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Dogs are considered a man’s best friend for a reason. They are loyal, loving, and always happy to see their human companions. In China, dogs are a popular pet choice and there are many different breeds to choose from. Here is a list of the 10 most popular Chinese dog breeds.
Chinese Crested Dog
The Chinese Crested Dog is a small, hairless breed of dog that is popular in China. The breed is known for its friendly personality and unique appearance. Chinese Crested Dogs are often used as companion animals and therapy dogs. The breed is considered to be one of the most popular breeds in China.
The Pekingese is a small, sturdy dog that was originally breed in China. They are now one of the most popular Chinese dog breeds. Pekingese are known for their independent and stubborn personalities, as well as their loyal and protective nature. They make good watchdogs and make great companions for people who lead active lifestyles.
The Chow Chow is a popular Chinese dog breed that is known for its thick fur coat, black tongue, and bear-like face. These dogs are loyal and protective of their family and make good watchdogs. They are also considered to be one of the oldest dog breeds in the world. Chow Chows can range in size from 18-22 inches tall and weigh between 40-70 pounds. They are typically considered a medium to large breed.
The Shar Pei is a Chinese dog breed that is characterized by its wrinkles and blue black tongue. It is one of the most popular Chinese dog breeds and is known for its gentle temperament and intelligence. The Shar Pei is also a very healthy breed, with a life expectancy of 10-12 years. Some of the other traits of the Shar Pei include its strong hunting instincts, high energy level, and stubbornness.
Pugs are one of the most popular dog breeds in the world. They are known for their wrinkly face and short, stocky build. Pugs originated in China and were used as lap dogs for royalty. Today they have become more common among families due to their friendly nature and small size. Their coat has been bred into different colors including reds, blues, black, and white. Despite being considered an old fashioned dog, pugs still remain extremely fashionable today.
The Shih Tzu is a popular Chinese dog breed that is known for its long, thick hair. They are also known for being friendly and playful. Shih Tzus make great pets and are often recommended for people who are looking for a small dog that doesn’t require a lot of exercise.
According to recent research, the Xiasi Dog is one of the most popular dog breeds in China.This breed is known for its friendly and gentle temperament, as well as its intelligence and easy train ability.The Xiasi Dog is also a great family pet and is known for its devotion to its human companions.These dogs are typically healthy and have a lifespan of 10 to 12 years.
The Japanese Chin is a small toy breed of dog that originated in Japan. They are known for their friendly and playful personalities, and make great companions for people of all ages. The Chin is one of the most popular breeds of dogs in China, and is often considered to be a symbol of good luck.
The Chongqing dog, also known as the Chongqingese, is a breed of dog that is native to Chongqing, China. It is a medium-sized dog that is characterized by its short coat and its triangular-shaped head. The Chongqing dog is one of the most popular breeds of dogs in China, and it is often used as a guard dog.
Kunming wolfdog, also known as the Chinese gray wolf, is a top most popular dog breed in China. It is a large, robust dog with a thick coat of fur that comes in various colors, including black, white, and gray. Kunming wolfdogs are used as working dogs in many different ways, such as guarding property, herding livestock, and hunting. They are also popular as pets because of their friendly temperament and trainability. | <urn:uuid:586c15a0-7c44-43be-b7d6-039cb3b36a1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dogsfreedom.com/top-10-most-popular-chinese-dog-breed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.985101 | 886 | 1.914063 | 2 |
|— City —|
|• Total||21.3 sq mi (55.3 km2)|
|• Land||21.3 sq mi (55.1 km2)|
|• Water||0.1 sq mi (0.2 km2)|
|Elevation||482 ft (147 m)|
|• Density||773.2/sq mi (298.6/km2)|
|Time zone||Central (CST) (UTC-6)|
|• Summer (DST)||CDT (UTC-5)|
|ZIP codes||39042, 39043, 39047|
|GNIS feature ID||0667519|
Before the arrival of white American settlers, the site of modern-day Brandon was a focal point of local Native American activities.
Brandon is located at According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.3 square miles (55.3 km²), of which 21.3 square miles (55.1 km²) is land and 0.1 square mile (0.2 km²) (0.37%) is water.(32.280330, -89.998470).
As of the census of 2000, there were 16,436 people, 6,295 households, and 4,595 families residing in the city. The population density was 773.2 people per square mile (298.5/km²). There were 6,540 housing units at an average density of 307.7 per square mile (118.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 86.61% White, 11.89% Black, 0.10% Native American, 0.58% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 0.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.30% of the population.
There were 6,295 households out of which 36.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.0% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.0% were non-families. 23.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.00.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.2% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 24.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 90.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $53,246, and the median income for a family was $63,098. Males had a median income of $42,414 versus $28,128 for females. The per capita income for the city was $24,020. About 4.1% of families and 6.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.7% of those under age 18 and 10.7% of those age 65 or over.
Government and infrastructure
The city of Brandon has a city Mayor as the chief executive officer and a Board of Aldermen. The current city officials are Mayor Butch Lee; Alderman, At Large Mr. James Morris; Alderman, Ward 1 Mrs. Monica Corley; Alderman, Ward 2 Mr. Chris Vinson; Alderman, Ward 3 Mr. Harry Williams; Alderman, Ward 4 Mr. Lu Coker; Alderman, Ward 5 Mr. Bobby Christopher; and Alderman, Ward 6 Mr. Robert Morrow. The city's attorney is Mark C. Baker.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections operates the Brandon Probation & Parole Office in Brandon. The Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, located in unincorporated Rankin County, is in proximity to Brandon.
Brandon is the location of the Black Rose Theatre Company.
- Cocke-Martin-Jackson House
- Hebron Academy
- Rankin County Courthouse
- Stevens-Buchanan House
- Turcotte House
The City of Brandon is served by the Rankin County School District.
- Public schools
- Brandon High School (Grades 9-12)
- Brandon Middle School (Grades 6-8)
- Brandon Elementary School (Grades 4-5)
- Stonebridge Elementary School (Grades 2-3)
- Rouse Elementary School (Grades K-1)
- Devin Britton, professional tennis player
- Daryl Dedmon, guilty of murder in the 2011 killing of James Craig Anderson, described as a racially motivated hate crime
- Jenna Edwards, former Miss Florida and Miss Florida USA
- Patrick Henry, (1843–1930), U.S. representative
- Volney Howard, Attorney General and U.S. Representative for Texas
- Skylar Laine, is an American country singer. She placed fifth on the eleventh season of American Idol
- Mamie Locke, political scientist, Virginia state senator
- Justin Mapp, professional soccer player
- Anselm Joseph McLaurin, Governor of Mississippi 1896-1900
- Mary Ann Mobley, Miss America 1959, actress and television personality
- Tyler Moore, professional baseball player for the Washington Nationals
- Jerious Norwood, professional football player
- Dale Thorn, press secretary to Governor Edwin Edwards of Louisiana, Louisiana State University journalism professor, assistant commissioner of higher education for the Louisiana Board of Regents; born in McComb, retired to Brandon in 2000, and died in Ridgeland in 2014
- Joe M. Turner, professional magician, mentalist, speaker
- Louis H. Wilson, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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- ^ "GARRISON COULD BE BACK IN JAIL SOON." Biloxi Sun-Herald. February 15, 1995. C2 Coast and State. Retrieved on September 24, 2011. "[...]days for her return to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Brandon."
- ^ National Register of Historic Places: Mississippi—Rankin County
- ^ "Life sentence in Mississippi hate-crime case". CNN. March 22, 2012. http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/21/justice/mississippi-hate-crime/?hpt=us_c2.
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- ^ "McLAURIN, Anselm Joseph, (1848 - 1909)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000542. Retrieved August 2014.
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The UK’s second largest waste authority and London’s largest, North London Waste Authority (NLWA), has called on the UK government to “urgently” ban more single-use plastics and introduce a 50p charge on coffee cups “without delay”.
NLWA’s call follows the release of The Big Plastic Count – a survey by Greenpeace and NGO Everyday Plastic, which claims UK households dispose of 100billion pieces of plastic packaging every year, with just 12% recycled.
NLWA says the issue is that an array of plastics, in particular soft plastics and items made of composite materials such as takeaway coffee cups, are not recyclable.
The best way to tackle unecological waste is not once it ends up in the bin but at the very beginning – manufacturers should not produce it at all and focus instead on sustainable alternatives
It says that while recyclable plastics such as milk bottles are easy to turn into new products – and if put in recycling bins across north London are 100% processed in the UK – many other fossil-fuel based plastics including flexible plastic covering fruit and vegetables, crisp packets, and bubble wrap are not recyclable.
If these plastics were to be recycled, the result would be an extremely poor-quality material with little value, it says.
It says that while supermarkets offer ‘recycling’ for these materials, there is currently minimal UK infrastructure to deal with the vast volumes of these tricky-to-recycle plastics generated each year.
NLWA calls on the UK government to legislate on the root cause: what it calls “the reckless overproduction of tricky-to-recycle plastics”.
Following from bans on plastic straws, stirrers, and plastic-stemmed cotton buds, NLWA wants the government to extend the ban to “unnecessary flexible plastic” over fruit and vegetables, takeaway polystyrene containers, plastic cutlery and plates for starters.
A 50p charge on takeaway coffee cups – which are not recyclable due to their plastic lining to prevent leakages – would help encourage more people to switch to reusable cups and reduce the 2.5 billion coffee cup mountain chucked away each year, it says.
NLWA chair, Cllr Clyde Loakes, said: “No one needs fossil-fuel based plastic smothering broccoli or plastic nets for oranges. It’s vital that the UK cuts down on unnecessary waste that can’t be recycled or reused.
“And the best way to tackle unecological waste is not once it ends up in the bin but at the very beginning – manufacturers should not produce it at all and focus instead on sustainable alternatives.”
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Aix-en-Provence, 1700 – Paris, 1783
Presentation of the Virgin to the Temple
Pen, black ink and oil on paper laid down on board.
423 x 540 mm – 16 5/8 x 12 1/4 in.
Provenance: Paris, Didier Aaron gallery, December 2015 ; European private collection ; Paris, Artcurial sale, 9 June 2021, n° 8.
Michel-François Dandré-Bardon was born in 1700 in Aix-en-Provence where he first studied law. In 1720, he decided to pursue his studies in Paris but instead, he became interested in painting and entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, also from Aix. In 1723, he was admitted in Jean-François de Troy’s studio. The winner of the Académie Royale second prize, he went to Rome where he stayed until 1731. On his way back, he stopped for a six months sojourn in Venice, which proved to be decisive on the elaboration of this style. Made an agréé of the Académie Royale in 1734, he was received in 1735 with his painting The Ambition of Tulia (Montpellier, Musée Fabre). From then on, Dandré-Bardon led a successful career, in Provence, where he received prestigious commissions and was appointed the director of the Marseille École des Beaux arts, as well as in Paris where he definitively settled in 1755. Suffering from palsy as from 1770, he remained a teacher and became the rector of the Académie Royale in 1778. He was also the founder of the Académie in Marseille.
This oil sketch is typical of Dandré-Bardon’s style, both by the color range, mostly blue and pink, almost purple, and by the virtuoso pen line. The theatrical composition, with figures standing before a colonnade opening on a landscape, evokes the interior of a temple and shows the influence of Venetian Settecento. This work can favorably be compared to Allegory of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aix-en-Provence, musée Arbaud). Dandré-Bardon treated the same subject, but vertically, in 1734.
The draughtsman’s work – pen under-drawing of the composition and sinuous figures outlining – is perfectly visible in this sketch, which, halfway between drawing and painting, bears distinct traces of his « hand ». Such details as lost profiles and small triangular noses are also characteristic of Dandré-Bardon.
Condition report – oil on paper laid down on cardboard (modern).
Examination under U.V. light: Very thin tear at the bottom left, below the Virgin’s white dress. Another tear in the upper part between the two columns. Slight abrasions on the edges due to the frame. The paint is in a good state of conservation.
Daniel Chol, Michel François Dandré-Bardon ou l’apogée de la peinture en Provence au XVIIIème siècle, Aix-en-Provence, 1987, p.58, reproduit.
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SmartKai is a digital assistance system that aims to make damage caused by maneuvering in the tight space of a harbor basin a thing of the past. Lidar sensors installed in the harbor capture each ship’s position data, and with the help of the RTMaps software, the data is then prepared for display to the ship’s crew.
SmartKai is an application-oriented research and development project complying with the funding guideline on innovative harbor technology (IHATEC) issued by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), in which several partners are cooperating:
- Niedersachsen Ports GmbH und Co.KG (NPorts) – Germany’s largest port operator and coordinator of the SmartKai project. NPorts makes its harbor infrastructure available for the development of SmartKai. Quays and harbor locks with a high risk of accident are good locations for using the system.
- SICK AG – Is developing a new, more robust lidar sensor for the project, designed specially for a maritime environment. The sensor uses an adapted light wavelength with a longer range.
- Humatects GmbH – Is developing SmartKai’s user interface so that ship crews can easily visualize navigation data using a tablet, augmented reality glasses, or projections.
- OFFIS – Informatics institute at which the harbor’s lidar sensor system for capturing ship positions is being developed.
- eMIR (eMaritime Integrated Reference Platform) – Development platform for maritime applications.
Parking assistants have long been a familiar feature in cars. Now ships will soon have something similar. Maneuvering a ship in the confined space of a harbor basin can be difficult due to adverse currents, bad weather, the increasing size of ships, the growing amount of ship traffic, tight schedules, and so on. The result is repeated accidents that cause damage to both the vessels and the harbor infrastructure – and sometimes personal injuries. The SmartKai project aims to prevent this.
Lidar Sensors in the Harbor Detect Ships
SmartKai is a “parking assistant” for ships. Using lidar sensors mounted on the harbor infrastructure, SmartKai detects the positions of ships during docking and casting off, prepares information from the data, and sends this to the crews and pilots. To gain a precise idea of their ship’s position and maneuver it safely, all the crew on board needs is a tablet, called the portable pilot unit (PPU). Moreover, if there is an accident, SmartKai makes it possible to find out what caused it. Another plus with this system is that no complex, expensive installations are needed on board, because the sensor and computing technology is installed permanently in the harbor.
First Prototype in Wilhelmshaven
The first step was to test the system with no disturbing effects, so Niedersachsen Ports (NPorts) installed it at Hannover Quay in Wilhelmshaven, an almost completely closed harbor area with almost no currents or tides. Three 2-D lidar sensors from project partner SICK were the basis for SmartKai. In addition, environmental sensors (for wind data and visibility) and an AIS receiver were installed (AIS = Automatic Identification System, an internationally standardized radio system for exchanging navigation and other vessel data). Two cameras for visual monitoring were mounted at strategic points on the quayside. All the sensors are connected to two industrial PCs (IPCs) in mobile boxes on the quay. These collect, save, and process the measurement values from the sensors.
For us, RTMaps is the right software for capturing, accurately time-stamping, synchronizing, processing, and forwarding the measurement values from our sensors.
Processing the Measurement Values with RTMaps
For a safety- and time-critical system like SmartKai, reliability and processing speed are essential. The specific challenge is to assign accurate time data to the captured measurement values and synchronize the processing instances, which are spread over a wide area. So the obvious course was to use the RTMaps software (Real-Time Multisensor Applications), which was created for just such scenarios where users have to collect, time-stamp, synchronize, and replay data from different sensors. To handle the challenges posed by the SmartKai project, there is an RTMaps run-time instance on each of the industrial PCs. In addition, all the RTMaps instances are synchronized with one another to ensure that the system is real-time-capable. Another of the project’s main aims is to store all the incoming data permanently to make it available for further development and evaluation of the system. After over a year in operation, an extensive collection of lidar, camera, and AIS and wind data has been collected. RTMaps is also able to replay this data synchronously.
Wide Range of Scenarios Tested Extensively
In September 2020, the system in Wilhelmshaven underwent its first three-day field test with more than 20 scenarios. These were oriented to the regulations issued by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), as well as to requirements stated by pilots. The research boat Josephine (belonging to OFFIS e.V.) and the survey ship Argus (NPorts) were used for the test. The sensor measurement values were saved via RTMaps and appropriately annotated. Data on the start and end times of the scenarios, plus details of any issues or events such as passing ships, were saved in the RTMaps EventMarker format so that the data could be used for the further development of the system. Following that, the system continued in operation through winter 2020/2021 and summer 2021. Docking maneuvers under harsh weather conditions are of particular interest because they can show the effect of the weather on the lidar measurement values. Throughout the entire test phase, data was continuously captured, time-stamped, and saved via RTMaps.
Tests to Be Completed in 2021
The project is designed to run for three years (project end is November 2022), and the next step will be to install another system in a different location, this time Europa Quay in Cuxhaven. The focus there will initially be on the effects of currents and the weather, and how they might make docking difficult. Seven more lidar sensors have been added to the system for this in order to cover the 300-meter-long quayside. The system will be completely tested and evaluated for the first time in the test campaign planned for the end of 2021 in Cuxhaven.
About the author:
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A measure signed into law by President Biden on March 24th means all veterans, spouses and their caregivers will be eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine. The “Save Lives Act” increases the number eligible for the vaccine through the VA from 9 to 33 million. Since December, the VA has vaccinated close to 1.6 million veterans and 260,000 staff.
Further breakdown of who is now eligible for the vaccine with this new legislation:
- All veterans living in the United States & their spouses
- Veterans who live overseas and are active in the Foreign Medical Program
- Caregivers who are enrolled in Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers, Program of General Caregiver Support Services, Veteran Directed Care or VA’s Medical Foster Home Program
- CHAMPVA (Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs) recipients
Covid-19 Community Corps Plan
The White House has also indicated a plan, called Covid-19 Community Corps, to partner with various veterans groups, including asking faith-based groups, sports groups, and celebrities, to encourage as many Americans as possible, and veterans specifically within this plan, to trust and receive the vaccination.
According to militarytimes.com, these 10 groups are slated to be a part of the initial efforts: AMVETS, the Blinded Veterans of America, Disabled American Veterans Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Modern Military Association of America, Student Veterans of America, The Mission Continues, VetsFirst, Vietnam Veterans of America and the Women’s Veterans Interactive.
Efforts will include public health campaigns, local meetings with health leaders and those who have questions, and resource efforts and coordination to get the vaccine to more places.
Why the sudden collaboration?
- On March 31, the VA indicated 4,230 active cases in their medical centers across the country. This is around a 3% increase within the past few weeks, which is mirroring a national increase as well amongst all Americans. This may not seem like a lot when you compare it to January 2021’s high of 20,000 active cases, but the sudden increase, after a steady and fast decline, is causing some concern amongst health officials and the VA.
More Veteran Coronavirus Stats:
- Reports show that close to 243,000 VA patients have contracted the coronavirus since March of 2020.
- 11,3000 VA patients have died from coronavirus
- 136 VA employees have died from coronavirus
Despite the new legislation and collaboration efforts, the concern is still that though the veteran, spouse and caregiver vaccine allocation has increased drastically, the vaccines aren’t readily available everywhere they need to be for all eligible to receive them in a timely manner.
The Department of Veteran Affairs has phased a Covid-19 vaccination rollout plan, conducting trainings and readiness exercises. While the VA reports administering around 250,000 vaccines per week nationwide, there still isn’t a large enough supply that’s been made available to the Department of VA.
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Acapulco Day of the Dead
November marks the beginning of the holiday season, and many of the world's premier events in November revolve around Christmas traditions. Not so in Acapulco. The beginning of November means Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, in Mexico, and if you're relaxing on the beautiful beaches of Acapulco during the three-day event, you're sure to see lots of sugar skulls, candles and painted faces around town.
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Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide and this study found that overweight women are at an increased risk of ischaemic stroke – associated with blockages of blood in the brain, but at a decreased risk of haemorrhagic stroke – associated with bleeding and the more deadly type of stroke. This study, published in Neurology, included a large sample size of almost...Read More
A recent study has found that consuming a healthy diet is linked to better reading skills at school. This is the conclusion of a study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Jyväsklä. The study involved 161 children aged between 6 and 8, and diets were assessed with food diaries compared to the Baltic Sea Diet and Finnish nutrition recommendations. The findings...Read More
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A recent study has shown that standing desks lower the BMI trajectory in school children over a 2 year span. Twenty four classrooms at three elementary schools in Texas participated in the study. 193 students took part and those with standing desks were compared with those who sat at their desks. The researchers found that those who were standing averaged a 3% drop in BMI, whilst those at...Read More
New figures from cancer research UK have shown that yearly, 57,100 children who started primary school at a healthy weight were overweight or obese by the time they left. Whilst 1 in 5 children are already overweight when they start primary school, 1 in 3 are overweight by the time they leave. The authors at Cancer Research UK claim that although exercise is encouraged in schools and a sugar...Read More
New research has shown that clinicians prescribe anti-diabetes medication 15 times more than those for obesity. Obesity itself is a well-known risk factor for developing diabetes, with 90% of T2DM patients being overweight or obese. In the USA there are six different drugs approved for the treatment of obesity, however, of the 46% eligible for this treatment, only 2% are receiving it. The...Read More | <urn:uuid:89d5fe4a-722f-44f9-a784-513a7a78e656> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.contemporaryhealth.co.uk/news/page/32/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969022 | 570 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Strong, widespread and destructive thunderstorms hit the Midwest and Great Plains on the 5th, with tornado-like winds up to 100 miles wide in parts of South Dakota and Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois, wind gusts of nearly 100 In some states, power poles and trees were downed at mph, softball-sized hail, windows and doors were damaged, hangars and barns were destroyed, thousands of customers were left without electricity And in some areas the whole sky turned green.
when a strong wind blows,South DakotaWinds gusts were up to 96 mph in Huron, 91 mph in Agar, and 99 mph in Minor. Electric poles and trees fell from South Dakota to Illinois, affecting some homes and vehicles and cutting power to thousands of residents.
Before the strong winds arrived, thousands watched the sky change color like a green neon sign, and the horizon glowed with phosphorescence.
The American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Service say that rapidly growing large areasStormThe weather was classified as a “derecho,” a severe convective storm that would cover an area at least 400 miles long and 60 miles wide, with gusts in excess of 75 mph. The severe Hurricane Drake in the Midwest on the 5th was typical of Drake, with gusts of 84 mph to 99 mph in several cities in South Dakota, Butte, NH, and 82 mph in Hartley, Iowa. Hartley) is 79 miles,mingzhouMagnolia is 64 miles away. Winds of 58 mph with gusts of 80 mph continued for 45 minutes in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The sky turns green when strong winds blow, sparking curiosity, astonishing views of the sky on social media, and dozens of enthusiasts, many of whom have never seen a colorful sky before. Experts reported that large amounts of water droplets and hail in the storm filter out all wavelengths of color, leaving only the blue wavelengths that penetrate beneath the clouds, and blue as the red and yellow colors produced by evening sunsets. merges together. Form green sky.
Scientists believe that higher temperatures contributed to the thunderstorms in the central and western regions on Day 5, and that human-caused climate change may have fueled the temperature rise, which could hasten the formation of thunderstorms.
The Weather Service, which is closely monitoring the path of thunderstorms, raised the alert level around noon, issuing strong thunderstorm warnings from eastern South Dakota to southwestern Minnesota and Northern Ireland. Satellite cloud images showed that warm, moist air from the east was moved by the thunderstorm; By the evening of the 5th, the severe convective storm had moved at least 500 miles. | <urn:uuid:f9cbf127-6cfa-40cc-853e-4a99f7ffc7c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://todaynationnews.com/strong-thunderstorm-in-5-central-western-states-with-terrible-green-light/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954288 | 545 | 3.28125 | 3 |
IP cameras are available in different types. For indoor or outdoor, wireless or wired. It can therefore be difficult to determine which camera is the best option.
Outside or inside camera?
The first choice that must be made when choosing an IP camera is whether it is placed inside or outside. Indoor cameras often have a compact or beautiful design, while the outdoor cameras are waterproof and dust-proof.
IP cameras for outdoor use are always waterproof and dust-proof. The camera is attached to a wall, fence or a pole. This way you can keep an eye on the environment of your home, shop or office.
Cameras are placed in a room or an office. You place these cameras on a cupboard or table, so that you do not have to drill into the wall to assemble the camera. However it is also possible to attach it to a wall or ceiling.
What kind of space will the IP camera monitor?
The dimensions of the room you want to monitor are important for the ideal IP camera. Pay particular attention to the viewing angle, which indicates the size of the field of view of the camera and the resolution that determines the sharpness of the image. Cameras with pan-tilt zoom can rotate to the position you want to see, but with this you can keep an eye on a part of the room.
Day and night camera?
If you need to record images at night, one will need the option for a camera with night vision. These cameras are equipped with infrared lighting or work in very low light, so you get a picture of unwanted visitors even in the dark. Chances are you want to monitor your home or office with an IP camera when you are there.
View the images from the camera everywhere?
Do you want to view the live images from your camera if you are not present? Then choose a camera with an app for your tablet or smartphone. With such an app you can view the live images of your camera anywhere in the world.
Save the images from your camera?
Storing your camera images is useful when you cannot keep track of everything live. If something happens, it should be possible to look back at the images afterwards. Saving the images can be done in different ways.
If you have a PC that is constantly on, it is possible to use it for saving images. A better way is to store images on a NAS or DVR. You connect these storage devices to the network, so that you do not have to have a PC constantly on. The number of hours you can record depends on the number of cameras and the storage capacity of the device.
There are also cameras available in which an SD card can be placed. As a result, no additional device is needed to store the images. However, the recording capacity is limited.
Images can also be stored in the cloud. This allows you to log in to your cloud server from anywhere in the world and view the images again. A monthly subscription is required for this.
How is the camera connected?
IP cameras are connected via a network cable or WiFi to your network. Wifi cameras are ideal for places where no fixed connection is required. The connection via a network cable is much more stable than wireless. There are also cameras with support for PoE, so the camera is also powered by the network cable. Special equipment is required for this.
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Interested in helping students at Indiana University but feel overwhelmed by the thought of writing another check or giving up your assets today? A simple, flexible and versatile way to ensure we can continue our educational mission for years to come is a gift in your will or living trust, known as a charitable bequest.
By including a bequest to Indiana University in your will or living trust, you are ensuring that we can continue to impact the lives of students for years to come. As recognition of your gift, you’ll become a member of our Arbutus Society.
So how do you remember Indiana University in your will? While planning or updating your will, simply tell your attorney that you want to leave something to the IU Foundation. A common practice when including a bequest in your estate is to leave a percentage, rather than a fixed amount, to us. That way, your gift to us remains in proportion to other bequests.
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In all forms or modes of education, relationship plays an essential and foundational role in fostering a positive, respectful, and safe learning environment. This desired relationship helps students to adjust to and be comfortable with the new environment or class that they will be part of for a few months. In online distance learning, fostering this kind of relationship between the teacher and the students serves to minimize the negative effects of the transactional distance or the gap (physical, psychological, and pedagogical) between them.
Some students who are new to online distance learning will surely need some time, more dedicated guidance, and constant assurance as they learn the ropes of online learning. They may need extra time to learn basic technical or digital skills that are needed for the online course. In the social-emotional dimension of learning, students may also need to develop the courage and confidence to interact with their teacher and classmates who are physically absent but are virtually present in a real online learning community. The undesirable feeling of being separated from the class becomes so real for most students. Hence, designing for relationships in online distance learning provides the warmth and support of a class, regardless of the distance that separates students from each other.
To design for relationships that will enable better interaction, learning, and support, online distance learning teachers and designers should work towards laying down the lines of communication and the foundations for an online learning community to develop the sense of belonging among students. Consider the following:
- Establish teacher presence in the online course to let students feel that there is a warm body leading the whole teaching and learning process. Teacher presence can be felt in three ways: the persona, social, and instructional. To establish a teacher persona, the teacher can always make the students feel his or her unique approach to teaching online, interests, and even personality. The social presence of the teacher can be seen in ways the teacher connects to individual students or the whole class to build an online community. Instructional presence, the usual persona that students are familiar with, shows that the teacher is the students’ guide in the learning process.
- Build and sustain a community presence to enable social interactions and establish a community of inquiry for learning. In a face-to-face classroom, social interactions are inherent because students and the teacher are in the same place. Conversations and social actions help foster interactions easily. The absence of these tangible and highly-observable social cues in an online environment can make it harder to establish a sense of social community and the sense of belongingness. Harnessing the power of online tools, teachers can now build online social communities to allow academic and non-academic interactions to happen. For example, video-conferences enable virtual face-to-face interactions which allows participants to understand better the message of another person. Discussion boards and threads that were limited to text input are now capable of displaying emojis, audio replies, or video responses that can help students communicate their thoughts better.
- Help students develop online learning habits. In order to adjust to the new environment, teachers can help students to build helpful learning habits. For new learners, building these habits will take time, so teachers can begin with manageable expectations and slowly set-up learning routines. Online learning habits in students can include having a daily or weekly calendar to follow or a list of study goals to target. It can also mean setting a routine to go through online resources, participate in discussions, and maintaining a healthy break time from using the computer or their learning device. Teachers can also give a weekly calendar of activities ahead of time and suggest ways to minimize distractions when learning at home. In the end, the goal should always be to develop online learners who are active, resilient, steady, reliable, and engaged in the online course. | <urn:uuid:9f8842d9-971c-4c4f-8412-6b1648cafa13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://francisjimtuscano.com/2020/04/22/whats-the-first-thing-to-consider-in-online-distance-learning-design-for-relationships/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941124 | 760 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Back in March, as the pandemic began its rapid spread across the U.S., shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders were issued. And a new term entered our lexicon—essential businesses. In essence, these establishments were duty-bound to remain in operation due to their importance in keeping society functioning. Grocery stores couldn’t just close up. Nor healthcare providers and first responders. Just the same, even the practice of cybersecurity was deemed necessary for the general public’s safety.
In the world of franchising, essential businesses received a boost in interest from candidates looking for opportunities to own an operation that sells a product or provides a service that would always be in demand. Our industry then coined these concepts as “essential franchises”.
What type of businesses were included under this new definition? Quite frankly, many of the most popular franchise operations during more normal times. Any type of home-based service business that provides consumers with a variety of skilled trade services is a perfect example. Franchises in the following categories meet the threshold of essential businesses:
- Property management
- Plumbing/HVAC/electrical services
- Automotive repair
- Laundry/dry cleaning
- Residential cleaning
- Pest control
- Senior care
In the franchising world, we’ve always had a similar term for these concepts—recession-resistant. In the franchise investigation process, many of my candidates seek concepts whose product or service is considered recession-resistant. They want to own a business that can weather and withstand tough economic times. Take, for instance, hair care. Even during a recession, you can’t just decide to skip this vital grooming service to go native!
An essential franchise is one that provides a need, not a want. And the conditions brought about by the global pandemic have certainly led to increased interest in finding a concept that meets an essential need of consumers. If you’ve been considering an entrepreneurial path to business ownership of your own, this is the perfect time to investigate the power of an essential franchise.
FranNet of Dallas-Fort Worth can discuss several franchise concepts that meet the definition. If you believe the timing is right, schedule a no-cost, no-obligation meeting and together we’ll find the essential franchise that best matches up with your skills and lifestyle goals.
About the Author
Sara Waskow is the Dallas-Fort Worth Market President for FranNet, the nation’s leading franchise consultancy. She’s a career transition specialist whose no-cost, no-obligation expertise matches individuals to business opportunities that best fit their unique goals and talents. Sara is a member of Success North Dallas, the Southlake and Grapevine Chambers of Commerce, and the Cowtown Executives Association. She graduated from Texas A&M University and has lived in the DFW area for over 30 years. She can be reached at: email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:66129c59-630f-4a1f-a1bb-42eb7a43bb23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://frannet.com/resources/articles/the-power-of-your-own-essential-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953218 | 634 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Powder is the most common feedstock for metal Additive Manufacturing, but, even before AM, metal powders were widely used for processes, such as ‘press and sinter’ Powder Metallurgy (PM), Metal Injection Moulding (MIM), and Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP), as well as a range of uses which do not fall under the umbrella of PM. The Powder Metallurgy industries commonly characterise metal powders by their chemical, physical, and rheological (i.e., flow) properties. These powder characteristics have a strong effect on the quality and performance of the parts produced. Regardless of the application, industries need relevant and up-to-date powder characterisation methods and standards to maintain a consistent quality of manufacturing.
AM uses methods to characterise powder that are similar to traditional metal manufacturing techniques. However, due to the nature of AM processes, additional properties need to be defined. Important factors are the flow, shape, morphology, particle size distribution (PSD), chemistry, and packing density of the powder. These properties are critical for consistent, repeatable, and reliable AM. Powders behave differently, depending on the environment and process parameters they are exposed to.
For instance, the minimum layer thickness for Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) is a function of the powder particle size. To additively manufacture a layer of 20 µm versus 100 µm in thickness, the powder particle size can be different. This is why it is essential to define the requirements for powder properties in the form of powder specifications. For metal AM processes, powder quality will always be one of the most critical factors to ensure good part production.
The process used to manufacture the metal powders directly influences the powder characteristics. The majority of AM powders are produced by gas atomisation and plasma atomisation. The powder properties depend on the atomisation conditions, powder handling, storage, and shipping. Tight controls and traceability are required to ensure quality standards are met. These additional measures can lead to additional costs.
While transporting powder from the production facility to the customer or manufacturing location, ambient temperature and humidity can affect the characteristics of the powder, so it must remain dry and free from contamination during transportation and storage. This is why the AM industry needs a way to ensure the quality of powder is maintained throughout the supply chain. It is good practice to test the powder at the production and manufacturing facility.
Different metal powder characteristics and their significance in the AM process
Table 1 describes the key characteristics that should be assessed before metal powder is used for PBF or Directed Energy Deposition (DED). Each characteristic can influence the process and impacts the final properties of the part.
Powder characteristics are interdependent with other properties. For example, flowability is dependent on a combination of properties; spherical shaped and large particles tend to improve flow. They are characterised by powder morphology and PSD respectively. Before performing powder characterisation, it is best practice to:
- Ensure the powder sample is obtained from a properly stored condition, including maintaining required humidity levels and free of contamination
- Follow a powder sampling practice such as ASTM B215-10, practice B
- Document the details such as supplier information, date of first opening the container, and batch/lot number
- Identify the applications and the compliance requirements (such as ASTM F1472 / ISO 5832-3 for surgical implants)
Standards applicable for powders
Standards development organisations are working to publish test methods for powder characterisation. Standards are essential to ensure quality and consistency of powders. ASTM International and ISO have both published several standards that can be used to characterise the properties described in Table 1. These tests are usually done by the powder producer using in-house and/or outsourced equipment. In most cases, testing requires a combination of both to report the characteristics of the powder.
To provide quality assurance to customers, a certificate of compliance is commonly provided with the delivery of the powder. Often, users rely on these test results to match their powder specifications. The specifications of the powder depend on the qualification and application requirements of the user, including feedstock purchase and use specifications. The purchase specification describes the required properties of the powder, while the feedstock use specifications define the acceptance criteria of the powder properties intended for use within the selected AM process. To enhance quality assurance and meet regulatory requirements, users may also perform tests on the powders.
Consistent powder characteristics are crucial to ensure repeatable manufacturing of metal AM parts. One of the key challenges in powder testing is maintaining consistency in the test results across different facilities. Despite well-defined methodologies for testing metal powder, the results will usually not be the same when tested by different organisations – or even technicians within the same organisation. This happens in practice even when the same test method standard is being used for the same batch of powder.
Variations in test results occur primarily because of the conditions in the test lab. In the test lab, the powder is exposed to many variables that can skew the results. This could include environmental conditions, improper material handling practices, untrained operators, and a lack of documented procedures. This is why it is in the end users’ interest that the powder has been tested by a qualified lab. These types of labs have demonstrated testing capabilities according to the applicable standards published by ASTM International and/or ISO.
