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Collection Statement The collection includes five series which are a reflection of Klauser's background, life and career which led him to a close relationship with Japan throughout most of his life. The collection contains photographs, documents, speeches, articles and artifacts regarding his travels, occupation, social life, etc. which may be interesting for students studying the culture, history, philosophy and business operations of Japan and its people. The materials cover Klauser's WWII Japanese language...
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Where does Argentina rank in worldwide vineyard crop yield?
True or False: People who taste wines often, such as sommeliers, may actually re-wire their brains to perceive wines differently from less frequent tasters?
Master of Wine Tim Hanni has identified how many "Vinotypes" - or general types of wine tasters - in his research on how people perceive wine tastes?
True or False: The higher your emotional ties to wine and food matching, the less likely you are to perceive the match as a good one.
True or False: how - or if! - you wear underwear may be an insight into your personal wine drinking preferences.
The term Flurbereinigung refers to what?
True or False: The Verband Deutscher Qualitäts und Prädikatsweingüter (thankfully shortened to the much more manageable "VDP") in Germany is the world’s oldest association of wine estates.
In what year was the first Spätlese (late-harvested) Riesling vintage in Germany?
What is the world's most aldehydic wine?
It's known that ice wines were produced in Franconia, Germany in the late 1700s. But evidence suggests that ice wines might have been made as far back as what time-frame? | <urn:uuid:3a2507ee-18f4-4a75-8480-6e164b3b6b87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.localwineevents.com/wine-quiz-questions/470 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964437 | 280 | 1.84375 | 2 |
If you have a firewall, do you still need to have a plan for DDOS protection?
The short answer is yes. For the longer answer I will use a strange analogy that popped into my head.
A DDOS Analogy
In this sci-fi analogy let’s assume that your house is your enterprise network that you are attempting to protect and your house’s futurist alarm system is your company’s firewall. The people who show up to your house are analogous to packets. This futuristic alarm system has the ability to recognize the people showing up to your house. It can determine if these people are bad people attempting to do you harm or if they represent the normal traffic that shows up at your house, some combination of friends and family.
This alarm system has the ability to lock the house down securely if it scans a person and determines they are a threat to you. If they scan the person and see that they are friends and family, the system will welcome them into your house.
The Challenge Firewalls Have With DDOS
I’ll use this example to show what a DDOS attack could look like and how your firewall would fall short. Instead of a normal day where you might have very few friends and family visiting your home, suddenly you would have a large influx of people showing up at your doorstep. Everyone you’ve ever known from your childhood, high school, college and professional career is now at your door step looking to get in. The alarm system would function as it was designed to and scan each person saying:
- Hey, Grandma’s here! Let her in.
- That’s the neighbor Tom, let him in.
- That’s Chris’ coworker Jim, we recognize him, come on in.
This starts happening with hundreds or thousands of people, all at the same time. Suddenly the house is full, the fridge is empty, the toilets are clogged and chaos has taken over. There is now a line of people outside of your house.
Seemingly Benign Traffic
Having an up to date firewall will protect you from many of the traditional threats, viruses and such which are a risk to your network. The challenge with DDOS attacks is that they use seemingly benign traffic (Like the grandmas) to overwhelm resources and bandwidth on your network. At the individual packet level, the packets themselves are not the issue, it is generally the volume of traffic that presents the issue.
Enter the need for the DDOS protection. A DDOS protection system would recognize that while the individuals showing up to your house are seemingly OK, the unannounced arrival of everyone at once is out of the ordinary. The system would kick in and screen each one of people to determine whether or not they are really supposed to be there. It would then let the people that were invited and are supposed to be there stay, while turning away the rest of the people.
This system would stay engaged until the mass volume of people subsided and traffic returned to normal.
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Well worth a read: Music Festivals: A Stage for Environmentalism by Christopher Davis begins “Recent years have witnessed a growing convergence between the expanding music festival scene and environmental activism surrounding the issues these festivals can give rise to. This development has followed from the realization that music festivals can be, on the one hand, grossly unsustainable and excessively consumptive, while, on the other hand, a great medium through which to spread the message of environmentalism”. More here – including an interviews with our very own Claire O’Neill, Kate Jackman from Bestival , Joanna Watson, spokesperson for Friends of the Earth and Andy Hope from the Croissant Neuf Summer Party. http://www.theinternational.org/articles/409-music-festivals-a-stage-for-environmenta
A clearer EU policy is needed to unlock investment in secure, affordable and low carbon energy, according to a report by the House of Lords. The EU Sub-Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy has called for stronger EU leadership, a revised EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) and a 2030 decarbonisation target. In better news,the European Parliament’s Environment Committee has voted to introduce stricter new targets for van fuel economy and CO2 emissions in 2025. MEPs approved a draft law setting out rules to reduce the CO2 emissions of new light commercial vehicles sold in the EU to 147g CO2/km by 2020, from the current 203g. The European Parliament has also reaffirmed its goal towards safer and more environmentally friendly shipping today as it continues discussions on reducing CO2 emissions throughout the region. And the European Commission is encouraging the use of green infrastructure by adopting a new strategy which also ensures that the enhancement of natural processes becomes a systematic part of spatial planning. The Commission says that green infrastructure is a tried and tested tool that uses nature to provide ecological, economic and social benefits.
Finally in EU news, energy and environment ministers from nine European member states have outlined their support for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) backloading proposals, as it emerged that a second vote on the proposals would take place next month. Last month in a 334-315 split, the European Parliament voted against EU ETS carbon back-loading proposal. The ministers who said they were disappointed by the first vote (and there were 60 abstentions) also called for a resolution of the proposals by July and urged the European Commission to bring forward proposals to perform an overall structural reform of the EU ETS by the end of the year.
“Greenwrapping” is an interesting concept – covering up power plants and other buildings with trees, vines and other plants to make the more ‘green’ and there is an interesting article on Treehugger. The designers of one greens scheme, AZPA, publicly stated that vines on the roof of a power plant would “absorb a substantial part of the carbon emissions of the plant”: Treehugger rather sardonically reply ” Right, the creepers will just soak up that CO2 and grow like mad. Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before? Why get rid of coal plants when you can just plant vines? Or put every power station in a park?”. More here http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/greenwash-watch-good-design-or-egregious-greenwrapping.html
Whilst the EU will now implement bans on the “bee killer” neonicotinoid pesticides, some bee keepers are worried that farmers will now revert back to older and more indiscriminate pesticides – which actually will kill more bees.
Edie.net reports that the DECC is in ‘crisis’ after Ravi Gurumurthy stepped down from his role as head of strategy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, according to an unconfirmed report.The resignation follows that of Jonathan Brearley last week, who was head of energy markets and networks at DECC.
Recycled polymers could stimulate a return to plastic manufacturing in the UK as changing attitudes towards sustainability and rising costs for Far Eastern producers present new market opportunities for Britain. According to reprocessor expert Keith Freegard who heads up Axion Polymers, tapping into the UK’s plastics recycling infrastructure, could herald a bright future for firms that have traditionally struggled to compete against the manufacturing might of Asian producers. He highlights examples of certain product types returning to the UK as importers review the balance of benefits versus cost in the face of high real-estate prices, rising labour and electricity costs and onerous custom transfers in China. More here http://www.edie.net/news/5/Closing-loop-on-waste-plastics-could-spark-renaissance-in-British-manufacturing-/
My Cool Allotment: An Inspirational Guide to Stylish Allotments and Community Gardens by Lia Leendertz and Mark Diacono, is a tour of 31 different allotment gardens in the USA, the UK and Europe. And Treehugger highlight Another fantastic design from the Instructables Green Design Contest! This one is a vertical garden planter from angelitali.
Scottish Water has installed 10 small-scale wind turbines at its wastewater treatment works in Stornoway to help reduce energy costs. The turbines, which make up the utility’s first project of its kind in Scotland, are capable of generating 500KW of electricity per day.
Finally, the mystery of LED ‘droop’ has been solved: Droop is where the increase in the electrical current sent to a LED would, past a certain point, reduce the amount of light produced. Now the riddle has been solved by a group of researchers from the engineering department of UC Santa Barbara and from CNRS-École Polytechnique in France. They have “conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes light emitting diodes (LEDs) to be less efficient at high drive currents.” And now have a solution. More here http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/cause-led-droop-identified-could-lead-more-efficient-led-lights.html | <urn:uuid:2ec815b1-3642-4a53-bc52-0e9218370e52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agreenerfestival.com/agfblog/another-planet-97/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.935299 | 1,303 | 1.84375 | 2 |
ALBANY — Legislation designed to improve the resiliency of New York’s food supply chain has been introduced by Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Agriculture. The bill (A10607) would create a working group to provide advice, guidance, and recommendations on New York’s food supply and related supply chain logistics in the wake of COVID-19.
“This pandemic exposed a number of fundamental weaknesses in our food supply chain,” said Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo. “Because the supply chain was unable to adapt to changing market demands, bottlenecks were created in processing, distribution, and storage. Consumers watched as milk and other commodities were disposed of, at the same time food lines grew and some shortages began. The working group I’m proposing would develop contingency plans for disruptions like COVID, recommending infrastructure and other needed improvements.”
“While our food production system is strong in New York, the pandemic also exposed some fragile points along the supply chain as commodity markets were upended by sudden changes in supply and demand,” said David Fisher, New York Farm Bureau President. “New York Farm Bureau appreciates the Assembly Agriculture Committee Chair Donna Lupardo’s proactive approach to bring stakeholders together to improve the food distribution system in New York to work better for producers, consumers, and our state’s economy.”
This legislation would authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets, in coordination with the Commissioner of Economic Development, to establish a New York food supply working group. The group would include representatives from farming, food processing, food retail, foodservice, wholesalers, food transporters, labor, emergency food providers, academia, government representatives and others. Through a series of meetings and roundtables, policy recommendations would be advanced to strengthen and protect NY’s food supply chain.
–The Office of Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo
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One of the most important things anyone can do to improve their health is take a probiotic. Probiotics help restore the proper balance in one of the most crucial parts of our body ... many health experts say THE most crucial part of the body: the gut.
Only recently have doctors discovered that a staggering 85 percent of our health problems originate in our gut, also known as intestines. Likewise, 70 percent of our immune system is in our intestines. Shocking!
This is actually a good news/bad news scenario in that the good news is establishing good gut health is relatively easy and cheap. The bad news is that those of us who do nothing are at great risk of having some type of health problem originating from the gut.
Here's the bottom line: we have literally trillions of bacteria in our gut. Many, many of them are essential to our overall good health. These are called "good" bacteria. The problem is, our American lifestyle has killed many of these good bacteria. When that happens, all kinds of problems can erupt. The quick fix is to put back those good bacteria.
The easiest way to do that is with a pill. A probiotic. There are lots of them on the market, such as the supplement called Acidophilus. Then there private brands from which to
There are also foods that add good bacteria back into our gut, such as yogurt. The problem with yogurt is that most brands are loaded with sugar, often as much as one-and-a-half ice cream cones! So if you choose yogurt, choose the plain kind, then if you want to add sweetness, throw in some berries.
Fermented foods are great probiotics. Topping the list is the Korean favorite Kimchi, which is available at most grocery stores. There are lots of ways to prepare it, such as adding it to scrambled eggs in the morning or to soups. Some people eat it right out of the jar.
As for me, I find it just safer and easier to take a probiotic supplement so I don't have to constantly keep track of whether I've eaten probiotic foods, and whether I've had enough of them. Plus, lots of us steer clear of dairy, so that means no yogurt.
You may be wondering how we got into this mess in the first place. How is it that so many of our good, life-sustaining bacteria are being wiped-out? There are several culprits.
The main one is our SAD diet. Remember, SAD stands for Standard American Diet. In other words, processed foods kill our good bacteria ... things like soda. Honestly, that stuff is poison.
Another huge good bacteria killer is antibiotics. Any time you take an antibiotic you should be aware that it is not only killing the bad bacteria for which it is intended, but it is also killing the good bacteria. These days wise doctors who prescribe antibiotics are telling their patients to also take a probiotic, such as Acidophilus for at least the entire run of the antibiotic, often longer.
A third major cause of the destruction of our good bacteria is all the antibacterial products we use, such as antibacterial soaps. Similar to antibiotics, these soaps kill not only the bad bacteria, but also the good ones. Many doctors will tell you the non-antibacterial ones are better because they still clean your hands sufficiently, while at the same time leaving your good bacteria intact.
So if you are wondering why you don't feel as good as you should, the answer probably originates in your gut. By taking a probiotic, over time, you will restore the good bacteria you need to maintain the proper health.
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Great Resources to help you excel in 2019! #1 John Eckhardt's "Prayers That..." 6-Book Bundle. Prayer helps you overcome anything life throws at you. Get a FREE Bonus with this bundle. #2 Learn to walk in the fullness of your purpose and destiny by living each day with Holy Spirit. Buy a set of Life in the Spirit, get a second set FREE. | <urn:uuid:7e7290b2-650e-4cf0-a1e9-afa95dc9ef9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://old.charismamag.com/life/health/23201-are-priobiotics-a-smart-choice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959929 | 859 | 1.929688 | 2 |
For those who have had college expenses in 2009 or 2010, the IRS says there is still time to take advantage of tax credits for qualified tuition and related expenses.
The American Opportunity Tax Credit is part of the Ameri?can Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and can help many parents and college students offset college costs.
?This credit can be claimed for qualified tuition and related expenses such as books and other required course materials in 2009 and 2010,? said IRS spokesman Michael Devine.
The credit can be claimed for qualified expenses paid for any of the first four years of post-secondary education. It is equal to 100 percent of the first $2,000 spent per student each year and 25 percent of the next $2,000.
Therefore, the full $2,500 credit may be available to a taxpayer who pays $4,000 or more in qualifying expenses for an eligible student.
The full credit is generally available to eligible taxpayers who make less than $80,000 or $160,000 for married couples filing a joint return. The credit is gradually reduced, however, for taxpayers with incomes above these levels.
Forty percent of the credit is refundable, so even those who owe no tax can get up to $1,000 of the credit for each eligible student as cash back.
?You cannot claim the tuition and fees tax deduction in the same year that you claim the American Opportunity Tax Credit or the Lifetime Learning Credit,? Devine said.
?You must choose to either take the credit or the deduction and should consider which is more beneficial for you.?
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Discover one of the most important historic monuments in the North West.
What we do:Steeped in almost 1000 years of history, the castle is built on a commanding hill top location which dominates the City of Lancaster. Guided tours are available throughout the day. For more information about the museum, its opening times, tour times, exhibitions and events, please see our web site.
Activities:Indoor Activities, Outdoor Activities, Special Events.
If you are interested in this group please contact:
Name: Lancaster Castle
Phone: 01524 649 98
Can I just turn up? Yes
This Groups location is:
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Lancaster Castle, Castle Hill, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1YJ
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Recently I flew from a particularly dire version of Minnesota winter—periodic rain making no dent in the graying heaps of snow, while rendering the smooth ice-covered sidewalks puddle-pocked and slick, so that it was not unusual to find oneself sliding inexorably down an icy slope into four inches of slushy water—into the blush of spring.
This new season was in California, where I was visiting my fiancé for the weekend. (Long-distance relationships are a staple of academia; my Minnesota labmates have significant others in Seattle and India.) Three hours on a plane headed west and I seemed to have jumped forward two months. Puffed-up robins in the snow…
…were replaced with marsh wrens singing furious declarations of their virility.
The sun dips low over the bay, its fading rays gilding the avocets as they swish their heads through the water. The egrets eye their own reflections as if in profound self-contemplation. A willet flashes past, its black-and-white wings an exclamation in the dusk.
Faced with such beauty, two words come irrepressibly to mind: niche partitioning.
We all know about food webs—or we think we do. Herbivores eat plants, then predators eat herbivores, and if one part of the web is affected, other parts are impacted too. Seems pretty simple—except that the threads in those webs sometimes connect things you would never expect.
For example: trout and a songbird, the Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, in an alpine habitat. The fish are in the water and the birds are on land—how connected can they be? If the birds were Bald Eagles or Ospreys or Great Blue Herons, sure, they would be connected because the birds eat the fish. If the birds were ducks, maybe the trout would be an occasional threat to the ducklings. But this is a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch:
Photo by Blake Matheson*
They’re not going to be eating fish, and their babies definitely don’t float about on the water.
The reason that we need to worry about what threads on the food web those trout might be tugging at is that the trout are introduced, nonnative species. Alpine lakes often don’t have any fish in them naturally. In the Sierra Nevada and many other mountain habitats, however, people have stocked these lakes with fish so that people can come and fish them for fun. This has been a problem for aquatic species such as frogs, which get gobbled up quite happily by the new fish, but nobody was particularly worried about the effects on songbirds.
It turns out that we should have been. | <urn:uuid:c6abec9a-dbcc-4d71-b185-a83b0acf5ec4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://toughlittlebirds.com/tag/ecology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966305 | 586 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Racism and Racial Discrimination
Racism and racial discrimination violate the core principles of the United Nations Charter, which promotes universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. However, the Secretary-General has acknowledged that the United Nations is not immune to this scourge and has called for action to eliminate racism and racial discrimination within the organization.
In July 2020, the IASC decided to examine and address racism and racial discrimination within the humanitarian sector. In the joint statement of September 2020, the IASC Principals reaffirmed their pledge to zero tolerance of racism and racial discrimination and their commitment to ensuring that the human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination are fully realized within IASC organizations.
In September-October 2020, the IASC issued a survey of its members to capture best practices and lessons learned. The results highlight efforts by IASC members to address racism and racial discrimination, including independently reviewing protocols, policies and practices; recruiting senior staff members dedicated to diversity and inclusion; initiating round tables; conducting participatory assessments and communications campaigns with affected people; and calling for guidance and training.
In addition to consolidating best practices, the IASC developed an anti-racism and discrimination action plan.
IASC members also contributed to the United Nations Task Force to Address Racism and Promote Dignity for All, which was initiated by the Secretary-General in September 2020. | <urn:uuid:f69afedb-96f6-4ed3-abf1-9326cf86e03d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/racism-and-racial-discrimination | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951486 | 295 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Why It's Important To Speak Your TruthJan 16, 2022
Are You Feeling Your Voice Is Being Blocked?
Now, more than ever, it's important to find the courage to speak out. Every time you speak your truth, you make it safe for others to do so as well. The world is constantly changing, and although embracing the direction it's going is extremely important, we must never forget how important it is for all of us not to feel censored, but to feel free.
First: Love What Is
Let's first take a look at reality. Breathe in for 5 beats, hold for 5 beats, breathe out for 5. Our perception of reality depends on the information we have been taking in regarding it, PLUS beliefs we hold that were made from our own life experiences.
Therefore, it's safe to say that there are unlimited perceptions of reality. But no matter what your perspective, if you are holding resistance to that reality, you will feel pain. The first step in healing that pain is to accept what is going on, and find some way to be in harmony with it. See reality as it is, and love it.
Leaders first see things as they are, then they see things as they want them to be, and finally they take steps to move it in that direction -- harmoniously.
The problem now is that people are looking at reality from their own perspective, some blocked by hateful beliefs, most not open to other views, or being censored. This censorship and one-sidedness leads to separation, victim mentality, and "us versus them" mindset. This is so dangerous because the solutions implemented from a separation mindset, or an "us versus them" mentality will not be correct solutions, and will cause further pain. The only solutions that are right are solutions that come from TRUTH.
What's going on at this time is a beautiful thing, because there are so many lessons to learn and to be incorporated to make systems and society better. What we are seeing now is an awareness of pain and hurt that need to be healed. What is also happening is that the voices of some sides are drowning out the voices of others, which is what contributed to the pain in the first place.
Simple psychology states that emotions that are repressed will come out in other avenues. The more you suppress yourself and your voice, the more resentful you will feel, and that resentment hides deep within the body, mind and soul.
Simple awareness without self-reflection is useless. If people aren't free to be themselves, speak what they feel because of backlash, we will never learn the truth. Right now we have an abundance of awareness due to unprecedented events happening on planet Earth, but very little opportunity for self-reflection, if we can't speak out.
The more we are inhibited to speak out, the more divided we become, as we search only for like-minded views that give us the opportunity to speak out. We become more engrained in separation and farther away from the truth.
Second: Find The Truth
If you believe in extremely conservative (right-wing) viewpoints, you're probably going to be right 50% of the time. If you believe in radical left-wing viewpoints, you're probably going to be right 50% of the time. The truth will lie somewhere in the middle. That is why it's so important that everyone speaks out and no one gets censored because the more canceling takes place, the more emotional decisions are made (because messages being silenced have a tendency to come back with a vengeance), and the farther away from the truth we get, the deeper we go into separation, and the more healing we will need to get out of it.
We all intuitively know that silencing our voice means silencing our soul. And that is so painful. This pain will be passed down through generations, through the vibes our kids pick up from our silence to every single person we meet. Our silence closes our hearts and prevents us from learning. And as a society, it brings us farther and farther away from the basic human rights and freedom we have pushed forward to achieve after many generations.
As we evolve to higher psychological and spiritual consciousness (no matter what religion you are, there are higher and higher versions of it, more on this later...) the better we become as human beings, because we are coming from a place of service -- a higher perspective.
Third: Come From A Higher Perspective
A higher perspective means:
- Not putting limitations on ourselves on what we can accomplish or for what reason. Ask yourself: Is this a limiting belief?
- Knowing that our past does not equal our future unless we live there.
- Breaking free from blame and victim mentality
- Acting from a space of service to others rather than service to self.
- Fighting our internal prejudices and blocks so that we can adequately hear and understand all perspectives
- Focusing on finding the truth rather than a narrative
- Moving towards unity and farther from division.
Simple awareness means nothing without adequate self-reflection.
- If a friend expressed different views to me and/or refused to see another viewpoint, do I continue the friendship or not? At what point would I discontinue the friendship? Why?
- If a store expressed a different political view than me, would I continue to buy their products? Why? At what point would I cease shopping there? Why?
- Am I afraid to investigate a different point of view? Do I feel resistant to a certain point of view? Why?
- Have I investigated all options with true openness to find the truth? Am I leading with the truth or my ego (my need for significance)?
- Am I expressing myself in a loving way, or deluding myself that my harsh language is my truth? (only you will know if you are using brutal language to serve others or to serve your own point).
What Can I Do To Speak My Truth If I Feel I Cannot?
If you feel you can't speak your truth and you will be censored, here are some things that might help:
- Are you surrounded by people or who do not allow your voice to be heard? Find someone, whether it be online or in-person, that creates a safe space for you to be heard without fear of judgment or persecution.
- Be a safe haven and hold space for others that need to be heard, even if they don't share your view. Hmm... maybe I can learn something?
- Follow people on social media that have a voice who have been there with feeling their voice was blocked before so you can have a good role model rooting you on and paving the way.
- Find an anonymous avenue to get everything out that you ever wanted to say, from writing it in a journal and then burning or ripping up the pages, to talking to a pillow all the things you are afraid to say or things that you want to have happen.
It has always been a good time to speak up, no matter what is happening in the world. Speaking out and finding your voice is incredibly therapeutic and no one should be withheld of this gift. No one should be bullied to lower their voice or to be censored. This breaks the fundamental need for humanity to be free to create from their greatest gifts. The need to speak out is a soul cry to be our greatest version. From our voice, we find better and better things to do, be, and create for the world.
We all are made to be authentically us. Be unapologetically you! Now more than ever we need your true self because holding in our voice causes repressed pain and trauma which will be taken out on others now or in future generations. When you speak your truth, you give others permission to be unapologetically who they are as well. And that's a beautiful gift to give others.
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When Pain Becomes Purpose
The loss of her son motivates Englewood mother to take to the streets
Audrey Wright doesn’t want another mother to go through what she went through.
“My son was shot down in a drive-by shooting. He left my house at 15 minutes to midnight. 12:01 he was shot. 12:49 he was dead…it was on 100th and Throop. And the mothers…people don’t realize…never get over it,” Wright says, pausing every few words.
“A real mother never gets over the pain. I’ve suffered this every day of my life. That was my only child, and it took me 10 years to have him. God gave him to me for 24 years, and if He didn’t remove him, I would not be doing what I’m doing.”
Two decades ago, Wright founded Gordie’s Foundation, her work focused on trying to reshape her neighborhood and help other children. One of the ways this manifests is via The Englewood Summerfest Back to School Street Market, which has a dual purpose: helping mothers get their children ready for the school year, and showcasing positivity within the community.
“We bring together crisis intervention resources, connections, support, housing and other referral services for mothers of murdered children,” says Gordie’s Foundation Administrative Assistant Martha Jones, standing under a tent in the organization’s parking lot to introduce three “prayer warriors” who blessed the vendors and residents walking along Ashland Avenue. But in addition to the resources, such as school supplies and haircuts for the young boys, it’s also about “putting together a plain-old fun day outside, where people can relax and enjoy themselves.”
The Summerfest also featured gospel singers, and guest speakers Tio Hardiman, Gwen Backer, 15th Ward Alderman Raymond Lopez and former Harlem Globetrotter Paul “Showtime” Gaffney.
“They talk about Chicago being a war zone, and imply that people don’t care, and that’s not true,” said Gaffney, who wanted to be a part of the event based on the strength of Gordie’s Foundation’s work. “Yes, there is violence, but there are a lot of people who want better for their community, people who are fighting against the violence and looking for something better.”
“In the media, they push that no one cares, that it’s a free-for-all; that’s what gets reported, but when you know and see that people, that’s not it at all. I love the Windy City, and the heartbreak of what’s being reported compelled me, as a human being, to be with the city,” Gaffney added.
After speaking with many of the mothers who attended, Gaffney remains in awe of their resilience, commenting on their passion and strength.
“It’s hard being a parent: You don’t think about living longer than your child. So you form a group to help other mothers who have gone through that, to try to make sure there are no other victims. They could just grieve and think about what’s been taken from them, but they use their experience to help other people, to create a force to so it doesn’t happen anymore. They’re not being victims even though they’ve been victimized.”
“They won’t let the streets take both their children and them,” he said.
One would be hard-pressed to find a better example of a mother never giving up than Audrey Wright. So while she once used her skills with the sewing machine to spice up her outfits or create hospital scrubs and choir robes, she’s now focused on stitching together her community, for its collective soul.
“This event is about mothers of murdered children, and I am one of those mothers. I’ve been here for 20 years helping the community, taking young men with guns off the streets and putting tools in their hands. That’s what I’m about, getting out in the streets, talking to gang bangers, pulling in the leaders.”
“I wasn’t scared then and I’m still not scared,” Wright avows.
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The Airborne Forces will receive a new transport and combat helicopter - "flying BMD"
The airborne troops will receive a transport-combat helicopter capable of transferring troops and providing fire support on the battlefield.
The promising "flying airborne combat vehicle" is described in an article published in the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland".
In the future, the Airborne Forces will receive a new helicopter, developed specifically for the landing force, which should provide landing troops, fire support on the battlefield and transport combat reconnaissance buggies used by the landing force as light vehicles.
The tactics of using helicopters as "flying BMDs" were practiced during the Zapad-2021 exercises. In this capacity were Mi-8AMTSh helicopters, which, within the framework of the exercises, landed troops, and also transported the Sarmat combat buggies both on the external sling and in the cockpit. The exercises were recognized as successful.
While the development of a special helicopter for the Airborne Forces is just underway, the Mi-8AMTSh-VN transport-combat helicopter has been proposed as the main flying combat vehicle, which has confirmed its strike and assault capabilities. In December last year, a prototype of the helicopter was tested using a complex of guided and unguided missile weapons.
The Mi-8AMTSh-VN helicopter is an improved version of the Mi-8/17 helicopter, created taking into account the Syrian experience. The machine is equipped with VK-2500-03 gas turbine engines with an upgraded transmission and improved climatic characteristics and a new carrier system. The armament complex has been updated, it includes guided air-to-ground missiles, NAR, two course machine guns of 12,7 mm caliber, mounted on the sides of the helicopter. The cockpit and main units are covered with titanium alloy armor, and the cockpit floor and sides up to the windows are covered with removable Kevlar armor.
The helicopter is equipped with new flight and navigation equipment. To increase the combat survivability, the principle of a combination of a "glass cockpit" and reliable analog instruments was applied. The machine is adapted for use at night. The Mi-8AMTSh-VN is equipped with the LSZ-8VN defense complex, which automatically recognizes the launch of missiles at a helicopter, interferes with their guidance heads and throws out false thermal targets.
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Inner Mongolia strengthens position on Europe-China corridor
North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is becoming increasingly important as a transit region for rail freight moving between Europe and China. Since 2013, the border towns of Manzhouli and Erenhot have been transformed into important rail freight hubs.
Inner Mongolia saw the first Europe-China freight train pass through its port in September 2013, while it is now the terminus of seven train routes between west and east. The two main terminals are Manzhouli and Erenhot.
According to a Xinhua report, a total of 654 freight trains headed for Europe or China passed through Manzhouli during the first half of this year, a 33,2 per cent increase compared to the same period last year. In the same period the number of freight trains on the Europe-China route passing through Erenhot was 193, over three times the number in the same period of 2016.
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Diwali – Vibing with the lights
The Festival of Lights has conquered our households. The gratified festival of all times has arrived and it is a blissful blessing to celebrate the same with our family and friends. This celebration is rightly named as Diwali or Deepavali as it is synonymous with joy and victory. The streets are filled with shops that often look crowded. Children are in cloud-nine to light the firecrackers and share the joy with their friends. Celebrated all around the globe by the Indians, Diwali is cherished for the positive spirit that it adds to our lives. Various mythological stories, symbolising the victory of good over evil are associated with Diwali. The core idea of the celebration is the victory of light in the form of good over the darkness of evil. The Hindu Mythology states that this is the occasion where Lord Krishna, an avatar of Lord Vishnu defeated the evil king Narakasura.
And the next day is celebrated as Diwali to witness the victory with firecrackers and festive lights. Generally Diwali is considered as the time of the year to acknowledge the prosperity in our lives which is offered by goddess Lakshmi Devi.
Reasons to celebrate and cherish
- The holidays are the first and foremost bliss in this festive occasion.
- Busy streets and lighted houses are the keys to positivity throughout the year.
- The new movie release for Diwali adds to the entertainment value of this delightful festival.
- Friends and relatives from other cities and countries visit their hometowns for celebrations.
