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The death of a 25-year-old airman assigned to Air Force Space Command in Syria this week is tragic, but his presence downrange in support of the fight against the Islamic State is illustrative of the quiet role U.S. space forces play in ongoing fights, the head of U.S. Strategic Command said.
Staff Sgt. Austin Bieren, of Umatilla, Oregon, died March 28, reportedly of natural causes. A member of the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, he had been deployed to northern Syria.
Speaking at the Military Reporters and Editors Association conference near Washington, D.C., Air Force Gen. John Hyten said it is far from unusual for space troops to be present in hot combat zones.
"It's one of the interesting things that's very misunderstood in our country, is that if you're conducting a military operation anywhere in the world -- anywhere in the world, space is fundamental to the execution of that military operation," he said. "I was the director of Space Forces [for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom] in 2006 in Central Command. And when I was director of Space Forces, at that time, guess where I was -- I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, all through the Middle East."
The little-reported activities of Space Command and service-specific counterparts focus on satellite communications and activities, and information of tactical value to troops downrange, including satellite-based intelligence, weather and missile-warning systems.
Hyten said during the fighting in Fallujah in the early 2000s, there was a joint space support team, commanded by a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and staffed with airmen and soldiers, who brought space capabilities to bear for Marines in combat.
"I can't tell you what the airman specifically was doing in Syria, but anywhere we have military operations, you will find space people deployed," Hyten said. "In the Army divisions, in the Army [brigade combat teams], in any ground maneuver unit, you'll find space people."
The perceived significance of space capability to the fight is underscored by the relative paucity of American military personnel in Syria.
There's a Pentagon-imposed troop cap of just over 500 troops, although the number of personnel in country is actually roughly 900, due to the authority of commanders on the ground to make temporary exceptions. Other personnel on the ground include advise-and-assist forces and special operations troops, among others.
"It's tragic that we lost that young man in kind of a strange way for a 25-year-old, but nonetheless space is embedded in everything we do," Hyten said. "So anywhere you have American military people, you're going to have space."
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Photothermal Induced Resonance (PTIR), also known as AFM-IR, is a versatile and broadly applicable technique that combines atomic force microscopy (AFM) with IR spectroscopy thus enabling IR analysis with a spatial resolution < 10 nm (i.e. well below the diffraction limit of IR light).
Recent PTIR innovations at NIST leverage new nanoscale optomechanical AFM probes to improve the PTIR sensitivity (50x), time resolution (1500x), throughput (2500x).1 We also recently obtained nanoscale infrared spectra in water, enabling for example nanoscale conformational analysis of peptides relevant for Alzheimer’s disease.2
Current efforts at NIST aim to further develop the PTIR technique and apply it, in collaboration with several groups, to answer outstanding questions in nanotechnology, material science and biology.
We look for candidates interested in in further developing NIST unique PTIR instrumentation (see description at: https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nanoscale-imaging-and-spectroscopy-ir-nir-vis-beyond-diffraction-limit ) and/or applying PTR on specific materials or nano or biological systems with efforts balanced based on candidate interests and expertise.
Examples of applications and materials of recent interest are: 2D materials, organic inorganic perovskites solar cells, plasmonic and polaritonics3 nanostructures, drug delivering nanoparticles, polypeptide nanostructures, metal-organic frameworks, metal-soaps in painting, quantum materials etc.
1. Chae, J.; An, S.; Ramer, G.; Stavila, V.; Holland, G.; Yoon, Y.; Talin, A. A.; Allendorf, M.; Aksyuk, V. A.; Centrone, A. Nano Lett. 2017, 17, (9), 5587-5594.
2. Ramer, G.; Ruggeri, F. S.; Levin, A.; Knowles, T. P. J.; Centrone, A. ACS Nano 2018, 12, (7), 6612-6619.
3. Brown, L. V.; Davanco, M.; Sun, Z.; Kretinin, A.; Chen, Y.; Matson, J. R.; Vurgaftman, I.; Sharac, N.; Giles, A. J.; Fogler, M. M.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Novoselov, K. S.; Maier, S. A.; Centrone, A.; Caldwell, J. D. Nano Lett. 2018, 18, (3), 1628-1636.
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Political Map of the European Union in the year 2004
On the 1st of May 2004 Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the European Union. Due to a failure to reach an agreement on the reunification of Cyprus, only the Southern half of the island was able to join (the North voted yes but the South rejected the reunification deal). All of Cyprus rather than only the Southern half is shown as part of the E.U. on the map because no country except Turkey officially recognises the Turkish republic of Northern Cyprus.
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It’s A Long Road: Mental Health Care On The Go
Truck drivers bear the weighty responsibility of transporting huge loads, covering titanic distances and sometimes working long and difficult shifts—all to keep the nation moving.
The job can be very physically demanding, and not to mention the mental load of constantly organising, scheduling and paying attention on the road.
A recent survey of Australian truckies reported that one in five felt they had experienced, or still did, stress and mental health problems, including anxiety, depression and social isolation.
All of this can put a real strain, but there are ways to keep on top of your physical and mental health. Read on for some simple mental health–check tips.
We speak with Dr Grant Blashki, a mental health professional working with Beyond Blue.
Recognising the signs comes first
It’s not hard to ignore or miss the subtle signs that can identify mental health conditions, explains Dr Blashki.
Dr Blashki explains that any changes in regular behaviour or thinking can be a warning sign.
“If you notice any persistent changes in your thoughts, feelings or behaviour that are starting to interfere with your work performance or quality of life, see your GP or health professional for assessment and advice. The earlier you seek support, the sooner you can recover,” Dr Blashki said.
For many people, working far away from home and family is challenging and can exacerbate feelings of loneliness and social isolation. These feelings of isolation are especially common in truckies, in particular long-haul drivers, who have limited interactions with other people while driving on shift.
Anxiety that requires treatment isn’t always easy to recognise. Symptoms can develop slowly over time; and given that everyone experiences anxiety at some point, it can be hard to know how much is too much.
Dr Blashki explained the difference, “Normal anxiety tends to be limited in time and connected with some stressful situation or event, such as a job interview.
“The type of anxiety experienced by people with an anxiety condition is more frequent or persistent, not always connected to an obvious challenge, and impacts quality of life and day-to-day functioning.”
While every anxiety condition is different, there are common symptoms to watch out for. The following list, though not exhaustive, provides a good indication:
- Physical—panic attacks; hot and cold flushes; racing heart ; tightening of the chest; quick breathing; restlessness; feeling tense, wound-up or edgy
- Psychological—excessive fear or worry; catastrophising; obsessive thinking
- Behavioural—avoiding situations that make you feel anxious, impacting your work or social life
Similar to anxiety, depression can be difficult to discern in everyday life.
Dr Blashki targeted some important signs to keep an eye on.
- Not going out anymore, not getting things done at work, withdrawing from friends and family
- Feeling overwhelmed, guilty, irritable, frustrated, lacking in confidence, indecisive or miserable
- Negative and cyclical thoughts such as “Nothing good ever happens to me”
- Feeling tired all the time, sick and run down; headaches and muscle pains; sleep problems; loss of appetite
With the help of Dr Blashki, we’ve identified some simple and practical steps to keep healthy while on the job.
Get out there
Meet with colleagues, tee up a social engagement every now and then.
Try to stay connected with friends and family through social networks and online forums.
Foster healthy habits
Stay hydrated, make a conscious choice to eat healthy food, get some fresh air, stretch and stay conscious of your driving posture.
Take a nap during breaks on long drives, try to get enough sleep at night, and make an active effort to fight driver fatigue.
Take some time
Truck driving is hard work, but it’s important to learn to relax. On your days off, spend time with family and friends, or participate in a hobby or sport to unwind and relax.
Making self-care a priority
Taking the time to care for our health, as well as and the health of friends and family, can be tough.
But a good place to begin is by asking yourself and your loved ones, “Are you okay?” If you find you are feeling overwhelmed, seek help by speaking to a GP or mental health professional—or even a workmate—as soon as you can.
There are lots of resources specifically designed to help us keep our mental health in check, such as the following:
If you’re finding it too hard to talk, you can also message Lifeline Text on 0477 13 11 14
(6 pm to midnight, seven days a week).
In support of mental wellbeing in the road transport industry, Isuzu Australia Limited hosted an R U OK? Day fundraiser.
To find out how you can contribute to R U OK?, visit www.ruok.org.au.
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23rd Annual Financial Markets Conference - Machines Learning Finance. Will They Change the Game? - May 6–8, 2018
Papers, Presentations, and Full-Length Session Videos
Is machine learning (ML) a fundamentally new set of tools? Or does it represent an accelerated innovation of tools already long in use? What are the major strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of ML? This session examines how human experts and decision makers interact with ML.
Ryan Adams, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University [Presentation ]
John P. Cunningham, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University [Presentation ]
Francis X. Diebold, Paul F. and Warren S. Miller Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance and Statistics, University of Pennsylvania
Gideon Mann, Head of Data Science, Bloomberg [Presentation | Interview ]
Machine learning (ML) has the potential to change significantly the regulatory environment—for better and worse. This session discusses how ML is teaching financial firms to optimize their risk management and comply with regulation more effectively and at lower cost. The session also examines ways ML helps supervisors enforce existing regulation more effectively.
Scott Bauguess, Deputy Director, Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, Securities and Exchange Commission
William Lang, Managing Director, Promontory Financial Group [Presentation ]
John Schindler, Associate Director, Program Direction Section, Financial Stability, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Stacey Schreft, Deputy Director for Research and Analysis, Office of Financial Research, U.S. Department of the Treasury
This session examines the size of the likely impact of machine learning (ML) on the economy. Will changes to business models affect statistical measures of macroeconomic performance? If macroeconomic policymakers—especially monetary policymakers—conclude that ML is significantly affecting the overall economy, how should they respond?
Carolyn Evans, Head Economist and Senior Data Scientist, Intel Corporation
Charles Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago [Presentation ]
Rob Kaplan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Vincent Reinhart, Chief Economist, Standish Mellon Asset Management LLC
Machines have been learning finance for decades, and algorithmic, high-frequency trading has received much attention. However, recent developments in data availability and storage, computer speed, and learning techniques might dramatically change and accelerate technology's participation in the financial system. This session will explore the strengths and weaknesses of using ML to design and execute portfolio strategies.
Andrei Kirilenko, Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology, Imperial College London
Rishi Narang, Founding Principal, T2AM
Christina Qi, Partner, Domeyard [Interview ]
Chester Spatt, Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Randal K. Quarles, a member of the Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors and the Board's vice chairman for supervision, discuss the potential impact of machine learning on the supervision and regulation of financial institutions.
Randal Quarles, Vice Chairman of Supervision, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
John C. Havens, executive director of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, talks about the transformative possibilities inherent in artificial intelligence and related technology.
John Havens, Executive Director, IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems [Presentation ]
Tao Zhang, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, discusses the digital revolution represented by the digitization of money. Its impact holds a nearly unimaginable combination of technological benefits—and potential dislocations.
Tao Zhang, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Presenter: Chad Syverson, Eli B. and Harriet B. Williams Professor of Economics, University of Chicago [Presentation ]
Discussant: Dave Altig, Executive Vice President and Research Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Moderator: Patrick Harker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Presenter: Matt Scherer, Associate, Littler Mendelson [Presentation ]
Discussant: Greg Scopino, Special Counsel, Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading [Presentation ]
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The Samsung ML-2526 printer is also an integral member of the mono laser printers, which produces the outstanding quality of the print. For instance, they run at an average speed of up to 24 pages per minute (ppm) when printing on the letter. Similarly, it produces a quality output of up to 1200 x 600 dots per inch (dpi) sufficient output resolution. The compatible printer language is the Samsung Print language (SPL) with a manual duplex print function.
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Its input tray can hold up to 250 sheets of an everyday paper load of an average weight of 20 lbs. In addition to the main tray, there is a manual tray that can accommodate one layer at a time. However, for the output paper load, the capacity is 80 sheets in a face down pattern. In addition to this feature, it takes one layer in a face-up model. The supported media sizes include A4, A5, ISO B5, JIS B5, Executive, Letter, Officio, Folio, legal, postcard, and custom sizes.
Related Printer : Samsung ML-1860 Driver
In terms of the supported media types, its options include plain, thick, thin, label, cardstock, bond, archive, cotton, and preprinted. The inbuilt processor of the Samsung ML-2526 printer can run up to 150 MHz in speed with an internal memory of 8 MB. Similarly, the primary and only input method of this printer is through the hi-speed USB 2.0. while in full operation, this machine also produces a noise level that is less than 50 dBA.
In terms of the physical dimensions, the Samsung ML-2526 model has a height of 7.8 inches. Besides, the width is about 15.3 inches, and the depth is approximately 14.2 inches. The machine also weighs about 16.1 lbs with the toner cartridge entirely in place. There are two types of the compatible toner cartridges, the standard yield, and the high yield. Download Samsung ML-2526 driver from HP website | <urn:uuid:c2be9a35-aa5d-4977-a85c-1cb6025746de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://printerdrivers.com/samsung-ml-2526-driver/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.888882 | 446 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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There were days when the Supply Chain was considered to be part of Marketing. But, now Supply Chain Management is considered an essential aspect of every business.
Multiple business aspects come under the umbrella of the Supply Chain. It’s not just about delivering the goods. But, Supply Chain consists of all the tasks included from purchasing raw material, processing it into the final product, and delivering the final product.
Not only this, nowadays, it is also concerned with getting feedback from customers and giving them responses.
Supply Chain Strategies must be formulated according to business. A business might require a more agile supply chain. However, sometimes quality is what matters more than agility. There can be numerous other Tips and Tricks for Expanding your Startup.
Owing to the current conditions of the market, and after COVID-19, online businesses have grown to a high extent. Nowadays, people are more interested in buying online. This has made companies think more about their Supply Chain Strategies.
List of Effective Supply Chain Strategies
The business giants have adapted different sorts of Supply Chain Strategies, few proved to be worth using while others caused them just a big budget. Out of those, we have separated a few strategies that you can implement in your business.
1. Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (C.P.F.R.) Strategy
An equilibrium between the three metrics can be effective for the supply chain. All the relationships with suppliers, distributors, or retailers must be made carefully by forecasting the demand and supply requirements. Furthermore, the strategy should be made in accordance with the business needs and customer segmentation.
The strategy was formulated by business giant, Unilever. The adoption of the zero-inventory strategy by retailers, which calls for the optimum use of cross-docking and dispersion in warehouses, is largely to blame for the convergence.
To maximize asset use, reduce inventory, and boost efficiency, Unilever created collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (C.P.F.R.) partnerships with specific retail clients.
2. Supply Chain Modernization
With the digital trends being drastically changed, there emerges a dire need of adapting modern Supply Chain tools for better results. Demand and supply prediction and forecasting have become crucial and to know the customer’s interest and market fluctuations, you need to adopt the latest technologies.
As Internet of things (IoT) networks, DevOps and Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have improved, SCM teams are now better able to respond swiftly and automatically alter their supply chains to fit predicted demand. Automation and faster delivery time is one of the Top Core Benefits of DevOps.
The building of unified data models that are supplemented by outside sources is made possible by more businesses migrating their data and apps to the Cloud and utilizing ERP systems. This is enabling a new degree of planning precision and predictive power that was not possible only two years ago.
3. Outsourcing Business Functions
Another useful strategy could be outsourcing some of the supply chain functions and thus focusing more on the key business functions. This way you might save cost and additional hassle.
By contracting with third-party logistics (3PL) organizations, many businesses may reduce their fulfillment expenses. They do away with infrastructure installation, work management, and continuous maintenance by doing this.
The acquisition of warehouse space, replenishment of shipping goods like labels, cartons, and pallets, and management of overhead expenses like utilities and rent will all be handled by third parties.
Best of all, as their footprint grows, e-commerce businesses may become more flexible. But again, this might can ruin your brand image if the third party involved does not perform well.
4. Vertically Integrated Supply Chain
The strategy requires you to be involved in every step of the supply chain i.e. from acquiring raw material to delivering a finished product. For this purpose, you need to align the four macro operations of plan, source, make, and deliver.
A highly centralized logistics system will be required that gives the company the ability to efficiently manage and arrange its extensive network.
Also, all supply chain operations must be accessed according to four metrics: operational safety, rates of on-time delivery and order fulfillment, supply chain cost as a whole, and financial success in terms of cost-effectiveness.
The strategy was implemented by Starbucks in a way that they perform every supply chain function themselves i.e. from harvesting coffee beans to delivering coffee to their customers.
Starbucks is able to achieve a high level of efficiency and responsiveness, two factors that are crucial to the success of its business. This is made possible by its streamlined supply chain structure, management tools, and use of digital technology.
5. Improve Warehouse and Orders
Storage space is one of the first places businesses should optimize to boost their efficiency because it accounts for 15-20% of the cost of each order. Studies on space usage can identify potential fixes.
For instance, businesses should make use of all vertical space, combine all shipments of the same item into one spot, and make an effort to make warehouse lanes wide enough. Remember that before making modifications, you might need to look into your fire code.
Companies may improve worker productivity, lower inventory mistakes, and eliminate safety concerns by updating their warehouse floor layouts.
Segment the plan into different zones for goods-in, shipping, and returns to make the most of every square inch of available space. Picking time can be decreased using strategies like creating cross aisles or shorter aisles.
6. Sustainable Supply Chain
Last but not the least, businesses should ponder upon having a more sustainable supply chain. Owing to hazardous carbon emissions from the vehicles, the production unit should be kept closer to the warehouses and distribution units. Also, you should promote green products at every business level whether it is primary, secondary, or, tertiary.
The best supply chain strategies are those that cater to less damage to the environment and more benefit to customers.
In a Nutshell
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Georgia Tech: 6
On a rainy Saturday in early December, 1929, Georgia Tech would do battle with the rival Georgia Bulldogs for the first time ever at the newly built Sanford Stadium. The Jackets had not played Georgia in Athens since 1916 when John Heisman’s squad shutout the Bulldogs 21-0. The game marked coach Heisman’s last contest against Georgia as the Jackets’ head coach, as the squads did not play each other from 1917 to 1924.
The Bulldogs entered the contest at 5-4, having shutout Auburn and Alabama in consecutive weeks after losing three straight games mid-season. Their last victory over the Jackets came in 1926 in a narrow 14-13 decision in Atlanta. Since then, Tech had taken two straight in the series, including a stunning 12-0 upset of then top-ranked Georgia in 1927 to dash their hopes of a national championship.
Georgia opened the game with a return to their own 30, and Jack Roberts quickly hit his right tackle for 20 yards to the Yellow Jacket 42 yard line. Armin Waugh followed with a scamper to the Ramblin’ Wreck 30 before Spurgeon Chandler found Herbert Maffett for a long touchdown pass to put Georgia on top 6-0 following a missed extra point.
Later in the period, Tech took over on downs at its own 29 and pushed to midfield on a collection of short runs. Warner Mizell then reeled off 24 yards to the Bulldog 26, and a committee of backs pushed the Jackets to the 10 yard line. But here the drive went awry when John “Stumpy” Thomason lost the ball to Roberts on a fumble, and the Yellow Jacket offense would come away empty after a promising drive.
Midway through the second period, Georgia returned a punt 10 yards to the Tech 45 and began a drive towards the Yellow Jacket goal line. A roughing penalty on the Jackets pushed the Bulldogs from the 12 to the 1, but an illegal shift pushed it back to the 16 shortly thereafter. Georgia eventually faced a 4th-and-11 near the 15 yard line and turned the ball over on downs when Marion Dickens’s pass to Maffett fell incomplete in the end zone.
A series of punts ensued that carried the game to halftime, but not without a bit of drama. The Bulldogs nearly increased their lead on the last play of the half when Austin Downes Jr. fielded Mizell’s punt and mounted a spectacular return before being downed by Thomason at the Tech 4 as time expired.
In the second half, the teams continued to spar around until midway through the third period when Georgia gained possession at its own 20 following a Tech punt. The Bulldogs elected to kick the ball back, but Chandler’s punt was blocked and Jim Brooke recovered in the end zone for a touchdown. Thomason missed the ensuing extra point, however, and the score remained tied at 6-all.
A stalemate ensued as the third quarter ticked away and the Jackets took over at their own 43 early in the final period. The Tech slowly pushed into Bulldog territory, but eventually stalled and was forced to punt. The Bulldogs then caught a break when Mizell’s attempted punt was blocked and recovered by Vernon Bryant, who scooped up the ball and raced to the Ramblin’ Wreck end zone for the score. Another botched extra point by Bennie Rothstein left Tech trailing by a score of 12-6.
The Jackets would push to within the Bulldog 30 later in the period, but eventually turned the ball over on downs before they could crack the red zone. The Bulldogs would eventually run out the clock to hang on for their sixth win of the season and their first over Tech in the previous three attempts.
Georgia finished the year at 6-4, overall and did not participate in a bowl game.
GT – 5
UGA – 7
GT – 142
UGA – 192
GT – 0-8-0
UGA – 1-6-30
GT – 2
UGA – 1
GT – 1
UGA – 0
GT – 65
UGA – 70
Unknown. “Tech-Georgia Detail.” The Atlanta Journal. 8 Dec. 1929
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Since the dawn of mankind’s desire to communicate with intent, pictographs or pictorial symbols that represent a word or phrase have been used to convey an idea – to effectively communicate without the need for words or language.
In packaging, we still rely heavily on the use of pictures to symbolically communicate what words alone don’t. Especially in food packaging, the reliance on imagery communicates so much more than the message, “round pasta in red sauce”. Images for food packaging communicate things like sumptuousness, fastness, and healthiness – a multitude of literal and implied messages that would take significant amounts of copy to communicate.
And we all know what copy does to a package! You have to take the time to read it and too often there is so much that it is difficult to present it in a legible format. If you don’t speak a language, you are in a hurry, or the copy is too small (just to name a few), all the words in the world aren’t going to “sell” your product. But a picture or pictograph does the job instantly. You see the healthy shiny peach or the olive trees that the olives were harvested from – you see what it is you want to eat.
So where is this going? As a brief digression, increasingly it is hard to take in the complexities of the retail grocery environment. Shelves are too full, with so many iterations of the same product on the shelf, package graphics are challenging design norms all the time, and new products are hitting the shelf every day. More and more, the capacity of a product to stand out and catch your eye is being challenged. With more clutter and confusion in the aisle, how do you connect with the consumer?
You focus on using effective pictograms to communicate your marketing message to your customers. Make it fast, simple and easy for the consumer to see you and take you to the checkout. A great example of this is the Roland Quartered Artichoke packaging. In keeping with the contemporary trend for “clean” packaging, the structure is a simple, clear square glass bottle, that very clearly displays quartered artichoke pieces. The graphic portion of the packaging is a basic white label that wraps around three-quarters of the bottle. On the face panel are four photorealistic images of quartered artichokes, done in traditional botanical style imagery. Quick, clean, direct and immediately recognizable images of the product content.
Technically, you don’t need the copy on this label at all – the images tell the story. Nevertheless, the law requires certain items to be communicated and the label design accommodates that need with great minimalism, providing just the legally mandated content.
Beautiful images, with excellent print execution, put the artichoke pieces front and center – on the retail shelf and hopefully on your cupboard shelf. I like the clarity of purpose and the “less is more design approach” to graphic design. The packaging structural approach isn’t new and revolutionary in delivering the product, and the graphic design approach doesn’t represent anything that is challenging, it is simply well thought out and executed. It stands out against its competition and in its category. I found this package design so pleasant and effective in its execution I keep looking to see if other products in the Roland line will make the jump to a pictographic approach and reflect the same clarity of design.
Congratulations Roland, you give credence to the phrase, “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
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Relieving your feet at work
Out and about all day in work boots – it won’t be long until you suffer from foot pain, especially if you have a foot misalignment: the most common foot problems include arch-decreased foot and splay foot, skew foot or mild high-arched foot. The result is often more than just painful feet and heels because the entire body structure is affected. Knee and back pain may then be additional problems. Special orthopedic foot orthoses for work safety boots provide support and alleviate pain.
ErgoPad work:h+ is certified for numerous safety boots made by different manufacturers. It is also ESD-conductive, thanks to integrated carbon fibers. The foot orthosis’ tear-resistant and gripping bottom coating ensures that it remains securely in position in the shoe. The ErgoPad work:h+ is also characterized by its exceptional breathability. The synthetic core of the foot orthosis supports the foot arches and relaxes the tendons underneath the foot. A softly cushioned cut out in the heel area provides the heel with targeted relief.
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Each EduExcellence campus is managed by a Principal and functions semi-autonomously. Principals take responsibility for the day to day operations on their campus but function within the policies as determined by Eduexcellence Group. EduExcellence Group also function as a Head Office providing support services to each campus. These support services include:
- Financial management – learner accounts
- Financial management – supplier accounts
- Uniform acquisition and distribution
- HR functions
EduExcellence provides the following services to parents on each campus.
EduExcellence Schools is our mainstream educational offering. Focus on personal education of no more than 12 learners per class and making use of the Cambridge Curriculum.
This personal approach to education allows us to support mainstream learners that struggle to function within a typical mainstream school.
Please use the menus above to learn more about our EduExcellence Schools offering.
EduExcellence Skills is our ‘Special Needs Education’ offering focussing on learners with learning difficulties that do not allow them to attain mainstream academic outcomes. Our special needs focus is on learning difficulties and we do not have the facilities to support learners with most types of physical difficulties. As a school with an inclusivity policy we support both our Schools Service and our EduSkills Service on the same campus.
EduExcellence makes use of a unique scientific approach called neurodevelopment to assisting learners with learning difficulties. This approach is based on many years research in ‘brain development’ as well as sensory and learning functions.
Dr Beulah van der Westhuizen, the Eduexcellence founder, has adapted the science of neurodevelopment to focus on supporting learners in an approach we call TheraEd.
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The neighbourhood of Sur in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeastern province of Diyarbakır is our home of 7,000 years.
The ancient neighbourhood, which once flourished as a popular tourism destination in the heart of the Kurdish capital of Amed, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been through hell over the last six years.
Destroyed in the conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish military, faced with years of curfews, forced evictions, demolitions and most recently what is being called an urban transformation project, Sur today is a source of grief for myself and other local residents.
An advertisement featured in Turkish media last week on “touristic villas” in Sur, touted luxury homes in the six neighbourhoods of Sur, ranging between 600,000 and one million liras ($83,000-$139,700).
“Where history and luxury intertwine,’’ the advertisement said.
It might be useful to take a trip into recent history for those who don’t know the story of the land these premium luxury villas have been built on.
It all began back in August of 2015, when clashes broke out in the region following the collapse of peace talks between the PKK and the Turkish government, ending a two-year ceasefire in a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.
The peace talks came to an end when a group allegedly linked to the PKK carried out an attack, killing two policemen in July 2015. A string of injustices against Turkey’s Kurdish community, which makes up roughly 15 percent of the country’s population, followed thereafter.
At the heart of the clashes was the historic neighbourhood of Sur.
The following month, the first curfew was declared in Sur. Initially these curfews were only a few days long. Residents would not leave their homes during these times as clashes intensified and ditches and barricades grew larger. Curfews lasted until Nov. 2015, ranging between three to five days at a time.
There were lives lost during every interval of the restrictions, but Sur did not undergo an entire destruction, nor did the people of Sur abandon the neighbourhood. After the murder of prominent human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi at the foot of the historic minarets on Nov. 28, 2015, a fifth curfew was put into effect on Dec. 2. That is when military operations began and the entire town was buried under a sphere of smoke and sound. The curfew ended on Dec. 11 for a period of 17 hours. That is when thousands of Sur residents abandoned the neighbourhood with whatever they could take with them.
The 100-day military operations ended on March 9, 2016 at 4 p.m. local time, leaving behind around 100 dead (the precise number of victims remains unknown to this day) and extensive damage to the city.
When we look at the report prepared by the Sur municipality on the destruction, which features satellite images from March 2016, we see that the neighbourhood was still in a restorable state. But that was not the route that was taken. Instead, bulldozers and trucks entered the neighbourhood and began destroying the thousands of years of history it was home to. The homes, lives, memories and even dead bodies of the residents of the six neighbourhoods were dumped into the Dicle Valley as rubbish.
Then with a decision passed by the cabinet in March 2016, Sur was expropriated. And small amounts of money were given to residents in neighbourhoods with restrictions in exchange for their homes. Those who refused went to court and, as expected, nothing became of their cases.
The buildings in this neighbourhood were destroyed, a total of 3569 of them to be exact, turning the area in an abandoned field, atop which freakish villas began to be constructed. Meanwhile, the Sur Protection Plan to preserve the area was violated, with large boulevards laid out in areas flagged as protected.
Throughout this whole process a curfew continued in a neighbourhood that is effectively uninhabited. The restrictions in the present day ghost town continue to this very day.
But the demolition did not end there. In the summer of 2017, the historic Alipaşa neighbourhood, which was not caught up in the clashes, was also destroyed in the name of urban transformation. Within a few months, the neighbourhood of thousands of years vanished. More strange villas were built atop the land there, too.
By 2018, there was construction everywhere in Sur. The “renewal project’’ first began on main streets before expanding into what is known as the Çarşîya Şewîti. All shops were given a wood and basalt facade, becoming replicas of each other. And people continued to live under the restrictions.
There has been a slow revival in Sur over the past few years as we have managed to live through the demolition and new neighbourhood erected around us. We sat in cafes, looking at the section of the city that has been closed off under construction, pretending as though we still lived freely in the same place we called home.
But over time, restrictions and destruction have become a part of our lives. Youth continue to spray paint graffiti on the walls of Sur and new cafes continue to open. Sur has become a place where restrictive measures and life intertwine, where abject poverty is face to face with posh cafes. One side of a street in Sur has a Starbucks and the other is under curfew.
But no matter how hard to try to turn a blind eye to it, the truth is that we have lost our home of 7,000 years. We have lost Diyarbakır, Amed and the heart of Dikranagerd.
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How to Lose Fat, Build Muscle and Stay Lean on a Plant-Based Diet From a Pro
Let’s be honest, sticking with a workout regimen, and adhering to healthy eating can be challenging. Don’t fret: Here at The Beet we’re committed to providing you with the tools, motivation, and education to not only get started, but stay the course and help you live your best plant-based life.
This week we caught up with vegan pro fitness athlete, model, and surfer Natalie Matthews to drop some plant-based fitness knowledge. This all-around badass vegan warrior answered our burning questions about how to slim down, burn fat, and build your best body—or shall we say booty—while thriving on a plant-based lifestyle.
Q: As a fitness athlete and model, you know about burning fat and slimming down. What are your best tips—on the food front and fitness front—for everyday plant-based eaters who want to slim down quickly?
NM: Food-related tips — To be realistic, things don’t happen quickly. I am all about sustainability, and quick fixes are not sustainable. What we want is to create a long-lasting lifestyle. You can slim down on any vegan approach or “diet” as long as you’re in a deficit. This means you’re eating a little less than what you would eat day to day, calorically, to cause you to burn fat. Make sure that you are eating foods that fuel you. Make whole, minimally processed foods the bulk of your diet and allow some flexibility and freedom to have the things that you love. The key is to follow the diet that you can sustain and that you enjoy as an individual. It’s about creating lasting habits and that is the message that I want to share with people: less about the quick fixes and more about doing what’s sustainably right for you. To jump-start your calorie deficit, here are some simple quick food tips:
- Avoid fried foods ... this is a basic one for anyone, plant-based or not!
- Ask for dressings and sauces on the side. These hard-to-see calories add up.
- Try going “whole food” plant-based, avoiding oils and processed foods.
- Prep and stock lots of veggies! Stock your fridge with veggies, sliced and ready to grab when hunger hits: Carrots, zucchini, jicama, etc. Veggies are your new best friend.
Exercise-related tips: You can also create a caloric deficit through exercise with cardio and weights. Again, you will only see changes through consistency and sticking to things that you enjoy. Over the years these changes will have a compounding effect and you will see more and more progress over time. The biggest thing I see with people not reaching their goals is a lack of consistency and discipline. As a society, we should have more of a mentality of putting in the work and less about “quick fixes” – make it a lifestyle that you love and want to do for forever!