One approach to ensure the reliability of the powder characterisation results is to generate data describing the performance of the powder testing facility. The ASTM Additive Manufacturing Powder Metallurgy Proficiency Testing Program (AMPM PTP) is designed to address this. It is used as a statistical quality control tool to enable participating laboratories to assess their performance when testing powder. AMPM PTP is supported by long-standing relationships with ASTM International committees B09 on metal powders and metal powder products and F42 on AM. The programme helps monitor a lab’s strengths and weaknesses and, furthermore, helps improve and maintain a high level of performance using test methods from ASTM to compare labs. This programme also helps labs meet accreditation requirements.
AMPM PTP is into its fourth year and has over fifty-three participating labs from more than fourteen countries. The programme conducts cycles in April and October each year using different alloys, including titanium, nickel, steel and aluminium. Each participating lab receives a comprehensive report on the statistics of test results to understand the characteristics of powders. This report can be used to satisfy accreditation requirements and demonstrate a lab’s capabilities for industries beyond AM.
It is necessary to understand both the fundamentals of a powder’s behaviour and the AM process in order to describe the relevant test methods and identify gaps in standards. AMPM PTP also benefits standards development committees by continuously improving and revising existing standards. The programme also facilitates new specifications and methods for metal powders specifically for AM. Fig. 2 shows the standards used in the AMPM PTP.
Participants stand to improve and maintain a high level of performance using ASTM test methods when compared with other labs from around the world. The ASTM B212 Apparent Density Using Hall Flowmeter Funnel standard is used as an example of how a participant can benefit from AMPM PTP (Fig 3). The ASTM D7915-14 standard method was used for identifying outliers. As shown, the average and standard deviation are plotted based on the results provided by participants. One result was near the upper limit while still within the acceptance criteria. Even though the results were within the acceptable three standard deviations range, this lab should improve its testing capability for ASTM B212.
Additional standard test methods specific to AM, such as powder spreadability, are under development as of the end of February 2022. These new standards will be inducted into AMPM PTP when they are published. Manufacturing companies, equipment vendors, university research labs and government agencies are encouraged to participate in this programme to improve their proficiency in metal powder characterisation.
Defining a specific set of requirements for powder properties is the first step in ensuring quality powder for AM. It is important to adopt industry-relevant and current powder characterisation methods and standards to determine these properties. Having the powders tested by a qualified and certified laboratory is equally important to ensure the data is reliable. For AM, powder quality remains the basis for process repeatability and reliability and the production of quality parts.
Dr Alexander Liu and Dr Rafi Khalid
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BEING – an art studio that is giving a voice to the voiceless
ABOVE: No Leaves in Winter Hiding Inside Teapot by Ada Chan, Untitled work by Maggie Hart.
For many artists worldwide, including locally, art is a form of expression. Art can allow someone to speak without the need to use words. Art has become a universal language, whether through dance, photography, colouring, music, writing, or painting.
Last week, I had the pleasure of discovering a local art studio called BEING.
Since 2002, BEING studio has provided a space for artists with developmental disabilities to create visual art pieces and creative writing.
Through BEING, artists are given the tools, the space, and the proper support needed to create their art. Some artwork is often featured in exhibitions and in collaboration with guest artists and groups.
Currently, BEING has over 50 artists. Each artist has a developmental disability. Through their artwork, each artist can turn their words and thoughts into true masterpieces.
In addition to painting and creative writing, in collaboration with CHUO 89.1 FM, BEING also features a podcast called SPEAK. In each episode, the listener is introduced to one of the artists as they tell their own story and creative process.
For example, In the latest episode, titled Magic Window, we’re introduced to Ada Chan. Ada was born with Down Syndrome and came to Canada from Hong Kong in 1996. In this episode, we learn a bit about Ada, as well as what inspired her to paint Magic Window, as well as other artwork.
This episode is different because Sharlene Cooney is non-verbal. Sharlene uses picture communication symbols to communicate. Art has also given Sharlene a voice.
In Sharlene’s words, “Art helps me say things that my voice cannot.”
Art can also often help those with mental health issues. Sharlene says that art helps her when she has anxiety or depression. Art helps her to sort her feelings out.
I should mention that a transcript of SPEAK is available on the website. The link is at the end of this article. SPEAK is also available on other podcast platforms. The next episode will be out in May.
During the pandemic, they launched a virtual program called BEING Home. Artists were able to connect over Zoom. The program helped artists to stay connected with other members and create while stuck at home.
In addition to providing a space for artists and a podcast, BEING also publishes an online magazine called CLICK. Each issue features artwork made by members of BEING, as well as offers the artists to say a few words about their work.
After checking out their website, I was genuinely touched by hearing the stories of each artist that has been featured on the website. Whether I was reading their story or listening to the podcast, I felt that it gave me an understanding of who they are and how they see the world.
Even though I’ve been a part of the PWD community for 47 years, I’m still learning new things about disabilities, including people with developmental disabilities. I’m honoured that I was given an opportunity to learn about BEING studio, located at the Bronson Centre.
Thank you to Rachel Gray. She is the Executive Director of BEING. The interview was great, but my voice and typing were having a bad day. Thank you for your patience and for telling me about BEING.
For more information about BEING and its many ongoing projects, please visit: https://beingstudio.ca/
I highly recommend listening to their podcast.
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A brand new examine out of the UK has discovered that viruses are able to catching a trip on microplastics in our bodies of freshwater. These hitchhiking viruses are thus capable of prolong their longevity, surviving in water for as much as three days longer than they in any other case would.
The examine, which was funded by the Pure Setting Analysis Council, aimed to find out how plastic air pollution can act as a car for illness. Biologists, virologists, and environmental scientists at Stirling College examined how varied sorts of viruses connected themselves to artificial supplies in freshwater programs, most notably sewage programs. Whereas viruses and micro organism have lengthy been understood to connect themselves to different substances of their surroundings, natural supplies don’t “survive” almost so long as their artificial counterparts. With plastic air pollution growing worldwide, scientists’ understanding of the connection between plastic and illness is all of the extra very important.
The researchers discovered that the presence of a surrounding “lipid envelope” decided the virus’ means to bond with and survive on microplastics. Viruses with no lipid envelope, like rotavirus, hepatitis A, and norovirus, rapidly connected with microplastics and survived as much as three days longer than typical. Viruses with no lipid envelope, like influenza, had been fortunately incapable of such success. The viruses’ fatty coatings dissolved in freshwater, leaving the illness itself to die.
Rotavirus, hepatitis A, and norovirus are sometimes present in uncooked sewage. (So are respiratory viruses like influenza, although these viruses’ fatty envelopes preclude a constructive relationship with microplastics.) These viruses are additionally much less inclined to “deactivation” methods, like UV irradiation, chlorine or ozone, that are sometimes used to mitigate viral pathogens. Even after present process wastewater therapy, microplastics—that are generally too small to be seen by the bare eye—usually make it out to rivers or seashores, the place human contact can happen.
The mix of microplastics and hitchhiking viruses creates an unlucky new public well being danger. As communities acknowledge the pervasiveness of microplastic air pollution, they’ll be required to deal with not solely the presence of tiny plastics themselves but in addition the ailments that hyperlink up with them. As of this writing, the researchers concerned on this examine are planning one other challenge that may additional check the longevity of plastic-riding viruses within the water provide. | <urn:uuid:10fd507b-374b-4132-ab73-13c93a970a92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chinchillas-unlimited.co.uk/viruses-lengthen-their-lives-by-hitching-a-trip-on-microplastics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957361 | 516 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Water conservation initiatives such as introduction of environment-friendly vacuum toilets and changes in the design of existing lavatories in trains are some of the proposals likely to be announced in the forthcoming Rail Budget.
According to a senior Railway Ministry official, a concrete plan of action for water management at stations and trains will be reflected in the Rail Budget 2015-16 to be announced by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, who is keen on promoting environment-friendly activities in the transporter..
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Railway Ministry will also announce the grand plan of water audit across the rail system in the country.
The official said that since vacuum toilet consumes one-fourth less water than the existing lavatories, Railways is keen to try it in some selected trains.
There is a plan to install 80 vacuum toilets in Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi Express on a trial basis and a budgetary provision is likely to be made for it in Prabhu's maiden rail budget, he said.
Environment-friendly and vacuum-based toilets prevent corrosion of rail tracks as they stop waste discharge on the tracks, he added.
Railways will tie up with civic authorities to make the vacuum toilet system operational, as it entails construction of safety tanks and sewerage link for the disposal of waste at stations.
The official, however, clarified that installation of bio-toilets in trains will continue with some minor design change in it. "Replacement of conventional toilet with bio-toilet will continue as it is the stated policy of Railways to have environment-friendly hygienic toilet system in the entire rail system," he said.
"Certain modifications in the bio-toilet design is required to make it function more smoothly," he added.
Malfunctioning of bio-toilets were reported in some cases during the trial run. "Steps are being taken to tackle it with some changes in the design."
Apart from trains, Railways is planning to install bio-toilets at stations also.
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Are you excited?
When the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research launched the appeal to fund the purchase of three Diplodocus fossils, all I could muster up was mild interest.
Intellectually though, I knew that dinosaurs play a critical role at most of the museums I had visited in the US – this was also indicated from conversations with children both locally and overseas. And that impression was sealed when NUS’ Provost, Tan Eng Chye, a mathematician, confessed that he was consumed with a burning passion for dinosaurs when he was a kid.
When Eng Chye was Dean of Science, he whole-heartedly supported the project “A T-rex called Sue and Friends” which the Faculty of Science mounted in 2006 with the Singapore Science Centre. He knew it would fuel a passion for science amongst young people and they did stream in to the exhibition with little persuasion. The exhibition, funded by the faculty’s outreach budget, eventually paid for itself.
An ecosystem of excitement
That T. rex called Sue project fell into our lap because the Field Museum in Chicago had brought the project to Tokyo and wanted to maximise the exhibition’s presence in Asia. Our herpetological friends at the Field Museum pointed them our way and so the cast of Sue and a bunch of other dinosaur fossils arrived to great acclaim at the Singapore Science Centre.
As part of the exhibition, several scientists visited Singapore to participate in dinosaur symposiums and to give talks. All of them visited the zoological collection of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research with great interest. One of them also ventured to our mangroves to open the eyes of his students (back in the US) with sights of our biodiversity. I contributed images and a video of monitor lizards accumulated over the years to his image collection which he’d use for teaching back at his university. You see, most evolutionary biologists aren’t content with fossils, they examine living species with a keen eye and here in Singapore, we have a wonderful showcase of those!
During the exhibition, the Raffles Museum used the opportunity to exhibit related specimens such as birds and crocodilians which we could smoothly inject into the narrative. Thus the arrival of dinosaur fossils meant that rare bird specimens saw the light of day, framed in the themes of evolution and extinction.
With an enhanced budget from the faculty at the time, the most accurate lifelike model of a Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) to date was made, and is still in the Science Centre today. This exhibition piece is an excellent teaching tool for it relates a classic story of ecological extinction. The iconic Dodo warns us of the folly of man – and the species’ demise is no less dramatic (perhaps even more tragic) than the mysterious disappearance of the dinosaurs. It is a grim reminder that extinction is a fate visited onto a record number of living species in this age of man.
The dinosaur exhibit excited fellow Museum Roundtable members – so much that we ran a blogging competition through Yesterday.sg. One winner, five-year old Loh Yih Hang had impatiently begged his parents for a chance to see the dinosaurs and blogged about his visit. We were touched by his expression and he won himself a Pachycephalosaurus model.
When the Loh family came to collect his prize one Saturday, his parents, both NUS alumni, were surprised to see the Raffles Museum’s Public Gallery tucked away in the university. So the lights came on for an impromptu gallery tour and they were even further enamoured! A kid’s love of dinosaurs had unveiled the museum’s Southeast Asian collection to the family.
I read the post I wrote then and was tickled to see that I say,
“One of the objectives of bringing down Sue was to awaken that sense of awe in little kids and awaken an interest in Science.”
This is surely the main motivation behind every dinosaur-related exhibition! Scientists readily acknowledge that these large and mysterious animals from the past communicate science in a very effective manner. We are happy to do all we can to bring them to the public!
I first got excited about dinosaurs, not as a kid, but late into my years, as a final-year student here in the National University of Singapore, thanks to my “palaeantology and fossil evidence” lecturer, Chan Kai Lok. I wrote then that:
“…in 1990, a palaeontologist named Jack Horner talked about theories of warm-bloodedness, and brooding behaviour in such a graphical manner that he captivated an audience which included young children and academics.
After the session [at the Singapore Science Centre], it was an elated bunch of second and third years who returned to campus, still chattering away about the talk, feeling quite grateful to A/Prof Chan Kai Lok [who had arranged the talk]”
Though Chan Kai Lok was an entomologist and vector control expert, the theory of evolution is an integral part of every field of biology. He also knew the value of having students speak to someone like Jack, for you must realise that in those days, we did not have a stream of scientific visitors coming through Singapore every other week, as we do now. The university was certainly a much quieter place then. I remember Jack’s hefty hand shake in the dark corridor of the Department of Zoology and was fascinated that he had come all the way from Montana to chat with us!
Jack Horner, however, didn’t think it strange that people in faraway Singapore were excited about dinosaurs; wasn’t everybody?
Jack has inspired many people with his willingness to communicate and was the inspiration for the character Alan Grant, the paleontologist in the movie Jurassic Park. I had the pleasure of meeting him again in 2006, when he came back to talk at the dinosaur exhibition we were hosting.
It had been 16 years, but he still valued the interests of the little ones, who in fact, could best talk to him about the details of his favourite animals. And so, his second talk was entitled, “Cool New Stuff about Dead Old Dinosaurs“!
Jack Horner and the replica of Sue, 2006
The lecture crowd
About a decade earlier in 1995, the Dinosaur World Tour came to town. It brought with it 88 real fossils including the the only complete black skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex (“Black Beauty”), a 21 meter-long Mamenchisaurus (the largest Asian dinosaur), the troodontid skeleton of the bird- like Sinornithoides, a fleshed-out model of Albertosaurus, and a buried group of Pinacosaurus.
Simply to bring the exhibition here, $3 million had been spent. How do I remember all this? I worked with our recently graduated honours student, Chang Chia Yih, to host a lecture and bring undergraduates to the exhibit, and wrote an article for the student publication, The Mudskipper:
I reached my pinnacle of dinosaur reading then – an amazing book by Louie Psihoyos, Hunting Dinosaurs provide the template. I supplemented that with the many dinosaur books lying around the lab at the time, belonging to a fellow-zoology postgrad, Alvin Wong.
So when we brought our undergraduates to the exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre, I was able to do an excellent job of guiding – I am my harshest critic, but I remember stitching many stories with the exhibits and the eyes of the undergrads were glistening. A student from that class told me recently she still remembers the performance and it had been clear and enjoyable!
You see, I had become as enthusiastic as a kid!
That fruitful experience inspired me to “stop the press” of The Mudskipper, courtesy of chief editor Loh Lih Woon, to insert an article in January 1996 in which I thanked everyone who enabled the experience. This included two lecturers who had allowed me to hijack the 2nd and 3rd year classes with their blessings – and one of them was Peter Ng. Years later as director of RMBR, he helped bring the 2006 dinosaur exhibition to Singapore with Tan Swee Hee and both of them, along with Leo Tan and Belinda Teo, are at the forefront of the current effort to purchase the Diplodocus group to be a permanent feature in the new Raffles Museum building.
The presence of these long dead creatures is sure to be uncanny – it will stimulate the ecosystem of visitors, exhibits, field trips, exchange of ideas, questions, discussions, competitions, and of course, will excite the curiosity, wonder and scientific interest of many a little kid. Once drawn to the museum, they will discover the showcase of biodiversity from Singapore and the region as well as the efforts of the local natural history community engaged in exploration, appreciation and protection.
I am excited!
With these three Diplodocus, an opportunity has fallen into our laps once again, like it did each time before. And once again, we must grasp the opportunity to make the best of it.
Simply thinking about the possibilities this will create has roused me from my stupor! I hope we will succeed. It’s been 21 years since Jack Horner brought the subject to life for me, and I can’t wait to get excited again and infect students and kids out there with a passion for exploration and discovery!
You can donate to the effort to bring the three Diplodocus dinosaur fossils to the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research at rmbr.nus.edu.sg/dino.
The museum and dinosaur acquisition will be discussed in a talk at the National Museum of Singapore today, Fri 29 Jul 2011 – registration is free.
- 2011 – “Please help to bring the dinosaurs to Singapore” – the Raffles Museum’s Diplodocus Family appeal. Letter from Leo Tan, Peter Ng, Tan Swee Hee and Belinda Teo, posted in the NUS Biodiversity Crew, 28 Jul 2011.
- 2011 – News and the discussion about the Diplodocus dinosaurs acquisition archived at Raffles Museum News.
- 2006 – Dinosaur blog posts from the old RMBR News blog (loads slowly).
- 2006 – Dinosaurs! A T. rex named Sue and friends – exhibition webpage hosted by Department of Biological Sciences, NUS.
- 1996 – “Stop Press!!!” A big thank you to the BSS SuperSenior and Zoology staff who facilitated our student’s visit to the Dinosaur World Tour. – Article by N. Sivasothi in The Mudskipper, Jan 1996.
Update – Eugene Tay commented,
It “should be emphasized that RMBR is seeking public donations for the dinosaurs, and not asking the government for money.”
Yes, the acquisition is being attempted through public fund raising – dollars and cents are trickling in and hopefully a few deep pockets will chip in as well. In this post, I wanted to simply share that this idea is not a new one.
We have tried many times to bring dinosaurs to the people through speakers and fossils, without the resources of a full blown natural history museum and in earlier years, without much support. Each time, I felt the back-breaking effort was easily well worth it and thus I have no hesitation about supporting this exercise.
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From the 17th to the 29th of March 2015, the Andrew Lee King Fun Gallery (ALKF Gallery), located within the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at Melbourne University, hosted the exhibition Operational Landscapes: Towards an Alternative Cartography of World Urbanization, featuring a series of scientific activities directed by Neil Brenner from Harvard University (including a public lecture by Brenner fully available here).
In 2014, as the Head of the Urban Theory Lab (UTL) at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), Brenner published an influential book entitled Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. The 2015 exhibition brought some of the ideas of Implosions/Explosions to Melbourne. Given the book’s cover photograph, by Garth Lenz, of oil sands in Alberta, Canada (Figure 2), it came as little surprise that Brenner’s lab was considering, as starting points for the study of the urban phenomenon, the Arctic territories, the Amazonian region, the farthest reaches of the Pacific Ocean, and even the atmosphere. This constitutes Brenner’s “inside out” approach, which, in part, is his attempt to invalidate the notion of “urban age” and claims like “50 per cent threshold of world population now living in cities” as a starting point for urban study. The investigation of what stands outside cities and of their processes, he thinks, proves to be far more relevant to comprehending the global urban than a demographic threshold that threatens to hide radically different local situations.
Figure 1: The main exhibition room of Operational Landscapes in the Melbourne School of Design (photograph by Louise Dorignon, 2015, work by UTL-GSD Harvard)
Figure 2: Implosions/Explosions (2014), a collection of theoretical texts assembled and edited by Neil Brenner (photograph by Louise Dorignon, 2015)
The exhibition in Melbourne—which is planned to be reproduced elsewhere in the near future—appeared to have three goals: firstly, to promote the release of the book to an audience of researchers and students; secondly, to create a theoretical and epistemological discussion within the Melbourne School of Design; thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, to show how “the development of new theories of urbanization can … be translated into new visualizations of ongoing spatial transformations across places, sites, territories and scales” (Brenner, 2013: 19). This dialectic between theoretical development and cartographic visualization reflects two aspects of Brenner and the UTL’s work: a strong desire for a theoretical foray that is experimental and innovative, and the creation of a collaborative and pedagogic space (Brenner, 2013: 6-7).
Set in the unique, spacious and luminous room of the ALKF Gallery, the first part of the exhibition consists of video screens displaying a synthetic overview of the UTL’s work, as well as its main theoretical and epistemological positioning. The exhibition then continues with eight poster-panels, each presenting an operational landscape and the fruits of the impressive technical and theoretical work of the GSD teams.
Figure 3: The pedagogic approach of the exhibition, featuring one operational landscape per panel. Here from foreground to background, the Artic, Sahara, Siberian landscapes, and the critique of spatial ideology (photograph by Louise Dorignon, 2015; work by the UTL-GSD Harvard)
Theoretical and epistemological genesis of the operational landscapes
The introductory chapter of Brenner’s Implosions/Explosions offers a definition of the operational landscapes that we find again throughout the exhibition. Operational landscapes are are those “zones of resource extraction, agro-industrial enclosure, logistics and communications infrastructure, tourism and waste disposal, which often traverse peripheral, remote and apparently ‘rural’ or ‘natural’ locations” (Brenner, 2014: 20). Historically, these processes of strategic accumulation find their founding principles in Marx with the formation of capitalism and economic production being created by certain spaces that sustain urban growth:
“The capitalist form of agglomeration thus presupposes the enclosure and operationalization of large-scale territories located well beyond the city to support its most basic socioeconomic activities, metabolic cycles and growth imperatives” (Brenner, 2014: 20).
The rhythm in which these spaces develop and the size of the production and engineering processes taking place within link them even further to the major urban centers and to the planetary spatial division of labor.
This generalized operationalization of the planet, in its terrestrial, underground, oceanic and even atmospheric spaces, discounts the morphological and demographical approaches to urbanization. Notions of hinterland and urban/rural distinctions find themselves rejected for their lack of acuteness and relevance in regard to the industrial, economic and ecological transformations now reaching formerly marginalized spaces.
This epistemological construction takes as a starting point and theoretical base the second chapter of Henri Lefebvre’s The Urban Revolution (1970). The dynamic of implosion/explosion as conceptualized by Brenner may then be read as a response to the provocative assessment of Lefebvre according to whom the entire society is already urbanized. Brenner’s “implosion” and “explosion” then constitute moments within the process of urbanization, dialectical and interdependent but also profoundly conflicting, echoing the attention of Lefebvre to the temporal and diachronic dimension of socio-spatial phenomena (2004). This dialectic is particularly fertile when conceptualizing urbanization but also when developing cartographic tools for the study of socio-spatial organisation.
Figure 4: The theoretical thought process of the UTL, from the refusal of the morphological and demographic categories of the urban to the development of historicity within the process of planetary urbanisation, photomontage (photograph by Louise Dorignon, 2015, work by UTL-GSD Harvard)
This epistemological challenge to urban studies may seem to lead to a methodological dead-end, an absence of localized or regional content. But the abolition of the city boundaries, of its hinterland, of its outside and of its demographic definition does not result in the death of the urban, nor of its landscapes. On the contrary, Brenner’s theoretical construction is built on a cartographic approach and an extremely meticulous study of operational landscapes that enrich and complete the comprehension of planetary urbanization.
The “urban theory without an outside”, which gives its name to the introductory chapter of Implosions/Explosions (2014), then, consists in a prise de position in both senses, epistemological and geographical: it takes a stance outside the common doxa on urban age and places itself beyond the limits of the urban. To “get rid of the outside” for Brenner means to come to grips with the spaces rarely or never considered by urban studies—a lack of consideration which can be contested by the importance and renewal offered by political ecology—and show the role of such spaces within the planetary urbanization.
The urban without limit or periphery: a pioneering and radical cartography
Through the speculative cartographies of these emergent landscapes, the Operational Landscapes exhibition illustrates the transformations that occur at the other end of the city, places far away from the centers, the “outsides” commonly represented as rural, isolated or even untamed. The cartographic work of the UTL focuses on eight regions and asks the following question of them: Which of their features involve them in the planetary fabric of urbanization? The answers include their utilization of energy, water, raw materials, agricultural resources and their involvement in logistics systems—restructuring and enclosing processes that radically transform them. We all, then, assist in planetary urbanization, measured in terms of installations, infrastructures and ecology far beyond the demographic and morphologic limits of the city.
Figure 5: The eight operational landscapes presented in the exhibition, photomontage (photograph by Louise Dorignon, 2015, work by the UTL-GSD Harvard)
The UTL aligns itself with a radical cartography that is intimately linked with recent theoretical debates:
“We view the projects of urban theory and urban mapping/cartography as inextricably connected. … On this basis, we aim to develop new ways of visualizing urbanization that supersede inherited metageographical binarisms (for instance, urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, society/nature) and thus offer new perspectives for understanding the variegated and deeply polarized geographies of our urbanized planet” (Brenner, 2013: 13-14).
The UTL thereby places itself directly in the tradition of the critical work of radical cartography as it was first envisioned by Brian Harley (2001; see also Gould et Bailly, 1995) then by Denis Wood (Wood and Fels, 1992) and Mark Monmonier (1996). Brenner and his peers want to deliver, through innovative and alternative methodologies, politically engaged material, liberated from the ideological ascendency of the command of technological tools such as the GIS (Geographical Information Systems) and the GPS (Global Positioning System):
“… [G]eospatial visualizations have become a commonplace reference point used to illustrate or justify diverse interpretations of the world’s built and unbuilt landscapes at nearly every conceivable spatial scale” (Brenner, 2013: 16).
To fight this “photographic illusion” (Brenner, 2013: 16), the UTL suggests the development of a critique of geospatial ideology—an attempt also outlined in Michel Lussault’s L’Avènement du Monde (2013), which was inspired by the work of geographer Denis Cosgrove (1994)—as well as a “radical reinvention” (Brenner, 2013: 17) of visual cartographic representations.
Operational Landscapes aligns itself with this injunction. A first panel entitled “Critique of spatial ideology” presents a set of cartographic criteria—“the night-time lights,” “the last of the wild,” “the anthropogenic biomes”—that is commonly used in representations of urban spaces and applies them to the team’s eight operational spaces. Doing so reveals the inability of these criteria to explain the process of urbanization. When used by urban scholars as tools for studying these spaces, they in fact act as shutters; they reveal neither the geopolitical processes nor the technical and logistical operations at stake, nor the ecological transformations that the spaces undergo. Against the prevalence of such cartographic choices in urban studies, the UTL proposes to reveal other phenomena going across these spaces through a counter-mapping that transforms extreme territories into urban places undergoing intense densification.
For this counter-mapping, Neil Brenner and the UTL team elaborate a new set of criteria that appear on another screen of the exhibition (figure 4): “connectivity, intensity and geopolitics,” the three notions that have served and tested the processes of operationalization in the chosen territories. The Atmosphere panel (figure 6) then presents a timeline sitting on top of a world map and linked to the different countries. Colored beams represent the installation of satellites in the atmosphere and visually fill the space occupied by these communication and observation technologies.
Figure 6: «Atmosphere» (photograph by Louise Dorignon, 2015; work by UTL-GSD Harvard)
According to the same criteria, the Pacific Ocean panel (Figure 7) emphasises ports, communication roads, and geopolitical exchanges as well as extraction mines and waste produced in this region. Very close attention is given to the temporal dimension intervening in these territories. This is particularly the case on the Siberia panel, which represents extraction rhythms and fossil energy transportation that fosters Asian and European urban growth.
On top of the Himalaya panel stands a sibylline quote by Andy Merryfield:
“The urbanization of the world is a kind of exteriorization of the inside as well as interiorization of the outside: the urban unfolds into the countryside just as the countryside folds back into the city.”
On a black background, the cartography of the mountain range allows us to see through luminous dots the network of hydro-electrical dams forming a logistical arsenal to supply India and China with electricity. With the Gobi desert (figure 7), the cartographic approach borrows from infographics to make intelligible how such a system of extraction and environmental deterioration can impact the quality of air in Chinese cities such as Beijing. Cartographic innovation, however, never interferes with clarity, and the work of the UTL remarkably allies complex theory with data richness and visual pedagogy.
Figure 7: « Pacific Ocean » (photograph by Louise Dorignon, 2015; work by UTL-GSD Harvard)
Figure 8: « Gobi » (photograph by Louise Dorignon, 2015; work by UTL-GSD Harvard)
The theory in action: a piece of epistemological bravery saluted by the scientific community
Implosions/Explosions has already been raised to the level of a reference book for the social sciences (Sklair, 2015: 1550), defined by the most enthusiastic as a theoretical “tour de force” (Acuto, 2014: 1), and recognized by all for its intention to provoke a paradigmatic change within the urban studies disciplines (Sklair, 2015: 1550).
Three popular criticisms to the approach come to mind, however, and may be usefully linked to the exhibition. Leslie Sklair, for instance, points out in his review of Implosions/Explosions that the deconstruction of the morphological argument is forgotten, as are architecture and the image of the city (Sklair, 2015: 1550). The voluntary omission of the built environment in the exhibition is signaled at its beginning and is certainly a provocative and engaged choice; however, we could agree with Sklair and hope for more nourished justification. The second criticism is that the input of radical and alternative cartography (whether it comes from scientific or activist spheres) does not appear in the exhibition: one remains curious about the methodological choices behind the mapping. Finally, the most felt absence of the exhibition—and maybe of Brenner’s book as well—is the mention of political ecology, a surprising absence considering the fact that the epistemological choices and content of this sub-discipline work in linking the presence of logistics networks, infrastructures and industrial operations with the political and environmental dimensions of territories (Dietz et al. 2014) and particularly with what seems most at stake in the exhibition: the whole of energy and resources that makes for urbanization.
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Muharram 2022, which marks the beginning of a new Islamic Year, is one of the most significant months in the Islamic calendar. This month is also called Muharram-ul-Haram. The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), referred to it as “The Sacred Month Allah”. We’ll show you why it is a blessed and important month.
What’s Muharram 2022?
Muharram, a highly blessed month, is one of four holy months that Allah (SWT), has outlined. It is particularly significant because it prohibits warfare. Its name, Muharram, literally means ‘forbidden’, suggests its importance.
“Indeed the number of months with Allah [from] when He created the heavens, and the earth is 12 [lunar] months in the register of Allah; four of these are sacred. This is the right religion, i.e., it is the only way. So don’t be wrong during them. As they fight against each other, you must also fight together against disbelievers. Know that Allah is with those who fear Him. – Holy Quran (9:36).
Each deed, no matter how good or not, is weighed on the scales at a higher weight during this month. Muslims are encouraged to do better. Muharram is significant as Allah (SWT), designated one of the sacred months of the calendar. However, many Muslims observe it to remember the death of the Prophet Muhammad`s (PBUH) grandsons.
Allah (SWT), commands us to take care of ourselves and avoid wrongdoing during this important month. This means we must avoid committing wrongful or sinful acts and instead have pure intentions, perform righteous works, and worship Allah (SWT).
Notable Muharram 2022 Events
There have been many notable events in the month of Muharram. Two of them are:
- Day of Ashura
- Battle of Karbala
The Day of Ashura 2022
The Day of Ashura is the day when the Prophet Musa (Moses), and the Israelites were saved from the Pharaoh by Allah (SWT). They created a path through the sea that they passed through.
Another significant event that occurred on the Day of Ashura, was the departure of Prophet Nuh (Noah), (AS).
Fasting for the Day of Ashura
Fasting on Ashura is a practice that was well-known before Islam’s rise. The Prophet (S.A.W.) arrived in Madinah at the time of migration, and it was observed by Jews who were fasting on Ashura. When the Prophet (S.A.W.) arrived in Madinah during the period of migration, the Jews observed the fast on Ashura’. They said that “this was the day Moses defeated Pharaoh”. The Prophet (S.A.W.), was there. To his companions (R.A.), he said: “You (Muslims), have more right than they do to celebrate Moses’ victory, so observe fast on this day.” (Sahih Bukhari: 4680)
When different Companions (R.A.) told Prophet (S.A.W.), they said that fasting on Ashura Day is a glorified practice among Jews and Christians. They encouraged them by saying, “If I live till next year, I’ll fast the ninth day (of Muharram), too.” (Ibn Majah 1736).
Unfortunately, Prophet (S.A.W.) did not survive to see the following year. Muslims, therefore, consider the 9th and the 10th of Muharram to be significant days in Islam’s calendar. They observe fast these days. [Sahih Muslim: 1134 (a)]
According to Hadith
According to Hadith, it is advisable, but not required that the fast on 10th Muharram be accompanied by another fast, preferably on 9th Muharram. This is because of Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W.). Islamic fasting was distinguished from Jewish fasting, which is only on the 10th Muharram. Most scholars agree that Ashura should be observed along with fasting on either the 9th or 11th Muharram.
It was mandatory to fast on Muharram 10th. Later, Ramadan was the only month that fasting was mandatory and not the 10th Muharram. According to Ayesha (R.A.), the Prophet (S.A.W.) said: “Whoever wants to fast (on ‘Ashura”) may do so; and whoever wishes to leave it can.” (Sahih Bukhari: 1592)
However, Prophet (S.A.W.) Prophet (S.A.W.) used to fast on Ashura, even though fasting was made mandatory in Ramadan
Ibn Abbas, R.A. was asked about fasting on Ashura Day. He replied that “he did not know Allah’s Messenger (S.A.W.)singling out any day’s fast and considering it more excellent than another, except this day (the day of Ashura) and this month, meaning the month of Ramadan” [Sahih Muslim 1132 (a).]
Fasting on the Day of Ashura is a Sunnah confirmed by the Holy Prophet, and one is entitled to a great reward from Allah.
Sahih Hadith says that one of Allah’s many blessings for someone who fasts on the ‘Day of Ashura,’ is that all of their sins from the previous year will be forgiven.
Narrated by Abu Qatada (R.A.) that the Prophet (S.A.W.) said: “Fasting the day of ‘Ashura’, I hope, will expiate for the sins of the previous year.” (Ibn Majah: 1738)
Hadith refers to the Prophet’s (S.A.W.) word as “I hope”, which means that the person should keep the fast solely for Allah and seek reward only from Allah. Allah Almighty will reward him by pardoning his sins in the past year.
Battle of Karbala
On 10 October 680 AD, the Battle of Karbala took place in Karbala, Iraq. It was between Caliph Yazid I of the second Umayyad Dynasty and Imam Husayn IIbn Ali’s family and followers, the beloved grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
On the third day of Muharram, Imam Husain reached Karbala and established a camp. His first encounter was with an army of approximately 4,000 men under Umar Ibn Saad, the son founder of Kufah. Yazid I ordered that Imam Husain and his family and friends were barred from drinking water on the seventh day of Muharram. This led to many deaths and the weakening of the people involved.
Both parties took a position in battle on the 10th of Muharram (also known as Ashura) and engaged in a brutal battle. Imam Husain and many of his family members and followers were all killed.
Why Muharram 2022 is Sacred?
No matter which sect you belong to or what events you observe, Muharram is considered a holy month in Islam. It is a sacred month that Allah (SWT), declared, and Muslims should observe it with respect.
This is a time for devout worship, remembrance and praise of Allah (SWT). Muslims should make use of this time to strengthen their spirituality and avoid sin to become better Muslims and please Allah (SWT).
When will Muharram 2022 & Ashura 2022 be?
Based on the sightings of the moon, Muharram 2022 will begin on the 30th of July 2022. Ashura is expected to fall on the 8th of August 2022.
Get the Most Out of Muharram 2022
All deeds, good or bad, have a higher weight in this month. You will receive additional benefits from acts of generosity. You can reap the benefits of this holy month, the beginning of the new year. Help someone in need by donating to our appeals.
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Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, PreCalculus, Calculus, Strategic Financial Planning, AP Calculus
Through the study of Algebra, students engage their minds to reflect the sequential and logical thinking of our Creator. The reality of our world can be described mathematically when students are able to recognize patterns and predict outcomes. Algebra necessitates mastery as it is a crucial stepping stone to higher levels of math.
Algebra 2 engages the mind to reflect the sequential and logical thinking of our Creator. The reality of our world can be described mathematically when students are able to describe patterns and predict outcomes. Algebra 2 demands the development of higher order thinking skills to solve quantitative problems and an increased degree of fluency and flexibility finding solutions algebraically, graphically, and numerically.
Calculus is the mathematics of instantaneous change and as such allows the student to get a glimpse of the order in God’s creation. The study of limits involving infinity provides a vehicle for contemplating the infinity of God. Differential calculus enables the student to examine tangents to a curve at a point and calculate the area under a curve. The discussion of rates of change in the creation provides a striking contrast to the unchanging nature of God. With a brief introduction to integral calculus, the student, again, is reminded of the concept of inverse operations in mathematics. This brief glimpse again illustrates the beauty and complexity of God’s handiwork.
