity as expressed through current utilisation adjusted for the availability of services. As well as direct measures of need, formulae also draw upon indirect, distal measures of need such as socio-economic status such as unemployment, elderly people living alone and children of single parents .
Formulae depend on the accuracy of proxies and weights used which can often appear arbitrary. As shown by one study in Canada, the final allocations can be very sensitive to the choice of variables used to proxy need . The desire for empirically verifiable proxies and weights has led to the use of econometric models that examine the association between use of services and a wide range of need variables. The resulting coefficients can be used as weights in an adjusted allocation formula. Historically, most systems have used actual utilisation data of specific groups as a measure of future resource need. This approach has the advantage that data is relatively easy to obtain but may fail to account for the resource requirements of those that have need but do not currently utilise services (unmet need) . Early studies were criticised because they failed to take account of the effect of supplier induced utilisation . Later studies attempted to control for the supply effect through more sophisticated modelling [5, 6]. Area based formula funding is now used by a large number of OECD countries in Western Europe, Canada and Australasia .
Formula funding for health is beginning to be used in low and middle income countries South Africa, Zambia and Namibia, for example, all allocate resources for health based on population adjusted for a variety of need factors . In Bangladesh studies have examined how different weights on poverty and health outcomes would impact on resource distribution . These approaches have the important feature that they de-link the allocation of resources from historic levels of supply and so have the potential to produce important shifts of resources towards areas with low use relative to need. Statistical analysis of need factors to determine weightings is hampered by the lack of large scale data sets representative at area level in most low and middle income countries. Demographic and Health Surveys (see measuredhs.com) provide what are possibly the most consistent and reliable datasets for the modelling of health needs but are usually not representative below the level of province and are largely restricted to a set of mainly process indicators for maternal and child health utilisation. Weightings may also be politically influenced. One study in Ghana, for example, found that the weightings chosen for the formula allocation of local government grants were ‘amended to produce politically desired patterns of transfers’ .
A second stage of the resource allocation process is a decision on the level of resource to allocate for the measured needs of each area and population sub-group. In well established health systems the usual method is to assume the unit of resource is the available total budget and allocate it based on the need weighting. Where there is no established budget an alternative is to build up resource requirements by looking at individual services based on epidemiological data and the normative cost of treatment . This approach was used to analyse need for services for angina and myocardial infarction using patient data in Wales . The complexity of universal needs packages in most OECD countries limits the extent to which this methodology can be applied to most services. In contrast, a low level of resources and intention to direct them to priority needs mean that many Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) aim to focus public funding for health care on a limited range of interventions that are of proven cost-effectiveness. A basic benefit package approach, focusing on a narrow range of mostly communicable disease and maternal and child health, has become a common feature of country sector strategies in many LMICs. The approach has been central to international initiatives advocating more but better targeted spending on health care [12, 13]. A bottom up, approach to need for resource allocation may be practical for the limited range of services financed by the state in such countries and be more specific to needs than a general formula.
We describe a bottom-up approach to developing a formula for the allocation of resources in Indonesia. The data requirements are no greater than those for a more general proxy formula. The approach is general but was developed for Indonesian regions as part of a larger costing study. The first section describes the current decentralised context for the funding of health care in Indonesia. Section two, describes the methods used to establish the normative costs of the package and the production of context specific scenarios. Results for a number of actual and average contexts are then presented to illustrate their variability and main determinants. Finally, the findings are discussed in the context of health policy in relation to geographic resource allocation in Indonesia and applications internationally.
Decentralised funding of health care in Indonesia
In Indonesia, the inequity of historic funding patterns is exacerbated by the effects of the decentralisation law enacted in 1999 and revised in 2001 which placed most health services under the responsibility of district government . District Health Offices must now compete with other sectors for funding. A recent public expenditure review suggested that local health spending is largely associated with revenues of the district rather than population need . Inequity at the district level is likely to contribute to inequity at the individual level: research studies indicate that Indonesia has one of the least pro poor distributions of public health resources in the region .
