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A deletion syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by the deletion of genetic material. Several congenital conditions including Cri Du Chat Syndrome, DiGeorge Syndrome, 22q13 deletion syndrome, and Phelan-McDermid Syndrome are examples of deletion syndromes. These genetic disorders can vary widely in severity and they can be observed in populations all over the world. Some people are at greater risk than others.
There are several ways that a deletion syndrome can develop. One is a mistake during the production of egg or sperm cells that results in snipping a segment from a chromosome. Sometimes, early errors during fetal development lead to partial deletions on the chromosomes. More rarely, a parent carries a chromosome with a deleted segment in a condition known as a balanced translocation where genetic material is moved around. The child may inherit the chromosome with the missing piece and not the rest of the genetic data, resulting in a deletion syndrome. In a condition known as a frameshift mutation, the base pairs that follow a deleted string of DNA are not read properly and the proteins coded with that DNA are incorrect.
In some cases, deletion of a segment of chromosome results in abnormalities that are inconsistent with life. Typically, a miscarriage will onset very early in fetal development. Women who experience recurrent miscarriages can request genetic testing of the abortus, as well as herself and her partner, to determine whether a genetic disorder such as a deletion syndrome was involved and to explore possible causes for the miscarriages. If one of the parents has a balanced translocation, for example, this could explain the miscarriages.
Other deletion syndromes result in a fetus that can be carried to term, but may have a variety of disabilities. Deletion syndromes can involve any part of the body and in a contiguous gene deletion syndrome, multiple genes may be involved. A child may be born with physical anomalies and can develop intellectual and cognitive disabilities due to changes that occurred inside the brain.
Sometimes, people have missing genetic material and experience no obvious ill affects until later in life. Others may have relatively mild symptoms. The severity of a deletion syndrome depends entirely on the location of the missing segment of DNA. Genetic testing can be used to identify missing or translocated DNA. Some deletions are so rare that they do not have names, because they have not been observed and researched yet. Others are relatively common and can be highly recognizable even without genetic testing. | <urn:uuid:5afa7801-4c2b-4806-93ab-bba396cd44fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thehealthboard.com/what-is-a-deletion-syndrome.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954739 | 491 | 3.703125 | 4 |
metal plate fiber laser cutting machine VS Plasma Cutting Machine
Which is better, metal plate fiber laser cutting machine or plasma cutting machine? In fact, the two have their own advantages and disadvantages, but the differences are also very large, such as working principle, cutting quality, and cost of use.
The difference between metal plate fiber laser cutting machine and plasma cutting machine
- The working principle is different
The metal plate fiber laser cutting machine focuses the laser light emitted by the laser into a high power density laser beam through the optical path system. The laser beam irradiates the surface of the workpiece to bring the workpiece to its melting or boiling point. At the same time, high-pressure gas coaxial with the beam blows away the molten or vaporized metal. As the beam moves relative to the workpiece, the material eventually forms a slit for the purpose of cutting.
A plasma cutter is a gas that is heated to very high temperatures and is highly ionized. It transmits the arc power to the workpiece. The high temperature melts the workpiece and blows it off, forming a working state of plasma arc cutting. Then, the metal is melted using a plasma arc as a heat source. The cutting is an arc, so there is often a certain arc when the cutting fails. Therefore, when the section we need is a right angle, the plasma cutter is no longer suitable.
- Different cutting quality
In terms of cutting accuracy, the plasma can reach within 1mm, and the laser can reach within 0.2mm. Therefore, the precision of the metal plate fiber laser cutting machine is higher.
The metal plate fiber laser cutting machine can realize non-contact cutting with the surface of the workpiece, the cutting gap is small, the precision is high, the heat affected zone is small, and the cutting end surface is smooth and free of burrs. However, the cutting gap of the plasma cutting machine is slightly larger, the cutting end face is rough and not smooth, and the cutting precision is low.
- Different cutting materials
metal plate fiber laser cutting machines are suitable for cutting a wide range of materials: metals, non-metals, ceramics, glass, etc. Plasma cutting is suitable for cutting various metal materials, mainly thick plate cutting.
- The cost is different
The purchase price of plasma cutting machine is much cheaper than that of metal plate fiber laser cutting machine, because metal plate fiber laser cutting machine is composed of many precision parts, and the cost of mechanical parts is higher.
However, in terms of the cost of consumables, the cost of consumables for plasma cutting machines is very high. For example, the entire torch (nozzle, swirl ring, electrodes, etc.) needs to be replaced within a few hours, and plasma cutters consume a lot of power. However, the cost of consumables for metal plate fiber laser cutting machines is very low, there are few wearing parts, and almost no maintenance is required.
Advantages and disadvantages of metal plate fiber laser cutting machine and plasma cutting machine
- Advantages of metal plate fiber laser cutting machine:
- Fast laser cutting speed: sheet metal cutting speed can reach 10m/min, much higher than plasma cutting machine.
- High cutting quality: small deformation and smooth cutting table. The laser cut groove is very small, and the laser cut surface can be directly used for welding without grinding.
- High cutting precision: The precision of metal plate fiber laser cutting machinecan reach 0.05mm, and the repeatability of positioning can reach 0.02mm.
- Laser cutting materials have a wide range of applications: both metal and non-metal materials can be used. There are metal metal plate fiber laser cutting machines and CO2 metal plate fiber laser cutting machines for non-metals.
- The laser can also be used for engraving, welding, drilling and other operations with powerful functions.
- Disadvantages of metal plate fiber laser cutting machine:
The cost of metal plate fiber laser cutting machines is high, and the initial investment and maintenance costs are high. At present, the thin plate laser cutting has a high cost performance, but when the plate cutting efficiency is low, unless the quality requirements are high, improper laser cutting is used.
- Advantages of plasma cutting machine:
- The advantages of the plasma cutting machine are that the plasma arc energy is more concentrated, the temperature is higher, the cutting speed is faster, the deformation is small, and it can also cut stainless steel, aluminum and other materials.
- The plasma cutting machine has advantages in cutting thick plates, because in the thick plate cutting process, a very high cutting speed can be achieved, which is much higher than that of lasers and flames.
4 Disadvantages of plasma cutting machine:
- Plasma cutting will generate harmful gases and arcs: The principle of plasma cutting determines the arc intensity, noise and dust in the cutting process, which will pollute the environment to a certain extent. Underwater plasma cutting is generally used for medium and thick plates, so the cutting thickness is limited.
- The verticality of the cutting surface is poor: one side of the cutting surface will have a large bevel and the verticality is poor.
- During the cutting process, more cutting slag is produced on the surface of the cutting process. Since the process quality is not affected, the slag after cutting must be ground, which also increases labor costs.
- Plasma cutting has a larger heat-affected zone and wider slit. Not suitable for cutting thin plates, as the plate will deform due to heat.
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Vacant property tax likely under Housing For All proposals
House crisis plans include downsizing stamp duty discount and Fair Deal rent break
Talks are under way between government departments on a plan which would see couples or individuals given a grant to renovate vacant properties in towns around the country. Photograph: Steve Marcus
A vacant property tax looks set to feature in the Government’s new Housing for All plan with a vacant sites tax also under consideration.
Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien will bring the latest draft of the long-term plan to solve the housing crisis before a Cabinet subcommittee next Monday where the last details will be signed off on ahead of publication.
Talks are still under way between government departments on a plan which would see couples or individuals given a grant to renovate vacant properties in towns around the country.
Agreement in principle has been reached to go ahead with a vacant property tax based on forthcoming information in relation to the local property tax. Owners of vacant homes now have to declare their unused houses to the Revenue Commissioners and explain why they are empty and this information will be needed first.
There is increasing unhappiness in Government with the existing vacant sites levy which has been in place since 2019 and is collected by local authorities. Introducing a vacant sites tax instead, to be collected by Revenue, is “on the table”, a source said.
Discussions are also under way to introduce an incentive for people who want to downsize to a smaller home which would see a halving of the stamp duty charge from 1 per cent to 0.5 per cent. The incentive is designed to make it more attractive for people living in family homes to trade down after their children have left, particularly to apartments, via a halving in the stamp duty bill on the purchase of the smaller property. The measure would be introduced in the budget, due in October.
Other new measures will include a plan code-named “Project Tosaigh”. This will see the Land Development Agency play a role in activating thousands of dormant planning permissions which have not yet been activated on lands which may be privately owned. They could take a partnership role in a project or they could take them over and develop them out.
This could deliver thousands of houses in larger urban areas if the plan is successful.
The multibillion plan will aim to deliver 33,000 houses a year by 2025. The exact split between public and private, and social and affordable will be announced by the Government either next week or the week after.
Thousands of homes could also become available under a plan to allow families keep rents where an elderly homeowner is in care under the Fair Deal scheme. Currently 80 per cent of the rental income derived from the owner’s home must go towards their nursing home fees.
The Department of Housing has also earmarked land controlled by commercial State companies for the expansion of the planned home-building programme, including sites controlled by CIÉ and the ESB.
The Government is also advancing plans to transfer some 1,400 social housing units to the Land Development Agency from the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
Another centrepiece of the plan will see “land value sharing” introduced, which would see property owners and developers compelled to pay the State up to half of the increase in the value of land when it is rezoned for housing. The aim is to ensure the State makes a gain from the significant increase in the value of private land that arises from zoning and investment decisions by public authorities.
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This site has been created to spread cases of vulnerable communities and ecosystems, starting from Latin America but including all continents. [Read more…] about SEV VESPLAN presents a visual journey through vulnerable socio-ecosystems and invites your contributions
The International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management recently added new papers to its Editor’s Choice page. On this page you will find free access to nine recently published articles, selected by Editor-in-Chief, Rudolf de Groot. Together, these articles offer a nice overview of what the Journal stands for: publishing research that informs policymakers and practitioners, improving knowledge on important ecosystem services and their relation with biodiversity, exploring the balance between socio-cultural values, traditional ecological knowledge and economic development, and alternative approaches to improve biodiversity management. [Read more…] about IJBESM offers free access to nine new Editor’s Choice papers
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has extended the deadline for submitting comments on the ongoing external reviews of First Order Drafts of IPBES assessments to 18 July. As a reminder, expert reviewers are requested to register to review one or more chapters of one or more assessments. [Read more…] about IPBES extends deadline for external reviews of First Order Draft assessments
The Young Ecosystem Services Specialists network (YESS) has issued their June newsletter.
In this latest newsletter you can read about the YESS session at the upcoming ES Conference in Antwerp and the YESS workshop which took place at the ESP 8th World Conference in Stellenbosch last November. The newsletter also offers some book suggestions, a selection of upcoming events and a list of publications from the YESS network. [Read more…] about YESS Newsletter June 2016 | <urn:uuid:387cc2fe-5274-40da-8824-ab9aa5ee8f70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.es-partnership.org/category/news/page/127/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.912676 | 373 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Contrast And Imaging Agents In Interventional X-ray Market plays an important role in improving the health-related issues in the healthcare sector. Contrast material, which is also known as contrast agents or contrast media, are used to improve image quality produced by X-rays, computed tomography (CT) and other imaging techniques. By using contrast materials radiologists can distinguish normal from abnormal conditions within the body.
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Contrast agents or media doesn’t permanently discolour internal organs. Prior to the imaging exam, when the contrast agent is introduced in the body, these contrast materials form some shape in the body which helps to appear different than that if no contrast agent is administered. Contrast agents or media help physicians diagnose medical conditions by improving the vision. The material is absorbed by the body or eliminated through urine or bowel movements. There are various ways to use contrast material such as swallowed (taken by mouth or orally), injected into a blood vessel (vein or artery; also called given intravenously or intra-arterially) and administered by enema (given rectally).
Different types of contrast materials are available including Iodine-based and barium-sulphate compounds used majorly in X ray and CT, Gadolinium which is used in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and many others.
Canada contrast and imaging agents in interventional X-ray market is expected to reach USD million by 2026 and projected to register a healthy CAGR of 4.9% in the forecast period 2019 to 2026.
Segmentation: Canada Contrast and Imaging Agents in Interventional X-ray Market
On the basis of agent type, the market is segmented into iodinated contrast media, barium-based contrast media, microbubble contrast media, gold nanoparticle contrast agents and others. In 2018, iodinated contrast media segment is expected to dominate the Canada contrast and imaging agents in interventional X-ray market and expected to reach USD million by 2026, growing at the highest CAGR in the forecast period of 2019 to 2026.
In March 2017, GE Healthcare expanded its MRI contrast media product portfolio by launching a macrocyclic agent named Clariscan in Europe. This strategy helped the company to enhance its customer base and also expand their product portfolio.
On the basis of application, the market is segmented into cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, oncology, urology and general Surgery. The cardiology segment is further sub segmented into percutaneous coronary intervention, structural heart disease, congenital heart disease and electrophysiology. In 2018, cardiology segment is expected to dominate the Canada contrast and imaging agents in interventional X-ray market and expected to reach USD million by 2026, growing at the highest CAGR in the forecast period of 2019 to 2026.
On the basis of end user, the market is segmented into imaging centers, hospital, clinics, diagnostic center, ambulatory surgical centers and private practices. In 2018, imaging centers segment is expected to dominate the Canada contrast and imaging agents in interventional X-ray market and expected to reach USD million by 2026, growing at the highest CAGR in the forecast period of 2019 to 2026.
Competitive Analysis: Canada Contrast and Imaging Agents in Interventional X-ray Market
Some of the prominent participants operating in this market are General Electric Company, BRACCO, Guerbet, Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc. and among others.
In December2018, GE launched its e-learning portal at Lagos Garage Week 2018 in Nigeria. This would help thousands of Nigerians with advanced manufacturing training program.
In November 2018, GE and Dragos Industrial Controls Systems announced their collaboration. This would help the company to strengthen the industrial control systems.
In May 2018, Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. (China) and Bracco Imaging signed a collaboration agreement on the research and development activities in China. This strategy focused on the exploitation of the potentialities of Bracco Imaging microbubbles technology platform for supporting the development of new Shanghai Pharmaceuticals therapeutic products in the oncologic field.
In October 2017, Bracco Imaging acquired SurgVision (Netherlands). This acquisition helped the company to expand its innovative field of fluorescence imaging-guided surgery.
In July 2018, IBM Watson Health (Massachusetts) and Guerbet announced a joint agreement for developing an artificial intelligence software solution for supporting liver cancer diagnostics using MRI and CT imaging, and care. This would help the company in expanding their product portfolio.
In April 2018, Guerbet announced the acquisition of a microsphere technology which is developed by Occlugel (France) for strengthening its interventional imaging range.
In November 2018, Lantheus Holdings announced the presence of Mary Anne Heino who is the President and CEO of the company at the BMO Prescriptions for Success Healthcare Conference on December 12 in New York City.
In September 2018, Lantheus Holdings announced the presence of Mary Anne Heino who is the President and CEO and Robert Marshall who is the CFO and Treasurer of the company at the 2018 Cantor Fitzgerald Global Healthcare Conference on October 3 in New York City.
In October 2016, FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc., received an award of commercial innovation of the year by WMIS. This award was given due to their continuous development of innovative products.
Research Methodology: Canada Contrast and Imaging Agents in Interventional X-ray Market
Key Opinion Leaders (KOL’s): Manufacturer, Healthcare Professionals, Radiologists and Cardiologists Doctors, Nurses, Medical practitioners, Industry Participants: CEO’s, V.P.’s, Marketing/Product Managers, Market Intelligence Managers and, National Sales Managers.
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Nine life-size terracotta warriors have been warmly welcomed by both Maltese and tourists who are taking the opportunity to see some of China's treasures in Valletta.
A number of people yesterday walked into the Archaeological Museum on Republic Street to travel 2,200 years back in time and admire one of the most sensational archaeological finds of all time.
The silent warriors and two horses are just a few from the thousands that make up the terracotta army built by Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang to protect his tomb near Xi'an.
The warriors were found in three separate underground pits after they were discovered by farmers who were digging a well in 1974. Although only about 1,000 soldiers and the remnants of 21 chariots have been excavated so far, it is estimated that the pits include around 7,000 soldiers, from infantry to generals. Nearly two million people visit the site every year.
Archaeologists have not yet got into the emperor's tomb, but they believe there might be a model of Qin buried with him.
The exhibition of the priceless works of art - which took 700,000 men 38 years to complete - was inaugurated by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi yesterday evening.
Dr Gonzi lauded the emperor for uniting a country split into six warring states, completing the first version of the Great Wall, building an extensive network of roads and canals across China, standardising language and currency and abolishing feudalism.
"Here was a phenomenal leader who formed a country that has remained with its borders relatively intact for more than 2,000 years. He has built a country that is proud of its heritage and rich in potential. He was called the First Emperor of Qin (from which the word China is derived) for his ability to unite so vast a land with all its diversity and demands, starting a new course in China's history which it still enjoys and benefits from today."
He pointed out that while China was being unified, Malta was in the midst of the Punic Wars and on the way to becoming part of the Roman Empire.
"This started an important period in Malta's history. It rooted the country to the European continent and initiated a story that led to the gift of our religion and culture." He said the Maltese still subscribe to that culture, adding that as Malta integrates better within the European Union, it continues to strengthen bonds with other countries, including China.
Dr Gonzi said Malta has always maintained a cross-party consensus about the importance of a quality relationship with China.
The exhibition, organised by Heritage Malta and the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, is open every day between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. up to July 31.
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Free step-by-step video tutorials for your Fiat 500
Do you own a Fiat 500? Thinking about buying a used example of this Italian supermini? Wondering if the Fiat 500 is a good, safe and reliable car? Crash safety experts Euro NCAP awarded the car three stars out of five overall, while in Auto Express's latest Driver Power owner satisfaction survey the Fiat 500 finished 45th place out of 75 cars, with strong individual scores for its styling, interior and running costs.
You can save yourself serious amounts of money by carrying out maintenance and repairs on your own car, and Haynes' Owners Workshop Manual for the Fiat 500 (2008 - 2012) shows you how to perform basic jobs such as checking the fluid levels and changing the wiper blades as well as more advanced procedures such as replacing the rear shock absorbers and changing the coolant.
Haynes shows you how to service and maintain your Fiat 500
Haynes' 15 YouTube videos show you, step by step, how to do the jobs shown above (and more) on your Fiat 500.
Our Fiat 500 YouTube playlist shows you:
How to replace the rear light bulbs
How to change the wiper blades
How to replace the air filter
How to change the coolant
How to check the fluid levels (shown below)
How to replace the headlight bulbs
How to replace the rear shock absorbers
How to replace the front brake pads
How to change a wheel
How to replace the battery
How to change the engine oil and filter
How to change the pollen filter
How to replace the rear bulbs
How to renew the fuel filter
How to change the brake fluid
The videos are designed to complement our print and online manuals for the Fiat 500 with the 1.2 litre (1242cc) petrol engine and the 1.3 litre MultiJet (1248cc) turbodiesel engine. They also cover most mechanical features of Convertible but do NOT cover models with 0.9 litre 2-cyl ‘TwinAir’ or 1.4 litre petrol engines, the semi-automatic transmission or Abarth or 4x4 models.
Written from hands-on experience gained from the complete strip-down and rebuild of a Fiat 500, Haynes can help you understand, care for and repair your car. We do it ourselves to help you do-it-yourself, and whatever your mechanical ability, the practical step-by-step explanations, linked to over 900 photos, will help you get the job done right. Regular servicing and maintenance of your Fiat 500 can help maintain its resale value, save you money, and make it safer to drive.
Here’s the Fiat 500 fluid level checks video from YouTube:
Buyer’s guide: the Fiat 500 story
The Fiat 500 was introduced in January 2008 as a 3-door hatchback with a 1.2-litre petrol or 1.3-litre diesel engines.
The petrol engine is of the four-cylinder single overhead camshaft (SOHC) 8-valve configuration, in-line type, whereas the diesel engine is four-cylinder double-overhead camshaft (DOHC) 16-valve design with direct, common-rail fuel injection and a turbocharger.
The engines have sophisticated emission control systems, including catalytic converters, particulate filter, EVAP, EGR, etc.
The 500 came with a 5-speed manual gearbox (covered by the Haynes manual). A semi-automatic ‘Duo-logic’ and four-wheel (4x4) drive transmissions were also available (not covered).
Drive is sent to the front wheels and the front suspension is fully independent, while the rear is semi-independent with a torsion beam and trailing arms.
A wide range of standard and optional equipment was available on the 500 range, including electric power steering, air conditioning, remote central locking, electric windows, electric sunroof, anti-lock braking system, alarm and airbags.
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The first thing you should do after getting a new router is to change its default password. Most wireless routers and access points ship with default information preconfigured so you can access the settings and do things like make a WiFi network and change DNS settings.
You read correctly: your router, at least when you first bought it, came with a password and username that anyone can access with a simple search online.
Fortunately, you can change the default router password and username so hackers have to try much harder to penetrate your network. Here's how.
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A router's default information is often so common an attacker doesn't even need to do any research. Many vendors use admin or administrator as the username and password as the password.
Clearly, you need to change the default password for the router, which involves finding the router's IP address and researching the default login information.
Here are some starter lists to check out if you need the default password for your router: Linksys, NETGEAR, D-Link, Cisco, Belkin.
Consider looking through the user manual that came with your router to find the default login information. Manuals are often available online straight from the manufacturer's website.
For example, some routers are controlled entirely from a mobile app and aren't even accessible from a web browser, which means you don't need to know the default IP address or login information. This is often the case with mesh network routers.
It's vital to use a strong password so that it's harder to guess. But, a strong password is also hard to remember, so consider storing it in a password manager.
Should I Change the Router's Username?
Some vendors require absolutely nothing for the default username, which means if someone knows the password to your router, they can get into it in seconds.
If your router has an option to change the username, you should do so. Knowing the username gives an attacker half of the information they need to gain access to your device, so leaving the default one unchanged is definitely a security concern.
Since most routers use something like admin, administrator, or root for the default username, be sure to pick something more complex.
Even adding some numbers or letters to the beginning or end of the default username makes it tougher to crack than if you left them out.
Consider the username a second password; attackers need both to gain access to your network, so making them difficult to guess gives you the upper hand.
Other Ways to Protect Your Network
Changing the router's username and password is very important but it isn't the only way you can protect your network from attackers. Another method is to hide the fact there's a network there at all.
By default, wireless network equipment typically broadcasts a beacon signal, announcing its presence as far as the signal can reach and providing key information necessary for devices to connect to it, including the SSID.
Wireless devices have to know the network name, or SSID, of the network they want to connect to. If you don't want random devices connecting, then you certainly don't want to announce the SSID for anyone to grab and start guessing passwords for.Is It Worth It to Hide Your Wi-Fi Network?
MAC address filtering is another method for securing your wireless network. When you enable MAC address filtering, you're forcing every device to authenticate on your network with not only the correct username and password but also the right MAC address.
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The Renewables Obligation (RO) is one of the main support mechanisms for renewable electricity projects in the UK. The RO came into effect in 2002, placing an obligation on UK electricity suppliers to source an increasing proportion of the electricity they supply from renewable sources. A parallel mechanism, The Renewables Obligation (Scotland), exists for Scotland.
In 2017, the Scottish Government and UK Government delivered legislative changes to create a scheme that exempts Energy Intensive Industries (EII) from a proportion of the indirect cost of the Renewable Obligation.
To be eligible for exemption, businesses must pass a sector test and a 20% electrical intensity threshold. In response to criticism that these rules create competitive distortions - by disadvantaging those who are not eligible but who operate in the same sectors as those who are - the UK Government committed to consult on widening eligibility.
Given our devolved responsibility for the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) (ROS), and historical advice to maintain parity with the management of the UK scheme, the Scottish Government published a consultation in parallel.
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How Google Is Making Big Gigs of Internet Sales
How Google Is Making Big Gigs of Internet Sales
Page 19, lines 6–7: For example, you can create a virtual private network by encrypting a local area network using public keys, such as the RSA public key, that are only allowed to access a subset of the network; public keys are used to access any network. “I think that’s a very different definition of a VPN,” explains Mark Karpinski, a consultant at SecureNetworks. A network that is completely isolated is not typically one that you use to access a shared data center, Karpinski says. But even if the network is completely isolated, the process for encrypting the network is generally difficult. “It’s not really a great process unless you have the key on the server,” Karpinski notes. “You’re still going to have to find a way to get that key to the server. Often, you’ll end up having to exchange the password and key. And if you’ve got a key, you are going to also have to share keys with a VPN gateway. ” The issue with sharing keys with the network is that there’s no way to ensure that a user’s key would be used only for the network. It could potentially be shared with the router, or the internet, or even the hosting provider, he says. Karpinski also says that using a VPN is a less secure option than using a proxy server. For example, the VPN could be vulnerable to hackers using a weak password or weak network connectivity, he notes, so the proxy is the safer and more secure option. The question is whether Google will actually use the VPN technology it’s working on to provide its new Fiber optic network, in addition to its fiber-based wireless network. “They don’t have the technology yet to do it,” Karpinski says. “It might work for a while, but it will definitely become significantly more complicated. ” Google declined to comment for this story. [PDF] Google and AT&T already have several data centers, with the Googleplex, located in Mountain View, California. Google also has an offshoot in New York City that serves as a data center — and has been for some time, with the name “Google-New York. ” Google also has a site that has information about all its data centers.
Internet traffic between Kinshasa and Brazzaville
“Internet traffic between Kinshasa and Brazzaville” by Sombath Banik. Keywords: internet traffic, computer security, internet in Kinshasa, internet in Brazzaville.
Internet traffic between Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, and Brazzaville, one of the most economically developed provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a common topic. A similar traffic is observed between the two capitals of Brazzaville and the city of Kinshasa. The traffic is of interest for both the individual and the governments involved. The Internet is a common medium for communications in these two cities, which are the only ones in Africa that have Internet connections. Both the governments of Congo and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo are aware that the traffic between the two capitals is of concern and have instituted measures to address it. At the same time they are concerned that the traffic is increasing and that it threatens the security and stability of the two cities.
The Internet is the most widely used communication medium on the planet. Each day approximately one billion people globally use the Internet. This number does not include all Internet users and, therefore, the global total is only about 1% of the population. However, when they use the Internet on their computers and access websites, they are using it to communicate, in the most general sense, as well as to access other services that they use for work or education. In this sense, the Global Internet Population is only about 0. These numbers should therefore be viewed with considerable caution.
There are three types of Internet users when it comes to using the Internet. One group is that of “ordinary” users. These are people who use the Internet to communicate with other users on the Internet, to send mail to other people on the Internet, and so on. These users use the Internet to communicate with other users all day, and they typically do not have any interest in browsing the Internet or using the services that it provides. This group is also referred to as “passive Internet users” or simply as “passive users”.
Next there are “professional” Internet users. These are users who make use of the Internet to send and/or receive information.
An Internet High Bandwidth Link between two cities using Econet.
The Internet High Bandwidth Link between two cities using Econet. In an Internet high bandwidth link, it is necessary for data to be transferred over a wide-bandwidth link, and to transfer the data in a quick and efficient manner. The internet high bandwidth link is one type of a communication infrastructure for delivering a variety of services, from streaming video over the Internet to real-time communications, such as electronic commerce, over the Internet. However, most of the large network elements currently in use have fixed bandwidth of less than 1 Gbps. An internet high bandwidth link requires the use of a router. The router includes routers for the transmission of data from the source to the destination, and routers for the reception of data to be transmitted. However, the routers often lack of capability for transmitting and receiving large quantities of data over high bandwidth links.
In a conventional configuration, the router is usually a local router or a router that connects to a network, such as a global IP address. To achieve higher performance, some solutions have employed large-capacity routers with multiple links. These type of solutions can achieve a high throughput, but these solutions suffer from a high cost.
In a conventional solution, it is usually the network administrators who want to utilize a combination of routers to achieve a higher performance. The problem with a conventional configuration is that only a limited number of routers can be effectively used in such a configuration. The limited resource of these traditional solutions usually results in a performance penalty of the routers.
It is desired, therefore, to provide an alternative solution for a router. Preferably the solution is cost efficient and allows for the use of more links, such that the capacity for transmission and/or reception at the router can be increased. The solution allows for the use of high speed internet links at the router so as to improve the performance over conventional equipment. In addition to being cost efficient, the solution allows for the possibility of having multiple routers in the same network in order to achieve a better performance.
One attempt to address the bandwidth problem is the InfiniBand™ technology developed by the InfiniBand Special Interest Group, Inc. The InfiniBand™ technology is an IEEE standard protocol that uses high data rates and high bandwidth for communication in an infrastructure-layer network.
Wireless optical communications in the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This paper presents a new approach for wireless optical communications in the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo, focusing on their application in the urban context. Wireless optical communications may be particularly useful in areas where existing optical fibre and coaxial cables may not be practical. The new approach, based on the combination of Optical-Fiber-Bridging (OFB) and optical cable technologies, allows efficient deployment of optical signals in areas where existing fibre and cable networks may not be available. The paper analyzes the potential of OFB/optical cable systems to achieve very high data rates in urban and suburban areas. In particular, OFB systems that employ the non-linear interaction of light with a fiber in the path of the transmitted signal can achieve data rates of up to 4Gbits per second (2. 4G) per meter. The OFB approach is well suited for applications that require high performance (and compatibility) for the fiber, such as Internet access. However, the approach is also suitable for applications that wish to avoid high performance at the expense of lower performance in the cables. In this case, OFB/optical cable systems can potentially achieve data rates of 6Gbits per second (3. 6G) per meter, which is more than 2 orders of magnitude higher than is currently available. Future wireless optical networks will provide the potential for substantial increase in the data rates accessible to users.