Geometry helps students develop thinking and reasoning skills through the solving of practical problems using geometric abstract models and structures. The concept of 3 undefined terms - point, line and plane - affords the opportunity to explore the concept of presuppositions. For the believer the basic presupposition is God (“in the beginning God…”). All of life proceeds from Him. Similarly in geometry all definitions, postulates, and theorems flow from the three undefined terms. From the beginning students must learn to communicate clearly, understanding the significance of accurate definitions. The orderliness and design of God’s universe are explored by mastering concepts surrounding geometric shapes, angles, and proofs. As the course progresses, the students use concrete models to aid them in thinking in the abstract.
In precalculus, there are three primary objectives: 1) review the fundamental concepts of algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry; 2) foreshadow some important ideas of calculus; and 3) show how algebra and trigonometry can be used to model real-life problems. The concept of infinity is discussed more fully than in previous courses. At this level in mathematics students will look more deeply into the relationships between the various number sets, moving from the natural numbers to the complex numbers. The study of periodic trigonometric functions mirrors the various things in God’s creation that demonstrate periodicity. In addition students become more aware of the constants God has placed in the laws of creation. Numbers like pi and e have been placed in places by the Master Designer and man is supposed to study and discover what He has done. The expansion of topics provides the student with opportunities to contemplate the infinity of God as the one who established all of the laws of the universe
Strategic Financial Planning
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Unless you have been living under a rock you have actually most likely heard your pals or family members discuss something about CBD, particularly if they occur to suffer from chronic pain or stress and anxiety. As numerous U.S. states start to legalize both medical and leisure cannabis, the market has taken off with growth in various types of CBD products. Despite this development and the publicity that occurs with it, many individuals are unsure of just what CBD is, if it’s even legal, and how it would even help them. We are hoping here we can provide you a fast breakdown of what CBD is and point out a few various kinds of CBD products that might assist you get relief, specifically if you struggle with discomfort and anxiety. Cravinvapes Wabash
Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of numerous active compounds discovered in the Cannabis plant. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is another active substance and the most popular, thanks to its psychoactive properties– it’s the one that gets you “high or stoned.” CBD is non-psychoactive however has a variety of the exact same medical benefits as THC. This allows you to benefit from the therapeutic benefits without leaving you with the “high or stoned” sensation that frequently goes hand in hand with THC. That said, marijuana-derived CBD items, or CBD products that contain THC, might be more efficient than fiber hemp. If you nevertheless to not reside in a state that hasn’t yet legalized medical marijuana or these stress are not available, you can still benefit from products including commercial hemp-derived CBD.
There are various issues that CBD items can aid with. A few of these conditions that CBD can assist deal with consist of: pain, swelling, depression, stress and anxiety, skin conditions, relief of chemotherapy negative effects, epilepsy, dependency management, and neuroprotection.
Pain and Inflammation
There have actually been lots of research studies that have actually had CBD used to treat general persistent discomfort. Researchers put together the results of numerous systematic evaluations covering dozens of trials and research studies. Their research study concluded that there is significant proof that marijuana is an effective treatment for chronic pain in adults. A separate study in the Journal of Experimental Medicine supports these results. This research recommends that utilizing CBD can lower discomfort and swelling. The scientists also found that subjects were not most likely to build up a tolerance to the results of CBD, so they would not need to increase their dosage with time. They noted that cannabinoids, such as CBD, might provide helpful new treatments for people with chronic discomfort.
Anxiety and Stress and anxiety
CBD is thought to positively influence the procedures that control our mood, sleep, and pain understanding, among others. These processes require to operate correctly, so we feel better, sleep more comfortably, and experience less pain. Anxiety and depression are conditions related to poor sleep, discomfort, and poor state of mind policy due to the fact that the endocannabinoid system isn’t working to the best of its capability. Cravinvapes Wabash
Specialists think careful CBD dosing might assist temper anxiety-induced racing thoughts that can trigger interrupted sleep as well as worried awakenings during the night. (In some people, however, too much can make stress and anxiety even worse, so make certain to dose gradually and thoroughly). Sleep disruption and depression are likewise closely linked. More than 90% of depressed clients grumble about problems dropping off to sleep, sleep disturbance, or morning awakenings. CBD might enhance their mood or their ability to manage the condition overall. CBD can also be used to treat parasomnias, sleep conditions like jaw grinding, sleepwalking, or problems, and it likewise cuts the time it takes to drop off to sleep.
CBD oil has an anti-inflammatory home, which can benefit the skin, and it can likewise decrease oil production, offer wetness and eliminate pain and itching. Topical CBD is safe and works efficiently for all skin types. The products are easy to administer. Sufferers of major medical skin problem and those who are looking for innovative skin care options can take advantage of topical CBD usage. Anti-inflammatory residential or commercial properties associated with CBD are beneficial in dealing with such dermatologic conditions as acne, psoriasis and eczema due to reduction of dryness, inflammation and soreness.
CBD-containing creams, oils, gels and serums not only moisturize and relieve the skin however are also showing encouraging lead to eliminating discomfort triggered by certain skin disorders. CBD has revealed that it puts in antioxidant activity. This might position CBD oil as a treatment that repairs skin from complimentary radicals, which might assist to smooth wrinkles and minimize breakouts and blemishes. In addition, CBD-containing products are rich in omega-3 and omega-6 fats which improve total skin look and supply a more youthful glow. Topical CBD is considered safe and has no recognized unfavorable negative effects according to medical professionals.
Recently, CBD has actually gotten a great deal of attention due to its potential to deal with alcohol and drug abuse. Literature concentrates on the pharmacotherapeutic potential of CBD in regards to its importance in prevention of relapse in substance abuse. It is thought CBD works in targeting risk states of drug use regression by reducing stress and anxiety and tension related to drug hints and moderating anti-depressant activity. CBD has an impact on the brain circuitry that is responsible for drug craving and looking for habits triggered by drug-related context and stress. Considering the neuropharmacological and behavioral results of CBD and its influence on the neurocircuitry managing addiction, the ramifications of CBD for the advancement of new treatments of drug addiction has actually drawn in the interest in the research community examining healing options for drug dependency and regression.
There are a couple of various kinds of CBD items, they are available in many kinds. You can acquire them as Oils and Tinctures, Edibles, Vapes, and Creams and Creams.
Oils and Tinctures
CBD oil and tinctures typically have a glycerin, oil, or alcohol base. Individuals can take these extracts by themselves, usually through a dropper or mix them in a food and drink of their choice. There are numerous strengths and tastes of CBD oils and tinctures are available.
CBD edibles consist of the above extracts however in a food form. CBD edibles are offered as drinks and food items, such as teas and chocolate. Gummies are an extremely common kind of CBC edible. They can be found in different strengths and tastes. They are likewise among the very best choices to help with sleep.
For quick action, vapes can provide CBD extracts through inhalation. However, vaping features added threat, including lung damage. Sublingual extracts placed under the tongue might use some of the quick action offered by vaporizers without the danger of vaping-associated lung injury.
Creams and Creams
CBD likewise is available in the type of topical oils, creams, and creams. Some people may feel the results immediately, where others might not see any results for several hours. This is one of the best methods to assist with muscle pain. It might be best to try a few various types to determine what offers the appropriate relief.
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Garlic provides real health benefits and is a good choice of crop for beginners to plant and grow. Garlic should be planted around mid October to November, why not have a look at our handy guide on growing your own garlic.
Garlic is a member of the onion family. We tend to think of garlic as a crop for sunshine countries but it grows well in the UK as long as you use the right bulbs and plant in full sun. It is important to buy varieties suitable for our weather, hardier varieties such as ‘White Pearl’ can be found at your local garden centre.
- Garlic is a doddle to grow – just pop the cloves into the ground or a pot, flat end down, so the pointy bit is just under the soil surface.
- Space them about 20cm (8in) apart.
- A well-drained and cultivated soil will give best results and a week or so before planting give the soil a dose of general-purpose fertiliser. Garlic doesn’t need too rich a soil but it will rot in water-logged soil.
Limited care is needed of the garlic however you should feed the soil in March and May with a general fertiliser. Keep the area free of weeds and make sure you water in dry conditions.
They will produce green foliage around April. The garlic is normally ready to harvest when the foliage has turned yellowy-brown. This will usually be mid-August time but beware that it may be earlier if we have a wet summer.
Gently ease them out of the ground using a trowel to loosen the surrounding soil but be careful not to bruise them with the trowel.
Things to look out for:
- Birds can be a problem when the shoots appear - you may need to keep them at bay with netting.
- If you leave the garlic too long before harvesting the cloves can split apart and storage will be a problem.
- Sometimes the plants produce a flower spike. Carefully snip this off as if you leave them the plant puts energy into seed rather than fattening the cloves.
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The Mission of OCASI is to achieve equality, access and full participation for immigrants and refugees in every aspect of Canadian life.
OCASI asserts the right of all persons to participate fully and equitably in the social, cultural, political and economic life of Ontario. OCASI affirms that immigrants and refugees to Canada should be guaranteed equitable access to all services and programs.
OCASI believes that Canada must be a land of refuge and opportunity, a country known for humanity and justice in its treatment of immigrants and refugees. OCASI believes that in cooperation with other groups and communities which promote human rights and struggle against discrimination, OCASI will see these principles realized.
OCASI – 42 Years
17 agencies form a steering committee to monitor the Immigrant Settlement Adaptation Program (ISAP) at the first ISAP conference.
The steering committee incorporates as O.C.A.S.I. Annual membership fee is $24.
OCASI campaign generates 6000 letters in support of ISAP, saving the program that was to end.
OCASI gets program funding, hires 1.5 staff and holds the first conference.
OCASI and allies advocate to set yearly immigration at 1% of the population, government agrees
Multilingual Access to Social Services Initiative
MASSI is created by Ontario. OCASI advocacy results in the inclusion of cultural interpreter training and services.
OCASI leads Ontario opposition to devolution of federal government responsibility for immigrant settlement and integration to the provinces.
Sector is computerized
OCASI advocacy results in the computerization of sector agencies funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
Settlement.Org is launched and becomes the trusted source of information for newcomers.
Every Child’s Right to OHIP Coalition
OCASI and allies get OHIP coverage for Canadian-born children of parents without full immigration status.
Immigration & Refugee Protection Act
OCASI and allies successfully advocate to include same-sex spousal sponsorship in this new immigration law.
OCASI creates the Francophone Consultative Committee to better support agencies serving francophone refugees and immigrants.
Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change
COP-COC founded in 2007 by OCASI and allies, holds first provincial forum.
Positive Spaces Initiative, Accessibility project
OCASI launches PSI and Accessibility projects to build sector capacity to meet needs of LGBTQ newcomers and immigrants and refugees with disabilities.
Making Ontario Home
OCASI launches report from the largest study of immigrant and refugee use of settlement services and their needs in Ontario.
OCASI School for Social Justice (SSJ)
OCASI launches the SSJ, an initiative to strengthen the advocacy capacity of member agencies.
OCASI Client Management System
OCMS is launched across Canada. It is a powerful online client data system
OCASI receives the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) Award of Excellence for the Accessibility Program.
OCASI supports sector agencies in resettling refugees arriving from overseas.
OCASI Francophone Director
OCASI francophone member agencies elect the first Francophone Director to the Board.
Anti-Islamophobia Anti-Racism Campaign
OCASI partners with allies and launches a public education campaign on Islamophobia, racism, and anti-Black racism.
The Ontario government establishes an AntiRacism Directorate, thanks to efforts of advocates such as OCASI.
Telling Our Stories
OCASI launched a graphic novel written by immigrant and refugee women as a violence against women prevention tool.
Ontario passes the Anti-Racism Act, first of its kind in Canada, thanks to advocacy by COP-COC and others.
Women’s organizations among OCASI member agencies establish a Women’s Caucus
Community of Practice
OCASI creates a national practice in collaboration with sector umbrella organizations across Canada.
OCASI member agencies elect the first Women’s Director at the 2019 Annual General Meeting.
National anti-racism strategy
A national anti-racism strategy is introduced by the federal government, and later different orders of government start to collect disaggregated data all thanks to years of advocacy by groups such as OCASI and COP-COC.
Cumulative number of agencies per year
We grew from 17 to 244 member agencies in 42 years.
- 244 Member Agencies
- 40 Women’s organizations
- 20 Francophone Agencies
- 8 New member agencies
184 member agencies
107 Services provided by OCASI members in Languages other than English & French
- 15,200 workers (79% are women)
- 48,700 volunteers
Agencies generating revenue
- > $5MM: 61 agencies
- $1-5MM:: 91 agencies
- < $1MM:: 86 agencies
Connections to Indigenous Peoples
47% of member agencies carried out activities with or about Indigenous peoples in Canada between 2014 and 2019.
61% of member agencies reported having a relationship with an Indigenous group, organization, Elder, Knowledge-keeper, leader, community worker or peoples.
29% of member agencies are unionized
Member agencies divided by region
- Central East: 12 (5%)
- Central West: 20 (8%)
- East: 22 (9%)
- North: 12 (5%)
- South: 16 (7%)
- Toronto: 140 (58%)
- West: 20 (8%)
Central East Region
- Durham Region (Ajax, Oshawa, Pickering, Whitby)
- York Region (Aurora, Markham, Newmarket, Richmond Hill, Vaughan)
Central West Region
- Peel Region (including Brampton)
- North Bay
- Sault Ste. Marie
- Thunder Bay
- Fort Erie
- St. Catharines
- City of Toronto
Behind the scenes
City of Toronto
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Employment and Social Development Canada
Women and Gender Equality
Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
United Way Greater Toronto
The Law Foundation of Ontario
A special thank you to our funders, partners and collaborators.
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The Jingzhou city, Hubei province in China can boast now with absolutely enormous statue of the ancient Chinese god and warrior Guan Yu. The stunning sculpture will attract thousands of tourists and locals to praise and behold its glory.
The 48 meter tall sculpture stands proudly on the 10 meter pedestal and the main goal for this monument is to revolve around the concept and character for righteousness. The picture is absolutely astonishing – over 4000 thousands of bronze strips have been glued around the sculpture with a weight of 1, 320 tons, carrying an axe like weapon – Green Dragon Crescent Blade, which only by itself weighs 136 tons.
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Madison man battling cancer educates others about preventative health care
MADISON, Wis. – Those who know Gary Davis best said he’s always had a community spirit, so watching him use his own health crisis to bolster his commitment to others came as no shock.
Davis currently works as the Youth Employment Coordinator for Briarpatch Youth Services. Prior to that, for nearly 15 years, Davis made it his business to do what he could to help others, work he finds rewarding.
“My dad was always like that,” his daughter and co-worker Kayla Every said. “Going out into the community and doing what you can to counter the negative things.
But as Davis does his part to support others through life’s challenges, he faces a big problem. Three years ago Davis was diagnosed with prostate cancer, the same disease that took his father.
With her father in mind, Davis now uses her community reach to educate black men like her father about the importance of getting tested, listening to their bodies and knowing their risks.
“I think if he would have been in a position to know how far we’ve gone medically, then he probably would have (taken on) that challenge of doing chemo,” he said.
Davis also knows what many health experts do, which is that men often take too long to get to the doctor. He said men need to stop being afraid to see the doctor.
In return, his community is reaching out. Her daughter Every said that since Davis’ diagnosis, people have shown their family support in so many ways, leaving Davis grateful.
“My favorite thing to say to people is, ‘Give people their roses while they can still smell them,'” Davis said. mean to you while they’re here, don’t wait till they’re gone,” you know.”
In addition to his work at Briarpatch, Davis is a member of the African American Cancer Community Advocacy Board and a music promoter. He uses all these platforms to connect with people and inform them of the value of good health practices.
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During 1988, Ron Tweedie, Thunder Bay geologist, was looking for a tool to do two jobs and one less thing to carry in the bush. Unable to find the right tool he decided to design his own which he named the GeoTul, also known as the GeoTool or a Tweedie Tool.
Sometimes two inches of dirt will cover an outcrop in an important area. If you have only a pointed-end rock hammer, you can't do anything. This tool will get you a sample. Sometimes, in these latitudes, moss will cover many outcrops. With this tool you can cut the roots, and scrape away lichens, and roll-up moss like a carpet. You will get more samples with this tool, than with any other PAIR of tools.
GEOTUL is now made from almost 3 pounds (1.1 kg.) of heat treated nickel chrome boro-steel. When taking soil samples, one swing will get you and A – B – or C zone. No problem.
- New tempered nickel chrome boro-steel alloy
- Hickory Handle Absorbs Vibration
- Safety Grip coating on handle and Custom Knob Grip
- Reinforced Mattock for removing topsoil
- Flat Top allows tool to stand upInternal "bench" holds the handle securely
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I play the snare drum in an ensemble that plays a lot of classical music, and in order to avoid having the snare rattle during percussion rests, I make a habit of turning off the snare during long rests. However, when playing on the snare I most frequently have access to, the act of turning the snare back on creates a noise that's loud enough to be heard in recordings of the ensemble.
At times, though, I've had the opportunity to play on a different snare that's virtually silent when the snare is turned on, and I'm interested in trying to recreate this effect on other snare drums. What aspects of drum hardware and/or tuning are relevant to allowing a snare drum's snares to be activated as quietly as possible?
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Bottle-up: No glass to waste – Part II
Tourists form an increasingly important source of income in Zanzibar, but they also cause an increase in the amount of (glass) waste. The African island is not yet sufficiently equipped to process this waste, which means that the glass ultimately finds its way into the natural surroundings. But what if that same tourism could also contribute to the processing of it? The bottle-up foundation is realising this dream, creating new products from glass waste together with Dutch designers and local craftsmen, which are now being sold in hotels on the island.
Trending Terrazzo is a decorative material made from white cement and glass, in which the beautiful properties of glass are clearly visible and the fragments are given a valuable new purpose. It is perfect for producing sustainable furniture made in Zanzibar. The products are formed using unusual ‘moulds’ found on the island. So a metal wok became the basis for a little table and a piece of corrugated iron served as a mould for a table leg. The furniture will have a place in hotels in Zanzibar in the future, where it can replace imported furniture and support awareness for bottle-up and the recycling and up-cycling of glass.
bottle | brick
bottle | brick is a building block made from glass and cement only. The product is still in its test phase, but the first prototypes prove that it is possible to make strong building blocks from cement, glass fragments and crushed glass. This method reduces the relatively expensive import of sand and gravel to the island. The foundation intends to use the income from the sale of bottle-up products to fund its expansion to large-scale production of the bottle | brick and so contribute to a cleaner island.
bottle-up and the design team
The bottle-up foundation is an initiative of van Elisabeth & Hubert van Doorne and Dutch Design Foundation. The team of designers wholeheartedly dedicated to this up-cycling project consists of:
Sophie Mensen and Oskar Peet – Studio OS & OOS
Klaas Kuiken – Studio Klaas Kuiken
Pim van Baarsen – Super Local
As interest in and demand for the locally made products is steadily increasing, the designers are now also making several products in their own studios in the Netherlands. These products are for sale and part of the proceeds will go back to Zanzibar to help achieve the objectives of bottle-up. | <urn:uuid:763379f0-5c15-4f51-945d-582f56a4656b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dutchdesigndaily.com/complete-overview/bottle-no-glass-waste-part-ii/?theme=21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945249 | 521 | 2.1875 | 2 |
CPD for Dental Nurses
Online verifiable CPD for dental nurses, including core topics, is available here to dentaljuce members. Dental nurses are the backbone of modern dentistry. The complexity of current systems and procedures makes effective dentistry impossible without a well trained professional nurse. In the UK this has been recognised by the General Dental Council, who created the Dental Nurse's Register.
Most of the juce on this web site is useful for all the team - one can never learn too much about one's profession! But there are many pages that are especially suitable for nurses as part of their Enhanced CPD.
This core CPD topic covers the core knowledge you need to understand x-rays and the dangers they have for human tissues. It details the procedures required for safe radiography, and helps you understand how to implement them.
The pages include : Radiation Biology and Physics, Legal Regulations like IRR and IR(ME)R, the concepts and details of Justification and Optimisation, and Quality Control Programmes. There are extensive self-assessments, both short answer and MCQ.
Go to Radiology
These pages cover the emergencies you are likely to face in the dental practice. It lets you know how to spot the at-risk patients, and how you can prevent emergencies from arising.
The pages include : Emergency Drug Kit, The ABCDE Assessment, CPR, Adrenal Insufficiency, Allergies, Anaphylaxis, Angina, Asthma, Choking and Aspiration, Epileptic Seizure, Hypoglycaemia, Myocardial Infarction, Syncope (fainting), and a Patient Scenario.
This core CPD topic takes you over the basics, and will give you ideas that can help your practice meet the necessary standards. There are more advanced sections on infection control for the experienced nurse.
The pages include: Infectious Agents, Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, Prions, Vaccination, Hand Care, Hand Washing, Hands and HTM0105, Surgical Gloves, Personal Protection, PPE and HTM0105, Accident and Injury, Inoculation Injury, Splatter and Aerosol, Single Use Items, Instrument Cleaning, Ultrasonic Baths, Manual Cleaning, Disinfection, Autoclaves, Storage, and self assessments.
Go to Cross Infection Control
This juce lets you know how to guarantee that every alginate mix you do is perfect every time, by attention to the small details that make a big difference.
The pages include: What is Alginate?, Alginate Ingredients, Preparing the Tray, A Clean Mouth, The Container Tub, The Alginate Scoop, The Water Measure, Mixing and Working Time, Mixture Consistency, Loading The Tray, and Trimming and Storage.
Go to Alginate Impressions
Also check out the Prosthetics Equipment & Materials Quiz
Ideal for the nurse who is training, and for giving a close up view of different types of restorations.
There are sections on naming restorations, drawing restorations, and four clinical cases for you to chart.
Go to Charting Practice
Clinical governance is not just doing your job well, it is being able to prove it, through documentation. This module guides you through the essentials of governance so you can help your practice meet its statutory requirements.
The pages include: Finding out about current good practice, Evidence-based Dentistry, Quality Improvement, Risk Management, The Near Miss, Performance Monitoring, Team Training, and Complaints Management.
Go to Clinical Governance
Nurses have a big role to play in designing and conducting an audit - especially with the practical points of how to fit it into a busy day. The juce here explains exactly what a clinical audit is, and takes you through an online radiograph audit.
Pages include: Choosing a topic, Choosing a sample size, Designing a Data Capture Sheet, The First Cycle, Analyse Results & Institute Changes, The Second Cycle, Analyse Results & Write Report, The Sequence of Events, a Periapical Audit, and a Self Assessment Quiz
Go to Clinical Audit
The step by step guides to dozens of procedures will be invaluable for learning the details of each technique, and helping to advise your dentist about the latest ways of doing things well. Much of the info is on details of technique, making these suitable for the more experienced nurse. | <urn:uuid:e64fecaf-2c78-48bf-8cbf-ed1865bdbfb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dentaljuce.com/cpd-for-dental-nurses | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.915203 | 945 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Games For Changes has announced today that they will be partnering with Epic Games to bring more educational technology to classrooms. The program will offer middle and high school educators a chance to bring Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and other content from the company to their curriculum starting this month and running through the end of the year. The first workshop will be "Introduction to Interactive 3D for Educators," held on March 22nd. We have a couple of quotes from both companies below, as well as a list of courses they plan to introduce down the road for those who are interested.
"Educators are continuing to think of creative ways to engage their students, and we are excited to facilitate a series of 19 workshops and ultimately, help prepare students for real-world career opportunities using industry-standard tools," said Arana Shapiro, Managing Director of Games for Change. "The combination of the Games for Change educator community and the powerful pedagogical tools Epic has created will help to amplify problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity in the classroom."
"We are thrilled to support Games For Change as they introduce these exciting new programs into the classroom, further bridging the gap from player to creator," said Linda Sellheim, Education Lead, Epic Games. "Today's students need to learn new skills to meet the growing demands of an immersive culture and to benefit from the opportunities that real-time 3D technology is unlocking across a wide range of industries."
- Introduction to Interactive 3D for Educators: 1-hour webinars that will introduce educators to interactive 3D and real-time technology across a variety of industries, including advertising, game development, architecture, engineering, automotive, film, and entertainment. The workshop will share teaching resources using Fortnite Creative, Twinmotion, and Unreal Engine. Educators will leave with an understanding of the suite of Epic Games' 3D interactive resources and the potential they have to prepare students for real-world skills using industry-standard tools.
- Teach With Fortnite Creative Workshop: Half-day workshops where educators will learn to use Fortnite Creative to empower students to become creators. Teachers will engage in hands-on learning and a series of challenges to explore Fortnite Creative's fundamentals. This workshop is a great start to help educators bring Fortnite Creative into the classroom, in person or virtually.
- Teach with Fortnite Creative Level 2 Workshop: This next-level workshop will dive deeper into the functionality of Fortnite Creative and examine innovative ways to create a curriculum that educators can incorporate into their content area. Participants will gain a better understanding of how devices in the game can be used to enhance automation to develop more engaging experiences.
- Teach with Unreal Engine Workshop: In this workshop, educators will gain a better understanding of how Unreal Engine is being used across industries, including advertising, architecture, automotive, games, film and television, and beyond. They will learn Unreal Engine fundamentals through guided projects, explore lesson plans, and walk away with tools and resources to successfully implement real-time content creation into their learning environments. | <urn:uuid:6acdd7f1-a275-47e0-ade4-bb122bf73fe9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bleedingcool.com/games/games-for-change-epic-games-partner-up-for-edtech-resources/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.944453 | 623 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Cinder is then turned into a test dummy for the doctor because she was taken against her will to the testing site. “Cinder swallowed her panic and halted the robot with palm against its smooth forehead” (Marissa Meyer, 38). This is what she had to do while being tested on and the person she was paired to was the prince. In other words she so scared that she couldn’t test alone and she had to have someone else with her.
Bushra Pirzada Professor Swann Engh-302 October 4th 2015 Rhetorical Analysis: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of a woman named Henrietta Lacks who has her cervical cancer. It further goes to tell the audience how Henrietta altered medicine unknowingly. Henrietta Lacks was initially diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951; however, the doctors at John Hopkins took sample tissues from her cervix without her permission. The sample tissues taken from Henrietta’s cervix were used to conduct scientific research as well as to develop vaccines in the suture.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the story of Henrietta, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks, aided by journalist Rebecca Skloot. Deborah wanted to learn about her mother, and to understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever. It is a story of medical arrogance and triumph, race, poverty and deep friendship between the unlikeliest people. There had been many books published about Henrietta’s cells, but nothing about Henrietta’s personality, experiences, feeling, life style etc.
A non-fiction book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is about an African American woman who developed cervical cancer. While trying to diagnose her illness Johns Hopkins Hospital, got a sample of her tumor and sent to the culture lab. Inside the lab, George Guy harvests the cancerous cells that began to divide into hundreds of cells that became known as HeLa cells. The book is made up of hundreds of interviews that Rebecca Skloot accomplishes most of these interviews were of the Lacks family.
Today’s ethical case study focuses on Nadya Suleman. Nadya Suleman, also known as “Octomom” became famous after she gave birth to eight healthy babies in January 2009. Nadya became a celebrity overnight because many people believed that she got pregnant naturally. It was until later on the truth came out and Nadya lied. Nadya had in vitro fertilization (IVF) done and when the general public found out they turned on her immediately.
To begin with, Alexa tells her friend Laurie about her findings in the military base which Laurie could tell to get on the news because she's works at CNN. Again, Laurie wouldn't tell this secret well because that's her friend and she has no right because that's not her business. In addition, on the computers she sends her friends and father emails on can be traced. You're completely wrong because she uses Jose broken computer he was given so really no way to track it.
Deborah states, "Truth be told, I can 't get mad at science because it help people live, and I 'd be a mess without it. I 'm a walking drugstore! I can 't say nuthin bad about science, but I won 't lie, I would like some health insurance so I don 't got to pay all that money every month for drugs my mother cells probably helped make". This explains how Deborah has to spend all her money on not even all her medication because she can 't even afford health insurance that will cover her medicine. African Americans who were
Felix never read the book, but he was interested in the string tied around it. He never really took interest in even his own family, but that morning he wanted to show Newt how to play cat 's cradle. As Felix neared the little Newt, he looked so ugly and large that Newt burst into tears and ran from the house. Angela, Newt 's sister, has told Newt many times that he hurt his father 's feelings that day, but Newt thinks he couldn 't have hurt him very much. Felix didn 't even remember a lot about Emily, Newt 's mother, after she died.
“ His face was as white as his hands, his gray eyes were so colorless I thought he was blind.” (Lee, 362) For many years, Boo Radley lived in his house. He hardly ever went out, but when he did, he would do it when no one was looking.
The moral dilemma of the novel is the fact that “no one had told Henrietta that TeLinde was collecting samples” (Skloot 33). In addition, the cells were used, sold, and developed without the consent of Henrietta or informed consent of any family members. These cells, which were illegally obtained and the doctors “were sure Henrietta’s cells would die just like all the others,” that was not the case (Skloot 33). After her death, Henrietta’s cells “kept growing like nothing anyone had seen, doubling their numbers every twenty-four hours” and were coined as immortal (Skloot 40). The title might appear misleading because Henrietta is not immortal, her cells are.
As astounding actor Mike Judge once said, “It 's amazing what we can get away with and what we can 't.” You can get away with so many things, just like the doctor that treated Henrietta Lacks. The doctors in early 1900s did not require much schooling to become doctors. Henrietta went to John Hopkins hospital to see the only gynecologist, Howard Jones. Jones examined her, took notes of her growing tumor, took a sample of her tumor and sent her home. Howard Jones sent her cells off to a laboratory, and that was when they discovered something marvelous.
Others might think this because her family had not gotten a share of the profits from Henrietta 's cells. However Henrietta herself did not face adversity, but her family had to face the adversity because they found out what scientists did with her cells twenty years after her death, and had never seen any money from it. Also all Lacks had to do was die to face adversity, while Mawson had to walk through an endless wasteland without food or warmth to make it back to his camp. Mawson also had to eat his own dog and tape the sole of his foot back on just to survive in the antarctic. Another reason why people might think Lacks faced more adversity is because she was poor and faced racial discrimination.
The scientific community and the media are guilty of viewing Henrietta and her family as abstractions; they did not give the Lacks family a fair trial, they’ve yet to give her family any form of compensation for the success of her cell line, and operated on Henrietta like a science fair project. In the non-fiction narrative The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, written by Rebecca Skloot, it states, “The fact that no one had sued over the growth or ownership of the HeLa cell line, he said, illustrated that patients didn’t mind when doctors took their cells and turned them into commercial products.” (204) This is unfair to the Lacks family because the fraud lawyer, Keenan Kester Cofield, deceived them. Although he is a con artist, he has a wide spectrum of knowledge about law than the Lackses really have about anything; they’ve had little to no education, and they barely knew anything about the HeLa cell line.
Millions of people have these cells to thank for their health and researchers owe their life’s work to them. Yet, the Lacks family cannot even afford to go to the doctor and are completely unaware of everything their mother’s cells have done for the wellbeing of people all around the world. Gey would not even publish or release her real name. In chapter 22, the reader sees the family’s reaction to being kept in the dark about these cell, Bobbette says, “Everybody always saying Henrietta Lacks donated those cells. She didn’t donate nothing.
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Teaching corps doesn’t reflect increasingly diverse student body
As students in Washington classrooms have become more diverse, the teachers who stand before them have remained almost always white.
It’s a chasm that has remained stubbornly wide for decades, worsened by barriers to higher education, teacher credential tests and limited funding to diversify teacher training programs.
A joint analysis by The Seattle Times and The Columbian newspapers found that even though the number of teachers of color is growing at a faster rate than that of white teachers, there are still few of them in classrooms. The newspapers looked at all 313 school districts, charter schools and educational service districts that sent teacher and student demographic information to the state. Last school year, nearly a quarter of Washington’s school districts had no teachers of color.
To Washington’s students, that lack of diversity matters — researchers say it can have lasting impacts on high-school completion, discipline rates and test scores for students of color.
Students like 17-year-old Lindsey Luis, a senior at Fort Vancouver High School, can spend nearly the entirety of their time in school without having a single teacher who looks like them or shares their background.
“There’s nothing like that one person you can speak Spanish with,” said Lindsey, who is Latina. “I’ve never had someone to relate to on a personal level.”
Over the last five years, Washington’s schools have seen an 18 percent increase in the number of students of color — and a 2 percent decrease of white students. The growth of teachers of color, an increase of 32 percent, also outpaced the number of new white teachers, which was about 10 percent.
Still, three out of every four teachers the state has gained in the past six years were white.
For students who identified as Latino or Hispanic, the state’s second-largest demographic group, the difference is particularly stark. For every 88 Hispanic/Latino students last school year, there was only one Hispanic/Latino teacher.
By contrast, there is one white teacher for every 11 white students, on average.
To fully represent today’s student body, about 29,500 of Washington’s 64,700 teachers would have to be people of color. That’s about 22,300 more people of color than those who currently teach here. Closing those disparities would require hiring:
• 12,028 more Latino/Hispanic teachers
• 4,204 more multiracial teachers
• 3,183 more Asian teachers
• 1,926 more black teachers
• 539 more Pacific Islander/Hawaiian Native teachers
• 453 more American Indian/Native Alaskan teachers.
If the number and racial makeup of students and teachers in Washington change at the same rate as they are now, it will be more than a century before the state reaches parity.
To get there, a lot needs to happen, said Chris Reykdal, Washington’s top education official. “We have to diversify our pathways,” he said. “If it’s not an environment they can be successful in, then it’s really exacerbating the pipeline.”
The two newspapers developed a ratio to score districts based on how closely their teaching staffs represent the racial demographics of their students. The higher a district’s score, the more representative its teaching staff is of its students. A score of one means exact representation.
Across the state, white students and teachers had the highest average index, coming in at 1.6, indicating a higher percentage of white teachers than white students. For Latino and Hispanic students, meanwhile, the average ratio was 0.2.
The accompanying map shows how districts fared under the calculation, which divides the percentage of teachers of color by the percentage of students of color.
Luis has her first and only teacher of color — her Spanish teacher, whom she said is Cuban — at Fort Vancouver High School this year. State data from last year shows about 10 percent of the 79 teachers there identified with a race other than white — while students of color made up about 62 percent of enrollment.
“There are those teachers who do try and try their hardest, but there’s never been one who wouldn’t have to try,” the 17-year-old said.
The frustrations of students like Luis are backed by a growing body of research suggesting greater teacher diversity can improve outcomes for students of color.
There are many theories as to why. Among them: Teachers of color may be more likely to set higher expectations for students of color, as a paper published by the Economics of Education Review found.
A 2017 study of more than 100,000 black students in North Carolina found that low-income boys who had at least one black teacher in grades three to five were almost 40 percent less likely to drop out of high school and had a stronger interest in attending college.
Dan Goldhaber, director of the University of Washington’s Center for Education Data and Research, has studied the demographic mismatch of students and teachers in Washington, but he and his colleagues haven’t tried to research the impacts on students. He suspects it would be difficult because of the pool of diverse teachers here is small.
The absence of representation in classrooms could create cyclical recruitment challenges. Gisela Ernst-Slavit, a professor of education and English-language learning at Washington State University Vancouver, said it could engender the sense that school is not a space for students of color, and ultimately discourage them from pursuing careers in education themselves.
Ernst-Slavit said, “When students only see janitors and cooks in the school, but they don’t see teachers or principals who look like them, that is a problem.”
Hurdles start early
There isn’t a single state where the teacher workforce perfectly mirrors its student body. Washington falls in the middle of the pack.
Despite efforts to address the problem, barriers that could hinder aspiring teachers of color begin to mount from the time they graduate from high school.