Find something that you LOVE and do it! Whether you like running, yoga, hiking, kickboxing… find something physical that you enjoy and can stick to for the long haul. Weight lifting and surfing just happen to be what I fell in love with, but you have to keep trying new things to find your passion.
Q: It's all about the booty these days? How does one build the booty in the most efficient way?
NM: Building muscle is one of the hardest things! It is harder than losing fat and takes more time. It has taken me over three years to build a booty. First, know that your booty shape is in large part based on genetics and how your muscles lay in relation to your hip width, pelvic length, etc.—but you can still use exercise and nutrition to achieve your best backside. The booty is made up of multiple muscles: The gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and gluteus minimus, as well as other connecting muscles. So the goal is to work and build—tear down and repair—those muscles while burning fat to let them shine through. Over the years one thing that I have had is a.) consistency and b.) progressive overload. Progressive overload means that we are either adding weight to the bar or progressing with form and technique. Here are some of my favorite exercises to target the glutes:
- Booty Warm-Ups — Make sure to warm up muscles before you start your reps, and especially before going into weight-bearing exercise. I like to start with accessory work like glute kickbacks, Bulgarian split squats and banded activation movements like glute bridge sand side-to-side crab walks BEFORE I begin my glute workout. This will get muscles activated and help prevent injury.
- Hip Thrusts — Specifically, barbell banded hip thrusts. This means I put the barbell, loaded with weights on my hips, supported by a bench underneath my back and a band looped over my thigh. Over the years I have been able to increase the weight over time and that has helped build strength.
- Glute bridges, side-to-side crab walks are all great. Compound movements like Squats, deadlifts, lunges and variations of those as well as abduction moves with machines and bands are more examples of my favorites.
- I like to end my workouts with accessory work like glute kickbacks, calf raises, and abduction movements (meaning moving limbs away from the midline of the body) to hit every last little muscle and angle.
The most effective way to build a booty is to stimulate the muscle frequently, increase weight over time and improve your technique.
Q: People say "I am working out, eating clean, why don't I have a flat stomach?" Are there any tips for people who want to slim their midsection?
NM: If you are working out and eating clean and not seeing a flat stomach it’s probably because you are not truly eating at a deficit which is what helps you burn fat to reveal those ab muscles underneath. The old cliché “abs are made in the kitchen” really does ring true – if you are eating clean and working out and not seeing results, you may need to take another look at your diet or seek help from a nutrition professional. While you can’t “spot train,” you can focus on exercises that will tighten your abdominal wall and hit your core so when you do start to burn fat, you reveal those abdominal muscles.
Q: Do you take any supplements? If so, which ones—and are supplements right for everyone?
NM: People don’t need supplements to reach their fitness goals. I feel like 90% of people need to focus on their diet and nutrition and not worry so much on the supplement side of things. The only things vegans need to make sure they’re getting are B12, omegas and vitamin D. Supplementation is just that: a supplement to a solid diet. As an athlete, I feel like protein powders are a convenient way for me to hit my protein goals for the day. I have a single serving a day as an easy way to increase my protein intake. I take pre-workout as a way to get me pumped up before my workout. I ALWAYS recommend that you talk to your doctor before you begin taking any supplements.
Q: While we know you can get plenty of protein on a plant-based diet, still many people question how and where to get protein. So, where do you get your protein as a vegan (specifically a vegan athlete)?
NM: Plants have protein – and lots of it! It’s easier than ever to get as much protein as you want! Here are some of my favorite sources of protein:
- Seitan – I love making my homemade seitan and it’s so easy to find in stores now. Even Walmart and Target carry seitan products!
- Tofu – So versatile that I even have a video on how to cook tofu six different ways! Grill it, makes sauces or desserts – it’s endless! Has a ton of nutrients too.
- Bean Pastas – Protein and a great source of carbs and fun to experiment with!
- Sprouts and Vegetables – Don’t underestimate the power of plants! These add a nice dose of protein to balance any meal.
- Bean snacks like roasted edamame or garbanzo beans are affordable and convenient ways to up the protein.
- TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein) – You can pretty much find this anywhere now too. It has a great amount of protein, affordable and easy to prepare! Longeve is a soy-free option of a similar product.
- Tempeh – Fermented soy bean product that is great on salads or marinated in a sauce.
- Fava Beans – Significantly more protein than more common beans and are delicious!
- Protein Powder – Convenient way to get your protein. The flavors and brands are endless! My favorite is LIV Body’s Vegan Protein.
- Nut Butters and Seeds – Great protein and healthy fat option! Some of the seeds are even great sources of omegas.
Watch out for processed options. While it's great that there are more vegan brands at the grocery store, these are nice to have occasionally. But the goal is building a whole-food, plant-based diet that has lots of protein from whole foods. Nutritional yeast, PB2 powder and other condiments are other great ways to up the protein! | <urn:uuid:82fa8bf5-88bc-413b-bd0f-2a2d5e1f6d63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebeet.com/how-to-lose-body-fat-build-muscle-and-stay-lean-while-eating-plant-based-from-a-pro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948823 | 2,019 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The best thing that ever happened in Davao City from the clutches of the deadly CoViD 19 pandemic is the decision of the local government under the watch of Mayor Inday Sara Duterte-Carpio to provide educational assistance to school children who’ll be enrolling in public schools this year.
The beneficiaries will be those who are in their kindergarten years, in the elementary grades, in the secondary and those in their senior high school years. In a statement from the Office of the City Mayor kinder beneficiaries will receive P1,000 financial assistance, those in the elementary grades P2,000, and for junior and senior high school students – P3,000.
The mayor however, made it clear that those who will qualify for the financial support should be children of parents who lost their livelihood due to the pandemic. That is, that their employers closed operations, their informal livelihood cannot any more be done because of the health emergency quarantine imposition, and perhaps they cannot report for work under the general community quarantine (GCQ) regime because of lack of public transportation.
The LGU is targeting to provide the educational financial support to some 22 thousand students. And as of last Tuesday, City Hall reported that there are still 20 thousand slots available. In other words, only about 2 thousand applications have so far been processed and approved.
The apparently slow turn-out of applicants seems unusual to us considering the number of families suffering from deprivation of income due to the prevalence of the pandemic.
Thus, we can only assume of the following possibilities:
First, that the information dissemination on the educational assistance program of the local government is wanting; and second, that prospective applicant-parents have a hard time going to the government offices where the application forms are available due to lack of transportation. Both possible reasons are most likely happening in the rural areas.
It was not also clearly mentioned in the report whether the financial support is one-time dole-out or as monthly stipend. But considering the number of targeted beneficiaries a monthly assistance mode would mean a huge amount of money will be needed by the city for funding requirement even if such will only be for the duration of the pandemic.
But as it is, in this time of very serious financial straits the monetary educational aid is one big help to the parents of Davaoeno learners whose fate for the incoming school year still hangs in the balance.
For this move by the Davao City LGU, Davaoenos have a lot to thank their local officials led by the lady chief executive.
May this generosity be considered to remain even after the prevalence of the deadly corona virus disease in the city?
Remember an item we wrote in our column only days back?
Yes, the one where we raised the question on the possibility of the boredom of people staying inside residences for so long affecting the behavior of some.
In that item we took up the report of a grandson in a Samal Island village hacking dead his two grandparents and wounding another relative who attempted to stop his attack. According to the police the perpetrator claimed he could not anymore stand the noise his grandparents had been making. So he had to kill them both to acquire his needed silence.
In that same item we also touched on another bloody incident in Cagayan de Oro City. The difference between the two crimes is that the one in Samal had persons as victims, while the one committed in Cagayan de Oro City the victim was an animal, a dog. The reason however, was similar. The assailants claimed to the police that they could not stand the noise created by the victims.
Now comes this report of a Panalum, Paquibato, Davao City resident hacking dead a 13-year-old girl neighbor. In a statement to the police the suspect said he was mad at his victim because, again, the latter’s dog’s barkings were so much noise for him.
Our suspicion is that the confessed perpetrator was afraid that he’d be bitten by the dog if it is the animal that he would attack. So he probably thought of killing the teenage owner instead. Good luck to all the assailants. They could be thinking that there is complete silence inside jail.
We are wondering really if the agony of being bored from home isolation has something to do with the criminal behavior of the suspects in all the three crimes we have mentioned here.
- MG Mall Of Asia joins MG Philippines’ Nationwide Dealership Network, and is the first MG Dealership to feature a unique MG “Carffé” Coffee Shop
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- CHEMICAL SPILL | Public warned vs. water activities at Davao River until declared safe
- Kadayawan 3D light show at City Hall starts on Aug. 5
- Ex-DA chief Piñol calls for NFA revival to promote PH banana
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- ROUGH CUTS | Our hat off the CHO
- SEC cancels Flying Bear’s lending license, registration
- City readies aid to quake victims
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Increasing the Odds – For Every Baby
My third daughter had a 92% chance of never being conceived. When she was around four-years-old she heard a friend of mine mention our little surprise, and then asked me: “Mommy, why does she say I’m an accident?” Never wanting her to think this about herself, I stopped anyone from saying anything like that again, and called her our “gift.” I use that term often to refer to her. To us she is perfect and our lives are profoundly richer thanks to her presence - our present.
Nazeer Bibi’s daughter had about a 92% chance of never being born. Throughout her pregnancy, Nazeer, who lived in Pakistan, worked in the fields with her husband. One day she felt pain and told her husband. He found an ox cart to take her to the nearest village for help, but on the way her pain and bleeding were so great that they stopped while local women gathered to help her. They held up cloths to protect her privacy but had no midwifery training. One woman pressed down on Nazeer’s belly with her foot which made her cry out and bleed all the more. Other locals arrived and told her husband that he must send for a trained midwife or Nazeer would die. He refused and told the male worker not to go near his wife.
(Depiction of Nazeer Bibi found at whiteribbonalliance.org)
An hour later Nazeer died under the open sky. All had witnessed this woman lose her life needlessly. Nazeer’s baby also died. Sadly, they didn’t defy the odds against them, as my child and I did. But their case can’t be dismissed as an “accident” either. In my case I’m fortunate to call my “accident” a “gift;” but in Nazeer’s and over 1,000 women every single day , her circumstances resulted in a tragic, needless loss.
I didn’t know Nazeer. I read her story on the White Ribbon Alliance For Safe Motherhood’s website, which shares both the Stories of Mothers Lost, and fortunately, of Mothers Saved, like on this video at a maternal hospital in Tanzania. White Ribbon Alliance members in 152 countries are taking the message and concrete solutions for safe motherhood to their own families, local communities, governments, and entire nations. They are working tirelessly, urgently to prevent needless deaths like Nazeer’s.
As I’m wrapping up this post, I just realized that my eyes have been watering and my heart hurting throughout writing this piece. These stories are real, and had I not won the lottery at birth, I realize it could have been me…or you. I don’t want to forget this feeling I have in response to these humble, powerful women. In a few minutes I need to get up from my computer, figure out what to make for dinner, pick up children from activities, and images of Nazeer and others will temporarily erase from my mind. But I’m committed to doing better. To translate this heartache I feel right now, I’ll stay in touch with the White Ribbon Alliance, sign up for the Million Moms Challenge, and learn more about the other partner organizations. The global effort for mothers’ health can mean the difference between life and death for our sisters, and a commitment to a better world we want to build for every one of our children.
The first time I held my baby, I was overwhelmed by what a gift she was. Every pregnant mother deserves that gift.
Childbirth is such an incredible moment, and I’d love to know what went through your mind when you held your baby for the first time? By replying, you will be entered to win an exclusive Million Moms Challenge Gift Pack, which includes an iPad2, a custom-made Million Moms Challenge pendant and a $50 donation in your name to Global Giving.
Please join the Million Moms Challenge and sign up today!
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Million Moms Challenge. The opinions and text are all mine. Contest runs October 17 to November 13, 2011. A random winner will be announced by November 15, 2011.
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Finding, recruiting and retaining top tier talent has been a long-term challenge for organisations of all sizes, with in-demand staff becoming more aware of their bargaining power as unemployment rates remain low. This shifting dynamic is driving employers to reassess how they can tap into the skill-set of an increasingly diverse workforce, in particular those with neurodiverse traits.
In the modern workforce, most organisations pride themselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace when it comes to age, gender, sexuality and ethnicity. But the idea of a neurodiverse workplace is still relatively new.
Nearly 6.3 million people (around 10% of the UK population) have dyslexia, and people with dyslexia often have other conditions, including dyscalculia (difficulties with numbers), ADD (attention deficit disorder) and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). These types of hidden disabilities are now more understood and organisations are growing acutely aware of the importance of ensuring work environments are welcoming to neurodiverse staff.
Employers are beginning to learn that they need the benefits that diversity can bring. For example,neurodiverse individuals may not flourish in a traditional interview format, but they still have lots to bring to the table, including the ability to approach problems from a different angle and consider innovative solutions to business challenges.
Similarly, people on the dyslexia spectrum may be a good fit for careers in creative industries, due to their unique strengths in interpreting and visualising designs. Autistic people, too, are usually disproportionately skilled in data analysis and IT-related tasks, compared to their neurotypical counterparts.
Many high-profile businesspeople, politicians and celebrities have spoken openly about their neurodiversity, such as Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, HP co-founder William Hewlett and filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Prominent examples of neurodiverse individuals making their mark on the C-suite and, in part, crediting their rise to the benefits oftheir neurodiversity, clearly shows how alternative thinking styles can make a real impact in business.
However, the full potential of neurodiverse people isn’t being realised as a result of both structural and informal workplace barriers, starting at the recruitment stage. If you think of how organisations recruit staff, it can be an unnecessarily complex process for neurodiverse job seekers. If you go onto the vast majority of job websites they ask for a cover letter and CV, which means a lot of writing and literacy skills will be required in this process.
When I speak to organisations on how to better reach out to the large number of talented neurodiverse job seekers, I always ask them, “Do you want a member of staff who is good at interviews or one that is good at doing the job?” For task-oriented jobs, like coding, it’s better to have a practical interview, where applicants are given a task to perform – demonstrating how they will actually do the work itself, rather than how they can answer questions.
Once a neurodiverse candidate has been hired there can be issues around managers not fully understanding what exactly Autism or Aspergers is and how to best support staff who are neurodiverse. Reasonableworkplace adjustments, such as providing a screen reader or noise cancelling headphones can drastically change the work environment for neurodiverse people. Software, too, can be a key enabler.
I’ve spoken to many people who, because of their neurodiversity, have had the glass ceiling imposed on them when starting a new job but once they begin using the right software and tools, they start to climb the corporate ladder. It’s a small piece of software that turns their career into a success story.
Diversity and inclusion are rapidly moving up the C-suite agenda, and what I would say to organisations is, don’t be afraid of recruiting someone from a neurodiverse background. They can bring a great strength and a real depth to your business that you’ve never had before; this can enable your organisation to be more productive, more creative and experience more success in the future.
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The tweets that are retweeted into my timeline are mostly either Trump-related or are aggressively cute images to counteract the Trump effect. As I was scrolling through the emotional rollercoaster that is now Twitter, terrified at the implications of a man clueless to the intricacies of the balances of power in the US – he may be the world’s first accidental autocrat – I smiled.
In mainstream media, the representation of people with disabilities has been overwhelmingly white, male and straight. The first thing I noticed about #DisabledAndCute is that it is so diverse. There is a vast range of people with disabilities represented, including people with disabilities who are not readily recognisable as such from an image.
Intersectionality has also been at the forefront of representation in this project from the beginning. I don’t remember the last time I saw a hashtag representing a group with such a wide range of intersecting identities, from race and gender, to sexuality and body shape. The visuals are all stunning and each one tells a story completely different and yet with an underlying shared narrative; we are all cute, whatever that means to each of us. We all have a right to see ourselves as cute, regardless of how others might perceive us.
There has been some criticism, as I figured there would be, from people who believe the hashtag to be infantilising and patronising. Worse still, there are those who believe #DisabledAndCute to be a form of what is known as ‘inspiration porn’, which is where able bodied people view people with disabilities, particularly through images and often with inspiring text attached, as inspiration for their own lives. A typical example is something like: “The only disability is a bad attitude,” which is often accompanied by an image of a person who very obviously has a disability, in a triumphant pose, preferably at the top of a hill or mountain.
It depends on how it’s framed. If you view #DisabledAndCute as a project aimed at able-bodied people, with a didactic focus, then the word ‘cute’ might take on quite a different meaning. But Keah Brown created the hashtag as a means of celebration, to acknowledge that her self esteem could be and is connected to feeling good about how she looks, despite the messages she and others with disabilities might receive from the world. It is a refreshing counter-narrative to a media still downright hostile to the idea that people with disabilities can look great and celebrate how they look.
A robust dialogue on the issue of representation, from within the disability community, is important. There is also a propensity to shut down certain narratives before they have a chance to develop nuance and complexity. We need diverse narratives and voices to share wide ranging experiences of disability. We don’t all think the same. If an idea is overwhelmingly positive for a lot of people who have disabilities and there are some who don’t like it, they have every right to say so, though sometimes it might be better to say, “It’s not for me,” and move on.
When I went to post my own pics to #DisabledAndCute, quite soon after it was created, I first posted an image of my face, cropped. I am no stranger to posting selfies to Twitter. I must admit I don’t need a hashtag to boost my own self esteem. As I thought more about the importance of visibility and everything that might mean, I decided to post another couple of wider shots that included my wheelchair and amputated leg. Those in the know would be able to tell from my short stature that I live with spina bifida. As a bit of a media studies nerd, I was fascinated by the idea that with #DisabledAndCute we get to decide how to frame ourselves. We decide what’s cute. We decide how much of ourselves to include in the frame.
Since I started following and engaging with #DisabledAndCute, I’ve been thinking much more about the space that social media allows us to tell our own stories and shape our own narratives. That ‘space’ is problematic and complicated because there is always a tension between us and our motivations and desires and the demand from able bodied people that we educate them on every aspect of our lives.
Since I saw the very first #DisabledAndCute image, from Keah Brown herself, it has felt like this is for ‘us’ – people with disabilities. Naturally, a lot of people who don’t have disabilities have viewed and will continue to seek out or stumble upon the hashtag. If they learn something or their perceptions and preconceived notions are altered, that’s wonderful. #DisabledAndCute centres people with disabilities, with everyone else made spectator. We control the narrative. | <urn:uuid:a7c88f1f-eb43-4620-b59d-9db2adf96697> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://d3nd7i493f0o21.cloudfront.net/access/disabledandcute/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.974134 | 1,008 | 1.75 | 2 |
AFRICAN AND COLONIAL JOURNALS
The African Times and Orient Review, 1912-1914, 1917-1918 and
the African Colonizer, 1840-1841
- Duse Mohammed Ali was one of the founders of Pan-Africanism. He launched The African Times & Orient Review in 1912 as a monthly journal devoted to art, commerce, politics and litearture.
- Volume 1 No 1 proclaimed that "the recent Universal Races Congress, convened in the Metropolis of the Anglo-Saxon world, clearly demonstrated that there was ample need for a Pan-Oriental, Pan-African journal in the seat of the British Empire."
- Topics covered include the Negro Conference at the Tuskegee Institute, Hindu treatment by the Borden Government, the Race problems of Hawaii, a Mosque in London, the Anglo-Ottoman Society, and British Courts in Uganda.
- There are articles on Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Ceylon, Egypt, Liberia, Haiti, China, the Malay States, Brazil, the USA, and South Africa.
- The African Colonizer, 1840-1841, is more narrowly focused on trade, but includes features on the West African Gum Trade, the Slave Trade, Fine Woolled Sheep, Emigration and the Aborigines Protection Society.
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The Dirt on Plants Getting to the root of it all!
An Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Thematic, Standards-based Unit on plants Plants have a life cycle that determines their growth. From a seed comes a seedling and then grows a plant. Plants need sunlight, water, and air to grow. Plants are important to humans and animals, for reasons of survival, culture, aesthetics, and tradition. Humans should be responsible caretakers of plants and trees in order to ensure that they continue to flourish for future generations. | <urn:uuid:5ec453d1-218d-46c4-8b81-b51e3afa6f10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://curriculumdesignonline.com/products/the-dirt-on-plants-getting-to-the-root-of-it-all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.926863 | 106 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Hello, my name is Tyler Van Wingerden an outpatient orthopedic physical therapist here at Fyzical Therapy and Balance Centers. I also have a certification in medical treatment for golfers through the Titleist Performance Institute (also known as TPI). Golf is a complex sport that involves very specific movements from the human body. Therefore, physical therapy for these types of injuries requires a professional who is educated and familiar with the golf swing. In today’s post, I would like to outline the general philosophy for assessing and treating golf related injuries.
The first thing we need to look at in assessing the injury is the golfer’s swing. There are 12 swing characteristics that I look for: S posture, C posture, loss of posture, flat shoulder plane, early extension, over the top, sway, slide, reverse spine angle, hanging back, chicken winging, and casting/scooping. These swing characteristics cause stress on different structures in the body, which makes them critical in assessing how a golfer’s swing can be causing, or at least contributing to, their injury. It should be noted that these are called swing characteristics and not swing flaws. This is an important distinction which I will explain in the following paragraph.
You may personally believe or have had golf instructors who have told you, that there is one proper way to swing a golf club. This perfect swing is usually patterned after one of the premier PGA golfers of our time. The instructor may watch, or even videotape, your swing and then compare it with the professional golfer pointing out the differences. For me, learning to golf in the late 90’s it was Tiger Woods, of course. They would freeze frame at the top of my back swing and say, “we need you to get your right forearm perpendicular to the ground just like Tiger!”
While there is some truth to be found in this philosophy, there are some significant flaws in applying this ideology to all individual golfers. One of these flaws is that not all professional golfers have the same swing. There are significant differences in swing characteristics amongst the best golfers in the world, and it does not affect their success on the golf course. The other issue with this mindset is that it assumes that all golfers have the same movement capabilities. Not everyone is physically capable of swinging a golf club the way that Brooks Koepka does, and trying to force somebody to do something they’re not physically capable of is ineffective, can cause injuries, and is also very frustrating.
TPI’s philosophy is that there are an infinite number of ways to swing a golf club and the best way to swing a golf club depends on the individual person’s movement capabilities. The goal is, therefore, not to start with a specific golf swing and try to adapt the person to the swing, but the reverse. We want to first assess the person’s movement capabilities and then try to adapt a swing that suits that person’s ability to move. Not only should this lead to more success on the golf course, but it should also prevent injuries from occurring.
This philosophy is why the second portion of a golf evaluation with a TPI certified professional also includes a movement evaluation that assesses the range of motion, strength, and motor control across the entire body. Here we start with global movements, such as a squat, and see if the person can complete the movement correctly and without pain. If the person has either difficulty or pain with this movement, we then need to find out what the cause is. In the case of a squat this could be a range of motion, strength, or motor control issue in the hip, knee, or ankle. We then isolate each joint and measure its strength, range of motion, and motor control. If we find an issue with one or more of these, we have the cause of the problem, but then we must answer yet another question is this something we can change, or not?
Going back to the former paragraph, our goal is not to make everybody move the same, but this does not mean that our goal is to not to improve golfer’s movement deficits, as this is the central goal of any physical therapist. We can only achieve the goal of improving a golfer’s movement if we’ve done the assessment and critical thinking required to figure out what we can change and what we cannot change. For example, if a patient has a severely arthritic shoulder, it’s probably not a helpful goal to try to change their shoulder mobility to match Tiger Woods in his prime, and in trying to achieve this goal, it’s a strong possibility that we may cause an injury to the person’s elbow or neck. Our goal is to help golfers move in the best way that they as an individual possibly can.
So, before we treat a golfer, we need to assess their movement capabilities, diagnose those movement limitations as changeable or not, and assessing their swing characteristics. The next part is trying to put these things together to figure out the cause of the injury and how to prevent further injury. This of course, can only be properly done on a person-by-person basis and therefore, is impossible to accurately explain in a blog post. However, for the purposes of giving you an insight to what this process can look like, I will try to provide a general example.
Let’s take a right-handed golfer who has low back pain. I assess their swing and find that they have the characteristic of reverse spine angle. This means that at the top of their back swing, the angle of the spine running from their pelvis to the top of their head is pointing towards the target as opposed to the “normal spine angle”, where the angle of the spine would be pointing away from the target at the top of their back swing.
Reverse Spine Angle Normal Spine Angle
I then do a movement assessment and see that they have limited hip internal rotation on their trail hip and weakness of their abdominal muscles that stabilize their spine. I find out in their medical history that they have a history of a hip replacement on their trail hip…this will lead me to the conclusion that it is probably unlikely that we can improve their internal rotation on that side. I then focus the treatment on improving the strength of their abdominal and trunk muscles to help stabilize and control the movement of their spine in their swing. Additionally, I tell them to turn their right foot away from the target after they set up for their swing to put the trail hip in a starting position that provides more available movement into internal rotation. I also instruct them to shorten up their backswing to limit the spine from bending towards the target.
Trail leg External Rotation
Another key feature of TPI’s comprehensive philosophy is using a team approach to treatment. While, as a physical therapist, I have knowledge of how the human body moves and how to improve movement, I am not a certified golf instructor. Similarly, while a golf instructor has knowledge of how to get you to improve your effectiveness and consistency in striking a golf ball, they likely do not have expert knowledge on how to accomplish this in golfers with injuries. Therefore, the best way to treat you is for the two of us to work together. The golf instructor will tell me what you two are trying to accomplish with your swing, and I can provide input on how we can accomplish this while considering your injury and movement capabilities.
I hope that this has provided a small window into the philosophy of assessment and treatment that I use to assist my patients with golf related injuries. As I have stressed a great many times in this post each patient requires a unique and individual assessment, so please give us a call and I would be happy to start this process with you and get you to Love Your Life and continue enjoying your golf game.
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The number of people hooked on heroin or other prescription opioids has skyrocketed, but there are some finding relief in another prescription drug.
Stephen says opiods found him by accident. "I had a fractured jaw which started me on the pain pills and at that point I just continued to take them," he said. "Obviously it took off from there."
He says if a pill had opiates in it, he bought, sold, and took them.
"It got to the point where I was selling to support my habit. Then you get to the point where you can't find anything or can't afford it so you switch to heroin. It's a lot cheaper, actually more readily available," he added.
Once heroin became his main drug, he began to overdose.
"I can't count the number of times I've overdosed. It got to the point where I overdosed, they hit me with NARCAN four times to bring me back," Stephen said.
After the last one - five months ago - his family intervened and got him in to see Sykesville addiction nurse Debra Woodard.
"People don't have to stay in the addiction, there's help," she says.
A recent map produced by the Centers for Disease Control shows the number of people addicted and dying from opioid addiction in Maryland is among the highest anywhere.
Woodard prescribes Vivitrol, which blocks the high, but is not addictive.
"It's like a little umbrella over the opioid receptors in the brain, and it doesn't allow the opioid to get into the brain," she said.
She put patient Stephen on Vivitrol, and it worked.
"The Vivitrol makes me feel like a human being," he said. "I don't have any cravings. It makes you feel normal."
With his cravings gone, he's had time to think, which is exactly what his nurse hoped would happen.
"That 30-day clean time, almost guaranteed, gives people time to think about, do I really want to go back and start using drugs again?." Woodard said.
Stephen did not, and he's been clean for five months.
He's reengaged with family and friends, has a full-time job, and has saved enough to buy a car to get to work.
"You've heard some of my story, I've gone to Hell and back multiple times and I can do it, it's definitely possible," Stephen said.
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The frequency of attacks that distribute fake antivirus software, a long-time pillar of the underground economy, has decreased considerably in recent months. However, security researchers warn that the industry is not yet dead and new versions of attacks continue to be released.
According to a new report from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab, the rate of fake antivirus attacks in June was somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 per day, but their frequency has dropped to under 10,000 a day.
The impressive drop is the result of several factors, including law enforcement efforts, improvements in search engine filtering algorithms, and actions undertaken by the security community to disrupt cybercriminal distribution networks.
“This decline is related to some good job done by the law enforcement and security industry in this field, shutting down some of the networks they were using,” said Luis Corrons, technical director of Panda Security’s threat research laboratory.
His opinion is shared by Sean Sullivan, a senior security advisor at Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure. “They were shut down and an investigation was launched,” he said referring to recent international law enforcement actions that targeted major scareware operations.
Back in June, authorities in Russia arrested Pavel Vrublevsky, the co-founder of Russian payment processor ChronoPay, who has long been suspected of running one of the biggest fake antivirus affiliate programs.
At around the same time, authorities in the U.S., Ukraine and several other countries seized computer servers and other equipment used for scareware distribution, some believed to be linked to the infamous Conficker worm.
However, according to Bogdan Botezatu, a researcher with antivirus company BitDefender, this is not the only reason for the changes seen on the scareware market. “The decline in Fake AV attacks is probably related to the fact that search engines have improved their filtering algorithms in order to prevent poisoned search results from showing on top,” he said.
“We have been closely monitoring this issue in intervals where specific searches spiked (such as the death of Gaddafi or the alleged death or President Barrack Obama) and we didn’t see any attacks involving rogue AV,” the researcher added.
Black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO), or search-result poisoning attacks, leverage the page rank of legitimate, but compromised, websites to push malicious links at the top of search results. This has been one of the primary methods of getting users to fake antivirus websites for a long time.
Botezatu believes that some scareware gangs have already moved to something else, like the Facebook survey scams, which require less investment and are easier to maintain. However, Botezatu and Corrons agree that this fortunate turn of events is only temporary.
In fact, Kaspersky Lab’s Vyacheslav Zakorzhevsky warns that new scareware variants and even new affiliate programs have already appeared. “New versions of this type of malware continue to emerge. […] We discovered an affiliate program called ‘Money Racing AV’,” he announced Thursday in a post on the company’s blog.
Even if the risk of encountering such threats is now lower and the methods of distribution are limited, users should continue to scrutinize unexpected security alerts for legitimacy. “Don’t pay for any solution arriving unannounced over the Internet and make sure you install a genuine security product,” Zakorzhevsky stressed. | <urn:uuid:27173c70-90da-4202-b9bf-a0971d026f93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pcworld.com/article/477782/number_of_fake_antivirus_attacks_has_decreased_considerably_researchers_say.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950826 | 720 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Weaverville – The expansion of the Weaverville Water Treatment plant was the main topic at the workshop held Tuesday night (Oct. 12) by the town’s council.
Members of WithersRavenel Engineering firm were on hand to present and defend the cost estimate of the expansion that gave council members sticker shock at the September council meeting.
The shock came when the cost of the expansion ballooned to more than doubled the price given in 2017 to close to $11.5 million. Weaverville Water Superintendent Trent Duncan introduced members of WithersRavenel, who analyzed the cost of the expansion.
Kent Orey, with WithersRavenel, opened by saying that the council was making a “generational decision” about the water treatment plant, and one not made since the plant came online in 1998.
“That’s the last time the council had to really deal with these issues,” he said.
He said the increased costs were due to an incomplete estimate back in 2017 and increased costs due to growth and material shortages.
“And those prices are not coming down,” Orey said.
Casey Carland, another WithersRavenel member, gave the board five alternatives, the first being take no action and the town will have to eventually quit growing; second, move forward with the expansion; third, new groundwater wells with treatment and water treatment plant expansion; fourth, new groundwater wells with treatment at the existing site; and fifth purchasing water from the City of Asheville.
Carland said the average depth of the Ivy River, where the water treatment plant gets its water, is 2.24 feet. The expansion of the plant to three million gallons per day (MGD) from the current 1.5 MGD would lower the river’s depth by one inch.
“These are very hard decisions,” injected Orey. He then spoke about grants for the project.
Councilman Doug Jackson asked about the increase of the project over the 2017 estimate. Orey said that growth and shortages coupled with originally working off the 2017 estimate another engineering firm had given the town, “this should accommodate this, and that’s how we got to this [2021 estimate].”
Jackson said he could not believe that supply and demand would not work to lower prices.