- The last but not the least reason is to share our joy with sweets and snacks from our home to our loved ones and neighbours.
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When women undergo MRIs to check for breast cancer, the scans sometimes reveal suspicious masses elsewhere in the body, which can generate a lot of anxiety and require more testing. But a new study suggests these masses are often not cancerous.
Breast MRIs are different from mammograms, and physicians usually use them in women who are at high risk for developing breast cancer and those who already have the disease, to get a more detailed view of the breast and better assess their condition. But sometimes a piece of tissue outside the breast can show up as a bright spot on the scan and suggest that breast cancer has spread to another area in the body. Doctors call these cases extra-mammary findings.
To see how often such findings on breast MRIs turn out to be cancer, the researchers reviewed medical records of 1,322 women who had undergone the procedure at the University of Iowa between 2007 and 2012.
They found that in 130 women, or about 10 percent of all cases, the scans picked up a suspicious mass in the body, but in only six, or 4.6 percent of the cases where something was picked up, did more testing show the mass was indeed breast cancer that had spread to another area of the body, according to the study, which was presented June 1 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, in Chicago.
These six cases represented 0.5 percent of all breast MRIs in this study, the researchers said.
The results show that MRI scans are useful in finding these cancers, but also that only a few of the findings are actually cancer, which could help patients manage their anxiety, said study researcher Dr. Catherine Moore of the University of Iowa.
Previous studies have found a higher rate of incidental findings on breast MRIs. In one study of 1,535 breast MRIs, researchers found that about 18 percent of scans picked up a mass outside the breast, but only 20 percent of those were confirmed to be cancer. That study was published November 2011 in the journal European Radiology.
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BioSense Institute cross-fertilizes two most promising sectors in Serbia: ICT and agriculture. As a Centre of Excellence for advanced technologies in sustainable agriculture and food security, BioSense conducts multidisciplinary research in the fields of micro and nanoelectronics, communications, signal processing, remote sensing, big data, robotics and biosystems. BioSense advances and integrates all that ICT can offer today – nanomaterials, low-cost miniature sensors, satellite imaging, robotics, big data analytics – to provide as much information as possible to the agricultural sector, support the development of sustainable agriculture and enable production of safe and healthy food for future generations. Through many projects, such as FP7 FRACTALS, H2020 KATANA and H2020 IoF2020, close collaboration with the SMEs ecosystem was established, which enlarged the capacity of the Institute as business accelerator. Currently, BioSense institute is involved in 15 H2020 projects.
Main role in DIATOMIC
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Building energy codes and the legal age for buying and consuming alcoholic beverages have something in common. If you read this blog regularly, you probably know what it is. In case you are new, I will explain.
I’ve been off the college campus scene for about a quarter century, so I can’t speak for students today. However, back in the day it seems we started classes on Thursday and Friday, received our syllabi, joked around a while, and then immediately launched into a three day weekend for Labor Day. The regents must have been young or dumb because that does one thing: prepare for massive parties with adult beverages, so that’s what we did. I would add that when I was a freshman, I was underage for a purgatorial four (4) weeks. Ten years prior, there was no purgatorial period at all.
After a year or two of being legal, suddenly I wasn’t. The almighty federal government coerced states to raise the drinking age to 21, but in the great state of South Dakota where people really live free or die, they clung on to 3.2 beer for 19 and 20 year olds as a bridge, but this is beside the point. The point is legal drinking ages were raised to stop/reduce debauchery and ruin the college experience (hide the kids).
Did it work as planned? Like virtually all federal government ideas: No.
Since making alcohol illegal for virtually all undergraduate college students, “binge” drinking dropped a whopping four percentage points, and that’s being generous. Refer to the chart nearby. This does not explain the “why”, which is probably entirely divorced from the legal drinking age.
Similarly, building codes keep wrenching down the target energy consumption for new buildings, but is it having a significant impact? Cursory research and direct experience indicates the answer is: No.
I filtered some data from the commercial building energy consumption survey (CBECS) maintained by the DOE. That data set is pretty old already but is the newest they have. I split buildings into two groups: those built in 1989 or before and those built since then. Newer buildings should be more efficient. They have more insulation, better windows, more efficient equipment, and are likely to have flexible, fully functional digital control systems versus the archaic pneumatic controls.
The results are shown in the following table in source fuel energy in thousands of Btu per square foot. Data represent schools and offices in the northern tier of states including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, states of similar latitudes, and those states north of these. I should also mention that the data set was filtered to include only central heating and cooling plants (boilers and chillers) either in the facilities or as part of district heating and cooling plants like those for college campuses and some downtown areas like Minneapolis and Chicago.
The significant differences are in cooling and lighting. I can only guess as to why the cooling energy dropped substantially for newer buildings. One guess is chiller efficiency is substantially better for these newer buildings. Lighting is a surprise to me. Lighting represents 80% of impacts achieved by typical electric efficiency program portfolios. It’s the easiest to understand, the most up to date, and it seems everyone is getting on board. Efficiency or efficacy (light out versus energy in) improves, but apparently designers are over-lighting spaces, badly.
Consider the total improvement of new buildings versus old buildings: just over 6 MBtu per square foot. Look at the heating, which is a 12% improvement. That’s it! Progress in newer buildings versus old ones is a measly 6 MBtu, or 0.06 therm, or $0.04 per square foot.
Toga! Toga! Toga! Bluto could do better than this. This is absurd and pathetic.
The point of this post is; sure, go ahead and keep ratcheting down building energy codes and pat yourselves on the back, declare victory, and knock back a few shots of peach schnapps. It is having minimal impact. This is further demonstrated on page 7 of this white paper we wrote a couple years ago. In that paper you can see that new buildings are badly underperforming estimated efficiency, or miles per gallon, so to speak. Why?
- Market forces demand cheaper and cheaper and cheaper buildings. Make me a delicious four course meal. You have five dollars and 10 minutes to do it. Go!
- There is no time or money to do things right.
- Many systems and things allowed by code are archaic kludges and need to go. I’m talking about central variable air volume systems. Sure – you can demonstrate these things are efficient and with an energy genius lording over them, they are, but see the previous bullet and add to that insane complexity that makes successfully and correctly setting the minimum box positions for adequate ventilation (don’t ask) as common as driving the speed limit at all times.
- There is no effective code compliance oversight.
- Effective code compliance oversight is expensive.
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While following the keto diet plan, keto pasta is a greasy food eaten throughout numerous societies. Nonetheless, it’s additionally infamously high in carbohydrates, which some people might like to restrict. You may intend to stay clear of wheat pasta or carbohydrates if you comply with a low-carb diet plan, are intolerant to gluten, or want to stay clear of feeling puffed up and unpleasant after eating.
This article provides a complete guideline of the top 5 best low-carb Keto Pasta Recipe alternatives. It consists of the lowest carb Keto pasta recipe, choices for you, how to make keto pasta, Low Carb Keto Pasta Noodles, and so much more!
If you don’t want to give up pasta and the delicious sauces that go with it, you might be interested in low-carb Keto Pasta alternatives. Before jumping to the dish card, don’t miss the Keto pasta recipe in the blog post! I hope you’ll find them useful and certainly like this low carb Keto pasta recipe!
Is Keto Pasta Are Low Carbs?
Pasta is not low carbs, but there are a lot of low carbohydrate pasta alternatives! Thankfully, there’s no requirement to surrender your favorite pasta dishes; use low carbohydrate pasta noodles in your preferred dishes.
With a couple of exceptions, most reduced carb pasta substitutes are made from vegetables. These are not similar to typical wheat pasta, but they can still be scrumptious and offer up a lot of extra nutrition for you. Continue reading for more information concerning each low carbohydrate keto pasta recipe alternatives, plus keto pasta dishes utilizing each.
Can You Eat Keto Friendly Pasta in Keto Diet?
Yes, you can consume pasta on the keto diet plan. Yet it has to be the appropriate type of pasta. Typical pasta made from wheat flour is not keto pleasant, but there are so many keto pasta alternatives.There’s no reason to surrender pasta completely; just make sure you’re choosing a keto pasta recipe.
How To Make Low Carbs Keto Noodles?
The complete overview of the 5 best low carbs pasta choices. Includes the best low carbs pasta dishes, options for exactly making pasta and low carbohydrate noodles, therefore a lot more!
- Calories 100 kcal
- Prep Time 10 mins
- Complete Time 10 mins
- Calories 100
- Fat 2g
- Protein 0g
- Total Carbs 2g
- Net Carbs 1g
- Fiber 1g
- Sugar 0g
Easy Recipes Of Keto Pasta Noodles:
Are you all set to study all things low carbohydrate noodles and pasta? We’re going to cover 5 of my preferred low carbs pasta choices listed below: consisting of how to use them, unique ideas, and also dishes to attempt.
1. Eggplant Pasta:
Eggplant noodles don’t work legally in addition to a spaghetti replacement, because they can obtain a little bit mushy. However, they are excellent sliced up and utilized in low carbohydrate lasagna recipes!
Utilize a mandoline slicer for ideal outcomes– or else they make sure to be un-even, which can be problematic when you cook them. Right here are some of my preferred means to use eggplant as a low carbohydrate pasta alternative:
- Eggplant Pasta Primavera- While it’s most definitely a lot more common to use eggplant as noodle sheets, eggplant pasta noodles are possible!
- Low Carbs Eggplant Lasagna- Timeless pasta flavors with eggplant as the noodle!
- Stuffed Eggplant Rolls- These eggplant rolls resemble your preferred pasta rolls, but healthier.
2. Cucumber Pasta:
Cucumber noodles might not be rather as prominent as zucchini noodles, but they need to be! They are fresh and light, as well as do not call for any food preparation.
After that, our cucumber noodles, position them into a bowl-shaped sieve over the sink and sprinkle them with salt. Throw to coat and also allow the salt to extract several of the excess water before you offer them with a sauce. This will undoubtedly ensure the sauce sticks to the noodles. Their flavor are flawlessly in Asian-style meals. Try a few of the recipes noted below!
- Cucumber Pasta with Tahini Sauce- Light and also luscious, this vegan and also dairy-free meal is additionally reduced cambial.
- Oriental Bibimbap- This dish stays reduced carbs thanks to julienned cucumbers and cauliflower rice.
3. Shirataki Pasta:
Shirataki noodles (in some cases called Miracle Noodles!) have been used as low carb pasta options for several years! These Japanese-style noodles have a structure similar to tofu and are smooth and somewhat gelatin-like. They are made from the fiber from konjac yam and water, so they are nearly zero calories and absolutely no carbs. They have 1 gram of web carbs per 3.5 oz of noodles.
Shirataki noodles need to be washed thoroughly, and don’t be startled by the smell from the liquid they are stored in; it’s typical! Rinse and let them dry out off a little bit before you utilize them.
- Shirataki Ramen Noodles- This dish of noodle soup has plenty of veggies as well as looks stunning!
- Shirataki Noodles Carbonara- You recognize just how I feel about carbonara, bacon! Lotion! Peas!
- Lemon Hen Shirataki Noodle Soup- When the sniffles start, make this soup!
4. Spaghetti Squash:
Pasta squash may be one of the best low carbohydrate pasta options! It’s naturally stringy flesh is similar to spaghetti, and it’s a dental filling and nutritious choice for reduced carbohydrate noodles.
I prefer to roast kinds of pasta squash at high heat for the best results (and fastest cooking time), but I lay out all cooking methods and ideas in my just how to bake spaghetti squash oven post. It tackles tastes effortlessly, so there are many different means to appreciate spaghetti squash.
- Spaghetti Squash Carbonara- Creamy and loaded with bacon taste, what could be much better?
- Pasta Squash Pad Thai- Missing your favorite Thai recipe? Look no more; this set is loaded with taste.
- Tuscan Spaghetti Squash Boats- So many tastes happening with this spaghetti squash, it’s SO good! Bacon, spinach, sun-dried tomatoes:
- Pasta Squash Shrimp Chow Mein- Means healthier than the typical variation and comfortable, too.
5. Zucchini Pastas:
The very first step of making zucchini noodles is to spiralizer your zucchini. I like using thinner zucchini instead of the giant ones because they are less watery and stand up a little much better. You can pan-fry or bake (my preferred way) your zucchini noodles and, after that, offer them with your favored sauce.
Want every detail regarding zucchini noodles? Please take a look at the most practical guide to making noodles– it has every little thing you need to know!
Best Keto Pasta Recipe with Mild Zucchini Noodles:
- Zucchini Alfredo- The supreme comfortably food, yet in the light and healthy and balanced reduced carbohydrate version.
- Cajun Shrimp Zucchini Pasta- Filled with fresh veggies, shrimp, as well as timeless Cajun flavors!
- Cheesy Zucchini Roll-Ups- A various means to utilize zucchini, these are sliced into lasagna-style noodles.
- Zucchini Noodle Salad- Reduced carb noodles don’t always have to be served warm! This light salad functions delicious bacon and also tomatoes.
- Pesto Zucchini Lasagna- Loading layers of zucchini noodles, hamburger, pesto, and 3 kinds of cheese!
Best Low-Carbs Keto Pasta Noodles Alternatives:
Low Carb Keto Pasta Sauce:
Thankfully, there are many sauce alternatives for every one of the reduced carbohydrate noodles you’ll soon be eating! You’ll appreciate every little thing from the timeless marinara sauce (yet ensure you check your favored brands to make sure they don’t sugarcoat!) to Alfredo sauce to basil pesto sauce.
Hot and Mild Keto Pasta Sauces:
Your preferred marinara sauce, or if you want a store-bought one, below’s a sugar-free and keto-friendly marinara sauce.
- Keto Alfredo Sauce- No person can resist this Alfredo sauce. It’s excellent on any noodle.
- Brown Butter Sage Sauce- This warming sage sauce is best in the autumn and spaghetti squash.
- Avocado Dressing- Try this healthy and balanced as well as Eco-friendly sauce on cucumber noodles.
- Chimichurri Sauce- Top some keto noodles with chimeric sauce and significantly finely cut steak.
- Classic Vodka Sauce- The very best of marinara and Alfredo!
- Mushroom & Bacon Sauce- Bacon and mushrooms are combined for an abundant and flavorful sauce.
- Lemon Butter Sauce- This fast sauce is rupturing with bright lemon flavors.
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A new series of photos from the Himalaya reveal the undeniable effects of global climate change on the glaciers there. This is especially evident on Mt. Everest, where comparative shots from 1921 show just how much the Rongbuk Glacier has retreated over the past 89 years.
Filmmaker and mountaineer David Breashears made the journey to Everest’s North Side, where explorer George Mallory once took a very famous photo of the mountain. Standing in the very spot where Mallory once shot his image, Breashears took a new one, and the differences between the two are startling. In the earlier photo, a thick layer of snow and ice stretches far down the valley, but in the one taken by Breashears, the glacier has withered dramatically. In fact, the Rongbuk has lost more than 320 vertical feet since Mallory shot his photo.
Over the past few years, Breashears has visited a number of other famous mountains throughout Nepal, Tibet, and Pakistan as well. While there, he took similar photos, and each case he discovered a significant loss of glacial ice, which is particularly troubling considering that the Himalayan glaciers are the Earth’s largest sub-polar ice reserves. The loss of that ice has already had a direct and profound impact on the mountains and the people that live there, many of whom now have to walk for hours each day just to find fresh water.
Breashears has taken his collection of photos and created an exhibit known as Rivers of Ice, which just went on display last week at the Asia Society, located in Manhattan. The photos will be open to the public to see until August 15, giving visitors a chance to witness the changes for themselves.
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Often it pays to question the fundamentals of life. WeWork did just that, by wondering about the very construct of an office. Prior to WeWork disrupted the market with common workspaces, workplaces were part of the well-known norm. While it suited mid to large-sized firms, start-ups, and also entrepreneurs went to a significant drawback. Property lease, rent, furnishings, maintenance, and also energy expenses are a significant portion of expenses that can place serious stress on business with bootstrap company strategies wework bergen county.
Yet every person needed to have a workplace and needed to sustain those repeating expenditures. The only exemptions were those start-ups operating out of dorm rooms or garages, or writers working from cafes. If this was a difficulty for thousands of hundreds of small companies and entrepreneurs, for WeWork, it was a massive possibility. They saw coworking areas as a viable company design that could be scaled up to develop engaging price performances.
Today, WeWork is identified with coworking. Remote job and also electronic offices are now obtaining normalized as a result of COVID-19. This new normal is not just suitable to local business however big business also. Coworking is right here to remain irrespective of a firm’s dimension. What the pandemic compelled on the world is what WeWork had envisioned nearly a decade ago.
Which leads one to ask, what is the WeWork business version? What did WeWork do in different ways? Just how does WeWork earn their income? Why did capitalists bet huge on the company? Notably, is its company design lasting?
What is WeWork?
WeWork was begun by Adam Neumann, Rebekah Neumann, and Miguel McKelvey. Although it was founded in 2010, its beginnings can be mapped to Eco-friendly Workdesk, an environment-friendly common office that the founders had actually begun in 2008. What they started in a stockroom soon became a coworking design that was spread to over 100 rooms. After a year, they offered business to their partner who was also the landlord of the structure. From the earnings of that deal, WeWork was birthed.
Today it’s possibly one of the most recognized name in the coworking market. WeWork has around 828 structures globally satisfying close to 600,000 participants. The firm that has 6000 workers is now valued at around $3 billion. The business’s sub-brands consist of Increase by We, WeLive, and also WeWork Labs, a start-up incubator. Given that February 2020, Sandeep Mathrani, previously of Brookfield Home Allies, and also GGP Inc. has been the CEO of the company.
What does WeWork Do?
WeWork supplies versatile coworking remedies to entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small companies. The company also has large ventures as its clients. The company rents area from proprietors in cities, renovates it into a coworking area with desks and also exclusive workplaces, and then rents it bent on small companies as well as business owners. The company interfered with the industrial property sector by making it versatile.
Small firms and start-ups can not commit to the minimal feasible lease required for workplace as a result of two vital factors. They commonly don’t have the monetary bandwidth to sign lasting leases. Second of all, these firms with restricted budget plans and also manpower might not require big offices. Also after that, they are forced to authorize leases which leads to substantial redundancies as well as recurring expenditures. WeWork solved that problem by accumulating office space. Now, business owners really did not need to fork over outrageous leas for room they really did not need. They only had to spend for what they utilized, and significantly, when they utilized it.
By materializing estate versatile, something uncommon in the market at a big range, WeWork recognized that it might greatly boost the demand for shared workplace, specifically in metropolitan areas. They also understood that their remedies could not be one-size-fits-all.
WeWork has a flexible suite of offerings that consist of warm desks, dedicated workdesks, private office spaces, and customized spaces.
Hot desks are excellent for consultants that don’t have a fixed timetable as well as can use the center whenever they like. They can walk in and pick any readily available desk. This is beneficial for organization tourists that might need office space for a day or two. Committed workdesks are for those routine workers and businesses who might need space reserved for them. For small businesses that need their employees to rest with each other, WeWork supplies personal office that have all the amenities one would certainly anticipate from a specialist setting. They offer privacy and also exclusive access.
The firm likewise has a premium choice of custom-built spaces that are created for enterprises that would want their office personalized. These offices are equipped with labs, board areas, and collections for elderly administration. For larger groups, WeWork provides the choice of head office that comes with exclusive floorings, the choice of exclusive branding, and also the flexibility to have the floor plan personalized.
WeWork’s unique style was among the variables that got it a great deal of limelights in the starting days. The emphasis got on establishing usual areas that would foster a sense of neighborhood among the occupants. For the creators, the ‘we’ in the company name was not ornamental or gimmicky. It reflected their vision of an area of people, as well as companies, all functioning and networking sympathetically.
It is very important to note that WeWork is not an aggregator in the sense that Uber and also Airbnb are called collectors. They are not a platform where need as well as supply satisfy. They are not uniting customers and also vendors. They are the purchasers, and they are the vendors. The business isn’t in the business of just aggregating office as well as linking them with entrepreneurs as well as local business. Uber does not very own cars as well as Airbnb is not in the business of buying buildings. WeWork, on the other hand, leases area, transforms them right into feasible workplace floors and afterwards sublets them with differing features at numerous price factors.
This vital distinction suggests that WeWork has to make substantial investments upfront to acquire the residential property, retool it, as well as get the final product prepared. This distribution module also brings about a scenario where the cost is reasonably dealt with, with little potential for variable as well as short-term premium costs based on rises popular. Yet the firm believes that the significant benefits they use negate any kind of threats related to greater investments.
The universalization of the modern office can be mapped to the industrial period when supervisors and monitoring literally needed to lie at the factory properties. This made looking after manufacturing simple. It also made good sense to optimize resource allowance by having all workers under one roof covering. All manufacturing plants are based on this suggestion of expense effectiveness with centralization of people as well as procedures. Yet in post-industrial cultures, an irreversible workplace feels like extra for most sectors. Certainly numerous companies in the production and also service industries need their staff members to be on-premise. For numerous other firms and also organizations, it’s completely possible for the personnel to be off-site and also still be functional as a group.
Besides, if the idea of the workplace was to connect people, what requirement does it serve when the employees are currently linked? This is really real for business owners, freelancers, and local business. WeWork makes expert areas easily accessible to them at a portion of the expense of standard office.
To start with, business owners as well as business owners can save a great deal of time with WeWork. Finding the best workplace in a city is taxing. For local business with restricted sources, this can be restricting, and also will certainly typically cause sub-optimal leasing choices. With WeWork, they can begin immediately. There’s no hunting around, no discussions with property owners, no negotiations on lease.
There are no financial investments needed upfront. Renting office converts to substantial expenditures on not just the lease however brokerage fees, interior design as well as furniture costs, on-site branding expenditure, and so on. Business owners and also small businesses conserve a considerable quantity of cash when they opt for the WeWork model that does not call for any of these.
WeWork makes enormous feeling for smaller operations is that there are no additional repeating expenses. With a regular office, every little thing from energy bills to protection charges to hardware maintenance prices to various other assorted expenditures can amount to high month-to-month expenses. Most of these charges are independent of the dimension of the organization. Whether it’s a two-person start-up or a small business with six people, there will certainly be these inescapable costs. But not with WeWork. This also indicates that small companies and entrepreneurs don’t have to bother with the typical functional concerns related to office.
The fourth benefit of WeWork is that the majority of its homes remain in exceptional locations. These are addresses that employees would enjoy to travel to, as well as would certainly like to show off. The right area additionally suggests that its incumbents do not need to travel as well much or be forced to work from more congested parts of the city. And also, the services WeWork offers are an excellent destination for employees. When small companies have offices that staff members expect mosting likely to, outfitted with desirable facilities, it additionally becomes much easier for them to draw in talent.
Finally, freelancers and entrepreneurs like WeWork for its feeling of area. The layout and interiors are purposefully developed to urge communications. There is a provision in their application that allows users to communicate with each other with messages and messages. All these are meant to not simply organically cause more chances however also a sense of community. These 5 benefits are engaging value suggestions for those beginning or are leading local business. Yet their benefits are attracting occupants past those from the gig economic climate. Big enterprises have actually likewise partnered with WeWork for the distinct advantages the co-working giant deals. Several of them have begun making use of WeWork facilities as hubs for several of their localized staff members. | <urn:uuid:bbf65371-2b8a-414c-9278-67364bf5bed7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.claddaghestates.com/wework-bergen-county/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977571 | 2,128 | 2.25 | 2 |
Hundreds of women gathered at three simultaneous conferences for undergraduate women in physics held January 16-18 at Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and the University of Southern California.
The conferences gave undergraduate women a chance to hear research talks, present their own research, learn about graduate school and career options, and network with other women in physics.
These conferences have been going on for several years. The University of Southern California held its first conference for women undergraduates in 2006, and has been holding them annually since. In 2008, Yale and UIUC held their first annual conferences. The three conferences were organized separately but focus on the same goals. The conferences were supported by NSF, DOE, and the universities that hosted them.
About 130 women undergraduates from around the Midwest attended the conference at UIUC.
In addition, a growing number of universities are forming organizations for women in physics. For instance, the Society for Women in Physics at UIUC has meetings and invites speakers to talk about career options and other topics.
At the UIUC conference Monica Plisch, APS assistant director of education, gave a keynote talk in which she described the role of APS in improving education and promoting diversity, highlighting the many programs APS offers, such as awards and scholarships for women, childcare grants, minority scholarships, lists of female-friendly departments, professional development workshops for women, and the PhysTEC programs to prepare future teachers. About half of the students at the conference said they were members of APS, according to Plisch.
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Even the most abstract art is about something. It could be a mood; it could be a color study. It could be about nothing, which is still a statement the artist is conscientiously making. In the case of Martha McAleer, her abstractions are about happiness. “I like to make things that make people feel happy. I see so many people have so many problems and I like to give them something that brings them peace.”
In the simplest of terms, the works are interpretations of vacations. They’re about sun kissed places and footsteps on open terraces. “I was working in florals and I worked in that a really long time—and I sold a lot of them—and then I got really tired of it. I took a few years off and I started doing something like this, to work with an oil style, more old world…I started to work with some textures and it reminded me of tile in Spain or in Italy on the ground…the colors reminded me so much of traveling and summer…I started working with rulers and spatulas and stuff from the kitchen and I ended up coming up with a pattern…I need to have more white…I need to be reminded of light all the time.”
McAleer works in blue, yellow and red on white, not just because they are primary colors but for how they feel. She believes each has meaning: blue is about dreaming, yellow for communication and red for the heart. The result is her opening her arms for you to step into her world where you can escape to the clean whiteness of summer when there’s nothing to do.
Part of it has to do with the process. The repetitive mark making of a palette knife or a spatula is what lays down the stark white plaster of Paris. It’s not about perfection; it’s about imperfection. Shape shifting is the element of surprise the artist embraces as another form of liberation. “I don’t think anything is really perfect, I had these shapes shifted around…I don’t want them to be so planned out that you expect that it’s going to be here. I want to throw people off a little bit.”
In an abstract way, the panels also reflect the world around her. There’s a lot going on in the paintings that can’t be seen, derivative of the natural process of the plaster taking its shape as it’s being applied. Circles are McAleer’s figure of choice for the continuum they convey and for their ability to manipulate the orientation of the panel in the way the shapes ultimately resolve themselves. “Like wearing a ring, eternity, I like that idea. I was also thinking that these are broken circles on the end and it kind of reminds me a little bit of what’s going on in the world. You’ve got a few countries that are doing really well, and then we’ve got some that are not and they’re broken off.”
McAleer is painting intuitively but also thinking about how the final piece is going to live with someone in another place. She’s very interested in symmetry and clean lines, hence the refreshing crispness to the renderings. If the background is the foundation, the paint and the colors are the foreground. The sense that the panels are somehow architectural plays itself out in a similar way. The plaster might be the framing of the building and the shapes set upon it are the rooms and the colors are the décor.
“Where does this find its equilibrium? Where does it feel most balanced? Is it going to be this, that, there? I’ll take a picture from way up high and I’ll put it on my phone and start flipping it to see how I feel about the weight of everything. Is it balancing out…it’s somewhat like being an architect. You draw a design and then you see whether or not it’s going to be able to stand and you create and adjust as time goes along. I do a lot of creating and adjusting.” | <urn:uuid:825279da-03ba-47a2-9181-25cb789df1fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lipulse.com/2017/07/06/martha-mcaleer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972345 | 861 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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All these expenses are not considered necessary by the rich, they avoid them, due to which they preserve their well-being and do not spend their last money.
Much has been said about wealth and poverty. Wealthy people seem like something incomprehensible, incredible. The poor are more understandable and closer to many. But in reality, the difference between rich and poor people is not as big as it might seem. They differ primarily in the amount of money. But there are still some nuances, informs Ukr.Media.
They include the approach to purchases. There are things that only the poor buy, and the rich don't even look at them.
Casual clothes of low or average quality
It is important for many people to buy not just a rag with the logo of a well-known company, but a thing that is worth the money. They can go to a store that is having a sale to buy one quality item that will be worn for years. Such a purchase will be financially beneficial.
But the poor tend to buy everything cheap, because it is in fashion, because such things have logos of companies that are known all over the world.
Spontaneous purchases It seems to them that they are spending insignificant amounts that are not felt at all. But in fact, this is how they lose a lot of money.
The rich will not buy something they didn't plan, but will take time to think about whether they need the thing and make an informed decision.
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At this time there were a lot of them. The rich sometimes attend some courses, but they choose what they really need, what will help them move forward in the direction they have chosen.
But the poor will learn what they do not know and will believe that it will help them. They don't count how much money they spend on things they can learn on their own. And the knowledge they receive at trainings is often not put into practice at all.
In the case of the rich people's loans are associated only with expanding a business that brings stable profits.
But poor people will take them for everything. They will buy household appliances on credit, they will buy clothes in installments. They will think that it is profitable. But they won't take into account that the interest they pay is draining them of a huge amount of money.
Exclusive Bank Cards
No one person will use all their possibilities. The rich understand this, so they prefer to take the card from the bank that will be able to satisfy the requests they have.
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Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other popular sites for publishing online have become ubiquitous in the news media, if not in everyone’s actual day to day lives. Recently, public officials have successfully made it onto the bandwagon by adopting these tools in their campaigns, fundraising, volunteer recruitment and, of course, garnering publicity. But are these tools truly being used to connect directly to voters and their concerns, or are they just another way to campaign?
Barack Obama certainly made hay online, with plaudits, publicity and private contributions rolling in over the course of the campaign thanks to a popular Twitter stream, Facebook chatter, and a social network, MyBarackObama.com, powered by software from local company Six Apart. Yet once elected, the new media music died. His Twitter stream went silent for weeks, and only four updates have been made since election day.
Local politicians who are “tweeting,” or regularly posting messages to Twitter, include State Attorney General Jerry Brown, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, State Senator Leland Yee, State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, and San Francisco Board of Supervisors Clerk Angela Calvillo, on the Board’s behalf. Befitting a brand new form of communication, they’re all using it differently. The one common thread is that they would presumably all be relatively easy to reach, especially by a constituent and member of the press.
Adriel Hampton works as an investigator for the San Francisco City Attorney’s office and has kicked off a congressional campaign for California’s tenth district. An avid user of Twitter personally, he maintains a profile on Facebook, and is an active participant in a social network called GovLoop, where public employees are exploring ways to better connect public service with private taxpayers. It was at his urging that the City Attorney’s office created an account on Twitter.