In the world today, wireless optical communications are gaining significant ground because of the substantial advances that have been achieved in recent years in optical fibre technologies, communications technologies, and networking solutions that are necessary to enable reliable communication by means of the Optical-Fibre-Bridging (OFB) technology.
OFB is a technology that can be used to transmit optical signals over existing or new optical fibres. Although the OFB concept is based upon existing optical fibres, there are certain instances where cables with the required length are not available or are not practical. One such instance is the distribution of optical fibre within the urban environment, when, in fact, the existing optical cables may not be adequate to support full operation of the OFB technique.
Tips of the Day in Computer Security
I’m going to start off with a disclaimer. I have been a CERT Director for 11 years and I write in the field quite a bit, so I’m by no means an expert. In my opinion, CEE is a great program that works and is working well. I think the best way to get better at computer security is to learn and then apply the lessons.
When there is a question about how to do something, the best way to make sure that you have the right answer is to do it yourself. It’s hard to argue that writing things down or even reading them out loud is not the best way.
The most popular CSE articles are a reflection of what other CSE practitioners and organizations are doing. This is the case for the best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices, best practices.
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More details are beginning to emerge on Houston-based Axiom Space’s ambitious project to build and operate the world’s first commercial space station.
Thales Alenia Space, a European aerospace manufacturer, will develop the two pressurized modules of the Axiom Space Station. The two elements, which are scheduled to launch in 2024 and 2025, will dock to the International Space Station before eventually detaching and operating as a fully independent, commercial station.
The two companies announced the signing of the final contract, valued at €110 million ($130 million), on Thursday. Each module will be able to accommodate four people. Thales will also be designing the micrometeoroid and debris protection system for each module.
The modules are still in their design phase, Thales Alenia said. The company recently completed development of the first module’s four radial bulkheads at its facility in Turin, Italy. The bulkheads, once connected, will form a cylinder. That structure will attach to the common berth mechanisms, parts of the module that will connect to the ISS and hatches.
The two modules have a long road ahead of them. Thales Alenia, a joint venture between French company Thales Group and Italian conglomerate Leonardo, will begin welding on the first module this September through to next year. That module will be sent to Axiom’s Texas facilities in July 2023, where Axiom will then integrate the core systems and prepare it for launch in 2024.
NASA tapped Axiom to build the first commercial living quarters for the ISS in January 2020. Once the ISS is decommissioned, Axiom’s station will detach and function as a commercial center for future missions and scientific experiments. It’s a major part of NASA’s plans to encourage the growth of the burgeoning low Earth orbit economy and the buildout of other private orbital labs and commercial facilities.
Axiom will also operate the first fully private mission to the ISS, scheduled for January 2022. Axiom Mission 1 will send four private astronauts to space onboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, for an eight-day mission. | <urn:uuid:41bdb37f-481b-4029-9e26-ccce96237711> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/15/thales-alenia-space-to-develop-pressurized-modules-for-axioms-private-space-station/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.921317 | 436 | 2.375 | 2 |
Living healthy means following a balanced diet that supplies essential nutrients for bodily functions and exercising regularly to improve muscular and cardiovascular strength. Authority Health is a top resource with insightful tips and suggestions on how to maintain great overall health. That being said, avoiding risks associated with diet is also dependent on the ways in which we store and prepare our food as well as where we source it from. Following these few simple tips will help you minimize the risk of foodborne diseases and thus save you expensive trips to the doctor.
1. Willingly Wash
Wash your hands regularly. This should be an ingrained habit already but if not, be sure to instill the habit. If you have young ones that are not routinely washing then now has never been a better time to implement regular washing periods. Ensure that you and your family wash with warm soapy water 20 seconds before and after handling food. This will kill off toxic bacteria. If you have stubborn children then offer them rewards for regular washing such as a sweet treat after supper or a monthly trip to the drive-thru.
2. Keep Surfaces Clean
This is another consideration that is often overlooked. Maintaining kitchen hygiene plays a pivotal role in ensuring that harmful bacteria does not spawn and spread to areas where food is prepared. Make a habit of cleaning countertops and chopping boards immediately after use. If you do it then and there, chores won’t start piling up in the future. Maintaining a clean chopping board is vitally important. Bacteria from uncooked meat can live inside the cracks and cuts of chopping boards and diseases like salmonella can start to form. It is wise to have two separate boards; one for meats and one for produce. You might also want to consider the type of chopping board that you are using. Plastic boards are easier to sanitize but form deep grooves where bacteria can hide while wooden boards require more maintenance but are not prone to deep surface cuts. Check out this handy resource for tips on how to care for your wooden chopping board. Be sure to clean countertops with a powerful detergent. If you are worried about using harmful cleaning chemicals in the kitchen, then you can easily and cost-effectively make your own surface cleaner.
3. Defrost The Right Way
Do not let frozen foods thaw on the counter. The center of the food will remain frozen much longer than the outer portions of the food. The unfrozen parts will reach 40 – 140 degrees Fahrenheit long before the center and it is at this temperature that bacteria multiply extremely fast. The best methods for defrosting are in the refrigerator, microwave, or in cold water. Some perishable goods may indicate which is the best method so, be sure to read packaging labels for any instructions. These methods will ensure that the entire portion of food is defrosted to the same temperature. Once thawed, cook the food immediately to prevent the formation of bacteria in foods sitting at room temperature.
4. Cook Away Toxicity
Always cook meat to the right temperatures to eliminate any toxic bacteria. While it may feel warm on the outside, a food thermometer will help you assess the internal temperature of food to minimize potential health risks. A general rule of thumb for temperatures for specific meats can be seen below:
- Roasts and steaks – 145 F (degrees Fahrenheit)
- Poultry – 165 F
- Ground Beef (Burgers) – 160 F
- Ground Chicken – 165 F
5. Eat Local Produce
Sourcing produce from local farmers can make the world of difference to both the taste and health qualities of your dishes. Mass consumed meats are often prepared using ethically questionable methods and store-bought vegetables may not retain the freshness and subsequent nutrients of their locally grown counterparts. Opting for fresh produce from farmers will sustainably support the local community as well as be a source of nutritional foods that have not been tampered with. This minimizes the spread of harmful diseases from contaminated foods, for example, the listeriosis outbreak in South Africa. | <urn:uuid:c810747f-f13e-42d0-a77c-5a6205a92dcd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://1health1book.in/cut-health-costs-with-these-5-food-safety-suggestions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929976 | 821 | 2.859375 | 3 |
HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) is a security feature that prevents attackers from using fraudulent or misused certificates to impersonate a site. It allows the owner of a site to specify who can issue valid certificates with that identity, rather than accepting any one of the hundreds of built-in root certificates that ship with your browser.
For more information, see HTTP Public Key Pinning at MDN Web Docs.
What happens if I see a key pinning error page?
If a site uses key pinning and its certificate chain does not match the pin, Firefox will reject the connection and show a Secure Connection Failed error page with the message,
The server uses key pinning (HPKP) but no trusted certificate chain could be constructed that matches the pinset. Key pinning violations cannot be overridden. Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_KEY_PINNING_FAILURE.
This is done for your protection, so you don't inadvertently visit a site that's not authentic.
What can I do if Firefox rejects the connection?
If you believe that Firefox rejected the connection in error, report it to us by checking the box next to Report errors like this to help Mozilla identify and block malicious sites. It is up to the website owner to update their key pinning. | <urn:uuid:3572da84-d4b1-4e08-99bb-2419ea35e05d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://support.mozilla.org/dsb/kb/certificate-pinning-reports | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.852135 | 272 | 2.59375 | 3 |
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”Lucius Annaeus Seneca
They say a dog is a humans best friend. Being an owner of a dog, I completely agree. It’s hard to get a more loyal and happy companion than a your little furry friend 🐶.
However, I find it a little sad though. Because you would think, of all the people who would we our best friend, it would be ourselves. Shouldn’t we be our own best friend. Who is in better alignment with our dreams, thoughts, feelings, and emotions than ourselves? Shouldn’t we have the most sympathy and loyalty to ourselves?
And yet, we are usually our own worst critic. We don’t believe in our abilities. We think we can change, but never actually do. We hate who we are. We wear ourselves out with negativity, worry, regret, indecision and fear. And we even tend to go behind our own back without knowing!
How can we resolve this?
How do we become our own best friend?
First, we must learn who we are. It’s difficult to like someone who you don’t know anything about.
To do that, we have to be alone with ourselves.
Nature helps. Go be on the water or out in the woods. Rent a kayak, go for a hike or take a walk in the park. Motion helps too. A silent car ride on your way to work, or a road trip to the next town over. A morning bike ride or run. Do what you have to do to get yourself alone without technology or others.
Breathe. Be weird for a moment. Ask yourself questions. Listen for answers. Care about who you are. How would a friend treat you? What would a dog do? (W.W.D.D.?)
Second, we must learn to keep our past in the past. The past can cut us up daily. Maybe you’re not proud of a decision or moment in your past. Maybe a regret haunts you to this day. And, most of all, maybe you’re mad or resentful or envious about decisions someone else made to you or for you. How often do you let the past – something out of our control – rule over your day? One bad egg shouldn’t ruin the bunch. A head in the past has no bite in the present and no ambition for the future. Let. It. Go. Light a prayer lantern. Do a seance. Dance naked under the moon (please don’t do this). But serious, seek advice, seek council, find help. Let go of who you were, so you can be who are are.
Seek out ways to let go of your ghosts. They’ve gotten you this far, but you don’t need them any longer.
List out all the benefits you can think of for a difficult moment in your past has helped you. List all the downsides of it not happening.
Third, we also must learn who we want to be, and let go of any shortcomings or flaws we have and struggle with on our way towards our ideal self.
The goal is to be okay with who we are and what we’ve got to work with, while at the same time continuously pursuing a better version of our selfs.
I know, It’s a weird balance. There’s a lot of pitfalls that can get us stuck. The key is understanding that the ideal self is the goal, but never the end goal. The point isn’t to make our best self the end all be all. The point is to try with all of our might. The value is in the act of pursuit, not reaching a moment. The top of the mountain is fleeting. The top of the second mountain isn’t any more satisfying. The joy comes from the climb up. The pursuit of meaning is what matters.
If we can master these three things, AND have a dog — we’ll practically be unstoppable*.
(* until we die anyway)
STAY BOLD, Keep Pursuing,
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The head of secondary school gave a walking tour from the heroes statue (Alexander the Great) across the stone bridge through the old bazaar and back to a delicious Italian restaurant. I learned so much about the history of Skopje. Macedonia has only been independent for 30 years. I heard her first hand account of how students led to colorful revolution against the previous regime. They graffiti all around Skopje makes more sense after learning the history of students using it as a form of expression.
I heard her personal family stories of how her parents survived the earthquake of 1963 and her memories of eating in cafes in old Ottoman buildings. Very few buildings on the south side of the river survived the big earthquake. The stone bridge dates back to Macedonia’s early history and survived every political change. We visited a hamam (bath house) that is now a museum. Many of the Ottoman buildings on the north banks survived the earthquake. It is amazing to see the influence of their 600 years in this region still today. On the north banks are small cafes serving Turkish coffee & tea, kebab restaurants, and many mosques. I learned 5 new Macedonian words just by learning that they are the same in Turkish (portakal, vişne, fıstık, tamam, hamam).
This park honors the contributions of women during WWII. It was lovely to see the leaves starting to change colors.
I look forward to more cultural outings to learn more about this unique country and it’s resilient people. | <urn:uuid:63536752-f6f6-4be0-bd67-69e2fccc8ca2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emilyseduventures.blog/2022/01/30/a-tour-of-the-old-bazaar-from-a-local/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968657 | 310 | 1.960938 | 2 |
It is based on the RD-104 chipper. What distinguishes it is the 6-knife shaft and the chip shredding mechanism. In this way, we obtain a very fine chip of approximately 20 mm. Equipped with two pulling rollers, it copes with branched limbs. The chips, after being cut on a six-knife shaft, are thrown onto the flail shaft, where they are further fragmented. The material obtained in this way is perfect for combustion in furnaces with a screw conveyor. It is also eagerly used by gardening companies for mulching or, for example, for smokehouses.
The RD-105 chipper allows you to cut branches with a diameter of up to about 90 mm. Driven by a PTO shaft, it is designed for tractors with a power of 50 to 60 HP. | <urn:uuid:4fff10fb-ad3b-4314-828f-76e5097828f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zmprecyzja.pl/en/rd-105 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.961778 | 175 | 1.679688 | 2 |
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Admits 'We Were Wrong for Not Listening' Earlier, Encourages Peaceful Protests
By CBS Sports
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On Thursday night, a handful of big-name NFL players, including Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes, demanded the NFL explicitly condemn racism and the systemic oppression of black people in America, as well as admit the league was wrong to silence peacefully protesting players in years past.
Less than 24 hours later, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has done just that, addressing all of the players' concerns in a video statement while encouraging players to peacefully protest injustice.
"It has been a difficult time for our country -- in particular, black people in our country," Goodell said. "First, my condolences to the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and all the families who have endured police brutality."
"We, the National Football League, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people," he continued. "We, the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We, the National Football League, believe black lives matter."
We, the NFL, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of Black People. We, the NFL, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We, the NFL, believe Black Lives Matter. #InspireChangepic.twitter.com/ENWQP8A0sv
Goodell closed by pledging his own support to those fighting injustice.
"I personally protest with you and want to be part of a much-needed change in this country. Without black players, there would be no National Football League. And the protests around the country are emblematic of the centuries of silence, inequality and oppression of black players, coaches, fans and staff. We are listening. I am listening. And I will be reaching out to players who have raised their voices and others on how we can improve and go forward for a better and more united NFL family."
Goodell's remarks come hours after longtime NFL veteran Adrian Peterson said he -- and other NFL players -- would definitely be kneeling during the national anthem in 2020 to protest ongoing racial injustice. They mark the league's strongest public support of protests -- and the issues behind them -- since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling in 2016.
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DK Workbooks: Handwriting
These workbooks can be a good introduction for more traditional print and cursive writing. There are only two books in this series, so Level K could be used for any grade at which you want to introduce printing and the 3rd grade book can be used for whatever grade you want to introduce cursive. Books are black and white and answer keys are found in the back of each book. Each book is 47 pages and includes 200 gold stars for rewards; Check off the pages in the front of the book.
The Printing book includes lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers and number words, copying words, writing simple sentences, copywork, coloring, and drawing. The letter formation is ball and stick and begins teaching straight and curved strokes, then tracing dotted letters on 1/2" lines, then writing letters and words on lines. Cursive begins with lowercase and uppercase letter formation, strokes, between letters, copywork, and writing your own creations. Only 3 pages of lowercase practice and one page of uppercase practice is done on 1/2" lines with dotted midline, all other practice is done simply by writing on a line. ~ Donna | <urn:uuid:1891c036-9d37-421e-b87b-57a342bdc425> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rainbowresource.com/category/7461/DK-Workbooks-Handwriting.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.928404 | 245 | 3.75 | 4 |
Paul Brenner and Teresa Ober
Notre Dame researchers in the Center for Research Computing (CRC) and Department of Psychology, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) Business Enterprise Systems Directorate’s product innovation initiative (BESPIN), and Trek10, a cloud engineering innovation company based in the University’s Innovation Park, have developed an adaptive online learning platform to educate members of the Air Force on cloud computing.
The Air Force team selected Trek10, a global leader in the design, build, and support of next generation, cloud-based software systems utilizing Amazon Web Services, to develop the Cloud Enablement Curriculum (CEC) for their Digital University (DU) prototype platform. Solving the ‘digital readiness workforce’ problem at a systems level, through the adaptation of this platform, provides the Air Force with a tremendous opportunity to increase the readiness level of U.S. forces, while decreasing the cost to the American taxpayer.
“This collaboration will provide curriculum and a strategy for administering that curriculum to airmen, giving them the digital skills they need to be successful within the Air Force, as well as skills that are very much in demand by employers in the civilian workforce,” said Teresa Ober, a postdoctoral scholar in psychology. “A hallmark of success for the program is whether or not the curriculum gets the airmen excited about cloud computing. Regardless of where they start, are they able to pass certification exams and are they still passionate about doing work in cloud computing in the long run?”
Ober is working on the initiative with primary researcher Paul Brenner, the CRC’s senior associate director. Given his computer science background and over 20 years as an Air Force Reserve officer, Brenner understands the growing need for cloud computing knowledge among both the military and civilian populations.
“Helping our airmen develop these rapidly evolving technical skills is critical for our national security,” Brenner said. “Many security threats are now cyber and if we do not have ways to modernize the speed at which the military trains, it puts our country at greater risk.”
The platform uses “scaffolded lessons” to customize content based on each student’s prior knowledge. Now in the pilot phase, the team is educating 30 Air Force members via Notre Dame-designed and administered assessments, which are then followed by customized Trek10 instruction.
“The University of Notre Dame and specifically through the leadership of Paul Brenner and Teresa Ober have been an invaluable resource to this effort. In addition to the deep expertise in computer science and educational assessments, their track record with the educational arm of the Air Force has allowed the team to quickly and efficiently adapt thinking and provide a common framework to discuss how this technology could be adapted to Digital University,” said Shane Fimbel, chief executive officer of Trek10.
This research is funded by the Air Force. Now in Phase 2 of the plan, Notre Dame and Trek10 have completed the initial Phase 1 planning and are moving on to the program prototype. If successful, the team hopes to gain approval for Phase 3, which would scale the project up to train even more Air Force members.
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One day a mother took her two children with her when she went to color cloth. Not far from her home was a mud hole where the carabao liked to wallow, and to this hole she carried her cloth, some dye pots, and two shell spoons.
After she had put the cloth into the mud to let it take up the dark color, she built a fire and put over it a pot containing water and the leaves used for dyeing. Then she sat down to wait for the water to boil, while the children played near by.
By and by when she went to stir the leaves with a shell spoon, some of the water splashed up and burned her hand, so that she jumped and cried out. This amused the children and their laughter changed them into monkeys, and the spoons became their tails.
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Asset management in seismic active regions
Here in the north of the Netherlands we are confronted with regional induced earthquakes due to gas exploration. The combination of deep reflecting salt layers and an extremely variation of soils in the jelly like top layer result in abnormal intensity of the induced earthquakes at suface level.
The abnormal intensity in combination with the ofter poorly constructed houses leads to wide spread damage and even live threatening situations.
Often damage is the result of slowly rising tensions in wall and constructions due to subsidence and ground water level management. A minor earthquake in combination with the already present tension often leads to sudden damage to buildings in recent years.
We monitor a large numbers of buildings and houses, as well as industrial installations and infrastructural objects like dikes and bridges to asses damage by slow deformation, earthquakes or the combination of the two. Providing a track record of deformation and their root-cause.
All over the world their is a complete hidden infrastructure of pipes, power lines, communication cables, etc. Earthquakes, ground water variations and subsidence stress these objects, often leading to damage hidden from view. Minor deformations at (sub)surface level often are the first indicators of something wrong beneath our feet. | <urn:uuid:e84930c7-9af3-4a5f-8b58-6c2a95a89cbd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://service.stabialert.nl/seismology/seismology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946022 | 252 | 2.078125 | 2 |
How I Use It
I use ExploreLearning Gizmos in a number of ways. I've used them as easy introductions to classes as well as for further application of already learned materials for the students to use as individuals. Students stay engaged with the Gizmo from start to finish and generally have a vested interest in completing the activity and understanding how/when they get incorrect results. I have also used it as to demonstrate different "labs" that we are unable to physically do so that students can still see concepts through the simulation.
I really like using the Gizmos. If you take the time to go through them you can also pick and choose which aspects of a whole simulation you want to use if you don't want to use an entire one which is nice to pinpoint and focus on specific concepts. Sometimes the instructions are vague and it causes issues with understanding for the procedures for the students. | <urn:uuid:89a70791-51ea-491c-a3d0-44012344323a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/explorelearning-gizmos-teacher-review/3973681 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97241 | 186 | 1.945313 | 2 |
We’d all like our money to work harder for us and earn a greater return. Many people see little return on their savings, but there are different ways in which you can make your money work harder for you.
Get a Better Rate on Your Savings
It’s not a great time for savings accounts at the moment, with interest rates being particularly low, but you can find an account that offers you more. If you’ve got money just sitting in a low-yield account, then it’s well worth looking at your options.
Many people just open a basic savings account that barely offers them any interest when there are accounts out there that can offer much better rates. Make your money work for you by looking for high-interest checking accounts, and other schemes that can help your money grow.
Create a Passive Income
Passive income is very much a buzz word these days. The idea of sitting and watching money roll in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is very appealing, but not many people manage it.
If you’ve got money lying around that’s not earning much interest, then you have an opportunity to do this. The most common investment in which to see passive income is real estate, but there are lots of different ways that you can create one.
Whether it’s becoming a silent partner in a business, or creating a website, there’s lots of different ways of making your money work while you sleep.
Pay Into Your Pension Pot
Putting money away for the future isn’t just a good idea, it’s also a way to make your money work harder for you.
Many pension plans offer the opportunity to invest your money without having to pay tax on the money invested or the growth of the fund. This means you can put your money to good use, ready for when you need it later in life.
If you’ve got savings that you don’t need in the short term, then investing in your pension pot can help ensure your security further down the line.
There are all sorts of options for how you invest your money. There are traditional stock markets, crypto markets and many other options in between, but it’s important that you’re investing with a strategy.
Make sure you’re doing your research and using tools such as the best binance signals to help you trade effectively.
You can have high-risk strategies or low-risk strategies, either way, there’s a lot of potential to earn greater returns on your investment than if you leave your money in the bank.
Pay Down Debt
The more you can pay down your debts, the better your money is going to work for you. While you’re paying off debt, you’re accumulating interest rather than receiving it, which means your money can’t work effectively for you.
If you’ve got savings coming in, then it’s worth paying off those debts as much as possible, so that you’re no longer paying interest. Once you’ve done this, saving will become easier, and you can start to invest in assets that are going to make your money work for you. | <urn:uuid:d7b8b0f1-513b-4e0b-b1a1-b30e8a79ef00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.themoneyshed.co.uk/5-ways-to-make-your-money-work-for-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955928 | 673 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Frugalpac has revealed a wine bottle made from 94% recycled paperboard that is apparently comparable in cost to a labelled glass bottle.
According to an independent Life Cycle Analysis undertaken by Intertek, moving to the Frugal Bottle can allow wine producers to cut the carbon footprint of each bottle by up to 84% and reduce emissions from transporting bottles, as the product can be made and filled on site.
The same LCA also claims to show that the product has a carbon footprint that is more than a third smaller than a bottle made from 100% recycled plastic. Meanwhile, Frugalpac says that the product’s water footprint is also at least four times lower than glass.
In terms of end-of-life, the company reports that consumers can simply separate the plastic food-grade liner from the paper bottle and put them in their respective recycling bins. Alternatively, the product can be put whole in the paper recycling bin and the liner will be separated in the paper re-pulping process.
The new design, which can also be used for spirits such as gin, vodka, and rum, weighs in at just 83g, apparently making it up to five times lighter than a normal glass bottle and therefore easier to carry and lighter to transport.
The first wine to go on sale in the Frugal Bottle is 3Q, an unwooded Sangiovese red from the award-winning Italian vineyard Cantina Goccia.
Frugalpac’s chief executive Malcolm Waugh comments: “We’ve had fantastic feedback from people who’ve trialled the Frugal Bottle. As well as the superior environmental benefits, it looks and feels like no other bottle you have ever seen.
“We want to deliver great wine and spirits in innovative packaging whilst helping our customers and consumers reduce their impact on the environment.
“Frugalpac’s business model is to supply Frugal Bottle machines for wine producers or packaging companies to manufacture the bottles on their site, cutting carbon emissions even further. Materials can be purchased locally through existing paperboard printers to give maximum freedom of design and the best commercial offering.” | <urn:uuid:be83290d-cc0f-425d-a101-27acaf55d64e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://packagingeurope.com/frugalpac-launches-wine-bottle-made-from-94-recycled-paperboard/1394.article | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959508 | 448 | 1.976563 | 2 |
6.Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa
One of the “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” ukiyo-e art. Mannen Bridge was at the joint point of the two river traffics, Onagi River and Sumida River. Various people cross the bridge under the clear sky.
Turning our eyes for the river, some boats come and go on the water. And a man crouching down on the rock drops his line.
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) designed the ukiyo-e’s composition with the perspective buildings and geometric bridge.
It makes the view point as we look up the bridge from the river. The color of Prussian blue peppers the whole image of the woodblock print. | <urn:uuid:1c66eb17-f354-4bbc-b1ae-2cf0500b6956> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/paintings/ukiyoe-wood-block-printing/katsushika-hokusai/mannen-bridge-fukagawa-thirty-six-views-mount-fuji | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.913415 | 166 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Lentil Salad with Feta and a Lemon Turmeric Sunshine Dressing
This post is all about how to take a very basic ingredient from your kitchen and turn it into a (healthy) gourmet salad. Are you excited to try this out with me?
The basic ingredient I am referring to here are lentils. Given that the vegan revolution is spreading through the world, lentils have started making an appearance in a variety of healthy dishes in restaurant menus.
Indian cuisine puts to use a spectacular variety of lentils (dals, split or whole) in dishes like dals, khichdi, as a filling inside breads / puri and so on. But mostly dals, which are consumed on an everyday basis, pretty much across India.
When we talk about lentils and Indian cuisine, salad is not the first thing that comes to mind. One of the only lentil based salad that I can think of is kosumalli where split skinned yellow mung dal is mixed along with cucumber or carrots. This makes a light dish that heralds the onset of summer. A spoonful of this salad is served as a part of a larger meal.
Lentil Salad with Feta
Brown lentils or whole masoor / sabut masoor is the hero ingredient here. While a curry using this dal along with rice is my favourite weeknight dinner, these lentils are the perfect Indian pantry ingredient for a lentil salad.
When you cook the whole masoor just right, it retains its shape well enough to be tossed into a salad. I make sure not to pressure cook the soaked lentils, but just steam cook (minus the weight), for it to be cooked just right.
To complement the earthy flavour of this lentil, I have used fresh and flavourful ingredients like green apple and cucumber, all brought together with a sunshiny lemon turmeric dressing.
A few tips for this Lentil Salad with Feta
Ensure that the lentils are not overcooked. Please follow the instructions on cooking these lentils given in the recipe below.
Make sure to douse your salad with plenty of dressing as lentils are flavour sponges. Allow this salad to sit for a while. Lentils will absorb all the flavours of your dressing as well as the juices from the other ingredients like cucumbers and apple.
The feta cheese adds a sharp saltiness that pairs wonderfully with these lentils. For a vegan version of this lentil salad, simply omit feta and use some crumbled smoked tofu instead.
Want to check out another healthy lunch salad – calorie counted recipe? Here it is
Here are the list of ingredients that pair great with whole lentils
- Olive oil
- Feta cheese
- Cumin seeds
- Runny eggs
Choose 3-4 ingredients from this list to make your own version of a lentil salad
Substitutes for whole masoor in this lentil salad with feta — If you don’t find whole masoor outside of India, you can substitute it with Puy lentils.
Other lentils you can use in this salad are —
- lightly blanched sprouted moong
- lightly blanched sprouted moth beans
If you have stocked up on whole masoor, this is the other very popular Saffrontrail recipe that you must try out – Whole Masoor Dal Curry
Lentil Salad with Feta
- 1/2 cup dry whole masoor soaked for 5-6 hours
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/4 cup julienned beetroot raw beet is fine
- 1 European cucumber julienned
- 1/2 green apple sliced
- 1 cup spinach leaves choose baby spinach or tender small leaves
- 100 grams feta cheese cut into small cubes
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
- pinch of salt
- toasted cumin seeds
- edible flower petals I used Nasturtium
- To prepare the lentil salad with feta, start by cooking the lentils. Drain the soaked masoor. Cook on stove top / pressure cooker or Instant pot until just cooked and retaining its shape. For pressure cooking, place masoor with enough water to cover, a bay leaf and 1/2 tsp salt. Close the pressure cooker lid and remove the weight. After a few minutes, steam starts escaping from the nozzle. Switch off after 5 minutes.
- Open lid and drain the cooked lentils in a colander. Allow to cool for a bit.
- Wash and dry the greens (spinach or any other).
- In a shallow bowl, layer half the lentils. Scatter spinach leaves, beet, cucumber and apple over this. Top with the remaining lentils.
- Scatter feta cubes over the salad.
- In a small bowl, whisk the lemon juice, olive oil, turmeric and salt vigorously until thick. Pour this all over the salad.
- Garnish with toasted cumin seeds and nasturtium petals.
