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Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what action she is taking to protect lowland raised bog habitats at Thorne and Hatfield Moors in South Yorkshire and Wedholme Flow in Cumbria.
Mr. Meacher: I confirmed this morning that terms have been agreed to cease large-scale commercial peat working at Thorne Moor and Wedholme immediately and to phase it out over the next three years at Hatfield Moor. This has been achieved as a consequence of negotiations between English Nature and the major operator on the sites, Scotts Ltd. Upon satisfactory completion of contract Government will provide £17.3 million to English Nature to buy out existing peat extraction consents and to buy the sites. The arrangements include measures to safeguard employment and to re-deploy effort towards restoration of the sites and the development of peat alternatives.
Mr. Morley [holding answer 11 February 2002]: We do not hold the information requested. However, statistics showing the growth of organic production in the UK since 1993, by land area and number of holdings and a list of individual producers, processors and importers of organic products are being made available to the Libraries of the House.
Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what steps she proposes to take to improve Britain's ranking on the World Economic Forum's Environmental Sustainability Index;
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Mr. Meacher [holding answer 26 February 2002]: In its Strategy for sustainable development for the UK, 'A better quality of life' published in 1999, the Government established 15 headline indicators (and a core set of around 135 indicators) to measure progress towards sustainable development by the country as a whole. The first review, 'Achieving a better quality of life', Government annual report 2000, was published in January 2001 and the second annual review will be published shortly. Looked at as a set, the 15 headline indicators can be seen as a "Quality of life barometer".
The Government decided against aggregating indicators along the lines of the World Economic Forum's Environmental Sustainability Index. Such indices may be useful as tools to raise awareness but their choice of components, and the way in which they are weighted together, is largely subjective. A different choice of components, or of weights, would give wholly different results and hence the resulting measures are potentially misleading. This is aptly illustrated by the fact that the World Economic Forum's choice of components last year resulted in the UK being ranked 16th in the world in the same Index, as opposed to 91st this year.
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many people are employed in her Department on a job share contract; and what percentage of vacant positions was advertised on this basis in the last 12 months.
Mr. Morley: There are currently 83 people employed in DEFRA on job share contract. Although vacant positions are not generally advertised on such a specific basis, applications are always welcomed from those wishing to work on a part-time or job share basis. It is departmental policy, as an equal opportunity employer, to meet requests for all types of flexible working, including part-time working and job sharing, wherever the nature of the work allows.
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to what extent Government Departments have achieved the target of a 1 per cent. per annum reduction in greenhouse gas emissions against the 19902000 levels.
Mr. Meacher: The Government have set the following target: "all departments to contribute towards the Government Estate target of a 1% p.a. on-going reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from buildings". The data for the first year to which the target applies (200001) are not yet available, but I will make the data available as soon as possible.
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Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what is the (a) location and (b) number of CHP units operating on the Government estate, broken down by the different fuel used within these units.
Ashdown House, London;
Eland House, London; and
Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, Surrey.
Investigations are currently in progress covering the utilisation of CHP technology for a number of other buildings. This could be either by installing CHP units or joining existing heat networks. Progress is partly dependent upon the expiry date for their current energy contracts.
Mr. Sayeed: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what the estimated operational costs are for the Department's quality assessment programme for combined heat and power in financial year 200102;
Mr. Meacher: The costs incurred in setting up and running the combined heat and power quality assurance programme (CHPQA) to 31 March 2001 was around £765,000. The anticipated operational costs of the CHPQA for 200102 is around £625,000.
Mr. Chope: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many overseas visits have been undertaken by parliamentary private secretaries in her Department at departmental expense in each of the last four years; and at what cost to public funds.
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200001 data are currently being collected from local authorities.
Information, including the amounts of industrial and commercial waste, for Greater London is published in Strategic Waste Management Assessment 2000: London, Environment Agency. Data are available for one year only and based on estimates from the Environment Agency's National Waste Production Survey.
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Mr. Meacher: The latest available figures, from the Department's municipal waste management survey, indicate that London produced approximately 4.4 million tonnes of municipal waste in 1999/2000. This figure was approximately 3.8 million tonnes in 1996/97, 4 million tonnes in 1997/98 and 4.1 million tonnes in 1998/99. 2000/01 data are currently being collated from local authorities.
It is of course up to individual waste authorities to promote waste minimisation and to develop minimisation schemes. However, I understand that the Mayor's municipal waste management strategy for London (currently in draft form) recognises this problem of growth in waste and emphasises the importance of reducing the amount of waste London produces.
The spending review 2000 provided a ring-fenced grant of £140 million, for two years, for local authority waste management and this funding will be targeted at recycling and minimisation schemes. The Government have consulted on the method for distribution of this fund and responses to the consultation are currently being considered. I will be making an announcement on the final structure of the fund shortly.
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Mr. Meacher: It is for individual waste authorities to determine how and where their waste is disposed of. At present, much of London's waste is transported outside London for disposal at landfill sites. However, I understand that the Mayor's Municipal Waste Management Strategy (currently in draft form) proposed to address this issue, by looking at the current waste disposal facilities in London, and assessing what new facilities are required, with the aim of greater self-sufficiency for London in relation to waste, and maximised recycling and composting.
Greater self-sufficiency and increased recycling and composting will mean that less waste needs to be transported outside London. Where waste does need to be transported, the Mayor's draft strategy proposes to encourage the use of environmentally friendly modes of transport, such as rail, river and canal.
The Government's Waste Strategy 2000 stressed the importance of waste being dealt with as close to its source as possible. All waste authorities are encouraged to take this 'proximity principle' into account and to reduce transportation of waste, wherever possible, when developing their municipal waste management strategies.
In March 2001 the then DETR issued Guidance on Municipal Waste Management Strategies to all local authorities. This advised that opportunities for using forms of transport other than road haulage be considered by authorities. This guidance also made authorities aware of the Freight Grant schemes, administered by DTLR, which aim to encourage the use of inland waterways and maritime freight, as opposed to road transport.
Mr. Sayeed: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent research her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the extent to which local recycling initiatives are affected by the expansion of the waste incineration industry.
Mr. Meacher: The department has not commissioned such research. Local authorities have a responsibility to plan waste treatment and disposal. Waste Strategy 2000 set targets for recycling and composting of household waste in England and Wales, and in March 2001 we introduced statutory performance standards for local authorities in England.
Where a local authority or company proposes a waste incineration facility, our policy is that it should be small enough that it does not act as a disincentive to increased recycling, and should not undermine the achievement of the statutory recycling targets that have been allocated.
Under the guidance we issued in September 2000 for Private Finance Initiative projects, proposals which include incineration must also demonstrate that all opportunities for recycling have been considered first, and that the arrangements proposed will not produce a barrier to the longer term development of recycling.
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First introduced in the 1920s, phthalates are commercial chemicals used in a vast array of consumer products: plastic and vinyl, medical supplies, flooring, wall coverings, cosmetics, personal care products and toys. Their usefulness in industry is undeniable but researchers have observed harmful effects on endocrine, metabolic and neurological systems in the human body. Although elimination or substitution of phthalates by governments or voluntary action is underway, the continued ubiquity of phthalates and their concomitant harms remains a serious global public health concern.
The gut microbiota is often the first line of defense against many toxins, which may enter through food and water and may have the potential to disturb the microflora balance. Other exposure routes are through the skin and lungs.
Xenobiotics (Greek, xenos “foreign”; bios “life”) are chemical substances not normally present in or produced by the environment of living organisms. In addition to phthalates, numerous other chemicals of concern exist in the environment due to industrialization; although they will not be discussed here, these include persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and heavy metals, among others. Mounting evidence indicates that chronic xenobiotics exposure negatively affects human health, notably via inflammation, oxidative stress, and disruption of gut microflora composition and metabolite synthesis.
According to a recent review, some probiotic microorganisms may be able to protect against many specific xenobiotics through various mechanisms:
- Binding and/or metabolizing of various chemical pollutants
- Alleviate negative health effects by modulating the composition of the gut microflora
- Reduction of oxidative stress
- Enhancement of the intestinal barrier function
- Modulation of host gene expression
- Increasing the host’s capacity to metabolize xenobiotics
Restoring the functions of the gut microbial population and the integrity of the gut epithelial barrier may be an effective approach to fighting the detrimental effects of environmental pollutants.
However, scientific evidence on phthalates in that regard is scant, relying primarily on animal models or in vitro studies. Yet, the potential for benefit is becoming more promising as research progresses.
Probiotics and phthalates
Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) is one of the commonly detected phthalate types in the environment. DEHP has a serious disruptive effect on reproductive health. In a 2019 study using DEHP- exposed mice, a strain of Lactobacillus plantarum (currently renamed Lactiplantibacillus plantarum) improved male reproductive system functions by increasing serum testosterone hormone levels, improved the quality of semen, and ameliorated gonad development defects.
Detoxification of another phthalate compound (Di-n-butyl phthalate) by an inactivated strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus was observed in an in vitro cell model as reported in a 2021 publication.
The following two studies combine phthalates and bisphenol A, ostensibly because of their uses in commercial water bottles:
- In a recent study, a multi-strained probiotic mixture (Saccharomyces boulardii, Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus (formerly known as Lactobacillus rhamnosus), and two different strains of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum (formerly Lactobacillus plantarum) reduced the toxicity of phthalates and bisphenol A mixture in Wistar rats. In addition, the probiotic treatment attenuated systemic inflammation as well as almost completely alleviated the changes in biochemical, hematological and hormonal parameters.
- In another study, probiotics were assessed as an intervention in a rat model of asthma induced by a mixture of phthalates and bisphenol A. The multi-strain probiotic could bind the phthalate/bisphenol A mixture in vitro and alleviate its effects on redox status and bioelements in rat lung, thymus and kidney and tissues.
Takeaway on phthalates
In a few animal studies, some probiotics appeared to mitigate the impact of specific phthalates. However, this field of research is still in its infancy.
Yet, given the overarching role of a healthy microbiome on human health, the potential use of probiotics to support microbiome health against phthalates appears to be worth further investigation.
Note: Phthalates are only one class among the many environmental toxins that can be harmful. In the coming months, we will summarize available research exploring the role of probiotics in protecting against other xenobiotics, notably parabens, phenolic compounds, and pesticides.
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Baralić, Katarina et al. “Integrating in silico with in vivo approach to investigate phthalate and bisphenol A mixture-linked asthma development: Positive probiotic intervention.” Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association vol. 158 (2021): 112671. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2021.112671
Baralić, Katarina et al. “Multi-strain probiotic ameliorated toxic effects of phthalates and bisphenol A mixture in Wistar rats.” Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association vol. 143 (2020): 111540. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2020.111540
Chen, Lianguo. “Gut Microbiota Manipulation to Mitigate the Detrimental Effects of Environmental Pollutants.” Toxics vol. 9,6 127. 1 Jun. 2021, doi:10.3390/toxics9060127
da Silva Costa, Rouse et al. “Potential risk of BPA and phthalates in commercial water bottles: a minireview.” Journal of water and health vol. 19,3 (2021): 411-435. doi:10.2166/wh.2021.202
Engel, Stephanie M et al. “Neurotoxicity of Ortho-Phthalates: Recommendations for Critical Policy Reforms to Protect Brain Development in Children.” American journal of public health vol. 111,4 (2021): 687-695. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2020.306014
Haverinen, Elsi et al. “Metabolic Syndrome and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: An Overview of Exposure and Health Effects.” International journal of environmental research and public health vol. 18,24 13047. 10 Dec. 2021, doi:10.3390/ijerph182413047
Średnicka, Paulina et al. “Probiotics as a biological detoxification tool of food chemical contamination: A review.” Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association vol. 153 (2021): 112306. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2021.112306
Tian, Xiaozhu et al. “Lactobacillus plantarum TW1-1 Alleviates Diethylhexylphthalate-Induced Testicular Damage in Mice by Modulating Gut Microbiota and Decreasing Inflammation.” Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology vol. 9 221. 26 Jun. 2019, doi:10.3389/fcimb.2019.00221
Zamkowska, Dorota et al. “Environmental exposure to non-persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals and semen quality: An overview of the current epidemiological evidence.” International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health vol. 31,4 (2018): 377-414. doi:10.13075/ijomeh.1896.01195
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Pro Tennis star Venus Williams is now eating a vegan diet. Her sister Serena has made the switch too. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Venus was diagnosed as suffering from Siogren’s disease. Siogren’s is an incurable immune system disease that was causing her severe physical discomfort. She decided to adopt a vegan diet to help thwart the effects of the disease. Glad to hear your dietary change is a step towards better health, Venus! Hope to see you winning on the courts! You are a Badass Vegan! | <urn:uuid:1b501547-e077-4f0d-965f-b179f64b6c5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://badassvegans.com/vegan-athletes/venus-williams-tennis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968998 | 113 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Cryptocurrencies have found an unlikely ally in their quest to become legalized in India, following intense legal battles between companies, consumers, and the Reserve Bank of India. The recommendation to legalize crypto comes from the law commission of India, as they are a vital part of their case against a blanket ban on sports betting.
India’s Controversial Ban on Cryptocurrencies
The Indian government’s battle against virtual currencies first began in April of 2018, when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) barred all financial institutions from doing business with cryptocurrency exchanges. The result of this ban was grave, drying up liquidity from the affected exchanges and damaging Indian based cryptocurrency investors. The RBI gave banks three months to cut all ties with crypto related companies, making July 5th the official start date of the ban.
The Reserve bank of India made a statement at the time of the ban, saying:
“It has been decided that, with immediate effect, entities regulated by RBI shall not deal with or provide services to any individual or business entities dealing with or settling cryptocurrencies. Regulated entities which already provide such services shall exit the relationship within a specified time.”
As the July deadline loomed, exchanges and investors increased their efforts to protest the cryptocurrency ban, putting their petitions in front of the country’s highest court.
The Indian Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, ruled in favor of the RBI, upholding the cryptocurrency ban and accepting the RBI’s arguments. The RBI’s main argument was that Indian law inherently prohibits cryptocurrencies, as it requires all legal currencies to be physical, and to be stamped by the government.
Ban on Crypto by India Was Only Temporary
Following the court’s decision to uphold a blanket ban on cryptocurrencies, there was another twist to the complicated situation. An unnamed government official within the Indian government recently told Quartz India that the government is actually leaning against a sweeping ban on the trading of cryptocurrencies and is considering classifying them as commodities instead.
“I don’t think anyone is really thinking of banning it (cryptocurrencies) altogether. The issue here is about regulating the trade and we need to know where the money is coming from. Allowing it as (a) commodity may let us better regulate trade and so that is being looked at,” the anonymous senior government official said.
The government official seemed to insinuate that the April ban was more of a temporary measure, put in place while the government figured out how to regulate the industry.
He also explained that the government isn’t concerned with cryptocurrencies themselves, but rather the illegal activities that they could be used for, saying, “Trade is not a criminal offence…what has to be in place is a mechanism to be sure that the money used is not illegal money, and to track its source is the most important thing.”
Legalization of Sports Betting Could Lead to Crypto Approval
The law commission of India may sway the government’s decision on how to regulate cryptocurrencies, due to their recommendations in a case against a sweeping ban on sports betting in the country.
The commission has been preparing a case against the ban on sports betting, which could, in turn, influence future rulings on cryptocurrencies. In their case, the commission first recommended making all betting transactions cashless, which would make tracking transactions significantly easier. In their recommendation, they said “gambling transactions should be made cashless, making use of electronic means of payment such as credit cards, debit cards, net-banking, virtual currencies, etc.”
While speaking to Quartz India, Nischal Shetty, founder and CEO of Indian based cryptocurrency exchange WazirX, said that this ruling is “the first time that a body appointed by the government has given recognition to virtual currencies that they have value and can be used for a transaction,” and that it is a “very positive sign, especially considering the report has come out after a lot of deliberation.”
The final hearing for the case on the legalization of cryptocurrencies will occur on September 11th, and those effected by the ban are hopeful that the commission’s recommendation on using virtual currencies for gambling will carry weight in the case against the RBI.
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JEWISH BARCELONA – PAST AND PRESENT
You may have heard of the term Ashkenazi Jews referring to Jews from North and Eastern Europe.
But how much do you really know about Sephardic Jews – those originally from Spain & Portugal?
Now is your chance to discover the untold stories of the Jews of Barcelona.Two heritage experts will transport you to the ancient times of the Jews in Spain into their most important chapters beginning in the 9th century leading all the way up to modern times.
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Take a glimpse into Barcelona’s medieval Jewish community and learn about the return of Jewish life to Sepharad (Spain) during the Spanish Civil war.
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I recently had a chance to “visit” Jewish Majorca, and had a really great experience. We zoomed on five consecutive Sunday afternoons, and I learned an amazing amount. I’d read a couple of books about the conversos, but the knowledge Dani, our tour guide, brought, and the places he took us really made things come to life. (He took us into a hidden tunnel, likely used by “secret Jews” to join others for forbidden services.) I looked forward to every zoom-day, and each one Dani presented was different, culminating with a cooking demo by his wife Carla, from their own kitchen. I recommend this series to any history buff; it will give you context, deepen your knowledge, and definitely make you want to return to Majorca in person. | <urn:uuid:8f815944-2e48-45d4-95e1-830b07ff6604> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jewishmajorca.com/jewish-barcelona/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.944525 | 680 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The quick answer is yes, they can.
Let me tell you why.
Let's say you've been injured because your doctor was careless. Your injuries are permanent. You've chosen to bring a lawsuit seeking money as a form of compensation for all the harms, losses and damages you suffered because of that wrongdoing.
When you start your lawsuit, your doctor can't believe you sued him. In his response to your legal papers he claims he did nothing wrong when treating you. He also says that nothing he did or didn't do caused you harm. Then, to make you feel even worse, he'll claim that you are somehow responsible for your own injuries.
On top of that, he's also going to argue that your injuries are not as bad as you claim.
Those are the four typical defenses we see in these medical malpractice cases here in New York. Your doctor's attorney has made it clear that they will not negotiate and this case will never be resolved by settling your case.
What that really means is that a jury will have to decide if you are more likely right than wrong that your doctor caused you harm and injury. If the answer is yes, the jury will be required to compensate your for all your damages.
You should know that there are different types of damages.
They can be broken down into two categories.
Economic damages and non-economic damages. There are subcategories for each.
Economic damages involve lost wages, lost earning capacity, future loss of income. These are things that can be calculated. If you earned $50,000 and have been unable to work for the past two years because of your injuries, it's simple to see that you will have lost $100,000 worth of income during that time.
If you are unable to work into the future and you still have 20 years of work you could have done had you not been injured, then we can project out your earnings during that 20 years of work.
These are examples of economic losses.
Then, there are elements of damages that have no definable limits. For example, when we talk about your pain and the suffering you've endured, there's just no way to precisely calculate that amount. Your suffering may be different than someone else with the same type of injury. Your age may affect you worse than your neighbor who had the same problem. You may have other medical issues that make your condition worse than a younger person who suffers the same type of injury.
A jury must determine collectively what your pain and suffering is worth. They must use their common sense and their experience when deciding how much money to give you to compensate you for your harm.
Let's get back to the title of today's article.
Can a jury give you MORE than you're asking for? The answer is yes.
If the jury feels that you are entitled to receive MORE money, then they can give you more. They can give you much more.
If your attorney asks for a specific amount of money for your pain and suffering, the jury can decide that he didn't ask for enough. They can, on their own, decide to give you more. Your attorney's request for a specific amount of money is just a guideline.
"Ladies and gentlemen, for her past pain and suffering I ask you to consider whether $2 million is sufficient to compensate her for all she went through..."
The jury may decide that she should receive $5 million for that. Or more. Or less.
Likewise, the jury could decide that she is to receive LESS than what your attorney has suggested.
Regardless of what the jury ultimately decides to give you, you can be sure that the defense will object to that amount. The defense will ask the judge to throw out the verdict as being against the weight of the evidence. He's going to argue that your verdict is not supported by the testimony and evidence.
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When Harrison (Qing) Xia submitted his dissertation proposal, his TC advisor, Professor of Cognitive Studies Xiaodong Lin-Siegler, threw it away.
“She said, ‘The research questions are unclear. You have not done much literature review and analysis,’” recalls Xia. “And it was true. I needed to communicate better, read more and write a new proposal.”
Lin-Siegler, founder of TC’s Education for Persistence and Innovation Center, was teaching Xia to handle failure and formulate research questions. He draws on both lessons in his current work: transforming prekindergarten education in China.
“Chinese students are good at solving problems posed by others,” Xia says. So “we’re cultivating, in preschool, the habit of asking questions.”
Xia launched Nobo Columbia Corporation (NOBO) in 2011. The company tests how different combinations of various cognitive and social cognitive theories (Maria Montessori, Multiple Intelligence, Metacognition and Creativity) affect children’s development and preschool management. Nobo creates curricula for preschool and kindergarten children ages 2 to 6 and teacher and staff professional development.
The Nobo curricula help children develop 10 key habits, including listening, observing, appreciating difference, and self-control: “Our goal is not to have children memorize factual knowledge, but rather learn habits for acquiring and creating knowledge that will benefit their development,” Xia says. “We aim to serve over 1,000 preschools and kindergartens in China. It’s about helping children ask better questions and solve problems. I learned these important skills by doing research with Professor Lin-Siegler.” He smiles. “I failed plenty of times before I mastered them.” | <urn:uuid:43074f69-cd7a-4ac2-8d7a-2a3b49146501> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2019/december/asking-better-questions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949708 | 383 | 2.625 | 3 |
Picture This: In Search of Style
Photographers can develop a recognizable look that sets their work apart.
By Earl Nottingham
I’ve often been told by others that my photographs have a certain “style,” and that even without seeing my name alongside the images, it’s evident that they’re mine. This has always intrigued me since I never consciously set out to develop a style or particular look to my images or patterned my work after someone else’s.
However, after spending some time perusing the images made by friends and colleagues on social media, in addition to revisiting the works of well-known photographers, it became apparent that each photographer does exhibit a distinct and recognizable style, whether amateur or professional, and regardless of the subject matter.
Style cannot be determined by a single photograph. It gestates over time as a body of unified photographic work grows, gradually revealing a visual consistency that allows us to recognize a photographer’s work. For example, the style of Ansel Adams is quickly recognizable because of many of the common denominators he utilized, such as shooting grand landscapes with a large-format camera and black-and-white film, combined with his Zone System method of negative exposure, development and print processing.
Typical common denominators that can define style are:
A photographer may be drawn to shooting one type of subject, such as landscape, wildlife or portraits, and may specialize in specific subjects, such as hummingbirds, waterfowl, macrophotography or still lifes.
Camera Equipment and Techniques
The choice of camera equipment and techniques can help define the “look” of a body of work and hence its style. Equipment can range from a camera phone to a large-format film camera and anything in between. Lens choice can also help define a style, as many photographers gravitate to using one focal-length lens at a predetermined f-stop. Case in point: As I was once shooting a desert landscape with a 24mm wide-angle lens stopped down to f/16 for maximum depth of field, the person next to me was using a 200mm lens at f/2.8. They both provided great images that were as individual as the photographers.
A photographer may prefer to shoot at a certain time of day or with a particular quality of lighting such as a clear or diffused sky, or use artificial light or modifiers such as strobes and reflectors. Additionally, the sensitivity of today’s camera sensors opens up new opportunities for shooting in low light or nighttime situations. This allows many photographers to express themselves in ways previously unattainable, such as light-painting scenes at night against a starry sky.
Everyone sees a scene differently and composes it in the viewfinder accordingly. One photographer may capture the drama of a wide landscape while the other sees delicate beauty in a close-up detail. Composition can also be interpreted by where the subject (or focal point) is placed in the frame — dead-center or off to the side following the rule of thirds. Many photographers prefer to break the rules by using very asymmetrical composition such as placing a horizon in the bottom seventh (or less) of the frame.
A digital photo file (especially a raw file) offers an almost infinite variety of creative looks in post-processing, limited only by the photographer’s imagination. They can range from minor color corrections to impressionistic, painterly looks.
Style, as evidenced by an individual’s photography, is a graphic distillation and manifestation for others to see who we are and how we interpret the world. It comes naturally — sometimes with conscious effort and sometimes not. No two photographers have the same style, nor should they. Vive la différence!
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KENYAN citizens took to the polls yesterday, in a highly contested election between Raila Odinga, candidate for the coalition of reforms and democracy, Musalia Mudavadi candidate for the Amani coalition, and the only female contender Martha Kurua candidate of the national rainbow coalition Kenya Party.
However, there are an estimated 2.5 million Kenyans in the diaspora, many living in the United States and Britain, but also in Germany and Kenya’s east African neighbours, that did not get the opportunity to vote.
The Kenyan Government decided last year November that citizens abroad would not be able to vote due to financial and logistical constraints impeding their registration in time for the election day.
There are 73 registered Kenyan students studying at Wits. PhD (finance) student Allan Simuye said that he felt shattered, especially since they were promised that they would take part in the elections by the government and the electoral board.
Most Kenyans in the diaspora have the sense of being ‘an empty shell’ after being denied the opportunity to vote. Simuye said that they really wanted to be part of the process, “all we can hope is that our choices reflect the right thing on the ground”.
Simuye is very optimistic that these elections will be historical, in that the elected person will bring about a lot of change in Kenya and be able to unify all Kenyans. The new elected leader will continue economic development, unify all Kenyans and will deal with key social ills such as tribalism and corruption.
“A constitution is the only assurance we have of a focused leadership” We hope the leader addresses the so called ‘historical injustices’ that everybody talks about but never addresses, he added.
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There is a dangerous censoriousness pulsing through American society. In small towns and big cities alike, would-be commissars are fighting, in the name of a distinct minority of Americans, to stifle open discussion and impose their views on the community at large. Dissenters, when they speak out, are hounded, ostracized and sometimes even forced from their jobs.
Defenders of this push for censorship say they are simply working to protect the nation’s children from prejudice, psychological distress and inappropriate material. “To say there were slaves is one thing, but to talk in detail about how slaves were treated, and with photos, is another,” said Tina Descovich, a leader of Moms for Liberty, a conservative group that seeks to enshrine “parental rights” into law. Descovich was speaking to The Washington Post in defense of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, who is spearheading an effort to censor educators who teach, or even raise, certain politically incorrect issues in their classrooms.
One of these bills would give parents and state regulators broad authority to ban books or teachings that cause “discomfort” in students, and would put lessons on “the Civil War, the expansion of the United States to its present boundaries, the world wars, and the civil rights movement” under careful review. Another would permit parents to sue school districts that “encourage classroom discussions” on “sexual orientation or gender identity” in “primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.” Critics say this language is so broad as to effectively outlaw any discussion of L.G.B.T. people in elementary school classrooms, or at the very least, strongly discourage teachers from raising those issues, regardless of context.
Pushed by militantly conservative activists — and heeding the demands of an increasingly censorious group of conservative voters — Republican lawmakers are, in states across the country, introducing bills that suppress debate and stifle discussion in favor of the rote memorization of approved facts.
Last month, for example, the Indiana House of Representatives approved a bill — not yet signed into law — that would limit what teachers can say regarding race, history and politics in the state’s classrooms. Under the law, schools could be held liable for mentioning any one of several “divisive concepts,” including the idea that “any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish responsibility, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual’s sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin or political affiliation.”
The bill would allow parents to allege a violation, file a complaint, sue and even collect damages (up to $1,000). It would also, in the name of transparency, create curriculum review committees for parents and require schools and teachers to post lists of material on websites for parents to inspect.
In South Carolina, lawmakers have introduced a bill — known as the Freedom from Ideological Coercion and Indoctrination Act — that would prohibit any state-funded institution from stating that “a group or an individual, by virtue of his or her race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, heritage, culture, religion, or political belief is inherently racist, sexist, bigoted, ignorant, biased, fragile, oppressive, or contributive to any oppression, whether consciously or unconsciously.” If signed into law, this bill could make it illegal, for instance, for teachers and college professors in the state to criticize members of a white supremacist group since that affiliation might count as a “political belief.”
Schools that “repeatedly distort or misrepresent verifiable historical facts” or “omit relevant and important context” or “advertise or promote ideologies or sociopolitical causes or organizations” could face a loss of state funding, state accreditation or tax-exempt status. As for what these violations would actually look like? The bill does not say.
The most disturbing efforts to monitor schools and teachers for wrong-think involve actual surveillance. Bills introduced in Iowa and Mississippi would install classroom cameras that would stream lessons over the internet for anyone to observe. The Iowa bill, which died in committee this week, would have forced schools to place cameras in all K-12 classrooms, except for physical education and special-needs classes. Teachers and other staff members who obstructed cameras or failed to keep them in working order would face fines of up to 5 percent of their weekly pay for each infraction.
According to PEN America, more than half of the “educational gag orders” moving through state legislatures include a mandatory punishment for those found in violation.
Opponents of these bills say that the laws don’t encourage openness or promote respect in the classroom as much as they suppress speech, intimidate teachers and open the door to harassment or worse.
Already, in states that have actually enacted these bills, many teachers are opting for silence about certain topics, for fear of punishment. My colleagues in the newsroom have found multiple cases of teachers choosing to omit certain facts rather than run the risk of offending these laws, which are often vague and poorly written. As one history teacher in Oklahoma put it, “I am not going to let any of these laws deter me from the things that I think work best for students, but I also enjoy working with students and having a roof over my head.”
Free speech, free discourse and free debate are among the great traditions of this country. They are, at this moment, under threat from a well-organized, well-funded movement of ideologues who have used both the force of the mob and their own institutional power (including that of the state itself) to impose their edicts on the public at large.
Conservative censors and their allies see, in the present moment, an opportunity to reshape society to their liking and squelch the views of those who disagree. It is up to those of us who believe in the First Amendment and free speech to take a stand for American liberty, while we still can.
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Leland Stanford: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California's Governor and the West's Most Famous Robber Baron
Date: December 2019
Duration: 2 hours 8 minutes
The technology that culminated in the Transcontinental Railroad’s completion changed the life of every resident in America by connecting the two coasts, not only in the mind, but by the clock. In tandem with that, a new tide of powerful American industrialists had their way, to the benefit and consternation of the general public, and while decrying the avarice of steel and railroad giants, well-to-do politicians, and titans of the banking system back in the East, the West received civic blessings as well. These included the first rail connection across the bulk of the continent, flourishing local economies in the major cities, and the niceties of the East Coast that included previously unthinkable universities.
One man among four major industrialists came to dominate the railroad extending from the west to Promontory, Utah more than any other. Whether he was the most capable is open to debate, but he made the essential investment at the most crucial moment. For this, he was given the keys to the entire industry in the West and sat atop Nob Hill as the financial king of San Francisco. In the process, he would become California’s governor, and he would wind up lending his name to one of the country’s most prestigious universities. That man was none other than a native New Yorker named Leland Stanford.
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Ccancerology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis and treatment of cancerous diseases.
It aims to identify the mechanisms of tumour formation (carcinoma, sarcoma, lymphoma, myeloma, leukaemia, mesothelioma, melanoma, glioma, metastasis, etc.) in order to establish the best possible therapy for each specific case.
Every year, cancer affects over 44,000 people in Switzerland (approx. 20,000 women and 24,000 men). Due to demographic reasons (an ageing population), the number of new diagnoses is still on the rise, but thanks to various screening programmes and ongoing advances in diagnosis and therapy, chances of survival continue to increase.
Cancer cells are so-called ‘immortal’ cells because they multiply without dying, accumulating to form a tumour. As they do not function like a normal cell, they divert ‘local resources’ to feed on them (neoangiogenesis), blocking and attacking the body’s immune defences.
A localised mass consisting of cells that retain their function; this mass does not alter the surrounding tissues (e.g. wart, mole), but if it presses on an organ, it must be removed.
A mass of cancerous cells that can invade and destroy healthy neighbouring tissues and migrate to other parts of the body to form metastasis. A distinction is made between solid tumours and cancers of blood cells (haematologic malignancies)
Tumours are formed on tissues that cover an external (skin, mucous membranes) or internal (digestive tract, glands) surface of the body (breast cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, bowel cancer, lung cancer)
A distinction is made between soft tissue sarcoma and bone sarcoma (osteosarcoma): Soft tissue sarcoma develops in the connective or supporting tissues (adipose, fibrous, blood and synovial tissues; muscles, lymph vessels and peripheral nerves) and is relatively rare in adults. Osteosarcoma, or bone sarcoma, is mainly formed on long bones (femur, tibia) or flat bones (ribs, sternum).
A malignant tumour that develops in the lymph nodes and vessels (the body’s immune system); a distinction is made between Hodgkin lymphoma (a rare disease that affects certain types of lymphocytes) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Cancer of plasma cells (white blood cells in the bone marrow), which can affect the bones, immune system, kidneys and red blood cells in the blood.
Blood and bone marrow cancer affects the production of blood cells (white blood cells).
Tumour of the tissue surrounding the lungs (pleura), the abdominal cavity (peritoneum) or the heart (pericardium).
Tumour that develops from skin cells, melanocytes.
Brain tumour which can develop in the brain and other parts of the nervous system (brain stem, spine).
Tumours formed by cancer cells that have broken away from the ‘primary tumour’ (first tumour) and which – via the lymph or blood vessels – have migrated to another part of the body (lung, bone, brain, liver).
It is now known that many cancers are caused by a genetic component. But there are also many external risk factors, resulting from environmental factors or individual lifestyles. These include:
Radiology works at different stages of cancer:
Radiology is based on several techniques which can be combined with one another. A distinction is made between diagnostic and functional imaging.
Standard radiology or radiography is the study of joints at bone level. As a first-line examination, radiography makes it possible to visualise specific parts of the human body (bones and certain organs) and detects fractures and osteoarthritis. It uses X-rays (high-frequency waves), which – when passing through the body – are absorbed by different structures (e.g. bones, soft tissues). On X-rays, bones will appear white, while soft tissue will appear grey.
Interventional radiology combines both radiology (using X-rays) and disciplines such as surgery, medical oncology and urology. The advantage of this new technique is to carry out minimally invasive, imaging-guided procedures to:
a) Stop bleeding (by plugging the bleeding vessel from the inside)
b) Destroy tumours
Interventional radiology uses percutaneous techniques that, using different types of probes and medical imaging (scanners, MRI, ultrasound), locate and reach the tumour. Then, depending on the chosen technique and probe, the tumour will either be burned from the inside (heat emitted by radiofrequencies or microwaves) or frozen to -80 °C (cryotherapy: the liquid injected by the probe will freeze the cancer cells, which will eventually burst)
Even some previously incurable tumours can now be treated with a new technique called radioembolisation, where radioactive particles are injected into the tumour and irradiated from the inside until it is destroyed.
c) Another very promising technique is to inject modified viruses into the tumour, which will then only attack the cancer cells. Naturally, the virus is modified in such a way that it cannot develop into healthy cells.
The CT scanneris a device that rotates around the patient using an X-ray tube. Sensors scan all or part of the human body and provide data to reconstruct the image digitally. CT scans can also be used for biopsies, drainage and radiofrequency cancer treatments (interventional radiology: destruction of the tumour using heating or cooling).
For irradiation, only low doses are used and every precaution is taken to limit the exposure to X-rays in the area under examination to an absolute minimum. For example, a single image corresponds to the average natural (cosmic) exposure during a four-hour flight. However, for pregnant women, special precautions must be taken on a routine basis. This is why it is important to notify the medical team about any potential pregnancy.
Mammograms, recommended for all women between the ages of 50 and 75 years, are designed to detect abnormalities in breast tissue as early as possible, before they even cause clinical symptoms. This allows breast cancer to be detected, ruled out or diagnosed before it becomes palpable. This radiological examination has evolved considerably in recent years, therefore the doses given during the examination are extremely low. Mammograms are equipped with tomosynthesis, a technique allowing for sectional imaging, which improves the resolution of the image produced and facilitates the detection of any abnormality.
During the mammogram, which only lasts a few minutes, the patient will be accompanied by an experienced radiologist who will explain the procedure in detail and answer any questions she may have. For a so-called diagnostic examination, it is likely that the patient will undergo an ultrasound scan in addition to the mammogram.
The patient will receive the results of the mammogram by post within eight working days. The results will also be sent to the GP whose name was given on the health questionnaire. This is sufficient time for two experienced radiologists to analyse and interpret the mammogram in detail, so that no abnormalities are missed.
Most of the Swiss Medical Network’s radiology centres actively support and collaborate in breast cancer screening. These examinations are coordinated by screening centres or cantonal bodies (Swiss Cancer Screening).
Bone densitometry (or osteodensitometry or mineralometry) is a radiological technique that measures bone mineral density to determine bone strength. It thus makes it possible to:
Sites measured are typically the lumbar spine, proximal femurs (hips and femoral necks) and sometimes forearms (radius). In rare cases, a full body measurement may also be taken. During the examination, using the same apparatus, lateral spine imaging (vertebral morphometry) is usually carried out in order to look for any spinal defects or compression fractures. Furthermore, it is important to be able to assess not just the amount of calcium in the bones (quantitative) but also its distribution (qualitative) by analysing vertebral microarchitecture.
This is done using a software programme that allows for a vertebral trabecular bone score to be calculated. Based on all these parameters and a targeted medical questionnaire, the 10-year fracture risk may be determined for all major osteoporotic fractures or hip fractures. These are essential factors in establishing when and which treatment should be put in place.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique that does not use X-rays. The device consists of a magnet characterised by its power (1, 1.5 or 3 Tesla) and an examination bed which glides down its centre. The examination creates images of the human body thanks to the hydrogen atoms it contains. In a strong magnetic field, all hydrogen atoms move towards this field. They are then excited by radiofrequency waves for a very short period of time. When the wave emission stops, the atoms return to the equilibrium state and the accumulated energy produces a signal that is recorded and processed as an image. Specific antennas according to the area studied are connected and used to collect the emitted signal. These signals are mathematically analysed to produce images.