The Ministry of Health maintains influence over the health system by mandating local authorities to provide a minimum package of services (Standard Pelayanan Minimal or SPM) to their population. The SPM comprises maternal and neonatal care, family planning, infant and child health (including routine health checks and care for children suffering from malnutrition, diarrhoea and respiratory infections) and priority communicable diseases (tuberculosis, malaria and dengue). The SPM establishes target levels of coverage of relevant population groups ranging from around 75% (coverage of malaria cases) to 95% (antenatal care). The package includes both personal health care and public health measures (e.g. spraying for dengue). The package also defines support for a wider range of personal health care for the poor including basic and referral care. These services are not well defined and in this paper we confine attention to the cost of the universal services that are specified to be provided to the entire population. .
Financing to achieve SPM targets comes from several sources. Since 2004 there has been an insurance scheme for the poor based on household and individual characteristics first administered by the state health insurance agency (PT Askes) and, since 2008, as a special programme of the Ministry of Health (Jamkesmas). Districts are required to make funding available for the priority services to the remainder of the population but little is known about the costs of such commitments and how they vary across the country. Wide variation in costs is probable since the country is made up of more than 17,000 islands which have widely different economic and social status (Table 1). The focus of the study is on the estimation of the funding required in order to achieve the minimum SPM coverage level defined politically for each service across different regions of the country taking into account variations in demography and epidemiology. Sources: ;
The bottom-up allocation approach focuses on the cost of providing a package of essential services in a typical district in each of the 33 provinces of Indonesia. To investigate the impact of different district contexts on the costs of SPM, the condition specific sheets were linked to demographic (age and sex), epidemiological (proportion of the population suffering each disease) and location data (distance between health centres and hospitals for referral). A user friendly interface to enter data and undertake simulations was constructed based on user forms in Visual Basic.
The modelling incorporated a representation of a typical district structure. In Indonesia, public services are usually organised around one (sometimes more) district hospitals and sub-district based health centres (Puskesmas). Health centres are of two main types: those with beds primarily for emergency obstetric care, and those without beds. The health centre acts as a focal point for other public services in the sub-district including sub-health centres, village health posts and services of village midwives. The latter have been an important part of the government’s strategy to expand use of skilled delivery care since the early 1990s . These services are incorporated as part of the Puskesmas network for costing.
The total allocation for s SPM services in district/province i is given as
Where t ij is the proportion of the total population (target group) that potentially may require the service j, d ij is the proportion of the target group that are expected to present with the condition and n j is the proportion with the disease that require treatment at a medical facility. The latter reflects the fact that for some conditions treatment is not required or can be provided at home without recourse to medical facilities. Unit costs (c) for service j are assumed to vary across districts and provinces (i):
Where c i jp , c ij pH and c ij HA are respectively the unit cost of primary, hospital care without admission and hospital care with admission for service j in district i; π i is the proportion requiring referral for hospital treatment, m i is the proportion of referrals requiring admission and r i is the average cost of referral from primary to hospital facilities in district i. The cost of care varies by region because of differences in fixed costs, variations in the health system and differences in whether health centres provide inpatient care. The unit cost of drugs, medical supplies and direct staffing are established normatively and are assumed not to vary across the country. Base information for the proportion of target groups with particular conditions was taken from the Department of Health’s regular survey and the most recent Demographic and Health Survey [17, 18].
The cost of primary and hospital care are composed of variable (v) elements such as drugs, laboratory tests and supplies; direct staffing (s) required in the delivery of the specific service by midwives, nurses and midwives; and fixed overhead costs (f) arising from the operational, capital and indirect staffing (administration, clinical support departments and ancillary staff) of each facility or cluster of facilities.:
Treatment normatives for particular diseases are assumed to be similar so that the variable and direct staffing inputs are the same. The variable (v) and direct staffing (s) elements of the cost of each SPM condition were derived through a process of consultation with programme directors in the Ministry of Health and clinicians working within facilities. For variable items this involved listing the drugs and medical supplies required in the treatment of each condition together with quantities required and the probability of a typical patient with the condition requiring the item. For direct staffing, it involved quantifying the time spent by key health staff (general doctors, specialists such as obstetricians, midwives and nurses) with each patient during an episode of illness. To aid this process staff time was listed by key activity area such as time during admission, in the operating theatre, each day on the ward and at discharge. Costs were entered on series of sheets adapted from the Core Plus costing framework and WHO Mother and Baby Package [20, 21]. Costing involved a number of iterations since estimates of staff time were thought to be exaggerated and were revised after preliminary total costs were produced. Resource requirements are based on best local clinical practice for each condition.