“We’re trying to be transparent and apolitical in a way that advances the public interest, the public’s right to know and builds public trust in the office,” Hampton said of the tone and impetus of discussion on the site. Certainly transparency and authenticity seem to be two benefits most often cited by proponents using these new communications tools in government.
Some of the decisions made San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his large communications staff and coterie of campaign aides seem to belie those types of good intentions. Newsom recently used Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to officially announce his entry into California’s 2010 gubernatorial election, garnering much media coverage and a few donations in the process.
Newsom’s aides in City Hall and his campaign team have been using these and other online tools for some time, but his office is not known for embracing radical transparency. For instance, while Newsom’s account often features replies to other Twitter users, responding to questions from the press is another matter. Repeated emails to his press secretary Nathan Ballard went unanswered (as did an email to Newsom’s likely gubernatorial opponent Brown).
Maybe the emails got lost in the shuffle. So why not play along and get in touch using Twitter? Because asking questions publicly using the service’s reply feature has gotten reporters in hot water.
“We don’t ask the mayor questions on his Twitter feed,” said San Francisco Chronicle city desk editor Audrey Cooper. There’s no need, she argued. “A press office has a lot of different ways to communicate with the press.” And they probably won’t start any time soon, especially in the wake of San Francisco Bay Guardian reporter Steven T. Jones’ experience.
Having been blocked from accessing Newsom’s updates after he asked a question publicly, Jones was accused of “flaming” or harassing the mayor online, and declared the equivalent of a -DCohn1 5/3/09 2:05 AM “troll” by Ballard. Not that it came as a particular surprise to Jones. “We’ve literally had the office door shut in our face before,” he said of his paper’s relationship with the mayor’s communications team.
So tools like Twitter don’t necessarily level the playing field for access, but they do offer an opportunity to make an end run around tough questions from critics and appeal directly to potential supporters without having to go through traditional media channels.
Tomorrow, in part two of this three part series, we’ll take a look at how well online tools work for organizing and funding campaigns. A candidate who could win office with only passionate volunteers and lots of small donations would presumably prove less beholden to the status quo of institutional support and corporate interests. Sounds great in theory, but does it work in practice?
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By the time our kids reach their teenager years, we can see the end in sight. Of course we’ll be jumping for joy sad when they take that next step of independence to find a place of their own or move away to college. But let’s face it, who wants to still be raising their children when they’re 35? To ensure this doesn’t happen, there are some very basic skills that every teenager should know. If I’ve missed any, be sure to add them in the comments.
How to boil water
…as well as other means of cooking. If you’re not there to make your teen a sandwich, will they starve? If you haven’t already, start teaching your child the fundamentals of making a meal, staples they should always have on hand, using food before it spoils, grocery shopping so that there’s still food on Friday when shopping is done on Sunday… They should also know how to work a microwave, a stove, and an oven without burning the house down. And they should be aware of how to read labels and make healthy choices to avoid the Freshman 15, and that in the long run, eating out costs much more than making food at home.
How to save a buck
Raise your hand if you really hope to be your kid’s ATM for life. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Then this skill might be the most important one you can teach them – how to handle their money. Your teen should know how to create a budget and stick to it – putting money aside for bills to be paid on time before any money is spent on fun. And money for fun should be included in that budget as well. Help them open a checking account of their own and teach them how to keep it balanced, how to use the ATM machine, and that the balance the bank says they have is rarely ever the real balance. Have them apply for a credit card, but stress how important it is to use it for necessities and not to furnish their whole apartment – and the importance of paying it off on time to build good credit. They should also know how to save for things they want, put money aside for emergencies, give to charity, and how to get the best deal.
How to get dressed
Ok, they are well past the time of needing you to pick out their clothes and tie their shoes – hopefully (if not, you have quite a bit of catching up to do). But they will need to learn how to wash their clothes regularly so that they actually have something to wear. And no, buying new clothes is not an alternative way to do laundry. Teens will need to learn about when to use the Hot Cycle, and when to wash it in Cold. And to ensure their whites don’t turn pink or their lights become dingy, they can use a lesson in separating colors as well. Other important skills are how to sew a button or mend a rip, how to iron, how to fold and put away their clothes, how to treat stains, the importance of reading clothing labels, how to hand wash, and even how to best pack a suitcase (for all those trips back home to, ahem, do their laundry).
How to have respect…
…for everyone, but particularly for their housemates. Sure, they may be used to leaving their dishes around, a clothing trail from the door to their room, and the toilet paper roll empty when they’re done doing their business. And why shouldn’t they when MOM is there to pick up after them? But Mom’s not at college, and I guarantee their housemates aren’t going to be too keen on seeing Jr’s dishes left in the sink. A friend of mine told me of the time that he left his dishes in the sink one too many times, and finally his roommate did clear them out – by dumping them in his bed. So for your child’s sake, and for their roommate, teach them how to do their own dishes, how to keep the noise levels down, common courtesy when it comes to guests in the room, and leaving OPP (other people’s property) alone as well as having boundaries in place for their own property.
How to be organized
If your teen would like to flunk out in the first semester, the best bet would be to skip keeping a calendar and to lose every piece of paper or information that comes their way. For everyone else, a calendar is essential. If they have a smart phone, this is the most convenient place to keep it since they are likely attached to this particular piece of technology at all times. Get them in the habit of putting everything in their calendar and referring to it regularly. Another good habit for teens to get into before college is to create a filing system to hold all their assignment needs, bills, and any important document they may need to refer to later. Not sure? Place it in the filing system just in case.
…deal when sick, what to do or who to call if there’s an emergency (and have those numbers programmed in their phone), how to lock the front door behind them, how to fill their gas tank, how to understand their health or car insurance…and how to understand the many risks that are going to be in front of them.
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M&S launches innovation challenges on sustainable agriculture and consumer behaviours
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has launched its first innovation challenge in the environmental sustainability space, pledging to trial emerging solutions in its stores and agricultural supply chains.
The retailer’s ‘Ignite’ team, which oversees its open innovation efforts, announced the challenge on Tuesday (7 June), confirming two workstreams on sustainable agriculture and on consumer attitudes towards environmental sustainability respectively. In both categories, start-ups and scale-ups are invited to apply.
On the sustainable agriculture side, M&S is seeking tech-based solutions which make processes more efficient across the upstream value chain. Solutions should deliver co-benefits across the fields of energy efficiency, material efficiency, waste reduction, emissions reduction, animal welfare and biodiversity support.
M&S’s website for this challenge notes that the firm is particularly keen to support innovations that could improve the shelf life of produce; could reduce produce imports by enabling vertical farming in the UK; and/or could make crops more resistant to pests and diseases. M&S notably trialled in-store vertical farming in 2019.
The second challenge area, changing consumer behaviours, is intending to help shoppers to understand the environmental impact of their purchasing choices and to select the lower-impact options.
Again, tech-based solutions are being sought in terms of communications. Applicants are being encouraged from fields such as environmental labelling and supply chain data visualisation, which would be accessible to consumers via smartphone. M&S already offers desktop-optimised digital mapping tools for supply chains including viscose, wool, seafood, beef and dairy.
Also covered by this challenge are innovations requiring changes in business models and consumer behaviour. M&S has stated that it will consider applications covering things like refillable products and clothing take-back – both services that it has been trialling and scaling in stores in recent years, with partners including Oxfam and Beauty Kitchen.
Whether applicants opt for labelling or business model changes, M&S has stated that it wishes to “make it fun for customers to change their habits”, though gamification, nudge approaches and/or providing personal rewards.
Plan A for innovation
The winning application in each of the two challenges will receive support from M&S and its investment firm partner True to develop a proof of concept and trial within M&S’s supply chain and/or operations. There will then be scope for a wider rollout. One winner will be chosen for each challenge.
edie has approached M&S for information on the level of financing being allocated to the challenges, and for the date by which winners are expected to be confirmed.
While M&S has built contacts with more than one million start-ups and scale-ups through its Ignite team, this week marks the first time that it has opened a challenge directly themed on environmental sustainability. The retailer notably refreshed its flagship ‘Plan A’ sustainability strategy in 2021, with a key change being a new commitment to reach a net-zero value chain by 2040.
M&S’s head of Ignite, Stuart Ramage, said the new challenges form part of efforts to “continue to drive a culture of innovation across M&S” as it works towards updated ‘Plan A’ goals.
With the firm’s supply chain accounting for 97% of its emissions, it’s clear to see how the agriculture challenge ties in to commitments on climate. The consumer engagement challenge may well help to drive progress towards commitments on resources. Plan A includes pledges to ensure all food packaging is recyclable by the end of 2022; to reduce the volume of plastic food packaging used annually by 30% by 2027; to halve food waste by 2030 and to ‘enhance’ clothing take-back.
It is not simply for environmental reasons that M&S has refreshed its sustainability strategy and begun accelerating innovation efforts. The retailer has been striving to increase sales and profits after a disappointing slump at the end of the 2010s. Financial filings for the year to 2 April 2022 revealed that sales were up 18.6% year-on-year. Food, clothing and homeware sales were all up on pre-pandemic levels.
Innovation accelerator trend
Recent months have seen a flurry of sustainability-related innovation schemes being announced or expanded in the private sector.
April saw Amazon announcing the 12 early-stage stage startups that will be joining its inaugural Launchpad Sustainability Accelerator, after receiving 1,200 applications. The online commerce giant is operating the accelerator in partnership with the EU’s climate innovation scheme, EIT Climate-KIC, as it aims to deliver on its pledge to invest $2bn in sustainable innovations this decade.
Also in April, Virgin Startup announced the reopening of its Collective Impact programme in partnership with Crowdcube and Capital Pilot.
In May, Tesco and WWF launched ‘Innovation Connections’ – a new programme enabling cleantech start-ups to trial their technologies and processes at the retailer’s major produce, meat, fish and dairy suppliers.
And, also in the British retail space, John Lewis Partnership confirmed in May the projects that will receive a share of its £1m circular economy fund. The money has been raised by charges for carrier bags and allocation of financing is jointly overseen by the Partnership and environmental charity Hubbub.
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In the language of life insurance, a beneficiary is the recipient of the proceeds of a policy when the named insured person dies. The owner of a life insurance policy has a great deal of flexibility in naming beneficiaries and can generally name anyone he or she chooses. However, it is important to understand the different types of designations and methods of distribution before choosing your beneficiaries.
Types of Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries are typically categorized as either primary or contingent. A primary beneficiary is entitled to the benefits of the policy on the death of the insured, but such rights expire if he or she dies before the insured. A contingent (or secondary) beneficiary is entitled to the policy benefits if the primary beneficiary has predeceased the insured. One fairly common arrangement stipulates that, if a primary beneficiary dies before the insured, then the benefits of the policy would be payable to the contingent beneficiary. You may want to have several contingent beneficiaries.
A beneficiary can be designated as a specific beneficiary (a person identified by name and relationship) or a class beneficiary (a group of individuals such as “children of the insured”). While the naming of specific beneficiaries is usually clear, unintended complications can arise when designating classes of beneficiaries.
For example, if you plan to name your children as beneficiaries, you must clarify if you intend to include adopted children or children by a former spouse. If your children are minors, you need to learn whether the insurance company pays benefits to a minor beneficiary. Typically, insurers pay benefits to a legal guardian rather than to a minor.
Let’s look at a scenario in which the policy owner’s intentions appear straightforward, but could become complicated. Bonnie, age 70, has planned for the benefits of her life insurance policy to be paid to her children (David, Michelle, and Joanna) or her grandchildren. Now, suppose David and Joanna die before their mother. David leaves four children and Joanna has no children. How will the proceeds of the policy be distributed when Bonnie dies?
Methods of Distribution
Per stirpes and per capita are terms that describe methods of distributing property to family members and heirs. Per stirpes means “branches of the family,” and per capita means “by heads.” In the example above, under a per stirpes distribution, Michelle (one branch) would receive one-half of the proceeds and David’s surviving children (the other branch) would divide the remaining half among themselves. Under a per capita distribution, David’s four children, along with Michelle, would each receive one-fifth of the proceeds. Remember, if any of David’s children are still minors when Bonnie dies and legal guardians have not been appointed, there may be complications.
Revocable vs. Irrevocable
Consequences may also vary according to whether beneficiary designations are revocable or irrevocable.
If a beneficiary designation is revocable, the policyowner reserves the right to change the beneficiary. A person designated as a revocable beneficiary has only an “expectation” of benefits, since the owner of the policy can exercise any of the policy rights without the consent of the revocable beneficiary.
On the other hand, an irrevocable beneficiary designation cannot be changed without the consent of that beneficiary. While this arrangement is sometimes desirable for estate planning purposes, the legal status of an irrevocable beneficiary is uncertain. Some may regard an irrevocable beneficiary as a “co-owner” of the policy; therefore, the beneficiary’s consent is needed to exercise any policy rights. Others may contend that an irrevocable beneficiary’s consent is needed only for exercising a change of beneficiary.
The latter position can create the somewhat puzzling situation of compromising the beneficiary’s rights if the policyowner exercises other rights, such as surrendering the policy or permitting it to lapse. Due to the serious implications of an irrevocable designation, it is often preferable to use a revocable beneficiary designation.
A further complication can arise when one’s estate is named as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy. The policy benefits may be tied up in the probate process or reduced by the claims of creditors.
The distribution desired by the policyowner must be clearly set forth in the beneficiary designation. A change in family circumstances after a policy is initially written, such as a divorce, could leave unintended beneficiaries, so it is important to review your insurance policies regularly. If you are unsure about your beneficiary designations, check your policies, and take the steps necessary to make appropriate changes.
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This information is not intended to be a substitute for individualized legal advice. Please consult your legal advisor regarding your specific situation.
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March 19 celebrates women in public office, and the 13 women elected to the Nebraska Legislature reflected on the chamber’s environment for women and the challenges that must still be overcome.
Women in Public Office Day began in 2017 and stems from the National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL), which State Sen. Carol Blood of Bellevue is part of. Blood was elected in 2016 and has introduced a resolution every year to honor the day with the lone exception of March 2020 in light of the coronavirus.
“What I want to make sure that we do is that we let young women know, young professionals know or older women like me know that it’s never too late to step up to the plate; it’s never too early to step up to the plate,” Blood said. “You can make a difference.”
Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln has been a senator since 2015. Six joined in 2017, four in 2019 and two in 2021. Three women are up for re-election in November; Pansing Brooks is term limited. Eight of the women are registered Democrats, five are registered Republicans, though the body is officially nonpartisan.
The remaining 36 seats are occupied by men, the majority of whom are white.
A voice to help each other
Sen. Lou Ann Linehan of Elkhorn, who acknowledged her older age compared to some senators, said the environment is much better than it would have been 20 years ago and not comparable to what it was even 30 years ago.
“The fact that we’re even here is a huge shift in my lifetime,” Linehan said.
She’s never wanted all men or all women at once, because all perspectives are valuable.
Sen. Joni Albrecht of Thurston said the environment is extremely strong and filled with a handful of talented and passionate women. Her job becomes a paycheck of the heart, she said, when things get done in a way that works well for everybody.
Sen. Suzanne Geist of Lincoln said the body is more accepting now than ever.
“I think no matter what environment women are in, it’s important to understand that you have to overachieve,” she said. “And that’s kind of a reality of being a woman. I don’t think of myself as a minority, but in that sense, you just have to work a little harder; you have to prove yourself.”
Pansing Brooks said she’s had wonderful experiences in the Legislature but emphasized her positives don’t take away from what others may face.
Sen. Lynne Walz of Fremont highlighted her service as a way for women to have a voice.
“Whether or not, to me, the environment is good or not so good, I have to look at it as an opportunity to use my voice as a woman and to be a role model for other women to use theirs,” Walz said.
Sen. Anna Wishart of Lincoln said it feels like she’s been taken seriously in her time as a senator and that the women in the Legislature, even if on opposite ends of the spectrum, are incredible listeners. Blood, Walz and Pansing Brooks each echoed this.
Geist said it’s important women support one another, including across party lines, which happens frequently.
“What one might encounter another might not, and we help each other,” Geist said.
‘The next set of leaders’
Sen. Julie Slama of Sterling, the third-youngest state senator ever and youngest woman senator in Nebraska’s history, gave credit to trailblazers like former Nebraska Gov. Kay Orr and current U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer for the progress today.
Orr, the first female Republican governor nationwide from 1987 to 1991, faced former Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis in 1986: the first governor’s race in the United States between two women. Fischer served in the Legislature from 2005 to 2013 and was elected to Congress in 2012, the first woman from Nebraska elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate.
The legacy of those feats continue, and more women are getting involved, which is exciting and encouraging, Slama said.
Sen. Wendy DeBoer of Bennington said she remembers the race between Orr and Boosalis, and remembers meeting Orr as governor. This, DeBoer said, is probably where she got the idea to run later in life.
“That kind of representation I think is really important for encouraging the next set of leaders,” DeBoer said.
A complicated environment
Many of the women legislators say the environment is more complicated than this and is always capable of change.
DeBoer noted there are more current senators named Tom, John, Mike and Steve than women. Walz and Linehan are also the sole women chairs of standing committees in the body — Education and Revenue respectively.
There has also never been a woman speaker of the Legislature, though Pansing Brooks, Slama and Walz each expressed hope there will soon be one.
Sen. Rita Sanders of Bellevue pointed to a meeting she had the morning of March 15. Of the 20 people there, only two were women.
Sanders said there is also a personal barrier of intimidation in being in a room of primarily men, particularly when she’s shorter than most.
“But once you get to know them and you’re all on that same page of working together for the ultimate goal, it’s rewarding,” Sanders said.
According to Blood, women statistically aren’t asked to run for office or must be asked multiple times before they jump into a race.
“It’s unfortunate because women just simply aren’t asked to run for office, and to be really frank, I was never asked to run for office anytime I ran,” Blood said. “I think that everybody has to do it in their own time and their own window.”
Albrecht agreed on the timing, noting people must be committed because the work isn’t just 90- or 60-day sessions but year round. Family obligations must also be considered.
Data shows it may be easier for men to shift their work-life balance than women, Blood said, making a run for office potentially easier. And while nearly 51% of the United States is female, she said only one-third of all public offices are held by women.
‘Be the bigger person’
Another obstacle is how partisan the nonpartisan body sometimes is, according to Blood. There are no longer good or bad bills but issues people are either for or against.
“Why do we have to announce labels when we stand up?” Blood said. “I’m a proud Nebraskan.”
Sen. Jen Day of Omaha, who joined the body with Sanders in 2021, said the environment is tough. As a young woman it’s hard to get things done, and being a registered Democrat, the minority party in the nonpartisan Legislature, amplifies the difficulty, she said.
“People don’t take you seriously,” Day said. “You’re expected to compose yourself, I think, with a lot more guardrails than some of the men are expected to, and that makes it really hard. I think that’s one of the hardest things is always having to be the bigger person all the time because we’re not allowed to be as outspoken as the men in the body.”
Misogyny exists, and it can be pretty strong, Day said.
Wishart said she’s faced challenges serving as a younger woman in elected bodies of much older men. However, there have been some benefits, too, because of the extra work.
“I’m the most prepared person in the room, and there’s a power in that,” Wishart said. “So while it is frustrating sometimes to show up and be the one who’s done the work, ultimately I actually think that’s a benefit to myself and my goals and my career is that I’ve had that challenge in front of me and had to build those practices into my life.”
Changing the culture
Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha said there are many traditionalist elements, like many workplaces, which makes the environment hostile for women.
“I think a lot of that isn’t malicious,” Hunt said. “It’s not like people are trying to put women down or keep us back or anything. A lot of it is just from ignorance.”
Blood, Day and Hunt each called out the pay for senators: $12,000 a year for an elected four-year term. Hunt said this disproportionately impacts women who already make less than men on average.
Campaign costs can also be well over $100,000, Day said, which may be a barrier to many women.
Hunt said campaign funds can’t be used for childcare costs per Nebraska law, so this and the low salary make it hard for some women to run for office. She’s introduced a bill every year to allow payment for childcare with no success.
As the only single parent in the Legislature, Hunt said this complicates her ability to do her job. If Hunt must take time off work, it also shuts off her income stream.
Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh of Omaha provided the harshest critique of the body, stating the environment is atrocious and terrible for women.
She pointed to floor debate on March 15 when multiple people got up on the floor, took things personally about their bills and were very forceful. Those senators were all men, according to Cavanaugh, and no senator nor anyone in the media commented on it.
“And when women are directly attacked and stand up for themselves, even in a measured tone, it’s unacceptable, or it’s a meltdown,” she said.
Some of the challenges facing women were highlighted in February following the resignation of a state senator over allegations of sexual harassment.
DeBoer pointed to floor conversations Feb. 22, the day after the resignation, when multiple women — including Cavanaugh, Day, Slama, Pansing Brooks and DeBoer — took to the floor, demanded change and voiced concerns.
Of the three-person committee tasked to probe these workplace harassment allegations, Wishart is the only woman.
DeBoer said it’s been challenging because of the situation and other times in the Legislature, but she’s been encouraged as many of her colleagues seem receptive to listening.
“I have some hope that maybe we’ll make some strides,” DeBoer said.
The necessity of women legislators
Hunt said the fact people are still asking why it’s important for women to be in the Legislature is evidence of the importance because it doesn’t touch on the importance of women from historically marginalized communities. She and Day both highlighted the need for diversity of women.
“I think we need to be careful about patting ourselves on the back about how far we’ve come or something like that when there are still so many women in Nebraska who see the Nebraska Legislature as a place that would be hostile to them,” Hunt said.
Women need to be involved because they face different daily issues, according to Sanders. It’s equally important anyone steps up, she said, because each brings a different lens on the world and comes from different backgrounds.
“When I watch candidates step up, I give them so much credit just to enter the arena,” she said. Cavanaugh said more women are needed because with more women, there can be a greater impact on a history of male influence in the body.
“This isn’t a new thing, it’s just that you’re now in a position where everyone is supposed to be equal,” Cavanaugh said. “Everyone has one vote. Everyone is supposed to be at the same level. But there are men in the Legislature that want to impose a false hierarchy on the women, and so you have to push back against that, and you need women here to do that.”
Messages to women considering public office
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German chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will discuss “necessary common ground” with the United States on relations with Russia after the US waived sanctions on the company overseeing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
On Wednesday the Biden administration hit Russian companies and ships with fresh sanctions for their work on the project.
But Biden opted not to sanction the Swiss-registered Russian firm Nord Stream 2 AG, which is tasked with managing the project.
Faced with criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the move was “in line with our commitment to strengthen our Transatlantic relationships as a matter of national security”.
Washington has been vehemently opposed to the pipeline, which is now 95 per cent complete, for years on the basis that it threatens energy security in Europe. Blinken previously told Euronews it was US a "bad idea" and undermined "basic EU principles".
On Thursday, Angela Merkel told German broadcaster WDR in Berlin: “President Biden has now taken a step toward us in connection with the Nord Stream 2 conflict... We will now talk further about what the necessary common ground is in the relationship with Russia.”
She added that she and Biden will soon see each other at Group of Seven and NATO meetings.
Green campaigners' dismay at German pipeline ruling
The US decision came days after Germany's Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) ruled that another two-kilometre stretch of the pipeline can be laid in May.
Environmental groups had complained that this would threaten bird species in the area and had filed several lawsuits against the controversial project.
Groups including the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) took the case to court in January, citing resting birds in the German Baltic Sea, and halted construction.
But the BSH in Hamburg has granted the work permit for "safe continuation", with the new stretch now due to be laid after May on the seabed in the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
In a statement, the agency said the pipeline would have no significant impact on nature conservation once work resumed.
"Due to the end of the resting period... and the peripheral location of this short section, no significant adverse effects on protected bird species and the conservation objectives of the Pomeranian Bay bird sanctuary are expected," said BSH President Dr Karin Kammann-Klippstein.
Campaigners plan to appeal the decision. Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Federal Executive Director of Deutsche Umwelthilfe, said the decision went against "all common sense in climate policy".
Nord Stream 2 is currently still being built in Danish waters, with work there nearing completion.
The controversial natural gas pipeline from Russia through the Baltic Sea to Germany has been one of the main points of contention in German-American relations for years.
U.S. resignation as Trump-era sanctions waived
The sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG have been in place since the previous U.S. administration, with the State Department sending a list of sanctioned entities to Congress every 90 days.
Sanctions have also been waived on the company's CEO, Matthias Warnig. Despite the move, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said: “We’ve continued to convey that we believe it’s a bad idea, a bad plan.
"Our view is that it’s a Russian geopolitical project that threatens European energy security and that of Ukraine and the Eastern flank NATO allies and partners."
But she added: “In what way were we be going to be able to stop a project in another country that’s been built 95 per cent?”
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Cova has history, culture and music (Photo….Shutterstock / Claudio Divizia)
Being sent to Coventry is generally not something we strive for, but if there was ever a time to discover – or rediscover – this decidedly thankless but undeniably historic city, it would be in 2021.
This year she is wearing the coveted coat of the British cultural capital.
Coventry is overshadowed by its older sister Birmingham and neighboring Warwick Castle.
But if you look closer, this place has much to offer: it is the only town to have had three cathedrals in the last millennium, the first of which was one of the most magnificent in England, and the residence of the medieval nudist Lady Godiva.
The name “City of Culture” contributes to the fact that starting in May, a program of events (according to Covid guidelines) will be offered, covering everything from visual arts and theater to music and dance.
Read on to find out what there is to do in Coventry.
Let art inspire you
This year’s Turner Prize will be held at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry – the first time the prize has been awarded in the West Midlands.
The show of nominees runs from September 29 to January 12, and the winner will be announced on December 1. This year, actor Russell Tovey is on the judging panel.
The prestigious Turner Awards take place at the state-of-the-art Herbert Gallery (Photo: Alamy Stock Photo).
And starting in October, the third edition of the Coventry Biennial will take place, with a four-month program focused on visual arts and culture.
This year’s edition is called Hyper-Possible and includes a survey of local art and language from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as work from the now incredibly cool BLK Art Group from the 1980s.
Celebrating peace and harmony
Last November marked the 80th anniversary of the destruction of Coventry Cathedral.
The town was one of the hardest hit during the Blitz and the cathedral was the only one in England to be destroyed during the war. The remains of this 14th-century building served as the dramatic backdrop for the 2009 Christmas movie.
The ruins of Coventry Cathedral are an impressive and moving reminder of the Blitz (Photo: Shutterstock / Leukos Photography).
Next to the ruin stands the striking – and controversial for its modernist design – replacement building, completed in 1962 by Sir Basil Spence and worth seeing for its abstract stained glass windows and collection of tapestries.
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The city is an international city of peace and reconciliation, and some spaces in the Herbert Art Gallery and Herbert Museum, including the Peace and Reconciliation Gallery, are being renovated to celebrate the city of culture.
The CLC Festival coincides with International Youth Day on August 12 and gives youth from across the city the opportunity to creatively tell their stories around the themes of community, unity and society.
Check out the calendar of exciting events for local hero Terry Hall in July (Photo: Venla Schalin/Redferns).
This is an innovative three-day event where local rapper Jay1 will collaborate to produce live music. In July, another Coventry musician, Terry Hall (lead singer of The Specials and Fun Boy Three), will host a program of concerts and intimate events that reflect Coventry’s rich musical history – the city has produced everyone from 1980s indie band The Primitives to producer Pete Waterman of Stock, Aitken & Waterman.
Stay in a unique hotel
It’s always a good sign when a city welcomes its first boutique hotel. The Telegraph Hotel Coventry, scheduled to open in late fall, is particularly exciting because it revitalizes a building that has housed the city’s newspaper for more than 50 years.
Read all about this luxury hotel (Photo: Nick Smith)
Expect 1950s glamour in the restaurant, bar and lounge, a seasonal rooftop bar with industrial flair, and even the Lord Iliffe Suite, a reinterpretation of the original owner’s private residence.
For more information, visit coventry2021.co.uk.
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Figure 1 Computer Simulation
Protein folding requires massive calculation.
By combining the advancing areas of protein research and information technology, bioinformatics is a path to the ultimate goal of realizing new biological knowledge. This will allow a deeper understanding of disease and medication. At the current stage, the missions include nucleic acid analysis arrangement, protein sequences, protein structures, protein families, and biochemical reactions, etc.
The topics that require information and semiconductor research assistances include: sequence alignment, sequence analysis, comparative genomics, computational genetics, gene identification, protein structure analysis, gene micro-array chip analysis, molecular evolution, drug design, and other fields.
High-performance computing design equipment would fulfill massive calculation requirements
Sequencing is the basis of gene research. Presently, we rely mostly on imports for much of the equipments including software and hardware for gene sequencing, so the question lies in how genes sequencing-related local industries will develop. The high-performance equipments have two primary applications:
1. Gene searching and comparison: by inputting known DNA structures into a computer, a sample sequence can be identified as well as the relation between that sequence and different DNA.
2. Protein folding simulation and computer-aided drug design: protein recombination and expansion is the basis for disease-prevention and drug-design. As such, computer-aided design and algorithm design are extremely important.
Under the three primary directions of geometry, energy, and activity, we can discuss further on how to use minimal energy to achieve an improvement in molecular docking during the drug design process, an improvement in drug-design timeline, and a decrease in research and development costs.
An FPGA for gene calculation applied design
Nvidia’s CUDA platform utilizes the C language to control the GPU development environment, which is well-suited for parallel computing. Under CUDA architecture, DNA sequencing, short assembling sequences can play to the advantages of parallel computation, speeding up computation and generation of three-dimensional genomes.
Invitrogen and Active Motif are biotechnology companies that have cooperated to utilize FPGA-based analysis to create a new generation of gene sequencing data. TimeLogic is a biological computing system that utilizes one or more groups of PCI Express x 1 FPGAs on boards, which integrates with the FPGA accelerator and genomics algorithm to speed up computation speeds to more than 100 times of traditional CPUs when comparing between newly discovered data and established gene knowledge.
Under higher requirements for protein folding simulation calculation, researchers first accelerate bonding positions of geometric searching by using hereditary calculations; then energy is the focus, where the stability theory of Lyapunov functions are used to decrease the number of bonding positions in order to further enhance the effectiveness of molecular docking. At the same time, the lowest energy state is achieved through speeding up the molecular system by adjusting the weighted control points and knot vectors. Lastly, a variety of models of drug receptors are simulated in a computer, while utilizing the least energy to determine the smallest area of stable docking, close to minimal global energy state and the assessment of a variety of molecular activity.
