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Report, blank homeschool report card : How to Prepare a Homeschool Report Card
The report card must include the activities you created for the kids during the academic year, the grades, and feedback on how the children can improve. You can make it fun, and the report card doesn’t have to be too formal. You also can take a look at the report cards on this page for inspiration. You also can customize them and make something that you and your children like.
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Voters Want Mental Health Policies To Be A National Priority
As Nevadans caucus later this month, health care issues are at the forefront for many. Some of those voters want mental health to be a vital part of that national debate. The state is ranked 51st in the nation for mental health care according to a report from Mental Health America.
Reno resident Felicia Perez takes nearly a dozen pills each day. That’s down from the 15 she used to take, when she was first diagnosed with a rare disease in 2012.
“I had my first MRI, and it was discovered that I had a tumor wrapped around my optic nerve. I had 11 rounds of radiation, and it grew and became a brain tumor as well,” Perez explained. “I’ve had three of these tumors. I’ve had 20 MRIs, I’ve had 40 chemo infusions, and there’s no end in sight. I have a very rare autoimmune disorder that will eventually cause lymphoma or a rare eye cancer. And this is how I will pass from this life.”
Perez was a former high school history teacher in Los Angeles and is currently working part-time remotely for an organization that supports social justice. She said her illness has affected her mental health.
“I also have severe anxiety, some depression, from grieving the life that I used to have,” Perez said, “and always contending with the way that my life changes year to year, and what those limitations are.”
Getting access to mental health care has been challenging for Perez. She had to fight with her private insurance carrier to keep the therapist she’d been working with, and on top of that, she has gone into debt. There’s a nearly $8,000 annual deductible to pay for, and her health makes it difficult to maintain a full-time job.
For now, Perez is walking an emotional tightrope.
“Somewhere between sad and angry. And every once in awhile, I look up and I see some hope, but it quickly fades. It’s like a bubble,” Perez explained. “I’d rather be angry than sad, because anger at least allows me to still have the desire to fight and sad just [makes] me not have the energy anymore to fight, and between the illness and politics, that’s where we’re at these days.”
Perez said for candidates to get her vote, this is what she wants to hear: “I’m going to need to hear, mental health not be separated from health care, period. Mental health is a health care issue,” Perez said. “The fact that we don’t give it the kind of attention that it needs right now in this country is because we’re not giving our health care system the kind of attention that it needs.”
Robin Reedy heads the state’s National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI Nevada.
“You know, it's really tough for candidates to talk specifically toward any one item when they're trying to get elected,” Reedy said.
NAMI reports that Republican political platforms are traditionally more likely to increase health care options while reducing mandates. In comparison, Democrats are more likely to enforce the federal mandate Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to ensure the equal coverage of mental health conditions and substance abuse disorders.
“I want people to recognize that a disorder of the brain is the same as a disorder of the heart,” Reedy explained, “or the pancreas, or whatever other organ in your body, and treat it equally.”
But for Nevadans, access to mental health care is a problem. According to Mental Health America, about two out of three adults statewide with a mental illness received no treatment. And the state has a shortage of providers.
“We don't have enough regular doctors,” Reedy said, “let alone a psychiatrist, psychologist or psychiatric nurses.”
Reedy says that there aren’t enough mental health treatment centers in Nevada, and many with severe mental health illness end up in the emergency room. Dr. Cari Croghan is based in Reno and has been an emergency room physician for more than two decades. She says insufficient access to mental health care has been draining the overall medical system.
"The other day, we had 40 patients in our waiting room, waiting for up to six to eight hours,” Croghan explained. “We had 16 psychiatric patients. Well, if we could get the psychiatric patients to a place where they were actually healing and doing better, we could have emptied out that waiting room in two hours.”
For Croghan, mental health should be a policy priority for candidates and not a politicized issue.
“This isn’t necessarily a red or blue thing. This isn’t, ‘Oh, you’re a communist. Oh, you’re a redneck.’ This is humanity,” Croghan said. “Psychiatric illness does not know race, creed, religion, nothing. It’s just like any other illness.”
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By: Mohamoud H Arrale/ Medeshi
On the onset of the article, I would like to highlight briefly, to my best recall, the melt down of the Somalia dignity and an unprecedented events unfolded after the late Siyaad Barre’s regime has got ousted by the rebel forces in 27 January 1991.
The collapse of the Somali Government in 1991, regardless of the past, was the eventual upshot of the country’s disintegration into several, mostly clan based, administrations with conflicting political aspiration – the footprint of a failed state: first Somaliland (former British Protectorate) broke away from the rest of Somalia (former Italian colony) – not without a reason.
Just after the late president, Mohamed. S. Barre, was thrown out of Mogadishu, Mr Ali Mahdi took the opportunity to grab the vacant presidential seat – a preset operation – without being elected by the general public or the leaders of armed rebel forces of SNM (April 1981), USC (1989) and SPM (March 1989) who literally forced Siyaad Barre to flee and toppled his regime after their meeting at Balliguble, the SNM base, on Aug 7, 1990.
Mr. Ali Mahdi’s inapt and hustled action has enraged the people in the North (Somaliland) and the leaders of the rebel forces, notably General Aideed, and thus further contributed to the escalation of the war in Mogadishu, after said Barre’s flee. It has also prompted Somaliland to disaffiliate from the South without waiting further development of the situation in Moqadishu. At this point the country took two different and opposite directions.
On November 17, 1991, The south which was relatively stable prior to 1991, (Somalia – as it was called before 1960) begun to follow to a turbulence path which displaced millions and claimed the lives of thousands of people as well material damages and resulted in famines and diseases that could be blamed to all actors that involved in the confrontations in Somalia, whether their intentions were sinister or sound act.
The military operations by the UN, the AU and neighbouring countries until present and the numerous reconciliations held for Somalia as well as the lavish financial aid by the west and the other international community including the Arab countries to Somalia (the South) proved ineffectual and have achieved little to change the course of Somalia.
Those efforts, despite proven ineffective, still are being continued in Somalia with the same strategy that based with external influence to nurture the same mayhem that always takes a different shape and breeds a different and new adversary to fight with. – A rolling program of the initial problem.
In fact, the direct involvement of the Somalia’s affairs by the International Community or by any stakeholder only extends the problem within the Somali Society. If the problem in Somalia is left to the Somali people without interference, they could decide their way out in a reasonable time may be with less human cost than we experienced now. The UN and the African countries intervention to Somalia is a project with many beneficiaries which has no specific completion date, because of the financial gains for those involved outweighs the real solution.
The people in the North (Somaliland) took different approach than the Southern Somalia by a) reconciling the clans in the North-west of Somalia, after years of civil war prior to 1991, and b) declaring on 18 May 1991 their withdrawal from the Union of Somalia that had unconditionally happen in 1 July 1960, after Ali Mahdi has announced his government in Mogadishu. The people of Somaliland, now around 3 million, formed a government with a constitution, parliament, house of elders, new currency (Somaliland Shilling) and flew its own flag – satisfies all the requirements of a sovereign country.
The successive Somaliland administrations systematically started, despite some hindrance, the process of stabilizing the country by demobilizing all armed militias and forming a national army and a police force as well as fostering the democratization process that the country is going through now. Since then four presidents were replaced of which the last two were democratically elected by the people and the power was transferred smoothly by the incumbent presidents to their successors.
As Somaliland is not yet recognised by the international community and it cannot secure proper economical and political relation with the other nations, It has been reliant on its limited resource with the minimal external assistance for the past two decades of its being, unlike Somalia, by achieving its physical development that has fascinated the international media and given the commendation of being a model of hope in Africa.
In contrast to that positive image of Somaliland, the Southern Somalia has plunged into troubled water as further divisions of the country surfaced in the form of fiefdoms based on tribal influence or warlords.
One of the first tribal based administrations that split from the south in 1998 is the semi-autonomous administration of Puntland (Majeerteenia in territory wise). Puntland is a stable area, to a certain extent, although it has infested by pirate operations, a major financial source to that area in terms of the scale of ransom received by the pirates for their catches, or the financial aid to the authority in Puntland by the donor community for fighting the piracy in their coasts. Besides that, Puntland is far better than the rest of southern regions in the development aspect.
The maritime piracy hosted by this enclave costs nearly 7 billion dollars to the international trade according to a report by One Earth Future in 2011. This cost is footed by consumers of the commodities (including the Somali people) that transported via on this risky route as the price of commodities, transport charges and insurance of sea transport on the high risk waters went sky-high not because of the current financial crisis in the world market but mainly of the piracy in the Horn of Africa. As reports cited, the Somali pirates operate in the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and off the coast of Oman.
Puntland suffers the consequence of the pirate presence in their areas as calculated assassinations to government officials, to prominent community elders, to spiritual leaders and to foreigners by armed gang oven took place for reasons connected to piracy associated with some political and tribal retaliation in Puntland towns. However, if this practice continues it will invalidate the fair stability that exists in Puntland.
As a rival economical and political region to Somaliland, the Puntland administration devised a destabilising strategy for Somaliland by claiming Sool and some parts of Sanaag regions, an area that Puntland is much interested in to get hold of it simply because of an ancestral link rather border connection as of colonial borders in Africa.
In addition, Puntland has a potential interest in drilling nugaal valley well located inside the border of Somaliland which first drilled by ConocoPhillips in 1989 by giving a concession to Red Emperor Resources along with Dharoor well in Puntland.This is the root cause of the dispute between Somaliland and Puntland.
The Abdullahi’s federal governments of Somalia (October 10, 2004 – December 29, 2008) put into effect that strategy of detaching Sool and Sanaag districts from Somaliland for reasons that can be associated with mineral and petroleum interest for Puntland benefit as Abdullahi him-self was the founder of Puntland administration in 1998.
However, this border dispute tact was a tool for Puntland and Somalia TFG, though with different aims but analogous to have a case in suspension for a possible recognition of Somaliland or by creating insecure environment within Somaliland for political reasons. A similar tactic was adopted by some close regional governments, as in the case of Ethiopia, to disturb the new government of Somaliland lead by Mr M A Mohamoud Silaanyo for a minor rift or temporary misunderstanding between the two the administrations In Hargeisa and Addis which is now restored.
The Ethiopian government through the Somali Self Governing administration in Jigjiga supported and offered a facilitation and security arrangements to some high profile diasporas members who hailed from Sool region and Buhoodle district of Togdheer region to convene at Taleh village of Somaliland in January 2012 and announced an administration named Khaatumo state of Somalia which the Somalia’s TFG also had a hand on the establishment of this group as this group opposes both Puntland and Somaliland claims of Sool and Buhoodle.
At the time the TFG and had some issue with Puntland regarding with Somalia’s political roadmap. However, this group who mainly consists of diasporas individuals is now seems withered by the Somalia-Somaliland dialogue as Somaliland government has now changed its previous strategy of segregating itself from interacting with Somalia’s political discourse.
Nevertheless, the international community was also less generous to the case of Somaliland, they have only offered a cold shoulder and left the Somaliland’s bid for recognition to decide by the African Union who have their own internal problems and some of them even have an interest on Somali people’s untidy political affair or may not even like seeing an internationally recognised Somaliland next door as it might be a threat to their economical position in the Horn as in the case of Djibouti, though it has shown now some leniency to Somaliland case and some co-operation begun between the two governments.
On the other hand, the world has kept Somaliland in a corner until recently in terms of the magnitude of financial assistance that the donor countries and the UN organisations spent to Somalia for the past twenty years with little improvement on ground. Somehow, Somaliland has strived with this financial negligence by the international community and, with little in the budget; the people of Somaliland did mind their business and built their own country both in the public and the private sector inferstructures.
The people of Somaliland not only helped their country but participated in the assistance and the reconciliation of the conflicts in Somalia. It is worth to mention the efforts that Somaliland made when the power clash erupted in Puntland between Jama Ali Jama the late President Abdullahi Yusuf of Somalia TFG – then the president of Puntland who completed his term in November 2001 and recaptured the power from Jama Ali Jama in May 2002.
The forces of Jama Ali Jama and Gen. Ade Muse Boqor who came from Canada to support Jama were defeated and Gen, Ade and his men fled to Somaliland.
With hospitable treatment, the then president of Somaliland, Mr Daahir Riyaale gave Gen Ade and his men a refuge before they returned to Puntland with the help of Somaliland arbitration by sorting out the difference between the general and Abdullahi Yusuf who finally agreed to form a power sharing government in Puntland in May 2003.
Somaliland only did this charitable decision Just to uphold the stability in the Horn. Mr Ade later became the President of Puntland after Abdullahi won the presidency seat in the transitional government of Somalia in Nairobi in October 2004. However, neither Gen. Ade nor Col. Abdullahi returned the due favour to Somaliland people; instead they did the opposite to Somaliland: Armed the Sool and Buhoodle community against Somaliland.
Similarly, Somaliland gave a home to a large internally displaced people from the South of Somalia who fled from the surging wars in their regions. Moreover, it donated nearly one million dollar to the drought and famine stricken people in Mogadishu and Dhadhaab (Kenya) refugee camp in September 2011. A Somaliland delegation consisting of government ministers and civilians has taken that assistance to Mogadishu and Dhadhaab for distribution.
In fact, many Somaliland poor families were in need of that assistance but justly those in Mogadishu were lacking of security and shelter more than those in Somaliland and that is why the people of Somaliland and their government took that timely decision. It was a wise decision which has captured the attention of the world which usually reports a help from external donor to Somalia but not ever reported a help from Somali people to Somali people of that magnitude as in this case.
After 21 years, Somalia and Somaliland sit together, face to face, at a technical level and discussed to clarity their future relations without the presence of a third party during the course of the discussion in Chevening House, UK, on 21 June 2012. Within two hours of the meeting the two sides reached an agreement that the facilitating committee were not expecting, in fact the notion that was in place was an expectation of confrontation by the two sides and that was proven wrong. The outcome of that meeting was again ratified by the two presidents of Somalia and Somaliland in a similar setting in Dubai on 28 June 2012. A new lesson that the international community learned from the Somali people: With their own affairs they can agree if the platform and the opportunity are given to them.
However, everything has a secret ingredient that makes the taste and the texture of the matter in question; the secret ingredient that restores Somalia’s existence is with Somaliland. Now, it seems that Somaliland is ready to participate in all the political discussions that could rightly shape the future of the Horn of Africa.
Therefore, can the international community empower Somaliland to help Somalia? Somaliland has the experience, the venue, the security and it can commit itself to find out a lasting solution to Somali problems.
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The Foundation was founded in 2015 together with those specialists who have taken active part in youth affairs for years. Our goal was to create a new organization, which can directly help the community, especially young people. The main goal of the foundation is to equip the youth with special knowledge and skills that can help them fit in any community, and predispose them to care about problems in our society, and motivates them to be active citizens. We deliver these goals by organizing talent development programs and trainings.
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Web management is something everyone needs to do if they have a website. So, now that you have a new website or updated your existing website, what is next? Should you manage your own website? Should you pay someone else to manage it? These are weighted and important questions. These are questions you shouldn’t decide without knowing what is involved and thinking about whether web management is something you have the time and patience for as a business owner.
If you don’t know anything about website management it can be overwhelming and frustrating. It would be like trying to rebuild an engine in a car if you didn’t know the first thing about cars, it can end badly.
Another issue that often comes up is the cost. Many small business owners don’t want to pay someone else to manage their website. NOT having a professional for website management can end up being much more costly in the long run. Before deciding to manage your own website there are a few questions you should ask yourself.
Make an Informed Decision on Web Management
Do you really know what you’re doing? Websites receive architectural updates frequently. Can you install these updates? How do analytics work? What about SEO? Can you stay up-to-date on the tools, regulations, and trends? Are you able & willing to devote the time to learn how to do these things? Website Management can be like an endless loop of entangled roads without the proper knowledge.
What if something goes wrong? You’re trying to make changes to your website and you accident delete something important. Now what? What if your shopping cart on your e-commerce site stops accepting orders? What do you do if your website goes down? How to check for broken links and images? Your website is vital to your business. A website that is down due to your lack of fully understanding how to maintain it, is a loss of profitability and visibility.
Do you know the lingo? Say your site does go down and you need to call tech support. Do you even know where to start? If they ask you what kind of error occurred, would you know?
Are you familiar with what DNS is? Do you know how to find files in your database? There are a lot of moving parts of a website, and maintaining these parts is key for your website to function properly.
What about the proper tools? Programs that allow for easier website managing can be very costly. Adobe programs alone tend to be in the hundreds and thousands of dollars. Other website building/managing software programs can be just as expensive. Then you have to ask yourself—do you know how to use these tools? Is there the time to learn them? There is a lot that goes into building and maintaining a website properly even though it may not seem that way.
Management Begins with Website Maintenance
Regular web maintenance is a must. It keeps your site running smoothly and keeps visitors from being turned away if something isn’t working properly. Something else to consider is the fact that websites can be hacked on a regular basis—having someone who manages your website, provides the security to monitor your website for you, can help prevent this because they have the time and resources to keep everything up-to-date and they also know what to look for when there is suspicious activity. Website maintenance is part of Website management.
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During the night of April 28-29, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun marry, only hours before they both died by suicide. Braun met Hitler while employed as an assistant to Hitler’s official photographer. Of a middle-class Catholic background, Braun spent her time with Hitler out of public view, entertaining herself by skiing and swimming. She had no discernible influence on Hitler’s political career but provided a certain domesticity to the life of the dictator. Loyal to the end, she refused to leave the Berlin bunker buried beneath the chancellery as the Russians closed in.
Also on this day in 1945, the Americans liberate the concentration camp at Dachau. Five hundred German garrison troops guarding the camp are killed within an hour, some by inmates, but most by the American liberators, who are horrified by what they bear witness to, including huge piles of emaciated dead bodies found in railway cars and near the crematorium.
There were 33,000 survivors of the camp, 2,539 of them Jewish. Dachau, about 12 miles north of Munich, was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi regime, only five weeks after Hitler came to power. At least 160,000 prisoners passed through the main camp and another 90,000 through its 150 branches scattered throughout southern Germany and Austria. Medical experiments, ranging from studying the effects of freezing on warm-blooded creatures to treating intentionally inflicted malaria, were carried out on prisoners. At least 32,000 prisoners died of malnutrition and mistreatment at the camp itself; innumerable more were transported to the Auschwitz gas chambers. A memorial was established at the campsite on September 11, 1956. | <urn:uuid:bc474a0e-17dc-4d17-8f36-bf810fdbc847> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pophistory.org/2009/11/05/adolf-and-eva-marry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.973838 | 336 | 3.890625 | 4 |
Women who have strongly recovered in the hips, quiteIt is difficult to get rid of fat deposits on this part of the body. So it is conceived by nature that all calories immediately go there. At the same time, no matter how hard you try, you can not quickly overcome the problem with diets alone. To at least a little lose weight and continue to maintain themselves in shape, the girls must comply with three basic rules. The first is to eat less harmful food. The second is to systematically play sports. The third is to lead a healthy and mobile way of life. Also do not forget to take care of your body.
Proper nutrition is the key to success
To date, there is such an amountvarious diets and recipes for weight loss, which in the fair sex even the eyes scatter. Bessol, buckwheat, rice, fruit, kefir - they all have strict limitations and are based on the rejection of many useful products. As a result, the girl not only loses weight, but also gets a whole bunch of diseases. Gastritis, ulcers, upset stomach, problems with the intestines, kidneys, bulimia - this is only a small list of what awaits starving beauties. Therefore, if you want to remove fat from the inside of the thighs, you do not need to sit on bread and water alone. Of course, the ideal option will be to contact a specialist. A dietitian doctor will examine you, calculate the percentage of excess weight and will draw a menu for you. If the problem is not so obvious, you can choose for yourself the option where all the necessary vegetables, fruits and other products for the human body will be present. Because of what products appear fatty deposits
- Chips, rusks
It's one thing when you biannually for a couple ofgirlfriend use a packet of chips. Another is when they replace you with breakfast lunch and dinner. High calorie, a large number of additives and salt - all this does not have the best effect on the figure and overall health.
Unfortunately, in our country mayonnaise is runall dishes, not just salads. It's a sin not to pour a sandwich with sausage to them, do not add a spoon to the soaring borsch. And the fat, which is contained in such products, smoothly passes to the hips, waist, cheeks. A glutamate, stabilizers and other additives cause increased appetite. Of course, at first it is very difficult to give up this "delicacy". But if you want to have a normal figure, gradually go from 70 percent mayonnaise to thirty percent. In the future, it can be replaced with homemade sauce, which refuels low-calorie salads, even in famous restaurants. It can be olive oil with lemon juice, low-fat yogurt with mustard, salted sour cream, kefir.
If you ask an ordinary person who does not haveattitude to the production of what makes margarine, he is unlikely to be able to answer correctly. The most interesting thing is that some residents of our country believe that its main ingredient is ordinary oil. Of course, this is not true. In fact, this product is a mixture of vegetable fats. But do not be happy and think that margarine is completely safe. So, for example, the palm oil included in the composition is not excreted from the human body at all. It is added to make the production process cheaper. However, it passes several stages of processing abroad. At us very few people are anxious by clearing of all components. Therefore, if you have the opportunity, try to replace margarine or spread with usual butter. And, before buying this or that product, always read what is written on the pack. The composition should include either natural milk or cream.
- Processed cheese
If you want to remove fat from the insidehips, eat only cheese or ordinary cottage cheese. Lovers of processed cheese should be very careful. The problem is not only in the high percentage of fat content, but also in the composition itself. Gone are the days when such delicacies were made from natural ingredients. The maximum shelf life then was up to a month. Now, thanks to chemistry, most of these products can be stored for about six months.
Today it is quite difficult to find sausage, whichwould be made only of meat. In some cases, dishonest producers add only soy. Spices, pepper, salt and flavor stabilizers - all this causes thirst and appetite. As a result, you at one time drink more than one cup of tea and eat as many as four sandwiches, instead of one. With regard to the fat content of the product, it is usually more than thirty percent. Therefore, nutritionists recommend replacing these products with either fish or chicken. In extreme cases, make sausage at home on your own. Naturally, too often you can not even use home-produced products.
Chocolate, cakes, cakes, sweets - all thiscan be replaced by less caloric foods. So, for example, instead of sugar in the tea should put honey, instead of sweets it is better to eat dried fruit. Lovers of ice cream are unlikely to notice the difference between cream and diet.
- Nuts and seeds
In a hundred grams of peeled seeds there are wholesix hundred kilocalories. Of course, if there are them in moderate portions, then there will be no harm. But in time to stop and do not eat the whole pack - this is only by units. The same goes for nuts. Losing girls in a week can eat no more than ten pieces of unsalted cashew, pistachios or peanuts. What foods should be included in the diet?
Remember, in a day a person should not eatless than two liters of liquid. It is best if it is ordinary purified water without gas. It helps at the time to satisfy appetite, speeds up metabolism and removes toxins from the body. Do you want to remove fat from the inside of your thighs? Then drink a glass of warm mineral water for half an hour before eating. Thanks to this, you will eat just as much as you need to maintain strength, but no more.
- Chicken, fish, milk
In general, you should use as much as possibleprotein products. When choosing the ingredient and the method of preparation, specify whether it is easy to assimilate the food. So, for example, boiled fillet or baked fish will contain more nutrients and fewer calories. In fried dishes contains not only fat, but also carcinogens, which badly affect the human body. When developing the menu, learn how to correctly combine products with each other. A boiled chicken should be eaten with rice, and salmon or mackerel with buckwheat. It will not be bad if at least once a week you will drink a banana or strawberry milkshake. Note that if you exclude from the diet the other ingredients that contain carbohydrates and fats, you can undermine your health.
Every time you want to eat inunperceived time, eat on an apple. Quite satisfying appetite watermelon, melon, grapes. In winter it is best to buy kiwi and citrus fruits. These fruits not only help to remove fat from the inside of the thighs, but also saturate your body with vitamins.
- Dried fruits
Slimming people can eat dried fruits, driedby the usual antiquated method - under the sun. Store delicacies, despite the brightness and attractiveness, in most cases very harmful. Producers are preparing them for new technologies, that is, they are first sprayed with chemical solutions, then placed in a special container. There the fruits reach the desired condition for a couple of days. In such products there is practically nothing useful.
Sport helps to cope with any problem
Unfortunately, industrial progress is very badaffected human health. Buses, cars, lifts - on the one hand, all this makes life easier, and on the other - leads to muscle atrophy and the appearance of excess weight. Note, most often the fat on the inner side of the thighs and buttocks begins to grow after the girl is transplanted to her personal transport. Of course, getting to the nearest store is much faster and easier than walking for five minutes. But there will be no health benefits from this. So, first try to move as much as possible. On the day, set aside at least half an hour for walks in the park. For muscles to strain, be sure to set a fast pace. In the end, you should feel a slight pleasant fatigue in your legs. On returning home, pair your feet in a decoction of chamomile and apply a nourishing cream to your skin. Even if you live on the fifth floor, try to overcome this distance yourself. Girls who have no health problems are recommended to run for about ten minutes up and down the stairs. The footwear should be as comfortable as possible, so as not to damage the ankles.
- Bicycle riding
A bicycle is an excellent alternative to a car. First, you do not have to stand in hours-long traffic. You always and everywhere will pass. Do you think this is below your dignity? In Holland, even deputies and businessmen prefer a two-wheeled comrade. This transport not only allows you to save a lot on gasoline, but also does not harm the environment. Secondly, it's fun. And, importantly, a month after you change your bike, your body will begin to change. The fat is removed from the inside of the thighs, the buttocks are tightened, the calves of the feet are pumped up. However, to abandon the ride will have to the fair sex, who have problems with the cardiovascular system and joints.
- Roller skating
If in our country the videos are treated likeentertainment of young people, in Europe they are increasingly preferred by people of the older age category. The fact is that during riding, the load is given not only to the muscles of the legs, but also to the entire body. As a result, the work of the musculoskeletal system improves, the fat from the buttocks, the knees, the inner side of the legs goes off, there is an excellent insistence. By the way, skates (conventional or roller) - a pretty good alternative to running.
If there are problems with being overweight,be sure to buy a subscription to the pool. If you want, you can sign up for aqua aerobics, where you will perform sports items under the supervision of an instructor. It's not just swimming from the side to the side. This is a whole complex of exercises developed by specialists. People who choose to train themselves and have chosen a wild body of water (river, lake), where there are no rescuers, should be extra careful. Never swim to depth if the water is cold or you just warmed up. In this case, the muscle can reduce the cramp.
Latina, salsa, Pole-dance, step - in all thesedirections, the double load goes exactly to the lower part of the trunk. You do not even have to go on a diet to remove the fat from the calves and the inside of the legs. Excess weight will go much faster than if you sign up for the gym.
- Morning and evening exercises
Studying at home on your own, you are unlikelydiscard more than two or three kilograms. But to maintain yourself in shape, it is still worth doing every morning an elementary charge. This will allow you to cheer up and will not let you fall asleep at work. Also, if you do not attend the gym, twice a week you should do a set of exercises to bring the muscles into tonus.
- Exercise one: lifting the legs
Lie down on your right side, lean on your elbow, the secondplace your hand behind your head. At the expense of the left leg raise up, at the expense of two - we lower it down. We do three approaches fifty times. During the respite ankle we do not put on the floor, but keep in fifteen centimeters from the surface.
- Exercise two: kitty
Get on all fours. At a rapid pace, we lift forty-four times the right and left legs. The back should be sagging, and the head should rise as high as possible (ideally, it should touch the toe). This will not only burn fat, but also develop flexibility.
- Exercise three: stool
Place your feet on the width of your shoulders, bend your legs inknees as if you sat on a chair. Watch your posture - your back should remain flat all the time. In this position, stand for about five minutes, until the muscles begin to ache. Then put your hands on your knees and start shaking your buttocks up and down. After two minutes, lean against the floor and continue to make these movements. In the first two to three months, it will be difficult for you to perform even half of these exercises. In the future, you can gradually increase the load. To take the correct position, first use a conventional stool. So, we sit comfortably on it, then carefully remove it from under ourselves. If after that you do not lose your balance, then you have done everything right.
- Exercise Four: lifting the pelvis
Lie on your back, put your feet near the buttocks andGrab them with your palms. At a fast pace, raise and lower the pelvis fifty times. In a break between the approaches, hold the body at the top of the minute for two. Repeat three to four times, depending on the physical preparation.
Modern Ladies and Healthy Holidays
Abandonment of bad habits. Unfortunately, in ourtime only a few lead a healthy lifestyle. According to statistics, almost every second girl at least once in her life tried alcohol and cigarettes. Harmful habits, which beauties acquire, greatly affect their body. And if, however, the representative of the fair sex wants to get rid of addiction, the body begins to react sharply to the lack of nicotine. As a result, extra pounds appear, and fat begins to grow. To minimize negative consequences and not recover after giving up cigarettes, during this period it is recommended to drink a course of vitamin. It is not necessary to buy expensive pills, you can buy a usual drug in the pharmacy. They will afford to each girl. Body care If fat begins to appear abruptly on the legs, while other parts of the body remain normal and do not change at all, you should immediately consult a doctor. By the way, a full medical examination should be done at least once a year. And, of course, at least once a month it is recommended to go to a bath or a spa. Beforehand, do not forget to consult a specialist.
Before the steam room, the body is rubbed with honey or alcohol,thanks to which the process of metabolism is accelerated, sweating is increased. As a result, fat literally melts and leaves through the pores. For greater effect, ask to walk through the problem areas with a broom.
The sauna differs from the sauna with dry hot air(up to twenty percent of humidity), which, by the way, just affects the human body. Here it is recommended to go to girls who have problems with metabolism and skin. After the steam room, you can do a massage to get rid of subcutaneous fat or cellulite.
- Scrub and wraps
Do wraps can be like in beauty salons,and at home. In the first case, the cosmetologist will use special creams and oils. Such means contribute to rapid weight loss. But if you do not have the opportunity or desire to go to a spa, such procedures can be carried out independently. So, first mix the blue clay (fifty grams), water (a quarter of a glass) of essential oil (a couple of drops). At the end add the usual cinnamon (no more than ten grams). With seasoning, be careful. Even a little overdone, you can get a burn or you will develop an allergy. Now on the problem area spread a thin layer of gruel, then wrap all the food film. After two hours, rinse the skin with plenty of water. Repeat this procedure should be a day and until all of the fat disappears. If the treated area strongly bites or itches, immediately flush this remedy. Light tingling is not so scary. Pay attention, wraps can be done only for those girls who do not have health problems. If you have varicose veins or vascular disease, you will have to look for another way to lose weight. In this case, it is better to try to prepare a mixture of seaweed.
Applying for a massage, be sure to checkavailability of certificates and a diploma confirming the qualification. Only a professional who has received the appropriate education will be able to drive fat off your body. In this case, ordinary flip flops and stroking will not help you. After a similar procedure, some girls remain bruised, and the body hurts. Usually the course lasts about ten to fifteen days. Active way of life You spend weekends, holidays and holidays not at home, but outside the city. Go to the mountains, hiking with a backpack, into the woods, go wild at the sea. Just do not sit still, but give as much weight to your legs as possible. Of course, do not immediately go to a two-day walk. An unprepared person will find it difficult to walk even two kilometers. Gradually increase the distance and weight of provisions. Tempering the body This does not mean that you need to swim in the aisle or run naked in the snow at low temperatures during the winter. To get rid of the fat deposits on the body, it is enough for the girl to take a contrast shower. Direct the jet to a place where there are wrinkles, cellulite, etc. Just be careful not to earn a cold and not get bruises. After water procedures, the problem areas are wiped with a towel. Stop worrying over trifles When a person experiences, fears or rolls up hysterics, a substance is produced in his body that stimulates the appearance of fat cells. To calm down, drink chamomile or lime tea, eat a small piece of dark chocolate.
Ideal figure: everything is in your hands
Actually lose weight and get rid of fat onbody is much simpler than it seems at first glance. It is enough to exert a little effort and be patient. Never take the time and do not overstate expectations, because the first positive results sometimes are even invisible. And remember, an active lifestyle, proper nutrition and training in the gym is a guarantee of your health. We advise you to read: | <urn:uuid:2b6ae832-7a4b-40d5-8f0e-75c9fa78d54f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://womanmaker.com/once-remove-fat-with-inner-side-be/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94913 | 3,891 | 1.585938 | 2 |
How EDI can automate your procure-to-pay cycle
The procure-to-pay (P2P) cycle allows businesses to inquire about, request, receive, and pay for goods and services. Most P2P cycles involve several stages:
- Request for price/request for quotation (RFP/RFQ): A business requests suppliers to provide pricing, product specifications, payment terms, and other information on goods and services they wish to purchase.
- Supply management and vendor selection: The business researches potential suppliers to ensure that the best available vendor is selected.
- Requisition and purchase order (PO): The business internally approves a “request to buy” and produces an “authorization to buy” by way of a PO document that includes details like items, prices, quantities, destinations, and other requirements.
- Receiving and invoice reconciliation: The business accepts the physical shipment and updates inventory, tracking, and accounting records. The invoice is compared with the authorization to buy (PO) and the receipt of the goods (ASN) in order to ensure accuracy and agreement across the three parts. This is also known as a “3-way match”.
- Accounts payable: Having reconciled the purchase order and the goods receipt, the business authorizes payment. Any discrepancies between the goods ordered and the goods received is noted and decremented from the payment along with any other promotional marketing dollars attributed to the exchange of goods.
EDI and procure-to-pay automation
A paper-based P2P cycle involves a lot of manual steps, including the review of PO, receipt, and invoice documents:
- The buyer queries its inventory system to identify orders that need to be placed.
- The buyer creates and submits an RFP/RFQ to listing websites or specific suppliers via email or conventional mail.
- After receiving and evaluating responses to its RFP/RFQ, the buyer enters relevant data into its purchasing system, creates and prints a PO, and mails it to its preferred vendor.
