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Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by the bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and other small organisms. It leads to fever, pain in the chest, inflammation of the lungs and difficulty in breathing. This problem is diagnosed with the help of X-rays and sputum examination.
The prevention of this disease is possible with the help of vaccines but if the pneumonia is caused by the bacteria then it has to be treated with the help of antibiotics. Herbal remedies can also be used for the treatment of the pneumonia.
Herbal Remedies For Pneumonia
This herb is used in several medicinal preparations and Astragalus is a botanical generic name and the English common name for the Chinese herb known as Huang-Qi. This herb helps to fight with the viral infections that leads to pneumonia. Astragalus contains astragalosides and other immunostimulant, polysaccharides, beta-sitosterol, flavonoids and selenium.
You can take this herb in the form of tea, powdered extract or capsules. The powder form of this herb can be sprinkled on the food or shake as it is sweet in taste. It is a non-toxic herb but it should not be taken if you are taking warfarin or other high blood pressure medicines.
The main constituents of this herb are humulene and caryophylene, glycoside, polysaccharide, polyacetylenes, resin, betaine, inulin, and sesquiterpene. They help to fight with the herpes simplex viruses and candida albicans that leads to pneumonia.
It is recommended to take this herb in the form of tinctures or capsules. The tea is not advised as it tastes bad but can be used for external applications in compresses.
Pleurisy root is an orange flowered herb that is used for the treatment of bronchitis’s and pneumonia. This herb has antispasmodic, diaphoretic and expectorant properties and it is a very good vasodilator that helps to increase the volume of the lungs. It contains glycosides including asclepiadin, cardiac Glyco-sides and small amount of volatile oils.
It is acidic in nature so it is recommended to use it in the form of tea and extract. The encapsulated form of this herb is rarely used. However the use of this herb is not recommended for pregnant and nursing mothers as it contains alkaloids which are toxic to livestock.
The bark of this herb is used for the treatment of bronchitis’s and pneumonia. The wild cherry belongs to the rose family and it has got sweet, bitter, astringent properties which help to heal the problem of pneumonia. It contains acetylcholine, kaempferol, p-coumaric acid, prunasin, quercetin, scopoletin and tannins.
The p-coumaric acid should be in lesser quantity in the medicinal preparations as low in between 0.07% to 0.16 and if more than this percentage is used then it can be hazardous. It should be taken by making an infusion by adding one tablespoon of powdered bark to one cup of hot water. You can take this infusion thrice a day. It is also available in the form of syrup and that can be taken one tablespoon twice a day.
The herb blood root is named after noticing the color of the reddish roots which secretes red juice. The roots contain phytochemical sanguinarine.
It has antispasmodic, expectorant, diuretic properties and acts as a stimulant for the mucous membrane secretion. This herb is poisonous in nature and it is not advised for internal use. You can apply this herb on the chest in the form of tincture or salves.
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7 Years Later: Remembering Robin Williams
Back in August of 2014 when Robin Williams passed, a coworker commented that I should write a post, how his passing has affected me from a "comedian's" perspective. I was honored and saddened. First, because I've never really thought of myself as a comedian. I just like to make people laugh and hopefully have a better day because of it. And second, because Robin was in such a league of his own that I never thought I'd ever be in the same category as him ... "comedian."
I then thought about this, and as the days and years went on and on, I, like most of you, saw the different comments and updates. Some very newsworthy, heartfelt and understanding. Some that I will admit made me laugh out loud when I heard them. Even memes today have his face behind movie quotes. Quotes like: "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." & "You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." They still hold true after all these years.
He passed away from suicide. That made me very sad and angry. Sad for the obvious reasons, angry because he did not reach out for help. I've heard, from his own words, how some of the funniest people are the saddest, because they're trying to make sure no one else feels sad, since they know how they feel. I also felt extremely angry at the people who said he was a coward and selfish for taking his own life, you have never been in his shoes. You do not know what was going through his mind at the end, and have no right to pass judgment on him or his family or anyone one who commits suicide. Coward? Have you ever gone to a country DURING wartime in order to make the troops laugh? Selfish? Have you visited children who are very sick just in hopes of putting a smile on their faces? It takes a while, but time does help heal.
Yes, and... Robin and Improv!
One thought that keeps coming back to me is how fast Robin's mind was. We've seen him on stage, either in stand-up comedy or TV interviews, but the man was rapid fire. A great mind! That can also be a curse.
I know back when I performed with Manic Thunder, after a night of doing improv comedy I will come home and try to go to bed, and toss and turn for hours because I cannot shut my brain off. I can't comprehend the sheer scope of the awesome mind that sat above Robin's eyes and below his hair. Heck, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his Sherlock Holmes books how Holmes could not shut his brain off, and that it led to stints of depression as well as use of cocaine when he was not on a case. In fiction and reality ... great minds.
I really laugh when people talked about "Mork and Mindy" and "Nanu Nanu" because on his 2002 Live comedy album he states that he does this (stand-up comedy) to try to forget about that. Yes, that gave him his start of fame, but I'm sure after over 30 years of it, it can get pretty annoying. Here's where I'm going to lose some of my "Williams Cred". I've never seen "Mork and Mindy." It was before my time, and as much as I love everything about Robin Williams (even his movies that were meh -- "Night Listener" & "RV"), when I heard him say what he did about "Nanu Nanu" on the live CD I own, I decided, "Well, if he's not happy with it, I won't watch it."
Plus, I must say a lot of my generation and the younger ones have no clue who Mork the alien was. They will never know that part of great comedy. That's OK. Luckily Robin had so much more that he gave us.
The first time I saw Robin Williams.
My first introduction was of him in the movie "Popeye." Yes, that one was before my time, too, but thanks to the cartoon and a mom who loved Robin Williams as well, she made sure I watched it. Then of course "Hook," "Aladdin," "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Jumanji" and "Night at the Museum" and others made us laugh and love him.
In school they made us watch "Dead Poets Society," which was my first real glimpse into what an amazing actor he was. And you can't forget "Good Will Hunting" and "Patch Adams."
My wife asked me what my favorite movie of his is, and I thought about it for a whole three second before I blurted out "Death To Smoochy." It is not for kids, but if you want a great laugh about the dark side of children's entertainment, i.e. "Barney" and "Teletubbies," check that movie out. His final film that he performed in (post-mortem) was as the voice of Dennis the Dog in a live action movie with Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale & the surviving members of Monty Python called "Absolutely Anything". Underrated movie, but between Pegg, Python & Williams, I laughed plenty of times. Possible spoiler warning, it's very fitting that Robin Williams' final performance saves the world!
When it comes down to it, how do I feel? 7 years after his death, the same as a lot of people. Still sad, but very grateful that he was on this earth to give us some amazing laughs, smiles and insights. If you do need help, please remember you're not alone. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255. | <urn:uuid:f603c6d0-2d53-4549-8aac-c3cc8d4d9980> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newstalkkit.com/7-years-later-remembering-robin-williams/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.98817 | 1,205 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Have you ever walked into a room and immediately known that you’d interrupted something terrible, like a fight or a generally bad mood? That’s how powerful negative thoughts and feelings can be. So if you’re around negative people, it can be detrimental to your mental and physical wellbeing.
Luckily, there are ways to block out the negativity and focus on staying positive, happy, and healthy. Better yet, it’s easier than it seems! All you need is a good heart, determination to stay happy, and the desire to rise above the mess and chaos of someone else’s negativity.
Here Are 10 Ways To Never Let Negative People Influence You
1. Don’t Focus On What Others Think Of You
People will think about anything they like, and you can’t control their thoughts. Sure, you can be a good person and perform actions that others will like, but there will still be those who dislike you, sometimes for no reason you can discern.
Negative people tend to lean towards disliking others, or finding fault in them, for wrong reasons. As such, if negative people surround you, they will likely be judgemental of you. You have to ignore them.
Emotional detachment sounds like a bummer, but it’s the best way to avoid being dragged down by negative people. Besides, your self-esteem should never be tied to other people, what they think of you, and how they feel about you. That is an unhealthy way to live, and you need to be secure enough in your self to ignore those who aren’t being constructive.
2. Know That This Is Not Your Fault
It’s easy to feel at fault when a negative person is around you and making you feel bad, or when they are fishing for sympathy. But it’s never your fault when a negative person does these things. Their perspectives, opinions, and ideologies are entirely their responsibility, and it’s not your burden to bear to change their minds.
When a negative person consistently acts in this way around you, it’s their problem, not yours. In fact, you might as well entirely ignore them or offer a sympathetic smile before carrying on with your day. Don’t let yourself get dragged into self-criticism; opt for positive thinking and spiritual separation from the issues a negative person brings up.
But why do negative people do this? It is often due to an inability for them to comprehend their self-esteem issues, leading to a lack of understanding that prompts them to project their problems on everyone else. Again, don’t take it personally. It’s on them.
3. Don’t Just React
It’s easy to get angry when negative people are around you. They have a lot of nasty, questionable, and eyeroll-worthy things to say, often for attention or as a coping mechanism. But when you react to them impulsively, you only feed into the negativity.
We know just how difficult it can be to control those automatic emotions. But are negative people worth that effort from you? (They aren’t!) So take a deep breath. Count to ten. Tune out the negative person’s speech as you do so if necessary.
Then, identify the emotion causing your anger. Putting a name to a feeling often makes it more understandable, allowing you to conquer it. You can then react instead in a more proactive way by:
- Smiling and nodding
- Excusing yourself to return to work
- Putting a positive spin on what they say
- Making a gentle joke about it
- Flat-out ignoring them
4. Look For Solutions, Not Problems
The most common trait that all negative people share is their constant insistence on pessimism, even in the best circumstances. You can only imagine, then, what happens in adverse situations! Negative people have no desire to see silver linings – they’re too focused on the dark clouds.
To be free from negative influence, you just have to do the opposite. Don’t look at all the problems and build them up until they’re overwhelming in your head. Break them down into small, easy-to-process chunks. Then, once you’ve made sense of them, shift your focus entirely. Stop thinking about the problems. Think about the possible solutions.
This is important not just for unexpected incidents, but when dealing with negative people in general. Don’t focus on how stressful they are to be around – find a way to take polite leave of the situation so you can be right out of there.
5. Manage Your Time and Attention
Someone who is negative can take up a lot of your time and effort. Not only do they bog down in-person situations, but your stress over dealing with them can live on in your thoughts long after you’ve left their vicinity.
Managing your attention and time so as not to give too much of it to negativity is crucial. The more time you spend being negative, the less positive thinking you can maintain. If a negative person is taking up too much of your time in person, you can:
- Give them lackluster responses to disinterest them
- Mention that you’re busy and offer a rain check
- Excuse yourself and leave
- Politely decline invitations to hang out together
- If you find yourself thinking or stressing out too much over a negative person, try to:
- Distract yourself with other things
- Name several things you are grateful for
- Refrain from complaining about them to others
6. Change Topics To Light Ones
Is a particular topic turning into quite the downer? Switch it up and make it lighter! Sometimes all a conversation needs to be pushed in the right direction is a little bit of positive energy. You can do this by:
- Turning the situation into a lighthearted one through tone and posturing
- Bringing up the positive sides of the issue at hand
- Telling a joke
- Using a smooth segue, like “That reminds me!” or “Speaking of which…”
- Joking with the person in a friendly way (works best if you know the person well!)
Of course, this doesn’t work on all negative people. Many of them find contentment in using negativity as a response to any inkling of something positive. But some people get cynical about specific topics and revert to “normalcy” once you change the subject, and others may be distracted by your robust and happy energy.
7. Pick Your Thoughts and Attitude
Negativity and positivity are all about how you think and what you feel. As such, if you learn to get in touch with these aspects of yourself, you may be able to stand above a negative crowd. Here are three ways that you can try doing so.
· Choose Your Attitude
You get to decide how your attitude is for the day. If you let yourself feel gloomy and glum all day because of a few negative people, you’re choosing a bad approach that will ultimately cause a sharp decrease in positive thinking.
· Use Affirmations or Mantras
Positive affirmations and mantras are lovely. Essentially, you pick a specific phrase and repeat it to yourself over and over again until you begin to believe it and feel it for real.
· Be Aware Of Thoughts
When a negative person starts to get to you, pay extra attention to the way your thoughts begin to shift. What tends to trigger your most negative responses? How can you avoid them? How can you make these thoughts better and refocus them?
People can change, but other people can’t change them. You can try to educate or help those around you gently, but at the end of the day, they are the ones who decide whether they change or not. And, chances are, until they recover from whatever is causing them to be so negative, that change is not going to happen.
Just be the best version of yourself and let go of any feelings of obligation towards negative people. You don’t owe them any assistance, and most of the time, they don’t seem to want it! Focus on yourself and the people in your life who are more positive.
Yes, it sounds harsh. But negative people are people. They’re human and full of complexity and flaws. Accepting these sides of them and setting boundaries as needed, so they don’t drain you is all you have to do. Be kind, and the rest will follow.
9. Don’t Tie Yourself To Perfection
Perfectionism is a pointless ideology. But when you’re around negative people, that can feel like it’s all they want. They’re so critical of themselves and everyone around them that it may rub off on you, and you may begin to strive for that impossible standard.
High levels of perfectionism have a link to depression, anxiety, and other non-positive circumstances, according to science — this likely because this is a very unattainable target. Human beings are inherently flawed, and that’s valid; perfection does not determine anyone’s value.
There is no way to achieve perfection, so instead, be the best version of yourself that you can be! Always strive to improve yourself and be better. Don’t let negative people trick you into believing that anything less than perfect is unacceptable. The more you grow, the more you’ll realize that you’re beautiful, just as you are.
10. Look For Positive People
Lots of negative people in your life? It’s time for you to question why that’s the case! Instead, go out of your way to find people who are positive, supportive, understanding, and encouraging.
Does this mean you may have to cut off some friends or whittle your friend list down significantly? Maybe. But studies show that having a smaller number of terrific friends is much better for positive health and wellbeing than having many mediocre friends. So don’t be ashamed of just having two or three people you can trust. Size never matters in a support system.
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“This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the One He has sent.” (Jn. 6:29)
No matter who we are, our lives are based upon belief.
Whether we believe in our selves, or in someone else, or in a cause, or in the government, or in karma, or in having fun, or in nature, or in God…
We all believe.
This is important because the basis of our belief forms and shapes the course of our lives. What we believe shapes how we think. And how we think determines what we do (and reveals our character). And what we do ends up becoming our history.
There is just no way around it… what we believe defines our lives.
It seems rather obvious, then, that what we believe is one of the most important things in life. Or to put it another way, our lives will only be as “good” as the source of what we believe. Our lives become the sum of how much (or how often) we can rely on the source of what we believe.
When it gets right down to it, the only truly reliable source of belief… is Jesus.
All other sources are limited, unreliable, unsustainable, inconsistent, flawed, unpredictable or deceptive. Only Jesus offers us “the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6) Only Jesus “is the same today, yesterday, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8) Only Jesus is perfect (Hebrews 2:10; 7:26, 28) Only Jesus promises, “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20) Only Jesus is “the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him…” (Hebrews 5:9)
What Jesus offers us is a source that will not fade, or be disloyal, or turn away in troubled times, or condemn us when we go wrong. A source that loves us, works on our behalf, seeks for our benefit, and shows Himself faithful to us (even when we just might be faithless [2Tim. 2:13!]). And He does these things… eternally!
Who else will do that for us? What else can we rely upon for such benefits?
But here is the best part… The context of Jesus’ response (in our verse for the day) is a question, posed to Jesus by the masses that followed Him around: “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” (John 6:28) In other words… “Jesus, can you give us a list of things to do so that we can be pleasing to God?”
Human nature always wants something to do to earn God’s favor. Human beings want to be able to point to their own good works to try and please God.
Jesus’ response? One thing… “Believe in the One He has sent.”
Everything we are wanting to be, needing to be, desiring to be (as Christians) is found in the simplicity of making Jesus the Source of how we think, what we do, and the manner in which we live – all the days of our lives.
True belief is not factual – it is relational.
True belief is not found in performance – it is found in a Person.
When our belief is centered and founded upon Jesus – our lives will be defined by God’s will for us.
That is His plan for each of us.
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So, what happens to gold jewellery purchased before July 1, 2021 which would have the older hallmarking symbols or is not hallmarked? If you are worried about what will happen to your old, un-hallmarked gold jewellery or gold jewellery hallmarked with old signs, then read on to know more.
If you have un-hallmarked gold jewellery
If an individual is holding un-hallmarked gold jewellery, then he/she has two options. These are as follows:
a) Getting the jewellery hallmarked via a BIS registered jeweller
b) Getting jewellery tested from any BIS recognised Assaying & Hallmarking Centre.
- Getting it hallmarked via BIS registered jeweller
As per the Department of Consumer Affairs website, the consumer may get his/her old gold jewellery hallmarked through a BIS registered jeweller. A consumer will have to give his/her un-hallmarked gold jewellery to the BIS registered jeweller.
The BIS registered jeweller will visit the BIS Assaying & Hallmarking centre to get the old un-hallmarked jewellery hallmarked. Do note that the jeweller will charge you Rs 35 for hallmarking per piece of gold jewellery. As per BIS website, only BIS registered jewellers can approach the Assaying & Hallmarking centre for hallmarking of gold jewellery.
- Getting jewellery tested from BIS recognised Assaying & Hallmarking centre
Another option that a consumer has is to get the jewellery tested from any BIS recognised Assaying & Hallmarking Centre. The facility is available to consumers on a chargeable basis. Once the article is tested, the centre will issue an Assay report giving proper identifications as marked on the article. As per the press release issued by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, the test report issued to the consumer will assure the consumer about the purity of their jewellery and will also be useful if the consumer wishes to sell the jewellery lying with him.
The BIS has issued guidelines for testing old, un-hallmarked gold jewellery of consumers. As per the guidelines, a consumer can bring one or multiple pieces of gold jewellery for testing. The lot brought by consumers up to 10 pieces may be considered a mixed lot. The jewellery brought will be weighed in the presence of the consumer and tagged with a serial number for identification.
There are two methods to test the purity of gold: a) XRF Method and b) Fire assaying method. XRF method is a non-destructive, preliminary method and gives gold content of surface only. Fire assaying method is a destructive method. The jewellery owner must be informed about both the methods. It is important to note that Fire assaying method is most widely used and accurate method for gold content globally. Further, a purity certificate cannot be issued based on the XRF method.
As per the press release, the charges for testing of gold jewellery up to 4 articles is Rs 200. For 5 or more articles, the charges are Rs 45 per article. The list of Assaying & Hallmarking Centre is available on the BIS website at this link https://www.bis.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/List-of-89-Centres-provided-Central-Assistance-with-amount.pdf. A consumer can visit an Assaying & Hallmarking Centre to get the purity of gold tested.
- If you have gold jewellery hallmarked with old symbols
If you have bought jewellery hallmarked with old signs (four/five signs – depending on the year it was bought), then as per BIS website, it is considered as hallmarked jewellery. There is no need to get the already hallmarked jewellery re-hallmarked with recently introduced 6-digit alphanumeric code.
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Hardware and software engineers/researchers for high information society
In recent years, Electrical and Electronics Engineering/Technology has been more expanding with a rapid advancement in all engineering disciplines which inherently embrace an ever-widening range of academic and professional programs. From a global point of view, the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering basically offers the balanced interdisciplinary core subjects and studies on both education and research in the state-of-the-art scientific and technological fields of physical science and electronics engineering, computer and information science and systems engineering, electric power/energy and power electronic systems engineering as well as control systems engineering.
Structure and Divisions
The academic and professional core courses incorporated into this department are categorized into two divisions; Physical Electronics and Computer and Information Engineering.
Division of Physical Electronics
offers the scientific and technological education as well as the interdisciplinary and frontier research project works, which are mainly concerned with the sectionalized major education and research programs comprising electromagnetic field and waves, solid-state physical engineering, quantum physics and electronics, electrical and electronic material science, semiconductor electronics, sensor devices, nanoelectronics, photonic devices, surface physics and electronics, super-conducting physics and electronics, optics and optoelectronics, high-energy physics, plasma electronics, and bio-science and engineering in addition to such fundamentals as applied mathematics, physics, chemistry and mechanics.
Division of Computer and Information Engineering
offers the scientific and technological education as well as the sophisticated hardware and software research project works which are associated with the sectionalized education and research programs embracing electric and electronic circuit theory, integrated circuit design and systems, computer and communication systems, wearable computing, ubiquitous and ad-hoc network, information network, information transmission, information theory, coding theory, data compression, digital broadcasting, information and network security, data structures and algorithms, graph theory, software design, image processing, control engineering, optimization theory, pattern recognition, fuzzy theory and neural networks, intelligent machines.
Functional Thin-Film Engineering
Cooperative education and research with Panasonic Corporation. Functional Thin-Film Engineering offers special materials, devices, circuits, and systems to establish green innovation products based on wide-band-gap-semiconductor materials, carbon related materials, the power electronics, and the energy harvesting technologies.
|Physical Electronics||Mesoscopic Materials||Nanomaterials, Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, Near-field optics, Waveguides, Surface Physics, Vacuum Engineering|
|Photonic Materials||Optoelectronics, Nano-structured materials, Quantum wells, wires and dots, Photonic devices, Femtosecond spectroscopy, Ultrafast optical communication devices|
|Quantum Functional Engineering||Nanoelectronics, Quantum information and telecommunication, Quantum photonics, Molecular electronics, Quantum functional materials|
|Nano-Structure Electronics||Computational Nano-Electronics, Nano-Material Design, Ultimate CMOS Design, Semiconductor Spin-Electronics, Molecular Electronics, First-Principles Band Calculation, Tight-Binding Band Calculation, Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function Method, Quantum-Corrected Monte Carlo Method|
|Electromagnetic Energy Physics||Electromagnetics, Plasma electronics, Nuclear fusion, Energy conversion, Power electronics, Medical electronics, High power radio frequency, Radiation detector, High energy particle, Accelerator|
|Computer and Information Engineering||Integrated Circuit Information||LSI (Large Scale Integration), LSI Design, LSI CAD (Computer-Aided Design), Logic Design, Low-Power Circuit Design, Digital Signal Processing, Video Processing, Image Quality Improvement, Multimedia Understanding, Digital Broadcasting|
|Computer Engineering||Ubiquitous computing, Wearable computing, Sensor network, Ad-hoc network, Broadcast computing, Entertainment computing, Wearable fashion|
|Information and Communication Engineering||Internet, Mobile Communications, Ubiquitous network, Network Security, Computer Security, Information Hiding, Data compression, Cryptography, Coding Theory, Information Theory|
|Algorithms||Algorithms, Data structures, Complexity, Graph theory, Discrete mathematics, Combinatorial optimization, Geographic infomation processing, Image retrieval|
|Intelligent Learning Theory||Autonomous systems, Intelligent systems, Intelligent information processing, Learning, Pattern recognition, Function approximation, Neural networks, Fuzzy systems, Support vector machines|
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About this course
This course was last updated in June 2019.
There are few circumstances where the UK authorities are permitted to hold people against their will – one of which is immigration detention. In 2018, almost 25,000 people were detained under immigration powers across the UK’s detention estate, with around 1,800 people detained at any one time. These stark figures represent a concerning proportion of the UK’s migrant population. Over half of these people were granted release back into the community – the vast majority under immigration bail.
In 2018, the immigration bail system was overhauled. Temporary release and admission were scrapped, and replaced with a single power of immigration bail. The process for applying for bail from inside detention largely remains the same, but the nature of bail has been turned on its head, allowing the Home Office to regulate those without leave to remain but who cannot be detained.
Immigration bail hearings can feel like a lottery – clients will ask why they are still detained when they have seen other people released weeks or months earlier. To some extent immigration bail is a lottery. Different Tribunal hearing centres have very different grant rates and individual judges can adopt very different approaches.
This course is for lawyers, caseworkers and those supporting people in detention who are making an application for immigration bail, and is designed to set out the legal framework and the practicalities of applying for bail, giving examples along the way.
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Introduction to immigration bail
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Translation:I read them.
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Well, in Italian, "glieli leggo" means "I read them to him," so I am guessing that is "Του τα διαβάζω"... "I read them to them" I think would be "li leggo loro." Spanish would be a good comparison-"se los leo," but anyway, Ευχαριστώ- clitic pronouns tend to be a complicated topic in many languages- I am probably getting ahead of myself since I am just beginning with Ελληνικά, but I was curious...
I have the impression that "glieli" can be used for both "to him" and "to them", because "gli" is both "him" and "them"... I'll look it up (just a greek student here ;-) ). BTW, welcome to our language! (καλωσόρισες στη γλώσσα μας!) PS. I think "leggo/leo" is from the greek "λέγω/λέω" (I say) :-)
It's actually the gentive that has replaced the dative case ;)
I see him/them.=Τον/Τους βλέπω. (Direct object-Accusative)
I read him/them a book.=Του/Τους διαβάζω ένα βιβλίο. (Indirect object-Genitive)
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The circumference of a circle with a diameter of 45 inches is 141.37 inches.
The diameter of a circle with a circumference of 45 cm is: about 14.32 cm
The radius of a coin with diameter of 45 mm is : 45/2 = 22.5mm The circumference of a coin with diameter of 45 mm is 45*pi = 141,372mm rounded to 3 decimal places
If the circumference of a circle is 45 cm the length of the diameter in centimeters is: about 14.32 cm
141.372 Circumference equals pi times the diameter: 45 x 3.1416 = 141.372 If you memorize the formula, it will serve you well.
The idea is to multiply the diameter by pi.
divide the circumference (c) by pi (3.14) and then you have diameter. you will have to measure the radius by hand.
Circumference = diameter x pi, thus circumference/pi=diameter. Now all you have to do is plug in your numbers: 45cm/3.14= approx. 14.33 cm diameter
C = D * pi = 45 * 3.14159(...) = 141.372 cm
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Today the Verkhovna Rada has restored Ukraine’s course for NATO membership. Act confidently adopted by 276 votes.
Meanwhile, 81 MP did not support a change in foreign policy of the country, which until today were focused on the non-alignment of Ukraine with the efforts of the Yanukovych regime.
In particular, according to the official website of the Verkhovna Rada refused to vote “for” the MP Hope Savchenko. In General “vs” 25 Parliament members voted, 3 abstained and 53 did not vote.
Recall, June 3, 2010 the Verkhovna Rada adopted the bill “On principles of domestic and foreign policy” submitted by President Viktor Yanukovych.
The bill provides that the main principle of foreign policy “is Ukraine’s adherence to a policy of non-alignment, which means non-participation of Ukraine in military-political alliances, priority participation in improving and developing the European system collective security, the continuation of constructive cooperation with NATO and other military-political blocs on all issues of mutual interest”.
December 23, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada amended the law of Ukraine “About fundamentals of domestic and foreign policy” and “About bases of national security of Ukraine”, providing for the rejection of non-aligned status of the country and deepening cooperation with NATO “to reach criteria necessary for acquiring membership within this organization.”
The law “On fundamentals of national security of Ukraine” was added a provision that among the priorities of national interests is the integration of Ukraine into the European political, economic, legal space with the aim of acquiring membership in the European Union and NATO.
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Who is the Lord of Caras Galadhon?
They stayed in the city for a month, recovering from their journey through Moria. In the Fourth Age, after Galadriel had gone into the West, Caras Galadhon was ruled by a lonely Celeborn as lord of Lothlórien which now spanned both sides of the river Anduin.
How do I get into Caras Galadhon lotro?
The game won’t let you access it. In order to do so, you must have the Lothlorien quest pack and complete a quest given to you by the guard in front of Caras Galadhon. After completing it you get the “Trusted in Caras Galadhon” characteristic trait, which allows you to enter the city through the front gate.
What do the wood elves sing about Gandalf?
The Lament for Gandalf referred to any of the elvish songs sung in lamentation for Gandalf in Lothlórien. The only excerpt from these songs is “Mithrandir, Mithrandir, O Pilgrim Grey!”.
Who is Lady of Lorien?
Galadriel was the “Lady” of the woods of Lothlórien, which she ruled with Celeborn her husband. One of the greatest of the Elves in Middle-earth, she surpassed nearly all others in beauty, knowledge, and power.
How big is Caras Galadhon?
about three thousand feet
Caras Galadhon was circular in shape and about three thousand feet from east to west. It was surrounded by a wall of green earth and a deep fosse, or moat.
Where is the court of celeborn lotro?
|Court of Celeborn|
What was said in the Lament for Gandalf?
‘ breaks the bridge, sending both himself and the creature toppling through the long chasm beneath them. This is referenced in the Sindarian verse of the elven song of grieving, which says ‘I reniad lín ne mór, nuithannen’ and can be translated to ‘your journey has ended in darkness.
Why didn’t Boromir get a gift from Galadriel?
It may simply be that the belt didn’t impact the story enough, so it was cut for time. Though it’s sad that Boromir was left belt-less in the movie, the knowledge that he received something useful and meaningful in the book is comforting. | <urn:uuid:b53fa9d4-bea8-46f5-8a63-6a24be365500> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stylesubstancesoul.com/life/who-is-the-lord-of-caras-galadhon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941982 | 565 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Dalcroze and the Professional Classical Musician:
An Autoethnographic, Arts Practice Journey
In 2019 Diane completed a PhD, supported by the W2 Foundation to explore how professional practice, combined with autoethnographic documentation, can support an exploration of the potential impact of the Dalcroze method on the overall performance of a professional classical violinist.
She writes -
"As a professional classical violinist, my career has been built on many hours of daily practice, based on conventional ideas of violin pedagogy including technique building, combined with the learning and memorization of classical repertoire.
"Midway through my career, I started to question my approach to music-making. Like many professionals, I have built a parallel career as a teacher, both of violin (individually and in groups) and in recent years as a workshop leader and animateur, specializing in early years and primary age children. In this context I become reacquainted with the teachings of Emile Jacques-Dalcroze – ideas I had first studied as a conservatoire student, but only ever engaged with as an education tool for young children.
"I found myself drawn to the teachings of Dalcroze with its emphasis on the body in musical performance. I started to wonder if Dalcroze's ideas about creating a holistic musician – one in which music is felt and responded to throughout the body rather than processed in the head - could have as great an impact on a professional practitioner as it does with children just starting out on their musical journey.
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Two innovative teaching and learning projects led by HKBU won the Highly Commended Team Award of the Learning Technologist of the Year Awards 2020. Presented by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) in the UK, the prize was awarded to the projects, in recognition of their excellent practices and outstanding achievements in the learning technology field.
The award-winning projects are “Global Learning at Home”, which was led by Dr Kristen Li of the Department of Computer Science, and Dr Paolo Mengoni and Dr Zhang Xinzhi of the Department of Journalism; and “CCGame”, which was led by the Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning in collaboration with teachers at HKBU, CityU, CUHK and PolyU.
The project team of Global Learning at Home, in collaboration with more than ten universities in Europe, Asia and the US, organised the Global Students Virtual Hackathon, one of the first international student virtual hackathons in Hong Kong. During the 48-hour online challenge, more than 110 students from 16 countries and regions formed diversified teams and developed solutions to address the COVID-19 crisis and plan ahead. The teams were guided by facilitators and mentors worldwide. More details of the project are available at https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/designworkshop/2020virtualhack.
CCGame is a technology-facilitated learning and teaching project aiming to increase students’ capacity to address global challenges by working in diverse teams in online settings. A signature activity of the project is the International eTournament, which is one of the first online tournaments in the world with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as the theme. About 5,300 students from 46 countries/regions had been involved in the activities implemented by the team since 2017. The project also received the Silver Award in eLearning at the Reimagine Education Awards organised by Quacquarelli Symonds in 2020 and the Silver Award in the Community Outreach Award category of the eLearning Forum Asia in 2019. More details of the project are available at http://ccgame.hkbu.edu.hk. | <urn:uuid:560be192-f99b-42e6-9424-5e248a988a1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.findworldedu.com/2021/hong-kong-baptist-universitys-teaching-and-learning-projects-win-international-recognition.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950577 | 437 | 1.859375 | 2 |
- When? 7th July 2020: online fair, 9am – 1 pm (EDT)
- Where? Online, North & South America and EU countries
- What? Information on academic career paths, the German research landscape, completing a doctorate in Germany, funding, admission procedures etc.
- Which subject? All subjects
- Who? Programme coordinators and supervisors from various German universities and research institutions.
- For whom? Graduates, PhD students, post-docs
- How? Register to participate via HERE
At the virtual fair you can visit multiple booths, each representing a German university or research institution. In addition to testimonials and branding videos, each booth offers a wide array of information on doctoral positions and research openings, programmes and study opportunities. Apart from that, you can also talk to recruiters and scientists from all the exhibiting higher education institutions via one-to-one online chats.
The German exhibitors will offer detailed information about research funding, PhD programmes, research groups, PhD and post-doctoral positions and junior professorships in all scientific disciplines.
«Research in Germany» brings together German universities and research institutions interested in recruiting international PhD students and researchers. We know from experience that organising a research stay abroad can be complicated. That is why we provide an extensive range of information for graduates and researchers who are considering spending some research time abroad.
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How to become a DevOps engineer
It’s a big industry, software.
There’s a lot of money to be made, and a lot of fun and satisfaction to be had. With skills in DevOps, you’ll always be in demand – as a freelancer, or as an employee. But DevOps isn’t for everyone, and it’s certainly not an easy ride.
Let’s look at what it takes to practise DevOps, and how to become a DevOps engineer.
First – what do DevOps engineers do?
The definition of “DevOps engineer” is pretty broad.
That’s mostly because DevOps isn’t a “thing” that you engineer – it’s a practise, or a culture, or a mindset. It’s a way of working; lean and agile, where small teams with overlapping skills fulfil many roles in parallel.
That doesn’t stop the role being advertised, or the title being used when technically, it doesn’t exist!
Semantics aside, DevOps engineers are highly sought-after.
They’ll usually have the following responsibilities and more:
- Building and automating infrastructure
- Writing CI/CD Pipelines
- Designing DevOps strategies
- Managing version control (usually Git-based)
- Working on multiple platforms across different programming languages
- Creating and configuring container orchestrators
- Working closely with developers to write well-designed microservices architectures
- Providing support to internal and external stakeholders
- Ensuring that all workloads and infrastructure are secure
This is really just a general list, and the actual responsibilities will vary from company to company.
To boil it down to the simplest explanation, DevOps engineers build the processes that turn code into a product.
What will always be true is the need for a solid understanding of the DevOps culture, and a core set of technical skills.
What skills do you need?
DevOps engineers are excellent problem solvers – but they need to be collaborative, and work well with others. DevOps engineers manage teams of developers, so they need to have a strong knowledge of the SDLC (software development life cycle): the six–stage process which guides software development projects. Above all, they need to be excellent communicators and have soft skills to match their hard skills.
As a bare necessity, you need the six technical skills common to every DevOps role. These will be your gateway into technical DevOps and better jobs:
- Using the Linux operating system
- Basic programming skills
- Fundamental knowledge of networking
- Fundamental knowledge of Cloud platforms
If you already have these skills, you can apply for entry-level DevOps roles – for more advanced technical DevOps roles, you’ll need to understand the CI/CD pipeline: the production line of software companies.
How to get DevOps technical skills
As with most things, the best way to learn is to do it for real. This means daily, focused work – making mistakes, learning from them, and logging successes.
Doing this off your own back will teach you to be proactive, a soft skill that’s essential to DevOps. But you could also learn on the job, at the right organisation.
There are many courses you can take to hone your technical skills – Learning the CI/CD Pipeline in tools like GitLab, or learning to use Docker (the most popular runtime environment for containers).
The hard skills can all be taught.
The thing you really need for DevOps is a set of soft skills; and some people think you can’t learn those.
We beg to differ.
Soft skills – can they be learned?
Understanding the DevOps culture is key to your success. DevOps culture is pinned on transparency and open communication – and this is why DevOps isn’t for everyone. Some people just work best solo, or are set in their ways. And that’s fine, too! You do you.
The fact is that soft skills are harder to learn. Some say they are unlearnable, but we think that’s bunk. If you really, really want to make it in DevOps, you’ll do it. And humans learn best by doing and practising.
To hone your soft skills for DevOps, focus on developing the following – and train yourself to build these skills.
Prioritise communication and collaboration
Learn how to write clearly, effectively, and mindfully. Learn how to speak to others as your equals, and expect mutual respect.
If working with others is something you struggle with – don’t be ashamed! It’s a challenge for lots of people, most of us are just better at hiding it. Instead of shying away, try to apply collaboration skills in low-stakes environments, like gaming. Ease yourself out of your comfort zone.
This is the number one soft skill for anyone who wants to become a DevOps engineer.
The good news? If you’ve set yourself the goal of becoming a DevOps engineer, and started learning how all by yourself, then you are by definition a proactive person. You simply took the initiative to do what needed to be done, and here you are. Even just by reading this article, you’ve made a step to better yourself and become who you want to be.
The trick now is to carry on – and never stop.
If you can keep going, you’ll certainly figure out how to become a DevOps engineer. Try not to forget us when you do…
ClearHub – the home of DevOps professionals
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Canal St., Water St., Bay St.
Directions via Google Maps
This park is named after World War I (1914-1918) veteran James Tappen. It is among the oldest public parks on Staten Island, a former village center that predates the borough’s annexation by the City of New York.
James J. Tappen (1891-1918) served in Company D of the 308th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army during World War I. He was killed on September 29, 1918, at Binarville, France, in the Battle of Argonne. In July 1934, a bill introduced by Alderman Daniel Leonard and signed by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (1882-1947) named this park in Tappen’s honor. Before that, local residents called it Stapleton Park for the surrounding neighborhood, though it had officially been known as Washington Square since 1867.
Directions to Tappen Park
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- NYC PARKS JOINS UNIQLO FOR NEW PUBLIC ART CELEBRATION
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence are two of the major buzzwords we hear in the tech industry. The two seek to disrupt the way businesses run, how humans interact, and how everyday tasks function. This game-changing technology is exciting, and engineers want to get in on the action.
Artificial intelligence is the study of developing machines that can perform certain human-like functions, such as learning and reasoning, on its own. Machine learning refers to the underlying programs that allow such machines to derive patterns from data. It lays the groundwork for things such as personalization of ads on websites, self-driving cars, speech recognition on phones, and web search results. Machine learning engineers develop algorithms that can not only compute the enormous amounts of data we input, but actually learn and react to them.