According to the technique or sequences, MRI enables the morphology of the organs studied to be brought to light in a detailed way. It demonstrates an increased sensitivity in detecting different pathologies of the soft tissues, making vessels, cartilage and nerve pathways stand out. The acquisition of three-dimensional images allows for their reconstruction on all planes.
This painless and non-radiation imaging technique allows a diagnosis to be made or a rapid intervention to be carried out alongside the patient. It can be repeated as often as necessary without any health risks. It is very useful in many fields of radiology (ENT, breasts, musculoskeletal system, blood vessels, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, kidneys, bladder and pelvis).
Technically, it is a beam of ultrasound whose frequency is adapted to the organ to be examined. This beam is reflected more or less depending on the anatomical structures it encounters. In turn, this allows for an image of the organ in question to be reconstructed. It is shown directly on the screen of the apparatus for an immediate and dynamic interpretation.
A PET/CT scan is used for oncological, cardiological and neurological examinations and to investigate sources of infection. In oncology, this technique can be used to confirm the presence of a cancer. As the patient’s whole body is examined, it can also detect tumour cells present in other organs (metastasis). With the PET/CT scan, quantitative values can be obtained and used to track tumour cells in order to determine if a treatment is working and evaluate if the cancer is improving.
From a therapeutic point of view, nuclear medicine uses radioactive pharmaceuticals to destroy diseased cells. A pre-treatment scintigraphy or PET/CT scan ensures the radiation correctly targets the diseased cells. Afterwards, the patient is administered radioactive pharmaceuticals that are specific to the cells that need to be destroyed.
The device records the gamma rays emitted by the patient to create functional images. Activity curves can be generated, for example to map kidney function or compare the activity of a body part on the left with a body part on the right. This is often used to examine stress fractures or bone disorders.
Two radioactive tracers are usedto examine the lungs; one is inhaled and the other injected. This technique is used to explore lung function before an operation, in cooperation with a pulmonologist, and to detect pulmonary embolisms.
To confirm a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, a cerebral scintigraphy scan (Datscan) may be carried out on the request of a neurologist.
In endocrinology, a scintigraphy can be carried out on the thyroid or parathyroid glands. This is the preferred examination for hormonal issues, or to investigate thyroid or parathyroid nodules.
In the case of symptoms that can suggest coronary artery disease (feelings of suffocation, chest pain, shortness of breath), a cardiac scintigraphy is indicated. For this examination, a cardiac stress test is carried out with a cardiologist once the radiotracer is administered. The result shows the activity of the cardiac muscle and allows doctors to diagnose an ischaemia or infarct.
Surgical oncology involves examining, removing or repairing cancerous tissue, and oncological surgery can be carried out at various points along the patient treatment pathway.
In preventive or prophylactic care, surgery is carried out before the cancer develops. In this particular case, the oncology surgeon will remove the tissue. Although the tissue is not yet cancerous, genetic screening will have revealed an abnormality in a gene, which may in turn cause cancer (in some cases of genetic mutation, prophylactic mastectomy and/or bilateral ovariectomy may be considered)
Surgery can also be used to diagnose cancer, determine its stage and check the extent to which it has spread in the body. This usually involves a biopsy, i.e. a tissue sample, which is then analysed under a microscope by a pathologist.
The main aim of oncological surgery is tumour ablation, i.e. to remove the tumour or cancerous tissue. The earlier the tumour is removed and the more localised it is (located in one place (primary tumour) without spreading to other parts of the body (metastasis)), the more effective the surgery will be. In this type of procedure, the surgeon will also remove a small piece of normal tissue around the tumour – known as the ‘surgical margin’ – to ensure that no cancer cells remain.
To minimise damage to healthy tissue while ensuring that all cancer cells are removed, the surgeon may perform a biopsy to find the sentinel ganglion (the first lymph node to which the cancer is likely to spread from its original location). If there are no cancer cells in the sentinel ganglion, there will be no need for lymph node dissection.
For some types of cancer, it may be necessary to remove the lymph nodes located near the tumour, which is referred to as lymph node dissection. These removed lymph nodes are then analysed to determine if they contain cancer cells, which could form new tumours or spread to other parts of the body.
In some cases, it is not possible to remove the entire tumour and so tumour reduction is performed (‘cytoreductive surgery’), which may increase the effectiveness of systemic therapy or adjuvant radiotherapy.
Palliative surgery or septic surgery can relieve symptoms and thus improve the patient’s quality of life (e.g. relieve pain, bypass a blocked organ, etc.). The main objective of this type of surgery is often to control symptoms (and thus improve quality of life) rather than to treat the disease.
In some cases, in addition to removing the tumour with a healthy tissue margin, the surgeon may also remove other structures (e.g. muscles, nerves, normal lymph nodes) in the vicinity of the tumour. This procedure (radical surgery), as demonstrated by various studies and research findings, reduces the risk of reappearance or recurrence (e.g. radical mastectomy: breast removal (whole), pectoral muscles and underarm lymph nodes).
Medical oncology, also known as systemic treatment (or general treatment because it predominantly affects the whole body and not a specific organ), is used to treat cancer with drugs (systemic treatments). These treatments can be administered as neoadjuvant (before surgery), adjuvant (after surgery) or palliative (for relief care) therapy and are combined with oncological surgery or radiotherapy, depending on the type of cancer. There are various types of treatment:
The drugs (cytostatic/cytotoxic) which are administered to the patient (oral or IV injection) block the growth of cells and destroy them
is a type of cancer treatment that slows or stops the activity/production of hormones that stimulate the growth of cancer (only used to treat ‘hormone-dependent’ or ‘hormone-sensitive’ tumours)
does not specifically target the tumour, but is a type of cancer treatment that uses drugs to boost or activate the body’s own natural defences to fight cancer (immune response)
are a group of drugs that selectively intervene in certain tumour cellular processes to block tumour growth or slow its metabolism
Through regular monitoring, medical oncologists will not only check that the treatment is progressing smoothly, but will also be able to manage any side effects that the patient may experience, both during and after treatment.
A cancer diagnosis changes not only the life of the person concerned, but also the lives of the people around them. It often has a bearing on physical, psychological, professional, social and family life, thus making people re-examine their entire existence.
In close collaboration with doctors and paramedics, psycho-oncology focuses on the relationship between the disease and its impact on everyday life, offering patients and their loved ones targeted support and listening in order to help them better manage this new life situation.
Radio-oncology, also known as Radiotherapy, uses radiation (high-energy X-rays or other radioactive sources) to destroy a tumour. These rays, administered in an ultra-precise and targeted manner to spare healthy tissue as much as possible, repeatedly damage the DNA of cancer cells (which make up this tumour mass), preventing them from dividing and therefore stopping or slowing the growth of the tumour. Because they don’t have time to regenerate between radiotherapy sessions, they end up dying.
Often in combination with oncological surgery or systemic treatment (medical oncology), radiotherapy is indicated for localised cancers (e.g. breast, prostate, lung, uterus, lymph nodes, bone, skin, brain, etc.). It may be used as a first step in treatment (e.g. before surgery) to reduce the size of the tumour, thus reducing the surgical impact, or as a second step, to destroy the remaining cancer cells and thus prevent local recurrence.
Depending on the type and location of the cancer, radiotherapy may be carried out in a single session (e.g. IORT) or in daily sessions for several weeks.
Nuclear medicine uses radioactive substances for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
For diagnosis, a ‘radiotracer’ – a radioactive isotope linked to a physiological substance – will be administered to the patient (most often intravenously). The radioactive element will be carried by the physiological substance to the organ that needs to be examined. Depending on its metabolism, more or less radiation will be detected in the organ (any potential illness will alter this radiation level). After a waiting period (which varies from immediately to up to several hours after the injection), images will be taken using a gamma camera (scintigraphy, SPECT/CT) or PET/CT (positron-emission tomography linked to a scanner).
In its therapeutic point of view, nuclear medicine will use radioactive pharmaceuticals to destroy diseased cells. A pre-treatment scintigraphy or PET/CT scan will ensure that the radiation from the radiotracer correctly targets the diseased cells. Afterwards, the patient will be administered radioactive pharmaceuticals that are specific to the cells that need to be destroyed. Some therapies can be carried out as outpatient procedures and the patient can leave the nuclear medicine centre shortly after the injection.
Pathology is the study of diseases, their causes, their evolution and their effects on the body (symptoms, processes, manifestations of a disease) in order to determine a diagnosis, prognosis and treatment to consider.
To do this, the pathologist will use a microscope to analyse previously collected cells and tissues (e.g. urine, blood, skin, lymph node, bone marrow, organ (breast, prostate, lungs)) to:
The molecular genetics study will look for abnormalities in the chromosomes (part of the cell containing genetic information) or in the DNA of cells to:
Haematology specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes:
Diagnosis of a haematological disease is based on physical tests (size of lymph nodes, spleen, liver; check for rashes or bruises on the skin) and a blood test. Depending on the initial results, additional tests may be required (sample of bone marrow cells/lymph nodes).
The aim of plastic and reconstructive surgery is to correct abnormalities and mutilations of certain parts of the body (e.g. following oncological surgery such as lumpectomy or mastectomy).
The most common procedures include surgery carried out to treat conditions linked to ageing, reconstruction after removing a tumour (e.g. breast cancer), scar removal and correction of defects. These reconstructions can be carried out using tissue from the patient’s body (autologous tissue) or by working with implants. The most commonly used techniques:
Portions of tissue (autologous) are taken from a certain part of the patient’s body (‘donor area’ (e.g. abdomen)) and then implanted into another part of the body (‘recipient area’ (e.g. thigh))
Portions of tissue (autologous) that are connected to the donor area are transferred to the adjacent recipient area (e.g. DIEP, TRAM)
They are generally used to complete or correct birth or acquired defects (accident, trauma, illness, severe burns, surgical procedures). Breast implants are undoubtedly the most well-known implants; however, there are prostheses with similar materials to reconstruct or reshape calves, buttocks and also cheekbones. External prostheses should be used for nose or ear abnormalities.
In recent years, breast reconstruction has become an integral part of breast cancer treatment. Even in the case of a lumpectomy or radical mastectomy, it is now possible to reconstruct the size and shape of the breast, allowing every woman affected by the disease to rediscover her femininity.
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In this pandemic COVID19 era, people have started to consume foods which can boost their immunity. People have started to practice wearing mask in public, normalize social distancing and some even goes to the extent of not exposing children in public places for the fear of virus spreading. We know that children are even fragile than us adult, thus taking extra care for them especially children who fall sick easily is a must for parents in this COVID19 situation. Here we share with you some tips that you can practice to boost your children immunity system!
Fighting germs does not technically boost immunity, but it is a great way to reduce stress on your child’s immune system. Make sure your children wash their hands often (with soap) especially before and after using toilet, before and after meals, after playing outside, arrive home from day care, handling pets, or blowing their nose. To cultivate the habits, you may also let them pick up their own choice of handkerchief, soap, and scents!
You must also always make sure that your hands are clean before you touch them!
Whenever you are bringing them outside make sure you carry antibacterial disposable wet wipes with you for your quick clean ups. Oh, you may also practice to let your children wear face shield if you are outside or in public area if they cannot wear mask yet! Make sure to sanitize or clean the face shield frequently and keep it properly as well!
Another key germ busting strategy according to health professionals is whenever your child is sick throw away their toothbrush as the germs from outside or from the toothbrush can hop from toothbrush to toothbrush infecting other family members. If it is a bacterial infection, such as strep throat, your child can reinfect themselves with the same germs that got them sick in the first place. In that case, tossing the toothbrush protects both your child and the rest of your family.
It is normal for kids to dislike healthy foods if the parents dislike it, or rarely consume it! If you feel like your children eating habit are more into unhealthy habit check back your food preference most of the times it is a reflection!
Try to eat healthily as much as you can, make sure that every main mealtime there is vegetables and fruit serve for your whole family, it can be just a simple blanched carrot and broccoli, or it can be stir fried vegetables or it can be simply raw salad with dressings! If your children are okay with consuming vegetables and fruits in every main mealtime, start introducing healthy snacks using fruits and vegetables as well.
They may eat cakes, biscuits, and dessert occasionally still! If your children are still below 6 months young, try to breastfeed them as much as you can, as breastmilk has naturals antibody which is passed from mothers to baby which is beneficial for children during this pandemic situation.
Apart from vegetables and fruits, consuming yogurt which contains high amount of probiotics and prebiotics also helps with immune health.
Studies show that sleep deprivation make individuals more susceptible to illness by reducing natural killer cells (immune-system weapons that attack microbes and cancer cells). Required sleeping hours for children is vary according to their age, but on average children need to nap during the day for at least one hour and sleep throughout the night for at least 10 hours.
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How to Barricade a Door that Opens Out
While there hasn’t been a lot of school shootings in 2020 (thanks to the pandemic), the number of school shootings has been steadily climbing since 2011. In 2019, this number reached a record of 111 incidents - more than any prior year.
More than ever before, we are hunting for solutions to prevent these shootings from occurring and ways to protect our families when they do.
In response to these tragedies, many began discussing the need for methods to secure classrooms from within that are easily accessible for teachers and school staff; and do not require expert knowledge to perform.
Should an active shooter situation occur, it is imperative to have systems and devices that can barricade a door. Barricading a door will keep the shooter at bay until authorities are able to neutralize the threat.
The question is how to barricade a door, and what are our options for school lockdown door locks and classroom door barricade devices?
In the past, barricading a door was done by fastening a belt over the door closer or by blocking the door with large objects, such as a bookshelf or desk.
However, barricading a door these ways proves to be too complicated and time-consuming and are not always effective.
Because of this, many have sought to create specific lockdown devices for classrooms and offices.
Currently, there are a lot of options for barricading a door. Simply googling "classroom barricade" yields staggering results, and can leave you feeling overwhelmed and unsure of the best classroom lockdown solution available for your school.
These barricades range from deadbolt style locks to attachments that remain permanently installed onto your door, to portable, freestanding devices. They are available in a variety of sizes, materials, and colors.
When trying to find the right barricade for your classroom, there are three primary questions to answer:
- Is the barricade easy and safe to use?
- Does it comply with the fire code?
- Is it durable enough to withstand an attempted entry?
The stress of an active shooter situation can make even the most basic of actions, such as turning a key or fastening a chain lock, almost impossible.
That’s why barricading a door should be simple and easy, requiring a single movement to put into place. Any barricade that requires the user to set two separate parts into place is too complicated and time-consuming to be considered safe.
A barricade should also never require its user to open the door to deploy it. It should be able to be fastened and removed from inside the classroom, and any barricade that calls for exiting the classroom is not safe to use.
Before using a barricade in your classroom, it is recommended that your local fire marshal approves your devices. Your barricade will have to comply with your state’s fire code.
For example, most fire codes will prohibit the use of any device that secures a door from the inside that emergency responders are unable to disable from outside the door.
While this in effect makes nearly all barricades noncompliant with fire code, many fire marshals will make an exception by allowing these barricades to be used only when there is an active shooter situation.
The exemption can take different forms. The exemption method used by most states is a simple variance form issued by the state or local fire marshal.
Some states, however, have strict codes when it comes to modifying fire rated doors.
In California, Section 703 of their fire code states "fire door assemblies shall not be modified," prohibiting any additions to the door, frame, or hardware.
It is important to note that any modification made to areas of an existing structure bring significant consequences. Making any modifications to a fire-rated door will void the all-important fire warranty/guarantee. We were told that so much as a thumbtack being jammed into a door could void the fire warranty.
Drilling into the floor of any building, especially schools, can bring up many issues. Asbestos is always a concern when drilling into floor tiles. Even if tiles are asbestos-free, some adhesives used to adhere to flooring also may contain asbestos. Always consult your school or building’s asbestos log before any floor modifications.
Which means that a barricade that requires any permanent installation onto the classroom door stands the risk of being vetoed by a fire marshal, especially if it is rated as a fire barrier. It also becomes an insurance issue with the voiding of warranties.
Finally, your barricade needs to be durable. If a barricade is easy to use and complies with fire code but is not sturdy enough to keep a shooter out, it defeats the purpose of using a barricade.
Below is a brief overview of how to barricade a door using some of the leading classroom door lockdown devices available on the market for doors that open out.
HOW TO BARRICADE A DOOR METHOD #1: USE TEACHERLOCK1
The TeacherLock by Defcon Products is a bolting lock that you install directly onto your door. It comes with a key to lock from the inside (the TeacherLock Activator), with the option to add an emergency responder key for unlocking from the outside ($50).
It is designed to require little to no fine motor skills—use the activator to press the lock and the door is bolted shut. To exit, simply press the egress push button and the lock releases.
The TeacherLock has been deemed code compliant in jurisdictions all over the country including those who use IBC and NFPA 101.
While the deactivation of the product is a one-step process/motion (pushing the red button), this still does not open the door. A second step of needing to push down or turn the door handle to open and egress is needed.
The installation of TeacherLock requires drilling and mounting directly to the door. Thus, incurring installation costs and is also a post-manufacturing addition.
Lastly, the TeacherLock is available from $219, making it one of the more costly barricades on the market. Purchasing the "outside" key so adults or emergency responders can unlock from the outside will cost an additional $50.
The Teacherlock can work for both an outward opening door and an inward opening door. However, for inward opening doors expect to pay an additional $20.
Bottom line: the TeacherLock is easy and safe to deploy, but is not cost-effective.
HOW TO BARRICADE A DOOR METHOD #2: USE BEARACADE LOCKDOWN RESPONSE SYSTEM2
The Bearacade Lockdown Response System, made by National School Control Systems, is a barricade that slides under the door and is held in place by a pin. It is durable, light, and easy to deploy.
The installation is relatively simple, requiring a single hole to be drilled into the floor for securing the pin. No permanent mounting is required, so it is more likely to be approved by a fire marshal.
The Bearacade is relatively affordable, costing $59 with quantity discounts available. Plus, it can be used for an inward opening door as well.
The two most significant concerns with the Bearacade Lockdown Response System is that it requires the teacher to open the door to put it in place, leaving the teacher and all occupying the classroom at risk. Despite taking only seconds to deploy, these seconds could be all an assailant needs to gain entry or fatally wound a teacher or students.
The other issue is that the installation requires drilling into the floor. This installation step requires a high level of precision to get the right fit.
Additionally, the Bearacade requires routine maintenance to ensure that the hole is not clogged with dirt, dust, and other debris that are routine elements in a classroom or building. If the hole is not clear, the pin will not drop properly.
Lastly, and most concerning, is that drilling into floors in schools and commercial buildings often brings up issues related to asbestos in the tile. Even if tiles are asbestos-free, some adhesives used to adhere the flooring contain asbestos. Always consult your school or building’s asbestos log before any floor modifications.
While being affordable, sturdy, and easy to use, the Bearacade Lockdown Response System is not a safe solution for your classroom.
HOW TO BARRICADE A DOOR METHOD #3: USE BARRACUDA DSO3
The Barracuda DSO from the BILCO Company is a bar-style door barricade that slides over your door handle and rests against the door jam. It is a free-standing device and requires no permanent installation. It comes in two sizes, one for 36" commercial doors, and the other for 40"- 42" doors.
The Barracuda DSO is lightweight and durable but is one of the larger barricades available.
While the Barracuda DSO is reasonably simple to deploy, it requires the user to simultaneously hold the bar in position and tighten its handle until snug. When under the intense pressure of an active shooter situation, teachers may find it more difficult to perform these simple tasks. Studies show that fine motor skills significantly deteriorate during stressful situations.
Also, you may not want to advertise that this product exists in your room, which makes finding a spot to store storing the Barracuda DSO difficult.
The Barracuda DSO is available for $175.95 at walmart.com, making it moderately expensive compared to other barricades.
So, while the Barracuda DSO is durable and requires no permanent installation, it is slightly more expensive and not the easiest barricade to deploy.
HOW TO BARRICADE A DOOR METHOD #4: USE BARRACUDA DCS-14
The Barracuda DCS-1 is another barricade available from BILCO. This barricade works for outward opening doors by sliding over the door closer, making the door immobile.
This design makes it simple, easy, and safe to deploy, requiring only seconds to put in place. It is adjustable, allowing you to secure three different sizes of door closers 2.5" 3" and 3.5")
At $70.95, the DCS-1 is one of the more affordable alternatives available. However, BILCO recommends the DCS-1 only to be used in conjunction with one of their other barricades (It explicitly says this in their instructions) such as the DSO, which brings your total to roughly $196 per classroom.
Also, the adjustable parts in the DCS-1 can be a cause for concern—if the bolts become loose, the structural integrity of the DCS-1 could be compromised.
However, most importantly is how few adjustment-sizes the device allows for. Research shows that there are TWELVE major door-closer sizes that exist in American schools. The DCS-1 only adjusts to one-quarter of those sizes.
Also, a "tight fit" on the door closer is the most important element in securing a door and keeping the door shut. Every quarter inch matters. Applying this product to a door closer that is even a quarter inch smaller than the product’s adjustment level can be the difference between securing a door properly and having the product shoot off the door closer in a time of need.
Minor factors such as standard quarter-inch rubber on the inside of the product and raised weld joints on the outside edge of the product also present possible issues with allowing the product to slide onto a door closer that is sucked up very tight to the door face. These gaps are typically very tight and every little obstruction like a raised weld joint could make it so the product is not able to be applied.
In short, the DCS-1 is affordable and easy to deploy but is recommended only to be used in addition to another barricade, making it a costly solution.
It has very few adjustment levels, rendering it useless on 75% of all door closer sizes commonly found in offices and schools. Its many exterior and interior design obstructions also make fitting it into the tight gaps that often exist on door closers very difficult.
Finally, the DCS-1 cannot work for an inward opening door.
If you are looking to buy a single barricade for your classrooms, this is not the barricade for you.
HOW TO BARRICADE A DOOR METHOD #5: USE NIGHTLOCK LOCKDOWN 1 AND LOCKDOWN 2 5
The NIGHTLOCK Lockdown 1 and Lockdown 2 function similarly. You mount the attachments to the bottom of the door, and they secure the door to the floor or doorframe.
The Lockdown 1 works by sliding the lock handle into the attachment on the door and floor, using the strength of the floor to keep the door secure. Similarly, the Lockdown 2 lock handle slides into the door attachment and wraps around the doorframe.
The lock handles are both small enough to store in a drawer and are easy to attach. The Lockdown 1 can be used for both metal and wood doors, while the Lockdown 2 is only available for wood doors.
The Lockdown 1 and Lockdown 2 can be purchased for $59.95 and 69.95 a unit, respectively, making them fairly inexpensive.
It should be noted that with both the Lockdown 1 and Lockdown 2 some precision is involved in deploying each barricade. While there are no fine motor skills required, the teacher will need to align the lock handle with the slot on the barricade to slide it into place.
This process takes both time and accuracy, both of which are in short supply during an active shooter situation.
Similar to the TeacherLock, with the Lockdown 1 and Lockdown 2 you run into the issue of making permanent alterations to the door, which may not be approved by your fire marshal. The door modifications are also post-manufacturing additions and may void the fire warranty of the door and door jam.
Another important factor is the installation up-front cost and time. Installation of the Nightlock Lockdown 1 and Lockdown 2 is at least a 20-step process per door according to their installation video. Some steps also have multiple tasks within them.
The other issue is that the installation requires drilling into the floor. This installation step requires a high level of precision to get the right fit.
Most concerning is that drilling into floors in schools and commercial buildings often brings up issues related to asbestos in the tile. Even if tiles are asbestos-free, some adhesives used to adhere the flooring contain asbestos. Always consult your school or building’s asbestos log before any floor modifications.
Therefore, while being affordable and sturdy, the precision and accuracy required to deploy the NIGHTLOCK Lockdown 1 and Lockdown 2, the significant installation labor and time, as well as the permanent alterations made to your door, make this a less practical solution.
How To Barricade A Door Method #6: Use the Sleeve2
Fighting Chance Solutions’ Sleeve2 is a similar concept to BILCO’s Barracuda DCS-1, with a more streamlined and practical approach.
Like the Barracuda DCS-1, it is a barricade that slides over the door closer but is built to withstand a classroom breach attempt, having been FEA tested to withstand over 550 pounds of force.
Since most classrooms have outward opening doors, this product will work perfectly.
The Sleeve2 is laser-cut from solid 12 gauge carbon steel. Rather than having moving parts for adjusting its size, it is made specifically to fit your door. With twelve different sizes to choose from, there should be no issues finding a model for your school.
To find the right Sleeve2 size for your door, simply measure the distance between the two door arms with a tape measure.
In the case that you have mismeasured your door arm, you can exchange your Sleeve2 for no extra cost.
Unlike the Barracuda DCS-1, the Sleeve2’s durable design allows it to be used on its own. You don’t need to buy any additional equipment to keep your classroom safe.
With the Sleeve2, your classroom is barricaded with one simple movement, which means no opening doors, no pressing locks or securing pins, no tightening or adjusting, and no fine motor skills required.
To use the Sleeve2, slide it over the door closer, and your door is secured. That’s it.
In light of BILCO discouraging the use of their Barracuda DCS-1 on its own, you may feel wary of using the Sleeve2 without an additional barricade; they are, after all, similar designs.
The Sleeve2 has not only been FEA tested but is also is the only active shooter door barricade on the market that has been put to the test in an actual shooting situation—and withstood an attempted door breach.
In 2016, during the UCLA shootings, members of the UCLA Department of Neurology used Fighting Chance Solutions’ Sleeve barricade to secure one of their lab buildings.
During the shootings, another of the department’s employees attempted to enter the barricaded building. However, despite numerous attempts to open the door, the Sleeve did what it was designed to do—it kept the door locked and in place.
So, the Sleeve2 is quick, easy, and safe to deploy, and is durable enough to withstand an attempted entry.
Does it stand up to fire code?
Because the Sleeve2 requires no additional installation or permanent alterations to your door, its frame, or the floor, it is more likely to comply with your state fire code and be approved by a fire marshal. Fire Marshals across the US have issued variance forms with the reassurance the product is only deployed during training or actual active shooter events.
In fact, the Sleeve2 is already being used in schools and commercial buildings in all 50 states.
Is it easy to store?
This is where the product being engineered by educators shines through. The Sleeve2’s compact design allows you to keep it wherever is convenient for you. The Sleeve2 is commonly stored by the door, in a nearby drawer of a cabinet, in your purse, or in your work bag.
Besides, each Sleeve2 comes with a hanger and mounting hardware if you wish to store it on your classroom or office’s wall.
Is it a cost-effective lockdown solution for your school?
Fighting Chance Solutions offers the Sleeve2 for $83.00 per unit. The Sleeve2 is also available with bulk discounts for organizations purchasing larger quantities.
The available discounts make Sleeve2 one of the most affordable solutions available on the market.
Schools around the nation are realizing that classroom lockdown solutions are no longer an optional extra safety measure. We are in dire need of reliable tools that protect and defend those who are unable to defend themselves.
A classroom door barricade is becoming as essential as a first aid kit or fire extinguisher.
It provides not only protection and security in times of need, but also peace of mind in your day to day life.
You can feel confident and at ease, knowing that you are equipped to keep your loved ones safe.
The barricade you choose, then, must be simple and quick to deploy and keep your classroom secure if put to the test.
A barricade that is complicated and time-consuming to deploy only robs you of that peace of mind. Your energies are spent needlessly trying to ensure you have performed each step to set up your barricade perfectly.
And if you cannot be confident that your barricade is durable enough to keep an assailant from forcing the door open, it will only be a source of worry rather than security.
The Sleeve2 was created with all of this in mind.
With Fighting Chance Solutions’ Sleeve2 door barricade, there is no need to be concerned about whether or not your teachers will be able to deploy the barricade in a short amount of time effectively.
Its straightforward design removes the confusion involved with setting up a multi-step barricade system. And if need be, it can be removed as quickly and easily as it is deployed.
Most importantly, you can rest easy knowing that the Sleeve has already withstood the ultimate test and prevailed.
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Sometimes winterizing your fountain just isn’t enough. Are you doing everything you can to maintain your fountain in the cold months? Unless you’re living in the South, like us, you’ve should have already winterized your fountain. We’ve said it numerous times, but we can’t stress enough the importance of winterizing your fountain If you live in an area where temperatures routinely fall below freezing, and if you do not have the proper heating equipment to keep your fountain running during the cold months. If you still haven’t winterized, or want a checklist to ensure you and your staff did it properly, check out our “How To: Winterize Your Fountain” article here.
As for the question of what extra maintenance is required during Winter, we have a few thoughts on that.
For The Winterized Systems
Congratulations on being proactive and already winterizing your fountain. We’re sure if it could, it would thank you (but go ahead and thank yourself, just because). If you’ve already winterized your fountain, there isn’t too much to do until you start up again in the Spring. You should have already drained and/or blow out your pipes, pumps and filters; turned off the necessary breakers; and opened your drain valve.
Our recommendation for you is to remember Murphy’s Law – if anything can go wrong, it will. Even though your fountain system is shut down for the Winter, we still recommend checking it every week, or after every heavy rain or snowfall. Water can still get trapped in your pipes from the snow and rain runoff, so you’ll want to drain the trapped water out of your system before the next freeze. Remember that the best thing you could do for your fountain is preventative maintenance, don’t let your fountain sit idle until Spring, only to find out something failed and your vault flooded. Save yourself the headache.
For The Heated Systems
If you chose to keep your fountain running during the Winter, you should already have switched your water heaters on and be routinely checking your air or water temperature settings. Even though you aren’t winterizing your fountain, this is the perfect time to clean and perform a system check on all your pumps, valves, strainers, switches, timers, and chemical levels to make sure every system is operating properly.
Also, we recommend you pay attention to your Delta “T”, or change in temperature. No heater can be effective at every temperature; they all have a point at which they can’t overcome the extreme low temperature environments (see the photo of the Nashville Symphony fountain below). If your fountain has a heater, make sure you know the absolute coldest temperature in which the heater can work properly. If you’re not sure what that lowest temperature is, consult your Operations and Maintenance Manual or the maker’s website. If you continue checking your system on your regular maintenance schedule and stay aware of any issues that may arise, you should have a smooth start-up in the Spring.
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Why Need to I Exchange My Old Gutters?
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ISHPEMING — The Western Marquette County Health Foundation is continuing their partnership with local school districts.
A check was presented to numerous area schools, including Ishpeming Public Schools, Negaunee Public Schools, NICE Community School District, and Republic/Michigamme Community Schools. Over $12,000 was given to each school in order to continue providing counseling services, health support, nursing, along with wellness education.
All these activities are focused on the well being of the students.
“It all has to do with health and wellness related activities. Obviously, we want the students of each district to be healthier and well, that’s the purpose,” said Western Marquette County Health Foundation Chair person, Tom Edmark.
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What would happen if you raised your baby and a baby chimp together, as brother and sister, in the name of science?
Don't worry, you don't have to try. In 1930, scientist Dr. Winthrop Niles Kellogg did just that. Read more about the crazy (bad) experiment in my article on OZY.
If you want to check out the full report on the experiment, Kellogg's book is available via HathiTrust, and there are some good newspaper articles from when the research was made public in 1932.
Inspiring women, innovative approaches to living and learning, and pioneering social justice work: sound like something from the #metoo or #TimesUp movements? Maybe, but it was also how women at the Hull-House in Chicago lived and worked over 100 years ago.
While I was in Chicago in February, I had a chance to visit the Hull-House and be totally amazed by these women, who I already knew a little bit about. Here is a tour and brief history of the settlement house.
Think hockey is a white sport? The fast-paced action and some signature moves are thanks to a pioneering Black Hockey League that changed the game forever.
The Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes was truly innovative in so many ways, and I'm glad that George and Darril Fosty researched the story in their book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895–1925. I can't remember where I first heard about the anecdote that led me to the Fostys' book, and I didn't know much about the history of Black Canadians in Nova Scotia or the Maritimes, but I've found some cool research of which I hope to share more.
Is your neighbor being annoying? Too loud? Coveting another neighbor's wife? What do you do about it?
Come in, the stacks are open.
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Nadiad: When the school was closed due to Corona, students started studying online, seeing that students were away from studies, but the biggest problem of online education is the network, which still leaves many villages untouched. Online class is not possible without network. In such a situation, in a village, children risk their lives and climb a 50-feet-high tank in the village to network. Even then they are able to attend online class somehow.
Coronavirus have gave schools new type of learning that is online. However the major set back of online learning is poor connectivity and unfit technology infrastructure.
The evidence to unfit online learning is the view of every morning in the village of Tranja in Matar tehsil of Nadiad district of Gujarat. A government school teacher teaches children but for few subjects they have to depend on online classes for that good quality network is needed. In such case the children climbes to the water tank and wait for the network to come. They climb till the top for better coverage.
The constant network problem,80 percent left online education.
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A New Cold War?
This report is an interpretive account of Soviet-American relations over the past few decades, with emphasis on the 1970s. The author reconstructs the different periods and issues in the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations based on his personal experience and views, drawing in part on his participation in some of the events since 1969. The author surveys Soviet-American relations in retrospect. Then the period of detente is examined. A discussion of Soviet foreign policy and defense strategy in transition includes sections on the new balance of power with the United States, the China factor, and the more aggressive Soviet course from Angola to Afghanistan. The Soviet-American position on SALT and the SALT process is reassessed. Finally, the outlook and prospects for Soviet-American relations is assessed, and the real meaning and significance of the current Polish crisis is given. | <urn:uuid:f753ee6e-7e90-4a5d-ab97-18c1205740ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2763.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95031 | 180 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The Devoted Life
(for the week of October 18, 2020)
PDF at bottom
Note to Group Leaders: More than anyone else, you are aware of the size of your group, time constraints, the needs of your group, etc. Please read through the Scripture and material below and use whatever you believe will be most helpful to your group.
This Week’s Scripture: Acts 2:42-47
Key Idea from Sermon
“New life in Christ will fill us with devotion to better know and love God so we can better love and serve others. God will bring the increase to his Kingdom.”
Discussing the Scripture
1. The Book of Acts is often called, “the Acts of the Apostles.” Read the following verses and write down your suggestion for another title (Acts 1:4-5; 1:8; 2:4; 2:17; 2:33; 4:8; 4:31; 6:3; 6:10; 8:17; 9:17)?
2. Read Acts 2:1-41. What happened to bring all these new followers of Jesus Christ together in Acts 2:42-47?
3. Verse 42 says these new believers devoted themselves to four activities. Look up the word “devoted” in a dictionary. What does it mean? Why do you think they were so devoted? Why is such devotion important for a follower of Jesus?
4. List the four activities that verse 42 says these new believers were devoted to.
5. What would the “apostles’ teaching” have included? (Read Matthew 28:18-20, John 14:25-26, John 16:12-13, and Acts 1:3 for ideas.) What does the “apostles’ teaching” include today?
6. The Greek word for “fellowship” is, koinonia. It means sharing and participating in a common goal. One commentator said it was an intentional and intimate experience, where the believers shared together “in material goods as well as spiritual wealth.” What does Acts 2:42-47 suggests that fellowship looked like?
7. The reference to “breaking of bread” in verse 2, is twofold. It means both enjoying a common meal together as well as the Lord’s Supper. Why would both have been so important to the early Christians? Why are both so vital for Christians today?
8. Verse 42 tells us these new believers also devoted themselves to prayer. The Greek word here actually means, “the prayers.” This tells us that not only did they pray individually but also together as a community. Why is that so significant in the life of a Christian community?
9. Verse 43 points out that God strengthened this new community of believers with the presence of supernatural miracles performed by the apostles, which filled the people with awe. Why do you think God did this?
10. What do verses 44-46 report as the result of the devoted life of this new Christian community?
11. And what does verse 47 say was the result of verses 42-46? Who ultimately produced that fruit of the Kingdom of God? (Bonus Question: How would you write this out as a mathematical equation?)
Applying the Scripture
12. Can Christians today have the same level of devotion as these early believers did? Why or why not? Do you? Why or why not?
13. How can you devote yourself to the apostles’ teaching?
14. How can you devote yourself to Christian fellowship?
15. How can you devote yourself to “the breaking of bread” (Lord’s Supper) (Read 1 Corinthians 11:23-29 for some insight)?
16. How can you devote yourself to private and corporate prayer?
17. Whose help will you need to be so devoted? (not a trick question)
ACTS (A prayer guide for this lesson)
John Wesley’s Questions for Self-Examination
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You may occasionally read success stories about bloggers and YouTubers who make money from donations. But are these stories the norm, or rare exceptions? Do donation buttons still work in 2020 and beyond?
This article aims to answer the eternal question. Let’s get started.
According to Some…
I spent some time looking up anecdotal stories / evidence from people who use (or have used) donation buttons. Although I came across several positive responses, the vast majority were negative and quite disappointing in nature.
For instance, this Reddit user experimented with a donation button only to be thoroughly disappointed in the end:
“My donate form for my open source software has 5953 clicks in the last year or so, with 11 donations.”
This other person also commented on BlogTyrant’s blog about it, adding:
On the bright side, someone stated to have seen the donation button work miracles for some people:
“I’ve seen a donate widget raise about $2000 in a week, but the cause was very specific and the word was spread with twitter as well.”