“Through 2026, when the ARP (American Rescue Plan) funds have to be spent, you will see this inflation. Because you have eight billion dollars being spent in the state of North Carolina,” responded Orey.
The council also worried the estimate would continue to increase. Orey explained it would, as some suppliers are only guaranteeing their pricing for days. Until the town gets a contractor under an agreement, it would be at that point, the cost for the expansion would be fixed.
Members of the SaveIvyRiver.org also spoke about offering to help with alternatives to taking more water from the Ivy River. The council also learned using water from the Ivy is on a “first-come,first-serve” basis, meaning first to get approval from the state that receives the water.
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A Phase 2a-b trial found that the Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) NVX-CoV2373 vaccine was 51% effective against the B.1.351 variant in HIV-negative participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The overall vaccine efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 was 49% and 60% for HIV-negative participants, according to the study published in NEJM.
The study authors note that the efficacy figures are preliminary.
The study’s primary efficacy endpoint was protection against laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 seven or more days after administration of the second dose.
The study involved 4,387 participants.
An earlier study found that the vaccine was 96.4% effective at preventing COVID-19 caused by the original strain of the virus. That figure dropped to 86.3% when it came to protecting against the U.K. variant (B.1.1.7) and 49% against the B.1.351 variant.
The Novavax vaccine differs from others that are currently available. Namely, it is a recombinant SARS-CoV-2 nanoparticle vaccine that uses an adjuvant known as Matrix-M. The company integrated a modified gene for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein into a baculovirus and used that virus to infect moth cells. The cells then produced the spike protein.
Novavax then purifies those proteins and combines them with polysorbate 80 to create protein nanoparticles. The company then combines those particles with its Matrix-M adjuvant, which uses 40-nanometer particles based on a bioorganic compound known as saponin along with cholesterol and phospholipid.
Adverse events in the recent study were generally mild, including headache, muscle pain and fatigue.
The study authors also concluded that prior exposure to SARS-CoV-2 did not seem to reduce the risk of infection from the B.1.351 variant. “This finding is preliminary and may have public health implications for pandemic modeling, control strategies, and vaccine development and deployment efforts,” the study authors concluded.
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Secure Mobility 2013 : Computer Standards & Interfaces - Special Issue on Secure Mobility in Future Communication Systems under Standardization
Call For Papers
*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JAN. 15th ***
Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier
Special Issue on Secure Mobility in Future Communication Systems under Standardization
In the last decade, wireless communications and electronic devices have experienced an impressive growth. The use of the air as propagation medium has greatly attracted both users and industry due to the numerous advantages offered by this kind of communication. Nowadays, the use of our Smart phone, tablet or netbook is becoming a core part of our daily lives. However, wireless communications capabilities are expected to be integrated in multiple types of products such as vehicles, electrical appliances, hospital devices, etc. Thus, in the days to come, we expect that wireless communications will become ubiquitous for the future computer systems. Mobility is the cornerstone of wireless communications and an essential feature to enable the communication between devices anywhere, anytime. However, communications need to be secured since, due to the wireless network’s nature, eavesdroppers are able to capture any communication happening near its coverage area.
Standardization organizations, aware of this challenging issue in future communication systems, are producing a set of specifications to enable secure mobility in different scenarios. For example, the IEEE 802.21 group is developing standards to assist a secure handoff in future Next Generation Networks (NGNs). This work is complemented by the IETF where it can be found a wide number of working groups dealing with mobility management and security in future heterogeneous networks, an issue that is also being tackled by the ITU-T Y-Series recommendations. The ISO and ETSI organizations are also dealing with mobility and security in other communication scenarios. For instance, the technical committee ISO TC 204 is addressing the specific needs that appear in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). This topic is also addressed by ETSI, where different work programs are also producing standards for Machine-to-Machine communications and Smart Grids, paying special attention to the specific security requirements of these scenarios. These are just a few examples of the great effort being devoted by the standardization activity, which demonstrates the importance of the subject.
This Special Issue will provide a comprehensive guide on solutions reached by the standardization organizations in the mobility and security fields. It will cover not only standardized solutions but also proposals intended to improve existing standards.
All received submissions will be sent out for peer review by at least two experts in the field and evaluated with respect to relevance to the special issue, level of innovation, depth of contributions, and quality of presentation. Guest editors will make an initial assessment of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Contributions that either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication.
This special issue is intended to collect existing standardization efforts on achieving secure mobility in future communication systems: Next Generation Networks (NGNs), Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M), Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Smart Grid, Mesh Networks, etc.
Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:
• Technologies enabling secure mobility
• Service access control solutions
• Key distribution and management schemes
• Privacy preserving mechanisms and anonymity
• Trust establishment, negotiation, and management
• Secure AAA infrastructures
• Secure and privacy preserving handover mechanisms
• Cryptographic protocols and lightweight cryptography
• Secure and privacy preserving mobile location services
• Cross Layer approach to security in respect to mobility
• Secure and privacy preserving mobile applications and services
Extended submission due: Jan. 15, 2013
Author notification: Feb. 28, 2013
Final manuscripts due: Mar. 31, 2013
Tentative publication: Fall 2013
Authors should follow the "Instructions to Authors" available at the journal’s homepage
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-standards-and-interfaces/. Please select "Secure Mobility" when reaching the "Article Type" step in the submission process.
Dr. Georgios Kambourakis
University of the Aegean, Greece
Dr. Fernando Pereñíguez García
University of Murcia, Spain
Dr. Peter Mueller
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Dr. Tom Karygiannis
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Imray chart G12 South Ionian Islands
Mediterranean | Greece and Turkey | G Series
The south Ionian islands from Nsos Levkas to Nsos Zkinthos. Scale: 1 : 188,200. Larger scale plans for Klpos Aetou (N. Ithaki), Dhioriga Levkadhos (Levkas Canal), Ormos Argostoliou (N. Kefallinia), and Ormos Zkinthou (N. Zkinthos).
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- Órmos Zákinthou (N. Zákinthos) (Scale: 1 : 12.500)
For this 2014 edition the chart has been fully modernised and updated throughout using revised depth data where available. The sketch plan of Órmos Argostolíou has been replaced with a fully WGS84-compatible plan that also shows harbour developments. Completed works and new depth surveys are shown on the Órmos Zákinthou plan.
Imray Tetra Charts G Series Ionian and Aegean seas with coasts and islands in Greece and Turkey provide coverage of popular areas on sheets specially designed for the needs of yachtsmen.
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Name: Nanga Parbat
Other name/spelling: Nangaparbat Peak, Diamir
Elevation: 26,658ft (8,125m)
Location: Karakoram, Gilgit, Baltistan, Pakistan
Importance: 9th highest mountain in the world
Nanga Parbat is important favored by utmost rovers, but those were the Germans, who gave it the name, killer Mountain. The discoverer, Albert Frederick Mummery, was the first to venture on this mountain. Daunting and wild, bearing the rush of eating wind and torrential rain during the showers, Nanga Parbat is full of the troubles of the unknown. The Sherpas, points of the Himalayan region call Nanga Parbat, “ the man-eater” or the‘Mountain of the Devil’. No other peak has claimed lives with similar sickening chronicity and the list of tragedies is heart- wrenching. In the last century, roads have been erected in the Karakoram range, but little additional has changed in this region.
Nanga Parbat has a height of 8126 measures/ft. It has three vast faces. The Rakhiot (RaiKot) face, world’s deepest couloir (1000m), is dominated by the north and south tableware zenith and tableware table; the Diamir face is rocky in the morning. It converts itself into ice fields around Nanga Parbat peak. The Rupal face is the loftiest rockwall in the world.
Nanga Parbat peak was discovered in the 19th century by Europeans. The Schlagintweit sisters, who hailed from Munich, Germany came in 1854 to Himalayas and drew a panoramic view which is the first given picture of Nanga Parbat. In 1857 one of them was boggled in Kashgar and this was the morning of curse of Nanga Parbat. Nanga Parbat was first successfully climbed by Herman Buhl in 1953. | <urn:uuid:3945bb93-51e6-4599-9a5f-35e455dad5eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fairymeadowtours.com/tours/nanga-parbat-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951902 | 430 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Saint Saba the Hermit
Monks and hermits have always been an integral part of the Maronite Syriac Heritage.
Mar Saba is a popular saint venerated by Maronites and with many Maronite churches named after him. Mar Saba was born at Mutalaska near Caesarea in Cappadocia, 439, to noble parents.
At age eight (8), Mar Saba abandoned his life in the world and entered into the nearby monastery of Bishop Flavian of Antioch where he studied the Scriptures. His parents asked him many times to leave and be married but he refused. By age of seventeen (17), he committed his whole life to being a monk and went to Jerusalem to learn from the example of the solitaries of that country.
Mar Saba loved silence and by the age of thirty (30) decided he wanted more. He decided to spend five days a week in a remote cave in prayer and manual labour. Mar Saba later retired further into the desert towards Jericho, where he spent four years in total isolation. After Mar Saba had lived there for some time, many came to him desiring to serve God under his direction.
He was at first unwilling, but eventually founded a new Lavra (a Lavra is a cave where hermits live). The number of his disciples increased to 150, but no priest served the community.
Mar Saba received ordination in 491 AD. The reputation of his sanctity drew people from remote countries to his Lavra.
It is claimed that many miracles took place through the prayers of Mar Saba including a spring of water welling up at the Lavra during a time of drought.
His Great Lavra long continued to be the most influential monastery in those parts, and produced several distinguished monks, among them St John of Damascus. It is now known as the monastery of Mar Saba and is in modern day Palestine.
Saint Saba feast day is celebrated each year on 5 December.
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Many still believe we are living in a Constitutional Republic governed by the Rule of Law. Unfortunately, America is at a crossroads in which the freedoms we once enjoyed and are protected by our Constitution are rapidly eroding.
I write this article not as a disgruntled litigant, but as an American that fears and trembles for the course his country has taken. The Constitution was once the bulwark of our freedoms and protections. Now a government filled with tyrants in black robes has morphed it into something that our Founders would barely recognize.. The Courts, that exist to check and balance our other two branches of government, willingly rubber-stamp legislation that is clearly unconstitutional. One can only guess their motives, but their behavior violates their oath of office to protect and uphold the Constitution of these United States. It is a sacred oath that the Framers created to protect our Rule of Law from despots and usurpers.
We now live under a federal judiciary that no longer seems concerned about protecting our Constitution, but means to reinterpret it to accommodate their ideologies. These men and women believe that the state is the giver of rights and they have been known to quote international law as a guiding principle. . They also believe that the once foundation of our republic, the Constitution, is archaic and no longer necessary or timely.
The saga begins
The saga I will be writing about began after Congress passed the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”(“The Act”). That Act is anything but a health-care piece of legislation and is not “affordable” by any stretch of the imagination.. I intend to argue that this “Act” grants total government control over the American people and lays the foundation for a police state.
When the Act passed in a most unusual way, patriots throughout our nation turned to our Courts in protest. This article starts with the most comprehensive Petition brought by “We the People” against this egregiously unconstitutional legislative act: Purpura v. Sebelius, Case No. 11-7275.
The series of constitutional assaults climaxed on February 21st when the U.S. Supreme Court without explanation denied re-argument in the matter of Purpura v. Sebelius, and thus denied us the right to take part at oral argument to be held on March 26-28, 2012 on the constitutionality of the Health-care “Act” known as ObamaCare.
The District Court
This judicial sham began in the District Court (Trenton) New Jersey before Judge Freda L. Wolfson. Not only did Judge Wolfson completely disregard the Federal Rules of Procedure, but she also denied us “due process.”
Unbelievable as it sounds, I believe proof abounds that this jurist openly connived with the defendants, and aided and abetted the “obstruction of justice.” She had gone so far as to:
Rule on issues not properly before the court,
Intentionally ignore evidence, fact, and law, and
Disregard three consecutive forfeitures by the Department of Justice.
Wolfson is a prize example of why judicial reform is necessary, and lifetime appointments are unacceptable.
The Third Circuit
We next had to make an appeal that should never have been necessary. We submitted our appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. This court, as the District Court had done earlier, ignored their own rules of procedure, overlooked evidence, and denied “due process”.
The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit did no better. They violated the law openly and ignored federal rules of procedure, evidence, and any standard of proof.
Going forward, two judges, Joseph A. Greenway and Thomas I. Vanaskie, authored two decisions and orders, and did so without judicial authority. They, ignoring the Judicial Conduct Code and the United States Code, see 28 USC Section 455. The man currently occupying the White House appointed these two men. By law, on account of the “People’s” Count 6, they were restricted from taking part in any proceeding concerning this matter. Why? Because they had a financial interest in the outcome of the proceedings. The honorable and expected thing for them to do was to recuse themselves.
The Supreme Court
Thereafter, “We the people” (Petitioners) were left with one last hope for justice. Surely the Supreme Court of the United States would never allow lower courts to usurp the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and “due process.” The men and women who make up this Court swore an oath to protect the rights and freedoms of the American people guaranteed by the Constitution. This was our third branch of government that the Founders created to make sure the law of the land would be upheld. And we had great hopes that this Court would not fail us and would not fail the American people.
Once again the issue arose of Justices who ought to recuse themselves, but didn’t. Two of the Justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, owe their appointments to Mr. Obama.. And, by law, their financial interest in the outcome meant that they must recuse themselves. Surely they would honor the law and . obey the Judicial Conduct Code and U.S. Code. We were sadly mistaken.
On January 9, 2012 “The People” received notice that the Court had denied their “Writ of Certiorari” without explanation. True, the Court need not explain their decision. But in this case a question of law arises: did Sotomayor and Kagan take part, and in so doing, violate the law?
“The people,’” still believing in our system of justice, submitted a motion for re-argument to “recall and vacate” based upon many issues that the Court had overlooked. The most important of these is whether or not Sotomayor or Kagan took part in the decision-making process. Clearly if they did, they violated the law and the Court would be required to rehear without their participation.
As we stated above on February 21st , we once again received a notice without explanation: “The petition for rehearing is denied”. I called the Court and asked if Sotomayor or Kagan participated. The answer was: “It was denied; we’re not required to tell you anything.” Keep in mind that both these two jurists (one an affirmative action activist and member of La Raza, the other a direct advocate for the legislation), are going to sit in judgment on the constitutionality of the Health-care legislation. God help the United States. By refusing to obey the United States Code, these two judges show that they are unqualified and have little or no respect for our laws. Sadly the other justices, will hear oral argument based upon inadequate and limited briefings on the most dangerous piece of legislation ever written by Congress.
Contemplate this for a moment. Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution says:
“The judicial powers shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States,…”
Now I ask what all Americans should be asking: if the “We the People” brief Case No. 11-7275 contained 19 well-supported violations of the United States Constitution and 4 statutory laws, how does the Supreme Court protect the freedom and rights of the American people by refusing to address these constitutional challenges without explanation? And, by that refusal, does not this Court leave the American people without recourse?
Based on the history of the “People’s Case” it is hard to believe that, oral argument by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on the “individual mandate,” will receive a higher degree of justice. Unfortunately, Mr. Cuccinelli, like many of his counterparts, thoroughly failed to read the entire “Act.” By failing to do so, he ignored the true dangers in the legislation that totally shreds the United States Constitution.
How in God’s name could this Court in good conscience ignore 19 violations of the Constitution? Even should the Court find the individual mandate unconstitutional, how can they fail to understand that the remaining provisions violate Article 1, 2, 4, and 6, Amendments 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, and 16? Let’s not forget that it violates the “Posse Comitatus” Act, “Anti-Trust” Provisions, “Title VII of the Civil Rights Act” and lastly, “The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.”
Over the last two years, we put forth an open challenge to every University and College Professor of Law, or any group of left-wing attorneys, to hold a mock trial or open debate to prove the allegation put forth by the “We the People’s” petitioners in our brief are incorrect. Not a single taker has stepped forward.
Do the legal eagles and the men and women in black robes fear those in the White House; do they not understand our Constitution; do they believe it is archaic and not suitable for 21st century living; or do they prefer international law to our Constitutional Republic? Whatever their motives, they have failed to honor their oath of office and they have failed to check and balance the other two branches of government. Unfortunately, the American people are suffering the repercussions of their inadequacies.
To be continued…
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In the first part of this article, I detailed how pharma and biotech companies, along with the federal government, provide the majority of funding for biomedical research in the U.S. In this second part, I’ll turn my attention to a number of other sources, both for-profit and nonprofit, that also provide the capital that drives drug discovery and development work.
Venture Capital on the Ropes, but New Models Emerge (Funding Level: $3.7 billion invested in biotech in 2010)
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In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of the inter-war period of the Greco-Persian Wars. They will develop an awareness of the key people groups, events, and concepts associated with this period. Students will have the opportunity to achieve this through choosing their own method of learning, from reading, source analysis, and research options, as well as the chance to engage in extension activities. This lesson includes a self-marking quiz for students to demonstrate their learning.
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Politini: Why Republicans back voter suppression
Each week Politini gives you the scoop on why the headlines matter.
In a rousing speech last week in front of the National Action Network President Obama called out Republican voter suppression tactics. He didn’t mince words when he labeled their schemes to thwart the democratic process “un-American.”
We have a long way to go to ensure voting rights for all. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, we are still fighting to preserve the most fundamental American right—the right for every citizen to participate in our democracy.
This should not be a partisan issue, and yet Democratic leaders are the only politicians speaking out against the latest batch of voter suppression laws.
So we ask, why don’t Republicans want you to vote?
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The GOP’s got 99 problems, but voter fraud ain’t one!
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Forget Zorro. He wasn’t a fencer. The masked man’s swashbuckling movie scenes that capture the clatter from dueling rapiers as opponents fight on isn’t what today’s fencing is about. Today’s fencing requires one-on-one strategy, physical agility and intensity and it’s drawing the attention of students at Homewood-Flossmoor and Marian Catholic High Schools. Nationwide, interest in high school fencing has been on a steady rise the past four decades, according to the National Fencing Club.
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Analyze the safety hazards of windshield quilt Now many people choose windshield in summer or winter. In fact, there are still some safety hazards in windshield quilts. Let me analyze the specific electric bicycle
s. The weather is getting colder. As the temperature drops, many citizens riding electric bicycles in the streets and alleys have added a 'warm-keeping artifact' to their electric bicycles-windshield, although the windshield has a certain cold-proof effect, but Security risks should not be underestimated. The width of most windshields exceeds the width of the handlebars and is easily caught by vehicles on both sides. When riding a bike in cold weather, you should wear more clothes, wear hats, masks, gloves, etc. to keep out the cold, and it is best to choose knee pads to keep your legs warm. As winter approaches, the cold wind is gradually invading. Riding an electric bicycle does require a certain amount of courage and protective measures. Therefore, many owners have installed windshield quilts for their electric bicycles, but this practice also affects the owners. For the sake of safety, don’t use the windshield, but don’t let yourself be hurt because you want to be warm for a while. This is not worth the loss. The above is the content for everyone to introduce, you can learn more about it in detail, I hope it can help you. Previous: Analyze the reasons for the rapid decrease in the power stored in the battery of electric bicycles in winter Next: Analysis of the working characteristics of the electric bicycle assist sensor
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Military members aren’t the only people who work to protect the United States. The U.S. government also contracts with private companies that send civilian employees overseas to work on U.S. military bases or in other roles. Recent estimates show that there are approximately 50,000 defense contractors working overseas. Often, these civilian contractors work in dangerous settings, such as warzones and hostile environments. However, they lack military benefits in the event of a workplace injury or death.
To protect civilian defense contractors, Congress enacted the Defense Base Act in 1941, which functions like workers’ compensation. A Defense Base Act lawyer uses this legal mechanism to pursue compensation for injured or killed civilian contractors and their families. An injured worker or grieving family members may feel overwhelmed when a workplace injury occurs overseas. A skilled attorney can assist the worker and their family during this time, directing them through the necessary steps to get medical treatment and recover financial losses.
After meeting with a potential client and listening to their story, a Defense Base Act attorney evaluates whether a client has a claim under the act based on these criteria:
Next, the attorney gathers evidence to support the worker’s claim. Accident reports, medical evaluations, witness statements, and photographs all help validate a claim. The injured worker should bring all available evidence to the lawyer, who will then investigate to fill in any gaps.
Then, the attorney calculates the injured worker’s financial losses to request compensation from the employer’s insurance. A Defense Base Act lawyer seeks the following compensation for injured workers:
If a contractor is killed on the job, a Defense Base Act lawyer can help the family file a claim for:
The deceased worker’s spouse or child can recover up to two-thirds of the worker’s average weekly earnings as a death benefit.
Ideally, the employer’s insurance company will cooperate and quickly send the employee compensation. However, some insurance companies use stall tactics or deceptive strategies to avoid paying claims. If the insurance company tries to avoid responsibility for payment, a Defense Base Act attorney can refer the claim to the Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ) for a formal hearing. If the OALJ’s decision does not favor the employee, the attorney can appeal the claim to the Benefits Review Board (BRB) and then, depending on where the claim is administered, to the U.S. District Court or the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Ultimately, through the U.S. legal process, a Defense Base Act attorney seeks to recover financial compensation for an injured worker or for the family of a worker who was killed while performing services for the government. These defense contractors assume great risk to protect the citizens of the United States, and a skilled attorney can help workers obtain the payment they deserve for injuries received on this dangerous job. | <urn:uuid:e4ba14a2-7b37-4b83-b37a-dec194bc1a8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thestudentlawyer.com/2021/11/29/what-does-a-defense-base-act-lawyer-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957231 | 581 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Disaster officials say at least 8 dead, 100 missing in southern Mexico landslidesBy AP
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Mexican authorities: 8 dead, 100 missing in slides
MEXICO CITY — A disaster official says at least eight people are dead and 100 are missing in two mudslides in the southern state of Oaxaca.
Oaxaca state Civil Protection operations coordinator Luis Marin Castillejos says an avalanche in the community of Santa Maria Tlahuitolpetec has killed at least seven people, while at least another 100 are missing.
The state’s governor earlier said as many as 1,000 could be buried there.
Castillejos said Tuesday another slide in the community of Villa Hidalgo killed at least one person.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) — A hillside collapsed on a rural Mexican community on Tuesday and the region’s governor said hundreds of people are feared dead.
Oaxaca state Gov. Ulises Ruiz told the Televisa television network that the early morning landslide in the town Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec buried 100 to 300 houses and speculated that 500 to 1,000 people could be buried.
Donato Vargas, an official in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec reached by a satellite telephone, said 500 people were missing and that 300 homes were buried.
“We were all sleeping and all I heard was a loud noise and when I left the house I saw that the hill had fallen,” Vargas said.
He said he called the Mexican army and state officials for help.
“It has been difficult informing authorities because the road are very bad and there isn’t a good signal for our phone,” Vargas said shortly before the call dropped.
Ruiz said the landslide followed days of rain in the Sierra de Juarez region.
Rescuers were flying in from Mexico City and emergency personnel have been sent to the town about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Oaxaca city and 130 miles (220 kilometers) from Mexico City.
“There has been lots of rain, rivers have overflowed and we’re having a hard time reaching the area because there are landslides on the roads,” he said.
Luis Marin, an official with Oaxaca state’s civil protection department, said rescue crews had yet to reach the area.
The federal Interior Department issued a statement that rescue workers from the army, navy and federal police were being flown to the area with rescue dogs and heavy machinery.
The landslide in Oaxaca follows weeks of heavy rains that have caused havoc in southern Mexico and Central America.
Huge swaths of riverside communities in southern Mexico were still under water Tuesday — flooding exacerbated by the passage of Hurricane Karl and Tropical Storm Matthew. At least 15 deaths in Mexico were blamed on the hurricane.
In Honduras, authorities said four people, including a child, drowned in rivers and creeks swollen by Tropical Storm Matthew.
The National Emergencies Commission said Tuesday that three adults died in the town of El Oregano and a 10-year-old child in the Caribbean coast town of La Lima.
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Behind the Attraction is a new Disney+ series that features classic Disney attractions in 10 different parts. Each episode highlights a different Disney Parks attraction, including Space Mountain, Jungle Cruise, Haunted Mansion, and most recently, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln at Disneyland and the Hall of Presidents at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.
In case you didn’t know, both Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and the Hall of Presidents were inspired by the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. One exhibit displayed wax figures of all the U.S. presidents, each with recorded voice tracks that explained what their role, specifically, was in American history.
Walt Disney loved this idea and wanted to bring the U.S. presidents to life at the Disney Parks with the help of Disney Imagineers.
However, as the Disney+ episode pointed out, creating the animatronics wasn’t an easy process. In fact, when Imagineers were trying to make the Lincoln animatronic work for Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, they ran into several problems — one of them being Mr. Lincoln continuously throwing a fit as he flung his arms around and even smashed his chair!
“Mr. Lincoln was a terrible disaster,” Disney Legend Marc Davis said in the Disney+ episode.
Disney historian Bill Cotter also weighed in during the episode, saying “Mr. Lincoln would sit in his chair, he started to get up, and all of a sudden he would go on this robotic fit, and he’d fling his arms around and would literally smash his chair into kingling. They would go and get him another chair, and he worked two or three days in a row. They would bring the press, and he’d stand up and smash the chair into kindling.”
Eventually, the Imagineers figured out what was causing the problem — a nearby World’s Fair pavilion called the Tower of Light. The pavilion was shining a giant beam into the sky, which, in turn, was creating an “electronic anomaly” that caused the Lincoln animatronic to not work properly.
“When they fired this thing up, the transient circuits that would go through the ground made Mr. Lincoln get feedback, and he’d go crazy and smash his chair,” Cotter explained.
It took nearly three weeks before Imagineers discovered this, but once they figured out the problem, Disney could finally open Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and amaze Guests with this innovative technology.
D23 describes this attraction as:
Disney’s Audio-Animatronics® version of our 16th president first addressed audiences in the State of Illinois pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair before settling in at his new home in Main Street’s Opera House in Disneyland. In the words of Walt Disney, “Ever since I was a small boy in Illinois, I’ve had a great personal admiration for Abraham Lincoln. So when we decided to recreate some of the great moments in Mr. Lincoln’s life for the World’s Fair, we directed all our energies to that task. We wanted to bring to the people of today, the inspiring words of the man who held this nation together during its moment of greatest crisis, the Civil War.” In 1973, the attraction closed to make way for The Walt Disney Story, but due to popular demand our 16th president returned to the opera house in 1975. In 2005, President Lincoln again took a vacation when the documentary movie Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years debuted.
Behind the Attraction is streaming now on Disney+.
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The U.S. State Department spokesperson has called on countries to “follow Malta’s example” and block Russian military planes en route for Venezuela from using their airspace.
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Malta refused a Russian request to use its airspace to fly military aircraft from Syria to Venezuela on April 4. Zakharova added that Malta did not provide a reason for their decision, the state-run TASS news agency reported.
“We applaud the government of Malta for refusing to allow Russian planes to use its airspace to supply the brutal former regime in Venezuela. We call on all countries to follow Malta’s example to stop the Kremlin’s support for the dictator Maduro,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus tweeted on Friday.
Russia, which has also supplied fighter jets, tanks and air defense systems to Venezuela, has dismissed U.S. criticism of its military cooperation with Caracas, saying it is not interfering in the Latin American country's internal affairs and poses no threat to regional stability.
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Ilia State University scientists, Eka Gurgenishvili, Ph.D. student of Iliauni Lehmann-Haupt International Doctoral School, Professors Teimuraz Zakarashvili and Vasil Kukhianidze, together with their European colleagues, published an article: „Rieger-type periodicity in the total irradiance of the Sun as a star during solar cycles 23–24“ in the high-ranking international journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics”.
About the Article
In prestigious scientific journal “Astronomy and Astrophysics”, an international team with leadership of the scientists from Ilia State University presented the estimation of the magnetic field strength in the solar interior using the periodic variations observed in total solar irradiance. The total solar irradiation is an analog of the stellar light curves, so this research is essential in studying other Sun-like stars. Examining solar-type stars younger or older than the Sun can help explain the past or future of our Sun.
The Sun, our nearest star, has a tremendous influence on the atmosphere of our planet and future technological development of our civilisation. Total solar irradiance data observed from different space missions show that the brightness of the Sun varies from minutes to several years due to the solar magnetic field. In addition to the known 11-year cycle, the solar activity undergoes shorter, 150-200-day periodicity, known as the Rieger-type cycles. Their existence has been known for almost 40 years and is characterized by many enigmatic features. This periodic variation is only seen in structures associated with a strong surface magnetic field, which is linked with solar interior. Therefore, the periodicity can be related with Rossby waves in internal magnetic field.
“Using periodic variations observed in total solar irradiation and the properties of the Rossby waves, we have estimated the magnetic field strength in the solar interior, which is impossible task with other observations.” says the leading author, PhD student at Ilia State University and Gottingen University (Germany), scientist at Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Eka Gurgenashvili. “To detect the Rieger cycles, we now study the light curves of other stars, which will allow us to estimate the magnetic field strength in stelar interiors.”
Future studies are important to estimate the magnetic field of solar-type stars at different stages of evolution observed by various space missions (Kepler, CoRoT, TESS).
The study was conducted within the framework of the Lehmann-Haupt International Doctoral Program, jointly implemented by Ilia State University and the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. The donors of the program are Shota Rustaveli Georgian National Science Foundation and Volkswagen Foundation.
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Grab a ruler and measure the colourful butterflies on this worksheet, recording the length in both cm and mm in the table.
Butterfly Measurements Worksheet
This interesting worksheet asks children to study the pictogram and its and then answer the questions below. It features half and quarter butterflies!
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As a Teacher
Watching with other leaders during a sit-in/teach-in in front of Governor Charlie Baker's office in support of a student-led action seeking a pledge from the governor not to force local authorities to collaborate with ICE against immigrant communities.
As a teacher, my strong preference is towards a seminar style - my role, as I see it, is at least as much to invite forth insight and original thought from the participants, as it is to impart particular knowledge to them. As one example of this approach in practice, below is the audio recording of a service I led near the end of this past summer. I like to make the most of the predictable drop in attendance during the summer months, by using these services to allow for more dialog and give and take between the worship leader and the congregation. On this particular Sunday, I led the assembly in a spiritually-grounded text-study, and after my short homily at the beginning which functioned as a sort of opening lecture, you can hear on the recording the feedback and insight from members of the congregation themselves.
Several years ago, I began an open study group at my congregation, focused on exploring sacred texts from a wide variety of sources. At the beginning we hopped around a lot, looking at single chapters or stories or chunks from the Bible, the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Tao Te Ching. Eventually the participants and I became interested in going more slowly and more deeply with an entire document, reading and reflecting line-by-line. We began this phase with what I think of as the three most important sermons in the history of Unitarianism in America: William Ellery Channing's Baltimore Sermon, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Divinity School Address, and Theodore Parker's A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity. After that, we moved on to examining entire books of the Bible with the same detailed focus. That's when I started recording the introductory lectures with Facebook Live, so that those who were interested could follow along with the reading at home even if they couldn't make the in-person discussion. The opening lectures for the first four books we covered can be found below.
Lecture on context and approach for the Book of Genesis.
Lecture on context and approach for the Book of Job.
Lecture on context and approach for the Revelation of John.
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Basics of a Age Advantage Franchise
If you’re thinking about buying a Age Advantage franchise, there are many things to consider before signing on the dotted line. Becoming a Age Advantage franchisee is not a guarantee of success, but rather a blueprint that can assist you in achieving success. Given the correct market conditions, skills and dedication, being a Age Advantage franchisee might be financially rewarding.
Owning a Age Advantage franchise is a serious commitment and works best when you make a thoughtful, educated decision.
- Just because you love Age Advantage’s products or services doesn’t mean that you will be able to successfully operate a Age Advantage franchise.
- Being emotionally attached to the idea of becoming a Age Advantage franchisee is not a state of mind in which you can effectively evaluate an opportunity.
- Your positive experience as a customer of Age Advantage should not form the basis for deciding to become a franchisee.
As an example, just because you love Big Macs doesn’t mean that you should become a McDonald’s franchisee.