With the increase of applications for machine learning, the demand for engineers skilled in data science will also increase. What does it take to get a job in machine learning? How can you make the transition to machine learning?
What should I do if I want to transition into machine learning?
Many machine learning jobs will require a graduate degree (MS, or PhD) in Computer Science. If you have earned a BS in Computer Science, you can supplement your application with years of experience working as an engineer in a professional setting. The strong mathematical aspect to data and statistics in the requires someone who is well versed in probability and statistics fundamentals.
Software engineers that want to make the transition can do so with some preparation. If you are well-versed in a particular language, consider taking the time to learn the frameworks and libraries that accompany that language. Many of these libraries are open source, making it even easier for you to access and learn. Once you get the basics down, head over to GitHub to put your skills to the test.
Common technical skills needed for a job in machine learning
Python, C/C++, and R are all widely used programming languages used in machine learning. Python’s dependable nature makes complex algorithm development simple. What Python lacks in speed efficiency, it makes up for in ease of development and resources. The library for Python is extensive. If you are a Python programmer who wants to make the transition into machine learning consider learning the framework Scikit-learn. Scikit-learn is open source library that focuses on using regression to learn past patterns and clustering to group similar data together.
R programming language has many advantages when it comes to machine learning. R is a language used specifically for statistical computing and data manipulation. There are many extensions for additional functionality and to support complex algorithms. On paper, this seems to be the obvious choice for machine learning, but engineers can be deterred by rumors of a steep learning curve. A seasoned engineer with the desire to learn R will find that any challenges presented initially will be offset by the benefits of knowing the language.
C/C++ is often used at the core of machine learning, especially for embedded systems used in autonomous cars. However, when you’re looking to implement complex algorithms, it may not be the best choice. The speed of development and expansive libraries available for C/C++ have helped to maintain its importance in the study of artificial intelligence. If you are already well versed in C/C++, it may be helpful to learn frameworks such as Shogun and Vowpal Wabbit. VW was developed in part by Yahoo! Research and is now sponsored by Microsoft Research.
Finally, there’s Java. Whichever programming language you use in machine learning, you’ll find that it’s absolutely necessary to have extensive libraries to augment your project, and Java certainly has that. WEKA, Rapidminder and Spark are all great resources for an engineer using Java. For example, WEKA has algorithms written in Java that can be used directly in your code for data mining.
Making the transition to machine learning can be extremely rewarding for your engineering career. It’s expected that we’ll continue to see the influence artificial intelligence on innovations throughout the Silicon Valley. Learning these tools, frameworks and libraries now will give you a leg up in your future job search. Contact us today if you’re looking for a role in Machine Learning at 408-260-2600. | <urn:uuid:42b574d2-f5b9-4a2c-910a-eefab97a82e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.erginc.com/2016/06/24/software-developer-machine-learning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94449 | 871 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Procedure in which the measurement values of an instrument (actual values) and the measurement values of a reference instrument (nominal values) are determined and compared. The result provides clues as to whether the actual measuring values of the instrument are still within a permissible limit/tolerance range. In contrast to an adjustment, the identified deviation from the actual measuring value is merely documented in a calibration and not adjusted to the nominal measuring value. The intervals at which a calibration is to be performed depends on the respective measuring tasks and requirements.
Temperature unit. Under normal pressure, the zero point of the Celsius scale (0 °C) is the freezing temperature of water. A further fixed point for the Celsius scale is the boiling point of water at 100 °C.
°C = (°F - 32) / 1.8 or °C = K - 273.15.
Coldspot and hotspot
The coldest spot of an area on the thermal image is referred to as a “coldspot”, and the hottest spot is referred to as a “hotspot”.
Using the function “Auto Hot/Cold Spot Recognition”, you can display these two spots directly on your thermal image in the imager display. This function is also available in many of the analysing software packages. e.g. Testo IRSoft. In this software you can also display these two spots for any areas of the thermal image you wish to define.
Coloured body radiator
Coloured body radiators are materials whose degree of emissivity is dependent on the wavelength. If one views the same object with a thermal imager in the long-wave infrared range (LIWR, 8 – 14 μm), and one in the medium-wave infrared range (MIWR, 3 – 5 μm), it can be necessary to set different emissivities in the thermal imager.
Selection of colours for the thermal image in the imager (e.g. colour palette “rainbow”, “iron”, “grey scale”). The contrasts of the thermal images can be shown with varying quality depending on the measuring task and the colour palette set. The colour palette can also be set individually using analysing software (e.g. Testo IRSoft) after the thermal image has been saved. Pay heed to the interpretability of your thermal image when choosing the colour palette. Red and yellow colours are intuitively associated by the viewer with heat, green and blue colours with cold.
Transition of a substance from gaseous to liquid state. Air humidity can condense on surfaces if the surface temperature, and therefore the temperature of the air on the surface, is lower than the dew point temperature.
Heat conduction. Transfer of thermal energy between neighbouring particles. Here, energy is always transferred from the warmer to the colder particle. Unlike convection, there is no mass transport of particles in conduction.
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What’s your way to be productive? Is it through a calm and relaxing music playlist when studying?
Do you often motivate yourself by having a set deadline by the end of the week?
The Manuscript Writing Cafe in Tokyo offers a different perspective on how to focus on studying.
Can the right environment improve your learning habits? Let’s find out!
How to focus on studying on your own
When it comes to studying methods, we all have our own preferences.
You may think that spending a lot of time being buried in learning materials will help retain more information in your brain.
Surprisingly, research shows that straight-A students that study on their own have successful grades and effectively learn even with less time studying.
If you want to know how to learn languages by yourself, start implementing these few tips we’ve discovered from the Manuscript Writing Cafe.
How is Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe different from other cafes?
Aside from Manuscript Writing Cafe’s unlimited use of coffee, tea, USB ports, and Wi-Fi, it offers a unique experience that no other cafe does – constant reminders.
Before entering the cafe, you need to write your goals and deadline on a card.
Writers must include the type of project they’re working on, the word count they need to reach, and how many of these projects should be done.
The cafe isn’t exclusive to scriptwriters, manga writers, and editors only. So you can even use their space to review new methods to learn languages.
You’ll get reminded of your goals by a few gentle nudges. Customers can set a physical goal-tracking system in the form of the Manuscript Writing Cafe staff.
They will ask a few questions asking if you want a mild reminder, a normal/regular, or a hard/intense one.
They’ll offer a gentle nudge every 30 minutes for their patrons that picked the mild mode or after 1 hour if you picked the normal mode and above.
Their main motivation: You can’t leave the cafe unless you’ve finished your goal for that day
If you’re thinking of leaving right away, you’ll have to finish your task first.
Another reminder if you’re planning to visit Japan’s Manuscript writing cafe: You pay by the hour, so that would already be another reminder for you to stop procrastinating.
Do nudges work? Tokyo Manuscript Writing Cafe says so
Gentle reminders are not new for reaching your goal. Most people set a schedule per week on what they should accomplish.
However, are these types of methods and services effective for the Manuscript Writing Cafe customers?
We’ve had the opportunity to ask the staff in the Manuscript Writing Cafe to answer some of these questions in detail.
Tokyo Manuscript Writing Cafe: The writers are motivated by the high level of tension and the environment’s resemblance to a library full of students studying for an exam.
What is your ratio for the degree of verbal pressure when consumers ask you to remind them about how they are doing on their project?
Tokyo Manuscript Writing Cafe: According to our statistics, customers ask 10% for Mild, 85% for Normal, and 5% for Hard.
Is there a connection between success rate and time?
For example, if you often prompt the customers with their writing, you can do more or do it sooner than intended.
Tokyo Manuscript Writing Cafe: We recognized there is no relationship because everyone is focused on a progress check.
Because everyone else is engaged, everyone is naturally focused.
Productivity tip in your language study session
The push to become a native speaker may come in handy if you are lacking the desire to finish what you’ve started.
You can take yourself to a peaceful, quiet place like a coffee shop or stay at home to avoid distractions from the constant moving of people.
But who knows? That kind of traffic might be your stimulation in focusing on your next target language.
That said, it’s a good environment that encourages productivity. It’s more important than the constant nudges.
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While it is common practice to calculate GPA and CGPA, there are times when you might want to know the percentage of your CGPA score. In fact, some educational institutions look for percentages of your score rather than Cumulative Grade Point Average. In such a situation, knowing how to convert percentage to CGPA can be useful.
The result obtained will be your CGPA. Look at this example to understand this better.
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Nearly 70 years ago, psychological scientist Edward Tolman introduced the idea that humans and other animals have a “cognitive map” that allows them to navigate their everyday spatial environments. Evidence of physical processes underpinning cognitive maps emerged in 1971 with breakthrough research based on recorded brain activity in freely moving rats. Findings from this research showed that most hippocampal cells were “place cells,” firing off as the rats entered specific locations.
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist Edvard Moser is striving to expand our understanding of how the brain creates these place responses and how neurons associated with these processes operate. In 2005, Moser, his colleague and spouse May-Britt Moser, and three of their students discovered “grid cells,” a type of neuron found in the brains of many species that allows them to understand their position in space.
Moser was one of four distinguished scientists featured in the Presidential Symposium “The Cognitive Map,” hosted by APS President C. Randy Gallistel at the 2016 APS Annual Convention in Chicago. Two years ago, he, May-Britt, and their former mentor, neuroscientist John O’Keefe, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work related to the identification of the cells that constitute the brain’s positioning system.
Moser discussed his research connected to grid cells as well as research conducted by his group on the role played by various hippocampal cells that are used by animals to navigate their environments, including “head-direction cells,” “border cells,” and “speed cells.” Moser noted that these cells are present in bats, monkeys, and rats, as well as in humans, suggesting that they originated early in mammalian evolution and that “the spatial system is wired up quite similarly in all mammals.”
Moser said the research on these cells as well as on their functioning and the patterns associated with them has shown significant progress since Tolman first introduced the concept of a cognitive map.
“The field has developed to the point where we actually have ideas about how these patterns can arise and maybe how they can even be used for a rat to find its way in the environment,” Moser said. “That is a significant development, because for most other cognitive functions we have no clue about how this happens at the level of thousands of interacting neurons.”
Geometry and Reorientation
APS Fellow Russell A. Epstein of the University of Pennsylvania presented research showing that neurobiological mechanisms in the hippocampal and medial parietal regions of the brain allow navigators to reestablish their cognitive maps when they become disoriented. Epstein, a cognitive neuroscientist, cited evidence suggesting that animals and humans use the geometric features of an environment when trying to reorient themselves.
Epstein presented findings from his research on mice and humans investigating the neural basis of spatial reorientation. He described how the medial parietal region processes the geometric shape of the environment and how this geometric information is used to align the hippocampal map. This allows the hippocampal place cells to fire in the correct locations, even after disorientation.
“These data indicate that geometry is a very powerful cue for spatial reorientation,” he said.
The Dance of Bees
APS Fellow Randolf Menzel, a neurobiologist at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, showed how technology has been used to provide evidence of a cognitive map among honeybees, who use their distinctive “waggle dance” to communicate information to one another about the locations of food, water sources, and nesting sites.
Menzel discussed his research in which harmonic radars showed that honeybees have cognitive maps. He explained how these radars traced the movement of bees to provide evidence of their map-like spatial memory for the information communicated to them through the waggle dance.
Although the waggle dance had been described by acclaimed ethologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch as early as the 1930s, there had been no solid evidence that bees were actually learning and using this information until Menzel’s experiments.
“For Frisch it was difficult to prove that the animals surrounding this dancing bee were indeed learning from the [bee] where to fly, in which direction, and over which distance,” Menzel said. In his experiment, radars were used to track marked bees to “see how well they followed the communication they received,” he said. He also provided evidence that dance-following bees expect particular landscape structures on the way toward the indicated location.
Menzel said the data based on his own research suggest that honeybees have the capacity for strong spatial memory — something of critical importance, given that they travel long distances in search of food sources and nest sites. Bees start developing the memory needed to find their way when they are young, fresh out of the colony for the first time, and beginning to engage in numerous explorations for food, water, and nest sites, he explained.
“At the end of these explorations, they have established a form of memory about the landscape best conceptualized as a cognitive map,” Menzel said.
Although everyone has a cognitive map, individuals differ in the way they perceive their spatial environments and in the language they use to describe or communicate about these spaces, according to APS Fellow Barbara G. Tversky of Columbia University. Tversky discussed cognitive maps in terms of how our judgments of spatial relations reveal aspects of cognitive, social, and emotional functioning.
“These spaces are conceived differently depending on our perception and interaction with them,” Tversky said. “In judgments we bring together what seems relevant — in particular the overriding structures. These are imprecise and perhaps incoherent, so we suggest that the cognitive maps are perhaps more like cognitive collages.”
The “overriding structures” referred to by Tversky provide a frame of reference that may lead people to make errors in their perceptions of the larger physical environment. In her research, Tversky has described how the frame of reference people use results in their erroneously viewing the relative positions of various geographical locations and incorrectly judging ordinary buildings as being in closer proximity to landmarks than vice versa.
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The establishment of Koch’s postulates in microbiology that links specific microorganisms to specific diseases gave rise to the concept of ‘one microbe-one disease’. Since then the thought that microbes cause disease has always overshadowed the effect of good microbes present in the body. Through the Human Genome Project (HGP) around 22,000 genes were discovered in the human body. But what about the remaining genetic material contributing to human function that is present in the human body but not associated to its genome?
Also, there was a need to understand the role played by commensal microbes in humans. Relman and Falcow in 2001 had suggested that a ‘second human genome project’ be implemented taking into consideration microbial colonization of 4 exposed sites of the body, the mouth, gut, vagina and skin.
Thus as an extension to the HGP, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) was implemented by the United States National Institutes of Health in the year 2007.1 The primary goal of the study was to identify and characterize the microorganisms that are present in humans, their role in healthy and diseased individuals and how changes in the microbiome can affect certain disease states. It also aimed to find out if there is a core or a common microbiome that exists in most people.
The study was done in 242 healthy volunteers and at 15 (men) to 18 (women) sites in the body including the mouth, nose, skin, lower intestine (stool) and vagina. The study also evaluated the ethical, legal and social implications of microbiome research.
A new, powerful and low-cost whole genome sequencing technique was used in this study which identified the organisms from samples, as opposed to the traditional method of culturing them individually in laboratories. The study revealed the presence of around 10, 000 microbial species associated with the human body which function in several ways and also identified around 81-99 percent microsomal genera in healthy adults.2, 3, 4
Some conclusions made were that there is more variation between microbiomes present in 2 different areas within a person than there is between the same site of 2 distinct people. That is a person’s gut and skin microbiome are more different than his gut and another individual’s gut microbiome.
Also, the function performed by microbes, like digesting carbohydrates, synthesizing vitamins and breaking down toxins at a particular site is similar among individuals although there could be a difference in the makeup of their individual microbiomes. These researchers also “estimate that the human microbiome contributes some 8 million unique protein-coding genes or 360 times more bacterial genes than human genes”.2 The human body can thus be termed a “supraorganism” – one that contains a multitude of human and microbial cells and their genes.5
DEFINITION OF THE MICROBIOME
The first classic definition of microbiome was given by Joshua Lederberg in 2001. He defined it as “the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space and have been all but ignored as determinants of health and disease”.6
Over the years, the term microbiome gained slightly different definitions. Microbiome is the name given to a collection of all the genes of microorganisms present in the human body, where the microorganisms themselves are called the microbiota of the human body. There is another definition of the microbiome that stems from an ecologists point of view. In ecology an ecosystem is termed a biome. Thus considering the human body as a biome, all the microorganisms living in this system is collectively called the microbiome.
Thus microorganisms or their genomes can interchangeably be called microbiome. This human microbiome consists of bacteria, fungi, viruses, archaea, protozoa and other one-celled eukaryotes of which bacteria are the most studied organisms. They live in parts of the body that are exposed to the outside world like the mouth, gut, skin, vagina, and in other places like the lungs and the stomach.
WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?
The baby’s first exposure to microbes is when it is in the mother’s womb. The placental tissue once thought to be germ-free is now said to be crawling with microbes.7 The next exposure to these microbes is when the baby comes out into the world through the birth canal. For children born due to caesarean, the infant encounters these microbes first from the skin of the mother and then from others around them. The next and crucial source of microbes the infant gets is through breast feeding.
For example, the predominant bacteria in colostrum, the breastmilk that is produced during the first 2 days of lactation are Weisella, Leuconostoc, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, and Lactococcus.8 Thus the breastmilk is an excellent source of probiotics (microbes) and prebiotics (nutrients that are needed by the microbes to thrive) to the infant and together these two contribute a lot to the kind of microbial community getting established at a particular site in the child.
During the development of the child, other factors contribute to or influence the human microbiome. Some of them are the diet of the infant, consumption of antibiotics in early life, immunizations, host genetics, available nutrients, chemical communication, temperature, pH, moisture and oxygen. Hence the establishment of a microbiome is a ‘selection’ process influenced by the above factors. Apart from these, there is also exposure to environmental microbes and those that are shed by pets and plants around them. By the time the child is 2 years old, the microbiome that has been established is more or less equivalent to an adult one.
HOW BIG ARE THESE MICROBES?
Microbial cells were first said to outnumber human cells by ten to one.9 This was based on an estimate that there are 10 trillion cells in the body. A recent estimate suggests that there are around 37 trillion cells in the body10 thus making the microbial to human cell ratio three is to one. The total mass of all the microorganisms put together is around 1-3% of total human body mass.11 The maximum density of microbiome is in the large intestine mainly due to its large surface area. Blood and lymphatic fluids are mostly devoid of the microbes. The microbes outnumber us in genetic material too. According to the HMP project results, there are around 8 million genes compared to around 22,000 human genes.
WHY ARE THESE MICROBES IMPORTANT AND WHEN DO ABNORMALITIES ARISE?
These microbes live in a dynamic relationship in our body. They are useful in supplying us with vital vitamins, they help us churn down carbohydrates thus keeping the body metabolism in check and also help us defend pathogens (other members of their own clan). In fact disease causing microbes like E. coli, yeast, Staphylococcus aureus, and Clostridium difficile are known to live in healthy humans and cause disease only when their ecosystem is disturbed.
So when this microbiome falls out of balance, we become ill. Some of the conditions we are more prone due with a change in the microbiome are- acne, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, asthma/allergies, autism, autoimmune diseases, cancer, dental cavities, depression and anxiety, diabetes, eczema, gastric ulcers, hardening of the arteries, inflammatory bowel diseases, malnutrition and last but not the least, obesity.
Michael Fischbach of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco says that the microbiome helps the immune system by actually ‘talking’ to the natural killer T- cells in the body. The cells then view the healthy microbiome as an ally and attack the non-ally, invading bacteria.
Studies done on mice have revealed different types of bacteria on obese and lean mice. Lot of research has been done in this topic by Yang-Xin Fu, MD, PhD, professor of pathology at the University of Chicago.and by Jeffrey Gordon, MD, of Washington University in St. Louis. It seems like lean people have microbes that need more calories of the food we intake thus keeping the host lean. It is the opposite in the case of obese people.
Dental plaque, the sticky layer that forms on our teeth when we don’t brush, contains hundreds of species of microbes. This healthy microbiome gets imbalanced when we consume a lot of sugar and infections are thus caused. Similarly, the microbiomes of the mouth, skin, vagina, lungs, and stomach are also altered in various disease states.
Hence maintaining a healthy microbiome goes a long way in keeping us healthy.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!
Like mentioned before, lots of factors affect the fact where the microbes choose to settle. They each find their own niche in the human body. The HMP study discovered that even in healthy individuals, microbes occupy different habitats in different individuals and each body site is home to a unique microbial community. But a very interesting fact is that although there is great variation in microbes between individuals, the functions carried out at a particular site are the same. That is, different bacteria carry out the same function in the mouth or gut of 2 different individuals. These microbial communities can also change during the course of one’s life due to factors like diet, use of antibiotics and geographical location change. A few distinct microbiomes in the human body have been outlined in the next few paragraphs.
The skin is the first line of defense to the human body. There are 2 kinds of microbes that inhabit the skin, the commensal residents (commensalism is the relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits from the other without affecting it) and the transient residents. Some bacteria like the Staphylococcus aureus, Propionibacterium acnes, and Malassezia spp., are known skin commensals that are capable of becoming pathogens under certain conditions like microbial imbalance, host genetic variation or if the immune system is compromised. Analysis of 16s ribosomal RNA gene sequences obtained from 20 distinct skin sites of healthy humans showed that similar bacteria were found in physiologically similar sites and the stability of these microbes dependent on the specific characteristics of the skin site.12
They also found that skin disorders like eczema and diabetic wound healing that were treated with antimicrobial agents had different microbiata. The same lab has shown a correlation between relative abundance of Staphylococcus spp. and the expression of cutaneous defense response genes. Other studies have shown that skin conditions like atopic dermatitis and psoriasis show differences in their microbial compositions compared to healthy skin. Since establishment of a healthy and diverse microbiome has strong influences on the immune system, the connection between skin disorders and the differences in their skin microbiome will give an insight into the treatments of those diseases.
In pure culture approximately 280 oral microbial species have been identified and named. A recent study has identified that the genera Gemella, Granulicatella, Streptococcus, and Veillonella are common to most oral sites while some species were subject specific and others were site specific.13 Infections like tooth decay and gum disease that were associated with a single bacteria are now known to be caused by a microbial community. The Human Oral Microbiome Database (HOMD) was created to provide comprehensive information of around 700 species and their genome to better understanding the role of bacteria in tooth diseases.14
These bacteria have to live in harmony with the immune system to keep tooth diseases at bay. Human oral microbiome according to the HOMD is the collection of all the microorganisms that are found in the different microhabitats of the oral cavity (teeth, gingival sulcus, attached gingiva, tongue, cheek, lip, hard palate, and soft palate) and its contiguous extensions (the tonsils, pharynx, esophagus, Eustachian tube, middle ear, trachea, lungs, nasal passages, and sinuses). Further studies need to be done to study the understanding of the oral microbiome and disease.
The surface of the vagina is covered by a protective epithelial barrier that is filled with bacteria and other microorganisms. This barrier keeps the upper genital tract and the ectocervix sterile by defending against pathogens. When pathogens cross this barrier conditions like preterm labor and pelvic inflammatory disease can occur.
The vaginal microbiome that once was known to be colonised primarily by the Lactobacillus species is now showing great diversity and differences among races and ethnicity and also with different age groups. The vagina of normal women and women with the condition bacterial vaginosis (BV), an infection characterized by an odorous vaginal discharge can be similar with lesser Lactobacillus bacteria and a greater number of anaerobic bacteria.
Preterm labor, which is a growing concern that affects 10 percent of pregnancies nowadays, is linked to BV. So, can commensal bacteria play a role in preterm labor? Vaginal Microbiome Consortium at Virginia Commonwealth University is conducting an ongoing project called the Multi-Omic Microbiome Study-Pregnancy Initiative (MOMS-PI) that aims to collect samples from 2,000 women during the course of their pregnancies and for sometime after childbirth to characterize changes in the microbiomes of diverse body sites, including the vagina. This study would help us understand the relationship between the vaginal microbiome and preterm labor.
The establishment of the infant gut microbiome is affected by a lot of factors that were mentioned earlier. This is an ever changing microbiome. It is first colonized primarily by aerobic organisms like enterobacteria, staphylococci, and streptococci, many of which can become pathogenic. These then change the gut environment allowing anaerobic bacteria to invade the gut.
The gut microbial community in the human body is by far the largest and the densest with the large intestine alone harbouring around 1 trillion cells per millimeter.
It helps us extract energy and nutrients from the food we eat. In fact, humans have only around 20 gut enzymes to break down carbohydrates, while a single gut bacterium could have 200 odd enzymes. Thus they have a role to play in human metabolism and in drug metabolism and in protecting us against pathogens.
When the normal gut microbial communities are disturbed, it can lead to dysbiosis. Dysbiosis is an imbalance in the gut microflora and is associated with a number of diseases like Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome and both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Since, the gut hosts a second immune system in the body known as the enteric nervous system (ENS), most of these conditions that result from dysbiosis are called autoimmune diseases.
In autoimmune diseases the immune system treats even the normal proteins or antigens, present in the body as pathogens and hence always stays on high alert. There could also be a genetic component in autoimmune disease or something known as a ‘leaky gut’ where proteins from food or bacteria enter our bloodstream during gut infections or stress. The body then starts reacting to this foreign body causing inflammatory conditions.
The microbiome is now known to deeply affect our immune system. A recent review paper has listed out the key points on how the health of our microbiome may be instrumental in the development of an autoimmune disease by quoting examples in type 1 diabetes mellitus and rheumatoid arthritis.15
Changes in the gut microbiome have also been implicated in several health conditions like obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and autism. Also, the metabolites that the gut bacteria secrete pass through the gut wall into the bloodstream and circulate throughout the body. The gut microbiome may thus affect sleep patterns, mood, and other brain functions. There is now strong evidence that there is a link between gut bacteria proliferation and brain function through the stimulation of the vagus nerve.
With better understanding of the connection between the gut microbiome and diseases, diagnosis and treatment of these diseases can be better established.
HOW TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY MICROBIOME
There is a lot of advice going on regarding this. Controlling sugars and refined carbohydrates will help us maintain and strengthen our gut bacteria. The other is the consumption of foods that act as prebiotics (for example fiber, fruits, and vegetables) and foods that are termed probiotics like yogurt, cheese, and sauerkraut to increase the number of good microbes. Antibiotics have been a major boon in the last century but cutting down on long-term and repeated treatments with antibiotics that harm the good bacteria along with the bad will definitely help us maintain a healthy microbiome.
The Mayo Clinic has also performed something called a ‘fecal transplant’ in patients affected by the sometimes-deadly bacterium Clostridium difficile (C. diff), which causes recurrent episodes of diarrhea. Provided we find out which organisms do or do not drive which disease, this method can be used to treat conditions like the inflammatory bowel disease, and other immune or inflammatory diseases — including diabetes, multiple sclerosis, even arthritis.
Is this the future of medicine? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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The country’s cybersecurity agency is expected to soon come out with a fresh set of clarification on its recent cybersecurity directive, people in the know said. During a meeting with a select group of stakeholders Friday, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) is learnt to have assured clarifications on the six-hour timeline to report cybersecurity incidents, know-your-customer norms, and storage of customer logs, among others.
The rules will kick in from June 27.
The meeting took place after CERT-In’s cybersecurity norms were met with widespread pushback by a range of industry stakeholders. It was attended by Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrashekhar, CERT-In chief Sanjay Bahl, and representatives from industry bodies like Internet and Mobile Association of India, Confederation of Indian Industry, US-India Business Council, US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, American Chamber of Commerce, FICCI, BSA|The Software Alliance, ITI Council, and Cellular Operators Association of India. Digital rights groups like Access Now also participated.
One of the most contentious issues between the government and stakeholders was the requirement to report cybersecurity incidents within six hours, which the industry believes is too short and stringent. During Friday’s meeting, stakeholders, it is learnt, were told that MeitY or CERT-In will not offer any relaxations in terms of the required reporting timelines. Instead, the agency may come up with a prescribed format for reporting cybersecurity incidents. “CERT-In may also come up with a specific portal for reporting such incidents so that entities have clarity on how much information they have to share with the agency,” a source said.
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In a clarification on the six-hour reporting timeline to make it seem less burdensome, Bahl told stakeholders that they are only required to intimate the agency within six hours after discovering such an incident. “CERT-In only expects you to drop in an email within six hours alerting us about a cybersecurity incident,” he is learnt to have said. A formal clarification is expected soon on this, sources said.
While a large part of the meeting was centred around reporting timelines, which also led to CERT-In’s assurance to issue clarifications, the topic of some virtual private network (VPN) pulling out of India did not draw such assurances, sources said. The rules require VPNs to save an extensive amount of user information for five years. “We want VPNs to store data for five years because sometimes it takes a very long time for cyber incidents to be investigated,” Bahl is learnt to have clarified at the meeting. VPN providers like Surfshark and ExpressVPN have shut down their India servers in response to the norms. Queries sent to the IT Ministry remained unanswered until the time of going to press.
CERT-In, it is learnt, may also soon issue a clarification on how entities can come up with an effective KYC process. The rules require that crypto exchanges and wallets must maintain KYC details and records of financial transactions for five years. Industry stakeholders at the meeting pointed out that it was difficult to validate identity of users under current processes, sources said. “A discussion on Aadhaar as a KYC document came up during the meeting and the ministry will mull on some KYC models that can be effective,” a person said.
During the meeting, which lasted over an hour, the cybersecurity agency also tried to assuage privacy concerns arising out of the rules and told stakeholders that it will not ask for user logs that contain personal identifiable information of individuals, instead it will only need incident-specific logs. The rules mandate entities to maintain logs of all their ICT systems for 180 days which will have to be provided to the agency upon an order.
Small companies and startups could be given a leeway as they may need more time than bigger corporations to adjust to the rules, it is learnt. “MSMEs and startups can write to CERT-In asking for a relaxation in complying with the rules explaining why they need an extension and the agency may consider it on a case by case basis,” a source said. | <urn:uuid:7ad046f0-7c40-4241-8246-bf92a005dc92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news4global.website/cert-in-may-float-portal-for-cybersecurity-incidents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965795 | 869 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Every farming family in the country has been touched by depression, either directly or indirectly,” says David Kerr.
David tells the story of his own battle with depression and says that the farming sector is “behind the curve” when it comes to talking about mental health.
The dairy farmer from Co Laois spoke publicly about his illness earlier this year at the Irish Farmers Journal dairy meeting, hoping to encourage other farmers to do the same.
“Very few farmers have spoken out about depression, it’s still a stigma. It needs to be normalised like other illnesses.
“Mental health is a big topic everywhere now, but nobody wants to talk in the farming sector, we’re still a little bit behind the curve,” he says.
David’s own struggle with his mental health began around 2008, during which it was a very stressful time, he says. It was a combination of a lot of things really.
There was lots of activity, lots of organisation to be done around the farm, paperwork, a family health issue, and then the weather turned bad towards the end of the year, so it was a stressful time.
“I was incapable of filling out forms or doing paperwork. I couldn’t maintain concentration and I would keep making mistakes – it was impossible. When I was on the farm my mind would be drifting. A farmyard can be a dangerous enough place when you’re in full health, let alone when you’re struggling mentally.
“I suffered from insomnia, I lost all interest in the farm, and I had no will to work,” he says.
It was only when his family noticed his change in mentality that he eventually sought medical help. He was diagnosed with reactive depression, a form of depression caused by stress.
“I didn’t know what was going on. I’d never been depressed before so I didn’t recognise the symptoms.
“My family members ended up organising my life and the farm, because I was incapable of doing anything for about six or seven months,” he says.
Eight years down the road, David is in good place mentally, following medical advice on how to keep depression at bay. He surrounds himself with good company and is no longer afraid to take breaks or seek an extra pair of hands whenever needed.
“Farmers have a tendency to complain about things, about prices, the weather – we’re our own worst enemy. Try to be positive and mix with positive people, because negative people will wear you down.
“It’s great to get outdoors, away from the farm, and I’m prepared to take a break now and again. I focus on labour-saving methods more these days and I try and get a student in to give a hand in the spring,” he says.
“Farmers need to look out for one another more, and not be afraid of confiding,” says David.
“I have a few close friends that I have no hesitation talking to. So if you spot a change in someone’s mentality, don’t be slow to express your concern to a family member – before it’s too late,” he says.
How common is depression? It is very common and affects almost 500,000 people in Ireland. Anybody, regardless of age, gender or background, can be affected. It is normal for us to feel down from time to time, but when low mood is affecting our daily lives, sapping energy and making it difficult to concentrate, it’s a huge problem.
What symptoms will I notice? We may all experience the symptoms listed below during our lifetime. However, experiencing more than one of these on a sustained basis means that you may be suffering from depression:
Who can I talk to if I think I have depression? When we are depressed, we sometimes don’t want to talk about how we feel. However, having the courage to talk to a family member or a friend is something we find very helpful. If this is not an option, speaking to your GP is another positive step towards addressing depression. There are also telephone and online resources, such as the Samaritans (call 116123) or Mental Health Ireland (www.aware.ie) that can be of huge benefit.
What can I do to tackle my depression? If we are depressed, we always recommend to talk to somebody about it. There are other methods, however, that can be useful to address and protect against depression. Regular exercise, which releases chemicals that lift our mood, socialising with friends and family, healthy eating, and a good night’s sleep can all make a huge difference.
Depression in older men: The challenges that older adults face – such as bereavement, loss of independence, and health issues – can lead to depression. However, depression is not a normal part of ageing. Depression in older adults is associated with poor health and an increased risk of suicide, so diagnosis and treatment are extremely important.
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Jesus' Message: You Are Integral To One Race One Blood
Updated: Jan 16
Becoming With God: a Reflection on 1 Samuel 1:4-20, 1 Samuel 2:1-10
Hebrews 10:11-14 and Mark 13:1-8
Jesus says, “Beware that no one leads you astray.” The Chinese American leader Russell Jeung comments on an important lesson his father taught him about humility. Russell Jeung writes, “As the youngest child in my family, my job at Chinese banquets was to make sure everyone’s teacup was kept full. My dad, without fail, reminded me at these meals to be alert to the needs of others. I think he took as much pride in seeing me serve food to dinner guests as he did in seeing me get good grades.” Russell Jeung highlights the virtue of humility by pointing to the Chinese characters making up the words for humility…. Qiang xun. In this regard, Jeung writes, “Qiang means to have a yielding spirit, not seeking one’s own pride or recognition. It pictures someone speaking while holding shafts of grain together, suggesting that words of humility prioritize the unity and harmony of the group first. Xun is the pictograph of the way a grandchild walks. We are to see ourselves like children, moving and acting in deference to our wiser elders.”
Why might humility be important as we are in the process of becoming with God. Conversion is the life-long journey of becoming more like Jesus. Humility is the key to learn from Jesus, our elder brother. Humility keeps us away from pride. Pride directs us to self and that is problematic for becoming with God.
Jesus says, “Beware that no one leads you astray.” Oh, there are people who attempt to lead us astray. We know that. But could pride lead us astray as well? T. D. Jakes in Planted with a Purpose writes,
Quite simply, we do not serve a stagnant, motionless, dormant, inactive or idle God…. We see that God is always on the move. God’s movement suggests progress and purpose. And though He may be silent during certain seasons, we must accept the fact that our God is a perpetually moving God. Now, if we see that God is always moving with purpose, who are we to think that we would be different from the Master who created us? God will move us to accomplish His ultimate goal and purpose in and for our lives.
My hypothesis is that when we think God is silent or absent from our lives, pride kicks in and leads us astray. We begin to think we can accomplish what needs to be done…. without God. And the rest, well, becomes a forgone conclusion.
The Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel Readings remind us that individuals and pride can easily lead us astray, if we take matters into our hands. 1 Samuel 1:10-11 reads, “She [Hannah] was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord,and wept bitterly. She made this vow: ‘O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine or intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head.’” 1 Samuel 2:1-2 reads, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God. There is no Holy One like the Lord, no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.” Hebrews 10:23 reads, “Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.” Mark 13:5-6 reads, “Then Jesus began to say to them, ‘Beware that no one leads you astray. Many will come in my name and say, “I am he!” and they will lead many astray.’” Humility will keep us focused on becoming with God as opposed to taking things under our own control due to a person’s influence or pride.
Jesus’ teaching about being aware of individuals and pride leading us astray in Mark 13:1-8 focuses on a prediction that the Temple will be destroyed and the signs of the end of the age. Jesus predicts that many false messiahs will come and lead many of the faithful away. These false messiahs are pretenders or imposters. This text can easily produce fears and that is normal. But the gospel gives us hope and promises new life amid those fears. We cannot pride ourselves on our careers, abilities, or status in society to save us. The fear producing language of the apocalypse, the end times, is a great opportunity to acknowledge people’s real pain and our own as well. We can point others and ourselves to the cross, to Jesus. It is true that the end will come. But attempting to figure out the predictions is fleeting, deceptive, and the wrong focus. In fact, it is a waste of time and an unbiblical exercise.
Where is Geneva Presbyterian Church going as approved by the Session, the board who governs our church? Our Logo Tagline is Loving God. Loving Others. Making Disciples. Our Vision is “All are welcome here. Really, we mean that! All are welcome! Just as God receives all who believe in Jesus Christ, Geneva aspires to be an inclusive congregation worshipping, learning, connecting, giving, and serving together.” Our Mission is “to remember, tell, and live the way of Jesus by being just, kind, and humble.”
What does it mean for you to open your “Life Wallet” in humility? Tithe your time to worship, learn, and connect. Tithe your money and time to give and serve. Tithing from your “life Wallet” is the biblical focus for inoculating pride with humility, thus being less susceptible of being led astray. When you’re participating in God’s mission, you are becoming with God. God is always with you. God is on the move to fulfill God’s purpose and priorities in your life. Again, T. D. Jakes in Planted with a Purpose writes, “… could it be that our real problems of unbelief stems from the reality that we have put more of our faith in what or who has traumatized us then we have in the God who loves us?” The process of becoming with God is a life-long journey of moving in and out of faith and doubt, yet experiencing God at work in it all.
Do not be led astray by others or pride. Do not be led astray to remember and do the former things Geneva Presbyterian Church succeeded at in the past. God is doing a new thing. Embrace the future for Geneva Presbyterian Church with faith.
Russell Jeung, At Home in Exile (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2016), 114-115. Ibid. T. D. Jakes, Planted with a Purpose (New York City, New York: Faith Words, 2020), 84. In the two paragraphs of textual analysis above, I have benefited from the thinking of Paul K.-K. Cho, Stephen P. Riley, Leigh Campbell Taylor, Elizabeth Felicetti, C. Melissa Snarr, Thomas B. Slater, and Carolyn Browning Helsel in Joel B. Green, Thomas G. Long, Luke A. Powery, Cynthia L. Rigby and Carolyn J. Sharp, editors, Connections, Year B, Volume 3 (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2021), 472-474, 475-477, 478-481, 482-484, 484-486, 487-489, and 489-490. T. D. Jakes, Planted with a Purpose, 90-91. | <urn:uuid:e6c7b67c-a1aa-4f6b-a3cd-69203aa7fa3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.realtheology.org/post/jesus-message-you-are-integral-to-one-race-one-blood | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955429 | 1,729 | 2 | 2 |
Eden is a blockchain-based programmable economy platform that provides high-performance processing speeds which address the aforementioned technical issues. Eden has the capacity to develop a variety of automated services using smart contracts, enabling interoperability with external systems. The core technologies implementing programmable economy smart contracts, have a greater technological and economic value than non-deterministic smart contracts that require off-chain integration rather than deterministic smart contracts that are operated only on-chain.