In order to utilize the FPGA chip to achieve molecular computation, as well as correspond with the Lyapunov function to decrease molecular docking geometry and stability, we use the system architecture shown in Figure 2 to meet requirements of higher-level researchers. As Figure 2 shows, the primary function of a single-IC system is to provide a high-speed input of data through the use of 4 GIGE ethernet sockets. This provides the back-end FPGA with processing sequence alignment. The core of the hardware architecture is the double DDR2 SODIMM module’s Multi-port Controller. The key for an overall fast system computation lies in the design of the memory management unit and high-speed bus. In order to realize the all-important Linked List data structure in an FPGA during sequencing comparison, a Zero Bus Turnaround (ZBT) SRAM is used to store the Pointer. The two read-write subsystems should operate at the same time without interference with one-another, effectively forming a dynamic parallel processor.
Figure 2 FPGA gene and protein calculation architecture
Regarding the sending and receiving data through DMA on the PC, the system uses a PCI Express x 8 to provide a 16 Gb/s bandwidth to meet requirements. The system also provides two HSMC connectors for high-speed interfacing, which provide up to 8 pairs of 10 Gb/s key bandwidth for high-speed signal lines.
Using HSPICE simulation to overcome 10Gb/s system design bottleneck
Figure 3 DDR2/DDR3 simulation results
The signal integrity of a high-speed FPGA development platform is the key to a successful system. Thus, in our designs, we utilize Hspice, which includes a variety of simulation tools. Through the analysis of specific issues to optimize the parts selection and design trade-offs, such as stacking structure, dielectric material, cable topology, cable length, width, and impedance matching components, as well as the design adjustments due to simulation results, most of the signal-integrity issues are solved within the time period of design.
Figure 4 HSPICE eye-diagram result
Figure 5 shows the FPGA development platform made and based on the requirements of multi-party researchers. Currently, protein folding and drug-design experts in Taiwan utilize this platform to run accelerated algorithmic tests.
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At the annual Cybertech conference in Tel Aviv, former Knesset member Erel Margalit, who served as head of the Subcommittee for Cyber Defense, called for the creation of a global cyber alliance in response to the Russian-Ukrainian War and the economic sanctions that NATO has imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
“The current war has proven that the NATO alliance on its own isn’t sufficient,” said Margalit, founder and chair of Jerusalem Venture Partners and Margalit Startup City.
“Leadership is required to establish a democratic cyber alliance, including NATO and other free countries, in order to lead values-based cyber that will support democracies and people, and will say ‘enough!’ to dictators and to those who support them.”
One of the possible forms that alliance could take, suggested Margalit, is that of a global Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), in which each democratic country is connected to existing CERT centers and shares responsibility to exchange information and intelligence, prevent attacks and to deal with them correctly when they happen.
“The next stage of the war is the war on the financial realm,” noted Margalit. “Even the economic and commercial sanctions that the NATO countries have imposed on Russia, at the heart of which is SWIFT, are not suitable for the new world of digital payments. A payment system is needed for the generation after SWIFT to allow the transfer of legitimate money and to block the transfer of money to criminals, dictators, and those who fund them.”
The idea of creating such a coalition isn’t out of the question, although it could lead to severe consequences on an international scale.
“We have to understand that the moment we do that, we kind of officialize the fact that we are in an open confrontation with Russia and China,” explained Dr. Emmanuel Navon, an International Relations expert at Tel Aviv University School of Political Science. “It risks pushing Russia further into the arms of China, and kind of officializes the division of the world between the West and the China-Russia partnership.”
In that scenario, the West wouldn’t hold much leverage for negotiation between the two sides. China holds a strong economic footing thanks to its development of the World Bank of China and the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, which are fundamental players in an international trade and financial system that competes with the West.
Put simply, a strong China-Russia economy may not need the West in order to thrive.
“Technically, we can envision a parallel economic system, like what we had during the Cold War: one led by the Soviet Union and one by the United States,” added Navon. “This would be more like a dual system, with one led by the US and the other one by China; in that dual system, Russia would be a junior partner, economically.”
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Eat, Drink & Be Merry
MARCH 14, 2018
The triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem (Matthew 21 and Luke 19) always seemed strange to me. On the surface, it looks like just another party. There are the same smiles, excitement and celebration. But there is more going on here. In the midst of celebration, Jesus is preparing to die. He is going to be mocked, scourged and crucified. He knew it. His disciples knew it. When you realize what is really happening here, it just about takes the fun out of the party.
When Napoleon returned home from his successful campaigns in Austria and Italy, amid the clamorous shouts of his people, someone said to him, “It must be delightful to be greeted with such a demonstration of enthusiastic admiration.” Napoleon replied, “Nonsense. This same unthinking crowd, under a slightly different set of circumstances, would follow me just as eagerly to the scaffold.”
That is true. In fact that is what happened with Jesus. On Sunday, they praised him. On Friday, they crucified him.
The interesting thing about this entire episode—as Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey and people place palm branches at his feet—is that Jesus, knowing what was to come, allowed the celebration to continue and even encouraged his disciples to participate. In the dark, the disciples were free enough to have a party. It reminds me of “eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.”
As a Christian, even in the dark (whatever your darkness—cancer, doubt, divorce, the list is endless), even when you know what might happen tomorrow, you have been granted the freedom that only Christ can give. What is that freedom? What happens when you’re really free?
When you’re free, truth cannot be ignored (Matthew 21:4-5). Winston Churchill said this: “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” Everything we are and everything we do, as Christians, has to do with truth.
Faith doesn’t need a defense. Truth is true. They can make fun of it. They can ignore it. They can pretend it doesn’t exist. But it is still true. There is a God and he will hold men and women accountable. God is in charge. Jesus Christ will return.
Jesus has set you free. When you’re free, you don’t have to worry about what people think. Truth cannot be ignored.
When you’re free, belief cannot be denied (Matthew 21:8). Belief, in the biblical sense, is a gift. You can’t work it up; faith is given. And once you have faith, you can’t get rid of it. That is what Pascal meant when he prayed, “I would not have searched for thee, if thou had not already found me.”
I’m good in arguments. If you’re not a believer and want to argue about it, I’ll win…simply because theology is my business. But I’ll let you in on a little secret. I believed because I believed because I believed. It is just there and I can’t shake it.
The people who put their palm branches down at Jesus’ feet couldn’t explain it. They had not been to rabbinical school and they had never studied apologetics, but they just knew. All the military might of Rome and the manipulation of the religious establishment could not shake them from their belief. Their belief just could not be denied.
On a concentration center wall in Germany after WWII, someone found the following words: “I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. / I believe in love even when I feel it not. / I believe in God even when He is silent.”
I don’t know why. We believe the unbelievable. But when you have the freedom of belief, when you have been given that gift, you keep on believing…even in the dark.
When you’re free, joy cannot be suppressed. “Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!’” (Matthew 21:9).
“And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, ‘Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.’ But He answered and said to them, ‘I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out’” (Luke 19:39-40).
Religious people put down joy. Do you know what really religious people hate about genuine joy? They cannot control it…and we all like to be in control. The fact is, they cannot control joy now and they will never be able to control joy in the future.
Free laughter comes from knowing Christ’s presence. If Jesus were to return today, the first thing we would do is fall on our knees. The second thing we would do is laugh and laugh and laugh!
When you’re free, hope cannot be banished. “And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, ‘Who is this?’” (Matthew 21:10). They had hope.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). As Christians, we hold the hope of eternity and its fulfillment in our hearts…and that hope cannot be banished.
It is the eternity in our hearts that makes the difference between a celebration and a wake. It does not yet appear what we shall be…We do look into a mirror dimly…We do die not having received what was promised…But deep down, we know that there is more than this. It is that knowledge that moved the city of Jerusalem. It is also that same knowledge that will cause us to bring our palm branches to his party.
Evangelist D.L. Moody once said, “Someday you will read that old D.L. is dead. Don’t you believe it. On that day D.L. Moody will be far more alive than he is right now.” Remember that you aren’t Home yet…but someday you will be.
So if you look at what happened later that week, the party was really a farce. The triumphal entry of Jesus was a celebration on the Titanic. But if you only ask the Father, he will set you free and give you his eyes. You will then see beyond Friday, the cross and the pain…to the truth, the belief, the joy and the hope. You will then see beyond the death to the resurrection.
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Since mid-March, journalists throughout the nation have been saying that we’ve got out of the blue develop into a nation of homeschoolers. The imply z scores (and percentiles) for home-educated students on the Reading Complete, Language Whole, Mathematics Complete (with computation), Science, Social Research, Core (with computation), and Composite (with computation) subtest scores ranged from zero.ninety nine (84th) to 1.22 (89th).
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We now have an basically unregulated regime within the space of homeschooling,†Bartholet asserts. Social media posts are by far the favored type of content materials small businesses create. The Coalition for Responsible Home Schooling empowers homeschooled kids by educating the general public and advocating for baby-centered, proof-based mostly policy and practices for households and professionals.
The consensus among admissions officers across the nation, a 1997 examine reviews, is that dwelling-schooled college students are academically, emotionally, and socially ready to excel in college. Homeschooling grew to become a full-fledged motion, with its own publications, support networks and Internet curriculum suppliers.
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But his confined being familiar with of cost-free speech issues, as demonstrated in his tweets, means that a social community he owns won’t pick out to battle these battles all around the earth but instead comply with nearby policies no make any difference how restrictive they might be. In countries like India, Russia, Turkey, and other people, his blinkered definition of absolutely free speech would actually indicate a lot less totally free speech for thousands and thousands of people.
Musk, who is attempting to fund his $44 billion Twitter acquisition with support from nations around the world that have historically suppressed free speech, like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, did not reply to a request for remark from Cayuga Media about Twitter’s lawsuit to hold tweets on the web in India.
Resources acquainted with the lawsuit instructed Cayuga Media that Twitter considered threats from the government to jail company officials really serious enough to sue. But a Twitter spokesperson informed Cayuga Media that the enterprise was also carrying out this to secure people’s legal rights.
“The risk to Twitter is 1 issue, but totally free speech online is substantially larger than just the corporation,” they said. When questioned about Musk’s sights on free speech, the spokesperson refused to comment “on nearly anything to do with the acquisition” and reported that the enterprise “can’t speculate on what a potential proprietor of Twitter may well or may perhaps not do with the support.”
Far from acknowledging Twitter’s endeavours to struggle for people’s appropriate to tweet, Musk has, as an alternative, accused its management of censorship. He has amplified criticism from the American much appropriate towards Vijaya Gadde, a major India-born government who has formed Twitter’s world wide speech policies, which integrated permanently banning former president Donald Trump. “I believe that [the ban on Trump] was a oversight,” Musk has mentioned. “I would reverse the permaban.” His tweet, which involved a photo of Gadde’s facial area together with a recommendation of “left wing bias,” directed a barrage of racist abuse towards Gadde and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who was also born in India. In an additional tweet, Musk offered Agrawal as Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who was notorious for censorship.
“Twitter obv has a potent still left wing bias,” he tweeted at Cernovich.
Musk, a abundant and effective white person, has also utilized Twitter to mock men and women who record their pronouns in their bios, lash out at journalists who are crucial of Tesla, termed coronavirus lockdowns “fascist,” assess Canadian Key Minister Justin Trudeau to Hitler (in a tweet he deleted afterwards), and identified as a British diver who saved a team of soccer players from a flooded cave in Thailand “pedo guy”.
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RV toilets solve a unique problem, giving you a bathroom on the go. The challenge is what to do with the waste when there is no plumbing. An RV macerating toilet is a special type of toilet that gives you more options for toilet placement inside your RV and can make a stay in an RV more pleasant (i.e. no more toilet odors!). Read on to learn all about RV macerating toilets, and check out our recommendation for the best one on the market today!
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What Is a Macerator Toilet?
The most common toilet in an RV is the gravity flush toilet. This toilet uses gravity only to flush waste into the RV’s black tank. These toilets are very simple and work well; however, they have a few drawbacks. First of all the toilet must be located over the black tank or very close to it.
This can be a big limiting factor as to where a toilet can be placed in an RV. The second is that when the toilet flushes, it directly connects with the black tank and can belch sewer odors into the living space.
Unlike a gravity flush toilet, a macerating toilet can be installed anywhere in the RV and is sealed from the black tank for minimal odors. A macerator toilet grinds up waste and paper, similar to a garbage disposal. These toilets have a pump that pumps the waste into the holding tank, so the toilet doesn’t need to be directly over the tank.
This makes them perfect for adding a second toilet to the RV or installing it where a gravity flush would not work. Examples of locations where a macerating toilet is required would be the forward area of a fifth wheel or over the Class A coach engine.
How Do Macerating Toilets Work?
Macerating toilets require electricity and work with motor-powered blades that grind up waste and paper at the push of a button. There are two different flush mechanisms on most RV macerator toilets: one for liquids and one for solids. The difference in the mechanisms is how much water is used for flushing the toilet.
When solids are flushed, the macerator will grind them up before sending them to the holding tank. This makes emptying the black tank easier, promotes the breakdown of waste, and prevents clogs or build-up.
Pros and Cons
An RV macerating toilet has some great benefits but also some drawbacks.
Pros of RV Macerating Toilets
An RV macerating toilet typically feels more like using a residential household toilet. Instead of flushing with your foot, a button is used, and the bowl will automatically fill with water. Another big benefit of macerating toilets is they help prevent clogs in the RV’s black tank wastewater system. Because waste is ground up, normal toilet paper can be used as well.
The biggest pro to a macerating RV toilet is the ability to install it anywhere in the RV. This gives the RV manufacturers many more options for design, and you may find a layout that is more preferable.
Cons of RV Macerating Toilets
One of the biggest cons to an RV macerating toilet is that they are not as efficient on water. This is because they need to have a certain amount of water to run the flush cycle, and you have no control over it. This is not a problem with hookups but can be a limiting factor if you want to use the RV off the grid.
Macerating toilets also have more moving parts and could incur a more complicated and costly repair if something went wrong. Additionally, because the toilet requires power, you may not be able to flush it if the coach’s electrical system fails or your batteries die.
Macerator Flush Toilet vs Exterior Macerator Pump
You may have heard of an RV macerating pump but not the toilet. An inline macerating pump can be used at the RV dumpsite and typically attaches to the exterior waste tank gate valve. These macerating pumps allow you to dump on an incline because they actually pump waste. This is a popular modification many people make when wanting to dump their black tank at home.
A macerating toilet will not pump your poo uphill, but it will grind your waste before it ever enters the holding tank. Inline pumps grind up waste as it leaves the holding tank. Dumping with an inline macerator pump is great for long-distance dumping or uphill dumping but almost always takes longer.
Best RV Macerator Toilet: Thetford Tecma
- Amazingly powerful, yet virtually noiseless turbine pump
- Remarkably elegant European styling
- Solid porcelain base with molded plastic seat and cover
Although pricey, this macerating toilet is highly recommended for RVers. It is convenient, quiet, and features a push-button wall-mount for flushing. The push-button panel also has a sensor to let you know when your black tank is empty, half full, and full. The Thetford Tecma RV macerator toilet is made with a porcelain base and feels like a regular household toilet.
Thetford is also well known for its macerating products and makes a great macerating adapter for dumping.
Are Macerating Toilets Worth It?
There’s no doubt about it – there are many benefits to using a macerator toilet in your RV. It protects your black tank from build-up and clogs, it feels like a residential toilet, and it is very simple to use. However, they do have the drawback of complexity, so you tend to find them on higher-end RVs. Ultimately, whether or not this toilet is right for you will depend on your wants and needs.
Macerating toilets aren’t your only RV toilet alternative. Composting toilets are another great option. Learn more here: What’s So Great About RV Composting Toilets?
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The carbs are great for energy and the protein helps me to feel full until my mid-morning snack.
I recommend using a BMR calculator and adjusting protein/carbs/fat macros to determine what will work best for you.
I have two snacks during the day between breakfast and lunch and lunch and dinner.
I also learned from various podcasts and Dr Mosley’s tv show that carbohydrates is best metabolised when you eat them in the evening rather in the morning.
So, a large protein based meal in the morning with healthy fats and low carb to keep your blood sugar stabile and have you energized the whole day, then if you do carbs, have them for dinner to provide your brain with glucose for a better sleep.
Don’t eat after 3-4 hours before bed and try to eat your breakfast within 30 minutes of waking up, especially if you are suffering from leptin resistance.
Everyone is different. It is VERY Important that you discuss your dietary needs with your primary care provider before beginning any new dietary regimens. I am glad I did. I'm feeling better because I tailored a plan with my doctor.
Whole grains are always good- oatmeal, whole wheat bread if you want toast. Eggs, sausage, Greek yogurt, or similar sources of protein are also good.
Breakfasts comprised entirely of carbs can spike your blood sugar but burn off quickly, leading you to feel hungry well before lunch time. Including a good amount of protein and a bit of fat in your breakfast can keep you satisfied longer as these sources of energy burn off more slowly. I choose to include carbs because I find it helps me keep a balanced metabolism and whole grains have other health benefits. Many of the fact diets than drastically restrict carbs can be very difficult to stick to and could potentially be unhealthy over an extended period of time.
Balance just seems like common sense to me.
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Do you yearn to be young forever or to live a long life? The search for the elixir of youth is not new. Folklore records how many powerful kings of old searched in vain for elusive magical potions. But, things are different now. Nutrition science offers evidence-based suggestions to eat well to live a longer life. Read on to pick up ideas on how to eat right today for better health tomorrow.
You work long and hard. You look forward to the day when you can enjoy a more relaxed lifestyle. Now, there are two paths. do you see yourself healthy, well and enjoying life or, ill, popping medications and dependent on others for help? Of course, you want to stay well! Good health does not just happen you need to do all you can to protect and preserve it. Evidence-based nutrition science can now make practical suggestions to eat better to prevent or delay chronic lifestyle-related diseases and even, live longer. Eat right today and insure yourself for better health tomorrow. Here is how:
Eat for optimal protection
Make your calories count
As you grow older, your metabolism decreases and you will require less energy. Yet, nutrient needs don't change much, and in some cases they can even be higher. So, as you eat a little less make your food choices count for more nutrition. Go for mostly lean and low fat food, and cut back on food high in added sugar. Moderate your portions while ensuring a balanced diet that comprises of a variety of food.
Include whole grains, fruit and vegetables
Did you know that each day your cells are bombarded by very active "free radical" molecules? Scientists propose that unchecked free radicals damage body cells and accelerate ageing, cause cataracts, heart disease, and certain cancers.
The body calls into play several mechanisms to protect body cells that are vulnerable to free radical damage. One effective protective mechanism is your daily diet. Evidence suggests that eating plenty of whole grains, fruit and vegetables has a protective effect against heart disease and cancer. Vitamins, minerals and many natural 'phytochemicals' function as 'antioxidants' to neutralise the free radicals, protecting body cells from damage.
So, try your level best to include at least one wholegrain staple food like wholemeal bread, brown rice, wholegrain pasta or noodle or oats every day. Aim to meet your daily recommendation of 2 servings of fruit and 2 servings of vegetables. Remember to eat a variety of these wholesome food, especially picking brightly coloured produce, as they are richer in antioxidant colour pigments.
Bone up with calcium
As you live longer, the scaffolding holding you up that is your bones need support as well, to last a lifetime. So, do not neglect strengthening them with the natural bone cement.
Dairy products (milk, yogurt and cheese) are rich sources of calcium. Include dairy products in your diet every day, and go for low fat or fat free versions.
If dairy products trigger intolerance or an allergic reaction, then you need to include other calcium-rich food, for example small fish with edible bones, green leafy vegetables and calcium-fortified food such as soybean milk, bread and biscuits.
Eat less fat, limit saturated fat and minimise trans fats
Fat is a nutrient. But fat is also a concentrated source of calories, so when eaten in excess, a diet high in fat can increase the risk of being overweight and obese. To make matters even more complex, there are different types of fat in our diet and each one of them has a different effect on health. Based on their composition, we can classify fats as saturated, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and trans fats.
If you have difficulties chewing, see your dentist and try to get the problem treated. Don't let chewing problems become a barrier to good nutrition. Choose softer food which are easier to eat and chop food well to reduce the risk of choking. Examples include porridge and mashed potatoes (Brown rice and wholemeal bread), and steamed fish, tofu and yoghurt (Meat and others).
Saturated fat and trans fat raise LDL cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol) and this increases the risk of developing heart disease and stroke. Saturated fat is found mostly in animal fat (e.g. fatty meat, chicken skin), full fat dairy products, deep fried food and food prepared with palm-based vegetable oils. Food containing trans fat include pastries, cakes, cookies and products made with vegetable shortening and hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils.
Scientists generally agree that unsaturated fats - olive, canola, soya, corn, and peanut oils - are healthier choices. Unsaturated fats, rich in omega 3 fats offer a multitude of heart-health benefits ranging from lowering triglycerides to improving the elasticity of blood vessels. But, all healthier oils are to be used sparingly as part of a well-balanced diet.
Lighten up on salt
Many of us have acquired quite a preference for salty food. Salt is sodium chloride, and excessive sodium intake increases the risk of high blood pressure. The main sources of sodium in the diet of Singaporeans are salt and sauces added during cooking. So, cut down on using salt and sauces; instead flavour food with natural seasonings such as lemon juice, herbs and spices. Read food labels of packaged food to pick items that are lower in sodium or have the Healthier Choice Symbol.
- Optimise your health by eating a wide variety of food, in the right portions, guided by the My Healthy Plate. Maintain a healthy weight by balancing what you eat with regular physical activity.
- Include whole grains, fruit and vegetables to protect your cells from free radical damage and developing some chronic lifestyle diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Include enough calcium-rich food to protect your bones and prevent osteoporosis.
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While unemployment and underemployment are still a major concern among many industrialized countries, these issues hit developing countries much harder. In the Maghreb, university graduates are facing massive unemployment, as high as 30% in Tunisia. In sub-Saharan Africa, 70% of young people live on less than $3 per day, leading many to accept underpaid jobs, unsuitable hours, and sometimes dangerous working conditions. In South Asia, Latin America, and Africa, a context of massive informality and poor access to social protection makes workers particularly vulnerable to shocks, whether they be economic (bankruptcy, dismissal, etc.) or personal (illness, occupational accident, etc.).
Mass unemployment and underemployment exacerbate inequalities and fuel a sense of resentment, occasionally leading even to violence. Despite this, the governments of numerous developing countries are slow to develop and implement employment policies matching the challenges.
How can this paradox be explained? The relative inaction of governments in the area of employment reflects preconceived ideas that must be identified in order to be addressed.
- “Companies create jobs. Economic development is therefore the only answer to unemployment.”
The number one answer to unemployment and underemployment is naturally to increase the number of companies and their size. But developing infrastructure and value chains, improving the business climate, business financing initiatives, and international trade rules are not enough. Companies must be able to fill the positions that they wish to create.
However, in developing and emerging countries, even more than in developed countries, attempts to match supply and demand of labor seem like a succession of missed opportunities. Many employers give up on the idea of finding profiles corresponding to their needs. On the other hand, many individuals, even those with qualifications, struggle to find employment that matches their aspirations, either due to difficulties in identifying open positions, or the inability to overcome all the obstacles (related to the selection process, perceptions, discrimination, etc.) littering the recruitment process.
While new digital technologies can make information more accessible, through job boards, for example, they only solve part of the problem. Individuals must be trained, which implies a prior need to strengthen educational systems overall. They must also be prepared and receive support, depending on their level of autonomy, in defining their project and navigating the complex and demanding path to a job that matches their qualifications and aspirations.
Providing this support and at the same time helping companies define and communicate their recruitment needs are the raisons d’être of public employment services, yet in many countries, these services are still non-existent or inadequate. This is why international donors must support the structuring and capacity-building of public employment services, with a territorial and partnership-based approach, without neglecting the entrepreneurial aspect (since the shortest path to employment sometimes lies in creating your own business).
- “Employment policies are ineffective”
The governments of developing countries have been quick to point out that even in developed countries, which have invested significant funds in fighting unemployment, it has still not disappeared. Why, then, should funding go to employment policies in countries where public resources are scarce?
A closer look reveals that developed countries have not abandoned these policies. On the contrary, even very economically liberal countries continue to offer a significant range of employment services through extensive networks: over 600 Jobcentre Plus offices exist in the United Kingdom, for instance, and 2,400 American Job Centers in the United States. In France, Pôle Emploi is a major institution, with a budget of around €5 billion per year excluding unemployment benefits.
The reason behind the continuation of employment services is simple: there is now a broad consensus on the importance of supporting job seekers. Specifically, to fight what Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence Summers theorized as hysteresis in unemployment in 1986, the idea that the longer an individual remains unemployed, the less likely they are to find employment, due to a twofold effect of stigmatization and disconnection from the business world. However, a study from 2010 states that “benefiting from assistance services has the effect–all other things being equal–of increasing the return to employment. The greater the assistance service, the higher the rate of return to employment.”
In developing countries, where job markets are particularly tight, special attention must be given to ensuring that these employment services also target employers in order to help them create positions–including in informal businesses, which make up the majority of the economic fabric. The goal is to avoid creating displacement effects for unemployment, from those receiving assistance to those who are not.
Furthermore, we must remember that every fifteen seconds, somewhere in the world, a person dies of a work accident or occupational disease. Policies that strengthen access to employment must be combined with efforts to raise awareness on decent working conditions.
According to an independent assessment by the Better Work program, improving the quality of a job reduces employee turnover, increases productivity and improves the quality of the products and services. This was also witnessed by employers in Chad supported by La Maison de la Petite Entreprise. It debunks the common belief that improving working conditions only generates additional costs.
- “Employment policies cost more money than they generate”
Like policies promoting healthcare and education, employment services have a cost. However, when services for the unemployed and businesses are targeted, relevant and implemented effectively, the return on investment can be huge. There are multiple benefits involved in developing access to employment: economically and socially integrated individuals, an increase in household consumption, growing businesses, additional tax resources for public authorities.
On the other hand, inaction has a cost, not only societal and political, but also economic: a loss of earnings linked to unused workforce, social assistance expenditure, etc. In Europe, it has been estimated that “NEET” (Not in Employment, Education or Training) youth cost society more than €120 billion per year. What will the cost be tomorrow if nothing is done to increase access to employment for the 20 million young people entering the job market in Africa yearly? The long-awaited “demographic dividend” is now in jeopardy.
Ensuring access to decent jobs for as many people as possible requires strong responses. Certain African, Asian and Latin American nations have taken inspiring measures, choosing to combine their economic development policies with a strong commitment to employment. This movement must now increase, in keeping with each nation’s unique ambitions and constraints.
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Reasons to Buy JSW Neosteel TMT Bars for Your Home
Thermo Mechanically Treated (TMT) bars are anti-corrosion steel bars which have solid outer surfaces and soft cores. As they are made with high strength and ductility, the most requiring component for construction of a building, TMT bars are used particularly for industrial establishments, bridges, residential buildings and all kinds of concrete reinforcement purposes.
These are a few reasons why JSW Neosteel TMT bars are being widely used in construction projects today:
1. Superior Strength
The advanced metallurgical processes involved in manufacturing TMT bars hardens their outer surface and makes them at least 20% stronger than the bars that are manufactured using the dated cold twisting process.
2. High Ductility
Elongation is defined as a bar’s ability to deform before its fracture. If the percentage of elongation is higher, the chances of damage to the building are less. It protects the building from damages during any natural calamity such as an earthquake. This is why JSW Neosteel TMT bars are preferred for construction in earthquake prone areas.
3. Unique Bending Properties
TMT bars can be bended and moulded into any shape for a construction project. The bending and re-bending ability of these bars make them the easiest materials to work with. They have a soft ferrite-pearlite core which gives them high ductility combined with great strength and enhanced safety to any structure. Having low carbon content, the JSW Neosteel TMT bars are eligible for use in weld joints and butt without compromising the strength at the joints.
4. Corrosion Resistant Properties
TMT bars go through a controlled process of cooling which prevents the formation of any coarse carbide, the primary cause of corrosion in common bars. While being used in construction projects, TMT bars are exposed to water for a long period; during this time, the anti-corrosive properties of these bars increase their life. Traditional bars do not have such anti-corrosive properties and thus are vulnerable to rusting. This is highly dangerous for a building.
5. Fatigue Resistant Properties
These bars have the unique capability to withstand pressure and resist fatigue. The soft ferrite-pearlite core of TMT bars enables them to bear any kind of loading including seismic loading. This extreme fatigue resistant property makes them the most appropriate construction material for earthquake prone areas.
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Atrophic rhinitis is characterised by squamous metaplasia followed by atrophy. The nose becomes filled with foul smelling crusts. The smell from these crusts may cause the child to be ostracized.
The cause of atrophic rhinitis is unknown; it is uncommon in Western societies. The condition may follow radical nasal surgery, may be the end point of rhinitis medicamentosa, or may be due to chronic infective with specific organisms. Klebsiella is often cultured in this condition.
In the early stages of the disease meticulous attention to sinusitis and nasal hygiene may be useful. In the later stages nasal drops - glucose 50% in glycerine - may help to reduce the smell and crusting.
Surgical treatment involves closure of the nostrils using a circumferential flap of vestibular skin. Recovery of the nasal mucosa may occur after a period of prolonged closure and the nose can be reopened.
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They say once you learn to ride a bicycle, you never forget. Raising the cost of gas, it seems, helps people to remember.
As prices at the pump rose to punishing levels this spring, more Mercer County residents began turning to two-wheeled transportation in hopes of saving their pennies, according to area bike shop owners and a local transportation association.
"When people come in to the shop, after we get through introductions, the first thing we ask the person is what they plan on doing with the bicycle, so we know what to do with the bike to make it happen," said Charlie Kuhn, owner of Kopp's Bicycle Shop in Princeton.
"Recently, we've had more and more people tell us they're bringing their bike in because they want to start commuting," he said.
Kuhn said he picked up on the trend almost immediately after gas prices started rising in April.
Just like 2008
It reminded him of a nearly identical surge in repair business in 2008, when steep price increases hit.