- A few days later, the vendor receives the PO, creates an order in its order management system, and mails an order acknowledgement back to the buyer.
- The supplier picks the order, creates shipping documents, calls the carrier, prints an invoice, and encloses the invoice with the shipment to the buyer. The buyer manually receives the goods against the PO using the shipment documents, and then manually enters the invoice into its accounting system.
The manual process can take anywhere from 7 to 10 days, including the time it takes to send and receive documents, validate them, and enter them into the appropriate systems.
An EDI can automate these processes and largely eliminate the need to communicate by phone, fax, or email:
- The EDI solution queries the ERP system automatically to identify stock in need of replenishment or purchases that need to be made.
- It creates a “Request for Quotation (840)” and submits an RFP/RFQ to known suppliers and third-party listing organizations.
- The buyer receives a notification from its EDI solution that relevant quotes from potential suppliers are available in its purchasing system. The buyer approves a PO for the preferred vendor, which is then sent to the vendor automatically.
- The supplier receives the EDI message, sends back a “Functional Acknowledgement (997)”, and parses the PO data into its order management system. An EDI “Purchase Order Acknowledgement (855)” is automatically generated, which is sent back to the buyer to confirm the order, products, quantities, pricing, and expected delivery.
- The supplier’s ERP system is updated with the customer’s order. The ERP system validates product availability, pricing, and requested shipping dates, and then automatically creates pick and pack sheets for the warehouse. When the shipment is made, it automatically generates a “Motor Carrier Shipment Pickup Notification (216)”, an “Advance Ship Notice (856)”, and an “Invoice (810)”, and sends them via EDI to the appropriate parties.
An EDI-automated procure-to-pay cycle requires much less human intervention, works extremely efficiently, and is much less susceptible to human error. The total processing time is 1-3 days compared to 7-10 days for the manual P2P cycle.
Some of the specific advantages of EDI automation in the P2P cycle include:
- PO Processing: Sending and receiving POs through EDI improves speed and accuracy of the transaction by eliminating keystroke errors and reprocessing costs associated with data rekeying. EDI ensures that your trading partners receive your error-free POs directly. You no longer need to allocate staff and other resources for order processing, freeing them up to focus on customer service instead of manual data entry.
- Replenishment: A well-designed, well-implemented EDI solution can automatically generate and send POs using features that already exist within many ERP systems like reorder points (ROPs), i.e. when available-to-sell (ATS) quantities dip below a predefined threshold.
- Audit and Compliance: When all your orders and invoices are electronic, the transactions automatically create an audit trail. This helps compliance by ensuring that payment verification can take place accurately and completely. The 3-way match between PO, ASN, and invoice helps make vendor payments in a timely and efficient manner.
Using EDI to automate your P2P cycle will help your organization boost operational efficiency, shorten time to market, and eliminate costly errors and rework. EDI solutions like PartnerLinQ can automate paper-based, flat-file, and API processes and bridge the gap between traditional and non-traditional EDI transaction structures by integrating data from trading partners into your company’s enterprise system and business processes.
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Gage Products is a pioneer in the development of automotive recycling processes and is also one of the nation’s first Recyclers of Hazardous Secondary Material (HSM) from paint system waste material.
If reclamation is handled by a HSM Recycler such as Gage, we can help companies throughout the U.S. save thousands of dollars in costly inspection, reporting, and record keeping requirements for the management of hazardous waste material.
Michigan Part 111 Rule 299.9204(1)(bb) states that HSM that is generated then transferred to a HSM reclamation facility for the purpose of reclamation is not hazardous waste under this exclusion if certain conditions, notifications and record keeping requirements are met. These Michigan rules are associated with the federal “Definition of Solid Waste” regulations that revised several recycling related provisions in the January 13, 2015 rules.
As an innovator in the development of sustainable, closed-loop remanufacturing systems for automotive and industrial paint solvents, Gage annually reclaims more than five million gallons of used solvent and returns it to original condition for reuse by our customers.
On June 7, 2018, Gage became the first company to be authorized as a HSM recycler by the State of Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (formerly the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality In addition to Michigan, many other states have adopted the rules to ease the management of waste material when handled by a HSM recycler as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
There are also significant environmental benefits associated with this process. They include providing a proven sustainable solution, reducing environmental footprint while decreasing process costs and conserving natural resources, minimizing waste opportunities, and reducing air emissions.
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That’s what Radicepura is: an intuition springing from a deep love for nature.
Venerando Faro, the family patriarch and founder of the famous horticultural park nestled between Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea, had a dream: to hand down the art of know how to future generations.
For this reason, there have been created the Seed Bank, the ideal place for the protection of the Mediterranean flora, and the Congress Center, a huge space with high technology and an eco-friendly style where to host beautiful events.
This latter is an undoubtedly original place for the events take place inside a large, cube-shaped 2,000 square meters Serra that is able to accommodate up to 1,500 people.
The structure is designed according to most contemporary construction techniques like solar panels, shading nets and the recycling of rainwater. Radicepura is the first zero-impact location for events that by a month, will host the Radicepura Garden Festival, the First International Event dedicated to Garden Design and landscape architecture in the Mediterranean to be held from April 21st to October 21st.
Radicepura is the perfect mix between nature and innovation, custody of the acquired knowledge and the future that awaits us. Thanks to its contemporary architecture, the boundaries between inside and outside seem to disappear and give free space to enjoy nature, the pristine green and the gardens.
From baronial palace to multifunctional park, Radicepura may fill a void in the territory and officially opens up its doors to international events, culture and introduces the full potential of the made in Sicily to the whole world.
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At our house, we have discovered many things to do with foam bathtub letters besides play with them in the bathtub! Obviously, they are very fun to stick to the side of the tub, but we have also used them as stamps for spelling the boys’ names in paint and as part of a game to spell three-letter words.
Yesterday, I needed something quick to occupy Owen while I fed the baby. I’ve been starting to work with him on the alphabet (he just turned 3 in May). I sent Gresham upstairs for the bathtub letters and announced that we were going to play a game. I had Gresham hide four letters around the room (we’re currently working on A, B, O, and T), and Owen had to find the letters and name them!
It was amazing to me how fun this game was for Owen! He loved waiting in suspense while Gresham hid the letters. He loved finding the letters. He loved announcing which letters they were (although he can mostly only remember O). He loved hiding them for Gresham to find (in all the same spots that Gresham had just used!). In fact, they got the letters out after dinner and played the game again!
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NATIONALITY IN TAGALOG – This article will teach you what the word “nationality” is in Tagalog translation and its meaning.
Table of contents
- What is the meaning of Nationality in English?
- What is Nationality in Tagalog?
- Nationality meaning In Tagalog (Nasyonalidad)
- Example Sentences of Nationality in English
- Example Sentences of Nationality in Tagalog (Nasyonalidad)
- For More English and Tagalog Translations
There are a couple of words in the Filipino language that could be translated into “nationality.” However, the use of these words depends on the context of the sentence. Therefore, be mindful of what you write.
What is the meaning of Nationality in English?
The word “nationality” means status of being a citizen of a certain country, either by birth or by obtaining citizenship.
Additionally, nationality is the legal relationship in which a person has to be loyal to the state and the state usually has to protect that person.
What are the Synonyms of Nationality?
Here are some synonyms for “nationality”
- Ethnic group
What is Nationality in Tagalog?
The Tagalog word for “nationality” is translated as “nasyonalidad.”
Nationality meaning In Tagalog (Nasyonalidad)
Ang salitang ito ay mula sa Spanish nacionalidad.
Ang nasyonalidad ay tumutukoy sa pagkakasapi sa isang bansa. Ito ay lahi o pagkatao ng isang mamamayan kung saan ipinanganak ang isang tao.
Dagdag pa rito, ang nasyonalidad ay nauukol ito sa kinabibilangang lahi o kinabibilangang bansa ng isang mamamayan.
Nationality Synonyms in Tagalog
Here are some synonyms for “nasyonalidad”
- Pangkat etniko
Example Sentences of Nationality in English
Here are some example sentences of nationality in English.
|Sentences of nationality in English|
|What is your nationality?|
|He has German nationality.|
|My classmates are from different nationalities.|
|Today, we have many nationalities staying in our country.|
|People from the same country usually have the same nationality.|
Example Sentences of Nationality in Tagalog (Nasyonalidad)
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Here are some example sentences of nationality in Filipino (Nasyonalidad)
- Ano ang iyong nasyonalidad?
- Siya ay may nasyonalidad ng German.
- Iba’t ibang nasyonalidad ang mga kaklase ko.
- Ngayon, marami tayong nasyonalidad na nananatili sa ating bansa.
- Ang mga tao mula sa parehong bansa ay karaniwang may parehong nasyonalidad.
The word “nationality” means status of being a citizen of a certain country.
Ang nasyonalidad ay tumutukoy sa pagkakasapi sa isang bansa.
For More English and Tagalog Translations
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In summary, we have discussed the meaning and translation of the word “nationality.” We also provided example sentences in English and Tagalog.
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Allergy Medicine Treating The Bodys Adverse Reaction To A Substance
A good percentage of the worlds population is affected by an allergy.
An allergy is the bodys reaction to a substance that doesnt cause much harm to other people, but it does to you. These allergens include dust, pollen, chemicals, foods, animal fur and insect stings.
Allergic reactions include:
- Skin rashes dermatitis, hives
- Excessive sweating
- Bloated stomach, intestinal disturbances, and others. In rare instances, the immune systems react so strongly to the offending substance that death occurs. The most deadly reaction occurs when the allergen gets into the bloodstream and causes an anaphylactic reaction respiratory distress, severe itching, and shock.
Allergies can be debilitating and sinusitis is often so painful it can lead to time off from work. Acute sinusitis will develop quickly and lasts up to 10 days while chronic sinusitis is a long-term inflammation of the sinuses.
In adults, chronic sinusitis can lead to nasal swelling. Allergies cause histamine to be released and this causes the inner lining of the nose to swell and prevent sinus drainage. People with asthma and immune system problems develop chronic sinusitis more often than others.
Best Nasal Spray For Cold & Sinus
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Which Works Best For Symptoms Of Allergic Rhinitis
Unfortunately, we dont have head-to-head studies on non-drowsy antihistamines and allergies, which means we dont know for sure which is best. But overall, the research hints that levocetirizine may have a slight edge over the others for relieving allergy symptoms. Heres a summary of some of the research.
According to a review of multiple studies, desloratadine , fexofenadine , and levocetirizine do help relieve nasal congestion caused by allergic rhinitis.
In terms of which non-drowsy antihistamine works best, a statistical analysis of multiple studies found that fexofenadine is no better or worse than the other second-generation antihistamines for blocking the action of histamine. Another statistical analysis suggested that levocetirizine improved allergic rhinitis symptoms to a greater degree than other newer antihistamines . None of the studies in these analyses compared the drugs directly, though. So again, we cant draw firm conclusions.
Looking at their chemical properties, levocetirizine and fexofenadine are more potent than desloratadine, which means they stick better to where theyre supposed to stick in the body. In theory, this should mean they work better.
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Consider Nasal Washing With Sinus Rinses
Sinus rinses are a popular allergy treatment that you can do at home, working well with antihistamines and nasal sprays. The neti pot may be one of the most recognizable sinus rinse products.
A neti pot can be picked up at any local drugstore or online, and typically comes with packets to mix with warm, distilled water to create a saltwater solution. Using the pot to pour the solution through your nasal cavities, you can flush out gunk and allergens to reduce swelling and ease symptoms.
Managing Allergy Headaches And Triggers
The key to managing your allergies and reducing headaches is limiting exposure to allergens and triggers.
- Stay indoors and keep the windows shut when pollen counts are high.
- Wear glasses or sunglasses outdoors to keep pollen from getting in your eyes.
- Use the air conditioning in your home and in your car. Make sure to change out the air filters regularly and keep AC units clean.
- Use mite-proof covers in your bedroom for pillows, comforters, and mattresses to reduce exposure to dust mites.
- Keep your homes humidity at 30-50% to reduce exposure to mold. Clean your kitchen, bathrooms, and basement regularly and use a dehumidifier in damp, humid places.
- Wash floors with a damp mop or rag to avoid dry-sweeping or dusting.
- If you are allergic to a pet, keep them outside of your home. If a pet must be kept indoors, keep it out of the bedroom so you are not exposed to allergens while you sleep.
- Replace carpeting with hardwood, tile or linoleum to reduce dander in the home.
Many sinus headache triggers are airborne and difficult to avoid. Discuss your options with your allergist to decide which treatment options are best for you.
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Take An Antihistamine But Choose The Right One
As soon as allergy symptoms set in, Dr. Hays says your first line of defense should be antihistamines.
Antihistamines are really effective for treating allergies, says Dr. Hays. They need to be taken every day while youre experiencing symptoms, and people with seasonal allergies should proactively take them throughout both the fall and spring allergy seasons.
There are two things you need to know when it comes to choosing the right antihistamine. Dr. Hays says the best antihistamines are ones that are long-acting and non-sedating. To find one that meets this criteria, look for the following types of antihistamines:
Some antihistamine drugs such as diphenhydramine are effective, but can make you very drowsy. Dr. Hays recommends taking this type of antihistamine only before bed.
Whether youre buying name-brand or generic, the antihistamine drug name will be mentioned somewhere on the box typically on the front.
One of the main advantages of antihistamines is that they help with the majority, if not all, of your allergy symptoms, Dr. Hays explains. In addition, they kick in pretty quickly. You should notice a reduction in your symptoms in just a few hours.
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Allergies And Their Symptoms
Allergies refer to a chronic condition involving an abnormal reaction to an ordinarily harmless substance called an allergen, according to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. If that sounds vague, its because it isallergens and reactions to those allergens are incredibly wide-ranging.
Allergens can include aeroallergens , food allergens , animal dander, latex, certain medications and insect stings. Allergy skin tests are an efficient and accurate way of determining allergic sensitivities.
If youre allergic to a particular allergen, your body mistakes that otherwise harmless substance as a harmful intruder, triggering the immune system to produce immunoglobulin E antibodies in an effort to protect your body from the intruder. Those antibodies cause your cells to release histamine and other chemicals, thus resulting in an allergic reaction. Symptoms of an allergic reaction can include:
- For food allergies: vomiting, diarrhea, respiratory symptoms or even anaphylaxis
For our ranking, we only included medications that treat symptoms of aeroallergens.
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While it does offer effective and instant relief against mucus and congestion, the formula isnt quite as powerful as the first name on the list. Without the menthol property, relief doesnt last quite as long, requiring users to repeat the process when mucus accumulates hours later.
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Sinus Infection Treatment Options
There are many treatment options for a sinus infection, but the best treatment option varies by the severity of the case. Some acute sinus infections will clear up on their own without any treatment, and you may just think it was a cold. Others require more serious interventions by a healthcare provider.
The standard treatment healthcare providers prescribe for a presumed bacterial sinus infection is an antibiotic. However, if you have a sinus infection caused by a viral infection such as the common cold, your doctor will not prescribe antibiotics as these medications only treat bacterial infections. Instead, you can treat the sinus infection symptomatically until it resolves, with nasal decongestants and antihistamines.
There are plenty of ways to treat symptoms of a sinus infection at home with over-the-counter medications and home remedies. OTC antihistamines block the effects of histamine, helping symptoms like sneezing and runny nose. Simple treatments like drinking water, keeping your sinuses hydrated , and using warm compresses, can also help treat symptoms of a sinus infection.
Keeping your nasal passages clean can help you prevent future sinus infections. If you anticipate having sinus issues during allergy or cold season, flushing out your nasal passages with a saltwater solution can help you avoid the pains of a sinus infection.
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Certain allergy medications contain both an antihistamine and decongestant to relieve multiple allergy symptoms at once. These combination drugs can be an effective treatment for people who experience nasal congestion or trouble breathing in addition to other allergy symptoms like hives or itchy eyes.
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Allergy medications that are decongestants can come in pill, liquid or nasal spray form. The most common form of decongestant are pills, which many people use to combat seasonal allergies especially. Nasal sprays and eye drops can both stop being effective or make symptoms worse if overused, so it is important to use them sporadically to treat symptoms.
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Benefits Of Antihistamines For Allergies
Because antihistamines prevent the release of histamine, they dry up the excess fluids that lead to excessive tearing and a runny nose. Most antihistamines also include compounds that reduce the itching and irritation that can make your eyes feel as if they have sand in them. They inhibit the urge to sneeze and can also minimize irritation in the throat that leads to coughing.
Antihistamine medications should be taken once a day and will last for a full 24 hours. They have minimal side effects and can be purchased over the counter without a prescription. There are many different types of antihistamines on the market. The top four include:
- Zyrtec® Zyrtec , comes in both pill form and liquid capsule. Its used to treat upper respiratory allergies but is also effective for skin rashes and hives. It offers quick relief with few side effects or drug interactions.
- Claritin® Claritin is a popular allergy medication because it can be taken safely by both adults and children. It comes in pill form and is used to treat seasonal allergies, skin rashes, and hives. It offers few side effects and can be purchased over the counter or with a prescription.
Remember that generics work just as well as brand-names. Its important that you read labels carefully so you only by the products that address your particular symptoms. If you have questions, always speak to your doctor or a specialist before you buy a particular product.
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What Is The Most Common Medication Allergy
Penicillin is the most common drug allergy. If you have an allergic reaction after taking penicillin, you dont necessarily have a similar reaction to related medications such as amoxicillin. But it is more likely to happen. Allergies to epilepsy drugs, aspirin, ibuprofen, and chemotherapy drugs are also common.
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Know When To Take Your Allergy Medications
Did you know you can start taking your allergy medication before symptoms even arrive?
While allergy seasons seem to be starting earlier and lasting longer these days, pollen seasons are somewhat predictable. So, start taking allergy medications about two weeks before the allergy season and your symptoms begin. Then, continue taking them regularly throughout the rest of the season. Once inflammation starts, it may take longer to get relief.
Oral antihistamines take about a half hour to get into your system. Bedtime is a good time to take allergy medications. Many last 24 hours, which means theyll be working through the next day.
Allergies Infections Acid Reflux And More
It happens when the amount or quality of the mucus thats typically produced in the airways has changed and is now causing irritation. Treatment for post-nasal drip depends on the cause of the condition.
This article explains post-nasal drip and some common symptoms that occur. It looks at six possible causes of post-nasal drip and some ways your symptoms can be treated at home.
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When To See Your Doctor For Nasal Congestion
See your doctor for nasal congestion if your symptoms last more than ten days, dont respond to over the counter treatment and lifestyle changes, your nasal discharge is yellow or green, or if you experience a fever.
A fever is an indicator that your symptoms are a result of bacterial infection, which will require prescribed antibiotics.
What Causes Allergies
Your immune system works to protect your body from dangerous substances, such as viruses or bacteria. However, sometimes it overreacts, responding to foreign substances called allergens. These allergens are usually harmless and do not affect most people, but in a person with allergies, the immune system launches a response and releases chemicals, such as histamines. When these chemicals are released, you experience allergy symptoms.
If your allergies are triggering sinus problems, you are most likely breathing in allergens. Some of these common allergens include:
Deep in your head behind your nose, about the size of a large grape.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic: Key Things To Know
The holiday season.With planned end of the year gatherings, the new Covid surge is prompting worries and cancellations. The Times asked experts to share some holiday guidance, as well as some tips on using at-home virus tests . Here is what to do if you test positive for the coronavirus.
Bidens new plan.President Biden announced new steps to confront the surge in Covid cases, including setting up new federal testing sites, readying military medical personnel to help hospitals and buying 500 million rapid tests to distribute free to the public, though experts warned the measures would not stop an Omicron surge.
Around the world.After infections skyrocketed to record levels in South Africa, new cases have started falling, suggesting its Omicron wave may have peaked. In Europe, the Netherlands, Britain and Denmark adopted tough restrictions, while France, Spain and Italy are taking a more measured approach.
But South Africas observations may not apply to the United States and other countries. Most South Africans have already been infected with Covid-19, and the median age in South Africa is 27 both of which might cause the variant to have milder effects there than in the U.S., where the median age is 38, Dr. Yang said. The data also showed that, although children tended to have mild symptoms, they were 20 percent more likely to be hospitalized during the Omicron wave compared with the first wave.
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Including Digital Resources in Your Library
- Digital resources
- Distance learning
- Library management
- Collection development
In today’s digital world many readers of all ages still prefer a print book. They are easier to pass around your friends, share with children as a bedtime story, and to flick through to find the information you’re seeking.
For so many people, you just can’t beat the look, feel and even smell of a printed book. Yet ebooks also have many benefits. It’s easy to annotate, highlight and bookmark digital resources, interact with multimedia content, make use of assistive technologies, and link easily to other digital resources. Ebooks and audio books are also great for readers who might not want their friends to see what they are reading, and for reading under the bedcovers at night without needing a flashlight!
Since ebooks were first developed, there has been a significant amount of research into the differences between reading in print and reading on a screen and how it can affect learning. Studies have found that online readers tend to skim, look for keywords and are more easily distracted, whereas print readers tend to read more slowly and deeply, concentrating and thinking critically about what they are reading. For most students, reading in print results in better comprehension and improved long-term retention of knowledge (Baron, 2021). However more recent studies have found that as the design of ebooks and other e-resources has evolved, young children develop literacy skills just as well (or even better) when reading ebooks than they do when using print books (López-Escribano, Montesino and García-Ortega, 2021).
Print and digital resources therefore complement each other, providing different yet equally important benefits for your students and their learning. They work in tandem, rather than one replacing the other.
So should your library collection include ebooks and other digital resources?
To help you decide, here are some points to consider:
How do digital resources fit within your current Collection Development Policy? Standard selection criteria can be applied to all types of formats, so digital resources to support the curriculum, literacy and reading for pleasure should all fall within your current policy. For topics where up to date information is important, access to digital material is beneficial.
Digital resources allow your library to cater for a much wider range of learning styles and preferences, and for auditory and kinaesthetic learners in particular. They can engage your reluctant readers with interactive features and allow those with reading disabilities to personalise screen and font settings as required. Audio books and other narration options enable students to listen to books that might be too difficult for them to read, so that they can enjoy the same stories as their peers.
When schools are relying on distance education and learning from home, digital resources are easier for students to access than the physical books sitting in the school library or classroom. Accessit Library integrates with ebook and audio book suppliers, allowing your library users to click through directly from your Web App to read or listen, while avoiding the need for multiple logons to extra platforms. Learning from home has also seen an increase in the number of students who have access to devices and are now able to use digital resources.
Consider a short trial of some digital resources, to give an indication of buy-in and demand. Promotion of your digital resources is important, so that your readers and learners know exactly where and how to access them. Most ebook and audio book suppliers will provide promotional material such as posters and bookmarks for schools to use.
How will your digital resources be managed? Accessit Library makes this easy by synchronising with other providers so that your ebooks, audio books and other digital content sits side-by-side with your print resources in your library catalogue.
Purchasing digital resources can avoid the current supply chain issues that are affecting print resources during the pandemic, allowing you to provide books for your readers promptly.
In an increasingly digital world, it’s important that our young people learn to use a variety of information sources. Because so many people continue to value printed books they will always have a place on our library shelves, but we now also have virtual shelves that can be filled with digital resources to provide a balanced collection that meets the specific needs of our library users.
Having a fully integrated library system, where physical and digital resources are catalogued and discoverable from the same platform, is paramount. As soon as you add extra layers to the searching process, the discovery experience plummets quickly. Students will either search for physical resources or for digital resources, but they will rarely do both if it means they have to conduct two separate searches. A fully integrated library system that automatically searches across all platforms at once means that your library users benefit from easy access to both your print and your digital resources, and ensures that your entire library collection is well used.
Allcott, L. (2021). Reading on-screen vs reading in print: What’s the difference for learning? | Blog | National Library of New Zealand. [online] natlib.govt.nz. Available at: https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/reading-on-screen-vs-reading-in-print-whats-the-difference-for-learning [Accessed 17 Dec. 2021].
Baron, N.S. (2021). What Works Better for Retention — Printed or Digital Texts? [online] GovTech. Available at: https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/what-works-better-for-retention-printed-or-digital-texts [Accessed 16 Dec. 2021].
López-Escribano, C., Montesino, S. and García-Ortega, V. (2021). The Impact of E-Book Reading on Young Children’s Emergent Literacy Skills: an Analytical Review. Article in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, [online] 18(6510). Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352484278_The_Impact_of_E-Book_Reading_on_Young_Children’s_Emergent_Literacy_Skills_An_Analytical_Review [Accessed 16 Dec. 2021]. | <urn:uuid:4382fc72-8bd8-495a-8ca6-74fc324188eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://accessitlibrary.com/project/including-digital-resources-in-your-library/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.920582 | 1,323 | 3.46875 | 3 |
WOMEN have once again been refused by Alcester Court Leet to stand or vote for its officers – despite a major protest at its annual meeting.
Both women and men wearing ‘equality’ facemasks and waving signs saying ‘Now’ stood up as the chosen men, having paid their ‘penny,’ prepared to file out to cast their votes on Thursday (October 7).
The protest – 100 years after some women were finally allowed to vote in general elections – sparked some angry outbursts and brought official guest Jo Slade, the female high bailiff of Bromsgrove, to her feet in support.
The court plays a key role in the civic life of the market town and the elections were for positions like ale tasters, bread weighers and constable.
It’s a male only tradition that’s been going for some 800 years and its steward, Steve Brown, was in no mood to allow any changes to that tradition now.
Instead he told the campaigners to take their protest to the ‘lord of the manor’ the Marquess of Hertford of Ragley Hall.
Speaking afterwards, he said: “The correct procedure was to take their protest to the Marquess of Hertford and he is adamant he does not want to change the court.
“What we are doing is re-enacting what the court leets across the country did before they lost their powers in the 1970s.
“It’s an historical tradition.
“We do not exclude women from helping with organising events, only on the election of officers.”
However Ms Slade said, traditionally, the route to the lord of the manor was through the steward, and added: “For me, I think tradition can be upheld by anyone interested in doing so, in fact I believe they should encouraged and made to feel welcome.”
Protester Kathrin Foster said: “We all support the Court Leet, but other courts have moved into current times and modernised and they are still maintaining tradition.
“Just because you allow women to take part doesn’t mean you can’t maintain the tradition.”
Many women present were in support of keeping those male only traditions but there was also an undercurrent of angst over ‘incomers’ upsetting the town’s traditions.
Diane Jackson, who has lived in Alcester for 14 years, sat by many of those women.
She said: “They were not quite critical, but wanted to know whether we lived in Alcester, what we contributed to Alcester which I found was quite offensive, because I do contribute to the town and I believe the Court Leet needs to be representative of both men and women.”
Kathrin Foster’s husband, Andrew, singled out the success of the town’s pandemic resilience group, four fifths of who were women, and said it wasn’t just about keeping alive a tradition.
“With the election of officers they are in a position to make key decisions in the town,” he said.
“The high bailiff and the low bailiff get automatic places in five of the town’s charities and so they get voting rights on how money is spent around the town.”
As the meeting closed, a conciliatory note was struck by High Bailiff David Henderson, himself a Scot and an ‘incomer’.
He said: “A big thank you to everyone who turned out tonight, and I mean everyone.
“I recognise that you have rights like all of us.
“Don’t take that the wrong way, I’m not taking any sides here, but it’s been quite hard work getting a full court together and I really look forward to working with my new court in the year ahead.”
Steven Brown, also an incomer who has also left to live in Wales and had returned to preside over the elections, is standing down as steward.
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As part of the Creative Computing Challenge (CCC), a five-year program funded by the National Science Foundation, teachers at two Career & Technical Centers in NH this past year engaged students in creating their own apps. While on the surface, the class could be characterized as “computer science,” its purpose was to help teach computational thinking integrated into already on-going CTE class content.
“Computational thinking is essentially problem solving, but in the computer sense it’s essentially boiling everything down to yes or no,” said Curtis Killion, Computer Software & Media Applications Instructor at Salem HS Career & Technical Education Center.
Noting that computational thinking is really just “logical thinking,” Killion said that the applicability of the concept is quite broad.
“If you break things to simple questions like yes or no, you can logically build tools that can really handle complex tasks,” he said. “Working through this logic requires clear thinking and an ability to break down problems into very small parts in a step by step logical approach.”
“Getting students, or adults for that matter, into that “computational thinking” mindset requires a lot of patience. According to Killion, though, computational thinking is “really easy and simple” at its core.
Whereas Killion had students in his class create print and digital promotional collateral through the Adobe Creative Suite, students at the RW Creteau Regional Technology Center in Rochester worked in entirely different arenas.
Taught by Tracy Mitropoulos, one Accounting class provided students with the opportunity to create a fictitious business with the second focused on assessing child development milestones. She acknowledged, however, the second class was much more successful.
“They met with a preschool teacher and decided what they wanted to assess–it was more real for them,” she said. “There really was not a problem to solve in the accounting class, so the interest in it was not there.”
For Mitropolous, the resistance she met in the accounting class serves as fuel for the future.
“Unlike my Child Development students, my Accounting students did not have a ‘real purpose’ other than a grade for really caring about the app they were creating,” she said. “I need to find a way to make the Accounting App Project more meaningful.”
For Killion, his experience helped to open up his thinking about computer programming.
“My perception had always been that programming was about learning a language, but in reality it’s actually quite simple,” he noted. “As a teacher, I realized my perceptions about programming may have influenced my own students–and already this year, I had one young woman decide she was going to pursue a career in programming.”
Both teachers’ experiences within the classes helped to highlight an idea fundamental to CCC itself, which is that education is more effective when it frames the learning experience around what interests the students.
“A lot of questions were generated [in the class]–and although I often didn’t have the answers, it made me think of how relating content to what kids care about can really generate results,” said Killion. “The students really wanted to learn, and that attitude can make all difference in any subject area.”
Mitropoulos agreed and added, “Having a real purpose, or use for the completed apps, was motivational. As the Child Development students began assessing their preschool children, the sense of accomplishment they felt was palpable as they shared their experiences…As teachers, we have to be willing to embrace something new.”
This work is supported by grant #IIA-1348352 from the National Science Foundation.
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Time: 6 month sealed, 3 to 4 weeks opened Does the need to be refrigerated? No, they"ll actually travel well without refrigeration and also will freeze because that 6 to 9 months. But they"ll last longer if refrigerated, so your timetable for devouring the cheese will identify just just how long it requires refrigeration.
Time: 1 month; freeze for 3 to 4 months Pasteurization and also salt again come right into play below and carry out for a lengthy life in the fridge. This FDA guideline applies to mozzarella, cheddar, and other shredded cheeses.
Time: 1 come 2 mainly Folks who love brie and camembert understand that they"ll acquire maybe a week in the fridge prior to they start to grey and also get a distinctive whiff the ammonia. Cream cheese, meanwhile, will certainly sprout all sorts of lover mold if the isn"t offered within a week or so. If you won"t obtain to use either for a while, the FDA says they"ll freeze for 6 months.
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Time: 1 come 2 weeks uneven you"re using a tub of it, yogurt is typically kept in small servings the you shouldn"t have to keep as leftovers. When you open up a little yogurt, though, Stonyfield Farm notes friend have around 1 day to eat it even if refrigerated. That jumps to about a main if it"s a big tub. If you must keep yogurt longer, don"t open up it. Instead freeze it for 1 to 2 months.
Time: 3 come 5 weeks some NPR listener will certainly tell you the the U.S. Is one of the few countries in the civilization that refrigerate eggs. Climate again, most countries vaccinate your chickens against salmonella and don"t wash a protective cuticle that would otherwise ward off bacteria. Meanwhile, this is one of the couple of foods the will store in your refrigerator for an ext than a month.
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Time: 2 to 4 job The Canadians suggest placing both in an airtight container for later use. However, the FDA notes that the finest solution for permanent storage is either to win yolks and also whites with each other to frozen them or ditching the yolks, which don"t freeze well, and freezing the whites.
Time: 3 to 4 days us aren"t talking around hard-cooked eggs, which get around a main in the fridge and also don"t freeze. Here, we typical egg dishes like casseroles or quiches. Those very same dishes will certainly last up to 3 month frozen.
Time: 3 days Unopened, egg substitute can last 10 days, or frozen for up to a year. Once opened, however, that clock ticks under quickly and also the carton can"t it is in refrozen.
Time: 3 to 5 days Leaving any kind of of the over out for an ext than 2 hours in warm weather is courting food poisoning. However, if friend handle any type of of the above well and also refrigerate best after serving, you must be fine.
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Time: 7 to 10 work While there are several methods used in various other countries and still in advancement here that can extend the life of milk, usual pasteurized milk is good for around a week. That extends come 3 month if that exact same milk is frozen.
Time: 1 day If you have actually a enjoy the meal of pre-stuffed meat that was prepared at the store, you"d ideal eat the remainder for lunch the following day. The FDA states it"s around the least-stable refrigerated leftover you have the right to have.
Time: 3 to 4 work Just about any take-home meal you buy from a supermarket deli counter falls into this category. Strategy those sandwiches through caution.
Time: 1 to 2 days If you"re utilizing raw hamburger to do a meal and have some left over, don"t stick the in the fridge unless you setup to usage it the next day. As the FDA notes, you"re far better off putting it in the freezer, where it will certainly last for 3 to 4 months.
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Time: 1 come 2 work The kind of animal doesn"t matter: ground meat keeps ideal when you freeze it. These get the same 3 come 4 months together raw hamburger.
Time: 7 job whole, 3 to 5 days half or sliced You could turn the into practically a mainly of ham sandwiches, or the FDA notes that you deserve to freeze any kind of of the over for 1 come 2 months and take that out together you make ham omelets, pea soup v ham, etc.
Time: 1 main open, 2 mainly unopened approximately summer, the greatly used pack of hot dogs is ubiquitous. If you"ve kept it out at room temperature because that a couple of hours throughout a barbecue, that life expectations should be much less. Save a cooler by the grill and freeze what friend don"t usage for 1 to 2 months.