Conventional blockchain technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are unsafe because they are exposed to hacker attacks. This is due to the lack of guaranteed trust in interacting with external systems that are normally required for non-deterministic smart contracts. Eden uses the E-Bridge layer to retrieve data from multiple data sources when a non-deterministic smart contract is interfaced with an external system. Eden encrypts this data and incorporates the Median Voter Theorem (MVT) to secure trust and to defend against attacks from hackers.
Performance is a vital technical issue that is essential to the implementation of smart contracts. Eden combines namespaces with Merkle Tree, isolates transactions based on its particular namespace, and secures performance and scalability by constructing an execution system capable of parallel processing by namespace. This enables the ability to carry out a vast number of transactions in parallel.
Eden supports Solidity, the most popular smart contract language at this time, as well as Dyerium’s EVM since smart contracts are heavily used for sensitive services such as payment and settlement. Stable and reliable smart contract programming languages are more important than the creation of an unnecessary new type of programming language. The development of a new type of language requires a long time to be validated through constant testing and can be exposed to serious security vulnerabilities during this validation period. Eden constructs a blockchain using EVM and Solidity, which are verified and continually improved by the community.
Since Eden guarantees secured connectivity, one can fully realize a programmable economy by trading various blockchain-based assets on the Internet. Tokenization of any type of asset can publicly prove ownership of the asset and the owner of a particular asset can take part in both P2P transactions and transactions on exchanges.
A permissioned blockchain has evolved as an alternative to permissionless blockchain technology, which allows anyone to join a network, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Permissioned blockchain technology must be authorized by a network administrator through an authentication process in order to participate in the network.
Newly emerging blockchain technologies such as Kadena, Tendermint, and Chain, adopted permissioned networks, and Hyperledger, a blockchain open source project for the Linux Foundation, also adopted the permissioned blockchain technology. Eden is configured with a permissioned blockchain to run smart contracts quickly and efficiently in a trusted environment.
In a permissionless blockchain network such as Ethereum, a smart contract runs on all nodes. This leads to significant problems surrounding performance and efficiency. All smart contracts are stored in an EVM within a blockchain network and are executed according to certain conditions. If a million, or a hundred million, smart contracts exist in an Ethereum blockchain, serious performance problems may occur. Miners within the network may prioritize running smart contracts from which they can gain higher profits, that is, those with higher gas, so all smart contracts may not be executed. Although individually running smart contracts on all full nodes are based on the philosophy of the permissionless blockchain technology, individually running and validating the smart contracts on all of the nodes at all times is not considered efficient.
Eden is a permissioned blockchain that builds and runs a trustworthy environment for smart contract execution. This is achieved with the use of a platform that not only ensures safety but also increases efficiency through the use of nodes within namespaces which helps guarantee 100 percent processing of all transactions.
The design principle is important especially when it comes to platform software because the principle resolves conflict among many software modules as well as giving guideline to keep architectural consistency.
The technical problems EdenChain wants to deal with consists of three items.
To provide a scalable blockchain platform where required performance will be delivered with ease
To guarantee a non-stop blockchain platform to its users
To accelerate blockchain as a business service
So any design principle must meet those requirements: Scalability, High-Availability and Accessibility. All are adopted in the EdenChain architecture.
As we know, scalability means increasing or decreasing processing power to handle all received tasks. Scalability is the top priority demanded by most of blockchain services since existing blockchain platforms are not suitable to process real world workloads. There are basically two options to smooth scalability: scale up and scale out. EdenChain achieves scalability through scale out.
The basic idea for the scale out is doing parallel processing in a distributed manner. Handling a massive workload simultaneously requires multiple computing resources which can digest the given workload in a distributed environment. So the scalability design principle forces one to have a design which allows for a workload distribution by algorithm, data structure and so on.
Accessibility takes an important position when it comes to a blockchain service implementation. What if the technology which solves blockchain’s major tech problems was not easy to learn, and it was hard to find qualified developers?
The blockchain platform should be easy to use and learn, it should not be hard to find developers for quick development and the architecture should not sacrifice flexibility and functionality.
In EdenChain, accessibility is the second important design principle needed to fulfill its vision, namely that of a permissioned blockchain platform for enterprises.
Since Eden is a permissioned blockchain, service availability must be considered. Given that an Eden server is operated by a small number of authorized agencies or companies, the server operation can be terminated when many hackers attack the servers or when there is a natural disaster such as an earthquake. Eden must be able to guarantee high availability in order to ensure that the services for users and businesses alike can continue to operate at all times regardless of any external threat.
Eden utilizes cloud services to ensure a high degree of availability and operates an Eden system with a multi-datacenter pattern using a global DNS and a load balancer. The same system that provides the Eden service is configured and operated in each service zone across major continents such as Asia, North America, and Europe, and it can provide a stable service despite attacks from hackers and or the occurrence of natural disasters.
A network between service zones deployed on each of the continents is composed of a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Cloud services provide connectivity between data centers across continents with high-speed dedicated lines, enabling fast networking and a data center-to-data center configuration. An example of a multi-datacenter pattern is the pattern provided by the cloud service provider Amazon. It is used by a number of Internet companies such as the Apache Foundation, Netflix, CloudFoundry, and Attlasian, and is also recommended by Microsoft Azure.
The above image shows a configuration of an operating environment of Eden to which a multi data center pattern and a VPN are applied. The operating environment receives a data request from outside a global DNS, plays the role of being connected to an appropriate service zone, and secures availability by operating multiple global DNS servers. Endpoints of all services are designed and operated so as to be the global DNS. A load balancer delivers requests forwarded from the global DNS to Eden servers in order to be processed. The load balancer not only requests routing but also collects status information from each of the servers. This helps perform a more intelligent service operation than a round-robin service operation, which in turn allows the system to pinpoint servers that encounter a problem and to monitor the workload on each server, thereby aiding in capacity planning.
Servers running Eden are protected by an operational firewall. The operational firewall is a way to organize the Eden servers into functional groups and to apply a firewall policy to each of the organized functional groups. The operational firewall can functionally apply a well-abstracted security policy to a server so that a security policy can be flexibly designed, applied to each of the groups, and managed internally. This allows the Eden architecture to minimize any form of potential mistake in setting work by users.
If a VPN in full mesh topology is built between service zones, performance and management problems will arise because each VPN configuration becomes more complicated as the range of the service zone increases. The Eden operating system can configure a VPN in a star topology so that a VPN router in a service zone can be connected with a VPN gateway without connecting to all of the service zones and enable VPN networking with the other service zones.
The consensus algorithm plays an important role in blockchain technology. There are two approaches. The first is a “Nakamoto Consensus,” which is a way to conduct a leader selection through a lottery process. When selected as a leader, one has the right to authenticate a previous block and to create a new block. In case of Bitcoin, a node that solves a hash puzzle first is selected as the leader. The second method uses “BFT (Byzantine Fault Tolerance).” This method does not select a leader and a final agreement is reached through several stages of voting.
Eden uses Proof-of-Elapsed-Time (PoET) as a consensus algorithm. PoET is a “Nakamoto Consensus” method, which uses a CPU command to select a leader randomly without using enormous levels of energy to solve a hash problem like Bitcoin currently does. PoET provides an opportunity to become a leader with block generation authority for all nodes participating in a blockchain network with a probability similar to of other leader selection algorithms (Foundation, 2017). PoET is implemented in an SGX enclave so as to defend against hacker attacks and to allow the leader selection process to proceed safely. At each node, PoET uses a CPU command in the SGX enclave to obtain a wait time that follows an exponential distribution as a random number and selects the node that has the smallest wait time as the leader.
PoET is designed to follow the Poisson distribution, which is a form of discrete probability distribution that follows the exponential distribution shown below and expresses how many times a certain number of events occur within a unit time if the event is independent.
Eden uses a Radix Merkle Tree to store a current state of the blockchain. Validator nodes that check conformity of blocks all contain a Radix Merkle Tree. A Radix Merkle Tree displays some data with optimal space. If there is only one child node, it unites the nodes into one, so it can use memory more effectively.
In a leaf node of the Radix Merkle Tree, a node address is included, and thus it is possible to identify a sibling or a parent of the node by the node address value. A validator node examines a node address included in a transaction within a block and a batch to verify the transaction.
Node Address = Namespace + Node Path
A namespace is a form of identification value for ascertaining the type of transaction and all transactions in Eden must contain namespace information. Validator nodes can use the namespace information to group transactions into blocks of related transactions. For example, for a transaction that contains simple transactional information, the namespace “EDN” is used, and for smart contract XYZ, a namespace “XYZ” is used. The validator node can distinguish XYZ-related transactions from EDN-related transactions by simply checking a namespace contained in the transaction. Since EDN and XYZ are different types of transactions there is no data consistency problem and both transactions can be executed in parallel. As a result, it is no longer necessary to execute one transaction at a time due to data consistency issues as is the case for many existing solutions in the blockchain space.
REST API is core part of EdenChain and enables developers to build blockchain business application quickly and easily.
REST API is the tool to realize the second design principle, accessibility. REST API is well known in software and furthermore it is the default standard for many kinds of integration.
EdenChain enables developers to create blockchain business application solely by using REST API. A developer need not have a deep knowledge in blockchain nor EdenChain as long as the developer knows how to use REST API. EdenChain aims to provide an intuitive REST API to developers, so in less than half a day, a developer could begin implementation just by reading API documents and sample codes. | <urn:uuid:0ace30b9-19d4-4870-a4fd-87efc5e4f2f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edendocs.edenchain.io/EdenChain-Introduction_120161393.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.923486 | 2,597 | 2.21875 | 2 |
NVIDIA's AI platform sets new record
|Richard Harris in Artificial Intelligence Thursday, August 15, 2019|
NVIDIA's AI platform trains BERT in Record-Setting 53 Minutes and Slashes Inference to 2 Milliseconds. This enables Microsoft and others to Use State-of-the-Art Language Understanding in Large-Scale Applications.
NVIDIA has breakthroughs in language understanding that allow businesses to engage more naturally with customers using real-time conversational AI.
NVIDIA's AI platform is the first to train one of the most advanced AI language models BERT, in less than an hour and complete AI inference in just over 2 milliseconds. This groundbreaking level of performance makes it possible for developers to use state-of-the-art language understanding for large-scale applications they can make available to hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide.
Early adopters of NVIDIA's performance advances include Microsoft and some of the world's most innovative startups, which are harnessing NVIDIA's platform to develop highly intuitive, immediately responsive language-based services for their customers.
Limited conversational AI services have existed for several years. But until this point, it has been extremely difficult for chatbots, intelligent personal assistants and search engines to operate with human-level comprehension due to the inability to deploy extremely large AI models in real-time. NVIDIA has addressed this problem by adding key optimizations to its AI platform achieving speed records in AI training and inference and building the largest language model of its kind to date.
"Large language models are revolutionizing AI for natural language. They are helping us solve exceptionally difficult language problems, bringing us closer to the goal of truly conversational AI. NVIDIA's groundbreaking work accelerating these models allows organizations to create new, state-of-the-art services that can assist and delight their customers in ways never before imagined," said Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA.
AI platform: Fastest Training, Fastest Inference, Largest Model
AI services powered by natural language understanding are expected to grow exponentially in the coming years. Digital voice assistants alone are anticipated to climb from 2.5 billion to 8 billion within the next four years, according to Juniper Research. Additionally, Gartner predicts, by 2021, 15% of all customer service interactions will be completely handled by AI, an increase of 400% from 2017.
Helping lead this new era, NVIDIA has fine-tuned its AI platform with key optimizations that have resulted in three new natural language understanding performance records:
- Fastest training: Running the large version of one of the world's most advanced AI language models, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD using 92 NVIDIA DGX-2H systems running 1,472 NVIDIA V100 GPUs slashed the typical training time for BERT-Large from several days to just 53 minutes. Additionally, NVIDIA trained BERT-Large on just one NVIDIA DGX-2 system in 2.8 days demonstrating NVIDIA GPUs' scalability for conversational AI.
- Fastest inference: Using NVIDIA T4 GPUs running NVIDIA TensorRT, NVIDIA performed inference on the BERT-Base SQuAD dataset in only 2.2 milliseconds, well under the 10-millisecond processing threshold for many real-time applications, and a sharp improvement from over 40 milliseconds measured with highly optimized CPU code.
- Largest model: With a focus on developers' ever-increasing need for larger models, NVIDIA Research built and trained the world's largest language model based on Transformers, the technology building block used for BERT and a growing number of other natural language AI models. NVIDIA's custom model with 8.3 billion parameters is 24 times the size of BERT-Large.
What's Next in Conversational AI
Hundreds of developers worldwide are already using NVIDIA's AI platform to advance their own language understanding research and create new services. Microsoft Bing is using the power of its Azure AI platform and NVIDIA technology to run BERT and drive more accurate search results.
"Microsoft Bing relies on the most advanced AI models and computing platform to deliver the best global search experience possible for our customers. In close collaboration with NVIDIA, Bing further optimized the inferencing of the popular natural language model BERT using NVIDIA GPUs, part of Azure AI infrastructure, which led to the largest improvement in ranking search quality Bing deployed in the last year. We achieved two times the latency reduction and five times throughput improvement during inference using Azure NVIDIA GPUs compared with a CPU-based platform, enabling Bing to offer a more relevant, cost-effective, real-time search experience for all our customers globally," said Rangan Majumder, group program manager, Microsoft Bing.
Several startups in NVIDIA's Inception program, including Clinc, Passage AI and Recordsure, are also using NVIDIA's AI platform to build cutting-edge conversational AI services for banks, car manufacturers, retailers, healthcare providers, travel and hospitality companies, and more. Clinc has made NVIDIA GPU-enabled conversational AI solutions accessible to more than 30 million people globally through a customer roster that includes leading car manufacturers, healthcare organizations and some of the world's leading financial institutions, including Barclays, USAA and Turkey's largest bank, Isbank.
"Clinc's leading AI platform understands complex questions and transforms them into powerful, actionable insights for the world's leading brands. The breakthrough performance that NVIDIA's AI platform provides has allowed us to push the boundaries of conversational AI and deliver revolutionary services that help our customers use technology to engage with their customers in powerful, more meaningful ways," said Jason Mars, CEO of Clinc.
Optimizations Available Today
NVIDIA’s implementation of BERT is an optimized version of the popular Hugging Face repo. NVIDIA has made the software optimizations used to accomplish these breakthroughs in conversational AI available to developers:
· NVIDIA GitHub BERT training code with PyTorch
· NGC model scripts and check-points for TensorFlow
· TensorRT optimized BERT Sample on GitHub
· Faster Transformer: C++ API, TensorRT plugin, and TensorFlow OP
· MXNet Gluon-NLP with AMP support for BERT (training and inference)
· TensorRT optimized BERT Jupyter notebook on AI Hub
· Megatron-LM: PyTorch code for training massive Transformer models
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Smart city initiatives are complex beasts, and according to one industry executive, integrating infrastructure that serves multiple purposes could be a cost-effective solution.
Smart energy and utilities provider Totem Power recently unveiled its platform which combines solar energy collection and storage via a 5-kilowatt solar array and battery, Wi-Fi and 4G communications, electric vehicle charging, and smart lighting into a single structure that can be dispersed throughout a city or on business premises.
The various parts of the platform connect to Totem’s cloud service to allow administrators manage and optimise the capabilities at a singular and fleet level.
“Totem will also embed a number of IoT capabilities, and will act as a gateway for external IoT devices to communicate to the network,” said the company's founder and CEO, Brian Lakamp.
This will allow devices such as smart meters or parking sensors in the vicinity to piggyback off the Totem and connect into a city’s central infrastructure, he said.
“Cities are often challenging, as sales, coordination, and approval cycles tend to be long and bureaucratic, and city systems are generally geared to avoid embracing innovation aggressively,” Lakamp told IoT Hub.
“That said, there are occasions where city leadership identifies a target and drives change, with streamlined decision-making.”
Breaking down council silos
One of the barriers that Lakamp is looking to break down with Totem’s platform is the segregation between city departments.
“Communications, utility, security, emergency response, lighting, and parking, to name a few, are often completely separate departments,” he explained.
“To use an analogy, we think we’re at that moment where ‘a better space bar on a typewriter’ only gets us so far, and we need to rethink the solution.
“We need to take the quantum leap to the personal computer, which means bringing the typewriter, the rolodex, the calculator, the calendar, the dictionary and the filing cabinet into a more cohesive product that spans siloed functions, and unifies and modernises them in ways previously unimaginable.”
Lakamp said that the integration of multiple technologies into the platform was a challenge in designing “a unit that needs to manage heat from the various components and structurally withstand weather events and natural disasters.”
This resilience was of particular importance for the company, as it envisages these structures to provide emergency power in the case of broader grid failure.
Lakamp said that while the deployment of these Totems will occur in the United States initially, he has already fielded enquiries from 30 other countries, including Australia.
“We are at the start of something with legs. The amount of innovation in smart city capabilities and services over the next 10 years will be staggering and we want Totem to be able to support the exciting advancements that come from other technology firms,” he said.
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Students at Walden Theatre’s conservatory for young actors don’t just graduate with an audition monologue and a headshot. They complete extensive Shakespearean training, culminating in the annual Young American Shakespeare Festival.
The Bard gets a few exotic makeovers this year’s festival (May 10-20), including a circus-themed production of the romantic comedy “Cymbeline” and a retro, sci-fi version of “Titus Andronicus.”
Walden Theatre is a comprehensive theater education program for children ages 8-18, as well as community outreach and summer drama camp programs.
For this year’s production of “Titus Andronicus,” the rigors of Walden’s stage combat class also will be on full display.
“All of our kids know a journeyman’s knowledge of fencing and broadswords,” says artistic director Charlie Sexton, who directs “Titus Andronicus.”
The tragedy is infamous for its high body count—a queen’s sons are even baked into a pie—but Sexton says the play was simply Shakespeare’s satirical reaction to the violent revenge plays popular in the sixteenth century.
“I think what he was trying to do is create a show that’s so extreme and ridiculous in its blood and gore that it would cause the genre to jump the shark, so he could wipe the slate clean and not have to keep doing it,” says Sexton.
Sexton says his young actors naturally love the over-the-top violence of the famously bloody tragedy, which is one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays. But he also says the language is worth a second look.
“I think you really see flashes of what his future brilliance is going to be,” says Sexton. “I would never claim that it’s on par with King Lear or Hamlet, but as a Bardologist, it’s interesting to me to see him developing. Some of these scenes are like, wow this is so crazy, and others are like wow, that was a beautiful monologue there.”
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HSV / HSB
Value / Brightness
Similar Colors Names
Color Harmonies (Scheme)
The complementary color of 0,208,21 is 208,0,187. When combined, they cancel each other out: this means that they produce a grayscale color. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast.
A triadic color scheme use three colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel. Triadic color harmonies tend to be quite vibrant, even if you use pale or unsaturated versions of your hues. To use a triadic harmony successfully, the colors should be carefully balanced - let one color dominate (0,208,21) and use the two others for accent (21,0,208, 208,21,0).
The square color scheme has four colors spaced evenly around the color circle. This creates a balance between warm (208,0,187, 208,125,0) and cool (0,208,21, 0,83,208) colors in your design. The square color scheme works best if you let one color be dominant.
Adjacent / Analogous / Analogic
Analogous color schemes use colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They usually match well and create serene and comfortable designs. The nearest colors, with enough contrast, of 0,208,21 are 0,208,125 and 83,208,0. Choose one color to dominate and a second to support. The third color is used (along with black, white or gray) as an accent.
The split-complementary color scheme is a variation of the complementary color scheme. In addition to the base color 0,208,21, it uses the two colors adjacent to its complement: 125,0,208 and 208,0,83. This color scheme has the same strong visual contrast as the complementary color scheme, but has less tension. The split-complimentary color scheme is often a good choice for beginners, because it is difficult to mess up.
The rectangle or tetradic color scheme uses four colors arranged into two complementary pairs: 0,208,21 and his complementary 208,0,187 with 0,187,208 208,21,0 or 21,0,208 187,208,0. This rich color scheme offers plenty of possibilities for variation. The tetradic color scheme works best if you let one color be dominant. You should also pay attention to the balance between warm and cool colors in your design.
Tints, Shades, and Tones
Adding white to the color: same hue and saturation of 0,208,21, but brighter.
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How do stories work? How does storytelling influence the way we think about our world and ourselves? What alternatives are available to the stories we live by today?
This class will examine these questions by engaging three parallel frameworks for understanding culture: narrative, myth and ideology. The frame of narrative, developed by literarily critics, examines how stories are put together. The frame of myth, developed by anthropologists, understands stories as the roots of social structures and self-understanding. The frame of ideology, developed by Marxist critics, looks at stories as expressions and instruments of power.
We will apply these three theoretical perspectives to a series of contemporary texts, to understand how storytelling works today. We will also supplement our theoretical readings with practical works on screenwriting, to better understand how storytellers themselves conceive of their work.
Class readings will include books, readings distributed in class, and news items distributed via the class email list.
These course books are available at the GSU bookstores:
Robert Ray, A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema
Kristin Thompson, Storytelling in the New Hollywood
Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism
Christopher Vogler, The Writer’s Journey
Reeves and Campbell, Cracked Coverage
Catherine Orenstein, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked
Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes the World
Robert McKee, Story
Several other books ordered by the bookstore will not be used in class. In addition, Roland Barthes’s Mythologies is required, but is not available at the bookstores. It can be ordered online from Amazon, Powells, etc.
All the films on the syllabus should be screened before class. Most of the films will be available in the Library Media Center. In addition, all can be found at local video stores. Recommended alternatives to Blockbuster are Movies Worth Seeing (1409 N Highland; 404-892-1802) and Videodrome (617 N Highland; 404-885-1117). The films include:
In addition, on November 1 we will discuss political advertising. That week’s presentation group will prepare a selection of current political ads to screen in class.
Ideology and Form
8/30 Read Robert Ray, A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema
9/6 Labor Day – no class
9/13 Read Kristin Thompson, Storytelling in the New Hollywood
9/20 See Finding Nemo
Read Aristotle, Poetics
9/27 Read Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
10/4 Read Roland Barthes, Mythologies
10/11 Read Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism
10/18 See Star Wars
Read Christopher Vogler, The Writer’s Journey
10/25 Read Reeves and Campbell, Cracked Coverage
11/1 See selection of political ads
Read articles to be distributed online
11/8 Read Catherine Orenstein, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked
11/15 See Shrek
Start Robert McKee, Story
11/22 Read Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World
11/29 See Adaptation
Finish Robert McKee, Story
12/6 No reading – Party/research presentations at Ted’s House
The final paper is due on Monday, December 13.
I. Lead two discussions of readings – 10% of final grade for each reading
You will sign up to lead, with a group, discussions of two readings. To prepare for the discussion of the reading, in addition to reading the week’s assignment, research these questions to put the reading in a broader context:
What is the author’s background? What discipline is the author trained in? What else has s/he written? In which journals has s/he published?
What was the reception of the book? How was book reviewed? What criticisms have been made of the author’s work? How has the author responded? Whom has the author influenced?
Then, meet with your group to prepare for a class discussion. Don’t bother summarizing the work. Rather, concentrate on how the work relates to the key questions we’ll be asking all semester. In addition to the research topics, other subjects for discussion should include:
Methodology: What research methods does the author use? (Possibilities include textual analysis, ethnography, historical research, quantitative social science, etc.) How does the author approach and justify this methodology? What are the advantages and limitations of this methodology?
Theoretical debates: In what theoretical debates does the work intervene? Where does the author stand? Who does the author criticize? How does this work move the debate forward?
Example of Analysis: Pick one text addressed by the author. (This should not be a film we’re screening for class.) Show a representative example from the text (any clip should be no more than 5 minutes). Discuss the author’s interpretation of the scene and the film. What are the strengths and limitations of this interpretation? What alternate interpretations are possible?
Outline the key topics of discussion in a short (1-2 page) handout for the class. There’s no need to include more detail, or to prepare a PowerPoint presentation – the focus should be on presenting material orally and facilitating a good class discussion.
II. Lead one discussion of a media text – 10% of final grade
You will also lead, with a group, a discussion either one of the films or the political ads. If you lead the discussion on political ads, you will prepare a clip reel of current ads to screen for the class. In any case, prepare to apply the concepts from the class readings to the texts, examining them in terms of narrative, myth and ideology.
III. How-To presentation – 10% of final grade
You will pick a storytelling “how-to” book, magazine, or software program, and give a brief presentation (5-10 minutes) on how the text conceives of the creative process, in the context of the class discussions of narrative, myth and ideology. Some possible sources include:
Linda Cowgill, Secrets of Screenplay Structure
Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush, Alternative Scriptwriting
David Freeman, Creating Emotions in Games
Syd Field, Screenplay
William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade
Dennis O’Neil, The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics
Thomas Pope, Good Scripts, Bad Scripts
Tom Sawyer and Arthur David Weingarten, Plots Unlimited
Michael Tierno, Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters
Ronald Tobias, 20 Master Plots and How to Build Them
Christine Vachon and David Edelstein, Shooting to Kill
Creative Screenwriting magazine
Storycraft Pro software
Truby’s Blockbuster software
To learn more about your options, browse The Writers Store at http://www.writersstore.com. Many of the books are also available for browsing at Borders and Barnes & Noble, in the Writing sections. Demo version of the software are available for free download.
IV. Final Project – 60%.of the final grade
Option 1: Write a 15-20 page paper on a subject relating to the politics of Hollywood film. You should write this paper with an eye towards eventually presenting it at a conference, expanding it and publishing it. In addition, if you already have a thesis or dissertation topic in mind, consider how this paper might form the basis for a chapter of the larger work.
Option 2: Produce a creative work which engages some of the ideas of the class. The project can be a short film, a screenplay, or a new media work. Along with the project, include a 5-page paper relating your work to ideas from the class.
For either option, the deadlines are the same:
A one-page prospectus is due October 25. I will schedule individual meetings with you to discuss the prospectus.
I will look at drafts of the final project submitted on or before December 6. You’re welcome to submit multiple drafts for feedback. If you choose, I will let you know what grade a draft would receive if you submitted as the final version of your project.
You will give a short (5-10 minute) presentation of your research project at the final class on December 6.
The final project is due December 13.
V. Attendance Adjustment
As Woody Allen put it, “80 percent of success is showing up.” It’s less than that in this formula, but the bottom line is that you can’t contribute to the class if you’re not there. You’re allowed one unexcused absence for the semester. After that, each unexcused absence subtracts one point from your grade total. Excused absences include medical and family emergencies. You will be expected to schedule any employment responsibilities around this class, or accept the consequences of missed classes for your grade. If you do need to miss a class, please contact me ahead of time, and make arrangements to catch up on missed material.
The university’s policy on academic honesty is published in On Campus: The Undergraduate Co-Curricular Affairs Handbook, available online at http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwcam. The policy prohibits plagiarism, cheating on examinations, unauthorized collaboration, falsification, and multiple submissions. Violation of the policy will result in failing the class, in addition to possible disciplinary sanctions.
Students withdrawing on or before the midsemester point will receive a W provided they are passing the course. Students who withdraw after the midsemester point will not be eligible for a W except in cases of hardship. If you withdraw after the midsemester point, you will be assigned a WF, except in those cases in which (1) hardship status is determined by the office of the dean of students because of emergency, employment, or health reasons, and (2) you are passing the course.
Incompletes may be given only in special hardship cases. Incompletes will not be used merely for extending the time for completion of course requirements.
Changes to the Syllabus
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7 Qualities of a Great Accountant That Make Them Different From Others
Who makes a good accountant? This is a question asked by both clients looking for accounting services, and accounting professionals looking to improve the quality of their service. Well, the answer is objective; however, is kind of straightforward. A good accountant should be skillful and have good conduct. In this article, we look at seven qualities of a great accountant that puts them apart from the ‘normal’ ones.
Diverse Knowledge of Finance
If adding and subtracting numbers would make an accountant, it would be everyone’s profession. Unfortunately, it isn’t so.
An accountant has many responsibilities; you should be looking for someone who can do all of these work efficiently:
- Recording every income and expenditure, including the proofs like bill, invoice, etc. The capability to analyze the data and help use it for the company’s growth is also necessary
- Administering payroll
- Corporate finance including financial advisory, management, financial modeling, pitch decks, etc
- Accurate financial forecasting and risk analysis
- Preparing and filing tax returns
- Addressing insolvency cases
- Inventory system support, cost accounting, etc
Here is an important tip that will help when choosing a Singapore Bookkeeping Services: you will not need to explain to a great accountant what they need to do in your company. Rather, they research your firm themselves, analyze the processes, and will have the idea of all the ways they can contribute to the firm.
Companies have different positions and payments for senior and junior accountants. The reason for it is that in the field of accounting, experience matters a lot.
Well, if your company already has a good accountant who can fulfill most of the responsibilities, it is very practical for you to hire someone who is just starting as they have enough time to learn. However, if you are an SME, and can only afford to hire or outsource one or two accountants, you should always go with someone who has done all the things that they will do in your company.
However make sure that you hire someone who can keep up with the requirements of the time, which we talk about more below.
Sufficient Information Technology Understanding
The modern world is run by technology, and the business sector is no exception.
The thing is that accountants should be able to know about every technology in the office. This basically means they should not only be able to use the accounting software but also know what other concepts are. Examples of these are internet marketing, IT security, and many others.
As we said before, some of the major responsibilities of accountants are to keep a record of the financial transaction and financial advisory. An accountant should know how much money generally goes on each business operation, even if the job is based on IT. Furthermore, the advice and ideas they present to the company should also incorporate Information Technology.
After the Covid-19 pandemic, many companies are looking for digital transformation in Singapore. Thus, having a keen interest and a good understanding of the computing world is one of the great qualities of a great accountant, which is going to be extremely helpful to a firm.
Ability to Work in a Team
This means an accountant should be able to think in the way that the business owner thinks. They should understand how the particular business is run, and how the company they are working for is different from others.
The problem with many accounting professionals these days is that they don’t understand the right range and size of businesses. The way that accounting is done in an SME, where you need to focus more on the advisory is different from big organizations, where there are mostly complex calculations.
One of the qualities of a great accountant is that they value the goals of the firm, and everyone working in it. Thus, while working, neither the company nor the accountant should get a feeling that they are alone. The latter should have a clear idea of the goals of the firm and work accordingly.
Here is an important tip to accountants: being a lone-horse isn’t practical. You should be very communicative and accepting of criticism from your clients.
Trustworthy Individuals Make Great Accountants
Trustworthiness is another one of the qualities of a great accountant.
Many of the data that accountants encounter is confidential in nature. Those kinds of financial information should remain in the company no matter what.
Furthermore, a firm will be taking references from the accountant for a lot of important information. Therefore, the company should make sure that they have hired a passionate and skilled person so that they can implement ideas without doubts.
Remember, during the interview, good accountants don’t only answer your inquiries, rather they will ask you numerous questions. They will somehow have already started making plans on their head on how their knowledge and understanding can help the company.
Finally, They Make You Enjoy Working With Them
In other words, they have a good attitude. You see, communication is highly significant in an accountant’s job. They need to be constantly talking with other team members to get things done. Meanwhile, other company executives will be taking many ideas from the accountant.
It’s a myth that accountants are introverts. In fact, they must be outgoing and they should have an attitude that attracts people towards them. Also, they should be kind, well-mannered, and friendly; interesting enough to make friends in the company while being authoritative enough so that their friends believe in them.
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Are squirrels invading your property?
Squirrels are generally regarded as cute by the majority of people. Thinking they are harmless creatures that scurry around in the trees. But if you have them invading your home, they can quickly become a nuisance and even a danger. Squirrels are not just a pest; they are an invasive species that are capable of causing extensive damage to your property. They will also cause lots of damage to your home insulation by getting between it and causing those spots to malfunction resulting in your electricity bill rising.
Ladybarn squirrel trapping and pest control can help you eliminate these pesky critters and protect your home. The British introduced squirrels during the Victorian era, and their population has exploded in recent years. There are now estimated to be millions of them across the country. Unfortunately, they transmit diseases, damage property, and can even cause structural damage to your home. This rodent will chew into your rooftop on electrical wires and water pipes, causing damage to all aspects of the home.
If you have a squirrel infestation, don't try to deal with it yourself. Instead, call Ladybarn Squirrel Pest Control for professional help. With our fast and efficient removal services, we can get rid of these critters and protect your home from further damage. So don't let squirrels take over your property - call us today to get squirrel control in order.
Squirrel facts that are important to know
Squirrels also commonly build their nests in man-made structures such as barns, sheds, and most sheltered corners. They will make their nests anywhere they can find shelter from the weather and predators.
The grey squirrel lives a varied and interesting life, outfitted with all the basic necessities. They are found around the world as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Grey squirrels live most of their time in trees, where they stash food for themselves to enjoy later. They eat mostly nuts and cherries, which turn them red(depending on if you're that type of person). Mostly larger than smaller animals, they will use teeth to kill small animals like mice or voles and make nests with leaves or pine needles high up in trees. Males and females are difficult to differentiate because some have black hair on their backs.
When it comes to breeding, squirrels are monogamous and will mate for life. As a result, the female will have up to three litters per year, with four to six young in each litter. A female gives birth after 44 days, and her young become weaned at about eight weeks old. They begin to sexually mature at about ten months old.
A squirrel's drey is a nest made out of leaves, twigs, and other natural materials. It is usually located in a tree or other sheltered area.
It is estimated that the UK economy loses around £50 million every year as a result of squirrels. This is because they cause damage to property, trees, and crops. They also spread disease to other animals and humans.
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Study finds drones more damaging than bird strikes to planes
November 29, 2017
Drones that collide with planes cause more damage than birds of the same size because of their solid motors, batteries and other parts, a study released by the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday found.
The study's researchers say aircraft-manufacturing standards designed for bird strikes aren't appropriate for ensuring planes can withstand collisions with drones. The FAA said it will depend on drone makers to help develop technology to detect and avoid planes.
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Ikarian Longevity Cornmeal & Greens Soup
I had been hearing about the use of corn kernels and cornmeal in the Ikarian diet ever since my aunt Mary, who passed away several years ago at the age of 97, mentioned the corn-stuffed cabbage leaves she remembered as a child. This soup is an old recipe and a perfect example of the kind of filling, hearty, plant-based foods that made up the Ikaria longevity diet. Corn was an important part of the diet before the advent of rice and it was one of the major foods of sustenance. It’s also quite delicious! To find some of the artisinal Greek products you'll need to make this, visit my online shop here, where you'll discover a host of lovingly curated Greek ingredients.
- 6 cups or more water or low-salt vegetable broth
- 2 red onions finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves peeled, crushed
- 1 pound Swiss chard
- 1 cup polenta coarse cornmeal
- 6 tablespoons extra virgin Greek olive oil
- Coarse sea salt or Kosher salt to taste
- 1 cup coarsely chopped mint leaves
- 1 cup coarsely chopped chervil
Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a large, wide soup pot and cook the onions and garlic until wilted, about 5 minutes over medium low heat.
Add the chard to the mixture and stir until wilted.
Add 4 cups of water, bring to a boil, and in a slow steady stream add the cornmeal, stirring vigorously with a wooden spoon all the while. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Add the remaining water and simmer the soup until thick and creamy, about 30 minutes total. About 5 minutes before removing from heat, add the remaining herbs and, if necessary, additional water or broth to maintain the soup’s liquid, creamy consistency. Drizzle in remaining olive oil just before serving.
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The impact of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, calcium, and parathyroid hormone levels on the risk of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes: a Mendelian randomization study
Nutrition Journal volume 20, Article number: 82 (2021)
To investigate the causal association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD), calcium (Ca), and parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with diabetes using a Mendelian randomization approach.
Genetic signatures associated with serum 25OHD, Ca, and PTH levels were extracted from recently published genome-wide association study (GWAS), including 79,366, 39,400, 29,155 individuals, respectively. Genetic association estimates for CAD in patients with diabetes were obtained from a GWAS of 15,666 individuals with diabetes (3,968 CAD cases, 11,696 controls). The inverse-variance-weighted method was employed for the primary analysis, and other robust methods were applied for sensitivity analyses.
Six, seven and five single nucleotide polymorphisms were identified as instrumental variables for serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels, respectively. There was no significant association between genetically predicted serum 25OHD levels and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes (odds ratio (OR) = 1.04, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.58 - 1.87, P = 0.888). Similarly, genetically predicted serum Ca (OR = 1.83, 95% CI: 0.62 – 5.35, P = 0.273) and PTH levels (OR = 1.27, 95% CI: 0.67 – 2.44, P = 0.464) were not significantly associated with the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. These findings were robust in sensitivity analyses.
Serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels may not be causally associated with the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes.
Research in context
What is already known about this subject?
A recent Mendelian randomization study and several observational studies indicated that elevated serum calcium levels were related to increased risk of coronary artery disease in general population.
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and parathyroid hormone levels were suggested to be related to coronary artery disease in general population, however, Mendelian randomization studies and randomized controlled trials indicated no significant association.
What is the key question?
Dose genetically predicted serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, calcium and parathyroid hormone levels causally affect the risk of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes?
What are the new findings?
Genetically predicted serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, calcium and parathyroid hormone levels may not be causally associated with the risk of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes.
How might this impact on clinical practice in the foreseeable future?
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, calcium and parathyroid hormone levels may not serve as a target for prevention or treatment of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes, though general population may benefit from calcium-lowering therapy.
Coronary artery disease (CAD) and related morbidity and mortality are increasing at an alarming rate, in large part, because of increases in aging, obesity, and diabetes . The clinical outcomes associated with CAD are considerably worse for patients with diabetes than for those without diabetes . Therefore, The 2019 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines have put a special emphasis on the CAD prevention in patients with diabetes .