Are you looking for some free resources to help you determine if a Age Advantage franchise is for you?
Age Advantage Due Diligence
You must conduct smart due diligence and determine from a business perspective whether owning a Age Advantage franchise is right for you.
If you truly want own a Age Advantage franchise, get all the information you can from Age Advantage and secure a qualified advisor who has experience helping people like you purchase franchises.
You may also want find that gaining a better understanding of the terms related to franchising would be helpful. If so, you may want to visit A Glossary of Franchise Terms.
Make sure that owning a Age Advantage franchise fits in with both your skills and life style objectives. If you don’t want to work evening and weekends, don’t purchase an ice cream shop. If you’re an introvert, don’t buy a franchisee that requires you to be extroverted.
Are you interested in more questions to ask Age Advantage franchisor, Age Advantage franchisee, or even yourself? Get to know the terms.
Age Advantage Franchise Disclosure Document
Carefully read the Age Advantage Franchise DisclosureDocument (Also known as an FDD). They can be intimidating.
As you are reviewing Age Advantage’s Franchise Disclosure Document you will have a number of calls with Age Advantage’s franchise team before you will be allowed to call Age Advantage franchisees.
When you are allowed to call Age Advantage franchisees make sure you speak to at least five to eight franchisees. You will find that most Age Advantage franchisees will be honest and unbiased about Age Advantage. If you would like more information on how to dissect a Age Advantage FDD consider the following resources:
Does a Age Advantage Franchise Make Money?
A critical part of your due diligence is to build an estimated P&L (profit and loss statement) and see what the numbers might look like if you become a Age Advantage franchisee. Reading Chapter 13 of The Educated Franchise teaches you the secrets of this key step.
The decision making tools in Chapter 15 of The Educated Franchise and in Step 13 of The Franchisee Workbook shows you how to honestly evaluate whether or not buying a Age Advantage franchise is the right move for you.
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Description: Welcome again DragoArt members and visitors; today I have an interesting tutorial that I enjoyed creating! I’m not so keen on the Egyptian concept but what we’re going to learn how to draw is the almighty King Tut. Learning how to draw King Tut will be pretty easy…I hope! King Tut’s real name is Tutankhamun. In translation it means “living image of Amun” I personally don’t know who Amun is XD. Anyways, this was really fun to draw because of the coloring. I loved making it look like gold! Later on I’ll make a tutorial on how to make something look gold. All I used really was the dodge and burn tool. I spent a long time on this tutorial because I couldn’t get those striped looking lines flow well! I spent a good two hours on the whole tutorial together. I was watching “Return of the Mummy” and was inspired to make an awesome Egyptian tutorial on how to draw this King Tut guy. The movie is old but still really good. I remember I went to the theaters with my mom to see the movie for the first time! I LOVED ANUBIS!!! They were freakin cool man!!!!!!! I loved how they fought and killed! It inspired me so much!! Anyways, sorry for that hyperness ^^. I really hope this tutorial will be a breeze for you all. Just to let you know, I have a few other tutorials that I’ll be putting up soon. They’re like uber awesome! I did a wicked cute beaver, a Firebird Trans am, and a ghetto kid. I personally love how the Firebird came out! It’s a super epic win! Well sorry peeps but I have to go now! I hope you have fun learning on how to draw King Tut step by step! | <urn:uuid:f8c4843b-6221-40b6-b420-deab1c36a806> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dragoart.com/tut/how-to-draw-king-tut-1688 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947531 | 484 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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Denis Bourke Paintings
April 2 @ 10:00 am – April 27 @ 3:30 pm
Denis Bourke Paintings
2 – 20 April 2022
Opening: Saturday 2 April 10am – 4pm
Feature wall and Central Gallery
This exhibition covers areas of interest that have been at work concurrently over several decades in Denis Bourke’s long-standing practice. Bourke has travelled widely across Aotearoa New Zealand, and is a longtime illustrator and recorder of land features.
Reflecting his reaction to and engagement with the land, some works depict actual locations, mainly in Taranaki and Hawkes Bay. Also included are several works in which landform processes such as river action, volcanism–the discharge of magma onto the Earth’s surface–and tectonic activity are depicted in simplified forms with a diagrammatic quality. Another thread includes paintings based on non-art images, borrowed from the sciences of geomorphology and cartography. Some are large scale colored renderings of actual diagrams (e.g. Geomorph) and maps (Green Section, Red Section), while others are imaginary compositions (Eight Views, A,B,C & D).
The introduction of visual systems from disciplines removed from the traditional NZ landscape painting genre adds new layers of meaning and association. Outlining, borders, grids and encyclopedia or atlas colours are some of the borrowed techniques which emphasize two-dimensional flatness and provide a contemporary feel.
A recent development is the idea of physical evolution and change over time extended to include the transformation of land and terrain by different cultural land uses. Aotearoa New Zealand’s earliest land patterns have been largely obliterated by successive human cultures, with modern land management informing the dominant visual patterns we observe. These cultural patterns can overlay earlier traces of land use, and all human-driven change can overlay the original geomorphology. The result is a palimpsest landscape, where only remnants of earlier forms can be discerned. Some of the paintings which demonstrate this are expansive oblique vistas of actual regions such as Taranaki and Waikato, while others are imaginary or based on memory. Ultimately, Bourke seeks to blend the relationship between layered mark making and paint washes with the concept of layered physical and cultural patterns in the land.
About the Artist:
Denis Bourke grew up in Taranaki with the mountain as a constant presence—a monumental and miraculous landform that changed daily and seasonally, providing a reference for position and distance in the province. This presence has directly informed his art practice; Bourke is interested in space and distance, curious and noble shapes and formations, and landscape processes.
Denis drew from an early age, and was later inspired to paint the sensuous Wellington hills at Paremata while studying Physical Geography at Victoria University. The work of Michael Smither, Don Binney, Robin White and Colin McCahon were important early influences, as was the use of geomorphological diagrams and topographical maps as a basis for images that demonstrate landscape evolution and change.
Denis has exhibited his work since 1974 and was a finalist in the Benson and Hedges Art Award 1974, the Birkenhead Art Award 1987 and 1988, was joint winner of the Tokoroa Art Award 1996, finalist in the Wallace Art Award 2000, and the North Shore Art Award 2001.
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In 2015, Beige Corporation made a cash distribution to its shareholders, one of whom was Steve Jordan.
At that time, the parties involved believed the distribution was a return of capital because Beige had no
E & P. Accordingly, none of the shareholders reported dividend income. In Steve’s case, he reduced the
$200,000 original basis of his stock investment by $40,000, his share of the distribution. In 2021, Steve
discovered that E & P had been incorrectly computed. The 2015 distribution was fully covered by E & P
and should not have been treated as a return of capital.
In 2021, Steve sells his stock in Beige Corporation for $350,000. He plans to report a gain of $150,000
[$350,000 (selling price) – $200,000 (original basis)] on the sale. Although Steve realizes he should have
recognized dividend income of $40,000 for 2015, the statute of limitations has made this a closed year.
Comment on Steve’s situation. Steve has asked you to prepare his tax return for 2021. Should you
accept this engagement?
Prepare your response as if it is for a partner in your firm.
Reference the AICPA Statements on Standards for Tax Services. You may need approximately 1.5
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Tens of thousands of Airmen, Guardians, and civilians within the Department of the Air Force reported experiencing some form of interpersonal violence that resulted “in psychological or physical harm or that detracts from a culture of dignity and respect,” according to the results of a survey released Nov. 9.
In the fall of 2020, the Air Force’s Interpersonal Violence Task Force sent out a survey that garnered some 68,000 responses, roughly 10 percent of the department. Of those 68,000, 55 percent of respondents—more than 35,000—reported experiencing some form of behavior in the past two years that the task force identified on a “Continuum of Harm.”
Those behaviors, 81 in total, included everything from physical violence to sexual harassment to workplace bullying and hazing.
“Some of the experiences are not what we would traditionally be tracking, based on the Department of the Air Force’s definition of interpersonal violence, but we want to understand what is going on, especially at that left side of the continuum, so that we can get after that,” said Brig. Gen. April D. Vogel, the Interpersonal Violence Task Force lead. “Because it is proven that when lower-level behaviors that are inappropriate are allowed to flourish, it creates an environment where worse, more egregious types of behaviors can happen.”
In a briefing with reporters, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall noted that those who responded to the survey were self-selecting, likely pointing to an over-representation of those who said they had experienced such behaviors.
“But if you only take the fact that in the 10 percent that reported, roughly half reported some type of interpersonal violence, that’s still 5 percent of the total people all by itself, which is too much,” Kendall said. “So we know we’ve got a problem to address.”
The survey also found that the majority of those who experienced interpersonal violence did not report the behavior. When asked to select the reasons they did not, a quarter of respondents said they didn’t think anything would be done, and roughly a fifth said they thought it would make things worse for themselves.
Of those who said they did report it, the majority indicated they were not satisfied with the support services provided. This stood in contrast to more than 80 percent of command team members who indicated they felt they had the “resources, training, and authority” necessary to address interpersonal violence in the chain of command.
From those findings, the task force formulated three recommendations:
- Complete a cross-functional database review to improve data awareness and sharing.
- Pursue a one-stop policy for victims of interpersonal violence.
- Establish a cross-functional team to examine barriers to reporting.
Undersecretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones has advocated for a “no wrong door” policy, with one office of primary responsibility within the department to address domestic violence, harassment, and stalking. That policy, leaders said, will be included in the one-stop policy recommendation, rather than duplicate efforts.
Also on Nov. 9, the Air Force released an addendum to its two previous disparity reviews. The addendum identified further disparities facing female minorities.
The most recent disparity review, released Sept. 9, found that women were generally equally represented or overrepresented when it came to promotions, enlisted leadership positions, and professional military education designations.
But the addendum, drilling down on the intersection of race and gender, found that some disparities “were basically masked or hidden by better performance of white women, for example, relative to women of color,” Kendall said.
Specifically, white women were promoted at or above the overall rate for the Active-duty force from E-5 through E-8 and O-4 through O-6 from fiscal year 2016 to 2020, with the exception of O-6 below the promotion zone, while Black women were underrepresented at E-5, E-6, and E-7; Native American women at E-5 and E-6; and Asian American woman for E-8 and E-9 promotions, as well as most officer promotions.
The disparities were particularly apparent in operations career field officers, where most Air Force leaders get their start—white men remain by far the most common group in that category, while “except for Hispanic/Latino female [company grade officers], all female minority groups had below 1 percent representation of the entire operations career fields’ force for all rank groups.” In particular, there were no Black, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, Native American, or multiracial female general officers.
Other disparities also came to light, Air Force Inspector General Lt. Gen. Sami D. Said told reporters. As an example, he cited a finding that while Black Airmen as a whole are underrepresented in wing commander positions, Black men are actually overrepresented in those leadership roles—Black women, more specifically, face the disparity.
“In this slice and dice of the addendum, you could see the disparity becoming much more pronounced at higher officer ranks on the female side of the house, and that’s critically important for the folks trying to deal with those problems instead of just aggregating male and female,” Said said.
The addendum was championed by Ortiz Jones, herself the first woman of color to hold her position within the Air Force. When the second disparity review was released, she said it “very clearly talks about some of the disparities for minorities and for women. But it’s not talking about disparities for female minorities. And when we think about having a very targeted approach to ensure that we are addressing some of the unique challenges, some of the unique barriers faced by some of our Airmen and Guardians, we have to understand the intersectional challenges that are presented.”
On Nov. 9, Ortiz Jones noted that further parsing the data meant dealing with smaller sample sizes—roughly 10 percent of Airmen and Guardians are women of color—“but given the challenges we face as a country, we’re not going to write off the experiences of 10 percent of our force.”
Said echoed those comments, saying that while the smaller groups made determining statistical significance from year to year more difficult, “when that disparity—when you look back 10 years, and it’s consistently there—that’s very meaningful.” | <urn:uuid:32295045-4182-42aa-a337-a53b8aee80d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.airforcemag.com/air-force-interpersonal-violence-survey-results/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962658 | 1,347 | 1.851563 | 2 |
The Process of Spagyrics.
Paracelsus was an Alchemist who brought The Art of Alchemy into the realm of medicine, where it received its name "Spagyrics".
The term Spagyric comes from the ancient greek terms σπάω spao "to draw out" and ἀγείρω ageiro "to gather".
The process involves extracting the three principles of the matter (in this case plant), refining those three extractions and then reintroducing them to each other in whats known as "cohobation" or marriage.
This process renders a refined herbal medicine, imbibed with the hermetic art.
It's the path of The Inner Grove Apothecary
to offer these remedies to those that wish to experience their virtues.
Another important factor in the work of Alchemy is Astrology.
We see that each of the main 7 planets represents one of the 7 energy centers in our body.
All of manifestation fits into one or more of these archetypical energies/planetary influences.
This knowledge is used in all stages of the preparation of these medicines, and thus the Spagyric Tincture becomes a magnet for the universal planetary force in which it is worked.
The Three Principles.
"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided." | <urn:uuid:c5e32305-e311-4d42-afd2-ba27d83cdaa7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theinnergrove.com/theinnergrove | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929627 | 360 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Harambee 2021 opens Springfield’s celebration of African-American culture
SPRINGFIELD – It almost didn’t happen due to the delta variant of COVID-19, so when the executive committee heard that the two-day Hickory Street Harambee festival could continue this year after all, word came very late .
“It opened at the last minute,” Harambee president Veronica McNair said on Saturday, “and when it opened for us, we had to hurry to get it all together, to fund this thing. rushed.
Even as she circled the playing fields behind Rebecca Johnson School in a golf cart, making sure every detail was finished, McNair said with the help of city departments and participating sponsors at the festival every year, Harambee spawns. After all, Harambee means “together” in Swahili.
“This is our fifth year bringing him back after he sort of passed out for a while,” she said. “We are trying to bring the community together one family at a time.”
The grounds were surrounded by dozens of tents each housing a different booth, some featuring different foods to tickle any palate, and products and services aimed at the African American community. Artists Evyan and Tanika Marie appeared just as their new singles were released. Terry Reynolds, Chey Energy, Ugo, Juan Rodrigues and Kaliah and his guest Latamara Smith also took the main stage.
Local fashion designers Level Up Designs by India and True N10-tions will showcase their latest designs.
Members of Youthful Expressions Dancers and Legacy Dancers and the Springfield Mass Black Diamonds Double Dutch team will perform.
Harambee began in 1968 when community activists Ray Jordan, Bud Williams, Bruce King and Margery and Justin Hurst created a festival to celebrate African American culture and creativity in Springfield.
The festival lasted for several years, but slowly faded away in the early 2000s.
“A couple of kids that I grew up with in the Hickory Street area and decided we would bring him back,” McNair said. “Harambee was a staple in the community. It was a great time in our lives and we missed it. There were other festivals but Harambee had a different vibe, a different energy. We wanted to recreate what we had when we were kids. We grew up with Harambee and looked forward to this every year.
McNair said that with the entire festival running in no time, she and committee members Freddy McDonald, Jazelle Rentas, Jeanine Fornberg and Cedric Williams turned to the city for help.
“I’ll tell you, the Mayor, Patrick Sullivan of Park and Recreation, Andrew Kay, Ray Jordan and Sheriff Nick Cocchi have said what we can do. It was phenomenal to see the city come to support and recognize our efforts.
Mayor Domenic J. Sarno commended his municipal agencies for their contribution to making the festival happen, but also named McNair herself as the driving force behind.
“She put all of this in place very quickly and on a shoestring,” he said. “You can’t put a price on bringing together the beautiful mosaic of the people of Springfield. I must commend her and the committee for continuing the tradition.
In addition to the entertainment, the festival allows residents of the neighborhood to access neighborhood agencies and services that they might not have at another time.
Shamicka Jones of the Caring Health Center in Springfield brought in a team of medical workers to provide a multitude of services. “We offer walk-in COVID vaccinations, free COVID testing for those in need, and insurance navigation. If anyone needs health insurance, they can come see us and we’ll put them in touch. “
At another booth, MOCHA, Men of Color Health Awareness volunteers were ready to work with men on specific health issues that affect men.
“We’re trying to get men to take care of their health,” said Member Cecil Thompson, “get them to see their doctors, do their blood tests, check for prostate cancer, things like that . “
Thompson said the big three issues men of color face are prostate cancer, diabetes, and hypertension or high blood pressure.
Springfield Police C3 Mason Square Commanding Officer, Sgt. Derek Cook said the festival embodies the meaning of his name.
“It’s about involving the community and bringing people together rather than being separated like we have been,” he said. “We are emerging from the pandemic and even with the flair people are encouraged to come out and interact and make everyone work on the same premise – together we can.”
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A Preventive Approach
Traditional medicine is too often reactive. It waits until there is a problem and treats the problems. At Maragal Medical, we believe in taking a more holistic and preventative approach to medical care, focusing on complete health. While we do help patients who are in pain, we work to identify the source of the pain, not just treat the symptom. But we also work with many patients to put them on a course of wellness before pain occurs. There are many things you could be doing now to keep your health on track before you find yourself in chronic pain. Here are some tips to get you started:
- Maintain a healthy weight: It’s well known that being obese or overweight can increase low back pain, joint pain, spinal disc problems, muscle strain, and other conditions. In fact, when your weight slips into an unhealthy range over time, the risk of degenerative disc disease increases by 30 to 79 percent. If you haven’t been focusing on healthy eating habits, that’s a great place to start. At Maragal Medical, we offer proven medical weight loss plans that can help you lose weight safely and learn to live healthy for the long term.
- Keep your balance: To help prevent falls that can lead to injuries, it’s important to get a baseline of your balance and core stability. We offer Hunova, a cutting-edge technology that has the ability to predict if you are at risk for an injury. Our team can help you use Hunova to pinpoint areas you may need to strengthen to keep injury away.
- Stay in alignment: Being in alignment helps your body heal itself in many ways, and that’s where regular chiropractic care comes into play. From improving your posture to enhancing your immune system through relieving pressure on nerves, chiropractic care is key to a wellness program. And as an added bonus, chiropractic adjustments can improve the nervous system, which repairs chemical imbalances and helps improve your mood!
Prevention is the Best Medicine
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4.20 Religious freedom is one of the few freedoms that receives some constitutional protection in Australia. Section 116 of the Australian Constitution provides:
The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.
4.21 This provision has been read narrowly by the High Court. The provision restrains the legislative power of the Commonwealth to enact laws that would establish a religion or prohibit the free exercise of religion, but does not explicitly create a personal or individual right to religious freedom. Indeed, Latham CJ stated that not all infringements of religion will be invalidated by s 116, but rather only those that exert ‘undue infringement[s] of religious freedom’.
4.22 Australian courts have considered s 116 in only a small number of cases. Those cases have concerned the meaning of ‘religion’, the ‘free exercise’ clause and the ‘establishment of a religion’.
4.23 In Krygger v Williams the High Court upheld a law requiring attendance at compulsory peacetime military training by persons who conscientiously objected to military training on religious grounds. The Court found the law requiring attendance at military training did not infringe s 116:
To require a man to do a thing which has nothing at all to do with religion is not prohibiting him from a free exercise of religion.
4.24 Section 116 is purposive in nature, being directed at laws that explicitly establish a religion or prohibit the free exercise of religion. For instance in Kruger v Commonwealth, the High Court explained that laws that indirectly prohibit the ‘free exercise’ of religion do not restrict s 116.
4.25 Given the limitations of s 116 as a protection of religious freedom, and the limited protection at common law, there is some debate about the extent to which freedom of religion is protected by Australian law.
4.26 The Commonwealth has the power to legislate with regard to ‘external affairs’ by way of implementing treaty obligations. Given the protections afforded for religious freedom in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)—to which Australia is a party—this may be seen as one way that the Australian legislature can legislate with regard to religion.
4.27 A diverse group of stakeholders noted that there is limited legal protection for religious freedom in Commonwealth law. Several of these stakeholders suggested ways to reform the law to better protect religious freedom.
4.28 The Law Society of NSW Young Lawyers advocated that religion be included as a protected attribute in Commonwealth anti-discrimination legislation.
4.29 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) submitted that there should be a ‘clear statement of legislative intent to protect freedom of religion’, modelled on art 18 of the ICCPR. While the ACL did not specify in which act this statement could be introduced, they stated their opposition to a bill of rights.
4.30 The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) advocated an amendment to the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) to require that Commonwealth legislation be interpreted in a non-discriminatory way unless it is ‘clearly stated that the government intended for the legislative provision to be discriminatory’. PIAC argued that this would ‘provide general protection for religious belief’.
Principle of legality
4.31 The principle of legality provides some protection to freedom of religion. When interpreting a statute, courts will presume that Parliament did not intend to interfere with freedom of religion, unless this intention was made unambiguously clear. McHugh JA in Canterbury Municipal Council v Moslem Alawy Society suggested that Australian courts should show restraint in upholding provisions which interfere with religious exercise:
If the ordinance is capable of a rational construction which permits persons to exercise their religion at the place where they wish to do so, I think that a court should prefer that construction to one which will prevent them from doing so.
4.32 Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines freedom of religion:
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
4.33 The ICCPR provides in art 18(i) that ‘everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion’.
4.34 The United Nations Human Rights Committee has explained that the infringement of a person’s rights under art 18 will often engage a number of other rights and freedoms protected in the ICCPR, including the right to privacy, the rights to hold opinions and freedom of expression, the right of peaceful assembly, and liberty of movement.
4.35 International instruments cannot be used to ‘override clear and valid provisions of Australian national law’. However, where a statute is ambiguous, courts will generally favour a construction that accords with Australia’s international obligations.
Bills of rights
4.36 In some countries, bills of rights or human rights statutes provide some protection to certain rights and freedoms. Bills of rights and human rights statutes protect freedom of religion in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. An example is s 15 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act, which provides:
Every person has the right to manifest that person’s religion or belief in worship, observance, practice, or teaching, either individually or in community with others, and either in public or in private.
4.37 The Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities 2006 (Vic) and the Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT) also include protection for religious freedom.
Attorney-General ex rel Black v Commonwealth (1981) 146 CLR 559, 604 (Gibbs J); Adelaide Company of Jehovah’s Witnesses Inc v Commonwealth (1943) 67 CLR 116; George Williams and David Hume, Human Rights under the Australian Constitution (OUP, 2nd ed, 2013) 268. See also Tony Blackshield, George Williams and Michael Coper (eds), Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (Oxford University Press, 2001) 93–4; Peter Radan, Denise Meyerson and Rosalind Croucher (eds), Law and Religion (Routledge, 2005) ch 4.
Adelaide Company of Jehovah’s Witnesses Inc v Commonwealth (1943) 67 CLR 116, 131.
Krygger v Williams (1915) 15 CLR 366, 369 (Griffith CJ).
Kruger v Commonwealth (1997) 190 CLR 1.
For instance, Wilson J stated that s 116 does ‘not form part of a bill of rights’: Attorney-General ex rel Black v Commonwealth (1981) 146 CLR 559, 652.
See for instance, Grace Bible Church v Reedman (1984) 36 SASR 376, 385 (Zelling J), 389 (Millhouse J).
See for instance, Carolyn Evans’s discussion of the limited protection afforded to religious freedom by the common law: Evans, above n 1, 88.
Australian Constitution s 51(xxix).
Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan, Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia, 2013) [19.20].
Law Council of Australia, Submission 75; Law Society of NSW Young Lawyers, Submission 69; Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Submission 55; Australian Christian Lobby, Submission 33; Freedom 4 Faith, Submission 23; Kingsford Legal Centre, Submission 21.
Law Society of NSW Young Lawyers, Submission 69.
Australian Christian Lobby, Submission 33.
Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Submission 55.
The principle of statutory interpretation now known as the ‘principle of legality’ is discussed more generally in Ch 1.
Church of the New Faith v Commissioner for Pay-roll Tax (Vic) (1983) 154 CLR 120, 130 (Mason ACJ, Brennan J).
Canterbury Municipal Council v Moslem Alawy Society Ltd (1985) 1 NSWLR 525, 544 (McHugh JA). See also Dennis Pearce and Robert Geddes, Statutory Interpretation in Australia (LexisNexis Butterworths, 8th ed, 2014) 228–29.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, GA Res 217A (III), UN GAOR, 3rd Sess, 183rd Plen Mtg, UN Doc A/810 (10 December 1948) art 18.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, opened for signature 16 December 1966, 999 UNTS 171 (entered into force 23 March 1976) art 18(1).
Ibid art 17.
Ibid art 19.
Ibid art 21.
Ibid art 12.
Minister for Immigration v B (2004) 219 CLR 365, (Kirby J).
Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh (1995) 183 CLR 273, 287 (Mason CJ and Deane J). The relevance of international law is discussed more generally in Ch 1.
United States Constitution amend I.
Human Rights Act 1998 (UK) c 42, sch 1 pt I, art 9(1).
Canada Act 1982 c 11 Sch B Pt 1 (Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms).
New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (NZ) s 15.
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BUHARI: 100 Days And The Governance System
SINCE the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, to the imminent 100 days in office, no doubts, the financial system’s landscape has taken clear shots — good or bad. And three things have been outstanding for the sector.
First, the announcement of the results and peaceful conceding of power by the immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, sent positive sentiments to the global business community in two ways — that the continuity of the country is assured as opposed to speculated “doom”; and that the endemic corruption in the system would be tamed.
The first economic segment to get the message was the interbank foreign exchange market, especially, the parallel market (black market), as the naira instantly appreciated to record N185/$ notwithstanding the devalued rate of N199/$, on anticipation of improved transparency in the process. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before the market dynamics overturned the gains, but generally, the system has not been as usual.
The second is the heightened tension over the lack of economic blueprint or assessed tacit economic direction, which is manifest in the delay in constituting a cabinet for the government, including some strategic appointments that have raised controversy over their legality.
Stakeholders and experts in the financial system have associated uncertainty to the development and alleged that investments both foreign and domestic worth billions of dollars are on the sideline, as investors are still playing cautious game, especially in the financial markets.
Perhaps, more intriguing, as it remains mostly untested since its emergence is the Treasury Single Account (TSA), with its avalanche of expected benefits to the economy against anticipated implementation hitches, together with legal challenges that might emerge.
Already, the market capitalisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has plunged by N353 billion since Buhari’s inauguration, as investors continue to react to the absence of a policy direction.
To be fair, President Buhari’s performance in his first 100 days are more apparent in two keys areas, anti-corruption and war against insurgents in the North-East, where he seems to have taken personal charge. The economy on the other hand has received little of the President’s attention hence the need for him to urgently constitute an Economic Management Team to steer the Nigerian economy away from an imminent slowdown.
Currently, the report of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicated that in the second quarter of 2015, Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 2.35 per cent (year-on-year) in real terms.
This is lower by 1.61 per cent points from the growth recorded in the preceding quarter and also lower by 4.19 per cent points from growth recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2014. For the oil sector, oil production stood at 2.05 million barrels per day; 5.9 per cent lower than production in Q1 of 2015.
Oil production was also lower relative to the corresponding quarter in 2014 by 7.3 per cent when output was recorded at 2.21mbpd. For the non-oil sector, growth was largely driven by the activities of trade, crop production, construction and telecommunications. The non-oil sector grew by 3.46 per cent in real terms in Q2 of 2015.
This was 2.13 per cent points lower from Q1 of 2015 and 3.26 per cent points lower from the corresponding quarter in 2014. The statistics for July and August are not yet out, but may likely maintain the status quo and portray an economy that is no longer growing at the previous high levels.
The Head of Research at Afrinvest Securities Limited, Ayodeji Eboh, said Buhari’s victory at the 2015 polls amid groundswell optimism was made possible by a combination of factors- the right-wing socialist campaign promises; the integrity perception about him; and an oft-repeated anti-corruption campaign mantra, as well as widespread public disaffection against the previous administration.
Eboh noted that although several policy documents were released, the bulk of the promises fall under three categories — security of lives and properties; economic prosperity and job creation; and fight against corruption.
Winning has, however, been the easy part, as the administration’s performance across the three highlighted areas may have fallen short of the high public expectations.
The administration’s anti-corruption drive has largely been piecemeal with no clear strategy mapped out, while no major milestone is yet to be recorded in terms of assets recovery or prosecution of alleged corrupt political office holders. “However, some major structural and institutional actions to deepen transparency have been taken.
The directives to Ministries, Departments and Agencies on TSA implementation and restructuring efforts being taken to reposition the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation as a more transparent and accountable profit-driven corporation are major highlights of these institutional efforts. “The recent composition of an anti-corruption advisory team may be a signal of things to come, but we would advocate for more institutional reforms with long-term benefits in government transparency and accountability, including the judiciary reforms.”
He pointed out that the investment community is yet to gain certainty on the economic policy framework of the Buhari administration, as reforms have been stalled by the absence of cabinet ministers needed to formulate, articulate and manage them.
For the Abuja-based development consultant and Executive Director of OJA Development Consult, Jide Ojo, assessing the government in this short period evokes mixed feelings, although the President may have recorded some progress in some areas, he’s yet to take off in many other areas of governance.
According to him, although the change of leadership of some Federal Government’s key and economic agencies like the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Nigerian Ports Authority, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria is not unexpected, it is commendable.
The Department of Petroleum Resources tough stance on oil retailers has led to the sales of petroleum at the official price of N87 in most of the fuel stations where it was sold above the approved price. “The fight against corruption is also yielding positive results as the President is canvassing and receiving diplomatic support around the world.
The TSA order is also a positive step, as it will ensure greater probity, transparency and accountability in the collection, disbursement and utilisation of national funds. “The President’s approval of the United Nation’s Environmental Programme on Ogoniland presents a lot of economic value as it will help boost economic activities in the affected communities when the remediation programmes must have been concluded,” he said.
Ojo however noted that the president would have achieved more in the first 100 days if he had appointed his aides and lieutenants. “Belatedly, he just appointed his Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Federal Government. Still, his cabinet is yet to come.
This is a big minus for the administration. The uncertainty over economic blueprint is affecting quests for foreign direct investments,” he said.
The Lead Director of Centre for Social Justice, Eze Onyekpere, said given the state of the economy inherited by the new administration and 100 days measurement, it is a difficult task to assess economic performance of the government, which in “simple term, is still studying what it took over from the previous government.”
According to him, the government has failed to make any major policy pronouncements since assumption of office and at best, being run with the policies of the previous administration. “There seems to be a policy vacuum, which has created some level of uncertainty about the economic policy direction of the new government. This has made planning and projections very difficult for economic actors in all spheres of national life,” he said.
To him, the difficulty in assessment is also accentuated by the declining oil prices- being the mainstay of the economy as the major foreign exchange earner and source of revenue to the three tiers of government.
But how will the economy grow or employment improve when government has not invested in capital projects contained in the 2015 Appropriation Act, while the operating environment for the private sector is filled with strong headwinds? “It is on record that not a single kobo has been released for capital projects in the year 2015.
What is not clear is whether the non-release of funds is due to the paucity of funds or operational reasons associated with the change of government,” he said.
The fiscal governance activist, however, applauded the appointment of Babatunde Fowler as the new chairperson of the Federal Inland Revenue Services, saying it is a step in the right direction, considering his sterling performance that raised internally generated revenue of Lagos State from less than N4 billion monthly to about N23 billion monthly. “In all these developments, what is clear is that President Buhari-led administration needs to unfold its economic policy direction now and as a matter of urgency, to give policy direction to economic actors,” he added.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Cowry Asset Management Limited, Johnson Chukwu, noted that President Buhari’s economic performance in his first 100 days in office, might not be completely accurate to use the uptick in unemployment by 69 per cent and drop in GDP growth rate to 2.35 per cent in the second quarter of 2015 as published by the National Bureau of Statistics.
According to him, he was only in the office for one of the three months that make up the quarter and the second quarter was a period of near hiatus in governance at the federal level, with a defeated party presiding over affairs for two months and the new government trying to settle in the remaining month.
In terms of policy decisions/pronouncements, the absence of an Executive Council has meant that there have been few categorical statements on key policy areas such as the economy, health, education, agriculture.