- If using regular cucumber, peel and discard seeds before cutting into thin batons.
- Canned lentils can be used to put together this salad with hardly any prep time
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Digital to analogue conversion is a discipline that, on the face of it, looks to be a simple number crunching exercise. Yet, as in all things audio, the devil is in the detail. Chief among the gremlins is time, which if not precisely regulated, causes temporal distortion (jitter) in the digital signal and ultimately manifests itself as actual noise and distortion in the resulting musical signal.
Uniquely, Leema’s design team have been involved with digital audio in both music recording studios and movie sound stages, since its commercial introduction in the early 1980s. This gives us a wealth of experience when designing DACs for audiophile use, technically at the very limit of what is achievable but most importantly, warm, detailed, musical and natural. | <urn:uuid:0894cb93-e08b-458d-bec0-2b3143b7c3c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acoustica.co.uk/product/leema-elements-pre-amplifier-dac/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942622 | 155 | 1.671875 | 2 |
"Cheeze Factory" - Engineering Undergraduate Society
- Between MacLeod and Civil and Mechanical Engineering
- Original construction 1918-1920
East and north wing (cold room) 1925-1932
Flat roof shed 1954-1957
- Sharp and Thompson
- Total cost of all SCR buildings $20,000
- Sources of funds:
- Department of Soldiers' Civil
- Use history:
- 1920-1966 clasroom/laboratory for cheese-making
1967-1971 library storage - Colbeck Collection
1972-? Poultry Isolation Unit
1981- Engineering Undergraduate Society offices and meeting place for Engineering
- Name history:
- Until 1923 SCR Farm Diary Building.
1923-1966 Diary Building or Diary Laboratories.
1967-1971 Library Storage - Collbeck Collection.
1972-1981 Poultry Isolation Unit.
1981- "Cheeze Factory" or "Cheeze Pub"
- Architectural features:
- Wood-frame on concrete foundation, vertical plank siding, gabled roof with
- Thompson, Berwick, Pratt; UBC Essays.
- The flat roof shed removed between 1976 and 1981.
Renovated in 1981.
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Ollie the 9 month Bernese Mountain Dog came in to our clinic for continued vomiting and overall lousiness. He also happened to have a history of not discriminating when it comes to food...he felt that corn cobs and watermelon rinds were part of a well-balanced diet. Upon his first visit, Ollie was still a bouncy puppy, but his owners expressed that he definitely was not himself, and had been having intermittent vomiting. When medical therapy did not seem to help Ollie's condition, we became more and more suspicious about a foreign object inside of Ollie's GI tract.
"Foreign body" is the term we use for any abnormal item that an animal might ingest - tennis balls, rubber toys, socks, hair-ties...you name it, and it probably has been found by a veterinarian at some point! We are most suspicious about foreign bodies in puppies especially, because they are so curious about their environment and like to explore with their mouths - which means eating all kinds of things! Ollie definitely fit this signalment, but theoretically any animal can be a foreign body candidate. Foreign body cases often present with an inability to keep any food or even water down - they tend to vomit several, if not multiple, times over the course of a day. They also often will act sick, but Ollie fooled us a little bit with his happy disposition at first, so they can present in several different states. The best way to diagnose a foreign body is with x-rays, but we also recommend bloodwork to monitor how sick the animal is really feeling as well, if their electrolytes are unstable from vomiting, and if any specific organs are affected.
Regular x-rays are helpful, but doing a contrast study with liquid barium, as show in the picture above, is incredibly useful when suspecting an obstruction, as it shows up radio-opaque (white) on radiographs and allows us to follow the GI tract through a series. On Ollie's barium x-rays, we felt as though the intestines were more dilated that normal (typical of a foreign body radiographic "pattern"), and that the barium suddenly stopped on its way through the small intestinal tract. This study confirmed that we needed to go in and find the foreign object causing obstruction.
Sure enough, our surgery revealed a corn cob stuck in the intestines which we promptly removed. We always check the health of the GI tract while we are in surgery, because the longer an object is stuck in the GI tract, the more risk it poses to normal tissue, and can cause necrosis (tissue death). "Happy" intestines are nice and pink - intestines that are damaged can look maroon or even purple - when this happens, we perform a procedure in which we remove the damaged section and attach the remaining healthy ends together. Luckily, Ollie did not have any signs of necrosis.
Ollie recovered beautifully from surgery and has since regained his normal bouncy attitude. The most important progress is that he finally was able to keep down his meals; he was very hungry after not being able to really eat for a few days! We are so happy we could help you out, Ollie!! | <urn:uuid:4ff41694-6d36-4fa0-a476-1711f832aa62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pahfallston.com/olliecase | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.981645 | 666 | 2.390625 | 2 |
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In ancient Egypt, long before the cosmetics industry hijacked personal care, Body Odor was disguised with citrus oils and spices. By the twentieth century marketers had convinced the population that social success was a stretch unless Body Odor was quashed. The problem is that the products promoted in this scheme may not be the best for our health. Find out the risks associated with deodorants and antiperspirants, and learn about homemade and natural alternatives.
Body Odor is the result of bacteria (naturally found on skin) which feeds on Sweat. Antiperspirants work by plugging your pores with aluminum salts, blocking the route for Sweat to exit your body. Deodorants don’t reduce the amount of Sweat, but make the skin acidic and thus unfavorable for the odor-generating bacteria.
The problems with non-natural, commercial products start with aluminium compounds (particularly Aluminium chlorohydrate) which are easily absorbed through the skin. Aluminum compounds can accumulate in the brain and have been linked to Alzheimer’s.
Next are parabens (short for para-hydroxybenzoate) a class of preservatives widely used in cosmetics and personal care products that are being investigated for their possible role in breast cancer. Parabens mimic the activity of estrogen in the body. Since estrogen promotes the growth of breast cancer cells and a woman is eight times more likely to develop breast cancer in the part of the breast closest to the underarm, scientists are studying the connection. A 2004 study found parabens in 18 of 20 samples from breast tumors. The research is considered inconclusive in linking the use of deodorants to breast cancer, but it has sparked further studies and is enough to have us breaking out in a Sweat.
And then there’s propylene glycol—a humectant originally developed as an anti-freeze. Found in many commercial deodorants and antiperspirants, it is a neurotoxin known to cause contact dermatitis, Kidney Damage, and liver damage. In propylene glycol’s Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), published by the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, workers are urged to avoid skin contact with the toxic chemical as it may cause eye and skin irritation. (Yes, the same ingredient commonly used in products applied to the skin.) In addition, it states, “chronic exposure can cause gastro-intestinal disturbances, nausea, Headache, vomiting, and central nervous depression.” Well alrighty then….how about some nice wholesome alternatives?:
In addition to using plain Witch Hazel, or baking soda, here are some refreshing recipes inspired by Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair by Dina Falconi (Ceres Press, 1998). These should be mixed and applied with a cotton ball.
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USPS does not allow for the mailing or shipment of alcohol, domestically or internationally. On top of this, if you are using packaging that was once used to carry alcohol, any and all labeling or branding that shows it could carry alcohol should be covered, or else your package can be denied shipment.
Is it illegal to mail alcohol in the US?
The United States Postal Service (USPS) prohibits sending alcoholic beverages through the mail, but you can ship alcohol via couriers, such as FedEx or UPS if you’re a licensed alcohol shipper.
What happens if you ship alcohol USPS?
Penalty for Shipping Alcohol USPS
USPS is not a licensed alcohol shipper. If you attempt to send alcohol via USPS and are caught, you’re eligible for costly legal action. In fact, the USPS is so anti-alcohol, they’ll even pull shipments of non-alcoholic items shipped in boxes or packaging with liquor branding.
Can you send alcohol through mail?
There is absolutely no alcohol allowed for any USPS shipment, domestically or internationally. On top of this, if you plan on using packaging that was once used to carry alcohol, all labels or branding associated with alcohol must be covered or taken off in order to properly process the package.
Can I ship alcohol to a friend?
So, you want to send your friend alcohol? … The US Postal Services does not allow people to mail alcohol. Shipping with other carriers is the only real option. However, the rules for shipping alcohol are strict and the alcohol shipping laws by state vary significantly.
Will UPS know if I ship alcohol?
UPS sends a shipment notification email to the recipient informing them when the Spirits shipment will be delivered so that an adult at least 21 years of age can be available to complete the delivery.
How can I ship alcohol as a gift?
You must package the alcohol in the center of the shipment, away from the package’s sides. Your package must be deemed sturdy by UPS. You must clearly label the shipment and meet UPS, origin state, and destination state guidelines. You must clearly label the package as containing alcohol.
Can you ship alcohol through FedEx?
Consumers may not ship alcohol of any type via FedEx services. The shipper must be a FedEx-approved alcohol shipper, the recipient must be a business entity that holds appropriate alcohol licenses, and the shipment must otherwise comply with applicable laws.
Can an individual ship alcohol?
The short answer is, yes, you can. Individuals or retailers with the proper licensing can ship alcohol to California, or from California to different states. … Individuals without the proper licenses are not allowed to send alcohol. USPS prohibits the shipping of alcohol by individuals.
Can I ship hand sanitizer ups?
The short answer is that yes, technically, you can ship hand santizer with UPS, as well as things like wipes and masks. However, products containing alcohol (like hand sanitizer) are subject to IATA shipping rules.
Can you put alcohol in a checked bag?
Any amount of alcohol greater than 3.4 ounces must be packed in checked baggage. … Travelers may take up to five liters of alcohol with alcohol content between 24% and 70% per person as checked luggage if it’s packaged in a sealable bottle or flask.
What states can you ship alcohol to?
Six states—Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Rhode Island—and the District of Columbia authorize the direct shipment of all spirits as specified. Eight states allow the direct shipment of beer and wine as specified: Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Virginia.
Can I send a bottle of wine in the mail?
Mailing wine as a gift isn’t technically legal anywhere in the United States, as it’s illegal to send alcohol in any form through the U.S. mail. The USPS prohibits the mailing of alcohol, either domestically or to foreign countries. Wine must be shipped through commercial carriers.
How do I ship a bottle of wine?
Follow these 10 simple steps to ship wine with fewer headaches.
- Understand the regulations. …
- Determine where you can ship wine. …
- Select an appropriately sized corrugated shipping container. …
- Securely pack your wine with appropriate inserts. …
- Seal the package securely with pressure-sensitive packing tape.
How do I ship beer to a friend?
How to Mail Beer Across the Country Like a Pro
- Line Your Box with a Garbage Bag.
- Line the Sides of Your Box with Bubble Wrap.
- Wrap Individual Bottles with Bubble Wrap or Newspaper.
- Keep It Tight.
- Tape Every Part of the Box.
- Don’t Mail Beer in the Summer.
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Parts labeled as "beef round" ("momo") or "rump" ("rampu") are lean meat fit for steak. While the round is simple and light, the rump covering the hip to the rump is richer and softer.
If lean meat is cooked in the same way as fatty meat, it will turn out hard and dry. The two seemingly conflicting keys when cooking are to turn the meat fragrant and brown, yet also moist.
Sugar helps the meat turn brown. Even a small amount will brown the meat when the latter touches the hot frying pan and will enhance the aroma and flavor.
The meat is pan-fried for a short time and the pan’s "residual heat" is used to heat the meat to the center after turning off the stove. If you cover the meat with aluminum foil, you can recreate the art of the chef who uses the oven in the final stage.
Salt is sprinkled in moderation at first, so you may season the meat as you like at the table. Soy sauce flavored with wasabi is a perfect choice, while whole-grained mustard is good, too.
Like last week, Naohito Yoshikawa, who heads the Research Institute of Salt and Sea Water Science, explains the differences in the abundant variety of salts.
"Although sea water, solar salt and rock salt are listed as raw materials, they are all derived from sea water," he says.
The difference in the salt’s purity when it is turned into a product is believed to affect how salty it tastes.
Salt with a high degree of purity is dry and powdery common salt ("shokuen") at 99.5 percent. Meanwhile, moist salt often sold as local specialties have a purity of around 95 percent. The remaining bittern component such as magnesium is believed to take the edge off the saltiness when licked.
Rock salt with a purity of about 99 percent is not found in Japan and is therefore imported. As it does not deteriorate, salt is not given a "best before date." Use it without worry.
BASIC COOKING METHOD
(Supervised by Kuniaki Arima in the cooking aspect and Midori Kasai in the cookery science aspect)
* Ingredients and cooking utensils (Serves one)
1 slice (about 80 grams) lean beef, 1/8 tsp sugar (cane sugar or brown-colored sugar [san’on-to] if available), 1/8 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp oil, paper towel, frying pan, tongs or spatula, aluminum foil
1. Take beef out of fridge and pat dry surface with paper towel if wet. Leave at room temperature for about 10 minutes. Sprinkle sugar, then salt on surface (PHOTO A). One side will suffice. Cut aluminum foil into size large enough to wrap meat.
2. To get the doneness of medium rare, place frying pan on lower medium heat and heat sufficiently before pouring in oil. The temperature is right if meat sizzles when it touches the pan. Place meat in the center of pan, while making sure that oil touches the side sprinkled with sugar and salt (PHOTO B). Oil will coat the entire side of meat.
3. If aroma rises, it is a sign that meat has browned. If meat is about 1.5 cm thick, turn sides after 40 to 50 seconds. After cooking the reverse side for 40 to 50 seconds, turn off heat and wrap meat with foil.
4. Place wrapped meat on pan that is still hot on the stove. Leave for 4 to 5 minutes occasionally turning sides so the residual heat will be transmitted to the center (PHOTO C). Open the foil and serve meat on plate. Pour juice in foil if preferred. If meat is thinly sliced at an angle, the fiber is cut, making it easier to eat.
Kuniaki Arima is the owner-chef of Passo a Passo, an Italian restaurant in Tokyo’s Fukagawa.
Midori Kasai is a professor at Ochanomizu University and chairperson of the Japan Society of Cookery Science.
The meat will be subtly aromatic with enhanced umami if it is flavored with miso available at home. Use about 1 tsp miso for 80 grams of meat. Apply on one side instead of sugar and salt and leave for 5 to 10 minutes. The cooking procedure is the same, but the amount of oil is increased to 1 tsp, as miso burns easily. Boiled vegetables (wild asparagus ["asupara sobaju"] in photo) and fresh tomato may accompany the meat.
When meat is seared and gives off an appetizing aroma, the aminocarbonyl reaction (Maillard reaction) is taking place. It is a chemical reaction between amino acids of food and protein, and sugar and resolvents of fat. Heating enhances the reaction and creates aroma and turns cakes and rice crackers brown. | <urn:uuid:17941229-abfb-4706-96e7-ede6449b0d75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.japanbullet.com/life-style/gohan-lab-steak-of-lean-beef-sugar-turns-meat-brown-enhancing-aroma-flavor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.920127 | 1,049 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Before teaching himself to carve stone, William Edmondson worked at a hospital. This sculpture is of a nurse. Notice her long hair, her posture, and the position of her arms. How do you think the stone might feel if you touched it? Smooth? Rough? Bumpy? Edmondson liked making sculptures of people from his everyday life. Who would you make a sculpture of, and what materials would you use?
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The Perfect Laptop Guidance For Commencing Users
What have you any idea about notebook computers? In the event the last time you purchased one particular was some time ago, then a great deal has evolved ever since then. Regardless of whether you’re hunting within a retailer or browsing on the web, you may well be astonished at all the breakthroughs that have been produced. So, browse through this helpful advice to discover a little bit about laptops.
Always get a situation to put your notebook computer in if you’re likely to be getting it out from the residence. Whether you’re gonna university by using it or consuming it with a vacation, you’re gonna want that defense. Just throwing your laptop computer into the rucksack is a great way to already have it get ruined quite easily.
Unless you play lots of online games online, don’t get a sizeable processor and independent images cards. A graphics card can make use of plenty of energy, of course, if you don’t need it, you save on battery lifespan. A video gaming laptop computer probably delivers and costs much more than required. Maintain that money.
Stay away from your laptop pc over a gentle area, say for example a pillow or bed furniture. Environment your laptop computer with a delicate surface prevents ventilation that should really stream throughout the air flow holes on the bottom. This can lead to your notebook to overheat. When using your laptop computer in your bed, relaxation it over a book or another difficult surface area allowing for air-flow.
Think about touch-screen notebook. Increasingly more software for Personal computers is being designed with touchscreen display modern technology under consideration, meaning this approach will end up progressively important as time goes on. By buying the technology now, you can benefit from the touch screen functions and never feel an absolute necessity to re-buy one more laptop or computer for many years.
Know about the company’s standing prior to buying your notebook computer. In case your notebook computer is produced by way of a company which also markets vehicles and appliances for the kitchen, for instance, it may not be a fantastic business to purchase your notebook computer from. Know about how honest the business is and exactly how nicely their items are viewed.
Don’t be so keen to get a new notebook that you simply don’t do the proper research. If you’re locating a notebook computer that is certainly significantly more affordable than the others you might have looked at, it may not be a good deal. The truth is, it could be a cause for security alarm. Stay away from scams and badly created devices.
If you usually only search the internet, check out e-mail and handle modest expression digesting duties with your pc, look at purchasing a Netbook. These products are economical and light-weight to carry, however they are also constrained in the way they function. For that modest customer though, they offer a financial budget helpful solution which is easy to journey with and has got the job done.
If you are considering retaining this personal computer for quite some time, be sure it may be enhanced. You may have to swap out of the hard disk drive or increase the amount of Ram memory. These changes are easier to make on some pcs than others. Try to have the latest choices but don’t pay too much for such updates which might be out of date the new year.
Get yourself a situation when investing in your notebook computer. This can protect against wear on your own expense, and also will permit you to continue to keep documents plus some other various products on hand for by using your notebook computer. The situation can also be an easier strategy to have your laptop computer when you’re not property.
To help make the keys on your own notebook computer key-board much easier to see, use one of those particular layover keyboards which come in dazzling hues with bigger figures. The eye strain that is included with investing long hours on the pc could make small figures tough to opt for, so make points much easier on the eye with one of these niche keyboards.
Ask relatives should they have any savings on laptop computers through their work. Some organizations have works with specific suppliers so they can get laptops in a lowered rate. If you’re lucky, they can get you your personal computer at a small part of the fee you’d spend within a store electric outlet, so ask around!
Remodeled notebook computers can be quite a good plan if you know where you should buy them from. For example, reconditioned Apple electronics arrive with similar warranty as new releases. Be sure your restored pc comes with a up to date electric battery. Recall that you might not obtain the very same possibilities on new computers.
Don’t get a laptop computer simply because of its title. Famous organizations usually provide fantastic items even so, the fee could be fantastic too. To acquire the best quality to the cost, you ought to invest some time understanding the equipment from the notebook computer. These products are often every single bit as good as those being offered with the large brands.
Have you been concerned about stability? There are numerous choices to help safeguard the safety of the pc when it is lost or stolen. For instance, there is this as being a fingerprint scan. No-one who may be not signed up on your computer can make use of it.
Most notebook proprietors don’t require much computers strength. You won’t have need of a quick motherboard and lots of Ram memory when you have no purpose of taking part in online games. The much less processing strength a notebook computer has, the more affordable it is actually.
A lot of producers are pushing everyone toward crossbreed laptops. A hybrid laptop computer is one that will serve as equally a pc tablet and as a notebook computer. Presently, the products tend not to do well at either. If you loved this write-up and you would certainly such as to receive even more information concerning mercado de afiliados kindly visit the site. You can get a tablet computer which is far superior to any crossbreed and you will get a notebook that provides you with a greater practical experience than any hybrid at the same time.
Test out the computer keyboard for any notebook computer you are thinking about buying. You might enjoy the display screen, the size, as well as the condition, however, if the keyboard give is very not helping you, then you’re proceeding to get a bad encounter with time. You’ll give virtually all time keying in in your notebook computer, and so the computer keyboard should feel comfortable to you.
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HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. -- When alligators get too close for comfort, grab whatever is handy and guide them back to their pond. That was the plan for Deputy Wheaton and her fellow Hillsborough County deputies over the weekend.
Deputy Wheaton responded to a call to find a 4-foot-long gator getting some sleep in the shade of a car in the Tampa area.
Body-worn camera video from the deputies shows what happened.
She grabbed a broom to help lead the animal back to a nearby pond behind the home. After a while, the gator decided to go along for a joy ride by grabbing on to the broom.
No one was hurt and the gator was placed safely back in the pond.
It's gator mating season and the large reptiles are more visible right now, coming up on dry land to places they normally don't go.
This is the second alligator rescue for Deputy Wheaton in the last two months. In early April, the same deputy responded to a call about a 10-foot gator sleeping under a car at an apartment complex.
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Hearing professionals deliver essential health care and in these critical days, the hearing professionals need to be able to offer hearing health care while at the same time avoid the spread of the virus.
Therefore, The European Association of Hearing Professional has developed a 5-step action plan for hearing aid professionals in Europe. The guidelines include both steps where no medical masks are needed and steps where medical masks are needed.
Communication is essential
Hearing and communication are essential in this COVID-19 period. Individuals, also people with a hearing loss, need to access news reports from television and Internet. In a time when people are practicing social distancing, they need to be able to communicate virtually via phone and other virtual platforms with loved ones. Therefore, hearing professionals need to be able to provide essential care for urgent matters.
Hearing care clients, many in the 65+ age group, are very vulnerable and sensitive to COVID-19, so hearing professionals need to reduce the risk of spreading the virus.
Hearing professionals should also make sure to also be compliant with local health care guidelines for COVID-19.
Mark Laureyns, the AEA President says: “In nearly all EU countries, the care provided by Hearing Aid Professionals is seen as an essential activity, even during lock-down and state of emergency for COVID-19. It is essential that we can provide quality care for our customers who are in need, specifically if they also work in high priority functions or need to rely on their hearing to stay informed and to be connected by phone or other media to their loved ones. It is heart-warming to see how all our AEA member associations gave us a lot of very good support and input and that we all join forces to develop guidelines to provide appropriate care for hard of hearing people in these days of COVID-19 challenges.”
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A woman wades through mud to collect items from her home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The devastation brought by hurricanes Eta and Iota in Honduras in November 2020 contributed to a sharp rise in northward migration.
(AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
International refugee law must be overhauled to consider climate change and include “deadly environments” as a form of persecution.
In this August 2017 photo, Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers greet migrants as they enter into Canada at an unofficial border crossing at the end of Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y., on the Québec border. A federal court has invalidated Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States.
(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
The Canadian government should send a clear signal that it cares about constitutional and international law, heed a Federal Court ruling and take steps to immediately suspend the STCA.
Johnnie Henry, president of the Navajo Nation’s Church Rock chapter house community center, hauls drinking water to neighbors in Gallup, N.M., May 7, 2020.
AP Photo/Morgan Lee
Many Native American tribes are reporting high COVID-19 infection rates. State and federal agencies are impeding tribes’ efforts to handle the pandemic themselves.
President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally in February.
Mario Tama/Getty Images
American teens are much more perceptive about their political world than they are given credit for, a recent study shows.
The waters of Quitobaquito in southern Arizona have attracted diverse visitors for thousands of years.
Border wall construction through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.
Polls show that Americans feel more welcoming toward immigrants than they have in the past.
Americans have never felt warmer toward immigrants, nor have they ever been more supportive of immigration.
Many were confident the US Constitution was robust enough to check Donald Trump’s worst excesses, but the real push back has come from elsewhere.
Trump isn’t the first to think a country can be full.
When President Trump declared the US full, little did he know he was wading into a centuries-old economic debate.
How man-made barriers can harm humanity for centuries.
A steel wall along the U.S. border near Tecate, California, cuts across Mount Cuchame, a site sacred to the Kumeyaay people.
The U.S-Mexico border runs through Native American territories. A wall would further divide these communities, separating children from schools, farmers from water and families from each other.
Trump has signed a law aimed at curbing sex trafficking.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Governments should heed the expertise of the grassroots nonprofits that witness this scourge firsthand.
President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build a wall.
The constitutional conflict between Congress and President Trump over his emergency declaration has potential to undermine centuries of checks and balances between the two branches of government.
Donald Trump prepares to give the 2018 US State of the Union address.
Trump is not the first US president to talk about border security, but he is the only one to make it an “urgent national crisis”. Here is a handy deconstruction of President Trump’s rhetorical strategy.
Trump before delivering the State of the Union address with Pelosi and Pence.
Doug Mills/The New York Times/Pool via REUTERS
Four scholars weigh in on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, exploring his statements on immigration, childhood poverty, the border wall and the investigations into his campaign.
Migrants on a ship intercepted offshore near the Libyan town of Gohneima, east of the capital Tripoli, in July 2018.
Libyan Coast Guard via AP, File
After 1.3 million migrants from the Middle East and Africa came to Europe in 2015, many countries built fences or closed their ports. That has pushed migrants to take riskier routes into the EU.
Donald Trump presents a wall design during a discussion on border security.
The partial shut-down has ratcheted up tensions within the Republican party and added to speculation that President Trump will face a primary challenge some time before the 2020 presidential election.
An artist’s sketch of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán at a 2018 pretrial hearing in a Brooklyn Federal courthouse.
Elizabeth Williams via AP, File
With its tales of bloody violence, corruption, international trade and entrepreneurial innovation, Guzmán’s trial offers a telenovela-style explainer on Mexican cartels and their American clients.
Trump recently called the border a crisis during a televised address.
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Trump and other leaders use the word ‘crisis’ to claim there’s an emergency that demands urgent action. A leadership expert explains how to evaluate those claims.
U.S. President Donald Trump in McAllen, Texas.
History shows that Congress can play an important role in checking a president’s power.
Trump meets with Schumer and Pelosi at the White House in December.
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I’ve put this page up in response to a few queries I’ve had regarding the metering accuracy of the 139.
As with any camera, or any other manufactured item, the 139 is built to within certain tolerances and is tested to perform within certain limits. The limits set for the meter are wider than might be expected with acceptable errors up to ±1.1EV in some circumstances. The limits vary across the metering range with tighter limits in the middle of the range but, even then, the limit is ±0.6EV or nearly ⅔ of a stop.
Here’s the graph from the 139 repair manual showing the limits over the metering range of 0 - 18EV.
These tolerances should be borne in mind if checking the metering of your camera against another. Also remember that the meter or camera you are comparing against may also have errors. If, for instance you were to compare two 139s against each other and one was set near its lower limit and the other near its upper limit, there could be over 1 stop of difference between them, even in the middle of the metering range, but they would still be within tolerance.
What matters most, of course, is the results obtained: whether the image on film is correctly exposed or not. There are other factors to consider here including lens aperture accuracy and shutter speed accuracy and, not least, development accuracy. These are all variables that will affect the results. The only one of those which is relevant to discuss here is the shutter accuracy. The limits for the 139 shutter are shown in the table below taken from the repair manual.
The largest acceptable error is at 1/1000 with a tolerance of ±0.44 stop. Generally the limits are narrow enough to not cause problems themselves but could still add to any metering errors to give an overall exposure error.
These tolerances are not untypical in my experience and my recommendation to anyone using any film camera is to find your own personal Exposure Index (EI) for the camera/film combination you wish to use. You may find it necessary to adjust the ISO a little to get your preferred results but this has been a recognised practice for as long as meters, built in or otherwise, have been available.
If though, having read this far, you believe your 139 is genuinely not metering correctly, it is possible to adjust it. There is a potentiometer accessible under the right front (looking from the front) leather cover. Some 139s have two access holes in which case it’s the potentiometer under the top most hole. The adjustment is very sensitive and a very small adjustment will change the metering significantly but it can be done. Note too that the potentiometer may be sealed which can make it, initially, difficult to move. If necessary the whole leather can be removed and the plastic cover removed to get better access to the potentiometer but the camera base plate and lens mount trim also need removal first. There’s more information on my DIY page describing removal of the covers.
Footnote: Nearly all Contax 139 cameras, and some other models too, over expose unless they have been recently adjusted. This is due to deterioration of the metering cell. More information on this can be found on my blog at https://contax139.blogspot.com/2019/02/does-your-139-over-expose.html | <urn:uuid:d224cee6-63f3-4034-8106-2bee9e3c1615> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.contax139.co.uk/exposure-accuracy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947354 | 706 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Organizations can be very complex entities. Some of the factors which have an impact on the degree of complexity include:
- the number of distinct locations/facilities being operated
- the distance between locations/facilities
- the number of departments/services within the organization
- the number of employees and executives in the organization
There a variety of documents which organizations develop in an effort to clearly communicate their organizational structure and purpose; among them are: Organizational Chart, Mission Statement, Objectives, and Philosophy.
Part 1 - Create an Organizational Chart
Imagine you are employed in the HIM department of a large acute care facility. Your department manager has noticed that the current facility's organizational chart is outdated and has asked you to develop a new one to distribute.
Use the departments and reporting lines outlined below to develop an organizational chart showing the spans of control.
Part 2 - Review a Mission Statement and Write Supporting Goals
The hospital is undertaking a mission awareness initiative to involve employees in understanding how the work of the organization supports the mission. An organization's goal and objectives drives the mission. All work performed in the organization should support the mission or be directly related to the mission. The CEO would like to gage employee understanding of measurable goals that support the mission and is asking employees to write 3 measurable goals that employees see as important to the mission.