Time: 3 to 5 work open, 2 weeks unopened The much more pedantic eaters will allude out that cured or acting meats will certainly last lot longer, however typically new deli meats and also packaged lunch meats have a week in ~ most, according to the FDA. However, they can be frozen because that 1 come 2 months.
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Time: 7 work We applaud the room of farming for its thorough rundown ~ above bacon and for going into just about every possible bacon-storage scenario. Bacon in the package will last a week in the fridge and also up to a month in the freezer, yet leftover cooking bacon has about 4 to 5 days and also can it is in frozen for a month.
Time: 1 come 2 days raw, 7 days smoked much like the warm dog, the half-used pack of sausages makes constant appearances during the summer. Given its meager life expectations in the fridge, however, the FDA says keeping in the freezer (where it deserve to remain because that 1 come 2 months) until it is eventually used.
Time: 3 come 5 job Steak has remarkable continuing to be power if you have to put turn off a steak night for a while. If you check out it top top sale, meanwhile, choose up a bunch the it: whatever you don"t use automatically can freeze because that 6 to 12 months.
Time: 3 come 5 days there is a reason why Depression-era grandparents alway purchase a roast as soon as they could get a deal on one. The keeps for the better part that a week and also can freeze because that 4 come 12 months.
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Time: 1 come 2 days Don"t make funny of the human being at the supermarket who save receipts and collect your bonus turkeys each year. They may only last a job or 2 in the fridge, yet they have the right to freeze because that a year totality or 9 to 12 months in parts. Simply remember to toss the giblets, which will only freeze because that 3 come 4 months.
Time: 3 come 4 days as soon as again, this is simply the FDA giving a preeminence of thumb. If you"ve cooked more of any kind of meat product than you deserve to eat, one of two people make sure the remaining part is other you deserve to eat in much less than a main or freeze the remainder for up to 2 come 3 months.
Time: 1 to 2 days just a reminder to all of you vacation chefs that leftover gravy or broth really shouldn"t make it come the following holiday. If there"s too much to finish within the next day or so, freezing it will buy you only 2 come 3 month of peak flavor and consistency.
Time: 3 to 5 job It"s possible to reheat fried chicken to its previous glory, for this reason don"t think twice about leaving the in the fridge for a few days. In fact, the FDA claims you have the right to freeze it because that 4 month if you feeling like food preparation up a batch in advance.
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Time: 3 come 5 work Most chicken dishes will save in the fridge for this quantity of time, according to the FDA. However, anyone who"s bought a bag of pre-cooked frozen nuggets knows the they have actually no problem keeping in the fridge for 1 come 3 months.
Time: 3 to 4 job The absence of breading cuts roughy a day"s precious of fridge life turn off of chicken, follow to the FDA, yet you have the right to still frozen it for 4 months.
Time: 3 to 4 work The broth and also sauce won"t gain your leftovers into next week, but they"ll assist them freeze for as much as 6 months.
Time: 3 come 4 work Fish isn"t miscellaneous the FDA desires you come take possibilities with, for this reason stick with that 3 come 4 day window. However, if there"s too lot left over because that you to handle, even cooked fish can freeze because that 4 come 6 months.
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Time: 14 days Did that smoked salmon, sturgeon, sable, and lox plate from Barney Greengrass not go over also at the agency meeting as you thought it would? Forget it: You deserve to pack that up and put it in your fridge for 2 weeks. Smoked fish was made come keep, and it"ll last approximately a year if you frozen it, states the FDA.
Time: 1 to 2 days now we"re gaining into the fish and seafood that you don"t desire to have sitting approximately for as well long. Any kind of of the above probably have to be perfect up by having lunch the next day (hey, that won"t stink up the office like microwaved fish), but you can freeze larger quantities because that 4 to 6 months.
Time: 1 to 2 work Pike, snapper, cod, porgy ... They aren"t together fatty as salmon, trout, or herring, yet they have actually their own endearing qualities. Chief among them is the capacity to keep after freezing for 6 to 8 months.
Time: 1 come 2 days; freeze because that 2 come 3 month The upside is that these are the very delicious fish filed with the an excellent fats and oils that health experts love. The downside? They"ll only maintain flavor after freezing for about 2 come 3 months, so shot not to leaving too many leftovers.
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The belthook is heavily cast and boldly decorated with a complex pattern of two burly dragons on a bowed shaft that terminates in a dragonhead hook at one end with the opposite end distinctly squared. The serpents comprising the decor are viewed from above, their geometricized bodies indicated by rectangular scales arranged in a step-like fashion, a dragon head at each end of the entwined mass, one facing the hook, the other pointed in the opposite direction at the end of the shaft. The head in proximity to the hook has a conspicuously feline character resulting from its almond-shaped eyes. The foreclaws are set directly behind the ears, the thick scaly body twisting in an “S” curve down the shaft with claws gripping, the body entwined with the second dragon also clawing its way along, the talons of one dragon indistinguishable from those of the other, the second dragon with a face like a taotie mask with its circular protuberant eyes, small hook-shaped brows, spiral horns, an upturned snout, and the absence of a lower jaw. The powerful decoration is in high relief and generously gilded. Accumulations of green encrustations as well as some spots of red are evident. The reverse is silvered bronze and cast with a button.
A belthook similar to the present was excavated in Pingshan county in Hebei some twenty years before the finds in that same area of the stunning princely tombs of the Zhongshan kingdom of the Warring States period, excavations that put that area squarely on the map of cultural and art historians (fig. 1). The features and execution of the present and excavated belthook—an asymmetrical design and rather convoluted composition anchored by the symmetrically placed heads, in boldly cast relief—are shared by another example, one illustrated by Jessica Rawson and Emma Bunker in Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes (fig. 2), an exhibition and study that brought into brighter light at the time the importance of the inner Asian frontiers to Chinese society. The nomad penetration into China often led to cataclysm but also was not without positive effects on Chinese fashion, arts, and crafts. For example, the use of belthooks popular in China was a fashion borrowed from nomad military garb. The nomadic ancestry of the rulers of the Zhongshan kingdom is manifested in the brute strength of this style, and made even more captivating by the emphatic gold surfaces. The strong serpentine motion of the dragons, halted by the grasping claws, and moreover the blocky, geometric modeling of the stepped angular scales of the dragons, as well as the design’s emphatic hooks, are important precursors to features that
would characterize the bold sculptural style of the Western Han period.
1. Jessica Rawson and Emma Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1990.
Fig. 1: Gilt-bronze belthook, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 4th century B.C., excavated in Sanjicun in Pingshanxian, Hebei province, after Hebei sheng chutu wenwu xuanji, Beijing, 1980, no. 110 (bottom), p. 55.
Fig. 2: Gilt-bronze belthook, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 4th century B.C., after Jessica Rawson and Emma Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1990, no. 128, p. 210. | <urn:uuid:0f321188-26e3-4c6a-ba39-bc15cff55ddb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kaikodo.com/art/gilt-bronze-belthook-with-dragon-design%E9%87%91%E9%8A%85%E9%BE%8D%E7%B4%8B%E5%B8%B6%E9%88%8E/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929384 | 770 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Fishing in Bradenton
Anna Maria Island is a great place to for a fishing trip to find Redfish, Snook, and Trout. Located north of Bradenton Beach, the island is surrounded by fauna that are studied by many biologists and marine biologists. You will see many different types of birds like cranes, herons, pelicans here. At times bottlenose dolphins can be seen in the area. The picturesque bright blue waters at Anna Maria Island make it a perfect spot for a fishing trip in the Bradenton area.
Terra Ceia Bay is home to many Snook, Redfish, and Tarpon. Terra Ceia Bay is great for birdwatching. There are many types of heron and ibis as well as pelicans, egrets, and spoonbills. Dolphins can often be seen in the area.
Sarasota Bay is an estuary of national significance that is home to Tarpon, Grouper, and Red Snappers. The charter fishing in Sarasota Bay is great due to its easy access. Manatees can often be seen here.
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The innovation of PA value processes depends more and more on new interface logics with the reference public, whether internal (e.g.: citizenship, businesses working in the territory, associations) or external (e.g.: tourists and businesses to attract). From this perspective, the marketing principles find an interesting field of application in the “public”, with the aim of increasing the PA’s ability to identify the more relevant drivers of value to be activated (including with the active involvement of the users), planning formulas of differentiated value, transferring the value planned and created in an adequate manner, measuring the overall performance obtained and evaluating any actions for improvement.
With regard to this, examples are territorial marketing initiatives, ever more frequently launched in our country as well to position the territories in a clear and distinctive way in the national and international competitive context, allowing each territory’s full potential to be achieved, in line with its “vocation”. We only need consider territorial tourist development, that can no longer be separated from logics of conscious market orientation (that does not end with mere communication, which is only the end stage of a much broader process), in an increasingly more complex global competitive scenario.
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The Oodnadatta Track
The Oodnadatta Track, Australia is an unsealed 620 km outback road between Marree and Marla via Oodnadatta in South Australia.
The track follows a traditional Aboriginal trading route. It provides travellers with stunning semi-desert scenery. Along the Track are numerous springs fed by water from the Great Artesian Basin, the most accessible examples being the mound springs found in Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park near Coward Springs, also known as "The Bubbler".
The Oodnadatta Track follows roughly the route taken by the explorer John McDouall Stuart on his third expedition in 1859. Later the route was chosen for the Overland Telegraph with repeater stations located along the track - some of the best preserved are at the Coward Springs Campground - complete with natural artesian spa, Curdimurka and the "Old Peake" ruins. Later, the original "Ghan" railway line followed the Oodnadatta track with its many remnants of built and railway heritage to explore. North of Oodnadatta it then turns to the west, meeting the sealed Stuart Highway at Marla.
The road's surface is variable and care should be taken when travelling. In dry weather, the track is passable to most two wheel drive vehicles and caravans, but a four wheel drive vehicle will provide a more comfortable journey, and will be essential for driving the track during and after rain, which on occasion will close the road altogether. Since the track is unsealed, the Government of South Australia recommends that users of the track check if it is open before departure.
The Track was named by Adam Plate of the Oodnadatta Progress Association Inc and Pink Roadhouse in about 1980 to form a trilogy of unsealed tourist routes with the Birdsville and Strzelecki Tracks nearby.
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At its Jan. 20 board meeting, the Hudson River Valley Greenway, (HRVG) announced the designation of the Marbletown O&W Rail Trail, in Ulster County, as part of the Greenway Land Trail. The Rail Trail is an 8.7- mile segment that connects to the Hurley Rail Trail and is part of over 324 miles of designated riverfront trails throughout the Hudson Valley. The Greenway Land Trail system has over 100 individual designated trails running along both sides of the Hudson River from the Capital Region to Manhattan.
“The Greenway is pleased to add this trail segment to our trail system,” said Mark Castiglione, HRVG acting executive director. “Community trails are important for many reasons,” continued Castiglione. “They help to drive the economy, increase the quality of life, and connect natural and cultural resources throughout the Valley. Trails like this one provide alternative forms of transportation and help connect communities together.” Designation by the HRVG recognizes the regional significance of the O&W Rail Trail as a destination for experiencing the natural, scenic, cultural and historic resources of the Hudson River Valley. It also recognizes that the trail is an important link in the Greenway Trail System. “The … Rail Trail is a beloved asset in the Town, allowing everyone … to enjoy walking, running, biking, skiing and horseback riding surrounded by the beauty of the woods and fields we all treasure,” said Marbletown Supervisor Brooke Pickering-Cole.
The Greenway Conservancy for the Hudson River Valley is a public benefit corporation established by the Greenway Act of 1991 to continue New York State’s commitment to the preservation, enhancement and development of the scenic, natural, historic, cultural and recreational resources of the Hudson River Valley, while emphasizing appropriate economic development activities. One of the Conservancy’s primary objectives is to establish a Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail system linking cultural and historic sites, parks, open spaces and community centers, and provides public access to the Hudson River.
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A quick post on how to forward SSH key in Putty on Windows.
Let’s start with some basics about SSH key/agent forwarding. Then we will dive into how to configure it in putty.
What is SSH key/agent forwarding?
Traditionally we used to have password-based authentication for Linux servers. In this age of cloud, all the Linux servers deployed in the cloud come with default key-based authentication Authentication is done using pair of keys: Private key (with user) and Public key (stored on server). So every time you connect to the server you need to supply your private key for authentication.
If you are using some jump server or bastion host for connecting servers then you need to store your private key on that server (jump/bastion). So that it can be used for authentication when connecting to servers. This leaves a security risk of the private key being exposed/accessed by other users of jump/bastion host.
In such a scenario, SSH agent forwarding should be used. SSH agent forwarding allows you to forward the SSH key remotely. That means you can authenticate without storing the key on the jump/bastion host! Putty takes care of using the key stored on your local computer and forward it so that it can be used for remote authentications.
How to configure SSH agent forwarding in Putty?
It can be done by using utility pagent.exe which comes with PuTTY. pagent.exe is an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY. It can be downloaded for free from PuTTY website along with the PuTTY executable.
Now Open pagent.exe. It will start in the background. You can click on pagent icon in the taskbar and bring it to the foreground. You should see the below screen –
Click on the Add Key button. Browse your PPK key stored on the local computer and click Open. Key will be added to the database and you should see it in the key list as below –
Now click the Close button. Make sure pagent is running in the background. And open PuTTY. In the left panel of the category, goto Connection > SSH > Auth and select the checkbox next to Allow agent forwarding
Now you are ready to connect to your jump/bastion host. And from there to the remote Linux machines. You will not be prompted for key since it’s already added to pagent and PuTTY is making sure to forward it for further connections!
Below is my test where I connected my instance in a private subnet without supplying the SSH key in command.
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Explainable artificial intelligence has been gaining attention in the past few years. However, most existing methods are based on gradients or intermediate features, which are not directly involved in the decision-making process of the classifier. In this paper, we propose a slot attention-based classifier called SCOUTER for transparent yet accurate classification. Two major differences from other attention-based methods include: (a) SCOUTER’s explanation is involved in the final confidence for each category, offering more intuitive interpretation, and (b) all the categories have their corresponding positive or negative explanation, which tells “why the image is of a certain category” or “why the image is not of a certain category.” We design a new loss tailored for SCOUTER that controls the model’s behavior to switch between positive and negative explanations, as well as the size of explanatory regions. Experimental results show that SCOUTER can give better visual explanations while keeping good accuracy on small and medium-sized datasets. | <urn:uuid:ffe5292e-dee4-4673-9ddf-75aeb9ccdcca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.liangzhili.com/publication/li-2021-scouter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94173 | 207 | 2.125 | 2 |
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What to look for on Smart Talk Friday, September 14, 2018:
Joining Friday’s Smart Talk to discuss student success is Dr. Laurie Carter, president of Shippensburg University. What defines successful students? Is it their GPA, how quickly they find jobs, or how quickly they graduate? Many factors, like mental and social development, contribute to a student’s overall educational success.
Dr. Carter is the first female and first African American president of Shippensburg University. She takes on the job prepared with bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees from public universities, all received while working full-time. She’s worked in college administration at schools such as Eastern Kentucky University and The Julliard School for over 20 years. Along the way, she developed a student affairs department from scratch and built an in-house law department at Julliard. Her time as Shippensburg president is the newest chapter in her higher education career.
Dr. Laurie Carter in studio
Originally founded as the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in 1871, Shippensburg University was established in 1983 by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PSSHE). Located in Cumberland County, the school is home to over 6,000 graduate and undergraduate students who come from all over Pennsylvania and the US. The university emphasizes collaboration and is invested in south-central Pennsylvania communities.
Conversations with college and university leaders are important to Smart Talk, as these schools play a large role in the success of local students and communities. Listeners can call 1-800-729-7532, email firstname.lastname@example.org, or tweet @SmartTalkWITF with questions or comments.
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Parallelograms same base, same parallels triangles. Foursided shapes are all quadrilaterals, and many have special names. Our mission is to provide a free, worldclass education to anyone, anywhere. Quadrilaterals are grouped by their angles, by the lengths of their sides, and by any parallel sides. In fact, if a triangle has the property such that b,c and two of these points are concyclic, then. Classify each quadrilateral with the name that best describes it. Legault, minnesota literacy council, 2014 2 mathematical reasoning this computerbased test includes questions that may be multiplechoice, fillinthe. Unit 4 lines, angles, triangles, and quadrilaterals. Draw two triangles that fit each part of the venn diagram below.
Recall that a rectangle with base b and height h has an area of a bh. There are 51 nrich mathematical resources connected to area triangles, quadrilaterals, compound shapes, you may find related items under measuring and calculating with units. A triangle is a simple closed curve or polygon which is created by three linesegments. Looking for a fun way to reinforce area of quadrilaterals and triangles.
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The diagonals divide the rhombus into four congruent right triangles. According to some math books, a trapezoid holds at least one pair of parallel sides. Before jumping straight into finding the area of a triangle and a quadrilateral, let us first brush up on the basics. Worksheets are 6 angles in quadrilaterals, polygons quadrilaterals and special. Unit 4 lines, angles, triangles, and quadrilaterals 3 consolidate debrief whole class math congress as pairs share the answers from the blm 4. Triangles and quadrilaterals mathematics libretexts. Sat focused practice worksheet 1 geometry trianglesquadrilateralslinesanglesarcs multiple choice identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Probe students for responses about their conclusions. On a sphere like the earth, the angle sum is not constant among all triangles.
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The minute hand of a clock moves a quarter turn from 3 to 6. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Bigger triangles have bigger angle sums, and smaller triangles have smaller angle sums, but even tiny triangles have. How can length of sides and measure of angles be used to classify triangles and quadrilaterals. By using several methods of proof, you will demonstrate your ability to present convincing mathematical arguments. Angles, triangles and quadrilaterals game directions 1. Angles in quadrilaterals worksheets with solutions. Free worksheets for classifying quadrilaterals with this worksheet generator, you can make worksheets for classifying identifying, naming quadrilaterals, in pdf or html formats. Quadrilaterals are plane figures bounded by four straight sides, and they too can be classified into various types, based mainly on symmetry and the properties of their sides and diagonals. Mathematics revision guides properties of triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons page 15 of 25 author. Angles in triangles and quadrilaterals lesson teaching resources. Bigger triangles have bigger angle sums, and smaller triangles have smaller angle sums, but even tiny triangles have angle sums that are greater than 180. Triangles and quadrilaterals properties link each shape with its properties read them carefully and use a pencil. Identifying quadrilaterals worksheets and activities.
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Types of quadrilaterals and their properties geometry of shapes. Using formula from problem 2, the height of the triangle is h 2. Nov 10, 2019 these worksheets with solutions help students take the first steps and then strengthen their skills and knowledge of angles in quadrilaterals. Triangles have three sides, three vertices, and three angles. The sum of the angle measures in each triangle is 180. Breaking down the word triangle it literally means something that has 3 angles. Reinforce the concept of identifying quadrilaterals with this array of grade 2 worksheets. Classifying triangles and quadrilaterals worksheets. Quadrilaterals only have one side more than triangles, but this opens up an entire new world with a huge variety of quadrilateral types. This eexample allows students to observe the properties of triangles and quadrilaterals by manipulating the sides, angles, and type. The parts of the triangles are the height, or altitude, of a triangle is a line segment that starts at any vertex and is perpendicular to the. A 60o, with orthocentre h, incentre i and circumcentre o. Gcse maths section looking at the properties of triangles and quadrilaterals the angle sum of a triangle and a quadrilateral and identifying quadrilaterals by their geometric properties.648 769 608 1132 364 309 1490 1165 717 777 115 1069 28 624 1033 1364 1347 774 517 514 1052 1202 290 71 245 1151 933 1410 760 1075 1026 953 582 431 1339 93 195 664 506 1333 306 | <urn:uuid:a69d3793-fb4a-41ad-beab-d73f3d99b9e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://steerasdebar.firebaseapp.com/191.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.885285 | 2,542 | 3.90625 | 4 |
One popular myth about space exploration is that the Great Wall of China is the only human-built structure that can be seen from space. But this is not true. The reality is that you can’t easily see the Great Wall with the unaided eye, even from low Earth orbit. And certainly, the Apollo astronauts couldn’t see it from the Moon, even though that urban legend has been widely circulated.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who spent five months aboard the International Space Station in 2012-2013, reiterated the facts about the Great Wall’s visibility from space.
“The Great Wall of China is not visible from orbit with the naked eye,” Hadfield said via Twitter. “It’s too narrow, and it follows the natural contours and colours [of the landscape].”
Additionally, when China’s first astronaut, Yang Liwei, went into space in 2003, he said that he couldn’t see the structure of the Great Wall from out his capsule window.
NASA has confirmed that US astronaut Leroy Chiao took what is thought to be the first verifiable image of the Great Wall of China from out his window on the International Space Station in 2004, using a zoom lens. He photographed a region of Inner Mongolia, about 200 miles north of Beijing, but said Chiao himself said he didn’t see the wall with his unaided eyes, and wasn’t sure if the picture showed it.
The image above was taken with a 180mm zoom lens. If you can’t make out the Great Wall in the image above, here’s a cropped version of the image with annotation to help make out the feature:
What human-made structures are visible from space? Space Station astronauts have said the ancient pyramids at Giza are relatively easy to see out the window, but most visible are roads or long bridges across straits. Those features stand out as straight lines on the landscape, such as this image shared by Chris Hadfield:
And, of course, at night cities are visible from space because the light they produce. You can see some stunning images here that NASA released in 2012 from the Suomi NPP satellite of city lights from space.
The Apollo astronauts confirmed that you can’t see the Great Wall of China from the Moon. In fact, all you can see from the Moon is the white and blue marble of our home planet.
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29 Sep 2014 Educating Citizens for Peace and Dignity
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Yes, but it is nothing to be alarmed about. A blind spot is simply a point at which you might hold a small object and cannot see it.
This happens because there is one point on your retina where the optic nerve leaves your eye, just below the center of the back of your eye, and no picture images are received.
This point is not sensitive to light, so if an image hits this area, it is invisible to the eye. When you look at this same object from a distance, your brain fills in this blind spot and you see a total picture.
Try this experiment to see where your blind spot is.
Have this page about 12 inches in front of you. Close your left eye and open your right eye. Look steadily at the dot on the left. Now move your head slowly toward your screen, then away from it.
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Imagine spending a day with TRAINS! You can tour several of our rail cars, take a ride on a caboose and share lunch in a historic dining car! The Galveston Railroad Museum is an exciting place to visit as we have a wealth of information regarding the history of rail cars and railroading that made our country what it is today. We offer five tracks, in our four-acre rail yard, of train cars to read and learn about. We have a model train theater and the world’s largest collection of railroad dining ware. We also have an interactive display of lights and crossbucks that the children can activate by pushing buttons.
Field Trip Package (minimum of 12 children and adults)
This is a group admission rate to the Galveston Railroad Museum. Bring a bag lunch and eat aboard our climate-controlled dining cars!
Students (Ages 4-12): $5.50
Students (Ages 13-18): $11.50
School Employees: $1.00 OFF
Parent Chaperones: $11.50 Adults / $8.50 Seniors
Ride the Train!
If your group would like caboose rides, we will operate the train for your field trip! Passes on the train can be purchased for $7 each. Advance reservation required.
Certain dates and times may be restricted.
Railroading Merit Badge Class
The Railroad Museum has temporarily suspended the Merit Badge Program.
Classes are approximately four hours long beginning at 10:00am and include an educational scavenger hunt, boxed lunch and caboose ride aboard the Harborside Express.
As with all merit badge classes, scouts should have purchased the handbook and have read it before attending the class.
Please bring your Scout Master signed blue card which will be authorized upon completion of class.
Cost per Scout: $40
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The song which is received in the place of prayer as a tool for prophetic spiritual warfare, is an intense communion with the Lord; seeking His intervention in matters of concern.
“Arise” is borne out of a place of fellowship and drawn from the understanding of the dynamic nature of God who revealed Himself through the pages of the scriptures in different ways as occasion demanded. He still reveals Himself in the same manner.
The song is a prayer from Psalm 18: 46-50 – “it is God who avenges me and subdues the people under me, Who delivers me from my enemies; You also lift me up above those who rise against me. You have delivered me from the violent man, therefore I will give thanks to You. Great deliverance and triumph give He to us his people and He shows us mercy and steadfastness.”
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What is the most expensive Wagyu beef?
Following a current report in 2021, the United States of America comfortably sits on the second-highest spot of beef and buffalo consumption after Argentina….
- A5 Kobe Filet: $295.
- A5 Kobe Rib-Eye: $280.
- Saltbae Tomahawk: $275.
- 8.Wagyu Beef Sirloin: $243.
- 42-Ounce Wagyu Tomahawk: $220.
- 10.10-Ounce A5 Kobe Tenderloin: $200.
What is the best Japanese beef?
Kobe beef from Hyogo prefecture is the most famous brand of Japanese wagyu beef in the world, as it’s the first wagyu brand that was promoted overseas thanks to Kobe’s status as one of Japan’s biggest port cities. Wagyu from Kobe come from a subspecies of Japanese Black cattle called “Tajima beef”.
What is the highest grade of beef in Japan?
The Japanese beef grading system gives Wagyu beef a grade from 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest and 5, the highest. Quality scores range from 1 to 12, and this score encompasses all of the factors we just mentioned, like marbling and coloring.
What is so special about Wagyu beef?
Authentic Wagyu beef is among the most sought-after and luxurious meats in the world. What makes it so special is its copious marbling, which creates a luxurious, buttery tenderness unlike any steak from cattle raised in America.
What part of beef is tomahawk steak?
A highly marbled, exquisitely tender and flavorful steak, the tomahawk is primarily taken from the longissimus (Latin for “longest one”) dorsi, or loin, of the steer. This consists of two muscles outside of the steer’s rib cage that run along both sides of the spine.
Why is a tomahawk steak so expensive?
Another reason why it’s so expensive? The rib cage muscles where the ribeye steak is cut from are barely used by the cow. That means the meat is incredibly tender and rich in flavor. The most common places to get a tomahawk steak would be at your local steakhouse or butcher.
What is the name of the most expensive beef?
Wagyu beef from Japan is the most prized beef in the world. High-grade wagyu can cost up to $200 per pound. The rarest steak in the world, olive wagyu, can cost anywhere from $120 to over $300 for a steak. Wagyu calves can be 40 times the price of US cattle.
Is there a7 Wagyu?
With Marble Score 7 & 8 Wagyu, you’re entering rarefied realm of the billionaires of beef. Succulent and juicy, that gorgeous web of creamy intramuscular fat – the marbling – which characterizes Wagyu beef spreads more and more throughout the meat, giving it melt-in-your-mouth texture that you’ll never forget. | <urn:uuid:5cd95afb-95dc-418d-ac91-af59e909d56b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.heyiamindians.com/what-is-the-most-expensive-wagyu-beef/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.920587 | 666 | 1.53125 | 2 |
TOPIC: A deep dive on a specific blockchain implementation (Bitcoin, Litecoin), or a comparison paper of two different blockchain implementations in terms and within distributed computing.PAPER MUST BE WITHIN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING.Write a 8-10 page research paper (excluding cover page, bibliography, appendices) on a topic within Distributed Computing, chosen in consultation with the instructor. Your paper must referenceat least threerecent reputable academic sources of information: this could include specialized books (not general textbooks) or scholarly articles (not popular publications or blog posts). Additional reputable sources are allowed and recommended.Your content should include a discussion of existing work in your chosen topic. It should also include some of your own thoughts, in the form of argument, evaluation, analysis, comparison, synthesis, or some other, depending on the topic. This component should be well-reasoned and thoroughly justified. Make sure you discuss your topic with the instructor first, and you have some idea what form your own contribution will take.Your paper should include a title page and bibliography (not included in the page count). It should be a normal font size (12pt max), with normal margins and 1.5 line spacing. Extensive whitespace, block quotes, large images, tables, or other non-text data do not contribute to the page count. It must be clearly written, readable, neatly formatted, and free of spelling and grammatical errors.Your sources need to be referenced in-text and cited in a bibliography at the end of your paper. Use a consistent reference and citation format; if you are not already familiar with a standard format, consider learning and using the Harvard style.Note that all your work is subject to the terms of the Honesty Declaration you signed at the beginning of the course. For a paper you write, this means youmust clearly indicate and citeall quoted and paraphrased material, and youcannothave excessive amounts of either.Never copy and paste from anywhere into your paper.If you are not sure what is acceptable academic use, please ask before you submit. Also note that your work must be specific to this course: you may not resubmit your work for credit in another course, or use work from another course, without instructor permission.
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For some people, remembering things doesn’t come as easy as it does for others.
Whether it’s because they’ve got too much going on in their minds, or perhaps they’re simply getting older, memory issues can become a real drag.
Your memory is a very complex and important function in your body and sometimes it may need to be improved.
Fortunately, there are various ways we can do this. Over the years, the amount of information your memory can hold grows smaller and smaller. Improving your memory is actually fairly easy and will make it easier to remember important information.
The following are some ways you can begin to boost your memory.
Be sure you get plenty of sleep at night. Staying up until the wee hours of the morning may only make things worse. In order to keep your mind working the way it should, you must take care of your body.
When you are tired, your cognitive function suffers, making it harder to focus.
Have you ever had a big problem, and someone told you to sleep on it? This is because sleep can improve memory function and gives your brain a chance to relax and process all the information.
Keep your body healthy by maintaining a balance of sleep, exercise, drink plenty of water, and eat healthy. This is good for your brain and your whole body.
Get together regularly with your family and friends.
You might think your brain is getting a workout just by going through your daily activities.
However, if you’re not really stimulating it very much or engaging in training for the brain, chances are it’s not getting a good workout.
The brain is an organ that needs exercised to perform optimally. Just like an athlete exercises in order to become stronger and more physically fit, if you want your memory and sharpness to be stronger, you must exercise your brain as well.
Not sure how to give it a good workout?
Try some brain games, as there are some you can play that will actually help improve your brain power, including memory.
You can do crossword puzzles, sudoku, or find some good brain teasers online or download a few apps for your phone. Lumosity is a great site that has games and activities to help your memory.
Reading stimulates your brain and imagination.
Take some time to read each day and choose books that are informative, as well as ones that will allow you to imagine wonderful things. Both fiction and nonfiction books are great avenues for training the brain.
As you stimulate your brain by reading, you’ll be more apt to give your memory a good boost too.
Meditation is great training for the brain and improving memory.
You are continually thinking thoughts and sometimes all those thoughts can bog you down. If you engage in meditation consistently, your brain will learn to silence much of those thoughts so you can enjoy peace and solitude.
Stress and anxiety are prevalent in our society and much of that is because of the endless worrisome thoughts that run rampant in the brain. Learn to sit quietly with yourself in meditation and get centered. You’ll feel a difference and you might notice your memory is better as well.
Practicing positivity may help you remember more things too.
Call it being optimistic if you’d like, but positive thinkers tend to have more control over their brains and emotions because they’ve trained their brain to produce positive thoughts.
Monitor your thought life for a day or so and gauge what types of thoughts you think.
Are they predominantly positive or negative? If you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, immediately change it to a positive thought.
Repeat this all day, every day and before you know it, you’ll be training your brain to automatically think positive when events occur instead of getting stressed out and worried. You may also notice your memory improving.
Learn one new word each day or every couple of days and implement them into your vocabulary.
This is great training for the brain, and you’ll come across as super-duper smart too. The Miriam-Webster Dictionary site provides a free Word of the Day if you want to get started.
Take some time to learn a new language, as this stimulates the brain quite well and may boost memory. There are a few free apps that can get you started right away, and they're fun as well as educational. Duolingo is probably the most famous free language app, with over 30 languages to learn!
If you’re struggling with your memory, try keeping a small notebook and writing things down in there that you don’t want to forget.
You can put appointments, gatherings, tasks, or other things you just want to remember. The act of writing things down can help you worry less about forgetting, which may actually help you not forget!
We all have memory glitches now and then and usually, it’s nothing to worry about.
However, if you’ve noticed more and more that you’re forgetting things, try these tips out. You’ll be giving your brain a good workout and you may boost your memory too.
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There are few things as satisfying as making something yourself from scratch and being able to display it in your home, whether it’s painting, sewing or drawing. I love all sorts of arty, crafty things – painting, drawing, sewing, stitching, making jewellery and cards – if it’s arty I will give it a go and will probably enjoy it, even if it takes me a while to get the hang of it! Consequently, a corner of my sitting ‘room’ has been taken over by sewing baskets and piles of fabric, craft books, balls of wool and painting materials. On this page I will share different craft projects that I am working on and different ideas for hand-made crafts to give your home that personal touch.
Bunting is a quintessentially British decoration; it speaks of vintage tea parties and good old-fashioned celebrations. It will brighten up any corner and will bring a bit of pretty nostalgia to any room. More than that, it’s ridiculously easy to make!
You will need a range of different fabrics, bias binding, fabric scissors and a sewing machine (you can stitch them by hand, but it’s much quicker with a machine. If you’re not very confident with a sewing machine, this is a great starter project).
Cut the fabric into triangles measuring 15cm across the top and 15cm from top to bottom tip. Cut 2 triangles for each bunting triangle that you want to make. Pin right sides of a pair of triangles together and machine stitch the two lengths, leaving the top unstitched. Snip the very end off the triangle, to ensure a sharper point. Turn the triangle inside out and use a pair of scissors to push the point of the triangle out. Repeat for all triangles and then iron each triangle flat. Pin each bunting triangle to the bias binding, spacing them equally apart, then machine stitch with a simple running stitch.
An alternative and really simple way to create bunting is to use up old patchwork squares. Simply fold 10 x 10cm squares in half, over a piece of ribbon (I used ric rac from an old skirt) and pin down. You could stitch lace around the edges too, by pinning in place before machining it.
These coasters are really simple to make and a lovely way to create something unique for your home. They are also a really easy way to use up mosaic tiles.