This dearth of policy direction has naturally led to withholding of investment decisions by both local and foreign investors, which will in turn lead to further slowdown in economic growth. “To be fair, President Buhari’s performance in his first 100 days are more apparent in two keys areas, anti-corruption and war against insurgents in the North-East, where he seems to have taken personal charge.
The economy on the other hand has received little of the President’s attention hence the need for him to urgently constitute an Economic Management Team to steer the Nigerian economy away from an imminent slowdown.
This is more so in view of the current upheaval in the global economic space due to a slowdown in China’s economic growth and the attendant crash in commodity prices with crude oil- Nigeria’s main export commodity, dropping below $40 per barrel,” he said. | <urn:uuid:90f34f12-71f5-49ff-9b3f-7efc8c455fb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://guardian.ng/lead-story/buhari-100-days-and-the-governance-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967346 | 2,238 | 1.523438 | 2 |
As the name suggests, prostate cancer is a group of abnormal cells that grow and affect a man’s prostate. The cancer may affect other parts of the body, including the urinary system. And the affected urinary system will cause a number of consequences.
Prostate is a vital organ of men. It has crucial function to create fluids that maintain and transport sperm. Therefore when it is no longer to work optimal, this can affect the reproductive system. But since prostate cancer is more likely to occur in elderly men (older than 50-65 years of age), the issue of infertility is usually not the major concern.
How common is prostate cancer?
It is one of common cancers found in men, which is also the major health concern for men, though it is rare in men who younger than 50 years of age.
Worldwide, the statistics of this cancer varies. It is pretty rare in some countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia – but it is more common in elderly men of African-American (this group also has the highest statistic of death rate) [reference].
Like most things in cancer, early early detection of the disease will play a role for the prognosis and outcome of patients. At early stage, it is relatively easier to treat than when it is diagnosed at advanced stages.
The good news, most cases of this cancer in the U.S (about 85 percent) are now able to be diagnosed earlier before it becomes advanced.
The anatomy of prostate
Prostate, a walnut-sized gland organ is located between the penis and the bladder. Another important organ called rectum, is located in the back of prostate.
Between the penis and the bladder, a urethra lines through the center of the prostate. This urethra has crucial function to support the male urinary system, it is responsible to help regulate and let the urine flow out.
As written before, prostate is crucial for the male reproductive system. It is important to secretes fluids that nourish & protect the sperms.
A number of health conditions can affect the prostate, cancer is one them. Other health problems that often affect the way of prostate to work, such as benign prostatic hypertrophy (often described as enlarged prostate) and prostatitis (a kind of inflammation that affects prostate).
So, how does the cancer of prostate affect the male urinary system? Keep reading!
The anatomy of male urinary system – how does it work?
The bladder and kidneys are two crucial organs to create urine and then waste it out. How do they work?
As well we know, kidneys have function to filter and clean the blood. It filters unnecessary things (including excess water and waste products) from blood which then turn them into urine.
Then urine is distributed to the bladder. There are some small tubes called ureters that line from the kidneys to the bladder. These tubes are vital to transfer urine from kidneys to bladder. In the bladder, the urine is temporarily stored.
From the bladder, urine is then distributed through a small tube called urethra. Once the urine enters urethra, it will be wasted when you pee.
From these explanations, it seems there is no a direct role of the prostate in regulating your urine cycle. But how does prostate cancer affect the way of your urinary system to work?
So, how does prostate cancer affect the male urinary system?
There is always a chance for all kinds of cancer to spread. And once they spread, there will be more complications you have.
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When a Text is a Song: Translating Kabir Oral Traditions in North India
The towering figure of Kabir, arguably South Asia’s best known early-modern poet, is ambiguously located between Hindu and Muslim cultures. He retains a powerful presence in the religious and social life of India and Pakistan today — through oral and musical performance even more than by means of any written text. In this talk Linda Hess (Stanford University) will reflect on what it means to translate Kabir from Hindi/Urdu into English. But more than that, she will explore as sites of translation the shifts that occur across oral, written, performative, and media divides wherever Kabir is intoned.
Linda Hess is Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies at Stanford University. For many years a celebrated translator of Kabir, she has worked closely with the filmmaker Shabnam Virmani to generate The Kabir Project.
This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Translation Studies thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation, and by the Barnard College Department of Religion. Free and open to the public. No registration or reservations are necessary.
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Photo by Smriti Chanchani.
Photo depicts Shabnam Virmani, filmmaker, singer and media creator, of Bangalore, in concert with Prahlad Singh Tipanya, renowned folk singer and Kabir specialist from the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh.
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Code-Aster and the Salome Platform are both based on the scripting language Python. Thus, Python can be used to accelerate repetitive tasks and to expand the functionality of Salome and of Code-Aster.
Some examples of what we can offer You using Python:
- creation or adaption of mesh- and output-translators to interface Code-Aster to other tools
- parameter studies by looping over Code-Aster commands
- parameter optimization by looping over Code-Aster commands
- parametric geometry modeling: fully automated looping over creating a parameter driven geometry, meshing, analysis, postprocessing and generating result plots
- debug Code-Aster commands
- extract data structures of Code-Aster, process them with numerical tools as Numpy
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has now classified compulsive sexual behavior—commonly called sex addiction—as a mental health disorder.
While the impacts of sex addiction have long affected relationships, it is now included in WHO's International Classification Diseases list (known as ICD-11).
WHO defines "compulsive sexual behavior disorder" as a "persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges resulting in repetitive sexual behavior."
The condition occurs when someone's sexual behavior becomes a "central focus of the person's life to the point of neglecting health and personal care or other interests, activities and responsibilities."
The person may not even get any pleasure from the repeated sexual activity.
Five percent of the population may be affected by sex addiction, according to some regional and local surveys. Dr. Timothy Fong, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California says that would mean more people struggle with this issue than with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or pathological gambling.
Tennessee Senator Mae Beavers also noted that Washington State studies link sex addiction with crime. As recently as 2004, 24.7 percent of convicted murderers in Washington said pornography was a trigger for their crimes.
WHO's announcement echoes the proclamations of 10 states (Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee and Utah) declaring pornography as a public health crisis.
A Time for Action in the Church
"The fact that states are beginning to recognize pornography as a public health hazard, underscores what the Bible has been clear upon—sexual sin is destructive not only spiritually, but also emotionally and physically," said Jay Dennis, a Baptist pastor for 38 years and the leader of Wingman Men's Ministry. "Identifying pornography as a public health hazard presents factual information to those outside of Christianity that this is not just a spiritual battle, it is a health issue facing every person."
"This presents an opportunity for the church to begin broaching the subject of pornography, the No. 1 moral issue every church is facing," Dennis said. "It's time to speak up and be the moral authority and allow the states to verify that fact. We must pray that every state will have the courage to enact legislation to show pornography's destructive harm."
"It's the only issue that I think can bring people of faith and moral concern together," Dennis continued. "The beauty of this is that is involving everyone. And I don't know of any other subject in our culture that could do this. And we better not blow it as the church. You're seeing culture say to the church, 'You'd better deal with this.'"
How Is the Church Responding?
Sadly, pornography addiction remains a topic that the church continues to avoid confronting. Churches frequently run programs on finances, theology, parenting and even other addictions. However, when the subject of sex or pornography comes up, church leadership doesn't seem interested.
In a 2016 Barna Group research study commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministry, church leadership indicated that this problem is much bigger than it was 20 years ago, yet only 7 percent of pastors said they have a ministry program for those struggling with porn.
But the subject is not going to simply go away. "Pornography has become the cancer that nobody wishes to speak about," said Uriah Stark of National Decency Coalition. "Almost everyone has been personally impacted by porn or knows someone who has."
Church leaders need to acknowledge the problem has infiltrated their churches and equip their congregations to recognize and boldly fight it.
Unfortunately, many church leaders may have their own struggle with pornography. This drastically affects their ministry as they become paralyzed by the shame of their addiction.
According to a study by Pure Desire Ministries, over 50 percent of pastors regularly view pornography. A Barna Group Study reveals that 87 percent of pastors who use porn feel a great sense of shame about it. Fifty-five percent of pastors who use porn say they live in constant fear of being discovered.
There Is Hope and Help
There is a valuable resource helping leaders stand up to pornography addiction in their church and lead men to victory. The Conquer Series is a cinematic, DVD study that includes powerful testimonies, exciting interviews and battle reenactments that deliver engaging messages.
Each DVD is 30-45 minutes long and provides solid biblical teaching and encourages stimulating discussion after the video. Study guides and a journal help the men dig deeper and stay focused on becoming free from their porn struggle.
You don't have to wait for your leaders to start the Conquer Series in your church. Men are standing up and running the series themselves if their church won't do it.
Either way—with your church group or by yourself—victory over your pornography addiction is available. Determine today that you will accept the challenge. Take the first steps towards becoming the man of sexual integrity and freedom you desire to be.
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How to Achieve Writing Success
As you may have already known, the writing test is one of the most difficult sections in the IELTS exam. I have used a wide variety of teaching approaches and lessons just to help my students increase their chance in passing this section. I came across this article about the tips in passing the writing test. These tips have already helped many test takers become successful in taking the writing exam. I thought it would be helpful to have it here and share it with you. I also recommend some of these tips to my students in addition to the techniques that I’ve learned through the years of my teaching career. Check this out:
Quick tips for IELTS Writing success | IELTS tips
I’ve found that many candidates feel that the Writing test can be quite hard to practise for if you are preparing for the IELTS completely by yourself. A lot of people find it difficult to see where they are going wrong when they look through their own practice tests.
A lot of candidates have suggested getting an English-speaking friend to look through any Writing exercises you do and to give you feedback.
You can also get together with other people taking IELTS. You can swap and mark each other’s Writing tests and try to give feedback. Via ieltspractice.com
During my years of teaching experience, I have learned a lot of things and one is that students just need a little push in addition to providing them with the knowledge and techniques. It helps them persevere and work harder before and during the test. You can check out some more posts about IELTS Singapore here in the coming days. | <urn:uuid:7b8303f0-c0ff-46b1-ac60-102787a611f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ieltssingapore.com/achieve-writing-success/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973605 | 339 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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Spring 2005, pages 65 - 92Paul's Conscious Use of the Ad Herennium's "Complete Argument"
ABSTRACT: This study provides substantive evidence that in composing 1 Corinthians Paul made conscious use of the Complete Argument as reported in the Rhetorica ad Herennium. This cross-cultural strategy of reasoning, in combination with Semitic structures of symmetrical reasoning, is employed to analyze the argument of 1 Corinthians 14, providing methodological criteria for accepting the modern tradition-critical thesis that the admonition silencing women in Corinth (1 Cor. 14 33b-35) is not original to Paul's epistolary argumentation. The study suggests the need for greater attention to the role of the Complete Argument as a strategy of cross-cultural persuasion in Greco-Roman epistolary literature while also providing an example of rhetorical criticism employed in the evaluative task of tradition-textual criticism. | <urn:uuid:26ce801f-16ad-4168-92f6-58a4e4103f91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/pt/sd/news_article/10006/layout_details/layout_details/false | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.861149 | 194 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms: A Regional Investigation
23 Pages Posted: 21 Apr 2009
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the distinction between competences and capabilities adopted in this paper seems appropriate for going beyond the rather simplistic dichotomy of 'innovative' versus 'non-innovative' firms commonly used in interpreting CIS data. Secondly, we find that the analysis for the UK as a whole masks stark regional differences in terms of intra- and extra-region collaborative linkages and degrees of firms' technological capabilities. These findings may be useful to help policy making to meet the priorities highlighted within the UK Government's framework for Science & Technology.
Keywords: cooperation for innovation, technological capabilities, firms, regions
JEL Classification: O30, R12
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Limit this section to one hundred fifty five characters in order that the complete description will present up in the search engine snippet. You want to give individuals a purpose to go to your Facebook page time and again, and a method to try this is by sharing exclusive offers together with your Facebook fans. For example, these provides might be small discounts, free trials or product giveaways. However, they must be supplied exclusively to your Facebook audience.
For example, the supervisor has full permission to edit the page, its content and different admins, while the Insight Analyst can see only page Insights, or statistics concerning your page. In the tip, building a Facebook Business Page allows you to faucet into the world of social media advertising, construct your brand, and broaden your reach. This starter information should have you ever up and running very quickly at all. CREATE A USERNAME –Creating a straightforward-to-keep in mind username will help brand your Page. Typically, it should be your business name, if it’s not already taken. A free service, likeNamechekr,might help you search for available usernames on Facebook and other social networking sites. It exhibits up everytime you touch upon posts and helps prospects establish your brand.
Social Media Advertising Via Facebook Is Cheap
Here, you can see sure ‘call to actions’ you could pick in your Facebook business page. This consists of “Shop now”, “Sign up”, “Book Now”, “Play Game”, “Use App”, “Watch Video”, and “Contact Us”. One of these could be integrated on your page fairly easily. Facebook touts itself on this case as defending small businesses, and that couldn’t be further from the reality. Facebook has locked them right into a state of affairs by which they’re forced to be sneaky and opposed to their very own prospects. The reply can’t be to defend that damaged system at the cost of their very own users’ privacy and control. small companies), and what Facebook stands to lose if its users learn more about exactly what it and different information brokers are up to behind the scenes.
On September 15, 2020, Facebook launched a climate science data centre to advertise authoritative voices on local weather change and supply entry of “factual and up-to-date” data on climate science. The Children’s Health Defense / World Mercury Project chaired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Stop Mandatory Vaccination, run by campaigner Larry Cook, posted fifty four% of the ads. The advertisements often linked to business merchandise, corresponding to pure remedies and books. In August 2018, a lawsuit was filed in Oakland, California claiming that Facebook created faux accounts to be able to inflate its consumer knowledge and appeal to advertisers within the course of. In May 2018 at F8, the company introduced it might offer its own courting service. Facebook Dating includes privateness features and pals are unable to view their friends’ courting profile.
Your Facebook Profile Image
“Facebook launches new advert campaign to convince iPhone customers to allow ad tracking”. In 2008, Collins English Dictionary declared “Facebook” as its new Word of the Year. In December 2009, the New Oxford American Dictionary declared its word of the yr to be the verb “unfriend”, defined as “To take away somebody as a ‘good friend’ on a social networking website such as Facebook”.
Just me minding my business. I got this from Facebook lol pic.twitter.com/YCAOfwD1Wr
— Stephanie 🌻 (@stephdlu) March 6, 2021
Most folks affiliate Followers with the number of Likes a Page receives, however they’re truly two different metrics. People that Like a Page will mechanically observe it, however you can even choose to unfollow a Page and still Like it and vice versa. There’s also an choice to export Page-, submit-, or video-specific knowledge over a customized date range. Taking advantage of the analytics out there for your Facebook business Page is necessary for a business to achieve right now’s digital landscape. Keep in mind you could report a Recommendation for removal if it doesn’t comply with Facebook’s Community Standards or give attention to the product or service supplied by the business.
Facebook’s Business Segments
The three rejected employees together with the Operational Manager at Facebook as of March 2021 accused the agency of discriminating against Black people. In many countries the social networking websites and cellular apps have been blocked temporarily or completely, including China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. In May 2018, the government of Papua New Guinea announced that it would ban Facebook for a month while it considered the impression of the web site on the country, although no ban has since occurred. In 2019, Facebook announced that influencers are not in a position to promote any vape, tobacco products, or weapons on its platforms. Over the interval, the share of customers under 34 declined to less than half of the total. The highest number of Facebook customers as of October 2018 are from India and the United States, adopted by Indonesia, Brazil and Mexico. Region-wise, the very best variety of customers are from Asia-Pacific followed by Europe and US-Canada .
- You can also group assets into a line of business to leverage Facebook’s new attribution software.
- If you haven’t already, you’ll be prompted to sign into Facebook at this level.
- In addition, you could have the option to add folks or assign one or a number of pixels to a specific companion, advert account or line of business.
- Now, customers can show their love, anger, laughter, and more.
On April three, 2013, Facebook unveiled Facebook Home, a user-interface layer for Android devices providing greater integration with the location. Half of the location’s membership used Facebook every day, for a mean of 34 minutes, while one hundred fifty million users accessed the site from mobile devices. A company representative called the milestone a “quiet revolution.” In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc. (an change for privately held corporations’ shares), Facebook’s value was $41 billion. The firm had slightly surpassed eBay to become the third largest American net firm after Google and Amazon.com.
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Did you know, though, that there is a pretty main difference between Facebook advertisements manager and business manager? The wonderful world of Facebook can get complicated for some, so we thought we’d cover these two kinds of accounts within the platform that we make the most of essentially the most. Instead of accessing your small business or group’s page from facebook.com, you will go to business.facebook.com in your browser, that is where your new dashboard will be located. A Business Manager account is restricted to a business not a private profile, that means just one particular person from your business or organization must create a business supervisor account for the business. All other admins could be added and allowed to manage the account by the account creator.
Also, if the Instagram business account is linked to a Facebook page, you’ll have to switch that as well. These accounts are neatly categorised underneath the business settings along with every account proprietor’s name. Read more about facebook business username examples here. You can simply filter these accounts based mostly on who owns or manages them, by way of the four filters — Advertising for Partner, Owned by Partner, Advertised for Self, or Owned by Self. If that particular page is linked to an Instagram business account, you’d additionally have to add this account to your Facebook Business Manager. So, basically, Facebook’s goal is to centralize the control over all Facebook and Instagram assets via the Facebook Business Manager.
Promote Your Facebook Page In Your Website
When you’re satisfied that every little thing is in place, it’s time to publish your page and start posting. Click on Settings in the high navigation bar and open the Page Visibility row in General Settings. Change the visibility to Page Published and click Save Changes. You can add a menu, showcase awards you’ve received, and even add a description of the merchandise you offer. Be certain to use all options that make sense on your unique presence, and keep in mind you possibly can at all times go back to add issues or make modifications. There are just some more issues to do earlier than you publish your page and start posting. This gives you a listing of pages and individuals who like your page.
The proper CTA button will encourage visitors to study extra about your corporation, shop, download your app, or book an appointment. Facebook’s built-in CTA button makes it very straightforward to provide the patron what they’re in search of, including allowing them to interact with your corporation in actual life. Here’s a quick video overview of the steps you possibly can take to optimize your Facebook business page. Your Facebook business page now represents a sturdy on-line presence that may make potential clients and followers feel comfy interacting with you. It’s time to hit that massive green Publish Page button within the left-hand menu. More detail, about https://blog.hootsuite.com/steps-to-create-a-facebook-business-page/ , you can visit here. Make certain that no matter you publish presents worth in your guests once they arrive at your Facebook page, so that they’ll be inclined to stay round. If your business is open to the general public during specific hours, enter those here.
How To Create A Facebook Story On A Business Page
The reason cited was the storage of password as plain text as a substitute of encryption which could possibly be learn by its employees. Facebook also carried out additional privacy controls and settings partially to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation , which took effect in May. Facebook additionally ended its lively opposition to the California Consumer Privacy Act. Finally, we’ll remind you which apps you’ve got given entry to your data – so you can shut off the ones you don’t want anymore. We’re additionally investigating every single app that had access to large quantities of knowledge before we fastened this. And once we find them, we are going to ban them and inform everybody affected. Facebook was accused of committing ‘systemic’ racial bias by EEOC based mostly on the complaints of three rejected candidates and a present employee of the company.
A cover photo along with your brand or imagery that’s relevant to your services is a good start, however a canopy picture of your group onerous at work could be even higher. You have to have interaction with others to get them to interact with you. With that in thoughts, increase past your page by interacting with others. Social proof is the idea that, as a larger variety of individuals do one thing, other individuals will be part of them. In different words, one particular person doing one thing has a ripple impact of extra folks doing the identical.
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It should categorical your Page’s id and could be up to date often primarily based on special offerings, campaigns, or seasons. Think of your profile image as your first impression, and make sure to choose something immediately recognizable . If you’re a speaker or public figure, go together with a favourite headshot. Local restaurants or shops might select an image of their most popular providing. If you’ve decided to build a Facebook Page for your corporation, you’ve made the right alternative.
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Your App is most probably not public and and you should undergo the evaluate course of first – with all of the permissions you want. The Facebook account that I wish to connect to Instagram account has the authorisation more than editor. Critics say such techniques quash competitors and could limit viable options for shoppers wanting, for example, for comparable providers that do much less tracking for focused advertising. “Facebook is wrong on the legislation and incorrect on our grievance,” James stated in an announcement to FOX Business. Onto you now, what different strategies have you ever used to develop your business with Facebook?
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New research is providing the framework for scientists to predict the behavior of disordered strands of proteins and polymers, which could lead to new materials made of synthetic polymers.
A research team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Amherst, has found a way to read the patterns in long chains of molecules. This discovery helps them better understand the physics behind the precise sequence of charged monomers along the chain, as well as how the pattern affects the polymer’s ability to create complex coacervates—self-assembling liquid materials.
“The thing that I think is exciting about this work is that we’re taking inspiration from a biological system,” Charles Sing, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois, said in a statement. “The typical picture of a protein shows that it folds into a very precise structure. This system, however, is based around intrinsically disordered proteins.”
According to Sing, most synthetic polymers do not interact with very specific binding partners, unlike structured proteins. Synthetic polymers tend to react with a wide range of molecules in their surroundings.
The team discovered that the precise sequence of the monomers along a protein does in fact matter.
“It has been obvious to biophysicists that sequence makes a big difference if they are forming a very precise structure,” Sing said. “As it turns out, it also makes a big difference if they are forming imprecise structures.”
The researchers believe that by knowing the sequence of polymers and monomers and the charge associated with them even in unstructured proteins, they can predict the physical properties of the complex molecules.
“While researchers have known that if they put different charges different places in one of these intrinsically disordered proteins, the actual thermodynamic properties change,” Sing said. “What we are able to show is that you can actually change the strength of this by changing it on the sequence very specifically. There are cases here that by changing the sequence by just a single monomer [a single link in that chain], it can drastically change how these things are able to form. We have also proven that we can predict the outcome.”
The researchers are ultimately hoping to advance the design of smart materials, which was the subject of previous research they conducted in 2017.
“Our earlier paper showed that these sequences matter, this one shows why they matter,” Sing said. “The first showed that different sequences give different properties in complex coacervation. What we’re able to now do is use a theory to actually predict why they behave this way.”
The new discovery could be particularly valuable for biophysicists, bioenegineers and material scientists, who can understand a broad class of proteins and tune them to modify their behavior. It also gives them a new way to control the material to cause it to assemble into very complicated structures or produce membranes that precisely filter out contaminants in water.
The researchers hope to develop a method to predict the physical behaviors by just reading the sequence, enabling the design of new smart materials.
“This in some sense is bringing biology and synthetic polymers closer together,” Sing said. “For example, at the end of the day, there is not a major difference in the chemistry between proteins and nylon. Biology is using that information to instruct how life happens. If you can put in the identify of these various links specifically, that’s valuable information for a number of other applications.” | <urn:uuid:2f2971f4-f788-4701-909b-a6a1848cc739> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rdworldonline.com/better-insight-into-disordered-polymers-could-yield-new-materials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957676 | 741 | 3.59375 | 4 |
- Speaker: Prof. Martin Trauth (University of Potsdam)
- Title: Northern hemisphere glaciation, African climate and human evolution
- Reference: DOI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107095
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The MOE issued the Teaching Reform Guidelines for Physical Education and Health (for trial implementation) as part of an effort to implement requirements on improving physical education in the new era emanating from the National Education Conference 2021. The Guidelines contain the main tasks involved in deepening the reform of PE teaching in primary and secondary schools, and set out organizational safeguards, implementation plans, and supervision and evaluation mechanisms.
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On the northern tip of Bainbridge Island in Washington State, a 35-minute ferry ride from Seattle, lies Bloedel Reserve, 150 acres of public gardens created by Prentice and Virginia Bloedel in the mid-20th century.
Bloedel reluctantly inherited his father’s timber business about that time, then turned the company into a conservation-minded business. The Yale graduate ran his factories off of sawdust rather than oil, and invented the Duraflame log.
“He was really thinking about things further ahead,” said Ed Moydell, executive director at the non-profit group that oversees the reserve. “He purchased this property in 1951and moved in 1953. It’s all a testament to his relationship to nature.”
Bloedel and his wife initially would live in a home on the property designed in the French Chateau style by Pacific Northwest master architect J. Lister Holmes in 1931.
“Mr. Bloedel had polio, and in creating this reserve, it was designed to make you feel better,” he said. “There’s a certain amount of inspiration here – many people think of this as a therapeutic landscape. The idea is to slow down and take stock of the beauty of the natural environment.”
Legendary architect Paul Haden Kirk designed a Japanese guest house for the property in the 1960s. At less than 1,000 square feet, with two bedrooms, with kitchen and bath, it was to become a weekend getaway for the Bloedel children and guests. Today, it hosts private functions among recently restored Japanese gardens.
Landscape architect Geoffrey Rausch, who’s also responsible for the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, developed a master plan for circulation among gardens and forest in 1988. “It’s a choreographed experience of different experiences designed to bring different responses from visitors,” Moydell said. “It’s not a traditional garden – there are no labels for the plantings. It’s a living piece of art.”
In 1992, after the death of his wife, Bloedel invited architect Jim Cutler to design the Virginia Merrill Bloedell Education Center on the property. Construction began in 1994. Today, both of the couple’s ashes are interred near the center. The 1,300 square-foot structure later became the executive director’s house, but now is a public facility rented used by non-profits, visiting scholars and architects.
Bloedel Reserve hosted a record-breaking 29,000 visitors last year. In mid-March, it will be part of a weekend-long architecture tour sponsored by AIA Seattle. This cluster of events, produced by GEM, LLC, stretches out over three days, from a gala reception on Friday evening, March 18, to a design conference on Saturday, with two separate tours on Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20.
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Throughout the past decade, the idea of "doing good" has gone mainstream. More people than ever are becoming involved with social causes, and companies are quickly following suit by ramping up their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. While this heightened social awareness is nothing new, a trend has surfaced recently that captures the hearts of millions around the word: The rise of social movements inspired by children.
Working at the Public Interest Registry -- the nonprofit organization that manages the .ORG domain globally -- I am increasingly aware of the many causes on .ORG that have amazing stories to tell. Specifically, our team often notices a growing crop of organizations emerging from the selfless acts of young kids. These children inspire hundreds of thousands to support their causes, raising millions of dollars, and positively changing the lives of countless individuals worldwide. A few recent examples include:
- Rachel Beckwith's charity: water fundraising campaign: Upon learning that many children don't live past the age of five due to limited access to clean water, Rachel set a goal to raise $300 (in lieu of 9th birthday gifts) to supply this vital resource to poor Africans through charity: water. Though Rachel tragically passed away in a car accident before she could reach her ultimate goal, friends and strangers alike who were inspired by her altruism, picked up where she left off and drove over $1 million in donations to her campaign.
While it's obvious why these extreme acts of kindness tug at heartstrings around the world, I can't help wonder why these kids are thinking about social issues at such a young age. Perhaps the driving factor stems from children now seeing examples of philanthropy everywhere they turn -- from school fundraisers that involve even pre-school kids to hearing mom and dad donate that extra dollar to a cause at the grocery checkout. As giving back is increasingly the norm, a sense of altruism has trickled down to a much younger generation and become integrated into children's lives from the start. Whether it's donating toys they pick out at the local toy store to Toys-for-Tots during the holidays or asking for donations to charity: water instead of birthday gifts, children want to better understand how they can make a positive impact on the world.
Which begs my next question: How it's possible that a single child can make such a widespread impact on the world? I chalk-up the success of these movements to three key ingredients: Technology, simplicity and community support. Technology is arguably the single-most important factor that enabled these children's causes to reach the masses. Traditional campaign websites and online donation tools, coupled with the real-time and viral nature of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social networking platforms, enabled these touching stories to spread far and wide, and quickly.
Don't underestimate the simplicity of these ideas, either. In each of the three examples I mentioned, the goals of each cause are crystal clear, and the tactics used to reach them couldn't be simpler. After all, can you think of a more elementary idea for fundraising than setting up a lemonade stand? In addition, it doesn't hurt that by nature, children are kindhearted, innocent and lacking in cynicism. These qualities lead them to believe, and rightfully so, that no goal is unachievable and no task or donation too small.
Lastly, these young individuals' philanthropic movements wouldn't be successful without the support of their families and communities. However, it isn't simply that they had a support system in place -- from parents and extended family to teachers and church members -- that they could lean on if needed. These children's supporters truly believed that they could make a difference and consequently empowered them with the necessary time, resources and energy to advance their missions.
These are just a few of many examples of how children leading and inspiring movements raised the bar for giving across the world, kick-starting a surge in youth leading the charge for social change. Such examples show that with passion, clear objectives and the support of a community, anyone -- no matter how young or old -- can make a difference.
So the next time you feel that a goal is just too lofty, think of Rachel Beckwith, Alex Scott and Macallan Durkin. I hope their efforts are an inspiration to all, and I look forward to seeing how the courageous efforts of other children shape the world of giving in the years ahead. | <urn:uuid:a17cc449-423f-4f01-8e88-333999f05538> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/children-inspiring-social-movements_b_1397244 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958475 | 888 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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In early September, officials warned residents of the rural communities of the Ka'ohe Homestead and Pahoa on Hawaii's Big Island, that they might have to evacuate their homes because they were in the course of the hot lava that has been spewing from the Kilauea volcano since June.
Since then, the lava has veered slightly north, alleviating the risk for the Ka'ohe Homestead, but putting the 950 residents of Pahoa directly in its path. Though it has taken a lot longer than experts had thought, evacuations now appear imminent as the 2,100°F river of molten rock continues to advance slowly but surely towards the small town.
So far, it has swallowed up fences, covered up a cemetery and even set a wooden garden shed on fire. And as of Tuesday, October 28th, it was just 200 yards from the closest home. The good news is that the slow languid pace at which the lava is moving, has provided residents with enough time to relocate to a different area of the Island.
However, there are a few that are waiting till the last minute on the off chance that the goddess Pele, who they believe resides at Kilauea, will reroute the lava away from their homes. In order to try persuade them to leave and also prevent people from getting too close to the smoldering rock, the Hawaiian National Guard deployed 83 troops to Pahoa on Thursday, October 30th.
Those that are not directly in its path are concerned about becoming isolated from the rest of the Island. That's because the lava is heading directly toward a portion of Highway 130, the only major road in and out of Pahoa. If it crosses over, many residents will be unable to even get to the only supermarket that lies a mile away from the town center.
In order to assist them, the Hawaiian County Civil Defense has rebuilt two gravel roads that can be used as optional escape routes if necessary. To ensure that the residents do not lose power, the local utility company has raised the cables off the surface of the road with the help of 70-foot-tall heat resistant poles.
Given that little can be done about this uncontrollable natural phenomenon, most residents are calm about the situation. Though hoping for a miracle, they are also aware that the chances of losing their homes are very real. Should that happen, most are planning to return and rebuild their lives in Pahoa.
While that may seem strange to the rest of the world, it makes perfect sense to the locals. That's because many Hawaiians think the lava flow has been instigated by the goddess Pele, who resides inside Kilauea. Some believe it is because she wants to visit her sister Namakaokahai, the sea goddess, while others maintain that the lava has been sent to cleanse their abodes. Hopefully, the deity will show some mercy and divert the path of the molten rock, before it scorches their homes and businesses.
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New Delhi: Looking to boost financial inclusion in the digital age, government think-tank Niti Aayog has proposed a data-sharing framework that will allow small businesses and individuals to secure bank loans based on their online data without collateral.
Under the proposed system, Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA), Indians who have no access to formal credit due to lack of collateral will be able to apply for loans using several types of digital documents that are currently not accepted by a bank as proof of credit worthiness.
These documents include GST data, invoices from government procurement platforms such as Government eMarketplace, e-commerce invoices, and transactions on platforms like Flipkart and Amazon, and “other kinds of digital sales records from trusted sources”.