Take, for example, access to higher education in the first place. The costs of college and poor academic preparation in earlier years have kept students of color from entering Washington’s colleges and universities, according to a report from the Washington Student Achievement Council. That contributes to keeping most university-based teacher training programs predominantly white.
When a student of color makes it to higher education, there is yet another obstacle.
People of color fail the WEST-B — a three-part, mandatory test required for teacher preparation program applicants — at greater rates than their white peers, according to the state’s Professional Educator Standards Board.
While candidates can attempt the test multiple times — and many do so successfully — each test session can cost up to $225, creating yet another potential barrier.
Similar to concerns about the SAT, the tests may carry an “inherent cultural and linguistic bias,” especially for bilingual candidates, the PESB suggested in a recent report. And there are questions as to how well the test predicts classroom success. The board is asking the Legislature to eliminate the requirement that teacher preparation program applicants must reach a certain score for admission. The group is also asking for more funding for so-called “grow your own” programs, alternatives to the traditional certification route that often produce more diverse teachers.
Can Washington turn the tide? Stay tuned for stories Monday and Wednesday on how districts in Southwest Washington and Puget Sound are trying to chip away at the problem.
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When I was 4 years old, I made a song. I remember it was about my favorite things at the time: ballet, cotton candy, carnivals and drawing with pink and purple crayons.
Singing it made me happy. I couldn’t wait to share it with others. I imagined it would make them happy too.
Then, one day at my preschool, we were having “circle time” and our teacher asked: “Does anyone have a song he or she would like to share?”
Oh my goodness, I was so excited! My hand shot up “I do!”
“Okay,” she said, “wonderful.” I started to sing the song I made. I got a little lost, but stuck to my main themes, repeating: “I went to ballet and then I ate cotton candy” and so on…
After a brief moment, the teacher cut me off and said to the group: “Can anyone please share a song we all know?”
Ouch. I knew I had done something wrong, but I wasn’t quite sure what it was.
Then I got it, I was supposed to have sung “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” or “Happy Birthday.” I felt ashamed and the moment was cemented in my brain (but also consciously forgotten).
I didn’t make any more songs for 20 years, when I finally started singing again the way I did back then, just absent mindedly, making up words to melodies when I was out walking or driving. One day when I was cross-country skiing in the woods, I started singing about a bird and a snow bank just for the fun of it and I finally found my way back.
These days, I listen to my 2 and 4 year-old daughters singing to themselves the way many kids do when they are lost in the moment and in a zone of sorts.
I hear them making up songs from their car seats, singing about lunch, the sun, flowers, and hide & go seek, and I get to say to them:
“I love that song you’re singing, will you teach it to me?”
Ps: My Spring “Creative Happy You” Online Songwriting Circle begins Monday, March 23rd! The theme is Write Songs You Love! For more information, click here
*ALSO for the very first time*, I’m offering a workshop for beginning youth songwriters aged 11-15. I’m so excited for this! To learn more, go here!
As always, feel free to leave a comment below (especially about any good or bad creative experiences YOU had as a child). I keep forgetting to invite people to leave a comment and so many folks just email me directly (which I love too) BUT it’s so nice if EVERYONE can read your comments as well! Xoxoxo! | <urn:uuid:9f5591df-c121-4c99-98fe-72596ab14d13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://anneheaton.com/2015/03/03/4-year-old-me-4-year-old-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.975774 | 628 | 1.515625 | 2 |
This week Felpham has been rather shaken by the news that one of the most popular pubs in the village is going to close down and much has been written about it on Facebook and elsewhere. In the course of the various conversations – a man called Aidan Bappoo quoted what Blake had said about Felpham to one of his London friends:
“The Villagers of Felpham are not meer Rustics; they are polite & modest. Meat is cheaper than in London, but the sweet air & the voices of the winds, trees & birds, & the odours of the happy ground, makes it a dwelling for immortals” William Blake to Thomas Butts, September 23, 1800
Bill Brooks answered by quoting another letter of Blake’s to John Flaxman:
“Felpham is a sweet place for Study, because it is more Spiritual than London. Heaven opens here on all sides her golden Gates, her windows are not obstructed by vapours. Voices of Celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard & their forms more distinctly seen.”
I was delighted to see Blake being quoted like this and it gave me the chance to add my seven pennyworth in the hope that it would simply be accepted and not criticised as being “political”. Here is what I said:
“They’re such touching descriptions. I expect you already know that his neighbours in Felpham were fond of him because he was such a hard worker. And when he was put on trial for sedition they perjured themselves to get him off.”
I didn’t get scolded this time, which was pleasant, but my comment provoked an answer. A lady came back almost at once to say “So true of Felpham, even now.” It was a kindly and sympathetic observation, but it stopped me in my tracks and made me think. And led to this blog, because it was a perfect example of how easy it is to get hold of the wrong end of the stick. I’m sure it made the lady and her readers feel good about themselves and their opinions, but…
If Blake were suddenly reincarnated in today’s Felpham, he would have a very hard time of it, for he was not a gentle poet who wrote about lambs and England’s green and pleasant land, he was actually what we would now call ‘extremely left wing’ and an outspoken revolutionary. He wore the red cap of liberty around London during the heady days of the French Revolution, which was a daring and dangerous thing to do. And the poem, which has since become our second national anthem, is in fact a plea for a ‘mental fight’ against all the things that were standing in the way of achieving the ideal state, which he called ‘Jerusalem’. He pledged that he would “never cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand” in a promise to keep on fighting for the things he believed in. We pledge ourselves in the same way whenever we sing the hymn, although we might not all know what we are actually singing.
I’m pretty sure this sort of attitude would not go down well in today’s Felpham, where there are people who feel it is too political even to talk about what is currently happening to his cottage. Even if what is said is true. I am now so demoralised that I have almost given up trying to give anyone information about the state of the cottage.
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How do I clear my search history on my iPhone and protect
On your iPhone or iPad, open the Chrome app . At the bottom right, tap More History . At the bottom, tap Clear Browsing Data. Check Browsing history. It may be checked by default. Uncheck any other items you don't want to delete. Tap Clear Browsing Data Clear Browsing Data. At the top right, tap Done. How to Clear Google App History on iPhone Dec 26, 2018 How to Clear Your Google Search History Jul 10, 2017
Clear the history and cookies from Safari on your iPhone
Feb 02, 2018 How to Delete Google Search History on iPhone iOS 13?
The Google search engine is featured on the iPhone both via Safari and through its Google Mobile app. Its revolutionary search features are available in mobile form for users who need to access these functions on the go. Like the original Google home page, users can clear their search history on their iPhone for privacy issues.
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Don’t leave college now even though this is the time of year when many college students decide to drop out. This especially common for first year students.
For some who are away from home it is because they are homesick. For some they have found that college is harder than they expected. For some of those who are struggling academically a drop in grades may threaten financial aid or scholarships.
If you are homesick, students often find that a few weeks at home under the watchful eye of mom and dad as opposed to the freedom of campus life is all they need to realize that campus life is not so bad.
The friends from high school, like you, have made new friends and found new interests and so the old closeness may not be as you imagined it would be. Don’t leave college now. Home is not where you really want to be again.
Academic issues may be more salvageable than you realize. The term is not over yet. You can talk to professors about how to ace the final exam or paper or you can negotiate an incomplete.
It is likely too late now to drop classes that look headed for disaster, but see if you can mitigate the damage. Seek out a tutor or head to the writing center. If you had actually done these things earlier (like they told you to at orientation when you were either not listening or were assuming you could handle it) you might not be in a pickle now.
The main thing is now to come clean to your professor, adviser or dean and see what can be done.
Don’t leave college and go back home—especially if you messed up.
Schools are used to students having this reality check in the first semester and then getting it together later. It does not mean that you can’t get into a good graduate school later. It may however tell you that the field you thought you wanted may not be your cup of tea after all. Whatever you do don’t leave college now.
Talk to your adviser and the others there to serve you in the career or pre-med/pre-law offices to be sure you are on the right path. Dropping in and out can cost you in the long term.
If you think of transferring then you need to be sure that credits from one school will transfer to another so you do not waste money retaking requirements. Don’t leave college now to go to work because you will be postponing the higher earnings that a college degree can provide.
Whatever you do – don’t leave college now – do not just walk away.
If you are thinking you might want to leave college – talk to someone and do it officially.
You may be able to take a leave of absence if there is a health or family crisis. In any event the registrar has to know that you have dropped out.
Otherwise you will wind up with bills for classes you did not complete and for which you may get an F. That will damage your GPA and leave you in debt to the school. If you owe them money the school will not release your transcripts to other schools should you want to transfer. You may lose your financial aid if your GPA drops as the result of those Fs.
Walking away is always a disaster. It will be better if you don’t leave college now.
Dr. Cantarella is the author of I CAN Finish College: The Overcome Any Obstacle and Get Your Degree Guide and a consultant on higher education, access and success.
See Chapter 9 of I CAN Finish College and contact Dr. Cantarella at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The human body is born with natural sixth sense capabilities, but after a lifetime of exposure to the modern world this powerful “feeling” sense is all but wiped out over time. As a matter of fact, children have a far more advanced range of sixth sense capabilities compared to grown adults. Everything from our education system, to mass media, to toxins in the environment, to grossly unnatural diets have a tendency to destroy this sixth sense in the average person. But all is not lost, as renowned writer and speaker Stephen Harrod Buhner explains is a fascinating podcast with Daniel Vitalis. If you want to learn more about how you can reclaim and reactivate your powerful sixth sense capabilities you will absolutely love listening to Vitalis’s 76-minute conversation podcast with Buhner at DanielVitalis.com. Enjoy!
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Whilst the UK starts to reopen for business, a quick recovery seems unlikely, as social distancing measures look set to be implemented for a longer period. So how do businesses prepare for what the future holds whilst there is still so much uncertainty?
This is a popular phrase at the moment but the only problem is, nobody actually knows what it looks like, so trying to prepare for the unknown will be problematic for most businesses. Having said that, there is no reason why you shouldn’t take steps to prepare for the future, and looking at what those steps look like will set you in the right direction.
Most businesses will be effectively starting from scratch as they emerge from the lockdown, whether they have been trading for decades or just a couple of years. What was normal before won’t be normal going forward, so having an open mind about what you want your business to achieve and look like will give you some direction at the outset.
If there is one thing we can take from the lockdown period, it is how important it is having access to cash. Utilising a cash flow forecast is a helpful tool to monitor your income and outgoings as you start trading again, as well as helping you to keep track of any payments that have been deferred due to the lockdown. Using a weekly cashflow forecast will help you spot any potential cash holes and updating it regularly will ensure that you know what your cash position is likely to be.
Businesses will be looking to make up for lost time as they re-open but if there’s one issue that will be prevalent, it will be the risk of overtrading. Overtrading occurs where you take too much work without the resources to fulfil the orders, resulting in a squeeze on cash as you wait for customers to pay. This is a common issue in start-up businesses and with most businesses having to operate as a start-up as they open their doors, keeping an eye on the level of orders will be vital, especially where cash is already at a low level due to lockdown.
If you have prepared a short term “emergence” cashflow, you can then start to look at more medium and longer-term projections, using different scenarios to ensure that your projections reflect different levels of turnover. Remember that if you are looking at staggered customer needs, this will likely impact on your anticipated turnover and having different scenarios planned out will help you to identify any additional finance requirements or what costs need to be reduced with each option. Using these projections can then help you with your decision-making.
With cash so much in the spotlight, this will provide business owners with an opportunity to review operations to determine whether the business is operating at its most efficient. The lockdown may have also identified areas of weakness or strength, which may result in the strategic objectives being adjusted. Acquisitions and/or disposals can help build resilience if planned correctly.
If your business has been profitable for a number of years, it can be hard to accept that your business may be loss-making for a period. But if you have seen reduced turnover from the lockdown whilst maintaining fixed costs (even if you have deferred some repayments), there will be an impact on your profit margins.
It is also important to remember that you can only draw dividends if you have sufficient equitable reserves.
Whilst the end of the lockdown will be welcome news, the emergence of the “new normal” will provide challenges for many businesses. But taking to time to reflect on how your business can survive, and thrive, as we start to learn what that means will prove beneficial. It can be often difficult to do these things alone – please get in touch if you would like to discuss how we can help you. | <urn:uuid:1bd18206-1d73-4ab1-9e64-4517604a416d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.armstrongwatson.co.uk/news/2020/06/road-recovery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96325 | 763 | 1.5 | 2 |
Algeria, Argentina, Nepal, Senegal, Yugoslavia
and Zambia: draft resolution
29 January 1988
The Security Council,
Having considered the Secretary-General's report of 21 January 1988 (S/19443) pursuant to resolution 605 (1987),
Expressing its grave concern over the increasing sufferings of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories,
Bearing in mind the inalienable rights of all people recognized by the Charter of the United Nations and proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Reaffirming that the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, is applicable to the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem,
Commending the International Committee of the Red Cross for its activities in the occupied territories,
Commending also the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East for its invaluable work,
Conscious of the urgent need to resolve the underlying problem through a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement, including a solution to the Palestinian problem in all its aspects,
1. Expresses its deep appreciation to the Secretary-General for his report;
2. Calls upon Israel, as the occupying Power and as a High Contracting Party to the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to accept the de jure applicability of the Convention to the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and fully to comply with its obligations under that Convention;
3. Recalls the obligation of all the High Contracting Parties, under article 1 of the Convention, to ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances;
4. Calls again upon Israel to desist forthwith from its policies and practices which violate the human rights of the Palestinian people;
5. Requests Israel to facilitate the task of the International Committee of the Red Cross and of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and requests all Members to give them their full support;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to monitor the situation in the occupied territories by all means available to him and to make regular and timely reports to the Council;
7. Affirms the urgent need to achieve, under the auspices of the United Nations, a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement of the Arab/Israeli conflict, an integral part of which is the Palestinian problem, and expresses its determination to work towards that end;
b. Requests the Secretary-General to continue his endeavours to promote such a settlement and to keep the Council regularly informed;
9. Decides to keep the situation in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem, under review.
The Security Council on 1 February 1988 voted on the draft resolution as follows:
In favour: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Federal Republic of, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Senegal, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, Zambia.
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What is brass?
Brass is an alloy made from copper and zinc. Depending on the amount of each metal used, different types of brasses can be made with varying properties. Bronze, which is similar to brass, is an alloy of copper and tin and is heavy and dense. Not to be confused with copper scrap, brass scrap consists of yellow solid brass, tubing brass and casting brass. It is also called honey brass.
If you’re looking to sell your brass scrap metal, our team at King Scrap Metal can help. Our dealers and recyclers can provide you with a solution to suit your needs and help you get the best value for your metal.
Scrap brass can be found in the following items:
- Bathroom and kitchen taps
- Plumbing fixtures
- Some silverware and antiques
- Musical instruments
- Doorknobs and window latches
Tips before recycling
- When selling your scrap, ensure that any contaminated brass is separated from the clean scrap as this will have a bearing on the scrap brass price received.
- Even though brass is yellow, it is quite often coated silver or chrome, so it is important to scratch the surface of silver metals to make sure they are not brass (brass is worth more than most other silver coloured metals).
Brass or bronze scrap types
- Brass coast or dirty brass with minimal steel
- Gun metal which is used mostly for valves or castings
- Manganese or aluminium bronze, with a slight magnetic pull
- Brass swarf or brass turnings
Where can I find a brass recycling facility near me?
For all your scrap brass metal needs, visit our King Scrap Metal yard located in Embleton. Contact us today to see how we can help you sell your brass scrap by giving our team a call on (08) 6150 9424.
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How much pocket money and when? A guide for parents
The following Q&As provide some suggestions and guidance on how to hand out pocket money, whatever your financial circumstances.
Q: My son is only six. Do I need to give him pocket money?
A: Perhaps he doesn't have his own money yet, but he probably knows you take out money from an ATM or buy things with a credit card. But he may not be aware this money comes from all your hard work. It's a good idea to tell him about this and the importance of money. To understand more, you may want to try giving him pocket money as a family activity. For example, you could sit down together and set a budget for his pocket money. This can help him learn a few facts about money management.
Q: At what age should I give my child pocket money?
A: There is no fixed age, but you could decide according to their ability and attitude towards money. When you note one of the following signs, you can start giving your child pocket money:
- They start asking you where money comes from.
- They have a basic understanding of money, such as what it's used for.
- They have learned about coins and notes.
- They need to spend money in their everyday life.
Q: How much pocket money should I give my daughter?
A: You can decide how much to give according to your family finances. There is no need to compare the amount with other families. You should first lay down some rules with your daughter. When determining an amount, consider how you want her to use the allowance. Include enough for essential expenses, some for personal spending and a certain amount to save each week. You could also ask her to set aside an amount each week for donations.
Pocket money = Essential expenses and personal spending + savings + donations
Q: What expenses should pocket money cover?
A: You can plan this with your children. Offer guidance as they decide how to use their pocket money.
- Essential expenses: Let them pay for their own bus fare, breakfast and so on, so they understand how important money is for the basic necessities of life.
- Savings: Ensure your children understand the importance of saving. Encourage them to first set aside some of their pocket money for savings. Explain this can be used to achieve goals.
- Spending: After setting aside enough for essential expenses and savings, they could use the remainder for personal spending. Explain that having pocket money does not mean they should immediately satisfy their urge to buy things. Rather, it's best to think twice about what they need and what they want – and learn the difference.
- Donations: Nurture empathy in your children so they understand how other people feel, especially the less fortunate. Tell them they can help those in need by volunteering or donating second-hand toys. You could also encourage them to donate some of their pocket money.
Q: Anxious about bad spending habits?
A: Practice is essential to your child as they learn about money management, so it's important to let them make decisions. Your role as a parent is to monitor their behaviour and offer guidance. If you think your child's spending is inappropriate, immediately correct this. Let your child learn from their mistakes. If you are still worried, then adopt a step-by-step approach. Consider the amount of pocket money they get, or assist them on a daily basis until they form responsible spending habits.
The five principles for teaching good pocket money habits
- Explain clearly the purpose of pocket money.
- Stick to your principles, including the following:
- Give pocket money according to a regular schedule. Do not casually offer an extra amount.
- Give pocket money every day, week or month, according to the individual circumstances.
- Lay down rules to prevent inappropriate spending.
- Young children can use piggy banks or money boxes for their savings. Older children can do the same with a bank account.
- If your child has an Octopus card, do not use the auto value-adding service on it. Let them add value themselves, using cash from their pocket money.
- Help them keep a record of income and expenses, using a notebook or a mobile phone app.
Proper money management concepts learned early are for life
If your child is a junior primary school student
- Explain to your child that expenses should not exceed income
- Make clear that we all have a limited amount of money, so we cannot have everything we want
- Suggest that for a better future, we should delay gratification
If your child is a senior primary school student
- Be aware that children are easily affected by peer pressure and commercials, so you should offer plenty of guidance
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I’m a sloucher. There, the secret’s out. Well, I’m not a lazy or incompetent person as defined by Webster’s, but I don’t always sit the best way. My mom was always telling me to sit up straighter and not slouch. I’m glad she kept reminding me because at least I don’t have back problems, but I still am prone to slouching when I sit.
Check out this article on Ten Ways to Have Great Posture as you Age.
According to Anne Harding, “Good posture will do more to keep you looking youthful as the years go by than a face-lift or Botox. And the benefits of maintaining your bone health are much more than skin-deep.”
Wow, what a statement and it definitely got my attention. I am trying my best to sit straighter and do what I can to maintain good posture. There are ways to prevent “the characteristic rounding of the spine,” which is associated with osteoporosis and destruction of your spine. So, with this knowledge, doesn’t that make you want to find out more and maintain better posture? It surely does that for me. Check out the article I mentioned for some great health tips on this issue.
“Recognize that you are a product of nature and that your every existence depends upon other products of nature.” Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee, founder of Shaklee, made this statement and his words are so true.
I believe in Creationism, that God created us in His image. However, even if you didn’t believe in God, it’s not much of a stretch for you to believe that you are a “product of nature.”
“Look to your health and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is a blessing money can't buy.” Izaak Walton made this statement and I couldn’t agree more.
After all, our posture and our total body health is our life. If we don’t have good health or are terminally ill, our future is bleak and we won’t be alive for much longer. We are a spirit, we have a soul and we live in a body. Our bodies start to degenerate and age once we turn twenty years old. What do you think happens if you don’t take care of your body by eating healthy foods, exercising and alleviating stress from your life? That question can be answered by checking out the Shaklee health and wellness products.
If we don’t take care of our bodies, our bodies won’t take care of us. Maintaining a healthy posture and good bone health is a simple way to take care of our bodies. It’s that simple. In a nutshell, we don’t get enough necessary nutrients from our daily diets, even if we do eat healthy and organic foods each day. We also need to start exercising daily or at least three times a week. Even if we walk about an hour a day during our daily routines, that definitely will help us. We also need to do what is necessary to keep our stress levels at a minimum. We also need to walk straight and tall and sit straight so that we maintain good posture.
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Jim Rohn has said, “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” No truer words have ever been spoken.
Wayne Dyer has also said, “You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.”
That’s one of the main points! It’s our choice if we want to be sick or stay well. True, things happen to our bodies which we don’t have control over and some diseases are hereditary. However, science has taught us that prevention is the best medicine. If we make healthy choices today, those choices will positively impact our future. If we make negative choices, those choices will negatively impact our lives.
Eubie Blake has said, “If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.”
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Robert L. McKee
1936 photo of the Forest Preserve of DuPage County Headquarters and Superintendant's Residence (courtesy Lance McKee, grandson of Robert and Ada)
Robert L McKee
In 1934, Robert McKee became first superintendent of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County during the difficult years of the Great Depression. At that time the District included only three small, bare-ground properties that sat behind locked gates at York, Bloomingdale and Herrick Lake. Only two years earlier, McKee had been hired as a caretaker, for $15 a week, to look after the York preserve. However, he was soon promoted to Chief Forester and then Superintendent when his early experience as a US Government surveyor, and later as a tree surgeon for Davey Tree Company, proved him to be a valuable asset in developing the preserves. Over time he persuaded the County Board to begin a plan to purchase wooded tracts that became available in different parts of the county. Using the labor of relief workers from the CCC camps at MacDowell Grove and Fullersburg Woods, he reforested hundreds of acres of old farm land, cleared trails, dug wells and built picnic shelters. Often the laborers worked for a meal, typically home-made soup made by Robert's wife Ada, who also acted as unpaid secretary for Forest Preserve business.
McKee was a dedicated conservationist, fighting local water pollution and the onslaught of Dutch Elm disease. He believed that wild places should be preserved and yet remain accessible to the public. An active volunteer and supporter for the Boy Scouts, he encouraged their explorations and activities within the preserves. He also believed in the preservation of historic sites and was instrumental in saving and restoring historic Graue Mill (c.1852) at Fullersburg Woods.
Robert McKee retired in 1962 and died in 1967.
In this 2006 video, Russell McKee, son of Robert and Ada, talked about his childhood memories of the 1936 construction of the buildings.
1936 - The construction of Forest Preserve Headquarters
The compound of 3 hand-hewn limestone buildings on St Charles Road at Churchill Woods Forest Preserve served as both headquarters and superintendents' residence until 1994. The main two-story Colonial Revival structure is flanked by two wings - to the west, a Forest Preserve meeting room and to the east, a three car garage. A basement level housed offices and includes a river stone fireplace. An adjoining Administration building was known as "the workshop" to the McKee family and also housed office space and guard's quarters. A small well house sits between the two buildings.
The main structure was designed by Oak Park architect Harold Kohlman. It was fully funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and much of the labor was provided by workers from the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) camp at MacDowell Grove. The stone was quarried from the Salt Creek riverbed after coffer dams were built to redirect the water. The large slabs of rock were hauled up the banks on horse-drawn wagons and then were transported to Churchill Woods where they were chiseled into bricks at the site.
Robert L McKee in 1955 at Graue Mill (photo courtesy Lance McKee)
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Acknowledging it is a key to coping, researchers say
FRIDAY, Jan. 15, 2016 (HealthDay News) — The challenges facing trauma care providers can put them at risk for compassion fatigue and burnout, according to a study published in the January/February issue of the Journal of Trauma Nursing.
For this study, 12 trauma team members at a Level 1 trauma center were enrolled in a discussion group. The workers cited on-the-job stress triggers that included child or elder abuse, trauma involving children, cases involving multiple family members, injuries from avoidable situations, and “senseless” deaths. Other causes of stress included dealing with patients’ family members and difficulties with trauma team coordination.
Even though all participants reported low or mild stress levels, three-quarters had moderate to high scores for secondary trauma stress. One-third had a combination of high burnout and low levels of positive experiences helping patients, while another one-quarter had moderate levels of burnout.
Even though the participants said compassion fatigue was rare, assessments conducted by the researchers indicated the presence of compassion fatigue and burnout. “This suggests trauma team members may not be as adept at managing work stressors as well as they perceive,” the researchers write. In order to cope, trauma team members must acknowledge that compassion fatigue occurs and is an expected reality of the profession.
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Quotes by Vic Braden
American tennis player
Alive from: 1929-2014
Quotes 1 till 3 of 3.
Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.
Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.
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Free eBook Publishing Guide – Why release an eBook?
Why release an ebook?
In spite of being around now for over twenty years, no-one has yet developed a steady definition for the word ‘eBook’. One can discern some typical functions:
– The item is distributed as a file (so CD encyclopedias are ruled out to be eBooks). And can be opened as a data file in an application, instead of being released as an executable (.exe) file
– The item is both total & finished– i.e. neither a chapter/ episode/ serial nor an incomplete operate in progress
– The product is familiar to readers, as following most or all the standard conventions of a book (e.g. contains a table of contents, beginning, index, etc. and is between 25,000 and 400,000 words in length).
The benefits of an eBook.
Aside from the financial benefits for the author (which I will cover listed below), there are a variety of intrinsic benefits to eBooks when compared to the conventional printed book:.
– Readers can search the text to rapidly discover crucial details, particularly when checking out for the second time.
– Readers can adjust the typeface face and size to make the book much easier to check out (ever more vital for an aging population!).
– Blind or partially-sighted readers can make additional usage of text-to-speech conversion software application (” screen readers”).
– eBooks can be read in low light or overall darkness by utilizing the back-lighting functions of PC or mobile phones.
– Distribution expenses are exceptionally low and eBook authors and publishers can respond rapidly to any erratum or addendum, with more frequent, incremental editions.
– eBooks are eco-friendly. Lots of hundreds can be saved on a single device and paper use (through printing) is minimised or prevented entirely.
– eBooks without DRM security can be instantly copied and backed up easily.
The Advantages for the Author. Why release an ebook?
When writing a standard printed book, the odds are stacked versus the author making a good living from their work! eBooks, by contrast, deliver a genuine ROI for the author:.
– You can not get turned down! A standard book might get rejected 50 or 60 times by various publishers and representatives prior to finally being accepted– or undoubtedly might never discover a home!
– You don’t need to wait! For the traditional book, it can use up to two years for the publisher to obtain your book to market (managing as she does an ineffective and big supply chain of printers, shippers, wholesalers, booksellers, marketers, and suppliers). An eBook may take no greater than 10 weeks!
– You can make a lot more loan!
– You get your loan faster and with fewer surprises! On a conventional book, an author would typically get their cut up to 120 days after the actual sale, with 20% of their cash withheld as insurance versus unsold books. With eBooks, it differs from instant receipt to 90 days, with no portion withheld.
– The practical benefits; eBooks can be changed or upgraded quickly, without the need for brand-new print runs and thrown-away old editions. They require never go out of print and can cross genres or utilize unusual solutions without aggravating an interfering editor! You keep total rights to the title and agreements will be non-exclusive (so you can offer through other publishers).
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07 Feb Stay Calm
It’s hard staying calm when the world seems to going to hell in a hand basket. Not to mention it’s difficult to be levelheaded when you have several deadlines due, but only so many hours left in a week. No one said life would be easy. However no one said life would be so stressful.
Staying calm is a challenging task of its own. You already have a lot to worry about: money, health, safety, and family. It’s easy to overlook staying calm, because really what does staying calm accomplish? The answer is: a lot. Staying calm can help you prioritize, focus, and affect your overall health. According to Health.com, a website dedicated to wellbeing, staying calm can help you in many aspects of your life.
Being calm is a good thing, but how do you become calm? You don’t have to become a Buddha, or enroll yourself in some meditation class to help achieve a sense of calm. While you could do those things, you could also just follow these simple steps from Health.com:
• Shift your focus.
• Get moving.
• Snack right.
• Talk it out.
• Remove yourself from the situation.
Don’t wait until the last minute to try and calm down. Add these steps to your to do list, and start practicing them to achieve a calmer self. It’s easy to be stressed when you have a full plate, but it doesn’t have to be that way. You can change your life style, and be much calmer because of it. | <urn:uuid:0cd24d6a-a2f9-47ff-a4d7-5a3323746b52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vanpoolbailbonds.com/stay-calm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971779 | 338 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Every day, as dawn breaks, a silent battle commences on Spain’s busiest beaches: securing a spot as close as to the water possible. Starting at 7am, hundreds of people stake their claims in the sand with umbrellas – and sometimes chairs, tables and coolers too – before heading out to enjoy the water. Sometimes, they don’t return for hours. More and more complaints from residents and vacationers alike have led authorities of coastal Mediterranean communities to declare war on this “spot saving” by passing new ordinances or enforcing existing ones. “We’ve decided to go one step further and have local police remove these objects, which are turning a public space into a private space in the earliest hours of the morning,” says councilman José Manuel Prieto of Gandia in Valencia, the latest city where these regulations have been set into motion.
The measure has been well received by the majority of vacationers, according to Prieto and confirmed by various residents. “I take a walk here every morning, and I see a lot of older people coming and basically setting up fences, all at the very front by the water. And I don’t think it’s right,” says Carlos Peiró soon after leaving the water.
Eusebio Sánchez, who is 73, sees the logic in the prohibition even though he admits that he too has often left an umbrella speared in the sand to reserve his family the closest spot to the water. The vacationer, who comes from Toledo every summer, adds: “If the city council is doing it so the machines that smooth out the sand don’t run into issues with umbrellas, I’ll be the first to jump on board. However, if they’re doing it so they can collect fines and make more money, I don’t think that’s reasonable.”
The authorities want to prevent umbrellas from turning public beaches into private spaces before the sun is even up
In Gandia, a town whose population grows from 75,000 in the winter to 300,000 in the summer, the mere announcement has led to the overnight disappearance of the umbrellas – at least for now. Vacationers have complied with the rule change even before authorities have had to remove any umbrellas or issue any fines, which can run as high as €720. “The spreading news of the ordinance has set an example, which is exactly what we wanted, but we couldn’t achieve it just with a month of giving the people information,” the councilman reports.
Since the new rule came into effect last Tuesday, the number of umbrellas and shades set up early in the morning has diminished, and the ones that do appear on the beaches aren’t abandoned, instead left with someone standing guard nearby. But combating this phenomenon isn’t easy. In Torrox, a beach town in Málaga, where the umbrella sanctions have been in effect for two summers now, and where the recovery of umbrellas removed from the beach costs €30, simple deterrence hasn’t been enough. According to Pablo Escobar, local police spokesperson, “not everyone agrees. The last time we enforced the rule, there were people yelling insults at police from the balconies.” The neighboring town of Algarrobo and Granada’s Almuñécar have followed in Torrox’s footsteps.
In addition to the early-bird spot-claimers, another phenomenon that conflicts with local regulations can be observed in Torrox. “There are people that go to eat around midday and leave their things on the beach, or cool off with a nap in their house and come back around 6 or 7pm. And we’re taking action,” Escobar says.
Whose umbrella is it anyway?
According to Spain's regional governments, removing unattended umbrellas (after checking that the owners haven't just stepped away) isn't a problem, especially early in the morning. The challenge comes with issuing the fine; unlike cars, umbrellas don't come with identification. "You can only fine someone if they come back to claim the umbrella. And since it can cost up to €300, depending on the circumstances, the offending umbrella owner is better off abandoning it and buying another."
Towns such as Gandia are planning to implement much higher fines, up to €720, but the city council hopes to not have to issue them. "The initiative's intention is to dissuade rather than to punish," says Prieto. "We're doing this for the community spirit, to guarantee that everyone can enjoy the beach under the same conditions."
The deterrence measures haven’t been in place for very long in Torrevieja (Alicante), which last year removed the first umbrella and gave its owner a €150 fine. “It worked for a while. But this summer they’ve filled the beaches again,” says the mayor, José Manuel Dolón. The councilman admits that they haven’t taken action yet, out of fear that it would mean declaring war on the packed beaches. “We will, though. It’s unacceptable to claim public space like this.” According to sources from various regions, the people who use the umbrellas to stake out their territory at the break of dawn tend to be older, mostly men, who come on family trips every summer to the same tourist destination, often to the same part of the beach.
This problem doesn’t exist in Mallorca, where the hotels have a stronger presence and tourists “use more rental umbrellas and sun loungers,” says the city council. Salou in Tarragona, where beach cleaning starts at 5am, also doesn’t face the issue. “At that time, the machines don’t run into umbrellas. And up to now we haven’t thought it necessary to regulate them,” says a spokesperson.
The measures to tackle this practice are spreading rapidly, on the other hand, along the Valencian coast. Sagunto has begun to regulate unattended umbrellas. Alicante and Benidorm prohibit placing them before 8am, as does Cullera, a tourist apartment destination in Valencia. The Cullera councilman who oversees the beaches, Salvador Tortajada, describes his daily struggle: “Once the machines finish cleaning, there’s a race to see who can grab the first spot. Some groups are organized so that one person guards everyone else’s things. There are also those people who mark out their plot of sand with the umbrella pole.”
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The Satya Nadella-run Big Tech sector has been affected by the economic crisis. As part of “realignment,” Microsoft has made history by firing workers for the first time. Nearly 1% of Microsoft’s 1, 80,000 employees across its offices and product divisions are allegedly affected by the layoffs.
Additionally, Microsoft’s recruiting has slowed in the Office, Teams, and Windows divisions. Microsoft’s third-quarter profits were solid, with total sales of $49.4 billion and a 26 percent increase in cloud revenue (year over year). The corporation did, however, lower its expectations for Q4 revenue and profitability last month.
While Tesla, which is controlled by Elon Musk, has been laying off hundreds of workers, Twitter has also reduced its recruitment staff by 30%. Nvidia, Snap, Uber, Spotify, Intel, and Salesforce are a few notable big firms that have reduced recruiting. Oracle, a leading provider of cloud services, reportedly thought of firing thousands of employees recently to save up to $1 billion through cost-cutting measures.
Although Mindtree may have shocked the market with a great quarterly performance, experts worry that cutbacks at Microsoft may impede development in the company’s leading industry.
As a Microsoft partner, Mindtree, the seventh-largest software exporter from India in terms of market value, provides a wide range of services using the company’s tools and platforms. Microsoft made 1,800 job cuts this week to reorganize its business areas and responsibilities after the fiscal year concluded on June 30.
The multinational IT company declared that it will keep on hiring for additional positions and end the current fiscal year with more employees. “After five years, Microsoft has reduced staff. With only around 1% of their whole workforce affected, the job cuts are fairly minimal (1.8 lakh).
It was last carried out in 2016–17 and 2017–18. “We have observed some moderation in Mindtree’s leading customer vertical,” CNBC-TV18 was informed by Aniket Pande of ICICI Securities. Even if there are still macroeconomic concerns, he thinks the Bengaluru-based IT business will be able to do well over the upcoming few quarters.
Using Microsoft platforms and technologies, Mindtree delivers cloud, data and intelligence, customer success, and enterprise IT solutions, according to its website. The only Indian IT business to beat analysts’ predictions during the current earnings season is Mindtree, which saw sales increase by 32 percent to Rs 10,210 crore for the year ending March 2022 ($1.3 billion at Rs 79.73). This company did particularly well on the margin front.