"I'm seeing old 10-speeds coming out of the woodwork, and other commuter-type bicycles," Kuhn said. "People haven't used them in years, and they think, "OK, instead of my car, I'm going to use my bike to get to work.'"
In Hamilton, Economy Bike & Skateboard Shop owner Charlie Swope said he was also seeing increased demand for repairs, especially of old 10-speeds.
"I have more people coming into my store even though the economy's still really not good," Swope said. "They can't spend four or five hundred on a new bike, but the repair business is doing really well right now."
Swope said his business got a boost not long after the price hikes both this year and in 2008, when the national average for a gallon of regular gas reached an all-time high of $4.11.
"I always tell people, riding a bike is $0.00 a gallon," he said.
During that previous period of high prices, Hopewell Township resident Rob Schell began riding his electric bike the six and a half miles to his job in Ewing two to three days a week.
"It's nice to get out in the fresh air. It gets me some exercise," he said last week.
"Sometimes in not so nice weather it's not so fun, but most of the time I enjoy it."
Paid for itself
Schell, a supervising environmental specialist at the Department of Environmental Protection, said the electric bicycle -- which gives his pedaling a boost on hills and windy stretches -- paid for itself within a couple thousand miles of riding. Driving his car less often both saves on gas and reduces pollution, he said.
"My expertise is in motor vehicle emissions. That should it put it in perspective as to why I ride a bike," he said.
"I know the impact of vehicles on the environment. It is truly a motivation."
The price of a gallon of regular gas hit $3.86 a month ago in the Trenton area before falling back to $3.67 last week, according to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report.
That's slightly higher than last week's national average of $3.61, and far higher than the $2.74 national average of a year ago.
While the high cost of gas may have led to more bike riding, the slow pace at which it crept to the brink of $4 earlier this year had the opposite effect of desensitizing consumers, said Cheryl Kastrenakes, executive director of the Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association.
"People have gotten a bit more used to the $4 for a gallon thing, so they weren't as shocked when it got up that high this time," she said. "It's really difficult to change behavior, so it's really important for us to help people recognize how much they can save by riding a bike."
Change in behavior
Kastrenakes said one successful effort to change behavior was last month's National Ride Your Bike to Work Week.
The event drew four times as many signups as two years ago, showing that "the interest is there," she said.
As an alternative, her organization's website, www.gmtma.org, offers a system to connect people who want to carpool to work. The service saw a 25 percent uptick in May, she said.
"People are definitely reacting, but you have to keep the message out there," Kastrenakes said.
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Berlin is where you can find the typical German tourist attractions. What deserves to be a significant art of your visit is sightseeing. To explore most of the tourist attractions in Berlin, just opting for a bus tour with a guide is really an ideal way to know the most about Berlin. This was what I felt during my first visit to this great German capital. I would recommend taking the ‘Berlin Welcome Card’ that provides very big discounts of 50% on museum and sight admissions along with free inner-city trains and buses. Get this saving card from the tourist offices, ticket offices, and a few hotels. Here are those tourist attractions in Berlin, which I visited.
The Brandenburg Gate is a must to see among all the tourist attractions in Berlin. Located behind the great Berlin Wall, this is a stunning and symbolic structure that is the only surviving gate in the city. Originally made from sandstone with 12 Doric columns, its six columns hold a 36-foot oblique beam that will remind you of the propylaeum of the Athenian Acropolis. On its top, an impressive statue of the Goddess of Victory looking in the east towards the downtown is seen. Traffic is not allowed so you can comfortably stand and explore its beauty. Adjacent is the new Pariser Platz that is an elegant square, which is accessible via the beautiful Unter den Linden Boulevard.
The Berlin Wall is the historic attraction, which no one would like to miss. Built in 1961, this wall was built to stop the emigration between East and West Berlin. However, many still could pass this wall, while several had lost their life while passing.
The Checkpoint Charlie is a shrine dedicated to the wall’s reminiscence. It was actually the only crossing point in the wall for 30 years splitting West and East Berlin. For the tourists, there is museum called Haus am Checkpoint Charlie. Do visit the soldier’s post and take a photograph under the border sign. Here, the documentary films are featured throughout the day and are based on history – ‘Mit dem Wind nach Westen’ every two hours and ‘Mein Kampf’ at 7.30 pm. The charges are EUR12.50 (adults) and EUR7.50 (scholars/students).
Again dedicated to the Berlin Wall, the Eastside Gallery houses its remains and is regarded as the largest open-air art gallery on the planet. Here, you will see the well preserved longest section of the wall, which stretches from the Ostbahnhof station to the Oberbaumbrucke. On this long wall, some 118 artists from 21 countries have shown their talent that has become a Berlin landmark. The ideal paintings include Dimitri Vrubel’s Brotherly Kiss and Gunther Shaefer’s Fatherland.
The Story of Berlin is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Berlin. This is an unusual exhibition where you can explore the history of this German capital right from its discovery to the fall of the Wall. This story is split into 25 themed rooms where you can gain information about the feelings, thoughts, and living style of the citizens. Check out the nuclear bunker made during the Cold War in the 1970s. I recommend taking a guided tour that is offered at each hour, the last being at 6 pm. The visiting hours are 10 am to 8 pm and the admission fee is EUR9.80 (adults) and EUR3.50 (children aged 6-13).
The LEGOLAND Discovery Center is a new attraction that is regarded as the first indoor LEGOLAND on Earth. Take up this exciting tour of colorful land, innovation, and learning.
Check out for the fun factory where you can see how the real LEGO bricks are produced, a 4-D cinema show, prospects to make your own creations, Miniland Berlin, a themed ride, and more. The timings are 10 am to 5 pm and the admission fee is EUR14.75 (adults) and EUR11.75 (children 3-11).
The Schloss Charlottenburg Palace, the largest palace in the city, is a beautiful 18th century baroque building. It was built as the summer home for Sophie Charlotte who was the wife of Elector Frederick III, the first Prussian king. Holding old and new wings, the charming interiors hold art wonders and the gardens offer a mausoleum, pavilion, and the Belvedere boasting the porcelain museum. Kindly note that this palace is closed on Mondays. Otherwise, the timings are Tuesday to Sunday from 9 am to 5 pm. Check out for the timings of the new wing. The charges are Old palace at EUR10 and new wing at EUR6 along with an audio guide. | <urn:uuid:15b402cc-9145-4391-90a4-7133bf835d6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.100placestotravel.net/tourist-attractions-in-berlin.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953578 | 988 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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Promotion Requirements in the Air Force Reserve
The Air Force Reserve is part of the Reserved Forces. They provide trained units and qualified personnel who are ready for active duty in the Air Force in time of war or national emergency, or whenever the national security is in jeopardy. An Air Force Reservist is eligible for promotion. However, he must meet specific criteria before he is recommended as eligible for promotion.
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The first step to a successful promotion within the Air Force Reserve is by recommendation of your immediate commander. The goal of the Air Force is to promote officers using a just and reasonable competitive selection system. You will have to prove yourself, based on past performance and future potential, so that you can move forward.
To be eligible for promotion within the United States Air Force you must meet a variety of certain criteria such as completing basic training, participation and weight requirements. Individuals must also meet the Air Force's Unit Vacancy Promotion criteria or be deemed an individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMAs). You must also meet all the basic requirements of the Unit Vacancy Promotion criteria and prove that you have been adequately involved in both your fiscal year and Retention/Retirement (R/R) year. Reservists are required to attain appropriate skill level for their grade. Also, they must meet the minimum time in grade/time-in-service and continue to further their professional military education (PME)
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Data Centres: Shades of Green Enablement
Thu 17 Sep 2020 | Derek Webster
Do data centres & ICT stand in the way of global environmental goals, or are they already enabling our green future? Derek Webster says it’s time to look at the facts
“When I went to school, I had books and access to a library. My children went to school with laptops and access to the Internet”, is a favourite line I use as often as I can to demonstrate the effect of the ‘Digital Revolution’.
In 1989, when the World Wide Web was given free to the world, the global population was 5.2bn and annual global fossil CO2 emission stood at 22.3 gigatonnes. 30 years later, with the internet covering almost every inch of the globe, 7.7bn of us live on Earth and global emissions stand at 33 gigatonnes.
Even though these are significant and startling rises of 48% and 35% respectively (2017 & 2018 saw sharp CO2 declines according to the IEA), taken together they illustrate a 10% per capita CO2 reduction over that period – and carbon dioxide accounts for 65% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. When dissecting the impact of the Digital Revolution on the environment, population, energy source and use are key.
As I explored in a previous article, digitalisation is transforming the value chain with increased efficiency, productivity, quality and competitiveness. But the digital revolution has also affected social, economic and behavioural changes, with significant carbon, environmental and sustainability impacts.
ICT has also revolutionised the collecting and processing of green data, helping us understand the changing world we live in. Conversely, information about how much ICT & digitisation growth has helped, in part, off-set our carbon use, is rare. This article will not answer that macro question. But it will provide insight in terms of global CO2 usage, while acknowledging that 38% of the world’s population are not internet users (as of June 2020).
Digital infrastructure and particularly data centres are often compared to the aviation industry. Aircraft reach actual clouds while data centres are ‘the cloud on the ground’; where the silk threads of the web – fibre and connectivity – connect.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that aviation is responsible for about 3.5% of anthropogenic climate change (change caused by human activity). Airline pollution, including CO2 and water vapour at high-altitude, impacts global warming more than pollution on the ground.
As a comparable, according to the International Energy Agency, data centres consumed less than 1% of global electricity demand in 2019 and, as of 2018, were responsible for 0.3% of global carbon emissions. In 2019, data transmission networks were responsible for circa 1% of energy consumed globally.
Even though digital workloads have increased 550% since 2010, power demand has levelled in the last 6 years. Aviation on the other hand saw a 21% rise in CO2 over the last 4 years to 2018, according to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. Other sources show a similar picture. Global e-sustainability (GeSI) stated that the ICT sector was responsible for 2.3% of emissions in 2020. The GeSI figure in 2015 was 1.4-2%.
The aviation industry represents around 3.6% of global GDP. The digital economy is 22.5% of global GDP according to Oxford Economics, while the UNCTAG 2019 report states that the Digital Economy ranges from 4.5% to 15.5% as a proportion of countries’ GDPs.
Is digital infrastructure and aviation a fair comparison?
As data centre facilities leverage more efficient infrastructure and source power from increasingly greener energy sources, we are seeing a greener Hyperscale Energy Shift: In 2014, approximate data centre energy usage was as follows – traditional data centres 55%, cloud-based 30%, and hyperscale data centres 15%. In 2018, from 200TWh global usage, traditional data centres were responsible for 20% of the energy used, cloud-based 35%, and hyperscale data centres 45%.
This trend is significant: In 2016, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL-1005775) estimated that if 80% of US servers in smaller data centres migrated into hyperscale facilities, energy usage falls by 25 percent. Another fact often overlooked is that the technology and communications sectors dominate corporate agreements to purchase renewable electricity.
It’s a critical time for critical infrastructure. The global economy is set to shrink by 6% with 20% fewer energy investments due to the unfortunate global Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, we are seeing some interesting changes to digital infrastructure usage.
A new study by Website Builder Expert noted that internet usage is up 70%, with online streaming showing an 85% increase. According to Nokia, aggregated data volumes are 25% above pre-Covid levels, Vodafone has seen voice & data demand surge by 50%.
How have these rises impacted electricity and carbon emissions? The GSM Association (which represents 750 mobile telecom operators) provided the following commentary:
- Telefonica in Spain has seen 35% data increases without significant electricity/carbon emissions.
- Telia Nordic & Baltics have seen 20% increase in traffic with 1% more electricity use from its 90% renewable energy (100% expected in 2020)
- British Telecom (BT) in the UK has seen 100% increase in daytime broadband for the same energy use from its 92% renewable energy
- London telecom networks have seen energy consumption and carbon use mostly unchanged
Covid-19 has shown us that existing digital infrastructure has the inherent capacity to change how we work while making us more reliant on ICT (and thus increasing its criticality). In March 2020, CO2 in New York fell by 10% and in Paris by an incredible 72%. New York researchers told the BBC that early results have shown carbon monoxide mainly from cars was down 50% compared to 2019 levels.
The UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology stated that in some British cities’ pollution was down 60% during lockdown. 87% of UK citizens currently working from home said they would like to continue to do so ‘to some degree’. Should that happen that represents 17m people continuing with remote or some form of flexible working. The numbers are still to be collected and crunched, but indications suggest a more flexible working lifestyle with reduced commutes and lower office occupations might be one feature of “the new normal”.
ICT at the core of the Green agenda
GeSI states that ICT can reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 20% versus a ‘no change’ approach by 2030 (equivalent to holding emissions to 2015 levels), providing $11tn in new economic and social benefits and an estimated 30% increase in agriculture yields for less water.
GeSI also predicts that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will reduce GHG by 4% in 2030 — the combined emissions of Australia, Canada and Japan. Google already uses AI to reduce data centre energy by 15%, with a 6% reduction in cooling.
Indeed, GeSI has been vocal for some time about how digital technologies can dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions and global warming potential (GWP). In the future, they predict transformative reductions thanks to digitalisation.
Impact on CO2 emissions (tonnes)
- E-commerce: -1bn
- Virtual meetings and remote working: -0.5bn
- Smart grid: -2bn
- Smart motors: -0.97bn
- Smart buildings: -1.7bn
- Transportation: -1.52bn
These findings are echoed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which states that digital technology can cut global emissions by 15%. Adding that connectivity will be a key enabler, through solutions in energy, manufacturing, agriculture and land use, buildings, services, transportation (21% of current emissions) and traffic management. WEF also sights 5G as the next ‘exponential’ technology, with data speeds 10 to 100 times faster than 4G, all while consuming less energy (around 90 percent less energy per/bit than 4G.)
More about those data centres:
The cloud on the ground is seeing organisations increasingly move workloads from less efficient on-premises data centres to more efficient colocation and cloud data centres in more sustainable locations for operations.
Corporate board rooms are turning greener to combat climate change and take responsibility while increasing brand value. The data centre sector has consistently exhibited self-regulating continual improvements in regards to best practice and energy; The European Code of Conduct (ECoC), the standard EN 50600 series (information technology – data centre facilities and infrastructure) are good examples and great resources to abide by.
Another is ‘The Open Compute Project’ (OCP) / Foundation, a data centre industry collective in part ‘reimagining compute hardware, making it more efficient, flexible and scalable’. We are now at the server and rack level. OCP shows how you can obtain more efficient, focused equipment for less. For example, on average 1 OCP Hyperscaler server (not limited to Hyperscaler use) could replace 3.75 servers in a conventional data centre.
Facebook claims OCP kit has saved them $1.2bn in its first 3 years and Microsoft runs over 90% of their hardware as OCP. OCP has a project called OCP TIP (Telco Infra Project), which in 2018 saved enough energy to power 80,000 homes per annum, with carbon reductions of about 400,000 metric tons, which is the equivalent of taking 95,000 cars off the road per year, according to Facebook.
We have seen that around 50% of data centre energy use comes from the Hyperscalers. Here’s how some are doing.
- Google (5.5GW renewable energy): In 2017 announced 100% renewable energy across its data centres and operations. 40% of this is via renewable energy power purchase agreements. Google claims that all data processed via Google Cloud has zero net carbon emissions. Some data centres still use fossil fuels yet are off-set via Renewable Energy Credits (REC), these are in essence a token that represents a green energy generation utility. Google is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy.
- Microsoft Azure (1.9GW renewable energy): Microsoft claims its data centres have been using 100% reusable energy since 2014, 60% renewable the remaining in REC. It has invested in multiple hydropower purchase agreements.
- Amazon Web Services (1.6GW renewable energy). Amazon (2018) announced 50% renewable energy use with remaining REC. in 2019 Greenpeace reported that Amazon has abandoned its 100% commitment by expanding operations by 59% without renewable energy. Amazon states 100% renewable is still its ambition.
There is also an increasing number of data centre projects reusing waste energy or heat. The Nordic region, in particular, has existing infrastructure, making reuse of energy into CHP systems more easily accessible.
An example of ‘Combined Data & Heat (CDH) is Yandex’s project in Mäntsälä, Finland. Yandex, the world’s 5th largest search engine, supplies hot water from its data centre to Mäntsälä City, assisting the reduction of the city’s CO2 emissions by up to 40%. The estimated reduction in heating costs for residents is 5% and the project has reduced utilities’ provision of gas consumption by half. The collaboration with the city allows Yandex to cut data centre electricity expenditure by up to a third.
Future tech on the horizon
Currently we are reaching the limit to how far we can go with silicon and the issue of heat generation at the chip. “We’re up against the limits of shrinkage,” says Jonathan Koomey, a California-based IT consultant. Achieving comparable efficiency gains will require a revolution in how hardware is built and computing is done. “It’s basically impossible to predict,” he says.
‘What if’ is a great question, period! Yet ‘what if’ you could perform per Watt 100x or 1,000x more for 10x or 100x less energy and nearly zero heat generation from CPU activity? What if you could store all of the world’s data in the volume of a candy bar, maybe even in glass for 10,000 years?
We need not look any further than Photonic Computer/CPU, Carbon Nanotubes/CPU and DNA Storage. All three are existing and proven, yet that is not the same as ready to market for widespread adoption. These are potentially game-changing innovations and vastly reduce the predominant and majority user of data centre energy – the ‘servers’ – and all but eliminate bulk cooling requirements.
Green capacity of change
Climate change is a reality and the evidence of anthropogenic climate change is unequivocal and overwhelming. We have seen in this article that ICT, data centres and digital infrastructure have a solid platform to drive carbon reduction while showing investment opportunities and the ability to be part of a sustainable solution.
From its 2.3% emissions, the sectors can drive a 10x multiple (circa 20%) carbon reduction by 2030. There is also a growing belief that, at a macro perspective, large ICT implementations have a few years of lag before positive effects of lower CO2 emissions.
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Some People Who Aren't Eligible For COVID-19 Vaccines Are Cutting The Line
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In many states, when you sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine, it is up to you to tell the truth about whether or not you're eligible. It's an honor system, but that system doesn't always work. From member station KUOW in Seattle, reporter Eilis O'Neill has more.
EILIS O'NEILL, BYLINE: Fifty-seven-year-old Steve Baruso got a shot at a recent mass vaccination clinic run by the Seattle-area medical provider Virginia Mason. He admitted he wasn't actually eligible for it.
STEVE BARUSO: I hit the other on the form, and I got an email confirmation and so forth. I don't know how that happened.
O'NEILL: Baruso wasn't the only ineligible person who got a shot that day. Virginia Mason says that shouldn't have happened, but there was a technical glitch. A spokesperson wouldn't say how many people were affected but says the problem has since been fixed. But it's not just technical problems that are allowing ineligible people to get appointments. Some people are purposefully jumping the line.
JEFF DUCHIN: I have heard and seen stories from many people who do not meet eligibility criteria who've been vaccinated.
O'NEILL: That's Dr. Jeff Duchin, the public health officer for Washington's most populous county. He says Washington State is giving out vaccines on an honor system because it's just too hard to make sure that every single person who gets a vaccine is eligible for one.
DUCHIN: I think, you know, we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good here. We do want to get as many vaccines out as possible.
O'NEILL: Every provider in Washington has to decide on its own how and if to check eligibility. Tom DeBord at Overlake Medical Center in the Seattle suburbs says they give out thousands of vaccines every week.
TOM DEBORD: We do everything we can do to communicate to people, please schedule only if you're eligible. But it would really be difficult for every hospital to take it to the nth level to see if somebody really answered every question honestly. It's almost impossible.
O'NEILL: Rosalinda Kibby at the Columbia Basin Hospital in central Washington says they ask a few more questions. She says the hospital only gives out about 100 vaccines a week.
ROSALINDA KIBBY: We can look them up, usually in several systems, to see if they're eligible or not. But if they're not, it's a very bad conversation. They are irate and difficult for staff to deal with.
WILLIAM MOSS: There's a big lesson to be learned here.
O'NEILL: Dr. William Moss is at Johns Hopkins University's School of Public Health. He researches how to design vaccination campaigns. He says that one of the biggest problems with this one is that the eligibility categories are often so confusing and sometimes ambiguous. In Washington, for example, not just health care workers are eligible. All workers in health care settings are, too. People 65 and older are eligible. So are people 50 or older who live in a multigenerational home. And the State Department of Health's definition of multigenerational is a paragraph long.
MOSS: I think that was definitely well-intentioned when it was thought out. But people didn't take - kind of the next step is, how would we actually pull this off and operationalize this? And then you create confusion, and then you create opportunities for people to cut the line.
O'NEILL: Moss says simpler age-based categories would have been easier to communicate and enforce and would have still reduced hospitalizations and deaths. It is early in the rollout, though, and providers are making adjustments. A Virginia Mason spokesperson says you now need a photo ID and a screenshot or printout of your eligibility confirmation from the Department of Health in order to get a vaccine. That's an honor system in and of itself. There are states that have a tougher approach. Massachusetts, for example, asks people to certify that they're eligible, quote, "under the penalties of perjury." And they make that form available in 11 languages so there's no confusion.
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Among the mythical countries that exist in the human imagination, one of the most formidable is Amazonia. The mysterious state of warlike women, leaving men only for brood, is placed in our memory somewhere near Atlantis and the islands of Eternal Bliss. They don’t put the male of the human race on anything. Not only the king, but even the head of the family does not recognize. Instead of God, the Father of all things, they pray to the Great Mother. Goddess, supposedly gave birth to our world. And capturing a man who was gaping captive, immediately turn him into a slave. Or kill. A terrible, but seductive picture. Some men (read the corresponding erotic sites) even ask themselves to be captured by women.
One of the first country of the Amazons described in the V century BC. er ancient greek historian Herodotus. By the way, he placed it in our area - in Scythia, which then occupied the lands of present-day Ukraine. But even before him, the phenomenon of Amazonia was actively eating a bald patch in men's heads.
According to Homer (and he lived for 300 — 400 before Herodot) for years, the Amazons almost turned the tide of the Trojan War. Maiden army led by Troy from the shores of the Black Sea, Queen Penfesilia - the daughter of the god of war Ares. The horse attack of the Amazons threw the Greeks back to their ships. It only remained in disgrace to flee home and tell at home how the women broke the fearless heroes. But then the Greek superman Achilles entered the battle. He pierced the Queen of the Amazons with his spear right through with the horse, as the entomologist impales a butterfly. The murdered girl was so beautiful that Achilles felt that he was falling in love with her already dead. He took off her helmet and cried. And when one of the Greeks, mocking the sadness of the winner, poked a dead Amazon with a spear into his eye, Achilles, with anger, with one blow of his fist killed him on the spot. He personally took the body of the Amazon from the battlefield and laid it on the funeral pyre.
IRON BABA - MATRIARCHAT IN KIEV. Even today, reading this passage from Homer, we feel the same sadness as the ancient Greek hero, who lived more than three thousand years ago. Achilles has just killed the Queen of the Amazons, but he cannot bear the outrage of coarse boor over her dead beauty. This story became the theme for countless artists - from the masters of antiquity to Rubens, who wrote the famous "Battle of the Greeks with the Amazons" - a picture in which death and sex seem to merge into one.
But already in ancient times, many sober researchers doubted the existence of the country of the Amazons. A scholar of the 1st century AD and the great skeptic Strabo from the Egyptian city of Alexandria wrote: "Who would believe that an army or a city or a whole nation of women could live in an organized way without men?" Nevertheless, many still believe that Amazonia existed in reality.
Yes, and in our area is full of its "tracks." Exit to the bank of the Dnieper in Kiev and take a look at the well-known Motherland near the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. Virgo warrior stood right on the bank of the Dnieper. Back - to the West. Face - to the East. Agree, a strange arrangement for the monument, symbolizing the victory over Nazi Germany, when the enemy came from the west. Something overlooked the party leaders, when it was installed in Brezhnev times.
The artistic merit of a welded monster is no different. From the day of its opening in 1981, people jokingly call it the "Iron Woman". But this is the largest iron woman in the world. She is even taller than a woman in New York - the famous Statue of Liberty. She grew from a pedestal only to 46 meters. And our Amazon is as much as 16 meters higher! 62-meter mother!
And literally two steps from the iron woman, another symbol of matriarchy in our area is a monument to the mythical founders of Kiev. Pay attention: who is at the oars is not clear, but Princess Lybid is in front of everyone. And three peasants just dragging along behind her limply - wherever the Lybed breastfeed will show. So we go with the flow, pretending that we know where.
By the way, Lybed is a vivid example of matriarchy among the ancient Slavs. The chronicler dragged her to Kia, Cheek and Horeb for the company, connecting the characters of completely different eras. And that's why. The heroine with the same name is in the tales of other Slavic peoples. For example, in Russian folklore the Tsarevna Swan is waving its wings - a symbol of supreme femininity. Only captivating her, a man becomes a real superhero. And in the Czech tradition - it is still more interesting. There was written a story about Princess Libuse. It was she who predicted the founding of the city of Prague.
Lybed In the Czech Republic, it is called Libushe, and in Russia, the Tsarevna Lebed.
LYBED-SWAN-LIBUSHE. The legend of Libuse is preserved in the "Czech Chronicle" of Kozma Prague, written in the XII century. For Czechs, this book is the same as the Tale of Bygone Years for us. There entered the most ancient oral legends of this Slavic people. Princess Libuse is elected leader after the death of his father. She rules wisely. But Czech men are offended by the very fact of women's rule, and at the tribal council they demand that the prince should be put at the head of himself, and not the princess. For the neighbors laugh at them and do not put into anything. Then Libuse announces that he will marry the first man to whom the horse will take her.
The horse takes the princess to a simple farmer - Premysl. It was he, according to this legend, who became the founder of the first Czech dynasty - Przemysloviche. But after the death of Libuse, some of the women are making a coup, trying to bring the people under their power. The Czech Amazons fail to defeat the men and the "tamed" sisters who joined them. They leave the tribe and lay the Devin castle — that is, the Maiden. Czechs manage to take it only after many years.
As I believe the scientists, the story of Libuse is evidence of the transition of the Czechs from matriarchy to patriarchy. In general, I agree with science on this issue. But I would even speak not about the Czechs, but about our ancestors in common with them - the Slavs. The "male revolution" occurred among the Slavs somewhere on the eve of the Great Migration of Peoples, when neither the Czechs, nor the Poles, nor the Ukrainians or Russians existed yet. After all, the father of the “Czech” Libuse - Krok - was named in the “Czech Chronicle” by the founder of the “Polish” Krakow and the killer of a dragon who lived before him on the site of this city. And here we have the myth of the Lybed as one of the founders of Kiev and also full of fairy tales about the heroes of the snake fighters. The ruins of the Devin castle are preserved in Slovakia right in Bratislava. The Swan Princess from a Russian fairytale, reinterpreted by Pushkin, is at the same time a dream of an overseas beauty and a girl who is close by. It is just that her beauty is not noticed for the time being: “No, why look far away? I will say with a deep sigh: know, your destiny has come, that princess is me!”. In general, among many Slavic peoples, the tradition of Libus-Lybedi-Swans has been preserved at the same time. And this only indicates once again that they have come from one bosom. They went out, grew up and, choosing male leaders instead of women, went to conquer the world - to expand their habitat. And they got from Polesie, where the Slavic ancestral home is located, and to Krakow, and to Prague.
OUR WOMEN MANAGED Sarmata. And in the neighborhood with the Slavs in those ancient times lived other tribes, where women also played an important role. At the turn of our era, the current Ukrainian steppes were inhabited by Iranian-speaking nomads - Sarmatians, whom Greek eyewitnesses called WOMEN-GOVERNED! It was from this people of horsemen that we borrowed such a seemingly familiar word as “pants” - a very important piece of equipment that allows you to ride a horse without rubbing your legs. At that time, Greek women, with the exception of Spartans, had no public rights. In the houses they were given a special female half - a ginek, the ancient Greek equivalent of the eastern harem. And the Sarmatians rode freely and fought on a par with men. The Greeks were incredibly surprised, and they immediately recalled the myth of Homer about the Amazons.
Archaeologists already in the twentieth century really found in the southern Ukrainian steppes burial of Sarmats in armor and with weapons - bows and arrows. But the melee weapons — swords and axes — were missing from these graves. Immediately the version was born that women among the Sarmatians participated only in the battle stitch - they fired at enemies with bows, and then they hid behind the line of men. But the enemy, you see, should have shocked the appearance of the girl warriors on the battlefield. Not every day you see a woman with a bow shooting at you.
Crimea is the maiden kingdom. Academician Boris Rybakov believed that it was the neighborhood with the Sarmatians that gave rise to the image of the so-called girl kingdom among the Slavs. Here is what he wrote about this: “Married Managers” Sarmatians, so called because of the strong remnants of matriarchy, left their mark on Slavic folklore ... in a forest hut on chicken legs, and in a dungeon near the sea, in the sultry seaside country of the hostile "Maiden Kingdom", where the severed "Russian little heads stick out on the stamens".
Pay attention to the expression "hot seaside country." Whether Tavrida was meant by this country - the current Crimean peninsula. Surprisingly, in the Crimea, where the Sarmatians also lived, there are still ruins of the cave city Kyz-Kerman near Bakhchisarai. Translated from the Tatar Kyz-Kerman - "Maiden's Fortress". Most likely, the Tatars, which appeared here only in the XIII century, together with Batu, simply translated from the Sarmatian language the original name of the ancient "female" city, reminiscent of the Amazons.
Moreover, it was easy to do it. In Tatar girl - "kyz". And in Sarmatian - "chizg". Much of a muchness. Is it not in this "Maiden's Kingdom" that Russian little heads stuck out on the "stamens"?
This hypothesis has the right to exist. Let the scientists check. We must do something with them. The main thing is that men have always believed in the existence of the country of the Amazons. And they were very afraid to get there. If only because in childhood we were all there. After all, the teachers in kindergartens, strangling us with scarves so that we do not catch a cold, and the so-called "SCARF" - that is, school workers, are all on the selection - female.
It turns out that the childhood of mankind is certainly connected with the female government. After all, the born child first finds itself in the hands of the mother and, only having matured, gets into the upbringing of the father, and then becomes a member of the adolescent male community. In our time, its counterpart - the usual street gang, consisting of teenagers.