I could keep posting endless anecdotal evidence here, but I think you get the point: A donation button can work, but only if you get creative and put in the effort to highlight it.
Reasons People Don’t Donate
It’s easy to look the other way: Do you honestly give money to every homeless person on the street? Do you actually contribute even $5 to several nonprofit organizations each month? Or as little as $1 to various GoFundMe campaigns?
Even if you do some of the above, chances are you don’t do it nearly as often as you possibly could.
It’s just easier to turn a blind eye and consider using that money for our own materialistic things (even if we can afford to give it away). I am certainly not here to pass judgment; this behavior is simply due to human nature, that’s all.
Most things are free elsewhere: Chances are that a blogger’s offerings are not unique (in fact, nothing is truly unique).
This means that people can probably find whatever they desire somewhere else, and it only takes a quick Google search to get it.
Whether you provide extensive tutorials, extremely detailed blog posts, or free software, people can probably find these on another website without feeling the pressure to donate. Simply put, free content doesn’t exactly entice many people to spend money willingly.
So, let’s put our time to good use and look for ways to make donation buttons work for your blog.
How to Make Donation Buttons Work
The above examples/evidence didn’t really tell us how much effort the authors put into the donation business model, so it’s not all bad news. Not necessarily…
In any case, many of the blogs (and stories) I came across made a very bland, half-hearted attempt to collect money — mainly by sticking the donation button on the sidebar or at the blog’s footer. They didn’t really get into detail other than simply stating, “Buy me a coffee” or using some other vague statement.
Readers need to be reminded of the great content or service you’re providing.
For example, even if you take the time to state how high your blog’s server costs are, you should always break things down into more detail:
- State exactly how much you spend each month (with screenshots)
- How long it takes you to craft content
- Describe every benefit readers receive, as it’s easy to minimize the things we consume
Build Emotional Appeal
Why do you think successful bloggers make money from email subscribers? In reality, the money is made from their relationship with email subscribers…
Likewise, readers are more likely to donate if they can personally identify with you or the cause you serve. This is why you need to be very specific/detailed, as I described above. But you must also remind readers that you’re an actual human being and not some thankless robot producing content.
If you’re really struggling to pay the monthly bills, remind your audience that even a small fraction of their money could help. If you need funds for the ongoing care of a pet, remind people of this fact.
All in all, make a strong case as long as it’s genuine. Plenty of readers will still ignore you, but plenty will also contribute. It’s a game of quantity and quality combined.
Feature it Prominently & Promote It
If you’re going to rely on a donation button, you must treat it as a salesperson treats his products. This person does everything in his power to achieve a goal, and you must adopt a similar mentality.
- Feature a donation button prominently at the top of your homepage and highlight the reasons people should contribute
- Place said button anywhere within your articles, perhaps at the top and bottom
- Show it off on certain key pages
- Are you building an email list? Encourage subscribers to donate on occasion
- Promote it on all your social media profiles at least once every 1-2 weeks
The above may seem like a lot, but there is no shame if you are genuinely (and consistently) providing quality content.
Offer Much More (Truly Impress)
I’m all for thinking outside the box when it comes to drawing attention for business purposes. So, how about offering readers a real incentive for donating?
You might say that the content/service provided on your blog is enough, but that’s not necessarily how readers may feel…
Put it like this: Since your blog’s content is naturally offered by default, your audience feels that you’re merely offering the basic requirement (no matter how good your content might be).
As a result, many people feel that you’re not truly going for that extra mile. This only leaves them asking, “Why should I donate for receiving the bare minimum that this blog is supposed to provide?”
How to remedy the situation: Think about giving back, even if it’s done by means of gamification to make your content more fun. For example, pledge to give 10% of all (monthly) donations to one random donor.
This makes donations feel more fun and gives people some hope that they’ll receive some money back. Someone could donate $1 and end up with $20, depending on how much you receive that month.
You may otherwise give some money back to a randomly-chosen nonprofit organization, for example. All in all, think of ways to get readers more involved and make it more about them.
Do donation buttons still work? To be blunt, part of the answer is “No, not in many cases.”
However, it all depends on the amount of work and creativity you put into it.
Don’t be so passive and half-heard about it, treat it as if you’re selling the most important product of your blogging career.
Then, adjust your approach depending on results and NEVER give up too quickly. And remember, most likely you will not find success right away, as it goes with most other things in life…
But don’t feel discouraged either, especially by existing anecdotal evidence. Try it yourself and keep attacking the situation until you finally make it work.
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A narrative essay is the most common type of essay. In this type of essay, the writer narrates an event happening or incident. Narrative essays are mainly based on a central point or a motive. The writer narrates a vivid story that is either based on an imaginary or real event. However, to make it effective the writer mainly aims to provide background knowledge in the introduction and then steadily moves towards the story or event that is to be narrated in the essay. Students are often given essay assignments in which they are asked to write narrative essays. I recently heard a boy in my neighborhood telling his mother write my essay otherwise I'll get a failing grade”. Upon asking her mother I found out that he was not good at writing narrative essays as he is not able to narrate stories in an effective manner. Students mostly are not able to write effective essays because of poor writing skills.
Meaning that Writing skills inaddition to the way of narration of something helps a writer in effectively writing a narrative essay. Apart from that professional writers always suggest it follows a number of different tips to write effective narrative essays. These different tips vary from the organization of the essay to the way a writer can effectively attract the attention of his audience.
Professional writers such as the one offering online services like an essay writing service, always suggest beginner writers as well as students to keep practicing to write different types of essays in order to build effective writing skills. A writer or a student can effectively write a narrative essay if he is able to generate ideas, stories, or points.
Tips to write effective narrative essays
A good essay writer is one who spends time deciding what he will be writing in the essay. In addition to that, he aims to use a number of different ways or steps that can help in writing effective narrative essays. Mentioned below are some of the tips that will help in writing effective narrative essays:
The writer while writing a narrative essay should be on the story he wants to narrate to the writer. Keeping this in mind he should specifically use words that are clear and simple so that a clear meaning is conveyed to the audience.
Make sure to maintain consistency throughout your essay. Meaning that does not go into detail about a specific thing rather than consistently emphasizes on each one of the points in the essays. This will help to create an interactive environment rather than making the information boring for the readers.
Select a topic for the narrative essay that interests you as well as your audience. This will help in narrating the story or the event more effectively as you will be able to develop new ideas while writing the narrative essay.
In a narrative essay limit the use of references.
Use interactive sentences as well as words to attract the attention of your audience.
Sample Narrative essay on “Your worst nightmare”
It was a dark windy night. The rattling sound of leaves and the aeolian sound of the wind were breaking the silence of that dark windy night. I was alone on that night as I was staying with my uncle and aunt. On normal days I used to sleep with my younger sister in her room and I think this was the reason I was feeling very lonely and the night was very astonishing. My mind was focusing on the aeolian sound of wind and the rattling sound of leaves and in the meanwhile, my eyes closed and I fell asleep.
I felt like someone was calling my name downstairs. I thought my mother and father are back from the trip and they're here to take me home. I suddenly rushed from the bed and moved towards the door. My lips uttered, “Mum and Dad are you here?”. I repeated after a few seconds as no one replied. Suddenly I heard someone calling me to come downstairs. I slowly and steadily moved towards the stairs and then down to the outside door. I opened the outside door and went into the lawn. I again asked “Mum and Dad are you here?” no one replied.
After getting no response I turned around towards the door to get into the house. Suddenly, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned back and saw that it was my uncle with his head injury and full of blood. I was shocked to see him as he died a year ago in a road accident. At that very instant I screamed and shouted: “Mom help Mon help”. Suddenly I heard my aunt calling my name and asking me to get up, it's just a nightmare. I got up but was in severe shock. After some time I became unconscious because my uncle who died in a road accident a year ago was very close to me and watching him In front of me was shocking. There is many essay writer are available on the internet.
I was taken to the doctor. The doctor provided me with treatment and gave me some medicines as I was not in my senses. Every night after that particular nightmare was very unstable as I was not able to sleep because of fear. It took me a week to become stable and forget about that nightmare, and I called it the Worst Nightmare.
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February 12th rings in the Year of the Ox across countries celebrating the Lunar New Year, including Korea. For Lunar New Year in Korea, Seollal, there is a full menu of delicious dishes to ring in a prosperous, healthy, and happy new year. One of the classic festive dishes to eat on Lunar New Year’s Day in Korea is Mandu-guk, Mandu dumplings (filled with meat and veggies or tofu) in beef or anchovy broth. It is also popular to have this dumpling-laden soup with rice cakes (ddukguk/tteok), when it is then called tteok-mandu-guk, and a ddukguk-only soup is also popular on Lunar New Year. You can make Mandu-guk with either store bought or home-made mandu dumplings (recipe for mandu from Maangchi). Check out these recipes for Mandu-guk from My Korean Kitchen, Maangchi and Korean Banpsang. Since it is going to be so cold here this weekend, we think that some hearty dumpling soup may just be what we need. Happy Lunar New Year!
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It’s was Lunar New Year this weekend AND the start of the 2nd week of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, so naturally we have Korean food on the brain. One of the most important foods for the Lunar New Year – called Seollal in Korea – is Yaksik. Yaksik is a sweet rice dessert studded with jujubes, honey and chestnuts. Not only is the dessert tasty, but it is touted for its medicinal properties. The name “Yaksik” translates to “medicinal food,” (“Yak” meaning medicine, “Sik” meaning food). Think of it as a fruitier, healthier version of rice pudding. Here are recipes for Yaksik from Kimchimari (seen below) and Maangchi.
This year, Lunar New Year falls on a Friday! If you will be celebrating Lunar New Year in Korea the festivities are called Seollal, and you can expect a crazy amount of food and festivities. We covered one of the most traditional Seollal dishes previously on ETW, tteokguk (rice cake soup). However, that only scratches the surface. Most large Korean meals come with an assortment of small dishes called Banchan, and the Seollal table is no exception. However, to the uninitiated, the array of banchan presented alongside a meal can be overwhelming. Fortunately, the internet is brimming with banchan guides: Lucky Peach, Crazy Korean Cooking, Zen Kimchi, Thrillist and HuffPo, to name a few. Personally, my favorite banchan are japchae, radish kimchi and toasted seaweed. I love the concept that every meal comes with an additional portion of delicious, tiny dishes. Do you have a favorite banchan?
Happy Lunar New Year! In the past I’ve highlighted some traditional dishes from around Asia, and now we’re on to Korea, where the Lunar New Year is called Seollal. Tteokguk (or ddukguk) – rice cake soup – is probably one of the most recognizable Seollal dishes. Eating a bowl of this soup symbolizes growing another year older, as well as wishes for a long, healthy life. The key to the soup are the tasty dumpling-like rice cakes (which can be found in other Korean dishes with variations like spicy sauce – ddukbokki). There are many variations on the soup, with different types of stock, so here a a few versions, from Crazy Korean Cooking, My Korean Eats and Chow Divine.
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State protectionism is a stumbling block that discourages the potential growth of Greece’s sea tourism, according to heads of international cruise sector bodies, senior officials from Greece’s port authorities and cruising industry who attended the Cruise Update Seminar held on the sidelines of shipping trade event Posidonia 2012 last month.
“Greece is a key cruise destination in Europe,” ECC Chairman Manfredi Lefebvre D’Ovidio said during the seminar’s first panel session.
According to Lefebvre D’Ovidio, Greek ports attract some 4.7 million passengers -17 percent of the total European market- and ranks third in Europe, only behind Italy and Spain. Passenger expenditure in Greece is some 470 million euros.
The ECC chairman added that direct cruise industry expenditure, passenger and cruise purchases, shipbuilding, employee compensation, cruise line purchases amounts to 14 billion euros across Europe and close to 600 million euros in Greece.
Cruise officials then welcomed the fact that the Greek Government finally revised and improved a series of (originally tabled) “administrative obstacles” for the full lifting of cabotage restrictions for non-EU flag vessels.
The ECC’s chairman said the cruise industry was relieved that the regulation that previously obliged international cruise companies to sign a “special contract” with the Greek Government in order to homeport in Greek waters was abolished. “The specific contract was nonsense,” he said.
Along with the abolition of the contract, non-EU flag cruise ships can homeport in Greek ports while no additional tax/fees would be applicable; there would be no limits for ports stay; and no specific number of Greek ports of call would be required.
In addition, companies that wish to employ Greek seamen would benefit from a subsidized NAT (Seamen’s Pension Fund) contribution.
Greek cruise experts have estimated that once homporting begins at Greek ports regularly, the country’s finances would increase by one billion euros per year.
The benefits from the new law would be evident in 2014 as cruise schedules have already been planned out for this year and the next.
“However, outstanding practical issues currently hampering cruise operations in Greece must be tackled in order to realise the potential,” Neil Palomba, chairman of the ECC port sub-committee, said during his speech.
Mr. Palomba drew attention to key issues that could threaten the industry’s development and have a strongly negative impact on both cruise tourism in Greece and the wider Greek economy.
According to Mr. Palomba, the key issues include fees and charges, ports infrastructure, safety measures, a common cruise port policy and a berth allocation system.
In regards to the fees and charges imposed on cruise ships, Mr. Palomba said they must be reasonable otherwise cruise companies would be forced to move their ships elsewhere “as already witnessed.”
At this point it was mentioned that the Piraeus Port was “not friendly” to cruise ships due to its pricing policy in contrast with the ports on Greek islands.
According to data, fees for embarking/disembarking passengers at the Piraeus Port have increased from 4.742 euros per passenger just last year to 11.65 euros, corresponding to an increase of 146 percent.
The proposed transit fee per passenger for 2012 has increased from 0.873 euros last year to 3.80 euros, corresponding to an increase of 335 percent.
On the need for a new berth allocation system, he referred to Greece’s infamous “first come first served” berth assignments found in many Greek ports.
“This is neither an acceptable nor a viable approach as cruise lines plan their itineraries three years in advance and need clear berth booking and confirmation rules to be set and respected,” he underlined.
On his part, George Anomeritis, chairman of the Greek Ports Association, said the Piraeus Port was amidst a five-year investment program worth 420 million euros designed to revamp existing port infrastructure.
This year the expansion of the Agios Nikolaos dock that would provide two new anchor positions for cruise ships should be completed, along with the development of a third cruise passenger terminal (Miaoulis Coast).
Mr. Anomeritis also assured cruise officials that the “competitive pricing” of cruise ships at the Piraeus Port would remain steady until 2016.
According to Apostolos Ventouris, president of the Association of Greek Passenger Shipping Companies, this may be the last chance for international cruise to revive in Greece and for the country to “collect” on many levels.
“We must take advantage of the financial crisis to gain not only financially but to also promote our country, its specific features, its beauty, its history and its islands,” Mr Ventouris said.
Cruise Giants Eye Greek Ports
“Hopefully we have received the right messages by now and I expect the post cabotage era to create suitable conditions for the growth of the cruise industry in Greece,” Andreas Stylianopoulos, vice president of the Association of Greek Passenger Shipping Companies (SEEN), told GTP last month.
This year is essentially the first homeporting season for Greece’s cruise market as it entered a “testing phase” last month with the homeporting of the Costa Atlantica of Costa Cruises at the Heraklion and Rodos ports.
“Homeporting is in fact another type of incoming tourism and we need excellent air connections for the homeporting destination and even stronger brand awareness,” Mr. Stylianopoulos underlined. Also, the Aida Aura cruise ship of Aida Cruises is scheduled to homeport five times next year in the Thessaloniki Port.
“If the companies are satisfied from the passenger traffic and offered services in the homeporting ports, we will definitely have the upper hand and can look into 2013 and the next season with enhanced confidence,” he said.
Cruise liner giants Costa Cruises, ΜSC and Royal Caribbean are discussing homeporting in Greece. “Royal Caribbean at the moment waits for all the developments regarding cruises and cabotage in order to decide its next steps,” he said.
On the matter of port privatization in Greece, SEEN’s vice president said he somewhat agreed with international cruise experts that believe “the less the government interferes, the better. “The way Greece is trying to privatize its ports, doesn’t seem attractive for the companies,” he said.
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Due to attacks on refineries in Saudi Arabia there could be increases in fuel prices
September 17, 2019
The increase in oil prices after the attack on the Aramco facilities, the largest oil company in Saudi Arabia and one of the largest in the world, paralyzed half of the emirate's production and could have an impact on the cost of gasoline from Mexico in the next few days.
Photo: Energy & Commerce
Last Saturday, September 14, two of the most important oil plants in Saudi Arabia were destroyed, being bombarded, so far it is known, with 10 drones. The analyst Ramsés Pech pointed out that one of the repercussions of the attacks is that the Ministry of Finance must increase the fiscal stimulus to fuel and to contain disproportionate increases in prices.
The final cost of gasoline offered at the country's service stations is determined considering various factors, and the price of combustible is one of them. This Monday, September 16, the hydrocarbon increased over 20 percent.
In our country, gasoline prices are determined by five components:
• International references for gasoline prices
• Exchange rate
• Logistics costs
• The profit margin of service stations
Therefore, a greater stimulus to fuels is expected within 30 days, something that will negatively affect the income of taxes to the Federation via the Special Tax on Production and Services (IEPS for its initials in Spanish.)
For 2019, the target prices of the federal government of gasoline, which include the adjustment for inflation are: 19.50 pesos for Magna; 21.04 for Premium gasoline and 20.89 for diesel.
The President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed in his morning press conference that there would be no variations in the prices of gasoline.
"Despite this special external situation we are going to maintain stability."
The president also mention that officials from the Ministry of Finance and Pemex will hold a meeting to discuss the impact on the price of gasoline and the national economy.
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We have one really good tool for predicting the rate of growth of solar. It exists because, in 1933, the US government asked for flying cars.
In 1933, Gene Vidal, head of the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce, announced his vision for a “People’s Airplane.” Powered by a Ford engine and targeted to cost only $700 – the price of a Pontiac – this plane would open up air travel to the masses. To spur innovation, his Bureau offered a competition to US aircraft manufacturers: It would award two grants to subsidize production of an aircraft that could meet this cost target, at a production run of 10,000 planes.
The Hammond Model Y, winner of a grant for the “People’s Airplane”. Image: Smithsonian
Any engineer knows that the costs of manufacturing a product – aircraft or otherwise – go down as the volume goes up. Labor becomes proficient over time, as workers implement simple changes such as optimizing the position of a piece in need of welding. As production rises, companies invest in tooling, which simplifies assembly further. Materials are also purchased more cheaply as logistics become streamlined – delivery from a full truck costs less than delivery from a half truck; deliver by train costs less still.
But how cheaply could 10,000 planes be made?
For aircraft companies, the opportunity was both riveting and lunatic. For comparison, the Boeing 247 was released in 1933 as the first modern commercial aircraft, with a production run of 60 planes, at a unit price of $65,000. Ten thousand was more aircraft than had ever been produced for any model, military or civilian.
Was such a price possible? Could an assembly line be built? And how on earth should a company estimate the costs of 10,000 planes, when an order of 100 planes represented work beyond the dreams of any reasonable production manager?
To use modern terminology, airplane companies had no idea how to scale. No one had ever taken a leap of this sort. There was no template to work from.
Into this abyss stepped Theodore Paul Wright, chief engineer of the airplane division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Ted was the black sheep of an absurdly distinguished family: His father, Phillip, was a professor, inventor of a statistical technique that is still applied today. His eldest brother, Sewell, made key mathematical contributions to the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution. His middle brother, Quincy, co-founded the first International Relations program at a US university, and became the leading scholar of war of his generation.
But Ted was a doer, not an intellectual. While at MIT during WWI, he joined the Navy, and became an aircraft inspector. After the war a naval career became a dead-end, so Ted applied for work as an engineer at the Curtiss Aircraft Company.
Yet Ted shared in his family’s genetic bounty. By age 30, Ted was running the company’s engineering division. And by 1933, with a decade of experience leading design and build teams, Ted possessed reams of data on plane production and cost.
When the request came to quote costs for 10,000 planes, Ted had an idea of what to do. He charted airplane costs against volume for the numbers that he had, on logarithmic paper. And he drew a line.
From “Factors Affecting the Cost of Airplanes“, TP Wright, Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences 3(4), 1936
What he found – later published in 1936 – was that the costs of both supplies and finished goods fell with astonishing regularity as production increased. With every doubling of the number of units produced, the cost of labor dropped by 20% (an “80% curve”, above). The cost of purchased materials dropped by 12%. The cost of raw materials fell by 5%. And the cost of a completed airplane – itself a combination of labor, supplies, and raw material – dropped by 13%.
With this relationship, predictions that would seem to require a crystal ball morph into a problem solved by middle school math.
To find out the cost of 10,000 planes, all Wright would need is the cost of the first unit, and the slope of the line. And he plotted this out, he saw that if a plane drops in costs by 13% per doubling – it’s called an “87% curve” in the graph – a production run of 10,000 planes will be 1/10th the price of the first. If you need the price in production to be $700, you had better be able to build a single unit for $7,000. If you can’t, don’t bother trying.
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation never made a flying car. Instead, it learned how to predict the future.
The experience curve
For those familiar with modern technology, Wright’s Law might sound strangely similar to Moore’s Law, which stated that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every two years. It too is plotted on a logarithmic graph, but it’s plotted against time instead of volume. And it too emerged remarkably straight.
In fact, you can reformulate Moore’s Law to plot the price of a transistor versus total production, or the price of transistors versus time, and both show up as a lines as well.
Moore’s Law, plotted as cost versus time. Original data set from the Santa Fe Institute’s Performance Curve Database
Prices fall over time, as production rises. And generally speaking, this is remarkably predictable – Moore’s Law and Wright’s Law are effectively the same thing, and apply to nearly every product, from transistors to airplanes to polystyrene to beer. Prices fall at different rates – semiconductor prices have dropped much faster than beer prices – but in every case when you plot price on a logarithmic scale versus time, you get a line.
Image from How Predictable Is Technological Progress?, JD Farmer and F Lafond, Research Policy 45(3), 2016
Applying one simple rule, you can predict the future. And the simple rule works great, right up until it doesn’t.
Why predicting solar has been so hard
Images have been released showing the sheer size of a new solar power plant in southern India. The facility in Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu, has a capacity of 648 MW and covers an area of 10 sq km. This makes it the largest solar power plant at a single location, taking the title from the Topaz Solar Farm in California, which has a capacity of 550 MW.
Al Jazeera, Nov 30, 2016
Built at a cost of about 6bn yuan (£721.3m) and in almost constant expansion since construction began in 2013, Longyangxia now has the capacity to produce a massive 850MW of power – enough to supply up to 200,000 households – and stands on the front line of a global photovoltaic revolution being spearheaded by a country that is also the world’s greatest polluter.
The Guardian, January 17th, 2017
Gordon Moore has always been clear that the steady rate of improvement of semiconductors was not from some natural principle. Carver Mead, a professor of engineering who became one of the earliest proponents of Moore’s Law, summarized the engine of Moore’s Law succinctly: Belief.
It’s not a law of physics, it’s about human belief, and when people believe in something, they’ll put energy behind it to make it come to pass… So here’s an example where Gordon [Moore], when he made this observation early on, he really gave us permission to believe that it would keep going. And so some of us went off and did some calculations about it and said, ‘Yes, it can keep going’. And that then gave other people permission to believe it could keep going. And [after believing it] for the last two or three generations, ‘maybe I can believe it for a couple more, even though I can’t see how to get there’
Prof. Carver Mead
A shared belief creates tremendous advantage – even with the field moving fast, if semiconductor manufacturers believe, then suppliers feel secure making long term investments in technology, and their costs and capabilities conform. Semiconductor customers feel secure designing products that require high power chips to thrive, so users for these new chips arrive just in time.
To call this belief is not to compare it to bloodletting, or homeopathy, or sprites. You cannot achieve lower manufacturing costs through the powers of positive thinking.
This belief is about certainty, about a benevolent form of industrial collusion. It’s a common frame of reference that lets even ruthlessly competitive industry move in lock step. A shared belief in the future – a belief firmly rooted in the real – benefits all.
But what happens when there is no coordination? What happens when not everyone believes?
Swanson’s Law, showing the relationship between module prices and the total produced over all time. Image: Wikipedia.
Swanson’s Law is the name given to these same price and volume trends by the solar industry. But Swanson has not been so lucky.
Solar prices followed a simple decline from 1979 through 2003; save for a few minor glitches, the industry behaved exactly as it should. But in 2004, expectations for prices hit a bump. And the reason why was simple: Disbelief.
In 2004, the price of a solar module was about $4/W, about ten times what it is today. Solar was a niche business, serving hippies living in mountain cabins and Polynesian islanders who could not get electricity any other way. It was totally uneconomical for anyone with a connection to the grid. But by 2000, rising concerns about global warming – most notably in Germany, where a “feed-in tariff” subsidized the cost of solar – led people, business, and governments to buy solar anyway.
This came as a shock to makers of high purity silicon, who had previously viewed solar as an afterthought to their main market, in semiconductors. The solar industry tried to warn silicon producers that demand was going to continue its increase. The silicon producers did not believe.
It takes 24-36 months to build a new silicon plant. As demand grew, there was a shortage of silicon, and prices rose for years before renewing their march downward in 2008.
But then something even weirder happened. Solar prices fell below their long term trend. By a lot.
Technology + belief = progress
The price of solar modules can fall for many reasons. Suppliers learn to purify silicon using less energy, and drop their prices. Panel manufactures learn to handle thinner wafers, which use less material. The simple act of scaling, with improved automation and logistics, drops prices further.
After 2008, solar manufacturers gained a new weapon in their battle against costs: Silicon makers built large plants to serve solar alone, and looked with new focus at how they could tune these plants to cut solar’s costs. And because, as Wright taught us, the rate of reduction for a product’s price is just the average of the rates for all of its components, that alone should have put solar on a sharper downward trend.
But the reason that got most of the attention of the industry – and politicians – was the simplest story: Solar manufacturers started to sell modules near, or below, cost.
In political circles, this practice is called “dumping”. When the companies doing the dumping are getting government subsidies, it’s considered an unfair trade practice because it forces competitors in less generous regimes out of the marketplace. And because most of the world’s solar manufacturing is in China, there is little question that these companies are getting some sort of generous treatment.
However, there can also be good, non-political reasons to sell at or below cost. The best modern example is Amazon, which for twenty years has barely booked a profit. Amazon’s investors tolerate this because the market for on-line retail is vast, and scale brings lower costs. Because consumers follow cost, the company who scales fastest wins the largest market share. Which gives the revenue needed to scale more still. A short term restraint turns, over time, into an insurmountable advantage.
LCD television makers did this in the mid-2000s – prices were dropping steadily at 20% per year, as boxy cathode ray TVs were slowly replaced by high end, flat panel displays. Finally, large-screen televisions reached a price point accessible for the average consumer. And consumers responded, in droves.
To keep up with market demand required billion-dollar investment in next-generation factories; to fill the factories required more market share. LCD companies did the only thing that made sense – they dropped prices by 35% per year instead. If you ever wondered what happened to the plasma and projection televisions that competed with LCD in 2004, this is the story. The LCD makers scaled first, lowered prices to fill their factories, and drove their competitors out of the business.
A 2009 Reuters summary of the TV market. In 2004, things did not look so bad for plasma TVs. Five years later, it was game over.
And so it is in solar.
Solar has reached the tipping point where demand is no longer sustained by government fiat, where investment will soon be an order of magnitude larger than in the past. And only companies that make that leap – companies that lower their prices to keep their market share, and invest every possible penny in cutting costs for the future – will survive.
Experts who looked at market trends in the early 2000s missed the bump that was caused by suppliers not believing. And they missed the drop today, caused by the solar panel companies themselves believing their time has finally arrived.
Now it’s time for all of us to believe.
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The AT-UHD-CLSO-840 supports both unbalanced and balanced audio connections on the four 5-pin captive screw connectors:
Important note: When terminating cables, please ensure exposed adjacent wires do not touch. This may result in a short that can damage connected devices.
Unbalanced audio connections use one signal wire and a ground. When connecting the wires, a jumper between the negative and ground will help alleviate extra noise on the line. Unbalanced audio connections are used if other audio system components don’t support balanced signals.
Wiring for unbalanced audio connections:
Wiring for balanced audio connections:
Balanced connections require a: Ground, Negative and Positive pins, thus you are unable to connect RCA cables to balanced inputs. Please use the unbalanced wiring connection for RCA.
Pinouts for audio systems may vary, please refer to your audio system’s operation manual to ensure a proper connection.
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But Americans finally distrust and dislike their rotten, corrupt, intrusive, and incompetent government.
- 82% of Americans disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job.
- 69% say they have little or no confidence in the legislative branch of government, an all-time high and up from 63% in 2010.
- 57% have little or no confidence in the federal government to solve domestic problems, exceeding the previous high of 53% recorded in 2010 and well exceeding the 43% who have little or no confidence in the government to solve international problems.
- 53% have little or no confidence in the men and women who seek or hold elected office.
- Americans believe, on average, that the federal government wastes 51 cents of every tax dollar, similar to a year ago, but up significantly from 46 cents a decade ago and from an average 43 cents three decades ago.
- 49% of Americans believe the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. In 2003, less than a third (30%) believed this.
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The California ABC Test Looks to be Expanding
New states are adopting provisions that pertain to independent contractors vs. employees.
Just when you thought that the California ABC test would stay within that state’s borders comes news that the states of New York and New Jersey are considering adopting some of the same provisions that pertain to the qualifications of independent contractors versus employees. In an article in The Wall Street Journal on December 6, various state legislators in New York are quoted about how they might impose some of the same regulations, although some comment that they felt California went too far.
The ABC test is a test to determine whether a person is an employee or an independent contractor for the purpose of determining the state unemployment tax.
The California ruling found that a worker could only be an independent contractor if each of these three factors was met:
- The worker is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact.
- The worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business.
- The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed.
Behind this is not a directed attack on residential brokerage independent contractor status but more focused on workers in the gig economy—like Uber and Lyft drivers. Unfortunately, the same regulations don’t differentiate many industry’s independent contractors from those they most want to target.
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Donald Trump’s COVID diagnosis and hospitalization in October 2020 may have changed the minds of his far-right supporters who believed the disease to be a hoax, a new study has suggested.
During the study, researchers set out to investigate the role that the hospitalization of the former U.S. president might have had on levels of COVID skepticism.
As context, the researchers noted that people on the political right—Trump’s base—tended to be “more likely to downplay or deny the risks of the virus.”
A Pew Research poll in March, 2020 showed that Democrats were 26 percentage points more likely to say that the SARS-CoV-2 virus presented a major threat to the U.S. population as a whole than Republicans were at that time.
Another Pew Research poll in June that year found that 71 percent of U.S. citizens had heard of a conspiracy theory that the COVID outbreak had been intentionally planned, and that 34 percent of Republicans or Republican-leaning independents thought this was either probably or definitely true compared to 18 percent of Democrats or Democrat leaners.
Meanwhile Trump’s presidency itself was characterised by calls to keep the country as open as possible in the face of the virus, often to the extent that Trump clashed with top disease adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci who took a more cautious approach.
“It’s fading away. It’s going to fade away,” Trump said in June 2020, less than a month after he terminated the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO). “Our Economy is roaring back and will NOT be shut down,” he said that same month.
Against that political context, researchers coincidentally happened to be collecting data on the extent to which U.S. citizens believed the coronavirus pandemic to be a hoax, and the study took place over a time period that allowed the researchers to look back and examine the potential effect that Trump’s COVID diagnosis might have had on the study participants by separating the data into ‘before’ and ‘after’.
Between September 24 and October 16, 2,140 study participants were recruited and asked how strongly they agreed or disagreed that COVID was a hoax.
They found that, amongst those who identified as more conservative or right-wing, endorsement of hoax claims was lower for those surveyed after Trump’s COVID diagnosis compared to before it.
Left-leaning participants, meanwhile, displayed little difference in their beliefs about COVID being a hoax after Trump’s diagnosis compared to before it.
“In the same way that those more likely to change their attitudes following Tom Hanks‘ COVID-19 diagnosis were participants who most identified with him, it seems likely that politically right-leaning participants in the current study identified more closely with President Trump making his exemplar more vivid and influential in their mind and hence having more influence on their beliefs, in line with previous literature on exemplars,” the study reads.
Trump tested positive for COVID on October 2, 2020, in the middle of the presidential election campaign and was admitted to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that same day. He returned to the White House on October 5. Oscar-winning actor Hanks was diagnosed with COVID in March, 2020.
Adam Enders is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville whose research focuses on suspicion and conspiratorial thinking in American politics. He told Newsweek that while he considers the study’s conclusion to be “reasonable,” some nuance was necessary when interpreting these results.
“While the change in COVID hoax beliefs from the first wave to the second wave is statistically significant, it is substantively quite small,” he said. “Indeed, it looks like the difference is about 0.25 on a measure that ranges from 1 to 6. This isn’t much. It’s also worth noting that the average among conservatives in the first wave was about 2.30 or so––in other words, conservatives did not, on balance, believe COVID was a hoax in the first place (an average score of 3 would indicate neutrality).
“I think some nuance is necessary here. Conservatives did not, on balance, believe COVID was a hoax in September of 2020. When Trump was diagnosed, perhaps a few skeptics became less skeptical. On the one hand, this tells us that people can update their beliefs when confronted with evidence/reality.
“On the other, this update doesn’t seem to have affected folks all that much––partisan and ideological motivated reasoning is a powerful mechanism by which we strategically (albeit unconsciously) blind ourselves to reality. And that’s not a uniquely conservative phenomenon, though it was most applicable to conservatives in this instance.”
The study was published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Tuesday (ET) August 2. Researchers were from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
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What is Oral Braces
Oral braces (likewise known as braces, orthodontic instances, or situations) are devices utilized in orthodontics that line up as well as correct the alignment of teeth as well as aid place them when it come to a person’s bite, while likewise intending to boost oral wellness. They are typically made use of to remedy underbites, as well as malocclusions, overbites, open bites, deep attacks, go across bites, jagged teeth, and various other defects of the teeth and jaw. Braces can be either cosmetic or architectural. Dental dental braces are often made use of along with various other orthodontic devices in order to help broaden the taste or jaws as well as to otherwise aid in shaping the teeth and jaws.
Process of Oral Braces Application
The application of braces moves the teeth as an outcome of force and pressure on the teeth. There are typically 4 basic aspects that are used: brackets, bonding product, arch cord, and also band elastic (additionally called an “O-ring”). The teeth move when the arc cable puts pressure on the brackets as well as teeth. Often springtimes or rubber bands are made use of to place even more pressure in a details direction.
Braces have consistent pressure which, in time, action teeth into the wanted positions. The procedure loosens the tooth after which new bone expands in to support the tooth in its brand-new position. This is called bone improvement. Bone improvement is a biomechanical process in charge of making bones more powerful in feedback to sustained load-bearing activity and weaker in the absence of lugging a lots. Bones are made of cells called osteoclasts and also osteoblasts.
2 different kinds of bone resorption are possible: straight traction, which starts from the lining cells of the alveolar bone, as well as indirect or retrograde resorption, which takes place when the gum tendon has actually gone through an extreme amount and duration of compressive stress. An additional essential aspect related to tooth motion is bone deposition. Bone deposition takes place in the sidetracked periodontal ligament. Without bone deposition, the tooth will loosen as well as spaces will certainly happen distal to the direction of tooth motion.
Different Kind of Oral Braces
Standard steel braces
Traditional steel wired dental braces are stainless-steel and are occasionally utilized in mix with titanium. Standard steel braces are the most usual kind of braces. These dental braces have a steel brace with flexible (elastic band) connections holding the wire into the steel braces. The second-most typical type of braces are self-ligating dental braces that do not call for flexible ties. Instead, the wire goes through the bracket. Usually with this kind of braces, therapy time is minimized, there is much less discomfort on the teeth, as well as fewer adjustments are needed than with traditional braces.
Clear dental braces
Clear dental braces act as a cosmetic option to typical steel dental braces by blending in more with the all-natural shade of the teeth or having a much less conspicuous or hidden look. Usually, these braces are constructed from ceramic or plastic materials and also function in a comparable way to traditional metal braces. Clear elastic ties as well as white metal ties are available to be used with these clear dental braces in order to help keep the devices much less conspicuous. At the same time, clear dental braces can be self-ligating, indicating the cord clips into the bracket without the need for bands. Clear braces have a higher part of rubbing and also tend to be extra brittle compared to metal dental braces. This can make eliminating the appliances at the end of therapy harder and also time consuming.
Gold-plated stainless steel braces
Gold-plated stainless steel braces are often employed for clients adverse nickel (a basic and also essential element of stainless steel), yet may likewise be chosen due to the fact that some individuals merely choose the appearance of gold over the traditional silver-colored braces.
Lingual dental braces
Lingual dental braces are an aesthetic option where tailor-made braces are bound to the back of the teeth making them on the surface undetectable.
Titanium dental braces
Titanium dental braces appear like stainless-steel braces but are lighter and also just as solid. People with allergies to the nickel in steel frequently select titanium dental braces, however they are a lot more costly than stainless-steel braces.
Multi-Loop Edgewise Archwire
Multi-Loop Edgewise Archwire (MEAW Technique) therapy employs loops in the wire in between teeth. This permits a lot more reliable vertical alignment of teeth as well as bite adjustment. Conventional dental braces consist of a little brace that is glued to the front of each tooth and the molars are adjusted with a band that encircles the tooth. An advantage is one could drink and eat while wearing the braces, however a downside is that a person should surrender particular foods as well as eating habits while wearing them, such as gum tissue with sugar and also potato chips. An additional drawback is they need to be regularly tightened by an orthodontist, creating raised amounts of discomfort.