Fixed overhead costs are permitted to vary across districts as they are directly related to the number of facilities that are required to serve a given population. Facility numbers are influenced by geography and topology so that a sparsely populated mountainous district will require, ceteris paribus, a larger number of facilities to serve population need. Similarly, while it is assumed that the proportion of patients with disease j requiring referral is similar across districts, the cost of referral (r) is influenced by proximity to referral facilities and so will vary across districts.
The costing incorporates three types of fixed overhead:
Facility overheads (health centre or district hospital), including administrative and support staff, operating costs of the facility and (annualised) capital
SPM overheads attributable to particular SPM services (e.g. spraying for dengue, surveillance for infectious diseases) which vary on a population basis rather than according to patients treated. These services are largely provided through the DHO and the costs are apportioned to each facility and the service as part of the modelling.
Administrative overheads associated with running the DHO
We include all the costs of treatment whether provided at hospital, health centre or in the community. The costing of the health centre (puskesmas) incorporates the costs of subordinated facilities such as sub-centres and village health posts.
The service-based SPMs are largely limited to communicable diseases plus maternal care. Much of the disease burden, for example from non-communicable diseases and trauma, is excluded. Although not directly costed, the model recognises the economies of scope of providing for these other diseases by incorporating an estimate of workload (beds filled, outpatients treated) attributed to other conditions. This activity is then added to the SPM activity in order to allocate overhead.
Distance costs are important for the health system and individual patients, particularly in more remote areas of Indonesia where distances (measured in time or distance) between populations and facilities are large (due to oceans or mountains). The costing focuses on system costs and does not incorporate the costs to households of getting to a facility for initial treatment. These demand-side costs are important in explaining the difference between normative need and actual demand . The costing assumes that the system is responsible for patient transport between health centre and hospital where referral is medically necessary. The model incorporates a simple map that computes the straight line distance between all health centres and the district hospital(s). These distances are used to impute an emergency transport cost for patient transfers. This is clearly a simplification since transport links are not usually straight line. Furthermore some terrain may be more difficult (costly and slower) to travel on than others. This is particularly true where transport to a hospital necessitates crossing water. The costs derived, therefore, should be regarded as a minimum - local knowledge is required to augment the estimates. An extension of the model could incorporate more accurate time mapping based on GIS data.
The model was initially estimated from data from local district staff describing the demographic structure and scale mapping of sub-districts and local facilities for five districts: Yogyakarta (DI Yogyakarta province), Purbalinga (Central Java province), Lombok Barat, Dompu and Lombok Tengah (West Nusa Tenggara province). Initial estimates helped identify key drivers of cost affecting inter-district differences in per capita cost. The model was then re-estimated for a typical district in each province.
The most expensive individual SPM conditions were found to be treatment both for delivery complications and neonatal (intensive) care (Table 2). The cost per episode of malnutrition was also high. Rates of malnutrition are high in many areas of Indonesia and require a period of intensive therapeutic feeding in hospital for the most severe cases followed by supplementary feeding in the community (outpatient based). Dengue and permanent family planning methods are expensive per episode. Across the country, the proportion of the population requiring these services is low and so the per capita cost is modest. In contrast, non-permanent methods of contraception are very cheap at an individual level but the per capita cost is relatively high due to large numbers requiring the service.
Overheads are driven by a variety of factors but a substantial determinant is the extent of hospitalisation required for conditions. The proportion of overhead in total episode costs varies from 11 to 76% across the SPM services. So, the relatively high overhead (almost 60%) for many obstetric conditions arises from the costs of surgery and subsequent recovery in hospital. In contrast, much of the cost of providing immunisation, where direct costs account for 89%, are the costs of vaccines and staff administering the vaccination with little use of facilities. The analysis suggests that a standard overhead, often used in other costing studies, may be unrealistic since the size of the overhead crucially depends on the service mix.
The results across the five districts show considerable differences in per capita costs of SPM services (figure 1). These range from less than $15 in Yogyakarta to almost $30 in Dompu.
Differences in costs between categories of service are driven by two factors: a) substantial service cost or b)large case numbers are. Although there are some differences in communicable diseases (dengue, malaria, TB) across the districts the relatively small population affected means that these do not contribute substantially to the difference in costs. In contrast the number of infants and newborns drives costs through the wide range of sometimes expensive conditions (e.g. emergency obstetric and neonatal intensive care) impacting a large population.