"They walk almost naked." Each of us has our own Amazon at home. Therefore, exhausted by the feminine upbringing of men fled wherever they looked. We - on the Zaporizhzhya Sich. In Europe - over the ocean. At the beginning of the XVI century, one of these fugitives brought from Spain to South America. His name was Francisco de Orlliana. In 1542, he traveled from Peru in a small ship downstream of a huge river.
24 June on one of the halts on the poor Spaniards attacked a crowd of some naked women. Here's how the adventure described the comrade-in-arms of Orillian, the monk Carvajal: They are some kind of leaders ... These wives are very tall and fair-skinned, their hair is very long, braided and wrapped around their heads. They are very strong, and they walk almost naked - they only cover shame. in battle they are not inferior to the good ten Indians and many of them - I saw it with my own eyes - fired a whole bunch of arrows at one of our brigantines ... ".
This meeting with a forest gang of naked wicked people shook the monk Carwahal and Don Francisco de Orillana so much that, after consulting, they decided to call the giant river just opened the Amazon River. So the country of ancient Greek myths got an absolutely real place on the modern map. The longest river in the world is called the greatest male fear. | <urn:uuid:3e3a0338-08cb-4964-9755-c1e0385336a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.topwar.ru/63540-istorii-ot-olesya-buziny-puteshestvie-v-stranu-amazonok.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968332 | 2,889 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Dolores Maria Rossman is an active Aging Network advocate. Having served as a full-time caregiver for her husband, she enjoys sharing information about local resources so that others may live their best lives—at any age. Dolores is a member of the Age Friendly Coalition for Seattle and King County and the Northwest Universal Design Council, a Seattle International Film Festival volunteer, a bicycle enthusiast, a swimmer, and so much more.
So, it was not a surprise to see Dolores post on social media a rave review of a free Don’t Drip & Drive auto leaks workshop, which she attended after reading a post from Age Friendly Seattle.
“For a person who didn’t know zilch about car maintenance, I do now! … I learned a lot. Also, received a free bag of car care tools! Thanks, Age Friendly Seattle for informing me about this great event with Dr. Drip. P.S. Did you know 7 million quarts of motor oil are released into Puget Sound each year?”
The Don’t Drip & Drive workshop that Dolores attended was hosted by Seattle Public Utilities at South Seattle College. There’s no cost to attend the workshop, which has a $125 value. Dolores commented that the workshop was priceless, not only for her but for our environment.
A two-hour workshop is scheduled on one Saturday each month through 2019. The workshops are open to everyone in the Puget Sound region, of any age.
Workshop leaders are certified automotive instructors. They explain basic automotive systems, maintenance, and the impacts of oil leaks. Each class participant has the option to stay up to two hours longer to have their vehicle inspected by the class instructor.
So … what’s the catch? Only that space is limited to 15 people and you need to register to attend in advance. Classes fill quickly.
At South Seattle College, remaining 2019 class dates (all Saturdays) are August 24, September 28, October 19, November 16, and December 7. Classes start at 9 a.m. Counting the inspection, some people may end up staying until 1 p.m. but many will be done in time for lunch.
To register, visit fixcarleaks.org/workshop-events. Scroll down to the list of locations and click on South Seattle College—Seattle, then click on the date on which you hope to attend, and finally, the word REGISTER.
Don’t Drip and Drive is a regional campaign funded by the Washington State Department of Ecology and contributing partner repair shops. The campaign is supported by local jurisdictions, state agencies, and nonprofit organizations that work together to protect Puget Sound. Don’t Drip & Drive makes it easy to take your vehicle to a participating repair shop for a visual leak inspection, helps you save money on vehicle maintenance and replacement, and most importantly, helps protect the Puget Sound watershed for future generations.
For more information about Seattle Public Utilities involvement, contact Carlton Stinson at 206-684-7624.
Can’t attend a workshop?
Don’t Drip & Drive partners with the Automotive Services Association, AAA, and EnviroStars to offer free leak inspections and discounts on leak repairs. Participating repair shops offer a free visual leak inspection and a free estimate for repairs, if needed. Find participating shops here.
For information about what you can expect from your mechanic, visit fixcarleaks.org/dr-drips-tips.
Contributor Irene Stewart manages communications for Aging and Disability Services, the Area Agency on Aging for Seattle-King County, including Age Friendly Seattle. Irene edits this newsletter on behalf of the Seattle-King County Advisory Council on Aging & Disability Services. She counts Dolores Maria Rossman among the many wonderful friends she has made through Aging Network advocacy. | <urn:uuid:8e906f54-7f5e-4bbd-ba11-d0180758649b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agewisekingcounty.org/ill_pubs_articles/dolores-doesnt-drip-and-drive-and-neither-should-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.938234 | 799 | 1.742188 | 2 |
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Network Entropy for the Sequence Analysis of Functional Connectivity Graphs of the Brain
Zhang, C., Cong, F., Kujala, T., Liu, W., Liu, J., Parviainen, T., & Ristaniemi, T. (2018). Network Entropy for the Sequence Analysis of Functional Connectivity Graphs of the Brain. Entropy, 20 (5), 311. doi:10.3390/e20050311
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Dynamic representation of functional brain networks involved in the sequence analysis of functional connectivity graphs of the brain (FCGB) gains advances in uncovering evolved interaction mechanisms. However, most of the networks, even the event-related ones, are highly heterogeneous due to spurious interactions, which bring challenges to revealing the change patterns of interactive information in the complex dynamic process. In this paper, we propose a network entropy (NE) method to measure connectivity uncertainty of FCGB sequences to alleviate the spurious interaction problem in dynamic network analysis to realize associations with different events during a complex cognitive task. The proposed dynamic analysis approach calculated the adjacency matrices from ongoing electroencephalpgram (EEG) in a sliding time-window to form the FCGB sequences. The probability distribution of Shannon entropy was replaced by the connection sequence distribution to measure the uncertainty of FCGB constituting NE. Without averaging, we used time frequency transform of the NE of FCGB sequences to analyze the event-related changes in oscillatory activity in the single-trial traces during the complex cognitive process of driving. Finally, the results of a verification experiment showed that the NE of the FCGB sequences has a certain time-locked performance for different events related to driver fatigue in a prolonged driving task. The time errors between the extracted time of high-power NE and the recorded time of event occurrence were distributed within the range [−30 s, 30 s] and 90.1% of the time errors were distributed within the range [−10 s, 10 s]. The high correlation (r = 0.99997, p < 0.001) between the timing characteristics of the two types of signals indicates that the NE can reflect the actual dynamic interaction states of brain. Thus, the method may have potential implications for cognitive studies and for the detection of physiological states. ...
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A sad bell tolled for the scientific world on 14 March 2018, when news of the death of Stephen Hawking reverberated around the globe. Hawking, who died at the age of 76, hadn’t been expected to live past his 20’s, wracked as he was by Lou Gehrig’s disease, a degenerative motor neurone disease which gradually paralysed him over time.
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Hawking’s life and scientific in the fields of general relativity, cosmology and black holes have been widely heralded as some of the greatest achievements of the last century, with the British scientist recently ranked as the 25th greatest ever Briton in a poll commissioned by the BBC.
With his famous developments in cosmology and astrophysics, it’s no surprise that Hawking paid multiple visits to the observation sites of the Canary Islands during his illustrious career. Of special note were Hawking’s keynote speeches at the Starmus Festival, a celebration of astrophysical and cosmological discovery, twinned with progressive rock music, which has been staged in the Canary Islands on multiple occasions.
For centuries, the Canary Islands have been one of the planet’s go-to destinations for astronomers seeking the secrets of space. The wonderful climate and soaring mountain peaks, twinned with the lack of light pollution associated with sprawling cities has helped to develop the island’s reputation as the place to observe the sun, moon and stars.
Tenerife itself has three UNESCO-sanctioned Starlight Reserves — where the local authorities are trying to ensure that darkness is preserved and light and air pollution is prevented, to protect access to the night’s sky. Whilst most tourists head to the island for sun, sea and sand, it might surprise you that ‘astrotourism’ now accounts for around 200,000 visitors to the Canary Islands every year, with the cable car ride up to Mount Teide as one of the top tours in Tenerife.
So, it makes perfect sense that Mount Teide, the highest peak in Spain, would be chosen as the home for the world’s largest solar observatory. Hawking was provided with a guided tour of the observatory when visiting the island. Elsewhere in the Canaries, Hawking’s achievements have been immortalised in neighbour island – La Palma – with the first star being laid in his honour on the Walk of the Science Stars in Santa Cruz de La Palma. | <urn:uuid:64f9418c-4253-4e4c-863f-535a73ac3dac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tenerifeguide.com/blog/the-sudden-death-of-stephen-hawking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955043 | 512 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Rapere Is An Anti-Drone Interceptor
Forget falcons; fight drones with drones
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For every brand new quadcopter suddenly flying through the neighborhood, there is sure to be an angry neighbor, eager to remove the buzzing pest from the sky. Rapere is a concept that should delight every grinch next door: an anti-drone drone that, at the push of a button, flies away to attack any nearby flying craft.
In place of missiles or cannons, Rapere will strike with string by lowering a tangle line onto the rotors of its prey. In order to find that prey, Rapere is set to be fitted with 12 fast cameras, looking for the motion of another well-lit object in the low sky. Rapere flights will be short sprints, designed to identify a target, attack, and return to a charging station all within a short, two-minute fight span.
The Rapere project launched just days ago, and the designers intend to price it and design it as a professional tool. So it will be less about bugging the kid down the block who just got a quadcopter, and more for clearing the skies near French nuclear reactors. On the project website, the designers write: “We designed it primarily to intercept the type of drones used by paparazzi or voyeurs flying over private residence.” Attention, Kanye.
Until Rapere is available, anti-drone enthusiasts are stuck training falcons to knock quadcopters out of the sky (don’t actually do this). Or use a shotgun (also don’t do this, even if the shotgun has a silencer). And the legality of an interceptor drone itself is murky. In Rapere’s frequently answered questions, they sidestep the issue, answering, “Is it legal?” with, “That depends on how you plan to use it, and where you live. The Rapere itself is legal.”
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Pig is a simple dice game first described in print by John Scarne in 1945.
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- If the player rolls any other number, it is added to their turn total and the player’s turn continues.
- If a player chooses to “hold”, their turn total is added to their score, and it becomes the next player’s turn.
- Variation we used, if you roll snake eyes (both 1’s), then your total score from past rounds is reset to 0.
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I composti preposizionali negli archivi in lineare B
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When Jeff Hardy, a Novato-based hospital consultant, was helping design a new hospital in Port Harcourt, Nigera, in 2008, it struck him that even after the new hospital opened, most of the city’s residents would continue to receive their medical treatment at a woefully inadequate medical clinic.
“There wasn’t even a refrigerator in this clinic,” Hardy said. “I’m thinking: This isn’t right.”
In an effort to bridge that gap in health care availability, Hardy founded the International Sister Hospital Institute, which seeks to establish and manage strong sister hospital relationships between hospitals, physicians and caregivers in developed countries, and hospitals, caregivers and traditional healers in developing countries.
At Hardy’s suggestion, the Marin Community Clinics, a nonprofit that supplies medical care to most of Marin’s poor and needy, recently established a sister clinic relationship with the Matibabu Hospital and Clinic in Kenya. Linda Tavaszi, Marin Community Clinics’ CEO, said it’s likely a similar relationship will be forged with a clinic in Myanmar. A delegation from the Ministry of Health in Myanmar toured the Marin Community Clinics’ San Rafael center last week. The ministry is looking to build a community clinic in the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar based on the Marin Community Clinics model.
Regarding the new sister clinic relationship, Tavaszi said, “It’s got the potential we think to be helpful and not a cost to us, because we certainly don’t have any money to contribute.”
Hardy said he arranged for representatives from Kenya to visit the Marin Community Clinics offices in May when they were in Marin touring Marin General Hospital.
The Marin Community Clinics has been assisting the Kenyan hospital by sharing: procedural documents such as “wound management”; interview checklists such as the ones used for registering patients; and management guidelines such as how to staff based on patient volumes.
Tavaszi said, “They need infrastructure, and we’ve got infrastructure.”
Earlier this year, Hardy helped Marin General Hospital establish a sister hospital relationship with Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital, in an area of Japan that was devastated by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011. Ishinomaki Red Cross was the only one of four hospitals of any size in the area that remained functional after the tsunami. Marin General and Ishinomaki have been pooling their seismic safety expertise.
Hardy said his objective is to establish the fledgling International Sister Hospital Institute as a nonprofit and raise the money needed to build a computer network that will allow caregivers in developing countries to consult with physicians in developed countries on a pro bono basis.
“Rich patients in rich countries such as Dubai, Kuwait and Qatar can afford to pay $1,000 each for a tele-medical consultation, radiology film impression or pathology report before they hop on a private jet to a U.S. hospital for treatment,” Hardy said.
But Hardy said the majority of patients in developing nations, such as most countries in Africa, Asia and South America, can’t afford to pay first-world rates for ongoing medical consultation. With the proper financial resources, Hardy said his institute could develop a computer application that would route a caregiver in the developing country with questions to the appropriate physician or nurse in the United States within five to 10 minutes.
“Because we will have a whole list of hospitals, clinics and physicians who have been certified to answer that specific question,” Hardy said. He envisions many of the calls being answered by emergency physicians in rural hospitals because, he says, they have more time on their hands than doctors at urban hospitals.
“The rural physicians are fascinated with this idea,” Hardy said. “They relish the opportunity to be able to help someone.”
To learn more about the International Sister Hospital Institute, visit the organization’s website at www.SisterHospitals.org or call 531-0295.
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The ITIL change management process is the most well-known ITSM change management flow. The request fulfillment cycle, one of its core processes, helps control how service requests are processed and handled.
In this article, we’ll take a bird’s eye view of the ITIL process.
After that, we’ll explore the stages of the request fulfillment process and see an example of how you would implement the ITIL request pipeline in your business.
Before we do, though, let’s briefly recap ITIL’s main lifecycle stages.
The 5 ITIL Lifecycle Stages
The ITIL lifecycle is broken down into 5 major stages:
- Service Strategy – Your service strategy aligns your service management with the strategic goals of your organization
- Service Design – During this stage, you design the services that meet your strategic objectives
- Service Transition – This stage includes the preparation, implementation, testing, change management, among others … it is where you actually make the shift to the new service
- Service Operation – This is considered the go-live stage, where customers begin using the service
- Continual Service Improvement – Once services are implemented, customer feedback is continually assessed, the service is reviewed periodically, and it is updated as needed
These stages have sub-processes that are blueprinted in detail, making it relatively easy for ITSM departments to get started.
We’ll cover one of the most well-known aspects of this process below.
ITIL Request Fulfillment Overview
Request fulfillment, also called Request Management, is a core process of the Service Operation stage.
It is perhaps the most widely know ITIL process, because it’s a process that’s used in day-to-day operations.
Once a new process has been implemented, this process is used to fulfill and manage change requests. It is also closely aligned with incident management, another sub-process of the Service Management stage.
ITIL request fulfillment also has 5 core processes:
- Request Fulfillment Support
- Request Logging and Categorization
- Request Model Execution
- Request Monitoring and Evaluation
- Request Closure and Evaluation
This change management flow is the baseline process for other processes in the Service Operation stage.
It leads to Incident Management, Access Management, and subsequent processes, such as Problem Management and Facilities Management.
Most ITSM change management software platforms follow this model for request management, so it is important to understand this process in detail.
Let’s look at how requests are submitted, processed, and finalized.
The Request Fulfillment Pipeline
Though ITIL does not prescribe a rigid method, it does set forth guidelines to follow.
And most ITSM departments follow a pipeline similar to this one:
1. Request Submission
First, a problem is identified by someone within the organization.
This person then submits a change request, or a service request.
The request should will define its scope, reasons for the change, and what the change is designed to accomplish. It will also be assigned a priority level (for more details on this, see our other ITIL articles).
2. Request Review
If necessary, the request will be reviewed by the appropriate party.
Lower priority requests, however, can be passed through the pipeline without review.
In some cases, rejection is possible. In others, revisions will be requested.
An implementation team is assigned, who will be responsible for implementing service changes.
The team will be supervised by a manager, such as the Incident Manager.
And, in cases where escalation is necessary, additional support levels will be called upon.
4. Testing and Monitoring
Testing continues through the implementation and monitoring phases, to insure against service interruptions.
Again, the incident can be escalated if necessary.
As with every other stage in this process, the purpose is to maintain service levels, prevent service breaches, and avoid interruptions.
5. Closure and Evaluation
To close a service implementation, a request is submitted to quality control.
Typically, this involves making sure the request record contains all the necessary information and documentation.
If the request has been handled appropriately, there are usually no further amendments to the change itself.
Please note, the processes described in this article refer to ITIL 2011, ITIL’s most current version which is still in use in 2017 and 2018. It will continue to be supported for some time, in 2019 and beyond.
As of this writing ITIL v4 is set to be released in Q1, 2019, and its details remain confidential.
Conclusion: ITIL Makes the Change Management Flow More Efficient
The ITIL request fulfillment process, alongside incident management, offers a critical process for managing and maintaining IT services.
This pipeline helps create a change management flow that handles requests quickly, efficiently, and effectively.
When used alongside other change management tools and techniques, it minimizes service impacts and keeps your business running smoothly.
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How to Save for Retirement and Higher Education Costs at the Same Time
With an individual retirement account, your savings can work double duty.
Editor's Note: This story was originally published in the July issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine.
Who: Tyler Williamson, 23
Where: Gonzales, La.
Question: How can I save for both retirement and possibly going back to school?
Retirement isn’t typically top of mind for twentysomethings. But Tyler believes it should be. “With pension plans becoming a thing of the past, I realize the importance of saving as much as possible as early as possible,” says the young refining engineer.
Tyler has the resources to follow through. He joined Marathon Petroleum, in Garyville, La., a few months after graduating from the University of South Carolina in May 2011, scoring a salary of more than $75,000. Just upriver from New Orleans, it’s the nation’s newest refinery. Yet, like many Americans, Tyler worries about job security. So he would also like to bankroll a backup plan: graduate school. He figures an advanced degree would ensure or boost his position in his company and industry.
An individual retirement account would help Tyler accomplish both goals. Usually, a taxpayer younger than 59½ owes a 10% penalty on an IRA withdrawal. But if you spend the early payout on qualified higher-education expenses, the 10% ding is forgiven, although the distribution from a traditional IRA is still subject to income taxes.
In Tyler’s case, a Roth IRA wins out over a traditional IRA. Because you pay taxes on the money before it enters a Roth, you can withdraw your contributions at any time for any reason without additional taxes or penalties. If you tap earnings before retirement age to cover school costs, you owe taxes on those dollars but no penalty.
If Tyler leaves his Roth untouched for decades, he’ll unlock its primary benefit: tax-free retirement income. If you are 59½ and your Roth account has been open at least five years, you get to withdraw the earnings tax- and penalty-free. “It’s just like a savings account,” says Jeff Rose, financial planner and GoodFinancialCents.com blogger. “But you get this potentially awesome benefit later on.”
Hedge Your Bets in Your Portfolio
Tyler is young and has time to overcome market reversals, so aiming for high growth by earmarking as much as 80% of his investments to stocks and only 20% to bonds or cash would ordinarily be his best strategy. But if Tyler is also depending on the IRA for graduate-school money, he should think more like a parent who’s supervising a teenager’s college funds. In that case, Rose suggests that Tyler put no more than 60% in stocks, and maybe even less. But with interest rates so low, long-term bonds are too risky. Tyler should choose among the many short- and intermediate-term bond funds that yield about 2%, such as Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade (symbol VFSTX), a member of the Kiplinger 25.
That’s not much of a reward, so Tyler shouldn’t shy away from the stock market. Most experts steer beginning investors to simple index funds. Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSMX) charges 0.18% annually and spreads its assets among nearly all the stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. An international index fund would be a good complement, with perhaps $1 invested for every $5 Tyler puts into the U.S. market. | <urn:uuid:5cc9cb28-7c0b-4d10-bfb2-779f7a170829> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kiplinger.com/article/retirement/t047-c006-s001-how-to-save-for-retirement-and-higher-education-co.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962127 | 763 | 1.867188 | 2 |
As America began to wake up to the knock-on effects of the Coronavirus, there was one group that was suddenly hailed as the heroes of the nation. No, we are not talking about doctors, who rightly hold a special place in most people’s hearts, but truckers.
Trucking companies and the trucking industry as a whole were suddenly under the spotlight as people started to realize that their goods didn’t magically appear on their shelves.
It is clear then that the trucking industry is a silent giant. So to gain some perspective on just how big it is, check out our bumper list of trucking facts.
1. Where the Trucking Industry Started
The world of trucking wouldn’t be anything without one man, Charles Fruehauf. A blacksmith and carriage maker, Fruehauf was requested to come up with a way of hauling a boat behind a Ford Model T in 1914. Fruehauf came good, invented the trailer and the rest is history.
2. The Silent Majority
It is fair to say that, unlike other more common professions, not many can profess to know a truck driver.
Perhaps due to them moving about so often but it is not because there aren’t many. Approximately 3.6 million truckers are working in America, making up the larger 7.95 million workforce working in the trucking industry as a whole.
3. On the Road Again
If you have ever gone on a long drive across the country, you can appear to pass countless trucks on the highway. That makes sense when you know how many there are in the country! 36.9 million are registered to be used for business purposes and bearing in mind how much we depend on them that isn’t a bad thing.
4. Know When to Hit the Breaks
We know that we should be careful when driving behind or in front of a truck. But when you know their breaking capacity that only emphasizes it. Trucks take up to 40% longer to break, and that’s not taking into account any of the countless variables.
For this reason, it is recommended to leave at least an 8 seconds gap when driving next to one and to double that number should it rain.
5. Women in Trucking
6.6% of truck drivers are women highlighting what a male-dominated industry it is. This is slightly changing however and while it is fair to say that women face different challenges than men, it is clear that they are more ready than ever to take up their place in the trucking industry.
6. Money Maker
It’s clear that there is money in the trucking industry, but do you know how much? In 2019 an astronomical $791.1 billion was generated, making up a hefty 80.4% of the nation’s freight bill.
So what are they moving? A heavy haul trucking company can move anything from food, merchandise for retail, liquids, and construction goods and materials.
7. Heavy Hitters
Truck companies move heavy loads, but how heavy are we talking? A semi with a full load will take a max load of 80,000 pounds with an empty semi with no load comes in at 35,000 pounds. To give you some perspective, America’s most popular car, the Ford F weighs approximately between 4-4,600 pounds.
Full Speed Ahead for the Trucking Industry
As mentioned at the outset, the trucking industry is one of the foundations of any modern society. The large numbers we have presented give you a glimpse into just how much of a behemoth it is. Here’s to it remaining that way long into the future.
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Peace of Mind
Whether you live in rural areas, such as those found near Wildwood and Bushnell in Sumter County or Leesburg and Clermont in Lake County, or in densely populated developments such as The Villages or The Plantation, security should be a primary concern for every homeowner.
In minimally populated rural areas, neighbors may be sparsely located or may be away during work hours in the daytime. In highly populated developments, vans and trucks associated with home maintenance or construction may be regular visitors to a neighborhood… so regular that thieves may easily disguise their vehicles and cruise communities unnoticed.
According to the Florida Uniform Crime Report, there were more than 71,000 burglaries, 41,000 vehicle thefts and 16,000 robberies in Florida last year. The great news about these numbers is the fact that Florida is much safer than many other states… but we have to face the facts, crime can occur anywhere.
That’s why it’s important to protect your property with a home security system.
Systems can be as simple as a set of outdoor cameras or as complex as systems that monitor every window and door in your home. Many systems connect directly to electronic personal assistants such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to help monitor and report crime in real time.
Doorbells, such as the Ring Video Doorbell by Amazon, monitor home entrances, allowing homeowners to see whomever approaches their doors. Then can then speak to the person, take a still photo or save an entire video clip of any interaction taking place. If a break-in or theft occurs, the homeowner can immediately call authorities and give a full description of the criminal, many time expediting their arrest and recovery of any stolen items.
Video doorbells also allow homeowners to see who is at their door on a home computer or smartphone before opening the door. This allows and extra measure of safety, especially late at night.
Camera systems add even greater security. Cameras can be hardwired directly into the home’s electrical system (with battery backup for power outages) or run completely on battery power. They can be motion-activated or run continuously.
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There are growing calls for an overhaul of e-scooter laws after Australia's consumer watchdog found Lime failed to disclose safety issues it was aware of to riders.
- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Lime did not comply with mandatory injury reporting requirements on at least 50 occasions
- Lime has acknowledged it contravened Australian Consumer Law and is expected to publish a statement
- It has led to calls for the e-scooters to be banned from footpaths
Pedestrian Council of Australia chairman Harold Scruby is leading the push for reforms and argued governments needed to "stop pretending e-scooters are safe".
He said he wanted to see scooters banned from footpaths and mandatory insurance policies implemented for riders.
"If you are hit by one of those scooters, the medical bills will come out of your own pocket," Mr Scruby said.
"You're better off being hit by a car."
Mr Scruby said he believed riders should have licences and e-scooters should be registered vehicles.
"These scooters have the same power as a motorcycle, yet anyone can ride one with no safety training whatsoever," he said.
"There should be strict disclaimers to make consumers aware of the dangers of the vehicle they are about to operate."
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Lime told riders its Generation Two e-scooters were safe to ride, despite knowing of at least 50 incidents where riders were injured.
In some instances, the scooters would apply excessive brake force or the front wheel would lock, causing serious injuries such as broken bones, damaged teeth, cuts and abrasions.
ACCC commissioner Sarah Court said Lime failed to comply with mandatory injury reporting requirements on at least 50 occasions where riders were harmed.
"Businesses must disclose known issues so that consumers can take extra precautions if they still choose to use the products," Ms Court said.
"If a person has suffered a serious injury, illness or death associated with using their product either in or outside Australia, they must report it under the provisions of the Australian Consumer Law."
The ACCC said Lime had acknowledged it contravened the Australian Consumer Law and had admitted to breaching the reporting obligations for the serious injuries.
'We don't always get it right'
Lime scooters were pulled from Australian streets in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic but the company said it would only supply the latest models of its e-scooter range that had addressed safety issues and defects if it were to return to the market.
It said its newer Generation Three model was equipped with both an electronic brake on the rear wheel as well as a mechanical drum brake on the front wheel.
In a statement, the company said it had provided an undertaking to the ACCC to address their concerns about Lime's "product safety reporting obligations", along with Lime's handing of the sudden stopping issue involving some of their scooters.
"Lime acknowledges that it did not meet our reporting obligations. We are a young company and while we don't always get it right, we learn fast," the statement read.
"We will embrace the challenge of demonstrating our commitment to safety and compliance with the ACL through our continued work with the ACCC.
"Prior to resolving the issue in March of 2019, in very rare cases, excessive brake force on the front wheel of some Gen 2 e-scooters could occur, resulting in the e-scooter stopping unexpectedly.
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Pectinesterase (PE) in Malatya apricot pulp (Prunus armeniaca L.) was extracted and purified through (NH4)(2)SO4 precipitation, dialysis, and DEAE-Sephadex gel filtration chromatography. The samples obtained from the dialysis procedure, named partially purified enzyme, were used for characterization of the apricot pectinesterase. The effect of various factors such as pH, temperature, heat, and storage stability on the partially purified apricot PE enzyme was investigated. Optimum pH value was 9.0 for PE with 1% pectin in 0.1N NaCl (w/v). The optimum temperature for apricot PE was found to be 60 degrees C on standard analysis conditions. Heat inactivation studies showed a decrease in enzymatic activity at temperatures above 70 degrees C. Km and V-max values were 0.77mM and 1.75 mu mol min(-1) mg(-1) for apricot PE. Five inhibitors were tested in the study; the most effective inhibitor was found to be sodium carbonate (100% inhibition). The order of inhibitory effectiveness was: Na2CO3, iodine, lauril sulphate, AgNO3, EDTA. Thermal inactivation data indicated that apparent activation energy with pectin substrate was 2.96kcal mol(-1) for the enzyme. Ascorbic acid, CaCl2, and KCl showed activatory effect on the apricot PE enzyme. | <urn:uuid:a1c086c9-60fe-42b3-b717-4e60e07bbdf2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.yildiz.edu.tr/yayin/cfb29426-2f86-4972-a1dc-05bfa02512fa/purification-and-biochemical-characteristics-of-pectinesterase-from-malatya-apricot-prunus-armeniaca-l | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.937134 | 321 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Islands has been largely used throughout to give the necessary local colouring, but the author thinks that this will not cause the southern reader any very serious diffi culty, as in most cases explanations of the words have been supplied. If the writer succeeds in interesting those who take pleasure in recalling the old times and the old manners, and in stimulating any of his readers to join in the work of rescuing our island traditions ere they fade away into obscurity, he will consider him self amply rewarded.
The author desires here to acknowledge his indebtedness to James M. Goudie, Esq., Lerwick, for valuable assistance rendered in writing the chapter on Prehistoric Remains and to the Rev. Thomas Mathewson, Lerwick, and J. J. Haldane Burgess, Esq., m.a., Lerwick, for many helpful suggestions and much assistance given while the book was passing through the press.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a $2 trillion coronavirus aid bill late Wednesday evening, the largest relief package in the country’s history.
The recovery bill passed unanimously, 96–0 (with four senators self-quarantining due to the coronavirus). It still has to clear the House before taking effect, which could happen as early as Thursday. President Donald Trump has said he will immediately sign the bill into law.
The package floods the country with money in an attempt to blunt the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus outbreak. It provides hundreds of billions of dollars to businesses, state governments, and the health care industry, as well as direct cash injections to most American residents.
The bill authorizes a direct payment of $1,200 to every US resident with a social security number who makes up to $75,000 per year, plus $500 per child. People who earn more than $75,000 will receive a smaller payment and the checks are phased out completely for people who make over $99,000.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is authorized to dole out $500 billion in loans to distressed businesses, including up to $29 billion earmarked for the airline industry. Another $350 billion in loans will got to providing eight weeks of cash flow for small businesses. The loans will be forgiven if the businesses maintain their payroll.
Congress has been in tense, around-the-clock negotiations for days and the bill’s final text was not released until around 10 p.m., a half an hour before voting began.
The most contentious provision ended up being offering $600 per week, over four months, in federal unemployment assistance to laid-off employees. A small group of Republican senators argued these payments are so generous they would create a disincentive to work, and they threatened to delay passage of the bill unless payments were capped.