According to Niti Aayog, MSMEs, small shop owners, farmers, traders and others could avail “small ticket working capital loan” using digital documents to show “a close-to-certain future cash flow”.
This architecture primarily aims to empower Indians who become “data rich” even before becoming economically wealthier to “seamlessly and securely access their data and share it with third party institutions”.
Government institutions, several players in the financial sector including the top leadership of several banks, and many nonprofits are helping to get DEPA off the ground.
Last week, NITI Aayog released a policy draft, seeking feedback until 1 October on the proposed online system.
The Data Empowerment & Protection Architecture will empower individuals with control over how their personal data is used & shared while ensuring that privacy considerations are addressed.
Seeking your comments on the draft document, before 1st Oct
— NITI Aayog (@NITIAayog) September 3, 2020
The service is expected to be launched for India’s financial sector later this year. The same will later be adopted in the health and telecom sectors of India.
How the architecture will work
The draft details how the system will work and aid financial inclusion.
For instance, an MSME seeking a small loan will approach a financial institution.
If this financial institution has agreed to be part of the proposed system, it can request documents about the potential customer from sources that have this data about the customer. Based on this data, the financial institution could approve a loan.
The entire process of data sharing will work around a new kind of entity that will be formed for this service, called consent managers. In the financial sector, consent managers are called account aggregators (AAs).
These AAs have formed a non-profit collective called Sahamati, which will work to further promote DEPA adoption in India.
The RBI had issued direction for the formation of AAs back in 2016. In the draft, Niti Aayog writes, “As of this writing, seven AAs have received in principle approval from RBI to begin operations, and two have received operational licenses.”
As the middleman, these AAs will do a number of things. They will receive data requests from a financial service entity that wants to vet or consider a potential customer. Then the AAs will send the data access requests to the customer and get their consent, after which they will send the data request to the entity that has the relevant data.
This entity will then send it to the one that requested the data through an end-to-end encrypted connection, so the middleman AAs can’t see or access the data.
Entities that are part of this service can also make money from it. For example, consent managers can charge a fee from the company that requests access to data about a potential customer.
The draft says the entity that is providing the data can also charge a fee, “but in the financial sector they have agreed to provide data without a charge for the time being”.
Infosys co-founder and former UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani had explained this online system and the concept of AAs at a 2019 event.
In July 2019, there was a limited rollout of this data sharing online service for the financial sector among a closed group that included major banks, according to the draft.
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The industry has been talking about RFID for 20 years, but it still hasn't come into common use or delivered significant value to retailers.
The biggest issue hasn't been the technology itself, but rather the hype and promise around RFID before it was in the right place to deliver. The price of RFID tags has been an inhibitor to mass adoption, initially costing $10 or more, making them an unrealistic application for a retail operation. Though possible for use on cages or totes in a warehouse, the reading technology was also not particularly advanced, and the Faraday's Cage effect of racking meant accurately tracking tags was difficult. Indeed, until recently, most RFID readers weren't highly accurate and offered little advantage over barcode readers, which didn't carry the same premium price.
So have we reached the time for RFID to come into its own? Getting critical mass is significant, and the most logical starting point for this mass adoption is the high-price, upmarket clothing sector where the price of a tag is less significant and the cost of "shrinkage" is significantly higher. However, the real driver is that as the technology around RFID has improved, the price of tags has begun to fall. Now at less than $1 and dropping fast, they're quickly becoming a real opportunity for a large market.
In parallel, some innovative companies are changing the capability of the readers and reporting near-perfect accuracy within in certain distances. This is a major step forward and may finally deliver the huge potential that RFID offers.
With the right technology now in place, the question becomes, “Where's RFID going to deliver the most benefits for the highest ROI?” There are a number of important areas in retail between security, asset management and supply chain:
- Real-time tracking of inventory in the warehouse, in transit and in-store. Reduction in time checking, counting and logging product at all levels of the supply chain will deliver great savings.
- Inventory accuracy is even more valuable in an inventory management environment. The ability to accurately know what you have and where will reduce safety stock, enable better timing of replenishment and give better data on where to forecast future demand.
- In-store product can be located on the gondolas or on promotional display. This is often difficult for centrally based inventory and operations staff to identify, having a massive impact on the volume sold — and therefore in need of replenishment.
- Easy access to fresh category data. In the chilled environment, the ability to not only know what inventory you have on the shelf but also the expiration date and shelf life remaining would revolutionize inventory management in what's one of the most expensive sectors to operate.
Although some of these applications wouldn't be the first to materialize, the simple one-way tags are already able to tell retailers what stock is in a location and what direction it's moving in: into or out of a warehouse, vehicle or store. It then becomes a short step to enable the more complex uses outlined above.
Is it time for RFID to deliver? The retail industry is very close and the benefits are within reach. As the opportunity grows, RFID will gather more momentum to greater adoption and eventually impact all areas of product and retail. Fashion is likely to be the first to benefit, but larger prizes are on offer in the fast-moving and shelf-life impacted food industry. It may be 20 years after the hype started, but within the next couple of years retailers of all types could be seeing an economic business case for making the move to mass RFID adoption.
Andrew Blatherwick is the chairman of RELEX Solutions, a provider of an integrated retail and supply chain planning system.
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The latest data on bank lending to fossil fuels over the last four years shows that Australia’s major banks continue to undermine the Paris Agreement and global action on the climate crisis by lending to dirty fossil fuels.
Westpac, Commbank, ANZ and NAB collectively poured a massive $35.4 billion into coal, oil and gas between 2016-19, including $7.1 billion into projects that expand the fossil fuel industry, increasing carbon emissions, just as humanity needs to urgently reduce them.
Year on year trends show that fossil fuel lending in 2019 has fallen slightly since the record-highs of 2018. Lending to coal is at its lowest level in the last four years, while still significant at almost $1b. The four banks loaned a massive $6.6b to oil and gas in 2019, including several companies looking to open up new unconventional gas fields in NSW and the Northern Territory (see below).
These figures demonstrate that despite announcing their support for the Paris Agreement, the lending practices of all four major banks tell a different story. Not one of them takes global warming seriously enough to stop contributing to the crisis fueling bushfires, floods, storms and drought all over the world.
Whitehaven Coal funded to expand thermal coal mining
From 2016-2019, ANZ, NAB and Westpac have loaned a total $425 million to pure-play coal miner Whitehaven Coal. The funding is broken up as follows:
- ANZ, $175m
- NAB, $158m
- Westpac, $92m
This does not include loans to Whitehaven that NAB and Westpac made just weeks ago, in early 2020.
Whitehaven Coal’s expansion plans rely on the failure of the Paris Agreement and are based on scenarios which result in a civilisation-ending 4 degrees of warming. Whitehaven, which destroyed a large part of the Leard State Forest to build the Maules Creek coal mine, is currently working to build a new open cut coal mine called the Vickery Extension Project. As this new mine will produce both thermal and coking coal, it’s clear that NAB’s 2017 policy to “no longer finance new thermal coal mining projects” is largely meaningless.
NAB found to be ignoring it’s ‘no new thermal coal mines’ policy
Another example of NAB ignoring its own policy on new thermal coal mines is its repeated backing of the expansion of Coronado Global Resources’ Curragh coal mine. In October 2018 NAB co-financed a $720 million deal backing Coronado Global Resources despite the company extending its thermal coal supply agreement with the Stanwell power station in central Queensland from 2028 to 2038, which was “expected to materially extend mine life until around 2038”, according to Coronado. Further, in September 2019 NAB committed to co-finance an additional US$200 million to fund the expansion of Curragh.
Funding gas expansion and fracking
Woodside, Origin Energy and Santos all have plans to massively expand the production of dirty gas. Origin Energy and Santos are both seeking to develop unconventional gas fields in northern Australia and NSW, which will include the dangerous “fracking” technique of gas extraction. Both are facing fierce opposition from traditional owners and farmers due to the high levels of pollution generated.
Woodside is a major player in the Burrup Hub development, which according to its website “could process more gas than the entire volume extracted from the North West Shelf since startup in 1984”.
All three of these companies are undertaking activities which put them out of line with keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees and yet all three have received loans from Australia’s major banks since 2016 to the tune of:
- Commbank, $1.1b
- ANZ, $867m
- Westpac, $548m
- NAB, $315m
CommBank breaching new policy
In August 2019, Commbank adopted a policy of “only providing banking and financing activity to new oil, gas or metallurgical coal mining projects if they are in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement”. Unfortunately, Commbank is showing it doesn’t take its own policies seriously, having apparently contravened its new policy only one month after it was announced, by financing a new gas pipeline in the USA, an issue which the Chairman refused to properly address at its 2019 annual general meeting. It has since also funded 7 new LNG vessels in December 2019, in another apparent contravention of its own policy.
Links to a company accused of corrupt payments
Horizon Oil, an ASX listed company, is currently being investigated for alleged corrupt payments in Papua New Guinea. These payments are alleged to have happened in 2011.
On 5 November 2018, Horizon Oil entered into a new $132 million senior debt facility with ANZ, Westpac and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for the repayment of existing debt. The contribution from the two Australian banks were:
- ANZ, $57m
- Westpac, $32m
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It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of horse ownership, but the reality is that being a horse owner isn’t compatible with every life situation. Fortunately, there are other ways to get plenty of quality horse time. Consider the pros and cons of taking riding lessons, leasing a horse, and owning a horse of your own to determine which option is best for you.
For most urban and suburban riders, formal riding lessons are the most obvious choice when it comes to getting saddle time. Lessons go beyond the superficial experience of a pony ride or tourist trail excursion by teaching you the hows and whys of communicating with a horse under saddle. Typically, students ride once per week, but many instructors will allow you to take more lessons if you’re eager to progress, or fewer if you need to stretch your budget.
Some programs offer several different disciplines so that you can learn the basics before deciding which equestrian sport interests you most. But if you’ve already got a discipline in mind, look for a barn that specializes in your sport.
While it’s possible to learn to ride without formal instruction, a qualified instructor will be able to guide you through the process and help you avoid newbie mistakes that could be dangerous to you or the horse you ride.
You’ll also have the opportunity to ride different lesson horses, and that will make you a more well-rounded, adaptable rider. As you get better, you’ll be able to move from the beginner horses to more advanced mounts so that you continue to improve your skills. Riding lessons aren’t just for beginners; even Olympic-level riders have coaches. Although many riders aspire to own a horse one day, you could spend your entire career from beginner to advanced riding school horses without ever really missing out.
Once you’ve learned the basics in a one-on-one setting, group lessons are a fun way to get to know other riders. You can learn by watching one another, and riding classmates may ask questions you didn’t even know you had. If your barn participates in schooling shows, having your fellow riders around can add a feeling of camaraderie to what is usually a solo sport.
From a practical standpoint, lessons are the ideal option for horse lovers who are on a budget. The costs are much lower than those required to own or lease a horse, and they’re consistent. You’ll pay the same from week to week with no surprise vet expenses to worry about. And if your lesson horse has to take a break due to injury or illness, your instructor will have another horse for you to ride. Making the commitment to ride once a week is more realistic than going out to the barn to tend to your own horse every day. If you have a busy work schedule or home life, or have other hobbies that you don’t want to give up, a weekly riding lesson offers horse time without much sacrifice.
Typically, your time with a lesson horse will be spent grooming, tacking up, riding and untacking. While this is enough to improve your riding skills, you rarely get the opportunity to spend leisurely time with your equine friend because he’s got other students to attend to. When you arrive at the barn for your lesson, you will be expected to adhere to whatever your instructor has planned; you can’t decide to skip your schooling time in favor of a gallop across the fields on a whim.
As a riding lesson student, you also have to be selective in your choice of an instructor. In every state in the U.S. except for Massachusetts, there is no certification process for riding instructors, which means anyone can advertise themselves as a qualified trainer. It’s up to you to do some research to make sure the one you choose will be able to help you reach your goals, even if those goals are just to have fun with horses. Ask for recommendations from other equestrians, and call to see if you can observe a few lessons before signing up.
A great instructor can make your entrance into the horse world a joyous one, but a bad one can sour you on the entire equestrian experience. In order to make the most of your time as a riding student, you’ll need the courage to graciously move on if you find that you’re incompatible with your instructor.
To find a certified instructor, try the Certified Horsemanship Association or American Riding Instructors Association, or your particular breed or sport’s association; the American Quarter Horse Association, United States Hunter Jumper Association, United States Eventing Association, and United States Dressage Federation all certify instructors.
Leasing a Horse
Lease arrangements provide an experience similar to horse ownership without the initial cost or lifelong obligation. Typically, the lessee will be responsible for all or most of the horse’s routine expenses, such as board and farrier bills, in exchange for the ability to ride as much as they want. In a partial lease, the lessee covers part of the regular expenses in exchange for the opportunity to ride a few days a week. Some lesson programs will offer partial leases of lesson horses for students.
Leasing is truly a best-of-both-worlds situation for riders who have graduated from basic horsemanship and riding lessons. You have the chance to ride more frequently and in an unstructured environment. You get more time to bond with a horse, and you may be able to take him to shows or other events. A full or partial lease provides the opportunity to experience horse ownership without committing to it until you’re sure you are able to devote the time, energy and money required.
If you find that you’re not able to get out to the barn as much as you thought you would when you signed up for a lease, you can back out (often with a pre-determined notice period). You don’t have to worry about financially supporting the horse and going through the process of finding him a more suitable home because he already has an owner.
Most of the potential pitfalls in leasing are the result of poor communication or mismatched expectations between lessor and lessee. It’s imperative to make the lease terms clear, put them in writing and have both parties sign and keep a copy. As the lessee, are you allowed to ride as much as you want, or is there a limit? Can you transport the horse off the property? Who will be responsible for the vet bills if he injures himself in the pasture? What if he injures himself while you’re riding him? Make sure all of this is in the lease agreement.
Although leasing offers a close approximation of the horse-ownership experience, there are limits. You may not be able to take the horse to an out-of-state show or an overnight camping trip. If you want to move him to a different boarding stable, you’ll have to sell the horse’s owner on the idea. In the case of a lesson-horse lease, you may have to schedule your time around your mount’s lesson obligations.
Having a horse of your own seems like the ultimate goal when you begin your riding career. The concept is simple: You find a horse to buy or adopt, sign a purchase contract, write a big check, and then live happily ever after with your new equine best friend. At least, that’s the plan.
You don’t need to own a horse to develop a deep bond, but it certainly helps. You’ll be the one who spends the most time with him, both in and out of the saddle. You’ll get to know your horse in a way other arrangements don’t always permit. When ownership is at its best, there’s nothing like it.
With your own horse, you have complete freedom of choice when it comes to his care and keeping. Want to move to a new barn, follow the regional show circuit all summer, or dye his mane and tail blue in honor of your favorite sports team? You get to make those decisions. And while a horse’s owner may terminate a lease agreement for any reason and your instructor could move you off your favorite lesson horse or sell him out of the barn, your horse is yours. You are together for life if you choose to be.
All of the pros listed above are dependent on your ability to afford them, and that’s the big roadblock to horse ownership for many would-be owners. The initial purchase price doesn’t have to be expensive. You can find horses for free if you look for them, although the wider your price range, the more likely you are to find a horse that suits your needs. Regardless of what you pay to bring your new horse home, the real financial question is whether you are equipped to handle the commitment you’ve just made. As a horse owner, you’re on the hook for board, feed, farrier and vet bills, and more. Unlike a lease situation, you can’t back out when money gets tight. Even if you make the decision to sell your horse, he might remain on the market for months or even years, and he’s on your payroll during that time.
By the same token, you may find that your equestrian interests change or your abilities as a rider improve and the horse you’ve purchased no longer meets your needs. For example, you may have started out thinking the show-ring was your destiny but later discovered that trail riding was your true passion. If your horse proves to be unsuitable for your new activity, are you willing to pay his costs until you can match him up with a new rider?
In addition to financial resources, horses consume a lot of time. Between work, family and other activities, it can be a challenge to find adequate time to devote to your horse. As an owner, there isn’t automatically someone else in your horse’s life to pick up the slack when you simply can’t spend a lot of time at the barn.
There are a variety of ways to bring horses into your life. Take an honest assessment of your riding skills, finances and schedule, and you’ll find the right arrangement for you.
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Muscle cramping often affects thousands of athletes all over the world which often compromises athletic performance during main events or during training. Although muscle cramping is caused by several factors such as lack of essential electrolytes in the system, overtraining and lack of rest periods, it can also be caused by tight muscles brought about by weight lifting or long-term inactivity. To loosen these muscles, stretching exercises are the key.
There are different forms of stretches that you can perform to keep your muscles loose and to maintain a full range of motion for every movement. The basic rule when performing stretching activities is to stretch the body parts that you would likely use or train for that particular session. However, performing stretching exercises for the whole body will prevent muscle imbalances and promotes overall blood circulation to the muscles. Below are the best stretches appropriate for every sporting event.
It is important to start with shoulder stretches in order to avoid rotator cuff injuries and/or shoulder impingements.
- The shoulder stretch with a towel. Start by standing with your feet shoulder-width apart. Then grasp a towel with both hands vertically behind you.
- Gently pull the towel towards the ceiling with your top hand and you’ll feel a stretch in your shoulder blades as you perform the stretch. Hold for 30 seconds then repeat with the other hand.
The neck stretch. Stretching the neck prevents cervical injuries and also helps in loosening the trapezius muscles and other muscles of the neck.
- Start by bending your head forward and slightly to the right. With the aid of your right hand, gently pull your head downward.
- You will feel a slight stretch on the left side of your neck. Hold for 30 seconds and repeat on the other side.
The quadriceps stretch stretches the muscles that run along the upper legs or the thighs. It is essential to stretch these muscles before and after your leg exercises.
Tight hamstrings are the most common problem among people and athletes. Here is an effective stretch for your hamstrings.
- Start by sitting on the floor with your legs straight out.
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Today’s Cryptologic Technician can trace their roots back to those enterprising Radiomen who taught themselves the Japanese Katakana code in the early to mid-1920s and established the first intercept station at Shanghai, China.
During the summer of 1927, five Marines attended Katakana training in Shanghai China and in September 1927 were transferred to Peiping China where, under the leadership of CRM Dorman A. Chauncey, established the second radio intercept station.
The Birth of Cryptologic Direct Support
The Marine detachment in Peiping performed the first known temporary deployment of Communications Intelligence personnel when two Marine operators, along with Chief Chauncey, deployed aboard the USS TRENTON (CL 11), and two additional Marine operators deployed aboard the USS MEMPHIS (CL 13) for the entire month of September 1928. Presumably this mission was to copy traffic from Japanese fleet exercises.
Early Formal Organization & Training
The success of these early intercept operations led to the establishment of a permanent school on the roof of the Main Navy building on Constitution Avenue in Washington DC where especially qualified Radiomen were trained to intercept and analyze foreign radio communications. During the 12 year life of this school at least 176 (150 Navy and 26 Marine), enlisted radio operators received their training. The group became known as the On the Roof Gang (OTRG). Many of these graduates formed the nucleus of the communications intelligence operations in the Pacific at the beginning of World War II.
The early ratings involved in the communications intelligence arena were what we now identify as “general service” ratings. Prior to World War II the majority of these ratings were Radioman and Yeoman. The need for qualified communications intelligence personnel greatly expanded during World War II and by 1943 the following ratings were part of the complement of the activities under the cognizance of OP-20-G:
- Specialist I (Punched Card Accounting Machine Operator)
- Specialist P (Photographic Specialist)
- Photographers Mate
- Machinist Mate
- Electricians Mate
- Telegrapher (for teletype)
In August of 1943 an analysis of the activities carried out by OP-20-G was conducted and the first effort to establish a rating for Communications Intelligence Enlisted Personnel was initiated. The analysis identified several distinct kinds of work which were not provided for under the ratings assigned. These activities were grouped in the following categories:
- Cryptanalytical – Demonstrate the ability to use Cryptanalytic techniques and procedures.
- Operation of Special Machines – Demonstrate proficiency in the operation of one or more types of analytical machinery.
- Technical Research – Demonstrate the ability to solve practical problems in the specialized field.
- Radio Intelligence – Demonstrate ability to handle practical problems in specialized field of Radio Intelligence.
After review and establishment of knowledge requirements for the various sub-specialties, the Specialist Q rating was established in early 1944 with the following branches:
- Specialist Q (TE) – Technician
- Specialist Q (IN) – Radio Intelligence
- Specialist Q (RP) – Registered Publications
Note: Apparently the Operation of Special Machines and Technical Research sub-specialties were consolidated into Technician and, although not a part of the Communications Intelligence operation, Registered Publications clerk was added.
The Birth of the Communications Technician Rating
In 1948 the majority of the wartime Specialist ratings were disestablished. At that time the Communications Technician Rating (CT) was established; the Specialist Q ratings CR, TE, and IN were incorporated into the CT rating. Four CT career fields were identified as branches:
- A – Administrative
- O – Communications
- M – Maintenance
- R – Collection
Although the CT rating comprised four distinctly different branches, the service member’s branch was not a part of the rating designator.
Note: CAPT Holtwick, after serving as commanding officer of USS Platte (AO 24) was assigned to Headquarters, Naval Security Group as head of the Personnel and Administrative Department. In that position CAPT Holtwick is credited with establishing the Communications Technician (CT) rating in the Navy with it various branches for enlisted personnel.
In the 1956/1957 time frame, the CT rating was further sanitized when all the “General Service” ratings still serving in the Communications Intelligence field (Radioman, Teleman etc.) were converted to CT.
In 1960 two additional career fields were added to the CT rating: the Technical Branch (T) for non-morse operations and the Interpretive Branch (I) to identify linguists. Prior to 1960 the duties assigned to the T and I branch personnel had been assigned to various other branches.
Effective 1 May 1970 the CT rating was further refined when the addition of the “branch” to the CT rating designator. The third letter rating designator was added to better identify and manage each branch.
26 March 1976 BuPers Notice 1220 announced the change in title for the Communications Technician rating to the below six Cryptologic Technician ratings. The purpose of this action was to bring the designation of the Communications Technician (CT) into consonance with the Warrant Officer (744X), Restricted Line (161X) and the Limited Duty Officer (644X) Cryptologic communities.
- CTA –Administrative Branch
- CTI – Interpretive Branch
- CTM – Maintenance Branch
- CTO – Communication Branch
- CTR – Collection Branch (MM)
- CTT – Technical Branch (SpecSigs, Classic Wizard, OPELINT, TechELINT)
1991 – CTR assumed Special Signals and Morse code
01 Oct 2003 – EW rating converted to CTT rating.
Note: The origins of EWs date back to World War I when the British used coastal radio direction finders to locate and determine the direction of the German fleet before the Battle of Jutland. Since, the importance of technicians rapidly grew through World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the war in Vietnam. In the 1970s the Navy began teaching radarmen and electronic technicians electronic warfare. Sailors holding the Navy Enlisted Classification to operate and maintain electronic warfare equipment were the first Sailors to be converted to electronic warfare technicians.
06 Feb 2004 – CTN – Networks rating established.
01 May 2005 – Cryptologic Officer Designators 1610, 1615, 164X AND 744X changed to Information Warfare Officer Designators. 1610 changed to 1810
01 Mar 2006 – CTO converted to IT rating for E1-E5 and 01 Oct 2006 for E6 and above
01 Oct 2007 – CTA converted to YN rating
2008 – CTM was disestablished and re-established in the same year
20 Apr 2010 – Cyber Warrant Officer Designator 743X established
22 Jun 2010: (ref NAVADMIN 206/10):
IDC designators are revised as the follows:
- 180X – Meteorology/Oceanography (remains the same)
- 181X – Information Warfare (disestablishes 161X and 164X designators)
- 182X – Information Professional (Disestablishes 160X Designator)
- 183X – Intelligence (Disestablishes 163X designator)
- 184X – Cyber Warfare Engineer (New)
- 185X – Any IDC Qualified officer billet (new)
All administrative changes for redesignation occurred 1 October 2010.
20 Oct 2015 – Information Warfare Technician Warrant Officer Designator changed to 781X, Information Warfare Limited Duty Officer Designator changed to 681X and Cyber Warrant Officer Designator changed to 784X.
10 May 2016 – officers with designators 181X, 681X, and 781X are designated as Cryptologic Warfare Officer.
29 Sep 2016 – Navy Rating Modernization (ref: NAVADMIN 218/16).
CTI – B510, B511, B512, B515, B516
CTM – B520
CTN – B525
CTR – B540
CTT – B550
20 Dec 2016 – Effective immediately Navy suspends Navy Rating Modernization and all ratings are restored (ref: NAVADMIN 283/16).
Not All CTCs Are Cryptologists
On various Museum Ships, there may be references to CTCs For example, CTCs are included in the Casualty List of the USS ARIZONA (BB 63) Memorial. This designation refers to “Turret Captain.” The Turret Captain (CT) rate was terminated when Battleships and Cruisers that had turrets were decommissioned and all the gunship Aircraft Carriers had their turrets removed. The Turret Captain’s duties were to maintain, instruct, and take charge of the gun turret assigned. They were assigned to Aircraft Carriers, Battleships and Cruisers. Each turret was assigned a Chief Turret Captain, First Class Turret Captain, or both.
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The law is might be the most misunderstood part of God’s word. What is its purpose? Did God change the purpose of His law? Can the law bring about salvation? Can the law condemn us to death? Did God make a mistake with His law? Does His law contain His eternal truths? We will try to answer some of these questions and more when we attempt to uncover what Paul is trying to tell us in Galatians 3:10-14 (Part 3). This blog is about His law, but this led to a comparison of faith leading to obedience of His law, as opposed to using the law as a measurement for salvation. Two very different scenarios.
Applying the law without faith, with men supervising us because we want salvation, Paul calls ‘works of law.’ Applying the law because we accept God’s instructions according to our own individual understanding of His perfect will because we know God’s word is true, this is faith. It is important for us to understand the antithesis of us applying the law without faith, is not that we do not apply the law at all, but we apply the law with faith according to our own individual understanding of His word. The decision to not practice the law at all would be the same as us walking willfully in sin, which Paul calls the wages of death (Romans 6:23). Therefore, I will use this time to re-state our original problem.
The original problem is we are quick to understand the picture of His grace, as a gift to those of faith. We are not so quick in understanding the picture of faith that must lead us to us applying His law, in our own understanding of His perfect will, as the prerequisite to us receiving His gift of grace. The Bible does not paint for us a picture of grace that equals salvation. The Bible paints for us a picture of grace given to those who are of a certain required picture of faith that equals salvation. Many of the stories in the Bible lead to either a picture of His love, mercy, or grace, or a picture of how our faith should or should not look. Therefore, our analysis of His word will usually contain both.
3:10: For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, ‘CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO PERFORM THEM.’
The central theme for (Part 3) is the curse of the law. Paul could have said we are all cursed and destined to die, except for the grace of God. “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, to perform them.” This statement begs the question why would we die for breaking the law if we never agreed to keep the law in the first place? The answer to this question lies in us understanding God’s first judgment on the world, the flood. In Genesis 6:5-7, we are told: “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. The LORD said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.’” The entire world would die because of the self-centered evil ways guided by their sinful flesh, except Noah. Romans 2:12, tells us: “For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.…” Our destination is death, the results of the sinful flesh of our natural man.
The Instructions of Our Sinful Flesh
The ways of our sinful flesh that led to God’s judgment on the world in the flood are the same ways of our flesh inhabiting us today. God’s judgment of the world hovers over those who today in walk in the instructions of their same sinful flesh. However, God in His goodness and mercy established for us a clear path to escape our impending death. A faith and trust in Him and His statutes leading us to break the bondage of our sinful flesh. A faith unto obedience was always our pathway, now it is a clear pathway revealed to the entire world. In His mercy, God gave the entire world a clear path to escape death with His two ‘Blood Ratified’ covenants, designed to break the bondage of our sinful flesh. God gave these covenants to Israel first and the gentiles second. They are the “Abrahamic Covenant,” our covenant of faith, given to Abraham in Gen. 15 and the “Covenant of Commandments” given to Israel on Mount Sinai (Exodus 20). Together they are faith which leads us to His instructions.
Our faith is the critical factor in trusting God and His instructions. His covenants and laws are to help us recognize and then break the bondage of our sinful flesh. More on the covenants in my next blog. For now, it is enough to know God gave us a way to escape death. These ‘duly established’ covenants differ from His law. God gave us His law for four reasons: 1. As a ‘guardian,’ which includes the enforcement arm of the law (the Levitical Priesthood) to help us keep His instructions, the “Covenant of Commandments,” because the people lacked the faith and trust in God to walk in them. People needed proof that His laws worked before they would recognize them as truth. 2. To expose the bondage of our sinful flesh for what it is, death. 3. After recognizing our sinful flesh for what it is, we can make a stand against our sinful flesh to break its hold over us. 4. To lead us to the arms of our savior.
The Instructions of God
People throughout the ages have had common misunderstandings about His law. Somehow the law was how we were, in times past, saved and now because of Jesus’ sacrifice we receive salvation by the grace He gives to those who have faith. The law has never been our pathway to salvation. His people have always received salvation the same way, God’s grace given to those who have faith (Ez. 18:21-23). We saw in my last blog, the same way Abraham received redemption is the same way we receive redemption (Romans 4:16-24). Through grace given to those who have an Abrahamic like faith in God, His word, and His instructions. We could say those in generations past received their salvation same as us because Jesus’ paid our debts before the foundations of the world (Rev. 13:8).
Why did Jesus come when He did? Here are four of the many reasons He chose the time He did to reveal His life and sacrifice to us. First, He came to fulfill every word in the law and the prophets (Matt. 5:17). Second, to be our new ‘guardian’ to lead us into following His Covenant of Commandments (what I call His Salvation Covenant) (Gal. 4:2). Third, to reveal to us the truth of His grace and the sacrifice He made on our behalf (John 1:17). Fourth, to usher in the New Covenant foundation, to fulfill Exodus 19:5 and Deuteronomy 18:15-22 so we can have a one-on-one relationship with God walking in His statutes in true faith and love (Jer. 31:31-34, EZ. 36:22-28).
3:11-12: Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, ‘THE RIGHTEOUS MAN SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.’ However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, ‘HE WHO PRACTICES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM.’
Paul tells us in no uncertain terms ‘no one is justified by the law.’ The law itself cannot be our pathway to salvation for many reasons: 1. If we are keeping the law for justification or salvation, then we are no longer doing it simply because it is true. If we are trying to earn our salvation this has to, by necessity, put us back under men’s authority, so as to be sure we walk in some measured exactness. To walk without faith and therefore not under Jesus as our high priest requires us to be under another as a guardian or a manager (Gal. 4:2). 2. We already deserve death. God gave us His law so we could recognize the ways of death and to break the bondage of our sinful flesh. We are born in bondage therefore salvation on our own is unattainable (Job 5:7, Gal. 4:3). Only genuine faith has the power to transform us to make us into His image. Without transformation, there can be no justification. Keep in mind that we are not justified without the law either. It is and will always be faith unto obedience. The law alone cannot make us perfect (Hebrews 7:11). The law alone is powerless. God, in His wisdom directed us first to the Abrahamic Covenant, the one thing that has the power to make us want to walk in His instructions. It is only through our faith we receive the power of transformation causing us to apply His law in the deepest parts of our souls. It is through this faith that we receive His instructions, His laws, and His commandments in excitement and in love, causing His statutes to penetrate the hardest strongholds of our sinful flesh.
Once our faith is secure in Him, then we will desire to seek Him, to understand His word, and to walk in His commandments in the very deepest recesses of our hearts, thus becoming His people and only then escaping death. Everything hangs on our faith. With faith we will follow Him where He wants us to go. Without faith we go where our sinful flesh tells us unless men force us away either by supervision or instruction. As we saw earlier, ‘works of law’ are not faith and do not make us His people. His people must follow Him only because they see Him as truth and His laws as right. In Matthew 23:27, Jesus tells the Pharisees, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” Genuine faith cleanses us from our insides out, His law becoming the individual measure of our faith, understanding, and maturity in Him, by which we can examine ourselves (2 Cor. 13:5). It is our faith that transforms us into His people willingly and lovingly desiring to follow Him and His commandments.