The impact of each variable can be demonstrated by computing an elasticity based on the simulations across 28 provinces. This indicates how much the per capita costs change for each percentage increase or decrease in the driver variable (holding other variables constant) (Table 3). The importance of changes in the birth rate is evident as is the proportion of infants under one and children 1 to 5. The impact on per capita costs of the prevalence of communicable diseases is small since the proportion affected with these diseases is small relative to the population.
To demonstrate importance of the population structure on the costs of care, the model was run for a district of average size and geography in 28 provinces based on the population structure from the last census and province specific epidemiological and geographic information (full data were only available for 28 out of 33 provinces).
The estimates suggest more than a threefold difference between the lowest and highest cost per capita based on need and a four-fold difference when the cost of current (2010) utilisation is assumed (Table 4). The reason for this difference is suggested by the population structure (pyramid) of each province. Yogyakarta, the province with the lowest per capita cost, attracts many students to its universities and is also a popular place to retire (figure 2). As a consequence the province has a disproportionate number of low cost age groups (15–29, 25–29) and a large elderly population. The latter may have high health care needs but these are largely not covered by the SPM. In contrast North Maluku, which has the highest per capita estimate of the SPM, has a population pyramid that is bottom heavy implying high SPM need arising from children, infant and maternal health services (figure 3).
Based on national epidemiology, the bottom-up approach allocates 60% for female conditions and 40% for males. More than 20% of the female allocation is for maternal health and the non-maternal health allocation is pro-male reflecting the slightly higher prevalence of some childhood diseases. Whether these groups actually benefit from funding in this proportion depend on local systems and health seeking practices. Given that the package prioritises services for children and pregnant women it is not surprising that the groups benefiting most from the allocation are the under-fives and women in the 25–34 age group. In contrast the over 55 s, which represent around 11 percent of the population, are expected to benefit from less than 10 percent of the budget allocation for SPM. This will change as the SPM begins to incorporate services aimed at the cure, maintenance and prevention of non-communicable diseases.
Limitations of the analysis
The modelling undertaken for this analysis has a number of limitations. The modelling excludes services that are provided only for the poor which include non-communicable diseases. This was a pragmatic decision based on the lack of precision about precisely what services are included in the package for the poor.
The burden of disease in Indonesia, particularly in more populous areas, is changing. Non-communicable diseases are becoming more important both in overall utilisation and unit cost terms . In common with most essential packages, the SPM continues to focus on communicable diseases and maternal health which will become less important in terms of the overall disease burden and also the catastrophic impact on households. Development of more complete service packages, and financing from taxation or insurance is becoming more important. The next stage of the normative costing work will be to incorporate the costs of major non-communicable diseases into the costing methodology. A challenge in incorporating these diseases into the approach will be the more complex treatment paths associated with many of these diseases. Early work incorporating common conditions such as a hypertension and diabetes suggests that the approach can be readily applied. More complex and rarer conditions (e.g. kidney failure, breast cancer) with complicated treatment decisions and outcomes present a greater challenge. Further work will be required to examine how the relatively simple condition specific data entry sheets can be modified to accommodate these treatment paths.
Location is currently modelled in a crude way to approximate the differential costs of living in remote compared to densely populated areas. Extensions of the modelling might include more accurate accounting for the costs of distance that, for example, take account of the actual road network and travel times over more difficult terrain.
The cost estimates are based on a normative approach to service provision. While the overhead includes the possibility of variation according to workload, the direct costs are based on nationally determined best practice. Salary costs are based on current levels of pay although we make what we consider to be realistic assumptions about the level of availability of staff during a working day (around 4 hours for doctors and 6 hours for nurses/midwives). The latter assumption takes into account that most staff undertake private practice to supplement their income. A large scale actual cost study is currently underway and it is intended that these normative costs will be compared with the results of the actual costing to test whether these assumptions are correct.
Policy uses of costing information
The Indonesian government urgently needs to address the resource requirements which the health sector places on each level of government according to the constitution. Current service mandates fail to ensure essential services because the costs required to for delivering on these mandates and the responsibility for providing resources is unclear. Clearer costing that accounts for geographic differences in need provides a basis both for establishing the overall cost of SPMs over the entire country and indicate the level of (considerable) variation in different provinces and districts. Given these costs, policy discussion now needs to focus on the responsibilities for financing services. Local resources will need to be supplemented by national allocations, particularly in areas where fiscal capacity is low. Such accommodation is already implied in the fiscal relationships between levels of government under decentralisation but, in the health sector at least, sound cost estimates have been lacking.