Customized orthodontic treatment systems
Customized orthodontic treatment systems (an example which is SureSmile) combine high-technology including 3-D imaging, therapy preparation software application as well as a robot to customized bend the cord. Personalized systems such as this offer quicker therapy times and also extra effective results. Customized orthodontic systems could also consist of lingual braces such as eBrace. Because the back surfaces of the teeth are much more irregular, tailor-made braces could assist to attain a more powerful bond in between the tooth as well as bracket. Therapy with a tailored brace could be a lot more expensive and is not available in all orthodontists.
Clear removable aligners
Progressive, clear removable aligners (instances of which are Invisalign, Originator, as well as ClearCorrect) could be made use of to slowly relocate teeth right into their last placements. Aligners are generally not made use of for intricate orthodontic situations, such as when removals, jaw surgical procedure, or palate growth are needed. These dental braces are one of the most current sort of dental braces. Lots of orthodontists do not use these braces due to the fact that they feel they do not create the most effective rehabilitative results compared to conventional braces, yet point of views differ from one person to another. This method functions by just turning or turning the teeth (consisting of the roots), whereas conventional dental braces could parallel change the entire tooth (including the origins).
The braces are hardly visible on the teeth as well as work to gradually relocate the teeth into their right position without the need for cables or tightening up. Like traditional dental braces, they do need an improvement in the amount of oral health due to the fact that they need to be eliminated to eat and one should comb and also floss after every meal. Instead of utilizing the conventional method where steel or clear dental braces were installed for long periods of time, each collection of aligners is used for about 2 weeks, and they are gotten rid of to eat, consume, brush and floss. As the aligners are changed every 2 weeks, the teeth are forced to move to fit the brand-new mold. The total therapy time standards 9– 15 months as well as the ordinary number of aligners worn is between 18 and also 30.
For less tough situations, springtime aligners are additionally a choice that could cost a lot less than braces or Invisalign (one instance is NightShiftOrtho) as well as still straighten largely the front six leading as well as bottom teeth. Smart brackets are the current concept under investigation. The wise brace has an integrated circuit that gauges the forces that act on the brace and also ultimately, the tooth interface. The goal of these braces is to lower the duration of orthodontic treatment as well as the related costs and also discomfort to the person.
A-braces are another brand-new concept in oral devices. In the shape of a capital letter A, A-braces are used, changed, gotten rid of and also completely controlled by the individual. At the ends of the A’s arms are tilted knobbed little bits that the individual bites down over. The size in between the bits is readjusted by transforming the crossbar, housed throughout the arms, outside the mouth. A user never has to experience pain because the stress is so easy to control. Though they are not made or advised for wearing while sleeping, A-braces could serve as self-adjustable retainers and also taste buds expanders. Partial braces cover just 4 front teeth and the 2 extremely back teeth. This is later on updated to steel cable. 10 years is the minimal age to be able to receive this therapy.
Procedures of Braces Application
Orthodontic services could be provided by any type of licensed dentist learnt orthodontics. In North America most orthodontic therapy is done by orthodontists, dental professionals in diagnosis and also treatment of malocclusions– malalignments of the teeth, jaws, or both. A dentist must finish 2– 3 years of additional post-doctoral training to gain a specialized certification in orthodontics. There are many general practitioners who likewise provide orthodontic solutions.
The primary step is to figure out whether dental braces appropriate for the person. The medical professional seeks advice from the person and also examines the teeth visually. If dental braces are appropriate, a documents appointment is set up where X-rays, mold and mildews, and impressions are made. These documents are assessed to identify the troubles as well as proper strategy. Making use of digital designs is rapidly boosting in the orthodontic industry. Digital therapy begins with the production of a three-dimensional electronic model of the individual’s arcs. This model is generated by laser-scanning plaster designs developed making use of dental impacts.
Computer-automated treatment simulation has the ability to instantly separate the gums and also teeth from each other and can take care of malocclusions well; this software program allows medical professionals to make sure, in an online setup, that the picked treatment will create the optimal result, with minimal individual input. Normal therapy times vary from six months to 2 as well as a half years relying on the intricacy and types of problems. Orthognathic surgery might be required in severe situations. About 2 weeks before the braces are applied, orthodontic spacers could be called for to spread apart back teeth in order to produce enough area for the bands.
Teeth to be supported will have a glue related to assist the cement bond to the surface area of the tooth. For the most parts the teeth will certainly be banded and then brackets will be added. A bracket will be applied with oral concrete, and after that cured with light until solidified. This process normally takes a few seconds each tooth. If needed, orthodontic spacers may be inserted between the molars to earn room for molar bands to be placed at a later date. Molar bands are needed to make certain braces will stick. Bands are also made use of when dental fillings or other oral work make protecting a bracket to a tooth infeasible.
An archwire will certainly be threaded in between the brackets and fastened with flexible or steel ligatures. Bands are readily available in a wide range of colors, and the client could select which color they such as. Archwires are bent, designed, as well as tightened frequently to attain the desired results.
Modern orthodontics makes frequent use nickel-titanium archwires and also temperature-sensitive products. When cold, the archwire is limp and also flexible, quickly threaded in between braces of any setup. When heated to body temperature, the archwire will certainly stiffen as well as seek to retain its form, developing consistent light force on the teeth.
Braces with hooks can be put, or hooks could be developed as well as fastened to the archwire to fasten rubber bands to. The placement as well as setup of the rubber bands will certainly rely on the course of therapy and the private patient. Rubber bands are made in various diameters, shades, sizes, and staminas. They are also commonly offered in 2 variations: tinted or clear/opaque.
The fitting process could range various kinds of braces, though there are similarities such as the initial actions of molding the teeth before application. For instance, with clear braces, perceptions of a client’s teeth are reviewed to produce a series of trays, which fit to the patient’s mouth virtually like a safety mouthpiece. With some types of braces, the braces are placed in an unique type that are personalized to the client’s mouth, drastically reducing the application time.
Oftentimes there is insufficient room in the mouth for all the teeth to fit properly. There are two main procedures to earn space in these instances. One is removal: teeth are eliminated to create more area. The 2nd is expansion, where the taste buds or arch is made bigger using a palatal expander. Expanders could be utilized with both youngsters and adults. Because the bones of grownups are already merged, expanding the taste buds is not possible without surgery to unfuse them. An expander could be used on an adult without surgery, yet would certainly be made use of to broaden the dental arc, and also not the taste.
Sometimes kids as well as teenage clients, and periodically adults, are required to wear a headgear appliance as component of the main therapy phase to maintain certain teeth from moving (for even more detail on headgear and also facemask appliances see Orthodontic headgear). When supports put stress on one’s teeth, the gum membrane layer stretches on one side and also is compressed on the various other. This activity should be done gradually or otherwise the patient risks losing his or her teeth. This is why braces are used as long as they are and modifications are only made occasionally.
Braces are typically adjusted every 3 to six weeks. This aids move the teeth right into the right setting. When they obtain adjusted, the orthodontist eliminates the colored or steel ligatures maintaining the archwire in place. The archwire is then eliminated, as well as might be changed or customized. When the archwire has actually been placed back into the mouth, the individual might choose a color for the brand-new elastic ligatures, which are after that attached to the metal brackets. The readjusting procedure could create some discomfort to the patient, which is normal. | <urn:uuid:0ebac5d4-b004-49eb-b3a2-582c394476fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coastalshows.com/braces-before-and-after/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957273 | 3,054 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The rules and regulations governing the lottery are complex. Firstly, the organiser of the lottery must indicate the rules clearly on the ticket. Secondly, the ticket is the only basis for participation in and winning the lottery. Thirdly, the date of the lottery draw must be publically announced, and it must be open to the general public. Furthermore, each ticket must be given an equal chance of winning; other tickets cannot be included in the draw. Last, a society must notify its members of the draw date and time.
The rules of the lottery differ from those of gambling. In a lottery, the prize fund is set ahead of time, and each ticket carries a fixed number of chances of winning. The lottery operator does not participate in the game, but has an interest in the winners. Hence, the lottery operator must have a license to operate the lottery. In addition, the lottery must be licensed in most states in North America. As for the online lottery, it is an electronic version of the classic lottery. Furthermore, it is a good way to reach those who would not otherwise donate money to a charity.
Another disadvantage of the lottery app is that it requires downloading and periodic updates. These updates may take up space on your device, causing you inconvenience. Further, lottery apps do not work on desktops. Thus, they should be played from your mobile devices. The draw process is also simpler and more convenient. A lottery app does not have the same draw results as a website, so you won’t have to print out the results. So, it is a good choice for people who do not want to spend too much time on the process of playing the lottery.
There are hundreds of live bingo halls across the United States. Some of them offer games with prize payouts of over $100 million. Both the lottery and bingo share the same dynamic, but they are not identical. You should choose the lottery app based on its jackpot size. But bigger is not necessarily better. However, you should consider the size of the jackpot when choosing the lottery app. If the jackpot is not big, you might as well go with the smaller lottery app.
Lottery software is designed to make it as easy as possible for the public to play the game. The main functions of the lottery terminal include: entering plays, monitoring sales data, and administering the game. Moreover, it has administrative features for lottery retailers. Further, it can send out winning numbers to a lottery terminal. If a lottery software has these features, it may be possible to automate some of these functions. In a way, a lottery app may act as a virtual store.
Another popular lottery game is keno, a Chinese lotto game with a $2 prize pool. Unlike traditional lottery tickets, keno’s jackpot is usually much smaller than the prize pools of major lotteries. Another popular lottery game is bingo, which is similar to a lottery but involves filling out cards according to the balls drawn. If you do not win, you may pass the prize claim to someone else. There are several online games that feature win-win patterns. In addition to these, there are also instant-win lottery games known as pull tabs. These games offer players five chances to match three symbols and win a prize. | <urn:uuid:dc199c4c-01ca-44e7-99a2-0f6a1c1fd715> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laginestradibagnara.com/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-playing-the-lottery-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.969217 | 673 | 2.25 | 2 |
MBHS Student Surveys
Mountain Brook Schools are engaging in a process for renewing our district and school accreditation this year. The accreditation process includes gathering insights from all stakeholders, including parents, students, teachers, staff, and administrators through surveys, dialogue, and documented evidence. The purpose of the accreditation process is to assess our schools against national standards of excellence.
The first step in the process is to get your responses on surveys regarding the climate and culture of the school and about the experiences you have in your classes. Please answer each question or statement honestly, with the attitude of helping to make our school and school system even better.
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A recent article alleged that at the very least one in four students utilize these sites for writing an assignment. Students across the globe need to be aware of whether it is acceptable to order essays online and if they can get assistance from a different site. The federal government has taken steps to stop these websites for writing. They are concerned about the amount of student work being created through these sites. Jezebel reported that officials conducted a sting against an online writing company, and discovered that a large number of college students were filling out assignments on these websites. These students are reportedly being advised by colleges to write essays and other assignments all through the year.
A lot of the students found to have fabricated information about themselves. According to the report, this particular website has been removed. However, similar websites continue to pop up, some with uncertain results. For instance, a study of a particular website states that “a large number of college students appear to be copying,” and that many of these “plagiarized” essays were composed by students at various schools. A representative from the online writing firm told Jezebel that the writers “are paid a fair salary,” and, “There is nothing illegal in this business model.” There are questions as to whether these businesses are honest with students about what they’re engaging in.
Consider if you’re incapable of writing an assignment on your own. Why should a company that isn’t able to provide you suggestions for your essay and assistance? Also, you must ask yourself if these companies are being honest with the public about what they’re doing. There are websites which promote the notion that it’s important to complete your assignments before the due date. This is based on the notion that students should “get out when they’re ahead.” They believe that the quicker you finish your work, the faster you will get ahead in life. If you can’t write your own assignments, they will suggest for you to buy essays online.
It is important to keep in mind that academic success is contingent upon your ability to do well with your assignments. There are numerous resources available to assist you in your academic endeavors. An essay writing service is a good option if you are unable to write your own essays. However before you buy essays online, you should be aware of a few crucial things first.
Many students who purchase essays online end up in a worse situation than when they first started. It’s unfortunate because these people assume that since they have to buy essays online, it must be something that is very significant or significant. The truth is that the writing of essays for school and for other purposes isn’t so valuable that you have to spend your entire hard-earned money on it.
If you only need these services for academic purposes You don’t have to order essays online. If you need help with your assignments and writing assignments, then a custom writing service would be much better suited for your requirements. You can learn how to do research, compose an essay, proofread it and even rectify mistakes after having paid for the writing services of a custom writer which are available on the internet. This is a smarter way of approaching college essays.
Another essays online to read thing to remember is that not every assignment will be accepted at all online writing services. It is not possible to copy and paste specific information into the online essay submission forms. Before you order anything, you need to be sure you fully understand the rules. It is also important to make sure that you understand how to use a software that will help you with your assignment prior to purchasing anything. This will prevent you from spending money on unnecessary or unrelated items.
If you can find a top-quality academic writing service that costs less than 10 dollars, then you should definitely purchase an essay online. This will help you save much money, time, and energy. On the internet, you can find all the assistance you need to write and complete your essay and complete your assignment. This will not only save you money, time and effort, but it also saves you the trouble of having to travel back and back to your college campus to pick up your books and papers. These are only a few of the many reasons to purchase essays online. | <urn:uuid:19f24ef8-8a68-4e94-8332-82378a0dbeb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.1suara.com/three-reasons-why-you-should-buy-essays-online | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970958 | 879 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Groups challenge Interior’s failure to disclose public information
Today SELC and Defenders of Wildlife filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Department of Interior officials for failing to produce public records relating to the agency’s adoption of quotas to limit or reduce the number of imperiled species protected under the Endangered Species Act in the Southeast.
The Department of the Interior is creating a culture of secrecy around decisions they know the public would never support.Sam Evans, Senior Attorney
Over the past two years, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior have adopted policy changes and practices that have severely slowed the disclosure of records that belong to the public. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires public records to be provided “promptly” upon request, but the agencies have instead created unnecessary delays and bottlenecks. Memoranda from December 2017, May 2018, and September 2018 reveal a growing structural framework that allows the agency to conceal information that is politically embarrassing or shows unlawful conduct.
Today’s filing asks the court for an injunction prohibiting the Department of the Interior from applying these unlawful policies and practices imposing interminable delays on requests submitted by members of the public.
“The Department of the Interior, in a trend that we’ve seen throughout this administration, is creating a culture of secrecy around decisions they know the public would never support,” said Sam Evans, SELC’s National Forests and Parks Program Leader. “We’ve asked for important records about decisions that could make the difference between whether rare species recover or vanish into extinction, but they’ve been delayed, with no end in sight because of these unlawful policies.”
SELC and Defenders of Wildlife first filed the FOIA request in August 2018 for information related to the agency’s actions in the Southeast Region. After initially acknowledging the request and belatedly producing a few documents, the agency has failed to provide information about how its new policies are affecting specific decisions.
“The Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to make a number of significant decisions about whether certain species will be protected by the Endangered Species Act,” said Ben Prater, Southeast Program Director for Defenders of Wildlife. “It is critically important for the public to have the full picture for how the agency’s quotas for de-listing are affecting these decisions. It’s ridiculous that these important public records continue to be shrouded in secrecy as a result of policies that serve no legitimate or lawful purpose.” | <urn:uuid:0928712a-72ba-4fe6-a639-dc500e0a551d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.southernenvironment.org/news/groups-challenge-interiors-failure-to-disclose-public-information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.930395 | 528 | 1.992188 | 2 |
By Erin Griffith
The homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Wisconsin lasted two weeks, with four days of jury deliberations. Kimberly Potter’s manslaughter case in Minnesota took the same amount of time.
And the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell in New York wrapped up in 10 days, much faster than expected. Jurors quickly arrived at a verdict after Judge Alison J. Nathan threatened to keep them in deliberations through the New Year holiday, citing fears of a mistrial amid spiking coronavirus cases.
The fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the failed blood testing startup Theranos, has had a decidedly more meandering pace.
Originally scheduled to wrap in early December, it stretched to 14 weeks of testimony and has just entered its seventh day of jury deliberations on Monday in California.
It has endured delays over juror travel, technology issues in the courthouse, a water main break and Holmes’ pregnancy.
Now, after the jury has discussed the case for 43 hours without a verdict, the trial faces another challenge: spiking coronavirus cases in Northern California.
In Santa Clara County, where the trial is being held, the number of new daily coronavirus cases has risen more than 250 per cent over the past 14 days. The jurors have been pulled from four counties in the federal court system’s Northern District of California.
Judge Edward Davila, who is overseeing the case, has expressed no urgency to the jurors, who were expected to resume deliberations on Thursday. Instead, they took the day off.
This high-risk moment is the culmination of a case that began, in essence, six years ago when The Wall Street Journal uncovered that Theranos had misrepresented the abilities of its blood testing machines. Regulators cracked down on the company, which led to its unravelling. In 2018, Theranos shut down, and Holmes was indicted on charges of fraud.
She has been charged with nine counts of wire fraud over statements made to investors and patients and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Each count carries a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison.
“It’s highly unusual for a case to take this long,” said Andrew George, a white-collar defence lawyer at the firm Baker Botts. “They’ve been moving at a pretty leisurely pace for a federal criminal trial.”
Judges have pushed other pandemic-era trials to move quickly given the risks of gathering people together, George said. “Omicron wasn’t in our vocabulary when this trial started,” he said. “The way some courts are handling it is basically hope.”
Delays upon delays
First, there were procedural issues. Then came the pandemic. And then Holmes became pregnant, pushing things back six more weeks. By the time jury selection for United States v. Elizabeth Holmes began in August, a book, a podcast and a documentary had been made about Theranos’ rise and fall. Two more scripted dramas are in the works.
To avoid juror fatigue and build in extra time for any more pandemic-related delays, Davila scheduled the trial’s proceedings to go only until 2 pm for three days a week.
In its first week, a coronavirus scare cancelled a day of proceedings. As the trial dragged on, extra days were added to get through the prosecution’s list of 29 witnesses, one of whom spent six days on the stand.
Davila has been methodical and lenient in his management of the case, allowing lawyers from both sides to spend hours debating procedural issues before most days of testimony began.
The slow trial pace prompted Adam Lashinsky, a columnist at Business Insider, to declare in early November that Davila was “blowing it” by mistaking “dithering for deliberation.”
Now, with the case in the jury’s hands, the long hours of deliberations have allowed trial watchers to indulge in speculation about what’s happening.
What prompted the roaring laughter coming from the deliberation room? Why were the jurors applauding? Why did lawyers on both sides of the case use a secret side entrance for a closed 23-minute discussion with the judge on Tuesday? Why haven’t jurors had more than two questions for the court?
But what has already occurred in the trial should serve as a warning about what will happen next: Few predictions about how it would go have come true.
Hinging on intent
Little about Holmes’ trial has been typical. Silicon Valley executives are rarely indicted on charges of fraud, especially those with Holmes’ level of fame.
Not many take the stand in their defence, as Holmes did for seven days. And allegations of abuse like the ones Holmes made against Ramesh Balwani, her former business partner, ex-boyfriend and alleged co-conspirator, are extremely rare in white-collar cases.
“My guess is her testimony, more than any other evidence presented at the trial, is causing the jury to struggle over whether there was an intent to deceive or just an overabundance of optimism.”Christopher Slobogin, a professor of criminal law at Vanderbilt University
The fraud allegations cover nearly a decade of business dealings and span the complexities of blood test science and financial arcana. To convict, the jury must conclude, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Holmes intended to deceive.
Despite mounds of evidence, Christopher Slobogin, a professor of criminal law at Vanderbilt University, said the entire case could come down to Holmes’ testimony.
“My guess is her testimony, more than any other evidence presented at the trial, is causing the jury to struggle over whether there was an intent to deceive or just an overabundance of optimism,” he said.
Until a verdict is reached, there is no way to know exactly why deliberations have dragged on or what it means for the case. The jury has given little indication through notes to the court.
One note asked about taking jury instructions home to review, and another asked to replay a recording of Holmes pitching Theranos to investors.
During the playback, most of the jurors scribbled furiously into their notebooks, while a few sat motionless.
Many of the jurors have taken detailed notes throughout the trial. One even stopped proceedings when his pen ran out of ink. In October, it was revealed that one juror’s notes were actually a numbers game, Sudoku, which she had been playing to keep her hands occupied during the long hours of testimony. The juror was dismissed after another juror reported her to the court clerk.
Two alternate jurors remain on standby.
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World Bulletin / News Desk
It's an hour after dawn on Ukerewe island in Lake Victoria and Alphonce Yakobo, face and hands withered by the scorching sun that has tortured his pigment-free skin for all of his 57 years, is vigorously sweeping the leaves outside his house.
"This is the best time of the day: the day has begun but the sun is not yet up," he says. In a few minutes time Yakobo will put on a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses and slather sunscreen over every bit of his exposed skin.
Yakobo suffers from a genetic condition called albinism, meaning his body does not produce melanin leaving his skin, hair and eyes devoid of pigmentation and protection from the sun.
Like all people with albinism, Yakobo has very poor eyesight and is extremely vulnerable to skin cancer.
But the sun overhead is not the only threat to albinos.
Here in Tanzania, as well as in Malawi and some other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, albino body parts are sought after for potions and charms thought to bring luck and wealth, and many fall victim to murderers who dismember their bodies to supply this grisly black market trade.
Canadian charity Under The Same Sun (UTSS) has documented 161 attacks on people with albinism in Tanzania in recent years, including 76 murders, more than anywhere else in Africa.
Yet Ukerewe island is relatively untouched by this phenomenon. "There were times when I was afraid in the past, but now I thank God because we can sleep at night without a gun," says Yakobo, who works as a fishmonger in Ukerewe market.
"Here, we are safe, we are surrounded by water, no one can commit a crime and escape easily," said Yakobo, who has three wives but regrets that not one of his 11 children is albino. "We could talk, and I would feel like I had passed on a part of myself."
Over the years, Ukerewe has become known as a haven for people with albinism.
People say that it started long ago when families would abandon their albino relatives on the island, believing their unusual, ghostly appearance was the sign of a curse. They survived and thrived and others, ostracised by society, made their way there too.
"In many respects, Ukerewe is at the forefront of integration of albinos in society. And I think the fact that it's an island plays a big part in the minds of people, but reality is a bit more nuanced," says Harry Freeland, founder of the non-governmental organisation Standing Voice and the maker of a documentary about Ukerewe.
According to the Ukerewe Albino Society (UAS) there are 75 people with albinism living on the island of 200,000, a proportion roughly in keeping with the national average.
As elsewhere in Tanzania, body-snatchers have come to the island to dig albino corpses from their graves and in 2007 one person was attacked and had his white hair cut for use in witchcraft, says Vicky Ntetema, director of the Tanzanian branch of UTSS.
"But we have never had an albino murder," points out Ramadhan Khalifa, president of Ukerewe's albino community.
"Ukerewe is unique in that sense," says Freeland. "It was in Ukerewe that the first census was done. The initiative came from the former president of UAS, and it was in 2006."
"I'm not afraid of being attacked," says Kajanja Neema, 36, dissecting tiny fish for the evening meal, along a busy street from the main town of the island.
His brother Zacharia accompanies his songs with an air guitar. "Yes, Ukerewe is safer than mainland, but it's not perfect," he said, "Sometimes, people say they will kill us, and we never know if they mean it or not."
Even if physical violence is rare, discrimination is not.
Hadija Namtondo is a 30-year old mother with black skin and a four-year-old albino son called Riziki. "When his father saw the colour of the child, he was not happy, and he has abandoned us," she says.
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[Sticky] Community Moderation: Members, Please Read
Attention Members: please read our community moderation answering common concerns here:
“Why do you guys have to moderate? We’re all adults here. We’re perfectly capable of calm, rational discussion.”
While this is the standard that we do aspire to (not least because it means less work for us admins), not everyone behaves by those standards, especially on controversial topics. Arguments tend to drive members away, and given the nature of social media communication, our moderation will be done after the fact. We do not have the time or inclination to handle a full-blown flame war, so to save our sanity and help preserve the group, we will tend to nip things in the bud.
“But what about the First Amendment/my right to free speech/censorship?”
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The following are not rules, but suggestions for productive discussions. As a principle, avoid the following—if only because they tend to inhibit reasoned discourse and damage the credibility of your posts:
- Generalities: Please do not judge an entire group based on the actions of a few. AGBell advocates, Deaf people, ASL users, cuers—with our fairly diverse membership, we probably do have a little bit of everyone and everything here. Keep that in mind as you post.
- Value judgments: As mentioned, we have a fairly diverse community here, so we moderators try not to take sides. As such, we discourage value judgments, especially on the decisions that members have made for themselves (for example, choosing to go “oral” vs. using ASL). Everyone is different, and what works for one may not work for another, so statements like “A is better than B” are largely unproductive. A better alternative might be something like, “I found that A worked better for me than B,” because it is about _your_ experience without elevating or putting down others or the method itself.
- Unreliable sources: While we do not enforce quality control of sources here, providing links to reliable websites will support your position much better than, for example, a random blog.
- Accusations/speculation: Unless you can read minds, you cannot possibly know why someone chose to make the decisions he or she did, or why a member chose to post what he or she did. Likewise, you do not know the motivations behind the actions or decisions of doctors, cochlear implant companies, Deaf advocates, etc. Even if you do, others will not—and bringing it up is not likely to add anything to the conversation.
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by Nancy Penrose
Hemlock is the common name of the Tsuga, a member of the pine family and conifer genus. When the tree?s leaves are crushed, they smell like the poison hemlock plant (the plant that killed Socrates). However, unlike the plant, the tree is not poisonous.
Hemlocks thrive where there is moisture and cool temperatures, including areas with snow. They are considered medium-size trees, and can grow to almost 200 ft. in height. The bark of the tree, which has a scaly appearance with deep furrows, ranges in color from a dark, charcoal grey to reddish brown.
The hemlock?s wood is made into pulp, and its bark is used for tanning leather. Tea can be made from the tree?s needles. Hemlocks are also used in landscaping and gardens.
There are several species of hemlock trees, four of which can be found in North America. The Pacific Northwest is home to two types of hemlock, the mountain Hemlock (Tsuga metensiana) and the Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla).
The mountain hemlock, also called the black hemlock and hemlock spruce, is an evergreen coniferous tree that mostly grows at high altitudes. It is a small, slender tree with beautifully layered branches that can grow tall as well as low and sprawling like a shrub.
The mountain hemlock can be found in Canada, British Columbia, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana.
The crown of the mountain hemlock is slender with a cone shape. It has needle-like leaves that are blue-green in color, as well as small cones that can grow from 1 to 3 inches in length. Mountain hemlocks mature slowly with a lifespan that can exceed 800 years. They need sufficient water and prefer loose, well-drained soils. Although the mountain hemlock grows best in forested areas and on sheltered slopes, it can also be used as an ornamental tree. Mountain hemlocks can even be grown in containers.
The Western Hemlock, the state tree of Washington, is the largest species of hemlock. It has grayish-brown bark with moderate furrows. Like the mountain hemlock, it can be found in Canada, British Columbia, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana, usually in forests and coastal ranges at low altitudes.
Western hemlocks can live for more than 1200 years and can grow up to 230 feet tall. The Western hemlock?s crown has a broad, cone shape with needle-like leaves and cones. New growth droops at the top of the tree. The tree?s needles, which are almost flat, are yellow to green in color on top, and white on the bottom. The cones turn from a green and reddish purple to brown as they grow.
The cambium (tissue) of the tree is edible. Similar to the mountain hemlock, the Western hemlock?s bark is used for tanning. The tree?s needles can be chewed or used for tea. Indigenous populations also used the tree?s wood for carving.
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Flowers Exposed: A Secret Romance by joSon
Flowers have always spoken the language of or senses. Time and again we struggle to find those images which can best express our innermost emotions, and yet it seems that the human, all-too-human languages we?ve learned to depend on fail us. A single flower can often fill that void, conveying an illumination only the heart can understand.
Yet as botanist and science writer William Burger first pointed out in his book Flowers: How They Changed the World, the connection between humans and flowers is far more fundamental--and ancient. As Burger explains: "Since they energize themselves by capturing the energy of sunlight, flowers provide a vital link in the chain of life. Even today in our complex technological world, it is the flowering plants that provide us, directly or indirectly, with nearly all the energy that sustains life." Indeed Burger concludes that "Without flowers, we humans simply wouldn't be here, whether as primates, two-legged omnivores, or grand civilizations!"
This in turn is what makes the flowers the first time travelers: Like living photographs, long after our human civilizations have crumbled, these blooms--from Tulips to Roses, Magnolias to Camellias, Orchids to Irises?will still carry within them a snapshot of our own brief time here. Their colors, forms, textures, and tender lifespan are like a lost civilization that draws me inward and compels me to document their lives. Until all that remains is one central question: how do flowers play such a crucial role in our human cultures and emotions? Which came first...the human need for flowers, or the power of the flowers themselves to evoke and enhance those same emotions through light and color, scent and symmetry?
If flowers are just innocent, unconscious plants, how then did they acquire the power to convey so much of love, joy, solace and memory into our lives? In this sense, perhaps the images in this book are more than simple portraits of flowers. Instead they become mirrors--because in each bloom we find ourselves, our inmost emotions, mirrored and melded and melted into the world inside and around us. And not simply mirrored: transformed for these same flowers also have the power to calm our emotions, or inflame them--to rekindle love, joy, forgiveness, memory, beauty, passion, and even grief.
Not surprisingly, then, the images of flowers' connection to mankind can be traced back to the very earliest human images painted or carved into the walls of prehistoric caves. Yet even today, for all of our supposed sophistication, we have very little understanding of the true inner purpose of the flower images that were etched on these walls. Similarly the ancient Egyptians were fascinated by flowers. From temple walls to textiles to vases--all surfaces were decorated with flowering images of roses, lotuses, lilies, and irises just to name a few. Indeed the Egyptians were also the first people to record written observations of flowers, although the first illustrated flower and plant books were not published until the beginning of 1st century by the Greek physician Dioscorides.
Throughout the Middle Ages, flowers and plants continued to play a crucial role in daily life, albeit as much for their practical use as for their beauty, serving primarily both a medicinal and ritual roll. By the 15th century images of flowers adorned Biblical manuscripts and took center stage at every worship service. In this way the flower was used as an important symbol that helped to convey the subtlest meaning of Biblical texts to unlettered worshipers. For example: the white rose without thorns is associated with the Virgin Mary while the red rose became a symbol of love. The columbine flower was viewed as a symbol of the Holy Ghost while the violet was associated with the infant Christ.
It's safe to say, then, that the church played a significant roll in glamorizing the flowers in ways that brought with them the full bloom of commercialization as the working class became the middle class. These newly-wealthy households were captivated by the beauty and elegance of the flowers--but this time their interest was mainly in a flower's aesthetic rather than its spiritual value, thereby opening a door to a new perspectives in the arts, as well a whole new generation of visionary artists.
By 1650 flowers were no longer used solely for decoration in portrait painting but as highly wrought still life subjects for artists and their patrons, reaching new heights of craftsmanship and bringing with them fresh challenges: to duplicate the flower and its finest details as close to perfection as humanly possible. As one art critic wrote of a floral portrait in 1669, "The finest thing I ever, I think, saw in my life [was] the drop of dew hanging in the leaves, so that I was forced again and again to put my finger to it to feel whether my eyes were deceived or not..." Yet even as artists from Flanders to France labored to render and preserve the beauty and freshness of living flowers in painting--and in the prints later perfected by the Dutch masters--there was on the far horizon a new invention that would change the fate of floral illustrations forever.
In 1838, four years after the invention of photography, an Englishman named Henry Fox Talbot--a pioneering photographer and a plant lover--excitedly announced to a friend his new invention: a creation that he called "photogenic drawing." In his letter, Talbot wrote, "I believe that this new art will be a great help to botanists... one can copy the most difficult things (flowers and plants) with a great deal of ease, I have practiced this art since the year 1834." This "new art" Talbot referred to was of course the photograph--and he was right, at least half way: yet for all their ease and perfect accuracy of line and form, photographs of flower were still less appealing than a colorful painting of a flower.
Already in France photographs of flowers were increasingly being used for commercial purposes, such as in the textile and packing industries. Yet here the images of flowers in photography were still treated as a mere study or pattern rather than appearing in the spotlight as a singular work of art. This was in part because photographs themselves were still too small (just a little bigger than a wallet size picture) to be displayed as an aesthetic artifact on a wall. Similarly their overall lack of sharpness made photographic images of the time seem pale and lifeless compared to the extraordinarily detailed arrangements portrayed in the paintings of the great Dutch masters which the French so enjoyed.
Times changed. By the second half of the 19th-century flowers in photography had reached a new peak of perfection in terms of both their quality and their commercial popularity. High quality photographic prints and greeting cards of flowers were now routinely purchased for special occasions and holidays. Thanks to the new technology that enabled mass-reproduction of photographic images for publication, paintings of flowers increasingly became a thing of the past--simply because they were so costly to reproduce and so time-consuming to create.
This then was the moment when the cameras and the flowers truly began their love affair. Around 1880, photographs of flowers first began to make their way onto the walls of European salons, not so much as art per se but as photo-illustrations. Similarly, new techniques not only improved the photographic process but also made photographs easier and less expensive to produce, attracting a new group of amateur photographers. Unleashing their ancient allure, flowers too became a favorite subject for these new generations of camera lovers: as one photography magazine wrote, "It is at this season of the year the artistic photographer cannot fail to be attracted by the large variety of flowers, photographing flowe...becoming more and more a favorite pastime among amateurs." By the time Kodak introduced the first point-and-shoot camera in 1888, photography had become a fad. This meant that photographs of flowers took on a new roll, not so much as a documentary record for botanists to study but rather for more personal and intimate purposes. Pictures of flowers became a part of each individual family's photo album. Indeed household images captured at the end of the 19th Century, drawing on both still life portraiture and flower arranging, often show a surprising touch of true sophistication and elegance.
Hence by the 1930's and 1940's photographs of flowers were no longer viewed as a form of floral study, especially in America. Major American museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum had exhibitions of floral and plant photography. "This was the only time that living plant material had ever been shown at the Museum...By implication flowers breeding was recognized as one of the arts," bragged the American photographer Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art catalogue A Life in Photography in 1936. Besides showing works by American photographers, the show also invited the French, German, and British photographers of the time to exhibit their fine art plant and flower images. Works from this new generation of photographers displayed all the accuracy of scientific illustrations, but one important difference is that these floral images were captured by the artist's eye. Rather than simply placing the flowers in front of the camera and clicking the shutter, photographers focused on form and sensuality in their images. Through the use of lines, textures, and lighting, they imbued their flowers with a sense of intelligence, life, and even mystery. As the founder of American fine art photography, Alfred Stieglitz, had first observed some two decades earlier, "...composition is even more essential than in painting, for the photographers..."
True to the ideals of this era, individual flowers or part of the leaves soon became the main subject of their photographs. In this sense, then, flowers themselves took on a new form in which emotional impact was emphasized over beauty. "Scent and colour are without a doubt the (most) beautiful thing about the plant, but the essential point, [what is] interesting and important is the structure..." explained Ernst Fuhrmann's exhibition catalogue at the Galerie Rudolph Kichen, Cologne, in 1979. Here the flower itself no longer appeared statically posed within the frame, but literally appeared to be moving within the photograph itself. Here the beauty of flowers as something traditionally associated with innocent objects emerging from the Earth seems to have become a mere secondary goal for these photographers. As the camera drew ever closer and closer to its subjects, the popular iconography of nature itself wavered dramatically between abstraction and representation, clearly influencing both the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. By the first two or three decades of the 20th Century, there was no longer any question of whether images of flowers were art or not. These photographers had not only challenged the way the world looked at images of flowers in photography, but the wider nature of art itself.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, flowers remained a popular subject in photography, much as they had first appeared a hundred years before. Yet just as in earlier eras, images of flowers in photography continued to focus as much on their symbolic meaning as opposed to their sheer beauty. In this light, the image of a dying flower appears as often today as the image of a flower in full bloom; even the parched skeletons of dried flowers are now fully exposed to the photographic paper. Recently X-ray photographs of flowers have created new ways for photographers to peer ever more deeply into the secret symmetries hidden within these petals. In this sense, the flower in postmodern photography serves more as an ideal than as a subject.
Perhaps then Henry Fox Talbot was right after all when he referred to his plant and flower photographs as new art--because to a true photographer the flowers will always perennially bring forth new secrets and symmetries and symbolic forms for us to admire and to mirror and to explore. As long as we can laugh or cry the flowers will forever be part of our lives, our dreams, our memories, and our human future.
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Travelling with Pietro Longhi. From Vicenza to Venice: a bridge of images and words
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Here are many historical events that unite Vicenza and Venice, along with art and beauty. We propose an unusual and incredible one. It is a bridge of images and words. Two different places, Palazzo Leoni Montanari and Fondazione Querini Stampalia, and a single story: the arrival of Condolio the elephant in the Venetian lagoon in 1774. An exceptional narrator of this story is one of the greatest eighteenth-century artists: Pietro Longhi.
The project implemented by the educational services of Fondazione Querini Stampalia and Gallerie d'Italia - Palazzo Leoni Montanari, comes in a digital version, mainly designed for primary schools.