Rasmussen Medical Center's Mission
"Rasmussen Medical Center's mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve. We commit our skills and resources to the benefit of the whole person by providing the finest in health care, while addressing the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals and their families."
- Review the mission statement above that depicts the purpose of the overall organization.
- Write 3 measurable goals that would aid the hospital in achieving its mission.
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Domestic RHI Grant
The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) grant scheme was launched by the UK government in April 2014. Replacing the previous grant schemes, the RHI is designed to provide a financial incentive to homeowners for installing renewable heating technologies.
Get paid to heat your home
The RHI grant provides payment for every unit (kWh) of renewable energy used in the property, with differing tariff levels for each of the renewable technologies. Payments are made directly in to a bank account every quarter for seven years.
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Find out how much you could earn
Use our free online calculator to see which renewable technologies would be suitable for your project and how much your RHI grant payments could be.
In order for renewable systems to be effective, the building must achieve a certain level of insulation and the heating system should be designed around their use as a primary source of heating.
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for the building is required to assess it's suitability. This can be produced from the SAP report for a new build or by a Green Deal Assessment of an existing building.
If you live in an older property, eligibility can often be achieved by increasing insulation levels throughout to allow a renewable heating system to operate efficiently.
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“Official Secrets,” which opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles, is the best movie ever made about how the Iraq War happened. It’s startlingly accurate, and because of that, it’s equally inspiring, demoralizing, hopeful, and enraging. Please go see it.
It’s been forgotten now, but the Iraq War and its abominable consequences — the hundreds of thousands of deaths, the rise of the Islamic State group, the nightmare oozing into Syria, arguably the presidency of Donald Trump — almost didn’t happen. In the weeks before the U.S.-led invasion on March 19, 2003, the American and British case for war was collapsing. It looked like a badly made jalopy, its engine smoking and various parts falling off as it trundled erratically down the road.
For this brief moment, the George W. Bush administration appeared to have overreached. It would be extremely tough for the U.S. to invade without the U.K., its faithful Mini-Me, at its side. But in the U.K., the idea of war without approval from the United Nations Security Council was deeply unpopular. Moreover, we now know that Peter Goldsmith, the British attorney general, had told Prime Minister Tony Blair that an Iraq resolution passed by the Security Council in November 2002 “does not authorise the use of military force without a further determination by the Security Council.” (The top lawyer at the Foreign Office, the British equivalent of the U.S. State Department, put it even more strongly: “To use force without Security Council authority would amount to the crime of aggression.”) So Blair was desperate to get a thumbs-up from the U.N. Yet to everyone’s surprise, the 15-country Security Council remained recalcitrant.
On March 1, the U.K. Observer threw a grenade into this extraordinarily fraught situation: a leaked January 31 email from a National Security Agency manager. The NSA manager was demanding a full court espionage press on the members of the Security Council — “minus US and GBR of course,” the manager jocularly said — as well as non-Security Council countries who might be producing useful chatter.
What this demonstrated was that Bush and Blair, who had both said they wanted the Security Council to hold an up or down vote on a resolution giving a legal stamp of approval for war, were bluffing. They knew they were losing. It showed that while they claimed they had to invade Iraq because they cared so much about upholding the effectiveness of the U.N., they were happy to pressure fellow U.N. members, up to and including the collection of blackmail material. It proved the NSA plan was unusual enough that, somewhere in the labyrinthine intelligence world, someone was upset enough that he or she was willing to risk going to prison for a long time.
That person was Katharine Gun.
Played craftily in “Official Secrets” by Keira Knightley, Gun was a translator at the General Communications Headquarters, the British equivalent of the NSA. On one level, “Official Secrets” is a straightforward, suspenseful drama about her. You learn how she got the email, why she leaked it, how she did it, why she soon confessed, the horrendous consequences she faced, and the unique legal strategy that forced the British government to drop all charges against her. At the time, Daniel Ellsberg said her actions were “more timely and potentially more important than the Pentagon Papers … truth-telling like this can stop a war.”
On a subtler level, the film asks this question: Why didn’t the leak make a true difference? Yes, it contributed to opposition to the U.S. and U.K. on the Security Council, which never voted on another Iraq resolution, because Bush and Blair knew they would lose. Yet Blair was able to shrug this off and obtain a vote by the British Parliament several weeks later endorsing his war.
There is one main answer to this question, both in “Official Secrets” and reality: the U.S. corporate media. “Official Secrets” helps illustrate the ideological malfeasance by the American press, which eagerly jumped on this grenade to save its foxhole buddies in the Bush administration.
It’s easy to imagine a different history than the one we’ve lived. British politicians, like American ones, are loath to criticize their intelligence agencies. But serious follow-up on the Observer story by the elite U.S. media would have generated attention from members of the U.S. Congress. This in turn would have opened up space for British members of Parliament opposed to an invasion to ask what on earth was going on. The rationale for war was disintegrating so quickly that even some modest delay could easily have become indefinite postponement. Bush and Blair both knew this, and it’s why they pushed ahead so relentlessly.
But in this world, the New York Times published literally nothing about the NSA leak between the date of its publication in the U.K. and the start of the war almost three weeks later. The Washington Post placed a single 500-word article on page A17. Its headline: “Spying Report No Shock to U.N.” The Los Angeles Times similarly ran one piece before the war, the headline of which explained, “Forgery or no, some say it’s nothing to get worked up about.” This article gave space to the former counsel of the CIA to suggest that the email was not real.
This was the most fruitful line of attack on the Observer’s story. As “Official Secrets” shows, American television was initially quite interested in putting one of the Observer reporters on air. These invitations quickly evaporated as the Drudge Report splashed claims that the email was obviously fake. Why? Because it used British spellings of words, such as “favourable,” and hence couldn’t have been written by an American.
In reality, the original leak to the Observer used American spellings, but before publication the paper’s support staff had accidentally changed them to British versions without the reporters noticing. And as usual when faced with an attack from the right-wing, television networks in the U.S. cowered in abject terror. By the time the spelling minutiae was straightened out, they’d sprinted a thousand miles away from the Observer’s scoop and had zero interest in revisiting it.
The little attention the story got was largely thanks to the journalist and activist Norman Solomon, and the organization he founded, the Institute for Public Accuracy, or IPA. Solomon had traveled to Baghdad just months before and co-written the book “Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You,” which came out in late January 2003.
Today, Solomon remembers that “I felt instant kinship — and, actually, what I’d describe as love — for whoever had taken the enormous risk of revealing the NSA memo. Of course, at the time I was clueless about who’d done it.” He soon penned a syndicated column titled “American Media Dodging U.N. Surveillance Story.”
Why hadn’t the paper of record covered it, Solomon asked Alison Smale, then a deputy foreign editor at the New York Times. “It’s not that we haven’t been interested,” Smale told him. The problem was that “we could get no confirmation or comment” about the NSA email from U.S. officials. But “we are still definitely looking into it,” said Smale. “It’s not that we’re not.”
The Times never mentioned Gun until January 2004, 10 months later. Even then, it didn’t appear in the news section. Instead, thanks to urging from IPA, Times columnist Bob Herbert looked into the story, and, perplexed that the news editors had passed, took it on himself.
Now, at this point you may want to collapse from despair. But don’t. Because here’s the unbelievable rest of the story — something so complex and improbable that it doesn’t appear in “Official Secrets” at all.
Why did Gun decide she had to leak the NSA email? Only recently has she revealed some of her key motivation.
“I was already very suspicious about the arguments for war,” she says via email. So she went to a bookstore and headed to the politics section and looked for something about Iraq. She bought two books and read them cover to cover that weekend. Together they “basically convinced me that there was no real evidence for this war.”
One of these books was “War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War on Iraq” by Milan Rai. The second was “Target Iraq,” the book co-authored by Solomon.
“Target Iraq” was published by Context Books, a tiny company that went bankrupt soon afterwards. It arrived in stores just weeks before Gun found it. Within days after she read it, the January 31 NSA email appeared in her inbox, and she quickly decided what she had to do.
“I was stunned to hear Katharine say that the ‘Target Iraq’ book had influenced her decision to reveal the NSA memo,” Solomon now says. “I didn’t know how to quite fathom [it].”
What does all this mean?
For journalists who care about journalism, it means that, while you may often feel that you’re shouting pointlessly into the wind, you can never predict who your work will reach and how it will affect them. The people inside giant, powerful institutions are not all supervillains in impermeable bubbles. Most are regular human beings who live in the same world as everyone else and, like everyone else, are struggling to do the right thing as they see it. Take seriously the chance that you are communicating with someone who might take action you’d never expect.
For nonjournalists and journalists alike, the lesson is also this: Be not downhearted. Both Solomon and Gun remain deeply distressed that they did everything they could imagine doing to stop the Iraq War, and it happened anyway. “I feel gratified that a book I co-wrote had such ripple effects,” says Solomon. “At the same time, I truly feel it hardly matters what I feel.”
But I think that Gun and Solomon’s sense of failure is the wrong way of looking at what they did and what others can do. The people who tried to stop the Vietnam War only succeeded after millions had died, and many of those writers and activists saw themselves as failures too. But in the 1980s, when factions of the Reagan administration wanted to conduct full-scale invasions in Latin America, they couldn’t get it off the ground because of the base of organization and knowledge created years earlier. The bitter fact that the U.S. settled for its second choice — unleashing death squads that slaughtered tens of thousands across the region — doesn’t mean that Vietnam-style carpet bombing wouldn’t have been much worse.
Likewise, Gun, Solomon and the millions of people who fought the onrushing Iraq War failed, in some sense. But anyone who was paying attention then knew that Iraq was intended as just the first step in a U.S. conquest of the entire Middle East. They didn’t prevent the Iraq War. But they, at least so far, helped prevent the Iran War.
So check out “Official Secrets” as soon as it appears in a theater near you. You will rarely see a better portrait of what it means for someone to try to make a true moral choice, even when unsure, even while terrified, even when she has no idea what will happen next. | <urn:uuid:dc31f97c-4e18-4160-9b99-f79c9eb04750> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theintercept.com/2019/08/31/official-secrets-iraq-war-film/?comments=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97447 | 2,508 | 1.796875 | 2 |
You can help light up lives this Christmas
Winter, 2 years old
Winter was only nine days old when she was diagnosed with Bilateral Congenital Cataract in her left eye, and her family were devastated. At only 3 months old, Winter had cataract removal surgery and now wears a hard contact lens on her left eye and a patch on her right to assist with her overall eye development.
“The support we have received from Vision Australia has been second to none. Personally, I found the whole world of early intervention and NDIS applications confusing and confronting and it was Vision Australia who guided me through the process and assisted in helping me select a team to help Winter in the areas we felt she was developmentally delayed,” said Winter’s mum, Georgia.
In just over a year, Winter has achieved some major milestones and a recent ophthalmologist check-up even showed some improvement in Winter’s sight, which is hugely rewarding.
Support like yours helps Winter and Georgia to gain confidence within themselves and provides them with the right tools to ensure Winter can do anything she lets her mind to as she continues to grow.
Ethan, 10 years old
History buff Ethan Bradley was diagnosed with Oculocutaneous Albinism in 2011 when he was 8 weeks old, and within a week, the team at Vision Australia were right there, supporting him through every hurdle.
“Vision Australia have really helped me navigate my way around obstacles using a cane as well making sure I can do things such as being able to get on public transport by myself when I’m a bit older,” said Ethan.
Ethan continues to surprise everyone in so many ways and whilst he sometimes needs a cane to get around, he’s an excellent bike rider, loves getting on his scooter and enjoys bushwalking with his brothers Sam and Chris.
An ambition of Ethan’s is to be inspire others and he is determined to educate people about some of his day-to-day challenges. He would love nothing more than world peace and would like everyone in the world to be kind to one another.
Ethan said, “Vision Australian have helped me and my family a lot and it’s now my turn to help them raise some money for people just like me. I want people to learn about Vision Australia as well as my challenges.”
Sam, 8 years old
Just like his older brother Ethan, Sam who is a twin, was born with albinism and is blind due to Oculocutaneous Albinism.
Vision Australia has been a lifelong lifesaver for both Sam, Ethan and his entire family who seek guidance through Vision Australia’s services to help the boys achieve tasks they find challenging. “We instil as much independence as possible in both Ethan and Sam, to ensure they have the right tools and therapies to be able to live their life as independent as they can now and in the future,” said mum Rebecca Bradley.
When asked about what it’s like to have low vision, Sam said, “The yellow paint around the school helps me not run into things, I can see certain colours but I don’t read very well. I need to hold the words close to my eyes and sometimes use my magnifier. If I don’t have my sunglasses on, the sun hurts my eyes.”
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Debris from a Chinese rocket is set to crash to Earth some time over the next few days, with the potential for wreckage to land across a wide swathe of the globe. Part of a Long March 5B rocket China launched on July 24 will make an uncontrolled reentry around July 31, according to the Aerospace Corp, a nonprofit based in California, that gets US funding.
The possible debris field includes much of the US, as well as Africa, Australia, Brazil, India and Southeast Asia, according to Aerospace’s predictions. Concern over the re-entry and the impact it could have is being dismissed by China, however, with state-backed media saying the warnings are just “sour grapes” from people resentful of the country’s development as a space power.
“The US is running out of ways to stop China’s development in the aerospace sector, so smears and defamation became the only things left for it,” Global Times newspaper reported, citing an expert.
The descent of the booster, which weighs 23 metric tonnes, would be part of what critics say is a series of uncontrolled crashes that highlights the risks of China’s escalating space race with the US. “Due to the uncontrolled nature of its descent, there is a non-zero probability of the surviving debris landing in a populated area – over 88% of the world’s population lives under the re-entry’s potential debris footprint,” Aerospace said on Tuesday. In May 2021, pieces of another Long March rocket landed in the Indian Ocean, prompting concern that the Chinese space agency had lost control of it. “It is clear that China is failing to meet responsible standards regarding space debris,” Nasa administrator Bill Nelson had said.
China is closely following the reentry of the booster from this week’s launch, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in Beijing on Wednesday. “It is customary for international practice for rockets’ upper stages to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere on reentry,” said Zhao. “Right from the research and development stage of the space engineering programme, it is designed with consideration for debris mitigation and return from orbit.” Bloomberg | <urn:uuid:7df9cbfc-f50b-4406-9014-113ac7ec972c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsclimb.com/debris-from-china-space-rocket-could-fall-to-earth-in-next-few-days/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959839 | 471 | 2.796875 | 3 |
A design-build service provider is a company that provides both the design and construction of a project. This is different from a traditional contractor, which only provides one or the other.
The benefits of using a design-build service provider are twofold. First, a design-build provider can save time and money on projects. Second, a design-build provider can ensure that the finished product meets all the requirements and expectations of the client. If you want to hire design and build services, then you can check out the various online sources.
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There are several different types of design-build providers available, including general contractors, engineering firms, and construction management companies. It is important to choose the right type of design-build provider for the project you are planning. If you do not know who to call, speak with an architect or engineer who can help you choose the best provider for your needs.
What are the benefits of a Design-Build Service Provider?
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– Reduced Costs. A design-build service provider can help reduce the costs of your project by taking on the role of both contractor and architect. This means that you won't have to pay two separate fees for these services.
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Example Of Effectiveness Of A Simplified Cardiopulmonary Essay
RESUSCITATION TRAINING PROGRAM FOR THE
NON-MEDICAL STAFF OF A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Effectiveness of a simplified cardiopulmonary resuscitation training program for the non-medical staff of a university hospital
Part 1: Evaluation of “Effectiveness of a simplified cardiopulmonary resuscitation training program for the non-medical staff of a university hospital” by Hirose, Iwami, Ogura, Matsumoto, Sakai, Yamamoto, Mano, Fujino, and Shimazu.
The article gave a brief overview of the rapid-response system for in-hospital patients. It noted that although the primary recipients of the CPR training were the emergency medicine doctors and nurses, the first responders potentially were non-medical staff. Education for these employees and volunteers was not implemented. In 2010, the Consensus on Science and Treatment Recommendations Statement promoted 45-minute training for these individuals involving little or no instructor involvement compared to basic life-support courses led by an instructor. The authors conducted a study of the effectiveness of this type of CPR training in September of 2010. One year later, the quality of the skills were recorded by a CPR skill report system and the use of a questionnaire administered to the participants; the survey recorded their feelings of competency before and after training for CPR and the use of AED. It should be noted that mouth-to-mouth ventilation is harder to teach and a study by found that CPR without the technique were as effective as traditional CPR without ventricular fibrillation (Iwami et al., 2007).
The CPR training program lasted 45 minutes. Before the program began, the participants were given a survey for self-reporting on the respondent’s ability to administer chest compressions and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED). The questions consisted of “Can you check for a response?”, “Can you perform chest compression?”, and “Can you use an AED?”. The responses included “I can”, “I think I can”, “I don’t know”, and “I shouldn’t. More skillful people should.”. In addition, a skill test was administered consisting of the automatic recording of the number, depth, and interruption of chest compressions, The training kit was composed of a pad referred to as a personal training mannequin. Certified instructors supervised the class at a ratio of one instructor for every 10 to 20 participants. The instructions were provided by a DVD to provide continuity. After training using a mannequin, the survey was administered again to record changes in feelings of competency by the participants. The skill test was also administered again for comparison of technique prior to the training.
In the period from September 2011 through March 2013, the number of participants in the program was 161. Chest compressions technique was evaluated on 109 of the participants. The number of compressions was significantly greater before the training versus after: 110.8 per minute versus 94.2 per minute. Interruption of chest compressions was significantly shorter: 0.05 seconds per 30 seconds versus 0.89 seconds per 30 seconds. The mean depth of the compressions was significantly greater: 57.6 mm versus 9.4 mm. In regards to the survey, 159 participants responded following the training. The proportion who answered that they could positively or think they could perform the techniques increased significantly from before the training to after the training by over 61% for each skill. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used for a comparison of the increased readings before the training and after.
In addition to the initial CPR and AED training, a re-training was performed approximately 12.7 months later. The results were over significantly higher in each of the skills from just before the re-training to just after. It was noted that based on the evaluation of skills prior to re-training, deterioration can begin in as little as 3 months. Therefore, it is recommended that re-training take place sooner than the one year criteria for this study. While the findings of the participants in the re-training class were higher before the class than participants before training in the class for the first time, they were still not adequate. A solution may be to evaluate skill levels for staff in 3-month intervals and recommend re-training for those individuals whose skills have deteriorated below the level of competency.
The conclusion of the study was that a 45-minute simplified CPR instruction program with practice on a mannequin improved the quality of the skills required for CPR and the perception of skill level by non-medical staff members attending the training. A recommendation was made for further study to address the best period of time before re-training to maintain skill levels and attitude of competency.
This article is of particular interest for staff in the operating room of health care facilities. Technical or mechanical staff is frequently in the operating room. Depending on the state, these individuals may not require certification. Medical assistants are not classified as non-medical staff. In the event of the need for a patient to require CPR, non-medical staff would not be the first people to perform it.
Part 2: Discussion of applications
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure implemented as a life-saving measure for individuals experiencing cardiac arrest (Ilcor.org, 2013). The primary purpose is to prevent brain damage due to lack of oxygen. CPR is used in an effort to keep the patient stable until measures can be taken to restore spontaneous breathing and circulation.
The most important factors for results are less interruptions of chest compressions, complete relaxation of pressure inbetween compressions, avoidance of excessive ventilation, compressions being of adequate depth, and compressions being fast enough (Meaney et al., 2013). Chest compressions should be at least 2 inches deep at the rate of at least 100 per minute (Mayoclinic.org, 2015). Breathing assistance with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation may be performed through the use of a device or by exhaling into the victim’s nose or mouth. The resulting elevation in CO2 levels may trigger spontaneous breathing. Recommendations place a higher priority on efficient compressions over artificial ventilation is a choice must be made. When first responders are non-medical, chest compressions are easier to learn and remember. However, CPR is not expected to restore cardiac function. It is a temporary action until an electric shock can be administered; this is called “defibrillation”. It is considered effect for pulseless ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. CPR should be continued until further assistance arrives or until the patient is declared dead.
2. Literature Review:
(Bergum et al., 2015) conducted an observational study over a 4.5 year period on the underlying causes of cardiac arrest in hospital patients. In that time period, 302 incidences were examined to determine causes and if the emergency teams recognized the causes when responding. The findings were that 85 percent of the causes could be determined reliably and in 65 percent of the episodes, the emergency team correctly identified the cause. Cardiac-related causes were responsible for 60 percent of the episode and hypoxic causes accounted for 20 percent. Survival of the patients with cardiac episodes was 30 percent and 37 percent for patients with hypoxic episodes. In 48 percent of the episodes, the initial cardiac rhythm was pulseless electrical activity; 23% experienced asystole, and 27 percent experienced ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia. The percentage of patients that survived until they could be discharged from the hospital was 25 per cent. The amount of time until CPR was started was one minute.
The pros and cons of whether a family should be allowed to be present during CPR of a loved one have been debated since the idea was proposed in 1987 (Jabre et al., 2013). Several studies have indicated that having the family present decreased the amount of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) in the surviving members. The results of a study by Jabre et al. found that family members who did not watch CPR efforts were 60% more likely to experience PTSD than those who did not watch. They found stress levels were not increased in the response team and the duration of the CPR and the survival of the patient also appears to be incidental. The major concern on the part of the medical teams is of legal liability. In a survey of 432 health care professionals, concern about liability was recorded by 27%. However, studies of litigation after observation of CPR efforts reveal no lawsuits were filed. McClenathan ( 2002) believes this is due to a bonding between the care staff and the family in this dramatic time. If appropriate education has taken place, the family will understand at least a part of what is happening and a staff member may be present to assist in narrating the events as they happen in order to ease the stress of the situation.
A look at the statistics surrounding the issue of family admission to view a CPR effort yields interesting results. McLaughlin and Gillespie (2007) found that positive outcomes result with the family witnesses CPR, but the majority of emergency rooms either have not effectively set policies in place addressing this or they do not even have policies in place. Leung and Chow (2012) used a descriptive survey to evaluate attitudes of the families of patients who observed CPR efforts and hospital staff. They found that 94 percent want to be there again for a family member if the need arises, 74 percent felt it made accepting the loss easier, and 64 percent believed their presence was comforting to the patient. However, McClenathan, Torrington, and Uyehara (2002) surveyed critical care professionals and discovered 78 percent were opposed to family members present during CPR. Physician s were 80 percent against the practice, and 57 percent of nurses were, also. A short answer section found that they felt the patients confidentiality was violated, staff members would be distracted from their responsibilities from performance anxiety, and that family members would be exposed to psychological trauma.
Influential variables include sample size, whether or not the patient survived, the attitude of the family members stating they wanted to witness CPR efforts, location of the efforts (in hospital, emergency room, patient’s home, etc), and others. Of the family members who did not watch the CPR efforts, 12% stated they wished they had, and only 3% of the ones who observed said they regretted it. The conclusion is that family members can understand that every effort has been made to save their loved one without the mystery of being behind closed doors. It also offers them a chance for a last goodbye.
There are a number of ethical considerations associated with the use of CPR on patients in various circumstances. For example, an emergency room staff may perform aggressive resuscitative efforts on a patient without consent from a legal representative of the patient (McElroy, 2012). Although the use of CPR may be in opposition with the beliefs of the patient, it is in his best interest that efforts be taken to save his life without waiting for confirmation of consent. Some people have a request for Do Not Resuscitate (DNR). In the case of a cardiac arrest, they don’t want CPR performed. This is a common request in senior care facilities and hospitals where patients have given thought to the possibility they may have a short time to live. The decision not to perform CPR is commonly made in a situation where the patient is terminal and even with continued treatment death is not too far away (Hensley, 2005). Unless there is some circumstance where the patient needs have a last visit or conclude some business, there should be no ethical problem with allowing a patient to die. Another situation is where a chronically ill patient would survive with severe suffering. The decision to perform CPR is made by weighing the benefits against the burdens of the outcome. Patients are unique in their assessments. At this point, a truthful conversation is in order. Telling the patient unrealistic predictions for cure or the remaining length of his life is not ethical.
Advertisements by the Heart Association and other similar organizations encourage non-medical staff members to learn CPR in order to play a part in saving lives outside a medical facility. Television programs and movies have left the general public with the idea the CPR is effective and without consequences. However, the statistics regarding survival following CPR efforts are far from encouraging (Cooper, Cooper and Cooper, 2006). In an article discussing the history and current practices of CPR, Cooper et al. (2006) found that from January 2000 to March 2004, only 17 percent of the patients requiring CPR either as an inpatient or outpatient survived. The possibility of survival decreases by 7 percent to 10 percent for each minute of untreated ventricular fibrillation (Cummins et al., 1991). The diagnoses of the patients is also relevant. In a series of 14 studies, only 13.5 percent of patients who required CPR survived to hospital discharge (Ebell and Afonso, 2011). Of those numbers, patient with cancer had a discharge rate of 5.8 percent and with metastatic cancer, none survived to discharge. The rate was 25 percent for patients whose only problem was a myocardial infarction. If the patient was in the intensive care, one study showed the discharge rate was 11 percent and the other was 5 percent. Dialysis patients were only 8 percent. The highest rate of survival to discharge for all patients receiving CPR while in the hospital was 25 percent.
In addition to low survival rates for patients receiving CPR, there are associated injuries. Many patients successfully resuscitated suffer from mediastinal hemorrhage, fractured ribs, aspiration pneumonia, and sternum fractures. Approximately 10 percent of patients remain in a vegetative state secondary to hypoxia. Roine, Kajaste and Kaste (1993) interview 155 survivors of CPRS and found that after three months, 60 percent has moderate to severe cognitive impairment; at one year post-CPR, the number remained at 48%.
In response to education that the use of an AED increases chances for survival, the devices have been installed in high-traffic areas such as office buildings, shopping malls, and airports (Caffrey et al., 2003). Interestingly, it has been found that the fastest response times by trained staff has been in casinos (Valenzuela et al., 2000). The environment is confined and the presence of an alert staff on security cameras results in a mean response time of 4.4 minutes from collapse to the first shock delivery. In addition, the survival until hospital discharge is 75 percent if the initial shock was given before 3 minutes had passed. This type of information shows improvement in survival is significant with the use of an AED (Bunch, Hammill and White, 2005).
Effective team dynamics are crucial during the operation of a CPR effort (Nursingpub.com, 2009). Communication is of the utmost importance. The leader of the team should use a closed loop form with the other team. When the leader gives an assignment, the other team member confirms the message was understood. Confirmation tells the leader when that task is completed. A calm attitude provides clear communication, also. Clear annunciation helps, and team members should question an instruction if they are not sure what was said or meant. If efforts do not seem to be effective, it is acceptable for the team leader to ask for other suggestions. Personal experience or intuition may provide insight to the situation. Each member of the team should know his responsibilities in the context of the operation of the unit. It is the job of the team leader to be sure person understands his or her tasks. It is essential a team member know they have the ability to perform the task assigned; otherwise, the leader should be notified. In this respect, it is important each team member know his limitations and informs the leader of them. New skills have no place in a life-saving operation. In the event an action occurs at an unusual time, suggestions should be given tactfully with respect to everyone involved. Mutual respect is very important when people work together in high-stress situations. At the conclusion of the CPR activity, regardless of the outcome, the team leader is responsible for monitoring the status of the patient, evaluating the interventions performed, and assessing findings.
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Decent Jobs for Youth (DJY) and Generation Unlimited (GenU) are organizing a joint webinar on supporting youth employment in developing countries through apprenticeship programmes.
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- Presenting solutions, lessons learned, and good practices to support youth employment through the ILO quality apprenticeships programme in Burkina Faso funded by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg;
- Showcasing BRAC’s alternative learning pathways model for youth employment in Bangladesh;
- Open space for discussion with GenU and DJY partners wishing to learn more and take action on youth employment and apprenticeships in developing countries.
- Date and time: 15:00-16:00 CET, 20 April 2021
- Venue: Zoom conference
The presentation from the webinar is available here
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Over the past few years, Rollins College students have expressed their desire for a more sustainable campus, and faculty and staff listened. In recent years, Rollins has made changes which would make the campus more sustainable. Basic water fountains have been outfitted with hydration stations, which is simply an additional spout which can fill a reusable water bottle or jug with cold, filtered water. This made drinking water from reusable bottles more enjoyable. In addition to this, last school year, Sodexo, Rollins food service, sold boxed water. In addition, Sodexo provides biodegradable to-go boxes, which can be removed from the campus center for student use.
While these are all great ways of making the campus more sustainable, students still felt that the college was not doing enough to lessen our invironmental impact. In response to the plastic bag bans and taxes taking place throughout the United States, students expressed their desire to remove plastic grocery bags from all food service locations on campus. The Rollins Sustainability Coalition, with the support of student government, began to implement plans to remove plastic bags from food service locations during the 2016-2017 school year. In January 2017, students began to see positive change come to campus. Fewer and fewer grocery bags were provided for student use in the cafés, and in February the bags were completely removed from the cafés, and students were even urged to purchase reusable coffee cups.