Cost sharing may also include how private financing can be expected to pay for these basic services. Current SPM targets are for between 80 and 95% coverage. Publicly financing to achieve such targets appears to be unaffordable given current public health budgets implying the need for discussion about the total level of public funding and an acceptable split between public and private funding.
Beyond the use of costing for budgeting purposes, the projections of this work highlight the gap between current demand and need. Closing this gap is unlikely to be purely a matter of more funding for services. Whilst the costs of emergency referral between facilities are incorporated into the model, other costs including travel to the first contact provider are borne by consumers. Considerable evidence suggests such demand-side costs are strong, and possibly the dominant deterrent to health seeking behaviour . Funding for strategies to reduce these demand side barriers might be incorporated into resource allocation formulae perhaps by ensuring that some funding is only accessible for mechanisms to reduce these costs such as community transport schemes or funding village health workers to accompany patients for referral.
Applicability and cost of approach in other contexts
The bottom-up epidemiological approach to costing has been used here to describe how a budget for a limited package of priority services could be allocated across a country. The approach explicitly takes account of area specific epidemiology and demography, proportion requiring treatment and expert assessments of resources required to treat diseases. Proxy data are replaced by information on actual prevalence. The approach requires area specific data down to the level for which the formula is to be used. It is a sensitive way of dealing with need outliers since it incorporates epidemiology weighted by the cost of providing the services in question.
The approach has been demonstrated intensively in Indonesia. Some of the authors have demonstrated the working of a similar approach in Timor Leste and Kenya. The approach does not appear to be any more expensive or time consuming than an approach using proxy variables. In each country, the approach took approximately two months to develop and implement using available secondary data. In Indonesia, demographic and health survey data was supplemented by a large national surveillance survey, Riskesdas, which provides detailed prevalence information across a wide range of communicable and non-communicable diseases including almost all the conditions included in the SPM.
The use of a dynamic model enables the assumptions to be updated with new conditions added to the SPM such as treatment for emerging non-communicable diseases and changing numbers in need.
The modelling undertaken provides estimates of relative costs but also highlights a number of issues related to the way in which the health system is utilised. The overhead elements of condition costs vary considerably and are largely dependent on the need for hospital services for certain conditions. Further development of methodology could focus on whether hospital and primary care services are being used appropriately as the normative treatment for individual conditions. In some cases, such as pregnancy or labour complications, hospitalisation is unavoidable. For conditions such as malnutrition some level of hospitalisation for very young children is required for severe cases but much can (and is) managed at the health centre (puskesmas). Normal deliveries can often be carried out safely at the health centre particularly where the health centre has provision for possible complications or where rapid transport to hospital is possible in an emergency. Further scenario work could examine the impact on cost and quality of referral restructuring and expectations of care at different levels of the system.
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We are most grateful to policy makers at national and district level who participated in discussions on the draft allocation methods. We are also grateful for the comments of two anonymous referees.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
TE wrote the article and developed the model. HF & DD assisted in model development and led the normative costing exercise. AM & PV developed the plan for normative costing and undertook initial interviews. US and SI led the policy discussions about resource allocation .SI & DP collected secondary data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Ensor, T., Firdaus, H., Dunlop, D. et al. Budgeting based on need: a model to determine sub-national allocation of resources for health services in Indonesia. Cost Eff Resour Alloc 10, 11 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7547-10-11
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She weaved her way through the throng until she reached a small side street. Leila heard a commotion behind her and turned to find a mob headed her way. People shouted and jeered, forcing bystanders aside as they drove a solitary figure ahead of them. The crowd opened a wider birth around the figure than seemed possible in the narrow confines, but as the mob drew close, Leila could see why. The woman that hobbled before the mob was trying to cover her face, but the blisters were still visible. A leper. “Unclean!” the leper shouted as she drew near.
The woman tripped and fell to the ground in front of Leila and grunted. Leila moved to help the woman and drops of water fell on her head. The cool water startled her to awareness and her hand stopped, no more than a hand’s breadth from the woman. Realizing her mistake, Leila recoiled.