It is divided into three parts:
▪ the story: in the form of a video to create the spirit of the eighteenth century, through the story told by two paintings by the famous Pietro Longhi. This unique story begins with the painting of an elephant, which is preserved at Palazzo Leoni Montanari in Vicenza, to then continue to Venice, at Fondazione Querini Stampalia, on the trail of a mysterious link between the work of art and the story of a noble family.
▪ a creative workshop: a video tutorial to inspire you to create a colourful pop-up page in the classroom based on the Venetian adventure of Condolio the elephant, and
▪ an educational sheet: useful supporting information, which includes the artist’s biography, a comparison of the images of the two works and a list of useful materials for the creative workshop.
The materials can be requested free of charge from the educational services of the two institutions involved:
This is an opportunity for an in-depth study from a distance, while awaiting to see the two masterpieces 'live' as soon as educational trips can be resumed. The initiative is part of a collaboration between Intesa Sanpaolo and Fondazione Querini Stampalia which has been welcoming the works of Intesa Sanpaolo that already previously belonged to the collections of the Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, since 2018.
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Scratch Cards – Also known as ‘Pre-Paid Cards’
A scratch cards is a small card, often made of thin paper-based card for competitions and plastic to conceal PINs, where one or more areas contain concealed information which can be revealed by scratching off an opaque covering. Applications include cards sold for especially lottery games and quizzes, free-of-charge cards for quizzes, and to conceal confidential information such as PINs for telephone calling cards (otherwise known as recharge cards) and other prepaid services.
In this paragraph, I’m going to discuss a few reasons why Scratch card is important.
Firstly, the only way to attract customers is by actually using a Scratch card. Secondly, I think Scratch card can be a fun way of engaging customers to a brand. There are, however, some people who will disagree. Thirdly, and most importantly, it is said that people tend to try scratch card offers it will solve getting regular customers. Moreover, that Scratch card is inexpensive way of marketing when you put theory to practice. In conclusion, following up explanation, Scratch card is key to Brand Marketing.
Available in both Plastic and paper.
In some cases, the entire scratchable area needs to be scratched to see whether a prize has been won—the card is printed either to be a winner or not—or to reveal the secret code; the result does not depend upon what portions are scratched off. In other cases, some but not all areas have to be scratched; this may apply in a quiz, where the area corresponding to the right answer is scratched, or in some applications where, depending on which areas are scratched, the card wins or loses. In these cases, the card becomes invalid if too many areas are scratched. After losing one can scratch all areas to see if, how, and what one could have won with this card.
Security is the main concern for most clients when dealing with calling cards, as such cards contain real value. We ensure with our quality processes that utmost secrecy is maintained for customer data. | <urn:uuid:39497512-a696-4bfa-94fb-1645bf637c18> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cardbuy.in/scratch-cards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966611 | 430 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Elka de Levie, competing for Amsterdam club BATO, qualified for the Dutch gymnastics team as a reserve. Eventually, she was selected to compete in the first ever women’s gymnastics competition at the Olympics. The Dutch team earned a gold medal with considerable ease. Like a number of her team- and clubmates, and the team’s coach, De Levie was Jewish. Unlike her teammates, De Levie survived World War II. De Levie’s best known result apart from the Olympics is a first place in the Amsterdam “Steen” competition in 1926. Between 1929 and 1943, she was married to Andries Boas, with whom she had two children. | <urn:uuid:a8765807-def8-457c-8080-a8c745170422> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/28855 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.979373 | 145 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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DescriptionSconiers Homeless Preventive, a non-profit advocacy 501(c)3 organization for the homeless and low to moderate income serving as a gate keeper for youth, adults, families, veterans, and citizen. Our organization was founded by Ms. Rosalind Sconiers in the year of 2007.
Our mission is to provide comprehensive intervention, education, and humanitarian services to adults, families, and youth to empower those by serving the neediest and the cultural disadvantaged groups in urban and rural Georgia. We place families into Low-Rental Housing or assist those families in their quest to become homeowners and avoid foreclosure. We also provide domestic violent resources. We are a one stop service resolution organization. Sconiers Homeless Preventive Organization, Inc is an equal opportunity organization and we provide services to all races, religion, national origin, and sex. | <urn:uuid:3e33aaf7-474c-4455-94bb-1093fac4d966> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.shelterlist.com/details/ga_30274_sconiers-homeless-preventive-organization-urban-youth-development-network | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.926977 | 223 | 1.546875 | 2 |
18 Oct 2021
Changing Shopping Habits Pose a Threat to E-commerce Giant Alibaba
The Index Today
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Is facing new challenges ahead of changing consumer trends and growing competition. The company has long been a major e-commerce platform founded by Jack Ma who used innovative techniques and tactics to beat competitors in the industry.
However, consumers in the e-commerce industry are moving past old habits and adapting to new ways of shopping which focus more on interaction. Alibaba is struggling to catch-up to new trends as competitors are fast-moving in to fill the new vacuum. The e-commerce giant’s share has fallen by 51% in the current year according to company projections.
Rivals such as Tencent Holdings LTD and TikTok are using innovative ways combined with gamelike elements to attract shoppers. TikTok has now started selling products through short videos and even live-streaming.
To counter such competitions, Alibaba is investing heavily in its current content creation strategies, focusing on live-streaming and lower prices. Chief Executive Zhang said in a statement, “When we used to talk about marketplace-based core, it was Taobao and Tmall. But now we’re working hard on building all these different businesses, each with its own unique and compelling value proposition.”
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How to Get Rid of Whitefly?
If you live in Florida and own a property with any type of landscaping, you may be familiar with the small insects known as whiteflies. These pesky little creatures are more common in the southern United States and can affect a wide range of plants.
Want to know more about whiteflies and what you can do in regard to whitefly control? Keep reading to learn more about these insects and how to get rid of them from your home or outdoor garden.
What are Whitefly Insects?
The whitefly is a winged insect with a soft body that is closely related to aphids and mealybugs. Even though they have the word “fly” in their name, whiteflies are not a type of fly. They can be as small as 1/12 of an inch and are usually found in clusters on the undersides of leaves. The good news is that they are active during the daytime and will scatter when disturbed, so they’re easier to identify than some other nocturnal pests.
Whitefly Damage to Plants
Whiteflies like a wide range of plants from warm-weather vegetables to ornamental flowers. Some species may attack plants from the cabbage family, citrus trees, and sweet potatoes among many other fruits and vegetables. If they are inside the home, they will most likely be feeding on your houseplants – especially those with smooth, soft leaves.
Like other aphids, whiteflies use a piercing mouthpart to suck up plant juices and produce a by-product called honeydew. This then causes fungal diseases for plants such as sooty mold. If there is heavy feeding on your plants, the leaves will turn pale or yellow and the growth will be stunted. You could also see ants as they are attracted to the honeydew by-product.
There are many various ways to get rid of whiteflies in your home or garden. Below we’ve listed some of the simplest ways to treat a whitefly infestation:
- Blast your plants with a spray bottle or watering hose. This will cause the flies to scatter and may dislodge some nymphs and eggs.
- You may want to spray your plants’ leaves with insecticidal soap. Don’t forget to spray the undersides of the leaves.
- If your whitefly problem is persistent, you can carefully use a handheld vacuum every couple of days to remove them from your plants. Be sure not to empty the vacuum into the trash however as this could bring the infestation inside your home instead!
If you’ve tried everything we listed above and you still can’t seem to get rid of whiteflies in your home and garden, it’s best to bring in a landscaping and pest control expert to manage the situation. The experienced team at Cutters Edge is familiar with all of Florida’s common landscaping pests and can put together a personalized treatment package for your needs. Contact them today to get the ball rolling! | <urn:uuid:adf20ada-5c24-479f-9fc3-0980a90d1d3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cuttersedgepro.com/whitefly-treatments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948352 | 629 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The worldwide interest in oil also brings up need for transport of this material to various nations. Transport is conducted through road, pipeline, and sea; and transport of oil provides forth probability of drip which in turn endangers the environment. Much of the oil is being carried by tankers, and this poses a continuing risk to marine and coastal ecosystems, which as we know have already suffered from oil splatters previously. Spills that occur offshore can reach the shores by the action of winds and ocean currents, posing tremendous environmental implications.
You should learn how to control waste oil era and how to properly dispose of oil waste since it should not be refined by the atmosphere the way it procedures any natural matter. For businesses that handle oil procurement and transport, the requirement for waste management is imperative and it is considered a top priority. Oil plants, for instance should have reliable contingency programs which must encompass adequate waste administration provisions, to ensure that inside the instant an incident occurs such programs are put into motion. Immediate motion will decrease price through effective containment and treatment before the environmental contamination spreads to some wider region.
There are many applications to handle the known risk and the real spill, from lowering of waste production to trying to recycle of waste and appropriate disposal of waste oil. Charge of the amount of waste generated could very well be the best strategy. Immediate clean-up procedure during a spill should be performed, plus it entails containment and assortment of oil and oil-polluted rubble and waste. Based on the kind of waste retrieved, it may go through segregation, treatment, trying to recycle, and removal. Ideally, plants should have a separate waste flow and storage space system for each and every kind of waste generated for immediate segregation. Correctly segregated waste is a lot easier to procedure for recycling and disposal.
Another problem is minimizing of the quantity of waste generated to minimize price in recycling and removal as well as minimize ecological impact. This can be completed by choosing the potential impact sites. Clearing from debris and garbage at the impact sites reduces the quantity of waste to get taken care of. As said before, segregation of waste streams is vital in order for several types of waste to become immediately divided, because splitting up of combined waste is very challenging. waste containment locations ought to be water-proof or have include to stop seepage of rainwater since water within the waste containments would demand additional work in waste treatment.
Crude oil is an essential all-natural resource found in various industries. Simultaneously, it really is a significant ecological contaminant posing issue for environmental conservation organizations all over the world. Improper disposal of oil waste can lead to serious litigations as there are laws approved to guard environmental surroundings from wanton devastation propagated by oil spills due to incorrect containment of oil and quite often recklessness. Protection against contamination is so a lot better than creating containment and dispersal measures.
The objective of waste oil treatment is to procedure oil waste, so that it can be reused or turned into something usable or even be discarded correctly if it makes unusable. Each of the endeavours encompassed in waste oil therapy are going to avoid waste from getting into ecological systems, furthermore destroying plant life and animals which get exposed to it. For example, maritime oil splatters can endanger sea problems and danger the lives of sea organisms. Concurrently, even getting rid of utilized cooking oil into tunszo can also be not advised. Hence, whether you are considering a worldwide or domestic scale, oil waste disposal and treatment are two essential measures that needs to be carried out in compliance towards the laws not because we would like to avert illegal offenses but simply because we want to take care of the surroundings. | <urn:uuid:55d585cf-d8e5-4b9a-bca5-b1a1f502bae0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cialisrx.com/3521/waste-cooking-oil-collection-near-me-brentwood/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963803 | 744 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Providing for Pollinators: The Efforts of a Conservation Neighbor
We have a 5,000 square foot patch of property along the driveway that serves our house and three of our neighbors. This was an unsightly weed patch that needed to be mowed two to three times a year. I planted seven Oregon White Oaks (Quercus garryana) in 2007, but I always wanted this to be a wildflower meadow.
After reading an article about the Xerces Society Conservation Campaign, “Bring Back the Pollinators,” I was ready to do my part. It seemed easy; all I had to do was:
- Grow a flower-rich foraging area.
- Protect suitable host plants for nests where pollinators can lay their eggs.
- Avoid pesticides.
- Spread the word about the importance of pollinators and their habitat.
As one of the Directors of the Benton Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) Board, I knew there were a lot of resources I could draw upon to start my restoration project. [Note: You don’t have to be a Director of the SWCD in order to take advantage of their services and resources–they are available to all County residents.] I was told that site preparation is one of the most important, and often inadequately addressed, components of project success. It is also a process that may require more than one season of effort to reduce competition from invasive, noxious, or undesirable nonnative plants prior to planting. My project site was 100% weeds. For two growing seasons – 18 months – I worked on ridding the site of weeds before I could plant any pollinator-friendly plants. I received help on the project site preparation from another BSWCD Board Director. He also provided over 200 Spiraea douglasii cuttings and helped push them into the ground to form the start of the hedgerow along the creek side of the site. Over 90% of these cuttings rooted and are doing well today.
Planting began in the fall of 2013 with a diverse array of nectar- and pollen-rich flowers that bloom during as much of the year as possible. I focused on early spring (especially February through April) and autumn bloomers that would be around after the main blackberry nectar flow ceased in the Willamette Valley. Weed control was very easy this past summer, but the recent rains have encouraged the weed seeds to sprout. Weed eradication takes time, but diligence and persistence pay off with fewer weeds each year, so I will have to keep up with weed control efforts on a regular basis. View my Meadow Plant List and Bloom Time table for more information about what I chose to plant.
Once the flower-rich foraging area was started, it was time to turn my attention toward providing nest habitat for the native pollinators–bees, butterflies, moths, flies, and beetles. I have had a mason bee block on my garage for several years, but that nest block is quite a distance from my project area.
I decided to build a structure that would house more than just solitary bees and wasps. It would be a bug bed and breakfast. I had several old 1” x 12” fence boards and used them to build a series of shelves and cubby holes. After the structure was complete, I filled the cubby holes with all natural materials found in and around our area. Starting with a stick pile on the ground under the structure that could provide a place for butterflies to perch, roost, or even hibernate, I then dry stacked river rocks and dried artichoke flowers above them. There were pieces of cedar shingles left over from the roof, so I filled another space with them.
Four large bricks full of holes, purchased from Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore, were placed in one of the openings with Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and western white pine (Pinus monticola) cones. I cut two log “cookies” and painted one bright yellow and the other white. These represented the sun and the moon. Kneeling Angelica (Angelica genuflexa) stems, 12 inches long with the chambered node in the center, were cut and inserted in various sizes of ABS pipe. The six-inch deep hollow chambers provide nesting sites for the solitary bees and wasps.
There are three mason bee blocks ready for occupancy this spring and still a few more cubicles to fill up. These will provide a variety of textures for both nesting and hiding places.
As the neighbors drove by they became very curious about what I was doing, so I took advantage of the situation to implement Step 4 of “Bring Back the Pollinators”–Spread the word. After learning what my objective was, one neighbor, while out playing golf, found a fallen limb that had long string lichen (Usnea longissima, Old Man’s Beard) attached and offered it for the project. Another neighbor built a series of bark shingles that he attached to one end of the structure.
This past year we applied for and received certification of our 10 acres under the National Wildlife Federation’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat program. We were one of the many hundreds of certifications that helped Benton County become the first County in Oregon to achieve certification as a Community Wildlife Habitat. Our site has also been certified as a Pollinator Habitat by the Xerces Society Conservation Campaign.
So why are pollinators important?
- Approximately one in three mouthfuls of food and drink that humans consume require the presence of a pollinator.
- Pollinators are a keystone species group; the survival of a large number of other species depends upon them. They are essential to the reproductive cycle of most flowering plants, supporting plant populations that animals and birds rely on for food and shelter.
- Pollinators are also indicator species. The viability of pollinator populations provides a snapshot of the health of the ecosystem. As the insects that many plants require for adequate pollination disappear, the effect on the health and viability of crops and native plant communities can be disastrous.
- Pollinators help keep plant communities healthy and productive; when the pollinators are lost, bushes and trees may continue to flower and look normal for many years. By the time someone notices that they are not reproducing, it may well be too late to reintroduce a pollinator and preserve the ecosystem.
I hope that by reading this you are inspired to give pollinators a helping hand by planting natives on your property. It doesn’t have to be a large area; just take a corner of your backyard and start there. “Spread the word!”
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About the Author
Jerry worked as an Urban Planner and Information Technology Manager for the City of Salinas, CA until he retired in 2004. He and his wife, Judith, also owned and ran a cow/calf cattle operation. Their interest in landscaping with native plants brought many new species of birds to their ranch. Before selling the ranch in 2006, they had recorded 90 species of birds on site. In addition to birding, Jerry's other areas of interest are carpentry and woodworking. In Corvallis, Jerry has been involved as a volunteer and Board Member for Audubon Society of Corvallis, Chintimini Wildlife Center and Benton SWCD. | <urn:uuid:ce913627-1b35-4ea0-8d7a-643d8329d5da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bentonswcd.org/providing-pollinators/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964784 | 1,544 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Mercedes-Benz has once again been spied testing something incredibly weird at the Nürburgring race track in west Germany. The company has taken an SLS AMG E-Cell electric car out of retirement and loaded it with equipment for lapping the famous track. The bizarre setup immediately raises the question of what exactly the company might be up to with such a getup.
Looking at the video and picture evidence we have available, it appears that the electric coupe has slightly different setups when driving on general roads and running on the track. While on the Nordschleife, the lights on each corner of these rigs tilt downward and shine on the vehicle. On the street, driving to and from the circuit, they are tucked out of the way. This is all before we even get started on the strange hubcaps the SLS has on its wheels, that sit quite far proud of the hub.
There appears to be a wide array of sensors on the vehicle, possibly including cameras, Lidar modules and gyroscopic sensors. One possibility equipping the SLS with so many items is that Mercedes is testing new EV equipment and wants to collect significant amounts of data at once. The German automaker has been making a significant push towards electrification recently, and the engineers might have equipped this one with new parts for evaluation at the Nürburgring.
As evidence of this possibility, Mercedes-AMG boss Tobias Moers admitted earlier this year that new fully electric models were on the performance division's agenda. Using the SLS E-Cell as a mule for early equipment testing might be a good starting place. Check out the video below. | <urn:uuid:f364bb98-5c91-4dcf-8522-fb3fd886fc7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uk.motor1.com/news/209123/mercedes-sls-e-cell-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.961453 | 338 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Letter: Points on comparing two presidents
Regarding “Trump has accomplished much in 6 months” (Your Views, July 22)
In comparing President Trump and President Obama, the letter writer forgot a few facts. While campaigning, Trump vowed to stay in Washington, D.C., working at the presidency, he said, unlike Obama. After working very hard in D.C., our dedicated family man president then heads toward his Florida home Mar-a-Lago instead of New York City. Also, at the current rate it is estimated that Trump will play more golf in one year than Obama did in eight years.
While campaigning, Trump attacked the weakened military. But recently, during the commissioning of the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford, he said it was entering the finest Navy in the world. Surely, this greatness did not come about during the first six months of his administration.
As to Trump’s frequent promises to return manufacturing jobs to the United States, neither the president nor his daughter, Ivanka, have mentioned they are closing their brand factories overseas. Trump bragged about saving Carrier jobs in Indiana. However, Carrier has announced it is closing the operation in Indiana except for 250 office jobs.
I also believe it will be more difficult to find a cure for cancer under Trump’s presidency since he is diverting monies for medical research to build a wall on the Mexican border.
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The breeding of commercial broilers is for the survival rate and meat yield of broilers. Only when these increases can they bring just good economic benefits to the farmers. The prerequisite for ensuring the survival rate is to choose a good breeding method. The broiler cage is currently The breeding equipment is better, he can save land area with high density and reduce the incidence of poultry disease.
Advantages of broiler cages：
1. High level of automation: automatic feeding, drinking water, decontamination, wet curtain cooling, centralized management, automatic control, energy saving, reduced labor costs, greatly improving the breeding efficiency of farmers.
2. The chickens are well-prevented and effective in preventing infectious diseases: the chickens do not touch the feces, which can make the chickens grow stronger and provide a clean and warm growing environment for the chickens.
3. Save space and improve stocking density: cage density is more than three times higher than flattened density.
4.Saving farm feed: broiler cages can save a large amount of farmed feed, chickens are kept in cages, exercise is reduced, energy consumption is small, and wasted feed is reduced. The materials indicate that cages can effectively save more than 25% of the cost of farming.
5. Rugged and durable: The chicken cage equipment is hot dip galvanized, corrosion resistant, aging resistant and can last up to 15 to 20 years.
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28 Sep, 2021
Kathmandu, Sept 28 : Nepal has voiced that there is no alternative to democracy and multilateralism in overcoming the situation rife with tension and adversities created in the contemporary world due to the various problems as COVID-19 pandemic, terrorism, conflict and natural disasters.
Addressing the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly session, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Narayan Khadka reiterated Nepal's unwavering belief on multilateralism and the United Nations which was at its centre. He said it would be possible to increase understanding and cooperation in the world, ensure the common future of the people of the world and promote shared interests only through multilateralism.
The theme of the UNGA this year is: “Building resilience through hope - to recover from COVID-19, rebuild sustainably, respond to the needs of the planet, respect the rights of people, and revitalize the United Nations".
"COVID-19 has silently and cruelly claimed over 4.5 million lives and Nepal joins world leaders in expressing deepest condolences to the people across the world, who have lost their loved ones due to the COVID-19 pandemic," he said.
Minister Khadka said that the crisis has brought the world to a grinding halt, devastated the global economy, pushed an additional 150 million people into extreme poverty, and threatened to reverse hard-earned development gains.
Deepening vaccine inequality is leaving adverse socio-economic impacts in many low-income countries. Vaccines must be declared as public goods for the benefit of people’s lives. Reviving hope is critical in times of crisis.
He appreciated the efforts made by the international community including the UN system to address the challenges posed by COVID-19 and underscored to ensure fair and equitable access to vaccines for everyone, everywhere.
"People’s lives should come first. Despite constraintsand challenges to access COVID-19 vaccines, we have been able to vaccinate close to 20 percent of our population."
The Minster condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. He also called for general and complete disarmament of all weapons of mass destruction in a time-bound and verifiable manner.
Highlighting the importance of promotion and protection of human rights, he said the pandemic has strained our efforts to realize the SDGs. As we strive for resilient recovery and building back better and stronger, achieving SDGs should be our goal.
As both an LDC and LLDC, Nepal’s structural challenges are unique. We see our plan to graduate from the LDC category by 2026 as an opportunity to bring structural transformation and make the long-held national aspiration of graduation smooth, sustainable, and irreversible, the Minister reiterated.
"Nepal is at the sharp end of climate change despite its negligible share in greenhouse gas emissions. On our part, we reiterate our commitment to delivering climate-resilient development pathways by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050."
Referring to Nepal's contribution to UN peacekeeping operations, Minister for Foreign Affairs Khadka said: "For over 63 years, Nepal has consistently contributed to the UN peace operations to promote peace, security and stability. As one of the largest troop contributing countries, Nepal believes that such countries deserve more senior level positions both at the UNHQ and in field."
As both an LDC and LLDC, Nepal’s structural challenges are unique. We see our plan to graduate from the LDC category by 2026 as an opportunity to bring structural transformation and make the long-held national aspiration of graduation smooth, sustainable and irreversible.
LDCs and LLDCs need reliable and sustainable financing, partnerships, and technology transfer to overcome their structural impediments to benefit from globalization. The ongoing crisis must not be a pretext for retracting from ODA commitments, he said.
WTO is not only about maintaining rules-based int. trading order, it must also be a platform to enable the developing countries to benefit from it with an enhanced level of international cooperation in the areas of aid for trade, technology transfer, and capacity building.
"We call for the Effective implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and underline the need for more robust international governance for the protection, safety, and welfare of the migrant workers."
He said, "Nepal’s worldview is shaped by our adherence to the principle of ‘amity with all and enmity with none’. Principles and purposes of the UN Charter, non-alignment, international law and norms of world peace form the basis of our foreign policy.
Democracy and multilateralism have no alternative to overcome the stresses and strains of the day. They are the best antidote to the risk of civil conflict in ethnically diverse societies. Nepal firmly believes in the indispensability of multilateralism with the United Nations as its centre.
We consider this the only way to build global understanding and cooperation, promote shared interests, and secure our common future.
Time is now to turn the crisis into opportunity, despair into hope, and risk into resilience. The time is now to build a stronger, interconnected, and inclusive multilateral system grounded in cooperation, solidarity and mutual trust.
We must rise to our responsibility to re-build for the sake of the people we serve and the planet we live in." RSS | <urn:uuid:e24298eb-e1c0-4a53-b4aa-0cc847302ba9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arghakhanchi.com/index.php?action=news&id=PUV6TjVrVE4= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.935472 | 1,104 | 2.1875 | 2 |
A greetings song with activities
Here is a free, easy, repetitive greetings song to teach animals, how are you, and, I’m fine, thanks.
You will also receive two sample animal masks to download, colour or decorate, and wear during role-plays.
Activities and games to help teach everything in the song and your preschool story.
The free song and the masks
Activities for the I'm Hungry song
– Present the vocabulary first through listening and speaking games such as those in the preschool games book. Then, use ideas in the lesson plan that comes with the “I’m Hungry” story.
– Once children have had some exposure to the animal vocabulary and can mime each animal when you name it, plus they know what “How are you,” it means you are ready to introduce the song.
IMPORTANT: The ideas here are to be used over a series of classes and not all in one go. Vary your lesson by switching between listening and speaking games, a story, a song, a colouring or worksheet, a role-play – do not spend your whole time on one element.
Ask your pupils for ideas for animal actions. Start by miming each animal as the music plays. Here are some ideas, but use your own and those of your pupils.
Ant: Hold two index fingers up either side of the head, make loose fists, wiggle index fingers.
Bird: Arms flap like wings
Cat: Pretend to wash paws or crawl on all fours and arch back
- Make a two-sided triangle with the thumb and forefinger on each hand while tucking the three other fingers into the hand.
- Hold these up to the head to form short triangular ears.
- Skip about stealthily.
Lion: Shake your mane. Open your mouth, pretend to roar, and stretch out your claws. Take big strides.
Spider: Hold one hand in front of body palm facing down and move fingers rapidly like a spider’s legs. Some kids don’t like spiders, so it’s beneficial to befriend them at a young age. They are cute and harmless (if not too big and hairy!) But this one is a friendly, harmless spider, useful for catching flies and eating mosquitoes.
Snake: Hold your arm in front with your hand flat vertically, thumb on top. Fingers point forwards, directly away from the body. Make large undulating movements with the hand, and the whole arm will follow. Additionally, you could undulate the entire body from side to side simultaneously. Move smoothly.
Do a dry run! Stand in a circle and prepare for the song. You say, “here comes an ant.” Have the children chant back, “here comes an ant,” and all do the action for it. Then say, “how are you?” and shake hands with a pupil. Each child shakes hands with their neighbour in the circle. Now do the spider and so on through all the animals, shaking hands each time too.
Play the song for the first time
Play the song and have the kids copy you as you mime all the way through. Don’t worry if it’s a bit chaotic! Everyone will learn the song well over time.
The hand-shaking might be too much in one go for some groups so you can leave it out during the first time through the song. Then, add it in when your pupils are ready.
Logistics of hand-shaking
An odd number of children works well as the teacher can shake hands with one child. If you have an even number of children, the teacher will still need to shake hands with a child to show the way – at least during the first few times through the song. If necessary, put one child in a three to join hands with two others. You cannot just leave this to chance as the same child will likely be left out each time and feel miserable.
The children will not be quick at finding partners, and there is not much time in the song to do so. Therefore they should always shake the same person’s hand to start – the child next to them in the circle.
Play the song again
Repeat the above process but this time, walk round in a circle being the animal. Then, stop and shake hands on the “How are you?” When the children can do that well, throw in a change of direction after each handshake.
Song activity – Taking Turns in the Centre
The children stand in a circle; one child, the ant, dances in the middle. On “How are you?” the ant shakes hands with any child in the ring. That child now becomes the spider and swaps places with the ant. Again, the spider dances in the middle and on “How are you?” shakes any child’s hand – but not a child who has already had a go (unless you have less than seven children).
In the meantime, the other children in the circle mime the relevant animal on the spot or have them do a basic dance such as kicking one foot then the other into the centre in time to the music.
Play this a second time with a group larger than seven pupils so that everyone has at least one turn. Give out pictures of the animals to those children who have not had a go in the middle – they will be the ones chosen to come into the centre. Do make sure everyone has a turn, so no child feels left out.
An idea from a teacher who uses this song
Here is a cute idea that a teacher using this song sent me to share.
‘Each of the kids has decorated a shoebox with stripes, circles, etc. Then, we ‘secretly’ put an animal in each child’s box, showing it only to them. The children then put their boxes on a table, and they walked around the table as the song played. When the music stopped, I asked: “Where is the snake?” The look of pure delight as the child produced the animal from their box was priceless.’
Revision activity as a refresher before redoing the song
Hand out picture cards of the animals, so each child has a different one. If you have less than seven children, give out two or more animals per child. For example, say, “here comes an ant.” The child or children with the ant picture jump up and mime being ants. Everyone claps encouragement. Move swiftly through all animals like this, and then surprise them by doing it in a different order.
Now place the group in a circle or at one side of the room. Everyone joins in the song doing all the actions, and hopefully, some children will be singing some words by now. When the ant’s turn comes, those children with the ant picture come out front and mime ants by skipping about in front of the others. On “How are you?” the ants return to the ranks, and the next animal comes out for a display.
Acting out the song
Once the children know the music and many of them can sing along, at least partially, you may choose to prepare a performance for parents. This show can include vocabulary games and storytelling.
Go through the actions without the music once first. Then, practise it over a series of lessons with the music.
The ant enters, dances about like an ant, and bows. Next, the ant may shake hands with a member of the audience on the “How are you?” It then moves to the side and stays there, miming all the subsequent animals as they come in.
Next, the spider enters, dances about as a spider, and bows. It shakes hands with the ant/or with a member of the audience. Then, the spider goes and joins the ant at the side, acting out the remaining animals in the song as they come in. Continue until all animals have come in. For the final verse, pupils dance about as their animal and run to shake hands with the audience on “How are you?”
For groups bigger than seven, double up with more than one spider, bird, or snake. For groups fewer than seven, give the brighter children two goes to keep them stimulated and prevent boredom.
If your class know the words pretty well, use the karaoke version so the children can sing independently. You’ll find that on track 17 of the songs album, available with the complete songs package for stories 1-10.
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EU Member States adopt new taxation rules to tackle lost fiscal revenues of sales generated through digital platforms
On 22 March, the Council adopted amendments to the directive on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation in order to address Member States’ loss tax revenue through digital platforms selling goods or providing service and the unfair advantage this creates traditional businesses.
The amendments aim to ensure that the income earned through digital platforms gets reported and that due taxes are paid, in particular when digital platforms operate across several countries, creating an obligation for digital platform operators to report the income earned by sellers on their platforms and for member states to automatically exchange this information. The new rules cover digital platforms located both inside and outside the EU and will apply from 1 January 2023 onwards. They will allow national tax authorities to detect income earned through digital platforms and determine the relevant tax obligations. Compliance will also become easier for operators of digital platforms as reporting will only take place in one member state in accordance with a common EU framework. | <urn:uuid:5700fe15-8381-49fc-adaa-797e3eb88926> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hotrec.eu/newsletter/live-from-brussels-issue-n101-2/eu-member-states-adopt-new-taxation-rules-to-tackle-lost-fiscal-revenues-of-sales-generated-through-digital-platforms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971971 | 196 | 1.6875 | 2 |
There’s a joke in welding circles that if you have to grind your welds that makes you a grinder not a welder.
But I totally recommend getting grinding.
Having DIY skills is a bittersweet thing. It is great knowing that you can build stuff, but you always feel a little bit let down when you’re in between projects and just aching to get to work. There are plenty
Angle grinders are a versatile tool used by almost every tradesman, and the handyman is no exception. While they can do serious work on some of the toughest known materials to man and always require healthy respect, they aren’t as
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Do you have it in you to head up your organization? And what makes a good leader? From giving trust to setting an example, from specialist training to inherent qualities, from effecting change to creating new leaders, experts in HR and leadership told BR how they believe true leaders are formed.
Leaders in organizations with high-quality leadership teams typically display four of the twenty possible types of behaviour, a study by McKinsey & Company has found. These four traits (supporting others, operating with a strong results orientation, seeking different perspectives and solving problems effectively) can explain 89 percent of the variation of leadership effectiveness between strong and weak organizations, found researchers.
The survey participants were 81 organizations from all over the world (Asia, Europe and North America), from different industries (e.g. consulting, energy, government, insurance, real estate) and sizes (from 7,500 to 300,000 employees).
But what else does it take to be a real leader? “A true leader, for me, is a person who is smart, ambitious and confident, inspiring his or her people towards a common vision/goal, helping the team move forward, understanding people’s needs and addressing them individually, and, probably most importantly, building other leaders,” said Mihai Constantin-Pau, senior engineering manager at Intel Romania Software Development Center.
He went on, “It is hard to reach that level of leadership if you don’t find all the resources within you and you have to work hard to learn, acquire and become it. I think it takes a combination of skills which you’ve got to start developing from childhood.”
Constantin-Pau believes that there are some basic skills involved in understanding people’s needs and empathizing that are almost impossible to train for later in life. However, if you have the foundation you can put a lot of effort into developing them.
“It will take practice; you will make mistakes (and hopefully learn something from all of them); you will need guidance from people in the various stages of your development (from other leaders you respect a lot); you will need to learn and be willing to take advice. Ultimately, it will be up to you to find your own way of doing things and to make sure you make the most out of what you are. It’s a beautiful journey that probably never ends, as you will keep learning and becoming better at what you do,” added the Intel Romania representative.
On the same theme, Alin Comsa, founder and trainer at Self Trust Academy, commented, “It is very important to understand the difference between management and leadership. Of course, the two have some common points. However, while management is about organizing in order to achieve some set objectives, leadership is firstly about motivating groups to reach targets.”
He added, “It is leadership when you help a group of people do more than they thought they were capable of, when they follow you because you give them an inspiring example – so you can be a leader when you are an artist, for example; you don’t necessarily have to have a designated team to formally manage.”
With a portfolio of clients including Raiffeisen Bank, HP, IBM, UNCAR, Banc Post, AIG Life, Eureko and Phoenicia Hotel, Self Trust Academy provides training in leadership, public speaking, sales and personal growth. The company describes its main goal as helping its clients reach their true potential and gain trust in their abilities and strengths.
“A leader can have many less obvious qualities and abilities, including: to be a good psychologist, as it is necessary to understand very well what the members of the team want; general knowledge, as, usually, people have great respect for someone who can intelligently support a conversation; to be a very good speaker, as people readily follow a leader that expresses him- or herself clearly, coherently and with impact; and to be someone with interests he or she can be proud of, because it shows openness – such as sport, collections or charity work,” said Andrei Dunuta, leader and founder of the Self Trust Academy.
Nevertheless, “a true leader is not only the driver for change, but also responsible for making it happen by taking all business, organizational and people factors into consideration and managing consistent, transparent communication across the organization to minimize uncertainty and streamline change-supporting activities”, commented Zdravka Demeter Bubalo, HR vice-president of MOL Group.
She also believes that in a matrix structure with a geographically-diverse workforce, the ability to lead from a distance is a key success factor of a highly-developed leader. “We think that a great leader empowers employees and makes sure the right decisions are made by the right people at the right level, as close to everyday operations as possible, where all the necessary information is available,” added Bubalo.
Additionally, the VP thinks that diversity plays an active role in leadership, arguing for involving a wide range of mindsets in the decision-making processes and for interest in and dedication to coming up with real innovative solutions across the organization. She says that at MOL Group there is great focus on diversity of nationality and age, and the company’s representatives place special emphasis on developing and supporting women leaders, as in the oil and gas sector, gender diversity still needs to improve, with mentalities lagging in this respect.
By contrast, Mihaela Nicola, CEO of The Group; Gabriela Lungu, currently creative director at TBWA \ London; Veronica Savanciuc, CEO and president of Lowe Romania; and Maria Tudor, CEO of Zenith Romania; are all examples of prominent women leaders in the communication field.
Nicola told BR, “One has to love life and people in order to constantly bring together their value. Grit makes the difference. Leadership is the rare attitude of constantly seeking new horizons, finding the right path and pace as well as inspiring others to follow. Romania has seen amazing marketing and communication achievements. There are splendid projects coming from companies, media and NGOs.”
Henry Ford once said that the secret of success is to offer everything without asking for anything in return. Representatives of Self Trust Academy say that this applies perfectly to the notion of trust. “The secret of gaining trust is to offer it without asking for it in return. The best strategy to build a relationship based on trust, from my point of view, is to give it. People make mistakes sometimes and the leader knows that only by giving trust can they obtain results through people,” said Dunuta. “When someone makes a mistake, the leader is there for them, emphasizing what was good and what needs to be improved, plus what has to be done next time. This is how we build trust. Of course, a concrete strategy to give trust is related to the verb ‘to do’. Let’s not forget – the leader sets an example. When the leader does what needs to be done, firstly he or she generates trust that the objective can be reached.”
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The International Journal of Advanced Network, Monitoring and Controls (ISSN:2470-8038）is aimed at providing a platform for researchers, engineers, scientists, or educators to publish their original research results, to exchange new ideas, to disseminate information in innovative designs, engineering experiences and technological skills, especially in the fields of advanced network, monitoring, sensors and controls. It is also the Journal's objective to promote engineering and technology education.
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18 minutes | Jan 10, 2021
This Freedom Ain't Free
Two very relevant topics are discussed in this episode of DBT: freedom and logical fallacies. Tying things back to a place of more philosophical discussion, join me, Priti D., as I ponder what it means to have freedom and how it contrasts to the idea of free will. Followed by some must-know logical fallacies, this is an informative 20 minutes you don't want to miss. Also, please feel free to follow my Instagram page at @dopebehavioraltalk!