You’ll need some square wooden coasters (you can buy these from most craft shops), some mosaic tiles (1.5 cm square), PVA glue and acrylic paint. Simply paint the wooden coasters with your base colour and allow to dry. Then plan out how you want your tiles to appear on your coasters – I chose to use similar colours for each coaster, but to create a mismatching design.
Once you have decided on your pattern, glue the tiles down, with the ridged side facing up. This is the opposite to how you would usually use them, but creates a good grip for mugs and cups.
Colourful Cot Quilt
I went to a surprise Baby Shower at the weekend and made a cot quilt for the mum-to-be and bump. It was really fun to make and made a lovely gift for them both.
Measure out 2 x 32″ squares of fabric (my friend already knows that she’s having a girl, so I chose two fabrics which were pretty and floral) and hem each of them. Then, layer the fabric (with the right sides of each piece of fabric facing out) with a 30″ square of wadding in between and pin together.
Then stitch the fabrics together, using a simple running stitch on a sewing machine. Finally, measure and mark out a second square, two inches from the edge and machine stitch again.
Personalised Welcome Mat
If you ever used to use acrylic paints at school, you will know how impossible they are to get out of clothes following an unfortunate spillage. This staining quality is rubbish for school uniforms, but great for creating your own personalised door mat!
I bought a plain coir door mat from Sainsbury’s for £5 and I already had some black acrylic paint to use. You could use any colours, but I think black works well to create an effective contrast.
To prepare the mat, give it a good brush over to get rid of any loose fibres. Then simply paint your desired design on. If you are confident painting free-hand, then just start painting. If you are a bit unsure, you could use chalk to sketch out an outline, or use masking tape to map out a pattern and then fill in the blank spaces with paint.
Leave to dry for about an hour and there you have it – a quirky, unique doormat, which will welcome people in to your home!
Clay Gift Tags and Garlands
These beautiful gift tags and garlands are really simple to make from air-drying clay. I used Das Modelling Clay (only £3.99 for 1kg on Amazon).
You will need: air drying clay, baking paper, a rolling pin, a sharp knife, a range of cookie cutters, a skewer, stamps and ink optional. Simply roll out the clay between two sheets of baking paper (to prevent marks or cracks and to ensure a smooth surface) to a thickness of about 4-5mm. Then, cut out different shapes and use your tools to create different patterns.
Play around with dots, stripes etc., even stamping names or messages into the clay (either with dry stamps, or with ink to create different effects). Use a skewer to pierce a hole if you want to tie string through them.
Then leave to dry! They should take between 24-48 hours to dry. When dry, you can jazz them up with ribbon, stick-on letters, or even paint. Or play around with layering them up to create different effects.
Drawstring Toy Bag
I bought some really pretty fabric the other day and have been longing to have a go at turning it into something gorgeous. I was also looking for a much faster project than the Honeycomb Patchwork Bag as that was quite a long one! You don’t have to line the bag, but I wanted to use a contrasting fabric for a stronger bag and a prettier effect.
Measure two pieces of fabric (just one if not lining) at 20” square on the fold (so fold the fabric in half so that you end up with two piece 20” x 40”).
If you want to include any applique, now is the time to do it. I’ve sewn the word ‘toys’ onto this bag, but you could sew initials, names, other words (such as ‘laundry’, ‘P E Kit’), or shapes (flowers, stars, hearts etc.). I used different floral fabrics which would stand out against the pink background and hand-stitched them to the bag fabric.
Fold the fabric (for the bag, not lining) so right sides are facing and the fold is along the bottom. Machine both sides together at the edges, leaving 2 inches free at the top. Then turn the right way out.
If using lining, repeat the above process, but leave 1 inch at either side before sewing the sides together.
Slip the lining inside the bag and line up both pieces. Trim the lining so that the outside of the bag can fold in and over the lining. Double hem and pin the bag fabric to the lining. Machine stitch, so that you are left with a fabric ‘tunnel’, through which the cord will go. Repeat on both sides.
Finally, thread the cord through the ‘tunnel’ at the top. I found it easiest to thread the string through the fabric by attaching it to a safety pin and then shuffling the safety pin through the fabric. If you have a knitting needle, that might work too.
You can play around with the designs and sizes – smaller bags would make lovely gift bags for a posh party, or could be popped into suitcases to separate dirty laundry from the rest of your packing.
There’s a lovely idea for turning pillowcases into drawstring bags on this blog.
70’s Honeycomb Patchwork Bag
To use a cooking metaphor, in the world of craft, this bag is more of a roast dinner than a microwave meal: lots of preparation, different pieces coming together at different stages and a very lengthy process! However, the rewards are tremendous! I have never considered myself much of a sewer and I feel intimidated by sewing patterns, but I found this pattern in a sewing book and actually managed to follow it!
This is a brilliant way to use up scraps of old fabric or to create something memorable using your favourite patterns. You will need a whole range of hexagons, so think carefully about your colour combinations. I chose to use fabrics which were predominantly pink, blue or white, but you might want to mix a variety of colours for a bold, hotch-potch feel.
All hexagon patchworking starts with fabric-covered hexagons. Make yourself a template from paper (usually around 5cm along each side), pin the template to a piece of fabric and cut a hexagon from the fabric, about 1cm bigger the whole way round. Then turn down one side at a time and tack the excess fabric to the paper. You should end up with neat fabric hexagons. You can then join these hexagons together in a variety of ways to make your own honeycomb bag (or, if you’re feeling ambitious, turn them into a patchwork quilt!)
Due to copyright, I can’t properly reproduce the full bag pattern here, so for full instructions, see the pattern and instructions in Cath Kidston’s ‘Sew’ book.
I found this gorgeous floral fabric in a Charity shop when I popped into town the other day and couldn’t resist buying it.
I then spent a very enjoyable afternoon turning it into this lovely cushion cover.
I am by no means confident with a sewing machine. In fact, I have had mine for less than a year and, until last weekend, I hadn’t used it since February. However, this was such a simple job that even I managed it!
I measured the cushion inner that I had and added an additional 5cm onto each measurement. I then cut out a square of fabric based on these measurements.
I wanted to create a cushion with a button fastening, so I cut two smaller rectangles (the same width as the square, but 2/3 of the length) to form the back of the cushion. I pinned and hemmed the pieces and joined them together, leaving enough room to insert the cushion inner.
Then I marked out where I wanted my buttons to go and, luckily, my sewing machine has a button-hole setting, which made that particular task much easier! If your sewing machine doesn’t have such a setting, measure your button, sew a short row the length of the button, move the fabric sideways 0.2 cm and sew a parallel row. Then join these two rows at the ends and cut between your stitches.
The final task was sewing the buttons in place. Et voilà!
If you don’t want to bother with the button fastening and just want a closed-in cushion, simple cut 2 identical squares, pin right sides together and machine 3 and a quarter of the sides together. Turn the right way out, tuck the cushion inside and hand-stitch the cushion closed. Simple!
Paper-Weights and Place Settings
This is a really simple and inexpensive way to make attractive paper-weights or place settings from pebbles or stones. Use Tippex or acrylic paints to write or paint your design – the simpler, the better! Or cut out images from magazines or vintage catalogues (or use fabric scraps) and layer them up to create a découpage effect.
If you’re feeling ambitious, be inspired by this lovely ladybird paperweight that my Granny made many years ago (she even won 1st prize in a WI competition for her entry!)
Choose a heavy, oval stone and make sure it is clean (a damp cloth will do), before using acrylic paint to create your design. The leaf underneath is made from two pieces of green felt cut with pinking shears and superglued together. Once the paperweight is dry, use superglue to fix it to the leaf, et voilà! A quirky, individual paperweight to keep all of your papers in check. | <urn:uuid:f303a71f-ee79-4a3e-988f-79f4c6c1f642> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mi-casa-home.com/welcome-to-my-home/sitting-room/handmade-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.938133 | 2,663 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Of all the places melanoma can lurk on the body, Alexander Gupman’s skin cancer showed up on his ear.
He’d been watching the spot for years — a mole-like growth on the cartilage near his left ear canal — but it didn’t seem to change so doctors weren’t concerned.
Then in the fall of 2020, the first year he’d skipped his annual skin check because of the coronavirus crisis, a 7-year-old friend of his daughter looked at him and said, “‘Your ear looks funny, Alex.'”
“I didn't take it seriously in November. It took a second person in December to say, ‘You really need to get that looked at,’” Gupman, 47, told TODAY.
“What I've learned is that if someone says something looks funny on your skin, you really should get it checked out... people need to take it seriously.”
Taking another look at the spot on his ear, he did notice it had grown larger and at one point started to bleed. He sent a photo of it to his dermatologist in January and was immediately scheduled for a biopsy. The diagnosis: stage 3 melanoma.
To get rid of the deadliest form of skin cancer, doctors removed the spot along with part of his ear and a couple of lymph nodes that had been infected.
For a month, Gupman walked around with “a dime-sized hole in my ear” before it was rebuilt using skin from his left leg. He called the results “absolutely amazing.” But a nerve was nicked during the surgery so he doesn't have feeling in the left side of his face.
Gupman, a government employee and a single father of three who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, now receives immunotherapy. He has to undergo scans every three months and will receive frequent skin checks for the rest of his life because there’s a high chance of reoccurrence, he said.
About 25% of all melanomas occur in the head and neck, said Dr. Brian Gastman, surgical director of the Melanoma & High-Risk Skin Cancer Program at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. He called melanoma of the ear “extremely common,” recalling a recent case where he removed about two-thirds of the patient's ear.
“It is sneaky. The ear itself is a very wavy structure… sometimes (melanomas there) are found because of pain or bleeding,” said Gastman, who is not treating Gupman but commented in general.
“The problem with the ear is probably of all the sites in the body, no more site than maybe the ear is connected through so many channels we call lymphatics to lymph nodes.”
Like many people, Gupman protected his face with sunscreen but didn’t think about applying it to his ears. He loves being outdoors and recalled kayaking down the Mississippi River in college, with full sun exposure for 45 days.
“I for some reason just never thought of the ear as something you needed to protect. I never got sunburned on my ears,” he said.
Unprotected exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays is the most significant risk factor for skin cancer, yet more than a third of Americans, 35%, incorrectly believe — or are unsure — that as long as you don’t burn, tanning is safe, according to the American Academy of Dermatology.
Gupman had been “extremely religious” about getting annual skin checks and he’s had 10-15 suspicious moles removed from his body, but the biopsy results always came back as nothing to worry about. Taking a year off from his dermatologist visit was an acceptable risk, Gupman thought, and that's when he developed melanoma.
To prevent skin cancer, the American Academy of Dermatology urged people to:
- Apply a broad-spectrum, water-resistant sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher to all skin not covered by clothing and reapply it every two hours or after swimming or sweating.
- Seek shade. The sun’s rays are strongest between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
- Wear sun-protective clothing, such as a lightweight, long-sleeved shirt, pants, a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses with UV protection, when possible.
Everyone should also understand their own risk profile, Gastman said. Risk factors include having multiple sunburns in childhood, having 50 or more moles, being fair-skinned with blue eyes and having a family history of melanoma. A person who checks all the boxes is at an extremely high risk of melanoma and probably needs to see a dermatologist twice a year, he noted.
Others may just need to do self-exams and bring any changes — based on the ABCDEs of melanoma — to their doctor’s attention. The “E,” which stands for evolving, is the most important part, he noted. That means a mole that’s changing color, becoming more irregular or asymmetric, growing, itching, bleeding, crusting, ulcerating or painful.
“Ultimately, it's not the patients’ job to biopsy themselves. It's the patients’ job to see something and say something,” Gastman said.
“With some of my patients, I call it whack a mole. They’ve had melanoma and I say, look you may get a mole and it may be high risk of turning into melanoma, but we'll just keep cutting them out. When you're 100 years old, you'll tell your great-grandchildren about all the scars you have on your body, but you'll never die of your disease.” | <urn:uuid:207e5f2f-19da-40ff-9e31-cf63e47c2086> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.today.com/health/skin-cancer-symptoms-man-ear-melanoma-shares-warning-signs-t217206?cid=eml_mrd_20210505 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.979049 | 1,239 | 1.671875 | 2 |
What is gamification?
Gamification is the use of a gaming environment to recreate work-like experiences and scenarios in a fun and engaging environment. It simply introduces game elements into non-game situations. Gamification first became popular in 2010 and has remained a successful way to increase customer and employee engagement and has been adopted by many companies.
Gamification can help motivate people to learn and solve problems in a new and different way, whilst adding healthy competition. In recruitment processes, candidates often compete, and the best performers are the most likely to be hired.
Why is gamification in fashion?
After the pandemic, employees are no longer driven by money alone, but are looking for professional and personal satisfaction. In this environment, we know that fully digital recruitment processes and teleworking are here to stay. HR departments, therefore, must create new ways to retain their employees, and gamification has become a tool for this.
Gamification is successful in recruitment because it encourages our brains to think in a different way to traditional job assessments and interviews. When we do something we enjoy, our brains are more active and we can absorb more information, which is essential for learning. When gamification is applied to the recruitment process, it becomes increasingly enjoyable and is a tool that can be successfully used to acquire a goal-oriented approach.
Gamification elements should have a clear purpose, and also be easily measurable. Like any other recruitment tool, it should be introduced into the process with care. Before introducing gamification into the recruitment process, you should evaluate your objectives and analyse what you want to gain from it.
How to introduce gamification into the recruitment process:
There are six key points to consider when introducing gamification into the recruitment process:
- Plan effectively
- Use gamification tools to help you introduce gamification into your organisation
- Make the experience fun and engaging for users
- Get user feedback before the launch
- Measure key metrics
- Promote and brand your company – make sure the gamification is authentic and aligned with your company’s values
Benefits of Gamification:
Gamification has a multitude of benefits; improving the user experience, increasing employee productivity, and even avoiding lengthy and tiresome recruitment processes that risk candidates dropping out of the process or accepting other job offers.
Gamification works both ways. Traditional interview formats do not always deliver the best results when it comes to fully assessing a candidate’s capabilities and can be tedious for both the recruiter and the candidate. Introducing gamification elements allows recruiters to present company-related scenarios and see how candidates would actually react.
Gamification allows key skills to be tested. It is much easier to test certain skills that your company considers essential with the use of gamification elements. Gamification can be used for a variety of things such as aptitude tests, behavioural tests and creative thinking tests, all of which can be used to test whether potential candidates bring additional value and are able to fit into the organisations’ environment.
Other gamification techniques that support better recruitment include online networking, rewards, leader boards, or displaying user progress bars.
Gamification can simulate real-life performance at work. When everyday situations are integrated into the recruitment process through the use of gamification, the results can be much more revealing than simply asking candidates to imagine everyday situations and how they would respond.
Gamification can motivate learning and the application of new skills in a successful recruitment process. Recruiters will be challenged to find solutions that put them ahead of their competitors, constantly promoting healthy competition between organisations and recruiters.
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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Accretion of dark energy onto higher dimensional charged BTZ black hole
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, 711 103, India
Accepted: 15 September 2015
Published online: 25 September 2015
In this work, we have studied the accretion of the -dimensional charged BTZ black hole (BH). The critical point and square speed of sound have been obtained. The mass of the BTZ BH has been calculated and we have observed that the mass of the BTZ BH is related with the square root of the energy density of the dark energy which accretes onto the BH in our accelerating FRW universe. We have assumed modified Chaplygin gas (MCG) as a candidate of dark energy which accretes onto the BH and we have found the expression of BTZ BH mass. Since in our solution of MCG, this model generates only quintessence dark energy (not phantom) and so BTZ BH mass increases during the whole evolution of the accelerating universe. Next we have assumed five kinds of parametrizations of well-known dark-energy models. These models generate both quintessence and phantom scenarios i.e., phantom crossing models. So if these dark energies accrete onto the BTZ BH, then in the quintessence stage, the BH mass increases up to a certain value (finite value) and then decreases to a certain finite value for the phantom stage during the whole evolution of the universe. We have shown these results graphically.
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National Tell a Story Day is celebrated every April 27th. Telling stories is one of the best ways to establish a bond with anyone. Whether you’re a parent, who wants to spend quality time with your kids through story time or you are with your friends, who want to catch up, telling stories is a way to communicate with people. It’s also a way to spark imagination and encourages learning for children, as well as adults.
National Tell a Story Day Reads
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National Tell a Story Day may seem like it’s meant for kids. However, adults can also enjoy this day to read a book or spend time with friends and family and tell life stories – or even make up a new one. If you are a parent or you have kids at home, celebrate this day with them. Find a good read and tell a story. If you’re looking for books that both kids and adults can enjoy together, Teelie Turner Author has a wide range of magical stories that can trigger anyone’s imagination. Here are some books that we think you will enjoy reading on Tell a Story Day.
Eliza the Easter Fairy
This book tells a story of Eliza, who is a fairy in charge of painting and decorating Easter eggs. Together with her magical friends and her Easter animal friends, Eliza works hard to finish her tasks just in time for Easter. This is a good read, even if it’s an Easter-themed book because of all the magical events happening in the story. Kids and adults are sure to enjoy each and every page of this story book. Available in Kindle and Paperback. You can purchase this on Amazon.
Tommy Tinker and The Sacred Trees of Ireland
Tommy Tinker is another magical fairy who loves adventures. This is Tommy Tinker’s latest adventure. Join him as he travels to Ireland. He is joined by some friends and family to help save the sacred trees from those who plan to wreck them. This book teaches us the value of courage. Each page will just keep you wondering whether Tommy Tinker’s mission is a success. This story is also available in Paperback and Kindle. Grab a copy now from Amazon.
The Adventures of Pirate Pete and the Lost Fairy Treasure
If you and the kids love hunting for treasure, you should join Pirate Pete in one of his many treasure hunts! Pirate Pete is a fairy pirate, who loves to sail the seas in search for anything precious. This book tells the story of one of his hunts and lets you have a glimpse of what it’s like to be a magical pirate fairy. This storybook is available in Kindle, eBook, Paperback, and Audiobook. You can get your own copy on Amazon.
The Magical Fall Journey through Fairyland Volume 1
This book is perfect for the season. Become awestruck at how beautiful fall fairy gardens are. This may not be your classic story book but it introduces you and the little ones to the beauty of creating fairy gardens. This will also be a great chance for you and the kids to create your own stories as you browse through each page. This also comes in Volumes 2 and 3. You can purchase this in Paperback and Kindle. Purchase Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 on Amazon.
Tommy Tinker and the Lost Candy Factory
Here’s another one of Tommy Tinker’s many adventures. This time, he ventures to find the Lost Candy Factory. Read through each page and you’ll have fun going on a quest with Tommy. This book is available in eBook, Paperback, and Kindly. You can buy this on Amazon.
Esperanza the Hope and Faith Fairy
Esperanza is a fairy that gives you hope and faith, especially during tough times. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness, Esperanza’s magical story was created to give anyone who’s battling breast cancer a glimmer of hope and a leap of faith to help them overcome their ordeal. This is a beautiful story that adults and children can learn a lot from. Available in Paperback and Kindle. You can purchase a copy from Amazon.
National Tell a Story Day is a time to sit back, relax, and enjoy different stories from books, as well as your family and friends. These books may seem like they are for children but adults can also find them entertaining and fun.
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Your workplace supervisor will complete an “Employer Apraisal”, which records the tasks that you completed as a trainee. It evaluates key workplace performance elements.
To discuss your appraisal, and to identify areas for improvement, you will meet your supervisor.
Expectations are that high-performing elements such as presentation, co-operation and professionalism will be rated. However, it’s expected that students who work during placements will not receive very high ratings for technical aspects. This is because this is an ongoing learning process.
You can observe a new client interview if you are not able to.
Identify a client matter.
Follow the documentation and file establishment steps to create and draw an outline of the process.
Describe the action plan that will be followed with the client, and the administrative steps.
Include any timelines or deadlines.
Discuss this with your supervisor in your workplace and have it signed off or confirmed by him via email.
Task – 1.
Career Professional Development Plan
Based on the Appraisal Report by the Supervisor, I have listed the following steps to enhance my skills and set new goals for my career improvisation.
How to Develop Your Skill Levels
My supervisor has given me an “Outstanding” rating for my skills in my field of Computer Operator.
His observation revealed that there are areas where I can improve, particularly in Report Preparing. Clark (2010).
This observation has given me the courage to improve my skills and knowledge in the following areas.
Operational skills. I’m determined to improve my Report Preparing ability and, in the next appraisal, will aim for an “Excellent.” rating.
Technical skills: This area is where I would like to be more proficient in technical aspects of my job.
Assessing the Needs of My Department And Organization
My Professional Communication skills were evaluated and I was marked “Satisfactory”. I realize this is not good, and I need to improve on my professional conduct. assert Richard, (ed), 2014.
My supervisor agrees with me that my career path should match the needs of the organization.
The following goals are part of my professional development plan.
Aptitude: Develop my natural talents, and special abilities.
Attitude: I want to see a shift in my thinking and mind-set.
Develop relationships with coworkers
This sector, which also deals with teamwork efforts, is one that I need to improve.
I must coordinate my Departmental and Team Goals.
I can improve my abilities by attending Workshops & Seminars that allow me to learn and organise development.
Gibson & Fraser (2014) has provided unique opportunities for me to volunteer.
Problem Solving and Work Ethics
This section has given me high marks, but I still feel like I need to improve.
Latimer (2012): While my supervisor is encouraging in observing that I exhibit positive work ethics, I would rather focus on producing high quality work for my company, as well as my peers.
Commitment to Company’s Mission, Vision & Values
My supervisor noticed that I had been consistently showing commitment to the organisation’s Mission, Vision and Values by my behavior, but his mark has not been very high.
This leads me to believe I need to demonstrate properly how I can represent the company’s mission, vision, and values through my interactions and interactions with the customers and suppliers as well as my coworkers.
Everybody needs to continue to learn and to take corrective actions to fix any problems.
My future goal is actually to learn from my mistakes and turn them into opportunities and abilities that will improve my performance as well as the organization’s.
Ibp Inc. (2013) observed that I am engaged in tasks relevant to my professional acumen. This led my supervisor to suggest that I identify my long-term career goals.
Task – 2 : Option
A new client matter
Effective File Management is a tool to ensure timely and efficient client service, and the management of client matters, in particular in the legal sector.
Implementing a File Management System allows for the maintenance of the key features of managing client matters. This also ensures that they comply with all regulatory requirements of the Registered Agent (RA), such as confidentiality and avoidance or conflicts.
According to Moens & Jones’ (2013) Code of Conduct, a better system is maintained by the RA. It allows for file opening and closure, conflicts checking, storage system, and storage system of data.
It is vital for the RA have systems, as detailed by MARA’s Code of Conduct Part-6.
You can retrieve and store information about your adversaries and clients.
All client files must be open and maintained.
Examine records for conflict.
You can check your records to see if there are any limitations.
Identify client’s property.
Clone, keep, or dispose-off closed documents, assertsLatimer. (2012)
Opening and maintaining the Active Client Files
A) Determining the Best Time to Open A File
Once a RA was retained, it must create a file as per Clause 6.1 of Code of Conduct to provide services for a new case pertaining to:
A new client.
The current clients.
The former clients.
This should be done by the RAs as soon as a new client contacts them. The RAs will then prepare a memorandum about their client. Gibson & Fraser (2014).
B) Naming and Coding Active Files
After receiving the retainer, RAs must create and maintain an information system for their clients.
As detailed in Clause 6.2 of the Code of Conduct, RAs should assign unique file names and numbers to every file.
This should include:
Name of the client.
A reference or matter number.
Storage of Active Client Files
RAs must keep separate storage systems for “Active Clients”, and “NonActive Clients” at all times for a minimum period not less than 7 years. See Clause 6.1A.
Clause6.4 says that it is easier than ever to create separate storage spaces for client files.
The RA must ensure that all documentation relating specifically to a client’s matter is kept in the client file. Richard (ed.) (2014).
If large firms have a separate department to handle this task, it is advisable that they implement training programmes for all office staff. This should emphasize the importance of client confidentiality.
Clark (2010) states that the RA should strictly enforce a Code of Confidentiality, as per Clause 6.2A. This is to avoid the inherent risk of not properly storing data or leaving files or diskettes which contain classified information openly on a desk.
According to Section 3 of the Rules for Code of Conduct, a RA or a large business is responsible for looking after a client’s property. The RA should act as a prudent owner in dealing with such property.
The RA or his staff must clearly identify the client’s property and label it. This will allow them to distinguish the property from their own or that of the firm.
Particular attention should be paid to clients’ property made up of
Powers of Attorney
Other valuable property of the client, such as Title Deeds and Securities. This information was provided by Ibp Inc. (2013).
Figure – 1 shows a flow chart that illustrates the steps needed to maintain a complete system of Client Matters.
Figure – 1: A flow diagram illustrating a complete system of maintaining client matters
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Dear EarthTalk: Is it now feasible to provide all of a home’s energy needs—including air conditioning—with solar power alone? If so, why hasn’t solar caught on more, particularly in U.S. “Sun Belt” states from southern California east to Florida? — Tim Douglas, Burlington, VT
It has been possible for years if not decades to provide all of a home’s energy needs with solar power. The technology is here and is only getting more efficient and less obtrusive every day. The only real stumbling block is cost: Solar systems capable of meeting all of an average U.S. home’s energy needs start at around $25,000. Given how inexpensive the grid-based power we now get all across the country remains—and, bear in mind that many utilities are working more and more renewable energy sources, like wind power, into their mix—going solar alone just doesn’t pencil out economically for most people.
Of course, many of us are starting to think beyond our individual bottom lines when it comes to energy usage as global warming nips at our heels. The federal and many state governments feel likewise and have set up generous rebates and incentives to encourage homeowners (and businesses) to embrace alternative renewable energy sources (including solar but also, wind, geothermal, biomass and even tidal power, among other choices). The federal government offers up a 30 percent personal tax credit (with no ceiling) on the cost of photovoltaic or other solar installations. To find a list of what’s available from states, check out the free listings at the website of the Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE).
In the nation’s top solar market, California, residents can cash in on some serious state-funded rebates as well. Thanks to the California Solar Initiative (CSI), a $3.2 billion solar rebate program funded by electric ratepayers, Golden State homeowners can get as much as a third or more off the cost to install a residential solar system. CSI’s website, Go Solar California, provides links to several online calculators that take into account home size and location as well as state and federal incentives to help you do the figuring.
In Arizona, homeowners can get 25 percent back (capped at $1,000 per residence) from the state on the cost of installing photovoltaic panels or other solar harvesters. Some Arizona utilities offer incentives, too. In Texas, homeowners who install solar panels can get a tax credit (capped at $2,000) for 30 percent of the cost of a system. Utilities in the Lone Star State also offer incentives for those who generate their own solar power, and some will buy the power back from customers via a program called “net-metering.”
Meanwhile, the state of Florida offers a huge $4/watt rebate (capped at a whopping $20,000 for homeowners and $100,000 for businesses) for purchasers of solar photovoltaic systems there. But the website SolarPowerRocks.com reports that funding is running out and the program could end any day. Like Texas, Florida offers solar customers the ability to sell excess power back to the grid.
Even with such rebates, and the fact that solar energy is essentially free once the equipment to harness it is installed, the costs of converting an existing home to solar power is tough to swallow for most people, given that the cost to instead connect to the existing grid is zero. But if you’re building a new home, incorporating a solar system from the get-go is simply a matter of choosing solar over something else.
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Saturday to discuss the war in Ukraine and later spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the spokesperson for the Israeli leader said.
Bennett is coordinating his efforts in the crisis with the United States, France and Germany, an Israeli official said.
After his meeting with Putin, Bennett headed to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz - who visited Israel only last week, his spokesperson said.
It is assumed that the meeting between the two is part of an attempt to mediate between Putin and the West as relations between the two sides continue to deteriorate due to the harsh economic sanctions hitting Moscow in the wake of the attack on Ukraine, which entered its tenth day on Saurday.
French President Emmanuel Macron had spoken to Bennett before he flew to Moscow to brief him on his own conversations with Putin, the Élysée Palace said.
"They will stay in touch with the aim of obtaining a ceasefire, and this in coordination with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz," an Élysée Palace official said.
Israel, at the behest of Zelensky, has offered to mediate in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, though officials have previously played down expectations of any breakthrough.
In their three-hour meeting in the Kremlin, the Israeli official said, Bennett also raised with Putin the issue of the large Jewish community caught up in the war in Ukraine. He was accompanied by his Ukrainian-born housing minister, Zeev Elkin. Elkin had in the past accompanied former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an interpreter in his talks with Putin.
Bennett's meeting with Putin makes him the first Western leader to meet with the Russian president since Moscow's offensive began last Thursday.
The Prime Minister's Office said that Bennett, a religious Jew who observes Shabbat, flew to Moscow in the early hours of Saturday morning in violation of the Jewish law in because Judaism permits this when the aim is to preserve human life, his spokesperson said.
The PMO added that the meeting follows Bennett's phone conversation with Putin on Wednesday, which itself took place at the same time as the historic vote at the UN General Assembly meant to condemn Russia’s aggression - where Israel sided with the motion of condemnation despite expressing reluctance to do so initially.
Ynet has learned that the trip was coordinated with both the White House and Kyiv. Israel will send medical teams to Ukraine next week to set up a field hospital that will provide treatment for refugees, its Health Ministry said.
Zelensky, on his part, said he expected Bennett to be more supportive of Ukraine when it was invaded by Russia.
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David Hern, Jr. was the son of David and Isabel Hern, both inherited by Jefferson from the estate of his father-in-law, John Wayles. Known to Jefferson variously as Davy, Jr., Isabel's Davy, or Wagoner Davy, Davy worked at Monticello as a nail-maker, blacksmith, and charcoal-burner. Like other boys, he started out as a nailer, and like most of Monticello’s enslaved people, he participated in the wheat harvest; in 1796, for example, he gathered wheat and made sheaves. His major occupation, however, was driving a cart or wagon. To deliver and pick up goods, his travels as a wagoner took him 120 miles to Washington, south to Poplar Forest, and across central Virginia. His wife Fanny Gillette Hern and his sister Edith were both trained in French cooking at the White House; they became the principal cooks at Monticello after 1809. Hern, his wife, and their eight children were sold at the 1827 dispersal sale.
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Learning multiplication soon after counting, addition, and subtraction is ideal. Youngsters learn arithmetic by way of a all-natural progression. This advancement of studying arithmetic is usually the following: counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and ultimately division. This assertion results in the concern why discover arithmetic with this sequence? More importantly, why learn multiplication after counting, addition, and subtraction just before section?
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GambleAware will conduct a new analysis of the British online gambling market
The Gambling Commission of Great Britain will interact with the Council for the Strategy of Responsible Gambling for research in the field of gambling.
The task of the departments is to promote the market of online gambling, to get the opinion of competent experts in the field of online gambling addiction for further research.
Gambling operators will have to provide secondary information about the profile equipment, including the manufacturers' certificates, the audience of users and their preferences in the choice of online gambling games. The ultimate goal of the research is to solve the problems of gambling in the UK.
"The strategy of GambleAware is designed to prevent harm from gambling. We must protect users from the risks that such entertainment entails. The wider our base of evidence, the better we can understand what types of games are most harmful to the player's psyche and lead to a gambling addiction," - the charity said.
Representatives of the British community noted that they would encourage the gambling industry to participate in all types of research in the field of gambling. The findings will help to better understand not only the vulnerable audience, but also to identify and prevent the growth of the gambling "disease" in the country through behavioral analysis.
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If a chicken-friendly environment is a checklist item for your move to the North Shore you may have to rule out the Village of Wilmette. According to Trib Local, Wilmette recently amended its municipal code to make it illegal to raise chickens. Winnetka, however, remains chicken-friendly.
Diane Schaffner, a Wilmette resident and organic gardener, is asking village trustees to reconsider their decision:
From a nutritional perspective, Schaffner argues that eggs from a local hen are better than those from the supermarket.
“The most obvious benefit is having your own very fresh eggs,” she said. “You’re controlling what the chickens eat, how they live. Each different breed produces a different kind of egg.”
If the local ordinance is changed, Schaffner said she’d be eager to acquire two or three hens.
“My yard is pretty small, but I would have a minimum of two,” Schaffner said. “It’s not recommended that you only have one. Chickens are very social and would benefit from the company.”
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Have had a few visits from early Monarchs or maybe a couple that wintered-over. Obviously left some eggs. Caterpillars look about 5-7 days old.
Latitude: 32.9 Longitude: -96.8
Observed by: Linda
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"Sic semper tyrannis!" the assassin cried,
As Lincoln fell. O villain! who than he
More lived to set both slave and tyrant free!
Or so enrapt with plans of freedom died,
That even thy treacherous deed shall glance aside,
And do the dead man's will by land and sea,
Win bloodless battles, and make that to be
Which to his living mandate was denied!
Peace to that gentle heart! the peace he sought
For all mankind, nor for it dies in vain.
Rest to the uncrown'd king! who, toiling, brought
His bleeding country through that dreadful reign;
Who, living, earn'd a world's revering thought,
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Pennock, Caroline Dodds. “Mass Murder or Religious Homicide? Rethinking Human Sacrifice and Interpersonal Violence in Aztec Society.” Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung vol. 37, no. 3 (141), GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Center for Historical Social Research, 2012: 276-302. Web. 20 Mar 2022.Townsend, Camila. Fifth Sun. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Print.Carrasco, Davíd. “The Exaggerations of Human Sacrifice.” The History of the Conquest of New Spain, edited by Davíd Carrasco, University of New Mexico Press, 2008: 439:447. Print.
Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel. “Aztec Art.” Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc. Web. 20 May 2022.Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, p. 94. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2012. Print.Lasso de la Vega, Luis. The story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649, Pp. 61, 143. Self published, 1649. Print."Religions in Mexico." Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project. 2010. Web. 20 May 2022.