Students saw big changes when they returned from spring break. During the week of March 20, Eco Rollins and Rollins Sustainability distributed free reusable bags for students. On March 27, all campus food locations stopped distributing plastic grocery bags to students. The Rollins C-Store, the convenience store on campus, one of the locations with the highest need to distribute plastic bags is now selling reusable bags for two dollars; however, students must purchase these bags with their own funding. Meal plan dollars cannot be used to purchase the bags.
While the removal of plastic grocery bags will be an inconvenience to some students at first, many students are taking this initiative … in stride. As college students, we may think that the purpose of our four years spent here is to simply prepare us for a career or graduate school; however, that is not the case. In college, we are also taught to think locally and act globally. One way to do this is by implementing sustainable practice on campus, so we can ensure a better tomorrow today. | <urn:uuid:68b16129-40a3-4fcf-98ff-9c9711754435> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theodysseyonline.com/creating-tomorrow-today-rollins-college-removes-plastic-bags-food-service-locations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.974339 | 494 | 2.0625 | 2 |
This was originally a guest post on The Trenches of Discovery. Thanks, Shaun!
One out of every 8,000 humans is born with some of their internal organs on the wrong side of their body, a condition which can have serious medical consequences. Although we’re usually described as symmetric, that’s only superficially true. Like other vertebrates, we look symmetric from the outside but our internal organs show left-right asymmetry; unless you happen to be a Time Lord, you have only one heart which is normally located on the left side of your chest. Changes to the organization of the internal organs can lead to cardiac defects, misalignment of the bowel and other serious problems. Many genes are known to play a role in establishing this asymmetry, but we still don’t fully understand its evolutionary and developmental origins. Earlier this year, a paper published in the journal PNAS described how this asymmetry is established by subcellular components early in embryonic development.
Experiments with plants have already shown that subcellular structures can have an effect on macroscopic organs. Cells are highly organized, dynamic, complex living things, more kin to a vast city than to a sack of fluid. The cytoskeleton is an important part of this structure and plays a critical role in many processes, including determining the shape of the cell and acting as a transportation network, much like a road and rail network in a city. The cytoskeleton is a network of different kinds of filaments and microtubules, the roads and rails themselves, which in turn are built out of the proteins actin and tubulin. A decade ago, scientists discovered that a mutation in one of these building blocks, tubulin, could have far-reaching effects in plants. The mutated tubulin changes the shape of the cytoskeleton, twisting it; this changes the shape of the cells, which leads to flowers and other organs being twisted in turn.
Tubulins are a basic component of the machinery of life, found in every kind of cell. Based on the belief that left-right asymmetry is a consequence of subcellular structures, a team of scientists led by Michael Levin at Tufts University in Massachusetts decided to investigate the role of tubulin in establishing this asymmetry. They injected embryos of the frog Xenopus laevis with mutated forms of two tubulin related genes, Tubgcp2 and Tuba4, and followed the developing embryos to find out how frequently the internal organs were located on the wrong side of the body, a condition known as heterotaxia. About one quarter of the injected embryos were heterotactic, with half of those showing abnormalities in at least two organs. Amazingly, this was only true if the embryos were injected when they were still only a single cell; embryos that had already divided into two or four cells weren’t affected by the mutated tubulin. Whatever the mechanism involved may be, tubulin is clearly critical to a very early decision in the embryo which has long term effects on the positioning of internal organs.
The researchers weren’t content to simply show that tubulin has a role in establishing internal asymmetry; they also wanted to explore how it might be accomplishing this. One possibility is that changes to tubulin alter the structure of the microtubules which affects transport within the cell. The cytoskeleton is known to be biased towards the right half of the frog embryo, leading certain molecular motors and their cargo to be preferentially transported to that side. This rightwards bias disappeared in the mutant embryos, supporting the idea that the mutated tubulin somehow disrupts the regular pattern of transport. The researchers also used the mutant embryos as a tool to fish out a whole suite of maternal factors that depend on tubulin in order to be localized to one side of the embryo, including cytoskeletal and transport-related proteins which can form the basis of future research into how this asymmetry is maintained and propagated.
Finally, the team co-operated with scientists at the University of Illinois and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation to verify that the same process takes place in other organisms. They found that introducing mutations in tubulin led to changes in left-right asymmetry in both human cell cultures and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Since tubulin seems to play a similar role in establishing asymmetry in frogs, nematodes and humans, the authors are confident in asserting that this is an ancient and conserved mechanism of left-right patterning.
In addition to its implications for an important class of human birth defects, this is a thrilling developmental story. It’s quite amazing to see how changes in subcellular components can propagate up through cells, tissues and organs to have an effect on the overall layout of the organism itself. While the authors describe this as a mechanism which has been conserved during evolution, I think it may also be a common physical principle which different groups have taken advantage of. Whatever its evolutionary origins, it’s a mechanism which I find profoundly beautiful. The idea that the orientation of the cytoskeleton is amplified by changes in subcellular transport to have major developmental and physiological consequences is so elegant that I can’t help but revel in it. This is the kind of story that makes me fall in love with science all over again. The world may be fabulously rich and complex, but sometimes the explanation can be sublime in its simplicity.
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Social Media Communication Between Nurses and Patients
If you have questions about a social media or patient communication issue, or have been contacted by the nursing board, call to schedule a free legal consultation with a nurses attorney, (512) 829-5619.
Social media is a part of the fabric of society today, so much so that we often take “sharing” for granted, as accepted and commonplace. But what you can do on social media with your friends, family, and colleagues doesn’t extend to what you’re permitted to do with patients (current patients or former patients).
As a nurse, you’re required to maintain professional boundaries between yourself and patients, both while they’re in your care and after they’re discharged.
Professional Boundaries For Nurses
Professional boundary rules for nurses are put in place and enforced by the Texas Board of Nursing (BON), and it falls on you to ensure compliance with them. With current and former patients, the board presumes that you’re in a position of power and that the patient is in a vulnerable position. Because of this, you need to keep your relationship with patients strictly professional. Over-involvement with patients – including social media communication – may lead to a violation of boundaries and potentially put your nursing license at risk.
Social Media And Professional Boundary Violations
The use of social media, in general, can blur the lines between a nurse’s personal life and professional life, potentially leading to discipline by the BON or termination of employment. Unlike people who are in other professions, you don’t have the luxury of claiming that your social media accounts are “personal.” As a nurse, your actions (including social media behavior) can be judged 24/7.
Social Media Communication Between Nurses And Patients
Social media communication between a nurse and a patient may include:
- friend requests (making a friend request or accepting a friend request)
- posting comments on a patient’s social media accounts
- allowing a patient to comment on your social media posts
- direct messages (DMs) through social media accounts
Texas Nursing Board Guidelines For Social Media
The nursing board in Texas has put out guidelines for social media that require nurses to:
- maintain patient privacy and confidentiality at all times (don’t ever post anything that could identify a patient – no matter how you’ve configured the privacy settings on your social media account)
- keep professional boundaries (don’t ever refer to patients in a negative or disparaging way, even anonymously)
- don’t make threatening, harassing, profane, sexually explicit, racially derogatory, homophobic, or other offensive comments on your social media accounts or other people’s accounts
- follow your employer’s policies regarding the use of electronic devices in the workplace (computers, phones, and cameras)
Nurses Attorney For Professional Boundary Violations
If you’ve been contacted by the board of nursing about an allegation filed against you, or you have questions or concerns about your social media activity or contacts with patients, please call our law office. We can assist with all aspects of the disciplinary process for nurses in Texas, including the investigation, settlement, administrative hearings, and more.
For more information about social media communication between nurses and patients, or to schedule a free consultation with a nurses attorney, please call (512) 829-5619.
Please note: Kevin Keaney earned his BSN from the University of Texas at Austin and worked as a nurse for four years before becoming an attorney. A member of the American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA), Kevin now has more than 30 years experience as an attorney. Our law office is in the Austin area, and we represent nurses from all across Texas, including: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Amarillo, and Lubbock. | <urn:uuid:720c703f-a88a-4424-b719-b69d51718634> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nursesattorneytexas.com/nursing-license-defense/bon-texas-board-of-nursing-causes-of-discipline/violation-of-boundaries/social-media-communication-between-nurses-and-patients/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.935864 | 811 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Natasha Clutterbuck Purple Heritage Carrots Postcard
Somerset based artist Natasha Clutterbuck created stunning floor-to-ceiling botanical murals for us at the Penny Brohn UK Hub in Bristol. She worked with a mix of charcoal, oils and earth to showcase a selection of plants, flowers, herbs and vegetables which are recognised as having nutritional benefits, healing properties or are used to aid relaxation.
Her Purple Carrots surrounded by Radish, Leek & Carrot Flowers, Red Onions, Beetroot, Clary Sage and Verbena, fill the elevated window bays at the entrance to the Hub, making a huge impact on everyone who visits the space.
Natasha chose these purple heritage vegetables known to have many health benefits when eaten as a part of a healthy, nutritious diet. In the veg patch, these vegetables are much more resistant to pests and diseases, promoting biodiversity and an abundance of wildlife in the garden. Vegetables from the cruciferous family and allium family are also said to have powerful, cancer fighting properties.This image is taken from Natasha's preliminary work on this project.
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Supporting Jordan24 February 2021
The European Union has completed a cooperation project to enhance radiation safety and the safe management of radioactive waste in Jordan
JORDAN HAS BEEN FOLLOWING a nuclear power development programme since 2007. One pre-condition for this programme is development of the necessary infrastructure.
The European Commission has been a partner to Jordan and has carried out three projects under the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation (INSC), to support the country in necessary improvements and to foster advancing its peaceful nuclear programme, meeting the highest standards in the field of nuclear and radiation safety and radioactive waste management.
The latest €1.8 million project carried out by INSC, supported three Jordan institutions, the Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission (EMRC), the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) and the Ministry of Environment of Jordan (MOENV).
A major part of the project was licensing of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, or Sesame. Sesame is a ‘third-generation’ synchrotron light source, which was officially inaugurated in Allan in 2017. The region’s first major international centre of excellence, Sesame is a cooperative venture by scientists and governments in the region, set up on the CERN model. As part of the project, senior European experts shared their experience on the technical aspects and the safety features of the Sesame synchrotron, and thus supported the EMRC in the on-going licensing process for the Sesame. Once the review, assessment and inspection activities for the licence application are fulfilled, a permanent operating licence will be granted, which will help to further scientific cooperation in the region.
The EU delegation in Jordan added to EU support to Sesame by providing a 7MW solar system for electricity supply to the Sesame facilities under the EU support programme for green energy in Jordan.
The solar farm, inaugurated in February 2019, makes Sesame as the first synchrotron in the region powered by solar energy.
Since the start of the project in 2017, several support activities have been conducted in Jordan by about 50 senior experts from the EU. The support continued, using online tools, under the adverse conditions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. EMRC and JAEC staff were trained and supported through workshops, training courses and on-site support visits.
Spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste
The legal basis for nuclear and radiation safety in Jordan has also been improved, according to the European Commission.
The first national report for the Joint Convention on the safety of spent fuel management and radioactive waste management was compiled by the Jordanian institution, with assistance from European experts. JAEC and the consortium further developed Jordan’s radioactive waste management strategy and an action plan for its implementation, and defined a way to cope with the radioactive waste stored on the Sewaqa site.
This project was implemented through a contract with a consortium comprising ENCO of Austria, the Hungarian Atomic Energy Agency (HAEA), Netherlands-based NRG and TU¨V Nord of Germany.
The successful completion of the project is the result of cooperation between the partners in Jordan and the consortium. In particular, it was delivered by the motivation of the beneficiaries and end-users and their willingness to enhance their capacities and capabilities in radiation protection in all areas utilisation of ionising radiation, and of radioactive waste management. | <urn:uuid:dec86e15-167a-4657-8551-0310bbb49d1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featuresupporting-jordan-8543417/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.936469 | 697 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Has the thought of getting dental implants done overseas crossed your mind?
Perhaps in Bali, Thailand, or India?
If so, it’s completely understandable as the cost of dental implant procedures in Perth can seem like a significant investment. However, it is an investment in your health.
In this article, we will compare the options and risks involved when considering dental tourism.
Dental implants have significant benefits since missing teeth can impact the overall health of the jawbone.
While it may seem that the more “practical” choice is to seek cheaper alternatives like dental implants in Bali, we will analyse the cost of hotels, flights, and time missed at work when comparing dental implants in Australia with dental implants in Bali.
Differences In Standards and Regulations
How sure are you that the dentists in Bali will have the same level of training and expertise as the ones closer to home? The dental implants in Bali may also not be the same high-quality as the ones in Australia. The Australian Dental Association and the Dental Board of Australia ensure that all practising Australian scientists comply with the latest techniques and technology in modern dentistry. When you travel outside to Bali to receive oral treatment, the risks become higher.
Your Treatment May Not Be Continuous
Travelling outside your country to receive dental implants is not beneficial because foreigners can only stay in the country for 60 days at a maximum per visit. Dental implants take at least two months for them to bind with the jaw bone, and your dentist must be nearby in case complications arise. Apart from the treatment itself, it will cost you meals, lodging, aeroplane tickets, and more for seeking dental implants in Bali. That beats the point of trying a cheaper procedure in the first place.
Language and Cultural Barriers
You may be able to extend your patience if you are on holiday, but when you are a patient seeking treatment, communication may stress you even more. Staying in a foreign country should be an adventure itself, but when you do not know the practices of the locals, it may come as a culture shock. When travelling for medical reasons, you ought to be in a relaxing environment that won’t compromise your health. Documentation of the dental implant treatment in Bali may also be complicated since you are from outside of the country.
Can You Trust Your Dentist?
Not to say that dentists overseas may be in shady businesses, but you may never know. Dental practitioners follow the laws and regulations in Australia for the safety of patients. One cannot be a fully-fledged dentist while using substandard tools, medicines, and facilities. When you are receiving dental implants locally, you have the assurance that you are receiving the utmost care you need. | <urn:uuid:911f07e1-62c4-4bbd-8305-1f082a7ca6bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myimplantdentist.com.au/dental-implants-bali-thailand-and-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94056 | 565 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Translating Theatre: ‘Foreignisation’ on Stage
The European Theatre Research Network at the University of Kent and Firehouse Creative Productions present Translating Theatre: ‘Foreignisation’ on Stage.
Three staged readings of contemporary plays from continental Europe are presented in three brand new translations from Spanish, French and Polish. One translation strategy, ‘foreignisation,’ tries to retain the source text’s cultural, linguistic and aesthetic difference.
Translating Theatre: ‘Foreignisation’ on Stage is part of a research project that asks: What happens to plays in translation when their unfamiliarity is not domesticated? How is performance affected? How do audiences receive them?
Join us at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, for a chance to discover three little-known gems of new European writing.
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Group B Strep
Group B streptococcus (Group B strep/GBS) is a common bacterium often carried in the digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts of men and women, and is usually harmless in adults but can cause serious illness in newborns.
It is estimated that 1 in every 4 pregnant women carries GBS in their body; it does not cause symptoms, although some women may develop a urinary tract infection (UTI).
GBS is not a sexually transmitted infection and requires no treatment unless an outward infection develops. GBS is similar, but different from, Group A streptococcus – which causes strep throat.
GBS has been known to be fatal in humans since 1938 and was first identified to cause infection during pregnancy in the 1960s. By the 1970s, GBS infection was a leading cause of neonatal death in the United States (U.S).
In the early 1990s, there were approximately 1.7 cases of early-onset GBS infections per 1,000 live births. Current estimates reveal this has decreased to 0.34 to 0.37 per 1,000 live births in recent years due to the introduction of antibiotics during labor.
Pregnancy – Overview
Although usually harmless in non-pregnant women, GBS can cause certain complications during pregnancy, such as:
The biggest complication of GBS is the passage of the infection to the newborn. GBS spreads to the newborn during vaginal delivery as the baby comes into contact with the bacterium. A woman with treated GBS has a 1 in 4,000 chance of passing the infection to her baby; with untreated GBS, this rises significantly to 1 in 200. These odds are even higher if:
While most newborns born to mothers with GBS are healthy, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
About 900 babies get early-onset GBS disease every year
About 1,200 babies get late-onset GBS disease every year
2 to 3 in every 50 babies (4% to 6%) who develop GBS disease will die
GBS infection can lead to life-threatening complications in newborns and infants, including fever, lethargy, pneumonia, meningitis, and bloodstream infection (early onset).
Early-onset infections occur during the first week of life, generally within the first 24 to 48 hours after birth. Symptoms of early onset infection occur due to respiratory failure which develops into a bloodstream infection (bacteremia), leading to septic shock.
About 30% of all early onset cases are in preterm infants; preterm infants with early-onset GBS infection have a fatality rate between 20% to 30% compared to 2% to 3% in term infants.
Early-onset infection, and its potential consequences to the infant, have a significant impact on parents. A study published in November 2021 explored (27) parents' first-hand lived experience of having an infant with early onset group B streptococcus. Participants documented their experiences in their own way, reporting their thoughts and feelings, experiences, and events that were meaningful to them. Participants experienced a wide range of emotions to include grief, sadness, and guilt, as well as frustration at information they were receiving from HCPs. Their experiences also had implications for the planning of future pregnancies.
Late-onset infections develop between 1 to 12 weeks after delivery (can sometimes occur even later) and can lead to meningitis and/or pneumonia. Women should seek emergency care for their baby if they notice any of these signs and symptoms of late-onset infection:
Difficulty breathing and feeding
Slow breathing/heart rate
Diagnosis of a baby with GBS includes tests of the blood and spinal fluid, as well as a chest x-ray to assess for respiratory failure and pneumonia; treatment includes the antibiotics penicillin or ampicillin.
Maternal Screening Test
It is recommended that all pregnant women receive a swab screening test between 35 and 37 weeks of pregnancy. The test involves the HCP using a clean swap to collect a sample from around, not in, the vagina and anus. Patients at risk for preterm delivery will often receive the screening test prior to 35 weeks.
The test is performed later in pregnancy because a woman can be positive or negative at different times; however, the most important time is GBS status near term. A positive test indicates that a woman is carrying GBS and can possibly pass the infection to her newborn.
Unfortunately, the screening test does not catch all cases of GBS infection. Approximately 60% of cases of early-onset GBS infection occur in neonates born to women with negative GBS culture at 35 to 37 weeks. It is unclear if conducting this screening between 38 and 39 weeks would be of higher benefit, as many women may deliver before this time.
Women who test positive for GBS are given intravenous (IV) antibiotics (penicillin, or an alternative) during labor to prevent the passage of infection; IV antibiotics work within a matter of hours. Antibiotic pills cannot be taken at the time of diagnosis because the bacteria can return before labor. Most babies born to women who tested positive for GBS bacteria do not need treatment if their mother received antibiotics during labor.
Since the implementation of universal screening for GBS and preventative antibiotic use, the incidence of early-onset GBS infection has decreased approximately 80%.
Due to the high risk of preterm infants contracting early-onset GBS, women who go into labor prior to 37 weeks and have not taken the screening test will likely receive IV antibiotics during labor, as will a woman who tested positive in a prior pregnancy – no matter her current status.
However, prophylactic IV antibiotics remains controversial on whether exposing the mother to potentially unnecessary antibiotics is outweighed by the potential benefits. It is also debated on whether IV antibiotics have any effect on late-onset infection. Women should have a risks and benefits discussion with their HCP.
Although it's not available yet, human trials are currently underway for a GBS vaccine. Until a vaccine becomes available, the best way to prevent complications is for women to get screened in the third trimester.
Women should follow the screening recommendations of their HCP. HCPs are aware some women are not very comfortable with this type of screening for the first time. The swabbing is very quick, painless, and does not go inside the rectum.
Women should know, and inform their HCP of, their medical history; women should also understand their risk factors.
If screening is positive, each woman needs to have a risks and benefits discussion of treatment with their HCP.
Women should also consider sharing their experience regarding screening or testing positive for GBS and if they received antibiotics. This can help women learn from other women with a GBS positive screening and help them feel less anxiety near term.
Prevention of Group B Streptococcal Early-Onset Disease in Newborns (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
Group B Strep (FAQ) (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
Group B Strep (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in pregnancy and newborn babies (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists)
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On January 13, 2021, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued new guidance to protect consumers with limited English proficiency (LEP). This “Statement Regarding the Provision of Financial Products and Services to Consumers with Limited English Proficiency” directs financial institutions to take a number of actions to make financial products transparent and understandable while still allowing those organizations to maintain flexibility to meet the needs of their communities’ demographics and keep expectations realistic and manageable.
The mission of the CFPB is to seek fair, transparent, and competitive practices in the consumer financial marketplace. As they noted in their report, “Despite having considerable credit needs and representing a large segment of the U.S. population, LEP consumers often encounter significant barriers to participating in the consumer financial marketplace. Many of those challenges stem from language access issues—financial disclosures and written documents are generally not available in languages other than English and some financial institutions do not have bilingual employees or access to interpretation services.”
Banks are not required to translate documents into every language (the CFPB notes there are over 350 languages spoken in the U.S.), but it is their responsibility to determine the languages most relevant in their communities. Within the statement, the CFPB asks each financial institution to determine which non-English languages are used by a notable size of their customer base by using internal data on file or U.S. Census bureau language information.
Next, financial organizations are to determine the products and services most relevant to their LEP community. For example, analyzing the product mix currently being used by LEP customers can be used to prioritize the relevant documents and communications to be translated into the second language. The CFPB reminds organizations that any procedures used to make these determinations must be designed to prevent unlawful discrimination, even if it may be unintentional.
Banks should consider all communications surrounding the identified products and services—including promotional information, applications, disclosures, statements, and decision notices. However, every piece of communication does not need to be translated—the CFPB provides financial institutions latitude to determine which items are most critical for proper use and understanding the product or service.
As part of this initiative, financial institutions are expressly provided with the ability to collect preferred language information from its customers as long as it is not used for decision-making or qualification criteria—in other words, it must be treated in the same manner as protected information collected for fair lending regulations.
Of course, following these guidelines will become a part of the financial institution’s regular auditing and review process. As such, auditors will be looking for management to provide clear policies and procedures outlining how decisions are being made regarding the languages items are translated into as well as the products and services that receive the translation.
If you represent a financial institution, what should you do?
- Review the CFPB’s statement with your organization’s legal counsel and/or state regulators to determine what action steps are best for your specific bank.
- Communicate information about the requirements to team members so everyone understands how these new procedures will help non-English speaking customers receive better service from your bank.
- Contact our professionals at The Perfect Translation. Our team has proven experience in the financial services industry and can work with your team to make sure all the documents you need are accurately translated.
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The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of each state’s laws governing the recording of phone calls and in-person conversations and how those laws affect newsgathering. Because many of these laws have criminal penalties and some also permit civil lawsuits, this guide should not take the place of legal advice from a lawyer. Journalists with additional questions or who need to find a lawyer can contact the Reporters Committee’s legal hotline.
If you’re a new user of this guide, be sure to read the Introduction to the Reporter’s Recording Guide. The introduction covers the types of state laws that restrict recording activities; consent requirements; criminal and civil penalties; restrictions adopted by the Federal Communications Commission that apply to broadcasters; and other special circumstances.
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What You Need to Know for Hurricane Season: What all Pool Owners Need to Know When a Hurricane Strikes
Before the hurricane:
- Add additional chlorine to your swimming pool. This will help prepare your pool for the abundance of rain your pool may acquire. The rainwater can cause a negative impact on your pool’s water chemistry.
- Do not drain your swimming pool before the storm! It may seem like the correct thing, but the abundance of rain paired with an empty pool can cause the water table to rise. This will result in a concrete pool to rise and pop out from the ground.
- Do not put a cover on your swimming pool. This may cause severe damage.
- Be sure to put away anything that is not secured to the deck. Make sure to store all poolside furniture, floats, etc. in a safe space. High winds due to the hurricane can potentially turn those loose objects into flying projectiles that can or may damage anything it hits or may cause serious injuries to someone if hit.
- Turn off all electrical components of your swimming pool equipment. This will help stop power surges from damaging equipment. This may also protect the equipment if your property is flooded.
After the hurricane:
- Once your power has been restored, if you lost power, you may turn the equipment back on. Make sure all equipment is dry as well.
- If your pool has an excess amount of water in it, drain it from your swimming pool down to mid tile line so that your skimmer can help clean the surface of the pool.
- You will want to net out the debris in the pool. It is important to brush the pool walls and floor which again will help circulate the water.
Resources for you to learn how to better prepare and keep your family safe from the event of a hurricane.
American Red Cross Hurricane Safety page
National Hurricane Center
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Area names with keywords and phrases in them are considered useful for a range of reasons, which include a prolonged-standing thought that they might be instantly or indirectly handy for ranking functions.
Picking a domain title is an vital stage for launching a web-site, so it’s vital to make the ideal option.
The option of a domain name frequently falls into three categories:
- Key word domain.
- Phrase + key phrase area.
- Model domain.
It is controversial which approach is greatest. What is not debatable is that it is beneficial to find out about the subject matter ahead of building a selection.
A key word domain is a domain title with keywords in it. An instance can be Widgets.com.
Applying a domain title with the key terms in it can give the notion of authority.
Some corporations very own generic area names and redirect them to their web-sites, for whatever explanation.
For case in point, Espresso.com redirects to Peet’s Coffee, an artisanal coffee roasting organization. That will make it simple for people today to navigate to Peet’s.
But, the draw back of generic key word domains is that “all of the good ones” are by now registered and prohibitively expensive to pry off of a domainer.
There is also some net history relevant to generic keyword domains.
There was a time when web end users typed the keyword phrases of a merchandise or support they desired straight into the browser or look for engine. This observe was called immediate navigation.
Immediate navigation resulted in significant advertisement revenues to those who owned those domains and “parked” them.
Parking the area was setting it up so that the domain names confirmed advertisements and only adverts.
The valuable company of parked domains was served by search engines of the time that rated those parked area names in the lookup success.
So, if a person typed a a single-word query like [burgers], then Google could possibly rank Burgers.com.
Then in 2011, Google decreased the lookup visibility of parked domains from the look for results.
So, is there rating energy to search term domains? Not any longer, but John Mueller of Google has anything to say about it, more on that beneath.
Term + Key phrase Area
That’s why the well known selection is to insert a phrase to the area identify that allows to explain what a site customer can expect on the site.
This success in domains like Affordable[name of product/service].com, [name of product/service]Critiques.com, Rapidly[name of product/service], and so on.
A phrase moreover a search phrase for a domain identify is not a terrible way to go.
Upside Of Word + Key phrase Domain
The key word promptly manufacturers what the internet site is about, and the phrase tells the site visitor what to hope in conditions of the person intent.
Hunting for a evaluation? Consider [name of product/service]Assessments.com.
Downside Of Term + Search phrase Area
The draw back of this method is that it locks the web site into offering a precise area of interest and can limit its potential to improve.
So, if you start out out as [JoesCameraReviews], it’s likely to be difficult to changeover that web site to examining (or marketing) other goods.
There are lots of websites with keyword phrases in the area that rank incredibly properly.
A branded area is a area identify that doesn’t necessarily have search phrases in it.
Amazon, Zappos, and Etsy are illustrations of branded domains.
What is terrific about a branded area is that the brand name identify is that it does not automatically limit what the web-site can be about.
Several web pages with branded domains have extremely tiny problems ranking in the search effects.
Google Presents 4 Insights On Search phrase Domains
In the training course of answering a query in a current Webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller available four insights on the ranking power of key word domain names.
Four insights into Search term Domains and Position:
- Search term domains really don’t rank a lot quicker.
- Search phrase domains never automatically rank greater.
- Search phrase domains missing robust ranking influence yrs ago.
- Search phrase domains ranked the same as branded domains.
1. Keyword Domains Don’t Have A Time Gain
There is a perception that key phrase domains are equipped to rank superior speedier than branded domains. But according to Google’s John Mueller, this is not the circumstance.
There is a perceived advantage with getting key phrases in one-way links as a result of the anchor text. This is some thing that’s been reviewed for years. An argument can be built for and against.
Sad to say, John Mueller’s statement did not tackle this perceived advantage.
Here’s what John Mueller verified:
“…it normally takes time like any other new website… Clearly there are lots of sites out there that do rank for the key phrases in their domain title. But they labored on this possibly for years and years…”
2. Keywords and phrases In Domains Do not Rank Improved
John Mueller was really organization in asserting that keyword domains do not rank far better than branded domains.
“…just for the reason that search phrases are in a domain title does not indicate that it’ll routinely rank for individuals key terms.”
There is so considerably that goes into position, like information, consumer intent for that articles as very well as backlinks. All of that likely normally takes sizeable priority towards a little something like key phrases in the area.
Even though John Mueller did not especially say keywords in the area name are not a ranking sign, he did affirm that there is no spectacular advantage from acquiring the key phrases in the area title. And that is an crucial insight.
3. Keyword Domains Shed Impact Years Back
John Mueller asserted that key word domains misplaced affect a long time back.
In this article is what John Mueller stated:
“…just due to the fact key phrases are in a area name does not necessarily mean that it’ll instantly rank for those key terms. And which is something that’s been the circumstance for a seriously, really very long time.”