The leper looked up at Leila, brown eyes haunted and full of tears. Her face contorted with fear and anguish, but she forced words from her blistered lips. “Unclean!” she shouted as she stumbled to her feet. She choked out a sob, covering her face again with her shawl and fled before the mob. Leila ducked backward into the side street, letting more water slosh out of her jar in her haste.
The mob screamed curses at the woman, throwing rotten food and pebbles at her as she disappeared from Leila’s sight further down the street.
Leila breathed hard, unable to believe she had almost forgotten herself and touched the woman. Such a stupid mistake. Well, she had paid for it with precious water. She might have to go fetch water again today. Unable to shake off the experience, she felt uneasy for the rest of her journey home.
She pulled the water jug down from her head with practiced motions as she reached the small house. It was quiet here, protected from the cries of the mob and the street. She ducked in through the door.
Setting the water pitcher on the small table, she busied herself with her next set of chores.
“Leila,” said a quiet voice. She spun, hand going to her mouth.
A dark figure loomed before the doorway to the bedroom, swathed in coverings. “Who’s there?” Leila asked, her voice shaking.
“Leila, it’s me. Simon.”
She breathed a sigh, her hand going to her chest. “Don’t scare me like that. Shouldn’t you be at the shop?”
“I don’t think I can go back there,” Simon said, his voice rough.
“What do you mean? They have no more work?” Leila grew concerned. No work, could mean they had to move again.
“No, not that. Something worse.”
Leila couldn’t quite comprehend what he was saying. She moved forward, preparing to embrace him and tell him it would be all right.
He took a step back, holding out a hand toward her. “Don’t come closer.”
She stopped, her mind reeling. “No. No, tell me it isn’t true.” The emotion came upon her with such force that that she screamed at him. “Tell me it isn’t true.”
Simon, her husband, stepped forward slowly and pulled back the covering from around his head. Leila choked on a sob, her body convulsing as she fell to the floor, her knees no longer supporting her weight. She wept there, body racked with sobs. Part of her expected to feel his arms around her as when her blood had covered the bed last year, proclaiming for the final time her barrenness. But his arms did not encircle her, and she knew why.
She looked up, eyes blurred with tears. “Simon,” was all she could force out of her lips.
Her husband sat slumped against the doorway to the bedroom, not looking at her. Instead, he was staring at his hands that were starting to show the same blisters as his face.
“I will go to the temple today,” he said, his voice firm. “I will send word to my brother.”
“No,” she said through tears, shaking her head.
“He will accept you into his home,” Simon continued as if she hadn’t spoken.
Leila’s mind reeled, unable to process the situation. Simon kept talking, trying to comfort her, but she stopped listening. All she could think about was a leprous woman herded before a mob. Thrust from the city by an uncaring people only to waste away in exile.
Simon stood slowly. “This will not grow easier the longer I wait. I must go to the temple. It is the law.” Leila could imagine it playing out, Simon before the priests being declared unclean and then driven from the city.
She could see the whole rest of her life playing out before her, the barren widow of a leper. Her barrenness was like a plague unto itself, isolating her with just as much finality. No one would know from looking at her, but she would be an exile all the same. By all rights, Simon should have divorced her her curse was confirmed. But Simon was a different kind of man. That was why she loved him. No other man would marry her now. She would live out the rest of her days alone in another man’s house accepting his charity.
Leila stood to her feet. Simon was there facing her, blisters marring the bearded face she loved with her whole being. She set her jaw, then surged toward him. Leila clutched at his surprised face and kissed him with everything she had in her.
He recoiled, pushing her away with a cry. “What have you done!”
Leila licked her lips, savoring the taste of him.
Simon seized her arms in his meaty hands, shaking her. “What are you thinking? You wish to be cursed among men?”
Leila looked away, the words sticking in her throat. “I am already cursed.” Her voice strengthened and she met his gaze. “I would rather be twice-cursed and with you than cursed and without.”
“You will become a leper!” he said, tears running down his face. “You will be exiled and die!”
“Then I shall have my wish to grow old and die with you,” she said. She took his calloused hands in hers. “We shall grow old in suffering, and then we shall pass from this world together.”
A half laugh burst from him. “You stubborn, ridiculous woman,” he said his tone angry. But there was half a smile on his lips. “I shall love you until my breath leaves me.”