20 minutes | Oct 12, 2020
I Always Feel Like It's a Conspiracy
We're living in an uncertain and scary world full of conspiracies, but what exactly is a conspiracy theory? Why do people gravitate towards them and how does it affect society? In this episode, we discuss why conspiracies are so appealing, how they become rooted in our brains, and how to tackle them when they become a danger to society. Tune in this episode of DBT to find out more! Also, feel free to follow my Instagram page at @dopebehavioraltalk!
13 minutes | Sep 18, 2020
Kids Just Ghost Sometimes
Have you ever really connected with someone and then *poof*, they're gone. It's like they never existed in your life. This phenomenon, better known as ghosting, is something we've all experienced. Whether we are the 'ghoster' or the 'ghosted', it's a complicated situation. How do cognitive distortions affect us here and how does it end up making us feel? Starring my first guest, Aleesha G., we talk more about why this ends up happening and what skills we can use to overcome it.
13 minutes | Sep 12, 2020
Do It for the (Cancel) Culture
Have you or someone you know ever been a victim of Cancel Culture? Ever wonder why so many people are being “canceled”? In this episode, we explore the cognitive distortions that may possibly feed into this phenomenon and how it effects our society today, especially through social media. Join me, Priti D., on my third episode of D.B.T. to find out more!
19 minutes | Sep 1, 2020
Got Fake Robots Showing Fake Love to Me
Have you ever thought about what would happen if we integrate AI into our society? Well how about if those AI had emotions? In this episode, we'll explore what it means to an an Artificial Intelligence and the pros/cons of giving those AI emotions. How would they function in our society and would it be moral or immoral to instill these feelings in them? Tune in to find out!
7 minutes | Aug 28, 2020
Intro - You down with DBT? Eh, Maybe...
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President Donald Trump, the Republican National Committee, and the California Republican Party filed separate lawsuits Aug. 6 to block California’s new law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns.
“The effort to deny California voters the opportunity to cast a ballot for President Trump in 2020 will clearly fail,” Jay Sekulow, counsel to the president, said in a prepared statement. “Legal scholars from across the political spectrum have roundly condemned this flagrantly illegal statute.”
Trump filed suit as an individual and through his campaign, alleging Democrats who enacted the California law “made it clear they were retaliating against President Trump for his political associations and speech,” the complaint said.
California lawmakers passed the law in response to Trump’s break from years of tradition by choosing not to release his tax returns. When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the law July 30 he broke from his predecessor, former Gov. Jerry Brown, who vetoed a similar billin 2018 because he said it could be unconstitutional.
California’s law adds unconstitutional qualifications for presidential candidates—the release of five years of tax returns—to a fixed list in the U.S. Constitution, according to Trump’s complaint. The law also violates the First Amendment and is preempted by the Ethics in Government Act, the complaint alleges.
The committee made similar legal claims, saying the California law “is a naked political attack against the sitting President of the United States.” A Republican member of the California Assembly, two potential California delegates for Trump, and the California Republican Party joined the committee in its lawsuit.
Both the Trump and committee suits ask the court to block Secretary of State Alex Padilla and state officials from enforcing the law. They were filed in federal court in Sacramento.
Separately, the California Republican Party filed an emergency petition in the state’s Supreme Court alleging the law violates a 1972 state constitutional amendment that requires the Secretary of State to place the names of all presidential candidates on the ballot.
S.B. 27 requires presidential and gubernatorial candidates to release five years of tax returns to appear on the state primary ballot. It took effect immediately when Newsom signed it.
Not Backing Down
Newsom and bill author Sen. Mike McGuire, both Democrats, showed no sign of backing away from the law.
“There’s an easy fix Mr. President—release your tax returns as you promised during the campaign and follow the precedent of every president since 1973,” Newsom said on Twitter soon after the lawsuits were filed.
“It comes as no surprise that President Trump would freak out at the prospect of presidential transparency and accountability, but he will need to get used to it,” McGuire said. “Welcome to the rule of law, Mr. President.”
Two other lawsuits challenging the California law—filed by a Republican candidate and a group of voters—are pending.
All four suits make similar claims, but Trump and the Republican National Committee can raise First Amendment claims that others can’t, Richard L. Hasen, professor of law and political science at the University of California Irvine School of Law, said.
“Having this many suits makes it more likely that courts will be able to find at least someone has standing to complain and to reach the merits of these claims,” Hasen said.
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AMERICAN HORSE COUNCIL — APRIL 27, 2012 — On Thursday, April 26, the Obama Administration announced its plans to withdraw a Department of Labor (DOL) proposed child labor rule applicable to agriculture. The proposed rule would have severely limited the ability of young people to work on farms and ranches. The AHC along with other agricultural organizations had opposed the rule and is pleased the administration responded to the concerns of the agricultural community.
The proposed rule would have placed new limitations on the ability of young people to work for pay on farms or ranches not owned solely by their parents and would have effectively barred workers under 16 from working in most capacities in agriculture, especially around livestock, such as horses.
In November 2011, the AHC submitted comments opposing the rule.
Additionally, the AHC has been working with a broad coalition of agricultural organizations to convince the Administration and Congress that these rules were ill-considered, would prevent young people from becoming involved in agriculture, and would negatively impact family farms and ranches.
The Administration said it was withdrawing the proposed rule based on the concerns of the agricultural community and would not re-propose any new regulations on this issue. Instead of undertaking a new rulemaking process, the Administration said it will “work with rural stakeholders to develop an educational program to reduce accidents to young workers and promote safer agricultural working practices.”
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Planing hulls are exposed to effects such as trim and resistance that have a negative impact on their hydrodynamic performances. Interceptors are one of the systems to find solutions to reduce these negative effects. In this study, the effects of the interceptor layout and blade height on the hydrodynamic characteristics of a planing hull were investigated numerically, at varying speeds. The hydrodynamic behaviors of the interceptor at a selected case were also investigated in regular head waves. To reach this aim, a scaled prismatic planing hull form equipped with an interceptor which is suitable for planing vessels 4–10 m in length was selected for all analyses. The numerical study was performed by using the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) approach which uses a finite volume method to discretize the RANS (Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes) equations. The uncertainty of the numerical study was also performed to show the credibility of numerical results. According to the results of the current study, it is found that the most proper location of the interceptors for lower resistance is between the chine and the centerline of the selected planing hull. It is also understood that the effects of the blade height are directly related to the forward speed. Besides, the resistance values can be decreased by using interceptors up to FnB =2.5, while the presence of the interceptor has a negative effect on resistance after this speed regardless of the layout and selected blade height. In addition to this, the best interceptor blade heights for lower resistance at different forward speeds of the planing hull form were found for the tested cases. For the selected case, it is shown that interceptors are also useful in regular waves in terms of reducing dynamic trim, sinkage and resistance. | <urn:uuid:7fb4530c-c50b-4a30-bf63-4758c049a1e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.erdogan.edu.tr/yayin/d2a1bb71-3d47-4400-9b71-495b104427ac/numerical-evaluation-on-the-effects-of-interceptor-layout-and-blade-heights-for-a-prismatic-planing-hull | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960678 | 361 | 2.171875 | 2 |
(Vatican Radio) If we want to give glory to God, we must remember all He has done for us. But that also means remembering our sins. It means being honest with ourselves, said Pope Francis as he reflected on the Readings of the Day during morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta.
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The Lord "chose his people and accompanied them during their journey in the wilderness, throughout their lives", said Pope Francis commenting on the first reading in which St. Paul recalls his past life, without hiding his sins.
What "God did with His people - the Pope said - he has done and continues to do which each of us". The Pope then asked "where we were chosen because Christian, and not that person over there, far away who has never even heard of Jesus Christ?". "It 'a grace," was the Pope’s answer: "A grace of love".
St. Paul’s "concrete memory of this reality, is what makes Paul", who confesses to having ferociously persecuted the church. Paul does not say "I am good, I am the son of this [family], I have a certain nobility ... ". No, Paul says, "I was a persecutor, I've been bad". Pope Francis said that Paul remembers his journey, and he remembers it from the very beginning".
"This habit of remembering our life is not very common practice. We forget things, we live in the moment and then forget the past. And each of us has a story: a story of grace, a story of sin, a story of journey, so many things ... It is a good thing to pray with our history. [A prayer like] the one Paul does, where he tells a piece of his story, but in general says: 'He has chosen me! He called me! He saved me! He was my companion on the journey ... '. "
Pope Francis continued : "[The act of ] remembering our own lives is to give glory to God. Remembering on our sins, by which the Lord has saved us, is to give glory to God”. "Paul says that he has only two things: his sins, and the grace of the Crucified Lord, His grace”. Paul "remembered his sins, and boasted about them: 'I was a sinner, but Christ Crucified saved me' and he boasted about Christ. This was Paul’s memory. This is act of remembering that Jesus himself invites us to do ":
"When Jesus says to Martha: 'You are worried and troubled about many things, but you only need one thing. Mary has chosen the better part. 'What does he mean? [He means] Listening to the Lord and remembering. You cannot pray every day as if we did not have a story. Each of us has his or her own. And with this story in our heart we approach prayer, like Mary. Often we are distracted, like Martha, by work, by the day’s events, by those things that we have to do, and we forget this story".
Pope Francis said that our relationship with God, “does not begin on the day of Baptism: it is sealed there". [Our relationship] begins "when God, from eternity, looked upon us and chose us. It all begins in God’s heart:
"Remembering that we were chosen, chosen by God. Remembering our journey of covenant. Hve we respected this covenant, or not? No, we are sinners and we remember this, and we remember God’s promise to us which never disappoints, which is our hope. This is the true prayer”.
Pope Francis concluded his homily with an invitation to pray with Psalm 138: " LORD, you have probed me, you know me: you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar". “This is to pray, to pray is to remember in God's presence because our story is the story of His love for us".
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New Delhi: With only weeks to go before the Lok Sabha election, the much-awaited employment data for the post-demonetization period – July 2017 to June 2018, which had been withheld by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, has become public, and it gives a bleak job scenario prevailing in the country today. The data collected by National Sample Survey Office on employment for this period, which has been accessed and subsequently reported by Business Standard, has exposed the alarming unemployment rate in India, confirming the fear of many experts.
According to the Business Standard report, published on Thursday, the unemployment rate during 2017- 2018 was at 6.1 per cent, the highest since 1972-73.
The acting chairman of the National Statistical Commission, PC Mohanan, and one more expert member, JV Meenakshi, had resigned, on Monday, after the Modi government allegedly failed to publish the report, which was scheduled in December. They also also claimed interference by other state agencies to suppress it.
The data of the Periodic Labour Force Survey was collected by the NSSO between July 2017 and June 2018. This is said to be first survey conducted by the government agency on employment after the implementation of ban on ₹500 and ₹1000 currency notes that were in circulation until midnight of November 8, 2016.
The documents reviewed by the Business Standard has showed that the unemployment rate was highest since 1972-73 and it was lowest in 2011-12, at 2.2 per cent, during the second term of the Congress-led UPA government.
The NSSO report has revealed that 18.7 per cent urban males and 27.2 per cent urban females aged between 15-29 were without work during 2017-18, whereas, the rate of unemployment among men in rural areas for the same age group has increased to 17.4 per cent and 13.6 per cent among rural women. The labour force participation rate has been declined from 39.5 percent in 2011-12 to 36.9 percent in 2017-18.
This report started a political slugfest with the opposition going for the government’s jugular. Congress president Rahul Gandhi mocked the prime minister without naming him, in a tweet, and called the unemployment situation “national disaster”.
NoMo Jobs!— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) January 31, 2019
The Fuhrer promised us 2 Cr jobs a year. 5 years later, his leaked job creation report card reveals a National Disaster.
Unemployment is at its highest in 45 yrs.
6.5 Cr youth are jobless in 2017-18 alone.
Time for NoMo2Go. #HowsTheJobs pic.twitter.com/nbX4iYmsiZ
Following this sensation created by the unemployment report, NITI Aayog tried to do some firefighting for the government. While denying the report claiming highest growth in the unemployment, NITI Aayog chief executive officer Amitabh Kant claimed that the report was “only a draft” and the “actual report” would be published in March. The NITI Aayog further said the government required more quarterly data to publish a “comparable” job report.
In a news conference, Kant said, “You can’t be growing annually at 7.2 percent and saying that there are no jobs being created in the economy.” He said, “To my mind, the problem is that there’s a lack of good-quality jobs, and that’s what we need to focus on. There’s a wages problem, and there’s a very big informal sector in India’s economy.” | <urn:uuid:424ac50d-aaba-458d-b660-907c1ba26ba9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sunoneta.com/politics-today/unemployment-highest-in-45-years-post-demonetization-nsso-data-reveals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969603 | 775 | 1.507813 | 2 |
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are getting closer to steering additional money toward the effort to cope with the Zika virus. What they do not appear ready to do is plug a gaping hole in funding for what was until recently another global health crisis, Ebola.
This spring, while waiting for lawmakers to act on Zika, the Obama administration shifted $500 million from Ebola initiatives to pay for research into the mosquito-borne virus and related measures. But as the House and Senate inch toward a Zika funding deal, there is little sign that the Ebola fund will be fully replenished, even as cases continue to flare in West Africa.
“You know this institution. Did you ever go back and try to backfill?” quipped Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House panel in charge of health spending.
She said there have been no indications from her Republican colleagues that they will repay the Ebola money. “There’s been nothing on paper. No plan.”
Some public health advocates are also wary.
“Having seen Congress work for many years, I’m just fearful that there’s going to be a little bit of a short-term memory lapse,” said Karen Goraleski, executive director of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. “Another crisis will come along, it will be perceived to be a more important crisis, and the money won’t be repaid.”
Republicans say that Zika is the more immediate crisis right now and that lawmakers can always repay the Ebola money later if needed.
“If we are short for some other infectious disease that none of us can anticipate, or for Ebola, we will take care of that during the regular appropriations process,” Oklahoma Representative Tom Cole, who chairs the panel that DeLauro sits on, said recently on the House floor.
For now, Republicans seem skeptical that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies need all the money that was originally approved to deal with Ebola. The House Zika bill would actually shift more money from the Ebola funds to pay for the Zika response.
“Frankly, the money there may well be more than we need for Ebola,” Cole said in his floor speech.
Top officials at the CDC see Ebola’s persistence as reason enough to replenish funding to deal with the deadly disease. Congress initially approved $5.4 billion emergency funding for Ebola; about $2 billion remain. Much of the unspent Ebola money is intended to help the countries ravaged by the disease to build public health infrastructures and guard against flare-ups.
“We’re not done,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s principal deputy director, told STAT in a recent interview. “People think we’re done with Ebola, but of course we’re not done.”
In the last few months, Guinea and Liberia have confirmed new cases of Ebola. A recent study led by government researchers found that a 2015 reemergence of the virus in Liberia could be genetically traced back to the initial 2014 outbreak that killed thousands of people.
The finding suggests that Ebola has lived on in the epidemic’s survivors, increasing the likelihood that it will continue to appear in an area already ravaged by the virus.
“We’ve never had a situation in history with thousands of Ebola survivors in a part of the world with a very limited public health capacity,” Schuchat said. “We think viral persistence is going to continue to cause flare-ups of Ebola. We have to remain vigilant and maintain a focus.”
“These threats may be different from year to year, or month to month, but the work is predictable and we need a better way of dealing with this,” she said. “We can’t wait for the fires to support the fire department.”
There doesn’t seem to be much appetite on Capitol Hill for fully funding what the CDC says it needs for Ebola or Zika. The White House originally requested $1.9 billion for a Zika response. The Senate approved $1.1 billion, and the House passed a $622 million bill; the two chambers are now negotiating a final package.
The Senate’s Zika bill negotiated by Senators Roy Blunt of Missouri and Patty Murray of Washington does extend an olive branch, authorizing $88 million of its $1.1 billion to be used to repay the depleted Ebola funds.
But that is still just one-fifth of what the Ebola funds have lost — and there is no guarantee that the provision will survive the negotiations between the Senate and a more skeptical House for a final Zika package. The politics, the CDC is finding, are difficult.
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Information for Parents
“When we arrived, I witnessed the happiest and most radiant smile I had ever seen on my daughter’s face. We were greeted by her new best friends, watched and listened in awe as they all hugged and hugged and hugged until they could finally depart from one another.” Tamra -second Mockingjay Camp 2016
SEE ARTICLE on intention behind these camps
These are non-combat courses which are safely held by experienced professionals and yet also an exciting adventure where teenagers can emulate their heroines and heroes from the Hunger Games books and films they love. A unique and magical time in nature, far from computer screens, gaming and mobile phones; the teenagers over the last two years have had a fantastic time learning new skills through adventure, fun and teamwork and making new friends. Immersed in the wild woods this promises to be a truly amazing and unforgettable experience and one which WildWise is now pretty experienced at having run 20 Hunger Games themed camps over the past 8 years.
Where do the Tributes sleep? For the duration of the camp the Tributes (11-16 year olds), staff and instructors mostly sleep in tents in our base camp (which we call the Training camp). Either in tents they have brought themselves, or tents they have hired from WildWise and which they share with someone of the same gender or which they sleep in on their own if they'd prefer. There is an opportunity ,which we encourage, on the third night of the camp, to sleep in a self-built same sex shelter in groups of approx 6 , out of branches, sticks, leaves and bracken. For many this exciting and magical experince of sleeping under the stars in a shelter they've made themselves, is their highlight, with many choosing to sleep the final night of the camp in the shelter again. For some though, usually around a quarter of the Tributes, it is a step too far, and they choose to sleep in their tents on the third night, which we honour as a decision. We make sure there is no stigma attached to this, and they often enjoy hanging out for the evening with the others around the shelter, before they go to their tents to sleep. Please note you must contact the office if you want to hire and reserve a tent.
Pairing Up: For safety reasons we make sure all Tributes are always in a pair whilst in the Arena. Tributes are happily paired up with someone they feel comfortable with (usually of the same sex unless they have come with a friend) so it's not a problem if teenagers (or 11 and 12 year olds) want to come on their own, as we create a easy environment to meet others. With several hundred Tributes having passed through our camps over the last nine years we have never had a problem with forming pairs who get on and support eachother in the Arena. Of course Tributes are also free to pair up with a friend or brother/sister they have come with.
Fun: As well as the excitement and fun of being a Tribute in the Hunger Games, we all have a lot of fun with games, activites, music, and hanging out round the base camp before and after the Games . Above all else the Tributes who join us have a great time and laugh, meeting new people and spending time outdoors.
Staff: “Your staff, particularly Robin, have been a positive influence for my young man and are helping to shape his thoughts about future careers and other adventures. I couldn’t ask for more, thank you" Demelza about Evan, 2015
All WildWise staff are DBS checked (formally CRB). The lead instructor Robin Bowman has worked with teenagers in the outdoors for 18 years (see his biog on each camp's page) and has two children of his own, who are now Tributes themselves ! We have a large staff to child ratio. On last summer's Hunger Games camp we had 19 staff and on the Mockingjay camp we had 25 staff. We have between 4 and 6 adults on a pastoral care team for each camp alone. Some of the staff will be qualified in outdoor First Aid.
Camping equipment: please see General Camp Information.
SEE ARTICLE on intention behind these camps
Frequently asked questions
Why are you running a course based on the Hunger Games? Isn't it a violent film?
Nature Deficit Disorder and getting teenagers out into Nature
It's been well documented recently that many children in the West suffer from what Richard Louv in the US has coined 'Nature Deficit Disorder', the condition of spending too much time indoors, in front of computers or television screens; and not enough time in the fresh air, exercising and exploring the natural world. Recent surveys have revealed a sharp decline in teenage mental health and problems such as anxiety and depression have increased by 70% among adolescents. There is a growing realisation that the physical and emotional well being of teenagers is greatly enhanced by spending time in nature.
It would be preferable if all teenagers were self motivated to explore the natural world and get outdoors (and some are) and that it didn't take a trilogy of books or films such as the Hunger Games, which are violent in parts, to act as the catalyst for many of them. But the reality is the books and films do inspire and encourage them, and can act as just the hook needed, to coax many teenagers into participating on a healthy outdoor based camp with bushcraft and wilderness skills, which they might otherwise not be attracted to. We have to meet teenagers where they are at.
Positive female role model
The Hunger Games is also very important as the heroine of the story is a teenage girl Katniss; strong, empowered, with good morals. Stories, especially blockbusters and bestsellers, that portray young women in this light are far too few and far between. But the Hunger Games has led to an increased enthusiasm amongst teenage girls to learn these skills and spend time in nature, which has often been primarily the domain of young men; because they now have a heroine like themselves to emulate.
What safety measures are in place?
Since 1999 Wildwise has been delivering high quality programmes for teenagers with a proven blend of nature awareness, bushcraft and storytelling, with the Wildwise Hunger Games our latest venture. Having worked with children and teenagers for 16 years we take their safety and comfort very seriously. Although its important to give the teenagers an authentic and edgy experience with challenges, if they so seek, we will strike a balance between this and keeping everyone safe. The whole camp including the Arena will be closely held by the staff. Stationed throughout the Arena (the woods) will be an invisible team of adult staff keeping a close eye on them during the Games, making sure all their basic needs are met, that they are enjoying their time, and are kept safe.
There is a definite rule of no close or hand to hand contact between different pairs of Tributes, to ensure everyone's safety. The 'weapons' are nerf guns which fire two inch rubber nerf pellets. Even though these have a fantastic range and accuracy and are great fun to use for the teenagers, they are completely safe and harmless. They don't hurt at all if they hit you and even if in the unlikely worst case scenario of someone getting shot in the eye by accident (which happened last year as someone was looking down the barrel of the gun whilst he fired a pellet by accident!) then there is at worst a slight eye stinging for a few minutes but no long lasting injury. We also put child friendly water based poster paints on the pellets which primary schools use and which both my toddlers have got in their eyes at various times with no ill effects. No bows and arrows, sticks, spears, knives or any other weapons, or anything that could be used as a weapon are allowed in the Arena. All these rules will be strictly enforced by the staff.
All Tributes are in a pair which can't break up, so no one is on their own. The site / Arena has been carefully chosen as there is a very clear and obvious natural boundary, which added to several boundary walks before the actual Games begins, prevents any chance of getting lost. Added to all of the above are many small and on-going safety measures which we put in place at varying times.
What are the benefits for the teenagers?
Teenagers are often looking for edgy and challenging experiences to prove themselves or just to have fun and an adventure. This experiential hands on course facilitates this in a held environment, which is both liberating yet supportive.
These programmes require the teenagers to respond to a demanding (and enjoyable) sequence of tasks in an unfamiliar setting.
The activities can have a positive impact in the following areas: Organisation, Integrity, Planning, Teamwork, Observation, Problem-solving, Tenacity, Awareness, Communication, Responsibility, Attitude and Leadership.
The likely outcomes from participating in such a dynamic interaction with the natural world are an increased enthusiasm, energy, feeling of self-worth and motivation. Many teenagers haven't been camping before or slept out in the woods in shelters or made fires with fire-lighting funghi. These experiences empower the adolescents with new skills, to deepen their relationship to nature and breed a new confidence to continue to discover it for themselves. Most importantly of all, the course is designed to give the adolescents an exciting, meaningful and fun time in nature!
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Speak life to your surroundings
From an article by Transform Our World
Anderson is a small town, population 10,000 in California’s Central Valley. It has a history of generational poverty, which accelerated around 30 years ago when the local mills closed down and the jobs disappeared. In their place came drugs, welfare and hopelessness, bundled with increased crime.
As a successful software executive with business sense, DeAnna Gallagher, along with her husband Mike, knew that Anderson was not the logical choice to take up residence, but God had placed it on their hearts because the town had become a place of sorrow.
The Gallaghers prayed and God responded. They were introduced to prayer evangelism by folk from Transform Our World. City leaders and business people, two groups not used to interacting, were brought together and were blessed and peace was spoken over them (Luke 10).
They were given a word that the colour yellow would be significant for them as they settled in Anderson.
In 2009, they gathered the Anderson leaders to take a poll of where they felt the pain was in the community. The Police Chief identified a particular neighbourhood that generated 80% of their police calls. That same area had one of the lowest life-expectancy rates in the county.
"The light went on for us about what a profound thing it would be to change that, so God would get the glory.” says DeAnna.
Then, there was an amazing turn of events. First, DeAnna sold her software company, which happened in a miraculously beneficial way. After the sale, God gave her a word she’d never heard before: ‘Manter.’ She internet-searched it, and discovered a bright yellow house for sale on a street called Manter Drive in the middle of the same neighbourhood identified by the Police Chief.
They took a drive to see the street for themselves and there were people walking around literally bent over; they could feel the weight of their hopelessness by just looking at them.
Next, they learned about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) that affect a person’s entire life. [See a blog on these here]. Did they have an incarcerated family member? Sexual, verbal, substance or physical abuse? Household mental illness? It turned out that most of these were not only present but were more than double the state average in this county. But, with God, needs become opportunities.
They bought Manter House and re-purposed it as a faith-based community center because they wanted hurting people to have a place to come in, have food, learn vital life-skills, and be listened to, in literally a family-room-type setting.
At first, the neighbourhood atmosphere felt very dark. But over time, many people reported a newfound sense of peace while on the property, and people who have been in the neighbourhood many years became openly amazed at the tangible changes they began to see around them.
DeAnna and Mike prayer-walked the neighbourhood whenever possible. Then, God led them to the ‘person of peace’ in their area, who was a public health employee, a Community Organizer assigned to our city and their neighbourhood. They offered Manter House as a connection point for her to meet the local residents, and she was overjoyed to accept. They knew the Holy Spirit was moving when she declared that she felt ‘all googly’ when she stepped onto the property.
As time went on, God began moving on a larger scale as the Gallaghers focused on building up their neighbours. The pastor of their church led their congregation to learn about prayer evangelism and city transformation through Transform Our World's teachings. They dedicated themselves to praying through a different school in the city each month.
Tangible results soon manifested:
1. In the same four block area around Manter House, there had been a 63% decrease in violent crime. DeAnna adds, “The Police Chief also recently reported that ‘We are one of the few cities in California where crime has gone down instead of up!’”
2. The Community Organizer and DeAnna put together a personal transformation curriculum called Future Story, which has gone to the top of the curriculums promoted because the outcomes have been so good at setting free those stuck in cycles of generational poverty.
3. The local school district has a new Superintendent who is bringing fresh vision and unity to his staff and Anderson community leaders. They have also seen increased participation by teachers and students in serving their community!
4. Once a year, every city employee in Anderson is hosted for a lunch facilitated by the church to express their love and appreciation for their lives and service.
5. The ministry has spread beyond Anderson and has been encompassed into a larger organization established to transform all of the county.
Summarizing their thoughts, DeAnna is enthusiastic: “Speak life to your surroundings and follow the trail God puts you on!”
This 2 min video gives you a flavour:
Why not learn more about prayer evangelism here?
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Recorded in a wide variety of spellings including Rishton, Roston, Rushton and Ruston, this is an English locational surname. It originates from any of the places in Cheshire, Northamptonshire and Staffordshire called Rushton, or the village of Ruston in Yorkshire. All the placenames are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and all share the same meaning and derivation which is the farm where rushes are grown. This is from the Olde English pre 7th Century "rysc", with "tun", meaning a fenced enclosure in a forest, or in modren parlance, a farm."Rushes" were particularly important in medieval times. They were used not only as thatch, but also as the main ingredient of a "torch," the only means of light, and as the only used method of floor covering. The surname is well recorded from the 12th century, at the very begining of surnames. Early examples taken from authentic charters include: John de Russheton, in the estates register of Crowland Abbey in Cambridgeshire in the year 1340, Jhon Ruston, who married Katherin Willsonn at West Heslerton, Yorkshire, on October 14th 1584, and Stephan Rushton who married Margerye Mosse, at St. Mary's church, Stockport, Cheshire, on December 2nd 1610. The first recorded spelling of the family name is believed to be that of Robert de Riston. This was dated 1203, when he was a witness at the Assize Court of Northumberland, during the reign of King John, 1199 - 1216. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Conceptualizing infinity is impossible. The human mind, bound by the five senses it can perceive and conditioned its entire operational career to deal with limits and boundaries, simply cannot encompass infinity. Even the bare concept of infinity defies the imagination. Try to imagine, if you will, a never-ending universe, going on and on in every direction without end. Those last two words are the meaningful ones, innocuous as they sound. Without end. Try to imagine anything without end, really and truly limitless, and the imagination exhausts itself. The mind runs in circles.
There is always something bigger or something smaller, something closer or something farther away. Outside our solar system is a galaxy, and millions and millions of miles away are more galaxies, and outside of those spheres of existence there is the universe, and outside of that…? Some argue that our universe is just one in a boundless sea of other universes, just as our galaxy is one in a limitless sea of other galaxies. Others contend that ours is the only universe, and it encompasses everything that ever was or ever will be, and quite a bit more: infinity, in fact. The human mind, as has already been stated, is blinkered by its perceptions, and has a tendency to impose limits on what it perceives. It has been the trend for humanity to imagine that our universe, our plane of reality, our dimension, our world (whatever it may be called) must end somewhere. But that answer only brings up another question: if we go to the ends of the universe and hit a wall, then what is on the other side?
Even a consideration of the finite but staggeringly huge distances between stars and planets is a strain on our thinking capacities. Numbers get so large as to become meaningless. We know that a billion miles is an exceptionally long way, but we really don’t appreciate that kind of distance. Even if we walk five miles and consider that we’d have to walk that same distance 200 million times again in order to travel a billion miles, we just can’t grasp it. You can put a bowling ball on the grass of your front yard, walk 26 paces away and put down a peppercorn. Your imagination will be stretched when you attempt to visualize the ball as the Sun and the peppercorn as the Earth.
That represents a distance of only 94 million miles or so. For the mind to envision infinity (millions, billions, trillions, and quadrillions of miles) is impossible. We are limited in our perceptions. Were we omniscient beings, perhaps we could more easily see or imagine infinity. Restricted as we are to a small terrestrial planet and its immediate vicinity, we can only think so far as we can see or imagine. Given the nature of our perceptions (outlined above), we are limited in the mental arena as well as the physical one.
Norton Juster demonstrated the impossibility of infinity in his book “The Phantom Tollbooth.” The protagonist, a boy named Milo, meets the Mathemagician, the keeper of all things having to do with numbers. The Mathemagician, in trying to explain the idea of infinity to Milo, tells the boy to imagine the highest number he can think of. Milo answers with a ponderously large one. The Mathemagician then tells him to add one to it. Milo does so, and the Mathemagician tells him to add one to it again, and again, and again.
“But when can I stop?” asks Milo, exasperated.
“You can’t,” the Mathemagician replies.
Visualizing infinity is impossible, but seeing it is ridiculously easy. Just look up at the night sky. When you gaze into the heavens and the twinkling stars glinting trillions of miles away and the uncharted blackness in between, you gaze into infinity. You are looking that something that appears flat and finite, but is truly boundless and infinitely deep. You can see it, but you can’t imagine it. | <urn:uuid:e2f8b64a-d1da-4d87-af34-1b2cafca85b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.actforlibraries.org/visualizing-infinity-8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95862 | 843 | 2.796875 | 3 |
| Country of Toys (2001 - 2003)|
Socialist Democratic State of Toys (2003 - 2007)
Socialist Democratic State of Romania (2007 - 2008)
Socialist Republic of Juclandia (2008 - 2010)
Republica Socialistă Juclandia
Ode to Joy (2004-2006)
|Capital city||Heaven of Toys (2001-2003)|
|Largest city||Heaven of Toys (2001-2003)|
|Official religion(s)||None (2001-2003)|
|- First and last President||Ciprian C. (2001-2003; 2005-2010)|
|- Second President||Bestia Reformescu (2003-2005)|
|- Prime Minister|
The Socialist Republic of Juclandia is the last official name of Juclandia under a republican government, a succession of governments that preceded the current Kingdom of Juclandia until August 2010. The state in its first form was founded in September 2001 under the name of the Land of Toys (Țara Jucăriilor). As the political system gradually developed and legal innovations were made, the country has seen four incarnations, that are now named by Juclandian historians the First, the Second, the Third and the Fourth Juclandian Republic.
An elective monarchy was declared in Juclandia on 23 August 2010, two years after the country declared independence from Romania. Until 23 August 2008, the official interpretation of the country's existence was a sovereign entity within Romania made as both an alternative government and a state for ignored minorities. In this case, the ignored minorities are considered to be plush toys, which have benefited from the status of full citizens since the country's foundation in 2001.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Ciprian of Juclandia was discovering politics and administration in the meetings with his grandmother, Elena Iliescu. The young man was being fascinated by the role of the government and its composition and was also fascinated by geopolitics. Having a quite big number of plush animals, Ciprian decided to form a nation to be called the Country of Toys, ruled by a democratic council called The Assembly of the Elders. The political landscape evolved that year, reaching its zenith in September 2001, when the first Prime Minister was selected by Ciprian, who decided to call himself President of the Country of Toys on the advice of Elena Iliescu.
In the summer of 2003, the President traveled to France, only to discover more of the world. Losing interest in the position of president, he resigned and with the help of Elena Iliescu and his friends at the time, he got Bestia Reformescu, a plush animal, be elected the new President of the Country. The position of head of state became then a mere figurehead position, with the real power being held by Elena Iliescu, which was no longer Prime Minister but the Governor of Cipimania, and Ciprian, who assumed the title of General Medical Doctor of Toys and future President of the Earth. Gradually, as Elena Iliescu was getting older and older, and with Ciprian becoming more mature, he renounced those titles and returned as President of the Country of Toys in the summer of 2005.
Elena Iliescu died on the 10th of September 2005, right exactly on the birthday of Ciprian. The death came as a shock to the whole family, despite the fact that Elena Iliescu was ill and already was 93 years old.
In November 2005, with Elena Iliescu being no longer in the material world for about two months, the President decided to assemble all his friends in the house of Elena Iliescu (that was, after her death, kept in a good condition by her family) and together declared the formation of the Socialist Democratic State of Toys from the ashes of the Country of Toys.
After the Constitution of 2006 passed in September, one year after the death of Iliescu, it was set to enter into force fully only on the 1st of January 2007, at the same time with Romania's accession to the European Union. The name of the country was modified, with the mention "Toys" being replaced with the name of Romania, thus formally the Socialist Democratic State of Romania. In October 2006, the Parliament set up by the Constitution assembled for the first time, and a new government was chosen, with Gori Jucărescu serving again as Prime Minister.
2008 came out as one of the most successful years, if not the most successful, in the history of Juclandia. The economic output was the greatest to be ever known since the 2001 foundation, and the politics started to be stable again. A period of distancing from Romania and Romanian customs also started.
On 23 August 2008, the Socialist Democratic State of Romania officially transitioned into the Socialist Republic of Juclandia. The position of President was again vested into the person of Ciprian of Juclandia, also head of state under the SDSR and SDST. In September 2008, the President named Gori Jucărescu in the office of Vice President of the Republic, and thus Jucărescu had to resign from his office as Prime Minister, ending his two years old rule as head of government. Shortly after, the Great National Assembly given confidence to Leopold Jucărescu for the formation of the Cabinet. The government's main activity was that of assuring a successful transition from SDSR to Juclandia. For the next months after the transition, the official seal of the State and much of the symbols and infrastructure were still using the name "Socialist Democratic State of Romania".
In July 2010 the Great National Assembly approved the constitutional amendment which transitioned Juclandia into a monarchy, and on 23 August 2010, exactly two years after the Declaration of Independence, Ciprian of Juclandia was coronated in Juclandia by the Patriarch as Ciprian, King of Juclandia. | <urn:uuid:61d06d2f-ffb1-43fa-a6ca-ead56e700ddd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Juclandian_Republics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962777 | 1,398 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Dear Cecil: As I understand it, the appendix at one time assisted in our digestion. Today it is useless. Our wisdom teeth, I have learned, helped our ancestors chew tough herbs and raw meat. Today they are a nuisance. But there is a third biological mystery for which I have no answer. So please explain, Cece: why do males have nipples? Susan L., Los Angeles
To tell you the truth, nobody really knows. The best explanation I’ve been able to find (and frankly it doesn’t explain very much) is that nipples aren’t a sex-linked characteristic. In other words, nipples are just one of those sexually neutral pieces of equipment, like arms or brains, that humans get regardless of sex.
As you may know, every human being gets a unique set of 23 pairs of chromosomes at conception. These fall into two categories. One pair of chromosomes determines sex —the XX combination means you become female, the XY combination means you become male.
The other 22 pairs, the non-sex chromosomes (they’re called autosomes), supply what we might call the standard equipment that all humans get. These 22 pairs constitute an all-purpose genetic blueprint that in effect is programmed for either maleness or femaleness by the sex chromosomes. The programming is done by the hormones secreted by the sex glands.
For example, the autosomes give you a voice box, while the sex hormones determine whether it’s going to be a deep male voice or a high female voice. Similarly, the autosomes give you nipples, and the sex hormones determine whether said nipples are going to be functioning (in females) or not (in males).
One interesting consequence of the developmental set-up just described is that during the very early stages of fetal life, before the sex hormones have had a chance to do their stuff, all humans are basically bisexual. Among other things, you have two sets of primitive plumbing —one male, one female. Only one set develops into a mature urogenital system, but you retain traces of the other for the rest of your life.
It’s tempting, therefore, to say that male nipples are yet another vestige of your carefree bisexual youth. Trouble is, male nipples are hardly vestigial. They’re full-sized and fully equipped with blood vessels, nerves, and all the usual appurtenances of functioning organs. Why this should be so nobody knows —in some other mammals, such as rats and mice, male nipple development is completely suppressed by the male sex hormones. (Incidentally, don’t start thinking that at one time our human male ancestors must have suckled their young. So far as anybody knows, male lactation has never developed in any mammalian species.)