"Ancient Roman Gladiators." The Colosseum. Web. 20 May 2022.Conrad, Barnaby. "Bullfighting". Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Feb 2019. Web. 20 May 2022.León-Portilla, Miguel. Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Print.
Although 'Aztec' is the term by which they are most commonly known, the empire spanning most of central Mexico at the time of the arrival of the Spanish would have called themselves the 'Mexica' (meh-SHEE-ka).
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Red Mercury Island is the second largest of seven Mercury Islands named by James Cook in 1769; its Māori name is Whakau. Great Mercury Island is in private ownership but the others are now part of the Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park. The islands are ringed with boulders and cliffs and have few landing places. Red Mercury is the outermost of the group and was named because of its reddish colouring, evident in this view.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
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We are the sum total of the decisions we make. Some reverberate through eternity, whereas others affect “the now” part of our life.
We make decisions almost at will, without merely a consideration as to the consequences, yet some of those choices have a powerful impact on oneself and others. One thing is sure; every decision made has a consequence, and every consequence demands further decisions.
According to multiple sources on the Internet, the average amount of remotely conscious decisions an adult makes each day equals about 35,000. Almost 200 of these daily decisions are related to food. In contrast, young children only make about 3,000 decisions each day.
“Decision-making is such a seamless brain process that we’re usually unaware of it — until our choice results in unexpected consequences. Then we may look back and wonder, “Why did I choose that option?” In recent years, neuroscientists have begun to decode the decision-making process. What they’re learning is shedding light not only on how the healthy brain performs complex mental functions, but also on how disorders, such as stroke or drug abuse, affect the process” – Susan Perry
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness as created them” – Albert Einstein
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion”. Grantland Rice
5. Will I live with regrets for making or not making the decision?
One of the most debilitating forces in not making decisions is fear of failure. Fear can immobilise us for life, if we allow it to. I have always been of the conviction that making a wrong decision is a better option than not making a decision at all for fear it’s the wrong one. HOWEVER, we must use sound reasoning that supports ones core values or the consequences could create a plethora of frustration and circumstances that we will live with us forever. Fundamentally, a 360 review will give all the indicators, if we are blatantly honest with ones self.
Ironically, years of counselling has taught me one thing. Most people surround themselves with people that “agree” with their decision making process rather than those likely to oppose them. This gives an unbalanced and inaccurate perspective. One must be confident enough to receive opposing information and opinion, yet secure enough in one’s core values to evaluate it through our 360 perspective.
Here are a few keys to keep you on track.
1. Always seek advice from those who have to live with the consequences of your decision making. It’s easy to obtain, but difficult to maintain!
2. People that know you best will always give you an “insiders” opinion. This can be both positive and negative. What will the projected future look like according to your 360?
3. When a wrong decision is made, never follow it up with a worse one. Be big enough to accept when a decision is moving you away from your core values. Pride is an ugly attribute that is never satisfied.
4. Learn from your decisions, because there is a wealth of experience that will help you and others in the future.
5. Wisdom comes from experience and experience comes from exposure to circumstances.
6. Over analysis can bring paralysis! When you know what you should be doing, it frees one up to say NO, to what you shouldn’t be doing. We may not know what the secret of success is, but one thing is sure, trying to please everyone is not it.
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come”. Robert H. Schuller | <urn:uuid:065b8889-62a3-4cfa-9837-17f02ba40d7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://itstonyme.blogspot.com/2014/11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942569 | 800 | 2.9375 | 3 |
THE NIGHTS OF THE TWO EIDS
Rasulullah ﷺ said: “The heart of a person who remains awake (in Ibadah) during the night of Eidul Fitr and Eidul Adha (these are the nights that precede Eid) will not die on the Day when hearts will be dead, i.e. the Day of Qiyamah”.
The nights of both Eids, i.e. the nights preceding the Days of Eid, are auspicious occassions which should be observed with reverence and worship. Rasulullah ﷺ said that these nights are great occasions of Ibadah and of gaining the proximity and special Mercy of Allah ﷻ. These blessed nights, should therefore not be allowed to pass by in idleness. Full advantage should be taken of these opportunities by offering obedience and Ibadah unto Allah ﷻ to the best of our abilities. Istighfar (seeking forgiveness for sins), Tilawah (reciting the Qur’an), Nafl salaah, durud, etc. should be profusely offered on these blessed nights. Among the rewards which will be obtained as a result of observing the sanctity of these glorious Eid Nights, the greatest reward is the tiding conveyed to us by Rasulullah ﷺ . In the above mentioned Hadith, the heart will not be overawed with terror and fear on the Day of Qiyamah when the upheavals of the day will be so fearsome that men will appear to be intoxicated.
THE EID TAKBIR
On the Days of Eid the Takbir should not be recited aloud at the place where the Eid salaah is to be performed. To recite the Takbir aloud at the Musalla (Eid Gah) or the Masjid on the Days of Eid is a common practice. However, this practice is not appropriate nor correct. Everyone should engage themselves in Dhikr and Takbir silently.
THE ETIQUETTES OF EID-UL-FITR
The day of Eid is not merely a festive occasion. A Muslim acquires great rewards from and draws close to Allah ﷻ if he spends the day of Eid according to the teachings of Shariah and Rasulullah ﷺ .
THE SUNAN (plural of sunnah) OF THE DAY OF EID
- To rise as early as possible (In fact much of this night should be spent in Ibadah).
- To make Ghusal and use the Miswaak.
- To wear one’s best clothes whilst ensuring that it conforms with Shariah (Sunnah dress).
- To apply itr.
- To eat anything sweet (such as dates) before departing for Eid salaah.
- To go to the “Musalla” as early as possible.
- To give “Sadaqatul-Fitr” before leaving for the Musalla.
- To choose a different route when returning from the Musalla.
- To walk to the Musalla. However there is no harm in using any means of conveyance if the Musalla is a distance away.
- To recite the following Takbir while walking to the Musalla:-
THE MASA’IL (RULINGS) PERTAINING TO EID
- No Nafl Salaah should be performed in the Musalla before or after Eid Salaah.
- It is undesirable to perform the Eid Salaah in any other place besides the Musalla without any valid excuse.
- It is vitally important to listen to both Khutbah after the Eid Salaah.If for some reason the Khutbah is not audible, it is still necessary to remain seated till the Khutbah ends. NOTE: It is sinful not to listen to the Khutbah.
- If such an error is made in Eid Salaah which necessitates SajdahSahwa, then the Sajdah-Sahwa could be left out to avoid confusion.
METHOD OF PERFORMING EID SALAAH
- Make the intention: “I am performing two Rakaats Eid Salaah which is wajib with six extra Takbir which are also wajib”.
- After the first Takbir, fold the hands and recite the thana.
- Then lift the hands thrice while saying “Allahu Akbar”. After the first two times leave the arms loose and after the third fold them.
- Now, Surah Al-Fatiha and a Surah will be recited by the Imam and the Rak’ah will be completed like in the normal Salaah.
- The second Rak’ah will be performed similarly except that before going into Ruku, the hands will be lifted thrice (whilst saying “Allahu-Akbar”) and each time they will be left loose on the sides.
- With the 4th Takbir, the Ruku should be made.
- The remainder of the Salaah should be completed like any normal Salaah.
- Du`a should be made after the Salaah instead of after the Khutbah.
A FEW MASA’IL REGARDING EID SALAAH
- If the Imam forgets to recite the extra Takbirs in the first rak’ah and if he remembers after reciting surah Al-Fatihah, he should recite the extra Takbir and repeat surah Al-Fatihah.
- If a person joins the Eid salaah after the Imam has completed the extra Takbirs then he should recite the Takbir of Tahrimah and immediately, the additional Takbirs, dropping the hands between the first two additional Takbirs and clasping them after the third, making sure that the hands are raised to the ears on each Takbir.
- Since the condition of Eid salaah is the formation of a jama’ah, a person who missed Eid salaah is unable to perform the salaah on his own. There is no Qadha for Eid salaah.
- A person who joins the Eid salaah after the Imam has already recited the Eid Takbir should recite the Takbir immediately upon entering the salaah. However, if he enters the salaah when the Imam is about to go into Ruku and he (the late-comer) fears that he will not be able to join the Imam in the Ruku if he stands and recites the Takbir, then he should instead recite the Takbir in the Ruku, and forgo the tasbih of the Ruku but, while reciting the Takbir in Ruku the hands should not be raised as is done when reciting the Takbir when in Qiyam (the standing posture of salaah). If the Imam emerges from the Ruku and the latecomer has not yet completed the recitation of his Takbir which he had missed then he should leave off the balance of the Takbir and join the Imam. In this case the balance of the Takbir which he could not complete are waived.
- If someone missed a Rak’ah of the Eid Salaah, he should fulfil it as follows: After the Imam completes the salaah, he (the one who missed the Rak’ah) should rise and perform one Raka’h on his own, reciting Qira’ah (Surah Al-Fatiha plus a Surah) first, followed by the Takbirs. The rest of the Rak’ah is then completed as usual.
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Analyst Coverage: Philip Howard
A graph database is one that stores data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities. A variant on this theme are RDF (resource description framework) databases which store data in the format subject-predicate-object, which is known as a triple.
There are three types of graph database: true graph databases, triple stores and conventional databases that provide some graphical capabilities. Triple stores are often referred to as RDF databases. The difference between a true graph product and a triple store is that the former supports index free adjacency (which means you can traverse a graph without needing an index) and the latter doesn’t. The former are designed to support property graphs (graphs where properties may be assigned to either entities or their relationships, or both) but recently some triple stores have added this capability.
Both graph and RDF databases may be native products or they may be built on top of other database types. Most commonly, other database types are forms of NoSQL database though there are some relational implementations.
RDF databases target semantic processing, often with the ability to combine information across structured and unstructured data. Both graph and RDF databases may be ACID compliant and both are frequently targeted at transactional environments. All graph products target analytics but different products are targeted at operational analytics (those suitable for transactional environments) as opposed to data warehousing analytics. In this last category there is also a distinction between vendors targeting known-known problems as opposed to those that also cover known-unknowns and those tackling unknown-unknowns: the most intractable of all.
Given that both graph and RDF databases target both transactional environments and have query processing capabilities, these are an obvious candidate for supporting so-called HTAP processing whereby the database is used for both transactional/operational processing and real-time analytics. Compared to some other approaches to HTAP this has the major advantage that the data only needs to be stored once. Both concurrent analytics (where the analytics is separate from operational processes, for example in supporting real-time dashboards) and in-process analytics (where the analytics are embedded in real-time operational processing) may be supported. In the latter case, there are a variety of graph algorithms supported by vendors that may be implemented for machine learning purposes.
Graph databases handle a class of issues that are too structured for NoSQL and too diverse for relational technologies. In the latter case, relational databases are inherently limited to one-to-one, many-to-one and one-to-many relationships. They do not cater well for problems (such as bill of materials – a classic case) that are many-to-many. For these types of requirements graph databases not only perform way better better than relational databases but they allow some types of query that are simply not possible otherwise. Semantic query support tends to be particularly strong in triple stores.
Another major point is that research suggests that graph visualisations are very easy and intuitive for users. It is also worth noting that many (not all) graph products are schema-free. This means that if you want to change the structure of the environment you simply add a new entity or relationship as required and do not have to explicitly implement a schema change. This is a major advantage over relational databases.
This market is emerging and there are many open source projects and vendors, many of which will not ultimately survive. Nevertheless there are still new products coming on to the marketplace. Conversely, there are companies that have been in this space for more than a decade, so the technology is not entirely new. One noticeable trend is for triple store vendors to add support for property graphs.
Another trend is towards multi-model implementations. This is where the database supports graph technology as just one of possibly several views into the data. A major consideration with such offerings is the extent to which these different representations can work together. Some vendors require, for example, require a different API to be used for each model type supported, whereas others have integrated their environment so that the different models are effectively transparent to one another.
One major issue that has yet to be finalised is with respect to language support. SPARQL (SPARQL protocol and RDF query language) is a W3C standard and is a declarative language but by no means all vendors support it. In general, RDF vendors support SPARQL, but property graph vendors do not, though there are exceptions to this. In the property graph space the Gremlin graph traversal language is part of the Apache Tinkerpop project and is supported by some vendors, while other suppliers have adopted their own “SQL-like” languages. Also with significant traction is OpenCypher, which is a declarative language (Gremlin is only partially so). ANSI has a working party to define SQL extensions to support graph processing while there is also an initiative to create a standardised GQL (graph query language). It is also worth noting that GraphQL, which is an open source project, is gaining traction as a graph API to replace REST.
Finally, while it is too early to call this trend one vendor has introduced a graph capability based on adjacency matrices rather than adjacency lists. If this proves successful, and early results suggest that that will be the case, then we are like to see this being more widely adopted as it promises much better performance.
There have been a lot of new entrants to the market and changes amongst those within the market. As far as new products are concerned these include RedisGraph, TigerGraph, MemGraph, Trovares, and Microsoft Cosmos DB. Cambridge Semantics has unbundled AnzoGraph from its Anzo Data Lake offering and both Amazon and SAP have also entered the market. In the case of Amazon Neptune, it is an open secret that this is based on BlazeGraph while SAP has acquired OrientDB. Or, rather, it acquired the company that had acquired OrientDB, though we think that OrientDB was probably incidental as far as this acquisition was concerned. Nevertheless, SAP appears to be moving ahead with the product though there is the perennial danger that it may increasingly be targeted at the SAP user base rather than the wider community.
The one company that has withdrawn from the graph space is IBM. However, the company continues to work on the development of JanusGraph (effectively a replacement to Titan).
Despite all of the above, the market leaders in this space continue to be Neo4J and OntoText (GraphDB), which are graph and RDF database providers respectively. These are the longest established vendors in this space (both founded in 2000) so they have a longevity and experience that other suppliers cannot yet match. How long this will remain the case remains to be seen. | <urn:uuid:135c9458-3b72-4142-9ff9-74b7653957aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bloorresearch.com/technology/graph-databases/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959627 | 1,398 | 2.875 | 3 |
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On the face of it, the holy city of Bethlehem is flourishing this Christmas. It has had some 2.3 million visitors this year, up from 2.2 million in 2015, and its 3,700 hotel rooms are fully booked. Compared to recent years – some described last year as the worst ever for Bethlehem, with tourism down 11 per cent thanks to local violence – this is good news for the "little town" where Jesus was born.
But under the surface lies a different story. Of the 2.3 million visitors, only 900,000 have stayed overnight, and a majority of those are Palestinians. Understandably, they tend to spend considerably less money than foreign tourists in the poverty-stricken West Bank city which has an unemployment rate of 48 per cent, higher than any part of the Palestinian territories apart from Gaza.
The key to understanding the plight of Bethlehem lies in the Israeli occupation, which now means the city is surrounded – some would say strangled – by illegal settlements and the wall (or "separation barrier") that snakes round the town.
Foreign visitors are discouraged from visiting Bethlehem by the Israeli authorities, who subject passengers to more extensive questioning if they declare an interest in visiting the town while at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv when they land.
Those who do venture to Bethlehem cannot avoid seeing the checkpoints and the wall erected by Israel supposedly to stop suicide bombers entering Jerusalem 10 km to the north, with detrimental effects on the every day lives of ordinary Palestinians.
The majority of pilgrims and tourists who enter the city stay for just an hour or two, visiting the Church of the Nativity and driving out again on buses, usually organised by Israeli-run firms. The Israelis control all entrances into Bethlehem, and while there are around 50 Israeli tour guides operating in Bethlehem, there are 42 Palestinians with permits to conduct tours "on the other side" in Jerusalem, compared to 7,150 Israelis.
Indeed, Israel controls all entry points into the West Bank, with tourists either arriving from Ben Gurion or neighbouring Jordan through check-points controlled by Israel. At the same time, Palestinian tour buses are forbidden from entering Israel to collect visitors from the airport and they are not allowed to take groups to visit holy sites in Jerusalem or Galilee.
Just as Christmas is linked to Easter, Bethlehem is – or should be – linked to Jerusalem, scene of the Crucifixion and Resurrection. Yet Palestinian Christians say the wall has separated both cities for first time in 2,000 years of Christianity.
For Palestinian ID holders, entry to Jerusalem remains restricted. Of those who are lucky enough to obtain an Israeli military permit, the vast majority are still restricted to certain hours and are disallowed from using a car.
Thousands of Palestinian Jerusalemites have been prevented from obtaining family reunification for their spouses and children from the rest of the Palestinian territories, especially affecting Palestinian Christians that had intermarried between Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Ramallah for centuries.
As Xavier Abu Eid, a senior adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organisation, explained to Christian Today: "Bethlehem's connection with Jerusalem, its twin city, has been cut for the first time in 2,000 years of Christianity by an illegal 'annexation wall' built by Israel. The Palestinian government has very limited access over our natural resources. As a matter of fact, the limited Palestinian control in Bethlehem doesn't go beyond 13 per cent of the district.
"In this scenario it's impossible to develop the economy just as planning for the future results into a tortuous exercise with over 100,000 illegal Israeli settlers grabbing more land around the city. This is the main reason why Bethlehem has the second higher unemployment rate in Palestine, only after Gaza."
Rula Maa'yaa, the Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, was more positive. She told Christian Today: "Despite the security unrest in the Middle East and the Israeli occupation and their measures and actions to undermine the Palestinian tourism industry, the Palestinian tourism has witnessed a remarkable increase in the second half of the year 2016 in comparison with the same period in 2015. This comes as result of the intensive efforts of the Ministry and the private sector with the support of the international community to promote Palestine in many traditional markets, penetrate new ones and approach new target groups. In addition to the classical markets, Palestine Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is planning to implement marketing campaigns in South America, China, India, Malaysia and Indonesia. Palestine is proud of its developed tourism infrastructure, modern facilities and unique service and hospitality that offer an unforgettable experience to all visitors."
Bethlehem today has a population of more than 220,000 people, including more than 20,000 living in three refugee camps (at Dheisheh, Aida and Beit Jibrin). At the same time there are 100,000 Israeli settlers surrounding the town, including in areas within the Israeli-defined, expanded and annexed "Jerusalem municipality".
The most prominent Israeli settlements in the Bethlehem area are Gilo and Har Homa to the north; Har Gilo, Beitar Illit and Neve Daniel to the West; Efrat to the south and Nokdim and Tekoa to the East. Prominent contemporary settlers include the right-wing Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Minister of Environment and Jerusalem Affairs, Ze'ev Elkin.
Officials say that in the absence of the Israeli occupation, Bethlehem would have open roads connecting it with Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. The occupation and the wall make that but a distant dream.
Pilgrims still come, however, to see Bethlehem as it is. The Catholic Church hierarchy remains especially committed to visiting the Palestinian territories. Pope Benedict XVI once said that every Christian should visit Bethlehem, as Muslims seek to travel to Mecca, and the UK's own Cardinal Vincent Nichols usually leads an annual trip to Bethlehem and Gaza in the run up to Christmas.
Christian Today spoke to the Archbishop of Birmingham Bernard Longley, who is tipped inside the Church one day to succeed Cardinal Nichols as the next Archbishop of Westminster and Cardinal from England and Wales. Archbishop Longley recently visited Bethlehem with the Anglican Bishop of Worcester, John Inge, on an ecumenical pilgrimage run jointly by the British religious tour companies Tangley and McCabe.
The Archbishop sounded an optimistic note, while acknowledging the destructive role of the wall in the lives of Bethlehemites. "It is three years since I was last in Bethlehem, and my impression was that there was a much more positive and fulfilled atmosphere among people we met," he said. "They were realistic about the challenges they face, but there was a great awareness of what can be achieved and what can be done – and certainly the leaders in the communities seem to be giving time and energy to improving people's lives. But at same time, there is inevitably that sense of realism about the difference the wall has made to their communities."
Archbishop Longley, who spent three days and three nights in Bethlehem, added: "We wanted to stay in Bethlehem so as to support the local community there. We are very conscious of the need to maintain links to Bethlehem and its neighbouring Christian towns of Beit Sahour and Beit Jala... In Bethlehem itself we stayed together in Manger Square. I was conscious it was an opportunity to support local business – some of our parishes buy alter wine from vineyards in Bethlehem. To base ourselves in Bethlehem and experience some of what the local community experience [was the aim], crossing check-points but of course without the severe experiences that they [the Palestinians] experience. We deliberately wanted to give time to Bethlehem – not just to support the local community there but also to meet with some of the local community."
This Christmas, thousands of pilgrims will flock to Bethlehem, bringing life and some prosperity to the town. Hundreds will pack into Manger Square for Midnight Mass, to pray, sing carols and worship.
But look beyond the candles and decorations of Manger Square, and this is a city slowly being surrounded.
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The National Press Club hosted an Interdisciplinary Summit on Children and Screen Time November 1 with several pediatric media experts who have been involved in the first-ever special supplement to the journal Pediatrics on the issue of children and screen time. The non-profit organization Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development convened the summit and sponsored the Pediatrics supplement.
Amy Joyce, editor of the The Washington Post’s “On Parenting” section, moderated the panel discussion with:
- Pam Hurst-Della Pietra, DO, Founder and President, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development and Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Care Policy and Management, Stony Brook Medicine
- Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington
- Kathryn Montgomery, PhD, Founder, Center for Media Education and Director of Communication Studies, American University
- Kaveri Subrahmanyam, PhD, Chair, Department of Child & Family Studies at California State University, Los Angeles and
Associate Director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, UCLA/Cal State LA
- Ellen Wartella, PhD, Professor of Communication, Psychology, Human Development, Social Policy and Medical Social Sciences and Director, Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University
Dr. Christakis and Dr. Wartella also serve on Children and Screens’ National Scientific Advisory Board.
Each participant shared her or his background as a researcher, medical professional and parent and provided key takeaways from the voluminous findings parents and educators can delve into more deeply by reading the special supplement .
Topics covered in the supplement released on November 1 include the following:
- Digital Screen Media and Cognitive Development
- Media Multitasking and Cognitive, Psychological, Neural, and Learning Differences
- Benefits and Costs of Social Media in Adolescence
- Digital Life and Youth Well-being, Social Connectedness, Empathy, and Narcissism
- Digital Media, Anxiety, and Depression in Children
- Internet Gaming Disorder in Children and Adolescents
- Virtual Reality in Pediatric Psychology
- Digital Media and Sleep in Childhood and Adolescence
- Screen Media Exposure and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
- Digital Media and Risks for Adolescent Substance Abuse and Problematic Gambling
- Small Screen Use and Driving Safety
- Parenting and Digital Media
- Children’s Privacy in the Big Data Era: Research Opportunities
- Developing Digital and Media Literacies in Children and Adolescents
- Digital Media, Participatory Politics, and Positive Youth Development
- Digital Inequality and Developmental Trajectories of Low-income, Immigrant, and Minority Children
- Global Perspectives on Children’s Digital Opportunities: An Emerging Research and Policy Agenda
- Screen Violence and Youth Behavior
- Defining Cyberbullying
- The Effect of Advertising on Children and Adolescents
- Social Group Stories in the Media and Child Development
- Sexual Media and Childhood Well-being and Health
It has been 10 years since the debut of the iPhone, four years since the founding of Children and Screens and two years since the organization and the National Academy of Sciences convened a national conference that led to more than 20 working groups with 140 experts on the topic of the effect of screens on children.
The main questions researchers set out to answer were:
1. How is digital media enhancing or impairing children’s ability to live happy, healthy, and productive lives?
2. How are years of electronically mediated interactions shaping children’s physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development?
3. What should we do about it?
After the introductions at the November 1 summit, Amy Joyce asked the panel several questions. At the conclusion of the hour program, the audience had a chance to ask questions. The conversation was complex and illuminating. Here are some highlights from a few of the areas covered.
Media as environmental health issue
Let’s consider children’s exposure to media the way we consider their exposure to toxins like lead or substances that can be helpful at some levels but toxic at higher levels. If we took this approach, we might be further along in the conversation. We consider the health and quality of the air children breathe and the safety of the playgrounds they use. It’s important to consider the needs of the most vulnerable and to acknowledge differential susceptibility.
Children are having direct experiences with technology that affect their physical, social and cognitive development. Additionally, screen time is replacing or displacing other kinds of experiences that children have traditionally had. It is important to consider not just what screen time is adding to their lived experience but also what it is taking away.
Research and Public Policy
Children and Screens accepts no funds from any industry groups to ensure that there is no bias in the scientific evidence process. Several concerns were raised about need for additional funding for research. There is no research on children and screens currently being conducted by the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health. Efforts in the early 2000s to get a bill through Congress to fund research were not successful.
It takes a long time to study the effects of anything on any group, but research is especially difficult when technology changes so quickly. It may be 10 years before we know the effects of the kind of multitasking that adults and children engage in so frequently now. So far there are two studies that associate media multitasking with lower academic outcomes. Multitasking, contrary to popular opinion, actually decreases efficiency and makes the learning of new tasks or new content more difficult.
The effectiveness of reading on screens is unclear; research so far does not point to evidence that it is worth what we are investing in it. Some studies show that those who take handwritten notes score better on assessments than those who type notes. The national scientific research agenda needs to include these important areas of investigation.
Comparisons were made to the European Union, where regulations are going into place next year, and to Canada, where there is a greater public awareness of the effect of food marketing to children and more efforts made to curtail it so as to decrease obesity rates. There was a call for more public policy and discussions.
It took 20 or more years after the beginning of widespread television use for regulations on marketing to children to come into play. It would help if companies would become more responsible in developing new technology, such as creating ways for devices to turn off after too long of use.
Reasons for concern
Although every generation has looked on new types of technology – including newspapers, radio and television – with some amount of skepticism, most complaints lessen over time. The difference with the the rise of the use of smart phones is that this technology is disruptive because it is mobile – everywhere all the time, unlike the TV in the living room – and it has multiple uses, including for entertainment, information, communication and interaction.
We know that background television reduces interaction between children and caregivers and impacts how children play with toys. What is the impact of adults interacting with screens on a wide scale and with children interacting with screens instead of toys or peers?
Consider the impact on the development of empathy in an environment when children are having fewer in-person and face-to-face interactions with people and relying more on screen-based interaction, including texting and other forms of messaging. A reference was made to a study from Boston Medical Center that found an increase in negative interactions related to screen use. Consider “Alexa, Are you safe for my kids?” a recent NPR report on the effect on smart devices on children.
It was also noted that it is very difficult for many of us to be fully present with someone in person without distraction and that we need to be vigilant to make changes in our behavior so this does not become the norm. See the 2015 book Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by MIT professor Sherry Turkle.
The role of schools
Panelists and audience attendees noted the problem of schools encouraging continuous use of devices through a lack of clear policy on personal phones and/or through promotion of devices such as in 1:1 programs that give all students access to an iPad or laptop. References were made to the 1:1 debacle in Los Angeles in 2013-14 that showed this is not the right approach to take. For coverage of that issue, see reports from Wired and NPR.
Some schools and even universities or individual professors have no-tech policies in the classroom, but in other places, cell phone use during class for non-educational use is rampant, as is use during lunch, traditionally an important time for in-person social interaction.
The role of parents
Children learn from their parents, so it’s incredibly important for parents to be mindful of their usage of technology and screens of all kinds to model safety and intention and to help their children learn to set appropriate boundaries in their own use.
Panelists noted that the issues parents face today are very different than in years past. Connections now matter more than ever. It is very important for parents to carve out time and space to connect with kids without screens as part of the picture. It is also important for parents to be in conversation and be connected with children regarding their screen use including playing games together and watching and discussing media together. Parents are the ones who create the environment in which children learn how or how not to use technology responsibly.
Apps like “Moment” can track device usage for an individual or a family, which can be helpful. However, while parents can use apps to monitor and even control children’s screen use from afar, it’s important to be present and engaged and help children develop the capacity to monitor themselves, set their own healthy boundaries and learn how to stick to their limits without relying on an app.
In addition to all resources referenced above, readers may want to check out these resources referenced in discussions that followed the presentation:
- Media Literacy Week, November 6-10, 2017
- Global Children’s Media Summit, December 5-7, 2017
- Common Sense Media
- Time Well Spent
Although all panelists acknowledged that technology can bring tremendous benefits, they all emphasized its risks and the need to take action to protect children’s health. Make no mistake: this is serious. The headline of the press release for the summit read: “Pediatric media experts raise concerns about growing health crisis: children and screen time.”
Technology is not going away, and it is up to us as parents and educators to ensure that it does not harm children or lead them to harm others. Attendees left with a packet of information from Children and Screens and lots of to think about.
The summit was eye-opening and inspiring for me to continue to explore this issue in my own home life and to advocate for mindful practices in public schools.
I encourage parents and educators to follow the work of Children and Screens and to take the time to read through the Pediatrics supplement and discuss their findings, experiences and questions, with partners, with other parents and educators, and in a developmentally appropriate way with children.
Jessica Claire Haney is the founder, publisher and editor of Mindful Healthy Life and the author of its Guide to Holistic Family Living in Metro DC. Jessica volunteers on issues related to wellness in public schools and was the founder of the Arlington/Alexandria Chapter of Holistic Moms Network. A writer working on her first novel, Jessica offers copywriting, editing, writing coaching and holistic business consulting services. Learn more at JessicaClaireHaney.com and in Jessica’s Mindful Healthy Life Q&A. Follow Jessica on Facebook at MindfulHealthyLife, on @Twitte | <urn:uuid:4fdf53a1-7309-4ba0-a9dd-8b280135285c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mindfulhealthylife.com/expert-panel-addresses-findings-on-health-impacts-of-screen-time-on-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953011 | 2,444 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Kimper Cubs always "PAWS" to read!!!
Kimper Elementary School Library Media Center is a true K-8 library housing books and materials from non-reader picture books through the young adult level, over 30 magazine and newspaper subscriptions, and a growing teacher section. Students visit the library at least once weekly during school hours to learn about the library and check out books. The library has two Scholastic Book Fairs each year to generate money to purchase new materials.
The library catalog is automated and can be used at school or at home. Click the "links" tab above.
Kimper Library Media Center hours are M-F, 7:30-3:45. Additional times available as needed and per request.
The mission of this Library Media Center is:
* To be a dynamic place the school and community WANT to be part of
* To encourage students and support our staff in effectively using ideas and information
* To promote life-long learning and information literacy with books and technology
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Designed by Robert L. Curtis and built in 1916.
Originally the derelict King Edward VII pub at 64 Barnsbury Road, it became an Anglican church in 1994. There appear to be no church like fittings inside.
Designed by William White 1865-66 with much polychromatic interior decoration. It has been used since 1990 as The Florence Trust artist’s studios, however, it seems likely that 2019 will be the last year of this use.
Disused church of 1837-38 by Inwood and Clifton. The tower was added in 1850. In 1980-82 flats and recording studios were built inside.
Away from the main roads through Islington this church replaced the Clothworker’s Guild City of London Lambe’s Chapel. Some Flemish glass and the figure of William Lambe were transferred here when this building was constructed by F.W. Porter in 1873-75. In the last couple of years there has been a reordering that has exposed the tiled work in the apse.
Now used as flats, the church was designed by Charles Barry 1834-35, but the Thunderbird One spire was added by Roumieu and Gough 1842-44 along with transepts and west porch.
Built by Charles Barry 1826-29. The interior was much changed and not in a great state of repair while under lease to the Celestial Church of Christ. The lower exterior pictures are from September 2015 and the interiors from October 2016 while repair work was going on. The poor condition of the building led the Church of England to repossess the lease on the church in November 2017 and they are now seeking funding to carry out repairs.
Previously the Swedeborgian’s national seminary and school. It was built in 1852 by Edward Welch with extensions 1865-75 by Finch and Paraire
By Francis B. Newman and John Johnson 1852-54 in the centre of the square. The interior has been divided with the north aisle as rooms and the south aisle as a hall and kitchen area. The nave and chancel have been re-ordered with chairs and few of the older furnishings left. | <urn:uuid:f9553d53-19a1-431c-a4ca-73b43cfdfb5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://londonchurchbuildings.com/category/islington/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.980355 | 456 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Change management is hard to get right – it often scores very low on staff satisfaction and engagement surveys. So how can you change the way you do change?
Often people think that change management is about communication. However, although communication is an imperative part of change management, it’s not the only part.
Here I’ll take a look at how people are affected by negative bias when it comes to change, and their progress through the Change Curve. And I’ll provide my tips on managing an easy change process.
Where do you begin?
Years ago, I worked for an organisation where we recognised that we didn’t do change very well, and we needed change management. And everyone just looked at each other blankly, and thought where do we even start?
I think that’s one of the reasons change seems difficult is that change feels a little bit intangible. Large organisations can hire in change managers to do that process for them. But for smaller organisations, it’s more difficult to understand the steps you need to take to manage change.
‘for smaller organisations, it’s more difficult to understand the steps you need to take to manage change’
One of the key issues we face with change management is negative bias. As humans, we all have a negative bias, which has been demonstrated through many different research studies. Psychologists tell us that, as human beings, we:
- pay more attention to negative events than positive ones
- learn more from negative outcomes and experiences
- make decisions based on negative information more than we make it on positive data.
And a presumed reason for this is that it’s evolutionary. We have been hardwired to pay attention to the bad stuff, because that’s what keeps us alive. Research shows that it starts when we’re as young as one year old, we’re hardwired to look for danger, and to look at things that are negative.
Within the workplace, it’s important to understand this around things like reward and recognition. We can fail to recognise the positives because we’re hardwired to notice the negatives.
And when it comes to change management, people tend to focus on what they’re losing with the change, rather than what they may gain. Negative news is given more weight, which can help gossip to fester and derail change if we aren’t aware of it, and doing something about it.
‘people tend to focus on what they’re losing with the change, rather than what they may gain’
Negative bias is not something that people are doing because they’re trying to be annoying, it is just that this is what we do as people. So once we understand negative bias exists, we can begin to ask:
- how do we become aware of it?
- how do we manage it?
- how do we overcome it?