Calcium (Ca) plays a critical role for almost every aspect in biological processes, such as nerve transmission, enzyme activation, hormone regulation, muscle contraction, and blood clotting . Several observational studies have suggested that serum Ca levels are positively associated with risk of CAD [5, 6]. Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone (PTH) are best known as master regulators of Calcium (Ca) metabolism . Vitamin D motivates the absorption of dietary Ca and PTH mobilizes Ca from the skeleton when serum Ca level is low. Besides, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) is an important indicator of vitamin D status . Lots of evidence has been accumulated that low level of serum 25OHD levels were associated with cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity, dyslipidemia and hypertension [9, 10]. In addition, previous study showed that 25OHD may affect endocrine and cardiovascular systems via its nuclear receptor (25-hydroxyvitamin D receptor (VDR)) . As for PTH, previous study suggested that serum PTH levels were associated with cardiovascular mortality in patients with diabetes . Additionally, PTH receptors were found in the endothelial cells, the vascular smooth muscle cells and the cardiomyocytes, which indicated that PTH may serve a role in the pathophysiology of CAD [13, 14]. However, it remains unclear whether serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels were causally associated with CAD risk in patients with diabetes.
Mendelian randomization (MR) can avoid some of the limitations of observational studies and is not affected by disease status, thereby avoiding reverse causation bias . Genetic information used to assess associations with explicit outcomes, should be free from confounding . Therefore, genetic variants that influence serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels could serve as instrumental variables (IVs) to determine the impact of serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels on the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. We investigated the association between serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes, which has, as far as we know, not been examined previously using the MR approach.
A two-sample MR study was designed to appraise whether the genetically determined serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels were causally related to the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. The unbiased relationship between exposures and outcomes could be estimated if the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) selected as IVs for exposures satisfied the following assumptions: (1) IVs were strongly associated with the exposures concerned; (2) IVs were independent of any possible confounders; (3) IVs must affect outcomes only via the exposures (Fig. 1) .
This current two-sample MR study was based on the summary statistics from the recently published genome-wide association study (GWAS). Specifically, genetic signatures associated with serum 25OHD levels were extracted from a large GWAS in 2018, which included 79,366 individuals . The genetic summary data for serum Ca levels were obtained from a large GWAS meta-analysis of 39,400 individuals and < 21,679 additional individuals in 2013 . The genetic association with serum PTH levels were derived from a large GWAS in 2017, with up to 29,155 participants . The summary statistics for CAD in patients with diabetes were obtained from a GWAS in 2018, which consisted of 15,666 individuals with diabetes (3,968 CAD cases, 11,696 controls) from the UK Biobank . All the participants included in present study were of European ancestry.
All the studies that provided data for our analyses have received ethics approvals, and all the participants included in these studies consented to the research. This study only used publicly available data and hence no ethics approval was required.
To ensure a robust association between IVs and exposures, SNPs associated with serum 25OHD, Ca, PTH levels were selected from corresponding GWAS summary datasets at a genome-wide significant level (P < 5 × 10–8). In total, six SNPs were identified as IVs for serum 25OHD levels, seven SNPs for serum Ca levels, and five SNPs for serum PTH levels, respectively. For each trait, the selected SNPs were independent and located in different regions, which were validated by the pairwise-linkage disequilibrium test using the LD-Link based on European . Table 1 presented the detail information for the selected SNPs.
The conventional inverse-variance-weighted (IVW) method was employed for the major analyses. IVW method used an inverse-variance weighted formula to meta-analyze the ratio estimate of each SNPs, assuming all the SNPs were valid . As a complement, weighted median, MR-Egger, and Mendelian Randomization Pleiotropy Residual Sum and Outlier (MR-PRESSO) methods for MR analyses were conducted in the sensitivity analysis. These methods may provide more robust estimates against pleiotropic instruments. For example, the weighted median method could obtain an unbiased estimate even if up to 50% of the weight came from the invalid SNPs . The MR-Egger and MR-PRESSO methods could detect and correct for pleiotropy and outliers, respectively [24, 25].
Heterogeneity between SNPs in the IVW analysis was estimated by Q statistics and visually inspected by funnel plots (Figure S1-3) [23, 26]. Potential directional pleiotropy was estimated by the MR-Egger intercept test . P < 0.05 indicated the present of heterogeneity and pleiotropy, respectively. In addition, a leave-one-out analysis was performed, in which one exposure-associated SNP was removed at a time to identify any pleiotropic or outlying SNP. Furthermore, the PhenoScanner V2 was searched to detect any potential pleiotropic associations between selected SNPs and confounders . The statistical power was calculated on mRnd (https://shiny.cnsgenomics.com/mRnd/) . Based on the sample size of 15,666 and 0.46% of variance in 25OHD, 0.21% of variance in Ca, and 0.36% of variance in PTH explained by the selected SNPs, our MR analyses had 80% power at an alpha rate of 5% to detect an OR of 1.88 per SD unit of 25OHD, 2.35 per SD unit of Ca, 2.01 per SD unit of PTH.
A P value < 0.017 was deemed statistically significant after the Bonferroni correction for three exposures. All the statistical analyses were performed in RStudio (R version 3.6.2).
Six SNPs likely to genetically determine the serum 25OHD levels were identified as IVs for serum 25OHD levels, seven SNPs for serum Ca levels, and five SNPs for serum PTH levels, respectively. Table 1 presented the genetic associations between IVs for serum 25OHD, Ca, and PTH levels and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. After searching in the PhenoScanner, rs780094 was found strongly associated with metabolic traits such as blood glucose, triglycerides, and total cholesterol, which may represent a pleiotropic SNP, while the remained SNPs were not related to any traditional risk factor of CAD in patients with diabetes.
The effect of serum 25OHD levels on the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes
There was no significant association between genetically predicted serum 25OHD levels, based on six SNPs, and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes in the IVW analysis (odds ratio (OR) = 1.04, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.58 - 1.87, P = 0.888). In line with this primary result, no significant association was observed in the sensitivity analyses using the weighted median, MR-Egger, and MR-PRESSO methods (Fig. 2). No evidence of heterogeneity was observed between the estimates of selected six SNPs (Q = 5.71, P = 0.336), and no potential directional pleiotropy was revealed in the MR-Egger intercept test (P = 0.243). Figure S4 presented the results of leave-one-out analysis, which indicated that rs3755967 might affect the association between serum 25OHD levels and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes (Overall OR = 1.04, P = 0.888; OR after removing rs3755967 = 0.47, P = 0.149). However, rs375596 was not related to any traditional risk factor of CAD in patients with diabetes, based on the Phenoscanner search, namely, no evidence to support that rs375596 was a potential pleiotropic SNP was observed.
The effect of serum Ca levels on the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes
No significant association between genetic predisposition to serum Ca levels and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes was found in the IVW analysis (OR = 1.83, 95% CI: 0.62 – 5.35, P = 0.273). Similar results were observed in the sensitivity analyses (Fig. 2). Q statistics suggested no evidence of heterogeneity (Q = 9.99, P = 0.125) and the intercept of MR-Egger regression indicated no evidence of pleiotropy (P = 0.997). Though rs780094 was a potential pleiotropic SNP based on Phenoscanner search, the result of leave-one-out analysis indicated that association was attenuated but still insignificant (Overall OR = 1.83, P = 0.273; OR after removing rs780094 = 1.32, P = 0.529) (Figure S5).
The effect of serum PTH levels on the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes
The IVW analysis suggested no significant association between genetically determined serum PTH levels and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes (OR = 1.27, 95% CI: 0.67 – 2.44, P = 0.464), which was confirmed by the sensitivity analyses using the weighted median, MR-Egger and MR-PRESSO methods (Fig. 2). In addition, no evidence of heterogeneity (Q = 3.55, P = 0.470) and pleiotropy (P = 0.832) was observed in our study. The leave-one-out analysis indicated that this insignificant association was not disproportionally driven by any individual SNP (Figure S6).
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first two-sample MR study to explore the association of serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels with the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. The results of this MR study showed that no evidence approved causal effects of genetically determined serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels on CAD risk in patients with diabetes. The findings were robust in sensitivity analyses with different statistical models.
Evidence from previous multiple studies indicates that increased serum Ca, a short term consequence of Ca supplementation, is associated with an increased risk and mortality of CAD . Several traditional observational studies individuals with a subsequent elevation of serum Ca levels showed increased extent of coronary artery calcification [30, 31], increased incidence of stroke , increased risk of developing heart failure , and an increased risk of cardiovascular mortality . Possible mechanisms whereby elevated serum Ca levels may increase the risk of CAD include effects on calcification, blood coagulation, and altered gene expression induced by effects on arterial wall Ca-sensing receptor .
25-hydroxyvitamin D is the major circulating form of vitamin D and is used as indicator of vitamin D status . As critical regulators for Ca metabolism, 25OHD can exert a biological effect mainly through regulating intracellular and extracellular Ca concentrations . In addition to the regulation of Ca metabolism, 25OHD is involved in cell proliferation and differentiation and exerts an immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory property. Evidence from previous studies revealed that 25OHD deficiency resulted in the increase expression of inflammatory factors, such as interleukin 6, interleukin 8, and C-reactive protein , which play important roles in CAD. Furthermore, low serum 25OHD levels are associated with obesity, dyslipidemia, the metabolic syndrome, and hypertension, which are all well-established CAD risk factors [9, 10]. It was shown that lower serum bioavailable and free 25OHD levels were associated with prevalent cardiovascular mortality independent of other recognized cardiovascular risk factors . Vitamin D deficiency might be considered a so-called “nonclassical” CAD risk factor in studies without a specific focus on diabetes [39, 40]. However, the two recent large scale RCTs failed to demonstrate a beneficial effect of 25OHD on CAD [41, 42].
Consistently, PTH is a key regulator of Ca homeostasis. With further in-depth studies, PTH appears to play a role in the cardiovascular system . A number of epidemiologic studies showed associations of mild hyperparathyroidism with hypertension, endothelial dysfunction and metabolic syndrome, which were associated to an increased incidence of CAD . A recent observational cohort study showed a significant association between PTH levels and cardiovascular mortality in patients with diabetes, which was true after adjustment for classical CAD risk factors . However, a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies suggested no significant association between serum PTH levels and CAD .
The association of serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels with the risk of CAD is a controversial issue, and the findings seem to vary depending on the investigated population. Our study focuses on a population with diabetes. Until then, very little research has been done in this area. We subsequently performed a MR study to explore the association of serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels with the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. To date, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) remain the gold standard to establish causal relationships . However, RCTs cannot always be conducted, because they can be excessively costly and require a long period to demonstrate the effect on CAD events . When the number of confounders is too large, or when confounders are uncertain, the observed associations may not reflect the causality but may arise as the result of confounding or reverse causation [45, 46]. In the absence of high-quality RCTs and given the inconclusive results from the existing observational studies, MR may serve as a time- and cost-efficient alternative approach and contribute to its increasing popularity for assessing and screening for potentially causal associations [15, 47]. A recent study without a specific focus on diabetes has used this technique to demonstrate that a genetic predisposition to higher serum Ca levels was associated with increased risk of CAD and myocardial infarction . In a large, well-powered MR study, genetically lowered serum 25OHD levels were not associated with increased risk of CAD . Melhus et al. used the MR approach to demonstrate that genetic predisposition to higher serum PTH concentrations did not appear to be an independent risk factor for CAD among the general population .
Consistent with the results in the general population [49, 50], we found no evidence to support the causal association of serum 25OHD and PTH levels with the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes with the aid of the hitherto largest GWAS meta-analysis. Unlike previous studies [48, 51], our results provided evidence against a causal role for elevated serum Ca levels in CAD susceptibility, because of our focus on patients with diabetes. Serum 25OHD, Ca, and PTH levels should therefore not be regarded as independent risk factors for CAD in patients with diabetes. Those associations reported in the past might be due to indirect effects by residual confounding. Serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels are more likely biomarkers rather than causal risk factors for CAD in patients with diabetes.
The major strength of this study is the MR design, using 25OHD-, Ca-, and PTH-related SNPs and SNPs-CAD in patients with diabetes from a recently published large-scale GWAS, which minimized reverse causation bias and confounding that can produce false associations in traditional observational studies. Using data from a large genetic consortium for 25OHD (n = 79,366), serum Ca (n =39,400), PTH (n = 29,155) levels and CAD risk (3,968 cases and 11,696 controls) in patients with diabetes has enabled us to more precisely test our study hypothesis than if we had used individual-level data from a small study. Furthermore, in the absence of large-scale, long-term RCT data, our findings provide strong evidence against a causal role for low serum 25OHD levels, elevated serum Ca and PTH levels in CAD susceptibility in patients with diabetes.
Our study also has several potential limitations that deserve discussion. First, potential pleiotropy is difficult to exclude in any MR study. However, all the results analyzed with other more robust methods in the sensitivity analyses were consistent with the primary results. The null result could also be explained by canalization, which is defined as compensatory feedback interactions . Second, we only investigated explore the association of serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels with the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes from a genetic point of view. We were unable to examine whether there are any interactions between genetically predicted serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels and lifestyle/environmental factors on the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. Third, the examined GWAS were primarily conducted in individuals of European ancestry, which confines the transferability of the present findings to other ethnicities. Thus, studies in a causal association are warranted to verify the present conclusions among individuals of different ancestries. Finally, our results did not reach a statistical power of 80%, which probably caused by the low variance in exposures explained by the selected SNPs and the insufficient sample size. Therefore, it should be cautious to make the conclusion and we had to admit that there was a possibility that false-negative results may occur.
Overall, serum 25OHD, Ca, and PTH levels may not be causally associated with the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. Serum 25OHD, Ca and PTH levels may not serve as a target for prevention or treatment of CAD in patients with diabetes. Further investigations are warranted to validate our findings.
Availability of supporting data
The datasets analyzed in this study are publicly available summary statistics.
Coronary artery disease
European Society of Cardiology
Genome-wide association study
Mendelian Randomization Pleiotropy Residual Sum and Outlier
25-hydroxyvitamin D receptor
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: Figure S1. Funnel plot of the Mendelian randomization estimate for the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. Figure S2. Funnel plot of the Mendelian randomization estimate for the association between serum calcium levels and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. Figure S3. Funnel plot of the Mendelian randomization estimate for the association between serum parathyroid hormone levels and the risk of CAD in patients with diabetes. Figure S4. Leave-one-out analysis of the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and the risk of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes. Figure S5. Leave-one-out analysis of the association between serum calcium levels and the risk of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes. Figure S6. Leave-one-out analysis of the association between serum parathyroid hormone levels and the risk of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes.
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Chen, S., Yang, F., Xu, T. et al. The impact of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, calcium, and parathyroid hormone levels on the risk of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes: a Mendelian randomization study. Nutr J 20, 82 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12937-021-00735-z
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- Mendelian randomization
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Sainik school, Amaravathinagar is an English medium, residential school for boys providing Public School Education with a military bias upto +2 stage as per the Central Board of Secondary Education Syllabus. In common with other Sainik Schools it has an All India system of selection and examination. Almost every state in India has a Sainik School.
The aim of the school is to prepare the boys academically, physically and psychologically for entry into the National Defence Academy. Character, team spirit, dedication to purpose, a patriotic outlook and a desire to serve the country with zeal and efficiency are the qualities sought to be promoted by the training at the school.
The concept of Sainik Schools originated with Mr. Krishna Menon, who was our Defence Minister in the early 1960s. Mr. Menon felt that a school with rudiments of a military way of life in each state of our country, could go a long way in building up an infrastructure for intake into the NDA. Thus sainik schools came into being in each state. | <urn:uuid:49d30080-33c5-41f6-9423-4c5fbaa32482> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cbseportal.com/AISSEE/affiliated-schools/south-zone-tamil-nadu | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958609 | 299 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Retrospective is a strong tool and yet many are not working.Find out how to get value out of yours
Agile is all about inspecting and adapting, and a really good tool for this is retrospectives. Yet retrospectives can be boring, ineffective, blame games etc.
In this workshop you will learn how to avoid it and use retrospectives for what it is meant for: learning and improving. We will look at some of the anti-patterns of a retrospective – I will bring some examples and I am sure, you will have a lot more. And then we will look at how to avoid this.
First thing is good structure. For the last decade my starting point has been the five steps from the book “Agile retrospectives. Making good teams great” by Diana Larsen and Esther Derby.
Then having good actions points and following up on these.
That is basically it – and as usual it is easier said than done. Therefore we will have lots of exercises in the workshop, so you will learn to build your own toolbox as I share my tips and tricks. It is helpful if you have at least been in a retrospective before - and if not you will try it out here. | <urn:uuid:1bf009b7-6c05-477f-9fe6-0b52a484bb88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agiletestingdays.com/2018/session/get-value-out-of-your-retrospectives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96054 | 250 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Idaho Power is spending millions to implement their green energy program in response to climate change. This is being done to reduce carbon dioxide. Idaho’s largest solar farm project to produce 120 megawatts of power near Rogerson (Southwest of Twin Falls) will start soon.
The cost is $300 million for 300,000 solar panels (likely made in China) on 1000 acres of land. Idaho Power plans to eliminate coal power production which supplies about 50% of Idaho’s electricity needs. The cost of conversion of Ft. Bridger coal power plant which produces 1000 megawatts of power to natural gas will cost millions. Ft. Bridger produces power 24/7 whereas solar only produces power when the sun is shining. In the wintertime the sun shines only 9 hours. A backup power source must be ready 24/7 when sun not shining and wind not blowing. This requires the use of more energy.
I am a plant scientist with extensive research in meteorology and climatology. Man-caused global warming due to Carbon Dioxide is a world-wide gigantic United Nations Agenda 21 hoax. CO2 is not a pollutant, but is necessary for life on the planet because it is used in photosynthesis by green plants to produce the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat. Over 31,000 US scientists including over 9,000 Ph.D.’s are against man-caused global warming. Only 77 are on record in favor of man-caused global warming. Climate change goes on all the time. Historically, we have had warm and cold periods throughout the history of the earth. The earth has been much warmer than it is now without a detrimental effect on mankind.
To show how ridiculous it is that carbon dioxide is destroying the planet, I use this illustration. Visualize that the earth’s atmosphere is a 100,000 seat football stadium. How many seats of the 100,000 seat stadium would Carbon Dioxide at 410 parts per million occupy? CO2 would only take 41 seats! To think that this small amount is killing the planet is beyond belief. Yet, Idaho Power has fallen for this hoax to waste millions of dollars of rate payer’s money which will NOT have any effect on the health of planet earth.
I had a 600 word guest opinion article published in the Twin Falls Times News on April 12, 2017. I have printed that article below and attached this article and also a more extensive article detailing the fraud of man-caused global warming. Now, the Times News and other papers refuse to publish anything against man-caused global warming. They say “the science is settled”. The real agenda is to control all human activity on the planet with the global warming hoax.
The bottom line is that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant killing the planet. Spending even one dollar in reducing it from coal power generation is a waste of money. Inexpensive energy has driven the Idaho and US economy. We must expose this climate change/global warming fraud. Please contact Mr. Darrel Anderson, CEO of Idaho Power and President of Ida Corp, His address is Corporate Headquarters, 1221 W. Idaho Street, Boise, Idaho 73702. Also, contact the Public Utilities Commission to stop approval of these needless, costly green energy project. Get informed and take a stand against this unscientific green energy movement!
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When I was growing up I wanted to help my dad, and be exactly like him: a fisherman. Then a couple of guys blew into town with surfboards and wetsuits and I said, “Wow, this is amazing,” and then I wanted to learn to surf more than anything in the world.
So I learned to surf and started to travel the world, but I figured out pretty fast that the best place to surf was right at home. We have big waves, small waves and the traditional fishing culture I love. Nothing could be better.
While traveling, I saw many similar coasts around the world that had been polluted or were scarred forever by out-of-control developers. I saw places that were pristine before, but had already been ruined. I realized the coast that I loved so much was also under threat—from pulp mills, sewage pipelines, dams and senseless development.
Chile is an amazing country. I couldn’t be more proud to come from Chile and from Punta de Lobos, to be the son of my dad, a fisherman and diver. I know I have a responsibility to honor the generations before me by protecting the coast. I have to. It’s up to us to make sure there are traditional fishermen (and fish) in the future. It’s our responsibility to ensure our children and their children can see beautiful landscapes and biodiversity.
I was born on Punta de Lobos and I love Punta de Lobos. I’ll fight to protect it, and all of Chile’s coast—but it has nothing to do with what I want. It is for the future.
I know I can’t accomplish much on my own. I think everyone sees the right thing to do: Stand up to save some of these special places before they are gone.
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Glenn Head’s Chicago, a coming-of-age memoir, is firmly rooted in the old-school, underground, rebel comix tradition. The cover illustration fairly announces this, with its detailed depiction of the protagonist panhandling on a squalid urban corner, featuring an actual word balloon, giving it the throwback feel of the post-underground comics of the '80s and '90s. This offers a challenge of sorts to the high-toned, New Yorker–reading crowd, who, in theory at least, lean toward graphic novels that don’t advertise so explicitly that they are, you know, mere comics. But Head has more up his sleeve than a simple UG autobio tale. Chicago is also an intricate, literary story, with a protagonist whose motivations are often opaque and with outcomes that are anything but expected.
As Phoebe Gloeckner points out in her eloquent introduction, the story begins and ends in a graveyard. The specter of death haunts the edges of this tale, unusual in a coming-of-age memoir. Throughout, Glenn Head’s protagonist “Glen” (one ‘n’ missing, likely allowing for some artistic license regarding “truth”), skirts the limits of mortality, stepping deliberately into dangerous situations for reasons that remain hazy, even to himself.
The book begins with a prologue in 1977 suburban New Jersey. Nineteen-year-old Glen, recently graduated from high school and set to begin art school in Cleveland, loafs about, immersing himself in underground comix and books by experimental writers. He exclaims over his copy of Burroughs’ Naked Lunch: “It’s like everything’s fractured, broken down, busted apart—no rules! His own universe…” He is fascinated by his friend Sarah, daughter of Holocaust survivors, who lives a much more volatile existence, and gets pregnant as a result. “She’s this beautiful wild girl,” he thinks, “just out there living, man—like whatever happens!! And I’m here in this nowhere scene…”
Glen is clearly waiting for his life to begin, a virgin in more ways than one. In the next chapter he goes off to art school in Cleveland, but he takes none of it seriously. He mouths off to his instructor, skips classes, begins having weird hallucinations, and largely secludes himself in his increasingly squalid dorm room. When he ventures into the ghetto just outside the comfortable confines of the school, he sees the bloody aftermath of a botched pawnshop robbery, with five people shot dead. “One day I’ll be dead,” he thinks to himself. Soon after, at a classmate’s random suggestion, he takes off for Chicago with just the clothes on his back and his portfolio—which he has vague plans to show to Playboy magazine.
The Chicago chapter is the obvious core of Head’s book. In it, we see his youthful bravado come face-to-face with the harsh realities of being homeless and penniless. Through the kindness of a stranger, an African-American man named Aaron, Glen is given shelter, although he still has to scrounge and panhandle for sustenance. He fights starvation and fends off street predators, quickly realizing that the coolness of “living on the edge” is a lot easier to read about in comix than it is to actually experience.
Some of his youthful boldness and aggression does pay off: he brazens out a meeting with Skip Williamson at Playboy and ultimately gets a small illustration gig. Through Williamson he also meets Robert Crumb himself, whose cynicism with regards to the underground comix scene surprises Glen (though certainly not readers familiar with present-day Crumb). In another brush with a living legend, Glen chances upon Muhammad Ali, who has drawn an admiring crowd outside a department store. For no good reason, Glen recklessly and obnoxiously antagonizes Ali. Eventually, after more scraping by, Glen returns home to his parent’s house in New Jersey, somewhat chastened, but still unable to reconcile his experiences on the streets with this cloistered upper middle-class suburban existence. In a bizarre sequence that closes out this section, he deliberately, though almost offhandedly, risks his life while goofing around with his father’s gun.
The final section of the book fast-forwards to 2010. Here we meet fifty-something Glen, leading a much more sedate existence in Brooklyn. He is divorced, with a strong-willed but seemingly emotionally healthy young daughter, Kay. Glen is now sober, and his one “dangerous” vice is visiting a so-called gentleman’s club, where he politely declines a lap dance. There’s a shaky sense of calm to him, a careful control. Then Sarah, the friend Glen hasn’t seen since 1977, suddenly makes contact: “She’s alive,” he tells himself repeatedly, knowing full well how easily the opposite might have been true. Sarah visits and together they take stock, looking back at how the years have gone for each of them, how they’ve changed, and how they’ve survived all that life has thrown at them. The book ends on an elliptical note, with Glen and daughter Kay idling away some time in a graveyard. There is the suggestion that Glen is quietly imparting the importance of the cycle of life to Kay, and that he has reconciled himself to it, no longer flirting with the abyss.
Glen is a difficult protagonist, unlikable in many ways. There’s no sense of anything being at stake in the risks he takes. They often seem like the foolhardy self-indulgences of a pampered rich kid, with “dangerous” artistic pretensions. But even in his run-in with Muhammad Ali, he seems to act not out of genuine malice but with a weird how-far-can-I-go rashness. In contrast with fellow comics autobiographer Joe Matt, who deliberately makes his comics persona as obnoxious as possible (to often hilarious or infuriating effect, depending on who you talk to), Glen is simply a really mixed-up, impressionable kid, with a host of mental health issues to boot (the narrative offers only clues as to what these might be, though at times he certainly appears dissociative, and quite possibly bipolar).
Head’s artwork throughout Chicago is outstanding. As Gloeckner points out in her introduction, his influences, ranging from S. Clay Wilson to Kim Deitch to Rory Hayes, are evident, but Head’s vibrant lines, richly detailed, panoramic splash pages, and deep, painterly blacks are in a class unto themselves, with certain sequences practically popping off the page. He has a special talent for limning wild, trippy, hallucinatory scenes in particular:
Then there’s this spectacular two-page splash heralding Glen’s gleeful arrival in the Windy City (unfortunately reduced in size here):
With its right-to-left rather than left-to-right reading order, Head’s re-sequencing of space and time here adds to the scene’s sense of heady disorientation. I found myself coming back to this drawing over and over again, examining and admiring all the little details.
In producing his first long-form work rather late into his career, Head has made the most of the opportunity. Chicago is a well crafted, impeccably rendered, and mature book, an amalgamation of different underground and alt-comics traditions blended into something fresh, gripping, and elusive. It does require more from readers than many other works of its nature, but give it some time after finishing, let it sink in a bit. The rewards are there. | <urn:uuid:8e8f5766-948d-4da7-9a2b-8ad0566279f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tcj.com/reviews/chicago/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964195 | 1,653 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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The three major road arteries of the city are the Eastern Express Highway from Sion to Thane, the Sion Panvel Expressway from Sion to Panvel and the Western Express Highway from Bandra to Dahisar. During the mid-18th century, Bombay was reshaped by the Hornby Vellard project, which undertook reclamation of the area between the seven islands from the sea. It was ranked 41 among the Top 50 Engineering Schools of the world by America's news broadcasting firm Business Insider in 2012 and was the only university in the list from the five emerging BRICS nations viz Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The States Reorganisation Committee recommended a bilingual state for Maharashtra–Gujarat with Bombay as its capital in its 1955 report. Mumbai is home to three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Elephanta Caves, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, and the city's distinctive ensemble of Victorian and Art Deco buildings. The Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport (NMMT) and Thane Municipal Transport (TMT) also operate their buses in Mumbai, connecting various nodes of Navi Mumbai and Thane to parts of Mumbai. , The years from 1990 to 2010 saw an increase in violence and terrorism activities. The total surface area that the city of Mumbai covers comes to 603 kilometers squared (233 square miles) in the megacity itself. The supply from Powai lake, also within the city limits, is used only for agricultural and industrial purposes. Many of India's numerous conglomerates (including Larsen & Toubro, State Bank of India (SBI), Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), Tata Group, Godrej and Reliance), and five of the Fortune Global 500 companies are based in Mumbai. In August 1979, a sister township of New Bombay was founded by the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) across the Thane and Raigad districts to help the dispersal and control of Bombay's population. , Mumbai is the seat of the Bombay High Court, which exercises jurisdiction over the states of Maharashtra and Goa, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. , In accordance with the Royal Charter of 27 March 1668, England leased these islands to the English East India Company in 1668 for a sum of £10 per annum. Mumbai has two international cricket grounds, the Wankhede Stadium and the Brabourne Stadium. The period from June to about the end of September constitutes the south west monsoon season, and October and November form the post-monsoon season. Mumbai also has two lower courts, the small causes court for civil matters, and the sessions court for criminal cases. Football is another popular sport in the city, with the FIFA World Cup and the English Premier League being followed widely. , In the Maharashtra state assembly elections held every five years, Mumbai is represented by 36 assembly constituencies. In 2008, a series of ten coordinated attacks by armed terrorists for three days resulted in 173 deaths, 308 injuries, and severe damage to several heritage landmarks and prestigious hotels. In the 2017 Premier Badminton League (also known as Vodafone PBL 2017 for sponsorship reasons) the Mumbai Rockets beat the Hyderabad Hunters 3–1 to proceed to the final. , Other variations recorded in the 16th and the 17th centuries include: Mombayn (1525), Bombay (1538), Bombain (1552), Bombaym (1552), Monbaym (1554), Mombaim (1563), Mombaym (1644), Bambaye (1666), Bombaiim (1666), Bombeye (1676), Boon Bay (1690), and Bon Bahia. Containment Zones in Mumbai On March 31, 2020, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) declared 141 Containment Zones in the … The number of slum-dwellers is estimated to be 9 million, up from 6 million in 2001; that is, 62% of all Mumbaikars live in informal slums. , The oldest known names for the city are Kakamuchee and Galajunkja; these are sometimes still used. When the Elite Football League of India was introduced in August 2011, Mumbai was noted as one of eight cities to be awarded a team for the inaugural season. Mumbai (English: /mʊmˈbaɪ/, Marathi: [ˈmumbəi]; also known as Bombay /bɒmˈbeɪ/, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Their architectural features include a variety of European influences such as German gables, Dutch roofs, Swiss timbering, Romance arches, Tudor casements, and traditional Indian features. With the Treaty of Surat (1775), the British formally gained control of Salsette and Bassein, resulting in the First Anglo-Maratha War. Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. Greater Mumbai, a densely populated urban metropolis on the west coast of India, occupies an area of 603.0 sq .kms and is the smallest administrative district in Maharashtra state. , Numerous Indian and international television channels can be watched in Mumbai through one of the Pay TV companies or the local cable television provider. Sewage treatment is carried out at Worli and Bandra, and disposed of by two independent marine outfalls of 3.4 km (2.1 mi) and 3.7 km (2.3 mi) at Bandra and Worli respectively. Towards the end of the 17th century, the islands again suffered incursions from Yakut Khan in 1689–90. It scored 3.5 on 10 compared to the national average of 3.3.. Mcdowell's Derby is also held in February at the Turf Club in Mumbai. , Between the 2nd century BCE and 9th century CE, the islands came under the control of successive indigenous dynasties: Satavahanas, Western Satraps, Abhira, Vakataka, Kalachuris, Konkan Mauryas, Chalukyas and Rashtrakutas, before being ruled by the Shilaharas from 810 to 1260. The MCGM supplies potable water to the city from six lakes, most of which comes from the Tulsi and Vihar lakes. , It is administered by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) (sometimes referred to as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation), formerly known as the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC). , The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay), Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly UDCT / UICT), Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), which are India's premier engineering and technology schools, along with SNDT Women's University are the autonomous universities located in Mumbai. School of Art is Mumbai's oldest art institution. The black and yellow Premier Padmini Taxis are iconic of Mumbai. The three coordinated bomb explosions in July 2011 that occurred at the Opera house, Zaveri Bazaar and Dadar were the latest in the series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai which resulted in 26 deaths and 130 injuries. 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Coles has done a double backflip on its free plastic bags and will recommence charging customers for them after coming under fire from green groups and consumers for giving them away for free.
The supermarket giant yesterday decided to provide its thick reusable bags for free indefinitely instead of charging them 15 cents each as part of its program to ban single-use plastic bags.
But after a barrage of criticism, managing director John Durkan says customers will have to start paying for them after August 29.
“We are extending our complimentary bag offer until Wednesday 29 August for our customers in QLD, NSW, VIC and WA,” Mr Durkan said.
“I appreciate this transition phase is taking longer than anticipated but it is absolutely the right thing to do by our customers.
“As you would have experienced first-hand in stores, this has been a big and difficult change for many of our customers.”
Environmental groups, most vocally Greenpeace, heaped criticism on Coles as did many shoppers.
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One of Edinburgh's most iconic buildings will now be letting guests book it out as a holiday location.
The City Observatory, or Calton Observatory, have turned the house on the top of the famous hill into guest accommodation, with tourists and locals able to spend the night.
Overlooking almost the entire city, the 18th century house is photographed hundreds of times every day by visitors who have made their way up the iconic hill.
Now, the site will see guests use the residential house for short-term stays, with the apartment due to become available to book in early 2022.
Since it was first designed and built by James Craig, the unique looking property has had a bit of a makeover, with the bottom apartment having been given a modern look while still retaining those classic features.
As well as a fully equipped kitchen, the property also boasts two beautiful bedrooms, each of which have unbeatable vistas over the city.
A selection of different artists have also had their work chosen and displayed in the house, with each commissioned to reflect the Observatory's history, reports Art Daily.
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In addition to the house being renovated, Collective Architecture had also designed new restaurant The Lookout, which is just a short walk away from the home.
Describing the property, hosts ATILDO said:
"The House has a rich history, with the oldest tower section dating back to 1776 and the first attempt to build an astronomical observatory for Edinburgh.
"Recently Collective embarked on an ambitious project to restore the interior and transform it with a sophisticated and contemporary renovation mixing warm, natural materials and colours with a suite of new feature art works specially commissioned from artists close to our heart."
However, the stunning views and beautiful home do come with a price, with the average night stay costing around £400 for two people.
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One of the reasons why I joined my sorority, Theta Gamma Pi, is because it states in our purpose: “[we] will be active in the community through leadership and service. While upholding respect for our own unique differences, we will work to educate our fellow students to ultimately promote the growth of diversity on campus.” This really stood out to me because I think it should be something we ALL should be doing in our own lives. Wherever you are, it is important that you get up and get active in your community. Here at Hope, getting involved could mean joining the many diverse organizations like the Latino Student Organization, Black Student Union, or Hope’s Asian Perspective Association! You don’t even HAVE to join if you don’t want to, just go to their events! Or, getting involved could mean educating others on an issue that effects a large group of people.
This year, we wanted to raise awareness of sexual assault by showing the documentary, The Invisible War, which exposed the epidemic of sexual assault in the U.S military among females and males. Throughout the documentary, female and male survivors of sexual assault told their stories and how their cases against their perpetrators were repeatedly covered up by their commanders. It shows the struggles these men and women face on a daily basis as they try to rebuild their lives while also speaking out to fight for justice. Personally, I had little knowledge of this serious issue within the military. It was an eye opener for me to hear these women tell their stories of how their assault not only broke the bond that was formed between their “brothers,” but how it affected their family and friends around them. It made me angry to see how their perpetrators were not punished for their crimes because the evidence was not reviewed or simply covered up. This documentary raises serious questions about how the military handles these claims of sexual assault and what needs to change so that these survivors do not have to spend their entire lives fighting for justice.
Following the documentary, there was a group of panelists that included:
- John Koch – VA in Grand Rapids
- Dr. Rita Kenyon-Jump – Military Sexual Trauma Coordinator at Battle Creek VA
- Sara Duhr – Policy Educator at Hope College
- Holly Seymour- Program Director at Center for Women in Transition
- Kelly Daniel – Attendee at West Point Military Academy
- Dr. Carrie Bredow – Psychology Professor specializing in Romantic Love
Panelists answered questions and offered their insight on how important it is that this issue of sexual assault is addressed not only in the military, but here at Hope as well. While the documentary is focused on sexual assault in the military, sexual assault happens right here on our very campus. Often times we as students turn a blind eye to the bad that goes on at Hope, but the fact of the matter is that it should be our responsibility to educate others about this issue. STEP, or Students Teaching & Empowering Peers, is a group on campus that is committed to educating others on interpersonal violence as well as empowering students to be active bystanders, thus positively effecting social change on campus. I first heard about STEP my freshman year when they held a presentation about how we as students can act as active bystanders if we see someone who is unable to give consent or is in an alarming situation. If you would like to know more information about STEP and what they do, here is the link to their Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hopecollegestep.
For more information about The Invisible War and how YOU can take action against the epidemic of sexual assault in the military, go to: http://www.notinvisible.org
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By Sherri of Sew Betty and Dot
We may not often give too much thought to collars, but the collar in its many forms is an important design element on a garment: when one says "Peter Pan," "sailor," or "Mandarin," we all instantly know what those specific collars look like. And the word "collar" features in several English-language idioms: "blue collar worker"; "hot under the collar"; and in law enforcement terminology, a suspect is "collared" (perhaps derived from the fact that policemen grabbed suspects by the belt and collar).
The history of collars is a bit murky, but it appears that they developed out of the drawstring edge of a chemise, the undergarment that men and women wore for centuries under their outer garments. That ruffled edge developed into ruffs--think Queen Elizabeth I--and then into other forms and shapes.
Until the early twentieth century, men's shirts had detachable collars (and cuffs)--because the body of the shirt was usually hidden under a waistcoat or jacket when the man was out in public, the fact that it hadn't been washed for several weeks wasn't readily apparent; filthy collars and cuffs, however, would be instantly noticed, so clean ones could be substituted much more frequently than the shirt itself was laundered.
Let's take a look at some collars--by no means an exhaustive examination--and observe how they change the look and feel of a garment.