This is happening at a time when the majority of IT businesses are struggling to retain their margins in the face of high staff expenses brought on by heightened levels of attrition, even while revenue growth is still robust as a result of quickly rising technology spending across all sectors. According to Mindtree, its attrition rate increased from 23.8 percent in the March quarter to 24.5 percent over the three months.
After the results report, ICICI Securities kept its “hold” recommendation on Mindtree. For the balance of the fiscal year that ends in March 2023, the brokerage anticipates that the midcap IT company’s earnings per share (EPS), or the revenue a business produces for each share, will stay stable.
Despite pay increases in the fiscal quarter ending September 2021, Mindtree CEO Debashis Chatterjee told CNBC-TV18 that the company expects a margin of more than 20% for the fiscal year ending March 2023. In regards to the second part of the year, Mindtree is “cautiously hopeful,” he stated.
The software company Mindtree has turned in a strong performance, outperforming experts’ predictions for profit, sales margin, and margin at a time when the rupee has fallen to several career lows versus the dollar.
The value of their profits in foreign markets like the US, the largest market for the Indian IT sector, rises due to the rupee’s depreciation against the dollar, which raises the profitability of IT businesses like Mindtree. According to Pande, the macroeconomic environment is a negative risk to Mindtree’s earnings per share (EPS), while the rupee is an upside risk.
If the rupee continues between 79 and 80 versus the dollar for the next two to three quarters, he anticipates a modification to its EPS projections of 2.3 to 3 percent. In the current bear phase in the IT sector, Mindtree shares are among the worst impacted. When a stock or index declines by more than 20% from its peak, it is considered to be in the bear zone.
According to analysts, Mindtree’s stock could rise by up to 27.6 percent. ICICI Securities has set a target price of Rs 3,700 for shares of Mindtree. Their fair value, according to Kotak Securities, is Rs 3,150, up 8.6 percent from Wednesday’s closing price.
Sunny Agrawal of SBI Securities favours midcap equities in the IT sector. Whether it is large-caps or midcaps, the whole IT pack has corrected dramatically over the previous 6 to 9 months. He claims that midcap IT is expected to grow at a CAGR of above 15-20% over the long run, compared to the large-cap IT sector’s 10–12%. From a long-term viewpoint, he advises purchasing the midcap IT drop to anticipate a return of 15-20% over the next 12 months.
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The possibility of applying the hybrid system to reduce the costs of industrial units (Applied research in the General Company for Textile and Leather Industries / Textile Factory / Hilla)
The purpose of the research is to clarify how to use the hybrid manufacturing system in industrial units through its use of modern production and marketing technology, and to show the impact of using this system on reducing production costs, improving product quality and achieving customer requirements by offering products that meet all his current and future needs, where the problem was research into the dependence of industrial units on traditional production methods, which led to the accumulation of products in warehouses, which is an expensive matter because traditional production systems depend on the method of everything produced is sold, and this opinion does not coincide with the development taking place in the business world and the modern environment. It is necessary to find a new manufacturing system keeping pace with this development and the current competitive world. The research reached several conclusions, the most important of which is that the factory did not use modern methods of production and marketing and relied on the old traditional methods, which led to the production of products that did not meet the needs and requirements of customers and thus led to the accumulation of products in stores and the reluctance of customers to buy them, which led to high costs of these products and their obsolescence. The research reached many recommendations, the most important of which is the necessity of applying the hybrid manufacturing system in the laboratory. To study because of its positive results in improving its performance and reducing its costs significantly as a result of adopting modern methods of production, selling and marketing and adopting the method of withdrawal in production and producing products according to customer requirements, as well as deleting all activities and stages that do not add value to the product. | <urn:uuid:e7b3990d-75a0-40e8-afdb-a68c90991527> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://journal.mauc.edu.iq/index.php/JMAUC/article/view/442 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.969132 | 353 | 1.984375 | 2 |
How to Select a Golf Ball Type Based on Swing Speed
For many golfers, choosing the type of ball you see professional golfers using is not always the best idea. PGA Tour players use balls tailored to their individual swings. So should you. Golf balls are designed to take into account such factors as spin rate, speed and distance. Once you determine what your average swing speed is, you can select the right ball for your game.
Choose the compression of your ball based on your swing speed. A good rule of thumb is 100 compression for swing speeds over 100 miles per hour, 90 compression for swing speeds over 90 mph and 80 compression for swing speeds under 90 mph.
Pick a golf ball with a construction designed to maximize the effectiveness of your swing speed. Choose a two-piece golf ball for swing speeds under 90 mph, a multi-layered ball for swing speeds under 100 mph and a performance ball for swing speeds over 100 mph.
Choose a golf ball covering. Pick a surlyn cover if your swing speed is under 90 mph, a balata covering if your swing speed is under 100 mph and an elastomer covering if your swing speed is over 100 mph.
Choose several golf balls that match your swing speed and head to a golf course. Test your new balls on each hole to get a reasonable comparison. Use the ball that performs best for you in the field.
Field testing golf ball choices is the best way to determine the best ball for you. Local golf pros can help you choose the right golf ball after you take lessons.
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From Mary’s Desk:
The cube is the clue that you are about to enter a very different place, the Science Discovery Center in Irvine. Kids and adults of all ages were challenged and entertained by the hands on exhibits, be it computerized earthquakes, radio broadcasting, playing virtual hockey or the science of flowing water. With three adults and three kids we each took a kid and went separate ways.
Theo practiced on the climbing wall. He attached appendages that represent ailerons to his arms and experienced the forces of wind in a wind tunnel. He lived through 3 major earthquakes in a shaking machine while watching video of Kobe, Japan, Lomo Prieta, California, and another major quake from Santiago, Chili.
His favorite activity was making a short movie with three plastic animals as the participants. I didn’t count, but I’d guesstimate there were 80 to 100 hands-on encounters on two floors. What you didn’t know amazes.
In the afternoon a Science of Bubbles show, fascinating and entertaining, resembled magic. Who would have thought bubbles are studied for their scientific properties of value?
Later in the day, Owen was quite impressed that his younger cousin uses a skate board park. Austin is 7 and Owen is 10, a good reason to think he could try it.The beauty of this Etnie’s Park is the management. Lessons are given, kids are watched and coached. They must wear protective gear and so on. Nicely done.
Austin’s lessons show to good advantage, back foot in maneuverable position, wide, strongly balanced stance. He is undaunted by deep bowls and up-hill runs and small jumps. He knows how to go over the side of a deep bowl.
Owen, without ever a lesson, tackled hills and bowls as well, and learned gobs. Nicely done.
Theo enjoyed rolling down the grassy hill and playing about the grounds while we adults played Bananagrams at a table.
Montana parents told us that this Portola Hills Etnie’s is considered the best skate board park in the world and folks come from all over to use it, which is why they brought their son. Quite an accolade. If you are in Southern California, a great place to take your kids. | <urn:uuid:3eb71b30-aa59-4045-8139-908ee6ce692d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://otrwjam.wordpress.com/tag/auto-travel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971584 | 480 | 1.851563 | 2 |
"Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage."
The world's first telegram was sent on May 24, 1844 by inventor Samuel Morse. The message, "What hath God wrought," was transmitted from Washington to Baltimore. [...] Western Union goes back to 1851 as the Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. In 1856 it became the Western Union Telegraph Company after acquisition of competing telegraph systems. By 1861, during the Civil War, it had created a coast-to-coast network of lines.
Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams:
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San Vicente Reservoir Closing to Recreation Sept. 2
August 26, 2008
Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 2, San Vicente Reservoir will be closed to all recreational use in preparation for a project to…
Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 2, San Vicente Reservoir will be closed to all recreational use in preparation for a project to raise the height of the reservoir’s dam to increase its water storage capacity. During the closure of the city of San Diego-owned reservoir, water skiing, wake boarding, general boating and fishing will not be allowed.
The San Diego County Water Authority is overseeing the construction of the San Vicente Dam Raise Project, which scheduled to begin in early 2009 and will take about four years. Refilling the reservoir after construction will take another two to five years. The reservoir will reopen to recreation sometime between 2014 and 2017, once the water level reaches the new boat launch ramp. More than three years of community outreach was conducted to ensure that recreational users and the surrounding community were aware of the extended closure.
The San Vicente Dam Raise Project is part of the Water Authority’s more than $1 billion Emergency Storage Project, which is creating new emergency water storage and pipeline connections to deliver water throughout the region if our imported water supply is disrupted.
“The City has worked closely with the Water Authority on this important project,” said San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders. “In the end, the region will have much needed additional water storage and recreational users will benefit from a new and expanded marina and reservoir.”
“The San Vicente Dam Raise project, which is the largest of its kind in the U.S., is critically important to the future water supply reliability of San Diego County,” said Water Authority Board Chair Fern Steiner. “When complete, we will be able to store an additional 152,000 acre feet of water supply in the region for use during emergencies and drought, when we need it most.
While San Vicente Reservoir is closed, water skiers and wake boarders can use the City of San Diego’s El Capitan Reservoir. Fishing is also allowed at El Capitan Reservoir, in addition to the City’s other reservoirs. For more information, please visit the City of San Diego’s Web site at www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation.
As part of the San Vicente Dam Raise project, the Water Authority will also construct a new marina for the reservoir. The new marina will reduce boat launching wait times, provide picnic and shade areas, and increase the parking spaces and areas for boat preparation.
For questions about the San Vicente Dam Raise project, please call the Water Authority’s toll-free information line at (877) 426-2010 or email firstname.lastname@example.org. Information is also available on the Water Authority’s Web site at www.sdcwa.org. Click on “Infrastructure,” then “ESP,” then “San Vicente Dam Raise.”
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Exact description of the location of every cemetery in Shiawassee County, showing maps. Soft cover, 19 pgs.
EARLY LAND OWNERS OF SHIAWASSEE COUNTY
1836-1845, Grantor to grantee, and grantee to grantor, alphabetically arranged. Soft cover, 178 pages
MARRIAGES FROM 1862 TO 1867
Taken from Book B, at the Court House. Soft cover. 75 pages.
NATURALIZATION INTENT RECORDS
Shiawassee County 1854-1906, alphabetically arranged. Soft cover, 59 pages
Books of tombstone readings from the following cemeteries
BETHANY CEMETERY - Perry Township
Reading of tombstones combined with the priest's records. Soft cover, 25 pages.
ELMWOOD CEMETERY - Hazelton Township
Taken from sexton's records and actual walking of cemetery. Soft cover, 69 pages.
HAWKINS CEMETERY - Caledonia Township
Reading of tombstones and sexton's books. Included are numbered plots. Soft cover, 18 pages.
HILLCREST CEMETERY - City of Owosso
Reading of tombstones and sexton records. Complied by sections with an index. Soft cover, 209 pages.
MAPLE RIVER CEMETERY - Shiawassee Township
Listing of plots, tombstones, from A.B. Cook's records. Soft cover, 26 pages.
MIDDLEBURY CEMETERY - Middlebury Township
Reading of all tombstones, compared to sexton's records. Included are plot maps of all sections. Soft cover, 24 pages.
MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY - Rush Township
Reading of tombstones, checked with the township clerk's records. Soft cover. 16 pages
NEWBURG CEMETERY- Shiawassee Township
Reading of tombstones, checked with the sexton's records. Soft cover, 25 pages.
NEW HAVEN CEMETERY - New Haven Township
Including Easton, New Haven and West Haven Cemeteries. Reading of all tombstones with plot maps. Soft cover, 68 pages.
OAK GROVE CEMETERY - Owosso Township
Reading of tombstones, checked with sexton's records. Plots included. Soft cover, 36 pages.
OAK HILL CEMETERY - City of Owosso
This is a tombstone reading with maps of each section included. Soft cover, 305 pages.
OAKLEY CEMETERY - Brady Township
Listing of tombstones, from the west. Sexton's records from 1945-1993. Soft cover, 11 pages.
RIDGE ROAD CEMETERY - Saginaw County
Located just north of Shiawassee County. Reading of tombstones and sexton's records after 1945. Soft cover, 47 pages.
RIVERSIDE AND RIVERSIDE WEST CEMETERIES - Rush Township
These two cemeteries are roughly across from each other. This is a tombstone reading with Rush Township Clerk's cemetery records. Soft cover, 40 pages.
ROSELAWN CEMETERY - Perry Township
Listing of tombstones, sexton's and township clerk's records. Soft cover, 119 pages.
RUSH TOWNSHIP DEATH RECORDS- Rush Township
These records were transcribed from the original records of the Rush Township clerk, covering the years 1898- l951. Soft cover, 65 pages.
ST. MARY'S CEMETERY - Caledonia Township
These records were copied from previous readings, plus the records at St. Paul's Church. Soft cover, 17 pages.
ST. MICHAEL'S AND OAK GROVE CEMETERIES - Oakley, Saginaw Co.
These two cemeteries are in the town of Oakley. Readings of tombstones and sexton's records. Soft cover, 28 pages.
UNION PLAINS CEMETERY - Burns Township
These records were taken off tombstones. A plot map is included. Soft cover, 37 pages.
WOODHULL TOWNSHIP CEMETERIES - Woodhull Township
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When we are redesigning our bathrooms or shower rooms, there can be many decor points to get excited about such as the paint color, bathroom rugs, flooring and tiles, and even toothbrush holders!
You may not think that the shower faucet itself is anything to get excited about but that couldn’t be further from the truth, especially given the wealth of choice you have when it comes to choosing one.
Not only can faucets for showers be chosen based on the valve (this determines the type of showerhead or faucet you can have), but also you can choose one based on preference and design. By preference, we mean how you want the shower to feel on your body.
Yes, that’s right! Long gone are the days where the only showers available produced a slow trickle of water. Now there are so many options to choose from and you can really personalize the water flow.
In this article, we are going to be giving you the lowdown on all things shower faucet-related. We will be going into detail about all of the different types of shower faucets and what they may be best suited for.
We will be exploring these different types of shower faucets in terms of appearance and function, rather than plumbing aspects, to give you an idea of what they are like visually and in action. This will help you determine what style and design suit you best – after all, not everyone likes a super-powerful stream of water each morning!
If you are remodeling your bathroom, or even if you just need a replacement for an old shower faucet, we highly recommend that you have a read through our article to find out which type suits you best.
Single shower heads
The basic shower faucet that we all recognize is the single showerhead. This is typically fixed to your wall and produces water flow from one single head covered in nozzles.
The water can often be adjusted, allowing for harder or softer pressure. However, this depends on the type of single shower head you have.
Some of them may not have the ability to change the pressure of the water flow. Some models may also allow you to change the flow pattern choosing between concentrated streams, a spray, and a normal flow.
In terms of appearance, you can often choose from many options. You can get some made from solid metal, in the colors that match your existing bathroom decor.
These types of shower faucets are becoming increasingly popular because of their spa-like feel. This faucet is placed on the ceiling of the shower so that it is right above the user. In appearance they are typically quite large and flat, often having a square shape.
The water flows out like rain and depending on the model you may be able to adjust the flow to suit you – a light drizzle or a heavy downpour depending on your mood! The good thing about these showers is that, in terms of appearance, they are relatively subtle.
Even though they are large, because they are fitted on the ceiling they go relatively unnoticed. However, when the shower is turned on it is a different story”! Your friends will be begging for a sleepover so they can experience the luxury of this shower!
Another super popular shower faucet type is that of the waterfall shower. The waterfall shower does what it says on the tin in that it resembles a waterfall when it flows out.
These are very different to all of the other shower faucet types on here, as rather than flowing water out from different nozzles, a large stream of it comes out allowing you to feel as though you are showering in nature.
Whilst this may be aesthetically pleasing, it can take some getting used to if you are someone who has previously had showers that can allow for more direct, targeted streams of water.
They are often mounted to the ceiling for a full downpour effect. Some people choose to install them as part of a series of different types of showerheads so that they have the option for more direct streams of water from a traditional shower faucet.
These types of showerheads are typically attached to a flexible water tube giving you the ability to dismount it from its holder and direct it wherever you want on your body. These are another common type of shower faucet often seen in tub/shower combos.
They are typically fixed to the side of the wall and have a control station allowing you to choose the temperature and water pressure. These are a great choice for someone who may have limited mobility, or for families with children who may need to adjust the shower faucet to a lower height.
Shower sprays are another faucet that often features alongside the main shower faucet such as a single head or rainfall faucet. Typically they are attached to the inner walls of the shower, spraying out water onto the sides of the body. These are a great feature for some added luxury in your shower.
Multiple head showers
Multiple head showers are a mixture of any of the shower faucets we mentioned above. Typically there will be one main shower head faucet, for example, the rainfall shower. However, you can also choose to attach a handheld shower faucet and some shower sprays (also known as body sprayers), too.
As you can see, there is certainly a wealth of choice when it comes to picking out the right shower faucet for you. You can really personalize your shower experience depending on your preferences, how you want the shower to feel, and even the design of your bathroom.
Whether you want convenience and a shower that you can move around based on your and your family’s needs, or you want to bring nature into your bathroom, there is bound to be a shower faucet on our list to suit you.
Wondering how much water does a shower use? Check it out on our blog here.
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It seems we’ve all got an opinion about how global, national and local leaders are handing the coronavirus pandemic. In this show, Powers skips over all of that and talks about how COVID-19 is changing the way we look at different aspects of the health care system. She discusses nurses, doctors, epidemiologists and hospitals. Most provocatively, Powers addresses the issue of rationing and offers up an idea about how to control Medicare spending through a self-rationing system.
- Rates of prescription drug use by age: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- COVID-19 fatality estimates: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Emerging Infectious Diseases
Welcome to The Powers Report Podcast. I am your host, Janis Powers. The show brings you candid, unique and data-driven perspectives on the health care industry. I believe that any solution that is going to positively impact the American health care system has to satisfy two major criteria: financial viability and behavioral incentive alignment. In other words, access to high quality care can only be achieved if we can afford it, and if we behave in ways that optimize our health. Please subscribe to our show on iTunes or on your preferred podcasting platform and connect with us on social media. Again, this is Janis Powers, and welcome to The Powers Report Podcast.
Maybe by the time you listen to this, the panic over COVID-19 will have passed. Maybe there will be a vaccine or a cure. Or maybe the flu season will be over, and we’ll just be managing the disease by nipping it in the bud with much improved testing capabilities. As we record this show, I think a lot of us are feeling coronavirus fatigue as well as a big fat dose of cabin fever. So let it be known: this podcast isn’t about making predictions about how many people will die, or talking up potential cures, or critiquing our leaders for not doing a better job, or comparing the American response with other nations, or anything like that.
Instead, I want to talk about what the virus tells us about the American health care system. There’s a lot to learn.
Probably most importantly, we’re going to get a renewed respect for the health care worker, especially the nurses and other support staff. The people doing, literally, the dirty work. They’re not just diagnosing, but more critically, they’re taking care of the patients. These are the health care practitioners at the highest level of risk because they are in continuous person-to-patient exposure.
The virus isn’t changing our minds about what we think of nurses. It’s fortifying our opinion about an already well-respected profession. For years, Gallup has been polling people, asking them if they trust individuals with different occupations. When it comes to rating people on honesty and ethical standards, nurses have reached the top spot for 17 consecutive years. 84% of Americans rated nurses “very high” or “high” when it came to these criteria. Last on the list … members of Congress. They scored a pathetic 8% confidence rating. Clergy was at 37%, which was better than lawyers. They were at 19%.
So I think the nurses are going to come out of the COVID-19 crisis with enhanced status. Savvy nursing organizations are likely to use this unpaid societal debt as a means to better negotiate terms of employment. And I’m not just talking better pay and better benefits. I’m talking robust health and/or life insurance policies. If (and dare I say when) something like this happens again, nurses and their families need to be protected. We give veterans lifetime health insurance (OK … it’s not the best, but it’s free). Maybe we’re going to start giving that to nurses.
Now onto the doctors.
Over the past few years, hospitals and doctors have been on the forefront of aggressively billing patients for medical care. Maybe it’s the insurance company that’s structured the contract for the bills, but we get the bills from the doctor’s office. That doesn’t make us happy. In fact, in the Gallup survey where 84% of people rated nurses as “very high” or “high” vis-à-vis their ethical standards, doctors scored significantly lower. They scored 67%. That’s one tick above pharmacists. 66% of Americans had reasonable trust in pharmacists.
Now that right there ought to tell you something about the health care system. Doctors go through years of medical training and one of their jobs is to assess patients and prescribe medications. Pharmacists have a lot of schooling too, but they are the “face” of the meds. They explain what the drugs do, even though a doctor should have done and probably did the same thing. But the patient gets the info from the pharmacists right when they’re getting the meds. They want and need the meds (at least they think they do), so if all goes well, they are going to trust the pharmacist. And if things don’t go well, it’s the doctor’s fault for prescribing the wrong medication.
Most of us have this interaction with the pharmacist a lot. Almost 40% of people aged 18-44 are on at least one prescription medication. About 70% of those between 45 and 64 are on medication and those over 65 – about 90% of them are on something. No wonder we like our pharmacists.
But back to the coronavirus and what we think of doctors.
Doctors are trained to be sleuths. They talk with patients, run tests and review studies so they can diagnose and treat patients. Diagnosing COVID-19 doesn’t take sophisticated expertise. While doctors are supposed to approve the need for the test, we would-be recipients of a coronavirus test already know the questions we’re going to be asked, so we know what to say to get approved.
Question: Have you been in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus?
Done. We need a doctor for that?
Now, there have been some regulations getting waived in this time of crisis, and having a doctor approve your need for a COVID-19 test may be one of them. Some companies, like EverlyWell, are selling tests directly to consumers. Why should anyone need a doctor’s approval if the customer is paying for the test him or herself? Because there’s a shortage of tests? Well, that’s a short-term view. We’ll have plenty of tests before we know it (that’s the optimist in me speaking) and adding a doctor’s approval to get one just adds unnecessary costs and time to the equation.
Aside from that, doctors are on the front lines tracking the virus’s mysterious variations in how it manifests from patient to patient. Why do some people get better and then suddenly worse? What treatments are working, and which ones aren’t? What should be tried and on whom? This is doctor territory. And doctors are under immense pressure to figure this stuff out, and fast.
We expect doctors to know what to do, but no physician knows what to do in the face of a global pandemic. The work doctors are doing is not as transparent as what we’re seeing with nurses. That’s because doctors are learning with every patient and amassing knowledge along the way. They are getting better at treatment. And they, like the rest of the medical professionals out there, are putting themselves at risk too.
I think, increasingly, that the epidemiologists are taking the limelight away from the work doctors are doing. Everyone wants to know when this is going to crest, so we can know when it will end. So we’re hanging on the projections made by epidemiologists.
Well, as far as I am concerned, epidemiologists who are making projections on a never-seen-before virus are about as useful as economists who are making predictions about when we’re going to have a recession. In other words, not all that useful. Epidemiologists would have more credibility if all their models came up with similar answers. But they don’t. Even better, most provide these hysterical ranges. The Centers for Disease Control, the CDC, published a study on March 13. Its key take-away is that the death rate from COVID-19 ranges from 0.25% to over 3%.
That’s an absurd range for a number of reasons, the first of which is because it takes into account death rates from other countries, like China. I don’t know about you, but I have zero faith that any statistics that come out of China, or Russia for that matter, are legit. Second, and more importantly, the calculation is flawed because the data set is flawed. We all know that tons of people could have the virus and they’re not showing symptoms. So they’re probably not being tested. And those with symptoms haven’t all been tested. We don’t have a true denominator. We can’t calculate an accurate death rate because we don’t know how many people had the coronavirus in the first place.
Please, let the doctors do their jobs and tell the epidemiologists to stop freaking everyone out.
Then there are the hospitals. They are becoming the center of everyone’s concern. In times of crisis, we always look to hospitals in our community. But I think that needs to change in the coming years. We need to consider what a hospital is going to be like, germ-wise, once this virus thing settles down. Hospitals have long been considered the worst place to be when you’re sick. According to the CDC, and I quote, “On any given day, one in 31 hospital patients has at least one healthcare associated infection.” In case you’re into the math, that’s 3.2%, or about the calculated death rate of the coronavirus, according to some epidemiologists.
People get infections not just from dirty instruments or from bacteria on health care providers’ hands. There’s just nasty bacteria in the guts of the facilities that cleansers cannot remove. And these bacteria sound as terrible as they are, like Clostridium difficile and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known respectively as c diff and MRSA, which are a lot easier to say. Now throw in some COVID-19 and you’ve got a mélange of germs floating around the hospital. Honestly, the central core of hospitals that are over 100 years old just need to be demolished. That’s probably not good enough. Maybe everything needs to get leveled and we start with something new.
The main reason to have hospitals in 2020 is the provide a central location to perform complicated, highly acute tests and procedures. You need special equipment for that kind of thing. Operations that require patients to be in the hospital for days for monitoring and recovery need to be done in a hospital. Emergency cases with life-or-death situations require hospital-based care. Everything else needs to be done somewhere else.
First, we shouldn’t have relatively well patients anywhere near the really sick patients who are being treated in a hospital. We shouldn’t have people getting ANYTHING routine in a hospital, from CT-Scans to colonoscopies, because we don’t want to spread disease.
Second, it’s cheaper to deliver care outside of a hospital. That’s because the provider doesn’t have all the financial overhead of a complicated facility to jack up their prices. They don’t need to allocate these dollars to all different kinds of services and better yet, they can’t hide behind the overhead as a means to inflate prices. Keep it simple, make the prices public and drive up competition. That’s better for everyone.
Third. The Medicare population is growing, which means more and more people are going to be in the hospital. There will be more very sick people to use the expensive equipment that’s in the hospital, so we don’t need other people around using it too, as an excuse to maintain efficiency. In other words, say you’ve purchased an MRI. You, as a hospital administrator, get your return on investment by using the machine a lot, so you can bill a lot, so you can make the money back that you’ve invested in the machine. You want it highly utilized. In the past, when there weren’t enough hospital-based patients to reach the utilization goals administrators needed, hospitals relied on outpatients to make up the difference. We shouldn’t have that need anymore.
Better yet, hospitals should simply stop buying stuff because they’re creating more supply than there is demand. There should be a rationalization of equipment, where the new, galactic stuff stays in the hospital for emergencies and complex cases and the older, but still reliable equipment moves elsewhere.
For more about what to do with hospitals, you can check out an earlier episode of The Powers Report Podcast called Let’s Find Out About the Hospital, Part II.
As a last topic, I’d like to get a little philosophical. Global pandemics don’t come around all the time, so this should be a time of reflection. We’ll spend plenty of time deconstructing what was done right, what was done wrong. The response to the coronavirus has not been and will not be executed perfectly. There will plenty of blame to go around.
The key tension point in this drama has been how to balance an economic standstill with the need to save lives. We don’t have enough resources to treat everyone. People have and will continue to die who may have been able to be saved, had circumstances been different. We are dealing with a rationing problem of epic proportion.
What guidelines should be used to distribute constrained resources? Treat the elderly first? Do a first-come-first served model? Allow rich people to pay more, enabling more people to be treated later, but putting them in the front of the line? Have a lottery? Most ethicists have come to the same logical conclusion. Resources go towards methods that maximize survivability.
In simple terms, that means they go to the young, not the old. Treating the elderly requires, on average, more resources because they are usually sicker to begin with, they take longer to recover, and they have a higher chance of dying. Why waste money and time on one person who could die, when you could spend those same resources on three or four people who have a better chance of living?
While that sounds reasonable, the ethicist isn’t the one who has to look people and their families in the eye and give the patient a veritable death sentence. Imagine if all these patients were in a rowboat and the ethicist decides that the older people shouldn’t be in it. Who pushes these people out? Not the ethicist! No one wants that job. No one should have to have that job.
We are spending a lot of money right now so we can avoid making as many of these decisions as we can. No matter what you feel about rationing – you love it, you think it’s immoral – a bill for the coronavirus is coming and it’s going to be gigantic. We should take this opportunity to think about how we will deal with the rationing. We’re going to need it sooner than we think.
Medicare, Medicare, Medicare.
Before COVID-19, Medicare spending was a major reason why the national debt was exploding. Now, the fastest growing element of the federal budget is interest payments, because we have to pay back old loans. The debt is going to grow considerably after the coronavirus passes. That means we’re going to be even more fiscally strained. We’re going to have to put controls on everything, and that includes Medicare. But how?
American health care has morphed into a system that flourishes by keeping people alive. Not necessarily well, but alive. According to the World Health Organization, the average life expectancy for an American at birth is 78.5 years. The average healthy life expectancy is 68.5 years, or ten years less. The last ten years of your life, on average, will not be healthy. Earlier I mentioned that 90% of Americans over aged 65 were on at least one medication. Either they need the medication because they’re sick, or they’re taking medication and it’s making them sick. We take too many drugs, so you never know. Regardless, the older you are, the sicker you are.
About a quarter of Medicare spending occurs in the last year of a person’s life. Think of the health status of a person on Medicare in the last year of life. It’s scary to think that one in three people dies with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia. Maybe your parents are getting old, or your friends are. Maybe you know some older folks who’ve died, and you’ve watched them go through a slow decline. Now think that person is you.
We have some legal means to control how we die. We can use Do Not Resuscitate orders or DNRs. These are orders written by a doctor and they are signed by people when they are in their right mind and mentally capable. The DNR prohibits health care providers from performing lifesaving activities, like CPR or the use of breathing machines, if the patient stops breathing or their heart stops beating.
Now I’m not going to discuss the use or the non-use of DNRs in the case of COVID-19. But I will say that we need to start expanding a person’s legal ability to control how they die beyond the power that’s conferred via a DNR. There are so many life-saving capabilities, but we don’t all agree that they should all be used on everyone. Yet that’s, broad brush, what goes on in the Medicare system today. We spend tons of money trying to keep people alive because it seems morally right. But is it?
We’ll never agree as to whether it is, or it isn’t. Since we can’t agree, we should, morally, offer lifesaving care as recommended by a physician to those who want it. But there are people, and I am one of them, who do not want to expend my resources or worse yet, burden my children and the rest of the American community with debt, to take care of me when I have little chance of getting well and the quality of my life is beyond substandard.
We should take this time to determine how we want to live and how we want to die. We should start to get clearer on what “substandard living” is. Maybe it’s mental incapacity. For another person, it may be an inability to stand, shower and clean themselves. I want to live a full, healthy life for as long as I can. I want access to life saving treatments when I am young. But if I ever get to the point when I am infirm and/or demented and can’t help myself or communicate with the ones I love and care about, it’s time for me to go. I’m not talking assisted suicide, but more of a humane cessation of medical care that allows me to go out on my own terms. I should get to decide how I die. That choice needs to be made while I’m healthy. And I hope other people get that opportunity too, before it’s too late.
I wish you all a joyous, virus-free spring. Nurture your immune system, live life to its fullest and be as healthy as you can be.
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The Federal Reserve plans to unwind its bond borrowing since inflation has hit the very best degree since 1980. Whereas rates of interest will keep close to zero, for now, the Fed will begin elevating rates of interest as early as March 2022. With a robust labor market and December 2021’s inflation charge close to 7%, the goal vary for the Federal Funds Charge will start to extend as a approach to assist comprise hovering inflation.
Rates of interest can positively or negatively have an effect on the U.S. financial system, the inventory markets, and your investments. When the Fed adjustments the Federal Funds Charge, the speed at which banks can borrow cash to lend to companies or people creates a ripple impact . Shoppers should pay extra to borrow and profit much less from decrease premiums on their deposits as family budgets squeeze even tighter.
The elevating and decreasing of the Fed Funds Charge is the position the Fed performs in stimulating or slowing down the financial system. In idea, decreasing rates of interest ought to assist enhance the U.S. financial system by encouraging borrowing and spending; shoppers and companies are extra keen to make massive purchases. Increased rates of interest decelerate borrowing and spending and limit cash circulate into the financial system. Each of those eventualities replicate the efficiency of the inventory market and your investments.
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Whereas a few of these money owed could have a set rate of interest, typically, the speed is a revolving charge relying on the prime charge. For that reason, buyers should contact their monetary establishments to lock within the rates of interest earlier than premiums enhance.
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Curiosity Charge Threat is the chance that an funding’s worth will change because of a change within the absolute degree of rates of interest, within the unfold between two premiums, within the form of the yield curve or in some other rate of interest relationship. Such adjustments normally have an effect on securities inversely and could be lowered by diversifying (investing in fixed-income securities with completely different durations) or hedging (e.g. by means of an rate of interest swap).
Investing entails threat together with lack of principal.
The Fed funds charge is the rate of interest on loans by the Fed to banks to fulfill reserve necessities.
Inflation is the speed at which the overall degree of costs for items and providers is rising, and, subsequently, buying energy is falling.
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"Nitzanim" Program - Family Therapy
For families with children aged 0 – 9
"Nitzanim" - therapy for families with children aged 0 - 9
Toddlers and young children who have undergone trauma or stressful situations in the family are not necessarily perceived by their family as requiring therapy. Many people are convinced that young children are not affected by what is happening around them, or that they do not remember events which occurred when they were young. Research and experience indicate that this assumption is not correct, and it could even be dangerous.
Nowadays we are aware of the fact that early intervention is capable of solving current problems and helping to prevent problems in the future.
The “Nitzanim” program is here to help children with social, emotional and behavioral difficulties due to trauma or stress within the family, and to address developmental issues which are specific to children. The therapists of the program offer comprehensive assessment and treatment that focuses on the child, in collaboration with the parents. The treatment plan that will be created in cooperation with the family will best meet the needs of both the child and of the family. Our approach empowers the parents and encourages strengthening the child-parent relationships by means of games, supporting the parent, and working with the child / parent or child / family. | <urn:uuid:e7e02f47-c726-4161-bf75-af4935e5d9c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shiluv.org.il/en/family-therapy-in-jerusalem/nitzanim-therapy-for-families-with-children-aged-0-9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977226 | 262 | 2.0625 | 2 |
I could go into lost of details, but i'll try to keep this short. (not that it;s brief).
1) if you drive an average 250mi/wk (12K per year), a common hybrid or micro diesel pushes that on about 5 gallons (US) of gas, or about $18-20US per week. The leaf uses 30-32KWh to charge from dead empty (but it never really can be now can it) and given the last 10% of the charge is hardest, you'll get about 33-35KHw average per 100 mile equiv charge, so ~100Kwh/week, ballpark US at $0.10/kwh = ~ $10/week, or about half the price of gas in a comparable small hybrid car assuming a 12K mile annual driving habbit. Because of summer and winter (mostly winter) inefficiencies, you can reliably trust the car only 70-80 miles a day unless you can charge while at work so keep that in mind.
2) CO2. Pretty much the simple answer is, unless more than 50% of your power comes from renewable sources, it is NOT greener. Wells to wheels figures put oil at about 23lbs CO2 per gallon (19lbs is from burning it, the rest refining, mining, transport is a small part of the total). Coal is 2.1lbs/kwh just burned. Mining, storage, and transport is actually WORSE than oil (oil is mostly pipe-lined, coal has to be manually moved in fuel burning vehicles, and drilling vs mining, mining is also worse). Natural Gas makes 1.9lbs CO2/kwh. 56% power from coal, 20% from natural gas, just combustion, you;re at about 1.5lbs/kwh. 150lbs a week, give or take your region. This does NOT include transmission losses (but the roughly 33KWh figure /100 miles above does), and does not including mining/refining. 5 gallons of gas = 100lbs CO2 (+ mining refining) and electricity = 150 (plus mining and transport). That's just CO2... Sulfur, Mercury, and other hazardous EPA managed output from fossil fuel electric generation is about 3-6 TIMES as high in an EV than burning even diesel fuel.
The environmental impact of an EV is much heavier than a standard car. By some estimates, building a car is half or more of all of its CO2 output it will ever have. I don't know if I buy it, but an EV is more impact as making those batteries, and the rare earths in the motors is higher than the impact of a block of iron for an ICE. By how much? VERY hard to tell.