His word tells as much in Romans 5:1: “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” We are not to have faith for the sake of having faith. We are to have faith because it is through our faith that He re-makes us into His image a Holy and obedient people (1 Peter 1:13-23). Our faith seeks God and His word and makes us obedient to His law when we accept that His whole word is true (Psalms 119:160). The law itself cannot make us obedient. God’s gift of salvation belongs to those who have this ‘born again’ trans-formative faith, as 1 Peter 1:23, tells us: “… for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.” Transformed into a seed which is imperishable by the instructions of His word. It is not the law itself that makes us into His image it is our faith in accordance with His law that causes us to be born again or transformed. However, without His law or without us accepting His law as true, there can be no justification or new creation (2 Cor. 5:17). This is because there is nothing for our faith to follow that will cause us to walk contrary to and to stand against our sinful flesh, facilitating our transformation or allowing us to become born again into a seed which is imperishable.
Justified By Faith Unto Obedience
Therefore, Paul tells us “no one is justified by the Law” then tells us in Romans 2:13: “… for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.” Paul is not contradicting himself. He is letting us know the law by itself is not our justifier. It is the faith which causes us to keep His law or the faith which causes us to not be hearers only but doers of the law, and when combined with His law works to transform us into His image thereby justifying us. A faith that does not cause us to keep His law is not a faith that will transform us into His people. Exodus 19:5, says it all: “Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine….” By faith we deny our flesh, making the law the measure of our faith in Him, by which we are able to examine ourselves (2 Cor. 13:5). Our faith drives His instructions into every recess of our hearts and minds. Through our obedience to His law we display to the world our testimony that God loves us and His word is true and trustworthy (Rom. 2:24). It is our trust, understanding, and adherence to His law that shows Him we love Him (1 John 5:3). If our claim of having faith does not bring with it the promise of our transformation into His image, according to His instructions, commandments, and laws then our faith is not the same as Abraham’s faith and not a faith that will cause us to receive our credit as being righteous.
At the end of this verse Paul quotes Leviticus 18:5 and Ezekiel 20:11. Leviticus 18:5, says: “So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD.” His word plainly says His law brings life. Why does Paul say; “the law is not of faith?” Paul best explains what seems to be a contradiction in Romans 10:5-8: “For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness. But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: ‘DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).’ But what does it say? ‘THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART’—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching….” This is what men do, we try to test who God saves (instead of examining ourselves) by dictating how others are perform a particular understanding of the law, their ‘works of law’. The ‘works of law’ forces men over us as overseers to walk in some universal agreement or in their interpretation of the instructions of the law. This measure of the law stands against faith.
His Law as Our Own Individual Testament of Our Faith
God did not give us enough details of His law to carry out His law with some agreed certifiable exactness. The law is to give each of us individually the opportunity to cling to Him and His instructions as a demonstration of our trust, faith, and love for Him. Only as individuals who want to know His truth for ourselves can we ‘search out a matter’ (Pro. 25:2, Deut. 29:29) to find out His perfect will according to our own understanding. It is only then our lives can reflect a genuine faith, love, and appreciation for Him and His ways. Keep in mind that the Bible only has between 1200-2100 pages. To put that into perspective, U.S. Federal law in 1980 comprised 50 volumes which held over 23,000 pages. Minute details, and still people argue on the exactness of the law. There are about 12,800 printed pages in the Soncino Talmud. All designed by men to control and dictate how we are to carry out His law and attempting to stand in direct interference of our expression of trust, understanding and love for our savior.
This is not how God intended it to be. God designed His law only for His people who trust Him and want to know His will and to express their own individual love and appreciation for Him and His word, in their own individual understanding and relationship. Our faith was intended to lead us to Him in His word so as to establish a special, unique and genuine connection with our creator. It has never been about His law per se but grasping the opportunity to engage, search, love and honor Him and His ways from our own hearts and minds. If your spouse loved strawberry ice cream and you bought them strawberry ice cream for no other reason then wanting to show them you loved them, then the importance is not the ice cream per se but the love and honor being displayed with the act of serving them how they wanted to be served and the demonstration of your understanding of their individual desires. The demonstration of our faith, trust, and love for our God should not be measured by some cold agreement of men, but from the gushing overflow of a heart that truly loves Him and desires to show Him our genuine love, trust, desire to be His.
3:13: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, ‘CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE’ — in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
What is the curse of the law? It is the curse of our flesh. We cannot keep His law, because of our flesh, therefore, we cannot keep His Salvation Covenant to escape death. The actual curse of the law is our flesh that wants to walk according to its own law and not in the truth of God’s commandments. Romans 8:3, confirms this: “For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh….” Not that the law brings the curse, but the law reveals the curse of our flesh. The design of the law is to expose our walking in the ways of our flesh for what it is, a sin that deserves death. Romans 7:13, tells us: “Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.” We must connect the dots walking in His commandments is the opposite of us walking in our sinful flesh. We walk either in His instructions of His word or in the instructions of our flesh, each a reflection of whom we have placed our faith in.
Jesus Took Our Curse Exposed by the Law
Jesus took our curse and our debts for our lawlessness and bore them for us because He loves us and wants to have open communication with us. That is the complete story. The invitation to be His people. The mystery of salvation is it is a gift to those who are His by a faith that brings them into a personal one-on-one relationship with Him according to His word and our own individual understanding and desire to live inside of His perfect will. We should view our relationship with God considering its future culmination with us living with Him in His presence, in His full glory, for eternity. We cannot do this in the condition we are in, so we must be about preparing ourselves as a bride preparing herself for her bridegroom (Rev. 19:7-9). Therefore, Jesus’ sacrifice covers two things: One, our past sins we repent for (turn away from) (Romans 3:25). Two, our sins we commit in ignorance or what I call our unintentional shortcomings (Hebrews 9:7+11-12). What Jesus did not come to do is to erase our willful sin, which would be the same as giving endorsing our sinful flesh (Jude 1:4). He gave us His law, not by mistake, but so we could have the truth to walk in contrary to our sinful flesh (Hebrews 10:26-31). Outside of His instructions are to walk in our sinful flesh because His truth is inside of His instructions (1 John 3:4). As we have discussed, the law itself cannot help us overcome our sinful flesh. We overcome our sinful flesh only through our faith, our understanding, and our maturity of His word and His laws with the Holy Spirit guiding us.
When our faith in Him is strong enough, our desire will be to seek His perfect will in His word, and in His commandments and then to apply our understanding of His will to our lives as our testament of His love, mercy, goodness, and authority, all against the draws of our flesh. It would only make sense that if God sacrificed Himself to remove our sins in order for us to stand before Him, it would be imperative upon us to stand against the ongoing desires of our sinful flesh. What an awkward moment it would be if when we stood before God cleansed by His blood, we were still holding onto the desires of our old ways. I am not suggesting that this would even be possible because the sins we cling to in our hearts and minds would require our deaths the same as the sins committed in the physical, that we do not turn from. If we are holding onto them, then we would by definition not be repenting of them or turning away from them. I only paint this picture to show how ridiculous it would be for us to think those who claim to be His by faith could think they could walk intentionally outside of His law, that is in willful sin, and still be able to stand before Him in the age-to-come.
People often think they have a myriad of choices with God. However, our options are much more limited than we think. We either listen to God or we listen to men (which includes our flesh), this includes Satan, for the spirit of Satan will always direct us back to our flesh. It is Satan’s only message. God confines us to these two choices. All either walk in His law or walk contrary to His law, which is in our sinful flesh, in the ‘works of law’ which is perhaps even the good we walk in under the teaching or supervision of men, or by faith in God and His ways. God confines us to these two choices. People live with their faith in God, or they live with their faith in men. God confines us to these two choices. His people are those whose faith is in Him, and who walk in His ways according to their own personal understanding of His word with the Holy Spirit guiding them.
Paul says it best in Romans 8:5-8: “For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” We cannot think for a minute we can have a faith that does not subject itself to the law of God, it is not possible. If we are not subjecting ourselves to God’s law then we must stand back and examine ourselves for there is something missing either in our faith, in our understanding, or in our maturity in His word. We all are walking according to someone’s instructions. If we claim by faith, to be His then we must walk in His instructions as our demonstration of that faith.
What comes to mind when thinking about God should be His love and His mercy. God only gives us wonderful gifts laid upon His foundation of truth. Anything less stands against everything His word tells us about Him. To think He would give us His law to curse us or condemn us shows a clear lack of appreciation of Him and His ways. This is not something we see in His word, and therefore it is a figment of men’s imagination. Contrary to what many Christians understand about His law or His instructions, God knows the world would stare in amazement if they saw His people of faith walking in His laws and instructions in mass. In Deuteronomy 4:5-8, we are told: “See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it. So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is the LORD of our God whenever we call on Him? Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?” His word wants us to appreciate His law and to understand that our trusting in His law as His truth is paramount to us having faith in Him. If this is not how we view His law then maybe we need to reexamine our faith and our understanding of His word.
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When discussing Online Counselling Effects To Practitioner with our clients we found….Prioritizing your psychological health has never been more important– with the COVID-19 pandemic and whatever else going on on the planet, many individuals are experiencing symptoms of psychological health conditions.
In fact, polls report that 53 percent of U.S. grownups say worry and stress in the middle of the pandemic has actually had a negative impact on their mental health.
Fortunately, virtual support systems make it much easier than ever to take care of your psychological health.
is an online treatment service that permits you to text chat with a licensed, certified therapist 24/7. Keep checking out to see how it works, what to consider, and if it’s right for you.
How does work?
Depending upon what you’re looking for, offers therapy for families, couples, or individuals. You create an account and submit a survey to discover the right match.
Throughout the survey, you have the ability to note out your counselor choices, including their gender, religious beliefs, age, sexual orientation, language, as well as what concerns you’re hoping to take on, and how crucial it is that your counselor be well versed in those subjects.
It can take anywhere from a few hours to a number of days to be matched to an in-state therapist.
According to, counselors are certified, trained, experienced, and recognized psychologists, marital relationship and household therapists, medical social workers, or certified expert counselors.
All the business’s therapists have a master’s or doctorate degree and have a minimum of 3 years and 2,000 hours of experience as mental health professionals.
If you do not like who you’re coupled with, you can merely email to be reassigned.
” Treatment can be daunting, particularly for a lot of newbie clients. Text-based interaction (texting and live-chat sessions) are an excellent way to take a few of the stress and anxiety out of beginning therapy and aid customers dive into the process,” says James Imrie, the imaginative and marketing manager at.
Is BetterHelp com legit?
You can immediately start messaging them in a protected and private chat space once you have actually been matched with a therapist.
The chatroom is accessible at any time as long as your device has dependable internet. Messaging isn’t performed in real-time, so there’s no surefire reaction time from your therapist. As a result, you’re totally free to message your counselor at any hour of the day.
Your therapist will reply with concerns, homework, assistance, or feedback, and the app will notify you of their reaction.
The conversations are conserved in the chat room so you’re totally free to go over and reflect whenever you ‘d like. Every discussion is also secured by strict federal and state HIPAA laws.
If you don’t like waiting hours for a response, you can head to the calendar and schedule a live chat session with your therapist.
This option imitates the convenience of texting a good friend who immediately comprehends.
” Jotting down your thoughts is a helpful exercise for all type of scenarios,” Imrie says. “If you feel like your ideas are crowded or foggy, boiling them down into a couple of sentences can assist bring a great deal of clearness and understanding.”
Live phone session
For those who prefer overcoming issues out loud, it’s possible to arrange an hour-long call with your therapist.
The system does not share your personal telephone number with the therapist and everything is done through the app.
Live video session
You can likewise schedule a video session with your therapist if you’re somebody who takes pleasure in face-to-face discussion. Simply log on at your appointment time and your counselor will prompt you to begin the video chat.
Anyway, as it occurs, I am somewhat fine-tuned in the head– so well played, Facebook algorithms. From the age of about 13 onwards, I’ve struggled with higher-than-seems-normal levels of stress and anxiety, and while I have actually mainly pertained to terms with being tense and a bit doomy, I certainly wouldn’t mind being less so. I have actually had counselling prior to, and it does help. Could e-counselling not only re-hinge my mind, however do so without me having to put pants on and leave the house?
And drawing back from my own (relatively low-key) problems for a moment, could e-counselling be the answer to the psychological health concerns intensifying amongst under-30s? With cuts to mental health services really beginning to bite, digitised treatment could be simply the ticket for young adults who already filter nearly every element of their lives– friends, work, sex, home entertainment– through a screen.
Not everybody is totally persuaded that shifting mental health care online is the method forward. “For me, what operate in therapy is when you satisfy somebody face-to-face, in the very same space,” states London-based psychotherapist Sandra Tapie. “You learn more about not just what it’s like to speak to the individual, but how it feels to be in a space with them. Using Skype is the next best thing: it’s ‘sufficient’, however it does not develop the nearness, the intimacy, that actually gets individuals to open up and explore things.”
” I have actually carried out some research into Skype counselling,” states London-based psychotherapist Dr Aaron Balick, “and it’s not the ‘functional equivalent’ of traditional counselling; it’s simply not quite the same thing. It’s really essential that people who take part in it are aware that it’s a various experience from being in the room with somebody, speaking face-to-face.”
” In terms of accessibility, it’s a good start and certainly better than nothing. It’ll ideally lead them to ultimately showing up in the space. Nevertheless, if you’re fighting with relationship concerns, attachment problems, or deeper issues, it’s better to be in the room with someone. Skype and the web uses a range from your counsellor that might not be handy.”
In cases of mild depression, the NHS is now directing some patients towards online programs rather than in person counselling, a phenomenon that worries Dr Balick.
” My fear is that it’s happening increasingly more for financial reasons, instead of since it’s what’s best for people. That’s not excellent if it’s rolled out just to save cash and there aren’t important questions being asked about these services. Then, I’m always very sceptical of individuals who are either really really professional or extremely extremely versus online psychological health care. It’s a case of asking the ideal questions.”
Well, if the future of psychological healthcare is everything about IMs, FaceTime and ‘OMG, which neuroses R U?’ quizzes, I decided I ‘d learn what that brave new world would resemble. I signed up for four really different online mental health services– ranging in cost from totally free to , 100 a month– and ran my anxieties through them all, all at once, for a week. Here’s what I found.
Does BetterHelp use licensed therapists? Online Counselling Effects To Practitioner
What I’m doing here is evaluating my experience of using each mental health service, rather than its efficiency – due to the fact that even the most wizard-like therapist isn’t going to ‘cure’ you in just one week. Okay, cool – let’s mental health!
How does it work?
As seen on FB (by me, anyway), US business is the corporate behemoth of the e-counselling game. They declare to have 500 certified counsellors working for them, each with a minimum of three years of experience.
After filling out a survey to establish what particular flavour of psychological you are, you’re coupled with a counsellor, who you can mercilessly swap for a various one at any time. (I got Dr. Laura Dabney, from Virginia). You then kick off an instantaneous messaged treatment session that both you and your counsellor can drop in and out of, and which could, in theory, go on and on until among you eventually died.
What does it cost?
You get a complimentary seven-day trial – similar to a free Netflix or Amazon Prime trial, other than with way more questions about what your childhood was like. After that, it costs from , 24.50 a week for limitless message-based counselling and one ‘free’ phone session with your counsellor each month. Yeah, I don’t get how it’s complimentary either, but whatever.
How much is BetterHelp monthly?
If you discover the concept of baring your soul to a stranger a bit awks, filtering that through immediate messaging might be valuable. You won’t get the exact same connection as with in person counselling, however the semi-anonymity might make it simpler to open up if you’ve been consuming two bottles of rum and dancing around in your dead nan’s wedding dress every night.
She first established the scale of my anxiety, what activates it– social scenarios, fulfilling individuals for the first time– and then dived headlong into my fractious childhood (divorced moms and dads, stretched familial relationships, bullied in junior school). She was pretty nosey tbh, however then that’s her job, isn’t it?
In general, the service is remarkably slick. The conversation can be a little stop-starty sometimes, however it was actually a far smoother and more on-tap experience than I anticipated. I even got fast reactions to messages over the weekend, which was unanticipated.
Talkspace vs Betterhelp
The fact you can edit messages before sending them indicates you’re not likely to blurt out something unguarded and revealing in the heat of the minute. So extensive minutes of realisation may be hard to come by if you can’t get a relaxed flow going.
Who do I think it might it be good for?
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A public-private partnership initiative that is co-led by Allotrope Partners, the World Resources Institute (WRI), and the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to drive deployment of renewable energy for large consumers in key markets
To drive deployment of renewable energy for large consumers in key markets, especially commercial and industrial sector, by helping companies to meet their clean energy goals.
Large electricity buyers from commercial and industrial sector that has demand to meet their clean energy commitments and targets are facing the same difficulties to procure renewable electricity for their operations due to knowledge gap, regulatory barriers, technical and financial challenges.
CEIA Indonesia is a public-private partnership initiative that is co-led by Allotrope Partners, the World Resources Institute (WRI), and the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to provide assistance to companies with demand in procuring renewable electricity for their operations to meet their clean energy commitments and targets. The CEIA Indonesia has resources to convene the working group with participants from government and private sector, provide technical assistance, training and exchange best practices, build consensus on policy solutions, and facilitate engagement with government to implement these solutions. We will also demonstrate energy demand aggregation and financial models to grow the clean energy pipeline and unlock investment in Indonesia. Through CEIA Indonesia Working Group meeting, we are able to:
Map renewable energy (RE) targets and collective demand from member companies
Identify and prioritize common issues faced by companies in implementing renewable energy
Exchange knowledge and experiences among participating companies on implementing RE application in their facilities
Explore renewable energy purchasing options and business models for companies operating in Indonesia and the barriers to scaling up RE deployment, including financing limitations
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Interior design is not a strange phrase, however, in recent years, according to the general trend of social development, interior design has been increasingly respected and gradually made new progress in the interior industry.
1. Interior design and living space
Rarely is a profession that has such a close impact on people's life as interior design & decoration. Almost all of the time in life, people live and work in different spaces which are more or less contributed by interior design & decoration.
When you wake up in the morning, you open your eyes and first encounter a warm-and-harmonious-color bedroom, a picture or a lovely decorative lamp next to the bed. One bedroom has a very good taste and suits your preferences. The comfortable, pleasant feeling increases your relaxation and excitement to prepare for a new day.
Once going to the classroom or office, what helps increase study or work productivity are simply a comfortable, standard seat with adequate lighting. It is so great if we do not have to worry about the too-low-or-too-high table and chair which cause your neck and back hurt, not enough space for stretching leg out or the room is too dark that is not good for eyes.
Designers are people who create beauty, comfort and convenienceInside for inner space for architectural building, whether it is the house you live in, school, office, restaurant, shopping mall or movie theater, etc., by their expertise, alley arrangement, material tone values, table design size, layout of light sources.
In the same architectural space, different interior decoration can make a transformation and bring about different aesthetic effect.
2. Original of interior design & decoration
It is difficult to determine exact time when the interior design industry came into being. Many people believed that it begins the same time with the history of architecture. However, when discovering prehistorian's caves then detecting animal figures painted by ancient ancestors to "decorate" their "interior space". We might guessed that the sense of interior decoration, desire to beautify dwelling (even if it was just a cave), which perhaps have formed in human's mind before we became conscious about architecture works for a long time.
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How to Seal Fascia Gaps in a Roof
Fascia boards attach to rafter ends along the roof line. If you don't seal them properly, water can run off the roof and into your home. If water gets trapped behind the exterior walls, it can cause structural damage that you won't see right away. So seal the gaps in your fascia to prevent costly repairs later. A caulking gun and exterior waterproof caulk are the primary items you need to seal your fascia and keep water and insects out of your home.
Inspect the fascia boards for damaged areas. Replace all rotted wood with pressure-treated lumber. Do not seal rotted wood.
Set a ladder up to gain access to the fascia boards. Position the ladder on firm, level ground. Cut the tip on a tube of exterior, waterproof caulk at a 45-degree angle, advises The Exterminators. Use the cutting tool on a caulking gun or a utility knife. Pierce the inner seal of the tube with the tool attached to the caulking gun. Insert the tube into the caulking gun and push the plunger in.
Start at the end of a fascia board and caulk the corner edge where two boards meet. Smooth the caulk bead with your finger and begin caulking the joint between the fascia board and the soffit (also known as the eave). Slowly move down the joint to apply a steady bead of caulk into the gap, instructs Ron Hazelton. Caulk about 2 feet of the joint and stop to smooth the bead with your finger. Apply more caulk to the gap as needed to fill it completely. Continue caulking until the entire fascia board has been sealed.
Move to the next fascia board and repeat Step 3 to caulk the entire board and the corner joints. Continue moving around the house until every fascia board has been caulked and sealed.
Things You Will Need
Exterior waterproof caulk
Use colored caulk to match the current paint color if you are not repainting the fascia boards.
Allow the caulk to dry before you apply paint.
Apply caulk to nail holes also for added protection.
Do not use silicone caulk if you are painting the fascia boards. Paint will not adhere to silicone.
Use caution when you work from a ladder.
- Use colored caulk to match the current paint color if you are not repainting the fascia boards.
- Allow the caulk to dry before you apply paint.
- Apply caulk to nail holes also for added protection.
- Do not use silicone caulk if you are painting the fascia boards. Paint will not adhere to silicone.
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20 Jun Roll Yourself
We live in a bizarre world where no one tells us that Aum isn’t just a nifty spiritual seeming way to start a class, but that it actually stimulates the auricular branch of the vagus nerve, turning on our parasympathetic nervous system and physically relaxing our body. Or that if we’re stressed, submerging our head in cool water activates the ancient throwback called ‘Mammalian Reflex’, which lowers our heart rate, and releases an array of anti-stress enzymes and hormones. No one even tells us that our muscles don’t actually stretch – at least not in the way we’ve been led to believe.
Literally, we’re given the coolest, most complex and wonderful toy on earth: our body. And no one hands us the instruction manual!
The traditional anatomical view of how the body works is both grossly flawed and widely taught. The idea that muscles work solely in isolation is a great paradigm when working with a cadaver, but completely misguided when working with a living body. Yogis know this intuitively, if not always intellectually. We can feel that a subtle change in the angle of our scapula can shift the entire feeling of a pose; that a knot of tension in our lower back doesn’t just affect our back, but our whole side body. We intuitively know what has just recently been coming to the forefront of anatomy and physiology: that everything in our body is connected.
What is the vehicle for this connection? Fascia. It’s amazing. I mean, truly astounding. It covers and wraps everything, every bone, organ, muscle and every individual muscle fibre. It’s the thing that gives us form and shape, the thing that inhibits or provides range of motion, and gives our bodies elasticity and dynamic stability. It’s the key to healthy movement, lithe bodies and a flexible open mind.
I studied it out of necessity. How many of you have the wonderful experience of tight hamstrings despite practicing yoga for more than a year? How many of you still think that by practicing more yoga this problem will magically be solved (what’s the definition of insanity again?). This is what I found when I started a deep yoga practice. Years of martial arts had given me strength and dynamic stability, but not flexibility in a yogic sense. No matter how often I practiced or what style I practiced, the results in terms of lasting range of motion were minimal. I knew there must be a better way to get easeful motion, and searched many different avenues – eventually finding the Roll & Release Technique.
Roll & Release Technique is a yin system of yoga using props like blocks and solid rubber balls. It works intensively with the myofascial layer of the body, releasing points of stuck fascia, stuck energy and creating length and ease without the wear and tear on the body. After a full class it feels like you’ve just been through a deep tissue massage on steroids and it’s the most effective way to gain flexibility and easeful range of motion that I know of.
Loosely working with the lines of fascia in the body laid out by Tom Myers, the author of the revolutionary book on fascia Anatomy Trains, Roll & Release uses the balls and blocks to find and release knots of tension. Because we’re not cadavers, releasing a single spot in the body has an effect on the length of the full fascial ‘train’. Rolling out your feet creates length in your hamstrings. Rolling out your jaw deepens your backbend. Don’t take my word for it, instead try the following:
Take a solid rubber ball (or tennis ball if you don’t have one), and while standing, place it behind the mound of the big toe. Slowly, consciously roll your foot over the ball with medium to hard pressure. Do this for a minute or so. Every time you find a point that is sharper, has more feedback, stay with it, breath and feel it release. Once the time is up, step off the ball close your eyes and feel the difference in the feet. Then, take a simple forward fold and feel the difference between the side you rolled and the side you didn’t. Notice the difference in your glutes, back, or maybe even shoulders and neck.
The superficial back line (train) runs all the way from the bottom of your foot up your legs, back and neck. Just by releasing our foot we relieve pressure from the entire line. Just like undoing a knot in a rope gives it more length, undoing points of stuck fascia gives our muscles more length – and does so quickly, effectively and without putting pressure on natural imbalances of your body. This is just one pose in the Roll & Realease discipline – the variations, like any yoga, are endless. Because it’s so restorative, and rejuvenating, it’s the perfect compliment to your yoga (running, tennis, cycling) practice. It brings lasting flexibility, ease and lightness faster than anything else I’ve discovered.
– By James mattingley
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***The Museum is currently closed to the public. We hope to see you when we reopen this summer!***
Leap into a week of illuminating science, crazy contraptions, inspired art and more as we celebrate five days of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math)!
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Monday, March 15 - Science
There's more to sight than what meets the eye. Take a look into our Sights Unseen exhibit for some illuminating science around eyes, light, and optics. Just wait until you see what we have in store this day!
Tuesday, March 16 - Technology
Technology is part of our everyday lives and it takes a lot of energy and electricity to make it work! Learn about the importance of energy efficiency and find out how you can repurpose old technology into a fun spring craft!
Wednesday, March 17 - Engineering
What do you do with an idea? Use it to change the world! Explore the engineering design process as you create your own mechanical toy or paper bot.
Thursday, March 18 - Art
There are lots of different forms of art -from drawing and sculpture to music to storytelling to dance. Explore them all with us as you sing along with Tot*Tunes, read a book with no pictures, and learn some basics of ballet!
Friday, March 19 - Math
From numbers and counting to geometry to financial literacy, math is an important skill we use throughout our lives. Get a jump start with our early childhood corner and story time, then see how it’s applied to things like biology and how money is managed. | <urn:uuid:0728322b-9d2d-4deb-b898-c78e1696e8e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cmhouston.org/events/spring-break | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929691 | 391 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Solar energy has been harnessed by humans for thousands of years for heating purposes, and more recently for electricity generation. Solar power is an extremely vast resource, but it has some limitations on availability that can affect its deployment around the world.
The sun imparts a huge amount of sunlight on the Earth every day, and although about half of it is reflected by the atmosphere, the Earth absorbs about 3,850,000 exajoules of solar energy every year. More solar energy is absorbed by the Earth in one hour than the entire human population uses in one year, according to a report by Vaclav Smil, a respected geographer and professor at the University of Manitoba.
Although solar power can seem nearly limitless, the rotation of the earth provides a major limitation to continuous solar power. Locations close to the north and south poles experience extended hours of sunlight, but it is only for a portion of the year, and they experience reduced hours of sunlight at opposite times of the year. Some solar power facilities employ energy storage systems to store excess power during off-peak periods and to deliver power during peak periods or overnight.
Cloud cover can drastically affect the availability of solar power. Companies planning large solar-energy generation facilities choose locations that historically have a minimal number of cloudy days and generally have lower humidity. Locations such as the southwestern United States, desert regions of Africa and much of Australia have low humidity, low rainfall and few cloudy days throughout the year, maximizing the solar energy that can be harnessed.
The distance of a location from the equator has a direct relation to the amount of solar energy that can be harnessed at that location. The closer the angle of the sun to the surface of the Earth, the more solar energy reaches the surface instead of being reflected by the atmosphere. Therefore, the portion of the Earth’s surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn absorb the largest amount of solar energy over the course of one year.
Power Transmission Infrastructure
Large solar power installations provide the largest amount of power when they are installed in locations where solar radiation is strong and continuous. However, these locations are often unpopulated, and power transmission infrastructure may not exist in the area. Companies planning and building large solar power installations often have to include the construction of power-transmission systems in order to deliver electricity to where it is needed and used.
- General Energetics: Energy in the Biosphere and Civilization; Vaclav Smil; 1991
- National Resources Canada—Renewable Energy Portal
About the Author
Susan Kristoff has been writing engineering content for 13 years. Her articles have appeared on eHow.com, Suite101, her personal websites, and the websites of many ghostwriting clients. Kristoff's expertise includes design, structures, sensors, data acquisition, and fabrication. | <urn:uuid:6a3a11b5-ff78-417c-9716-1584908ba872> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sciencing.com/availability-solar-energy-5518265.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941777 | 601 | 4 | 4 |
Two-year-old Leonie’s father, Alexander S., told police he did not realise the shower was scalding hot when he threw his daughter inside and turned on the tap, and had not even realised she had been burned until the blisters started appearing hours later. Medics however said that the burns were so severe it was impossible that he did not realise what had happened.
The parents, from Vienna's Floridsdorf district, also admitted that they had not immediately taken the child to hospital, and left her crying almost non-stop for a day before finally deciding to take her for treatment.
She was immediately put in the intensive care ward at the Vienna SMZ hospital because of the severity of the burns on her back – but died as a result of massive organ failure.
Last year, Leonie’s mother (27) received a partially conditional sentence of one year, with four months of that to be served in jail. However, her defence team argued that she was only responsible for Leonie’s death in as far as she didn’t immediately call an ambulance, and that she had already been punished by the death of her daughter.
Leonie’s father (28) received a four-and-a-half year sentence, after being found guilty of torturing and neglecting a minor, which led to her death. The court heard that he had regularly punished the bright and lively Leonie by subjecting her to ice-cold showers, with the knowledge of his partner. Sentencing him, the judge said, “we are in the 21st century, not the 13th century”.
On the day that she was scalded Leonie was exposed to hot water with a temperature of 60 degrees for at least five seconds, because the mixer tap in the bath was not working properly. When her father noticed the water was hot he failed to pull her out immediately. She suffered severe burns to around 15 percent of her skin. Instead of taking her immediately to hospital her parents treated her burns with a cooling spray, disinfectant and bandages. It was only 28 hours later that they took her to hospital.
The couple also have two young boys. Both defendants got two weeks taken off their sentences, as compensation for the fact that the trial has been so lengthy and the judge failed to make a verdict within the agreed time. | <urn:uuid:ea2f7b3b-6ecc-4577-97ec-26d223df121f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thelocal.at/20170118/mother-of-toddler-scalded-to-death-will-not-face-jail-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.994172 | 489 | 1.8125 | 2 |
The Third-Place For Education
So, college for me would be one of those converted warehouses with long rows of tables, chairs, sofas, coffee bars and technology gadgets, with designated meeting places and quiet rooms, and perhaps a gym, but never a classroom. There will be no teachers either, just team leaders, and coaches, and those who lead discussion groups. Indeed, the picture is more like Raphael's School of Athens (yes, the one that usually makes the first slide of every presentation insisting that college should change), plus Computers, which may make it look like a modern incubation centre. Minus, the cut-throatedness, of course, because education needs safety, and support, though too much of that can also be counter-productive.
This, for me, is not a philosophy class or a literature workshop, but the environment to teach technology, for example. Someone I know and respect said once to me that his key insight in technology education is that technologists are artists, but they are taught like scientists. They are given structures and syntaxes - a lot of emphasis on what we call explicit knowledge - but they thrive on tacit, their signature codes and intuition to interpret and solve the problem. So, this college, this Third Place college, by removing the walls and structures that are usually associated with the traditional ideas of study, can refocus the minds back on tacit, on practice, on the actual work, both technical and human, that one has to do.
And, the inevitable next question: Where would the Professors come from? They would not, because one does not need them, not in this environment. This whole model, predicated on doing things, solving problems and exploring ideas, would perhaps be supported by relevant content, which can be accessed online through all the videos and lectures available on the Internet, or through the plain old-fashioned books and manuals that may sit in a corner rack (which may be made a 21st century book by adding a RFID tag). The coach, in this setting, is the guide, who can connect content and application, someone who helps create a personalised to-learn list, among other things.