1. Stand-up collar with horseshoe neckline: Simplicity 8307
2. Sailor collar: Butterick 3532
3. Wide notched collar: McCall's 5251
4. Jabot collar: Butterick 4658: DejaVu Patterns
1. Petal collar: Simplicity 8485
2. Nehru (technically a Mandarin collared jacket, but wanted to show the guys some love!): McCall's 9484
3. Cape collar: Advance 8234
4. Ruffled collar on bateau neckline: Vogue 1355
1. Peter Pan collar: McCall's 4162
2. Roll collar: Advance 3111
3. Ruffled collar on V-neck: Simplicity 5896
4. Flat collar with ruffle: Simplicity 4913
1. Mandarin collar: Simplicity 6537
2. Sailor collar: Marian Martin 9442
3. Bow collar (and Mandarin!): Simplicity 3438
4. Scalloped shawl collar: Butterick 4558
1. Dog ear collar: Simplicity 9691
2. Cowl collar: Vogue 5558
3. Wing collar: Butterick 5216
4. Chelsea collar: Simplicity 3615
Picture yourself in one of these collar styles--which one do you prefer? Tell us in the comments If your favorite style is not pictured here, tell us about it.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
By Ally B. of Design Rewind Fashions
Lazy summer days are the things dreams are made of . . . unless you are a kid on summer break without a clue of what to do. At some point we all hear those dreaded words, “I’m bored!”
Sewing is a wonderful way to keep kids entertained, help them learn a truly valuable life skill, and give you the opportunity to learn a little more about how your child works.
A few months ago I discovered Simplicity 8431 – a 1969 vintage pattern of zodiac transfers appliques.
What I find to be the best feature of this pattern/transfer is the ease of making something children and adults will find adorable. It is also a fun project to do during summer to give later for holiday or birthday gifts.
My middle school age daughters have not sewn much. Since they both are fierce perfectionist, I wanted their project to be a little challenging for their skill set and yet give them a boost of confidence that sewing is fun when they saw their end product. Keep this in mind when picking a pattern for a child or even for yourself if you are new to sewing. We all want our work to look like the pattern envelope – or better. Vogue Couturier looks amazing but if you begin with items that are highly difficult to construct it is likely your project will never see the light of day.
Most children have an innate desire to construct or create. The process of choosing fabric to the thrill of operating a sewing machine (“something grown-ups do”) gives them a sense of ownership in the project. My daughters chose to put their transfers onto pillows they would make (Simplicity 8431 does not come with pillow patterns – it is just the transfer so you will need to decide how to use it. Placing the transfer on a book bag would also look cute too).
Their pillows turned out amazing! What I love most is the pillows are just one outcome of this project. We also spent a really fun day together and they helped each other learn skills the other had already figured out. They also were beaming with pride when their creatures started to materialize from all the bits of felt. Yes, there were moments of frustration but they were short-lived and now they have their own, very unique pillows. Well, until the holidays. They decided to make pillows for all their aunts, uncles and grandparents.
Below is a small selection of patterns available in Etsy shops from some members of the Pattern Patter team. These have been selected for their ease of construction. Do you love to sew? Take some time to teach the next generation. They will always remember you for it!
Thursday, July 11, 2013
By Sherri from Sew Betty and Dot
It's Christmas! (Well, it's Christmas in July, in any case--and for those who don't celebrate the holiday, there are patterns below that are great for any celebration).
Are you ready? Only five months to go! The Pattern Patter team has just celebrated Christmas in July with a big pattern blitz: tons of fun craft, doll, home dec, and Christmas patterns (as well as the usual fantastic selection of beautiful clothing patterns) were posted, just in time for some summer (or winter, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere) crafting. Why wait until November? Get started right now: set up your sewing machine right in front of the air conditioner (or heater), pour yourself some lemonade (or a cuppa), and off you go!
'Twas the night [or five months] before Christmas, and all through the house
|Cross Stitch House Patterns: All Fairy Vintage|
|Butterick 6383: Sew Betty and Dot|
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
|McCall's 3425: RosesPatternTreasury|
|McCall's 7384: HoneymoonBus|
The children were nestled, all snug in their beds,
|Simplicity 6702: PatternShop|
While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.
And Mama in her kerchief and I in my cap
|Simplicity 1023: Historically Patterns|
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. [Wrong sash, I know, but poetic license here!]
|Vogue 7810: DejaVuPatterns|
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
|Patch Press 362B: FabPatterns 1015|
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
N ow, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! [Work with me here...]
On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
|Authentic Patterns 309: OmasBricaBrac|
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St. Nicholas too
|Simplicity 8378: MBChills|
|Butterick 4252: PeoplePackages|
|Simplicity 9018: Patterns from the Past|
|Teddy Bear Pattern Books: EmSewCrazy|
|Simplicity 4815: RomasMaison|
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;
|Vogue 7321: JFerrariDesigns|
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
|Sew and Stuff Wreath: Sew Betty and Dot|
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
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And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."
There are loads more wonderful Christmas, doll, toy, and craft patterns (not to mention fabulous frocks for holiday soirees and outfits for the little ones to wear to see the Nutcracker) from Pattern Patter team members, so get cracking: you only have five months left!
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Here's some eye candy set to period music from one of our own pattern patter peeps.
Friday, July 5, 2013
by Amy Russo of Vienna’s Grace
As I watched videos of Paris and New York fashion week for Autumn /Winter 2013-14 season, a dominate design element kept popping up; hip draping. From Christian Dior to Guy Laroche, I noticed designers placing an prominent accent on the hips. Some with elegant tiny hip pleats, like Carolina Herrera (….oh how I love her designs), and quite a few others with very heavy hip sashes, like seen below from Vera Wang and Balmain. So I set out to see if these classic yet unique design elements could be found or even mimicked in our vintage patterns. Although some of the heavy hip draping would not be of interest to many of our buyers, how could they get that fashion trend in a much more wearable way?
My eyes scoured page after page of Pattern Patter team members’ shops and I found so many ways to obtain the look of this hip draping trend. Below are just a few examples of the patterns and styles I joyfully discovered. You can see the illusion of hip width from a side bustle, gathered wide set pockets, and straight forward front seam rouching. I do think this has been a classic design trend for decades, but will it be in the ready to wear departments this fall? Well, if designers have anything to say about it, we will be seeing gathers, swags, hip pleats and side bustles. So when you are listing patterns for the Fall and Winter seamstress, take a closer look; does that 1940s dress drape or that 80s skirt swag? Try finding new and creative tags to describe this unique design element. Always remember to include patternpatter, the pattern era, bust size, and all the expected search phrases, but add one or two key descriptive words unique to the pattern. This will help the DIY fashion huntress add hip draping into her trendy, but not spendy wardrobe.
Here are just a few ideas to add into your listing title and tags: drape, drapey, draping, drapes, overskirt, hip, hips, hipline, girdle, ruching, ruched, swag, swags, Grecian, Greek, sarong, wrap front, gathers, gathering, gathered, pleat, pleated, pleats, pleating, side bustle, hip sash, sashes.
Monday, July 1, 2013
HoHoHo! Merry Christmas! As the sweat pours down and temperatures continue to rise for those of us in the northern hemisphere it's time for us to keep busy inside, getting a jumpstart on those Christmas plans. To help you in your endeavors, the delightful PatternPatter team is having a blitz today. You can see all the new listings in this thread, which also includes a list of shops offering sales. So what are we offering?
Where ever you are, I hope you are having a wonderful day! See ya around!
|Things to keep kids busy!|
| PrePrinted Fabric panels like these are great for getting kids involved since the cutting|
and sewing lines are already printed. From Sew Betty and Dot
|Placemats for the Christmas table or make them seat mats for the kids to sit on around the tree|
Christmas morning. From EmSewCrazy
|Keep those nimble fingers busy!|
Things to keep you warm!
|Sweet Baby Bunting|
|For those who deal with more rain than snow.|
|Something more along the lines of what I need to wear in winter.|
|For Staying In|
|For Going Out|
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The Oconomowoc Library is OPEN!!
OTHER THINGS TO NOTE:
Read for a Better World encourages readers of all ages to explore diversity, empathy, and action through literature. Open to kids, teens, and adults. Track your reading to be entered into a drawing to for a Shop Oconomowoc gift certificates.
Starting September 7, 2021 the Library will be open:
- Monday-Thursday: 9 am-8 pm
- Friday: 9 am-5 pm
- Saturday: 9 am-5 pm
- Sunday: 1-4 pm
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 31
- January 1
- January 2
*Masks are encouraged.
*Observe social distancing.
*Building occupancy maybe limited if necessary.
*Hand sanitizer is available to staff and patrons.
*Staff and patrons are encouraged to wash their hands thoroughly and frequently.
*Library staff regularly clean frequently touched and high traffic areas according to CDC recommendations. The Library contracts with a company that cleans the Library each weeknight using products recommended by the CDC.
*Some equipment has been temporarily moved or removed to help keep the Library as safe and clean as possible.
LIBRARY MATERIALS QUARANTINING
Upon return, every item is quarantined for 96 hours, as recommended by lab testing. Returned items will appear as still checked out on a patron’s account until the items are out of quarantine. Fines will not be charged on quarantined items returned on time.
Please visit oconomowoclibrary.libcal.com/c
In 2017, my family and I explored all eleven of the Waukesha County Parks in one year. As a lover of public libraries and books in general, I thought it would be fun to visit all sixteen Waukesha County Public Libraries during the summer of 2019. The Waukesha County libraries are part of the the Bridges Library County system, which allows patrons to borrow and return books from any of the 24 libraries within Waukesha and Jefferson counties.
OCONOMOWOC PUBLIC LIBRARY
200 W South Street
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
The first stop of my tour de libraries is the Oconomowoc Public Library. This library is close to the lakes in downtown Oconomowoc and close to some local coffee shops. It’s easy to sign up for a library card here, which allows you access to all libraries within the Bridges Library County system. If you visit on a Saturday morning during the summer, then you can walk over to the Oconomowoc Farmers Market. This is my home library, and the library I frequent the most. The library griffins Poseidon and Athena flank the entrance to welcome you to the library.
The children’s section of the library greets you on the left as you enter. It has a quiet play area for younger children, a tech station with tablets, and a table with checkers. The young adult adult section is on the right of the entrance. Your tweens and teens have their own spot to hang out with friends, read graphic novels, and check out new releases.
The outside book return is a walk-up, so you will have to get out of your car to return books if the library is closed or you just need a quick book return.
Look who I found!
As an entrepreneur, I’ve found myself in need of a quiet place to work when I am away from my home or office. Public libraries often have study rooms, and you’ll find four at the Oconomowoc Public Library. If you need a room, just find one that is not occupied and you are good to go! Each room features two chairs.
While here, I found Lake Country Family Fun’s very own Erin Guenterberg working hard to bring parenting resource for local fun to you!
Besides children’s story hours, summer reading programs, and teen events, you’ll also find the Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles at the Oconomowoc Public Library on the first and third Thursdays of the month from 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Please note that library staff is not able to answer any DMV questions.
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Typos and grammar: Do they really matter?
As more and more creative design and marketing content goes directly online these days, and the immediacy and fast-paced world we operate in, combined with the annoyance of predictive messaging that sometimes auto-corrects with the wrong word, I’ve often wondered what kind of damage these keyboard corrigenda have on our brands and businesses.
Well, it turns out that some are missed by the reader, even those emblazoned among elaborate and graphical works of art, because our brains have a very clever way of ignoring them.
But many are noticed and leave an audience to form a somewhat lower opinion of the author. In fact, based on an email message, while vetting new colleagues, students at North Carolina State University perceived writers to be less conscientious, intelligent and trustworthy when their messages contained errors.
While at the University of Michigan, spelling errors in online loan requests led to a likelihood of less funding. So in both studies, the writers were judged harshly simply because of their writing and typing errors.
And in business that can have a detrimental impact on your brand and bottom line.
For instance, if you’re a legal company, you’ll want to send a clear message that you “cross your ‘t’s” and “dot your ‘i’s”. And, if you’re in the business of marketing or production (like myself), it won’t put you in the best light if your lack of attention makes its way onto a series of national billboard posters for everyone to see.
Like when Companies House accidentally announced that the 124-year-old engineering company, Taylor & Sons Ltd, had closed down, when in fact this was not the case. Which led to the company’s customers panicking, cancelling orders, declaring contracts void and resulting in this long-standing company shutting up shop after failing to recover from the episode. It transpired that the company that had really closed was Taylor & Son, without the S.
Then there’s the case of The Pasta Bible, a cookbook published by Penguin Books in Australia. That upset some of its readers by suggesting they add a generous seasoning of “freshly ground black people” to a tagliatelle and sardines dish, when they obviously meant pepper.
But it isn’t just the odd letter or word that can land you in hot water. And it can happen to the big boys too. For a whole hour on 31 January, 2009, internet users all over the world panicked as Google’s searches returned error messages warning that many of the sites presented could seriously harm their computers. The cause of this chaos was someone at Google (now Alphabet) mistakenly entering a forward slash symbol as a malicious website, meaning any website with the symbol in their address (which almost all of them have) being automatically marked as malicious.
So what can we do to make sure we avoid this kind of thing.
Well, the proof of the pudding really is in the proofing. If you’ve a system in place, you do it well, and you stick to it religiously, the chances are you’ll find yourself having to deal with less faux pas as time goes by. But as my proofreader Becky Ashwell says, in a word, the biggest cause of errors is time. And most people simply don’t set aside enough of it. Furthermore, Becky has the following proofreading advice:
1. Focus – find a quiet space where there’s no phone/email/colleagues to distract you.
2. Don’t rely on spellcheck – it won’t tell you that you’ve typed ‘manger’ instead of ‘manager’.
3. Break it down – do one check for headings (are they styled correctly?); then a check for missing punctuation; then a check for spelling.
4. Don’t assume – check phone numbers (by ringing them); type web addresses into the URL bar of your browser.
5. Slow down – print deadline may be looming, but rushing allows your brain to ignore errors.
Becky also advocates what she calls her READ process: Read it backwards. Evaluate the voice. Analyse headings and content. Does it read well?
I’m sure there are other systems out there. This just happens to be Becky’s. And it’s stood us both in good stead.
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To the members of the fledgling nudist club, Fraternity Snoqualmie, their beautiful and serene nudist camp must have seemed a real paradise. Even without floating bridges and interstate highways, it was only a few hour drive from Seattle and vicinity, even less from Everett and places to the north. Abandoning the worries and cares of the workaday world, they could bathe their nude bodies in the warm sunshine while watching the dragon flies skimming over the surface of the lake and hearing the delighted squeals of children as they frolicked in the sparkling water.
But a shadow was beginning to fall on this idyllic scene. Across the oceans, the guns of war could be heard as nation after nation fell to the invading armies. Would America be next? Then came the “Day of Infamy”, December 7, 1941. We were at war.
By some act of providence, our country was spared the massive destruction that many other countries had sustained. But, nonetheless, the war affected, to some degree, the lives of every man, woman, and child. One aspect of the war which was felt by all was rationing – food, clothing, gasoline, … Ah, yes! Gasoline! Car pools and public transportation helped, but after driving to work or to the grocery store and taking the kids to little league practice or to the doctor to patch up some cuts and scrapes, the gasoline allotment was nearly depleted. There wasn’t much left for trips to the nudist camp. Among the F.S. members of the early 1940’s one could hear, “We’ve gotta find something closer to home!” So began the search for a new place where they could enjoy their chosen lifestyle.
(There is another story about why some of the members decided to leave their beautiful sylvan retreat and head south. Some accounts say that there was trouble in paradise – people problems, friction, a split. Perhaps this story is closer to the truth, but we prefer to believe and to tell the gas rationing version.)
We have no details as to how the search for property progressed nor how many sites were considered. But, finally, circa 1944 or 1945, success! The new site was on the side of Tiger Mountain, south of Issaquah. There was a small clearing, surrounded by 40 acres of stately evergreen trees. It had the makings of a beautiful and modern nudist resort, but at the time, the “facilities” were rather “rustic”,…, well, “primitive”,…, well, “ugh!” A few fruit trees and a ramshackle “house” marked the remains of an abandoned goat farm. There was no electricity, no plumbing, and no road. Access to the place was by a mountain trail. The condition of the interior of the building can not be adequately described using polite language. “But it’s ours! We have a new home! What should we call it? Well, it’s surrounded by a forest. How about “Camp Forestia?”
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A family hiking trip is a wonderful way to get your kids out of the house, away from all of those electronic devices and experience everything that nature has to offer. No matter where you live there are probably a number of hikes that you can take your family on that are just a short drive away. As enjoyable as getting out into nature can be, one thing to keep in mind is that whenever you head into the great outdoors, no matter how close to civilization you are, you should always come prepared to deal with any emergency that could pop up.
Possibly the most important thing to consider when going out on a family hike is the clothes that you wear. The biggest tip I can give you here is to dress for the current weather conditions, but be prepared for a change. The weather is unpredictable. The sunniest day can turn cold, rainy and windy without much notice. This is especially true if your family is hiking in the mountains. If the weather is nice and warm go ahead and dress light, but you should always have something heavier and ideally rain proof that you can pull on if a change does take place. This is especially important for little kids because their bodies are particularly susceptible to changes in the weather.
Another item that you should bring with you on a hiking trip for the family is a basic first aid kit. This kit should include bandages of various sizes, antiseptic cream, alcohol or iodine swabs, aloe vera cream, small scissors or a sharp knife, tweezers and pain medication. If anyone in your family is on prescription medication you should have enough of it in the kit to last for several days. It is also a good idea to keep sunblock and insect repellent in your first aid kit as well as a few small flashlights.
Food and water should always come with you when you go on a hiking trip. It will not only make the trip more pleasant for your whole family, but it could also become a life saver if an emergency does take place. The last thing you want to have happen is be stranded in the woods with your family but have no way to feed them. You should always bring enough food and water to last for several days. To cut down on weight you can bring nutrition bars, granola and other calorie dense foods. Avoid bringing perishable foods that can quickly spoil and take up a lot of space.
The last essential items I want to mention here have to do with keeping your family warm. Bring enough thermal blankets for the whole family as well as matches and a good fire starter like cotton balls dipped in Vaseline.
Take all of the items mentioned above on your next family hiking trip and you will not only have a great time, but you can rest easy knowing that your family will be safe in virtually any circumstance nature throws at you.
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Progressing from the video cassettes to the CD-ROM is a logical step. The ILAE classification of epileptic seizures is now standard teaching throughout the world. The videoillustrated classification of epileptic seizures was compiled by the Commission of the ILAE from collected EEG video telemetry tapes, mainly from Europe. The editors point out that some of the material is unclear from the source and hence the CD-ROM picture is not optimal. This is certainly true in many cases. It is understandable how difficult it is to produce uniform video recording conditions of epileptic seizures from many countries of the world and at different periods throughout the past 15 years or so. The CD-ROM atlas is accompanied by a manual which attempts to explain the classification of epileptic seizures as well as the epilepsies and then goes on to give details of every case shown on the CD-ROM. Loading the CD-ROM into various computers is rather cumbersome as one has to wait for the loading process to happen and there are no direct short cuts. After the preliminaries on the CD-ROM six sections of the CD are displayed and the user can click and access any one of them. The first is a guided tour of what is available and the second section is on seizure classification. The third section is the video library and case histories, for which it is necessary to refer to the manual. There is an information section and a very interesting self assessment section which is set at various levels of knowledge of epilepsy syndrome.The scoring is on the ability to recognise correctly various seizure types and the scoring system is graded according to the level of error. A special applications section is very interesting; the user can compile a sequence of seizures—for instance, for teaching purposes, and this can be run in whatever way the user requires. Producing this CD-ROM atlas is an excellent idea which will serve not only medical students and doctors but also all of those involved in the care of the patient with epilepsy. Nurses and EEG technologists, both in training and in practice will find the CD most valuable. There are, however, some criticisms and these centre on the quality of some of the videos, which are very difficult to see. The absence of an EEG montage on screen is a great disadvantage. There is a possibility of adding a running commentary on the screen so that the user does not have to refer to the manual which tends to be too descriptive and at times imprecise. The size of the picture on the CD-ROM is another issue which needs to be considered and whether a larger picture is technically feasible. To the amateur user of computers, which perhaps describes many in epilepsy (myself included), I find this CD very interesting and I am sure the Commission will fine tune the CD-ROM in years to come to make it rather more user friendly. Apart from the criticisms above, this is a most valuable addition to our knowledge and understanding of epileptic seizures. Many neurology departments throughout the world will find this a most interesting purchase. | <urn:uuid:77049680-7061-4865-96cb-021a9a7e65d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/65/1/139.6.full | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952192 | 680 | 2.46875 | 2 |
What Is Breakout In Trading?
If the price of a stock breaks through, a significant support or resistance level break out happens, resulting in significant price changes
If the price moves inside a range, we can set a resistance level above it and a support level below it.
Price will reject several times as it approaches the resistance and support levels.
Now notice how the market started trending as soon as the price broke out of the critical level; this would have been a terrific entry point.
There are two methods for positive breakout stocks if the market has been consolidating for some time and has been rejected several times by striking the same resistance level.
After the opening, if the price key level has broken the resistance zone towards the purchasing side, it would be a suitable buying entry.
Keep in mind that you should enter after the breakout candle closes above the rejected barrier and the next candle opens above the resistance zone.
Assume that the market has been consolidating and continuously rejecting by hitting the same support level.
After the next opening, it will be a suitable selling entry if the price key level has broken through the support zone to the selling side.
Remember that one should enter after the breakout candle closes below the rejected support and the next candle opens below the support zone.
Positive Breakout stocks
If the volume had increased higher than the normal levels, it is called a breakout.
Many traders will trade when the breakout is towards the bullish side.
But when a breakout happens on the bearish side, the movement of the stock will be huge in most cases.
Positivity means not only the breakout towards the bullish side but also the breakout towards the bearish side
There will be only one process for all breakout patterns, but the time frame should differ.
For daily positive breakout stocks, the time frame has to be the daily time frame
For weekly positive breakout stocks, the time frame has to be the weekly time frame
For monthly positive breakout stocks, the time frame has to be the monthly time frame
Selection of stocks For daily, weekly, and monthly breakouts.
How To Identify Positive Breakout Stocks For Tomorrow?
I am not here to update the breakout stocks day by day; you have to find which stocks are giving breakout among your selected stocks.
Blue chips stocks are the best ones for trading in any time frame
Always trade large-cap stocks, and trade a limited number of stocks
your stocks should be counted at your fingers
Stocks Should be under the category of nifty 50 and nifty bank scrips
After the market opening, you have to check for these breakout patterns among your selected stocks.
If you find these patterns approximately, you can place entry
Do not wait for the patterns in the exact design; you will not get even one trade.
In my point of view, a breakout towards the bullish and bearish side is a positive breakout.
When the stock breaks towards the bearish side, I do not consider it as a negative breakout; for me, it is also a positive breakout because we can make profits towards the bearish also
Patterns For Daily Breakout Stocks
By mastering these patterns, you can easily identify which stock is ready for a breakout
Looking for bullish breakout stock patterns is an easy method to accomplish this.
I am sure that most of these patterns you have seen before.
Patterns like Rectangle, pennant, wedge, triangle, flag, all such types of ways for trading in breakout trading stocks
While looking at this pattern list, traders make a typical error: they wait for the market to follow the drawings’ moves.
They’ll look at the wedge pattern, for example, and try to discover candles that move in the same direction.
If you continue to do this, I can assure you that you will never discover a single pattern because prices in real life do not change in this manner.
Instead, it would be best to concentrate on locating the critical levels.
For example, when we look at this chart, we can see that the price is creating lower highs, which means we may draw a downward straight line above it due to many rejections.
We noticed more rejections below the chart, so we drew a support line; now, if you look closely, you’ll see that we’ve just discovered a triangular pattern because we have the same vital levels, a downward trend line, and a support line.
As a result, this idea is for various patterns.
A rectangular pattern forms when you see a support and resistance level.
A pennant forms when two trend lines cross
A flag pattern forms when two trend lines converge in one direction.
You won’t need to remember the name of pattern if you understand this basic principle; whether it’s a triangle, a wedge, or a Rectangle, they’re all based on the same concept.
- Consolidation of prices
- Forms important levels
Our plan would work better if you could find these basic levels.
After you’ve identified this consolidation pattern, the following stage determines whether the breakout will occur to the upside or the downside.
Traders frequently make the mistake of entering a position at the first breakthrough they notice.
For instance, we can see that the candle closes just above the top level, indicating that it is a rectangle pattern. Now traders will believe that this is the breakout and that movement will occur to the upside, and they will enter.
They’ll lose money because the breakout will not happen, and the price will stick in a consolidation zone.
How to Avoid False Breakouts In positive breakout stocks ?
Identifying the momentum candles at the time of breaking is a simple strategy that I employ to avoid false breakout trading.
A momentum candle can be a single large candle or a series of smaller candles.
For example, we can see in this chart that the price is generating lower highs so that we can create a downward trend line above it, and we can build an upward trend line below it because of higher lows
It’s a pennants design.
When the big green candle breaches the top trend line by a slight fraction, as seen in the chart, do not enter the trade blindly and risk losing money.
Wait for the next candle to form and enter the market if it is a large or medium momentum candle.
However, the red candle appeared instead, so we’ll disregard this trade and wait for the momentum green candle to form.
The following three scenarios will play out after the momentum candle occurs.
The price continues to rise.
Before moving upwards, pricing performs a retreat towards the crucial level.
A false breakout occurs when the price reverses downwards.
How can you avoid the scenarios described above?
Instead of seeking to predict what will happen next, I’m putting myself in a position to be head of the game regardless of what happens.
I will enter the purchasing position at the closing of the momentum candle.
In the case of bullish breakout stocks, I will alter my position according to the risk-reward ratio.
I’ll position my stop-loss just below the upper trend line to profit from any scenario.
If the first scenario plays out, it means the price will continue to rise, and I will be profitable.
If the second scenario occurs, the stop loss will miss, and the price pulls back to the vital level before continuing upwards, but I will still be in profit.
However, if the third scenario occurs, it will be a false breakout, and my stop loss will be activated, allowing me to save money.
You have to look for the price action patterns before a positive breakout stocks.
Types of price action patterns are wedges, triangles, price action combining patterns with candlestick patterns.
My favorite patterns for positive breakout stocks are,
- Double top or double bottom pattern
Double Top Pattern For Positive breakout stocks.
What does double top give the signal for positive breakout stocks
This double top strategy will be applicable in the uptrend.
The double top pattern is a reversal pattern.
It shows a loss of momentum from the buyers, and it is the signal for you to go against the dominant trend.
Don’t chase trades because, as you can see, there is always another opportunity and another entry.
Vice versa, in a downtrend, the double bottom pattern will be applicable.
Look for a price action reversal pattern inside of the weekly double bottom.
How To Identify Trend Change Patterns You Look For These Traits Specifically?
- You have to look for a lower high or a lower low to occur right before a trend line break in an uptrend.
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Future retirees likely to face lower homeownership which may pose challenges for retirement income adequacy
New research, published today by the ESRI, finds that future cohorts of retirees are likely to have substantially lower rates of homeownership than current retirees. The research – funded by the Pensions Council – estimates that 65 per cent of those currently aged 35-44 are likely to become homeowners by retirement given current trends, compared to 90 per cent of those currently aged 65+.
Lower homeownership rates mean a higher proportion of households in the rental sector and the continuation of rental payments into retirement. The research finds that reductions in homeownership of this magnitude could raise the proportion of older people (aged 65+) living in income poverty on an after-housing cost (AHC) basis, from 14 per cent at present, to as high as 31 per cent. The research draws on data from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) and the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to develop a number of possible scenarios around the potential level of future homeownership in order to calculate the potential impact on income poverty rates in retirement.
- Ireland has experienced a marked drop in homeownership rates in recent years. This has been particularly acute for younger-aged households, with the share of 25-34 year olds living independently who own their own home more than halving between 2004 and 2019, falling from 60 per cent to just 27 per cent.
- In comparison with current retirees (aged 65+) where the homeownership rate is around 90 per cent, homeownership rates are around 10 percentage points lower (approximately 80 per cent) for those currently aged 55-64 and 45-54; this differential is unlikely to close substantially for these groups given their position in the lifecycle.
- The homeownership rate for those aged 35-44 is currently 58 per cent. The modelling indicates that under current trends this is likely to reach 65 per cent and with supports this age cohort could reach a homeownership rate of 71 per cent.
- There is greater uncertainty over the 25-34 age group given their age and lifecycle earnings prospects. Nonetheless, the simulated rate of homeownership is lower again for the youngest age group, 25-34, with approximately one-in-two households likely to become homeowners in the majority of scenarios explored.
- Lower rates of homeownership are likely to lead to substantially higher income poverty rates after-housing costs (AHC) in retirement. The research finds that AHC income poverty rates for those approaching retirement would reach 31 per cent under a low future homeownership scenario, 28 per cent under a medium future homeownership scenario, and 21 per cent under a high future homeownership scenario, compared to 14 per cent at present.
While further income-based supports or direct housing cost interventions for future groups of retirees most at risk of income poverty could be considered, additional supports would likely place significant costs on the Exchequer given the scale of the projected fall in homeownership for future retirement cohorts. Therefore, policy interventions at earlier stages of the lifecycle are critical to help lower the costs of housing that future cohorts will face in retirement. Increased supply and other housing policy interventions can impact the share of homeowners, while increased direct provision of social housing or policies that develop alternative, non-market renting options such as cost rental can all help to lower the cost of housing in retirement, and thereby reduce the share of retirees in income poverty.
Dr Rachel Slaymaker, lead author of the report commented: ‘Homeownership in retirement currently provides a double dividend – lower housing costs and higher assets in retirement. Our findings suggest that homeownership rates will be substantially lower for future cohorts, particularly those currently aged 45 and under. Without intervention this will lead to significantly higher rates of income poverty in retirement for these cohorts.’
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Human Anatomy Atlas is an Medical App for android
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Join millions of medical professionals, students, and anatomy enthusiasts who use Human Anatomy Atlas to see inside and better understand the human body!
Human Anatomy Atlas offers thousands of models to help understand and communicate how the human body looks and works–and includes textbook-level definitions. Use it as a reference, instead of an anatomy textbook, or to create virtual lab experiences.
Includes over 10,000 anatomical models with descriptions in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
* One of the App Store’s Best Apps of 2017
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed bipartisan legislation that would provide health care and benefits to millions of veterans exposed to toxic substances while on deployment abroad, after many Republicans changed their votes and decided to back the bill again.
The postponement comes after days of protests and vigils outside the US Capitol in the heat and rain by veterans who were outraged at the delay in passing the $280 billion measure due to objections from Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey. The interest groups of the veterans were also extremely critical.
The 86-11 vote on the PACT Act, named for the late Ohio National Guard Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson, sends the bill to President Joe Biden for signature. The 11 dissenting votes were all Republicans, including Idaho’s Mike Crapo, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, and Toomey.
Biden, who has repeatedly urged Congress to address the lack of protections for veterans and their families, is expected to sign the law into law.
Democratic Montana Sen. Jon Tester, chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee, urged senators to support the package ahead of the vote, saying the legislation was put together in a transparent manner with no surprises.
“I would ask my fellow senators when they come out and vote — think about the veterans who are out here in front of the Capitol, think about the veterans in your home state, think about the veterans you met during your tenure have active duty on your CoDels and remember them and do the right thing,” Tester said, referring to congressional delegations traveling to war zones.
Republican Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, the senior member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, also called for support for the measure, saying it would “provide long overdue health care and benefits to the 3.5 million post-9/11 veterans who were exposed to burn pits.” Offer”. and health care for “Vietnam veterans and those who served in Southeast Asia suffering from Agent Orange exposure”.
Moran and Tester had worked together on the legislation for years.
fight for health care
The passage of the law marks the end of a year-long struggle by veterans, their families and veteran service organizations to get the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to also provide medical care and benefits to service members exposed to burn pits in Afghanistan and Iraq as Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Right now, veterans must try to prove to the federal government that their illnesses are related to their military service in order to qualify, an endeavor that is particularly challenging for many, including those who have died while waiting.
That measure up Congress cleared by Congress on Tuesday would change that by adding 23 diseases to the list of toxic exposure-related conditions believed to be linked to military service.
The package would provide more resources for VA health centers, staff and claims processing, and federal research on toxic exposures.
And the legislation would widen the guesswork for veterans exposed to Agent Orange, a chemical used by the US military during the Vietnam War. American Samoa, Cambodia, Guam, Johnston Atoll, Laos and Thailand would all be included in the list of places where veterans are believed to have been exposed to the chemical.
Long voting history
The invoice sailed through the US Senate when she originally spoke with 84 senators in June Choose to send the package to US house.
There was a major bump in this chamber as the chairmen of the Veterans Affairs Committee debated behind closed doors how to address a provision that would increase the number of health care providers in rural or very rural areas.
This section of the bill would have allowed the VA to buy certain healthcare providers out of their contracts if they agreed to work at clinics in those rural areas for at least four years. But because the legislation proposed exempting that contract purchase money from taxes, the House Ways and Means Committee encountered an objection, citing a so-called “blue slip” issue since tax rules must start in the US House of Representatives.
Legislators chose to remove that section from the measure, repackaging it into a different bill and Lay it on the house floor where members tuned 342-88 on July 13 to return the legislation to the US Senate for final approval.
The bill – identical to the version already approved by 84 senators except for the removed section on treaty endorsement – should quickly clear the US Senate.
But a procedural vote on the bill failed last week after 25 Republicans went from supporting the measure to blocking it. That poll was 55-42, just shy of the 60 senators needed to overcome the chamber’s legislative filibuster.
Toomey, who will retire at the end of the year, organized GOP senators to change their votes on the legislation and said he was frustrated by a “budget trick” that has been in the legislation since it was introduced.
Toomey said after he and other Republicans blocked the legislation that he had “no dispute with” the bill, which would create $278.5 billion in new spending over the next decade, to be labeled “mandatory.” would be classified.
Mandatory federal spending generally runs on autopilot and includes Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid funding. Discretionary spending must be approved as part of the annual appropriation process, which begins with the president’s budget proposal and often ends with all 12 government bills being wrapped into a total spending package exceeding $1 trillion.
Toomey last week argued his opposition to the bill stemmed from a section that would “authorize $400 billion over the next 10 years of existing spending … to be switched from discretionary to mandatory.”
But last week’s unsuccessful Cloture vote also came shortly after the Senate Democrats announced that they had agreed on a surprise reconciliation package that would allow Medicare to negotiate some prescription drug prices, address climate change and energy policies, and change some of the country’s tax laws.
The reconciliation agreement had lasted more than a year and included several stops and restarts as West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin III and Schumer attempted to reach an agreement that could garner the support of all 50 Senate Democrats.
Republicans vehemently oppose the deal but are unable to block it in the Senate because Democrats are using the budget reconciliation to get it through Congress.
GOP back on board
GOP frustration over the veterans’ healthcare bill appeared to be easing Monday some Republicans signaled They would support the bill once again.
A change of heart followed an outcry of frustration from veteransLawyers and aid organizations – some of whom began camping on the steps of the US Capitol over the weekend and continued to protest this week on a lawn just meters from the building.
Veterans’ attorney and comedian Jon Stewart also joined the protest, as did late-night show host Stephen Colbert went to GOP Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Steve Daines of Montana for a triumphant punch after the failure of the bill.
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans were also able to negotiate for the chamber to pass three amendments to the law, all of which did not receive the 60 votes needed to pass them.
A Toomey proposal that would have addressed his concerns about mandatory spending classification for some funds in the package failed by a vote of 47 to 48.
Tester wrote in a letter he sent to senators Tuesday that Toomey’s amendment “would potentially harm veterans and tie Congress’ hands.”
“It would arbitrarily limit the number of poison-exposed veterans who would benefit from the legislation and create a scenario where VA would run out of funds to support these veterans year after year,” Tester wrote.
Toomey argued from the audience that his amendment “doesn’t affect how much appropriators can spend, it just limits how much is treated as mandatory spend.”
Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s amendment, which would have funded the law by reprogramming foreign aid spending, was not passed after receiving just seven votes in favor and 90 against.
Blackburn amendment fails
Another amendment by Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn would have included access to community care for toxic-exposed veterans and was defeated 48-47.
“If PACT law is going to work for veterans, we need to step up and give them access to community care,” Blackburn said ahead of the vote, arguing that veterans are waiting too long in their state to get appointments with primary care physicians at VA facilities .
After her change, veterans would have had the opportunity “to go to a doctor in their community for that primary care appointment so they can start that process,” she said.
“This will help them avoid the long waits and the arbitrary hurdles, and will allow them to seek that community care when they can get it quicker than making that trip to the VA,” Blackburn added.
Tester urged senators to reject all three amendments, saying any change in legislation would have sent them back to the US House of Representatives for further voting, further delaying care for toxic veterans.
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Bringing together governments, businesses, development professionals, and Organisations for People with Disabilities (OPDs), the Global Disability Summit is a pivotal moment for the world to commit to change and do more to include people with disabilities.
This is the second-ever global summit on strengthening the inclusion of people with disabilities and it will build on the progress made in the wake of the first Global Disability Summit in London in 2018. Throughout the Summit, more than 1,544 new commitments to disability rights will be announced by organisations and governments in more than 150 countries.
The number of people with disabilities is estimated to be around 15% of the world’s population, around one billion people, and 80% live in low- and middle-income countries. Despite this, millions of people with disabilities still face stigma, discrimination, and barriers to full-participation in society. People with disabilities have also disproportionately been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In his welcome video to the Summit, the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, said, “I am pleased to be co-hosting the Global Disability Summit together with the President of Ghana and the International Disability Alliance. With less than eight years to go before the world is to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, we must ensure that people with disabilities are able to take part in social and economic development on an equal footing with society at large”.
President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said, “Governments have a solemn obligation to commit to building an inclusive society in which every citizen has the opportunity to develop his or her God-given talent to the fullest. The circumstances of one’s birth cannot and must not be a barrier to any citizen’s participation in - and their benefit from - the process of national development”.
Along with the Prime Ministers of Ghana and Norway, representatives from more than 15 governments will be speaking at the summit and making commitments. International organisations that will be represented include the World Health Organization, the United Nations, UNICEF, USAID, UNHCR, the Global Partnership for Education, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Save the Children, the Valuable 500, and the International Labour Organization.
Anyone can take part in the Summit, and more information along with the up-to-date agenda can be found on GDS2022.
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Separating fact from opinion - A response to 'The science of human factors: Separating fact from fiction'
In their paper 'The science of human factors: separating fact from fiction', Russ et al present a description of the human factors (HF) discipline, and discuss several cases where the science of HF has been misapplied in healthcare .