This may possibly be a reference to an algorithm update from 2011 (formal Google announcement listed here).
In late 2011, Google up to date its algorithm to insert a classifier to clear away parked domains from the research results.
A estimate from Google’s algorithm update announcement:
“This is a new algorithm for mechanically detecting parked domains. Parked domains are placeholder sites with minor exclusive information for our customers and are generally loaded only with advertisements.
In most instances, we favor not to exhibit them.”
Even so, the plan that key word domains have been greater than manufacturer domains continued in the research sector, even while Google was no lengthier giving a increase to parked search phrase domains.
An argument can be manufactured that there is a small signal. But there is absolutely nothing to lend assistance to that principle.
It is been a lengthy time considering that any research motor has printed analysis that incorporated keywords and phrases in domains as any kind of signal.
We’re residing in a time when key terms in headings (H1, H2) have diminished ranking body weight.
Recent algorithms no extended give extra pounds to title tags. This we know, and it calls into query the thought that Google proceeds to give a immediate position bonus to a key word in a domain name.
4. Search term Domains Ranked The Same As Branded Domains
This is yet another statement that contradicts the thought that keywords and phrases in a domain name have a ranking benefit.
John Mueller factors out that the keywords and phrases in a area are unrelated to their present-day ranking:
John Mueller’s statement on search phrases in domains:
“…it’s type of regular that they would rank for these keyword phrases and that they materialize to have them in their area title is sort of unrelated to their existing position.”
Mueller plainly notes that owning the key phrases in the area identify is unrelated to their ranking.
Investigate A Domain Title Before Using It
It is normally a very good strategy to investigation a area name to see if it was beforehand registered and how it was employed.
There are exceptional situations where by a domain that was utilised to spam can come to be stuck in a Google algorithm loop, leading to it to turn into banned for a thirty day period, obtaining released for a number of days then banned all about yet again, protecting against the site from position bigger than the next web site of the research success.
For extra data on the legacy domain penalty, read Google Algorithm Bug Places Web pages In Bizarre Limbo State.
Seo Gain Of Keyword Domains
There are many advantages to having a search term in a domain title. But an Search engine optimisation benefit is not always a person of the advantages, as Mueller will make obvious.
“…that they occur to have them in their area identify is type of unrelated to their present ranking.”
Stand Out With Your Domain
It may possibly be a superior idea to pick out a domain that stands out. This can be with a search term or it could be with a manufacturer identify.
Previous Googler Matt Cutts advisable in a webmaster aid movie in 2011 that selecting a area identify that stands out can be a great notion in specified situations.
“For example, if you have 15 web sites about Android and they all have Android, Android, Android, Android, it is going to be a small hard to try to remember, to rise previously mentioned the noise, to increase over the din.
Whilst, if you have some thing that is a minor more brandable, then persons are likely to try to remember that. They are likely to be in a position to appear back to it. Even internet sites like TechCrunch, very little in there suggests tech news.”
Takeaway On Domain Names
There are professionals and cons to the diverse varieties of area names to use for a web page.
If the small business wishes to leave wiggle home to improve to encompass a broader subject, then a domain title that is much less dedicated to a matter or even a model name is appropriate.
Of system, 1 can get started out with a slender-matter area identify and transform it in the upcoming. But that can final result in other web sites switching their brain about linking to the web site and lovers of the web site losing curiosity.
So, the best suggestions may possibly be for the enterprise to think about what it wants to execute now, what impression it needs to make to web-site readers, what story the domain name communicates to the customer, and also how well the area identify matches into the upcoming of the enterprise.
On the question of ranking, it is distinct that there is no direct search term-centered ranking advantage to a area title, which will make selecting a single a minimal less difficult.
View John Mueller explore domain names at the 21:50 minute mark:
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Creating a viable solution for public and private partnerships.
On World Cancer Day the Union for International Cancer Control (UUICC) and the global oncology community are calling on everyone to use their influence to help close the gap in cancer care. Stepping up to the challenge, Icon Oncology the leading private sector provider of cancer treatment in the country, today said it is ready to assist the National Government to bring much needed cancer treatment to the currently uninsured population. “South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world and our overburdened and tenuous public healthcare system currently does not provide for citizens who need timeous cancer care. Icon Oncology cancer treatment specialists is ideally positioned as a partner to Government and on World Cancer Day we are adding our voice to the global campaign and reaching out to the public sector to create greater equity in healthcare provision,” says CEO, Anthony Pedersen. Speaking at the commissioning event of a new Varian VitalBeam linear accelerator (Linac) at the Icon Oncology Cape Gate Radiotherapy unit in the Western Cape, Pedersen says that the solution is the adoption of value-based care, an alternative reimbursement and healthcare management model championed by Icon Oncology in South Africa. Dr Ernst Marais, COO of Icon Oncology explains; “The reality is that who you are and where you live could mean the difference between life and death. Sadly, most of our population face socio-economic and geographical barriers to accessing life-saving treatment.” The value-based care model advocated by Icon Oncology has a proven track record and is backed by more than a decade’s evidence. “Our studies and clinical data show that VBC can reduce oncology costs in the private sector by as much as 27% without compromising patient care and outcomes. The same model can be adapted for the public sector,” says Marais who presented the Icon Oncology solution to Parliaments Portfolio Committee on Health in 2021.
How does it work?
VBC places the patient firmly at the centre of their treatment by aiming for the best clinical outcomes and patient experience (quality) at lower costs to both the patient and funder. This means that there is more money left for life-saving treatment and less wastage on administration.” explains Marais. Icon Oncology has built its model on four key pillars: rational selection, sustainable finance, reliable infrastructure, and an affordable process. “In layman’s terms this means that we used evidence-based treatment protocols which have proven results and outcomes for patients; we have contracts in place with both private and public funders; we have a network of 150 oncologists who have capacity to see more patients; we invest in the latest treatment technology, and we have built an administrative system which reduces wastage and saves money,” says Marais.
The new Linac installation at the Cape Gate Oncology unit is part of an ongoing multi-million Rand investment in new technology which ensures that Icon Oncology and its network of oncologists remain at the forefront of cancer care. “Quality is at the heart of the value-based care model. It is a choice. This new machine is a collaborative effort of a dedicated team of cancer specialists who choose to make it better for our patients in South Africa,” says Dr Hanlie du Toit, one of the resident oncologists who will treat patients on the machine. “We are leading the way in closing the gap in cancer treatment in Southern Africa by securing the highest quality, cost-effective cancer care for the greatest number of patients. Our vision to create one-stop oncology centres in areas where these facilities are most needed, and to continue to deliver the right care to patients, at the right time and at the right price”, says Pedersen. | <urn:uuid:032a948d-1902-4761-bdb6-8089d6e15b5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iconsa.co.za/2022/02/04/icon-oncology-is-ready-to-close-the-gap-in-cancer-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.943898 | 804 | 1.554688 | 2 |
We live in an age of unhealthy mass-produced junk and filler foods. The landscape of modern food manufacturers is dominated by companies willing to compromise the nutritive value of the products we eat in order to keep costs low. Unfortunately, if you want to keep yourself and your loved ones healthy, you’ve got to make sure the labels on your food don’t sneak in any additives or preservatives that you don’t want to be eating!
One question at the heart of this issue is, “Why choose organic?” Many companies employ rigorous quality standards and undergo thorough inspections to earn the label of USDA Certified Organic, but is the juice worth the squeeze? Should we as consumers commit to an organic diet plan? Perhaps… but considering its purported impact on our health, we’re definitely well-served by knowing the facts.
Health-Related & Environmental Benefits of Eating Organic Food
The argument for organic food choices doesn’t just concern their effects on our health. The USDA Organic certification covers more than pesticide and additive usage; it also regulates the sustainability of food farming methods to ensure that they are physical, mechanical and biological to the fullest extent possible—instead of chemical! The intent of this certification goes beyond health, to ensure environmental benefits of eating organic food as well.
So, are organic foods healthier? Here are some simple criteria for weighing the benefits of organic food:
- Foods for an organic diet plan contain an average of 75% less pesticide residue, and also can contain higher levels of vitamins and minerals.
- Organic regulations require foods to be free of unhealthy additives.
- USDA Certified Organic foods cannot contain any genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which in some cases can negatively affect your health.
- There are environmental benefits of eating organic food, since organic farming techniques improve sustainability through practices that preserve soil, water, and air quality, as well as biodiversity.
Many people may overstate the benefits of choosing organic food for the body, but the fact remains that organic food choices do make a positive impact on both consumer health and environmental stability.
The Organic Diet Plan: How to Start Eating Organic
If you’re investigating the benefits of organic food for yourself or your family, the best way is to try it out for yourself. Some people report little to no difference, while others find that organic food choices drastically improve their wellness and mood. Considering the potential upside, it’s definitely worth a try!
Thankfully, most supermarkets have food options for your organic diet plan: vegetables, dairy, meats, canned foods, baked goods and more. Simply look for the USDA Certified Organic label on the foods you purchase, and choose healthy foods like vegetables and whole grains. While you’re at the market, try organic HOPE Hummus, free of synthetic additives and preservatives—and available in a store near you.
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The United States is at war against the Islamic State (Daesh in Arabic, and formerly known as ISIL, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), the jihadist group that recently conquered almost a third of Syria and Iraq and declared an Islamic caliphate in the territories under its control. To win its war against the terrorist group, which is inspired by Al-Qaeda, Washington rallied an international coalition of Western and Arab states.
The United States gathered on 11 September in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia a dozen Arab countries involved in the fight against religious extremism, which should contribute in varying degrees to the battle against ISIL. This war concerns primarily the six oil monarchies of the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, as well as Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. All are concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism represented by ISIL, which had already shown a willingness to expand its influence in the region, beyond Iraq and Syria.
The majority of the Arab states that joined Washington, despite the existence of differences in interpretation between them, were seeking international intervention against ISIL and called for a global strategy to fight against religious extremism. They believe that regional commitment is not enough and that Western intervention would be needed to overcome the rise of radical jihadist groups that have mushroomed in the region thanks to the popular uprisings in several Arab countries since 2011.
The new strategy of the United States, which excludes any ground intervention, involves the extension of air strikes against ISIL in Iraq and the launching of similar strikes against the jihadist group in Syria. This last point is an important change in US policy towards the Syrian conflict. Since the end of the withdrawal of its army from Iraq in 2010, Washington, under Barack Obama, sought to avoid any direct military intervention in the Arab world and the Middle East in general.
Last year, Obama recanted at the last moment to launch air strikes against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad, after the latter's agreement to destroy its arsenal of chemical weapons. He was also very reluctant to provide weapons to the moderate armed rebellion against the Syrian regime, partly out of fear that these weapons could fall into the hands of religious extremists, who are at the forefront of the fight against Al-Assad. This reluctance was a major source of friction with Saudi Arabia, one of whose priorities is providing financial and military support to the anti-Bashar opposition. Riyadh wants to do battle with the Syrian regime because of its alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the main rival of the Wahhabi kingdom. This Saudi-American dispute should end since the United States, as part of its new strategy, will arm the moderate opposition in Syria, while Saudi Arabia will open its training camps to some 10,000 "moderate" fighters.
The objectives of the Arab-Western coalition are multiple: contain ISIL's military advance in Iraq and Syria; break its image of unbeatable military force; and deal it a moral and psychological blow that would reduce its appeal and its mobilising force. The recent and rapid military successes of ISIL in Iraq and Syria have increased its ranks and thus its ability to conquer new territories. According to American intelligence (CIA) estimates, the number of fighters of the ISIL in Syria and Iraq increased from 10,000 to between 20,000 and 31,500, including 15,000 foreigners.
The weakening scenario of ISIL, however, poses a major dilemma: how to reduce ISIL militarily while avoiding that the vacuum left by its foreseeable withdrawal is filled by the army of the Syrian regime? In other words, how to prevent the military weakening of ISIL only benefitting the troops of Bashar Al-Assad? To deal with this possibility, the Arab-Western coalition has sought, as mentioned, to strengthen the camp of the moderate opposition, because air strikes alone will be unable to defeat ISIL. Ground forces must take advantage of these keystrokes to gain ground at the expense of ISIL. However, the moderate opposition is the weakest component of the anti-Assad forces and is unable at this time to score any progress on the ground. The most powerful armed opposition consists of a variety of radical Islamist groups, the largest of which is Al-Nusra Front. Inspired by Al-Qaeda, it is classified a terrorist organisation by Saudi Arabia and the United States. These Islamist groups, the regular Syrian army, or both, are likely, given the current state of circumstances, to fill the vacuum that would be created by the retreat of ISIL.
Saudi Arabia, the leader of the Gulf countries, sees — or wants to see — things from a different angle. It believes that the change in US strategy, which consist for the first time in a direct intervention in the Syrian conflict (air strikes, military support to the rebels), creates a new dynamic that will eventually weaken the Syrian regime and cause the departure of Al-Assad from power. That the United States has crossed the Rubicon to launch air strikes against targets in Syria might encourage it to seek to "finish the job" by striking also targets belonging to the regime, in order to help the opposition. Some see the speech of President Obama on 17 September, where he announced the new American strategy, an allusion to that effect, even if the current priority of Washington is the annihilation of ISIL.
Riyadh, that was furious against what it considers American inaction in Syria, would condition the continuation of its assistance to the Americans to the development of their strategy to achieve ultimately the departure of Al-Assad. The Saudis certainly do not seek a solution similar to that which has been applied in Iraq by the US, but rather to provoke, through American and Western intervention, mounting pressure on the Syrian president to agree to step down. This scenario does not, however, resolve the problem of Islamist groups opposed to Al-Assad, who remain the most powerful on the ground. | <urn:uuid:75bae1b3-4d98-4f87-ab0e-06062fca0bcb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/4/0/111805/Opinion/-The-dilemma-of-antiISIL-military-strategy.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965528 | 1,186 | 2.3125 | 2 |
A Gift From Mother: During 1942, Bengal rose like one man to participate in Gandhi ji‘s Quit India Movement. In the course of the struggle for freedom, a young Bengali girl, Sharada Chatterjee aimed a revolver at Mr. Gordon Jackson, Police Commissioner, Calcutta, and fired twice. The incident took place at the prize distribution ceremony of a high school where Jackson was the chief guest. He had earned the notoriety of being a tyrannical officer. Two months earlier he had ordered firing on a peaceful procession, causing the death of two women and a few children. Immediately afterwards it was decided in a secret meeting of the terrorists that Jackson had to be removed from this world. The job was entrusted to Sharada – a new recruit in the terirrorists’ fold.
A Gift From Mother: Saibal Chakravarty
Sharada, however, could not accomplish the task assigned to her. The bullets hit Jackson’s shoulder. He was rushed to the hospital and operated upon. He survived. Three months later he was released and he left for England.
Sharada Chatterjee was sentenced to jail for 15 years, three of which she spent in the Andamans. Had Jackson been killed, the punished would have been more severe.
Arun heard all this from his mother. He felt proud that his mother was not an ordinary person.
Besides learning from his mother about the freedom struggle, Arun had also read many books on the subject. Till he was thirteen he lived with his parents and went to a city school. Then his father died and Sharada Devi took a teacher’s job in a girl’s school and sent Arun to a boarding school in Siliguri.
So long Arun was with his mother she used to tell him for her involvement in the freedom struggle and her days of imprisonment in the Andamans.
Arun was also a great lover of adventure. Thrice he had won the best swimmer’s trophy in the school’s annual sports. Arun’s ambition was to become a pilot in the Indian Air Force.
It was painful for Arun to live away from his mother. But he loved his boarding school life too. St. Columbia’s, Siliguri, had similar branches in five other countries of the world. The Siliguri school was located close to the river Teesta. The river fascinated Arun.
During examinations, when he studied late in the night, he could hear the gentle murmur of the river flowing in the darkness outside. In summer its flow became weaker but in monsoon it looked awesome. Whenever Arun felt lonely he would go to the river and sit on its bank. The river, to a great extent, made up for the absence of his mother.
Arun met his mother twice during a year-once at Dussehra and again at Christmas. He would write regularly at her. Arun had a knack for writing letters. He kept his mother’s letter carefully. Whenever he missed his mother, he would open the small wooden box in which he kept her letters, pick up one and go through it. Immediately he would feel that his mother was sitting close to him.
There was no one on earth who was more dear to Arun that his mother. But the boy was unhappy with her because she did not comply with his one request.
Arun wanted to see the revolver which Sharada Devi had used to fire at Jackson and which later, when India became free, she had received as a gift from her admirers. Arun was very curious to see it and touch it but she did not let him.
“It is not time yet,” she would say.
“Then when you will show it to me?”
“Just when I consider it the proper time for you to see it,” Sharada Devi would reply curtly.
Arun knew that his mother would not change her mind once it was made up. He, however, could not understand the reason for his mother’s refusal and what she meant by ‘the proper time’. He would feel hurt.
That year, just before the Christmas holidays, an important incident took place in Arun’s life. Ten boys came from the London St. Columba’s to its Indian branch at Siliguri to have a glimpse of the lives of their fellow students in another part of the world. Father Ronald, an elderly teacher, was responsible for this group.
Arun and his friends were happy to meet the boys. Soon the boys found that there were many points of similarity between them.
A day prior to the London boys’ departure for home, a picnic was arranged on the riverside. It was a bright Sunday morning with a cool breeze blowing across the river. Arun’s history teacher Subir Roy, and Father Ronald accompanied the picnic party.
While playing badminton on the bank of the river, a few boys were suddenly struck by the idea of bathing in the river. They approached Subir Babu who was supervising the cooking.
“Sir, we want to take a bath in the river,” said the boys. “it will be real fun. We want your permission.”
Subir Babu said, “I don’t mind your bathing in the river but only those who know how to swim may go. That too, not very far from the bank.”
Father Ronald also endorsed this.
It was found eigth boys in the group did not know how to swim. They continued playing badminton. Eighteen boys were ready for a bath in the river. Among them was Dick. This bright boy was a year older than Arun. He developed a special liking for Dick. He had beautiful blue eyes. He played organ very well. Every night after dinner when the boys met in the hall, Dick enthralled them by playing tunes on his mouth organ.
“You know the type of river Teesta is,” Arun wrote about the picnic to his mother later. “Sometimes it appears very quiet but one does not know how quickly it can turn turbulent. That day we too did not realize what the river had in its mind.
“First, ten boys dived into the river. Dick was one of them. I was then doing light exercises on the bank. I suddenly heard shouts of ‘Help, Help’. I looked up and found Dick being pulled by strong currents and crying for help. Other boys were trying to reach him but to no avail.
“The sight had an electrifying effect on me,” wrote Arun. “From the helpless gestures of Dick I could well understand that he did not know how to swim. In no time he would be driven to the spot where the current was strongest. Anyone going there to help Dick would have little hope of survival for himself and Dick as well.
“Still, I dived. I knew it meant tremendous risk but yet I could not stand and watch a friend getting drowned. That would mean so much shame for all of us. I had always dreamt of having a big adventure one day. I thought there could not be a better chance of one than what I found before me then.
“I tried to swim as fast as I could. The current was against me. But still I tried, I used all the tricks of swimming I knew. As I fought with the rushing waves I kept raising my head and looking towards the bank. There were Father Ronald and Subir Babu encouraging me to move faster, and asking Dick to keep floating. The poor boy, by then, had given up completely.
“I cannot say how and when I reached the cold body of Dick. I have a faint memory of pulling unconscious body and swimming at the same time under severe strain.
“When I opened my eyes, the sun was setting. I was lying on a bed of our school hospital. I also found our Principal, Mr. Martin, Father Ronald and Subir Babu standing close to my bed with anxious looks on their faces.
“How is Dick?” I asked.
“He is all right,’ replied Mr. Martin. “How do you feel now, Arun?” he asked earnestly.
“I am all right, Sir,’ I replied with a faint smile.
“Mr. Martin put his hand on my forehead. “you have done a hero’s job, Arun,’ he said. ‘You swam almost a three-mile stretch of the river and the current was so strong.’
“A brave boy,’ muttered Father Ronald looking at me.
“Thank you, Sir”, I said.
“And there was Dick. I sat up in my bed and found him lying on a bed in a corner of the room. He looked at me and smiled.
“Naughty boy”, I felt like chiding him. ‘You don’t know how to swim, yet you wanted to play in the river.’
“As I finished drinking hot cocoa brought by Mr. Martin’s bearer, Father Ronald shook hands with me.
“Arun,’ he said in his deep voice, ‘tomorrow I am going back to England. Do you know what will be the most precious memory of my stay here? Your bravery. Had you not taken the risk to save Dick I would have felt so ashamed to get back to my country. What would I have told Dick’s parents? God bless you, my son.’ Tears glistened in his eyes as he spoke.
Subir Babu said, ‘Possibly you do not know, Arun, that Dick was not in the original list of the boys who were to come here, beacuse of his age. But he insisted that he must come as he had a special relationship with our country.’
‘Special relationship?’ I asked.
“Yes”, Subir Babu replied with a smile. ‘His father worked here for several years.’
“I was speechless by what Father Ronald told me about Dick’s father. I will tell you about it when I meet you. You will also be surprised as I was.
“Mr. Martin had said that my rest will be worthwhile if I spend some days at home. He had already booked my ticket to Calcutta. I am reaching Sealdah by the Darjeeling Mail on Sunday morning. I hope to see you at the station. Good-bye.
Sharada Devi was at the station well before the train’s arrival time. She was impatient to see Arun. She had also received a small note from Mr. Martin in which he told her that the whole school was proud of Arun. He also said that there was still some pain in Arun’s chest for which the doctors had advised him rest for a week. That is why he had asked Arun to be with his mother for some time. The moment Arun got down from the train Sharada Devi hugged him.
“How do you do, Ma?” he asked with a smile.
“I am all right but you look weak, Arun.”
“But i feel quiet fit,” Arun replied confidently.
They got into a taxi. Then Sharada Devi asked her son, Arun, you wrote to me that you would tell me something about Dick. What is it?”
“Yes, Ma, it is so interesting that I thought I would tell you only in person.” Arun looked at his mother’s face. “Do you know who Dick is, Ma? He is the youngest son of Mr. Gordon Jackson, who was the Police Commissioner of Calcutta during the 1942…”
Sharada Devi felt faint. Her mind went back to the days of hectic political movement. She heard shouts of “Bande Mataram”. Suddenly the police opened fire. An old woman of seventy who was carrying the tricolor was hit by a bullet. Before she collapsed, a young boy had run to her and picked up the flag…
Arun could not understand why his mother had become so grave suddenly. “Ma,” he called once but there was no reply. Sharada Devi was looking at the street outside, lost in her thoughts.
Arun felt piqued. His mother had not said anything about his saving Dick from drowning. ‘I must have displeased her by saving Mr. Jackson’s son who caused so much suffering to our people,’ he thought.
The taxi halted before their house. Startled, Sharada Devi alighted quickly from the vehicle and paid the fare. Ramu kaka came and picked up Arun’s suitcase.
“Come with me, Arun, “Sharada Devi said, still looking very grave.
Arun followed his mother into her bedroom. There she opened an almirah and brought out a casket from a drawer.
“Arun”, Sharada Devi looked at her son. Her eyes now sparkled with a kind of brightness Arun had never seen before. “I kept this valuable thing me all these days. It was a great responsibility on me because it represented the valor and sacrifices of so many brave people of our land. I wanted to show it to you when you would be worthy of it because this is something which is not to be trifled with,” Sharada paused for a moment and spoke again in a deep voice. “I am happy to say that you have proved your worth not only to see this but to possess it. Today I do not have a better gift to reward your bravery and friendliness, my son.”
She handed over the casket to Arun. He bent down and touched her feet and looked at her face. There were tears in her eyes but a smile on her lips.
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After two nervous weeks due to an airline strike, we’ve finally set out from Stockholm to the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard!
The Svalbard archipelago in the high Arctic is the world’s northernmost permanent settlement. Belonging to Norway, it was first landed upon by Dutch explorer Wilhelm Barentsz in the 1500s, then became a temporary base for whalers in the 1700s, a coal mining settlement in the 1900s and finally serves as an outpost for polar research today. The University Centre in Svalbard(UNIS) hosts researchers and students from a variety of disciplines in polar science and technology.
Svalbard is a frontier in understanding and measuring the state and impact of climate change on our plant. Marine robotics has a role to play in these measurements, and we are going to Svalbard to learn how.
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Modernism was an artistic, cultural, and even philosophical period from approximately 1885-1935 or so. Why should that matter to a writer? How could knowing a little bit about Modernism help you write a better novel or story? Because knowing the history and lessons learned and imparted by those who came before us in any discipline or field can only make us better at what we do. The application of knowledge and education works cumulatively and synergistically. The more we know, the better we are at what we do. Does anything make more sense than that?
#1 Foster and express a rebellious spirit
The Victorian world was no longer. The old values were gone or exposed as false or hypocritical; the feeling was that new values must be created. The philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche had a profound influence, scorning the idea of getting at truth, believing that there is no truth, no reality, no absolute. All is relative and a matter of individual perception.
He believed in “undecidables”—in life, language, and art. Writers who rebel, creating new ways of writing or thinking about things, are always in demand. Risk takers win big. Writers who play it safe lose.
#2 Understand, recognize, and shun decadence
When a form of something (art, lifestyle, fashion, culture, civilization, government, etc.) has gone as far as it can and no one can think of another direction for it, that’s decadence. So much writing today is decadent. It’s so derivative and redundant. Do we really need another wizard, vampire, or dragon fantasy novel? Decadence stresses the invalidity of structure, believing that there can be no such thing as a coherent, truly workable design in nature or society. Revolt by writing something absolutely fresh and radical. Don’t be an imitator; be an innovator.
#3 Think and write like a Romantic
The Modernists loved Romanticism. Study it as they did, to learn its lessons and borrow its timeless aspects for your own writing. Self-consciousness, self-reliance, and the imagination’s power to create are almost obsessions of Romanticism. Though concerned with the commonplace—what’s natural, simple, real—Romantics sought the absolute by transcending the actual. It’s ironic that the Modernists, like the Romanticists, searched for the “Ideal.” Lace your story together with that paradoxical thread—characters realistically seeking what’s idealistic—and you’ll have a winner that will captivate readers.
#4 Experiment with what were then new notions of the nature of consciousness
Freud and Jung were Modernists who posited that consciousness is multiple; that the past is always present and coloring one’s present reaction; and that people are their memories. In literature, these ideas were manifested in Faulkner’s “stream of consciousness” style and Hemingway’s “iceberg principle.” Writers developed a new kind of reality, one preoccupied with the inner life, the subjective.
#5 Play with the then new views of time itself
Thanks to the Modernists Einstein and Bergson [there sure were a lot of monumentally great Modernists, weren’t there?], time was beginning to be seen not as a series of chronological moments in sequence, but as a continuous flow in the consciousness of the individual, with the ‘already’ merging into the ‘not yet.’ Read Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying andSlaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut (a 60’s post-Modernist) for what can be done with time-out-of-joint writing. You do not have to write in a chronological order.
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Calls to improve K-12 education are routine. Business leaders, educators, and other stakeholders demand that our children acquire the knowledge and skills needed to grow our rapidly evolving economy. Yet, although digital resources have expanded learning opportunities, classroom pedagogy has not changed much in the last 50 years. Throwing more money at existing approaches will at best produce only incremental improvements.
Since the 19th century, schools have used textbooks to deliver instructional content. Textbooks, however, are expensive, their content starts to age upon publication, and they must be replaced periodically. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for California schools to shift to digital textbooks to save much of the $350 million that the state annually budgets for textbooks and instructional materials. Moreover, textbooks are hardly interactive and are isolated from the computing resources with which we have provisioned our schools at great expense. Textbooks met the needs of the 19th and 20th centuries, but they fall far short of 21st century needs. They are old-school delivery that supports old-school pedagogy.
Cloud computing is a new strategy for delivering knowledge and tools that companies worldwide are increasingly adopting. The cloud refers to wide-area networks, generally the internet, from which remote computing resources are shared. Enterprises rely on applications and data storage services that are hosted in the cloud rather than on local servers. Google and others already offer various productivity applications and Microsoft announced that it will offer Microsoft Office 2010 online next year. The cloud reduces costs and complexity and provides scalability. It also permits the flexible deployment of new applications and functionalities to meet prevailing needs.
Might cloud computing be appropriate for schools? If they adopted cloud pedagogy, schools would replace textbooks with browser-based content delivery. Yet a cloud offers schools much more than content-as-a-service. It can deliver such resources as word processors, spreadsheets, databases, data visualization and analysis applications, teacher and administrator tools, and voice/video communications. Of course, students would still have access to the plethora of research and educational information available on the web.
Cloud pedagogy offers tangible benefits. In addition to eliminating the financial burden of textbooks, school districts also would avoid the costs of robust computers and buying, installing, and maintaining software for each. The bulk of the computer processing would be done by the cloud provider, allowing learners to use any networked device that can run a web browser, even iPhones. Schools could further trim IT and energy budgets by saving their files and data on the cloud, doing away with the need for onsite storage. And the cloud provides scalability, permitting schools to increase capacity and capabilities without investing in new infrastructure or staff training.