This caused Sen. Bernie Sanders counter-threaten to hold up the bill unless more strict conditions were put on corporate aid. In the end, the Republican group failed to get Trump to back their cause. They put forward an amendment to cap unemployment payments, which needed 60 votes to pass but failed on a 48–48 vote.
The aid package now has to clear the House of Representatives. The House is currently in recess, and it is not clear whether the bill will sail through quickly or if all 430 current members will need to be summoned from across the country for a full vote.
The House has the tools to pass the bill immediately, but if even a single member demands a full recorded vote on the House floor then the entire body will need to be recalled. There are grumblings in both parties. Progressives argue the bill is too friendly to big business and does not do enough for workers. Some Republicans say the bill contains too many Democratic pet projects and enlarges the size of government. Independent Rep. Justin Amash tweeted that the bill “is a raw deal for the people” that “does far too little for those who need the most help, while providing hundreds of billions in corporate welfare.”
But so far no member has committed to forcing a full vote. With rent checks coming due at the end of the month, party leaders are urging passage without delay.
Once the bill is signed into law, Congress is scheduled to be out until April 20.
Other key parts of the bill include:
A tax credit of up to $10,000 for wages paid by businesses hit hard by the coronavirus, to incentivize keeping staff on the payroll.
More than $3 billion in emergency funding for child care.
Funding for states to immediately begin paying out unemployment benefits when someone is laid off.
Allowing employers (but not employees) to defer paying their share of social security tax on wages. That tax would have to be paid over the next two years.
A series of measures that expand telehealth services.
$100 billion for hospitals and health care providers.
A $150 billion relief fund for the states.
$16 billion to acquire ventilators and other medical equipment.
$4 billion for homeless assistance (though SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly known as food stamps, was not expanded in the bill).
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For example, wholesale lenders with a product mix of more than 90 percent conforming loans
had a cost to originate of $2,226, versus a $5,208 cost to originate for lenders with a product mix of less than 25 percent conforming loans
(see Figure 7).
The underlying pool consists of conforming loans
of which 90.5% are full-documentation mortgages.
Subprime lending is "more hands-on" than originating conforming loans
, he notes.
Originating a given volume of nonconforming loans will obviously entail more time and cost than an equivalent volume of conforming loans
. So it is critical to perform the work more efficiently.
By loan count the portfolio is 54% agency conforming loans
, 28% HUD loans, 14% subprime loans and 5% other.
Lipp sees reverse mortgages as niche products that help Allwest Mortgage avoid competing on price with larger firms for conventional conforming loans
. The increased borrower "hand-holding and education" that reverse loans demand also "plays to our strengths," Lipp adds.
Today the vast majority of conforming loans
are underwritten by these two systems.
Bluestone's non-conforming borrowers pay significantly higher interest rates than borrowers of conforming loans
. The weighted-average interest rate is 7.2%.
With a high proportion of conventional conforming loans
fitting this profile, we believe that conventional underwriting, processing and closing productivity has improved.
A small net percentage of banks tightened standards on conforming loans
, while small handfuls of banks on net eased loan standards in the other categories.
While the new rule would apply only to conforming loans
, which are those eligible for sale to Fannie and Freddie, it would spread quickly to the smaller market for nonconforming loans.
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Assuming this objective, four steps are needed to achieve it.
First, you need a way of representing your application-specific objects
— such as
shape in the previous example — when they are
passed into the Scheme world. Unless your objects are so simple that
they map naturally into builtin Scheme data types like numbers and
strings, you will probably want to use Guile’s SMOB interface to
create a new Scheme data type for your objects.
Second, you need to write code for the basic operations like
square? such that they access and
manipulate your existing data structures correctly, and then make these
operations available as primitives on the Scheme level.
Third, you need to provide some mechanism within the Dia application that a user can hook into to cause arbitrary Scheme code to be evaluated.
Finally, you need to restructure your top-level application C code a little so that it initializes the Guile interpreter correctly and declares your SMOBs and primitives to the Scheme world.
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SPECIAL PRODUCT REPORT : How to Make 2020 A Financially Benefiting Year For You- By AXA Mansard
The importance of financial planning can in truth not be overemphasis in anyone or any organizations road to financial emancipation
It is the long-term method of wisely managing your finances so you can achieve your goals and dreams, while at the same time negotiating the financial barriers that inevitably arise in every stage of life. In order to create a sound financial plan, goals must first be established.
Data is then gathered to analyze and evaluate your financial status. Once complete, your plan can be developed and implemented. Monitoring the plan on an ongoing basis is essential in order to make necessary adjustments to reach your goals.
And now, if there is one organization doing all her best to help both their clients and non-clients to aim at achieving financial emancipation, that set up is non-other than the one called AXA Mansard, which is a member of AXA, a global leader in insurance and asset management
As is now her new year custom, they have come up with the yearly start of year advice, and this time urging all and sundry to to start the year by making wise financial decisions in order to achieve set goals in 2020 and starting the journey towards financial independence.
In a position paper made available to WORLD LEADERS online magazine, they confirmed that yearly, people all over the country aspired for financial independence by starting out with New Year resolutions and set goals.
However, it added, many were still unable to realize these goals due to various reasons including low financial literacy, low determination, unclear goals and late implementation of financial plans.
Accordingly , it is better to start late than never.
The Chief Operating Officer, AXA Mansard Investments Limited, Mr. Alex Edafe, explained that, “It is important to start taking decisive steps now to foster the achievement of 2020 financial goals.
Financial goals differ for everyone and could be short-term (zero to one year) such as investing towards the next house rent, school fees, travels, wedding, and automobile among others.
“Medium-term (one to five years) goals will not be limited to investing towards buying a property (land/house/shop), advance/continuing education, starting a business/equity ownership in business(is), future school fees whereas long-term (after 5 years) goals include philanthropy, retirement savings, financial independence among others.”
He said key strategies that could be applied for financial success in the New Year included paying attention to one’s health, building an emergency fund whilst improving financial literacy, taking insurance on risks one was unwilling to take, getting an extra source of income, automating one’s savings and investments.
Others were getting out of debt, creating and living within budget, proper record keeping of savings and investments.
Edafe stated that financial independence could be achieved by focus and intention.
“As we go into the year, a great way to achieve financial independence is to invest in the AXA Mansard money market mutual fund which provides unit holders with capital preservation and competitive return.
“The fund is liquid, hence a unit holder can liquidate within 24 hours, affordable when you consider the minimum investment amount of N1,000, accessible through various online and offline channels and professionally managed by AXA Mansard – a Fund Manager registered by the Securities and Exchange Commission.”
· BASIC FACT ABOUT AXA MANSARD
AXA Mansard is a member of the AXA Group, the worldwide leader in insurance and asset management with 166,000 employees serving 107 million clients in 64 countries.
AXA Mansard Insurance plc is rated B+ by A.M. Best (2016) for Financial Strength. The Company is also certified ISO 9001:2008 compliant by the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) for quality management systems.
AXA is present in geographically diverse markets, with operations concentrated in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. AXA is also present in Central and South America, Middle East and in Africa via operations in Cameroon, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Senegal and Algeria. AXA has more than over 20 years continuous presence in Africa.
*BASIC FACT about AXA Mansard Insurance Nigeria
AXA Mansard Insurance Plc offers insurance and asset management services. The Company offers motor, home, life, travel, education, and commercial insurance services, as well as financial advisory, portfolio and risk management, and investment consulting services.
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*A CERUTTI MEDIASPECIAL BRAND FOCUS REPORT FOR WORLD LEADERS
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It has different walls and different furniture. For example, there are families with one room and two bathrooms while others have one bathroom and two bedrooms.
„We try to help you be better prepared for the future ” – That’s what the room of your house should be. It should help you think about the future and things that will happen in your life.
Suitable room is the mainstay of any house. The most important part of a room is its decoration. Decorating a room will make it feel like a home and give it an identity. Rooms are also one of the most important elements in any house, especially since they can add or subtract to the beauty and comfort of the owner’s life.
In this article, I’m going to introduce you to furniture design and how you can use it as inspiration when designing your own rooms in your house or apartment.
It’s important to mention that there is a huge difference between what a person wants and what they actually need.
Room is the most common room in the world and it has become increasingly important in the modern world. It is one of our most important assets and there is a lot we can do to make our rooms more comfortable and attractive.
Rooms are the most common space in any house. They make a big difference to its overall appearance, structure and feel.
These rooms can be divided by different rooms that present different needs for the occupants. It is important that these differences are reflected in home interior design, thus making the interior look luxurious and comfortable. It is also important that you have a good sense of color and texture to give your home a well-balanced look. This article will discuss some of the various colors and textures used by various homeowners to make their homes more attractive, pleasant and inviting. | <urn:uuid:059ef2b6-bf73-4bcf-8907-814ff900021f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://silesiafinansuje.pl/room-is-a-popular-room-in-the-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972162 | 371 | 2.015625 | 2 |
To Your Health
July, 2022 (Vol. 16, Issue 07)
An Allergy Solution
By Editorial Staff
OK, maybe not for allergies overall, but at least for the symptoms of pollen allergies that can ruin so many people's day. Far too often, allergy medication is the top choice for allergy sufferers – which accounts for the estimated $4 billion
annual over-the-counter allergy drug market as of 2022. But what if there was a better way, without side effects? There is.
Women allergic to grass- and/or birch pollen were randomly divided into two groups. One group took a daily lozenge containing β-lactoglobulin with iron, polyphenols, retinoic acid, and zinc for six months; the second group received a placebo lozenge containing no micronutrients for the same time period. All participants were blinded to whether they were taking the micronutrient lozenge or the placebo lozenge.
Each woman was subjected to a nasal pollen challenge before and after the six-month study window, and various allergy variables including blood immune and iron parameters, daily symptoms, medication use, pollen concentrations, and overall well-being were assessed. After receiving the micronutrient lozenge for six months, total nasal symptom scores improved by 42 percent compared to only 13 percent for women receiving the placebo lozenge. The Combined Symptom Medication Score, which assesses symptoms and medication use, also improved dramatically for the lozenge group during the birch peak and entire seasons, and the entire grass pollen season, compared to the placebo group. Study findings appear in the research publication Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.
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“As a non-profit organisation, you must be active and responsive to the community in which you are based. By being an active participant of the local area you can not only raise awareness of your cause, but you can also engage with people who make up the very community in which you operate in. With these steps, you can raise your nonprofit’s community awareness and public perception. Help your community fall in love with your company by being more involved in the local community and helping to maintain a positive view of the public.”
Spread Awareness of Your Cause by Taking Part in Local Events
Participating in events where people meet in person can help you build a real community around your cause where you can talk about your cause and interact with like-minded people. Many cities and regions have local events, such as festivals and community gatherings involving local businesses, so this is a perfect way to get an event booth and get to know the community.
Adapt your Social Media Content to Suit Audiences in Each Medium
Your content strategies should be built based on the demographics of your audience and the strengths of your social networks. For example, you can share stories about the individuals or families you are supporting through Facebook, post updates on cause-related news via Twitter. Using Instagram and Snapchat to take a look behind the scenes at the hard work done by your volunteers etc.
Design an Ambassador Programme
Another way to make your nonprofit more visible and boost community awareness is to create an ambassador programme. Even if you’re not the most established charity out there, chances are people like your volunteers and employees exist in your culture. Ask them to be ambassadors to you! Equip them with information and tools (such as brochures, a talk points cheat sheet, etc.) You can put together a simple ambassador agreement that outlines the programme objectives and sets specific goals and requirements for participation. Don’t forget to include what they can expect from your nonprofit in terms of support and training. | <urn:uuid:6d3607f5-32a7-4e28-bedc-84bf67b64a55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ideallifeproject.org/how-to-increase-community-awareness-for-your-nonprofit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947852 | 400 | 1.851563 | 2 |
You sleep 1/3 of your life which means you are breathing in the fecal matter more heavily eight hours out of the day. Latest research shows that 40% of the Americans that suffer from any type of allergy, suffer because of the dust mites that are accumulated in the mattress and the rest of the household. It's also known that 90% of people who suffer from asthma have an allergy to the house dust mite. * Our products are antiallergenic.
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7: Tahpanhes - It was at this time the place where the king of Egypt made his residence.
12: Carry them - He shall carry away both the idols, and the inhabitants of Egypt captive. With the land - With the spoils of the land of Egypt, he shall clothe his army.
13: Beth - shemesh - Beth - shemesh is the name of a city, which had its name from a famous temple of the sun.
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Background: The world is currently experiencing a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In Korea, as in other countries, the number of confirmed cases and deaths due to COVID-19 have been rising. This study aimed to calculate the burden of disease due to COVID-19 in Korea. Methods: We used data on confirmed cases and deaths due to COVID-19 between January 20 and April 24, 2020 provided by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the local governments and the public media to determine disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) by sex and age. Morbidity was estimated directly among the confirmed, cured, and fatal cases. Disability weights were adopted from previous similar causes on the severity of COVID-19 for the years of life lived with disability (YLDs). The years of life lost (YLLs) were calculated using the standard life expectancy from the 2018 life tables for each sex and age. Results: The YLDs were higher in females (155.2) than in males (105.1), but the YLLs were higher in males (1,274.3) than in females (996.4). The total disease burden attributable to COVID-19 in Korea during the study period, was estimated to be 2,531.0 DALYs, and 4.930 DALYs per 100,000 population. The YLDs and the YLLs constituted 10.3% and 89.7% of the total DALYs, respectively. The DALYs per 100,000 population were highest in people aged ≥ 80 years, followed by those aged 70-79, 60-69, and 50-59 years, but the incidence was the highest in individuals aged 20-29 years. Conclusion: This study provided the estimates of DALYs due to COVID-19 in Korea. Most of the disease burden from COVID-19 was derived from YLL; this indicates that decision-makers should focus and make an effort on reducing fatality for preparing the second wave of COVID-19.
- Burden of disease
- Disability-adjusted life years
- Years lived with disability
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Superior Labs announces the launch of new high quality Graviola on the Amazon.com website, along with at select retailers. Graviola, an evergreen tree found in the Caribbean and Central America, continues to be researched for its healing properties, and many believe the leaves and fruit of the tree, often referred to as the soursop tree, help fight bacteria and parasites. In addition, some use this product to treat cancer, herpes and coughs. Individuals wishing to try this supplement often rely on superior labs when making a purchase.
“Superior Labs offers only the highest quality nutritional supplements to consumers. When one purchases this product, they don’t have any worries about silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, magnesium stearate and other filler ingredients found in competitors. The product contains 100 percent graviola and no additives or fillers, so one doesn’t need to worry about their health being harmed as they are trying to better it,” Cliff, spokesperson for Superior Labs, announces.
Research continues into the benefits of this product. Many opt to use it to treat cancer, as it is believed the chemicals found in graviola prevent cancer cells from removing the drugs being used to fight them. In addition, researchers are looking into whether chemicals in the leaves and fruit kill these cancer cells outright. This is just one of the many uses of this product.
Cliff continues on to say users state graviola promotes relaxation and may be used to cause vomiting or the emptying of the bowels. Although more research needs to be done, many individuals state graviola supplements have helped in these areas. One user states their PSA dropped with use, and another declares they were cold free after only one day.
This new product was formulated and developed in America and is manufactured here in GMP and FDA compliant centers. Individuals, when purchasing this product through Superior Labs, get 120 vegetable capsules containing 1,200mg of pure active graviola. Anything less and one may not obtain the full benefits.
Women who are pregnant or breast-feeding, however, should avoid this product, as the effects on the unborn fetus are unclear. In addition, those with Parkinson’s disease should avoid use of this product as it may make symptoms worse. Overall, however, there are no side effects and no unidentified or potentially harmful ingredients in the product.
“Users find they prefer purchasing through Superior Labs as the product comes with a full money back guarantee. Users who find they aren’t satisfied within the 60 days following purchase may return the product for a full, no questions asked, money back guarantee. Try Graviola today to see how it may be of benefit to your health,” Cliff recommends.
About Superior Labs Inc:
Specializing in bringing the highest quality nutritional supplements to the marketplace, Superior Labs Inc. only offers products made in facilities within the United States that are GMP compliant and FDA registered.
Company Name: Superior Labs Inc.
Contact Person: Cliff
Phone: (888) 708-5227
City: San Diego
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In Arab countries will be "Days of Wrath." According to Radio Mayak, mass anti-government demonstrations and marches are expected in Yemen, Iraq and Bahrain. Rallies will continue in Tunisia and Egypt, where popular revolutions have already won, and the era of political change has begun.
In Libya, in spite of the fighting that the rebels are waging against army units loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, processions will take place in support of the Transitional National Council. In the capital Tripoli, as well as last Friday, opponents of the regime will gather in mosques, which will be the main centers of protest.
Opposition forces are expected to speak in Algeria, Mauritania, Sudan and Oman.
For the first time, “Day of Wrath” will be held in Saudi Arabia, and this is despite the government’s ban on holding any protest actions. On Thursday, demonstrators clashed with police in the east of the country, three people were injured. World media reported that police opened fire from firearms. weapons by the protesters. Saudi authorities deny this fact.
"Day of Wrath" will be held in the Arab world
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Not Reasons (Plural)
| There are not
"reasons" that God approves of divorce. He hates "putting
away" (Mal. 2: 16). Divorce is wrong (Matt. 19: 6). There is only one
reason God will allow it. God's Word, not civil courts, determines who is
married and who is not. If one should take another mate and the cause of
the "putting away" is not fornication, the new couple is
not acceptably married before God but live in adultery (Matt. 19: 1-
9). That settles the matter for those who respect the Word of God. One can
be "married" or "divorced" as far as the civil law is
concerned but not before God. Civil law allows what God does not.
The Lord's design for marriage is quite simple and plain. Marriage is between one man and one woman so long as they both shall live with only one reason that allows the dissolution of the marriage and that reason is fornication. Those guilty of fornication have no right to take another mate. Not until people accept God's will can the problems of the home ever be corrected. | <urn:uuid:6ab1b168-91e5-44bd-be17-73b4c6157e13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://aburningfire.net/notes/not_reasons.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941294 | 258 | 1.804688 | 2 |
This step by step woodworking project is about picnic table free plans. The plans below are for a simple 6′ table, but you could adjust its size according to your needs and tastes. Therefore, you could either make it larger or you could adjust the dimensions for your kids. Irrespective of your decision, you have to build the frame of the table from 2×4 pressure treated lumber, while for the top and seats you have to buy 2×6 slats (redwood, cedar). If you follow our tips and the basic guidelines, the picnic table would be highly durable.
After you get the job done, as in our project, you have to take care of the finishing touches. Therefore, we recommend you to fill the head of the crews with a good wood putty. Read carefully the label, to know how much time it needs to properly dry. Afterwards, sand the whole wooden surface using a block of wood and 120-grit sandpaper. Clean the residues with a cloth and prepare the surface for applying several coats of stain or water resistant paint. See all my Premium Plans HERE.
Projects made from these plans
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- A – 4 pieces of 2×4 lumber 40” long, cut at 30º at both ends LEGS
- B – 4 pieces of 2×4 lumber 22” long SEAT SUPPORTS
- C – 4 pieces of 2×4 lumber, 29” long BRACES
- D – 1 pieces of 2×4 lumber, 29” long TOP SUPPORT
- E – 2 pieces of 2×4 lumber, 33” long BRACES
- F – 9 pieces of 2×6 lumber, 72” long SLATS
- G – 6 pieces of 2×4 lumber 11” long SEAT SUPPORTS
- H – 20 pieces of 5” carriage bolts BOLTS
- I – 40 pieces of 3” wood screws SCREWS
- 100 pieces of 2 1/2″ screws
- 2″ brad nails
- wood glue, stain/paint
- wood filler
Diy Picnic Table
A picnic table would enhance the look of your garden. In addition, you don’t need advanced woodworking skills to get the job done by yourself. You just have to follow the step by step instructions, buy proper materials and align all the components accurately.
Top Tip: You could use 2×4 pressure-treated lumber to build the frame of the rectangular picnic table, but we strongly recommend you to use better materials for the top and for the seats. Therefore, you should install 2×6 cedar, redwood or pine slats, as they have a nice look and they are very durable.
Free Picnic Table Plans
First of all you have to build the legs of the diy picnic table. In order to get the job done, you have to build four equal pieces as in the image. Use four pieces of 2×4 lumber 40” long and cut their ends at 30º, using a good miter saw.
Sand the cut edges and check if they are perfectly equal in size and shape. Use pressure-treated lumber for the frame of the table, while the top and the seats should be built from quality lumber.
Next, you have to build the braces and install them into place with carriage bolts. Cut the braces and level them with a spirit level, before locking them into place with a few C-clamps.
Top Tip: Pre-drill the holes in the lumber, before inserting the 5” bolts. Leave about 14” from the ground to the bottom braces (the seat supports). Work on a level surface, if you want to obtain consistent results.
After you have assembled the sides of the table, as in the free plans, you attach the top slats. Therefore, we recommend you to use 2×6 slats and to cut them at about 6′. Before locking them into position, we recommend you to drill pilot holes and to countersink the head of the screws.
Align the slats at both ends and place a nail between them, in order to obtain consistent gaps. Adjust the width of the table, as to fit you needs.
Next, turn the table upside down, in order to install the braces. These 2×4 braces are essential for the rigidity of the table, therefore we recommend you to install them properly. Measure the middle on the table components, in order to fit them in the right place.
Top Tip: Plumb the sides of the picnic table with a spirit level, before fitting the braces and locking them into place with 3” screws. Pre-drill several holes, to avoid the wood from splitting.
Afterwards, install the seat slats, as you can see in the image. Align the 2×6 boards at both ends and leave about 1/2” between them. In most of the case, it would be a good idea to increase the rigidity of the seats, by installing them on top of several 2×4 supports.
Top Tip: Countersink the head of the screws, before inserting them, as to fill them later on with wood putty.
After you have assembled the outdoor table, you should get the job done by finishing the sharp edges and applying several coats of stain or paint. First of all, you have to fill the cracks and the gaps with wood putty. Then, let the compound to dry out properly, before sanding the surface with medium-grit sandpaper.
Top Tip: Protect the lumber from water damage and decay, by applying several coats of stain.
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Uh oh: Chocolate might actually run out in the next 30 years
2 January 2018, 09:42 | Updated: 15 January 2018, 15:47
Panic stations, everyone. Experts have predicted that the world could run out of chocolate in the relatively near future.
Why, you scream? Because of global warming.
Cacao plants, which can only grow under certain conditions with high humidity and plenty of rain, will apparently struggle to survive the increase in temperature that is predicted over the next few decades.
This will lead to a loss in moisture that scientists don’t believe will be fixed by natural rainfall. This has caused officials in chocolate-producing countries like Ghana to choose whether to push cacao production areas into mountainous areas, which would then lead to issues for wildlife.
They will need to either disrupt dying ecosystems, or give up on chocolate. Not only that, but last year it was predicted that a chocolate deficit will occur due to excessive consumption.
Large stockpiles of cocoa are decreasing in number, and our current methods of farming aren’t able to keep up with demand, and these changes in the environment will make it even harder for plants to grow. One expert has said that this could lead to a deficit of 100,000 tonnes of chocolate per year.
"Unlike other tree crops that have benefited from the development of modern, high yielding cultivars and crop management techniques to realise their genetic potential, more than 90 per cent of the global cocoa crop is produced by smallholders on subsistence farms with unimproved planting material," Doug Hawkins, from Hardman Agribusiness, told the Mail Online. "All the indicators are that we could be looking at a chocolate deficit of 100,000 tonnes a year in the next few years."
For the time being, chocolate shortages won't be a problem anytime soon, so don't start buying Dairy Milks and Creme Eggs in bulk just yet. Experts are saying that we should at least start buying more fair trade chocolate bars in order to make sure that those who make them are getting properly compensated. | <urn:uuid:f5e83dde-ecef-4f14-a58a-bfec7757f870> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smoothradio.com/news/quirky/chocolate-shortage-crisis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95722 | 423 | 3.03125 | 3 |
A special message from Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya…
Thanks to you, Solar Cookers International was able to bring solar cooking technologies and training to benefit more than 350 people in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya in March of 2019.
Aloyse and Mediatrice are two of those new solar cooks.
Because of your support, Mediatrice can now stay close to the safety of her home and use the free energy of the sun to cook. With the money they save on charcoal, Mediatrice and Aloyse can buy their baby boy clothes, medicine, and better food. They can breathe fresher air and drink cleaner water.
Thank you from SCI and from solar cooks around the world.
Read more about the new solar cooks in Kakuma in our Summer 2019 Newsletter here.
Want more insight into our work in Kakuma? Read the travel journal of SCI’s Science Director, Alan Bigelow, Ph.D., here.
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Grab a roll of duct tape and put on some old shoes, we’re going on a nature hike! This activity has been around a while- it is easy, gets kids outside discovering, and the results are different every time. Make each child a “bracelet” out of duct tape, with the sticky side facing out. While taking a walk around the neighborhood, have them stick on their nature finds. We found shells, flowers, leaves, seeds, feathers, bark, grass… My son really wanted to stick on a roly-poly, but I told them no live creatures: “poor insects, they need to live on the ground.” He decided on colorful leaves instead:
As simple as this was, we passed a lot of kids walking home from school who also wanted a nature bracelet. I was ripping off duct tape as fast as I could for all of the kids. I had to smile when some 5th graders were asking if they could please have some “for their little sisters,” and were so obliged as they stuck on some flowers. Celebrate the beauty of Mother Earth in your own backyard! | <urn:uuid:2d09c5df-306d-4604-9829-6e86703f32d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kidworldcitizen.org/make-a-bracelet-on-a-nature-hike/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.987083 | 236 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Proposals to remove the carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuel from the atmosphere include letting commercially managed forests grow longer between harvests or not cutting them at all.
An article published in the journal Forests says, however, that Pacific Northwest trees grown and harvested sustainably, such as every 45 years, can both remove existing carbon dioxide from the air and help keep the gas from entering the atmosphere in the first place. That’s provided wood is used primarily for such things as building materials instead of cement and steel – which require more fossil fuels in their manufacture – and secondarily that wood wastes are used for biofuels to displace the use of fossil fuels.
“When it comes to keeping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, it makes more sense to use trees to recycle as much carbon as we can and offset the burning of fossil fuel than it does to store carbon in standing forests and continuing burning fossil fuels,” said Bruce Lippke , University of Washington professor emeritus of forest resources.
Lippke is one of eight co-authors of the article in Forests. It is the first to comprehensively calculate using woody biomass for bioenergy in addition to using wood for long-lived products. The article focuses on the extra carbon savings that can be squeezed from harvesting trees if bioenergy is generated using wood not suitable for long-term building materials. Such wood can come from the branches and other debris left after harvesting, materials thinned from stands or from plantations of fast-growing trees like willow.
For the article, the co-authors looked at selected bioenergy scenarios using wood from the U.S. Pacific Northwest, Southeast and Northeast.
They considered two ways of producing ethanol from woody biomass – gasification and fermentation – and used what’s called life cycle analysis to tally all the environmental effects of gathering, processing and using the resulting fuels. Considering everything that goes into it and how it burns when used as fuel, the researchers found ethanol from woody biomass emits 70 percent to slightly more than 100 percent less greenhouse gases than producing and using the equivalent energy from gasoline.
Achieving slightly more than a 100 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible using fermentation during which ethanol is produced and enough electricity is generated to offset the fossil fuel used in the fermentation process.
In contrast, producing and using corn ethanol to displace gasoline reduces greenhouse gas emissions 22 percent on average, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s fact sheet “Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Expanded Renewable and Alternative Fuels Use.”
While biofuels from woody biomass are carbon friendly, Lippke cautions that the U.S. should not use tax breaks or other incentives that inadvertently divert wood to bioenergy that is better used for long-lived building materials and furniture.
“Substituting wood for non-wood building materials can displace far more carbon emissions than using the wood for biofuel,” the article says. “This fact creates a hierarchy of wood uses that can provide the greatest carbon mitigation for each source of supply.”
Lippke said using wood for products and bioenergy can be considered carbon neutral because the carbon dioxide trees absorb while growing eventually goes back to the atmosphere when, for instance, wood rots after building demolition or cars burn ethanol made from woody debris. With sustainably managed forests, that carbon dioxide is then absorbed by the growing trees awaiting the next harvest.
The co-authors aren’t advocating that all forests be harvested, just the ones designated to help counter carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Older forests, for instance, provide ecological values even though they absorb less carbon dioxide as they age.
In the article the authors also urge policymakers and citizens to consider not just carbon mitigation but to also find ways to weigh the importance of energy independence from fossil fuels when considering how to use woody biomass for bioenergy.
“Simply burning woody biomass to generate heat or electricity makes sense for carbon mitigation, he says, but there’s no energy independence gained,” Lippke said.
Carbon efficiency is however only one part of the equation, the authors wrote. Transportation fuels depend heavily on imported oil and therefore biofuels that replace them make additional contributions to the domestic economy, including energy independence and rural economic development, the authors said.
Other co-authors are Richard Gustafson and Elaine Oneil with the UW, Richard Venditti with North Carolina State University, Timothy Volk with the State University of New York, Leonard Johnson with the University of Idaho, Maureen Puettmann of WoodLife Environmental Consultants and Phillip Steele with Mississippi State University.
The publication integrates findings across many previous reports generated by a consortium of 17 research institutions that have been involved in life cycle analysis of wood products for more than 15 years through the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials , based at the UW. The recent biofuel life cycle research was funded with a grant from the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Products Laboratory. | <urn:uuid:3d639e24-c09e-4189-b1e9-b3868aa352ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myscience.org/news/wire/carbon_mitigation_strategy_uses_wood_for_buildings_first_bioenergy_second-2011-washington | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.923467 | 1,038 | 3.9375 | 4 |
By Gary L. Hutchens
“For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:3-4). These two verses declare, in a nutshell, the gospel. Jesus Christ died on the cross to bear the guilt of our sins, was buried in a tomb and arose from the grave on the third day.
His death was necessary as the only sacrifice worthy to pay the debt for our sins. The animal sacrifices of the Old Testament law of Moses were simply a shadow of the ultimate sacrifice that God would offer in the person of His own Son (Heb. 10:1-4). Christ’s burial in the tomb accented the fact of His death. His resurrection demonstrated His triumph over death. We can have confidence in the effectiveness of His death on the cross because of His resurrection from the grave. The simple, succinct facts brought out in these verses form the very message we must remember for our own encouragement and assurance today.