On examining some of the examples of misapplication they provide, it became apparent that in most cases the term 'human factors' was used to describe factors relating to human behavior (e.g. communication), rather than the scientific discipline [2, 3]. The research did not purport to adopt a HF methodology or stance. Are these really misconceptions about HF science?
Russ et al also provide examples of studies that refer to HF science but emphasize the failures of people. They describe this research as 'counterproductive' but the work they cite adopted HF methods and exposed some interesting aspects of human behaviour. For example, consultation with clinicians revealed that user acceptance of technology was critical for successful implementation of electronic medication management . In another study (of which I am an author), review of medication charts revealed that misuse of an electronic prescribing system was associated with the generation of unnecessary computerized safety alerts . We concluded that both system design and inadequate training may have contributed to system misuse.
In their viewpoint, Russ et al, discuss training at some length and provide an overview of where training is an appropriate versus inappropriate HF technique for improving patient safety . This discussion interested me as their table (Table 1) referred to few studies examining the effectiveness of training. They explain that training is not appropriate if it is designed to address a type of error committed by multiple users, as wide-spread error indicates a mismatch between system design and human characteristics. Identification of mismatch between design and human capabilities/limitations is at the crux of the HF discipline and is undoubtedly an important undertaking. But is it not also possible that all users received the same (ineffective) training, and so all made the same types of error? In the same way, Russ at al suggest that training is not appropriate when the goal is for individuals to stop using technologies in the wrong way. But can it not be that correct use of the system was not effectively demonstrated during training, and so users were not aware that more efficient use was possible?
I agree with Russ et al in that additional training should only be considered following an evaluation of system design, but what if design is intended to break free from previous iterations, with the aim of transforming or revolutionizing a task? There exists a tension between designing systems that replicate current processes and so integrate quickly into clinical practice versus designing systems that allow tasks to be completed in more efficient ways, but which require a change in work and cognitive processes and so necessitate a greater level of training. Russ et al were quick to criticize previous research but by taking a closer look there is value in all HF applications to healthcare.
1 Russ AL, Fairbanks RJ, Karsh B-T, Militello LG, Saleem JJ, Wears RL. The science of human factors: separating fact from fiction. BMJ Quality & Safety. 2013 April 16, 2013.
2 Cahan MA, Starr S, Larkin AC, Litwin DM, Sullivan KM, Quirk ME. Transforming the culture of surgical education: Promoting teacher identity through human factors training. Archives of Surgery. 2011;146(7):830-4.
3 Rosenstein AH, O'Daniel M. Impact and Implications of Disruptive Behavior in the Perioperative Arena. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2006;203(1):96-105.
4 Abrams H, Carr D. The Human Factor: Unexpected Benefits of a CPOE and Electronic Medication Management Implementation at the University Health Network. Healthcare Quarterly. 2005;8(Sp):94-8.
5 Baysari MT, Reckmann MH, Li L, Day RO, Westbrook JI. Failure to utilize functions of an electronic prescribing system and the subsequent generation of 'technically preventable' computerized alerts. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2012 Nov 1;19(6):1003-10.
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YOUR LIFE MATTERS WEEK – AFTERNOONS WITH AMOS. For the past two months Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Rick Hite and Indianapolis/Marion County Public Safety Director Troy Riggs have been and the command staffs of the IMPD have been meeting with a wide range of community and neighborhood groups and holding meetings on all sides of town in Community Conversations about the crime and violence that’s plaguing Indianapolis this year., As part of YOUR LIFE MATTERS WEEK, Chief Hite and Director Riggs appeared on Afternoons with Amos to hear from the community on their views and concerns on crime, violence and solutions., There were lots of issues covered in the two hour Community Conversation. (Sadly during the Community Conversation came word that there’s been a shotting with at least one fatality with a second person dying later that afternoon). Everything from what is police doing about removing obvious “drug houses” and open air drug air drug selling in Black neighborhoods. Listeners asked about a lack of enforcement of speed limit and traffic laws, including one listener that complained about police who break speeding laws while not responding to emergencies. Chief Hite and Director Riggs talked about the crime data for 2013 and 2014 which shows that crime is down in eery category EXCEPT for homicides. They tried to make the case that crime is decreasing. They said they continue to plan to take tougher attitudes towards repeat offenders and that just a small percentage of people are committing the crimes. In response to several questions on recruitment of new police officers, Chief Hite and Director Riggs said that the latest class of IMPD recruits was 25% Black and over 10% Hispanic, making more than a third of the recruits non-white. Riggs said that he was committed to aggressively recruit and find the best officers and at the same time try to make the IMPD recruit classes reflect more the racial makeup of the city/county. Given that less than one-sixth of homicide victims and suspects and less than one-sixth of all non fatal shootings in the city are committed by individuals under age 18 why the perception among many that teens and committing the bulk of violent crime in the city. Both Riggs and Hite agrees that under 18 persons aren’t the problem, but they’re trying to put in place plans strategies to turn teens away from a life of crime before they turn 18. In the second half of the Community Conversation, Chief Hite and Director Riggs were joined by Steven DuBois of Crimestoppers and Kelly McBride of the Domestic Violence Network. DuBois explained Crimestoppers procedures which includes their staff doesn’t ask for the names of individuals who report tips. They ask tipsters to select a “code word” which the tipster uses to check back during the year to see if the tip has been acted upon. DuBois revealed that Crimestoppers operates in every state and several foreign countries. They pride themselves on their confidentiality and in protecting the privacy of those who provide information. Kelly McBride talked about the rise in domestic violence cases in Indianapolis. African-Americans are nearly half of the domestic violence victims and perpetrators in Indianapolis and its a growing problem. Click the Media Player to Hear Afternoons with Amos Community Conversation on Crime and Violence With IMPD Chief Hite and Public Safety Director Troy Riggs. ©2014 WTLC/Radio One.
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Berlin is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian diaspora community and one of the world’s largest Israeli diaspora communities. Germany’s guilt about the Nazi Holocaust has led to a public disavowal of anti-Semitism and strong support for the Israeli state. Meanwhile, Palestinians in Berlin report experiencing increasing levels of racism and Islamophobia. In The Moral Triangle Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans in Berlin to explore these asymmetric relationships in the context of official German policies, public discourse, and the private sphere. They show how these relationships stem from narratives surrounding moral responsibility, the Holocaust, the Israel/Palestine conflict, and Germany’s recent welcoming of Middle Eastern refugees. They also point to spaces for activism and solidarity among Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians in Berlin that can help foster restorative justice and account for multiple forms of trauma. Highlighting their interlocutors’ experiences, memories, and hopes, Atshan and Galor demonstrate the myriad ways in which migration, trauma, and contemporary state politics are inextricably linked. | <urn:uuid:98ca306a-d1a0-4c1f-8ace-aefcf92fcaf2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.palestinebookawards.com/books/item/the-moral-triangle-germans-israelis-palestinians | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.899822 | 240 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Playwrights write scripts intended for live stage production.
Play writing is a profession with a long history, and new work is vital to the theatre community. Professional playwrights are more than just writers - they are builders of worlds who have taken it upon themselves to show an audience a particular story. Some plays are linear, while others are more experimental. A playwright's unique style can make the prospect of staging their work exciting to a director or theatre company. Some plays are very specific about their setting, while others may leave more room for sparse staging or imaginative direction. Some are dialogue heavy, while others may be more action oriented. Playwrights who write musicals may collaborate with composers or write music themselves; in some cases, the idea of what constitutes a play may be expanded to include those who write the underlying text that serves as the basis for an opera or ballet. Whether a playwright dreams up a densely populated world with hundreds of actors or a one-performer show, their text may undergo a transformative journey between paper and stage.
Writing plays can be a harrowing process of story planning, character study, dialogue (and dialect!) research, not to mention actual writing and continuous revision. Many new plays are first performed as staged readings, which are exactly what they sound like: actors reading from the script in a live performance setting, moving around the space as directed - often by the playwright themselves. Staged readings can be valuable revision tools for playwrights, who may be able to see holes in their work they had not considered or hear audience feedback.
Work as a playwright may include...
- Developing character traits and arcs
- Building the internal world of a play and determining its rules
- Writing dialogue, character actions, and stage directions
- Workshopping new scripts in performance and critique settings
- Researching the setting of a play and incorporating its unique characteristics
The degree to which a playwright is involved with a show's production process varies; those early in their career often make a point of being involved with a show's run and attending its opening performance, while more established playwrights may go as far as to select a production's director. Some direct their own work, though doing so becomes more difficult to swing in professional theatre settings. The main issue playwrights face is getting work read and produced; contests, workshops, and calls for new plays from specific companies can be an aspiring playwright's ticket to success. Many playwrights, especially those just starting out, have some type of day job to support the pursuit of their art.
It's rare for an untrained writer to sit down and write a play, though it does happen. Playwrights often start out as appreciators of theatre and are driven towards training at the high school or college level. Youth and student workshops can be a great way to learn the rules of script writing, from acceptable formats to narrative development. Most college theatre programs involve at least some coursework in play writing, which can include exercises in adaptation, storytelling, and critique. Students who pursue Bachelor's degrees with a focus on play writing are expected to read numerous plays and usually produce at least one of their own works before graduating. Aspiring playwrights who want to hone their craft in a structured setting may opt for Master's degrees in the discipline, which typically take two years and culminate in a final product. Working with local arts spaces and performance groups can be beneficial to playwrights looking to see their work staged in some capacity. Numerous theatre companies have residency programs for playwrights, which can provide staging opportunities and lead to significant exposure.
If you're imaginative and committed to contributing new written work to the world of theatre, consider jumping headfirst into a career as a playwright.
The Dramatists Guild is the national trade association of playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists, protecting their work and rights.
The Playwrights Foundation is dedicated to creating space for playwrights to explore, create, and collaborate on new works.
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At 8.30pm this evening, it’s Earth Hour. I’ve been on a mission to reduce my carbon footprint for quite some time and I’ve found some fantastic swaps that are simple to implement but make a big difference. I learnt so much during Plastic Free July last year.
How large is your environmental footprint? You can use the free calculator here.
My first piece of advice is to take your own containers with you when you go shopping. When you go to the butchers and when you buy produce at the greengrocers or from the supermarket. I think if we all refused single-use plastic that our lettuce is wrapped in, the retailers would soon realise that they’re wasting their money. I use my own produce bags. The ones I most often reach for are my Onya bags. They’re made from recycled bottles, they’re extremely lightweight and great quality.
When I first went to the delicatessen counter and asked the lady serving to decant my cheese into my metal tin, I’m quite sure she thought I was very strange. You do need to be bold, it’s not your ignorance that is keeping the single use plastic market alive. This is the kind of tin I tend to use.
We used to use those cheap, disposable washing up sponges that are something like 50p for a dozen. They would shed little particles into the water system, they don’t decompose and are definitely not sustainable. We’ve switched to a wooden dish brush that you can buy replaceable heads for. We’ve had the same head for about a year now (don’t fret, we do boil it so it’s not germ ridden!). Once it’s no longer suitable for washing up, it will be demoted to a scrubbing brush for garden pots, etc and eventually burned. I discovered the Oxford Brush Company from watching various zero waste YouTube videos, so I followed them on Instagram and have become a fan of theirs ever since. I’ve crocheted a few dishcloths from organic cotton and they also last forever.
During Plastic Free July, I really struggled with shampoo. I’ve tried many different “no poo” methods during the last few years. Egg yolk was the best and most natural alternative that I found. Natural soap bars don’t work for my hair. We live in a hard water area, which I think makes a difference so it always left a residue after a couple of washes. I’ve recently discovered Beauty Kubes and they are the bomb! Beauty Kubes are little cubes that you mix to a paste once you’re in the shower and wash your hair with it. They smell great, they work wonderfully and they’re a great price. They come packaged in a small cardboard box which is completely biodegradable. I’m super happy with these so I’ll be sticking to them for a while.
To exfoliate my skin, I use this massage brush. Dry brushing has been the only effective treatment for cellulite. I use my brush about twice a week to remove the dead skin cells and keep my skin smooth.
A handmade solid soap removes the need for plastic bottles of shower gel (though, to be honest, I do use natural shower gels sometimes).
Cutting down on our single-use plastic consumption didn’t happen overnight, it was a gradual process. It is a really worthwhile process because plastic doesn’t ever decompose. It seems stupid that something disposable or single use doesn’t ever go away. We need to be the change.
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Have you seen this chart? I certainly have. It floats around on social media a lot. The chart seems to indicate that poor Americans are better off than the average person in most other rich countries. Roughly equal to Canada and France, and better off than Denmark or New Zealand.
When I’ve asked for sources in the past, people usually aren’t sure. They remember downloading it from somewhere, but they can’t recall where.
But I think I found the source: it’s this article from JustFacts. After seeing how they calculated it, I’m skeptical that it provides a good comparison of poor Americans to other countries.
Here’s what the chart does. For most countries, it uses a World Bank measure of consumption per capita. They then convert that to US dollars using PPP adjustments. For the poor in the US, they use a consumption estimate for the bottom 20% of households (Table 6), and then divide by the average number of people per household. For the poor in the US, the average consumption for 2010 was an amazing $57,049, more than double the poverty line! That’s about $21,000 per poor person.
How is this possible?
Importantly, the consumption data for US households includes the value of government services, such as healthcare and food purchased with food stamps. Healthcare is obviously a big one: for most poor Americans, this is mostly paid for by Medicaid. I think there is an argument for including it, but here’s the big problem: this chart excludes government healthcare spending for all the other countries!
This is why you get such weird numbers in the chart. Consumption per capita in Denmark is only $18,000? How can that be? GNI per capita (PPP) in 2010 in Denmark was over $43,000. That $18,000 figure from the World Bank only includes private spending by households. Since private households spend very little directly on healthcare, you are ignoring it for the Danes. But you including it for poor Americans. This chart also has the weird result that poor Americans only consume about $10,000 less than the average American: do we really believe that? Doesn’t pass the smell test.
So how could we improve the chart? Two ways are possible. One is you could try to back out government spending on poor households. But I think that’s the wrong approach. Poor Americans certainly get this consumption, and they value it!
The better approach, I believe, is to calculate a more comprehensive measure of consumption for the other OECD countries. Since I don’t know of a good one off-hand (anyone help on this?), I made one myself. It’s pretty simple. Start with GNI per capita (PPP for 2010) — I use this instead of GDP, because of some problems I’ve discussed before. And then try to back out any government spending which isn’t included in that consumption number for poor US households. The biggest one is military spending. This is not to say that citizens don’t benefit from military spending, but it’s not included in the $21,000 figure for poor Americans.
Backing out military spending doesn’t actually make that much of a difference. Even for a country with a big military, like Israel or the US, it’s only about 5-6% of national income. For many OECD countries, it’s only 1-2% of national income. It’s a worthwhile adjustment, but it doesn’t change the picture much from using straight GNI numbers. Possibly some other spending could be excluded, but I think this one change gives us a decent picture. And here is the picture (I stick with 2010 just like the chart I am responding to).
And with this new chart we can see that the US poor (highlighted in red) are… really on the low end. Similar to the average Hungarian and Estonian, certainly richer than the average Mexican, but this seems to fit much better with reality: the average Dane is more than twice as well-off as the poorest Americans.
To me, this seems like a much fairer comparison. And it makes a lot more sense. But what do you think? What other government spending should we subtract from GNI to get a more accurate measure? Leave a comment and let me know! Or, if you agree, you can start posting my revised chart on social media (but please, always cite your sources). | <urn:uuid:d46090e6-3a11-4c86-930f-bfb1dbf45363> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2021/04/28/are-poor-americans-really-as-rich-as-average-canadians/?like_comment=913&_wpnonce=a139bd5f1a | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958421 | 946 | 2.625 | 3 |
Years of overgrazing by sheep and deer have degraded Britain’s lands sharing the countryside with large carnivores again would play a big part in restoring the ecology, says legendary conservationist Roy Dennis
Wolves should be reintroduced into Britain to help fight the climate crisis, according to one of Britain’s leading conservationists.
Without Roy Dennis’s efforts, there would be fewer red squirrels, no beavers and no osprey or red kite introductory programmes. And the 81-year-old is showing no signs of retiring.
He said: “When we’re thinking about the future of the earth and our grandchildren’s grandchildren’s future, the wolf makes sense.
“There is an urgent and massive requirement to restore the ecology of our degraded lands after centuries of overgrazing by sheep and deer.
“We’ve got to have a big, functioning ecosystem or else there isn’t going to be enough oxygen or insects to pollinate crops or vegetation to stop flooding” he said.
He explained how we must see the benefit to the whole of society by sharing the countryside with large carnivores again, even if it means farmers could lose the odd sheep, and explained how the extinction crisis can only be addressed with “bigness.”
“To make any sense, ecological restoration has got to take over I think 50% of the land and sea. Others say 30%.”
Over a cuppa in his garden in Scotland, he explained how wolves were the last big mammal predator to survive in the UK.
“It is incredible to think that, despite the trapping and the poisoning and the general hatred directed towards it, the wolf was the one that lasted the longest. Yet here we are, a nation famous for its love of dogs, which have been around humans ever since we domesticated them from the wolf.”
It’s believed wolves disappeared in Britain sometime in the 18th century,
following centuries of persecution. They also went extinct across most of western Europe, hanging on places such as Italy, Poland and Bulgaria.
Since the banning of wolf hunting in Poland in the 1990s, the wolf population has been recovering and spreading west. Wolves have also successfully established in Germany and reached as far as the Netherlands and Denmark.
Experts say wolves primarily prey on deer and livestock in some situations.
Although well past retirement age, Roy is busier than ever. His latest rewilding success – although he prefers the phrase “ecological restoration” – is to return white-tailed eagles to England, which disappeared from English skies in 1780 due to illegal killings.
In 2019 the project released a group of the UK’s largest bird of prey on the Isle of Wight. They disappeared from English skies in 1780 due to illegal killings.
There were dire predictions the birds would seize sheep, be shot dead or simply starve from lack of food but last summer Roy said was overwhelmed by emails of sightings all over England.
He said: “At a time of real worry for global biodiversity crashing and the climate breaking down, there are many helpful signs. You have to give people hope, especially young people.
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UK and Europe daily weather forecast latest, February 24: Further rain with showers continue across the far northwest in the UK
UK's weather forecast
According to Sky News, northern and western parts will be very wet and windy with some flooding. High pressure will bring a drier, more settled, outlook.
The Met Office have issued amber warnings for heavy rain over parts of Scotland and yellow warnings for much of the North. There are amber and yellow warnings for Ireland too.
It is a chillier start across some central areas this morning but for most it is mild with western areas experiencing strong and gusty southerly winds.
Cumbria, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland will see heavy rain during the morning, while Wales and southwest England can expect some lighter, more patchy and sporadic outbreaks.
Central and eastern England meanwhile will be dry with sunny spells, best in the South East. It will be mild but windy, with gales in the North and West, severe over parts of Scotland. The west of Ireland and far north of Scotland should dry up during the afternoon, but there will be little change elsewhere.
|UK weather warning: Temperatures will plummet by the end of the week (Image: WXCHARTS)|
Tonight will see heavy showers spread into northwestern parts of both Ireland and Scotland. The swathe of heavy rain will only slowly ease away from southern Ireland but will persist across most of southern and central Scotland, northern England and Wales. It will be a mild night, temperatures in southeast England may hold up around 11 or 12 Celsius.
Central and southern Scotland, northern England and Wales will have further rain tomorrow with showers continuing across the far northwest again. Most other places will be dry. It will be very mild, but it will stay windy.
TORRENTIAL rain and gale-force winds are set to smash the UK over the next 48 hours before a deep-freeze sends temperatures spiralling, Express reported according to the latest weather maps.
A band of heavy rain and strong winds will head towards the UK from this evening and will last until at least Wednesday, before the wet-weather system is replaced by sub-zero temperatures. The Met Office has warned parts of the UK could see up to 120mm of rain over the next 36 hours and winds gusting up to 70mph.
The Met Office has issued five weather warnings for wind and rain over the next 24 hours, with the North West and Scotland likely to see the worst of the conditions.
They include two “danger to life” amber alerts for central and eastern areas of Scotland, with the Met Office warning homes and businesses are likely to be flooded.
NetWeather.TV forecaster Paul Michealwaite said “pulses of heavier more persistent rain” will become more prominent from Monday evening, before another wet-weather front closes in from the Atlantic.
He said: “Late Monday and into the start of Tuesday, the next Atlantic system will approach, with rain and strong winds arriving in from the west. Ireland, along with the north and especially northwest of the UK, will see some heavy rain at times, along with gales, even severe gales in exposed places. It stays mild to the southeast of all of that, mostly dry and bright with sunny spells, although even here, it'll be windy."
“The rain will try to move southeast during Wednesday, but it'll be a struggle, and it will fizzle out quite quickly the closer to the southeast that it gets.”
|Photo: Sky News|
WXcharts show a band of heavy rain moving across western areas of the UK overnight. The Met Office has issued an amber warning across southwestern parts of Scotland and just north of Glasgow, from 12pm on Tuesday.
It warns: “A spell of persistent and often heavy rain will affect much of Scotland during Tuesday and Wednesday. Rainfall accumulations of 40 to 60 mm are expected quite widely across the warning area with a few places possibly seeing 80-120mm in a 24 to 36 hour period.”
A yellow alert, warning of gusts of up to 70mph, is in force across the whole of Scotland, large areas of the north of England and Northern Ireland from 2am on Tuesday.
Two additional yellow rain alerts, warning of up to 60mm of rainfall, is in place across the far northwest of England and the northeastern coast of Northern Ireland from 11am on Tuesday.
Met Office Chief Meteorologist Andy Page, said: “An area of low pressure to the northwest of the UK will bring very wet and windy conditions to parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northwest England through the start of the week. Up to 120mm of rain could fall in a relatively short time, bringing the risk of flooding."
“An amber weather warning is in force for parts of Scotland as well as further yellow warnings for rain and wind.”
From Wednesday, the heavy rain will begin to clear, with isolated showers across Wales and the southwest of England. As the wet-weather system drifts away, temperatures will remain fairly-mild with highs of 15C in the south of England. Thursday is set to be dry and bright, but temperatures will begin drop with highs of 11C in the South East, 9C in the north and 7C in Scotland.
|UK weather warning: The Met Office has issued five alerts (Image: MET OFFICE)|
On February 24
According to Weather Online, another damp day to come across much of central and southern Scotland, northwest England, wales and southwest England. Periods of rain here, heavy in the morning but tending to mease into the afternoon. Rain too in the east of Ireland, again this tending to ease. Drier in central and eastern areas of England, although some low cloud and drizzle affects southern coasts. Becoming brighter and drier in western Ireland. Highs at 10 to 16C.
Band of rain moving slowly southeast across central and western areas. Dry elsewhere with scattered showers in far northwest, Met Office reported.
Outlook for Thursday to Saturday
Rain clearing the southeast on Thursday with sunny spells and a few showers elsewhere. Some rain in the northwest, otherwise turning increasingly settled from Friday. Mild though overnight frosts likely.
The latest weather maps show a deep-chill will begin to move eastwards from the Atlantic from Thursday evening, Express reported.
Temperatures maps produced by WXcharts show an area of dark-blue engulfing the whole of the UK during the early hours of Friday morning, with lows of -1C in Scotland.
Widespread frost is expected across large areas of the country before sunrise on Friday, with mercury reaching highs of just 1C in Scotland, 1C in the north of England and 2C in the South by 9am.
|Photo: Weather Online|
Europe's weather forecast
A mostly dry and fine day for the Iberian peninsula with some cloud and patchy rain for the far northeast of Spain and west coast of Portugal. Early showers fade from the Balearic Islands to leave a dry and fine day here. Dry and bright conditions extend through the central and western Mediterranean. Sunshine and warmth for Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, Weather Online reported.
Some cloud and patchy rain linger over southern France but otherwise it's a dry and fine day for the rest of the country. High pressure brings dry and sunny conditions to much of Europe including for Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
Increasingly cloudy and windy for Denmark but staying mostly dry. Cloud and winds also increase across the Baltic States with rain and sleet arriving over Estonia and Latvia later. A band of rain, sleet and snow spreads across central and northern Sweden and Finland through the morning before another band of precipitation arrives over southern Norway later. Staying dry for the far south of Sweden.
|BBC Weather: Temperatures in European cities over the next few days (Image: BBC)|
BBC Weather forecaster Ben Rich said that temperatures would spike in Europe as warm air moves in this week. This could result in temperatures as high as 20C in Berlin as central and western Europe benefit most from the warm conditions. He noted that there will be some patches of rain but much of Europe will remain dry and sunny.
Mr Rich said: "There is real warmth spreading across western and central parts of Europe over the next couple of days. It is going to feel like spring, we have got high pressure centred right across the heart of the continent. It will be pulling warm air across Iberia and France towards the southeast of the UK and parts of Germany as well. Looking at the temperatures across Tuesday afternoon and we are getting up to the high teens."
"We have got Paris and even Berlin up to 17C on Tuesday, that is way warmer than it should be for this time of the year."
The BBC Weather forecaster noted that there will be some rain and fog in parts of Europe but this will be few and far between. Despite this, it will likely give way to sunshine and sunny spells are expected throughout the continent. He continued: "As we move from Tuesday to Wednesday we will see some patchy fog in central Europe, some of that could be dense. We will see plenty of sunshine through much of the continent. There will be some cloud drifting into parts of Turkey, it will be just 9C in Istanbul as well. On the other side, you can see it is fine in Madrid with 15C and Lisbon getting up to 18C."
The BBC Weather forecaster noted a change in wind direction will cause a slight dip in temperatures but won't impact most places in central Europe.
He said: "This frontal system may feed some rain into the far northwestern system and certainly some rain into the western side of the UK. As we look further ahead a slight shift in wind direction will chill things down. This will apply mostly to London and Paris but temperatures still well above where they should be for this time of year. Berlin could touch 20C on Wednesday and will be cooling off as we head to the end of the week."
|BBC Weather: Temperature spike to 20C in Europe as continent 'hotter than it should be' (Image: BBC )|
On February 24
According to Weather Online, heavy periods of rain affecting western parts of Spain and the west of Portugal. Fare across much of the rest of Spain and Portugal with lots of sunshine. Remaining fine through the central Mediterranean area, so Majorca, Corsica, Sardinia and most of Italy will have lots of sunshine and be dry too. Fine across Greece with more sunshine, but feeling quite chilly in the east. A cold, strong wind will be blowing through turkey.
cloud in the far north west of France with some outbreaks of rain here. Mostly dry and sunny across the rest of France. The Netherlands and Germany will be dry and sunny to, as will be Poland. Hungary, Switzerland and Austria will all be dry with lots of sunshine.
|Photo: Weather Online|
Dry and fed through Denmark and much of central and southern Sweden with sunshine here. Broken cloud in the Baltic states. Some outbreaks of rain and drizzle as well as stronger winds in Finland. Mild and rather wet over much of Norway.
|UK and Europe daily weather forecast latest, February 20: Heavy rain threatens weekend while temperatures expected to rise |
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|UK and Europe daily weather forecast latest, February 19: Gales and heavy rain to hit as temperatures rise |
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|UK and Europe daily weather forecast latest, February 18: Freezing temperature warnings in Britain after weeks of warm weather |
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Resignation Letter: When an employee is quitting his/her job, it’s proper protocol to provide his/her employer with a formal resignation letter for the employee’s file. A letter is a way to formally announce an employee’s resignation, even if an employee has already discussed his/her resignation with an employee’s boss or Human Resources.
Writing a letter is also a behavior that can help an employee maintain a positive relationship with their employer, which is essential if an employee hopes to use them as a reference and keep them as a networking contact. Read on to find more about resignation letter to hr/manager, resignation letter for teacher/school/software engineer.
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Tips for Writing Resignation Letter Templates
- Official Notice: It’s best to give the boss or the manager two weeks’ notice if an employee is resigning. If possible, write the letter at least two weeks before resigning from the job. The most important information to include in a resignation letter is the date an employee is planning to leave the company. This helps facilitate the transition for the employer, as well as for the employee as well. Declare this date first in the letter.
- Be Thankful: An employee should also let the employer know he/she appreciates their time with the company. If an employee were not particularly happy at the company, or if the employee’s relationship with the employee’s supervisor or colleagues was contentious, an employee can keep this expression of thanks brief. It’s enough to simply say, “I’ve enjoyed my time at ABC company.” or “My two years at ABC company have been a pleasure.”
- Offer Assistance: If possible, offer the employer support as they look for a replacement. This relief could come in the form of recruiting or training a new employee. An employee can also contribute to prepare transitional documents or bestow employee’s personal emails for questions after you’ve left the company. It’s up to an employee how generous he/she wants to be.
- Ask Queries: If an employee has any questions, including where to leave work supplies or questions about employee’s benefits, they might include these in the letter as well.
- Don’t complain: A resignation letter is not the time to share disappointments about co-workers, managers, or the company. Keep in mind that an employee may someday need a recommendation from people who will see this letter, so it is best to be kind.
- Keep the letter short and precise: A resignation letter should be simple, brief, focused, and to the point. There is no need to elaborate on the employee’s reasons for leaving. Keep the letter professional rather than delving into the personal.
- Write the letter in the business format: Make sure to follow proper business letter format in the employee’s letter. Include a header with the employer’s name and address, the date, and employee’s name and address.
- Review Before Sending It: The employee should also thoroughly proofread the letter before sending it. Again, an employee may need to ask for a reference from an employee’s employer, and an employee wants all employee’s work to be polished.
Best Resignation Letter Format
Employee’s City, State Zip Code
Employee’s Phone Number
Name of Manager
Title or Position
City, State Zip Code
Dear Mr./Ms. Last Name
I would like to inform you that I am resigning from my position as (Designation Name) for the (Company name), effective (Date/Month/Year).
Thank you very much for the opportunities for professional and personal development that you have provided me during the last (Number of years). I have enjoyed working for the agency and appreciate the support provided me during my tenure with the company.
If I can be of any help during this transition, please let me know.
Employee’s Signature (hard copy letter)
Employee’s Typed Name
Note: An employee should send a resignation letter to his/her manager, as well as Human Resources so that they have the letter on record.
Employment Resignation Letter Sample
Use the sample professional resignation letter below as a template to write your own letter, but just be sure to rewrite the letter to fit the employee’s particular professional situation.
BTM 2nd stage
Bangalore – 29, Karnataka
Date: February 5, 2020
The General Manager
Bangalore – 56, Karnataka
I would like to inform you that I am resigning from my position as Account Executive for the Oasis, effective April 1st, 2020.
I feel grateful to get the opportunities for professional and personal development that you have provided me during the last four years. I have enjoyed working for the company and appreciate the help provided me during my tenure with the company.
If I can be of any help during this transition, please feel free to reach me anytime. It would be a pleasure for me to provide my assistance to you.
Short Resignation Letter
Date: February 5, 2020
Subject: Resignation Letter
I would like to inform you that I am resigning from my position as Account Executive for the Oasis, effective March 1st, 2020.
Thank you for making me a part of this company and for giving me the best experiences.
If I can be of any help during this transition, please feel free to reach me anytime.
Email: [email protected]
Sample Professional Resignation Letter Emails
Here’s an example of a resignation email. Be sure to use a clear subject line.
Subject: Resignation Letter – Priyanka Mehta
Dear Mr. Sharma,
I’m writing to inform you that I am resigning from my position as an Accountant Executive for Oasis Company, effective March 1.
I am glad to get an opportunity to learn from you and the team. Thank you for all the support, mentorship, and guidance over the past five years.
It would be a pleasure for me if I can be of any assistance during the transition. Kindly let me know for the same.
Important Points to Write Resignation Emails
The content of the employee’s message will be the same, but there are a few things to remember, to be professional and keep from burning bridges with employees soon-to-be former employer.
- Talk to the manager or HR, if possible. Generally speaking, it’s not a good idea to resign via email. While email can be an acceptable replacement for a hard-copy letter, it’s not the equivalent of a face-to-face discussion with the boss. A few exceptions: if an employee works remotely on a full-time basis or feels unsafe quitting in person, email may be the employee’s best option.
- Include all necessary information. That means providing a clear subject line (e.g., Resignation – employee’s Name) and employee’s effective resignation date, contact information, and offer to help with the transition, if possible. an employee should also tell the company where to send employee’s final paycheck if an employee doesn’t have direct deposit, as well as ask any questions an employee might have about benefits and paid time off.
- Proofread and test the employee’s messages. The last thing an employee wants is to send an employee’s resignation email only to discover that it was filled with typos or formatting issues that an employee would have caught during a simple test. Send the message to yourself first, and consider having an eagle-eyed friend review it for errors before an employee sends it on to the employee’s boss.
FAQ’s On Resignation Letter
How to write a good resignation letter?
Solution: Things to be included in the resignation letter:
- Date of writing the letter
- Details of the employee(name, designation, email, address, phone number)
- Name and address of concern person
- Declaration of resignation
- Reason for leaving
- Thank you
- Name and Signature
What is a Resignation Letter?
When an employee wants to leave the company or organization where he/she is presently working in, they have to provide an official letter mentioning the reason and date of leaving the company. This letter is called a resignation letter.
Why one should write a resignation letter mail?
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Penal Code Article & Definition
California Penal Code 273d is the statute for the crime of child abuse, also known as corporal injury in a child. The statute makes it illegal to impose physical injury or cruel punishment on a child.
The crime can be charged as either a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the facts and circumstances of the case.
Elements of Child Abuse
Child abuse is defined as
Corporal punishment is defined as any physical punishment.
A “traumatic condition” is defined as a wound or other bodily injury, whether minor or serious, caused by the direct application of physical force.
An injury is inflicted “willfully” if the act causing the injury is done on purpose.
Examples of Child Abuse
Mandatory Reporting Law
California has mandatory reporting laws that requires certain professions (teachers, child care workers, social service providers, etc) to report suspected instances of child abuse and neglect.
In California, spanking is not considered child abuse if it is for disciplinary purposes and is not excessive under the circumstances.
This applies to spanking both with a bare hand and with an object (i.e. a belt or paddle). However, this is a very controversial area, and it can change at any time. Additionally, a jury can find that you were excessive in the spanking, thus convicting you of child abuse.
Even though you are charged with child abuse, you and your attorney can still fight the charges regardless of whether you are charged with a misdemeanor or felony. There are multiple options available to you, including:
Prior Acts of Child Abuse
In California, prior acts or convictions for child abuse are admissible in child abuse prosecution. They are admissible wehther the act resulted in a conviction or not.
A hearing must first be held to determine if the prior act of child abuse or conviction is overly prejudicial against the defendant.
Overview of Penalties
Child abuse is a “wobbler” offense, which means that the prosecutor can charge the crime as either a misdemanor or a felony depending on the facts and circumstances of the offense and the defendant’s criminal history.
If charged as a misdemeanor, child abuse can be punished by up to one year in county jail and/or a fine up to $6,000.
If charged as a felony, child abuse can be punished by up to six years in state prison and/or a fine up to $6,000.
Additionally, it is possible for the sentence to increase by four years, if you have a prior child abuse conviction.
Lastly, a conviction for child abuse can count as a “strike” under California’s Three Strikes law. This occurs when the minor suffered great bodily injury as a result of the abuse.
On occasion, a judge will sentence a defendant to probation instead of jail time. Probation can be imposed for misdemeanor or felony child abuse.
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WHAT TYPES OF ACTIVITIES DO STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN?
Students are encouraged and required to take part in individual and group activities that will expose them to new experiences and offer opportunities to develop leadership and networking skills. These experiences not only provide students a way to get to know each other outside of the classroom, they also offer students unique ways of connecting with mentors and community leaders.
Special Activities- The Puente Program and Puente Club coordinates special activities each semester to welcome mentors, new students and their families into what we consider a family environment. Throughout the semester fundraisers, workshops and networking events are provided to help students learn about resources and keep connected. At the end of the semester, a "recognition dinner" is held to offeradministrators, family members and friends of the program an opportunity to honor both students and mentors for their participation in the program.
College Tours -Each semester the Puente Program coordinates a trip to visit various California State and University of California campuses. During these trips, students have a chance to truly feel the atmosphere of that Universities campus. Every campus has a different feel, for students planning to go to these institutions it is definitely beneficial to personally visit and take to heart whether they truly like the university.These trips provide campus tours with fellow peers, which not only deepens bonds while having fun, but also creates a personal connection between the student and the school.
Pu ente Student Motivational Conference
ente Student Motivational Conference-In the fall semester students attend a motivational conference at a University of California campus. Students from all the statewide community college Puente Programs are invited to take part in a full day of activities which includes a question and answer session with a panel of UC Admissions Representatives, informative workshops and guest speakers from various industries including television, film and the literary world.
Cultural Events -Students are invited to take an active role in identifying and/or planning cultural activities that are of interest to them. The Puente Club officers will take the lead in facilitating these activities and all Puente students are encouraged to participate.
For more information, please contact:
Richard Alvarez, Puente Program Coordinator/Counselor
Counseling & Administration: Building #23
Nathan Franklin, Puente Program Coordinator/English Instructor
Building #21, Room 131
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(Chemical Equation Presented) Activated sulfonyl derivatives, similar to acyl ones, usually undergo aminolysis with amines in water as nucleophilic attack by the amine is preferred to hydrolysis. However, despite being active sulfonyl derivatives, four-membered heterocyclic sulfonamides, β-sultams, do not undergo aminolysis in aqueous solution but preferentially react to give hydrolysis products only. The rate of the reaction of β-sultams in buffered solutions of simple primary amines shows a first-order dependence on amine concentrations attributed to general base-catalyzed hydrolysis by the amine. Even N-benzyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-oxo-β-sultam, which is both a β-sultam and a β-lactam, undergoes hydrolysis at the sulfonyl center rather than aminolysis at either the sulfonyl or acyl center. The solvent kinetic isotope effects (SKIE, kH2O/kD2O) for the amine-catalyzed hydrolyses are 1.4 and 1.9 for the hydrolysis of N-benzoyl-β-sultam and N-benzyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-oxo-β-sultam, respectively, compatible with a general base-catalyzed mechanism. The amine-catalyzed hydrolysis gives a Bronsted β value of +0.9 for both N-benzoyl β-sultam and N-benzyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-oxo-β-sultam, indicating that the general base amine is almost fully protonated in the transition state. A general base-catalyzed mechanism for hydrolysis rather than nucleophilic attack was also deduced for the reaction of N-benzyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-oxo-β-sultam with carboxylate anions based on a SKIE of 1.7-1.9 and rate constants which fit the Bronsted plot for amines. In contrast to acyl transfer reactions, those for sulfonyl transfer appear to show an inverse reactivity-selectivity relationship - the most active compounds being the most selective. The lack of reactivity of β-sultams toward amine nucleophiles appears to be related to the mechanism of ring opening of β-sultams with a decreased reactivity toward amines relative to hydroxide ion, probably related to the expulsion of the relatively poor leaving group amide anion. | <urn:uuid:e4a1232f-b2ea-4fcc-b966-c731b6f5a7a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/publications/an-activated-sulfonylating-agent-that-undergoes-general-base-cata | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.903517 | 570 | 1.773438 | 2 |
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Awareness is where growth starts
Have you ever met the person who says, “I am a great listener,” then doesn’t stop talking for the next 20 minutes as they proceed to tell you how great of a listener they are? Likely you have, and internally thought this person has no clue. There seems to be an abundance of these people in the world today. Not just when it comes to listening, but also in hundreds of different areas where the individual has an awareness issue.