The Change Curve
The Change Curve is a model that’s commonly used to describe the emotions we feel when we experience change. It’s based on the work of Elisabeth Kübler Ross who also created the well-known Five Stages of Grief. The Change Curve is a similar concept, applied to change management.
When things change, we focus on what we’re losing and there is an element of grief associated with that. Different people experience this in different ways, and the intensity of our individual reactions differs. For example, I might experience a change very intensely, it might completely derail my entire world, whereas someone else might say, ‘Oh, okay, that’s fine. I’ll just move on’.
It’s also important to understand that everyone goes through the Change Curve at their own pace. Some people will go through it very quickly, others will take time.
everyone goes through the Change Curve at their own pace
Change management is about making sure that we’re aware of, and helping people through, the Change Curve. There are many different versions, but let’s take a brief look at the main stages of the Change Curve.
People can feel quite overwhelmed by change, especially if it is unexpected. Their initial reaction is often just not accepting it. They will think:
- this can’t be happening
- maybe this will just go away
- If I deny it, maybe it won’t happen.
And we also have a tendency to focus on the past and we start to build up our defences, thinking:
- we’ve tried this before but it didn’t work
- if it’s not broken, don’t fix it
- we’ve always done it this way.
Sometimes while we’re going through the denial process, we can even see a temporary increase in performance, because people will suddenly think ‘oh, no, this process works fine, we don’t need to go to a new process’.
In the next stage, our performance starts to go down as we get into more of an emotional rollercoaster. People might be quite angry about the change. They may start to blame others, or they may start to blame themselves.
People get anxious about the change, they’ll start to wonder,
- am I going to lose my job?
- will I be exposed as incompetent?
- do I want to be a part of this change?
As you can imagine, if you have people thinking this way it’s very difficult to make change happen. However if you’ve got the right processes in place, you can move people back up the Change Curve towards acceptance, where their performance is increasing again.
Acceptance is a more optimistic stage of the curve. It’s where we start letting go of the past and focus more on the future. We’re willing to experiment a little bit more with the change.
We might start to say:
- what we were doing couldn’t have gone on forever
- I’m curious about whether this new change will work
- how does it work?
- okay, it’s not actually so bad.
We might have some mistakes happen, but we’re starting to experiment, and things are actually going okay, until we get to the final stage.
This is where we actually see new opportunities as a result of the change, which are better ways of working. We’re back to stability, we’ve got high performance again.
- everything’s really good
- this was a great process.
Helping people through change
So, considering both negative bias and the Change Curve, how do we get people through change as quickly as possible? It’s all about having a process.
The first part is preparation and careful planning. You need to be really clear about the change process that you’re going through.
So let’s say that we’re going to implement a new piece of software. We need to ask:
- why are we implementing it?
- what are we hoping to achieve?
- what does success look like?
- who’s going to be impacted by this change?
This can be done with a very quick and simple stakeholder analysis template, which you can download online. It can provide structure around who will be affected by the change and what you need to do about it.
Consultation with the people who are impacted is really important. In Australia, the Fair Work Act requires consultation to be done for any major workplace change, prior to the decision being implemented.
But even just in terms of trying to get people on board with the change, the more that we can involve people in decisions, the more motivated they will be to help the change happen.
Time and energy
There can be a tendency sometimes to rush into change like a bull at a gate. You might think this change is important, we’ve got to implement it. But that means that you’ve already gone through that Change Curve. Everyone else is potentially still at the start. You find yourself trying to push through a change and wondering why it’s not working.
It really does require time and energy to put the change process in place. You need to identify who is responsible and accountable for different components of this change, and make sure they know they are responsible and are accountable. And also that they have the time and the energy to support the change as well.
Proactively equip managers
If you have a middle management layer, then you need to make sure that they understand the change, the outcomes, their roles and that they’re on board.
You may have heard of the ‘frozen middle’. It happens when a change or new initiatives is handed down from the top to middle managers, who need to implement them. And very often those changes just slow down.
A lot of companies will blame the middle managers, saying ‘well, they haven’t implemented that change properly’. But actually, it usually comes down to poor communication from the top level, about how to manage the change, and how they will support their team members through it.
Training and Support
You may not need to do entire training courses, but no matter how simple the change, you need to make sure that people understand:
- what it is
- how they can receive support
- how to implement the new process
The process might be as simple as moving offices, and while there’s no need for training for that, there might need to be, for example, some instructions about how to access the new office with a new keypad.
So whenever there is a change you need to consider whether there is anything in terms of training support that you need to provide.
Measure success and reward contributions
Remember that this can be quite an emotional roller coaster for many people. If you are successful with different components of the change, then you should reward people along the way.
This will increase their motivation to keep going and also their understanding that you’re on track. They’ll think, ‘this is exciting, we’re heading somewhere’. It can just help to lift everybody and keep them on board with the change.
You may be thinking this all sounds like a lot of work. So why am I bothering with change management? Because it makes change easier. And if we can make it easier, we can make it stick.
Quite often people will go through change processes and not long afterwards things just revert back to what they used to be. So although it may feel like quite an investment of time and energy, it is the way to make sure that the change will occur.
It also increases acceptance. The more that we can understand negative bias and help people through the Change Curve, the more accepting they’ll be of the change. It means the change will happen faster and people will be more productive, which means that you’re also reducing the costs associated with the change. | <urn:uuid:0bd09394-bb9f-493c-ab99-06270d909e50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amplifyhr.com.au/how-to-prepare-your-team-for-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957601 | 2,356 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The purpose of this chapter on self-concept development in adolescence is to review some major findings that have emerged from studies of normative developmental trajectories, to explain and provide an example of how an intraindividual variability perspective permits interesting new lines of research, and to identify key gaps in the existing literature and challenges in advancing research in this area. We use the terms self-concept and self-representations interchangeably to refer to the consciously acknowledged content of an individual’s selfknowledge, which is subject to self-reflection (see Diehl, Youngblade, Hay, & Chui, 2011; Harter, 1999). Self-concept is primarily descriptive in nature, which distinguishes it from constructs such as self-esteem and self-worth, which are primarily and explicitly evaluative.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
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§ Mr. Rogers
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to increase financial support for crime prevention schemes following the increase in both violent and non-violent crime revealed by his Department's 1984 statistics.
§ Mr. Brittan
Financial support for crime prevention schemes is provided through the urban programme. It has been increased from £3.2 million in 1983–84 to approximately £6.3 million for 1984–85.
§ 45. Mr. Roger King
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what evidence he has to show that better crime prevention could lead to a reduction in burglaries and incidents of auto-theft.
§ Mr. Giles Shaw
The crime prevention unit, which my right hon. and learned Friend established within the Home Office in November 1983, has undertaken a number of locally based research and development projects in conjunction with the police and other agencies into burglary, autocrime, and disorder associated with licensed premises. These projects have confirmed the value of locally planned initiatives against crime as recommended in the joint departmental circular on crime prevention of 30 January 1984. Reports on completed projects are available through the Home Office crime prevention unit.
§ 48. Mr. Corbett
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposals he has to better assist victims of crime and encourage crime prevention.
§ Mr. Mellor
With regard to assistance for victims of crime, I refer the hon. Member to the recent Government reply (Cmnd. 9457) to the report of the Home Affairs Committee on compensation and support for victims of crime (HC 43). In addition, consideration is being given to possible improvements in the compensation powers of the criminal courts and in the arrangements for informing victims of the progress of prosecutions and for applying 277W for compensation orders; legislation is to be introduced during the life of this Parliament placing the criminal injuries compensation scheme on a statutory footing; and the United Kingdom is to ratify shortly the European convention on the compensation of victims of violent crimes.
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NASA eClips Shares Digital Resources with the NASA Earth to Sky Partnership Community
During the Summer of 2021, Science Activation's NASA eClips project team facilitated a program in collaboration with Guana Tolomato Matanzas (GTM) National Estuarine Research Reserve, in which students honed their critical thinking skills and developed technological and science literacy by incorporating the place-based environmental stories unique to the GTM Research Reserve into the production of their very own NASA Spotlite videos – student-produced videos that challenge science misconceptions. These campers were immersed in a real-world, science communication challenge geared toward the general public.
This year, NASA Earth to Sky (ETS) program, a partnership between NASA, the National Parks Service, and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, asked NASA eClips educators to join their February 23rd webinar, "NASA Spotlites in Environmental Education – Young Learners as Science Communicators", to share about the NASA eClips/GTM NASA Spotlite collaboration and show representatives from science centers, parks, refuges, and other conserved sites the kinds of digital tools they can use in their summer camps and multi-day group engagements. During the webinar, ten attendees received tips and strategies for planning, training staff, and implementing the NASA Spotlite Design Challenge.
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Full Day History Tour
Full Day History Tour
Journey into the past as you step aboard your transportation and enjoy the panoramic scenery as you make your way to Salona, an ancient Roman city and one of the richest archeological sites in Croatia.
Admire Salona's amphitheater which dates to the 2nd century AD, designed to house 17,000 spectators. Fights with animals and gladiators took place within these walls. Imagine the roar of the crowds and the adrenaline rush the gladiators must have felt as you stand amid these ancient ruins. In the 17th century, during battles with the Ottoman Turks, the Venetians made a strategic decision to deliberately destroy portions of the amphitheater. While here you will also see the Basilica Urbana with its baptistry, the Forum, and Manistirine, the old Christian cemetery.
From there you will head to Klis Fortress, a massive medieval structure built into a rocky ridge providing visitors breathtaking views of Split, the Adriatic Sea and surrounding islands. Controlling the valley leading into Split, this imposing fortress spreads along a limestone bluff, reaching 385m at its highest point. Its long and narrow form derives from constant extensions over the course of millennia. Its prime location made the fortress strategically important during the Ottoman invasions of Europe. Of course, today, the only history that most visitors to the site are interested in is courtesy of Game of Thrones - this is Meereen, where Daenerys Targaryen had all those nasty slave-masters crucified in season four.
Continue to Trogir, a historic harbor city built upon the remains of the ancient Greek town of Tragurion. Wander its narrow streets filled with a mix of Baroque, Romanesque and Renaissance-style buildings and admire the St. Lawrence Cathedral, the 15th century City Loggia, Cipiko Palace, the Benedictine Convent and more.
Conclude your journey back in beautiful Split with a walking tour and free time to explore this magnificent city on your own. Head to Diocletian's Palace in the heart of the city. This ancient palace built for Roman Emperor Diocletian is, in reality, a large fortress that housed the Emperor's quarters as well as the military garrison.
After the end of the Roman period the fortress stood empty until the 7th century when nearby residents took refuge inside its walls to escape the Croats, then later created homes and businesses which today form about half the old town of Split.
This tour is a must-do for history buffs and GOT fans; reserve your place today!
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Volume 14, Number 1—January 2008
Influenza Virus Samples, International Law, and Global Health Diplomacy
The World Health Assembly’s Resolution
Political Dynamics of Influenza Virus Samples and Sovereignty over Biological Resources
Sovereignty Claims and the Application of Convention on Biological Diversity
Virus Sharing and the Application of IHR 2005
Beyond Differing Treaty Interpretations and the WHA Resolution
Cite This Article
Indonesia’s decision to withhold samples of avian influenza virus A (H5N1) from the World Health Organization for much of 2007 caused a crisis in global health. The World Health Assembly produced a resolution to try to address the crisis at its May 2007 meeting. I examine how the parties to this controversy used international law in framing and negotiating the dispute. Specifically, I analyze Indonesia’s use of the international legal principle of sovereignty and its appeal to rules on the protection of biological and genetic resources found in the Convention on Biological Diversity. In addition, I consider how the International Health Regulations 2005 applied to the controversy. The incident involving Indonesia’s actions with virus samples illustrates both the importance and the limitations of international law in global health diplomacy.
On May 23, 2007, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a resolution on sharing influenza viruses and promoting access to vaccines in connection with pandemic influenza preparedness (1). This resolution constituted the latest development in a controversy sparked by Indonesia’s decision to withhold influenza A (H5N1) samples from the World Health Organization (WHO) (2). The negotiations that produced WHA’s resolution involved complex international legal questions, which stimulated different answers from the parties involved. This article reviews this controversy and analyzes key international legal issues it generated.
This controversy began toward the end of 2006, when Indonesia decided not to share influenza A virus (H5N1) samples with WHO for risk assessment (e.g., surveillance) or risk management (e.g., vaccine development) purposes. Indonesia’s decision reportedly stemmed from its reaction to an Australian company’s development of an avian influenza vaccine derived from a virus strain that Indonesia provided to WHO (3). WHO’s acknowledgment that patents had been sought on modified versions of influenza (H5N1) samples shared through the Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN) without the consent of the countries that supplied the samples reinforced Indonesia’s discontent. Indonesia argued that this incident exposed inequities in the global influenza surveillance system. Developing countries provided information and virus samples to the WHO-operated system; pharmaceutical companies in industrialized countries then obtained free access to such samples, exploited them, and patented the resulting products, which the developing countries could not afford. Avian influenza’s spread and fears about pandemic influenza heightened this perceived inequity; experts argued that developing countries would have little access to vaccine for pandemic influenza without major changes in global vaccine production (4,5).
Indonesia’s action alarmed the global health community. Indonesia has been hit hard by avian influenza (6), so its cooperation in tracking the influenza virus (H5N1) was critical. Without access to Indonesia’s influenza strains, global surveillance was jeopardized, as was the refinement of diagnostic reagents and the development of intervention strategies, which depend on the information surveillance provides.
Regaining access to Indonesia’s samples motivated WHO to try to find a solution to the problem that Indonesia highlighted. In essence, Indonesia was making sample sharing for risk assessment dependent on action taken by WHO and industrialized countries to increase Indonesia’s access to influenza vaccines derived from samples it provided. Restarting sample sharing and improving vaccine access proved difficult and contentious. Before the WHA meeting in May 2007, negotiations between Indonesia and WHO did not produce agreement. For example, neither the Joint Statement issued by Indonesia and WHO in February 2007 (7) nor subsequent attempts to end the impasse succeeded (8). Independent efforts to increase vaccines access, such as the agreement of the United States and Japan in March 2007 to provide $18 million to 6 developing countries (Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam) to facilitate the building of vaccine-manufacturing capacity and of a vaccine stockpile (9), did not alter the stand-off.
Agreement at WHA was reached only through last-minute negotiations, which again illustrates the difficulties raised by Indonesia’s strategy to gain better access to influenza vaccines. The WHA resolution sets out a series of actions to achieve both “the timely sharing of viruses and specimens” in GISN and the promotion of “transparent, fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the generation of information, diagnostics, medicines, vaccines and other technologies” (1). Most of the resolution consists of requests by WHO member states for the director-general to undertake activities designed to achieve fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from influenza surveillance activities, especially access to vaccines (Table).
Particularly important are the requests for the director-general to convene a) a working group to review, and propose reforms for, the sharing of influenza viruses and their use within and outside GISN; and b) an intergovernmental working group to consider progress being made toward the resolution’s goals, especially fair and equitable access to influenza vaccine for developing countries. These requests ensure that the linkage between virus sample sharing and equitable access to influenza vaccine remains prominent on the global health agenda for the foreseeable future.
The resolution reflects the current structure of global influenza governance (10). International sharing of influenza virus samples has occurred for decades within GISN (11). Although WHO and partners, such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and GAVI Alliance, have increased developing-country access to childhood vaccines, mechanisms for increasing these countries’ access to influenza vaccines are weaker. Fears about avian influenza’s spread and the emergence of pandemic influenza highlighted the weakness of international efforts to increase vaccine availability in developing countries. The resolution attempts to build a multilateral process to address the lack of fair and equitable access for developing countries to pharmacologic benefits derived from the sharing of influenza virus samples. The resolution expresses a desire to craft a more equitable system of global influenza governance, the substantive elements of which remain to be negotiated.
The need to improve influenza vaccine access was recognized before this controversy (4,5), but Indonesia’s willingness to leverage control over virus samples to provoke more multilateral responses to the access problem changed the political dynamics of this issue. As typically happens when countries or international organizations challenge the status quo, the parties in this controversy framed their positions by using international law. This section analyzes how the stakeholders used international law to shape the debate. This incident illustrated the importance and limitations of international law in global health diplomacy.
By withholding samples, Indonesia asserted sovereignty over them because they originated within its territory. Despite controversies surrounding it, the principle of sovereignty remains a central tenet of international law (12). Traditionally, sovereignty holds that a state has authority and control over the people, resources, and activities within its territory (12). International law supplements sovereignty with the rule prohibiting states from intervening in each other’s domestic affairs (12). Limits on sovereignty arise when the state agrees to follow rules of international law found in treaties or customary international law.
In essence, Indonesia claimed that the samples are its sovereign property and do not constitute resources that other countries or the international community can access and use without Indonesia’s consent. This claim cut against the ethos and practice of sample sharing under which GISN had operated. This ethos and practice are based on accessing and analyzing influenza virus samples to produce accurate surveillance data, which inform development of interventions (e.g., vaccines).
Indonesia did not equate this ethos with an international legal obligation to engage in sharing that limited its sovereign rights over the samples. From a legal perspective, Indonesia’s arguments were plausible. GISN was not organized under treaty law, so no countries had treaty obligations to share samples. In addition, international law on infectious diseases applicable to Indonesia when this controversy began contained no obligations to share samples with WHO. The most relevant international legal rules, the International Health Regulations (IHRs) adopted by WHO in 1969 (IHR 1969), did not include influenza as a disease subject to the Regulations, nor did IHR 1969 require sharing of biological samples for the diseases covered (13).
Whether sharing obligations arose under customary international law when this controversy arose is also doubtful. To rise to the level of customary law, evidence must exist that states generally and consistently follow a practice out of a sense of legal obligation (12). GISN has, however, functioned without much, if any, reference to international law, making it difficult to establish that countries shared samples with WHO because they felt legally obligated to do so.
In addition to exploiting basic principles of international law, Indonesia exploited precedents in other areas to bolster its sovereignty claims over the samples. Specifically, Indonesia borrowed from the international law developed to address biological diversity. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recognizes that countries have sovereign control of biological resources found within their territories (14). CBD defines biological resources to include “genetic resources, organisms or parts thereof, populations, or any other biotic component of ecosystems with actual or potential use or value for humanity” (article 2). Genetic resources are defined to mean “genetic material of actual or potential value”; genetic material means “any material of plant, animal, microbial or other origin containing functional units of heredity” (article 2). CBD further states that “the authority to determine access to genetic resources rests with the national governments and is subject to national legislation” (article 15.1). In addition, “access to genetic resources shall be subject to prior informed consent of the Contracting Party providing such resources” (article 15.5). Any access granted “shall be on mutually agreed terms” (article 15.4).
Indonesia’s claims that it controlled access to samples collected in its territory, that no use of such samples by other parties could occur without its prior informed consent, and that any use of such samples should produce benefits for Indonesia reflect the approach taken in CBD. Evidence that Indonesia framed the controversy by using these principles can be found in WHA’s 2007 resolution, which states that the Assembly “[r]ecogniz[es] the sovereign right of States over their biological resources” (preamble).
However, equating influenza virus samples with biological resources addressed by CBD raises questions that undermine Indonesia’s use of CBD. To begin, interpreting CBD to apply to pathogenic viruses may be contrary to CBD’s purpose. CBD was created, in part, to help developing countries rich in biological diversity control access to this diversity to conserve and manage it for sustainable development. Developing countries were concerned that corporate entities from industrialized countries were accessing their biological diversity and creating profitable products without the populations of these developing countries benefiting. Critics called this practice biopiracy (15,16).
Thus, the biological and genetic materials of primary CBD concern are indigenous resources in which governments, communities, and persons have invested time, effort, and resources to protect, cultivate, understand, and use. CBD provides that “States have sovereign rights over their own biological resources” (preamble [emphasis added]). In short, companies in the industrialized world were unjustly enriching themselves by profiting from previous efforts made in the developing country.
The avian influenza viruses affecting Indonesia are not the kind of biological and genetic resources that CBD sought to protect and regulate through the principles of sovereignty, prior informed consent, and mutual benefits from access and exploitation. These viruses invaded Indonesia; their presence and spread owes nothing to the investment, nurturing, and utilization of the Indonesian government or people. Rather than seeking to conserve this virus, the strategy is to contain and ultimately eradicate it. Applying CBD’s principles to influenza virus samples seems inappropriate given the difference between CBD’s object and purpose and the threat posed by influenza viruses.
State practice under CBD supports the conclusion that CBD does not apply to avian influenza virus. States parties to CBD have addressed avian influenza, not as a biological resource subject to CBD but as a threat to biological diversity. CBD discussions of avian influenza have considered its potential impact on wildlife, and the CBD process emphasized that surveillance is critical for combating avian influenza’s threat to biological diversity. Surveillance suffers without sharing information and samples of avian influenza viruses (17). Rather than protecting biological diversity, as mandated by CBD, Indonesia’s withholding virus samples from global surveillance efforts jeopardizes biological diversity in addition to population health.
Using CBD as a template in the context of influenza virus samples may be questionable on other grounds (18). The definitions of biological resources and genetic resources emphasize that the resources in question should be of actual or potential use or value for humanity. When these definitions are read in conjunction with CBD’s principles, this potential use or value for humanity is understood to derive from the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of the resources in question. CBD uses the principle of sovereignty as a regulatory instrument to achieve these goals. The use or value for humanity of influenza viruses comes from their widespread sharing for surveillance and vaccine development purposes because of the global threat such viruses pose. In this context, the principle of sovereignty central to the CBD approach is not a useful basis for facilitating timely and comprehensive sharing that global health governance requires.
One reason Indonesia stressed the CBD is that it provided a way to finesse the implications of the revised IHRs adopted by WHA in May 2005 (IHR 2005) (19), which provide that “[t]he provisions of the IHR shall not affect the rights and obligations of any State Party deriving from other international agreements” (article 57.1). Appeal to this rule begs the question raised by the first sentence of article 57.1, which states that “the IHR and other relevant international agreements should be interpreted so as to be compatible.” Thus, interpreting IHR 2005 became important in the controversy over influenza virus (H5N1) sharing. IHR 2005 is a treaty, “an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law” (20). This controversy represented an early test for how IHR 2005 would be interpreted and applied.
IHR 2005’s use proved complex for technical and substantive reasons. Technically, IHR 2005 had no binding force under international law until it officially entered into force on June 15, 2007. Thus, IHR 2005 created no international legal obligations for Indonesia with respect to the withholding of samples in the period before the Regulations entered into force. However, IHR 2005’s imminent entry into force made its substantive provisions relevant to the negotiations over Indonesia’s position on virus sharing.
Under international law, a state must refrain from acts that would defeat a treaty’s object and purpose when the state has expressed its consent to be bound by the treaty, pending the treaty’s entry into force (20). Indonesia had expressed its consent to be bound by IHR 2005 because it did not reject IHR 2005, or submit reservations to it, by the December 2006 deadline to do so. Thus, whether Indonesia’s decision to withhold samples constituted an act that would defeat the object and purpose of the IHR 2005 became a relevant question. Criticisms that Indonesia’s action fundamentally jeopardized global health security—the very object of IHR 2005 (21)—demonstrate that Indonesia could be considered in violation of its duty to not defeat the object and purpose of IHR 2005 before its entry into force.
This argument is supported by the claim that had IHR 2005 actually been in force, Indonesia would have violated its obligation to share samples. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan argued at the WHA meeting in May 2007 “that countries that did not share avian influenza virus would fail the IHR” (22). Addressing the credibility of these legal claims requires interpreting what IHR 2005 mandates States Parties to disclose and share with WHO. At least 2 differing interpretations exist. The first interpretation argues that IHR 2005 requires States Parties to share relevant biological samples as part of the duty to provide WHO with accurate and detailed public health information about all events that might constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Given that the spread of highly pathogenic influenza viruses is considered a PHEIC, the IHR 2005 mandates that States Parties provide WHO with samples for surveillance purposes without preconditions or expectations of benefits in return.
Supporting this interpretation is a WHA resolution adopted in May 2006, which called upon WHO member states “to comply immediately, on a voluntary basis, with provisions of the IHR 2005 considered relevant to the risk posed by avian influenza and pandemic influenza” (para. 1) (23). This resolution urged WHO member states “to disseminate to WHO collaborating centres information and relevant biological materials related to highly pathogenic avian influenza and other novel influenza strains in a timely and consistent manner” (para. 4). The encouragement to share biological materials with WHO could be considered authoritative guidance from WHO’s highest policymaking body about the scope of the obligation to share public health information with WHO with respect to all events that might constitute a PHEIC.
This interpretation was succinctly stated by the US delegation to WHA: “All nations have a responsibility under the revised IHRs to share data and virus samples on a timely basis and without preconditions. The United States wishes to be clear that our view is that withholding influenza viruses from GISN greatly threatens global public health and will violate the legal obligations we have all agreed to undertake through our adherence to IHRs” (24).
Even though IHR 2005 never expressly requires the sharing of biological samples, a good faith interpretation of IHR 2005 in light of its object and purpose acknowledges a duty to share such samples for surveillance purposes. An opposite interpretation could lead to a manifestly absurd or unreasonable result, which treaty interpretation principles do not support. This interpretation of IHR 2005 also is compatible with CBD because IHR 2005 requires sample sharing for risk assessment purposes, not risk management activities. Thus, the sharing mandate in IHR 2005 does not preclude WHO and its member states from crafting arrangements to improve access to benefits, such as vaccines, derived from samples shared for surveillance purposes.
The second interpretation comes to the opposite conclusion. This position asserts that, under principles of treaty interpretation, IHR 2005 does not require States Parties to share biological samples with WHO. The first principle of treaty interpretation is that a treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in light of its object and purpose (20). IHR 2005 requires States Parties to provide WHO with “public health information” about events that may constitute a PHEIC (article 6). IHR 2005 does not define what “public health information” means, so its meaning has to be discerned through treaty interpretation principles. The second interpretation holds that the ordinary meaning of “information” encompasses knowledge and facts (25) but does not include biological samples.
The second interpretation maintains that IHR 2005, its negotiations, and the WHA resolutions of 2006 and 2007 support it. Nowhere does IHR 2005 contain any express requirement to share samples of biological materials. The only provision that refers to biological substances provides that: “States Parties shall, subject to national law and taking into account relevant international guidelines, facilitate the transport, entry, exit, processing and disposal of biological substances and diagnostic specimens, reagents and other diagnostic materials for verification and public health response purposes under these Regulations” (article 46). The use of “biological substances” here suggests that the negotiators considered this concept separate from “public health information.”
The provision that contains the duty to communicate public health information to WHO about a reported event also contains a list of things that fall within this obligation: case definitions, laboratory results, source and type of risk, number of cases and deaths, conditions affecting the spread of disease, and the health measures used (article 6.2). This list refers to things that would fall within the ordinary meaning of “information” and contains nothing that could be considered biological samples, substances, or specimens. The absence of express reference to biological samples is particularly telling in light of the fact that WHO and its member states were, at the time IHR 2005 was being negotiated, aware of concerns about the failure of countries to share samples of pathogens of global concern (e.g., the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus, the influenza [H5N1] virus) for surveillance and other purposes.
Similarly, an earlier negotiating text included the following provision: “In the context of a suspected intentional release of a biological, chemical or radionuclear agent, States shall immediately provide to WHO all relevant public health information, materials and samples, for verification and response purposes” (26). Here again, the negotiators used “public health information” and “samples” as distinct terms. Further, this provision does not appear in IHR 2005. Even if it had so appeared, it would have underscored that sharing samples was only required in connection with suspected intentional use of a biological, chemical, or radionuclear agent, which does not include the natural emergence of avian or pandemic influenza.
WHA resolutions of 2006 and 2007 also support this interpretation. The 2006 resolution on early compliance with IHR 2005 with respect to influenza threats urges WHO member states to disseminate to WHO “information and relevant biological materials” (23) (emphasis added), which further demonstrates that WHO member states consider public health information and biological materials different, not equivalent, terms. WHA’s 2007 resolution uses the same language in recalling the 2006 resolution’s urging of WHO member states to disseminate information and relevant biological materials (1). This interpretation is also compatible with CBD because it leaves the decision whether to share biological samples in the hands of the state party in which the samples originate.
Stepping back from the differing treaty interpretations, Indonesia’s actions exposed ambiguity in a critical aspect of IHR 2005 on the eve of its entry into force. The WHA’s 2007 resolution did not resolve this controversy because, on this question, its provisions provide no clear answer. The resolution reaffirms the obligations of States Parties under IHR 2005 and the sovereign right of states over their biological resources, a key principle in CBD. The bargain that underpins the resolution has, however, established the utility of countries’ withholding samples to force WHO and industrialized countries to address neglected aspects of global influenza governance. Dueling treaty interpretations may matter less than the old legal adage that possession of property in dispute is nine-tenths of the law. When possession is cloaked in the principle of sovereignty, those who require access to the property have to come to terms with the need to bargain for it.
Conceptually, the WHA’s 2007 resolution seeks to achieve equitable use of influenza virus samples. Such equitable use encompasses timely sharing of samples for global surveillance and more effort to ensure that developing countries share in the benefits of knowledge and technologies derived from the samples, especially influenza vaccines. Equitable use has not occurred because sharing influenza virus samples proves easier than producing equitable access to technologies derived from the knowledge produced by surveillance. The resolution itself obviously does not produce equitable use, but it establishes a WHO-based process for moving global health diplomacy in this direction. The resolution is a general blueprint for building new global governance mechanisms on equitable use of influenza samples. This blueprint is, however, technically limited to influenza virus sharing and vaccine development, and its creation raises questions about governance of the sharing of samples of other pathogens of global concern and of benefits derived from such samples.
WHO and its member states had started the process described in the resolution by, among other things, meeting in Singapore in July 2007 and scheduling another intergovernmental session in November 2007. The meeting in Singapore did not produce consensus, and Indonesia continued to withhold the samples (27). In reporting on the Singapore meeting, Branswell observed that many feared the talks would follow Indonesia’s lead and produce “a system where countries would exercise sovereign rights over viruses or bacteria found within their borders, seeking quid pro quos from vaccine makers or assessing the potential for gain before co-operating with global health authorities to squelch new disease threats like SARS.” (28) Media reported in September 2007 that Indonesia had shared some virus samples with WHO related to 2 fatal influenza (H5N1) cases in Bali (29), but this action did not mean that Indonesia had abandoned or repudiated the position it had staked out on virus sharing and access to vaccine. Thus, as of this writing, the fundamental issues at the heart of this controversy, including the international legal questions analyzed in this article, had not been resolved.
Whether the process sketched in WHA’s resolution produces an effective multilateral regime for equitable use remains to be seen. The process itself is not legally binding because WHA resolutions do not have the force of international law (30). The agreement to create this process will perpetuate legal disagreements about sovereignty, CBD, IHR 2005, and other legal issues (e.g., intellectual property rights) because neither side currently has an interest in having the legal questions definitively answered. Instead, constructive legal ambiguity informs the political willingness of countries to shoulder the equitable use responsibilities the WHA resolution envisions.
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Antimargination of microparticles and platelets in the vicinity of branching vessels.
We investigate the margination of microparticles/platelets in blood flow through complex geometries typical for in vivo vessel networks: a vessel confluence and a bifurcation. Using 3D Lattice-Boltzmann simulations, we find that behind the confluence of two vessels a cell-free layer devoid of red blood cells develops in the channel center. Despite its small size of roughly one micrometer, this central cell-free layer persists for up to 100 $\mu$m after the confluence. Most importantly, we show that this layer also contains a significant amount of microparticles/platelets. At bifurcations, however, a similar effect does not appear and margination is largely unaffected by the geometry. This anti-margination towards the vessel center after a confluence may explain in-vivo observations where platelet concentrations near the vessel wall are seen to be much higher on the arteriolar side (containing bifurcations) than on the venular side (containing confluences) of the vascular system.
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Living History at Fort Delaware
Delaware City, DE
August 17, 2003
Traveling home from Gettysburg 140, Your Correspondent, attended a smaller event held at Fort Delaware that was hosted by the Mifflin Guard. Originally meant as weekend for the musicians to practice, a contingent of Union re-enactors demonstrated for the public how Fort Delaware was used as a prisoner-of-war camp with the help of our Southern brethren. No escapes reported. From the Fort's website, "Originally built to protect the ports of Wilmington and Philadelphia, Pea Patch Island also became a Union prison camp during the Civil War, housing up to as many as 12,595 Confederate prisoners of war at one time. Manned only briefly during World Wars I and II, the island and fort were finally abandoned and declared surplus property in 1944, when ownership was transferred back to the State of Delaware. Fort Delaware became a state park in 1951." | <urn:uuid:1f26cab6-f4be-4c6c-9d94-401d344d6726> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://newyorkcivilwar.com/2003/2003del/photos_del2003.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977725 | 190 | 3.015625 | 3 |
ADPH reminds Alabamians to stay safe as COVID cases rise
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama health officials are encouraging the public to keep a close eye on COVID-19 as infections continue to increase.
“COVID is still here. We do have an awful lot of our counties with “high” community levels,” said Dr. Karen Landers with the Alabama Department of Public Health.
According to the latest data from the ADPH, the percentage of positive tests was 27.6%, with more than 550 COVID-19 patients in hospitals statewide as of Friday.
Landers says our state has seen a gradual increase in COVID-19. While we’ve had fewer hospitalizations, deaths, and severe outcomes in people vaccinated, we still have many counties with high community levels.
“This most recent group of variants that we can, if you will, are more contagious and have been more able to escape around our vaccines,” Landers added.
Landers says we need to go back to social distancing, good hand washing, and masking up.
“It really would be a good idea for people to wear masks indoors, where they’re not going to be able to maintain that social distancing. And if they’re in that kind of smaller, crowded space,” Landers added.
Landers is also continuing to encourage Alabamians to vaccinate and keep up with their booster schedule.