Cloud pedagogy can deliver curricula and on-demand learning services. It can easily update digital content, ensuring students always work with current information. The cloud can present molecular modeling applications and other resources that introduce emerging fields like nanoscience, biotechnology, and sustainable development. To do so today, instructional materials and applications have to be procured for every science class, incurring costs and effort that make teaching important new domains impractical.
Cloud pedagogy can enhance teaching by integrating multimedia webinars, master classes, and other teacher professional development resources that instructors can conveniently access. The cloud can offer innovative and promising strategies like just-in-time teacher training, in which teachers can view videos of how master teachers deliver the next day’s lesson. Interactive assessments can be embedded within digital content and curricula to help teachers determine not only whether students have learned facts, but also if they understand and can apply concepts and processes.
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Sivers Effect for Pion and Kaon Production in
We study the Sivers effect in the transverse single spin asymmetries (SSA) for pion and kaon production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) processes. We perform a fit of which, by including recent high statistics experimental data for pion and kaon production from HERMES and COMPASS Collaborations, allows a new determination of the Sivers distribution functions for quarks and antiquarks with , and flavours. Estimates for forthcoming SIDIS experiments at COMPASS and JLab are given.
pacs:13.88.+e, 13.60.-r, 13.60.Le, 13.85.Ni
In Refs. Anselmino et al. (2005a, b), we studied the transverse single spin asymmetry observed by the HERMES Airapetian et al. (2005) and COMPASS Alexakhin et al. (2005) Collaborations in polarized SIDIS processes, . The quality and amount of the data allowed to perform a rather well constrained extraction of the Sivers distribution function Sivers (1990, 1991) for and quarks, assuming the existence of a symmetric and negligibly small Sivers sea. Similar analyses and extractions were performed by other groups Vogelsang and Yuan (2005); Collins et al. (2006); Anselmino et al. (????). Although all these results were relevant and significant as the first determination of the Sivers and functions, they were affected by the low statistics of the experimental data available at that time: in fact, COMPASS asymmetries were limited to charged hadron production, as no hadron separation was performed, while the HERMES data were only given for charged pion production. Recently, much higher statistics data on the azimuthal asymmetries for SIDIS have become available: in Ref. Diefenthaler (2007) the HERMES Collaboration presents neutral pion and charged kaon azimuthal asymmetries, in addition to higher precision data on charged pion asymmetries; moreover, Refs. Martin (2006); Alekseev et al. (2008) show the COMPASS Collaboration measurements for separated charged pion and kaon asymmetries, together with some data for production.
It is then timely and natural to reconsider the analysis performed in Ref. Anselmino et al. (2005b) in order to increase our understanding of the properties of the Sivers function. In particular, reduced error bars and hadron separation in both the HERMES and COMPASS sets of experimental data allow a better determination of the and flavour Sivers distribution functions and, most importantly, a first insight into the sea and strange contributions to the Sivers functions, namely , , and .
Our strategy is the following. First we evaluate the impact of the new data with respect to the old data sets: as we shall explain in Section III, using the same unpolarized fragmentation functions as in Refs. Anselmino et al. (2005a, b) would give a high quality fit as far as pion asymmetries are concerned, but fails to describe the kaon data. Instead, the use of a different, more recent set of fragmentation functions de Florian et al. (2007), based on a global analysis of pion and kaon production, will prove to be crucial to reach a successful description of pion and kaon data simultaneously. With a simple ansatz parameterization of the Sivers functions, we will then perform a simultaneous fit of both HERMES and COMPASS data sets on for pion () and production. We do not include in our fit the COMPASS data on Alekseev et al. (2008) as the corresponding fragmentation functions are not so well established and can be obtained from those for only adopting further assumptions; we shall rather estimate for , and compare it with COMPASS data, using the Sivers functions obtained by fitting all other data sets, and assuming exact invariance to derive the quark fragmentation functions into .
The above procedure will allow to determine the valence and sea proton Sivers functions, which will be used to provide estimates for the analogous single spin asymmetries that will soon be measured at JLab (operating on proton, neutron and deuteron targets) and at COMPASS (operating on a proton target). Notice that the JLab measurements will provide vital information on the large behaviour of the Sivers distribution functions, yet undetermined from present SIDIS experiments, as explained in Section IV.
Ii Formalism and parameterization
The SIDIS transverse single spin asymmetry (SSA) measured by HERMES and COMPASS is defined as (see Fig. 1 for the definition of the azimuthal angles)
and shows the azimuthal modulation triggered by the correlation between the nucleon spin and the quark intrinsic transverse momentum. This effect is embodied in the Sivers distribution function , which appears in the number density of unpolarized quarks with intrinsic transverse momentum inside a transversely polarized proton , with three-momentum and spin polarization vector ,
where is the unpolarized and dependent parton distribution, and the mixed product explicitly gives the azimuthal dependence mentioned above. Notice that the Sivers function is also often denoted as Mulders and Tangerman (1996); this notation is related to ours by Bacchetta et al. (2004)
The “weighting” factor in Eq. (1) is appropriately chosen to single out, among the various azimuthal dependent terms appearing in Bacchetta et al. (2007); Anselmino et al. (2008), only the contribution of the Sivers mechanism. By properly taking into account all intrinsic motions this transverse single spin asymmetry can be written, at order , as Anselmino et al. (2005b)
and are the azimuthal angles identifying the directions of the proton spin and of the outgoing hadron respectively, while defines the direction of the incoming (and outgoing) quark transverse momentum, = , as shown in Fig. 1; is the unpolarized cross section for the elementary scattering ,
where , and are the partonic Mandelstam invariants.
Finally, is the fragmentation function describing the hadronization of the final quark into the detected hadron with momentum (see Fig. 1); carries, with respect to the fragmenting quark, a light-cone momentum fraction and a transverse momentum .
In our analysis we shall consider , and flavours for quarks and antiquarks. The Sivers function is parameterized in terms of the unpolarized distribution function, as in Ref. Anselmino et al. (2005b), in the following factorized form:
where , , and (GeV/) are free parameters to be determined by fitting the experimental data. Since for any and for any (notice that we allow the constant parameter to vary only inside the range ), the positivity bound for the Sivers function,
is automatically fulfilled. We adopt the usual (and convenient) Gaussian factorization for the unpolarized distribution and fragmentation functions:
with the values of and fixed to the values found in Ref. Anselmino et al. (2005a) by analysing the Cahn effect in unpolarized SIDIS:
Notice that the Gaussian distributions limit the effective action of intrinsic motion to and , which is the region of validity of the TMD factorized expressions in Eq. (4), Ji et al. (2005, 2004, 2006).
The parton distribution functions (PDF) and the fragmentation functions (FF) also depend on via the usual QCD evolution, which will be taken into account, at leading order (LO), in all our computations.
Before fitting the data on the Sivers asymmetries a few comments on the quark hadronization are necessary. While most of the available sets of fragmentation functions describe rather well the pion multiplicities observed at HERMES, many of them fail to reproduce the kaon multiplicities in SIDIS production. The main reason is the role of the strange quarks, which is often not well established: for example, one expects that mesons can be abundantly produced by quarks, via creation from the vacuum of a light pair, rather than by quarks, via creation from the vacuum of a heavier pair. Such a feature is particularly emphasized in the set recently obtained by de Florian, Sassot, Stratmann (DSS) de Florian et al. (2007), which has over the whole range. This is shown in Fig. 2, where the LO DSS fragmentation functions (solid lines) are compared with those proposed by Kretzer (KRE) Kretzer (2000) (dashed lines) and by Hirai, Kumano, Nagai and Sudoh (HKNS) Hirai et al. (2007) (dotted lines). The DSS set, which is determined by fitting all presently available multiplicity measurements, both for pions and kaons, is indeed the most suitable for our purposes.
This can also be seen in a more quantitative way. We know that Kretzer’s and other commonly adopted sets of fragmentation functions are able to describe pion production data, as shown, for instance, in Fig. 4 of Ref. de Florian et al. (2007). However, Fig. 13 of Ref. de Florian et al. (2007) shows instead that Kretzer fragmentation functions fail to reproduce charged kaon SIDIS multiplicities, and might not be adequate to reconstruct transverse single spin asymmetries corresponding to kaon production. In fact, by using the Kretzer set for our fit, we would not be able to describe the kaon asymmetry data: to be more precise, we would obtain for pions but for kaon production asymmetries. Estimates for asymmetries were presented in Ref. Anselmino et al. (2005b) and the inadequacy of the Kretzer fragmentation functions was pointed out in several talks (see, for example, Ref. Prokudin et al. (Dubna, Russia, September 3-7, 2007)). The same conclusion has been confirmed, very recently, in Ref. Arnold et al. (2008).
Let us now turn to the experimental data on kaon and pion Sivers azimuthal asymmetries measured by the HERMES Collaboration Diefenthaler (2007). The single spin asymmetry corresponding to production is, as a matter of fact, much larger than the analogous asymmetry for . Although one could naively expect, on the basis of quark dominance, that and asymmetries should be roughly the same, the presence of a large FF can help to understand the “puzzle” of the asymmetry. Indeed, if a non-negligible Sivers function exists, then its action combined with a large fragmentation function can give rise to a significant difference between and Sivers asymmetries.
Iii Fit of SIDIS data and extraction of Sivers functions
The recent SIDIS experimental data on Sivers asymmetries for pion and kaon production give us the opportunity to study sea-quark Sivers functions for , , and quarks. The and quark Sivers functions alone were already studied in Ref. Anselmino et al. (2005b); in the present analysis we will be able to improve the extraction of these functions and to present first estimates of the sea-quark Sivers functions.
In order to evaluate the significance of the sea-quark Sivers contributions we first perform a fit of the SIDIS data using flavour independent ratios of the sea-quark Sivers functions with the corresponding unpolarized PDFs: that is, for , , and flavours we attempt an “unbroken sea” ansatz:
where are the same for all sea quarks, , , and .
As the SIDIS data from HERMES and COMPASS have a limited coverage in , typically , the experimental asymmetries we are fitting contain very little information on the large tail of the Sivers functions. In fact, our previous analysis of Ref. Anselmino et al. (2005b) showed that the parameters and as determined by MINUIT best fit procedure are affected by very large errors. Therefore, as a first attempt, we assume the same value of for all Sivers functions, setting .
Thus for the “unbroken sea” ansatz we have 8 free parameters:
For the purposes of our fit, we use the unpolarized parton distribution functions as given in Ref. Gluck et al. (1998) (GRV98LO) and the fragmentation functions as given in Ref. de Florian et al. (2007) (DSS) – all evolved to the appropriate values – with the additional Gaussian dependences of Eqs. (10)-(12). While the choice of the DSS fragmentation functions is the one which best describes the large asymmetries observed for , the use of different sets of distribution functions, including the most recent analysis of quark distributions from HERMES Airapetian et al. (2008), would not affect our results significantly. For the Sivers functions, we use the functional forms of Eqs. (6)-(8). Notice that the (unknown) evolution of these functions is assumed to be the same as for the unpolarized PDFs, .
By fitting simultaneously pion and kaon production data from HERMES Diefenthaler (2007) and COMPASS Martin (2006) we obtain an acceptable overall description of the experimental data, with . The new experimental data give clear indications of the need of a non negligible sea-quark Sivers function, with sensitively different from zero. Although the total is definitely good, a more careful examination of the results shows that while we achieve a perfect description of the production data at HERMES Diefenthaler (2007), with per data point, the description of kaon production data is rather poor, with per data point for production at HERMES Diefenthaler (2007). This indicates that the “unbroken sea” ansatz fails to reproduce the differences between pion and kaon production, and clearly suggests the need of a parameterization which should allow for a more structured flavour dependence of the sea-quark Sivers functions.
Including four new functions in our analysis would result in a substantial growth of the number of parameters and would consequently limit the usefulness of our parameterization. To keep the number of parameters under control, we define a simple “broken sea” ansatz by introducing four free parameters, , , , and which give different sizes to the sea-quark Sivers functions, while keeping the same functional forms ( and ). For the “broken sea” ansatz fit we then have 11 parameters:
The results we obtain for these parameters by fitting simultaneously the four experimental data sets on , corresponding to pion and kaon production at HERMES Diefenthaler (2007) and COMPASS Martin (2006), are presented in Table 1, together with the corresponding errors, estimated according to the procedure outlined in Appendix A. The fit performed under the “broken sea” ansatz shows a remarkable improvement, especially concerning the description of kaon data. We now obtain per data point for production at HERMES Diefenthaler (2007), while for pions we have per data point, and a total . In Table II we show the per data point for pion and kaon production at HERMES and COMPASS, both for the ”unbroken sea” and ”broken sea” ansatze and adopting the Kretzer and DSS FF sets. Notice that these values refer to the asymmetries as a function of .
The quality of our results is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 where our best fit to the SSA is compared with the experimental data from Refs. Diefenthaler (2007) and Martin (2006): the SSAs are plotted as a function of one variable at a time, either or or , while an integration over the other variables has been performed consistently with the cuts of the corresponding experiment.
|Experiment||observed hadron||n. of data points||per data point|
|unbroken sea||broken sea||unbroken sea||broken sea|
In order to check the dependence on the set of unpolarized PDF’s adopted, we have also performed the fit by using the CTEQ6L Pumplin et al. (2002) and the MRST01LO Martin et al. (2002) sets; in both cases, the quality of the fit and the central-value results for the asymmetries are so similar to those obtained with the GRV98LO set that they would be hardly distinguishable in Figs. 3 and 4.
The shaded areas in Figs. 3 and 4 (and in all subsequent figures where they are shown) represent statistical uncertainties and correspond to a 95.45% Confidence Level (CL): they are determined according to the procedure described in Appendix A. Notice that further uncertainties of theoretical nature, intrinsic to our phenomenological approach, are present and might widen the size of the statistical bands. However, these are very difficult to assess: it suffices to recall that our analysis is performed assuming a simple factorized dependence in Eqs. (6), (10) and (11), that the actual evolution of the Sivers function is unknown and that uncertainties in the fragmentation functions have not been taken into account. The functional form for the -dependence of the Sivers functions used in the fit, Eq. (7), is a simple one and more structured dependences might allow better fits, with the statistical shaded areas covering better the experimental errors of the data. At this stage, considering the available experimental information and the remaining theoretical issues to be clarified, we do not think that further refinements of our analysis would be meaningful.
Notice that in Fig. 4 we also show the results for at COMPASS, for which no data is so far available, computed using our extracted Sivers functions as given in Table 1. Similarly we have computed for production at HERMES and COMPASS and show them respectively in Figs. 3 and 4. As the is an equal mixture of and , we have assumed isospin invariance, writing the FFs in terms of the ones – which are taken from Ref. de Florian et al. (2007) – as:
Our computation of the asymmetry at COMPASS can be compared with the available data Alekseev et al. (2008), as shown in the upper-right plots of Fig. 4. Notice that these curves, contrary to the others in the same figure, are not best fits, but a simple estimate, based on the extracted Sivers functions and the adopted fragmentation functions of Eq. (16).
In Fig. 5, our results, obtained using the kaon fragmentation functions as given by de Florian et al. in Ref. de Florian et al. (2007) (solid lines), are compared with the best fit we would find by using the KRE Kretzer (2000) (dotted lines) and HKNS Hirai et al. (2007) (dashed lines) sets of fragmentation functions. It is clear that the use of the new – strange-quark sensitive – fragmentation functions yields a much better agreement with the experimental measurements of the SIDIS azimuthal asymmetries for kaon production.
The Sivers functions generated by our best fit procedure are presented, at the scale (GeV, in Fig. 6, where we plot, on the left panel, the first moment defined as
and, on the right panel, the dependence of at a fixed value of . The highest and lowest dashed lines show the positivity limits .
Our results both confirm previous conclusions on the and Sivers distributions and, despite the still large uncertainties (see Table 1), offer some new clear information about the so far unknown sea-quark Sivers functions. Let us comment in detail:
The HERMES data on kaon asymmetries, surprisingly large for , cannot be explained without a sea-quark Sivers distribution. In particular, we definitely find
There are simple reasons for the above results. The Sivers distribution function for quarks turns out to be definitely positive, due to the large positive value of for ; notice that the value of saturates the positivity bound . Similarly, the positive sign of is, essentially, driven by the positive and SSAs and the opposite sign of by the small SSA measured by COMPASS on a deuteron target. The and Sivers functions are also predicted to be opposite in the large limit Pobylitsa (2003) and in chiral models Drago (2005).
The Sivers functions for , and quarks, instead, turn out to have much larger uncertainties; even the sign of the and Sivers functions is not fixed by available data, while appears to be negative. This could be consistent with a positive contribution from quarks, necessary to explain the large asymmetry, which is decreased, for , by a negative contribution. One might expect correlated Sivers functions for and quarks: we have actually checked that choosing slightly worsens the (from 1 up to about 1.1), but still leads to a reasonable fit.
We notice that the Burkardt sum rule Burkardt (2004)
is almost saturated by and quarks alone at (GeV:
The individual contributions for quarks are:
thus leaving little room for a gluon Sivers function,
in agreement with other similar results Anselmino et al. (2006); Brodsky and Gardner (2006). The statistical uncertainties in the values given above have been computed as explained at the end of Appendix A.
In Fig. 7 we compare the and flavour Sivers distribution functions, at the scale (GeV, obtained in our present analysis with the and flavour Sivers functions we had found from our previous fit Anselmino et al. (2005b), where and kaon productions were not considered, the Kretzer fragmentation function set was used, and only valence quark contributions were taken into account in the polarized proton. This plot shows that the Sivers functions previously obtained are consistent, within the statistical uncertainty bands, with the Sivers functions presently found.
Iv Estimates for forthcoming experiments
Using the Sivers functions determined through our fit, we can give estimates for other transverse single spin asymmetries which will be measured in the near future. Fig. 8 shows the results we obtain for the COMPASS experiment operating with a hydrogen target, adopting the same experimental cuts which were used for the deuterium target (Eq. (71) of Ref. Anselmino et al. (2005a)).
Forthcoming measurements at the energies of and GeV are going to be performed at JLab, on transversely polarized proton, neutron and deuteron targets. The obtained data will be important for several reasons; they will cover a kinematical region corresponding to large values of , a region which is so far unexplored by other SIDIS measurements. In particular, a combined analysis of HERMES, COMPASS and JLab SIDIS data will allow a much better determination of the parameters, which control the large behaviour of the Sivers distribution functions. In addition, the combined analysis of proton and neutron target events will help flavour disentangling and a more precise determination of and quark contributions.
Our estimates for the JLab SSAs, for pion and kaon production off proton, neutron and deuteron targets, at 12 GeV, are presented in Figs. 11–11. At this energy relatively large values are available and the TMD factorization, valid for , should hold. The adopted experimental cuts for a proton or a deuteron target are, in terms of the usual SIDIS variables, the following:
whereas for a neutron target they are:
where, at order , one has and ; the exact relationships can be found in Ref. Anselmino et al. (2005a).
Notice that these estimates, while well constrained by the available SIDIS data at small values, might be less stringent at large values: for example, relaxing the assumption of a unique value for all flavours, would only marginally affect our present fit of HERMES and COMPASS data, but would much widen the uncertainty band above .
We have given complete sets of estimates for charged and neutral pions and kaons. While the and computations originate from a consistent procedure which uses fragmentation functions and Sivers distributions obtained by fitting data involving the same particles, the estimates might be affected by a greater uncertainty about its fragmentation functions, which require the assumptions of Eq. (16). This can be seen in the comparison between data and computations of Fig. 4.
We have also computed estimates for JLab operating at 6 GeV, with the corresponding kinematical cuts:
for a proton or a deuteron target, and
for a neutron target. The SSAs result to be almost identical to those obtained at 12 GeV; therefore, we do not show them explicitely.
A word of caution is necessary when discussing JLab SIDIS observables at 6 GeV; in the high-, relatively low- JLab kinematical regime, target and identified hadron mass effects (in particular for kaons), large resummations and higher-twist effects might be significant. This implies potential theoretical problems in the analysis of such data. Notice, moreover, that a much better statistics should be expected at 12 GeV.
We have performed a comprehensive analysis of SIDIS data on Sivers azimuthal dependences, taking advantage of new and more precise experimental results. Particularly challenging are the HERMES data on kaon asymmetries, showing an unexpectedly large value of for . Our results confirm and improve previous extractions of the and Sivers distributions and offer first insights into the sea contribution to the Sivers effect.
It turns out that the data demand a non vanishing, and large, Sivers distribution for quarks, which, coupled to a new set of fragmentation functions enhancing the role of strange quarks, appears to be the only way, at present, to explain the data. The other sea quark () contributions are, at this stage, less well determined, although they also seem to be non vanishing.
Taken at face value, the extracted Sivers distributions indicate a saturation of the Burkardt sum rule mainly due to and quarks alone, which carry almost opposite transverse momentum. The sea quark contribution is altogether rather small. This seems to rule out a contribution from gluons and, somehow, points towards a picture of the proton structure with the parton orbital motion restricted to valence quarks.
Finally, we have used our extracted Sivers distributions to compute estimates for ongoing and planned new experiments at COMPASS and JLab.
Acknowledgements.We are grateful to Carlo Giunti for stimulating discussions on the statistical analysis of our results. We acknowledge support of the European Community - Research Infrastructure Activity under the FP6 “Structuring the European Research Area” program (HadronPhysics, contract number RII3-CT-2004-506078). M.A., M.B., and A.P. acknowledge partial support by MIUR under Cofinanziamento PRIN 2006. This work is partially supported by the Helmholtz Association through funds provided to the virtual institute “Spin and strong QCD”(VH-VI-231).
Appendix A analysis and statistical uncertainty bands
For completeness, and because it is often a matter of debate, we briefly discuss the techniques used for evaluating the statistical uncertainties of our estimates. A standard (see Refs. Yao et al. (2006), Press et al. (2007)) analysis is applied in order to estimate the values of unknown parameters . The total is calculated by
where we have a set of experimental measurements at known points . Each measurement is supposed to be Gaussian distributed with variance . The theoretical estimate of the measurement depends non-linearly on the unknown parameters .
Minimizing the total yields a set of parameters and a value .
In our particular case we have and, for the “broken sea” ansatz, , thus ; the minimum found by MINUIT is .
At this stage, we would like to estimate the possible errors on the extracted parameters and the statistical uncertainties on the corresponding Sivers functions and on our estimates for the asymmetries which will be measured in future experiments.
Let us call some sets of parameters that could have been obtained if a slightly different set of data were measured (within experimental uncertainties one can generate, using Monte Carlo techniques, new data sets and extract the corresponding parameter sets ). Then, for each value of , the quantity
is distributed according to a chi-square distribution, with degrees of freedom (see sects. 22.214.171.124 of Ref. Yao et al. (2006), 15.6 of Ref. Press et al. (2007)). In order to take into account the correlations between all the parameters, we would like to perform a joint estimation of parameters. The corresponding coverage probability can be calculated according to the formula
The meaning of the coverage probability can be explained as follows: suppose that we generate sets of parameters , , which satisfy the condition
then, if the number of sets is large enough, we cover a hyper-volume in the dimensional space which is called confidence region. The meaning of the confidence region is that with a probability we will find the true set of parameters inside this hyper-volume (see sect. 15.6 of Press et al. (2007)). The minimal probability which is worth quoting is 68.3% and is historically connected to one sigma deviation of the normal distribution, then 95.45% corresponding to 2 sigma, etc.
Notice that if we wanted to estimate the error of one single parameter, say , having fixed all the other parameter values, then the previous considerations would lead us back to the well known case in which , and for a required 68.3% confidence level.
We determine the confidence hyper-volume corresponding to coverage probability for the joint estimation of parameters. From Eq. (31), we obtain
We then generate 200 sets of parameters , which satisfy the condition
and cover our chosen confidence region.
Now, in all the plots the central line corresponds to the extracted set of parameters obtained from the value. In order to estimate the statistical uncertainty on this result we calculate the same quantity (either single spin asymmetry or Sivers function) corresponding to the sets , : at each given point (or or , as appropriate) the maximal and minimal values among all of these give us the upper and lower uncertainty boundaries. The resulting error band corresponds to the projection of the 95.45% confidence region onto a given observable. The meaning of this band is straightforward: the probability to find the true result inside the shaded corridor is 95.45%.
The corresponding shape of the and the scatter plot of the 200 generated sets are shown in Fig. 12, where one can clearly see that the does not have a parabolic shape in the vicinity of ; thus we need to take into account higher order corrections to its Taylor expansion.
The explained method is general and is suitable to determine statistical uncertainties in a general case, when the fitting function does not depend linearly on parameters. Instead the “standard” method, exploiting the error matrix issued by the MINUIT package, is applicable only in the cases when the fitting function depends linearly on the parameters, and the parameter errors are very small.
The statistical uncertainties in the values of and their combinations, Eqs. (22)-(24), have been determined consistently with the above procedure; these quantities have been computed for each of the 200 sets of parameters and the upper and lower limits shown in Eqs. (22)-(24) simply correspond to the highest and lowest values found.
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Maryland Panel Tasked With Investigating State's Lynching History
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
In Maryland, the first government-backed commission of its kind is about to start investigating a harrowing part of the state's history. The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission has set out to document the state's 42 known racial lynchings. The panel delivered an interim report to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan earlier this month. Charles Chavis Jr. is the commission's vice chairman. He joins us now to share the commission's plans and goals for this project.
CHARLES CHAVIS JR: Thank you so much for having me.
CHANG: So tell us, where did the idea to create this commission originally come from?
CHAVIS: Sure. Most historical scholarship concerning racial terror lynching is centered in the Deep South. And so you have states such as Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and the like who get noticed for their history of racial terror. However, it's important for people to understand that lynching took place throughout the United States, and one of those states that is often overlooked is the state of Maryland. And so we call Maryland the middle ground in many ways because it represented, like most border states, a style that was Southern, but it also had a progressive leaning. And so this oftentimes caused the state to be overlooked in terms of looking at the legacy of racial terror.
CHANG: And tell us, what are the primary goals of this commission?
CHAVIS: The commission is tasked with investigating lynchings that took place in the 19th and 20th century in Maryland. And we are centered and focused on salvaging the humanity first of the victims and then really laying out each case individually and hopefully bringing about some semblance of justice to the family members and the descendants of the deceased victims.
CHANG: Can you talk about a specific case that the commission is investigating right now?
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CHAVIS: And no one was ever held accountable.
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Barwon MP Kevin Humphries somewhat agrees with Mr Dineen, believing that a new environmental watering plan is best for the area.
"The preference from my view is to leave the northern lake system alone, including Lake Menindee, and develop up an environmental water planning regime for that part of the world," he told the ABC.
While solutions for the long term continue to be debated at high levels, for many the crisis is more immediate. Securing your own supply is more crucial than ever, so talk to your local expert today about a quality water tank solution on your property.
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On Friday, May 10, 2013, MCS was honored to host fifteen members of the FSU Gymnastics Team for an unveiling of a stained glass window in Dodd Hall. We spent a lot of time with the team members in planning this piece and enjoyed learning more about their impressive history and contributions to FSU Athletics. In 1951, FSU Gymnastics secured the first NCAA National Championships in the state of Florida. In 1952, three members, Bill Roetzheim, Don Holder and Raphael lecuona participated in the Olympics. The Tumbling Tots program, a favorite activity for local children had grown so popular by 1953 that it was taken over by the City of Tallahassee. | <urn:uuid:1c770516-3daf-47a9-aeb1-34ee1ed1eb24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cfa.fsu.edu/master-craftsman-hosts-stained-glass-window-in-honor-of-fsu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968335 | 141 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Despite his country’s recently warming ties with Russia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned Moscow’s decision to recognize the two Ukrainian enclaves of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Speaking to reporters, President Erdogan described as “unacceptable” Russia’s recognition of the two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, calling on all parties to abide by international law.
Turkey has strongly backed Ukraine, even selling Kyiv its latest military drones despite protests from Moscow. Last October, a Kremlin spokesman warned that Turkey’s ongoing arms sales to Ukraine threaten to destabilize the region.
Russia’s increasingly aggressive policy in the shared Black Sea region is causing Ankara concern, says international relations professor Mustafa Aydin of Istanbul’s Kadir Has University.
“Until a few years (ago), Turkey had the most powerful navy in the Black Sea after the Cold War, but now Russia has surpassed,” Aydin said. “Especially the militarization of the zone by Russia, not only Crimea, but across the Black Sea region from Armenia to the north Caucasus, to the Ukrainian border; it puts not only Turkey but all the NATO countries in a defensive position.”
Erdogan has in recent years developed close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, extending from cooperating in Syria to trade and investment. Asli Aydintasbas, a senior Fellow of the European Council, says that relationship has put Moscow in a strong position with Ankara.
“Russia holds way too many cards. They hold the card of refugees in Syria. One sortie from a Russian fighter jet could get people in Syria to panic and run to the border,” Aydintasbas said. “They hold the natural gas card: Turkey in the middle of winter, does need Russian gas. And Russians have been investing in Turkey’s key infrastructure. They are building Turkey’s first nuclear reactor.”