Billions of dollars a year are spent by business leaders trying to fix things like this in the traditional training and development industry. However, they are usually disappointed with the outcome because they missed the critical first step in how we GROW as humans – and especially as adult humans. That step is awareness. Until an individual is aware of something, he or she can’t change or even be open to change.
Last year a local business owner brought us in because they were extremely frustrated with their team’s customer service. They were also frustrated by how much they had already worked on it and how much they had spent with another training organization. Leadership knew there was an issue and deserved credit for attempting to address it. However, when they called in this other, well-known organization to help them build a better service team, they missed this critical first step of awareness. This was incredibly obvious when our team researched with them to understand better what the situation was.
The people in this organization already believed they were providing outstanding customer service. By the standards they had for service, this was very understandable. However, the clients and the owners had a different service-level expectation.
Can you see the disconnect and why this would be an issue?
When the other organization delivered the training, the team was not aware of the disconnect; thus, they did not take the training seriously. They were not AWARE the leadership team completely wasted time and money!
Unfortunately, we see this in almost every client we work with who has been disappointed with efforts to fix issues in their organization.
It would be nice if the situation were an anomaly or only pertained to customer service. However, that is far from reality. It is prevalent in leadership, management, sales, business development, and virtually every interaction between two (or more) individuals – both professionally and personally.
The process will sound easy. However, it is far from that when you truly dig in and go to work. Once awareness exists, the growth process can begin. If, or when, an individual becomes aware that things they say, don’t say, do, don’t do, how they act, etc. are holding them back, they are open to change and growth. This openness leads to greater success.
So, let me ask – what things do you need to be more aware of? How are these things limiting your growth and your greater success? Some of you have answers to these questions and own the responsibility to do something about it. Others of you are not able to answer these questions. If you fall into this group and seek growth or greater success, you should seek help from professionals who can help you identify the gaps you may not be aware of that are holding you back.
When (if) you do, the pathway to the success you seek becomes much easier to understand and follow.
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About Mike Crandall
Mike Crandall lives in Edmond, Oklahoma. He is a Consultant, Coach, Trainer, Speaker, and Author focused on the Subconscious Psychology of Human Interaction and Motivation. His firm specializes in Elevating Leadership, Management, & Sales Performance for Proactive Business Growth. Mike is based in Oklahoma and serves Visionary Clients across the United States. He can be reached at (405) 844-1700. | <urn:uuid:c0a60f73-f978-477b-990f-146baeb8dca7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edmondbusiness.com/2020/11/awareness-growth-starts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.981708 | 800 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Welcome to the A Topiary Wiki
This wiki relates to the screenplay A Topiary, written by Shane Carruth. Everything is derived from the screenplay.
Many of the images are derived from this shot of CGI prototype images, taken from the film Upstream Color:
The newer images have been lifted from a PDF recently provided by Shane Himself: Link
You can now watch a trailer for the movie: https://vimeo.com/23608364
Describe your topic
This wiki will be split into four main, inter-related sections:
The plot will glue together the characters with the Technology.
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MEXICO CITY — Some call it a crisis at the border. Not the undocumented migrants flowing north. The illegal Fords and Chevrolets moving south.
To Mexican car dealers, they pose an existential threat: vehicles driven across the border, untaxed and without import permits, sold for less than market value. To Mexican law enforcement, the concern has been even more severe: an endless fleet of unregistered vehicles that could be co-opted by organized crime.
But on both sides of the border, the chocolate cars — the term might be a play on “chueco,” or crooked — have been big business, one of the region’s most lucrative illicit markets. Used-car tycoons emerged in Texas and California border towns. Massive car lots sprouted along the Rio Grande. In places such as Tijuana, a cottage industry emerged around the sale of counterfeit license plates.
The car you sold years ago in an American city — or the one stolen from you? There’s a good chance it’s now in Mexico.
This week, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador dipped his toe into the controversy, offering amnesty to the owners of millions of illicit American cars. The decree he published Monday had the lofty ring of a peace accord: “The agreement for the regularization of used vehicles of foreign origin.” It promised “to fight crime and protect citizens against the use of unregistered vehicles.”
As of Tuesday, owners of autos chocolates in seven northern states could pay $120 to make legal the car they imported or purchased illegally. The revenue, López Obrador said, would be put toward road improvements.
The response was immediate.
“An attempted murder on the economy,” charged the newspaper El Economista.
“A prize for the mafia,” the Mexican Association of Automobile Distributors said.
“This country will become an automotive garbage dump,” the Mexican Employers Association warned.
But across much of northern Mexico, the owners of used American cars and trucks quietly rejoiced. They could finally replace expired U.S. license plates with Mexican ones and become law-abiding drivers once again.
The decision to legalize the autos chocolates echoes more prominent debates about other illicit flows across the border. In the United States, some make parallel arguments for the mass legalization of migration or drugs. In Mexico, the amnesty for imported cars sometimes feels no less controversial.
“We need to recognize that we don’t have control over the passage of these cars along the border,” said Fidel Villanueva, the director of Anapromex, which defends the owners of illegally imported cars when the government tries to seize them. “The Americans don’t want them, so they’ll keep coming, buenos, bonitos y baratos” — good, nice and cheap.
“We needed this amnesty,” he said.
Given Mexican taxes and permit fees and the vast pool of used cars in the United States, a used car purchased legally in Mexico can cost more than twice as much as the same model imported illegally (and tax-free) from the United States. For decades, that has made autos chocolates a gift to Mexico’s middle class, which would otherwise have been locked out of the car market.
López Obrador, a populist leader who has described his governing philosophy as “first, the poor,” appeared to see a political victory in the auto amnesty. He described the owners of illegal cars as the victims of an unjust, neoliberal economy.
“They use these because they can’t afford to buy a car from an agency,” he said. “With these cars, they take their kids to school.”
Juan Pérez Reyes, a ranch worker from Baja California, was eager to regularize his 2004 Honda Accord. He bought it as an auto chocolate several years ago, to save money.
“We’ll be able to drive with a feeling of reassurance, without the constant fear that we might run into a [customs] checkpoint or a police officer,” he said.
But the country’s automobile industry was outraged by López Obrador’s decision. For years, executives have complained about the ease with which American cars — most purchased at U.S. auctions, salvage yards and dealerships — have been taken across the border and resold.
Those who drive autos chocolates in Mexico are careful to avoid checkpoints where their registration paperwork might be inspected. The locations of those moving checkpoints are posted on Facebook by drivers of chocolate cars looking out for each other. When stopped by police, they often pay a small bribe.
Now, auto executives say, that illegal behavior is being rewarded.
“We know the best way to attract national and international investment is by respecting the rule of law. Laws should be abided and those who don’t abide by the law should pay for it,” said José Zozaya, president of the Mexican Automobile Industry Association. “In this case, we think legalizing the illicit contraband of automobiles is not the formula.”
The Mexican auto industry, which contributes more than 3 percent of the country’s GDP, maintains major influence. Ironically for an industry now advocating an element of protectionism, 80 percent of the vehicles it produces are exported to the United States.
Zozaya said the amnesty would reduce the value of similar cars manufactured or imported legally in Mexico.
“Hard-working people will lose the value of their investments because these vehicles will saturate the market and their value will decrease,” he said.
For years, Mexican efforts to block the autos chocolates have appeared halfhearted. In the 1990s, for example, drivers entering the country in U.S. vehicles were asked to leave deposits of up to $800 at the border, to be returned when they exited.
Previous amnesty offers included complex and often expensive schemes for taxing vehicles depending on their age and the country where they were manufactured. So the vehicles kept coming illegally. Sometimes they arrived in sudden bursts, as when Hurricane Katrina filled U.S. salvage yards with damaged cars. Many of those fell into the hands of Mexican criminal groups.
Last year, officials in the state of Baja California estimated that roughly 80 percent of vehicles used in crimes were unregistered, most of them imported illegally from the United States. López Obrador has suggested that the amnesty will make more cars traceable by Mexican law enforcement.
But critics argue that the reform rewards criminal groups that derive revenue from importing and selling cars illegally — which will likely now see a spike in sales. Though the amnesty program applies only to vehicles that were in the country before López Obrador signed the decree, analysts say the cutoff is unlikely to be enforced.
Already, some say, the number of illegally imported cars is rising.
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By Cathy Kristofferson, June 28, 2013
Today, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, condemned the so-called same-sex marriage prohibition bill just passed by the Nigerian Parliament last month. The bill, which in reality has more to do with criminalizing homosexuality rather than stopping same gender marriages in a country where homosexual acts are already criminal, sets prison terms of up to 14 years.
Speaking on the BBC, Pillay said:
“I am very concerned that the rights of LGBT people that’s.. ah.. the sexual orientation right.. are being violated that they are subject to discrimination and I condemn this law of Nigeria because it violates the equality clause both in Nigerian law as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which speaks of equality for all.”
As we reported here on OBLOGDEE, the bill now only awaits Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s signature to become law. If signed, the law also criminalizes any person involved in gay clubs or organizations will be at risk of 10 years imprisonment as well as criminalizing the “public show of same-sex amorous relationships directly or indirectly.”
Today, the High Commissioner took questions live on the BBC, such as the one we are always asking here on OBLOGDEE of what is the UN doing to ensure that Nigeria is held in compliance with the international treaties supporting non-discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity that they have signed?
See the BBC video here:
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Cooking & Dining in Medieval England
• Winner André Simon Food Book of the Year Award 2009 • • ‘This is an important and authoritative book’, Constance B. Hieatt • • ‘A source of enlightenment and delight’, Gastronomica •This is the paperback version of the hardback we published in 2008/09. The history of medieval food and cookery has received a fair amount of attention from the point of view of recipes (of which many survive) and of the general context of feasts and feasting. It has never, as yet, been studied with an eye to the real mechanics of food production and service: the equipment used, the household organisation, the architectural arrangements for kitchens, store-rooms, pantries, larders, cellars, and domestic administration. This new work by Peter Brears, perhaps Britain’s foremost expert on the historical kitchen, looks at these important elements of cooking and dining.A series of chapters looks at the cooking departments in large households: the counting house, dairy, brewhouse, pastry, boiling house and kitchen. These are illustrated by architectural perspectives of surviving examples in castles and manor houses throughout the land. There are chapters dealing with the various sorts of kitchen equipment: fires, fuel, pots and pans. Sections are then devoted to recipes and types of food cooked. The recipes are those which have been used and tested by Peter Brears in hundreds of demonstrations to the public and cooking for museum displays. Finally there are chapters on the service of dinner and the rituals that grew up around these. Here, Peter Brears has drawn a strip cartoon of the serving of a great feast (the washing of hands, the delivery of napery, the tasting for poison, etc.) which will be of permanent utility to historical re-enactors who wish to get their details right.
To read an extract, please click here.
Peter Brears was former Director of the Leeds City Museum and is one of England’s foremost authorities on domestic artifacts and historical kitchens and cooking technology.
Review by Alex Burghart in the Times Literary Supplement (6 Mar 2013)
Peter Brears COOKING AND DINING IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND 557pp. Prospect. Paperback, £20. 978 1 903018 87 3 Hannele Klemettilä THE MEDIEVAL KITCHEN A social history with recipes 232pp. Reaktion. £25. 978 1 86189 908 8 Throughout much of the late twentieth century British food enjoyed a famously poor reputation. As late as 2003 Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic, scoffed that “one cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad … . After Finland, it is the country with the worst food”. (The laugh was soon to be on him – days later the Finnish vote would send the 2012 Olympics to London rather than Paris.) The slur was not entirely without historical justification. Popular British fare took some time to recover from the two periods of food rationing, amounting to eighteen years, under which the country laboured between 1917 and 1954. This sour reputation, contends Peter Brears in Cooking and Dining in Medieval England, is a great pity. England, he says, “has one of the longest, finest and best documented cuisines”, and his captivatingly detailed book exposes something of the brilliance of its lineage. In doing so he helps to undermine the equally spurious preconception that medieval food was coarse and crude. The Hollywood images of bawdy feasts or high medieval slop (perhaps derived from the minds of Englishmen raised on the gruel of medieval public schools) are to be discarded. Both Brears and Hannele Klemettilä – who skates across the whole of continental Europe in The Medieval Kitchen: A social history with recipes – tackle this injustice and reveal the delicacy, craft and complexity that underpinned medieval food. Most of Klemettilä’s recipes, reconstructed from medieval cookbooks, are oddly familiar and might hail from any number of modish contemporary equivalents (walnut and date pie; poached eggs with mustard sauce; and partridge in ginger). Rebuilding them is no mean feat – medieval cookbooks were ordinarily simple lists of ingredients without notes or proportions – and the author’s reckonings stand up to preparation. This might have been a world ignorant of tea, coffee, chocolate and the potato, but its meats and fish, its butter and spices were very much the same. Klemettilä is, however, also good at drawing out the unusual. She has interesting digressions on extraordinary entremets (including one from the Burgundian court in which a twelve-part orchestra was brought in in a pie), early vegetarians, and the uses of tallow. Brears goes beyond food. He shows how families’ (particularly grander families’) eating habits and rituals shaped the architecture they inhabited. His fascinating dissection of Warkworth Castle’s fourteenth-century donjon shows how this ruined three-storey tower was “one of the finest concepts of efficient, sequential food preparation and management theory ever to be realised in stone”. Four staircases govern the building: one took food and fuel from ground-floor stores to the kitchen, another kegs from beer cellar to buttery, a third led guests from the entrance to the vestibule, and a fourth carried wine to the dais between Hall and chapel. (This analysis, like many others, is supported by a number of the author’s superb schematic plans and sketches.) Brears conjures up the whole operation, giving accounts of how wood was stored, fires maintained, water channelled, counting and boiling houses and kitchens designed, and food prepared. His passion for and commitment to his subject is brain-boggling and captivating (and is underscored by his having, as part of his research, served a precisely reconstructed medieval feast to a recent Archbishop of York in the York Merchant Adventurers’ fourteenth-century hall). The size of the operation required to feed the burgeoning entourages of high medieval aristocratic courts is consistently striking. The same Earl of Northumberland whose domains included Warkworth in one year purchased 123 “beefs” (at a cost of £86, or perhaps £65,000 today), 667 muttons, 160 gallons of mustard, 51lbs of pepper, 3lbs of saffron and a great deal else besides. The scale of this consumption reminds us of the huge expanse of patronage that a high medieval noble could command, and the amount of reciprocal loyalty and duty on which he, as a host, might be able to call. Food not only ordered the space behind the battlements, it kept the whole show on the road; if patronage oils the wheels of power, then it was most obviously manifested in feeding and being fed. Medieval Western European produce also exposes something about the reach of that world. This is something that neither author gives much space to, which is a shame because the presence of, for example, large quantities of pepper in English larders reveals the tentacles of a trading network stretching from northern Britain to India. Such routes were already old – when the Venerable Bede died in 735 his artefacts included pepper – as were the traditions of many of the rituals discussed. These earlier medieval antecedents are also rarely touched on, yet Europe before the twelfth century set the tone of much of what came later. The great social orchestrations of the Carolingians, for example, had a long-felt impact on European practices. Both Peter Brears’s and Hannele Klemettilä’s books put us in touch with an essential element of medieval culture and show us how it shaped that world. In helping to restore its reputation they also help to further repair the standing of an age whose rich sophistication is too often unfairly smeared.
Review by Consance B. Hieatt in Speculum (Jul 2009)
This review is from an older edition of this book. PETER BREARS, Cooking and Dining in Medieval England. Totnes, Eng.: Prospect Books, 2008. Pp. 557; black-and-white frontispiece, black-and-white figures, tables, and 1 chart. $60. Distributed by the David Brown Book Co., P.O. Box 511, 28 Main St., Oakville, CT 06779. Cooking and Dining in Medieval England surveys how food reached the kitchens of the period and was prepared and tells the modern cook how to achieve similar results: the chapter entitled ‘Pottage Recipes’ alone contains over a hundred recipes, complete with temperatures, timing, and other matters that the medieval original usually left up to the discretion of the cook. It is illustrated throughout with the author’s own drawings, showing everything from floor plans of various medieval kitchens to implements and the proper way a field-worker would cut and eat bread and cheese (‘only animals [and modern actors] bit instead of cutting or breaking their food into mouth-sized portions,’ p. 425). What is unique here is the careful description of the household arrangements for preparing and presenting food. A list of the chapter titles suggests the contents: ‘The Counting House,’ ‘Planning for Cooking,’ ‘Wood, Coals, Turves and Fires,’ ‘Water Supplies,’ ‘The Dairy,’ ‘The Brewhouse,’ ‘The Bakehouse,’ ‘The Pastry,’ ‘The Boiling House,’ ‘The Kitchen,’ ‘Kitchen Furniture and Equipment,’ ‘Pottage Utensils,’ ‘Pottage Recipes,’ ‘Leaches,’ ‘Roasting,’ ‘Frying,’ ‘The Saucery,’ ‘The Confectionery and Wafery,’ ‘Planning Meals,’ ‘The Buttery and Pantry,’ ‘The Ewery,’ ‘Table Manners,’ ‘Dining in the Chamber,’ and ‘Great Feasts.’ Note that we don’t reach the kitchen itself until almost halfway through the list! Some may wonder why the author starts at the countinghouse. The finances of feeding the many people inhabiting, or connected with, a manor house required very careful management. In any major household 100 to 150 people had to be fed, clothed, and housed. The countinghouse itself was a meeting place for a large administrative staff, including perhaps a dozen officers and clerks; pages 29–32 follow their duties throughout a long day, from 4 a.m., when the cost of the previous day’s meals was calculated and the cooks were called upon to start their day’s work, until 8 P.M., when the countinghouse closed after making sure that the day’s records were complete and accurate. The other chapters on the role of various divisions of the household are equally informative, and the explanation of how meals were planned and eaten, including the vital matter of table manners, is generally sound – although sometimes Brears seems to be drawing on very late sources. For example, he describes sugar plate as a ‘spiced icing-sugar and gum-tragacanth sugar plate,’ drawing on a recipe published in 1653, although a much simpler recipe from a manuscript of ca. 1400 is printed in a book he refers to frequently. Similarly, while Brears is probably correct that a manchet always had to weigh a pound and could not have been the ‘small dinner-bun size currently specified by some historians and used by re-enactors and in historic food displays’ (p. 116), and some late-fifteenth century illustrations of bread served at table show such loaves in the squared-off pieces Brears depicts, there are many earlier illustrations of diners with smaller round loaves (or, in some cases, round trenchers). These include the often-reproduced scene in British Library, MS Royal 14.E.lV, fol. 284r, showing John of Gaunt with two other royal personages and four bishops, with rectangular trenchers of a very dark bread plus smaller, round, white loaves. The recipes are diverse and well chosen. Directions for making roast boar’s head (pp. 168–71) should be useful for those intent on presenting that dish – but should not be attempted casually! Such enthusiasts also ought to heed Brears’s explanation (p. 34) that peacocks used for roasting should be under eighteen months old. But some of his recipes do not follow the sources exactly, as when that on page 228 for stewed collops puts all the ingredients together at once, unlike the original and despite Brears’s earlier remarks about the importance of order (p. 226), and calls for stick cinnamon and ‘bruised’ peppercorns where the original calls for ‘pouder of peper and cane!.’ Downright errors are rare, but there are some. For example, Chaucer’s Cook’s name was not ‘Roger Hodge’ (p. 212) but ‘Hodge of Ware’: ‘Hodge’ was a nickname for ‘Roger.’ On page 261 Brears suggests that beans were fried ‘for long term storage,’ which is obviously wrong. Perhaps ‘frying’ is a typographical error for ‘drying,’ but the note here (83) is incorrect and so I cannot check it. There are other flaws, such as the implication that dairy products were allowed on ember days in Lent, but, on the other hand, I am glad to find that Brears has corrected some of my own. For example, he points out something I had missed, defining ‘brawn’ as ‘boar’s meat’; apparently I had failed to check the Oxford English Dictionary on this point. In any case, he corrects enough omissions and misunderstandings to more than make up for those few matters where he himself is careless. This is an important and authoritative book.
CONSTANCE B. HIEATT, Essex, Conn.
Review by Micheal Hobbs in Gastronomica (2010)
This review is from an older edition of this book. Cooking and Dining in Medieval England Peter Brears Totnes: Prospect Books, 2008, 557 pp. Illustrations, £30 (boards) For those without a prior interest in the cooking and dining practices of medieval England, and whose notions of these subjects may have been casually acquired from movies, Peter Brears’s book will prove a source of enlightenment and delight. It is a work of great erudition that examines all aspects of domestic administration in the production and. service of food in, for the most part, large households, in which a hierarchy of officials regulated and audited everything from collecting rents, acquisition and release of ingredients and fuel, maintaining the security of storage areas, and cooking in all its separate departments, through to the elaborate etiquette for service at table. Using archaeological and architectural sources to define the disposition of various storage and work spaces, Brears sheds much light on the ergonomics, of producing food on a large scale with maximum efficiency. What also emerges is that the interpretation of archaeological remains can often be enhanced by a knowledge of cooking practices. The workings of the dairy, brewhouse, bakehouse, pastry, and boiling house are described in successive chapters, and a selection of recipes is given for each. Then follow accounts of the kitchen, kitchen furniture and equipment, and pottage utensils, with separate chapters on the products of the main kitchen organized by preparation method-pottages, leaches, roasting, and frying. It becomes clear that the level of sophistication in cooking could be very great. Well over two hundred and fifty modernized recipes are included, representative of some fifteen hundred late-fourteenth- and fifteenth-century originals. The most basic item of the medieval diet was undoubtedly bread, used also for trenchers. In the small domestic environment baking was done over the fire on a flat bakestone, or in an improvised oven inside a pot around and over which embers could be heaped. By contrast, the bakehouses of large houses had stone or brick ovens. In the medieval period pastry was essentially disposable cookware and not intended for consumption. Pre-prepared crusts were filled for baking as required for the table. Many of the pastries were recognizably similar to the tarts and flans of today, albeit using what we might consider unusual combinations of ingredients. Others were elaborately constructed. Flampoints were ornamented with pointed pieces of pastry, but most impressive of all was the castlette, comprising a round keep with four flanking round towers all being battlemented. Each tower had a separate filling, and the whole construction was served flambé at great feasts. Pottages were no more than dishes cooked in a single pot, from the simplest cereal gruels to the richest stews; the make up half the total number of recipes in the book. Meat used for a pottage might have been prepared by roasting, frying, or parboiling. Again, this was a device for facilitating its quick conversion into a range of different dishes by simmering in different stocks, with much attention being given to their consistency, texture, and color. Roasting was too time-consuming to be practiced in small households, but frying could produce food rapidly, and with little fuel consumption. Wine, wafers, and sweetmeats were served at the end of a meal. In the greatest households, where the feast was conducted as an expression of wealth, power, and status, the ostentatious culmination was the exhibition of subtleties. These were table sculptures on a particular allegorical or symbolic theme produced in the confectionery. Initially made from edible materials-sugar, marchpane, pastry-they came to be constructed from more durable ones, such as wax, paper, tinfoil, or wood. One cannot fail to be impressed by the skill and ingenuity of the medieval cook, and by the variety and sophistication of what was produced in facilities which today would be considered limited. The volume’s illustrations are either original drawings by the author or his redrawings from various sources. Although they are very informative, few are referred to in the text. For the most part they appear near where they are relevant, but it would have been helpful to have drawn attention to them. The accounts of dining in chamber, and of great feasts, both include cartoon-strip representations that are especially helpful in succinctly conveying the elaborate ceremonial involved. It is a matter of regret that this fine book is marred by inconsistencies, errors and omissions – notes, bibliography, and indices. For instance, the bibliography contains lapses in alphabetization and is incomplete, while the generally useful index of recipes bizarrely lists a recipe for vegetable pottage under ‘Beef’. The usefulness of the general index depends on readers already knowing the class of subject they are looking for; thus, ‘pimps’ and ‘shides’ are to be found only under ‘Fuel.’ Although individually trivial, the errors are cumulatively unacceptable and should have been eliminated by an attentive editor. Michael Hobbs, London
Review from Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 89 (2010)
This review is from an older edition of this book. Peter Brears’s thick volume on Cooking and Dining in Medieval England is an informative treat, with documentary and archaeological evidence, many dozens of recipes (with imperial and metric measurement), and many drawings to illustrate features ranging from how to cook a boar’s head to how the feast for the archbishop of York’s enthronement in 1466 was served (in seventy panels). As often as possible, relevant snippets from Chaucer, Langland, Walter de Bibbesworth, Gawain and the Green Knight, Lydgate, and others are inserted into the descriptions of buildings, rooms, cooking and eating utensils, supplies, furniture, preparation, and foods. Institutional arrangements (colleges, monasteries, and so forth) are not Brears’s concern, but domestic ones are, principally those of castles and manors, with a continual eye kept on the surviving evidence for cottages. Brears begins with the counting house since household finances determine meals, and devotes individual chapters to such topics as water, the brewhouse, the bakehouse, pottage utensils, leaches, frying, the ewery, table manners, dining in the chamber, and feasts. For those of us who read texts that refer to such matters, the detailed comments with additional information are most useful. | <urn:uuid:0d7937ed-b42a-4fe5-af29-d3c80b766dc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prospectbooks.co.uk/products-page/current-titles/cooking-dining-in-medieval-england/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963374 | 4,406 | 2.359375 | 2 |
One of pop music’s living legends, Sir Elton John, has sold more than a quarter of a billion records and enjoyed more than fifty Top 40 hits over his five-decade career, reaching a kind of commercial success that has dwarfed his art. Some industry calculations estimate that his music once accounted for as much as three percent of annual sales worldwide.
Until this day, the 63-year-old singer, composer and pianist remains a formidable live draw, attracting young and old alike.
“I learned from the young,” he exclaims. “A lot of my contemporaries don’t listen to new music. They don’t get that energy that you can get from the young. I still want to hear the next thing that’s going to inspire me. Of course, I am inspired by the past. Who wouldn’t be? If you want to remain, why would you want to keep listening to the same music? I keep my eye on the ball and I still have fun with it. That’s why I’ve been around for 40 years.”
Since his early twenties, every week, the timeless musician has bought new releases, amassing a collection of over 70,000 CDs. He listens to new music, goes to the movies and visits new art exhibitions, constantly searching for inspiration.
“There is always something around the corner that you didn’t expect to find, someone who will inspire you and whenever I am inspired by an artist, whether it be a singer, an actor, a dancer, a painter or a writer, I phone them or I write them a letter and say thank you because I remember when I was young and getting a telegram from George Harrison and being introduced on stage by Neil Diamond meant so much to me. It validated what I did and if you validate the young and you give them encouragement and you say, ‘listen you’re doing really good work at your age,’ it inspires you and it inspires them.”
Conscious of the difficulties and hardships young talents face in the early stages of their careers, Sir Elton has established a management company that is dedicated to guiding and nurturing such talent, encouraging them to play live without rushing them.
“Records aren’t selling,” he exclaims. “Sales figures in the last weeks on Soundscan and Billboard have been the lowest that they’ve ever been. The number 1 album this week sold 44,000 copies, which is unheard of. It’s quite scary, but live entertainment is doing very well.”
“Don’t put out the first album just for the sake of it. You have to know, you have to tour, you have to play in front of three people, you have to play in front of 100 people, and maybe it’s not so good and you’re disappointed, but that gives you the necessary resolve and experience, so you’re ready when you become successful.”
Although he finds instant television shows entertaining, Sir Elton believes that they don’t give an artist any stability for the future. “You’re just as good as that series and then the next series comes along and there’s someone else so I worry about the artist in that sense.”
A technophobe, who doesn’t have a phone, a computer or an iPod, Sir Elton laments the closure of many book and music stores. “It’s going to get very depressing because I like the tangible feel of a CD, a book or a record. That’s gradually disappearing from landscapes.”
But he is upbeat about the future of the music industry. “Music will always be okay because people will want to see live entertainment and that’s where, as an artist, if you can’t play live, you’re stuck now.”
Sir Elton’s career is not confined to live music. The 9 times Grammy award winner has also scored major motion pictures, such as Days of Thunder, Four Weddings and A Funeral and The Lion King, for which he won an Academy Award for the song ‘Can You Feel The Love Tonight’ in 1995.
In the 90s, he formed his own production company ‘Rocket Pictures’, whose latest production is the animated comedy ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’, which retells Shakespeare’s tragic love story of two teenagers in the world of garden gnomes and gives it a happy ending.
Composed by James Newton Howard, who used to be in Sir Elton’s backing band, the film is graced by a soundtrack featuring both new songs and classics from the Elton John-Bernie Taupin library, including ‘Tiny Dancer’, ‘Rocket Man’, ‘Bennie and The Jets’ and ‘I’m Still Standing’.
Each song has been fitted to an appropriate scene, lending it an emotional depth and enhancing its comedy.
“I suddenly become the gnome,” he laughs. “We just sifted through the lyrics and even though the lyrics aren’t in there, the songs that seemed appropriate for each scene we gradually got them and worked them out.”
“I never ever envisaged doing a film about gnomes, but one of the funniest things in my life was when Tim Rice gave me a lyric for The Lion King and it started off ‘When I was a young warthog’. I thought, ‘Oh my God, what am I doing? I’m writing songs about warthogs.’ But gnomes are funny characters and they’re great.”
Dressed in a dark navy suit and crew-necked shirt and wearing rimless blue glasses and making jokes about himself and his work, Sir Elton believes that artists should not take themselves too seriously. “We’re blessed to be who we are. We’re not more important than anybody else, and if you can’t take a joke, then you’re a sad person. I hope I’ve always had the capacity not to take myself too seriously and I think being able to send yourself up in visual ways as well as verbal ways is great. That’s why I do things like Gnomeo.”
Sir Elton’s creativity is always sparked by the written word. He began his career collaborating with Bernie Taupin, who has written many of his songs, and in the 1990s he teamed up with Tim Rice, producing awards-winning soundtracks for Disney’s animated smash ‘The Lion King’ and Verdi’s opera ‘Aida’.
“I don’t really create until I have a project in front of me. It’s always been lyrics first. When I get a written lyric from Bernie Taupin or Lee Hall or Tim Rice, that inspires me to write.”
Without changing a word and rarely consulting the lyricists, Sir Elton fits his tune to the words almost effortlessly. He seldom spends more than an hour writing a song, and he never thinks about what he’s going to write until he goes into the studio to record.
I have met Sir Elton John in the past at social events; he is amiable, engaging and a lively conversationalist. However, I have never seen him beaming with so much joy and vibrancy as he is today. He is known for his profound love for music, but that love seems to have paled next to his love to his recently-born son, Zachary.
It’s evident that everything in his world now spins around Zachary.
Zachary was born in Los Angeles on Christmas Day to a surrogate mother. Sir Elton and his partner, David Furnish, whom he married in 2005, contributed equally to the conception. On the birth certificate, Sir Elton is listed as the father and David as the mother.
“I just saw him this morning and he’s something that’s brightened our lives tremendously in the nearly four weeks that we’ve had him. I’ve had amazing things that have happened to me in my life, career wise and personal life, but this is the icing on the cake. ”
Running into his 60s, Sir Elton is not concerned about fathering a child. “I am 60 going on 40,” he laughs. “I have just thought this is the right time for David and myself to have a child.”
“I am young at heart. I work hard and I do more shows now that I ever did before. I will try and be as young for him as I can.”
An exciting life is awaiting little Zachary. His proud father, who own homes in England, Los Angeles, Nice, Venice and Latin America, is planning to take him everywhere he goes, whether it’s business, pleasure or music tours. And unlike his technophobe father, Zachary has already got his own iPod, playing Mozart, Chopin, Carole King, the Carpenters, James Taylor and Sir Elton John, to his tender ears.
“I’ll have to enter the world of technology,” Sir Elton sighs. “They are coming out with a Skype iPad in April and I’ve got to get one because I want to see my son when I am not there.”
The arrival of Zachary has relaxed but also energised Sir Elton. He is currently involved in the development of a musical adaption of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. He is also planning to produce a film about himself.
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Covid-19 in kids: What we have learnt one year later
It has been more than a year since the world saw the first confirmed case of Covid-19, yet the science behind the seemingly limited physical effect of the virus on children remains unclear. Once more, as schools prepare to reopen next week, many parents, caregivers and children are left with questions.
Are children less infectious than adults?
“We actually do not know,” says Dr Heather Jaspan, a specialist in paediatric immunology at the University of Cape Town (UCT). “They have generally much more virus (higher viral loads) in their nasopharynx [upper part of the throat behind the nose], but whether they are able to transmit more or less is not known.”
Jaspan says that among the schools that have opened there have not been many reports of transmissions from children. “There is also some evidence that within [families] transmissions are unlikely to be from children.” This potential low transmissibility, she says, could be due to children being largely asymptomatic, meaning they create fewer droplets and aerosols which transmit the virus.
The reason for this resilience in children is elusive, says Professor Haroon Saloojee, executive member of the South African Paediatric Association (Sapa). “The favoured explanations… relate to how children’s immune systems are different from adults.”
Can my child get vaccinated?
Vaccination in children and their immune response to SARS-CoV-2 are still largely under-researched, which is partly why no vaccine is currently available for children under the age of 18 (the Moderna vaccine), or in some cases, 16 (the Pfizer vaccine).
“Vaccines are not being offered to children for two main reasons. First, because of limited vaccine supplies, children have not been prioritised. That’s because they are at much lower risk of dying or getting severely ill from Covid-19 than adults. However, even if the vaccine was available, it is not approved for use in children because it has not been tested in children,” explains Saloojee.
Covid-19 vaccine trials involving children were undergoing an age de-escalation process: “They are only testing vaccine safety and immunogenicity (the vaccine’s ability to trigger an immune response) and not efficacy (whether it prevents disease). That’s simpler to do than full trials. Older children are being tested first.”
“Pfizer has enrolled more than 2,000 children aged 12 to 15 for its trial, while Moderna is studying 3,000 12- to 17-year-olds,” says Saloojee. “If successful, it will be followed by another round of testing, down to nine-year-old children. The current adolescent trials are using the same vaccine, dose and interval as used in adults. Studies in younger children and infants may identify a need for lower doses or different reactions.”
For South Africa to reach population (herd) immunity, it has been estimated that 67% of the total population need to be vaccinated, and with children comprising more than a third of the population, they will need to be vaccinated to meet the target, he says.
Why do children hardly seem to get sick?
Reports of severe Covid-19 in children are few, but it is not entirely clear why, says Jaspan. “Kids are very unlikely to get sick. It could be due to the amount of viral receptor [ACE-2] availability in the nasopharynx, which is lower in children.” They also have fewer comorbidities, which put people at risk for more severe disease. “It also may be because children may have been more recently infected with other coronaviruses that cause the common cold, and therefore [they] have cross-reactive immunity. But, we don’t know for sure, and this is an active area of research.”
Saloojee says there are some similarities between these common cold coronaviruses and Covid-19, so children who have been exposed to them could have some immunity to Covid-19 – but again, this is only a hypothesis.
Immunity in children versus adults
According to Jaspan, some differences between immunity in children and adults may stem from the innate inflammatory responses to the virus, which causes much of the severe disease in adults, as well as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in adolescents.
These innate inflammatory responses include monocytes (cells that alert our bodies to infection) and macrophages (monocytes become macrophages once recruited to certain tissues of the body to destroy harmful bacteria or organisms).
Jaspan says some data suggest that innate antiviral responses in children, including Type I Interferons, may be more rapid or effective compared with adults. Type I Interferons play a role in both innate and adaptive immunity – the body’s natural or initial immune response to any infection, as opposed to an antigen-specific immune response.
“Children have a distinct immune response to SARS-CoV-2 compared with adults,” says Saloojee. “Their immunity is more adaptable to new viruses. They mount a more effective protective action against the virus and the response causes less immune-mediated tissue damage, particularly in the lung, which is what is so damaging in adults.”
Impact on mental health and nutrition
Apart from the virus’ direct impact on children’s bodies, there are also concerns about the pandemic’s effect on their mental health and nutrition. “Overall, the research demonstrates that Covid-19 is affecting the mental health of children and adolescents and that depression and anxiety are prevalent. Additional research is needed, however, to assess the short- and long-term effects of Covid-19 on children’s overall mental health,” says Saloojee.
The closure of schools has also had a profound impact not only on the education of children, but on their mental health and nutrition. A statement released by Sapa at the beginning of the month calls for children to return to school as soon as it is safe to do so: “The role of schools in promoting community transmission of the virus is not firmly established, but in most settings schools have contributed minimally to community transmission.” Sapa supports the continued use of non-pharmaceutical interventions (masks, hand hygiene and physical distancing) and calls for teachers to be prioritised for vaccination.
Previously, Spotlight reported extensively on the pandemic and lockdown’s impact on the nutritional status of children, as well as early results from the National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) which highlighted an increase in hunger among children and in households since the hard lockdown in 2020. The results from the third wave of NIDS-CRAM are set to be released on 17 February, and the much-anticipated 2020 Child Gauge focusing on food and nutrition security, published by UCT’s Children’s Institute, on 18 February. DM/MC
This article was published by Spotlight – health journalism in the public interest.