The gospel message is still as powerful today as it was when Paul, by inspiration, wrote these verses almost two thousand years ago. Pertaining to the power of the gospel, he declared, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek” (Rom. 1:16). He also wrote, “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Cor. 1:18).
This is still God’s message of salvation to mankind today. We are called to salvation through the gospel (2 Thess. 2:13-14). Thus, it is this message that we must preach, teach, proclaim, communicate by any effective means possible. “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mk. 16:15). The opportunity for a world lost in sin to be saved is dependent upon their hearing and obeying this gospel message. “For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe” (1 Cor. 1:21). Once we proclaim the gospel message to the lost, they are responsible for obeying it (2 Thess. 1:7-8).
There is no message more needed by the world today than the gospel. There is no message more important for the well being of mankind than the gospel. There is no message through which we can do a greater service as the church for people than the gospel. Let us believe the gospel, let us obey the gospel, and let us untiringly teach the gospel to everyone we can...
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Why is the right winning the abortion debate?
looks at why abortion rights supporters have lost ground.
JANUARY 22 marked the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision giving women the legal right to abortion.
But the few essays commemorating the importance of Roe to women's lives and health were mostly overshadowed by reports that abortion is further out of the reach of ordinary women across the U.S.
Nationally, the abortion rate is at the lowest level since 1974, the year after Roe became law, according to a recent census of abortion providers by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. In Illinois alone, the abortion rate declined by 19 percent in the past five years. Despite an increase in the number of women of reproductive age, the number of abortions in the U.S. has dropped in the last 15 years from a high of 1.6 million in 1990 to 1.2 million in 2005.
In part, this is due to the over-the-counter availability of Plan B birth control (the "morning-after pill") and a rising number of non-surgical abortions resulting from increased use of the drug RU486. But there has also been "a sharp decline in the number of abortion providers," as the Chicago Tribune reported. "Recent years also have seen an upsurge in legislation making it more difficult for women to access abortions and for doctors to perform them."
Together, the statistics point to a bleak reality--that an abortion is harder to obtain for many women today than several decades ago, and that support for the right to abortion, particularly among young people, has declined.
"Pew Research Center polls dating back a decade show that 18- to 29-year-olds are consistently more likely than the general adult population to favor strict limits on abortion," the Los Angeles Times reported. A Pew survey over the summer found 22 percent of young adults support a total ban on abortion, compared with 15 percent of their parents' generation.
Looking specifically at teens, a Gallup survey in 2003 found that 72 percent called abortion morally wrong, and 32 percent believed it should be illegal in all circumstances. Among adults surveyed that year, only 17 percent backed a total ban.
THERE'S NO doubt that the anti-choice movement has gained a large amount of ground in the ideological, as well as legal, battle over abortion rights.
By chipping away at abortion rights bit by bit since Roe was first made law, the right wing has made the idea acceptable that women are somehow not capable of making a choice for themselves. In addition, the claim that abortion is not only "ending a life" but psychologically "damaging" to women has led to a flood of pseudo-scientific claims about such made-up conditions as "post-abortion syndrome."
But if the right has succeeded in conquering so much ideological territory, it's largely because the leading voices in support of abortion--in particular, the mainstream women's movement--have been so willing to accept the idea that abortion is primarily a moral issue, not a political one.
"No woman wants to have an abortion," begins the standard apology. "Of course, we want to reduce the number of abortions" begins another. By this logic, abortion becomes something to be constantly apologized for, rather than a basic right to be fought for and protected.
Likewise, the failure of the pro-choice movement to stop the gutting of abortion rights is explained away as a problem of changing morals, as opposed to a failed political strategy.
Take, for example, a recent essay by Frances Kissling, former president of Catholics for a Free Choice, and Kate Michelman, the former president of the National Abortion Rights Action League (now known as NARAL Pro-Choice America).
Kissling and Michelman write that the reason abortion rights are in peril today is because the Christian Right not only has been savvier at "messaging" than pro-choice forces, but also that it is more in touch with America's changing moral values.
"Twenty years ago, being pro-life was déclassé. Now it is a respectable point of view," they write. "How did this happen? Did the pro-choice movement fail? Or did those opposed to abortion simply respond more effectively to the changing science as well as the social shift from the rights rage of the '60s to the responsibility culture of the '90s?"
The answer, they conclude, is to seek common ground with the right wing--to admit that abortion should be framed as just one part of a bigger "conversation." "Advocates of choice have had a hard time dealing with the increased visibility of the fetus," they write. "The preferred strategy is still to ignore it and try to shift the conversation back to women. At times, this makes us appear insensitive, a bit too pragmatic in a world where the desire to live more communitarian and 'life-affirming' lives is palpable...
"Our vigorous defense of the right to choose," they conclude, "needs to be accompanied by greater openness regarding the real conflict between life and choice, between rights and responsibility. It is time for a serious reassessment of how to think about abortion in a world that is radically changed from 1973."
This strategy does nothing to protect abortion rights or build the fight to make up the ground lost, In fact, it emboldens the right.
Commenting on Kissling and Michelman's article, for example, Joe Scheidler, head of the hard-right, Illinois-based Pro-Life Action League--known for its physical and verbal harassment of women outside clinics--gloated, "[I]t is a healthy sign that the proud pro-choicers, who had society eating out of their hands only a few years ago, are now desperately seeking common ground in an effort simply to survive."
INSTEAD OF rebuilding the fight for abortion rights along the lines of how it was won in the first place--through activism and a fighting women's movement--the mainstream women's movement has instead placed its hopes in the Democrats.
Such hopes are misplaced. Democratic presidents have a history of taking a lukewarm (or openly hostile) stance toward abortion rights. Jimmy Carter, for example, supported the Hyde Amendment, which cut government funding of abortions for poor women. Bill Clinton famously said that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare"--and stood by as access to abortion was gutted during his presidency.
Between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, little is being said on the campaign trail about defending the right to choose abortion. But it's not hard to figure out that neither Clinton nor Obama is likely to blaze a trail forward in protecting abortion rights.
Clinton, whose candidacy has been endorsed by the National Organization for Women, used the anniversary of Roe v. Wade three years ago to declare abortion a "sad, even tragic, choice." Obama, meanwhile, has said little about abortion rights on the campaign trail beyond the standard pledge to appoint pro-choice Supreme Court justices.
Clinton did slam Obama's "present" vote--rather than a "no"--on several right-wing bills in the Illinois Senate dealing with restrictions on reproductive rights. But on at least one--the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which would have required legal protections for fetuses "born alive" during abortions--Clinton voted along with 97 other U.S. senators to support nearly identical legislation in Congress in 2001.
If the top Democratic contenders aren't saying anything much this year about protecting abortion rights, it's because liberal pro-choice organizations haven't really asked them to.
Despite the bleak picture, however, the possibility exists to build a real fight to win back abortion rights. As the LA Times pointed out, even in the face of the right-wing assault, a "substantial majority" of people in the U.S. want abortion to remain legal, and "millions of young people continue to choose abortion when faced with unplanned pregnancy."
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Ideally, a Muslim marriage represents a beautiful, blessed journey of a woman and man united in their values to serve Allah through their soulful companionship and a daily intentional practice of good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.
As a psychotherapist in the Muslim community, I’ve observed a rise in the number of divorces and separation due to disharmony in marriage.
Despite the hundreds of religious texts, practices, self-help books, and podcasts that teach us ways to demonstrate love, compassion, care, and kindness, marital problems continue to soar.
So, what exactly are we failing to understand about human connection and soulful companionship?
Is it that we use words without practising the essence of those words? For example, we use words like love, kindness, compassion, empathy, and so on, but we don’t really understand how to translate these words into action.
Take the following examples:
Husband surprises his wife by cleaning the pantry, but when wife sees the pantry, she tells him off for putting everything in the wrong place. She doesn’t thank him, instead storms off in anger.
Another example is when the husband is glued to his phone instead of helping with household chores and the kids.
Or when spouses are constantly trying to find fault with one another through incessant arguments, bickering, and nagging, grudge-holding, and passive-aggressive behaviours, such as silent-treatment.
These examples show what love, compassion, respect, and kindness doesn’t look like.
So, what does love, compassion, kindness and respect look like? How does one translate these words into action?
It’s in your tone, your gaze, and your touch. It’s in your ability to hold space while you listen to your spouse’s words without judgment or reaction. It’s in your expression of gratitude, first and foremost, for everything your spouse is already doing for you.
It’s in your choice of words – are you accusing or seeking clarification? Are you name-calling? Are you blaming? Are you using respectful words, kind words and speaking them in a kind, respectful tone?
Love, kindness, compassion – these are just empty words unless you translate them into deeds that are in harmony with the essence of these words.
One Simple Strategy
Have at least one hour every day with your spouse where you are not on any gadgets – no phones, tablets, laptop, smartwatch, or TV – nothing that you are wired to. Just try to be in each other’s company without depending on any external forms of connection.
Try to soulfully connect with each other. Hold space for an organic conversation to happen and flow. Hold space for your spouse to speak while you listen, without interrupting even once.
Make this a daily teatime or coffee time or juice time or smoothie time, whatever you both prefer. Learn to once again be with each other and learn to enjoy being with each other.
May Allah bless your marriage and keep you safe and healthy. Remember, marriage is all about daily efforts in the actual practice of kindness, compassion, patience, care, love, and respect. | <urn:uuid:91a760d2-a412-4c3d-8e23-b0629ae7cc3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amust.com.au/2022/08/how-to-harmonise-your-married-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.935595 | 672 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Research has identified the early warning signs which lead to the deterioration of an intimate relationship. Based on these signs, researchers have been able to predict with a very high degree of accuracy (about 90%) which relationships are likely to end within a few years. This information is crucial in accepting when your relationship is in serious need of more attention or help.
Dr. J. Gottman and colleagues at the University of Washington have found that there are four specific signs of deterioration of an intimate relationship. In order of increasing danger, they are listed below:
References: Gottman, J. M. (1993). A theory of marital dissolution and stability. Journal of Family Psychology, 7, 57-75; Gottman, J. (1999). The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. Crown Books.
Dr. H. Markman and Dr. S. Stanley at the University of Colorado have also identified four warning signs of deterioration:
References: Markman, H.J., Floyd, F.J., Stanley, S.M., & Storaasli, R.D. (1988) Prevention of marital distress: A longitudinal investigation. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56, 210-217; Markman, H., Stanley, S. and Blumberg, S. Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love, 1994.
These research findings are very similar, despite completely different couples and research agendas. If you notice that your relationship is experiencing two or more of these signs, your relationship needs some extra help and attention. An ounce of prevention can save an incredible amount of emotional, financial and physical pain. Call us at (707) 544-9000 and let us show you how you can heal the resentments from the past and create a more loving, close, healthy relationship that will last a lifetime. | <urn:uuid:b5f6d24c-2327-4125-b285-e5ec0c918cce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.creating-loving-relationships.com/relationship-breakup.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.903583 | 380 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Kindergarteners sound multiracial chorus at Brown site
Brownback, Jenkins attend dedication of new display
On a day marked with symbolism, a multiracial chorus of kindergarten students from Williams Science and Fine Arts Magnet School sang Tuesday at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, several hours before the nation’s first African-American first lady was scheduled to arrive in Topeka.
The event, held one day before the 60th anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education court decision, was attended by Gov. Sam Brownback and U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins. The pair noted the historic nature of the day and dedicated a new room at the site.
Jenkins read from a letter, signed by herself and 173 other members of Congress, in praise of Oliver Brown, the case’s namesake.
“This 32-year-old minister and railroad welder faced down the injustice of segregation so that his 8-year-old daughter, Linda, could attend a good neighborhood school instead of the segregated school five miles from his house,” Jenkins said. “Events like this not only remind us of the legacy of those who took a stand to make our country a better place, but it should also serve as a moment where we honor all parents who make great sacrifices to improve the lives of their children.”
Brownback offered further praise for Oliver Brown, saying the U.S. Supreme Court decision “changed the face of the nation.”
Following the governor’s remarks, Brown v. Board National Historic Site superintendent David Smith led the kindergarten students and guests into a room titled “Expressions and Reflections.”
The room, designed as it was when it held a Monroe Elementary kindergarten class in the early 1950s, houses portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and George Washington. On a teacher’s desk sits a letter, dated March 13, 1953, from Topeka Superintendent Wendell Godwin to an African-American teacher.
“Due to the present uncertainty about enrollment next year in schools for Negro children, it is not possible at this time to offer you employment for the next year,” Godwin’s letter states, serving as a reminder of the hardships faced by black teachers during desegregation. | <urn:uuid:1764917d-5c95-40e8-8cad-ce74931c24dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2014/05/16/kindergarteners-sound-multiracial-chorus-new-room-unveiled-brown-site/16669230007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962325 | 477 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Debian Security Advisory
DLA-2867-1 spip -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 29 Dec 2021
- Affected Packages:
- Security database references:
- No other external database security references currently available.
- More information:
It was discovered that SPIP, a website engine for publishing, would allow a malicious user to perform cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks, or execute arbitrary code.
This update also fixes issues introduced in the previous security uploads.
For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.4-4~deb9u4+deb9u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your spip packages.
For the detailed security status of spip please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/spip
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS | <urn:uuid:2f5f90cb-7104-4c93-853c-be80ec71aa8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2867.en.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.872425 | 235 | 1.507813 | 2 |
In article <41kpkj$b3k at newsbf02.news.aol.com>, hpyockey at aol.com (HPYockey) writes:
> In the first place 'phylogenetic evidence' is hardly written in letters of
> gold on tablets of jade. Notice the African Eve controversy. Not being
> able to follow phylogeny back a few million years puts great doubt about
> following it back 3.8 billion years to the Isua formation. The authors who
> contributed to that ran their prefered program tens of thousands of times
> and took a vote. I suggest that is not very good science.
The validity of this kind of argument is suspect. Consider the following
Investigator employed approach X and incorrectly inferred result Y,
Therefore anyone who employs approach X will incorrectly infer a result.
The problem with the mitochondrial eve work is not that the methods
do not work, it is that those employing the methods:
1) incorrectly used the methods
2) overstated conclusions based on the methods
Yockey is suggesting that because it is impossible to infer the branching
order of a tree generated in the last few million years therefore
this difficulty will only become worse when branching events occurred
much earlier in the history of life are considered. I suggest that
this is unlikely. The problem of resolving branching orders in phylogenies
can be stated in a parsimony framework: if two organisms have diverged more
recently from each other than a third organism, then there will have
been changes (in DNA sequence or morphology) on the common branch they share
which the third organism will not exhibit. In distance terms, more closely
related organisms will be more similar to each other than either is to
more distantly related organisms. From this it is clear that, at least
for molecular phylogeny, as the time separating events of branching
becomes less, then there will be less time to accumulate changes in sequence
(synapomorphous changes). Since methods depend upon these changes to
resolve branching orders, the shorter the time between cladogenetic
events the less likely a method of phylogenetic reconstruction will
correctly resolve the true relationships.
The upshoot of all of this is that there are "hard" phylogenetic
problems- those where time between successive branching events is
very small and there are "easy" problems- where lots of time has
accumulated between branching events. The mitochondrial Eve problem
is one of the former. It is not necessarily the case that "deeper"
phylogenetic problems are going to be harder in this sense...there
are some very easy ones- for instance the holophyly of eukaryotes
is supported by morphology, SSU ribosomal RNA, and numerous protein
-coding genes...yet the common node shared by all eukaryotes is at least
1.5-2.2 billion years old.
>> Chapter 7 applies to a critter that appeared earlier than the urgenote,
> whatever that may mean. Chapter 7 concludes that were several of these and
> there may have been more than one origin of life event, as Darwin
> suggested in the last chapter of the Origin of Species. The standard story
> is that several of these early critters got eaten and became mitochodria.
This standard story is completely outdated. I suggest you read some
of the literature on the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria that has
appeared in the molecular evolution literature in the last two decades.
There is strong evidence that the endosymbiont which gave rise to
the mitochondrion was related to a group of extant eubacteria called
alpha purple (or proteo-) bacteria. Mitochondrial small subunit
ribosomal RNA genes have a strong phylogenetic affinity to alpha purple
bacteria. This same connection is found for mitochondrial cytochrome
oxidase subunit I and for mitochondrial chaperonin 60. Thus there
are multiple congruent molecular phylogenies which support the same
affinity with multiple methods of phylogenetic inference. Some references
Yang et. al., (1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 82, 4443-4447
Cedergren et. al. (1988) J. Mol. Evol. 28, 98-112
Gray, M.W. (1992) Int. Rev. Cytol. 141, 233-357
Viale et. al. (1994) FEBS letters 341, 146-151
> They took their own genetic code with them. The critters with the standard
> code appeared and after their meal of simpler critters they continued to
> evolve and became what you call the urgenote. Perhaps their remains
> formed the kerogen of the Isua formation. Presumably they later became
> Eukaryota, Eubacteria, and Archea. Their ancestors continue to contain
> mitochondria with their separate genetic system today.
I hope you mean that only the Eukaryota retain mitochondria.
Look, this whole argument is based on a dim knowledge of the diversity
of organisms and mitochondrial genetic systems. Altered genetic codes
DO NOT APPEAR IN ALL MITOCHONDRIA. Most of the generalizations made are
based on the animal mitochondrial genetic code. This represents 540-600
MYA only of the 1.8-2.0 billion years of eukaryotic (and possibly)
mitochondrial diversity. For instance most of the changes in the
code in animal mitochondria are restricted to animal mitochondria-
only UGA encoding tryptophan is found elsewhere in mitochondria.
But this UGA is not found in chlorophyte mitochondria. Moreover,
the two subgroups of the alpha purple bacteria which are outgroups
to mitochondria both use the canonical genetic code. All other
eubacterial groups (with the exceptions of mycoplasmas) use the
universal code. Archaebacteria all use the universal code as far
as anyone knows and MOST eukaryotes also do (the exceptions
being ciliates, acetabularia and candidas). In every case of genetic
code difference from the "universal" code, the change seems tightly
restricted to a clade with numerous outgroups lacking the change.It is
thus most parsimonious to suggest that the "universal" code is
>> Steve: If you go to the library you will find (with the help of the
> librarian) a book called Molecular Biology of the Gene by Watson, Hopkins,
> Roberts, Steitz and Weiner Published by Benjamin Cummings. Read Chapter
> 15 The Genetic Code.
> You will find the answers to your questions in that chapter.
The pot calls the kettle black!
This kind of polemicy I find really unnecessary. If you would stop
reading out of date textbooks and start reading the primary literature
then you might be able to keep current with ideas in the field of
>> As Ludwig Wittgenstein was oft heard to say: "Wovon man nicht sprechen
> kann, darueber man muss schweigen. Steve: "Schweigen sie bitte bis sie das
> Buch gelesen und verstanden haben." If you were multicultural you could
> read that!
I always thought the use of other languages was to express meaning
that one couldn't otherwise. This serves only to obfuscate.
Just remember that your ability to express yourself in multiple
languages could also allow you to communicate your ignorance to
a larger audience.
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The Taliban’s Afghan takeover might advance multipolar processes
The Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan has resulted in a plethora of predictions about what might come next for the broader Central & South Asian region. Most of these forecasts are negative considering the group’s prior ties with international terrorist organisations and its previous history of ruling over the country with a very heavy hand.
Moreover, the Taliban is still designated as a terrorist group by the international community, including Russia and China despite those two having developed pragmatic political ties with it throughout the course of the Afghan peace process. The challenges ahead for a Taliban-led Afghanistan are therefore very formidable and shouldn’t be downplayed, but the future might not be full of doom and gloom either.
There’s close to no realistic chance that the Taliban will be overthrown again anytime soon so the world will have to learn to live with it once more. The international situation has drastically changed since the group was last in power and this time some members of the international community might cautiously welcome it into their ranks for reasons of simple pragmatism. This is conditional of course on the Taliban keeping its promises to cut ties with international terrorist organisations and to respect minorities and women’s rights. It remains to be seen how sincere it is in these respects, but Russian officials have expressed optimism about everything since the Taliban returned to power. This suggests that the group might have truly changed.
If Russia’s and China’s high hopes about the Taliban’s new leadership style are met, then Afghanistan has a chance to function as the integral component of Central and South Asia’s multipolar future if those two eventually recognise the group as that country’s legitimate government. These Great Powers have very ambitious plans for turning Afghanistan into the fulcrum of their complementary regional integration visions. February’s agreement to build a Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan (PAKAFUZ) railway will enable Russia to reach the Indian Ocean like it’s wanted to do for centuries while China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) can transit through Tajikistan and Afghanistan via a ‘Persian Corridor’ to reach Beijing’s new strategic partners in Iran.
These crisscrossing connectivity projects intersect in Taliban-led Afghanistan, which is another reason why it’s so important for both of them to retain pragmatic ties with that country’s de facto leaders. They also want the Taliban to fight against international terrorist groups like ISIS-K, which is in everyone’s security interests and would greatly assist the group’s global rehabilitation if it presents itself as the world’s vanguard force against one of the most infamous organisations in history. Only by ruling Afghanistan in a just manner which ensures its domestic stability in parallel with rooting out all regional terrorist threats can the Taliban earn Russia’s and China’s trust enough to play this integral role in the broader region’s multipolar future.
Although the Taliban of course aspires for greater recognition than from just those two Great Powers, Russia and China are influential enough to inspire their regional partners to follow their lead with time. Even if only they, Pakistan, Iran, the Central Asian Republics, and perhaps Turkey too, recognise the group as Afghanistan’s legitimate government, that would still be sufficient for starting Afghanistan’s multipolar reconstruction process. The estimated USD3 trillion of rare earth minerals under its soil can be extracted by some of those countries’ companies after they develop the appropriate infrastructure for doing so, with the proceeds possibly being redistributed throughout society in order to help average Afghans if the Taliban has the will to do so.
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Fundamentals of Modern Substation Equipment, Protection and Controls
After participating in the seminar, you will be able to:
- Apply a clear understanding of needs to use power conditioning equipment to your substations
- Assess the modern substation system, equipment, protection and automation
- Benefit from your knowledge of how substation equipment operates
- Read and relate single line drawings and electrical schematics to substation equipment protection and control system
- Recognize the latest technology in electrical substations
Knowledge of state-of-the-art substation equipment, protection and controls is a prerequisite to making decisions in design, construction and operation of high and medium voltage substations. This practical course covers medium and high voltage substations, including industrial, utility, commercial and institutional and introduces you to the up-to-date equipment that makes up an electric substation. Learn how each type of equipment operates, and protection and control equipment and systems that determine successful and safe substation operation.
You will also learn practical aspects of design, construction and operation of power transformers, voltage regulators, power circuit breakers, circuit switchers and capacitor banks.
- Grounding and bonding of electrical equipment
- LV and MV system grounding
- Modern substation types and purposes
- Power transformers and controls
- Bus and disconnect switches
- Power circuit breakers
- Metal-clad switchgear
- Power conditioning systems
- Power capacitor and capacitor banks
- Substation commissioning
- Fundamentals of power system protective relaying systems
- Current transformers and voltage transformers
- Coordination of protection systems
- Protective relaying systems
Who Should Attend:
Electrical and Design Engineers • Industrial, Utility or Plant Engineers, • Engineering Technicians • Planning and Operations Specialists • Consulting Engineers • Electrical Project and Construction Managers • Electrical Managers
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“Hey! You got a long coat! Congrats!”
The senior medical residents high-fived the younger resident. In this teaching hospital, an old tradition still persisted. It was the last week of June. The new medical students and interns were beginning a new academic year. In addition to the looks of fear and apprehension on all of their faces, they all wore a short white coat. This immediately distinguished them from their senior residents, fellows, and attending physicians. When an intern advanced to become a first year resident, they were given a long white coat. In some training programs, an elaborate ceremony marks this transition. There are some medical schools that will bestow a long white coat to all of their graduating fourth year medical students, when they are sworn as physicians. The sentiment is the same. The long white coat symbolizes accomplishment and advancement.
Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
Colossians 3:12 (NLT)
In God’s Kingdom, Christian believers should also distinguish themselves from others who have not accepted Jesus Christ. It is not with clothing made with fabric but an attire adorned with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We clothe ourselves with these gifts to symbolize our new life and nature in Jesus Christ. It acknowledges our accomplishment and advancement but not by our own efforts. Only God can clothe us if we confess and repent of our sins and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. The medical world recognizes achievement by a pristine long white coat. God confirms and recognizes our commitment to Him by clothing us with his pure Spirit, sanctifying our souls stained by sin.
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The Scottish American Society
is a group of people interested in the culture and history of Scotland and her people. We are open to participation
by individuals and families of all ages.
Our gatherings are held at various places. We meet the 2nd Sunday of
the month at the Akron Public Library, meeting room level. 3:00 in the afternoon - Sept., Oct., Nov., Jan., Feb., March,
Fun, fellowship, culture, information. We meet to greet, enjoy each other's company, learn about Scottish Heritage
and Culture, and decide what social event will get our attention each month.
Events and Programs
Among programs we have had are: a Genealogical expert discussing tracing family roots; a costumed Revolutionary
War Highland Soldier demonstrating kit and weaponry of that time, Castles & Cathedrals, history and structure; discussion
of the poetry of William McGonagall (arguably Scotland's worst poet) and a poetry contest. Frequently we dine together
- either with covered dish dinners, dinner at a local restaurant or at our annual summer picnic. We participate
in Tartan Day activities, State of Ohio events, we've done Genealogy at the Ohio Scottish Games at Wellington and other
community events. and host a Burns Supper in January.We have also hosted at Stan Hywet Hall during the holiday season.
We annually honor a citizen who has contributed time and effort to the Scottish American Community with our Rose and Thistle
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Hospitalisation is a sentinel event for older adults. Being admitted to hospital, especially if unplanned for an illness like pneumonia, is very scary. Sometimes the illness can even be life threatening. The majority of people will leave hospital, but for those aged 75 and older around 30-40% will experience functional decline. This is a particular risk for those who are already frail. As a doctor working in the hospital setting, it is heartbreaking to explain this loss of independence to patients and their loved ones. Appropriate medical, nursing and allied health care is critical, but it is not just up to the staff. There are things that you and your family can do to not only survive but make a full recovery following your illness.
Frail older adults are at higher risk for adverse outcomes than others. Frailty is a loss of physiological reserve leading to an individual being at risk of new disability. As people become more frail, they often need more help doing day to day tasks, may experience falls and may even begin loosing weight. People who have cognitive impairment or dementia are also at increased risk. If you think that this applies to you or your loved one, it is important you let hospital staff know.
It is surprisingly easy to become malnourished in hospital. When people are sick, they often don’t have much appetite. Although some hospitals have invested in improving food quality, many hospitals still serve food, which is unfamiliar and unappetising. If you are having surgery or another test you may have to fast. Even in this short time period, inadequate food intake can increase loss of muscle. Protein intake is particularly important. If you are finding that you don't have much of an appetite, it is important to focus on high protein, high kilojoule foods, like full fat yoghurt and milk with sustagen. Ask your family to bring in some favourite meals. There will be a dietician available to help guide these choices, particularly if you have a medical condition like diabetes. If you have been asked to fast, always ask why and find out when you will be able to eat again. By taking these steps to maintain nutrition, you are more likely to recover faster and leave hospital sooner.
When you are unwell, it is hard to contemplate getting out of bed and walking, but this is critical for recovery. There are often restrictions on walking in hospital to minimise the risks of falls. The physiotherapist is the best person on the team to discuss safe mobility. With some guidance from the physiotherapist, it is important that you mobilise as much as you can. Even just sitting out of bed will enable you to breath more deeply and ward off the dreaded pneumonia. Basically the more you walk in hospital, the faster you will walk out!
Doctors and nurses are very bad at recognising when they are using medical jargon. They spend so much time working and socialising with other medical people that they just don't realise they are using technical language. Many people are intimidated by the hospital environment and fear that asking for explanations will make them look silly, but it is actually the responsibility of the healthcare professionals to explain things in terms everyone can understand. If you don’t understand your illness or your treatments, keep asking questions until you do. The better you understand what’s happening to you, the better you can take an active role in managing your recovery.
HAVE THE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
No one likes to think about the worst things happening when they become unwell and are admitted for hospital, but an illness is often a time of great reflection. We are now seeing an increasing awareness of advanced care planning in the community, and this means recording your wishes and values regarding healthcare and quality of life so that if you are not able to make decisions regarding your medical treatment, other people can still act according to what you would want. If you feel that for quality of life, there are certain things that are important to you, like not being kept alive in a vegetative state or completely dependent for all care, make sure those you love know this, to give you peace of mind.
FOR FRIENDS & FAMILY
What if it’s not you, but your loved one who is admitted to hospital? There are key things that only family can do to aid recovery.
Watch out for delirium
Frail older adults are particularly vulnerable in the hospital environment. Around 30-40% of older adults will experience delirium. Delirium is a sudden onset of confusion and a change in alertness. The confusion can fluctuate throughout the day. This can happen before or during the hospital stay. Some people will be more agitated some will be more sleepy. The biggest risk factor for delirium is pre-existing impaired cognition, particularly dementia.
Delirium can be difficult to identify and diagnose. Patients may describe odd stories, like policemen coming into the room in the middle of the night, little children running around or insects. They may seem to pluck at the air, or drift off in the middle of a conversation. The type of delirium most likely to go unnoticed is hypoactive delirium, where someone becomes very sleepy. Medical staff need to be on high alert for any of these symptoms, but often it is the patient’s family and friends who are first to notice that the person they love is not their usual self.
It is very hard to see someone you love struggling with an illness. Admission to hospital is incredibly stressful for the patient and their loved ones. For a frail older person who is feeling sick and stressed, it can be very difficult to speak up if they have concerns. The friends and relatives will often be the first to notice something is not right. If your loved one seems weaker than prior to hospital, more confused or you’re just not sure they are getting better, speak up.
It is impossible to overstate how important friends and family are to recovery. With so much focus on the physical aspects of illness, it is easy to forget the importance of emotional support– just visiting, bringing some favourite foods and sharing some time with your loved one, may be enough to help them walk back out of hospital.
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