Analysts point out that Turkey’s dependency on Russian energy exports and cooperation in Syria mean Erdogan will have to tread carefully with Moscow. In addition, Russia sends Turkey its largest number of vacationers, boosting itss key tourism sector, which provides vital foreign currency to the country’s beleaguered economy.
Analyst Atilla Yesilada of Global Source Partners warns that with the Turkish economy struggling to recover from a currency collapse last year, Turkey is especially vulnerable to any retaliation from Russia.
“If the (Turkish) currency weakens once more obviously, it will immediately pass through to inflation,” Yesilada said. “Then inflation would shoot up to hyperinflation levels which is unstable inflation which may reach three digits.”
Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin – in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt last weekend – criticized sanctions on Russia, saying they were useless. Turkey strongly opposed earlier economic measures against Russia.
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Modern, Historical and Artistic Decorative Shingles
Decorative Shingles first web site happened in 1995 but was under a different URL It was experimental. it was the age of blazing fast 14.4 kb/s telephone modems, complete with dial tones and handshakes. It was actually a struggle to be connected and keep connected back then. Decorativeshingles.com got it’s URL birth back in 1999. It was intended to be an informational site which also eventually supported the marketing and sale of “Before the Tin Man V1”. Like many first versions – it suffered from a few technical issues, & was pulled from the “shelves” and eventually replaced by the V2.0 release in 2002.. The web site stayed active until 2015 when Before the Tin Man became out of print and CDs had seen their day. The site has remained inactive until 2021 when Before the Tin Man V#3.0 and a resurrected website update was deemed a suitable Covid project.
For those who may have visited back then, the following screen shot may bring back memories. All images were indexed 8 bit color so blazing fast downloading was possible (considering the times). The background images were tiled so it could be graphic intense without causing too much dialup noise.
8 bit Indexed repeating tiles made these two columns and a repeating, seamless tile was used for the background
Computers and high tech
This high powered computer – a Mac Plus, was THE upgrade from our original 128k Mac. This one helped in the design of the Tulip/Kastner Rope pattern in the background. Note the advanced, stainless steel nail stripper, hatchet and scroll saw – all state of the art and advanced tech in 1987. – The rug wasn’t stylish then either.
Jim grew up in a roofing family and always admired any decorative shingle project encountered and considered them to be “high art” and were always “looked up to”. Some of his first decorative projects go back to the early 1970’s and most are still being enjoyed to this day. He was forced to retire from active roofing due to a sudden stop after an unintended descent from a roof. After recovering the use of his legs, he attended Seneca College School of Communication Arts (Toronto) for a diploma in computer graphics. He went on to establish a small, specialty printing company keeping his decorative shingle skills honed. In 2002 he released a data CD on decorative shingles called “Before the Tin Man”. | <urn:uuid:5b12f423-ce70-4c66-9e64-4afbf6572e37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://decorativeshingles.com/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971258 | 554 | 1.789063 | 2 |
As I waited in the supermarket checkout lane the other day and took in the tabloid headlines, it occurred to me that fake news isn’t new at all. We’ve been inundated with it for decades.
However, given our recent election, it appears that what’s new is that more and more of us are beginning to believe it.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Many called it the age of skepticism, and given the era we had every right to not accept at face value everything we read, heard and were told. In high school “Skeptic” magazine supplemented my History classes and Social Studies discussions. We were taught how to read between the lines, look for bias, and understand how context and events shape points of view.
Somewhere along the way our skepticism has devolved into a willingness to believe. How in the world did this happen?
Things began to change in the 80s. Waiting nervously in the lobby of Ketchum Advertising for my first job interview in 1981, I happened to look down at the cover of Advertising Age sitting on the end table beside me. Its headline read “Will Advertisers Ever Come to Cable?”
Until then I had grown up with NBC, ABC, CBS and PBS. The news was the news and the shows were the shows. Back then, there was no such thing as a “news show.”
Cable changed the game fast. It was no longer the rural, community message board. CNN was born. HBO was born. MTV was born. Communications concepts that could never have happened on network TV were thriving on cable. People flocked to them and so did advertisers, but with cable programming the whole idea of broadcast narrowed a bit.
What was once mass messaging was becoming targeted to the specific demographics and market segments that cable networks served up to advertisers. Values and life styles mattered. The voice of the consumer mattered. “King Customer” was born. Little did I know then, but the stage had been set.
Fast forward to the internet. Lots and lots and lots more channels. Something for absolutely everybody, but our collective, shared experience of media had changed. It had become fragmented and highly individualized. Those days when almost every American could tell you what somebody like Walter Cronkite had to say were long gone.
Fast forward to Google. My search results differ from yours because they’re based on my personal search history. I am being cocooned, and so are you. The content I find and ask to have delivered to me no longer shapes my beliefs, it merely validates and reinforces them.
Fast forward to Social Media. Everybody has become their own personal network. We constantly broadcast our opinions, which are reinforced by what we find in our media cocoon to support them.
We are getting angrier with those who don’t agree with us. We can’t understand how they could have possibly come to the opinions they have. We cut them off. We unfriend them. We are a nation divided.
Fake news is not just a clever prank. It’s an insidious one. It’s delivered to us through media that isn’t wholly liberal or conservative. Media is marketing and as it’s become democratized over the past 35 years, marketers have gotten more sophisticated. Information science is central to how hearts and minds are moved today. Yet for all the complexity, it all boils down to this:
- Know the attitudes and behaviors of the people you want to reach.
- Then tailor your messages to what those people are willing and wanting to believe.
My belief is that given where media and marketing are moving, there is a fundamental question that all marketers and consumers should be asking in times like these.
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My new-ish and dear friend Erin at Chopstitch informed me that April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This month she’ll participate in the “No Excuse for Child Abuse” walk in her town. When I saw her posts going up about child abuse, I started doing a little digging on the old Google.
“A report of child abuse is made every 10 seconds in America.”
“Almost 5 children die every day as a result of child abuse. More than three out of four are under the age of 4.”
“Child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of education.”
Those statistics? Are heartbreaking.
When I look at my son, even in his most horrifying toddler moments, I cannot imagine hurting him. I cannot fathom what it is inside of people that makes them hurt other people, much less children. I cannot imagine myself not wanting to protect him from every ounce of pain and hurt in this world.
Rage fills my body when I see news stories about parents who’ve neglected and abused their children. The kind of rage that has me seeing a murderous red. The kind of rage that leaves my fingers shaking and tears in my throat.
Hurt fills my heart when I think about what it must be like for these children to grow up in a world where they think the only people who love them show that love through hurting them. My heart hurts when I think of what might become of these children if they don’t get help. If this crime against children isn’t prevented.
Every single day that I get up and go into work, there are victims of child abuse in my classes. Perhaps not many, but even one is enough.
Most of them are silent about their experience because their adolescent mind doesn’t know how to cope. My adult mind doesn’t know how to comprehend, you know? How could theirs?.
Some of them are emotionally abused.
Some carry and hide physical scars.
Others are neglected by parents who don’t care. And neglect is abuse.
Those children who were mistreated in some way who do not speak up? Who are doing the best they can to hide their personal shame and fear, despite the fact that the shame should not be theirs? Who may be trying to hide their abuse, even as high school students? Who are trying to figure out how in the world they can make this nightmare stop?
They need a voice. And I have a pretty good one of those.
And so do you.
Just as with perinatal mood disorders and mental illness, if we don’t talk about child abuse, we do nothing to prevent it. We do nothing to help the victims who cannot help themselves. We stigmatize the issue and create a sense of shame for victims.
Let’s talk about this, people. Let’s be the voices for these children.
Throughout the month, I’m going to issue a series of simple challenges. I hope you’ll join me in accepting them.
The first challenge? Spread the word.
Take the button. Write a post. Tweet a link. Facebook this issue.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A special thanks to the mega-awesome and super talented
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This post summarizes the status of the community colleges issues that MACo tracked during the 2015 General Assembly Session.
Collective Bargaining: HB 966 Education – Community Colleges – Collective Bargaining would establishes a uniform statewide collective bargaining process for community college employees.
MACo opposed this bill, stating that administrative costs and potential salary increases resulting from expanded collective bargaining would put additional pressure on county budgets or student tuition. Also, despite counties’ role in supporting community colleges, this legislation would not provide any opportunity for county governments to participate in collective bargaining negotiations. The combination of these effects – State-imposed system and costs, no county participation in bargaining, and no additional State funding – results in a potentially substantial unfunded mandate on county governments.
FINAL STATUS: The House Appropriations Committee held a hearing but did not vote the bill.
Community College Funding: Maryland county governments and the State of Maryland partner to provide funding to Maryland’s community colleges. In recent years, however, the state has not fulfilled its statutorily required funding, putting additional pressure on county budgets and student tuition. This year, the State increased its funding for community colleges, but still did not reach its statutory minimum “Cade” funding formula amount. Below is a chart that shows the amount of state funding for each Maryland community college in FY 2015 and what is budgeted for FY 2016.
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London’s Burning: Fire Show at The Gap Festival – Sold Out
Science Oxford presents a dramatic storytelling experience inspired by the Great Fire of London, where the narrative is accompanied by live fire demonstrations that explore the science of heat, flame and combustion. A flaming great show combining science and history.
A family show suitable for adults and children of 8 and above.
Tea, coffee & snacks available.
Presented in association with The Gap Festival – visit their website here for booking information, terms and conditions.
The Gap Festival started as an ambitious cultural project in 2014 aiming to bring outstanding art, music, literature and culture to the villages of Goring and Streatley. After the first Festival the word spread, audiences increased and in 2018 the third Gap Festival will bring even more artists of the highest calibre, from all over the country to the glorious Goring Gap to entertain and inspire.
The Morrell Room
Church Lane , Streatley , RG8 9HT
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This half consists of the catch, the thesis assertion, and the basic ideas that are within the different sections. This section determines if a reader will read your article or not. You will be gathering details on a given topic, organizing that information, and presenting it to a reader.
An project to complete a rhetorical evaluation essay may seem fairly tough for school students who never completed such tasks before. The primary objective of this essay differs from different types like persuasive or argumentative. Reiteration â It isn’t essential to describe the structure of the written work and literally repeat what was written above. If the reader has reached the conclusion, they have already learn all the primary points of your essay. Inconsistency â If you are discussing the primary point, be positive that it has a reference to the informative assertion above. Do not confuse the logical connection introducing some unrelated ideas. | <urn:uuid:83ee066b-5d7e-4b37-9b18-c9ca5174c82e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://triquang.vn/en/informative-writing-methods/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.924996 | 628 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Treating or preventing fungal infections of the mouth and throat.
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This book introduces you to the Prophet Muhammad and helps you Learn about his life! Discover the Prophet's life from his birth to prophet hood. Follow in his footsteps! Live the way he spent his life. Know the Prophet's Mission! Discover the Message of the Prophet Muhammad and help others to know it.
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Goodword Books, 2012
8.75 x 11 inches / 22 x 28 cm
Children's Islamic Teachings Age 9-12 +
The book presents the life of the Prophet Muhammad, upon whom be peace, from his childhood in the desert to his divine mission and early preaching in Makkah. It goes on to describe the hostility of Makkans towards his message, their total boycott of him and his family, the Night Journey to seven heavens and the migration from Makkah to Madinah. In Madinah he was welcomed and lived there for ten years teaching and calling people to the divine truth. His life went through stages of poverty, prosperity, defeat and success. Yet whatever his state of well-being or hardship, he never once strayed from the path of moderation. At all times, and right till the end, he remained the patient and grateful servant of the Almighty, bringing his message of peace and truth to all mankind. | <urn:uuid:d0788037-34e5-45ac-a58d-ad936c583c1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alkitab.com/16948.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949964 | 334 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Critical Hour Management
Covid Care in Children
In this session we shall learn: Common Presentation Classification according to severity Monitoring at home Monitor..
Invasive and Non-Invasive Breathing
MATERNAL HEALTH IN COVID TIMES- ITS MANAGEMENT
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF COVID-19 MANAGEMENT
Respiratory Failure Due To Covid-19
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Nokia has agreed to sell its mapping business to a consortium of German automakers as the race between car companies and Silicon Valley to build and deliver self-driving vehicles intensifies.
The 2.8 billion euro ($3.1 billion) deal announced today is a coup for BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz, which beat out rival bidders to gain navigation technology that built from years of research and development---not to mention Nokia’s $8.1 billion acquisition in 2007 of Navteq, a Chicago-based digital mapping and navigation business. The automakers said they will each own an equal stake in Nokia's mapping division, known as HERE, and none will seek to acquire a majority interest. They expect the deal to close by the first quarter of 2016, subject to antitrust approval.
Collecting mapping data is no simple business, as Nokia HERE lead designer Peter Skillman told WIRED last year. HERE collects data at a rate of 100 billion points per month, Skillman said. Data sources include satellite and aerial imagery; anonymized "probe data" from GPS devices inside fleet vehicles owned by trucking companies; and hundreds of cars operated by HERE itself, outfitted with all kinds of sensors, from GPS and cameras to LIDAR, a laser-based method for measuring distances.
Automakers need this kind of mapping data that human drivers hardly ever think about---things like the precise location of lane markers and curbs, the height of traffic lights, and what every traffic sign says---so that their self-driving cars can focus their sensors and computing power on obstacles that are right in front of them, such as cars, pedestrians, and cyclists. At least as importantly, consumers expect any new car---self-driving or not---to come with a powerful navigation unit, which HERE makes possible.
Along with saving the car companies the work of creating their own maps, the acquisition keeps the technology out of the hands of players such as ride-hailing giant Uber, which was reportedly one of the bidders for HERE, as well as Google, whose own driverless car project puts it in potential competition with traditional automakers. Apple has also been sending out vehicles to collect its own mapping data, a logistically intensive effort that the automakers appear to have sidestepped with the HERE acquisition.
For Nokia, meanwhile, the sale is one more step as it seeks to find its footing as a company. Once one of the top mobile phone makers in the world, Nokia sold its handset business to Microsoft last year (which didn't work out so well). Now, the company is focusing on making telecom equipment for the world’s biggest carriers, such as AT&T and China Mobile. The sale of Nokia HERE comes as the Finnish company closes in on its $16.6 billion acquisition of the French-American telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent. Now it would seem to have a little more cash to put on the table. | <urn:uuid:7ce76703-c0da-463a-b32e-d355f8eba311> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/2015/08/bmw-audi-mercedes-just-bought-nokias-mapping-tech/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.967633 | 601 | 1.625 | 2 |
"Sharp as quivering hares are the Flecks. We've eyes and ears for things other folk miss." Much later, in the aftermath of Flodden, a young man finally understands his father's words. The year: 1513. The place: North-East England. Tom Fleck, a downtrodden farm worker but gifted archer, yearns to escape his masters. He unearths two objects that could be keys to freedom: a torque of ancient gold and a Tudor seal ring. He cannot know how these finds will determine his future. Rachel Coronel craves an end to her Jewish wanderings. When the torque comes to rest around the neck of this mysterious woman, an odyssey begins which draws Tom Fleck into borderlands of belief and race. The seal ring propels Tom on a journey of self-knowledge that can only climax in another borderland - among the flowers and banners of Flodden Field. | <urn:uuid:eb382320-0ba2-4000-86e8-ab4b643a6238> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.booknook.biz/book-gallery/tom_fleck?layout=default&page=&print=1&tmpl=component | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.9525 | 193 | 1.65625 | 2 |
I ran into one of our fellow bible plan readers at True Food Kitchen over lunch recently and he told me about a new documentary called, “Is Genesis History?” on Netflix. He was MOVED…so Brittney and I watched it that night…and I’ve watched it a couple more times since. The debate between the “scientific community” and the “religious community” on creation is extremely fundamental…or fundamentally extreme depending on how you look at it. As believers, faith tells us all we need to know, God explains creation in the first book of the Bible. Non-believers, however, continue to search for their own answers using the extremely limited tools they were given by our divine creator. Attempting to use a God-given brain to debate with God has to be one of the strangest, most depressing and possibly most entertaining shows on God’s Netflix “Because You Recently Watched” section.
I encourage you to watch it…in the meantime, I wanted to share some notes on Genesis:
Genesis means Beginning and is composed of:
1. 50 chapters (1-11 concern key events, 12-50 concern key people) Gen 4-11 covers 2000 years (4000-2000 BC) Gen 12-50 covers 286 years
2. In 2091 BC Abram leaves Haran and becomes Abraham (this is the first name change in the Bible marking when people “get it” like Simon-Peter, Saul-Paul)
3. The Abrahamic covenant was about 3 things…land, seed and blessing
4. Key events are Creation, Fall of Man, the Flood, the Tower of Babel
5. Key people are Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph
A few observations…
Sin happens because of man in Genesis 3. We are the perpetrators. We are the problem.
Child birth is painful because a woman is bringing another sinner into the world.
God has to kill an animal to clothe man…this started the sacrifices in the Old Testament.
It took ONE generation to see murder in humanity.
In Genesis 6, man was only sinful and always sinful all the time…so God hit *reset, *ctrl-alt-del, *unplugged and replugged…only Noah was Godly enough to save and endure.
It took Noah 100 years to build the boat…the nails in the boat in the OT are like the nails in the cross in the NT…imagine being there and hearing the hammers.
Getting on the boat = Getting on the cross…the boat had no rudder & no sail.
I’d love to visit with any of you that watch the show about it and Genesis in general…and if you have any recommendations, please send them our way!
That being said…a quick update on our One Year Bible plan…
We’re just over 200 days into the year, putting us in 2 Chronicles in the OT and Romans in the NT. We’re building God’s Temple and we’re learning how to be saved through Jesus Christ. It might be summer vacation culturally but we’re right in the heart of the season spiritually.
Lots of folks sign emails, letters and mic drops with “Peace” …but did you know Paul signed his letters with “Grace?” | <urn:uuid:6076ead9-0a29-4c1a-b9d1-b697ec04c1bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dustincelliott.com/2017/07/25/is-genesis-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941204 | 712 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Cite this article: Vu, T.V., Beddows, D.C., Delgado-Saborit, J.M. and Harrison, R.M. (2016). Source Apportionment of the Lung Dose of Ambient Submicrometre Particulate Matter.
Aerosol Air Qual. Res.
16: 1548-1557. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2015.09.0553
Source apportionment of ambient particles in an urban background site in London.
Regional lung deposition efficiency estimated for particles from different sources.
Quantification of source contributions to particles deposited in the human lung.
Urban ambient aerosols have been of much concern in recent decades due to their effects upon both atmospheric processes and human health. This study aimed to apportion the sources of submicron particles measured at an urban background area in London and to identify which sources are most responsible for particles deposited in the human lung. Particle number size distributions (PNSD) measured by a Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (TSI, USA), covering the size range of 16.5–604 nm at the London North Kensington background sampling site during 2012 were used in a Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) model to apportion to six dominant sources of particles. These included local traffic emissions (26.6% by number), aged traffic emissions (29.9%), urban accumulation mode (28.3%), nucleation (6.5%), inorganic secondary aerosol (1.7%) and mixed secondary aerosol (6.9%). Based on the ICRP model, the total deposition efficiencies of submicron particles for the aforementioned sources in the human respiratory tract were 0.57, 0.41, 0.24, 0.62, 0.24 and 0.24, respectively. In terms of source apportionment of particles deposited in the lung, traffic emissions represent the main source of particles deposited by number in both the regional and total lung, accounting for 59 to 71% of total deposited particles, followed by regional accumulation mode (17%) and nucleation (10%) particles. Secondary aerosols only account for 5.1% of total deposited particles by number, but they represent the main source of particles deposited in the lung expressed as surface area (44.6%) and volume (72.3%) of total deposition. The urban accumulation mode contributes 27.3% and 17.3% of total deposited particles by surface area and volume, while traffic emissions contribute 26.6% and 9.7%, respectively. Nucleation contributes only 1.6% and 0.7% of total deposited particles by surface area and volume. | <urn:uuid:13174615-fa12-4023-981d-2a3fc61d5d55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-15-09-oa-0553 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.884984 | 651 | 2.140625 | 2 |
W kwestii filozoficznych podstaw protobiologii słów parę — z nieustannym odniesieniem do Krzysztofa Chodasewicza
Protobiology and its philosophical foundations. In the memory of Krzysztof Chodasewicz
The origin of life has been studied for several decades. Therefore, it may seem astonishing that the great achievements in this field are barely paving the way not only to wider consciousness, but also to scientific circles. Following closely through world literature, it is not dif ficult to get the impression that there is something hindering adequate realization of scientific achievements in biogenesis: by not preventing the empirical research from being conducted it makes itself felt in theoretical discourse. There is a lack of works presenting the theories there are more than 250 of them and not only the results of empirical research. The causes of this state of affairs may be sought in the deepest layer of assumptions reaching the raison d’être of this discipline. It can be proven that undertaking scientific research on biogenesis was a philosophical breakthrough, both in ontological acknowledging an active character of matter and epistemological aspects abandoning scientific standards related to classical physics and turning to those offered by evolutionary biology. Moreover: the motive behind the decision to introduce the subject of life’s origin into scientific research was also a certain philosophical choice. The latter issue – that is the alleged motivation of the “founding fathers” of a now widely researched discipline – has been the subject of mostly different fantastical guesses including deliberately invented legends made by scientists themselves as well as by representatives of academic philosophy. The demistificatory efforts by Krzysztof Chodasewicz in the realm of philosophical foundations of protobiology are briefly outlined. | <urn:uuid:19f0e7e6-85e4-441b-b6ca-0ee2ec1fb683> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wuwr.pl/spwr/article/view/5152 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.935173 | 389 | 2.5 | 2 |
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The layers of VLC and libVLC
- 3 VLC source code overview
- 4 Coding for VLC
- 5 User Experience
- 6 Testing
- 7 Mozilla plugins
VLC development is open source, and then a large community of developers worldwide contribute to it.
However, entering a project such as VLC can be long and complex for new developers.
This guide seeks to help understanding the VLC code base and VLC internals to quickly get up to speed.
NB: this guide is not about compiling VLC.
A very good introduction to VLC can also be found on (an archived copy of the site) enjoythearchitecture.
The layers of VLC and libVLC
VLC's Core / libVLCcore
The most important (and probably most complex) part of VLC is the core, located underin the repository.
- Introduction to the core
- This is a MUST-READ for developers.
- VLC modules loading
- How the numerous VLC modules work and are loaded.
- How the main input chain works (slightly outdated)
- VLC Object Management
- VLC variables
- VLM Internals
Plugins / Modules
- An access module provides a byte stream from a location string MRL, like support for files, HTTP streams, webcams...
- A demux module parses a byte stream and splits it into elementary streams (tracks).
- An access_demux module combines the functionality of access and demux (and bypass any stream filters), splitting elementary streams directly from a location string. It's used where the bytestream abstraction is inadequate.
- Stream Filters
- A stream filter module converts a byte stream into another byte stream. It could be used for file or byte stream decryption, as it is already used for decompression (gzip, Bzip2, XZ) and multi-part files.
- A decoder takes an elementary stream and convert into raw video, audio or text data, reading for output.
Modules types not documented (yet)
libVLC and bindings
- Using libvlc
VLC source code overview
- Hacker Guide/VLC source tree
- Hacker Guide/Modules source tree
- VLC Preferences
- VLC Playlist and Media Library
Coding for VLC
- Patching (sending)
- Code Conventions
- Code Signing
- Adding a module
- Doxygen Documentation
- C Types
Please read the Documentation Editing Guidelines before you edit the documentation | <urn:uuid:5f466a69-e99d-4b9e-8302-9bcfa5eb73aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Hacker%27s_Guide | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.776817 | 615 | 2.734375 | 3 |
When you’re living life by a to-do list, things quickly become overwhelming. As deadlines stack up and expectations from supervisors add more pressure to your normal workload, it can feel like your performance, productivity and personal life takes a hit. According to the Anxiety and Depression Society of America, “employees say stress and anxiety most often impacts workplace performance (56%), relationship with coworkers and peers (51%), quality of work (50%) and relationships with superiors (43%).” So how can you mitigate those stressors to thrive in your career? We’ve outlined 5 tactics to help ease the pressures that come with these everyday anxieties.
1. Practice Time Management
Whether you keep organized by using a digital calendar, workflow application or a hand-written to-do list, it’s important to keep track of top priorities and how they align with your day-to-day operations. Instead of looking at every task that needs completing all at once, schedule your day hour-by-hour and see your efficiency rate rise. Switching back and forth between tasks can easily derail your day, but being able to cross off assignments in reasonable time increments allows you to take the day a step at a time and leaves you feeling accomplished.
2. Improve Your Skillset
Instead of avoiding areas of your career that cause anxiety, embrace them. Identifying what makes you feel apprehensive can bring opportunities for improvement to light and liberates you to create goals for yourself. This can include advancing your education through professional development, earning a certification, enrolling in a higher education degree program, or getting help from someone who you believe is excelling where you fall short. There are numerous professional organizations or associations available both regionally and nationally that allow you to be in community with other professionals in your industry. Find ways to plug into the resources around you and embrace additional sources of occupational training.
3. Foster Communication
Communication is key! If you find yourself biting off more than you can chew, let your manager know you have too much on your plate. Setting up one-on-one meetings allows you to request feedback on assignments and gain clarity on what is needed to perform efficiently and not overextend yourself. In addition to communicating with individuals in leadership positions, making connections with your peers allows you to delegate where possible and collaborate on projects to reduce the stress that comes with siloed working.
4. Set Boundaries
Although meeting deadlines is a must when it comes to being successful on the job, finding opportunities to create professional boundaries will make a positive impact on your mental health. This can be achieved by setting standard work-day hours and avoiding bringing your work home. In the workplace, this can be achieved by taking reasonable breaks throughout your day to get up and walk around, eating your lunch away from your desk or having a dedicated work space that is separate from your living space if you work from home. Another example is switching your professional email on “do not disturb” or simply avoiding checking email after hours. Separating your professional life from your personal life helps reduce any burnout you might be experiencing.
5. Exercise Self-Care
Practicing “self-care” has become increasingly popular in recent years. Because we spend a third of our lives working, fostering good habits is a necessity. But staying in-tune with how your habits affect your workplace anxiety goes beyond the four-walls of your office. Making sure you maintain a healthy diet, get enough sleep at night and practice mindfulness in your personal life can inherently improve your vocational performance throughout the week. Other examples to reduce stress and anxiety can include regular physical activity, getting a massage, having a spa day, napping, reading a book and making sure you take your PTO days to best serve your overall well-being.
While normal anxieties coexist with every profession, you shouldn’t feel debilitated by the fears associated with everyday tasks or workplace environments. Practice these tactics to improve your mental and physical health and watch your productivity and passions grow. Not sure what those passions might be? Visit acu.edu/online to learn more about our undergraduate, graduate or certificate programs. | <urn:uuid:998b7e52-185d-4f54-949c-831b43cf7e1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acu.edu/2022/07/11/5-tactics-to-help-ease-workplace-anxiety/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.945257 | 856 | 1.75 | 2 |
Gingivitis is a term used to refer to mild gum disease. The name comes from the part of your gums that are closest to your teeth – gingiva– that are affected by this very common oral health concern. Gingivitis causes redness, inflammation and irritation of the gums and is caused by a build-up of bacteria in the mouth.
Most often, poor oral hygiene is what leads to the excess of bacteria; you can prevent gingivitis by brushing daily, flossing regularly, and seeing a dentist twice per year as part of your preventative care regiment. You are also more likely to develop gingivitis if you chew tobacco or smoke, are undergoing treatment for cancer, or have poor nutrition.
How do you know if you have gingivitis?
The most common signs of this oral health condition are:
· Tender or receding gums
· Dark red gums (healthy gums are pale pink)
· Bad breath
· Bleeding gums when you brush your teeth
· Swollen gums (healthy gums are firm)
Is gingivitis something I should worry about?
If caught and treated early, gingivitis will not cause any long-term health concerns. However, if left untreated, gingivitis can lead to serious dental problems, including tissue and tooth loss. Additionally, it can turn into more serious periodontal disease that can affect the rest of your body and overall health. Diseases like diabetes, stroke, rheumatoid arthritis, and cardiovascular conditions have connections to poor oral health and gum disease.
How can you prevent gingivitis?
First and foremost, proper oral hygiene can help you avoid developing gingivitis. Floss before you brush once per day and brush your teeth at least twice per day. Check out our brushing tips to be sure you are protected between dental visits. Eat a healthy diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables; Vitamin C is integral to oral health.Finally, be sure to see a dentist twice per year for preventative care and be sure to discuss any concerns you may have. X-rays and other tools can help us make diagnoses, but you live with your mouth every day.
Be proactive in your oral health and dental care. Book an appointment with Gentry Dentistry of Suwanee now through our online contact form or call our patient service desk at 770-945-5850. Our caring team will clean your teeth and address any oral concerns or questions you may have. | <urn:uuid:cbc4caec-5757-410b-8168-592bd36940a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gentrydentistryofsuwanee.com/post/what-really-is-gingivitis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.928681 | 522 | 3.25 | 3 |
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