“As shall I,” she said. “Come, let us go to the temple.”
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The U.S. is not in a depression despite the claims of prominent economists, according to Clare Zempel, himself a noted economist and financial advisor.
Speaking in Clearwater, Fla., on March 18, Zempel said serious economic challenges persist and there may be shocks ahead, but economists who claim we are already in a depression are wrong and even irresponsible.
Zempel made his remarks as keynote speaker for the Pegasus Transtech Users Conference 2009. Pegasus TransTech, headquartered in Tampa, provides Transflo and Transflo Express business process, document management and scanning services, primarily to the trucking industry. Its customers include some of the largest, most successful carriers in North America.
The theme of this year’s conference, the company’s 11th annual user group, was “Using Technology to Prosper in a Tough Economy.”
Zempel told the gathering that a number of indicators show the recent economic plunge may be bottoming out. Citing established economic indicators, Zempel said that residential housing prices are beginning to stabilize in much, though not all, of the country; that retail sales have shown unexpected strength; and that homes have once again become affordable for average American wage earners. Zempel also noted that demand for freight transportation, which had fallen in the 4th quarter of 2008, appears to be stabilizing.
Far from a protracted depression, Zempel told the group of Pegasus TransTech customers, U.S. business could see signs of recovery as early at the 3rd quarter of this year.
In a panel discussion following Zempel’s presentation, Steve Sherman of Crete Carrier Corp. said that from his company’s perspective, the current recession has been underway for at least a year and a half.
Another panelist, Parker McCrary, strategic planning director for CSX Intermodal, said that despite the current downturn, his company is investing to increase intermodal rail lane capacity for the expected recovery.
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ST. LOUIS — Hundreds of people protested on July 4 of the recent overturn by the Supreme Court of Roe vs. Wade, which ended federal abortion rights.
Fourth of July festivities downtown was even interrupted by the massive peaceful protest.
Organizer Lauren Wright said she intentionally chose the fourth of July to hold this event.
“So, we picked Independence Day to symbolize that we don’t have the same level of independence that men have in this country and any of the people who can’t birth, and we’re going to fight,” said Wright.
Wright said the event started with social media and was surprised by how many people came out in the heat.
“So much energy here, and with this type of organization, I feel like we can make a change,” said Wright. “I know we can make a change, and I think this crowd is a symbol of how this movement needs to be inclusive.”
Many people held up signs, and despite the grueling heat, some people wore all black to quote “mourn the right they lost.”
“This is America’s birthday,” said protestor Shae Croffe. “It’s a day we celebrate, and we’re happy for freedom, but unfortunately, last week, we lost our freedom as women. We lost our right to choose, and we must voice that, and today’s a good day to do that.”
Police and EMS crews followed the crowds as they marched down Market Steet, eventually protesting in the middle of July 4 festivities at Fair St. Louis. Some fairgoers tell Fox 2 they were not happy about it.
“I don’t think it was right. It’s a private party,” said fair attendee Pete Butler. “We’re celebrating the fourth of July to have those people running in here hollering in the street, Instagram little kids.”
Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski had this to say for the pro-choice side of Roe V. Wade:
“Our nation’s history has taught us that no group of human beings should be classified in law as non-persons. When they are, there are terrible consequences for individuals and for society, and that has certainly been true of abortion. We will need to be more determined than ever to walk with moms in need. Anyone who feels overwhelmed by pregnancy should have places to turn for practical help. We need to be committed to providing that help.”
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Issues and situations. Each of us have them every day, and our response to them has a great deal of impact upon our own personal lives...whether we want to admit it or not.
When You have the Lord in your heart, however, you never have to face these situations alone.
"Before we even rose today
You knew what we would face.
Is that why there's no limit, Lord,
to Your amazing grace?
You saw all that would happen, Lord,
You see all that yet will;
You even know how we react,
and yet You love us still!
We are "Christ-like," yet some days
are nowhere near as such!
We encounter others who
don't even know Your touch!
We even meet ones who resist
all semblances of You;
but guide and lead us even then,
and we will make it through!
And not just "make it," but to even
bring a victory
into that situation, Lord,
whatever it may be.
Not always is there cause to
celebrate in what is done,
but with Your heart inside our own
that Perfect Peace is won."
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