A comparable micro-diesel, with similar interior room, and driving performance, is about $7-15K less than an EV (depending on subsidy, and considdering some microdiesels and hybrids get their own subsidies too). Odds are, at even twice the driving range (pushing an EV to it;s theoretical max per week given charging times), gas prices have to go over $6 within your first 3 years of ownership, and continue to rise to $8/gallon inside 7 years, while energy prices stay the same (unlikely), in order to break even. This does not take into account higher insurance on EVs, and higher repair bills, nor that battery swap every 10 years... They will also likely depreciate in value VERY fast as newer battery tech and better systems are coming out rapidly (current EVs will be obsolete in 5-7 years, replaced by MUCH better ones, and battery prices are falling by as much as 25% a year. buying an EV for economic reasons is not sound. buying an EV for environmental reasons is not sound (unless you live where more than 50% of power is from solar/wind/water).
There's a lot of fuzzy math, and a lot of FUD out there. One thing to keep in mind, that EV, it uses as much as half a common house in power every month (or more) per car. We can afford a 1-2% increase in total grid output in the USA right now, and power capacity is not expected to dramatically improve for 5-10 years. That means 1 in 75 houses can have an EV, and even this is limited to areas not already strained by underdeveloped power (California, southeast USA, etc).
They ARE the future, but we're not in the future yet. EV development has to continue, and to do that they need SOME of the cars to sell, a small number, governmet subsidized. In 20 years we might be able to start selling them in masse, but for now only confused greens and misled people believe they're doing something good by buying one (other than supporting a growing economy). | <urn:uuid:31742ca1-8dca-4e3f-a863-ff244467548c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forums.theregister.com/user/1216/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958432 | 1,008 | 2.25 | 2 |
To understand why the taxi industry is so rankled by Uber Technologies, it may help to know what Parmjit Singh is up against every month.
A cab driver in Cambridge, Singh starts every shift in hole. The loan for the purchase of his taxi medallion runs him a whopping $2,300 a month; commercial driver’s insurance another $700, maintenance $250. He also has to pay the dispatch company $80 a week to get fares radioed to his vehicle.
In a good month, Singh clears $1,600. “It’s very hard for me to make money,” he said.
On the other side of the technology divide is Larry Curtis, who’s been driving for Uber in the Boston area for about 11 months. Car payments for his 2013 Hyundai Sonata are around $350 a month, plus another $75 a month for maintenance. Like many Uber drivers, Curtis uses his personal insurance for his driving business — about $100 a month — and his only other major expense is the $10 a week he pays for the smartphone that Uber uses to send him fares.
Uber takes 20 percent of every fare, but even so, Curtis calculates he makes about $3,500 a month, working 45 hours a week. “My personal experience of the Uber experience has been very, very favorable,” Curtis said.
Such experiences aren’t outliers. Taxi drivers often work long hours just to break even; meanwhile, Uber has said its Boston drivers earn $26 per hour before expenses, including the 20 percent referral fee. The company has even put up recruiting ads on billboards around city boasting its drivers make $1,600 a week.
Uber and other ride-sharing companies have multiple advantages over the old taxi industry and even black-car services such as livery drivers. They are subject to fewer regulations and have lower expenses because the drivers aren’t treated as commercial drivers.
For cabbies, the issue boils down to one of fairness: Ride-sharing drivers, Singh said, “don’t have insurance. They don’t have livery tags. They don’t have anything like that. I follow the rules and regulations, and these people aren’t.”
In December, the Patrick administration proposed regulations that would require companies like Uber to adhere to basic insurance and safety standards. But those regulations would do little to close the expenses gap between taxi drivers such as Singh and Uber drivers like Curtis.
Earlier this year, the city of Cambridge backed off its efforts to more closely regulate ride-sharing services after angry members of the public said the regulations would raise prices and drive Uber away.
New York City treats Uber similarly to other black-car services: Drivers pay $625 annually to register their vehicles and have them inspected, and another $84 a year for a special license.
All New York Uber drivers must also have commercial insurance. Even with those restrictions, the company has more than 7,000 vehicles, amounting to almost half the city’s black-car fleet, and pays almost $5 million a year in fees. As with cabs, Uber adds a 9 percent sales tax on fares.
But other cities, including tech-friendly climes on the West Coast, have been more hostile. San Francisco and Los Angeles have recently sued and settled with ride-sharing companies, saying that they have misled consumers about the background checks they conduct on their drivers. Facing a lawsuit form the city of Portland, Ore., Uber agreed to suspend its service until Portland adopted regulations for ride-sharing companies.
Conversely, Uber has hailed Colorado and Washington, D.C., as models of regulation, in which ride-sharing drivers are required to carry some sort of commercial insurance, but fare regulations and service requirements are not as restrictive as for taxis.
Cambridge had considered regulating ride-sharing services similarly to livery vehicles before it backed off in June, much to Zagloul Ayad’s disappointment. A part-time livery driver in Cambridge, Ayad said the paperwork alone that he has to fill out — but Uber drivers don’t — costs him time and lost fares. Moreover, Cambridge requires a minimum $40 fare for livery service, “even if you go from one building to another,” Ayad said.
By contrast Uber’s cheapest service has a minimum fare of $5.
Ride-sharing companies have long said that they are not comparable to cabs or black-car services, but rather are intermediaries that provide software that riders use to hire independent drivers.
Uber, Lyft, and other so-called ride-sharing services also don’t have dispatching licenses with Cambridge, which cost $250 per year, said Andrea Spears Jackson, chairwoman of the city’s license commission. The only software company to have a cab-dispatching license, Hailo, has since pulled out of North America due to intense competition from ride-sharing companies.
Cab companies face other expenses, said Walid Nakhoul, whose Checker Cab Company owns 25 vehicles that it leases to drivers. He can only get insurance coverage for his vehicles from the state’s high-risk coverage pool, which costs $10,000 a year for each car; Nakhoul also pays for a full-time mechanic to maintain his vehicles.
“Competition is always good and healthy,” Nakhoul said, “when everyone plays by the same rules.”
The ride-share industry’s growth shows little sign of abating. A business journal reported in November that internal Uber documents show the company on track to net some $2 billion in revenue in 2015. In June, Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick told The Wall Street Journal the company’s revenue was “at least doubling every six months.” In late 2013, Lyft, another popular ride-sharing company, reported revenue growth of 6 percent — a week.
But for Singh, the cab driver, the figures are much smaller. After paying his business expenses, he estimates his income is half of what it was three or four years ago, before Uber and other ride-sharing services came to town. Instead of $100 days, they’re more like $40 or $60.
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In Olympia, Wash., a team of mental health support professionals roams the town in a van and responds to non-violent situations formerly handled by police.
Members of the City Council’s Human Services Committee showed interest in the Olympia model and others like it at their Aug. 31 meeting, backing the establishment of a subcommittee to examine models such as in place in Olympia, Denver, Colorado, and other communities as an alternative to the City’s current emergency response system.
Alderman Eleanor Revelle, 7th Ward, chairing the meeting, told Committee members that what is being done in those places may not be an exact model for Evanston, “but I think they provide some very helpful examples for us as we want to think about what might work for us here.”
Aldermen began considering alternatives to current police response over the past few months, responding to protests that arose after George Floyd’s death in May and prompted local activists to call for a reduction in the Evanston Police Department’s budget.
Evanston devotes more than 35% of its General Fund and nearly 13% of its total spending to its annual $41.1 million police budget. About 94% of that money goes to salaries, pensions and other benefits for the department’s 202 employees.
Critics of the current system charge it can lead to “over-policing” and can involve situations police aren’t trained to deal with, leading to unwanted incidents.
The Olympia program was one of the alternative policing systems featured in an Aug. 24 Q&A session moderated by Mayor Stephen Hagerty.
The Mayor has been hosting the programs — which present different sides of policing — in advance of Council discussions on the FY 2021 budget, which are due to start up soon.
In Olympia, in 2017, citizens passed a referendum to fund a public safety fund, which included funding for a mobile crisis unit, said Anne Larsen, the outreach coordinator for the Olympia crisis intervention program, speaking at the Mayor’s Aug. 24 session. The referendum passed overwhelmingly, she said, and created funds, $550,000 for a Crisis Response Unit, and $250,000 for direct services.
Olympia’s Crisis Response Unit includes two behavioral health specialists who work 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week from a specially-designed van, she said.
“The crew can get dispatched to the scene from our 911 system,” Ms. Larsen said. Or “a lot of times officers are on a scene, and they’ll request the crew team over police radio.”
The unit also assists “fire [the Fire Department] a lot, because a lot of our folks that we serve have chronic medical conditions, and so a lot of our folks are just really medically fragile. And so, we’ll get referrals,” Ms. Larsen said in the interview.
She said the group’s work can start early in the morning, with crew members waking up people who are homeless “in a nicer gentler way, and helping build some relationships and starting connecting them to services,” she said.
She noted that when the crew first came on board they did some cross-training — “kind of helping them understand police culture and the way that we might be doing a situation.”
Speaking at the Aug. 31 Committee meeting, Ald. Revelle noted that the Olympia unit went on nearly 700 calls in its first two months.
“A lot of them are self-initiated,” she pointed out.
“Sometimes a police officer will say, ‘Gosh, I don’t really need to be involved in this call,’ and they all call the crew team.
Obviously some [of the calls] come from 911. Some, maybe come from the business community, familiar with [the crisis unit’s] routine,” she said.
One big advantage of the program is “not only do they [the crisis Intervention workers] spend more time at the crisis situation, but then they follow up the following day, the following week,” she said. “It’s more of a sort of a full round of support and assistance so it really is a social service response, rather than a police response, to the calls.”
Other Committee members spoke in support of the move.
Alderman Cicely Fleming, 9th Ward, pointed to features in the Denver program, featured on the Mayor’s program, that included responders with medical training.
“Because I think, particularly with people who have some really severe mental health issues, medical training might be necessary,” she said.
She counted as a plus that Olympia crisis intervention team members do not rely on 911 calls, “but also [are] doing a little bit more with reaching out to folks before they even are making that call.”
Ald. Revelle told Committee members she believed the Mayor would appoint members to the subcommittee, similar to what he did earlier this year, naming citizens to a police oversight committee.
She said a “placeholder” could be established, providing funding for the committee’s work from mid-October until the end of the year, when officials believe some money will become available. City staff estimated $200,000 might be available for use.
Alderman Judy Fiske, 1st Ward, called the Committee’s step forward as “very positive in my view, but it is complicated.”
“And one of the things that I think I’m missing at here [is] getting all of our social service providers — have everyone represented everybody at the table, so that we can have a consolidated response — so that we know exactly what we need, what others can provide.”
Ald. Fiske, who at the last meeting expressed concern about the effect reductions to the police force, said police should have a place at the table too. | <urn:uuid:6d99e1f8-9902-485e-bb08-d4fbf45d35d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://evanstonroundtable.com/2020/09/01/council-committee-backs-looking-at-alternative-policing-models/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960146 | 1,282 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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We’re all feeling the heat at the moment. And our colleagues aren’t different. So, we’ve advised them to work flexibly to avoid the heat where possible, depending on the work they’re carrying out. This could mean some appointments may need to be altered but we’ll let people know if this is the case.
We want you to continue to be safe and follow the guidelines which are already published. But we’d also recommend that you don’t have any barbeques in this weather because the grass, hedges and trees are extremely dry and could catch fire, which could spread quickly and easily.
You should also check where you are storing any flammable liquids, such as petrol for your lawnmower, so you can make sure these are stored in a cool place, away from direct sunlight.
Whilst it’s lovely having some sunshine, it’s important to enjoy it safely. For more information about keeping safe in this heat, visit: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/seasonal-health/heatwave-how-to-cope-in-hot-weather/ | <urn:uuid:a9694ae3-bad8-4d31-8e39-6b8db11d3cb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.magna.org.uk/news/safety-information-in-extreme-heat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959176 | 247 | 1.5 | 2 |
More and more players in the NFL are succumbing to symptoms of memory loss, inability to concentrate and changes in personality that they attribute to repeated blows to the head during play. But as their numbers grow, researchers are struggling to keep up with understanding the brain injuries that concussions can cause. Now, for the first time, scientists are classifying the brain injury from head trauma into four distinct stages.
Most agree that repeated mild trauma to the brain in the form of concussions can result in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or a gradual buildup of a brain protein called tau. Just as with Alzheimer’s patients, where accumulation of plaques and tau tangles can space out healthy brain tissue and let nerve connections wither away, damage caused by concussions can trigger the accumulation of tau in CTE cases, eventually forming deposits large enough to interfere with key functions such as learning, planning and organization.
In the latest study, published in the journal Brain, scientists led by Dr. Ann McKee studied the brains of 68 deceased patients with CTE in order to find patterns in the way the disease develops. McKee, a professor of neurology and pathology at VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine, spent more than two decades researching Alzheimer’s disease. She decided to apply the same order in staging brains that she had become accustomed to in her Alzheimer’s work. The number of CTE brains she and her team studied is the largest to date, and allowed them to see patterns in the way the disease progressed. The patients included football players, hockey players, boxers and veterans (many of whom were athletes) and one who engaged in self-inflicted head-banging behavior.
In order to generate the least biased analysis possible, McKee and her pathology team conducted the autopsy analysis of the brain tissue, while another group led by Robert Stern, a neurologist and neurosurgeon at Boston University School of Medicine, carried out detailed interviews with the deceased patients’ families about the patients’ lives, behaviors and symptoms.
In her first pass at the data, McKee was able to discern a distinct pattern of where and how CTE progressed. She and her team found focal points where the injury to the brain seemed to start. These were concentrated in the frontal lobe, deep in the valleys of the convoluted cerebral cortex. Cortex tissue resembles a crumbled piece of paper with folds that create peaks and valleys, and the lesions of CTE seemed to start in the valleys where small blood vessels also congregate. “There is a fairly stereotyped lesion; where the gray matter dives in to create a valley in the brain is where we see the greatest damage,” says McKee. “We also see over and over in all of these cases that there is a strong tendency of the disease to start around blood vessels, which means the blood vessel is damaged with the injury.”
While it’s not clear what triggers the damage, McKee suspects that the junction of the elastic blood vessels butting up against the more gelatinous cortex tissue may be particularly vulnerable to the shearing forces from an impact.
Once the damage is done, however, it’s difficult to stop. Even after the physical blows no longer occur, a destructive chain of events is already in motion. From these seed points in the frontal lobes, damage to nerves and brain tissue radiates to other parts of the brain, until it eventually engulfs most of the organ, impairing many cognitive functions. “Even if a person doesn’t get additional trauma, the disease progresses, like a lit fire,” says McKee. “The fire takes hold and continues to affect the brain with more lesions the longer the person lives.”
Because the study included the brains of patients who died at a range of ages, between 17 and 98, McKee could see the growing buildup of tau in the brain among the older cases. She could also see distinct stages of the disease, from lesser signs of lesions and tau to greater depositions. She could then correlate later stages of damage to longer play for the football players, and therefore likely more concussions.
While the findings confirm, and perhaps even reinforce how damaging concussions can be, McKee says they could also lead to better treatments for CTE. For one, recognizing that the disease begins with small lesions in the blood vessels could lead to helmets or other equipment that better protect the most vulnerable parts of the brain.
(VIDEO: This Is Your Brain on Football)
In addition, it could help scientists develop higher-resolution brain scans to detect these early signs of the disease. Current technology is not able to find such small abnormalities, but researchers are testing a tracer that could detect the tiniest deposits of tau protein that would alert doctors to the potential for CTE. Patients could then be warned to avoid repeated head trauma like those that might occur on the football field.
Understanding that the damage occurs in the blood vessels could also lead to ways of protecting those vessels and preventing the damage from spreading to the rest of the brain. It’s not clear yet what is causing the initial lesions to seed damage to other parts of the brain, but if the damage causes leakage of agents that are toxic to nerve cells, for example, drugs or other interventions may block the added injury these lesions can cause.
The insights from CTE could also help researchers develop better treatments for other neurodegenerative conditions as well. “I’m optimistic that this disease gives us lots of insights into other diseases like Alzheimer’s,” says McKee. “If we could reduce tau somehow or wall off the early stages of the disease, we can prevent the degenerative part from developing.” Avoiding head trauma may not always be possible, but stopping the damage it can cause may one day be more realistic. | <urn:uuid:727207e7-646a-43df-b3c4-73df9a48be5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthland.time.com/2012/12/04/study-details-how-brain-injury-from-concussions-progresses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962057 | 1,216 | 3.03125 | 3 |
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The present publication and its best practice guidelines are the product of these seminars. The guidelines come from the participants’ observations and comments in the seminars as well as from their answers to a questionnaire in which the judges were asked inter alia to define the terms “pressure factors” and “conflicts of interest”, as well as to describe whether the institutional, normative, and practical protections against such influences are sufficient (for the questionnaire, see Annex I). The guidelines are intended to serve judges as a tool for dealing with pressure factors and conflict of interest situations in their daily work, thus contributing to the further improvement of the independence of the judiciary.
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What Seasonings Go Great Together?
English food tends to have a reputation of being bland and lacking seasoning. Despite our traditional Yorkshire puddings, mince pies, fish and chips, and Victoria sponges, we tend to enjoy cuisine from around the world. In fact, Indian and Chinese takeaways are a UK favourite.
And we can certainly take inspiration from herb and spice pairings from different countries. Salt and pepper can certainly add their own flair to home cooking, but knowing how to combine other seasonings can take your dishes to the next level.add a new dimension to your cooking. So let’s look at which seasonings go well together.
Why use herbs and spices in your cooking?
Adding herbs and spices to your food can bring a load of flavour and enhance that of other ingredients. By adding your favourite herbs and spices to your soups, curries, stews, and more, not only are you getting variety in your dishes, but they also taste pretty darn good. But there’s more.
Ever wondered why certain foods, particularly curries, have vibrant colouring? This is because of the variety of spices often used in this type of cuisine. Turmeric, for example, can also make your meals appealing to the eye.
Herbs and spices are also packed with healthy compounds. Ginger, for instance, is most popularly regarded as a powerful anti-inflammatory ingredient and has tons of antioxidants. As well as tasting fresh, peppermint, may also bring health benefits. It’s thought to aid digestion, relieve tension headaches, and reduce anxiety. And, of course, it will also make your breath smell nice!
What spices go well together?
As with any new flavourings you’ll try, you will have to be willing to step out of your comfort zone. Some may sound yummy, whilst others may just appear weird. But, trust us, with the connoisseurs of seasoning.
Let’s run down some of the most popular spices used in our kitchens, and what other spices that complement them.
Is it possible to think of this spice and not conure images of winter and Christmas? It’s one of the world’s most popular spices and for good reason.
If you’re wanting to add unexpected flavour kicks to your food, try pairing cinnamon with chilli powder. The blend of sweetness and spice balances well — you have the sweet, wooden flavour of cinnamon, with the bold punch of the chilli.
Another unforgettable favourite often found in Spanish and Mexican foods. Paprika pairs surprisingly well with a number of other spices.
Paprika and garlic powder is a favourite combination of ours. The mixture can enhance almost any savoury dish.
Paprika and cumin is another excellent blend. Cumin’s depth makes it a great base flavouring, while paprika helps make it “pop”.
As we have already covered, ginger has many potential benefits which can encourage us to consume it on a daily basis.
Ginger itself is a little sweet but has a surprising heat, making it a great addition to many sweet and savoury plates. Fortunately, there’s virtually no limit to the spices ginger goes well with.
Particularly good pairings include allspice, turmeric, cardamom, cumin and nutmeg. No need to use it gingerly...
What herbs go well together?
Now we’ve got the basic spices covered, let’s get onto the delicious herb pairings that will bring a new dynamic to your next meal.
Used in a multitude of ways, including in aromatherapy and medicine, rosemary has a striking and recognisable aroma. It’s a great seasoning for meat, poultry and vegetable dishes and can be even more delicious alongside a variety of other herbs.
Rosemary and thyme is a classic pairing. Both belong to the mint family, giving them a similar,
slightly peppery undertone. Or perhaps they work so well together because they both have a strong impact — they have a way of being assertive without overpowering one another. A match made in Heaven, and a go-to for all herb lovers.
Basil, one of the most popular fresh herbs, is found in a variety of meals. Whether as part of the cooking or placed on top as a garnish, basil’s unique taste can complement just about anything.
In cooked dishes, basil pairs the best with garlic, oregano, thyme, and bay leaves. When used fresh, basil pairs the best with mint, parsley, chives, dill. We’re prepared to say it’s the most adaptable herb!
Though it’s technically a shrub, mint is a very distinctive herb. Many products used in our everyday life are flavoured with mint— think toothpaste, chewing gum and mouthwash. It’s also a popular flavouring in food and drink. Where would we be without mint-choc ice cream?
Fresh mint is also an excellent choice to add extra dimensions to your dishes. Its refreshing taste and cooling effect offer a unique effect.
Parsley and mint are a popular pairing, and can often be found in Mediterranean dishes, couscous, salads, and omelettes.
If you’re looking for something a little more robust, try pairing mint with oregano. The latter’s warm, pungent flavour can be balanced by the refreshing mint.
Dried or fresh herbs and spices?
However you decide to pair your herbs and spices, you may find that some work best in fresh form while others have more impact dried. It’s good to have a mix of both dried and fresh at the ready.
Why not fill your Spice Rack with an array of favourite dried seasoning so you can mix and match your favourite flavours?
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Of all the different strategies and techniques for handling situations that come up as a parent, laughter is among the best. Not only does humor and laughter help to alleviate tension and stress, it has also been shown to benefit us physically. Here are a few benefits of parenting with a positive spin, as well as ways to incorporate laughter into your parenting routine.
Laughter helps to relieve physical stress and tension, which leaves your body feeling more relaxed after. A good laugh also gets your heart pumping and gives your heart and lungs a workout. Laughing for fifteen minutes burns almost the same amount of calories as a fifteen minute walk. This means that laughing can really help when it comes to keeping fit and keeping up with the kids.
When we laugh, our bodies release endorphins, which make us feel good and give us a sense of well-being. Laughing also reduces the levels of stress hormones in the body, which eases tension and anxiety. Reducing your stress hormone levels may also boost the performance of your immune system. This means that laughter may also help keep you and your kids healthy.
When people laugh together, it strengthens their relationship. If you share laughter and humor with your kids, it helps you to bond more as a family. Laughing together encourages people to work together as a team and helps to settle conflict. Your kids will feel more connected to you if you share laughter and will be all the more motivated to do what you want them to.
Humor also helps to relieve distress during times when you are feeling overwhelmed. By making laughter a part of every day, both you and your family can maintain a more positive outlook and healthy attitude, all the way around.
Bring Laughter into Your Life
It’s easy to make laughter a part of your parenting routine, because kids love to laugh and have a good time. If your kids have a hard time getting excited about cleaning up after themselves, come up with an encouraging activity or game to play while you clean. This way, they will actually want to participate and help out, rather than doing it to avoid getting into trouble.
When something bad happens and it’s time to get tough, try to focus on the positive aspects of the situation rather than the negative. Your kids may be more inclined to stay in bed at night if you talk to them about some of the fun things that might happen in the morning, rather than how much trouble they’ll be in if they don’t fall asleep.
Not only does laughter help to keep you and your family healthy and stress free, it also encourages your kids to behave better and enjoy life more. The times your family spend laughing together are the times your kids will fondly remember as they get older and form families of their own. If you encourage them to stay positive, they’ll pass that outlook down to their own kids in the future.
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What’s with all these luxury electric cars?
The news from the Frankfurt Auto Show underway in Germany is that Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen’s Porsche and Audi will join Tesla and BMW in the luxury electric car segment
Mercedes already has three electric models but Volkswagen’s plans raised eyebrows among industry watchers as manufacturers usually start off with a mid-priced electric vehicle (EV). However, the German companies had seen U.S.-based Tesla not only enter the EV industry with a luxury car but enter the auto industry that way.
Tesla “really succeeded in a moonshot” at creating the ultimate automobile, says industry watcher Matthew Klippenstein, who works as a professional engineer at SgurrEnergy in Vancouver and covers the EV market in Canada for the U.S.-based Green Car Reports..
In addition, Tesla was eating into Mercedes’, Porsche’s and Audi’s high-margin sales, even in countries like Germany and Switzerland, which don’t subsidize EVs.
So the Porsche Mission E and the Audi e-tron Quattro, which will launch in about 2018, are an attempt to hang on to their existing customers by competing with Tesla’s offerings.
“The luxury makers have realized the EVs offer a superior driving experience, as long as there’s adequate range for people’s needs,” Klippenstein says. The new luxury EVs can go at least 400 kilometres on a full charge.
Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, an automobile industry expert in Germany, says that Tesla’s Model S already outsells the Porsche Panamera and the Audi A8 in many markets. He expects the all-electric vehicle will surpass the plug-in hybrids and manufacturers will soon stop making hybrid EVs.
Telsa Model S top-selling EV in Canada in 2015
Over the first seven months of 2015, Tesla sold 1,132 Model S cars in Canada, nearly double the sales of both the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt, making it Canada’s bestselling EV this year.
The Leaf has been the best-selling EV internationally, while the Volt is to-date the bestselling EV in Canada, at nearly 4,700. A spreadsheet that Klippenstein maintains has total new EV sales in Canada at 14,224 from 2011 to 2015.
Tesla benefits immensely from subsidies, Klippenstein says.
The Canadian government doesn’t offer an EV subsidy but the Quebec government offers up to $8,000 when you purchase or lease an eligible EV and Ontario offers $8,500. Both provinces also offer a $1,000 subsidy if you purchase and install an eligible charging station.
In B.C., where Klippenstein drives a plug-in Toyota Prius, EV buyers can get up to $5,000 from the province’s clean energy vehicle rebate program, which resumed in April after a one-year suspension.
Klippenstein says sales of the Leaf and the Volt fell in B.C. after the rebates were suspended and went back up after they resumed. Sales of the much-higher priced Tesla showed little effect.
U.S. subsidies for EVs
U.S. subsidies for EVs probably helped drive the new luxury electric car programs. There’s a federal tax credit of $7,500 for battery-only EVs, plus the possibility of state and other subsidies. In California, which accounts for nearly half the country’s EV sales, there’s another $2,500 rebate available for electric cars. But for low-income buyers, that subsidy rises to $4,000.
Two months ago, the state eliminated the rebate for Californians with very high incomes, above $500,000 for households, half that for individuals.
A 2015 survey by the California Clean Vehicle Rebate Project had found that 77 per cent of the households receiving the subsidy had incomes of $100,000 or more and 40 per cent of households reported $200,000 or more in income.
“The primary beneficiaries of the subsidies have always been the automakers, who are required by CARB [California Air Resources Board ] mandates to sell a minimum number of electrics and plug-in hybrids or face fines,” writes Brad Berman at PluginCars.com.
The tax credits are supposed to help the carmakers sell their EVs while finding ways to cut production costs, so they eventually can compete on price with gasoline-fuelled vehicles.
The Wall Street Journal reported in August that, “Tesla’s entire market capitalization of $34 billion is nothing but the discounted present value of its expected future subsidies.” The Journal also said that Tesla generates millions of dollars in revenues by selling emissions credits to other carmakers.
Earlier, the Detroit Free Press quoted a Tesla executive proposing that automakers that don’t want to produce EVs “buy credits from us, and we will invest in electric vehicles for them.”
University of California Berkeley released a study in July that looked at the U.S. tax credits for EVs issued from 2006 to 2012 and found that 90 per cent of the credits went to the top 20 per cent of income earners.
Klippenstein says that Tesla’s cars are among the best in the world and would still sell well without subsidies. “The fact that EVs are superior to combustion vehicles means that the absence of subsidies will only slow the trend, it won’t stop it.”
Some states are concerned about losing income from the taxes they charge on gasoline. They say those taxes help pay for maintaining the roads which EVs also use, so they levy an annual fee on EVs.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has argued against those fees, saying they make drivers less likely to buy EVs.
The group Taxpayers for Common Sense points to the hundreds of billions of dollars the U.S. oil and gas companies receive in deferred tax liabilities.
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Like many commodities markets around the world, the Brazilian ethanol market has seen a significant impact from Covid-19.
Join Vanessa Viola, Senior Vice President for Latin America, and Amance Boutin, Latin America Biofuels editor, as they discuss the pandemic implications to ethanol supply and demand, how producers are handling this crisis and the outlook.
Vanessa Viola: Hello and welcome to Driving Discussions, a series of weekly podcasts brought to you by Argus about the major facts impacting the global energy and commodities markets. My name is Vanessa Viola, Senior Vice-President for Latin America. In today’s episode I talk to Amance Boutin, Latin America Biofuels Editor with Argus, about the impacts of coronavirus in the Brazilian ethanol market. Welcome Amance.
Amance Boutin: Thank you for having me, Vanessa.
Vanessa: Amance, how did the Covid-19 pandemic impact Brazil’s ethanol market?
Amance: Like across all energy markets, Brazil’s ethanol sector was taken aback by its effects. Brazilian producers also had to deal with a dual shock which rippled through both supply and demand and sent prices, volumes and expectations into a downward spiral starting mid-March. I would dare to say that those premises were even worse for Brazil’s ethanol sector.
Vanessa: How so?
Amance: Brazil’s ethanol production uses sugarcane as primary feedstock, whose crop season started on 1 April. That meant that the Covid-19 demand crisis hit right when the supply of feedstock peaked.
Now, you can’t store sugarcane in a silo like you would with soy or corn, or in an on-shore terminal or a tanker like you would for oil. Once you cut ripe sugarcane, it starts losing its sugar content within 24 hours. If you left it in the field and save it for later, it will affect quality content too. This means that mill growers and owners have to process it right away, which tends to exacerbate the offer shock.
You also have to remember that the Brazilian ethanol market is a free market. There is no overarching structure like Opep to discuss and mandate production cuts to attenuate the oversupply situation and balance the market.
Vanessa: And how did this translate in terms of prices?
Amance: All these factors sent prices for hydrous ethanol (or E100) in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil’s largest producer hub, down 40pc between 3 March and 2 April to R1,550/m³ or 101.5¢/USG. Prices have rebounded between R1,700-1,760/m³ since the beginning of May as demand destruction stabilized around 50-60pc versus pre-crisis levels.
Vanessa: What did the sector do to remedy this crisis?
Amance: Brazil’s sugar and energy sector pleaded the government for a series of measure to protect E100 ethanol demand against gasoline. Virtually all Brazilian cars can run on E100 and E27 gasoline, and Brazilian can drivers basically arbitrate between the two fuels. They tend to choose ethanol over gasoline when the price for E100 is 70pc or less the price of E27 gasoline.
Producers proposed two measures to safeguard this 70pc price gap. One was to raise the Cide federal tax on gasoline by R100/m³ and temporarily suspend a R131/m³ tax on hydrous ethanol. They also attempted to establish a 15pc import tariff on gasoline at the beginning, with a congressman closed to the ethanol sector even suggesting Brazil banned imports of ethanol, diesel and gasoline for three months.
Finally, they asked for credits that use ethanol as a collateral to keep companies afloat and help them invest in storage space.
Vanessa: Did the government attend these demands?
Amance: The credit lines did get a lot of traction, but the remainder of the proposals faced a lot of opposition from other players such as Petrobras, fuel retailers and traders, gas stations and the government itself.
They are still under discussion but the consensus is that all demands but credit lines have a chance to succeed as they would either cause losses for other market participants in the fuel sector or undermine tax revenue for the government.
Vanessa: You mentioned that E100 ethanol and gasoline compete at the pump. How did the crisis impact gasoline?
Amance: As you would imagine gasoline demand was also heavily impacted by the transport restriction measures. The number of players in the downstream segment is much smaller than ethanol, but the exposure to international price variation is probably greater. There is basically Petrobras, which owns most of Brazil’s refining capacity, fuel retailers and traders who imports gasoline and private refineries, but their volumes are marginal compared with the other two.
Demand destruction for gasoline was close to the levels we have seen for ethanol – about 50-60pc.
The steep drop in demand meant that Petrobras had to slash refinery runs, which dropped from 74pc on average in March to a low of 54pc around mid-April. Utilization rate is now back above 70pc, but Petrobras remains in a dire situation to maximize output as demand for refined products vary greatly. Gasoline is one of the products which faces oversupply.
Vanessa: Did Petrobras manage to reduce gasoline production to match demand?
Amance: To some extent, yes. But it also fought to retain domestic market share by keeping prices very low. Brazil faces a conundrum as gasoline demand remains very weak while demand for LPG is growing as Brazilians are cooking more at home due to the Covid-19 restrictions. Brazil’s LPG production comes mostly from oil refining and any reduction in gasoline production tends to reduce LPG output as well.
This has made life increasingly difficult for ethanol producers, but also for direct competitors such as fuel importers and independent refineries, which struggle to compete with Petrobras ex-refinery prices.
Vanessa: How is the outlook for gasoline imports?
Amance: It’s very uncertain to say the least. Importers are coping with negative margins as gasoline purchased abroad remains consistently more expensive than domestic product.
There’s also an aggravating factor, which is the upcoming changes in gasoline specification which will come into force in August.
Vanessa: What are these changes and how will they impact the market?
Amance: The most important changes are a minimum density requirement of 715g/l at 20ºC and a minimum RON number of 92 for E27 gasoline. It’s basically an upgrade which puts the Brazilian grade – which is currently a low density, low octane gasoline – closer to US and European specifications. Distributors will have a 60 days period where they will be able to sell their outstanding inventories of old specification gasoline starting 3 August.
It’s not clear yet what the impact will be in terms of pricing. We did a survey with importers in Brazil and refiners in the US and we heard a quality differential of 2 to 5cpg compared to the current price.
Brazilian importers are trying to maximize the use of the old specification before and during this transition period, but they also don’t want to carry stocks after October when the transition period ends. And the current scenario makes it very difficult to predict demand and consumption patterns.
Finally, they don’t know how Petrobras will react to the specification change. The company backed the change during the public consultation period held by Brazil regulator ANP. They argued that they already attended to the new specification in terms of density and that the change would not impact their prices, but market participants Argus spoke to think the octane upgrade will force it to raise its prices.
Vanessa: Thank you, Amance.
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By: Alex A. Bah
On the 31st October, 2003, Nations met in New York at the United Nations General Assembly and signed the United Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), which represents a commitment made by all Nations to fight corruption. The Nations that were present were gravely concerned about the seriousness of corruption and the threat it poses to stability and national cohesion, which undermines the institutional machineries, ethical values, justice, the application of the rule of law, and sustainable development. As such, they registered their unreserved commitment to employ their collective and concerted efforts to fight against this menace.
The International Anti-Corruption Day is a day that was then set aside to raise awareness on corruption, and actively promote campaigns motived to prevent and curb corruption in every sphere of society. It is a symbolic period that countries within the global space remind each other about the damaging effects of corruption, and reecho the need for sustained cooperation in the fight. The Anti-Corruption Commission of Sierra Leone being a signatory to the UNCAC, each year joins the rest of the World in commemorating the IAC Day.
The significant role of women in the fight against corruption takes pre-eminence in the discourse in this year’s commemoration, with the theme; Women taking center stage in the fight against Corruption. Women who are the primary caretakers of society; especially children in every part of the global space hold the most influence to the direction of society. They hold families together and the burden to raise children squarely rests on their shoulders.
In a report published by U. N. Women in July 2020, it indicates that one out of every three women face violence in their lifetime. They are at the heightened risks of violence in public places and at home they are often entrapped with their abusers, with limited access to support services, healthcare and justice systems. All of these assaults and abuse have in no small margin affected society by suppressing their enormous contributions in building an enabling and conducive society.
Bribery and Corruption as a social vice in Sierra Leone like many other parts of the world, is primarily a nurtured practice that children from their homes learn and absorb. This is why the fight against these inherent practices is fierce. It makes it very obvious that succeeding in this fight requires conscious steps to initiate virtues of integrity in various homes, and that will reflect on the broader society. This can be realized when women who are the torchbearers of homes normalize teaching morally accepted virtues and instilling integrity values in their children.