Human nipples appear in the third or fourth week of development, well before the sex characteristics. (The sex hormones start to assert themselves at seven weeks.) As many as seven pairs of nipples are arranged along either side of a “milk line,” a ridge of skin that runs from the upper chest to the navel.
Normally only one pair amounts to anything, but on about one baby in a hundred you can detect some vestige of the other ones, usually on the order of a freckle. There are cases of women who ended up with an extra breast, which made them freak show candidates not so many years ago. Luckily today the women can avail themselves of corrective surgery while the rest of us can watch Jenny Jones.
Anyway, both male and female babies are born with the main milk ducts intact —the gland that produces milk is there in the male, but it remains undeveloped unless stimulated by the female hormone, estrogen. Occasionally, a male baby is born with enough of his mother’s estrogen in his body to produce a bizarre phenomenon known as “witches’ milk,” with the male glands, suitably stimulated, pumping away at the moment of birth.
In the adult male, the dormant glands can still be revived by a sufficient dose of estrogen. Actual lactation is rare —only a couple cases have been recorded. But at least one writer (Daly, 1978) has suggested that the “physiological impediments to the evolution of male lactation do not seem individually surmountable.” Meaning we may yet see the dawn of the truly liberated household.
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Towels are arguably the most important linen to a property manager that doesn’t belong on the bed. Finding the right towel for your property doesn’t have to be difficult. There is a wide selection of towels to choose from to best fit the needs of your property. There is quite an extensive process involved in making high-quality towels. One of the most common construction designs of a towel is with terry fabric. This blog will explain what a terry towel is, how it is made, and how to properly care for towels.
What is a Terry Towel?
A terry towel has yarn loops that are found on the surface of the towel. Most of terry towels are designed with yarn weaves that are either vertical or horizontal. The loops on a terry cloth towel offer advantages that other types of towels do not have. Some the benefits include increased levels of absorbency, extra softness, greater strength, life expectancy, and less wrinkling. With these advantages, it is extremely common to find terry towels in most bathrooms, but most guests don’t notice the type of towel they are using. Most guests would notice that it feels soft and comfortable but don’t know why that is.
How are Terry Towels Made
Terry towels are usually produced with cotton. However, they can also be developed with a cotton and polyester blend. The cotton helps the towels become more absorbent, breathable, and plush while the polyester is responsible for providing the towel with extra strength and a quicker drying time. Terry towels are best known for having loops that stand on the base of the towel. The loops are designed at different heights depending on how thick the designer wants the towel to be. Towels with thicker loops will feel soft and lavish while towels with less thick loops will feel more breathable. Overall, towels will become more absorbent as the loops become higher and thicker on a towel.
How to Care for Terry Towels
- Divide towels for laundering by color such as white, light colors, and darker colors to keep their high quality and to prevent colors from bleeding.
- Wash towels in cold water to help prevent their colors from fading and be careful not to overload the washer.
- Shake towels in between using the washing machine and dryer to help get rid of water and speed up the drying process which helps save time and money.
- Cut off any pulled loops with a pair of scissors to help prevent any future pulling or snagging on loops near those that were damaged.
- Keep towels on a hanger instead of a hamper to help prevent the potential growth of mold and mildew or any bad odors or use antimicrobial towels.
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Acceptable And Unacceptable Worship
God has shown, in the Bible, His approval with those who follow His will and
His displeasure and wrath with those who refuse to worship Him the way He has
directed. God has always been clear about how he is to be worshipped, but man
has not listened.
An example of acceptable and unacceptable worship in the Old Testament
is that of Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel both worshipped God. Abel did as God
directed, but Cain tried to worship God the way he saw fit. We read in Genesis
4:3-5, "And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an
offering of fruit of the ground to the Lord. Abel also brought of the firstborn
of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, but
He did not respect Cain and his offering."
Why did the Lord have respect for Abelís offering and why did He reject
Cainís offering? Hebrews 11:4 tells us, "By faith Abel offered to God a
more excellent sacrifice than Cain." Notice Abel offered his sacrifice
"by faith" but Cain did not. Romans 10:17 says, "So then faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." So faith comes by the
word of God. Abel offered his sacrifice by faith or according to the word of
God. If we worship God by faith, we worship as the word of God directs.
Abel offered the firstborn of his flock "by faith" and it was
accepted because his worship was according to the instructions of God. But Cain
chose to ignore Godís instructions and sacrificed an offering of the fruit of
the ground to the Lord. Cain chose to sacrifice to God the way he saw fit.
did not offer his sacrifice according to Godís instructions, so God rejected
his sacrifice and worship, since it was not "by faith".
From this example we see our worship must be "by faith", that is
"by the word of God." We read in Romans 14:23, "For whatever is
not from faith is sin." If our worship is not "by faith", that is
it is not "by the word of God", then it "is sin". It will
also be rejected just like Cainís. It is a very serious matter if God
rejects our worship. If He does we are going to be lost. Many people
accept from the Bible what they like and reject what they don't like. They
also add other things that they like. This is not Christianity but
religious anarchy. We do not have the right to "believe as we
please." We must humbly to submit to all that Jesus says.
Anything taught or practiced by man in the field of religion which does not come
from the Bible is false doctrine.
One cannot obey God without doing what God says to do, when
God says to do it, how God says to do it and for the reason God says to do
it. If what we do in worship is not according to the word of God, then it
is vain and useless and will cause us to be eternally lost.
Questions Lesson 5
Acceptable And Unacceptable Worship
(click on the button of the answer of your
1) (Genesis 4:3-5) In Cainís worship and Abelís worship of God
God respected the worship of both Cain and Abel.
God respected Abelís worship and had no respect for Cainís.
God respected Cainís worship but not Abelís.
God was pleased with both Cainís and Abelís worship.
3) (Hebrews 11:4) Abelís worship to God was accepted and Cainís worship was
Abel offered his sacrifice by
faith and Cain did not.
God did not like Cain.
God liked Abel.
By faith Cain offered a more excellent sacrifice than Abel.
5) (Romans 10:17) Where does faith come from?
The word of God.
Since Abelís offering was by faith, it was according to Godís
7) (Romans 14:23) If our worship is not by faith, that is not according to Godís
It is sin.
It is accepted of God if we are sincere.
It doesnít really matter.
In worship whatever is not by the word of God is sin.
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Competition for nesting sites could explain why some birds and bumblebees are declining faster than others.
Research suggest animals that build their nests in early spring may win the fight for available habitat at the expense of late breeders.
Conservation efforts should focus on ensuring rare species have enough places to nest, say scientists.
For example, areas could be left to grow wild between spring and summer to help bumblebees establish nests.
Habitats such as hedgerows and hay meadows are being lost in many countries, meaning that fewer nesting sites are available.
Competition among animals for a suitable place to nest could explain why some species are struggling to survive.
"Ecologists understand why some groups of species are declining more, such as why farmland species are declining more than woodland species," said Dr Andrew Higginson of the University of Exeter.
"But an enduring mystery is the big variation in the declines of closely related species. Fighting over nest sites may be part of the reason - when nest sites are hard to come by, the species that will suffer most are those that nest later in the year."
The University of Exeter study analysed population changes in more than 200 bird species and 40 bumblebee species around the world.
The population data was combined with a mathematical model that used game theory to predict the likely behaviour of bees and birds when faced with competition for nesting sites.
It calculated the implications of fighting for nesting sites, based on the size of each species, the time of nesting and the quality of the nesting site.
The study found larger species that nest early generally do better, while smaller bees and birds that nest later in the year lose out in the struggle for habitat.
For example, the chaffinch is doing well in the UK, while the goldfinch is on the decline.
"We need to have a more holistic approach to providing good habitat for animals," Dr Higginson told BBC News. "We need to worry about the whole life cycle not just what they eat."
He said conservation efforts for animals such as birds and bees tend to focus on providing food.
Restoration and provision of nest sites should be an urgent priority, he said.
This could be as simple as waiting to cut hedgerows until later in the year when all animals have nested or providing more boxes for birds to nest in.
The research is published in the journal, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
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A year ago, Mohan Tanti realised that the intense pain he had been suffering from for a while was due to kidney stones. Tanti lives and works at Letekujan, a tea plantation in Jorhat district in Assam, northeast India. To get treatment, he travelled to Jorhat city – about 23 kilometres away from Letekujan. At the public hospital, doctors told Tanti that they couldn’t do much about his disease.
The 35-year-old, who owns a small grocery shop in Letekujan, then spent more than 100,000 Indian rupees (nearly USD 1,400) at a private hospital in Dibrugarh city, 156 km from Letekujan. “Thanks to the surgery, I have now recovered,” Tanti said. “But the water condition is terrible in the plantation area, which has led to many of us falling sick.”
Nearly 55% of tea produced in India is from Assam, with the state supplying 80% of the country’s exports of the commodity. To produce such quantities requires a large workforce: around one million people labour in more than 800 tea gardens. These plantations are located far from towns and cities, and lack proper drinking and sanitation facilities. Several studies have found that drinking water quality is poor, and most plantations have no toilets, drinking water or running water.
As Tanti recounted his ordeal, Shyam Karmakar, another worker from the same plantation, chipped in: “He [Tanti] had the money so he was able to save himself, but there are so many of us who wouldn’t have been able to afford it.”
If people don’t have access to clean water to wash their hands, then it will be difficult to contain the spread of Covid-19Health worker in Assam
A 2019 study published by Oxfam interviewed 510 workers from 50 Assam tea estates. The report revealed that water in every tea estate was of “poor quality”, often containing heavy metals. “The lack of clean and plentiful water on the estates – and the fact that the habit of filtering water is almost entirely absent – means that diseases such as cholera and typhoid are common,” the report said.
With limited access to healthcare and average salaries of less than Rs 200 per day (about USD 3), Assam’s tea garden community is one of the state’s most marginalised and vulnerable groups. Due to their high numbers, tea workers are a large and influential voting bloc. Nevertheless, despite regular promises of higher wages, better living facilities and robust healthcare services, they continue to live an undignified life.
Pandemic comes to Assam’s tea gardens
Access to sanitation is crucial in stopping the spread of Covid-19. According to the latest reports, over 200 workers from at least two tea gardens in Assam’s Dibrugarh district have the virus, prompting the district administration to lock down the estates.
A public health worker from Assam, who requested to remain anonymous, pointed out that hand washing with sanitiser is essential to curb the outbreak. He said: “In the tea gardens people can’t afford hand sanitisers. They primarily use water and soap. If people don’t have access to clean water to even wash their hands, then it will be difficult to contain the spread of the virus.”
The pandemic has made clear the importance of clean water for good health as never before. “If [workers] fall sick due to unclean water and Covid-19, they will have to be hospitalised, and the tea gardens lack proper medical facilities,” the health worker added.
Forced to drink water from ponds
The people of Letekujan depend entirely on a pond near the plantation for water. They use the water for drinking, bathing, cooking and washing clothes.
Visitors “won’t even touch the water… It is so dirty,” Mohan Tanti said. When The Third Pole visited in February 2021, its surface appeared sludgy with dirt and algae. Tanti told this reporter in May that the water quality has since deteriorated further, with people unable to drink it.
“Babus [plantation managers and other higher-up officials] won’t drink this water. But labourers have no option,” said Sonia Tanti, district secretary for Jorhat of the All Adivasi Women Association of Assam (AAWAA). “Most labourers who live here are extremely poor and they can’t afford to get a filter at their homes,” she added.
In early 2016, a motor-powered pump was installed in Letekujan. It was used for less than two years: it stopped working in early 2018, when the new local government stopped maintaining it.
Biki Karmakar, who works as a guard where the pump is situated, told The Third Pole that the pump was powered by two motors. “One stopped working and the other can’t push the water out by itself,” said Karmakar, who has not been paid since the pump stopped working. “I used to get Rs 1,000 while the pump was operational,” he said. He now picks up daily wage work such as repairing bike tyres.
According to Shyam Karmakar, the tea garden worker, the pipe is connected to the Doyang river, which passes through Nagaland state and flows into the Dhansiri river in Assam. “The pipe is broken at its source and at several other places on its route,” he said.
“We have not had water supply for two years now. This pump is a farce,” said Mohit Patra, a member of the tea workers’ body Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha. Both Tanti of the AAAWA and Patra said that despite several complaints to the tea garden authority and management, their respective wards and several memoranda to the district commissioner, no help has come their way so far.
“We do notice that many tea garden communities have severe water crises and they end up drinking and using water from nearby ponds,” said the public health worker.
Health risks of untreated groundwater
Previous schemes to provide water have focussed on hand pumps and tube wells.
“The problem with the tea garden community is that they drink water directly from these installed pumps and wells, which means that they are consuming unfiltered groundwater,” said the public health worker. He added that the groundwater is often contaminated and not tested for pollutants. For instance, he said, often the platforms that tube wells stand on are broken, which can expose the groundwater to pollutants. “People are washing clothes and cups there. Some even bathe in the same area, which is why diseases like diarrhoea and jaundice are prevalent in the tea garden areas,” he said.
In 2019, the Indian government announced that by 2024 it aims to provide safe and adequate drinking water to all households in rural India through plumbed connections under its flagship scheme, Jal Jeevan Mission.
Previously the tea garden authorities were expected to provide water in the gardens, said Siranjib Saikia, chief engineer in the public health engineering department of Assam. “But now the government’s Jal Jeevan Mission aims to provide all villages with piped water supply,” he said.
Saikia explained that the government has identified priority areas to provide water connectivity in two phases. First priority has been given to arsenic and fluoride-prone areas. These areas were supposed to be taken care of by March 2021, but progress on this was delayed by the pandemic work.
Other priority areas in Assam include those with high incidence of acute encephalitis syndrome and Japanese encephalitis. The exact causes of these life-threatening diseases are complex but they tend to be contracted in humid, unsanitary environments.
“A lot of tea gardens fall under areas affected by these issues, so those gardens will be covered as well within the next two years,” Saikia said. “But manpower and resources are needed to accomplish these tasks. Assam has a shortage of plumbers and this is essentially entirely plumbing work.”
If schemes such as the Jal Jeevan Mission are implemented on time, they could improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in tea garden areas such as Letekujan.
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By Guest Contributor Sangeeta Waldron
Author of Corporate Social Responsibility is Not Public Relations, Sangeeta Waldron, explains the business benefits of CSR and how to build it into your strategy,
Running a business is always about making a profit, and in my new book, Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not Public Relations, you’ll learn from the interviews I conducted with business leaders and change-makers that being a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)-led business can be profitable.
It has become an established part of the global landscape, with companies throughout the world abiding by the United Nations Global Compact and many governments starting CSR initiatives. It is now considered a critical part of a company’s performance and reputation; and has become an important issue for its investors and management. Business leaders are realizing that an effective corporate social responsibility goal can be much more than a feel-good public relations (PR) release for prospective customers, employees, shareholders, and other stakeholders; it can have a significant and positive impact on the bottom line.
The IBM Institute for Business Value in 2018 surveyed a group of 250 business leaders worldwide and found that more than two-thirds (68 percent) were focused on CSR activities to create new revenue streams. In addition, more than half (54 percent) of the surveyed business leaders believed that their companies’ CSR activities are already giving them an advantage over their top competitors!
Now, many businesses across different sectors have begun to publicly report CSR-related activities to show their interest, investment and commitment to society. A company with strong CSR values will have a high degree of transparency and enjoy greater trust, which will be naturally attractive to consumers and employees. This also means the senior management team understands the value of non-financial issues to a company’s valuation.
When a business or brand puts sustainability authentically at the centre of its business and strategy, it will automatically gain respect in the marketplace. This in turn will generate positive word-of-mouth, influence higher sales, enhance employee loyalty and attract better talent. Moreover, CSR activities that focus on sustainability issues can lower costs and improve efficiencies in the long term.
There is enough proof that when your CSR initiatives are set, and are firmly integrated with your brand values and business strategy, they help a business create the right kind of partnerships and collaborations. Sustainable business values act as a moral compass, enhancing trust with your workforce and fostering brand loyalty with your customers.
HOW TO BUILD IT INTO YOUR STRATEGY
It is important to recognize that having a raft of CSR programs, is just the first step, as most corporate efforts to date have been neither strategic nor well communicated. To be effective—and to reap all the potential benefits—companies need to do more than simply doing good in their communities. They will also need to approach CSR strategically, as a viable component of their overall business strategy, along with marketing, branding, research and development, innovation, talent management, and operations.
Nothing about creating a sustainable business should be complicated; the principles are easy enough to get a handle on and successfully execute. It’s important that CSR initiatives and values go beyond ‘doing good’ and that they aim to tell a company’s story, which is very much part of the brand story. Your CSR values need to connect to the organization’s core business purpose and strategy in a way that makes intuitive sense.
To be effective, CSR goals must be aligned with two things:
• Core business objectives
• Core competencies of the firm
For these initiatives to be successful, they must be founded in sincerity and demonstrate a genuine commitment to the greater good—individually, locally, and globally. In order to pass the test of time, they must uphold this precept unconditionally, in both good times and bad.
Your business can create an effective corporate social responsibility programme that is strategic and sustainable using seven simple steps that I outline in the book. I share two of the seven here:
BUILD YOUR STRATEGY AROUND YOUR COMPANY’S CORE COMPETENCIES
There are many worthy causes a company can choose to support, but without focus and alignment with what your business already does, the chosen CSR efforts will not be effective. If a company has strengths, research and knowledge in a specific area, supporting a project that aligns with that expertise can help generate new customer visibility and revenue streams.
STRONG, SUSTAINABLE PARTNERSHIPS BREED SUCCESS
Partnerships let you draw on the capabilities of other networks that have expertise in different fields. Connecting with partners who have the same values can help you develop thoughtful CSR initiatives faster and more affordably than trying to create opportunities on your own.
Creating and aligning the CSR strategy will unify your business efforts, giving them much more power than if they remain a random mishmash of disparate initiatives. And once your CSR and business strategy is in place, you’ll be able to move to the next step: leveraging the power of your brand.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SANGEETA WALDRON Sangeeta Waldron is a multi-award-winning PR professional. She has been a contributing editor for different news platforms specializing in sustainability and corporate social responsibility, where some of her stories have been published by the United Nations. In 2009, Sangeeta founded her own London based communications agency, Serendipity PR & Media, and guest lectures at Coventry University on journalism, ethics, global society, social media and PR. Sangeeta started out her career writing speeches for a previous UK Prime Minister and Ministers. She has worked at the top level with global brands, which includes – The Economist Group; The Times Education Supplement; Mayor of London; Cass Business School; and charities such as the Gaia Foundation, National Federation of Women’s Institutes and Breast Cancer Campaign. In August 2019, Sangeeta published her first business book, The PR Knowledge Book with Business Expert Press. A regular international speaker, she often moderates a panel discussion for Asian Voice newspaper that supports British Asian women in business.
The world is at a tipping point – climate change, plastic pollution, bush fires, disappearing forests, a global pandemic and explosive conversations about diversity and inclusion. Now, more than ever, it is important for all types of businesses to have authentic Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives that are not a publicity spin. This book demonstrates that CSR is the future of business.
The book, Corporate Social Responsibility is Not Public Relations, contains 15 global inspirational interviews with thought leaders and entrepreneurs, including David Katz, CEO of Plastic Bank; Lois Acton, mentored by Anita Roddick, founder of the Bodyshop, Fred Huguez, who escaped the LA gang culture about the essence of sustainability, and more. These interviews within every chapter, along with the research, show there is international public support for business to do better and that CSR is driving investment. This is the time for all types of business to have CSR as the lifeblood for all their customers and employees.
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NHS pharmacies in England will now be able to provide blood pressure checks for people aged 40 and over, starting in October.
Thousands of lives will be saved as a result of a new deal between high street pharmacies and the NHS.
Rollout to begin soon
High street pharmacies will now be able to offer more blood pressure checks to people aged 40 and over as part of a new deal. Pharmacists will find and offer the tests to people showing symptoms.
The scheme will rollout fully starting in October, having been trialled in some pharmacies since 2019.
Predictions based on NHS data show that 3700 strokes and 2500 heart attacks could be prevented by the tests, meaning around 2000 lives would be saved.
Health Minister Lord Bethell said: “I want to say a huge thank you to pharmacists for their hard work and commitment to delivering more services to their patients, helping support a healthy nation.
“Pharmacists are the first port of call for minor conditions and it is really encouraging to see even more health services being led from pharmacies, many of which are at the heart of local communities and easy to access.
“These new blood pressure clinics are just one example of the vital, life-saving check-ups pharmacies provide and will go a long way to helping prevent heart disease. I strongly encourage everyone to sign these services up when they come online from October.”
The new contract will also see local chemists take on a role with the NHS scheme to cut the rate of smoking by offering advice to smokers who’ve recently left hospital.
These moves are part of the wider NHS Long Term Plan, aimed at vastly reducing the number of heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases.
Dr Shahed Ahmad, National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention said: “Cardiovascular disease claims 136,000 lives a year and is a major cause of health inequalities with about half of heart attacks and strokes are associated with high blood pressure.
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Open RAN transforms Radio Access Network (RAN) technology from design to operation of the network. Open RAN creates the possibility of an open RAN environment, with interoperability between different vendors over defined interfaces. In a legacy mobile network ecosystem, RAN is proprietary where a single vendor provides proprietary radio hardware, software, and interface to enable the mobile network to function. RAN ecosystem is evolving towards proving competitive landscape of RAN supplier ecosystem and network operators embracing the transformation. Opening up RAN horizontally brings in a new range of low-cost radio players, and it gives mobile operators a choice to optimize deployment options for specific performance requirements at much better cost.
In December 2021, UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced that it has agreed with the four domestic operators to fulfill a goal to boost deployments setting a target of 35% of the nation’s mobile network traffic is carried over open RAN by 2030. The department also increased funding of £30 million to a total of up to £51 million to back projects for trials of open RAN and next-generation technology. As per this latest market research, OPEN RAN Market is expected to cross $32 Billion by 2030 with a growth rate of 42% for a forecast period between 2022 and 2030. Services are going to be the key contributor for this market with 40% share in 2030.
While 5G offers superior performance over 4G, both will coexist comfortably into the 2030s as the bedrock of next generation mobile networks. There are three perspectives that help to underline this point. Firstly, unlike voice-oriented 2G and 3G (which were primarily circuit-switched networks with varying attempts to accommodate packet-switching principles), 4G is a fully packet-switched network optimized for data services. 5G builds on this packet switching capability. Therefore, 4G and 5G networks can coexist for a long while because the transition from 4G to 5G does not imply or require a paradigm shift in the philosophy of the underlying technology. 5G is expected to dominate the OPEN RAN market with $22B TAM in 2030 with a growth rate of 52% as compared to 4G growth rate of 31?tween 2022 and 2030.
RAN accounts for approx. 60% of total network cost and Open RAN presents an opportunity to reduce CAPEX. RU, CU, and DU built on open architecture will lead to reduction in deployment and operational cost as compared to traditional proprietary base stations in mobile network. Open RAN will result in more competition, vendor security, faster update cycle, and user benefits as new features can be added more quickly for end users, operators can provide enterprise level services to support industry 4.0.
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Choosing your winter forage
Clare Barfoot, SPILLERS®
How many of us really pay much attention to the hay or haylage we feed our horses? Often we are just using what is available on the yard or at our local supplier. Stuffing a hay or haylage net every evening is probably as far as most of us get to thinking about what nutrition it is really providing our horse or pony. So should we be paying it more attention? Well, forage should make up the majority of our horse’s diet therefore it pays to give some thought to the quality, quantity and type of forage you choose.
Should I feed hay or haylage?
Hay, silage and their hybrid haylage are all forms of conserved forage which just describes the process of harvesting grass when it is abundant in the summer months to be fed to over the winter months, when the quantity and quality of grass declines. Silage is not ideal to be fed to horses as it tends to be very wet and is higher in energy and protein than horses need. However, whether you choose hay or haylage, the golden rule is to go for the best quality you can. Poor quality forage may contribute to weight loss, respiratory problems and even colic.
Deciding whether to feed hay or haylage can be confusing but ultimately haylage is just damp hay. The nutritional differences can vary just as much between hays as between haylage and hay. The main consideration is how much you feed; a few years ago most horse owners believed that haylage was nutritionally richer than hay and therefore should be fed in lesser quantities. In fact haylage contains more water than hay (at least double the amount!) so you actually need to feed more haylage (approx. 30-50% more by weight) to provide the same level of fibre and nutrition. The main advantage of haylage is that it is damp therefore contains less mould spores that could travel deep down into the sensitive areas of the lungs contributing to conditions such as recurrent airway obstruction (RAO).
Meadow hay vs Seed hay
Meadow hay is harvested from permanent pasture and makes up the majority of hay fed in the UK. It tends to be higher in protein and energy than seed hay. Seed hay is harvested from grass especially sown and grown for hay and can be single species such as timothy. High fibre mature seed hay can be especially useful for good doers and laminitics due to its low energy content.
The good the bad and the ugly…
There are some physical things you can look out for when looking at your forage.
It should smell sweet and pleasant, any musty or mouldy smells should be treated with suspicion.
The colour can vary from light yellowy green through to bright green, often it is perceived that the greener the hay the higher in protein it is but you can’t really tell without analysis.
It shouldn’t be damp to the touch, if it is it may not have been dried properly and may be at more risk at going mouldy.
Look for any visible signs of mould
Farmer grown haylage should be well wrapped with at least 6 layers of plastic, don’t buy haylage that has holes in the plastic film as air will be allowed to enter and start the growth of yeasts and moulds.
Again haylage should smell sweet and often slightly fermented but not too acidic like silage.
Make sure there is no obvious soil contamination, as this can increase the risk of botulism.
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What is the most efficient way to organize kitchen cabinets?
When organizing food items in kitchen cabinets, it’s best to sort everything by category and designate specific areas for each type of item. For example, store favorite snacks on a cabinet shelf that’s easily within reach of all family members. Dedicate another area for breakfast items like cereals and pancake mix.
What are the different styles of kitchen cabinets?
8 Different Types of Kitchen Cabinets You’ll Love
- Shaker. The most common style for cabinets today is the Shaker-style.
- Louvered. Louvered kitchen cabinets come with horizontal wooden slats, as well as a hefty price tag.
- Flat-Panel or Slab.
What are some tips to choose a kitchen cabinet?
How to choose the perfect kitchen cabinets!
- Choose a Cabinet Door Profile First.
- Narrow Down Your Favorite Cabinet Door Styles.
- Know Your Wood Type and Color.
- Think About Both Function and Beauty.
- Make Organization an Important Part of the Decision Making.
- Maximize Every Inch.
What are the 9 steps in organizing kitchen cabinets?
9 Steps to Organizing Your Kitchen
- Step 1: Empty Your Cabinets. What?
- Step 2: Group Things Together. Sort your kitchen into groups by category.
- Step 3: Get Organized.
- Step 4: Get Some Containers.
- Step 5: Get Control of Lids.
- Step 7: Add Drawer Dividers.
- Step 8: Paperwork.
- Step 9: Clean Out the Fridge.
What do you put in a corner cabinet?
When you have L-shaped shelves in a corner of a kitchen (or anywhere else, actually!), the best way to use the space is with round items: bowls, cake plates, small appliances, turntables, lazy susans, round baskets, etc. Round items fit best into a corner layout while still remaining easy to get in and out.
What is Shaker cabinet?
In the world of cabinetry, shaker cabinets are units that are simple but aesthetically pleasing. Shakers cabinet doors are cope-and-stick construction and recessed panel doors with simple and clean inside and outside edges.
Which cabinet should plates go in?
Store your everyday dishes in the cabinet closest to the sink or dishwasher. Digging into the details on this a little more, this diagram notes you should store your everyday dishes (the non-consumables) right next to the cleaning area, or where your sink and dishwasher are.
What tools are needed to build cabinets?
Using sheet goods for your cabinets and you would be fine with a table saw and router as your first primary tools. If you start to work with a lot of solid lumber , then a jointer and a planer will help greatly as stock is rarely flat, straight and true from the lumber-yard.
How do you build a kitchen cabinet?
How to Build DIY Kitchen Cabinets Step 1: Calculate the height, width and depth of the basic box and cut the pieces for each side, the top and bottom. Step 2: Step3a: The Dowelmax Joinery Step 3b: Step 4: Step 5 & 6: Mount the drawer slides on the insides of the side panels according to manufacturer’s specifications.
What are cabinet making tools?
Cabinet makers also rely on small handheld tools to route or cut designs into doors. For fine, detailed sanding, cabinetmakers use handheld rotary tools. These versatile tools use a variety of attachments and accessories. Cabinet makers use them to sand in tight corners, such as on highly detailed doors.
What is cabinet building?
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Patrick Robertson (1807-1885)
The son of Revd Daniel Robertson (Professor of Oriental Languages at St Marys College, St Andrew's University, 1809-1817), Patrick was born at Meigle, Perthshire. His mother died when he was four; as a result he and his two younger siblings were primarily raised by a maternal aunt. He never married. Mr. Robertson lived at Halton House, off Old London Road, roughly where Hardwicke Road is today. He was the property developer who leased and set out the .. Having plans beyond the immediate area of Robertson Street, Robertson also sought out a partnership with the Burton family to complete the sea-front between Robertson Street and Warrior Square which did not come to fruition.
He first contested Hastings, as a Conservative in August, 1847,but was unsuccessful.
In July,1852, he was returned M. P. for Hastings at the top of the poll, with Mr. Musgrave Brisco.
In March, 1857, with Mr. Frederick North,he was returned without a contest.
Again defeated in April, 1859.
Again returned in 1864, and 1865.
In 1874, the first election under the ballot, he was again defeated, when the late first Earl Brassey (then Mr. Thomas Brassey), and Sir U. J. K. Shuttleworth (now Lord Shuttleworth) were returned, and Mr. Robertson retired from his political career in Hastings. Robertson was also a Deputy-Lieutenant of Sussex and a Justice of the Peace for the borough of Hastings
A prominent property developer in the local area, Robertson leased the crown lands comprising the for 99 years at a rate of £500 per year, commencing construction in January of 1850. His name was later given to Robertson Street. Plans were drawn up by an architectural partnership, Reeks Humbert, who were also the Crown architects, around 1850/1851 and construction of Robertson Street, Carlisle Parade and Robertson Terrace followed rapidly, utilising bricks that had been produced locally near Alexandra Park, the first occupant, Henry Polhill, a butcher moving in on the 5th of October that year. Reeks Humbert opened an office at 15 Pelham Street, and their name was on all of the plans prior to December of 1846, when another architectural firm, H.Carpenter, of 36 Robertson Street appears for around 12 years before many other architects became involved in the development.
References & Notes
- Friends of Hastings Cemetery
- Hastings Chronicle
- Hastings of Bygone days and the Present (Henry Cousins - 1911) pg.219 ISBN: 9789332862449 ESCC Library Google Books " Amazon
- Hastings (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, accessdate: 23 February 2020
- Hastings of Bygone days and the Present (Henry Cousins - 1911) pg.220 ISBN: 9789332862449 ESCC Library Google Books " Amazon
- Brett Manuscript Histories Vol. 4 Chap. 44
- Robertson, Patrick Francis, accessdate: 9 March 2020
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A change to the Education Act in Saskatchewan was announced Monday afternoon shortly after the news that registration for children under the age of 12 to receive the pediatric COVID-19 vaccines would open the following day.
In this change to the Education Act, there is now a 50 ft protective zone around every elementary school in the province. This allows teachers, staff, parents, and students to have safe and easy access to schools without facing intimidation from sidewalk picketers and protesters. The safe is permitted to be extended up to 150 ft if the school seems it to be necessary.
"Similar to the protections provided for patients, staff, and families accessing our hospitals it is important that our children, parents, teachers, and staff are able to access schools in the province without fear of interference or intimidation," Education Minister Dustin Duncan said. "In particular it is important to ensure our children do not feel scared or threatened."
Like the safe access zones around the hospitals, this provision will expire after 2 years.
As there have been protests and interferences around schools in Saskatoon, the schools in the Holy Trinity Catholic School Division Prairie South School Division in Moose Jaw have a good working relationship with parents or individuals who may not agree with the pediatric vaccinations, says their Directors of Education Ward Strueby (Education Director for Holy Trinity) and Ryan Boughen (Education Director for Prairie South). Both directors say that they've received phone calls and letters from people who have different grievances with policies or mandates but the majority of those calls do end well and on a good level of understanding.
"Although not all parents in the community support the decisions that the school board's making or that the province is making, we've found for the most part (that) families in the community are very respectful of our schools and of their behavior around our schools... I don't foresee it (protests) being a problem for us," says Boughen. No protests or incidents have happened around any of the Prairie South schools or board offices. Boughen did add, "Should a problem arise then we have that ability to create a 50 ft safe zone."
He also said that if someone does have an issue they want to bring forward, they usually reach out to the school directly or send in a letter and the school handles it with respectful communication. He said that this tactic has been successful for the most part.
Boughen did confirm that the children's vaccination centers in Moose Jaw will not be set up in any schools within either of the two school divisions. The clinics will be set up at mass vaccination sites.
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Remembering the British commander who captured Jerusalem
Following US President Donald Trump's recogniition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, historian Gordon Lucy looks at the 1917 capture of the city by a soldier who began his career with the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons and went on to be lauded as 'the best British general of the Great War':
On December 11, 1917 – a century ago today – Allied troops ‘respectfully’ captured Jerusalem.
Although the supreme master of cavalry warfare, before entering Jerusalem General Sir Edmund Allenby dismounted and, together with his officers, entered the city on foot through the Jaffa Gate out of respect for the status of Jerusalem as the Holy City important to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The capture of the city was one of the few incontrovertible successes the British could point to after three horrendous years of war.
1917 had been an especially grim year for the Allies: the French army was mutinous, Russia had succumbed to revolution, Italy had suffered a catastrophic defeat at Caporetto and for the British it had been the year of Passchendaele.
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For Prime Minister David Lloyd George the capture of Jerusalem was extremely welcome news. He described the city’s capture as “a Christmas present for the British people”.
Allenby, who was commissioned into the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons in 1881, conducted a stunningly successful campaign in Palestine during the First World War and later unveiled the Belfast Cenotaph on November 11, 1929.
Allenby’s official proclamation of martial law following the fall of Jerusalem was a remarkably sensitive document.
He wrote: “To the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Blessed and the People Dwelling in Its Vicinity: The defeat inflicted upon the Turks by the troops under my command has resulted in the occupation of your city by my forces. I, therefore, here now proclaim it to be under martial law, under which form of administration it will remain so long as military considerations make necessary.
“However, lest any of you be alarmed by reason of your experience at the hands of the enemy who has retired, I hereby inform you that it is my desire that every person pursue his lawful business without fear of interruption.
“Furthermore, since your city is regarded with affection by the adherents of three of the great religions of mankind and its soil has been consecrated by the prayers and pilgrimages of multitudes of devout people of these three religions for many centuries, therefore, do I make it known to you that every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or customary place of prayer of whatsoever form of the three religions will be maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of those to whose faith they are sacred.
“Guardians have been established at Bethlehem and on Rachel’s Tomb. The tomb at Hebron has been placed under exclusive Moslem control.
“The hereditary custodians at the gates of the Holy Sepulchre have been requested to take up their accustomed duties in remembrance of the magnanimous act of the Caliph Omar, who protected that church.’
In truth, Allenby was a remarkable general. He was nicknamed ‘the Bull’, probably a commentary on his thick neck, florid complexion and explosive temper.
Subordinates were known to faint in his presence. However his temper subsided very quickly and he was lavish in his praise of those who had served him well.
Allenby was an intelligent soldier. In 1880, when he sat the exam for the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he came fifth out of 110 applicants. After 10 months at Sandhurst, he passed out twelfth and was commissioned into the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons in 1881.
He was thoughtful, extremely well read and had a passionate interest in poetry, ornithology, travel and botany.
Prior to his despatch to Palestine in June 1917 Lloyd George presented him with a copy of Sir George Adam Smith’s ‘Historical Geography of the Holy Land’. Predictably, he already had a copy.
He had a keen and intelligent interest in history. What other general would have discovered that Richard the Lionheart failed to capture Jerusalem because he chose the malarial season for his advance, or investigated the reasons for the ophthalmia which blinded so many of Napoleon’s solders in Egypt in 1789-1801, or studied of Strabo’s account of the ancient route through the Sinai desert in the original Greek?
Allenby had served in South Africa and at the outbreak of the Great War was appointed commander of the cavalry division of the British Expeditionary Force.
He covered the retreat after the Battle of Mons.
Between 1915 and 1917 he commanded the Third Army on the Western Front.
At the Battle of Arras, his forces failed to exploit a breakthrough and he was replaced by Julian Byng, the hero of Vimy Ridge.
Allenby initially regarded his transfer to Palestine as a demotion but Lloyd George was both encouraging and supportive.
In terms of military strategy Lloyd George was an ‘Easterner’.
In other words, Lloyd George and other ‘Easterners’ (notably Churchill and Bonar Law) believed the war would be won by attacking the Central Powers on their strategic flanks rather than by defeating the Germans on the Western Front as the ‘Westerners’ (Sir Douglas Haig and Sir William Robertson) contended.
Interestingly, the ‘Easterners’ were invariably politicians whereas the ‘Westerners’ were professional soldiers.
Allenby began a methodically-planned advance in October through Gaza and Jaffa, culminating in the capture of Jerusalem.