How is this environment better than the ones exist all around us? We have now figured out that what we are really learning at college is a culture - for a good technologist, it is the culture of technology - rather than content. If so, the environment for learning should be modelled around that objective - enabling cultural learning - and our classrooms, narrow benches, the lecture theatre, PowerPoint, are all built around content and content alone. The point of the new college is to turn the model on its head, just like we are getting rid of the old office designs, and build it ground up around culture, community and conversations. | <urn:uuid:4a79498d-f173-431e-a061-12472c35c682> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thesundayposts.com/2016/02/the-third-place-for-education.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964791 | 573 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Taoyuan City, Taiwan could join Long Beach’s list of sister cities – including Yokkaichi, Japan; Qingdao, China; Sochi, Russia; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; and Mombasa, Kenya.
On Tuesday, the Long Beach City Council approved Taoyuan City’s application to become a sister city. The council will vote on a formal resolution next week.
Sister Cities International was founded in 1956 during President Dwight Eisenhower’s White House Conference on Citizens’ Diplomacy. The purpose of a sister city is to build relationships with people of different cultures, “celebrate their differences, and build partnerships that reduce the risk of new conflicts,” according to the Sister Cities of Long Beach Inc. (SCLB) website.
SCLB President Susan Redfield said the organization works with “thousands of Long Beach residents” from diverse backgrounds each year.
“It is our vision to continue to serve as the international arm for our city and its leadership, and to help improve Long Beach’s personal and economic future,” she said.
These partnerships may also include commercial agreements, such as B. Coordination with the Port of Long Beach. According to the agenda item, Los Angeles County is America’s most important international trade gateway to Taiwan and Taiwan’s most important gateway to the United States. Los Angeles County also has the largest Taiwanese population of any county in the country.
“The embrace of Taoyuan City could facilitate a mutually beneficial exchange of business opportunities and strategies,” Councilor Al Austin said. “In addition, the cultural exchange can lead to an enrichment for both of our cities.”
Austin pointed out that the city has received Taiwanese representatives on several occasions and that the city of Taoyuan has sent supplies of PPE to Long Beach when there is a shortage.
The addition of Taoyuan City would be Long Beach’s first new sister city since 2007 when Mombasa, Kenya joined the list. The other cities joined between the 80s and 90s.
The process began in 2019 when the SCLB board was approached by a group of Taiwanese nationals who wanted to add a Taiwanese sister city.
In June of the same year, the SCLB received a presentation from the group and formed a Taoyuan Twin City Education Committee to explore the potential partnership.
In December 2020, the council approved the application to establish the sister city, but had not yet formalized the agreement.
“I always support anything that allows us to have mutually beneficial exchanges on business opportunities, port strategies and of course cultural enrichment with other countries,” said Councilor Suely Saro.
Long Beach also has three “Friendship Cities”: Bacolod, Philippines; Venice, Italy; and Rosarito Beach, Mexico. These relationships were formed to “test the waters” before forming long-term town twinning, according to the SCLB website. Compared to Twin Cities, Friendship Cities are often short-term, less formal, and designed to advance a single purpose. | <urn:uuid:191dc300-2cf6-4bf7-8aae-728fbad6789d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mombasainfo.com/taoyuan-city-taiwan-could-become-long-beachs-first-sister-city-in-over-a-decade/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963594 | 649 | 1.671875 | 2 |
In the event that you are going to Spanish school in Santiago, you presumably need to urge the extent of liquor you drink during your outing so you can stay alert during your classes. Regardless, with that surge of prepared aside, it is essential that you test the extensively acclaimed territory wines when you are not examining for your Spanish classes in Chile. As of now, there are more than 70 wineries in the country. Chile is one of the top world exporters and makers of wine. Wine has for a significant length of time been essential to the country. Precisely when the conquistadors colonized the space during the 1500s, they passed on plants with them for making wine. Jesuit priests kept structure up the grape farms, as they required the wine for their abilities. In any case, there was a basic difficulty to the zone’s wine industry during the 1600s. Wine made in Chile and Peru was prohibited in Spain, and wild law obliged Chileans to purchase a tremendous piece of their wines from Spain. Hence, Chilean grapes wound up making Pisco, and wine creation persisted.
During the 1800s, wine groupings from France like Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon knew about Chile. Sweet wines conveyed using the Pays and Muscatel grapes wound up being prominent. At last, the nation of France influenced Genuine Winemaking more than Spain. Wealthy Chileans took off to France, imported French plants for their property, and made their Ruou Vang Do. During this time, the French were doing combating a phylloxera bug attack, and their grape farms were in ruin. Winemakers from France frequently went to Chile to make their wine. Unmistakably, this model profited the Chileans as they took in an incredible arrangement from the French. One clarification that wine has flourished in Chile is the climate, which has been portrayed as like that of California and France. As of now, grape homes succeed along a 800-mile stretch of land that runs from the Atacama Region toward the southern Bio-Bio region.
The wine basement used to submerge the grape homes typically start from Andean snowmelt. The temperatures in the regions are especially delicate and seen as Mediterranean. On the off chance that you are going to Spanish school in Santiago, the grape houses you can visit here combine Santa Rita, Concha Toro and Undurraga. The way that Chile has brand name limits like the Pacific Ocean, the Andes Mountains, and the Desert is recognized to be the explanation that it is shielded from phylloxera interruptions. Several people recognize this permits the wine to be cleaner in flavor. In any case, there is no weakness that open entryway from these bugs permits the wine business to be more productive. The exorbitant technique of joining to rootstocks is not major in Chile. Genuine Wine is beginning at now exceptionally standard in America, likewise. There are at present more than 20 grape assortments making. | <urn:uuid:c075e8d9-edc7-40e0-b0f7-b9ab4433a949> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://aztecfreenet.org/2021/general/major-overview-of-genuine-wine-for-resveratrol-content/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.974889 | 610 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Dance school owner took right steps
It was 1978 and 22-year-old Valerie Gooding, an administrative clerk by day and professional dance instructor by night, knew it was time to move with the tempo of her class of ballet, tap, jazz and musical theater students and open the doors to her dream.
So, the Philadelphian, who has lived in Delaware since 1973 and now Newark, did just that.
Gooding owns New Castle Dance and Music Academy in People's Plaza in Glasgow. The business, like most small ventures launched by entrepreneurial spirits with big dreams, had a humbling beginning, in this case, in the back of a music store.
Today about 500 families are clients of the Gooding's family-run business where daughter Dana, 35, is the manager, Heather, 37, is the dance team director and mom, 57, is artistic director.
Gooding's success stretches beyond a lifetime of training, a master's degree in ballet arts and musical theater arts, the devotion and passion of her daughters, and even her own tenacity.
Taking the academy to the next level - so the business could become as exceptional as the training offered - required keen judgment and a willingness to seek business advice. That's when Gooding asked SCORE Delaware to join the dance.
"I was first connected with SCORE through a News Journal advertisement in the early 90s - they provided classes for operations and management," says Gooding. She was paired with a business mentor over the years has come to reach out to SCORE on three occassions for free yet invaluable business guidance.
"I wanted the academy business to match the professionalism of the dance training," Gooding recalled.
SCORE Delaware is a group of longtime business gurus that took root in 1952 with a handful of DuPont retirees looking for a way to give back to the community. Once called the Service Corps of Retired Executives, the local cadre is composed of the retired, semi-retired and those not even close to thinking of retirement. It is an unofficial board of directors, a group of innovative thinkers, helping startups and existing businesses out of the kindness of their hearts.
"It was an eye-opening experience because we have so much to offer that I needed the tools to get my point across so people could perceive us as the professional school that we are," Gooding said.
She credits her mentors, Glenn Steltver and recently named first female and minority SCORE President Antara Dutta.
"They really helped me with the marketing, the presentation, and they helped me see strengths that I didn't realize I had and opened up doors to opportunities to be around other entrepreneurs," a gracious Gooding says. "We were selected to represent the state of Delaware by the American Alliance Performing Arts Educators to perform during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio [de Janeiro], Brazil. We are really excited about that."
Gooding is one in a first-ever line-up of all female small business owners named winners of the 2014 SBA (Small Business Administration–) Delaware small business awards, that will be presented on May 21, at DuPont Country Club.
"What is really special this year is that all award winners are women-owned businesses," says Bob O-Brien, SCORE volunteer and former president. "This is the second year an award winner is mentored by the SCORE president."
The nonprofit has grown nationally with 11,000 volunteers in 334 chapters in 50 states. Nationally, SCORE has helped launch more than 38,000 businesses, created more than 82,000 jobs and aided more than 50,000 clients – some of whom will be celebrated by the SBA during the program.
"Every year the award winners honored at this event have truly distinguished themselves and represent the very best that the Delaware small business community has to offer," John Fleming, SBA Delaware district director said. "This year's celebration, with its all female line-up of entrepreneur honorees, will be one for the history books, though, spotlighting female entrepreneurs at their best."
SCORE is offered in New Castle, Kent and Sussex counties. To learn more visit www.scoredelaware.org.
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2014 SBA Delaware Small Business Award winners
Small Business Persons of the Year: Marian R. Young, President; Mark A. Lannan, Principal, BrightFields, Inc., Wilmington.
Family Business of the Year: Valerie A. Gooding, President/Artistic Director, New Castle Dance Academy, Inc., Glasgow.
Minority-Owned Business of the Year: Dr. Manonmani Antony, Pain Physician and Managing Member, Sussex Pain Relief Center, LLC, Georgetown.
Woman-Owned Business of the Year: Stefania Panza, Managing Member and Owner, Scotto Pastabilities V, LLC, d/b/a, Sofritto's Italian Grill, Newark.
Young Entrepreneurs of the Year: Megan Corey and Amy Kanzleiter, Co-Owners, ShopMamie, Inc., Wilmington.
Small Business Champion of the Year: Jimmy A. Jarrell, Paul B. Hughes, III, First National Bank of Wyoming, Wyoming.
Top Delaware SBA 7(a) Program Lender by Number of Loans: M & T Bank
Top Delaware SBA 7(a) Program Lender by Dollar Amount: Parke Bank
Top Delaware SBA 504 Program Lender: Delaware Community Development Corporation
Top Delaware SBA 504 Program Third Party Lender, by Dollar Amount: M & T Bank
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Deadline: 30 April 2015
Open to: students and young professionals in the fields of migrations, mobilities and refugees.
Venue: 29 June – 3 July 2015, Favignana (Trapani, Italy)
The 9th edition of the International Summer School in Migration, Human Rights and Democracy, organized by the University of Palermo, focuses the issues of “separated children” and migrant children. We are inviting advanced Master and PhD students, academics, free scholars as well as civil society activists to present and discuss applied research, empirical studies and theoretical papers (in Italian and/or English), from a sociological, anthropological, psychological perspective, on one of the topics including, but not limited to:
- The role of cultural mediators dealing with irregular migrant children (unaccompanied children, asylum seeking children, children with families/children accompanied).
- Reception practices in the psychological, social and educational scope.
- Social and labour market inclusion projects.
- Separated children taking charge modalities and psychophysical well-being.
- Separated children and criminal activity/deviance.
- Separated children in Italy, second-generation migrants and citizenship.
- Separated children victims of trafficking and human smuggling, exploitation (forced labor/begging, sexual abuse).
- Forms and practices of ethnic identity in host society.
Your participation will be rewarded with a certificate. The Summer School is a 6 ECTS programme.
- € 150 – Summer School + material + lunch and publication with ISBN code.
Summer School participants have the opportunity to book accommodation at special rates
- Single ensuite room: € 40
- Twin ensuite room: € 40 per person
Abstract for papers should be no more than 500 words, and it should be sent (in doc/pdf format) by 30 April 2015 to the scientific coordinator (). Selected authors will be notified until 5 May 2015 and have to send the receipt until 15 May 2015.
The full paper (between 6000-7000 words with the ‘Chicago B’ style citation) are expected to be received by 15 June 2015.
- Selected papers will be published in a collected volume with Aracne publisher (Rome, Italy) and on Migration Studiesreview.
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Segregation at three loci explains familial and population risk in Hirschsprung disease.
Hirschsprung disease (HSCR), the most common hereditary cause of intestinal obstruction, shows considerable variation and complex inheritance. Coding sequence mutations in RET, GDNF, EDNRB, EDN3 and SOX10 lead to long-segment (L-HSCR) and syndromic HSCR but fail to explain the transmission of the much more common short-segment form (S-HSCR). We conducted a genome scan in families with S-HSCR and identified susceptibility loci at 3p21, 10q11 and 19q12 that seem to be necessary and sufficient to explain recurrence risk and population incidence. The gene at 10q11 is probably RET, supporting its crucial role in all forms of HSCR; however, coding sequence mutations are present in only 40% of linked families, suggesting the importance of noncoding variation. Here we show oligogenic inheritance of S-HSCR, the 3p21 and 19q12 loci as RET-dependent modifiers, and a parent-of-origin effect at RET. This study demonstrates by a complete genetic dissection why the inheritance pattern of S-HSCR is nonmendelian.
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In the past few days once again history repeated itself; a peaceful protest turned into a violent one. A huge crowd gathered on the roads of the United States, protesting against George Floyd killed in Minneapolis, under police custody.
Violent protest against police brutality
In the past week, protestors clashed with police. Peaceful demonstration and violent riots erupted as during the protest 2 more black men were reported to be dead Breonna Taylor and Ahmad Arbery. Resulting in 40 cities imposing curfews, with National Guard personnel activated in 24 states including Washington, DC.
One former officer is charged with three-degree murder and manslaughter. The protesters demand some more strict punishment for the officers involved in the murder. Now the protest is further taking a violent turn. protestors set police cars on flames, vandalized property, and looting shops. And still, the states fear of more destruction as the protestors railing on the streets.
Anti-government protest in Hong Kong
The anti-government protest in Hong Kong started in June 2019 against the plans that would allow the extradition to China’s mainland. The protesters feared that such plans would a judicial impediment and could endanger dissidents.
Even though the bill was taken back in September, the protest didn’t come to rest. Now the demonstrators demand a full democracy; as well as an inquiry into the police’s actions during the protest.
In the beginning, the protest was peaceful but with the passage of time; both the protesters as well as police’s actions turned increasingly violent. Now the clashes between police and protestors have become more violent than ever. With the police firing bullets, tear gasses; and protestors attacking police officials with petrol bombs.
How protest spread so quickly
Professor Clifford Stott an expert in Crowd Behaviour and Public Order Policing, Keele University says; that incidents like Mr. Floyad’s death often escalate the violent demonstration because; they show the broader experience shared by a large community. In this case, it was about the relationship between the black community and the police
He also said that violent confrontations usually arise in places where already lies structural inequalities. He has studied a similar case like this one, the England riots, 2011. That riot spread like a forest fire because; demonstrators from different cities were unified by the shared hatred against police.
Peaceful protests’ advantages
Peaceful protest or non-violent resistance has numerous advantages over violent protests. non-violent demonstration enables the demonstrators to hold the power and support of the people; even while governed by an oppressive regime.
A study on the worldwide protest revealed that a non-violent protest gains 11 times more public support; than armed protests.
Between 1900-2015, of all the non-violent protests 51% succeded; in convincing the authorities on their terms. But on the other hand success percentage of armed protests is 27%.
Peaceful protests have a very low-risk factor and are much more organized; than a violent one. Successful peaceful protestors like Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King inspire non-violent demonstrators.
Peaceful protests’ disadvantages
Even though peaceful protests have become more common way; most demonstrators use them as a weapon against the government, but their success rate has declined since 2000.
The failure rate of these protests is 20%. Political and social modulation takes time therefore the results or desired changes are delayed. And there always stand a strong possibility of turning violent
Many a time when the demonstrations are over, things may again get back to being unorganized. And these circumstances may result in an oppressing leader yet again, but this has an equal probability of happening in the violent protests.
Pros and cons of violent protest
Most claim a violent protest is an important tool in politics. Political parties sometimes genuinely inculcate violence in non-violent protests for their political benefits.
With the violent protest decisions are passed a bit quicker. Violence forces the government and authorities to make the desired amendment faster.
Thomas Hobbes illustrates violent protests as “a rational means to achieve such political goal as territory, safety, and glory.”
Violent protests are sometimes the necessity of the situation. It is in some places used to enforce stability, and safety and maintain territories.
But at the same time stats shows that the failure rate of such protests is 60%. Violent protest is always disorganized. It results in a huge loss of property and lives. Censor of people often results in chastening.
27% of Syria’s housing infrastructure has been destroyed in the never-resting protests. Apart from the infrastructural losses, life losses make these violent protests incredibly disastrous. In Yamen 250 protestors lost their lives, 3500 in Syria, and 100 in Bahrain.
Are peaceful protests better?
Without a second thought, non-violent protests are way better than armed protests. But in several conditions peaceful protests are just not enough; overthrowing an oppressive government even after having a lot of supporting people is tough.
Protesting against something wrong in society is our right as well as our responsibility. Protest is not something that has started recently; it is a crucial part of human history.
Protesting in a peaceful manner is important not only to maintain the dignity of the society but also to protect the people we are protesting for. The innocent public suffers a lot during these violent protests without committing any sin. By erupting violence in protests, protestors often deviate from the core purpose of the protest.
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Glucose Syrup Market Share and Industry Research Report 2022
Posted by Pradeep Zende on January 23rd, 2020
Glucose is a simple sugar and is the primary energy source of the body and is ubiquitous in the body mechanisms and processes. Glucose features on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, due to its crucial role to life sustenance and maintenance. The global glucose syrup market share is projected to reach 29,888 kilo tons by volume at a CAGR of 3.6 % during the forecast period of 2016 to 2022.
The essential nature of glucose and its versatile uses in healthcare coupled with growth of complimentary industries and applications such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, confectionery etc. are driving the global glucose syrup market.
The concentrated nature of glucose syrup reduces transportation costs resulting in efficiencies. The Government’s support to agriculture especially the sugar beet and sugarcane producers is another driver of the market. The situational growing demand for glucose syrup has resulted in North America and Europe being net importers of sugar as they failed to produce enough sugar from sugar beets. The glut was due to growing demand from confectionary, food and beverages industries. The explosive growth of canned and packaged foods is also charging the market.
Characteristics such as its long shelf-life, humectant and preservative properties, nontoxicity, anti-freezing and anti-crystal formation, and glaze generation are other factors driving the use of glucose syrup.
Falling cost due to extreme market fragmentation, diversification of sugar through inefficient rationing and public food systems are restraining the market.
The major players in the global glucose syrup market are Cargill Inc. (U.S.), Ingredion Incorporated (U.S.), Archer Daniels Midland Company (U.S.), Agrana Group (Austria), Roquette (France), Tate & Lyle plc (U.K.), Grain Processing Corporation (U.S.) and others.
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To generate a bird’s view of the market the global glucose syrup market has been segmented by source, grade, application, and region.
Based on the source, the market has been segmented into corn, wheat, barley, potatoes, rice, cassava and others. Corn followed by wheat accounts for the largest market share by source. The liquid form is expected to grow at a CAGR of 3.85 %.
Based on the grade, the market has been segmented into Food, Pharma, Industrial and others
Based on the form, the market has been segmented by liquid, granular and others. Liquid followed by granular form segment is expected to generate the fastest growth.
Based on the application, the market has been segmented by food, beverage, confectionery, pharmaceuticals and others. Food based application expected to triumph the glucose syrup market by application.
Based on the region, the market has been segmented by North America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa.
Asia-Pacific region holds a lion’s share of more than 30 % by volume reflected by more than 10,000 kilo tons of production. China, India are the leading nations in the Asia Pacific region. Russia is expected to generate significant growth owing to its large production of sugar beet. The Latin American nations of Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador are expected to be a large market opportunity.
North America is expected to generate the fastest growth of 3.94 % owing to large scale corn subsidies provided by the Government. Europe is expected to be led by France, Germany, Ukraine and others.
Middle East and Africa market is expected to be dominated by the African region nations of South Africa, Angola and others.
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The long hard fight for more openness in drug trials is being threatened by a company called Richmond Pharmacology, which is opposing the Health Research Authorities plan to register all clinical trials. Richmond Pharmacology are challenging the HRAs plans for greater transparency in clinical trials by instigating a judicial review of the HRAs proposals to prevent them coming into force.
Sense About Science is a small charity, and a founding member of the AllTrials campaign, that is determined to prevent Richmond Pharmacology from derailing the plans for increased transparency in clinical trials. They have taken the risky step of committing their lawyers to intervene in the judicial review, this could result in financial catastrophe for the charity if their case is unsuccessful.
We know that withholding the results of clinical trials costs lives, wastes money, inflicts avoidable suffering and harm on patients
The AllTrials campaign was started in 2013 and its stated aim is for ‘all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their full methods and summary results reported’. It is a global initiative formed by a coalition of members; in the UK these members include: Sense About Science, Ben Goldacre (of Bad Science), British Medical Journal and the Cochrane Collaboration. The author of ‘Bad Science’ Ben Goldacre is passionate about promoting good science and is an active campaigner for AllTrials. He has recently appeared in a promotional video called ‘AllTrials: Make clinical trials count’ in which he says ‘We know that withholding the results of clinical trials costs lives, wastes money, inflicts avoidable suffering and harm on patients. And so I don’t think it is any longer tenable to say we didn’t know’.
A well documented example of the harms that can occur when clinical trials are not published is Seroxat; a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor(SSRI) anti-depressant developed by GlaxoSmithKline and first marketed in 1992. In 2003 it was revealed that it was responsible for a higher risk of suicide in adolescents taking Seroxat (a.k.a. paroxetine) for depression. It turned out that GlaxoSmithKline knew this risk and had suppressed clinical data that proved it. There was also evidence of deliberate, suppression of unfavorable Seroxat research results, a GSK internal document stated “It would be commercially unacceptable to include a statement that efficacy [in children] had not been demonstrated, as this would undermine the profile of paroxetine”. In 2012 GSK were ordered to pay $3 billion dollars by the US Justice Department for their part in suppressing data on the increase in suicide risk in juveniles on Seroxat, and then marketing the drug to treat juveniles with depression.
kind donations have played a significant role in our decision to take on this struggle for clinical trials transparency
James Cockerill a campaigns manager with Sense About Science says ‘letters of support, offers of help and kind donations have played a significant role in our decision to take on this struggle for clinical trials transparency.’ The amount of money donated to Alltrials currently stands at £72,877 from 2782 donations, and they will need more to stop Richmond Pharmacology and its backers succeeding in court. Donations are still needed here, and the petition in support of AllTrials can be signed here.
Richmond Pharmacology is a firm based in London that specialises in providing small scale clinical studies, usually testing a new potential drug, for the first time in humans, on a small number of volunteers. Their clients include leading pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology firms, and business is good with a reported 44.1% increase in total sales reported in 2014.
According to Cockerill, time and cost consuming games are being utilised in the oppositions legal strategy ‘Richmond has now changed their argument three times and has altogether abandoned some arguments it relied upon earlier…Richmond then asked the Court not to allow AllTrials to be heard. We had written to Richmond and the HRA outlining our planned argument to the court and inviting their response. HRA replied to us, Richmond did not. Instead they went straight to the Judge and asked him not to hear us.’ Then at the very last minute Richmond asked for a substantial change to the case ‘They want the Court to declare that no trial sponsor or person running a trial has any legal requirement to publicly register any clinical trial unless the sponsor has given a legally binding commitment to do so’.
Richmond are also trying to undermine the AllTrials case by telling the court ‘AllTrials references to international rules and protocols are irrelevant and will only add to their costs’. An initial hastily arranged court case, by Richmond, in Manchester on Monday the 29th of June 2015 was cancelled and has now been rescheduled for the 16th of July in the Manchester County Court. The case has a David vs Goliath element due to the limited funds of Sense About Science and the considerably larger funds of Richmond Pharmacology. The result of this case has serious implications for the health of people in the UK, and the rest of the world; let’s hope David wins. | <urn:uuid:f3f756a5-a41f-4605-8373-73766adb4a78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://conradbower.com/2015/07/01/richmond-pharmacology-instigates-judicial-review-to-suppress-transparency-in-clinical-trials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963728 | 1,066 | 2 | 2 |
Badiou explicitly calls his research in view of writing a third book to complete the system begun with BEING AND EVENT and continued with LOGICS OF WORLDS an « inquiry« . The first two books constituted an « analytic« , but the third book requires a « conversion ». He is no longer deducing the conditions of possibility of truths from the point of view of their being (ontology) or of their appearing in a world (phenomenology). He is concerned in this third stage of his with exploring what a world is when examined from the point of view of a truth. Given his emphasis that a truth is a practice we can perhaps call this a pragmatic conversion, but Badiou himself does not use this term.
Badiou begins his three and a half year seminar devoted to the immanence of truths with a summary of his concept of truth, listing six characteristics of truths. This is what he calls in the second class the « material » of the inquiry :
« 1. By « truth » I understand a construction, a process, a creation, and thus not something that has to do with the exactitude of a judgement ».
Immanence of truth: a truth is not reducible to a judgement, and it cannot be analysed as the correspondence of a proposition and the real. A judgement can be veridical, but this is the derivative effect of a truth procedure, and belongs to constituted knowledge, not to a constitutive truth. For a materialist, truth is a part of the world, immanent to the real, not corresponding to the real but transforming it.
« 2. This process includes an element of risk, an element irreducible to the figures of necessity of the world inside which there is this process ».
Truth as exception: the origin of a truth is an « event », a figure of chance, an encounter, an indetermination, a break in the necessities of the world in which it is constructed. This cut is the source of its possible universality. Immanent in the world a truth is not reducible to the world, is not absorbed by the world, not limited to the world from which it draws its materials.
« 3. The process of construction of a truth is also and at the same time construction of a subject of truth, which is the principle of orientation of the construction ».
Active obedience: the subject is not reducible to the somatic or psychological individual nor to a social group or institution. The subject is both active and passive: the local point of a truth procedure’s construction and its principle of orientation. The subject both obeys and decides.
« 4. What this process constructs is universal. The universal is not reducible to a logical category, it is not the universality of a judgement (it is not the universal quantifier ».
Universality means that a truth is potentially intelligible and practicable in different worlds than the one it originated in. Badiou adduces the example of Sophocles’ tragedies, whose materials belong to a defunct world, but as universal work of art can be understood by us, and continued, enriched, and transformed for contemporary use. This amounts to a pragmatic criterion of universality, close to Deleuze’s notion of the « untimely », but as remarked above Badiou does not call it so. In the second class he cites diverse examples: Euclid’s Elements, Spartacus’ revolt, Sophocles’s plays, the love of Héloïse and Abelard. He remarks « It traverses the centuries and everyone understands. »
« 5. A truth process is an infinite process. It makes no sense to talk about its completion or its closure ».
Openness: a truth is infinite, perpetually open to re-interpretation and to re-deployment in different worlds. It contains no intrinsic finitude. One of the criteria of universality of a truth is its openness, its incompleteness. A truth can always be « resurrected »: giving rise to new conclusions, re-understood and re-used in new ways. As an open process a truth can always be continued (Latour would say « reprised »)..
« 6. There are essentially four types of truth procedures: science (which makes truth from the relation possible between writing and the real), art (which makes truth from the border between form and non-form, politics (which makes truth from the collective capacity, from what the collective itself is able to do), and love (which makes truth from difference as such, in the mediation of sexed positions ».
Pluralism: there is a double pluralism of truths. Truth is not a singular concept, there is a constitutive plurality truths. Further, there are different categories of truths.
Badiou resumes these six characteristics in a single definition:
« A truth is a process, risky as to its possibility, subjective in its duration, particular in its materials, universal in its address or result, infinite in its being, and deployed according to four distinct types of processes ».
He proposes to condense this definition even further:
« a truth is an immanent exception to the world where it arises ».
A truth is produced in immanence to the world, in the world and from the materials of the world, and also, due to its potential universality, it is an exception to the world.
Note: Badiou begins the first class of his first seminar (2012-2013) with this explication of his concept of truth, and repeats it in virtually the same terms in the second class. I have translated the six characteristics from the version he gives in the first class, and in the explanations appended for each one I have combined the explanations from both the first and the second class, sticking very close to Badiou’s actual words.
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As the global urbanization is on constant rise, it is estimated that at least 2/3rd of the global population will shift to urban areas by the year 2050. So, it has become a priority for the worldwide authorities to seek a solution to this exponential urban expansion and make our cities livable, sustainable and inclusive. The cities must be efficient enough to make use of the limited resources, resilient enough to absorb all kinds of shocks, adaptable and scalable to change.
Smart City Mission in India
India is no exception here and looking at this unprecedented urban expansion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched “100 Smart Cities Mission (SCM)” on 25 June 2015 with a mission of driving economic growth and enhancing the urban quality of life. In the words of MoHUA (Ministry of Housing and Urban Areas), the aim of SCM is to create the cities that work for the people.
MoHUA defined certain parameters on which the smart cities can be designed and developed to ensure livability and sustainability. These are
Based on these parameters, the blueprint of Wave City- India’s first operational hi-tech smart city on NH-24, Ghaziabad was planned and implemented. It is now rated as one of the most well planned smart cities in North India.
Wave City- India’s First Operational Hi-Tech Smart City
With cutting-edge smart technology, Wave City has ensured the successful implementation of government’s smart city vision. An efficient and judicious use of resources is the hallmark of Wave City’s establishment of a world-class smart city mission.
With the following amenities and smart features, Wave City establishes itself as an eminent township
Central Command Center
The Central Command Center coordinates and monitors the important functions of the entire township like Smart Electric Grid, Weather Station, Water Management System, Air Quality Measurement, Cooking Gas Distribution, Solid Waste Management, Homeland Security Management, City Portal Traffic, and Transportation Management, and Street Light Automation that keeps Wave City going on in its day-today functions.
Water Management System
Wave City’s Smart Water Management System ensures a judicious utilization of water. The residents get the facilities like 24×7 water availability, regular water quality checks, online recharge system, pay as per the usage with smart metering system, along with correcting the issues like automatic water leakage detection with effective complaint management system. This way Water as a resource in Wave City is valued and conserved for future generations.
Cooking Gas Management
Smart Cooking Gas Management in Wave City provides multiple facilities to the residents with minimum hassle. Residents get many benefits with this smart system
Traffic and Transportation Management
The Intelligent traffic management system in Wave City ensures that the residents don’t end up losing their precious hours due to traffic congestion. The traffic management system ensures that the traffic flow remains smooth and there is reduced pollution in environment. The other features that provide a convenient transportation system to the residents, like-
City Portal/ Residents App
Digitization as one of the prominent criteria of a Smart City, Wave City has launched its own resident app that helps the residents to smartly address their grievances and requirements by providing quicker updates using the app insights and analytics. Wave City’s City portal helps the residents in various services that makes their life smooth and convenient, like
Smart Electric Grid
Wave City believes in efficient energy consumption with Smart Grid system. The electricity consumption can be tracked and managed efficiently with following provisions
Solid Waste Management
Wave City’s smart organic waste management system ensures that the organic waste undergoes efficient conversion to reduce the emission of Co2 in the atmosphere and keep the area green.
Street Light Automation
The street light automation system ensures that Wave City is all lit up at dusk and the street lights automatically go off at day break. This efficient street light system will avoid any kind of human error and will ensure that all units of street light work in sync with each other.
The Information & Communication Technology at Wave City keeps the residents updated with the slightest change in temperature and air quality. It is a smart way to stay a step ahead of the unpredictable weather conditions, like dangerous Wind Chill, the storm warning and Heat Wave. The weather alarms notify the residents about such changes constantly.
Homeland Security Management
Wave City will be a mini, secure world that will utilize advanced technologies to increase the safety and security of residents, as well as provide them with advanced services to increase their quality of life. It provides security management at three levels that makes Wave city one of the safest place to live.
Wave City’s adoption of Smart City model ensures that the residents enjoy a maximum living with the technology aided lifestyle. It has set up an inspiring success story of a smart city standards which is now followed as a suit by peers.
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