According to Stop Street Harrassment (SSH), an organization based in Reston, Virginia, United States, dedicated to documenting and ending gender-based street harassment worldwide, online survey in 2018, revealed that 77% of women as opposed to 34% of men are sexually harassed each. The survey further indicates that 66% of these women are being sexually harassed in public spaces, with 38 percent of them workplace. This is a pervasive problem that has permeated our spaces, suppressing women and depriving them of the enabling environment to realize and maximize their potentials. While steps are being taken and more actions are beckoned to be instituted, this anomaly is a grave integrity issue that can be addressed when women themselves start resisting, reporting and seeking redress for such issues. Their huge participation in public spaces can help design their approach to fighting corruption that they must have been at the receiving end at least at one stage of their lives as the aforementioned studies suggests.
While it is still blurry to ascertain whether women are less corrupt than men or not, it is however the argument that, where more women are strategically placed, are more likely to be democratic systems, and are generally intolerant to abuse of power which will provide the enabling environment for governance to improve and corruption falls. In Peru, for instance, a study shown that public perception of bribery as a major problem plummeted in 2012 as compared to 14 years earlier, with the recruitment of 2,500 women to patrol the streets.
According to Stuart Duff Article published in July 2019, she described Theresa May as a Resilient, Rigid and Robust leader. Though she was considered unpopular in other quarters, she focused on delivering on her promise to the British People. “As she met increased resistance though, May became more robust in attitude and behavior. She pushed away advisers as her desire was placed firmly on delivering what she had promised to the British people; leaving the European Union”, Duff wrote.
Moreover, the ACC’s success over the past three years, that has provided the impetus for its tangible recoveries, spot-on arrests, innumerable convictions, and its exponential rise in various local and global corruption assessments, can largely be attributed also to the indispensable role played by its ever-ready and fierce crop of female anti-graft fighters.
In 2019, through the Affirmative Action, the Commission under the stewardship of Francis Ben Kaifala Esq., promoted 80 percent of its female staff. This also includes two Regional Heads in Makeni and Kono that are women, out of the five Regional Offices. Every assessment and impact thus far, speaks volume of their contributions. Notably, two most important Departments of the Commission which are the Intelligence and Investigations, and the Human Resources Department are headed by women. The same is for the Commission’s Public Relations Officer, and the Deputy Director of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy Secretariat.
The fight against corruption is for all the reasons as stated above more of a national fight, but requires a huge commitment of women to achieve the desired results and impacts.
Women are by every art and act makers and shapers of society.
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Viva preparation helps you to change focus from the kind of work needed to get you to submission to the work needed to get you through the viva.
Is it ready, how much more, did I tweak that change that get it right…
Rush and overtime, a few more days, got to get it done get it done get it done done done
Prep, and the viva, require a slower pace. Nerves or anxiety come from the viva being important: rushing, continuing to try and get everything “right” is only going to compound nerves.
Use your viva prep time to change your focus. Slow down. Take your time. Read your thesis, make some notes, practise a little, remind yourself of your accomplishments and abilities.
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by Sally Colby
Peace of mind is a critical aspect of farming – knowing who is next in line for the farm is a critical aspect of mental health. Veronica McClendon, principal attorney with McClendon Law and Consulting, said physical health is often addressed but mental health is also an integral part of overall well-being.
“Farmers derive their livelihood from working the land and they’re business owners,” she said. “When farmers don’t have legal affairs in order in regard to the land to provide to the business they’re running, it’s hard to have peace of mind because so much is on the line.”
One situation that may lead to serious disagreements and family strife is heirs’ property. McClendon explained the concept of heirs’ property as “property that’s passed down from one generation to the next in a way that results in an increasing number of people owning the same piece of property.” Property owners are most often family, but in some cases, people who are not directly family members may be involved.
“Heirs’ property can be created by wills or intestate succession, and it results from the failure to document the transfer of legal title when the owner passes away,” said McClendon. “The number of owners grows over time.”
She illustrated the concept with an example of someone who purchases 100 acres, lives on it and adopts farming as a way of living. The farmer passes away without a will and has three children. “Each of the three children inherits an interest in [that] property,” she said. “As each child passes away, their heirs become part owners of the property.” The children of those children eventually have interest and ownership in the same piece of property, and as time goes on and more people (grandchildren, great-grandchildren) gain ownership, ownership becomes complicated.
Significant problems can result if the property owners don’t have a clear, marketable title. “We see this as a major issue with farmers who derive their livelihood from their land,” said McClendon. “Farmer Joe inherited some land from his father who inherited land from his grandfather. As far as Farmer Joe knows, he owns the land because his dad farmed it, his grandfather farmed it and they told him he’d be the one to farm it. But he didn’t know or didn’t pay attention to the fact that no legal transfer of the property was done.” In this case, Farmer Joe inherited the property, but he also inherited it along with cousins, siblings and other relatives. Although Farmer Joe is living on the property, is farming it and making a living, he may not have a clear, marketable title because he inherited it along with other relatives.
“Another issue is that co-owners have equal rights to use the entire property,” she said, noting that this doesn’t occur as often as it could. “A family member will decide they want to use the property in a way that’s inconsistent with the person who’s been using it primarily in the past. Farmer Joe may farm the land and derive income from the farm, but Cousin Sue decides she wants to farm the land – she has equal rights to do so even though she hasn’t been doing anything on the property over the past several years. She’s still an heir, a co-owner, and can come in and use the property suitable for her.”
Not having a clear, marketable title can create problems if the farmer attempts to obtain a loan. “It’s harder to access USDA programs,” said McClendon, adding that USDA has taken steps to help heirs’ property owners access programs. “However, there are still some legal hoops to jump through to qualify, and sometimes property owners aren’t aware of those additional legal steps and may not have the resources.”
Heirs’ properties typically do not have clear titles, so McClendon urged farmers with heirs’ property to first clear the title. “Multiple people own the property or a partial interest in the property, but their names are nowhere to be found in land records for that property,” she said. “There’s incomplete legal work done after the original property owner died and no one went to probate court to have the estate administered. Or it could be that they had a will done and someone went to probate court and filed the will but didn’t do anything else.”
Having a clear title means owners can be identified by a third party. “When you go to land records for the county where the land is located, you can see who owns a property,” said McClendon. “It also means there are no ownership claims against the property by other parties.” The owners listed in county property records should match the actual property owners.
After clearing a title, consolidate it to reduce the number of people who are record title owners to the property, which can be done in several ways, such as transfer to one or two owners through sale or as a gift. In some cases, family members will turn things over to one member to continue the farm; in other cases, family members want their fair share in a buyout. With title transfers, McClendon reminded farmers to consider the potential for long-term care.
“Transferring property into or out of your name can impact eligibility for financial assistance for long-term care,” she said. “Make sure to plan in a way that allows you to pay for long-term care needs while protecting land and other assets to keep those assets in place.” She suggested working with an attorney who understands wills, trusts and farm transition planning.
Next, if the property is not in farming, convert it to profitable use and make the land pay for itself. “You might want to contact [the local] USDA office for technical or financial assistance programs to make the land income-producing,” said McClendon. “Consider hiring a land consultant, someone who’s well-versed in forestry and timber management, or someone who can help think of agritourism ideas. Make sure the farm is as profitable as it can be.”
Finally, create a succession plan that will allow a seamless transition of property from one generation to the next. McClendon encouraged families to obtain legal advice to deal with the paperwork involved. Everyone should understand the legacy at stake, what they will receive in the future and what it takes to get it. She urged families to keep one another involved throughout the process because as land is being transferred, family history is also being transferred. Technical skills and farm and land management should be passed on to the next generation.
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Canada has just legalised the recreational use of marijuana nationwide making it the second country in the world to do so, after South American nation Uruguay.
Yesterday, as the Senate voted for Bill C-45 (also known as the Cannabis Act)–effectively legalising weed possession and sales for adults, and cultivation of up to four marijuana plants per household–Canada’s ruling government fulfilled one of their campaign’s major promises.
It’s been too easy for our kids to get marijuana – and for criminals to reap the profits. Today, we change that. Our plan to legalize & regulate marijuana just passed the Senate. #PromiseKept
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 20, 2018
Back in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party had promise to legalise marijuana claiming that it does more harm to categorise the world’s most widely-used drug as a harmful substance with strict punishment attached to its use and distribution. As an illegal product, the government cannot regulate it and it’s presence on the black market makes it easy for underage kids to purchase.
According to its campaign website, The Liberal Party had promised to “legalise, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana” as the “current system of marijuana prohibition does not work. It does not prevent young people from using marijuana and too many Canadians end up with criminal records for possessing small amounts of the drug.”
Another press release issued by the Canadian government last year stated that the current approach had “allowed criminals and organised crime to profit, while failing to keep cannabis out of the hands of Canadian youth… In many cases, it is easier for our kids to buy cannabis than cigarettes.”
But America’s friendly neighbour is not out of the woods yet.
It remains to be seen if legalising cannabis would actually work for the better in the nation. Uruguay is relatively poorer and less liberal as a nation and thus can’t be used as an apt comparison. However, the United States which has 9 states that have legalised recreational use and 29 states that have passed the bill for medical use, could be a primer into how this would work.
We have seen that marijuana taxes do not exactly account to more than 1% of the state revenue of Colorado, so it can’t be considered as a massive economy-changing decision right now although some experts project that in the long term, the price of a joint of marijuana can go down as low as a teabag, and with more countries embracing the legalisation movement, the market could grow and develop beyond anyone’s present comprehension. President Trump has hinted that legalisation for recreational purpose could happen during his presidency.
Then there’s the issue of marijuana use itself. While weed has been proven to cause less fatal accidents–about one tenth–as compared to alcohol which has always been legal; long-term and heavy use of the substance could lead to dependency on cannabis, accidents (despite the comparison to alcohol), mental anxiety and disorders, including, in rare cases, psychotic episodes. On the other side of the argument, cannabis has never been linked to any serious ailments including lung disease or schizophrenia. There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana overdose.
On the question of how harmful it is to health in general, studies have shown that illegal weed may contain traces of fungi, pesticides and heavy metals, making it quite unhealthy to smoke on a regular basis. However, weed grown under more scrutinised conditions, such as the prized cannabis strains that have entered industry competitions, carry none of the harmful chemicals used to preserve the product in the black market.
While it’s common for weed to pop up in pop culture or to be seen/smelled around campuses, just remember that even Uruguay’s former President–famed for his simple farm-lifestyle and for making Uruguay first country in the world to fully-legalise pot–José Alberto “Pepe” Mujica Cordano compared excessive use of marijuana to alcoholism: “It is like alcohol. If you drink a bottle of whisky a day, then you should be treated as a sick person.”
Even though Canada has passed the bill nationwide, it is still up to each province to adapt the law to suit their locality. For instance, some provinces have already expressed their desire to stop the law allowing home cultivation of the plant.
It remains to be seen if Canada will become a model for successful implementation of these new pro-marijuana laws but the government’s main concern seems to be in the right place from the start, that is to keep weed out of the hands of minors and to reduce the number of incarcerated individuals who would otherwise have bright futures.
In Malaysia, where having just 200g of marijuana is considered trafficking and an offence punishable by death, development on legalisation has been moving at a snail’s pace. In May 2015, a Johor state assemblyman urged the MCMC to block a local Facebook page which was actively campaigning for the legalisation of marijuana and its recognition as a medicinal herb.
In 2016, Muhamad Ridhwan Muhamad Rosli, who is a Selangor Youth Parliamentarian, suggested that some youths did not view marijuana as a drug and that the number of drug addicts could be greatly reduced if the Government considered supervising the usage of ganja/marijuana. His opinion was quashed by Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Datuk M. Saravanan who said that “legalising (cannabis) is not in line with our culture.”
Last year, Malaysian police arrested Dr Ganja, a self-styled ‘caregiver’ who marketed and sold marijuana-based products on Facebook as medicine with general health benefits that could also cure chronic diseases. Many of his former ‘patients’ have turned up during his trial to support him, some as young as 8 years old claiming that Dr Ganja had cured serious ailments that were plaguing them including epilepsy and autism.
Dr Ganja aka Amiruddin @ Nadarajan Abdullah, is currently facing 36 criminal charges related to the use, growth and possession of marijuana.
Should it be illegal and uncontrolled or legalised and controlled? Let us know in the comments…
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It becomes more serious in your 30s. That is the point in your career when things really start to take off. It will create new chances for you, and you can use that momentum to lay a solid financial foundation for your future. And it doesn’t take much to make a big difference. In this article, we’ll look at 6 financial goals for people in their 30s that can help them stay focused and make the most of their income.
Financial goal number 1: Get Out Of “Bad Debt”
Don’t get me wrong: Not all debt is bad. A good type of debt is when you borrow money with the goal to make more money in the future. This can be a student loan or a mortgage for a house. The bad type of debt is when you use your high-interest rate credit cards to buy things that lose value over time like clothes, cars, and phones. And that’s the sort of debt that is costing you money.
And that’s why it needs to be repaid as quickly as humanly possible. And here’s why: The average stock market return of the S&P 500 over the last 100 years was around 8% adjusted for inflation and including dividends. But this 8% is not a guaranteed return. The stock market could go down or sideways for a few decades – which happened in the 70s and 2000s.
When you have high-interest rate credit card debt, you will end up paying around 20% of interest. If you pay off your debt, then you will essentially save 20% which is a “guaranteed” risk-free return, which is much higher than the average stock market return of the last 100 years.
Financial goal number 2: Upgrade your emergency fund
That’s money set aside in case you have an unexpected life situation like losing your job. You should have enough money saved up to cover 3 to 6 months of your living expenses. Living expenses can be the money that you need to pay your rent, food, utilities, or anything else that is essential for you.
An emergency fund doesn’t have to include expenses for vacations, entertainment, or eating out. You can put that emergency fund into an easy-access savings account to earn some interest on it. Ideally, you already set up your emergency fund in your 20s. But in your 30s, you should take another look at it to see if it’s still big enough.
Chances are that your living costs have increased in your 30s – and so should your emergency fund. And whilst you are at it, you can also shop around to see if you can get better savings accounts that offer you a higher savings rate. It’s so important to have an emergency fund because 40% of Americans can’t cover a $400 emergency expense.
If an unexpected event should happen, you can simply tap into your emergency fund instead of having to sell your stocks, for example.
Financial goal number 3: Avoid Lifestyle Inflation
You are probably making a bit more money than in your 20s. But what I see very often is that salary increases don’t lead to more money in your bank account. And that’s because of lifestyle inflation. It means that with every salary increase you also upgrade your lifestyle and therefore your expenses. And it’s so easy to get caught up in this:
You go to fancier restaurants, you get a bigger apartment and a new car – and that all adds up. Even with higher salaries, you could still end up living paycheck to paycheck.
To avoid that – when you are in your 30s, try to maintain your living standard from your 20s as much as you can. The last thing you want is to work hard throughout your 30s and not be better off financially.
Financial goal number 4: Overcome your fear of investing
Investing in the stock market can be a scary and overwhelming thing for some people. Keeping your money in your bank account feels much safer. But what most people underestimate is that inflation makes your cash worth less and less every year. If we look at the US, an item that would have cost $1 in 1932 would now cost over $20 – just because of inflation.
So you have to put your money to work and invest in asset classes that go up in value over the long term. Let’s go through an example to show you what I mean. Imagine you work from the age of 25 to 65, so for 40 years. Over that time, you earn the US average salary of $46,000. That’s around $3,900 per month.
If you have a savings rate of 10% and round that figure down, you have $350 dollars left every month. In scenario number 1, you don’t do anything with that money. It just sits in the bank account. That money will grow to $168,000 after 40 years.
In scenario number 2, you start investing that money into a global ETF with the first paycheck you get until 65. With an annual return of 8% – which is the average of the last 100 years – you would have more than $1m after 40 years of investing. The earlier you start investing, the sooner your money can start working for you.
This can be anything like your contributions to your retirement plans like your 401k or IRA, or it can be the money that you invest through your taxable brokerage account. Your 30s can be the prime of your investment life. Your salary can be high enough to save up money but you also have a long time until retirement.
So you can invest in riskier assets like stocks and you will be less impacted by short-term volatility because you have time by your side.
Financial goal number 5: Establish the habit of paying yourself first
So we know that not investing is no alternative. But what many people struggle with is having enough money left at the end of each month. And that’s because whenever you get paid, you first pay your rent, then utility bills, groceries, clothes, and so on. And at the end of the month, you have no money left to invest.
But what if I tell you that you can actually change the order of that? If you have a budget, you know how much money you can put aside each month to invest. And that should be the first thing to do when you get paid. That’s why this is called “paying yourself first”. If you don’t want to create a budget that’s also absolutely fine.
Then start slowly with 10% of your net income and see how much you can increase it over time. In your investment accounts, you could set up saving plans that execute at the beginning of each month. You set it up once and you never have to think about it again. Paying yourself first will give you more visibility on what you can spend for the rest of each month on non-essential things.
If you run out of money, then you cannot spend it on non-essential things anymore. What you avoid, though, is skipping a monthly investment. Think of it like a bill that you have no choice but to pay.
Financial goal number 6: Have a monthly budget date with yourself
Once a month you can sit down and check the balances of your bank, credit card, and investment accounts to calculate your “net worth”. Net worth is simply what you own minus what you owe. So the total value of your assets minus your debts equals your net worth.
Your assets can be anything like the money in your bank or savings account, your stock investments, and the value of your house. Your liabilities can be anything like a student loan, credit card debt, a car loan, and the mortgage on your house.
In this example, you would have total assets of $300,000 and liabilities of $250,000, which would get you to a positive net worth of $50,000. It’s important to track that number regularly to see in which direction you are moving. Is your net worth growing or declining every month?
What you really want to see is your net worth moving up step by step. That happens when you invest in assets like stocks or when you reduce your liabilities by paying off some of your credit card debt. And don’t worry if you have a negative net worth because most of us start off that way.
If you finish university and you start your first job, you usually have no savings, no investments, very little in your bank account, and a student loan. But if your net worth is moving in a positive direction every month, then that’s a good sign. It’s important to have that monthly budget date to see in which direction you are heading and to take action if needs be.
You can put down your net worth number on a piece of paper, in an excel sheet, or whatever you like. There are also really cool apps that help you to track and consolidate your expenses in one place like Mint or PocketGuard. Whatever works best for you.
I feel like in your teenage years and 20s, you can get away with not checking up on your finances every month. But your 30s are crucial in determining your financial journey – that’s why it’s so important to be on top of your finances.
There you have it: 6 financial goals in your 30s. A lot of things are moving and developing in your 30s and that’s why it’s important to stay focused. But what do you actually think? What did you achieve financially in your 30s? Do you have other financial goals that I haven’t mentioned in this article? As always – let me know in the comment section below. | <urn:uuid:2d3366d1-01c2-40ce-a231-802167492292> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecomprehensivepost.com/6-financial-goal-to-achieve-in-your-30s-achieving-financial-independence.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962251 | 2,048 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Many individuals lead active, virtual lives. They are on gaming sites, social networking sites, have online financial capability, and are active on online auction site. What impact can these activities have on their estate plan? It depends on how familiar the executor and heirs are with the online activity.
A typical consultation with an estate planning attorney will include an inventory of all of the physical assets of an individual for inclusion in his/her estate plan. Cash, financial instruments, property, business ownership interests, etc. are all included in an estate plan. But the virtual world requires additional estate planning, such as how are online assets passed along to heirs in an estate plan?
It may seem esoteric, but many estate planning attorneys are beginning to include passwords to internet domains, online auction site account information, email account passwords and other online information in estate planning documents. Many of these sites have a monetary value – such as web site domains which may be worth thousands of dollars and online businesses. Others have the ability to reduce the size of an estate (e.g. online auction sites where bids are pending) and need to be included in an estate plan. There are also online services that promise to convey all of your digital info to your heirs in the event of your demise. This sounds like a convenient service, but hackers would gravitate to these kinds of site because they contain a treasure trove of information. It is safer to create a hard-copy file with your estate planning attorney and keep all of that information with your estate plan, so that your heirs can have easy access to the information.
As technology progresses, your estate plan needs to keep up with the changes in your virtual and temporal lives. Estate planning has crossed a brave new frontier along with the rest of society. A regular consultation with your estate planning attorney to review your estate plan can make life much easier for your heirs.
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Satellite Observations in Science Education
It's hard to fully communicate the value and power of remote sensing by showing students a few satellite images in a textbook, on television or from the Internet. The Satellite Observations in Science Education Web site
presents NASA satellite images in the context of several interactive learning activities for students in grades 9-12 and higher.
Principles in Remote Sensing
-- This activity covers basic concepts in satellite remote sensing, including the two main types of satellite orbits. Students can manipulate characteristics of a satellite's orbit and sensors, then see the impact on the amount and quality of data collected. A concluding lesson shows various image processing and analysis techniques for different real-world applications.
Great Lakes Weather and Climate
-- This activity begins with a primer on Great Lakes geography and how the lakes influence seasonal weather and climate. Students then view satellite images that illustrate weather patterns and environmental phenomena unique to each of the four seasons.
Water Vapor Imagery
-- This activity starts with a tutorial about the fundamentals of water vapor imagery. Students then learn how water vapor images from satellites are used in weather forecasting and aviation. They try their hand at using water vapor images and other information to locate the jet stream, plot an efficient flight path and plan the launch of a weather balloon.
-- Icebergs pose a dangerous threat to ships. This activity demonstrates how to locate and measure icebergs in satellite imagery. Students then interact with satellite images as they track the speed, acceleration, and trajectory of icebergs and identify the factors causing them to move.
-- This activity opens with a movie showing the significance of upwelling for marine life. Students go on to learn about the conditions that lead to upwelling, both coastal and otherwise, and how satellites can be used to detect upwelling events and predict their consequences.
Each activity has three modules. Estimated completion time for most modules is 10 to 20 minutes. Throughout the activities, students interact directly with satellite images. They use drawing and other tools to trace, measure and reveal features in the images. Students also answer questions about the images. They receive automatically generated feedback about whether their answers are correct or incorrect, and why.
The Web site is a collaborative effort among the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies and Division of Information Technology, the New Media Studio and the University of California-Santa Barbara.
Satellite Observations in Science Education Web Site →
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Though there are some works on improving distributed word representations using lexicons, the improper over-fitting of the words that have multiple meanings is a remaining issue deteriorating the learning when lexicons are used, which needs to be solved. An alternative method is to allocate a vector per sense instead of a vector per word. However, the word representations estimated in the former way are not as easy to use as the latter one. Our previous work uses a probabilistic method to alleviate the overfitting, but it is not robust with a small corpus. In this paper, we propose a new neural network to estimate distributed word representations using a lexicon and a corpus. We add a lexicon layer in the continuous bag-of-words model and a threshold node after the output of the lexicon layer. The threshold rejects the unreliable outputs of the lexicon layer that are less likely to be the same with their inputs. In this way, it alleviates the overfitting of the polysemous words. The proposed neural network can be trained using negative sampling, which maximizing the log probabilities of target words given the context words, by distinguishing the target words from random noises. We compare the proposed neural network with the continuous bag-of-words model, the other works improving it, and the previous works estimating distributed word representations using both a lexicon and a corpus. The experimental results show that the proposed neural network is more efficient and balanced for both semantic tasks and syntactic tasks than the previous works, and robust to the size of the corpus. | <urn:uuid:f8b06b17-b0fb-4260-be26-5938dada78e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://keio.pure.elsevier.com/ja/publications/alleviating-overfitting-for-polysemous-words-for-word-representat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929495 | 307 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Causes of Downhole Vibrations
|Types of Vibration||Causes|
|Bit Bounce||Bit/Formation Interaction
Multilobe Pattern of roller cone bits
Mud Pressure Fluctuation
|Slip Stick||Bit/Formation Interaction
High WOB/Low RPM
Friction between the Drillstring/BHA and Hole Wall
High Wellbore Tortuosity
Whirl and Bending
Lack of Axial Symmetry
Uneven Vertical Loading on Bit Face
Imbalanced Cutter Forces
High RPM/Low WOB
Rotation Off Bottom Reaming
Formation Hardness/Formation Change
|Types of Elimination||Causes|
|Bit Whirl||Increase WOB
Increase mud lubricity
Bit Whirl – the motion a bit makes when it does not rotate around its center, but in a spiral motion. This phenomenon usually occurs in softer formations and results in an oversize hole and excessive bit wear.
Slip Stick – A destructive vibration or oscillation caused by one of two things: bit or BHA. Slip Stick occurs when the bit bites into formation and, momentarily, sufficient torque is lacking to shear the formation. Thus, the bit “stops” while the torsional energy in the drill string builds up. Once enough energy is built up, the bit breaks free at rotational speeds much higher than normal resulting in bit failure/damage, BHA failure and lost time.
Coupling – Bending of the drill string coupled with WOB. Linear coupling is easy to visualize by taking a piece of paper, giving it a slight curve, and then pressing axially on the ends. The paper responds by additional bending in the plane of the initial curvature.
Bit Bounce – a downhole vibration caused mostly by bit/formation interaction. Bit bounce can occur when a bit cannot get a sufficient “bite” into formation to produce a smooth drilling action but actually bounces off the bottom of the hole.
|Slip Stick||BHA Whirl||Bit Whirl||Bounce|
|Tool Joint Wear|
|Increase Weight on bit||to||Decrease Bit-Whirl|
|Decrease Weight on Bit||to||Decrease Slip-Stick|
|Increase Rotary Speed||to||Decrease Slip-Stick|
|Decrease Rotary Speed||to||Decrease Bit Whirl|
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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is excited to work with the National Library of Medicine on NIH MedlinePlus magazine to highlight important research on physical activity and heart health.
The magazine’s cover star is DeMarcus Ware, a former National Football League player who has translated his passion for fitness off the field. In addition to lifting weights and working out in the gym, Ware gets moving with his two kids and has cut a rug in “Dancing with the Stars,” blending fitness with family time and fun. In this most recent issue, we share new research funded by NHLBI on how physical activity can do more than get you in shape.
Combined with a healthy diet, physical activity may help prevent future heart issues by improving your cholesterol and blood pressure and lowering your risk of type 2 diabetes. As we celebrate American Heart Month this February, it’s important to recognize how you don’t have to be an athlete to get moving and help your heart. Just 30 minutes of activity each day can go a long way to preventing heart-related diseases in the future.
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans can provide more specific guidance for older Americans, kids, and teens. During American Heart Month, use #OurHearts on social media to show your community how committed you are to staying heart healthy. We wish you a happy and healthy start to 2021!
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Should Seattle restaurants have needle containers?
Signs of public drug-taking are all over Seattle’s University District.
But an overflowing container of used needles proved too much for one restaurant customer.
Christopher Rufo said it was the container of needles at Chaco Canyon Organic Café on 12th Avenue Northeast that got to him.
“It disgusted me. And I think it's symbolic of a larger culture of permissiveness and enablement that I've seen in Seattle,” Rufo said.
Rufo said he’d just let his young son use that restroom.
“You have to take on the responsibility to making sure that it's safe, that it's sanitary,” he said.
Rufo is a fellow at the politically-conservative Discovery Institute based in Seattle. His Facebook post triggered a debate — are public needle containers making using drugs too easy?
Another voice from the University District says no.
“If you have been a homeless drug user before, like I have, it is not easy to be a homeless drug user,” said Shilo Jama, an advocate of safer drug use at the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance.
He agrees that used needle containers should not be allowed to overflow. But he sees something else in the idea of a drug user shooting up in a restaurant bathroom.
“We don't have a safe consumption room. And so those bathrooms become the closest thing. And that's why we support safe consumption rooms," Jama said.
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By Sujei Lugo
SEPARATE IS NEVER EQUAL by Duncan Tonatiuh, Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book & Sibert Informational Honor Book
Several days ago, I had the opportunity to attend the 2015 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits Conference (#alamw15), held in Chicago. My main reasons for attending the conference were to meet with my dissertation committee, attend REFORMA (The National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking) meetings and discuss and collaborate with fellow Reformistas about ongoing projects and events. My presence in Chicago and #alamw15 also drove me to participate in and attend events and engage in conversations with fellow bloggers, librarians, educators, authors, publishers, and supporters of children’s and young-adult literature.
In this post I want to share with you about the sessions and events that I took part in and some reflections on my overall experience at the conference.
On Friday, January 30, 2015, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), along with the Children’s Book Council (CBC) hosted Day of Diversity: Dialogue and Action in Children’s Literature and Library Programming. I was not able to attend because this was an invitation-only event, but I followed the conversation through tweets, then afterward in blog posts reflecting on that day. The purpose of the event was to “discuss strategies for ensuring that all children have access to diverse literature and library programming.” Although great remarks were given by the keynote speaker, former ALA and REFORMA president Dr. Camila Alire; Día founder, author, and storyteller Pat Mora; former ALA Offices for Literacy & Outreach Services Director Satia Orange; and Native authors and authors of color, the overall impression was that it felt like a Diversity 101 event. Based on social media commentaries and subsequent talks, the event lacked real discussions about systemic problems, White privilege and anti-racist approaches to children’s literature. These conversations are long overdue in children’s librarianship and the publishing industry, and it is a pity that events where these conversations should happen do not embrace that challenge. Great recaps and reflections were posted by Debbie Reese, Edith Campbell, Zetta Elliott, Sarah Park, Don Tate, Maya Christina Gonzalez and Jason Low.
The REFORMA meetings and events were a great experience to get to know fellow Latino/a and Chicano/a librarians, educators and authors, immerse myself in committee work and projects, and finally meet people whose work I have admired for years. These gatherings were among the most welcoming spaces I’ve attended in my professional career in the United States. They also are dealing with serious issues regarding not only Latino populations in the United States, but Latin American immigrants as well.
Maya Christina Gonzalez reading MY COLORS, MY WORLD/MIS COLORES, MI MUNDO during Noche de Cuentos
A great example of this is the Children in Crisis Project. With this project, REFORMA delivers blankets, books, and backpacks to children held in detention centers near the border. The children, many as young as two years old, are unaccompanied refugee minors crossing the border, mainly from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Their journey crossing the border, many to reunite with family in the U.S. and to escape state and local violence, must be seen as a humanitarian crisis, and care needs to be given to focus on the social, emotional, informational, and legal needs of these children. As the co-chair of REFORMA’s Children in Crisis Task Force, Oralia Garza de Cortés said, “this project is like an underground railroad of books to our most vulnerable children.” REFORMA is currently partnering with nonprofits to continue to enhance efforts to help and support our children. (Here is a link that informs about ways to help, collaborate with, and donate to the Children in Crisis Project.)
On Saturday night, REFORMA celebrated its traditional Noche de Cuentos, an evening filled with stories, people, and warmth. The night was enlivened by author, storyteller, and librarian Lucía González, and Latino children’s literature and literacy consultant Oralia Garza de Cortés. Both women have been great supporters of Latino children’s literature for decades and contributed immensely to diversity in children’s librarianship. Lucía is also the author of the bilingual picture book The Storyteller’s Candle, about the life and impact of Pura Belpré’s work in New York, its Puerto Rican community in 1920’s-30s, and bilingual children’s librarianship. Oralia is the co-founder of the Pura Belpré Award, named after the Puerto Rican author, folklorist, and first Latina librarian of the New York Public Library. In “Noche de Cuentos” they both showcased their talent for sincere and engrossing storytelling. It was proof of how important preserving and telling our stories are. “That’s how stories get around, you tell them,” said Lucía, after finishing the tale of Blanquita and Her Wild Ducks, giving us a powerful reminder of how the voices that are constantly silenced, marginalized, and misrepresented will always find ways to amplify and give strength to their communities through storytelling. This was affirmed many times during the night: Pat Mora read poems and brought us charm and joy, and Maya Christina González read her picture books and told us that “kids need to know we are part of nature, and we belong here.” More emphasis on the power of our stories came when Jasmin Cardenas, a local storyteller, told us that “if we tell stories, this would be a better place.” Claudia Guadalupe Martinez shared the importance of community building, as portrayed in her YA novel, Pig Park. With its focus on stories, people, marginalized voices, powerful voices, and community support for each other, Noche de Cuentos was a much-needed intergenerational event.
While #alamw15 focused more on meetings, the exhibit hall, and the Youth Media Awards, several additional sessions were offered. I attended the Ignite Session on Saturday and was looking forward to seeing the presentations of two fellow librarians, tweeps, and overall great supporters of diversity in children’s literature–Angie Manfredi and Edith Campbell. In her presentation, “20 Kids/Teens Titles to Diversify Your Collection Today,” Angie gave fast book talks about diverse children’s and young-adult books that librarians can add to their collection. From the Latino holiday picture book T’was Nochebuena to the middle grade all-black cast book The Zero Degree Zombie Zone, she gave her audience a glimpse of diverse titles that reflect an intersection of different identities and backgrounds. Her energy and enthusiasm encouraged people to not only state that “We Need Diverse Books,” but that we need to buy them and promote them in our libraries and bookstores. (You can see the slides to her presentation here.)
Slide of Edith Campbell’s The Kids Are Not All White presentation
The closing presentation of the Ignite Session was Edith’s “The Kids Are Not All White.” She started out by giving numbers and percentages demonstrating how children’s literature is not representative of our children’s population. She leaned toward a reflection and call to action to truly make efforts to be inclusive in our libraries. She challenged the view that diverse books are only for kids of color, and the status quo in books that shows us “who we were, but not who we can be.” Edith addressed language diversity, too, calling on us to include titles written in other languages in our collections, and titles that intersect income, gender, and race. She also emphasized the need to rethink views about self-publishing and technology, and how they are fertile spaces for those who are traditionally marginalized. Both presentations fit well within the different conversations about diversity and children’s literature that were happening at #alamw15. Because it was an Ignite session with a broad audience, they were “preaching” outside the usual crowd, to an audience that included academic and adult services librarians that may not have otherwise been aware of the attention being given to White privilege and diversity in publishing around the #kidlit world.
As we all know, the most talked about event of #alamw15 was the Youth Media Awards. This was my first time attending the awards, which I usually watch on my computer through a livestream. Early that morning, attendees, overwhelmingly White, started gathering and lining up to enter the room. Although I was, like them, excited to see who the winners and honorees of such a widely followed event in the world of U.S. children’s literature would be, I used the opportunity to engage in conversations, view people’s reactions, and note the racial/ethnic background of those deciding the award-worthy books of the year. As awards were presented to books by/about people of color and people with disabilities, the crowd kept clapping joyfully as a sign of approval that diverse titles were being recognized. (For a full list of winners visit: ALA Youth Media Award Winners and for a list of Latino/a authors and illustrators winners and honorees, here is our recap.)
As people were applauding and celebrating the diversity of winning titles, I was thinking how great it was to see those book covers on that big screen, and how those that had overlooked them during the year were now finally going to at least read about them and maybe even bring them to their libraries and classrooms. You see, the fact is that we’ve always been publishing great award-worthy titles, but they are continually neglected by the children’s literature world. While people were applauding, I was thinking about recent comments I’d heard that Brown Girl Dreaming shouldn’t win the Newbery, since she had already won the National Book Award. I wondered if similar things were said when a White author’s book had won the National Book Award. This, along with other observations and conversations, led me to question the celebratory spirit around me. Was the applause like that scene from The Boondocks’ “Garden Party” episode, where everything Huey says White people around him seem obligated to applaud and praise?
Silvia Cisneros, REFORMA president, presenting the Pura Belpré Award in English and Spanish
As I sat in the room, I heard some audience members complaining about the use of Spanish during the Pura Belpré Awards, an award that celebrates Latino children’s literature and is co-sponsored by REFORMA. As the morning unfolded, I watched the almost all-White committee members stand up, some wearing “Trust the Process” t-shirts. Toward the end of the awards, someone said that apparently there were finally good diverse titles this year, since they won awards. The implication was that the lack of award-winning diverse titles in years past was an indication that Latinos, Asians, Native, and Black people had never published GREAT books throughout those years.
When I finally exited the room, I approached Pat Mora (walking away by herself) to congratulate her for her work and her Mary Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award. While talking to her, I was surprised and angry that no other person approached her to congratulate her. This woman has been an influential force in children’s literature, and she had just won an award recognizing her marvelous work. That work includes being the founder of Día, an official annual celebration that has been sponsored and championed by ALA. I realized that most people there had no idea who she was. The same people that were applauding inside the room as her picture was displayed on the big screen, as soon as her award was announced? The same people that sometimes state their “concern” of how we need to bring more authors, illustrators, and librarians of color to these events and into our field?