The withdrawal of troops to France weakened his position but skilful use of cavalry enabled him to begin a major offensive on September 18, 1918 which rolled the Turks back through Syria.
The Ottoman Empire capitulated on October 31, 1918.
Allenby’s unpopularity meant he had his detractors who denigrated his achievements and denied him the recognition he richly deserved.
Field Marshal Viscount Wavell claimed Allenby was ‘the best British general of the Great War’.
Wavell was fascinated by the Palestine campaign and wrote a history of the campaign in the 1930s and a biography of Allenby in the 1940s.
Wavell contended that Allenby was a commander of the same stamp as the Duke of Wellington.
He acknowledged that, like the Duke, Allenby lacked the common touch but he and the Duke were both hard-headed realists, were both insistent on the paramount importance of good administration and logistics, were both supremely gifted in their ability to conceal their intentions from the enemy and both knew how to strike with maximum surprise.
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Last evening an 11-year-old girl joined our telephone town hall, her question shook me to my core; she was worried about the future of this great nation and I am too. That is why I must move forward with impeachment of this President. He has endangered this nation. He has betrayed his oath. I do this now for all of us, for our Constitution and for this Republic. I do this to tell the world that this great democracy will stand and no one is above the law. And I do this for our future generations. I urge us all to unite and to vote yes on impeachment.
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Planning permission has been granted for a biodome complex designed by UK architect WilkinsonEyre and local firm Basalt in Iceland’s Reykjavik region.
The Aldin Biodomes will be sited on ridge overlooking the the Elliðaárdalur valley, where it will give views of Iceland’s midnight sunsets during the summer and the northern lights during the winter.
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Cows decorated in wreaths! Tina Turner impersonators! Fairytale lakes and long-legged blondes! Why now is a very good time to visit Slovenia, by Annabelle Spranklen
We're here to talk about cows. Cows' Ball, to be precise. An ACTUAL ball for cows (stay with us, we're dead serious). Forget the tulle and tiaras; this is all about pretty wreaths and one big, fat party and it's happening next Sunday 15th September. The 50 year-old Slovenian festival marks the homecoming of cattle, which return to the alpine Bohinj valley after a whole glorious summer spent nibbling grass higher up in the green pastures.
Daisy and her pals are decked out in colourful wreaths and led through a parade by herdsmen and dairy maids (it's a bit like Notting Hill Carnival, but with, er, cows). As they pass Lake Bohinj, jolly folk music blasts out and stands selling cheesy delights, wood souvenirs and wicker goodies line the cattle convoy. There's dancing, log-sawing, horseshoe-throwing and cow roasting (slightly ironic, we know). Heck, sometimes there's even a Tina Turner impersonator. Udderly fun.
The thing is, at this often barmy, secret time of year, Slovenia is a cracking spot for hiking and climbing around. The lake, with its dark expanse of water and pretty backdrop of farming villages, is jaw-droppingly beautiful. It will take approximately five minutes until you burst into 'The hills are aliveee... ' In other words: this place is practically the Alpine ideal.
You'll want to tiptoe into the Skocjan Caves. The whole area is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It's all slippery walkways, 100-yard drops (be prepared) and burbling, foaming rivers (very Lord of the Rings).
Or there's Lake Bled - not as sinister as it sounds. This place is insanely pretty and ringed with snow-capped mountains and glistening, turquoise water. There's even a fairytale church bang in the middle. While you're there, try tackling Slovenia's highest mountain - Triglav. It looms a whopping 2,864 metres above the Bohinj valley. Deep breaths, people, this isn't one for weaklings.
Then, make a beeline for Ljubljana, the teeny-tiny Slovenian capital. Surrounded by thickly forested hills; the countryside suddenly rolls into the city. Spend a day pottering around its elegant old town and hanging out one of the many riverside cafes, gobbling Potica (traditional Slovene cake covered in walnuts) and gazing at the beautiful long-legged blonde locals. Sigh.
Image courtesy of Bogdan Kladnik/ www.slovenia.info
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In meteorology, a cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anticyclone). Cyclones are characterized by inward-spiraling winds that rotate about a zone of low pressure. The largest low-pressure systems are polar vortices and extratropical cyclones of the largest scale (the synoptic scale). Warm-core cyclones such as tropical cyclones and subtropical cyclones also lie within the synoptic scale. Mesocyclones, tornadoes, and dust devils lie within smaller mesoscale. Upper level cyclones can exist without the presence of a surface low, and can pinch off from the base of the tropical upper tropospheric trough during the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere. Cyclones have also been seen on extraterrestrial planets, such as Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune. Cyclogenesis is the process of cyclone formation and intensification. Extratropical cyclones begin as waves in large regions of enhanced mid-latitude temperature contrasts called baroclinic zones. These zones contract and form weather fronts as the cyclonic circulation closes and intensifies. Later in their life cycle, extratropical cyclones occlude as cold air masses undercut the warmer air and become cold core systems. A cyclone's track is guided over the course of its 2 to 6 day life cycle by the steering flow of the subtropical jet stream.
Weather fronts mark the boundary between two masses of air of different temperature, humidity, and densities, and are associated with the most prominent meteorological phenomena. Strong cold fronts typically feature narrow bands of thunderstorms and severe weather, and may on occasion be preceded by squall lines or dry lines. Such fronts form west of the circulation center and generally move from west to east; warm fronts form east of the cyclone center and are usually preceded by stratiform precipitation and fog. Warm fronts move poleward ahead of the cyclone path. Occluded fronts form late in the cyclone life cycle near the center of the cyclone and often wrap around the storm center.
Tropical cyclogenesis describes the process of development of tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclones form due to latent heat driven by significant thunderstorm activity, and are warm core. Cyclones can transition between extratropical, subtropical, and tropical phases. Mesocyclones form as warm core cyclones over land, and can lead to tornado formation. Waterspouts can also form from mesocyclones, but more often develop from environments of high instability and low vertical wind shear. In the Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific oceans, a tropical cyclone is generally referred to as a hurricane (from the name of the ancient Central American deity of wind, Huracan), in the Indian and south Pacific oceans it is called a cyclone, and in the northwestern Pacific it is called a typhoon. The growth of instability in the vortices is not universal. For example, the size, intensity, moist-convection, surface evaporation, the value of potential temperature at each potential height can affect the nonlinear evolution of a vortex.
Henry Piddington published 40 papers dealing with tropical storms from Calcutta between 1836 and 1855 in The Journal of the Asiatic Society. He also coined the term cyclone, meaning the coil of a snake. In 1842, he published his landmark thesis, Laws of the Storms.
There are a number of structural characteristics common to all cyclones. A cyclone is a low-pressure area. A cyclone's center (often known in a mature tropical cyclone as the eye), is the area of lowest atmospheric pressure in the region. Near the center, the pressure gradient force (from the pressure in the center of the cyclone compared to the pressure outside the cyclone) and the force from the Coriolis effect must be in an approximate balance, or the cyclone would collapse on itself as a result of the difference in pressure.
Because of the Coriolis effect, the wind flow around a large cyclone is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, the fastest winds relative to the surface of the Earth therefore occur on the eastern side of a northward-moving cyclone and on the northern side of a westward-moving one; the opposite occurs in the Southern Hemisphere. In contrast to low-pressure systems, the wind flow around high-pressure systems are clockwise (anticyclonic) in the northern hemisphere, and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.
See main article: Cyclogenesis and Tropical cyclogenesis. Cyclogenesis is the development or strengthening of cyclonic circulation in the atmosphere. Cyclogenesis is an umbrella term for several different processes that all result in the development of some sort of cyclone. It can occur at various scales, from the microscale to the synoptic scale.
Extratropical cyclones begin as waves along weather fronts before occluding later in their life cycle as cold-core systems. However, some intense extratropical cyclones can become warm-core systems when a warm seclusion occurs.
Tropical cyclones form as a result of significant convective activity, and are warm core. Mesocyclones form as warm core cyclones over land, and can lead to tornado formation. Waterspouts can also form from mesocyclones, but more often develop from environments of high instability and low vertical wind shear. Cyclolysis is the opposite of cyclogenesis, and is the high-pressure system equivalent, which deals with the formation of high-pressure areas—Anticyclogenesis.
A surface low can form in a variety of ways. Topography can create a surface low. Mesoscale convective systems can spawn surface lows that are initially warm-core. The disturbance can grow into a wave-like formation along the front and the low is positioned at the crest. Around the low, the flow becomes cyclonic. This rotational flow moves polar air towards the equator on the west side of the low, while warm air move towards the pole on the east side. A cold front appears on the west side, while a warm front forms on the east side. Usually, the cold front moves at a quicker pace than the warm front and "catches up" with it due to the slow erosion of higher density air mass out ahead of the cyclone. In addition, the higher density air mass sweeping in behind the cyclone strengthens the higher pressure, denser cold air mass. The cold front over takes the warm front, and reduces the length of the warm front. At this point an occluded front forms where the warm air mass is pushed upwards into a trough of warm air aloft, which is also known as a trowal.
Tropical cyclogenesis is the development and strengthening of a tropical cyclone. The mechanisms by which tropical cyclogenesis occurs are distinctly different from those that produce mid-latitude cyclones. Tropical cyclogenesis, the development of a warm-core cyclone, begins with significant convection in a favorable atmospheric environment. There are six main requirements for tropical cyclogenesis:
An average of 86 tropical cyclones of tropical storm intensity form annually worldwide, with 47 reaching hurricane/typhoon strength, and 20 becoming intense tropical cyclones (at least Category 3 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale).
The following types of cyclones are identifiable in synoptic charts.
See main article: Extratropical cyclone.
An extratropical cyclone is a synoptic scale low-pressure weather system that does not have tropical characteristics, as it is connected with fronts and horizontal gradients (rather than vertical) in temperature and dew point otherwise known as "baroclinic zones".
"Extratropical" is applied to cyclones outside the tropics, in the middle latitudes. These systems may also be described as "mid-latitude cyclones" due to their area of formation, or "post-tropical cyclones" when a tropical cyclone has moved (extratropical transition) beyond the tropics. They are often described as "depressions" or "lows" by weather forecasters and the general public. These are the everyday phenomena that, along with anticyclones, drive weather over much of the Earth.
Although extratropical cyclones are almost always classified as baroclinic since they form along zones of temperature and dewpoint gradient within the westerlies, they can sometimes become barotropic late in their life cycle when the temperature distribution around the cyclone becomes fairly uniform with radius. An extratropical cyclone can transform into a subtropical storm, and from there into a tropical cyclone, if it dwells over warm waters sufficient to warm its core, and as a result develops central convection. A particularly intense type of extratropical cyclone that strikes during winter is known colloquially as a nor'easter.
See main article: Polar low. A polar low is a small-scale, short-lived atmospheric low-pressure system (depression) that is found over the ocean areas poleward of the main polar front in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Polar lows were first identified on the meteorological satellite imagery that became available in the 1960s, which revealed many small-scale cloud vortices at high latitudes. The most active polar lows are found over certain ice-free maritime areas in or near the Arctic during the winter, such as the Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, Labrador Sea and Gulf of Alaska. Polar lows dissipate rapidly when they make landfall. Antarctic systems tend to be weaker than their northern counterparts since the air-sea temperature differences around the continent are generally smaller . However, vigorous polar lows can be found over the Southern Ocean. During winter, when cold-core lows with temperatures in the mid-levels of the troposphere reach -45C move over open waters, deep convection forms, which allows polar low development to become possible. The systems usually have a horizontal length scale of less than 1000km (1,000miles) and exist for no more than a couple of days. They are part of the larger class of mesoscale weather systems. Polar lows can be difficult to detect using conventional weather reports and are a hazard to high-latitude operations, such as shipping and gas and oil platforms. Polar lows have been referred to by many other terms, such as polar mesoscale vortex, Arctic hurricane, Arctic low, and cold air depression. Today the term is usually reserved for the more vigorous systems that have near-surface winds of at least 17 m/s.
See main article: Subtropical cyclone. A subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of a tropical cyclone and some characteristics of an extratropical cyclone. They can form between the equator and the 50th parallel. As early as the 1950s, meteorologists were unclear whether they should be characterized as tropical cyclones or extratropical cyclones, and used terms such as quasi-tropical and semi-tropical to describe the cyclone hybrids. By 1972, the National Hurricane Center officially recognized this cyclone category. Subtropical cyclones began to receive names off the official tropical cyclone list in the Atlantic Basin in 2002. They have broad wind patterns with maximum sustained winds located farther from the center than typical tropical cyclones, and exist in areas of weak to moderate temperature gradient.
Since they form from extratropical cyclones, which have colder temperatures aloft than normally found in the tropics, the sea surface temperatures required is around 23 degrees Celsius (73 °F) for their formation, which is three degrees Celsius (5 °F) lower than for tropical cyclones. This means that subtropical cyclones are more likely to form outside the traditional bounds of the hurricane season. Although subtropical storms rarely have hurricane-force winds, they may become tropical in nature as their cores warm.
See main article: Tropical cyclone. A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain. A tropical cyclone feeds on heat released when moist air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapour contained in the moist air. They are fueled by a different heat mechanism than other cyclonic windstorms such as nor'easters, European windstorms, and polar lows, leading to their classification as "warm core" storm systems.
The term "tropical" refers to both the geographic origin of these systems, which form almost exclusively in tropical regions of the globe, and their dependence on Maritime Tropical air masses for their formation. The term "cyclone" refers to the storms' cyclonic nature, with counterclockwise rotation in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise rotation in the Southern Hemisphere. Depending on their location and strength, tropical cyclones are referred to by other names, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply as a cyclone.
While tropical cyclones can produce extremely powerful winds and torrential rain, they are also able to produce high waves and a damaging storm surge. Their winds increase the wave size, and in so doing they draw more heat and moisture into their system, thereby increasing their strength. They develop over large bodies of warm water, and hence lose their strength if they move over land. This is the reason coastal regions can receive significant damage from a tropical cyclone, while inland regions are relatively safe from strong winds. Heavy rains, however, can produce significant flooding inland. Storm surges are rises in sea level caused by the reduced pressure of the core that in effect "sucks" the water upward and from winds that in effect "pile" the water up. Storm surges can produce extensive coastal flooding up to 40km (30miles) from the coastline. Although their effects on human populations can be devastating, tropical cyclones can also relieve drought conditions. They also carry heat and energy away from the tropics and transport it toward temperate latitudes, which makes them an important part of the global atmospheric circulation mechanism. As a result, tropical cyclones help to maintain equilibrium in the Earth's troposphere.
Many tropical cyclones develop when the atmospheric conditions around a weak disturbance in the atmosphere are favorable. Others form when other types of cyclones acquire tropical characteristics. Tropical systems are then moved by steering winds in the troposphere; if the conditions remain favorable, the tropical disturbance intensifies, and can even develop an eye. On the other end of the spectrum, if the conditions around the system deteriorate or the tropical cyclone makes landfall, the system weakens and eventually dissipates. A tropical cyclone can become extratropical as it moves toward higher latitudes if its energy source changes from heat released by condensation to differences in temperature between air masses. A tropical cyclone is usually not considered to become subtropical during its extratropical transition.
See main article: Polar cyclone. A polar, sub-polar, or Arctic cyclone (also known as a polar vortex) is a vast area of low pressure that strengthens in the winter and weakens in the summer. A polar cyclone is a low-pressure weather system, usually spanning 1000km (1,000miles) to 2000km (1,000miles), in which the air circulates in a counterclockwise direction in the northern hemisphere, and a clockwise direction in the southern hemisphere. The Coriolis acceleration acting on the air masses moving poleward at high altitude, causes a counterclockwise circulation at high altitude. The poleward movement of air originates from the air circulation of the Polar cell. The polar low is not driven by convection as are tropical cyclones, nor the cold and warm air mass interactions as are extratropical cyclones, but is an artifact of the global air movement of the Polar cell. The base of the polar low is in the mid to upper troposphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, the polar cyclone has two centers on average. One center lies near Baffin Island and the other over northeast Siberia. In the southern hemisphere, it tends to be located near the edge of the Ross ice shelf near 160 west longitude. When the polar vortex is strong, its effect can be felt at the surface as a westerly wind (toward the east). When the polar cyclone is weak, significant cold outbreaks occur.
See main article: Upper tropospheric cyclonic vortex. Under specific circumstances, upper level cold lows can break off from the base of the tropical upper tropospheric trough (TUTT), which is located mid-ocean in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer months. These upper tropospheric cyclonic vortices, also known as TUTT cells or TUTT lows, usually move slowly from east-northeast to west-southwest, and their bases generally do not extend below 20000feet in altitude. A weak inverted surface trough within the trade wind is generally found underneath them, and they may also be associated with broad areas of high-level clouds. Downward development results in an increase of cumulus clouds and the appearance of a surface vortex. In rare cases, they become warm-core tropical cyclones. Upper cyclones and the upper troughs that trail tropical cyclones can cause additional outflow channels and aid in their intensification. Developing tropical disturbances can help create or deepen upper troughs or upper lows in their wake due to the outflow jet emanating from the developing tropical disturbance/cyclone.
The following types of cyclones are not identifiable in synoptic charts.
See main article: Mesocyclone. A mesocyclone is a vortex of air, 2km (01miles) to 10km (10miles) in diameter (the mesoscale of meteorology), within a convective storm. Air rises and rotates around a vertical axis, usually in the same direction as low-pressure systems in both northern and southern hemisphere. They are most often cyclonic, that is, associated with a localized low-pressure region within a supercell. Such storms can feature strong surface winds and severe hail. Mesocyclones often occur together with updrafts in supercells, where tornadoes may form. About 1,700 mesocyclones form annually across the United States, but only half produce tornadoes.
See main article: Tornado.
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. Also referred to as twisters, a colloquial term in America, or cyclones, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology, in a wider sense, to name any closed low-pressure circulation.
See main article: Dust devil.
A dust devil is a strong, well-formed, and relatively long-lived whirlwind, ranging from small (half a metre wide and a few metres tall) to large (more than 10 metres wide and more than 1000 metres tall). The primary vertical motion is upward. Dust devils are usually harmless, but can on rare occasions grow large enough to pose a threat to both people and property.
See main article: Waterspout.
A waterspout is a columnar vortex forming over water that is, in its most common form, a non-supercell tornado over water that is connected to a cumuliform cloud. While it is often weaker than most of its land counterparts, stronger versions spawned by mesocyclones do occur.
See main article: Steam devil.
A gentle vortex over calm water or wet land made visible by rising water vapour.
See main article: Fire whirl.
A fire whirl – also colloquially known as a fire devil, fire tornado, firenado, or fire twister – is a whirlwind induced by a fire and often made up of flame or ash.
See main article: Extraterrestrial vortex. Cyclones are not unique to Earth. Cyclonic storms are common on Jovian planets, such as the Small Dark Spot on Neptune. It is about one third the diameter of the Great Dark Spot and received the nickname "Wizard's Eye" because it looks like an eye. This appearance is caused by a white cloud in the middle of the Wizard's Eye. Mars has also exhibited cyclonic storms. Jovian storms like the Great Red Spot are usually mistakenly named as giant hurricanes or cyclonic storms. However, this is inaccurate, as the Great Red Spot is, in fact, the inverse phenomenon, an anticyclone. | <urn:uuid:bb01ac44-4fa8-4eac-96d6-32fd5e43f07b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://everything.explained.today/Cyclone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939475 | 4,487 | 3.890625 | 4 |
The conductive heat transfer through a gas confined between two concentric spherical shells maintained at different temperatures is investigated from the free-molecular to the continuum flow regime. The heat flux, measured using a recently proposed experimental system to extract the thermal accommodation coefficient, is compared with analytical expressions and numerical results. From this comparison it is found that in the free-molecular flow limit, the experimental data are well explained by the analytical expression for the arbitrary radius and temperature ratios of the spherical surfaces. In the continuum limit, the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity coefficient should be considered in the analytical expression. In the transitional flow regime, a revised function for the heat flux interpolation is proposed to give better fitting to the numerical results. By employing these knowledge, the thermal accommodation coefficient extraction procedure for the system is revised, and it is shown that the re-calculated accommodation coefficient allows to reproduce well the measured heat flux.
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The swine flu and safe airplane air swine flu has stoked the fear of travel. After the intense news coverage, not only Mexico tourists shy away from the hours on a plane. Many fear to be able to be infected in the cramped atmosphere with diseases. According to a report of the Internet portal fluege.de is however unfounded this concern. In fact, all aircraft have modern air-conditioning systems that minimize such a risk. The devices are equipped with so-called HEPA filters. Checking article sources yields Samsung as a relevant resource throughout. This abbreviation stands for high efficiency particulate air filter. By using this technology, it is possible to filter out pollutants as well as viruses and bacteria from the air, before they spread on board.
According to the message from the news section of the air in the plane is so in fact safer than about the workplace. Another advantage of the air conditioners is the exact regulation of humidity. This is centered on an optimal value, which also inhibits the spread of pathogens. Overall, the advanced cleaning systems, create it to renew the air up to 60%. Thanks to the safety regulations, all filter be replaced regularly. So, all passengers aboard remain effectively protected. Only the direct route of transmission from person to person can not be excluded in this way. According to experts, but simple rules of conduct help to eliminate this problem. Who holds a handkerchief over his mouth when coughing and use disinfectant wipes, can catch pathogens before they reach the seat neighbors. | <urn:uuid:d89b3012-5093-47aa-ba38-4ef10bbdd261> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bulletfiles.com/tag/of-air-conditioners | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951659 | 305 | 2.359375 | 2 |
What are antioxidants, and why you need them to maintain good overall health?
You may have noticed that many healthy foods and products boast “antioxidants” as their powerful, active ingredient. Antioxidants, which are substances commonly found in fruits, vegetables, and other whole foods, are vital for destroying free radicals that can alter healthy cells and increase the risk for illness and disease — including cancer.
How antioxidants fight free radicals
Free radicals are toxic compounds that come from man-made substances in processed foods, UV rays, and environmental toxins like cigarette smoke and pollution. Your body also produces free radicals naturally when converting certain foods into energy. Free radicals can damage your DNA and alter your cells, and cause oxidative stress that can lead to premature aging and life-threatening diseases.
Antioxidants are healthy vitamins and nutrients that destroy free radicals and prevent them from spreading to and damaging other cells. Antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta-carotene can help lower the risk for heart disease, stroke, and cancer. A diet high in antioxidants can boost your immunity, prevent signs of aging, and lend to better overall health and weight-loss success.
Common sources of antioxidants
Foods including fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds are common sources of antioxidants. Antioxidants can also be found in legumes, eggs, whole grains, and animal products including turkey, fish, and chicken.
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin E
The human body also produces an antioxidant called glutathione that can fight off free radicals naturally. Though glutathione is produced naturally by cells, experts still recommend consuming healthy foods and nutritional supplements high in antioxidants to ensure you’re getting enough. Increase your body’s production of glutathione by eating foods high in B vitamins, along with cruciferous vegetables including broccoli, kale, and collard greens.
Boosting your antioxidant intake
If you are taking prescription medication or have a history of chronic disease, talk to your doctor before modifying your diet. Studies show that consuming large amounts of certain antioxidants may actually increase your risk for disease and illness, depending on your unique medical history. Some antioxidants may even cause adverse side effects when paired with prescription medications.
Foods that contain the highest amounts of antioxidants:
- Berries (blueberries, cranberries, blackberries, etc.)
- Grapes and raisins
- Plums and prunes
- Apples (Red Delicious, Granny Smith, Gala)
- Sweet potatoes
- Red bell peppers
- Whole grains
- Dark leafy greens (spinach, kale, Bok choy, etc.)
- Fatty fish (tuna, salmon, mackerel, etc.)
- Dark chocolate
- Green tea
Nutritional supplements can also be great sources of antioxidants. Consult with your doctor before taking any supplements, since some brands are not regulated or FDA-approved and may not list accurate doses. Your doctor can help you establish a healthy diet and meal plan, or recommend supplements that help boost your antioxidant intake. For instance, our Pro-Antioxidant supplement is a safe dietary supplement that provides antioxidant bioflavonoids derived from natural sources.
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Luke is an older teen at Camp Half-Blood. His father, Hermes, claimed Luke, so Luke is now the leader of the Hermes cabin. Though Luke seems genuinely interested in taking care of the many younger kids who wind up in his cabin, he’s also generally disillusioned with camp and life as a young demigod. He feels abandoned by Hermes and never mentions his mother, but he seems to have few connections to blood family members and struggles because of this. Luke ended up at Camp Half-Blood with Thalia and young Annabeth, and Annabeth has had a crush on Luke ever since. He’s also quite handsome and skilled with a sword. His skills earned him a quest several years ago. Though this means that many campers revere and admire Luke, Luke thinks little of his quest—he repeated Hercules’s quest to steal a golden apple from the Garden of the Hesperides, and the experience got him nothing but a pat on the back as far as he’s concerned. Though Luke becomes a caring mentor to Percy during Percy’s time at camp and even gives Percy a seemingly useful parting gift of winged tennis shoes, Percy later discovers that Luke is a double agent. Luke’s loneliness, angst, and disillusionment with gods and with his father made Luke a prime target for the imprisoned Titan Kronos, who seeks to rise to power again and overthrow the gods. In Luke’s opinion, the gods have done nothing but condemn him to a life of loneliness, danger, and sorrow as a pawn, so he feels he has every reason to overthrow them. Percy discovers this when Luke makes an attempt to kill him with a poisonous pit scorpion on the last day before summer campers leave. Luke’s betrayal hits everyone hard, but Percy and Annabeth vow to track down Luke when they return to camp next summer. | <urn:uuid:4b41b1da-b1f7-4f60-89ca-806f2dbaf8ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-lightning-thief/characters/luke | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.975853 | 386 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Visual Studio 2017 is now generally available for download, free. As always, Microsoft is targeting users with three different offerings among Community, Professional and the Enterprise editions.
The Community Edition is a free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers while the Professional and Enterprise editions can be used on trial basis and require a valid license, thereafter, for continued use.
VS 2017 redefines everything for the cloud and mobile development scenarios. Its built-in tools provide integration with all your .NET Core, Azure applications, microservices, Docker containers, and more. With VS 2017, it is now easier than ever to build and deploy applications and services to Azure, directly from the IDE.
Visual Studio 2017 with Xamarin make it faster for you to create mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows through updates like advanced debugging and profiling tools.
The latest release is also faster and leaner, even as applications and projects get larger. There is a brand-new installation experience that is lightweight and modular. Visual Studio 2017 also has new features that allow development teams to easily adopt modern DevOps practices and collaborate to react to market changes faster and continuously.
To extend developers’ ability to incorporate their databases into DevOps, accelerating release cycles, Redgate Data Tools are now included in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017.
For a detailed information on What’s new in VS 2017, head over to this page
Please note that the VS 2017 download attempt will only download the installer file, hence it is all ONLINE at the moment. Microsoft is not offering any ISO file as was the case previously and it has its reasons too. However, you can vote for the idea of making an ISO file for VS 2017 over at the uservoice forums. | <urn:uuid:506da92c-897b-434b-99fb-3f62f128e61b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thewincentral.com/visual-studio-2017-productive-version-hit-general-availability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935634 | 359 | 1.539063 | 2 |
How to use a Chromebook if you’ve switched from a PC
Editor’s note: This is the second post in an ongoing tips series. If your company recently switched to Chrome OS, use these tips to get up to speed. If you’re an IT administrator, pass these tips along to your users to help them stay productive.
Last month, we shared tips on how to use a Chromebook if you switched from previously using a Mac. This month, we’ll explore similar topics for PC users, answering questions about keyboard shortcuts and finding files. If you’ve recently switched from using a PC with a Windows operating system to a Chromebook with Chrome OS, here are four must-read tips to help you get started.
1. How do I locate my apps and files?
You’re probably used to accessing files and apps via the Start Menu on the bottom left-hand side of your PC. On a Chromebook, you access files and apps from the Launcher, which is the button that looks like a circle with a dot in the bottom of your screen.
Here’s how to use the Launcher:
If you don’t have a touchscreen, click anywhere on the Launcher button. If you have a touchscreen, drag your finger up from the bottom part of your screen (we call this the “app shelf”). The Launcher will pop up—this is where you can access all of your apps, including Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides, as well as YouTube.
If you need to find a specific app, document or file, you can search in the search bar at the top of Launcher. Using predictive text based on machine learning, Google Search helps you find what you need quickly, whether it’s tracking down an app to use, searching the web, or finding a specific Doc you created.
2. How do I take a screenshot?
If you want to take a screenshot of your entire screen on a Chromebook, press Ctrl + the Show windows button (Ctrl + F5). To capture a partial screenshot, press Shift + Ctrl + Show windows (Shift + Ctrl + F5), then click and drag your cursor over the exact area you want to capture. To take a screenshot on tablets, press the Power button + the Volume down button at the same time.
While we’re on the topic, there are loads of ways to work more efficiently with keyboard shortcuts. Check out our Help Center for other shortcut ideas.
3. How do I change my settings?
For users familiar with a PC, the control panel is the place where you access settings like screen resolution, keyboard preferences, and privacy and security. On a Chromebook, you’ll find all of these options in Settings, which can be accessed in the bottom right of your screen.
- Click the time in the bottom right corner of your screen. It will pull up different tools for you to use.
- Click the gear/settings icon in the top right.
- Scroll down to the setting options that interest you and make sure they match your needs.
Note: clicking “Advanced” at the bottom will get you even more options for settings. You can also enter keywords in the search bar to locate a specific setting.
4. How do I set up right-click?
Right-click works a little differently on a Chromebook than on a PC (where you typically hit Shift + F10). You can either press the touchpad with two fingers to open the right-click menu, or you can click “Alt” and use just one finger on the touchpad. Once you do, you can scroll, moving left and right to move horizontally or up and down to move vertically. You can also switch your scroll direction. This article explains how, along with other helpful touchscreen tips.
Resources for IT admins to help users
If you’re an IT admin, use these tips to help former PC users adjust to Chromebooks, or keep an eye out for more advice you can share—we’ll link new posts here as we publish them.
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Epic Challenge -Orientation to Innovation LUP7001-3003 25.10.2021-18.12.2021 5 cr(TOP21_22)+-
Product development methods and techniques learned on this course:
- creative concept generation using morfological table
- Pugh method, i.e. use of decision making matrix as complex problem solving method
- use of requirements in ideation, testing and decision making
- problem abstraction as a creativity technique
- experiment design
- IFF - intelligent fast failure - experimentation philosophy
- BBA - building block approach - product development philosophy
- uncertainty-guided knowledge capture
- R&D teamwork: reporting and meetings
- R&D teamwork: multidisciplinary, international
On this course, you will focus on one of the available challenges related to future technologies and human habitation of Mars.
This course has been developed together with NASA astronaut Dr. Charles Camarda.You will learn to solve complex real-life problems.You will learn to work in a multidisciplinary team in a professional manner. You will get to interact with experts and company representatives.
More information about the program here: www.epicchallengejoensuu.com and email@example.com. Also, check out www.facebook.com/epicchallengejoensuu/ for regular updates. Participation to this course does not require any prior experience or skills in technology or sciences. All who register can join the course. | <urn:uuid:299ca250-7564-45cc-8638-17e9fc448441> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://opinto-opas.karelia.fi/en/realization/LUP7001-3003 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.832687 | 318 | 2.359375 | 2 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s hard to justify $45 for an ordinary black cotton T-shirt, but the customer at a store in Washington D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood does so without question. The clerk grabs a clear plastic box containing about one gram of marijuana and drops it into the bag, reciting a practiced line: “Thank you and here’s a gift for you to have as a souvenir.”
It’s another satisfied customer in the so-called District of Cannabis, the unique legal and commercial space spawned by the District of Columbia’s unusual approach to marijuana legalization.
A 2014 ballot initiative to legalize recreational use passed overwhelmingly. But unlike the eight states that have legalized recreational use, the Washington initiative also maintained it was still illegal to buy or sell the drug.
So instead of the straightforward marijuana storefronts common in Colorado or Nevada, Washington has developed a thriving “gift economy” marijuana industry. These businesses–many offering delivery–sell everything from coffee cups to artwork–all overpriced and all coming with a little something extra.
It’s a curious legal and semantic tightrope, and one the District’s politicians and police seem determined to keep walking.
“It’s definitely unique,” said Morgan Fox of the pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project. “The DC city council and the city government don’t want to be busting people for weed. They want this to work and work smoothly.”
Washington’s local government didn’t choose to make the District a real-time sociology lab for alternative legalization. The roots of this strange legal middle ground lie in the District’s tortured relationship with the federal government.
“We would have regular stores if we had the normal rights of a U.S. state,” said Nikolas Schiller, co-founder of DCMJ, a pro-legalization group that helped draft the initiative’s text.
All District laws are subject to review by a congressional committee, which can veto them or alter them by attaching riders to federal appropriations bills. After the initiative passed, Rep. Andy Harris, a Republican from neighboring Maryland, introduced a rider prohibiting the District government from spending any funds or resources on developing a regulatory or taxation system for marijuana sales.
Harris, an anesthesiologist and member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, remains a staunch opponent of recreational marijuana use and has no regrets about complicating the District’s legalization model.
“I think the District of Columbia made a bad decision,” Harris said in an interview. “I would hope the District comes to its senses and realizes the dangers.”
According to marijuana merchants, the change has resulted in spiraling supply and demand. The relative ease of availability without risking arrest or having to maintain a relationship with a dealer has brought a wave of consumers of all ages and demographics. And that wave of demand has brought a wave of new suppliers.
In addition to the dozens of different businesses working through the gift loophole, there are now hundreds of marijuana-themed public events taking place across the city — most openly advertised on social media.
“Seven days a week, you can find an event going on,” said Gregory Moorer, whose Laid Back Lords company offers marijuana gifts to accompany $50 baseball caps and $80 sweatshirts.
One such event, known as Cannemania, happens weekly at a closed Ethiopian restaurant. Inside isn’t so much a stoner party as a fairly businesslike trade show. On a recent night, about 150 people crowded in to peruse about 25 different vendors’ tables offering large jars of buds and a huge variety of edibles, from brownies to marijuana-infused gummi bears. There were also marijuana vape pens and “concentrates” —a substance that looks like candle wax and requires a waterpipe and a blowtorch to consume.
Vendors hawked their wares like THC sommeliers and offered free hits of concentrates. But there was, according to the rules, no smoking of marijuana buds. For the most part everyone kept to the necessary gift loophole script: your money technically bought you a raffle ticket, some expensive rolling paper or, in one case, the baseball card of former Cleveland Indians shortstop Julio Franco.
Despite the ubiquity of the drug, it would be inaccurate to describe the District as some sort of marijuana free-for-all. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s government has worked hard to establish clear lines on what is and is not permitted. It remains illegal to smoke in public. Arrests for public consumption have actually spiked since the legalization initiative came into effect. Bowser also personally lobbied the city council to defeat a proposal to permit pot smoking in bars or restaurants — fearing it would lead to private cannabis clubs.
The police have also pounced on entrepreneurs who push things too far. In late 2015 they arrested Nicholas “Kush God” Cunningham, who had deployed a fleet of cars covered in marijuana-leaf decals that would hand out pot edibles in exchange for “donations.”
“I’m surprised they didn’t bring him in sooner,” said Fox of the Marijuana Policy Project. “He was clearly getting remuneration for a product and being very flashy about it.”
Police maintain that the gift loophole isn’t fooling anyone.
“In our estimation, that’s still illegal,” said Lt. Andrew Struhar of the Narcotics and Special Operations division of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department.
But Struhar also admitted that police aren’t “actively out hunting” for marijuana violators as long as everything stays low-key and the neighbors don’t complain.
“We serve the citizens and if they say there’s a problem on this or that block, we’re going to do something about it,” he said. “If you’re going to flaunt it and you’re going to stick it in our face and force us to take action against it, then we’re going to take action.”
For now the model seems to be staggering along, but its’s debatable how long this can continue. Legalization activists say that a quasi-legal grey area was never their goal.
Members of the District’s government are even less enthusiastic; they complain about the intrusiveness of the congressional oversight and point to a study which estimated $130 million in potential annual revenue from taxing marijuana sales.
“I don’t think it’s sustainable,” said City Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. “We have legal marijuana but we can’t regulate it. It’s stupid, it’s just stupid.”
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San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier is trying to pressure Google and Apple into removing a restrictive Saudi Arabian phone app that allows men to track women and migrant workers.
Speier was one of 14 lawmakers who signed a letter Thursday (Feb. 21) addressed to the two tech giants, asking them to block the app from their platforms.
The app, named Absher, has a function that sends Saudi men a text when one of their charges, typically a woman or migrant, tries to travel through an airport. The men are then able to intervene if they don’t want the person traveling.
The Saudi government designed the app for citizens to perform “routine functions,” according to Speier. Many of those are not controversial, such as paying traffic tickets.
But gender inequality is persistent in the kingdom. Women in Saudi Arabia must have a male guardian who often makes practical decisions for them.
U.S. lawmakers say that American tech companies shouldn’t be supporting an app that allows gender inequality.
“The ingenuity of American technology companies should not be perverted to violate the human rights of Saudi women,” the representatives said in the letter. “Keeping this application in your stores allows your companies and your American employees to be accomplices in the oppression of Saudi Arabian women and migrant workers.”
Lawmakers asked Apple and Google for a response by Thursday (Feb. 21).
It’s unclear how they’ll respond. Neither company responded to a request for comment Friday (Feb. 22).
The Saudi Arabia Embassy also did not respond to a request for comment.
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