A new study by the CDC said people who had COVID-19 could still struggle with symptoms up to a year later. The symptoms could be a headache, runny nose, sore throat, loss of smell, taste, or even hair.
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Average costs in private industry for insurance benefits were $2.24 per hour worked, or 8.0 percent of total compensation in September 2010. Among occupational groups, employer costs for insurance benefits ranged from 97 cents per hour worked (or 7.0 percent of total compensation) for service occupations, to $3.32 per hour worked (6.7 percent of total compensation) for management, professional, and related occupations.
In September 2010, the costs of insurance benefits were higher, both in amount and as a percentage of total compensation, for union workers ($4.84 or 12.8 percent of total compensation) than for nonunion workers ($1.94 or 7.3 percent of total compensation).
The costs of insurance benefits per hour worked were higher in goods-producing industries ($3.11 or 9.5 percent of total compensation) than in service-providing industries ($2.05 or 7.6 percent of total compensation). Within goods-producing industries, insurance benefits costs averaged $2.34 per hour in construction and $3.40 per hour in manufacturing. Costs in service-providing industries varied from 67 cents in leisure and hospitality to $3.79 in the information industry.
These data are from the Compensation Cost Trends program. See "Employer Costs for Employee Compensation — September 2010" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-10-1687, to learn more. Insurance benefits include life, health, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
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After reading this discussion, I'd like to know what example sentences distinguish the meaning of the words lept, leapt, and leaped from each other?
In contrast, lept is an obsolete spelling of leapt seldom seen since the 1500s, back before the standardization of English spelling.
- bleed > bled
- breed > bred
- creep > crept
- dream > dreamt
- feed > fed
- feel > felt
- kneel > knelt
- lead > led
- lean > leant
- meet > met
- plead > pled
- sleep > slept
- speed > sped
- sweep > swept
- weep > wept
As you see, the sound change is more consistent than the spelling, but leapt is not wholly without precedent in other forms even when spelt that way.
Almost ten years ago, I checked and recorded the relative popularity of leaped and leapt in Google results, because the following assertion in Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (1989) intrigued me:
In American English, leaped and leapt seem to be used with about equal frequency.
Recognizing that leapt is somewhat more common in British (and much of British Commonwealth) English than in U.S. English, I decided to run Google searches for the two terms, reasoning that if leaped came out significantly ahead in undifferentiated results, it was probably considerably more popular than leapt in U.S. usage.
My first round of searches for leaped and leapt (undated, but probably in 2004 or 2005) generated 6.2 million matches for leaped and 4.7 million matches for leapt. A second run, on 11 August 2010, produced these unexpected numbers: 8.73 million for leaped, 8.53 million for leapt, and 401,000 for lept. Today (22 January 2013), I ran the searches again and got these numbers: 7.06 million for leaped, 10.5 million for leapt, and 1.11 million for lept.
With regard to absolute numbers, Google searches are utterly unreliable because they generate so many repetitious matches for the same content. But for indicating shifts in relative popularity, I think that they can be useful. And in this case, a rather impressive shift in such popularity is evident—away from leaped and toward leapt. The numbers also suggest that lept is very far from vanishing as a variant spelling, though Merriam-Webster Online as yet declines to accept it as one.
An Ngram Viewer search for leaped, leapt, and lept confirms my initial impression/assumption that leaped is more common in published print content than leapt—and indeed indicates that it has been consistently so for more than 200 years. However, the rise of leapt in Google results and the absence of copyediting in much published work these days suggest that leapt may soon vindicate Webster's Dictionary of English Usage's prematurely enthusiastic assessment of its popularity in the United States.
Followup (April 4, 2021)
This was one of my first answers on English Language & Usage—and I didn't yet know how to reproduce Ngram charts in answers on this site. I also was unaware that Ngram lets users break out results for British English and American English. With this knowledge now in hand, I am belatedly revisiting this answer to provide the relevant Ngram results.
First, here is the Ngram chart for all published occurrences of leaped (blue line) versus leapt (red line) versus lept (green line) for the period 1750–2019:
Next, here is the Ngram chart for the frequencies of the same three words over the same period in books and periodicals from British publishers:
And finally, here is the Ngram chart for the frequencies of the same three words over the same period in books and periodicals from North American publishers:
The most striking thing in these results is the evidence they provide that leaped was significantly more common than leaped in British publications from 1750 until the early twentieth century (the crossover in British preferences from leaped to leapt technically occurred between 1916 and 1917, according to Ngram). What caused this change? Writing in 1926, Henry Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage attributes it to a tendency (which he commends) to match spelling to pronunciation:
-T & -ED. Typical words are bereaved & bereft, burned & burnt, dreamed & dreamt, kneeled & knelt, leaned & leant, leaped & leapt, learned & learnt, smelled & smelt, spelled & spelt, spilled & spilt, spoiled & spoilt, tossed & tost.
In the last of these the point is purely one of spelling, & the sound is the same either way ; there are many other verbs of which that is true (husht, kist, whipt, curst, cookt, &c.), & individual writers make a practice of using the short form as a piece of spelling reform, as time-saver, or an eccentricity ; whichever the motive, the effect is with most words eccentric ; but tost, esp. in p. p. compounds such as storm-tost, is current, by the side of tossed.
Of the rest the spelling may affect the sound in some, & does affect it in others. Thus, burned may be sounded with d, but perhaps most even of those who spell it so sound it with t, whereas leaped & leapt are pronounced by everyone with different vowels—lēpt & lĕpt. The advice here offered is to use the -t spelling in both classes, & that in the face of the surely surprising figures to be given below ; it will hardly be denied that most people say bernt & lĕpt, not bernd & lēpt, & conformity between the written & the spoken word is worth securing where, since both spellings are already in use, it costs nothing. At present, however, the -ed forms still prevail in print over those in -t in most of our list ; and it should be added that, if the past tense were distinguished from the p. p., the preponderance of -ed for it would be slightly greater. The figures are arrived at by counting the occurrences in all OED quotations of the 19th and 20th cc. ...
Fowler then goes on to note (among other comparisons) seven relevant OED matches for leaped and five for leapt.
Writing almost forty years later, Ernest Gowers, A Dictionary of Modern English, revised edition (1965) updates us on the progress of relevant British English spelling preferences:
-t and -ed Some verbs that once had an alternative -t form for past tense and participle have now lost it, either wholly or to an extent that makes it archaic, e.g. curst, dropt, husht, kist, stopt, tost, and whipt. For many others -t is now the only formation, e.g. crept, dealt, felt, kept, left, meant, slept, swept. Typical of the words that have preserved both alternatives are bereave, burn, dream, kneel, lean, leap, learn, smell, spell, spill, and spoil.
In the first edition of this dictionary an attempt was made to assess the comparative popularity of the two endings when used in print by counting the number of times they occur in all OED quotations of the 19th and 20th cc. ...
So far as we can accept thee figures as a guide, it would seem that the -ed forms then still prevailed in print; ... But there has since been a movement (advocated in the original edition) towards -t. Lean is the only word in the first group [which includes leap] for which the C[oncise] O[xford] D[ictionary] still puts -ed before -t; for kneel it admits no alternative to knelt.
In the North American English, meanwhile, the -ed forms have long been viewed as preferable (or at least dominant). From Margaret Nicholson, A Dictionary of American-English Usage (1957), based on the first edition of Fowler:
-t & -ed. ... In US the -ed ending is much more general, esp. in writing; in Brit., the -t.
Bryan Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage, second edition (2003) has a somewhat surprising take on leaped versus leapt:
leapt; leaped. Both are acceptable past-tense and past-participial forms for the verb leap. Because leapt is pronounced /lept/, the mistaken form lept is frequently encountered ...
Leapt, which used to be the more common form, is steadily being displaced by leaped: in frequency of use, the two forms are neck-and-neck in modern print sources. Traditionalists prefer leapt.
The Ngram chart for American English shows something quite different from what Garner describes. Although it does show a considerable narrowing of the distance in frequency between the two forms from roughly 1900 until about 1975, that narrowing involves a reduction in the advantage of leaped over leapt—not the reverse. And since 1976, despite the fact that both forms have seen impressive increases in frequency of use, the difference between the two has remained remarkably steady.
One might also ask what tradition traditionalists are basing their preference for leapt on. As Fowler noted, and as the Ngram charts tend to confirm, traditional spelling in both Britain and the United States has generally favored leaped by a very substantial margin. It would perhaps be more accurate to say, as Fowler does, that spelling reformers who favor the pronunciation lĕpt over the pronunciation lēpt clearly prefer the spelling leapt.
Several cautions about the Ngram results may be in order. First, the fact that a book has a British or North American publisher doesn't mean that its spelling has been altered to suit the publisher's preferences. If the book is by a British author—especially if it is a scientific or literary work, it may retain the author's original British spelling choices, and likewise (in reverse) for a British publisher's version of a U.S. author's work.
Second, the "American English" evidently doesn't distinguish between U.S. and Canadian publishers, although U.S. and Canadian spelling preferences differ on a number of points, including (potentially) some difference in degree of preference for leaped versus leapt. Margery Fee & Janice McAlpine, [Oxford] Guide to Canadian English Usage, second edition (2007) note that Canadian usage on -ed versus -t verb endings aligns more closely with U.S. usage than with British usage on many words, although with some degrees of difference on others:
-t, -ed Leant, learnt, smelt, spelt, spilt, and spoilt are chiefly British forms of the past tense and past participle forms. Canadians, like Americans, are far more likely to use the -ed forms of these verbs. However, Canadians do use burnt, dreamt, knelt, and leapt quite often.
From this account, it is hard to tell whether leapt is more common in Canadian usage than in U.S. usage—but it would be unreasonable to rule out that possibility.
And third, Ngram results are subject to various optical character recognition errors, including misreading the spelling of the word in the original text and misreading the publication date of the cited book or periodical. Consequently, the more precisely one attempts to assert the accuracy of the percentage data that provide the basis for the Ngram line graphs, the more dubious the legitimacy of one's assertions becomes.
Still, in broad outline, the lines plotted for leaped and leapt over the period from 1750 to 2019—and especially since 1800 or so, appear to provide a reasonably reliable picture of the relative frequency of the two spellings in books and periodicals published by British, American, and combined publishing houses.
I found this quote here by Pam Peters (The Cambridge Guide to English Usage), and she says:
leaped or leapt: Both spellings are used in American and British English, but the relativities work in opposite directions. In the US the more regular spelling leaped is commoner by a factor of 5:1, according to CCAE¹ data. In British data from the BNC², leapt is ahead by similar ratio.
Based on this, I think that you can use 'leaped' or 'leapt'; both are acceptable past-tense and past-participle forms for the verb leap. As Bryan A. Garner says³: “Because leapt is pronounced /lept/, the mistaken form lept is frequently encountered.”
¹CCAE: The Cambridge International Corpus of American English
²BNC: British National Corpus
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The information provided in each course is quite similar. However, many students prefer the instructor-to-student interaction, as well as networking potential, that you will only receive in a classroom format. In addition, there is more emphasis on training methodologies covered in the classroom, which is ideal for individuals who may be providing safety and environmental training in house. The benefit to the online version is less travel cost, and you may complete the course at your own pace. Either way, the certificate is the same.
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“Wist ye not that I must be about my father’s business?” (Luke 2:29)
In the book of Luke chapter 2 verses 41-52 the parents of Jesus returned to Jerusalem and found him in the temple studying the scriptures with the elders. When his mother inquired of him regarding the situation, he answered, “Wist ye not that I must be about my father’s business?” In later years during his Gospel ministry, Jesus empowered believers by endorsing this spiritual blank check, “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.” (New Living Translation, 2007) Please note the designation “anyone” represents our cue to participate in the works, lifestyle, and power of Jesus Christ. Wherever the Gospel designates whosoever, if a man, or anyone, as the recipient or doer of an action, it is a “blank check” statement that can be generically redeemed. This is where you come in! This is where I come in! The question remains, are you “about your fathers business” the way Jesus was, in the opening scripture? Only you can answer that question. Either way, as long as you have breath in your body, you can pick up that blank check and sign your name in place of “whosoever, or anyone.”
Apostle Paul proclaimed in Ephesians chapter 4, “11 Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers.12 Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.” This passage is a listing of the functions and duties belonging to those “whosoever” cashed in the biblical blank check. What they all have in common is “knowledge,” and that knowledge pertains to things concerning Jesus Christ. However, before the acquisition of knowledge, “we all come to such unity in our faith” is listed as a prerequisite (something we must first accomplish/go through). Jesus simplified the knowledge gaining process, into two distinct tasks and recorded the formula in the book of John chapter 7 verse 17. “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.” (King James Bible, Cambridge Edition) This powerful declaration makes it easy to understand the process of doing is required for obtaining knowledge (according to Jesus).
An example of doing equals knowledge, can be easily understood and agreed upon by examining something that effects us all, eating. Before we eat, someone has to prepare the food. The process of cooking food is an art form that reflects skill, imagination, and individuality. However, no matter how wonderful the cooks may be, their beginnings are the same. I will use myself as an example. When I first started cooking, I would follow a written recipe, word for word, reading aloud as I diligently did what the recipe instructed me to do. When the recipe said, “add two eggs,” I broke open to eggs and added them. When I meticulously followed the recipe, the end result was exactly like the picture in the cookbook. More importantly, the finished item tasted as delicious as it looked. After years of practice, I learned to embellish the recipe, and prepare every meal without reading the cook book. I became a knowledgeable cook, through the process of doing the same thing over and over again. This is exactly what Jesus says, “if anyone will do, they shall know,” and know is the root word of knowledge. How many things do you know how to do by heart? Whatever they are, the doing always came before the knowing. Nevertheless, after you know how to do things by heart, you are knowledgeable when it comes to that particular subject or task.
Literal Gospel is all about doing what Jesus commanded us to do, and by the process of practicing his word we become knowledgeable in the things of God! Subsequently, I literally “turn the other cheek” (Matthew 5:39). I literally “forgive 70 times 7” (Matthew 18:22). I literally “love my enemies” and I literally “lend hoping for no return” (Luke 6:35). I literally “continue in obeying the Gospel” (John 8:31) because it proves to Christ how much I love him. It is He who commanded me to “keep his sayings” and “do his will” in order to obtain knowledge of him. “Don’t talk about it, be about it,” is the inner-city translation of John 7:17. Along with reading about it, talking about it, singing about it, believing in it, and having faith in it, do it consistently, tenaciously, and faithfully. What is it? John 8:51, “If a man keep my saying he shall never see death.” After all, eternal life is not something to talk about, it is something to do. | <urn:uuid:1fed3470-a769-4f9f-be6c-628fcc67dc96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neverseedeath.com/2012/10/30/dont-talk-about-it-be-about-it/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971922 | 1,144 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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Pick a colour
Written on the 1 June 2013 by Kellie Williams
Colour is not only one of the most powerful elements of design, it is often the most persuasive factor. Colour can increase brand recognition by a whopping 80%. And brand recognition directly leads to consumer confidence. Colours can attract shoppers, turn them away and also has the ability to change shopping behaviour! While 52% of shoppers are more likely to enter a store if there is a sale sign in the window, some colours can actually persuade them to purchase.
Colours for impulse shoppers are red, black and royal blue. This is why they are popular in fast food restaurants and clearance sales. Shoppers on a budget prefer navy and teal, which makes them popular choices for bank and department store logos.
Traditional buyers lean towards pink and sky blue, which are good colour choices for clothing stores. Yellow represents optimism and youth, orange is aggressive, demanding a call to action, while green is associated with wealth and also makes us relax, along with purple. Pink is romantic and feminine, while black is powerful and sleek. When choosing colours consider exactly what you want to make your customers feel, as colours can change not only how a consumer feels but their very actions. Colour should be an integral part of the design process - often the very first thing considered.
This article was published in Zoom in Business Magazine Issue 3
About: Kellie studied Commercial Art over 25 years ago at James Cook University and has been working in the Printing and Media industries ever since. She has worked for screenprinters, printing companies and newspapers in North Queensland and now runs her own business, Jasper Design, servicing Qld and interstate clients.Connect via:LinkedIn | <urn:uuid:9e422117-e493-49ca-95d5-b1bb126e4f5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jasperdesign.com.au/articles/pick-a-colour.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965843 | 355 | 1.609375 | 2 |
This type of quartz contains inclusions or voids which once contained inclusions of a variety of needle shaped minerals, including rutile, black tourmaline, goethite, stibnite, asbestos, hornblende, and epidote. It is said to be a stone of wisdom, and brings non-judgemental insights to situations so that nothing needs to be repeated. It is believed to stimulate once in a lifetime experiences that instil deep human understanding. Sagenite is used to align mental discernment with practical application, giving courage to act the way we really think. It is said that the inclusions can act as a grab, clearing distortions and negative energy from the aura.
This pink to colourless stone forms in rosettes. It is said to allow a feeling of contentment and to give the knowing of anything is possible. It is a positive stone, bringing a sense of adventure and protection from negative influence. It is said that sainfeldite can improve our energy bodies when in distress, charging the mental processes and emotional balance. During astral travel, this stone is used for protection and for grounding of the heart chakra.
This brown to black mineral forms grains, masses, and rectangle shaped prismatic crystals. It is said to promote the attainment of solutions, and to work on the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Samarskite is a problem solving stone that brings the energy of getting to the bottom of mysterious circumstances, and detective work. It is said to help one with the learning of astrology, astronomy, and quantum physics.
This rock is made of compressed sand, and occasionally of petrified sand. It is a stone of creative exploits and is said to encourage bonding within groups and relationships. Sandstone is used to provide strength and to bring ease to movement. This rock is believed to eliminate discordant personality traits while encouraging a love for all humanity. It is used to discourage temper and argumentative thoughts.
This type of corundum is found in blue, black, white, purple, yellow, and green. It forms tabular prismatic crystals with hexagonal double pyramid structures. It is used to remove unwanted thinking patterns and to recall deep appreciation for natural beauty. Sapphire is known as a stone of prosperity, dispelling frustrating and futile actions in favour of paths to fulfilment of dreams. It is used to encourage better focus and to allow a radiation of energy from the conscious mind.
This form of onyx contains bands of carnelian. It is used to bring contentment in relationships, and allows for a rewarding experience of sharing space. Sardonyx is said to bring friend and good fortune to us, and it is believed to dispel hesitation and give new courage. It is said to be one of the stones on the breastplate of the high priest. As a stone of virtue, sardonyx enhances beneficial personality traits throughout.
This white, pink, colourless, violet, green, grey, blue, and red stone is found in masses, prismatic crystals, and columns. It sometimes shows a 'cat's-eye' chatoyancy. It is a stone of introspection and allows for looking deep within the self to find solutions to new and old problems. It is used to bring independence and to provide a willingness to change. Scapolite is believed to project into any area given, and with conscious focussing, the energy will distribute in the desired way.
This pale brown mineral is found in concentric layers with reniform surfaces. It is said to promote chance meetings with those you wish for, and has been worn by shamen for protection and to project the energy of the Sun. In ancient celtic times, Schalenblende was revered as a sacred stone and was used to bring good luck in travel. It is used for astral travel and can align one with the wisdom of these times. It is a stone of responsibility which allows us to realise we hold the keys to our own protection,
This white, red, yellow, colourless, orange, green, or purple stone is found in tabular and octahedral crystals, columns, and granular masses. It is used to dispel childishness and allows for the growth of serious thinking patterns. This stone allows one to take responsibility for self and action, with an understanding of purpose and function. It is said to provide a map to the heavens, and can improve astral travel. Scheelite is used to promote the feminine energies and to align the seven major chakras.
This colourless to white mineral is found in prismatic crystals, fibres, masses, nodules, and radiated filaments. I is used to access the network of unconscious information used in the spiritual world and that was used by ancient realms. It allows a thoughtful approach to relationships and a gelling of organisational processes. Scolecite is believed to be excellent for problem solving and can provide loving guidance and change.
This form of gypsum is colourless to white and forms tabular or needle shaped crystals. It provides for clear thinking and expands consciousness, providing good direction to life's activities. This stone has been used in divination and accessing the future. Selenite is said to reduce reticence, and to promote the activity which results in material gain. It is believed to bring acute awareness and to reduce subconscious assumptions by allowing a connection between awareness and the subconscious mind. It is used to promote one's strengths and to encourage a flexible nature.
This colourless mineral forms tetrahedral crystals. It instils confidence and provides for self sustaining responsibility. It allows a wisdom of the outcomes that our choices are a part of and is said to encourage learning. Sellaite is used to give further insight into life experience and in the realisation of inner logic. It is said to assist with astral travel, for use after the journey has ended.
This pink or red stone is a silicate of manganese, calcium, and sodium which is found in masses or elongated crystals. It is used to bring tolerance and to reduce feelings of jealousy. It is a stone of contentment which will assist in smoothing the atmosphere between groups, and is said to give insight into empathy for hyper-sensitivity and misunderstanding. Serandite is used to promote awareness of desired goals and allows for a greater involvement into the acquisition of them.
This blue mineral forms in granular masses. It is used to promote a sensation of calm and to activate the third eye chakra. It is known as a stone of serendipity and allows for patience in waiting for the right time for all things. Serendibite is a stone that assists in promoting trust and is believed to bring lucky finds through the intuition.
This green, black, brown, red, yellow, or white mineral is found in plated layers, fibres, masses, and crystals in which an original crystal has been replaced. It is used to raise the Kundalini energy and provides an opening for it to travel. When placed at the crown chakra, serpentine is said to conduct energy up into it. It is used to enhance meditation and was once used in the breastplate of the high priest. It is said to de-cloud the chakra energies.
This blue mineral is found in fibres and masses. It is used to activate the throat chakra and the third eye, allowing greater psychic ability and communication of intuitive wisdom. Shattuckite is used to promote channelling from the spiritual realm and is sed to protect against spiritual possession. This stone is believed to help one to reshape their own reality and provide wisdom into where changes are required.
This yellow, grey, green, brown, red, or opaque stone is found in rhombohedral crystals, tabular crystals, globes, plated layers, botryoidal structures, and masses. It is said to align all the bodies to each other, providing balance in emotional, physical, spiritual, intellectual, etheric, and astral matters. It is a stone of commitment and is said to encourage one's life work, bringing ability and determination to all activity. If one is confined to home then siderite is said to help bring benefits to the situation.
This metal is silver when polished but tarnishes to grey. It is found as nuggets, masses, dendritic wires, scales, plates, and needle shaped crystals. Silver attunes us to our natural advantages and is said to encourage quality of communication and to eliminate caustic personality traits. It is said to be a mirror of the soul and allows one to see self from the eyes of another. This element is used to connect the physical and astral bodies, which allows for the working through of unconscious fears.
This brown, yellow, or colourless mineral is found in masses and tabular crystals. It is said to activate the crown chakra and to sustain personal power, cleansing the aura and simplifying complex thoughts into manageable action. Simpsonite is used to assist in the emotional detachment from situations, and to provide insight into the causes for distress. This mineral is believed to reduce spiritual and emotional clutter, providing comfort and ability to live a simple life.
This white, grey, green, yellow blue, brown, or pink mineral is found in crusts, grains, stalactites, botryoidal configurations, masses, rhombohedral and scalenohedral crystals. This stone is said to provide comfort and ease of feeling, as well as a sense of leadership and motivation. Smithsonite is used when a solution is required to troubled times, or when experiencing a rocky start. It is believed to activate all the chakras and can draw energy up through the body when applied to the crown chakra. Smithsonite can be used as a replacement for any stone in a healing ritual if the desired piece is not available.
This translucent type of quartz is a variety of grey colours and forms in all the manifestations of quartz. It is used to clear the solar plexus chakra plus the minor chakras on the hands and feet. Smokey quartz can be used to quietly dissolve negative energies allowing for emotional healing, promoting a setting aside of worry and a gentle proactive attitude. During meditation, smokey quartz is said to bring extra clarity and focus as well as bring a protective field of psychic energy.
This blue, green, grey, yellow, red, purple, white, blue, or colourless mineral is found in grains, nodes, masses, and dodecahedral crystals. It is used to accomplish rational solutions using the mind, and allows for a generous heart. Sodalite can facilitate group bonding and grants a sense of purpose and togetherness. It is believed to encourage truth of emotion and allows a clear verbalisation of deeper feelings. It is said to open the door the universal wisdom and shows illumination on one's own subtle feelings.
This green stone is found in tabular hexagonal and prismatic crystals. It is a motivational crystal that gives needed energy when completing projects. It allows for great focus and is believed to give way to super human abilities. Spangolite is believed to promote patriotism and grant protection from danger. It is used to open the heart chakra, providing energy and protection from negative influence.
This rosey red mineral is found in botryoidal masses, spherical formations, crusts, and occasionally as crystals. When presented as a gift, it represents universal love, it is said to promote the building of friendships and to activate the heart chakra. Sphaerocobaltite is used to dispel negativity and to charge the aura. It is believed to allow access to past lives and the hidden wisdom therein. This stone is used as a vortex centre, allowing psychic abilities to fruit and providing a channel to the spirit world. This mineral is said to act as a mind projection tool and can help the holder with understanding karmic lessons.
This red, yellow, brown, black, green, or colourless mineral is found in cubes, fibres, masses, tetrahedral and dodecahedral crystals and sometimes spheres. It is used to bring harmony and equilibrium to the masculine and feminine aspects of an individual and is also said to bring awareness of ulterior motives. Spalerite is believed to dissolve inferiority issues and allow for conclusions to old patterns. It is said to provide insight into the truth behind information, giving discernment and intuition towards deceit. This stone is used to bring clarity of mind during meditation.
This stone is found is most colours and forms in flat wedge shaped crystals, plated layers, and masses. It is said to allow contact with heavenly energies, and to open and cleanse the chakras. The colour of the individual piece corresponds to the relevant chakra. Sphene is also used to promote a gentle action with other crystals which may have strong effects.
This mineral is found in violet, blue, yellow, green, brown, orange, white, and almost colourless. It forms in octahedral crystals, cubes, and pebbles. It is said to bring an energy of regeneration and to allow motivation and stamina for difficult objectives. Spinel is said to improve one's physical appearance and to promote a willingness to accept success. This stone is said to carry the energy of beauty and immortality, allowing for a continual rebirthing of self through life. Each variety of spinel corresponds to the chakra of the relevant colour and works to balance the personality aspects governed by them.
This grey to purple mineral is formed as small crystals and grains. It is used to promote family bonding and group relationships and to establish beneficial communication with work and social life activities. Strombolite is believed to enhance one's emotional well being and allows for expression of feeling while remaining calm. It is said to work well with the crown chakra and can also be used to create a grounding effect. During healing, this stone is conductive to universal energy and is used to align all the chakras.
This white, green, yellow, grey, or brown mineral is found as acicular and spear-shaped crystals, and as granular, columnar, and fibrous configurations. It is used for centring and promotes comfort in unusual situations. Business is said to go smoothly with the help of this stone. Strontianite is said to promote growth in all aspects of life and allows for deeper wisdom in relationships. This stone is used to relief one of stress and worry, and also promotes a willingness to change behaviour accordingly. It os said to enhance listening skills, stimulate the intellect and promote a connection.
This pink, purple, and violet stone is found in banded masses and a tiny crystals within quartz. It is said to promote balance and health of body and mind, and is beneficial in energy healing. This stone is said to activate the rising of the Kundalini and is a symbol of total universal love. Sugilite is used to promote forgiveness and can enhance the memory. It is said to dispel negative and hostile energy and to promote a sense of being free.
This type of feldspar appears as grey, green, brown, yellow, pink, orange, peach, and red. It is found as tablet shaped crystals and as masses. It is used to activate and cleanse the chakras, giving a brightening effect. It is said to allow for a clean and fresh feeling and to promote activity that results in this. It is a stone of independence and can facilitate meetings with spiritual guides. Sunstone represents the Sun and is used to bring abundance, warmth, and loving light. | <urn:uuid:03121059-23bd-43f5-b596-2184afae11df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://rowanblaircolver.weebly.com/crystal-lore/category/s | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.937652 | 3,329 | 2.125 | 2 |
Why is vegetative propagation practiced for growing some types of plants.
The advantages of vegetative propagation include:
- Rapid growth - The new plants are grown much faster as compared to those grown by seeds.Potato requires 3 months for forming a new crop if raised from tubers and if raised from seed it will require 15 months.
- Genetic consistency- The offspring are genetically similar to the parent and have all its characters.
- Survival rate - The survival rate of crops through propagation is nearly 100% , but in case of seed grown plants, it lies between 5-10%.
- Seedless plants- Plants which have lost their ability to produce seeds eg. orange banana etc, can be grown using vegetative propagation. | <urn:uuid:c3187d9c-9e55-4294-9160-df3f8a720b3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.teachoo.com/17685/3525/Question-4-Page-133/category/Questions-from-inside-the-book/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942634 | 151 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Noble-gas geochemistry is an important tool for understanding planetary processes from accretion to mantle dynamics and atmospheric formation1,2,3,4. Central to much of the modelling of such processes is the crystal–melt partitioning of noble gases during mantle melting, magma ascent and near-surface degassing5. Geochemists have traditionally considered the ‘inert’ noble gases to be extremely incompatible elements, with almost 100 per cent extraction efficiency from the solid phase during melting processes. Previously published experimental data on partitioning between crystalline silicates and melts has, however, suggested that noble gases approach compatible behaviour, and a significant proportion should therefore remain in the mantle during melt extraction5,6,7,8. Here we present experimental data to show that noble gases are more incompatible than previously demonstrated, but not necessarily to the extent assumed or required by geochemical models. Independent atomistic computer simulations indicate that noble gases can be considered as species of ‘zero charge’ incorporated at crystal lattice sites. Together with the lattice strain model9,10, this provides a theoretical framework with which to model noble-gas geochemistry as a function of residual mantle mineralogy.
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How to Select Art for Your Home
Have you ever walked through a model home and wondered, how do they select the artwork?
In the homes we style, there is purpose and intention behind each art piece selected.
When selecting art, there are a couple of questions our designers ask themselves:
• Who lives in this home? What are their interests? What is their lifestyle?
• What is the architectural style of the home?
• What is the color palette and furniture style of the home?
The art is then selected with an intention to create the feel of the room. To create impact, an art piece can be the focal point of a space. Other times art pieces are selected to add texture, complement the space, and complete a room, almost like jewelry.
Kathleen C., V.P. of Design, selects “art based on the design of the home.” She states that if a home has an organic style, she leans towards botanical, abstract, or landscape style artwork. If a house is modern, she selects more abstract or contemporary art. “Overall, I make sure I have a mix of art so that it doesn’t feel the same throughout. It has to all work together and be interesting.” Kathleen personally likes art that is moody and has some edge to it.
Senior Designer, Edith G. comments, “Art is all about telling the full story of a space. For me, art is all about feeling. I tend to lean towards more dramatic and moody art pieces in creating a more impactful story. Bold colors, dramatic brush strokes, high contrast, interesting and unique photography are the characteristics I look for when I select art. I like to mix it up and keep my art selections eclectic.” Edith often looks for original art. Original art “adds personality” to the room.
Jill M., Director of Residential Design, begins her thought process by selecting art that is “ascertaining to the clients’ art style preference.” Then, she determines the focal wall of the home and selects artwork that best enhances the particular space. She asks herself, “is the art going on a painted, wallpapered, textured or finished wall?” The art piece “should complement but not compete.” After, she considers “scale and balance. For instance, it is important to pepper mirrors.” Tasteful 3D art or a gallery of framed art paired with abstracts creates balance and interest. She “especially loves to use mirrors and not just for function. Mirrors look great in groupings as they reflect light and beautiful views as well as can help widen a narrow or lighten up a dark room.” And last but not least, “the frame and mat should also complement not only the art but the other finishes in the room. A busy piece of art or a busy wallpaper is balanced by a large mat, which provides structure and relief so the eye can rest. Also, dimensional, floating frames always look great and sophisticated!”
Selecting artwork for your own home can be an overwhelming task, here are some helpful questions our designers have provided to help make it less daunting:
• What is the overall theme of your home?
• What kinds of things do you like? What kind of lifestyle do you lead?
• What is the color palette within your home?
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Yes, it is estimated that there are more dogs than cats in the world as at 2020. In fact there are more dogs by a factor of two (100% more). The word “estimated” is important because nobody is actually counting. We are of course referring to domestic dogs and domestic cats and their feral or stray counterparts (i.e. I am not including true wild cats and wild dogs). The situation is complicated because in the developed world a dog is meant to be a pet dog living with a family but in the developing world it appears that pet dogs are relatively uncommon and there are many village, community or feral dogs. Something similar can be said about cats. The default situation in many developing countries is the community cat rather than the domestic cat living inside a home with a family.
Percentage of feral, stray or community animals?
It is said, that between 17 and 24% of dogs are “pets” in the developed world and the remainder are community dogs. You might read information on the internet about a fairly equal number of feral cats and domestic cats. But people don’t count how many feral cats there are and we estimate the number of domestic cats. If, example, there are about 90 million domestic cats in America then some people say there are 90 million feral cats. Other people say the number of feral cats is much lower than that. As I said we don’t really know because no one is counting.
Although estimates, Wikipedia says that the global population of dogs is 900 million of which 83% are “unrestrained”. Unrestrained must mean dogs which are in the community and not strictly speaking owned by an individual or family. The same source says that the global population of cats is estimated to be between 200 million and 600 million. Personally, I have always believed that the number is something in the order of 400 million or 500 million.
Community animals dominate worldwide
On these figures, you can see, that the number of dogs is about twice the number of cats on the planet. This must be because there are more community or unrestrained dogs relative to their overall number compared to cats. It is perhaps difficult for people in the West End in developed countries to visualise a completely different set of rules and circumstances governing how people interact with cats and dogs in developing countries.
Dogs are utility animals – domesticated for longer than cats
The reason for the the much larger population of dogs must because they have been domesticated for much longer i.e. since about 20,000-30,000 years ago compared to about 10,000 years ago for cats. And dogs were and still are utility animals. They work. They are useful in developing countries. Their usefulness means they are more common.