I introduced myself to her (in Spanish), and as we started talking, the first thing she said to me was: “Nada ha cambiado” (Nothing has changed). Words that stayed in my mind as I reflected upon my experience walking through the exhibit halls.
Nada ha cambiado.
The exhibit hall is a place where publishers, authors, and library businesses display new products, highlight new titles, and give away promotional materials and advanced reader’s copies (ARCs). The layout of the exhibit hall speaks volumes about the power centers: the amount of floor space that the big publishing houses occupy tells us how much of the exhibit floor they own. This is obvious. Fees paid for space in the exhibit hall in any convention generate revenue for the organization that sets up the event. Simply put, the big publishers with their marketing budgets, will obviously have a higher visibility than small publishers, but it still feels uncomfortable that smaller publishers are marginalized on the floor of an event organized by/for librarians that work in libraries that serve a diverse society. As I walked through the exhibit hall, my approach was to find Latino children’s and young-adult books and children’s books in Spanish. Among the sea of book covers with bears, puppies, and White girls at the Scholastic booth, I saw, in the far back, one of my most anticipated YA books of 2015, Shadowshaper, by Daniel José Older. I asked the publisher’s rep if she had a copy of it to give away. In the booth were stacks and stacks of other titles, prominently placed, evident that they were being heavily promoted by the publisher. As I strolled down those aisles I was surprised to see a large stack of ARCs of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Echo. They were going fast as librarians took copies. Minutes later, I approached a big publisher’s representative and asked her what Latino children’s books they had. She replied that they only carry “good” books. The look on my face and the two Latino books I had in my hands, no doubt, pushed her to follow her response with: “You already have those. Those are the good ones.”
DRUM DREAM GIRL: HOW ONE GIRL’S COURAGE CHANGED MUSIC, written by Margarita Engle and illustrated by Rafael López
Despite that conversation (and it was only one of many), I can say that I found several Latino children’s books, but in a low percentage compared to books by White people, about White people, and bears. Was I able to find a couple of Latino/a books, because I was looking for them? Because I recognize and know the titles, covers, authors and illustrators? Could people who had no idea Latino/a writers and illustrators exist, see their books? Were they displayed in a way such that people who don’t know about them could see, browse, and then buy them?
Another thing that caught my attention was that indie presses that publish stories by Native authors and authors of color were not packed with people. At their book signings, there were no lines of people waiting to meet the authors. This called to mind René Saldaña’s post: Forgive Me My Bluntness: I’m a Writer of Color and I’m Right Here In Front of You: I’m the One Sitting Alone at the Table. I was honored to meet Erika T. Wurth, author of Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend (Debbie Reese’s review); Isabel Quintero, author of Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (our review by Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez); J.L. Powers, author of Colors of the Wind: The Story of Blind Artist and Champion Runner George Mendoza; and Lee Byrd, co-founder of Cinco Puntos Press.
Wurth, Quintero, Powers, and Byrd are among the many people with whom I had great conversations. I am among a growing number of people who support their work. In my many interactions and conversations, we laid out common ground and talked about how White privilege and institutionalized racism in children’s literature and publishing have always been a systemic issue. Privilege and power go across the publishing industry, book reviewing, librarianship, education, and media. We need more than diverse books. We need opportunities at places like library conferences to create awareness about privilege and power. In our work as bloggers, we must review and promote books by writers who are of marginalized populations. We must point to their accurate reflections of those populations. But we must also call out stereotypical and racist content in children’s books overall, and we must name White privilege when we see it. Yep, there’s a hell of a lot to do.
Pan Dulce: Lee Byrd from Cinco Puntos Press interviews Claudia Guadalupe Martinez (author of PIG PARK) and Pat Mora (author of CANTA, CHICO BRAVO, CANTA) talking about their books, growing up in El Paso, Texas.
Full interview: Pan Dulce #4
The upcoming major event for REFORMA and Latino children’s literature is the Pura Belpré Award 20th Anniversary Celebración that’s going to be held in Orlando, Florida at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference. I attended the Task Force meeting; there are great plans ahead to celebrate past award winners and honorees, and a wide selection of Latino children’s books as well. More information to come! Check out how you can help and support this gran celebración.
With Isabel Quintero, author of GABI, A GIRL IN PIECES, winner of the William C. Morris Award (Young Adult Debut Award)
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Unless you are employed by a local or state government agency that opted out of the Social Security system, each of your paychecks has Social Security tax taken out of it. You may be wondering, where does this money go? It's collected into the Social Security Trust Fund, and then redistributed as retirement and disability income, as well as Medicare, Medicaid, death and survivorship benefits. The idea behind Social Security is simple: one-for-all, all-for-one. You pay into a system to sustain a common financial safety net that you can count on to eventually benefit from later in your lifetime.
Is Everyone Guaranteed Social Security?
Not exactly. You receive Social Security credits based on your earnings. In 2016, you get one credit for every $1,260 you earn – that figure is adjusted higher each year – up to a limit of four credits per year. You need 40 credits, at least a 10-year work history, in order to be eligible to receive Social Security retirement benefits.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) reviews your income from your 35 highest-earning years to calculate your Social Security benefit. If you worked less than 35 years, then those years will count as zero. Continuing to work to replace years of lower or zero earnings can improve your benefits.
According to the Social Security Board of Trustees, as the baby-boom generation transitions into retirement, Social Security will soon start paying out more benefits than it receives in contributions. It is estimated that by 2035, there will only be enough money coming into the program to pay out about three-quarters of total expected benefits.
When Can I Start Receiving Social Security Benefits?
The soonest you can begin to receive Social Security retirement benefits is at age 62. You can receive the full retirement payout that you've earned by waiting until you've reached full retirement age, which is 67 for everyone born in 1960 or after. For every year after full retirement age that you delay collecting payments, your benefits payment goes up 8 percent, until you turn 70 – that's the longest you can delay. Consider consulting with a qualified financial planner to determine what is the best age for you to start collecting these benefits.
The SSA mails out a summary of your benefits each year. It includes a record of your earnings history, the number of credits you've earned to date and an estimate of the retirement benefits available if you wait until full retirement age. You can also request one by calling the SSA (800-772-1213) and asking for a SSA-7004 form, or by downloading this form. You can also access your personal Social Security information on the Social Security government website. | <urn:uuid:04db2ce7-eaa8-4174-9949-f8e1ed2ace64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://practicalmoneyskills.com/learn/life_events/retirement/social_security | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961775 | 548 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites
Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites is part of the Tentative list of South Africa in order to qualify for inclusion in the World Heritage List.
Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (submitted in 2015) is a serial nomination expanding and refining the earlier 2009 nomintaion “Liberation Heritage Route”. It unites different places immortalizing distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features associated with the liberation struggle against the apartheid regime, but also the reconciliation justice and forgiveness. It consists of places associated with legendary figures of the movement (Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Chief Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko or Desmond Tutu), places of important events of the struggle (where armed struggle was decided, where Neslon Mandela was arrested, place of his trial, places of forced eviction like Sophiatown or massacre of violence like the Sharpeville massacre) but also of reconciliation (Truth and Reconciliation Commission site and the Freedom Park).
Map of Nelson Mandela Legacy SitesLoad map
The coordinates shown for all tentative sites were produced as a community effort. They are not official and may change on inscription.
I find this nomination lacking any real credit for unique value to the world. Yes, Mandela was a great man, apartheid was bad (and still exists here) and one could argue that it had impact on the world and not just within South Africa. However, just like India's attempt to inscribe the Gandhi sites, these are memories of history that do not belong on the world heritage list.
So nevertheless I stopped by the Apartheid museum at the capture site on the way to Durban and their museum is still not open until May 2019. Entrance is free to see the small exhibition and the Mandela sculpture at the end of the Long Walk to Freedom. I didn't find it very exciting but I donated to support them. Fact is that the location has little to nothing to do with the capture site already shows that the inscription would be odd.
I see there are many other sites included in the nomination but I am not interested in them, and if they are ever inscribed (to my own disbelief) I will be glad to have “ticked” it off in 20 minutes.
Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites is the full name of a South African Tentative Site covering 13 groups of sites related to the anti-apartheid struggle. They cover locations ranging from the Sharpeville Massacre site to prominent institutions for missionary education which “produced Southern African leaders who presented a synthesis of Western and African values”. It needs a good understanding though of South African history during the past 100 years to get a full grasp of what’s included and why. But I was willing to be educated.
As I had another long drive ahead of me – 440km between the WHS of iSimangaliso and Drakensberg – I decided to visit two of these anti-apartheid sites along the way. I first hit the town of Groutville for the ‘Chief Albert Luthuli Home & Museum’. The museum is already signposted from the highway. Fortunately so, as my TomTom navigation did not recognize any street adress in Groutville. The town is definitely not one on the itinerary of European tourists, crossing South Africa from (white) tourist enclave to another. Groutville is 99.6% black. To me it felt like a town in the Deep South of the USA.
Before I prepared this trip I had never heard of Albert Luthuli, but he was an important predecessor of Mandela. Luthuli was president of the ANC in the 1950s and 1960s, and advocated nonviolent resistance against apartheid. It earned him the Nobel Peace Prize already in 1960. The house where he lived most of his life has become a museum since 2004. After signing in at the gate, I was shown around by a serious young guide. In the garden Luthuli had a special place of contemplation. Here he also received his guests (he was only allowed to see one at a time and forbidden to leave his hometown himself). His most famous guest was Robert F. Kennedy, who arrived in Groutville by helicopter. Within two years of their meeting both men were dead: Kennedy was assassinated, and Luthuli died in a train accident. The guide said that his family however thinks that it was not an accident but a political murder.
Driving on along the southeast coast, past Pietermaritzburg, I approached the second location. It’s the ‘Mandela Capture Site’ at Howick. The site isn’t signposted as well around town as the Luthuli Museum, but this time my TomTom did the trick and had it listed under ‘tourist attractions’. This is the location where Mandela was arrested, the arrest which lead to his long imprisonment on Robben Island. He was stopped by the side of the road, while pretending to be the driver of a white businessman. It still is a inconspicuous spot, some 4 km outside of Howick along a secondary road.
At this symbolic location a visitor center and memorial monument have been constructed. They’re even in the process of building a grand exhibition hall: this should for example include a replica of Mandela’s cell on Robben Island. A tunnel has to connect the hall with the exact location where the arrest took place across the road near the railway tracks. Even now tourists already know to find this place. Two Dutch tour groups were already present when I arrived, and there were also numerous individual South African visitors. The exhibition now shows dozens of information panels about Mandela's life since he was a child. In the outdoor area a straight path symbolizing the Long Road to Freedom leads to a work of art. 50 jagged steel bars (a reference to prison bars) form the silhouette of Mandela’s face.
This TWHS obviously has clear links with the already inscribed Robben Island, although it is not presented as an extension. To add to the confusion there’s an earlier incarnation of this TWHS on South Africa’s Tentative List called ‘Liberation Heritage Route’ (2009), which covers both Robben Island and the Mandela Legacy sites. It seems logical though that South Africa will push on with this 2015 TWHS. Its selection of sites goes well beyond a Mandela personality cult, and brings more depth to the history of the anti-apartheid struggle than Robben Island alone. For now checking out a few of them is a good excuse to get off-the-beaten track in South Africa.
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Apple has said in comments to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it is “excited” about the potential use of automated systems in many areas, including transportation.
The company’s director of product integrity Steve Kenner wrote that Apple is “investing heavily in the study of machine learning and automation, and is excited about the potential of automated systems in many areas, including transportation.”
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Patients from disadvantaged neighborhoods face significantly higher risk of death, study finds.
Black patients from disadvantaged neighborhoods were significantly more likely to die within five years of surviving a heart attack compared with black heart attack patients from wealthier neighborhoods and white patients of any socioeconomic means who survive a heart attack, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 70th Annual Scientific Session.
The researchers analyzed data from nearly 32,000 patients with health insurance treated for a heart attack within the Kaiser Permanente Southern California hospital system between 2006-2016. The researchers assigned each patient a neighborhood disadvantage score based on their home address using the Area Deprivation Index, a validated index for assessing neighborhood disadvantage based on 17 variables reflecting education, income, employment, and household characteristics.
According to the researchers, the study underscores the influence of a person’s environment on their health and suggests that a greater focus on addressing social disadvantages and poverty could help improve outcomes.
“A key takeaway from our study is that there are a lot of social and environmental factors that can affect a person’s outcome after a heart attack,” said Jesse Goitia, MD, a cardiovascular fellow at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center and the study’s lead author. “I think that a broad, overarching approach to start addressing those factors at the neighborhood level would pay dividends for businesses, health insurers, providers, and patients.”
About 20,000 patients were scored in the top 25th percentile, representing well-resourced neighborhoods, and about 12,000 were scored in the bottom 75th percentile, representing disadvantaged neighborhoods. Based on an average of five years of follow-up data, the results revealed that people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods were 5% more likely to die of any cause within five years after their heart attack.
The research also revealed significant differences by race, which seemed to be mediated by neighborhood quality. Black patients from well-resourced neighborhoods had outcomes similar to white patients from well-resourced neighborhoods. However, black patients from disadvantaged neighborhoods were 19% more likely to die than white patients from well-resourced neighborhoods and 14% more likely to die than white patients from disadvantaged neighborhoods. There was no significant difference in the likelihood of death between white patients from well-resourced neighborhoods and white patients from disadvantaged neighborhoods.
In addition to the study’s implications for addressing social determinants of health, Goitia said the research can help inform how clinicians care for patients at the individual level.
“Recognizing where a patient is coming from can help providers think more about their approach to follow-up care and how to best arrange that,” Goitia said. For example, if transportation to the clinic poses challenges for a patient, more frequent check-ins by phone might be preferable to in-person clinic visits when feasible, he said.
Goitia said the trends observed in the study would likely be similar or even more pronounced in other parts of the country. Because the data came from hospitals with an integrated care delivery model, patients from all neighborhoods had equal access to primary and specialty care. The disparities might be even starker in places where access to insurance varies by neighborhood.
One limitation of the study was that it excluded patients without a permanent address. The researchers plan to continue their analysis to determine whether specific elements of the 17-factor neighborhood quality score are more closely tied to a patient’s risk and identify interventions to target those factors.
The 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease recommends clinicians should evaluate the social determinants of health that affect individuals to inform treatment decisions.
Goitia will present the study, “Racial Differences in the Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Long-Term Survival After Acute Myocardial Infarction,” on Monday, May 17, at 9:45 a.m. ET / 13:45 UTC at the American College of Cardiology’s 70th Annual Scientific Session. | <urn:uuid:f1d5d788-7650-4d24-8202-cf436669f63d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scitechdaily.com/where-you-live-may-make-a-big-difference-on-how-long-you-live-after-a-heart-attack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960102 | 819 | 2.46875 | 2 |
TUOLUMNE COUNTY COURTHOUSENPS Number: 07000695
The Courthouse was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 with a boundary for the single building that occupies a city block. The nomination was amended to include the courthouse square (approved 9/19/07). County courthouses are usually associated with a special, designed, public space and Courthouse Square is a natural and functional adjunct to the Tuolumne County Courthouse. Tuolumne County’s first county-owned courthouse was built in the center of the square block with minimal landscaping around the building. The construction of Courthouse Square in 1936 added a designed, open, public space to the east of the 1898 building. Courthouse Square’s location in historic downtown Sonora is only two blocks from the geographical center of the original townsite. With the completion of Veterans Memorial Hall in 1932 and the location of county offices there, the square’s design, with diagonal pathways, linked the courthouse and the hall. The town’s legal community was located in offices primarily east of the courthouse so Courthouse Square was a convenient and shorter way to get to the superior court and such offices as county clerk, assessor, recorder and sheriff. The amendment added 1936 as a period of significance and added the social history and landscape architecture as additional areas of significance.
Registration Date: 9/17/1981
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A trust company is a corporation that acts as a fiduciary, trustee or agent of trusts and agencies. A professional trust company may be independently owned or owned by, for example, a bank or a law firm, and which specializes in being a trustee of various kinds of trusts. The "trust" name refers to the ability to act as a trustee – someone who administers financial assets on behalf of another. The assets are typically held in the form of a trust, a legal instrument that spells out who the beneficiaries are and what the money can be spent for. A trustee will manage investments, keep records, manage assets, prepare court accounting, pay bills, medical expenses, charitable gifts, inheritances or other distributions of income and principal.
A trust company can be named as an executor or personal representative in a last will and testament. The responsibilities of an executor in settling the estate of a deceased person include collecting debts, settling claims for debt and taxes, accounting for assets to the courts and distributing wealth to beneficiaries. Estate planning is usually also offered to allow clients to structure their affairs so as to minimize inheritance taxes and probate costs. In the United States, one of the primary profit centers for a trust company is commissions earned from selling various types of insurance products designed to minimize the estate tax charged to a person. A trust officer may provide guardian and conservator services, acting as guardian of a minor's property until adulthood or as conservator of the estate of an adult unable to handle his or her own finances.
The trust company may also provide escrow services, invest education or retirement funds or hold 1031 Exchange proceeds where cash from the sale of US real estate is held in trust until used to buy replacement land.
Trust companies may also perform corporate trust services. Corporate trust services are services which assist, in the fiduciary capacity, in the administration of the corporation's debt. For example, in a normal bank loan, the lender normally lends money to the company, accepts payments from the company monthly, and monitors the financial conditions of the company to ensure that it is meeting all its agreed upon conditions. However most large companies borrow money not from banks, but by selling bonds. When the company sells bonds, a corporate trust company can handle the acceptance of payments from the company, and is the entity which monitors the company to ensure it is meeting covenants. In the event of the company's bankruptcy, the corporate trust company represents the interests of the bondholders and acts to recover as much of the loan proceeds as possible. | <urn:uuid:54eb4091-2643-4ed1-a047-3a9864170bcd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://owiki.org/wiki/Trust_company | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965458 | 516 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Reaching Your Audience (Communication)
Are we talking the same language? Perhaps you’ve heard it said, “What we have here is a failure to communicate. Some men, you just can’t reach” (Cool Hand Luke, 1967), or “I have tried to help him, but I have failed. I have failed because you have not helped me. You people have not given Private Pile the proper motivation” (Full Metal Jacket, 1987). Whether it is a dilemma of not being able to reach your audience, or a combination thereof including a lack of motivation, both Cool Hand Luke and Gunnery Sergeant Hartman had it right. Communication, often, is at the root of any successful or failed business meeting and presentation. Ever been presenting a technical brief with a customer, working to communicate their needs with your solution and found your team losing your customer and starting to get off message? You have worked hard to get an audience, the last thing you want to do is lose them!
The key root to effective communication is in the execution – and not only in hearing but truly listening to your customer. Often, the missing link, and the main reason we fall short in presenting to customers is miscommunication (you’ve missed the communication). It’s the gap between what we want to achieve and the ability to deliver the message. The need is above solely tactics and technical prowess, but includes a system of getting things done through questioning, analysis, and follow-through – meshing strategy with reality, aligning people with goals, and achieving the results promised. Executing effective communications in any presentation is the best way to link the people, strategy, and operating plan – together, to get things communicated in a timely fashion.
Here are three simple strategies to ensure you keep your audience’s attention and stay on message:
- Ensure all members are participating – if you notice a member of your customer team not participating in the discussion, engage them in conversation. Ask an open-ended question that cannot simply be answered with a simple yes or no answer. They are in the meeting for a reason. Either they are a leader or the leader respected their opinion and included them so it’s good to know what they are thinking.
- Take a breath – it is a good idea to pause periodically when it is your turn. We know the importance of not taking over a conversation, but there are times where it is your turn to talk. When it is, be sure to pause, see if there are any questions or get feedback from the customer. Interjections and feedback could point out things to highlight further in your presentation and increase your chances of more meaningful dialogue.
- Do something unexpected – we are all so tired of death by PowerPoint, please stop killing us with them. During death by PowerPoint, we slump further into our chair and casually check our social media feeds under the table. Huh, were you saying something? Therefore, do something unexpected! How about just one slide with a list of questions for customer engagement? How about standing up and walking around? How about cutting the customer off at the pass and providing a list of all the negatives and why you shouldnt’s with a counterpoint discussion of all the why you shoulds? Do something different in a good way and stand out.
The next time you or your team is meeting with a customer, take a moment to sit back and observe your ability to communicate. Are you hearing the customer’s needs and challenges, or are you truly listening? The subtle difference in your actions could significantly increase your chances of success in solving the customer’s challenges and putting you one more step in front of the competition. For more tips and tricks to stay on target, contact us! | <urn:uuid:9d6b0b9b-d7cd-48fb-87fc-48d60e99ba89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://c5bdi.com/what-we-have-here-is-a-failure-to-communicate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954232 | 775 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Raw oysters are a happy hour and summertime favorite for many. However, like any raw seafood, eating these salty molluscs comes with risks—and may be life-threatening for people with certain health conditions.
If you feel icky after eating raw fish like sushi, it may have been caused by foodborne illness-causing bacteria, such as Listeria or Salmonella (or maybe you just left your sushi leftovers in the fridge for too long). Raw oysters, however, are often plagued with a different group of bacteria called Vibrio.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), most Vibrio infections (vibrosis) from oysters and other shellfish, such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection, may cause only diarrhea and vomiting. A Vibrio vulnificus infection, however, is much more dangerous.
Eating raw oysters contaminated with Vibrio vulnificus can cause an infection in the bloodstream and may be life-threatening for people who have liver disease, diabetes, a weakened immune system, or have taken medicine to lower stomach acid levels. According to the CDC, a Vibrio vulnificus infection is fatal for 1 in 5 people.
Vibrosis infection may occur within 24-48 hours of ingestion, and cause symptoms such as:
If you suspect a vibrosis infection in yourself or a friend, it’s critical to call your doctor immediately and let them know if you ate raw shellfish recently.
To protect yourself and others, it’s also important to squash misinformation about raw oysters in its tracks. There are many myths being spread about raw oysters that may encourage high-risk people to consume them when they shouldn’t, putting them in danger. If you hear these myths, shuck them and debunk them immediately with the cold hard facts:
MYTH: Throwing hot sauce on your raw oyster will kill everything.
FACT: The hot sauce may cause pain to your mouth, but it won’t hurt bacteria. The only way to kill harmful bacteria is to cook your oysters thoroughly.
MYTH: Raw oysters are safe if you drink alcohol while eating them.
FACT: Drinking may impair your judgment, but it won’t kill the bacteria in your food.
MYTH: Just make sure your oysters come from clean water.
FACT: Vibrio vulnificus thrive in warm environments, specifically coastal areas where oysters live, such as the Gulf of Mexico. They don't grow because of polluted water. According to the CDC, about 80 percent of infections also occur between May and October, when water temperatures are warmer.
MYTH: A few oysters won’t hurt you.
FACT: The seriousness of each Vibrio case is different for everyone. How your body reacts depends on your overall health and how much bacteria (or oysters) you ingest.
MYTH: Raw oysters are an aphrodisiac.
FACT: There is no sufficient evidence that this is true. (Psst … here are some proven ways to boost your libido.)
In healthy people, these bacteria may not be as life-threatening, but they may still cause unpleasant symptoms. (Here are the textbook signs of food poisoning.)
To reduce your risk of infection, it’s best to stick to cooked oysters—and shuck these myths about the safety of raw oysters. (Also, be sure you’re not making these rookie food poisoning-causing cooking mistakes.)
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Solving the Common Directx End-user Runtime June 2010 Release on your own
It’s only natural to encounter some issues when you utilize your computer for different purposes. Knowing the source of the problem and what it’s all about provides more headache to the users. This is just an indication that something needs to be done in your computer so be free from worries. Directx End-user Runtime June 2010 Release is a natural thing. To stop the worsening of the problem, getting to the root of the problem is needed. This way, you’re able to do what is required to address the problem.
Understanding the cause of the problem lets you know the answer. Same thing goes if you want to fix Directx End-user Runtime June 2010 Release. During this process searching for the major cause, you will finally realize that there are quite number of reasons why such error takes place. Incompatible PC module applications and also driver problems are some of the reasons why such error occur.
Blue Screen of Death (BSoD)
Software and hardware updates are needed to help make computer more useful, thus we always want to install such. The thing is, when you keep on updating your PC, you’ll sometimes bump into an error causing your computer to show a flash of blue in the screen as you restart it. It doesn’t matter if you’ve got the newest operating-system because no matter what type of OS you’re using, you are still prone to this error. The good thing that you can do is unplug or uninstall the device or software recently installed in your computer as you restart and open it using safe mode. It will take more effort than just simple ESC or Ctrl + Alt + Del in order to solve this problem. There is a need for you to have the knowledge of the basic procedures regarding your PC to easily get away from this Directx End-user Runtime June 2010 Release.
Virtual Memory Too Low
You have huge possibilities of experiencing this issue if you have just installed an app that needs big memory. Besides that, this can also occur when you have inadequate RAM space. Unless your RAM is enough, you will have to buy more RAM chips. Your pagefile size can however be increased if your RAM can still do the work. First, just go to Control Panel, click System followed by Security. Follow the order of the areas you should be going: Advanced system settings, Advanced tab and Settings. You can then increase your PageFile up to 2 times of your RAMs memory.
Missing DLL Files
The major cause of this Directx End-user Runtime June 2010 Release is the missing file needed for the completion of a certain program. To fix the issue, try setting up the software again. On the other hand, if it is a system file, you can get a copy of it from the internet. Just dont settle with untrusted websites. However, dont expect too much because not all copies from the web can work a hundred percent. You should also get a great anti-virus suite since this error may often be caused by virus.
It will always be a great thing if you know how to troubleshoot such computer errors. Not just that your technical skills will develop, but you will also stay away from the possibility of shelling out a lot of money from replacing something in your Download DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) from … computer that has issue. In case you come across the mentioned Directx End-user Runtime June 2010 Release, try solving it. | <urn:uuid:b8d0b628-9947-4966-86fd-367fb53cc20b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.stage773.org/runtime/directx-end-user-runtime-june-2010-release/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940324 | 727 | 1.546875 | 2 |
By Euro Weekly News Media • 26 November 2013 • 20:00
Young and homeless
THE Caritas charity has said the number of homeless people in Alicante has increased by 21 per cent during 2013.
There are twice as many women living on the streets and triple the number of young people aged from 18 to 25 than were registered last year.
Caritas is now helping more than 2,000 of the 3,500 homeless people, with the rest being helped by other charity associations in the area.
Charo Moreno, from Caritas who works with the homeless, explained that lots of these people are in this situation because they were evicted from their homes by the banks:
“The biggest problem is that the people living in these conditions are normally affected by more diseases, which increases the risk of social exclusion.” She added it is more difficult for them to get medical assistance because most are non-registered foreigners and 60 per cent do not have a medical card.
Caritas says their life expectancy is 20 years below the rest of the population.
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National Towel Day is celebrated on May 25 of every year. It is a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams who was born in 1952 and died in 2001. On that day, fans encompassing the world carried a towel in honor. National Towel Day comes to say that the most useful thought of an interstellar hitchhiker. One can wrap it around for kindness as you bound across the distant moons of Jaglan Beta and also can lie on it on the penetrating marble-sanded seashores of Santraginus V, breathing the heady sea vapors. Also, it can use for sleeping underneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon. Wet Also, you can wave the towel in difficulty as a suffering signal, and dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean fairly.
“The Towel used in hand-to-hand combat which wraps it round your head to ward off offensive fumes and also avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal like a stupid animal, it believes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you the daft as a brush, but more voracious.”
History of National Towel Day
Douglas Adams had been missed by his fans global. So that all his fans wherever can pay tribute to this genius and used to propose that two weeks after his fleeting which on May 25, 2001, marked as “National Towel Day.” All the fans of Douglas Adams are inspired to carry a towel with them for the day. The Towel is conspicuous that uses it as a talking point to move forward those who have never read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to go pick up a copy. Wrap it almost your head and use it as a weapon that soaks it in nutrients. Most minds in the world are constrained by the laws of Physics and remember those that broke the law and got away with it.
Other Celebrations on May 25
May 25 is also celebrated as
How to Celebrate National Towel Day
Celebrating National Towel Day is simple and easy. Choose your favorite towel, and Make certain it’s clean! Carry it wherever you go. By showing everyone how you celebrated National Towel Day, there will be aware of this Day. Have a competition with your friends for the “best towel.” Take photos of everyone embracing the winners. For people who don’t get the importance of your Towel, help them know why you have it and also explain that a towel is an essential psychological tool, as outlined in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe. Take a photo with the towel and upload it to Social Media #TowelDay.
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There is much controversy about violent toys which are far from beingconsidered politically correct. The toys that enter many grade school classroomsthroughout the country may also seem offensive to people who try to be aspolitically correct as possible. I can remember an incident involving myself, awater gun and a teacher back in grade four. What had happened was that Ipondered onto school grounds with a tiny plastic watergun. As I proceeded downthe hallway a teacher took notice of my “water-squirting” device. She approachedme and ceased the toy from my hands .
Many elementary school educators believethat violent toys can lead, and often do lead to violence if the children areallowed to play with the toys in an unsupervised environment. Something that used to be considered good clean fun has become aconstant frustration to teachers and parents everywhere. Many educators onrecess duty who have observed children at play have come to believe that roughplay which might look innocent can and often does lead to real violence. Thegoodness of teaching political correctness in the classroom is its ability toprotect our children from violence, discrimination, and the unfairness thatexist in this world. Political correctness is a good thing for kids to learn. I think thatbeing politically correct is just being polite and considerate for the feelingsof others.
I encourage parents and teachers to teach children about the fairnessand equality that political correctness implies. However If teachers and parentsallow political correctness to dictate the educational process, schools will nolonger work toward educating, but instead will shift their focus towardsaltering the attitudes and minds of students. It’s not always beneficial for a teacher to over-emphasize politicalcorrectness in the classroom because it limits the students’ ability to learn. It’s not right to isolate children from the books, toys, and games that let themlearn and have fun for the sake of being considered politically correct. Nearlyall of us grew up and experienced political incorrectness; with dolls such asBarbie, fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood or Cinderella, toy guns andcartoons.
This is especially evident since the vast majority of adults grew upto be decent human beings who can form their own opinions. In our multicultural, racially diverse, opinionated nation we, asteachers, parents and students need to adjust the grade school curriculum inorder to keep up with the changes that are taking place every day. Main goal forthe educators and teachers it to challenge students to think, reason and toconsider the views of others and eventually come to their own conclusions onpolitical correctness. | <urn:uuid:66e3c725-70c2-47c5-8042-d399d34dafc7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thatholyanarchist.com/essay/political-correctness-in-the-classroom-essay-68615-4403 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.967388 | 530 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The news of the third death caused by Corona-related complications in TMH is really a matter of concern. Within a period of a week, the city has lost three citizens to the scourge, while the number of patients has been on the rise steadily.
The figures indicate the seriousness of the situation we all are in. The disease is spreading fast in the city despite all the steps being taken by the administration and the citizens. This shows that our efforts have not been up to mark and this is the time to up the ante and take the challenge of defeating the disease seriously.
We have limited means to fight against a pandemic that has wreaked such devastation all over the world. But these means and tools are effective deterrents. With the help of these tools of social distancing, lockdowns and personal hygiene, India has been largely successful in keeping the disease at its lowest devastating level. We need to re-launch our efforts.
Because not doing so is not an option for us. The only way to go is to move forward and confront the disease with the tools we have available to us.
The figures for Jharkhand too are not very good either. The growth of the number of patients in the state has reached almost 3.84%, which is higher than the national average of 3.46%. And this is really a matter of concern for all of us.
Not only this, the doubling rate of the patients, which is the number of days in which the number of patients doubles, is also 18.41, which is less than the national doubling rate of 20.36.
Both these figures highlight the fact that our efforts are falling short in all respects. The administration cannot do much as it is over-stretched and over-burdened due to general lack of resources and healthcare facilities. But, as citizens, we too are falling short in all areas, which is a greater concern.
The citizenry has the biggest role to play in containing the spread of such a pandemic. There is no lack of information or awareness. What we lack is a sense of emergency. We all are in a state, where we feel the threat is still far away from us.
The union health ministry is not willing to accept that community transmission has begun in the country. It feels that in pockets the transmission is rapid, but it still is not community transmission.
However, semantics do not matter much. The fact is that a large number of new patients do not have any travel history and this proves that the disease spread is gaining momentum.
Everyone feared a situation where people start dying in large numbers and indiscriminately, without too many options left for the administration or the citizenry.
It seems the days when we could watch the news from a distance are truly over.
The disease is amidst us and causing us all to be fearful.
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August is National Breastfeeding Month and World Breastfeeding Week is recognized August 1-7.
The World Alliance of Breastfeeding Action (WABA) explains that breastfeeding promotes the growth and development of children. It provides not only the best possible nutrition, but also protects children against diseases and assures their care. Exclusive breastfeeding without other foods or fluids for the first 4 to 6 months of life is the best start for all babies.
Advantages of breastfeeding for your baby:
- Provides all nutrients for physical and mental development
- Confers a healthy immunity by anti infective constituents in colostrum and breastmilk which helps build the infant’s immune system
- Prevents infections caused by germs that contaminate artificial feeding bottles and teats
- Reduces the risk of developing obesity and allergies
Along with the fulfillment and emotional connection you experience when providing your baby the best possible nourishment during their first months of life, there are several health benefits to breastfeeding.
Advantages of breastfeeding for your health:
- Helps mothers recover from childbirth more quickly
- Reduces fertility by delaying returned ovulation after birth resulting in wider child spacing and safer childbearing
- Reduces the risk of ovarian and breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cardiovascular disease
- Releases two beneficial hormones: Prolactin that allows you to relax by producing a sensation of peace and nurturing; and Oxytocin that enhances the sense of love and attachment you feel when you and your baby are connected through breastfeeding.
WABA explains that breastmilk is the most ecologically sound food available to humans. It is produced and delivered to the consumer without any pollution. It is a natural resource of enormous value and has only positive effects on the environment.
Advantages of breastfeeding on your environment:
- Breastmilk produces no waste: it is produced in the right amounts for the baby’s needs. Mothers need only the smallest amount of extra energy, which is often taken from body fat (even malnourished mothers can produce enough quality breastmilk to feed a baby).
- Breastmilk needs no extra packaging.
- Breastmilk does not have to be shipped around the world (but a mother has a ready supply wherever she goes).
- Most women do not menstruate when breastfeeding and therefore need fewer towels, tampons or cloths. This reduces the need for fibers, bleaching, packaging and disposal.
Breastfeeding saves money. Period. And your wallet will thank you.
Advantages of breastfeeding on your wallet:
- Breastmilk is FREE. It is estimated that the cost of formula during the first year of baby’s life is up to $3,000 retail. That doesn’t include bottles, nipples, and fuel to go to and from the store.
- Breastfed babies are healthier, saving families time and money spent on doctor visits and medicines.
- Moms that breastfeed lose weight faster, lowering health risks caused by obesity, which helps save on medical costs.
- Breastfeeding equipment, such as breast pumps and milk storage bags, can be purchased with pre-tax dollars from flexible spending accounts (FSA), or are tax deductible for women without an FSA so long as their out-of-pocket medical costs for the year exceed 10 percent of their income (often the case in the first year baby is born).
District Health Department #10, through our Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, offers a host of breastfeeding education and support, including:
- Breastfeeding Peer Counselors
Certified Lactation Specialists (CLS)
Internationally Board Certified Lactation Counselors (IBCLC)
Assistance with breast pumps and parts, including proper fitting of breast pump shields
Prenatal breastfeeding education, both one-on-one and classes
Postpartum breastfeeding support, including latching issues, breast/nipple discomfort, and supply issues
Nutrition support for breastfeeding mothers
Monthly breastfeeding support groups, open to the community, not only WIC participants
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