The website statista.com tells us that there are over 470 million domesticated pet dogs worldwide compared to about 370 million pet cats worldwide as at 2018. If these figures are correct and if we compare them to the Wikipedia figures, the number of feral dogs is about the same as domesticated dogs on the planet and the number of feral cats is much lower than the number of domestic cats. These figures are therefore misleading in my view. I would favour the Wikipedia figures because we have to accept that the bulk of dogs and cats are made up of community animals which makes counting them far harder.
Vague and domestication is a fail it appears
My answer is somewhat vague and perhaps disappointing but it has to be. You won’t find clear cut numbers presented with certainty. Humankind does not have control over the domestication of dogs or cats. They lost that thousands of years ago. This is why arguably the domestication process has turned out to be a failure because it was never meant to be like this. Each individual cat and dog should be individually cared for by a person or a family. That would be an ideal arrangement. As we are so far from that that ideal, we have to judge ourselves as having failed. | <urn:uuid:8739ab9c-ac12-4503-804c-4bd1a514b625> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pictures-of-cats.org/are-there-more-dogs-than-cats-in-the-world.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970584 | 823 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Evaporator Coil Broken Ideas
When the coil gets dirty, it doesn’t operate as effectively as it should. The coils are buried in the heating and air unit, and they’re full of refrigerant that sucks the heat from the air and leads to the air to cool. If you’re searching for the indoor coil, it resembles a succession of pipes in your central air conditioner. Cleaning your indoor coils are able to make a huge difference in the struggle against corrosion.
Speak to us today if you’re prepared to receive your coils cleaned. Evaporator coils arrive in three primary types. The evaporator coils are in the indoor unit of your ac system. The evaporator coil may also leak refrigerant. Evaporator coils are among two chief elements of the air conditioner. After the evaporator coils aren’t functioning properly, the air running through the house isn’t going to be cooled. If they fail, they could damage other parts of the system.
If you’re interested in cleaning your coils yourself, look at contacting an expert to examine possible risks and find out more about the safest methods to achieve that. Evaporator coils are observed within your air conditioner unit. When it has to do with keeping your evaporator coil running in prime shape, there are a couple factors you should think about. The evaporator coil a part of the indoor unit of your AC system, and can be installed together with the furnace or as an element of your air handler. Quite often, cleaning the evaporator coil will require that you take apart your ac unit. | <urn:uuid:adb703b9-e23d-4858-a85d-600654dcdd24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sanpedroplumbingheatingandair.com/the-secret-truth-about-evaporator-coil-broken-exposed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942933 | 332 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Dental practitioners, dental surgeons or dentists, diagnose and treat mouth and teeth problems. They help people prevent dental disease and encourage good oral health. Find out how to qualify, and the skills that you'll need for this role.
As a dental technician, or dental technologist, you'll use your design skills and dentistry knowledge to create and repair dental devices. Learn more about what it's like to work in this role, what qualifications you'll need and how your career could progress.
Dispensing opticians fit and supply glasses for people with prescriptions. They also give advice on vision care. Learn more about what it's like to be a dispensing optician, what you need to do to qualify and how your career could progress.
Healthcare assistants are professionals who work under the guidance of nurses, doctors and midwives to help deliver the best possible care for people around the UK. Learn more about a career as a health assistant, find out what it involves and what you'll need to study and do to get a role.
As a laboratory technician, you'll be working in a lab helping scientists do experiments, research and analysis. Learn more about what this job involves, the different places you could work at and what you'll need to study.
Medical radiographers are medical professionals who use equipment to treat and diagnose sick or injured patients. Read our guide to find out what a career as a medical radiographer is like and what you should study and do to become one.
Medical technicians, or clinical technologists, make sure equipment used to diagnose and treat patients works correctly. Find out what you'll need to study to get your first job, and what you might be working on day-to-day.
Medical practitioners, or doctors and consultants, are medical professionals who are tasked with the diagnosis, care and treatment of their patients. Learn more about a career in this field, find out what it involves and what you'll need to study and do to get a role.
Midwives use their medical expertise to assist pregnant women in their journey to becoming mothers, providing support to mother and child. Read on to find out more about what being a midwife is like, what your career might involve and how you can work towards your first role in the field.
As a paramedic, you'll respond to medical emergencies and work with other healthcare professionals to deliver successful medical outcomes. Here you can find out more about what being a paramedic is like, how you can start your career, and what your day-to-day work might involve.
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Occupational therapists are professionals who help patients overcome physical and mental barriers in everyday life, making living less complex and overwhelming. Read our guide to see if you're suited to a career as an occupational therapist and what you should study and do to become one.
Ophthalmic Opticians, or Optometrists, test the vision of their patients to identify health problems, prescribe glasses, and fit contact lenses. Read below to find out more about why you should choose a career in ophthalmology.
As a pharmacist, also known as a dispensing chemist, you'll be giving expert advice on the proper use of medicine and dispensing drugs in hospitals and pharmacies. Learn more about working as a pharmacist, what you'll be doing day-to-day and what qualifications are needed to work in this role.
As a pharmaceutical technician, you'll be a key part of the pharmacy team, helping patients get the most from their medicines. Find out where you could be working in this role and what tasks you might be doing day to day.
Physiotherapists, often called physios, are the primary healthcare professionals who deal with concerns to do with the physical health and ability of the body. They work closely with all varieties of ages and abilities. Physios are needed in different settings and workplaces. Have a look below to learn more about life as a physio.
Podiatrists are the specialists who diagnose and treat healthcare issues relating to the feet, ankles, and the lower limbs. They work with people who have specific ailments or injuries or those with physical disabilities requiring specialist help. Podiatrists will have undergone a journey of training which equips them with the tools necessary to identify problems and carry out the relevant treatment. Read more if you're interested in a career in podiatry and find out what it'll take.
As a psychologist you'll understand, interpret and advise patients on their mental wellbeing and encourage positive behaviour change. Read below to find out what being a psychologist is like, how you can qualify and the skills you'll need for a successful career.
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NAACP's Johnson to lead NH civil rights council
18-member group will travel the state to hold listening sessions
PORTSMOUTH — Until the last several years, much of white New Hampshire hasn't lived across the street from someone with a different skin color, says Rogers Johnson.
President of the Seacoast NAACP, Johnson was recently tapped by Gov. Chris Sununu to lead the state's new advisory council on civil rights, part of the formation of a civil rights bureau within the attorney general's office. New Hampshire has seen an uptick in domestic migration, with the Census Bureau estimating the population grew by 7,800 between July 2016 and July 2017, a 60 percent increase in population growth over the previous year. According to Johnson, that growth means a more ethnically-diverse state, and therefore, more challenges to face.
The civil rights initiative is what Johnson calls "the state taking a closer look" after incidents of alleged bias in 2017, including at the University of New Hampshire and in the town of Claremont. Johnson said the rapid change in Granite State demographics has a majority white state grappling with different ethnic backgrounds for the first time.
"They’ve never really dealt with anyone who didn’t look like them, to a large extent, prior to now," said Johnson, a Stratham resident. "It would be rare for someone in Littleton or Lyman to see somebody of color. Well, it’s not as rare anymore, but more importantly, now you might be living next to someone of color. And the question becomes how we react to that when you've never really had to deal with it before? How do you deal with your next-door neighbor being someone from Indonesia, from the Philippines, West Africa?"
The civil rights advisory council will attempt to do just that; help communities understand a more diverse population and issues of race, gender and disability across the state. The 18-member council will travel New Hampshire to lead public listening sessions and community trainings, ultimately presenting recommendations to the governor on how the state can better its equity efforts.
When alleged bias incidents arose around the state this past calendar year, Johnson said the state apparatus was simply not equipped to handle it.
"Now they’re trying to establish that entity to make sure these issues are dealt with in the proper format," he said. "These are individuals who are trained and understand the issue. People of color or other minority groups don’t tend to trust the police and by extension, the attorney general. Now we have to find a way to bridge that gap, so individuals who work in the civil rights division have an ability to communicate with them. Ultimately what we’re talking about here is communicate more than anything else. The more of this that goes on, the less likely we will have an incident."
Johnson called the public hearing process "a major communication effort between the government and its people."
The work that lies ahead of the council is "daunting," Johnson said, "but if not me, then who?"
"How do we make these changes not only in the legal system, but within the police departments, elected officials, education, the Legislature itself," he said. "We have to go through every aspect of this to make sure that any aspect of civil rights can be dealt with in an equitable fashion and delivered in a way that is consistent."
While the alleged bias incidents of 2017 did receive increased attention, Johnson noted the creation of a civil rights bureau was historic in the sense that the state wasn't begrudgingly forced to do so.
Johnson doesn't know what the conclusions of the council will be, or what they'll discover as they travel the state. However, progress could be as simple as broadening understanding for one Granite Stater.
"If we can bridge that gap for the average citizen," Johnson said, "If the legacy after all of this is we have a better understanding of who we are, who the person is across the street, if we can make that, then we’ve accomplished something."
The listening sessions are expected to be held in the different Executive Council districts and will be publicly announced. As far as the diversity trainings, Johnson said the focus is on public entities that are funded by citizen money, such as police departments.
"The reason that we're doing this is so this (demographics transition) happens smoothly, that we don't have a Ferguson here," he said. "Because in my heart of hearts, we're never going to have that. That's why we're engaging with the police, elected officials, that's why we're on the (UNH campus). To make sure through open and honest communication, we can bridge these gaps. I'm hoping that we can solve this problem as it exists, although it's not visible to many." | <urn:uuid:8c3e64c8-7f70-42a6-9e57-6159365f97c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/exeter-news-letter/2017/12/29/naacp-s-johnson-to-lead/16718051007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.974725 | 995 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Revise conditional clauses with online resources. Zero, first, second, third and mixed conditional clauses are covered on these exercises. Please refer to each ESL material description page for detailed descriptions of these online resources. Before you start doing the exercises, you can watch and revise conditional videos below.
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Mangrove forests in Trinidad and Tobago are constantly under threat due to human intervention despite playing a fundamental role in environmental management. This is the belief held by environmental watchdog group, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS), which is now demanding that more be done to ensure this valuable resource’s longevity.
FFOS has sent out an appeal to the authorities demanding that any activity that negatively affects mangroves be placed in the care of the Designated Activity portion of the Environmental Management Act (2000).
This proposed change to the legislation, would ensure that any developer whose work directly affects the mangrove, would require a Certificate of Environmental Clearance (CEC) which relies on approval from the EMA. As it stands, the only protection mangroves have is in relation to the Environmentally Sensitive Species Notice (2018).
This would put a stop to any activity that interferes with the natural habitat of the Scarlet Ibis. Mangroves without the Scarlet Ibis as a shield do not have the same considerations as they are not a protected species.
FFOS’s appeal was made to the Attorney General, the Ministry of Planning and Development, the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) and to the Environmental Management Authority (EMA).
Why mangroves matter
Adding additional protections to mangroves, would fall in line with the United Nations’ 17 goals for sustainable development which aim to be “a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030.” Protection of mangroves falls in line with goal 13, “Climate Action” and goal 14, “Life Below Water.”
Part of the “Climate Action” target, is to increase countries’ resilience and adaptability to climate-related hazards and natural disasters. Mangroves are known to offer protection to shorelines from damaging winds, hurricanes, waves and floods whilst their strong roots stop erosion. Removal of mangroves makes the reclaimed land weaker and therefore more vunerable to damage.
Reclamation of the Port of Spain area has been happening since the early 1880’s. To date, this area and its environs can be considered the most reclaimed areas in Trinidad and Tobago. Should an earthquake of magnitude seven and above occur, there is a great possibility that the Port of Spain area may suffer from liquefaction. Removal of mangroves makes the reclaimed land weaker and therefore more susceptible to this phenomenon. This causes the land to move like a liquid due to the waterlogged soil and presence of water below the land; close to the surface.
The protection of marine ecosystems and biodiversity falls under ‘Life Below Water.” Our wetlands and mangrove forests are teeming with life. This attracts multitudes of nature loving tourists on a yearly basis which in turn generates revenue and means of employment. Outside of monetary gain, the National Wetlands Policy states, “wetlands support commercial marine fisheries indirectly by providing nursery habitat for juveniles; they help maintain the integrity of coral reefs through biotic and nutrient linkages, as in the Buccoo Reef/Bon Accord mangrove complex.” According to Forest and Protected Areas of Trinidad and Tobago, the Caroni Swamp holds 24 species of fin fish. The grey snapper (Lutjanus griseus) and the tarpon (Megalops atlanticus), being among the most commercially important. Other marine animals such as oysters, crabs and the caiman call this their home.
Mangroves are also well known for their carbon storage both above and below ground, with above ground storing around 45 percent more carbon per hectare than a regular forest. This carbon then gets turned into oxygen which would in turn help to reduce our carbon footprint. The IMA is currently in the process of determining just how much carbon is stored in our mangroves. Tropical Island Ecology, Professor John Agard is credited with a new, simpler and more efficient method to carry out this process. Once measured, it can be converted into a carbon dioxide total which can then turn into a potential investment opportunity.
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22 Interesting Facts about Hawksbill Sea Turtle You Didn’t Know (With Pictures)
Do you want to learn some interesting and fun facts about the amazing hawksbill sea turtle? If you do, then you will enjoy this post, which also provides cool pictures about the animal.
Read on and have fun….
Hawksbill sea turtle with the scientific name Eretmochelys imbricate is from the kindom of Animalia, from the class of reptile, the family of Cheloniidae and of the genus of Eretmochelys.
They are one of the surviving members of the group of reptiles that have been in existence for over 100 million years. The name “HAWKSBILL” was derived from its narrow head with a sharp bird-beak.
The hawksbill has some slight resemblance with other sea turtles; however there are some other remarkable differences between hawksbills and the other sea turtles. Apart from the head, the jaw is hollowed out, and the arm is the flipper with two claws.
They are one of the smallest of the turtles, with weight ranging between 40 – 70kg and length 1m (3ft). They have this unique feature of the shell alternating the color along with the temperature of the water.
There are other interesting characteristics to be learnt about the Hawksbill; below are 22 amazing facts about the hawksbill that are really fun to behold:
1. What do hawksbill sea turtles eat? They feed on sponge and are not healthy for human consumption because of the toxic chemical substances that sponge contains; they also eat invertebrates.
2. The narrow head and jaw curved beak enables them to get food from crevices in interior reefs.
3. The shell is made up of large, hard, and bonny scale overlapping and without ridges. The carapace is oval shaped and gracefully colored.
4. Hawksbills have profrontal scales on both sides of their eyes.
5. Research has shown that they make long migration from feeding locations to nesting sites.
6. Where do hawksbill sea turtles live? This animal is seen living in tropical seas like the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean. Most of their lives are spent in shallow water habitats.
7. The beautiful shell of this animal is used to manufacture expensive items like guitar picks, glass frames, jewelries, hair ornaments and other attractive things. Apart from eating, the eggs are equally used for rituals while the oil is used to manufacture perfume.
8. Countries around the world have prohibited trading on hawksbill, yet their eggs are still in high demand in the market.
9. The male hawksbills have more elongated claws, bulky tails and a bit lighter in color more than the female counterpart.
10. The tough shell defends them from predators, nevertheless, they still have sharks, crocodiles, and big fishes predating on them.
11. Every two to three years, hawksbill mating takes place usually in shallow waters near seashore.
12. Nesting process starts with the female reptiles leaving the sea to return to their natal beach to lay their eggs, which range between 6o and 200 eggs.
These they do by digging a hole in the ground, lay their eggs and cover them up, then return to the sea; when the eggs get to about 60 days, they begin to hatch. Nesting could occur up to four to six times in a single season.
13. The sex of the baby hawksbills is determined by the prevailing temperature of the atmosphere during the incubation. When the temperature is soaring, the eggs give birth to female while low temperatures give chances to male. Apart of determination of sex, the temperature also aid in building the embryo and also plays important role in their growth.
14. The young hawksbills are sometimes black or very dark brown and also have light brown or yellow color at the rim of the shell.
15. Hawksbills are the fastest turtles among the sea turtle; when it comes to nesting, the process could take them about 45 minutes.
16. The most unsafe period in the life of hawksbills is when hatchlings (baby hawksbill) move from their nests to the sea; they are always preyed on by ravaging crabs and flocks of seabirds. For this reason not many of them survive to adulthood. In fact, 2/3 of the hatchling dies before they get to maturity.
17. How long do hawksbill sea turtles live? Hawksbill’s maturity starts about 20 years, though the lifespan is not known yet
18. By eating sponge, they play essential role in the reef community by contributing to the growth of coral.
19. This turtle is one of the commonest of the group and could be seen in almost all marine environments.
20. Their unique shell and paddle-like flipper qualify them as very fast swimmers, swimming at 24kph. The mother hawksbill has been observed to make 500 moves at 12 hours.
21. Hawksbill’s are in the list of the most threatened turtles by human.
22. This sea animal has the ability to rest and sleep below the water for many hours and show up later above water for some minutes.
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Stress is one of the challenges of a modern, busy life. The increases in heart rate and blood pressure that are part of the stress response are part of the body’s natural way to deal with danger. However, our bodies do not do a good job of separating a real threat, like a wild animal, from a perceived danger, like an angry email or missed deadline. Managers and executives deal with this kind of mental stress on a regular basis, and it can have serious effects on their health and wellbeing. Here are four techniques to deal with daily stress.
Find a Meditation Space
Meditation is another common way to deal with stress. By studying meditation, you are learning how to refocus and slow down your mind. The rapid thoughts that come with stress are allowed to pass. The more adept you become at the practice, the easier it becomes to enter that quiet, single-minded state. If you have trouble sitting still, yoga classes often combine a time of meditation with physical activity.
The first step in dealing with stress is slowing yourself down. Although it is difficult to control your heart rate or blood pressure, you can control your breathing. When you feel stressed, take three deep breaths. With each breath, you will slow down and feel a little more in control. Try it now!
Head to the Woods
Spending time in the woods has been found to be a surprisingly effective way to deal with stress. As you walk down a woodland trail, you step away from the stressful situations. The sounds and smells of nature surround you, pulling you away from anxiety. The air is cleaner, and the world is calmer among the trees. You do not have to travel far — most areas have nature preserves and trails nearby, even in the desert here in Arizona.
Schedule a Regular Spa Visit
Visiting a spa is a great way to recharge your batteries. These facilities offer many options for stress relief including massages, hot springs, and saunas. A sauna with a wood-burning heater is a time-tested solution to help clear your mind and relax your body. As you sit in the warm room listening to the cracking and popping of burning wood in the sauna heater, you cannot help but relax. Follow that sauna with a cold dip in a pool or lake and you will be energized for your next project. For the ultimate experience, try a retreat that combines personal growth with spa time.
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Pennsylvania (WTAJ) – A weasel-like animal that was as soon as referred to as the house of Pennsylvania could make its method again to Keystone State.
The American martin was native to the boreal forests of Pennsylvania till it was eradicated within the early 1900s as a result of deforestation and unregulated harvesting. They’re about 20-28 inches lengthy and develop on common to three.1 kilos.
However, do not depend the little man but. Due to the Workplace of Wildlife Administration, Marten might have a house in Pennsylvania once more.
The Workplace of Wildlife Administration will submit a feasibility evaluation of Marten’s reintroduction in Pennsylvania to the Pennsylvania Recreation Fee (PGC) on Friday, July 8 at 1 p.m.
“PGC, together with a number of companies, associate organizations and devoted volunteers, has set a long-standing priority for restoring extirpated or almost extirpated species to the state. Bald eagles, river otters, wild turkeys, white-tailed deer, hunters, and peregrine falcons, have seen, Elk, beaver, and eagle are profitable reintroductions whereas partridge quail is presently present process the method.“There are usually not many species left to breed, and with present assets out there, this seems to be the time to maneuver ahead,” stated Thomas Keeler, a veteran biologist on the Workplace of Wildlife Administration. forward”.
The assembly scheduled for July 8 begins with the commissioners listening to workers studies. The plenary session will resume once more at 8:30 a.m. Saturday to permit neighborhood members to talk on a first-come-first-served foundation. Registration for many who want to communicate begins at 7:45 am
If the Board of Commissioners of the Pennsylvania Recreation Fee votes to maneuver ahead with resubmission, the subsequent step might be to create a resubmission/administration plan.
The Workplace of Wildlife Administration and the PGC are many various areas of analysis to find out if Marten could possibly be reintroduced. These outcomes represent a feasibility evaluation.
There needs to be an appropriate habitat appropriate when it comes to high quality, amount and connectivity. In accordance with Keeler, appropriate habitat is inside counties resembling Warren, Forest, Elk, McCain, Potter, Tioga, Cameron, Clinton, and Lycoming. Every of those areas is a structurally combined forest with cover cowl and pores and skin of hollows and woody particles.
Different areas of curiosity being thought of embody food regimen analysis, to find out the impact on species presently inhabiting Pennsylvania, resembling wild turkeys, grouse grouse, Allegheny woodrat and others.
The analysis may also think about prey abundance inspecting the power to coexist between predatory rivals.
Local weather fashions are additionally discovered to favor Marten’s reintroduction.
In accordance with a common survey, it was additionally discovered that 92% of fishermen had been in favor of reintroduction versus 7% who had been in opposition to it.
The teams additionally studied many various causes for Marten’s reintroduction together with environmental, political, financial/social, cultural, and accountability.
Restoring native species to a neighborhood that’s lacking a chunk is a crucial a part of ecosystem restoration. Simply as people are an essential a part of this complete system, the marten additionally gives essential ecological companies resembling dispersing seeds or managing rodents throughout the forest.
The reintroduction plan will specify launch websites in addition to supply teams, entice and transport planning, illness administration, screening, and a wide range of different measures. One other essential side is a vigorous academic marketing campaign to assist the general public perceive and take part on this effort.
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We will only achieve the target of limiting global warming to within two degrees above pre-industrial temperatures if carbon dioxide emissions begin to fall within the next two decades.
Limited options for meeting 2°C warming target, warn climate change experts
We will only achieve the target of limiting global warming to safe levels if carbon dioxide emissions begin to fall within the next two decades and eventually decrease to zero. That is the stark message from research by an international team of scientists, led by the University of Exeter, published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The research focuses on the scale of carbon emission reduction needed to keep future global warming at no more than two degrees Celsius over average temperatures prior to the Industrial Revolution. This target is now almost universally accepted as a safe limit.
The team examined the extent to which carbon emissions should be reduced, how steep this reduction needs to be and how soon we should begin. They used mathematical modelling techniques to construct a number of possible future scenarios, based on different assumptions on emissions reduction. They accounted for a likely range of climate sensitivities: the amount of warming for a given increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The research shows how quickly emissions need to drop in the next few decades. It also highlights how remaining emissions could cause the two-degrees target to be exceeded in the long term, over the next few hundred years.
The researchers found that zero or negative emissions are compatible with this target if we reduce our global carbon emissions by at least three per cent per year within the next two decades.
In a worst-case scenario of high climate sensitivity, we need to work towards negative emissions if we are to have a chance of keeping temperatures within the two-degrees target. This would mean using carbon-capture-and-storage technology combined with aggressive mitigation rates starting in the coming decade. The best-case scenario of low climate sensitivity allows longer delays and more conservative mitigation rates, but still requires emissions to be eventually cut by at least 90%.
The results clearly show that if we delay reducing global emissions by just ten or twenty years we will then need to make much steeper reductions in order to meet a two-degrees warming target.
Lead author Professor Pierre Friedlingstein, University of Exeter Chair in Mathematical Modelling of Climate Systems, said: “When I analysed these results, I was surprised to see so few options available to us. We know we need to tackle global warming, but our research really emphasises the urgency of the situation. The only way for us to achieve a safe future climate will be to reduce emissions by at least three per cent, starting as soon as possible. The longer we leave it, the harder it will be.”
Countries currently have different targets for carbon emission reductions. For example, the US proposes a 17 per cent reduction by 2020, the EU has set a target of a 20 to 30 per cent reduction by 2020 and Australia has an objective of a five to 25 per cent reduction by 2020, depending on other countries commitment.
“The good news is that it’s not too late,” said co-author Professor Susan Solomon of the University of Colorado. “The interesting news is that we really need to think in the very long-term as well as the near-term. Even a small amount of remaining emissions would eventually mean exceeding the target so we need to ensure that technologies are available to make our world carbon-free in the long run.”
The research was carried out by the University of Exeter (UK), University of Colorado (USA), University of Bern (Switzerland), ETH (Switzerland), CEA-CNRS (France) and CSIRO (Australia).
The University of Exeter is investing £230 million in science, medicine and engineering across five themes, one of which is Climate Change and Sustainable Futures.
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Tories Show GOP How a Party Should Behave
For once, the political drama took place outside America this week. Britain’s governing Conservative Party defenestrated Prime Minister Boris Johnson (CNN, emphasis added).
Boris Johnson’s turbulent tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister came to an end Thursday after a historic party revolt over a series of ethics scandals forced him to step down.
It took the resignation of nearly 60 members of his government — almost half the payroll — for Johnson to finally abandon his attempts to cling on to power.
For the uninitiated, “payroll” refers to the number of Conservative MPs (a.k.a. Tories) who were in executive branch posts. Whether Britain really needs over 100 legislators doubling as Cabinet ministers or assistants is a discussion for another day. The critical point here is how Johnson was shown the door – by his own party.
Parliamentary democracies are, by definition, very different from ours. Our Constitution was written during a period when the King of Great Britain and Ireland held genuine and lifelong (albeit somewhat deferred) executive power. Thus, the notion of a President staying in office for only four years at a time was seen as revolutionary.
Since then, Prime Ministers have grown much more powerful (inside and outside the British Commonwealth). This has made replacing the powerful actually easier in many constitutional monarchies than in our 240-year-plus old democracy. One of the “institutional guardrails” they have that we lack is the governing party simply changing leaders to prevent one getting out of line. Or as former Tory leader William Hague once called the party he led: “an absolute monarchy tempered by regicide” (WaPo).
The only avenue we have in the United States to remove a problematic president is impeachment. As it happens, the Republicans had just such an opportunity to police their own as the Tories did. It was two years ago – and they blew it. Yes, I’m talking about Trump’s first impeachment.
In January of 2020, as the Senate was determining Trump’s fate, the General Accounting Office made it perfectly clear. Trump broke the law by freezing military aid to Ukraine.
Imagine how the Senate trial would have played out if Cabinet ministers had responded with the mass of resignations that we saw in Britain. How would Mitch McConnell have reacted to his own wife leaving her post? What would David Perdue have done if his cousin Sonny had resigned? How would Wall Street and the “donor class” have responded to Steve Mnuchin walking away?
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Tab Requests and Discussion It’s also worth noting that, unlike Guthrie, Tasjan frets his D7/F# shape (measure 3 here) using all four fingers—no thumb.
Does anyone have a tab for Pete Seeger/The Almanac Singers' 'Talking Union'? On beat 3 of that same measure, use your first finger to hammer from the open D to the first-fret D#, then keep your finger moving until you’ve landed a half-barre to make the A chord in the following measure. Okay, so from now on when you hear someone say “play the tetrad of chord xxx“, you will already know that it is the first, third, fifth and seventh degrees of the chord in question. Likewise, fret the low F. Though the talking-blues style isn’t exactly hot among modern-day troubadours, there are a few who still appreciate its charm. When the chord does not have the third degree, it cannot be classified as major or minor, receiving the denomination “suspended“. For example, C major. Interestingly, he tucks his index finger into his palm—picking instead with his thumb, middle, and ring fingers. In measure 4, play a back-to-basics G chord walking up on beats 3 and 4, toward a presumed C chord. (Feel free to use another fingering, of course, if you find one that works more effectively for you.) Weekly newsletter includes free lessons, favorite member content, banjo news and more. The thumb-over-the-neck fingering allows to you sound the open second-string B on beat 2. It’s also worth noting that, unlike Guthrie, Tasjan frets his D7/F. Hi, All. On Guthrie’s original recording, he toggles back and forth between two sections similar to these. 5a or Ex. Music theory + play by ear. The same holds true for Example 2b, in the same spot. Anything You Want“Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”—the droll 18-and-a-half-minute ramble featured on Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 LP Alice’s Restaurant—is an exemplary example of a talking-blues song with relatively sophisticated harmony. To form the major chords, you use the major third degree. The chord shapes are fingered in the key of C major, and will be described here as such. However, it’s not unusual to find songs in the talking-blues canon that feature tuneful choruses between the spoken verses, such as Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.”, While some of the earliest practitioners used talking blues for comedic or novelty effect, folksinger Woody Guthrie (Arlo’s father) was one of the first songwriters to use the form for political commentary—most notably in his 1940 song “Talking Dust Bowl Blues.” In 1941, the Almanac Singers—a collective cofounded by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and other New York City folkies—recorded the similarly structured “Talking Union.”. The instrumental intro to “Alice’s Restaurant” is the … Also with PDF for printing. There is a video of Tasjan on YouTube, performing the song live at The Shed in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
(Note that everything sounds in the key of D, a major second higher than written.) Shift up to third position (relative to the capo) to make the D7 chord. (Note that everything sounds in the key of D, a major second higher than written.)
Among them is Aaron Lee Tasjan—an East Nashville–based singer-songwriter whose New West debut, Pick the bass notes with your thumb and the melody notes with your index and middle fingers. These nomenclatures are related to the third degree. 2a, the hammer-on in measure 1, on beat 2, is not meant to sound polite. So, to make life easier for musicians, each chord is given a name. Pledge your support and get bonus lessons!
Therefore, the C major chord is formed by the notes C, E and G. All you have to do is press (or let sound) these notes on your instrument and you will have the C major chord. (Similar chord sequences are peppered throughout the song.) Here you’ll slide up to the root of the D7 chord, and hang on the chord for the duration of the measure. Shortly after you arrive at C, a #9 on beat 3 casts a blue shade on the otherwise cheery chord.
The style is commonly known today as talking blues. Really dig into it. As with “Talkin’ Candy Bar Blues,” the three examples that follow are playable fingerstyle or with a pick.
A chord is the union of three or more notes played simultaneously.
There is a video of Tasjan on YouTube, performing the song live at The Shed in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Think of a chord that you want to form. The walkup (measure 4) this time includes a jazzy A#dim passing chord between Am and G/B. (Variations on this musical passage recur later in the song as well, providing breathers between verses.) In this module, stewards discuss the pros and cons of going to arbitration and develop strategies and skills to settle grievances. Phil Ochs’ “Talking Cuban Crisis,” from All the News That’s Fit to Sing, is another briskly flatpicked talking blues in the key of G. A more contemporary song built from this same blueprint is Dan Bern’s sardonic “Talkin’ Woody, Bob, Bruce & Dan Blues,” from Bern’s 1999 album Smartie Mine. These examples may be played with a flatpick (or thumbpick), but try them fingerstyle first. Union Maid Lyrics: There once was a union maid, she never was afraid / Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid / She went to the union hall when a meeting it It’s as good a place as any to begin exploring the talking blues because it’s one of the most widely known and is based upon a fairly common template.
Banjos, Complete Courses, Cool Supplies, Free Resources. They define whom we are talking about, they are the ones who guide us. (Tasjan does use his thumb for the bass note of this chord.) Over the years since, there have always been writers who’ve explored the form—including Shel Silverstein, Johnny Cash, and loads of lesser-known tunesmiths. We’re here to help. Likewise, fret the low F# in measure 4 with your thumb. Shift up to third position (relative to the capo) to make the D7 chord. Most of the bass notes in this example are easy to grab, except for the D, under the Dsus4 chord—measure 3, beat 3. Grab the subsequent B with your first finger. Banjos, Complete Courses, Cool Supplies, Free Resources. Your thumb will pluck the bass notes. If you continue, we will assume that you agree to, http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/200158, 'Prewar Gibson TB-1 Pot Assembly for Openback or Resonator - Block Rim', 'Mo' Gravy (clawhammer banjo - original)', '"Gibson" Earl Scruggs Carnegie Hall w/Videos', 'No-name flush-fret 5-string banjo for restoration'. Very well, when we talk about the three notes that form the natural chords, we are talking about the triad of each chord. The notes that form the natural chords are the first, the third and the fifth degrees of their respective scales. When none of these symbols exist, it means that the chord is major. Example 2a is based on the intro to “12 Bar Blues” and is similar to some verse passages in the song as well. 3b. Remember, the nature of the talking-blues idiom is that the performer—in this case, you—recites wordy political commentary or tells a rambling shaggy-dog tale, holding the guitar part down steadily all the while. Pick the bass notes with your thumb and the melody notes with your index and middle fingers. Most of the bass notes in this example are easy to grab, except for the Db under the Dsus4 chord—measure 3, beat 3. Phil Ochs’ “Talking Cuban Crisis,” from, One more similarly styled talking blues is Guy Carawan’s “Talking Atomic Blues” from. Sample online, All Forums Despite the moniker, however, it rarely employs the 12-bar chord progression that is typical of most blues music. 9 on beat 3 casts a blue shade on the otherwise cheery chord. 45,039 views, added to favorites 1,074 times.
Make sure to practice this slowly and clearly before you attempt it at the indicated clip. Example 1a begins with a walkup from a G chord to a C chord, passing through Am and G/B en route.
The work you’ll have to do is to practice each until it flows like running water. To form the minor chords, you use the minor third degree. These are the main notes of the chord, known as chord notes (or chord tones). The same holds true for, Ex. Interestingly, he tucks his index finger into his palm—picking instead with his thumb, middle, and ring fingers. The union wins most grievances without going to arbitration. Before that, it is worth knowing that a chord can be major, minor or suspended. (Feel free to use another fingering, of course, if you find one that works more effectively for you.) 1a.
This name is based on the fundamental notes we know (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti). The thumb-over-the-neck fingering allows to you sound the open second-string B on beat 2.
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