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By Alejandro Freixes, CCNN Head Writer
Loretta Lynch was confirmed as the new USA Attorney General, becoming the first African-American woman to do so.
The Attorney General is the head of the USA’s Department of Justice and the chief law enforcement officer of the country, nominated by the president and confirmed by United States lawmakers in the Senate. Even though their name makes it sound like they’re leading an army of briefcase-wielding lawyers into war, their job is to enforce and interpret federal laws.
The very first Attorney General was Edmund Randolph, appointed in 1789 under the first USA president, George Washington. Randolph created the Virginia Plan, which suggested a separation of powers between the 3 branches of government: the law enforcing “executive” branch headed by the President, the law “judging” judicial branch led by the Supreme Court, and the “lawmaking” legislative branch that Congress oversees. Lynch will replace Eric Holder, who was the first African-American Attorney General.
Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, became the first Japanese PM to ever address both houses of the USA’s Congress last week.
During the joint session with the House of Representatives and the Senate, Abe spoke about the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership. This trade agreement is being negotiated between 12 countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region, like the USA, Peru, Mexico, Japan, Canada, and Australia, and would focus on bringing economic prosperity to all involved.
Abe also apologized for Japan’s role in World War II, when it was allied with Nazi Germany and Italy as part of the Axis powers.
See, September 2 this year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, when the Allied forces of the USA, Britain, France, and others defeated the Axis forces. Japan was forced to surrender after the USA dropped 2 atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but now our countries are very good friends. Japan is currently the 3rd largest economy in the world, behind the USA and China, and the “Land of the Rising Sun” is known for its high-tech advances, delicious sushi, martial arts, anime, and origami.
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Start Downloading Music Today With These Helpful Hints
Posted by Crabtree Thybo on January 5th, 2021So you are here because you want to expand your music collection and unsure about how to download. Relax, there are many great tips here that will have you downloading music very fast. Continue on to the following article that has many solid ideas on how to download music that is important to you.
One great music downloader you should consider is the Amazon MP3 downloader. You can buy music downloads on Amazon.com, or you can search for all kinds of free downloads with this. Click "Get mp3" on any song you wish to download, and if if the downloader isn't already installed, you'll get a prompt for downloading it. After that, choose "Download Song" on the song, and it start downloading it. Then, it will open in the program on your system that opens mP3s.
If you are a user of Apple products, you'll want to check out iTunes for your music downloads. iTunes downloads will give you a seamless music experience across your Mac, your iPhone and your iPad. You won't have to worry about conversions or where to download the music again as it'll all be right in the ecosystem you are used to.
Safety is key when it comes to downloading music. That means you shouldn't download any music for free if it isn't offered directly by the artist, production company or some other promotional company. If you do, it is illegal and you can face major fines if you are caught.
Millions of children have added music to a device that they own. Here you will find the information you need if you, too, are interested in downloading music for yourself. Use this information to find the music that you really want. have to be sure that the music you're downloading is of great quality if you wish for it to have optimum sound. To determine this, check out how many kilobytes per second your song is running at. The larger the number, the clearer the track will sound.
Make sure that your MP3 player is completely compatible with the music you are downloading. Are you at a loss when it comes to downloading music for your personal use? You see people with their iPods and handheld devices listening to their music, and you wonder how they are able to put that together. The fact is, it is not difficult at all. Read this article to learn more about it. offer downloads in different formats, and if the site you are turning to for your music offers a different format than your MP3 player uses, it could cause you problems. To avoid costly and time consuming issues, check before you download.
Peer to peer software may seem like a great way to get free music, but the fact is that it opens you up to viruses, malware and more. To keep your computer free from these problems, stick to downloading through iTunes or from online retailers like Amazon.com or HMV.com.
If you download music from a peer-to-peer service, take the time to clean up the metadata of the files you get. The metadata is the who, what, and where of the file. Things like the artist name, the album name, the track title, and the genre. A little clean up can go a long way to your digital player being able to deliver the best experience for you.
Be sure to check the file format before downloading any music. You've got to be sure that the file you get is compatible with whatever system you are using. If unsure, a good bet is to stick with MP3 files. This file extension is about as universal as they come.
Pay attention to music formats. Music files come in many different formats. Some of these formats are specific to certain music players or music playing devices. Don't download music you can't use. What are you going to use to listen to the music you're downloading? Determine the type of file you will need.
When looking for a website to download music, look for one that offers discounts. Many music download sites offer discounts which are specific to the type of music you listen to. To find these types of promotions, sign up to receive the website's promotional newsletter or search the name of the website and coupons.
For your music downloading service, select a website that allows you to preview songs before downloading them. This makes sure that the quality will be up to your standards. Some sites even guarantee download quality, but some sites do not. Listening to the track prior to buying it will help you prevent paying for low quality tracks.
As you can see from the above article, when you have good tips to follow anyone can download quality music. Now that If you are someone who spent many years collecting a lot of music albums, CDs or cassettes of your favorite music in the past, you know how much time and space that takes up. But the current music downloads that are available today are easy-to-use in so many ways. This article will get you started with some great advice. understand how the process works, there is no reason why you cannot find places to download music. Stick to these tips and use them whenever you are looking to find great music.
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Although China Logistics Service Company can relate to a vast number of things in a commercial setting, logistics is generally only the coordination of the movement of people and things so that everything moves smoothly. However, the transportation of goods from one location to another is the most frequent application of the word logistics in today’s commercial world.
For instance, a company that sells goods will typically contract a third-party logistics services provider to make sure they transport the goods from the manufacturer to the retailer where customers can buy them.
What Exactly Are Logistics Services?
A company that sells products must figure out how to deliver those products to customers. Even these companies sell the goods online, and they must still be transported from A to B, typically by way of shipping service. If you run a one-person business, you could go to the post office with each item, but eventually, you’ll want to switch to a shipping company. As you expand, things will become a little more challenging because you’ll frequently be dealing with shipments utilizing multiple carriers.
Providers of logistics services step in to help with that. They specialize in organizing the commercial shipment process, ensuring that goods get to their destinations as quickly as possible.
What Function Does Logistics Serve?
Getting a product from the maker to the client involves several elements. It might first go to a warehouse where it waits for a send order. But regardless of whether it spends time in the warehouse, the next step is a vehicle or a plane that transports it to a store or a mail carrier so people can receive it. However, getting about might be challenging, mainly if the weather causes delays. Transportation services are coordinated by logistics companies to keep things moving forward. For instance, if a customer doesn’t have enough product to fill an entire truck, a logistics provider may arrange to mix that customer’s shipments with another customer, carefully planning the route of the truck picking up both orders to minimize delays.
Technologies Used in Logistics
In the majority of states, logistics businesses handle goods both domestically and internationally. Thanks to modern technologies, suppliers can now better control the process. Professionals in the field can use logistics software to plan the optimum route, even tackling the challenges of bundling many shipments into a single truckload. Thanks mainly to the advanced analytics already included, today’s systems even make it simple to track overall productivity. As a result, analytics is becoming increasingly significant as organizations look for a provider who can provide them with a continuous picture of their supply chain.
What Is an Ocean Freight Forwarder?
A freight forwarder is a person or business having the skills necessary to get your cargo from point A to point B safely and efficiently. Freight forwarders act as middlemen who are familiar with every step of the convoluted transportation process and can make sure that your goods arrive at their destination, even though they typically do not own the trucks, ships, or airplanes required to transfer your cargo.
Sea freight, also referred to as ocean freight, is one of the oldest established methods of shipping products over international borders. Additionally, it might be a fantastic choice for sending personal items. While sea freight is more cost-effective for companies and people seeking a cost-effective delivery solution, air freight is better suited for the transportation of time-sensitive items.
Evereast Logistics provide Sea Freight FCL Services with various transit times using our connections with all the main shipping lines, allowing customers to generate precise estimates and keep expenses within their budget. You can obtain these contract rates through email to compare prices after we secure them in advance.
How To Use Sea Freight Forwarding Services to The Full Extent?
- Be prepared: Shipping cargo by sea requires more time than shipping it by air. Other elements to take into account are public holidays, inclement weather, and other things that cause delays. Lack of planning may result in unwise choices that cost you money and reduce your margins of profit.
- Greater quantities: It is almost always equated to more reasonable delivery costs for maritime freight, especially when sending goods to distant locations.
- Protect your items: Properly package your goods to reduce the chance of damage during transit.
It should be no surprise that ocean prices are lower than air rates. However, tradeoffs do exist. You might want to seek elsewhere if speed is essential to you. Air shipments arrive in a matter of days; however, ocean cargo takes over a month. Another aspect to think about is reliability. Unlike freight ships, which frequently take longer than anticipated to embark, aviation shipments follow a fairly strict schedule. | <urn:uuid:851d24c7-4a17-44a6-a861-80bf360f639b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://evereastlogistic.com/what-is-the-role-of-logistic-services-in-businesses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959083 | 942 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Wordle 375 is clunky.
Wordle is a daily word game owned by The New York Times. Players get six tries to figure out the five-letter word of the day. We have some tips to help you solve today’s puzzle.
Wordle can be addictive. Chances are you’ve seen countless combinations of yellow and green squares popping up on social media when people share their results.
If a user-guessed word has a letter that is in the word of the day, but not in the correct order, the mailbox turns yellow. If any letters are incorrect and not included in the last word, the box turns gray. But, if one of the guessed letters is in the word and is in the correct position, the box turns green.
So anyway, let’s get to some tips for today, if you need them.
- This word has a vowel.
- The word is an adjective.
- It means clumsy or unsightly.
- Only one of the five letters is among the 10 most common in the English language.
Stop scrolling if you don’t want to know the answer for Wednesday, June 29, 2022.
Did you use your six guesses? If not, keep trying.
On the weather side, another beautiful day is coming. According to the National Weather Service, today will be sunny with a high temperature of 87 degrees. Things really start to heat up on Thursday as temperatures rise to 90 degrees, and then it will be downright hot on Friday with a temperature of 95 degrees. On Saturday and Sunday, temperatures drop back into the 80s with a chance of showers.
The Independence Day holiday is less than a week away. If you like fireworks, we have a list of places where you can see them. There are also a variety of other events including concerts to keep you entertained while celebrating the 4th of July.
The good news if you are traveling by car is that gas prices are falling. Unfortunately, they don’t fall fast enough. It will still be the most expensive 4th of July at the pump – ever.
Stop scrolling if you don’t want to know the answer. Here is your break-even point. No kidding – the answer is after that really cool 4th of July photo from last year.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — It’s been nearly 13 years since Keara Torkelson sat in a room at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas, filling out paperwork in preparation to deploy to Iraq.
Nearby, in the same room that day — Nov. 5, 2009 — was a man named Nidal Hassan, a U.S. Army major and military psychiatrist who was set to deploy with Torkelson’s unit.
Hassan, a radicalized Islamic extremist, had no intention of deploying overseas and instead opened fire, killing 13 people and injuring 33 more — including Torkelson, who went by her maiden name Bono at the time.
“We were sitting in rows of chairs and I was waiting for an Army doc just to check off my box so I could get deployed,” Torkelson said. “A man stood up in front of the group of chairs that I was in and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and started shooting directly into the crowd that I was in.”
Torkelson, a 2006 Olathe South graduate who enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve out of high school, suffered a graze wound to her head before dropping to the ground.
“I grabbed the top of my head and I saw there was blood, but I thought it was a training exercise,” she said. “I thought this was fake because you never think something like this is going to happen in the United States before I get to Iraq.”
Soon, a mixture of shock and adrenaline kicked in as Torkelson realized Fort Hood was indeed under attack. She called 911 and tried to flee the building.
“People kept telling me to sit down because I had a head injury, so there was a lot of blood and it probably looked pretty terrifying to everyone else,” she said. “But I was in fight-or-flight and I was getting out of there.”
As she scrambled with her sergeant to escape, Torkelson — a human resource specialist with a combat and operational stress control unit, managing paperwork and assisting Army psychologists and psychiatrist — was shot in the back, but she survived.
Torkelson will be among 12 Purple Heart recipients honored Saturday during Sporting Kansas City’s match against the LA Galaxy during the fifth annual Sporting Salutes at Children’s Mercy Park. National Purple Heart Day is on Sunday.
“For us, we can’t thank them enough,” Sporting KC forward Khiry Shelton said. “There’s no action or amount of words that can be said or done to thank them.”
Shelton — whose father, Mike, was a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army — was born at Fort Carson in Colorado and spent the first six years of his life in Büdingen, Germany, after his dad was stationed at the now-closed Rhein-Main Air Base near Frankfurt.
He understands the sacrifices military families make and appreciates the club’s effort to honor military service, especially those who were wounded in service to the U.S.
“It's a huge deal for us here at Sporting and I personally like to thank Sporting for that, because it's difficult growing up in that environment and with that culture,” Shelton said. “It's just different. Any service member — obviously, they're very brave, very courageous. Their purpose is to keep us safe, so we have security and everything. So, it's important; it's very important.”
Torkelson also appreciates Sporting KC making an effort to recognize the sacrifice she and so many others have made.
“I think it's incredible,” she said. “I am so honored for them to do this and to take the time to do that. I think it means so much even to the other gentlemen that are with me, because some of them are a lot older and they didn't get that recognition that they deserved. They didn't get treated appropriately, so I think this is amazing.”
Torkelson said she wouldn’t change her experience “as horrible as it was,” because it’s allowed her to become an advocate for and mentor to other military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
“Speaking about it really has helped me and then helping other veterans has been huge in my healing,” Torkelson said.
She volunteers as a mentor with The Battle Within, an Olathe-based nonprofit that helps veterans and others battling PTSD, and also helps with the Wounded Warrior Project, a national nonprofit that works with physically and mentally injured veterans and service members.
Shelton, who has several other family members who’ve served in the military or worked as first-responders, hoped to be able to speak with the 12 people being honored: “It’s humbling,” he said.
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White-tailed deer on Fire Island
One of the most widely-distributed large mammals in North America, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), are common across Fire Island and at the William Floyd Estate, a unit of the seashore located on Long Island. While native to the Northeastern United States, deer were rarely seen on Fire Island in 1964 when the Seashore was established. Their numbers have increased dramatically since that time due to abundant food sources and a lack of predators.
Surveys conducted from 2016-2019 indicated there are roughly 400 deer on Fire Island and 100 at the William Floyd Estate, a unit of the Seashore located on Long Island. The number of deer however is not as important as the impacts these animals have on the condition of natural habitats and historic landscape at the William Floyd Estate.
Deer are herbivores and eat a wide variety of vegetation. Decades of vegetation monitoring in the globally rare Sunken Forest and elsewhere within the Seashore show deer have negatively impacted forest habitats and the historic landscape at the William Floyd Estate.
Learn more about the research that helps the National Park Service better understand the impact of white-tailed deer on Fire Island habitats and supported the development of the White-tailed Deer Management Plan.
The breeding season, or rut, for white-tailed deer in New York State typically occurs from October to January, with peak activity in mid-November.
Male deer, or bucks, can be identified during the breeding season by their antlers, which they grow and shed annually. Antlers consist of bone, cartilage, and blood vessels. For a portion of the breeding season, antlers are covered by a living tissue called velvet.
Female deer, or does, give birth to one or two fawns in spring. Occasionally, triplets or quadruplets are born.
Coexisting with Wildlife
We play an important role in preserving a balanced ecosystem, especially on Fire Island where people and nature coexist.
Some deer on Fire Island are accustomed to humans and tend not to flee. For this reason people can get very close to deer and, oftentimes, try to touch or feed them by hand. It is understandable that a close encounter with a wild animal in a natural setting is exciting. However it is best to maintain a safe distance in order to keep wildlife wild and to protect yourself from harm.
Never feed wildlife. Feeding deer can change their natural behaviors and may affect their overall health. This is even true of inadvertent food sources like garbage or unsecured food items. Wildlife can become "food-conditioned" and may look for food near public spaces or garbage cans.
Food-conditioning can lead to undesirable and potentially unsafe human-deer interactions. Food-conditioned deer may also be more likely to become entangled in fencing, approach us, or be struck by a vehicle when in search of food.
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Bitcoin (BTC) was designed to act as electronic cash on an individual basis. It is wise to consider how a transaction operates, whether you spend or accept BTC as payment. Transactions are public and are available on the BlockchainBlockchain distributed ledger. Every BTC transaction’s history goes back to the first production of Bitcoins. For more information visit bitcointrend.app.
Bitcoin Transaction Working
Sending BTC includes public and private keys related to this bitcoin material.
Public keys are also called bitcoin address. You are public so that you can share it with others safely. A further series of letters and numbers is the private key. However, the code must be held for private keys, including email passwords or other accounts.
It would help if you did not trust several people to steal from you with 100% of your private key. Others can see what is inside, but secure access to the funds can only be unlocked for people with the private key.
Why do Transactions Take Long
The transactions of Ll Bitcoin must be BlockchainBlockchain verified by miners. Notice that miners do not mine transactions; they mine collection blocks. Your transaction often leaves the existing block and is stopped by the next one. An additional explanation why confirmation times are long is that blocks by the new Bitcoin protocol are limited to 1MB. This arbitrary limit can be increased but restricts the number of transactions that can join a block that slows down confirmation times and the whole Bitcoin network by extension.
Input and Output Information
Recall how BTCs exist only as records of blockchain transactions? This means that several transactions are often pinned to a specific Bitcoin address. The 2 BTC came from four friends, each of whom sent you. Your birthday 5 BTC. 5 BTC. Your wallet GUI shows your holdings as “2 BTC,” to make it simple. Instead, your wallet tracks four .5 BTC transactions separately, totalling 2 BTC transactions. You use a transaction log of different amounts to add up to the amount of BTC you want to pay while buying something from BTC. Suppose the number is.25 BTC and you want to buy clothes from a trader. Based on your information above, we know that you don’t have an exact input. BTC 25. 25. Bitcoin users cannot divide a transaction into smaller quantities, and a transaction can only be spent on the entire production. So if you type “.25” in the sum field when opening your wallet, what happens theoretically is one of the.
Fees for Transaction
Several variables will determine transaction charges for Bitcoin. Any part of a transaction not due or returned as a “shift” to the receiver is included as a fee. Fees are payable to miners and can speed up confirmation by encouraging miners to prioritise their transaction (s).
BTC is sent to and from bitcoin purses, and these “wallets” do not store BTC. That is the thing about bitcoin transactions. They contain bitcoin addresses instead — all your transactions details. Bitcoin addresses look like long letters and numbers with 34 characters and are also known as the public key. This is the address you post when you want to get BTC.
External and Internal Transaction
Depending on the type of transactions you make, transaction speeds can differ. You can still monitor the bitcoin transaction status and check what you have to do from there if you have difficulty with external transfers. Platforms like Paxful will help you buy little bitcoin, making internal transactions easy and cheap.
It is a risky investment that can easily raise or decrease the price. If you buy Bitcoin and then sell it if its value is greater, you could earn a good deal of money. Bitcoin saw a low valuation of around $3,800 and ends the year above the $30,000 mark during the year 2020. This gives qualified investors a clearly visible opportunity to benefit from it. But over the past few years people invested heavily in Bitcoin to see price reductions from close to $20,000 per bitcoin to below USD 3,500 per bitcoin over a relatively short time span — over 80 percent.
There are other risks to your private key. Technically, you can never literally have bitcoins – after all, it is a digital currency. You must transfer the bitcoins in your digital baggage if you receive a private key, and you cannot get back your money. Some people have chosen not to use their private key in their online wallet. It opens up the possibility of losing the private key— and horror stories on the lives of people who lost or threw away storage equipment worth tens of millions of dollars in bitcoin.
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Osteoporosis is the 'thinning' of the internal scaffolding our bones. Our bones consist of a porous scaffold as its architecture. In osteoporosis, these scaffolds have weaken by thinning and have becoming more porous, meaning decreased bone mass. This is a 'silent' disease- there are no symptoms until a fracture occurs (most often in your spine or hip bone).
It is estimated to affect 200 million people worldwide. i.e. it's quite common. While it's most common in the elderly, those in their 20s should be concerned with starting on their lifelong prevention measures too.
Osteoporosis can be prevented by maximising your bone mass and maintaining your bone mass as you continue to age. Your bones will reach its maximal mass (peak bone density) at age 25-30. Your bones will start decreasing in density by age 40.
You can help your body reach maximal bone density by taking in sufficient calcium and vitamin D and doing regular weight-bearing and balance exercises. (Calcium supplements (with vitamin D) are effective. Do be careful if you have gastrointestinal disorders though.) These measures also help prevent bone density loss.
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Ischemic stroke is one of the major neurologic diseases in the world, which can cause paralysis or even death. The main cause of ischemic stroke is the irregular blood flow supply to brain tissue. The reduction of oxygen concentration level in the arterial supply leading to severe damage to the brain tissue. Strokes contributes to many social, medical, economical impacts on people’s lives. To achieve a good medical practice and better prevent stroke, scientists and medical practitioners tryto better understand the underlying pathophysiology mechanism of stroke. Pathophysiology of ischemic stroke is complicated and includes different aspects such as the effects of ischemia at the tissue level, the concept of ischemic penumbra, the effects of cerebral edema and effects of ischaemic stroke on the brain structural integrity.
1. Effects of ischemia at the cellular level:
Reduced supply of blood to the brain tissue leads to a massive decrease in energy production. ATP is the main energy generator at the cellular level, which can keep the brain tissue in a functional state. Improper blood flow due to a stroke, causes reduction of cellular power, distribution in cytoplasmic ion pumping system and increases the release of cytotoxic substances in the brain cavity such as glutamate and aspartate, which affect neuronal membranes. In addition, damaging the cell membrane leading to the production of different reactive oxygen classes. Finally, declining of oxygen supply activates neuroapoptosis process in the neurons.
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As part of the initiative to build Maryland’s Prince George’s County into a destination that is both attractive to businesses and people, the Economic Development Corp.(EDC) and the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulations have scheduled monthly job and career fairs for the next six months to address unemployment within the veteran population.
The county’s Operation 500 initiative is part of Operation Hire: Maryland’s 100 Day Veteran Hiring Challenge, which reflects the commitment of the prior governor’s administration to support veteran employment. The program’s Aug. 1 event attracted more than 200 veterans. The next Operation 500 event is scheduled to be held on Sept. 12 at 1801 McCormick Drive, Suite 140 in Largo, Md.
“The EDC has launched ‘Operation 500’ to make an impactful difference in the lives of the brave men and women who have served this country and may now find themselves in need of employment,” James Coleman, president and CEO of the EDC told the AFRO via e-mail Aug. 11. “The success of veterans entering employment and retaining employment is a joint effort that includes county, state and federal partners.”
The program has partnered with more than 20 county employers and resource partners to provide good jobs, training and other resources to veterans.
“Whether a veteran needs immediate employment, housing to stabilize to go into employment, or clothing to go into employment, all of these stakeholders are working together to ensure that these veterans get employed,” Coleman said.
According to the EDC, more than 2,700 unemployed veterans have been identified in the county. The initiative’s current goal is to employ 500 veterans in high wage jobs.
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Extraordinary Influence helps you become a better leader by revealing what neuroscience has to say about effective leadership, identifying communication as the key to the highest levels of performance.
by Tim Irwin
How can you help someone reach their full potential? Managers, team leaders, and especially parents think that the answer is praise. But the real answer isn't as simple as giving out free compliments. To really get others to reach their dreams, you've got to appeal to their deepest values and skills. The best way to do this is called affirmation.
Affirmation is the process of building a supportive environment of encouraging people to act on their own intuition. No matter your age or situation it's a skill that can be acquired.
This is just what Tim Irwin teaches in Extraordinary Influence: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others. Irwin is a professor of organizational and clinical psychology, and he bases his claims on science. Affirmation can be useful in many different settings in your personal and professional life. It can help you reach your own dreams as well, by allowing you to recognize your own achievements and reward yourself accordingly.
We gain an extraordinary ability to transform others when we affirm them versus when we apply what might euphemistically be called constructive criticism.
- Tim Irwin
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A Study of Parents' Storybook Knowledge, Third Graders' Reading Abilities, and Third Graders' Motivation to Read
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The purpose of this study was to determine what trends are evident among parents' storybook knowledge, students' reading levels, and students' motivation to read in one third grade classroom. Parents were assessed on their storybook knowledge by completing a checklist of children's book titles with foils embedded in it. Students' reading levels were then determined through running records. Students' levels of motivation to read were later determined through the use of a Motivation for Reading Scale. After collecting these data, scores on each measure were compared to locate trends among them. No observable trends were found. Storybook knowledge of parents of third graders did not appear to affect students' reading levels or motivation to read. Further analysis indicated that students' reading levels did not appear to be connected with their motivation to read. Thus, the results of this study suggested that because parents' storybook knowledge was not shown to impact third graders' reading levels or motivation to read, other factors that were not included in this investigation may be at work. Students' reading levels and motivation to read may be affected by the media, peers, or, most importantly, their school experiences.
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How to Install WordPress in cPanel Manually Step by Step| cPanel WordPress installation
Download the most recent version of WordPress to a location of your choice at WordPress.org
Upload and extract the WordPress .ZIP file to your desired installation directory.
Okay so at this point I am assuming that you already have a hosting provider using cPanel and that you have already created an Add-On Domain or Subdirectory.
Within the File Manager, locate and navigate to that directory. From the top toolbar of the cPanel, select “Upload” and browse for the file you downloaded from WordPress.org. Once the .ZIP file has finished uploading, return to the directory by clicking the “← Go Back to “/home/yourserverhere/public_html/yoursitehere” link.
Within the directory root you will now see the wordpress.zip file. Click on this file to select it and then from the cPanel tool bar at the top, click “extract”. After that click “reload” in the cPanel toolbar and you will see the extracted wordpress folder. You can now delete the .ZIP file in order to keep everything nice and clean.
Move files from the wordpress folder back into the directory root.
Double click on the newly extracted “wordpress” folder and you should now see all the WordPress files. From the cPanel toolbar, click on the box “Select All”. All of the WordPress files should now be highlighted. In the cPanel toolbar select “Move File” and a modal will pop up with a directory link “/public_html/yourdirectoryname/wordpress”. Remove the “/wordpress” tail from the end of the path and click Move File(s). All files should now be moved to your directory root and click “Up One Level” from the toolbar to view them.
Create a database and database user
We have finished the initial steps and now it’s time to setup the database that will power your website. Navigate to your cPanel’s main dashboard and locate/click the icon “MySQL Database Wizard”.
Once inside the Database Wizard you will be prompted to create a New Database. Your database prefix will appear followed by an underscore and a blank area for you to populate your database name “yourserver_blankarea“. In the blank area you will enter your database name and keep it in a safe spot for a future step. The database name should be at least 3 characters and only contain alphanumeric characters. After filling in the name click “next step”.
You will now be prompted to create a Database User. Your database prefix will appear again followed by an underscore and a blank area for you to populate your database username “yourserver_username“. The database username cannot contain more than seven alphanumeric characters. Save the username to a safe location for future use. Now either manually enter a password of your choice or use the provided “Password Generator”… just make sure that your password is strong and secure. Now click on the button “Create User”.
Now that you have created the Database User, you will be brought to a page that asks you to assign privileges. Tick the box at the top that reads “All Privileges” and then click the button “Next Step”. Your database is now set up and you can now move on to plugging the database information into the wp-config.php file.
Populate the wp-config.php file with your database information
Okay now it is time to navigate back to the proper directory in the file manager with your database information handy. In your site’s directory root, locate the file named “wp-config-sample.php“. Click on this file and then select “Code Editor” from the top toolbar, click “Edit” and open the .php file.
Now that the wp-config-sample.php file is open in the Code Editor, it is time to start adding your database information…
Locate the line that reads “define(‘DB_NAME‘, ‘database_name_here‘);” and add your database name.
Locate the line that reads “define(‘DB_USER‘, ‘username_here‘);” and add your database username.
Locate the line that reads “define(‘DB_PASSWORD‘, ‘password_here‘);” and add your database password.
Replace default Unique Keys and Salts
With your wp-config-sample.php file still open in the Code Editor, navigate to the section that reads “*Authentication Unique Keys and Salts”. Visit the WordPress Unique Phrase and Salt Key generator here >> or as linked in the provided PDF “Cheat Sheet“. Copy the Unique Phrase and Salt Keys generated by the WordPress API and replace the default ones located in the wp-config-sample.php file. Once you are finished with that, hit “Save” and exit the Code Editor and return to the directory root.
Rename “wp-config-sample.php” to “wp-config.php”
Now that you are back in the directory’s root, single click on the wp-config-sample.php file to highlight it. From there click on the “Rename” icon in the top toolbar and rename “wp-config.sample.php” to “wp-config.php”. Click the “Rename File” button and you’re all finished with this phase.
Run the WordPress Installation Script
At this point you are all finished with the cPanel portion of this process… congrats!
Once you have visited the link for the Installation Script, you will be brought to a page with the URL “https://example.com/wp-admin/install.php”. Replace the “example.com” with the address of the website you are creating. Hit Return/Enter on your keyboard and the install process will begin.
Once you have arrived at the next screen, select the language of choice for your WordPress install and click “continue”.
You will then be brought to a page prompting you to enter all of your website’s pertinent information such as the site title, your username, your password, and email address. If you are developing a new site at this address, it may also be a good idea to tick the box “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” so Google, Bing, etc. don’t index your site before it is populated with content and ready to launch.
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I liked this datapoint from Lance Roberts of STA Wealth:
“Ultimately, all economic recoveries will eventually contract. The chart below shows every post recession economic recovery from 1879 to present.”
“The statistics are quite interesting:
- Number of economic recoveries = 29
- Average number of months per recovery = 39
- Current economic recovery = 53 months
- Number of economic recoveries that lasted longer than current = 6
- Percentage of economic recoveries lasting 53 months or longer = 24.14%
Think about this for a moment. We are currently experiencing the 7th longest economic recovery in history with most analysts and economists giving no consideration for a recession in the near future.”
That is interesting. But it’s also interesting to note that the expansion phase of the business cycle appears to be getting longer. You’ll notice that 3 of those 6 long recoveries occurred since 1982. Are these anomalies or are they signs of a changing economic landscape? I think they’re probably signs of a changing economic landscape and that means that a lot of the data that exists before the post-war era probably doesn’t apply. There are a number of reasons why this might be occurring:
- We live in an era of central banking where the support system designed around banking systems is infinitely more evolved and secure than it was 100 years ago. Central banks are far from perfect and certainly do things that result in exacerbating problems at times, but I also think that a system with central banking definitely helps secure what would otherwise be a rogue banking system run by profit hungry bankers.
- We live in an era with automatic stabilizers. In other words, we live in an era where policy now expands and contracts around the business cycle. For instance, tax receipts expand and contract as the cycle expands and contracts and that helps support the economy both in downturns and in upturns.
- The global economy is evolving, diversifying and becoming much more efficient. Corporations and economies no longer rely on undiversified income streams. Instead, we live in a world with an increasingly diverse income stream that has many different income sources. This helps create a more stable and steady overall global economy.
You all can probably think of other (perhaps better) reasons for this phenomenon (or maybe you don’t buy it at all), but I think it’s interesting to think about. That said, it doesn’t take away from Lance’s point – even if we use only post-war era data this recovery is still starting to get a little long in the tooth…. | <urn:uuid:b1100594-0e91-4a49-9350-7c6758453871> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pragcap.com/the-expanding-expansions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959993 | 538 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Make a Children’s Sleigh
Rather than spend another Canadian winter waiting for spring, get outside, enjoy the snow and pretend you’re a kid again!
To make the two bent-laminated, curved runners, you first need to make a form. Essentially, you must remove material the same thickness as the finished runner to form a cavity that the lamination strips will be glued-up in.
Start with a piece of 3/4″ plywood at least 48″ x 20″. Make sure the sides are parallel and the corners are square. With a pencil, straight-edge and trammel heads lay out the curved rail. Make sure you lay out the shape so there’s enough material to play with. When in doubt, make the form larger than you will need. Mark the quadrants of the arc, where the curved section joins the straight section. This line will guide you when routing the arc.
Attach a router to a circle-cutting jig the correct radius, then attach the circle jig to the plywood form at the centre of the arc. So you only have to make one series of progressively deeper passes with the router, install a bit the same diameter as the rail is thick – 1-1/4″. Make a series of shallow passes, stopping at the quadrants with each pass, to rout almost all the way through the 1/4″ plywood. Leave at least 1/8″ of material for now.
To cut the two straight sections of the form, measure from the edge of the plywood to the furthest edge of the routed groove (right at one of the quadrants), and set the table saw to cut that exact distance to the outside of the blade. Make the first cut, stopping just before the 1-1/4″ wide routed groove. Re-adjust the fence to make the second cut, flush with the other surface of the routed cut. In the second instance especially, don’t cut too far, or you will cut into the curved edge. Stop short and use a handsaw to finish the cut.
With a jigsaw, separate the two halves, then flush trim the curved section with router. Cut additional pieces of 3/4″ plywood that can be glued and screwed to both faces of the form halves, increasing the thickness of the form to 2-1/4″. Bandsaw the waste nearly flush with the main, center piece of 3/4″ ply, then trim everything flush with a router and flush trim bit.
Rather than leave the two form halves large and cumbersome, mark a line about 5″ away from the edge of the male form, and about 2-1/2″ away on the female form. The wider section will retain its shape during glue-up, while the thinner section will flex ever so slightly, accounting for any slight variations. To finish the forms, attach a 2″ x 2″ x 5″ long solid block to the end of the female form. This block will help keep the two form halves aligned during glue-up.
To determine how thin to make the strips, I made a few test strips and bent them around the form, checking how hard they were to bend. You want strips that will bend fairly easily, and have no chance of snapping. For the white ash I was using, I settled on 1/8″ thick. Even though the finished strips will be about 48″, make them at least 6″ longer, then cut them to length after they have been laminated. I also cut the strips from the same piece of wide lumber so the grain and colour would match nicely. Once you have broke out enough strips from 8/4 material to make the runners do a dry run of the glue-up. It can be a tricky procedure to align all the strips and have the form come together nicely.
In order to make a good form, you must lay out everything first and work to those lines. Here, Brown measures the distance from the outside of the form to the furthest edge of the routed groove to make the first tablesaw cut.
Unibond 800 allows a long open time, which is great for this tricky glue-up. A dry run will also go a long way to a proper glue-up.
A great way to ensure you have a square, true edge on the runner is to rout one face before removing it from the form (above). Set the bit just below the surface of the plywood base (below) and move the bit over the entire area of the runner.
Rout the Mortises
A plunge router and a mortise jig makes quick work of making a set of mortises, although there are many ways to machine this joint.
After laying out the finger joints and marking the waste portion of the joint, Brown set up a stop block to ease the process. A flat-top blade is great for this job, as it leaves a flat, even upper surface.
Cheap & Simple
In order to hold the workpieces on an angle, make a single-use jig. It’s made with a bottom, face, four angled brackets and two stop blocks that are clamped to the face. It can be screwed to a crosscut sled, and then the workpieces can be clamped to the face and the fingers can be machined in their ends.
With the finger joints on the leg (left) complete, you can use it to measure the finger joints on the cross brace (right). Brown made one pass on the outermost surface of the cross brace, used a handsaw to remove most of the waste, then used his index finger to check the joints against each other.
With both halves of the finger joint cut, you can fine-tune the fit with a shoulder plane and chisel.
Small But Strong
The thing that makes this joint strong is the large amount of face grain surface area for gluing. Apply the glue, bring the joint together by hand and clamp across the joint.
Transfer the Angle
With the runners and leg assemblies together, sit the outside slat on the sleigh, overlapping the edge by 1/2". Slide it up the runner and mark where the slat needs to be cut. A screw will be installed through the slat, into the runner, for extra strength.
Add Two Arcs
Strictly for aesthetic purposes, arcs should be cut on both ends of the slats. With the slats temporarily attached use a beam and trammel points to draw two arcs, then trim the parts with a bandsaw.
Trim the Runners
Place a piece of 1/2" thick plywood on top of the outside slats and cut the runners flush with its top surface. Ease all the corners at the end of the runner, mainly for safety reasons.
I choose Unibond 800 (vacupress.com) as an adhesive because it’s waterproof, produces a very rigid glue line and has a long open time. The resin and hardener must be mixed together before starting. It takes 24 hours to dry, but with only two runners to make that didn’t pose any problems. Apply the adhesive (I used a cheap 2″ paint brush) to both surfaces of the strips, get them into the form and add clamps.
After 24 hours, the adhesive was rock hard. Rather than removing the lamination from the forms, then truing and planing it, I flattened one surface while it was still clamped in the form. This made it easier to obtain a 90º edge that was straight and true. I took some of the clamps off to make accessing the workpiece possible. After setting up a router with a straight bit I added a partial base to the bottom of the router that would run on the wider, male portion of the form. I adjusted the height of the base so the bit protruded below the base by about 1/8″, then made multiple passes, truing up one side of the work piece.
Add a pencil line where the curved section starts so you can accurately orient the runners down the road. Once out of the form you can trim any ragged ends off, if necessary. Just be sure to not remove too much length. The runner can now be planed to a final width of 1-5/8″. Repeat the glue-up for the other runner.
Four mortises and tenons
I used a shop-made mortising jig to cut two mortises in each runner, but whatever method you want to use is fine. My jig is clamped in my bench vise, and the runner is in turn clamped to the jig. A template guide attached to my router base runs in a groove in the jig, which in turn guides my router. I machined a 1/2″ mortise that was 1-7/8″ long and 1/4″ less than the thickness of the runner. Although not critical, the front mortises were cut about 7″ behind the quadrant pencil line, and the two mortises were 17″ apart, on center. The final step was to cut the tail end of the runners to length, at a 10º angle.
Set the runners aside for now, and break out the four legs and two cross braces. An extra leg and cross brace isn’t a bad idea, as angles have a way of confusing the situation. I then used a tablesaw and tenoning jig to cut the tenons on the end of each leg, fitted each tenon to a specific mortise and numbered each joint so they could all mate-up back together. Next, cut the legs to final length with a 10º angle on each end.
A special finger joint jig
To ensure a strong joint between the legs and cross braces, I decided on a joint with lots of face grain glue area; a finger joint. This would normally be an easy joint to machine, but the 10-1/4 angle made things more complex. The solution to this problem was a jig that would hold the parts 10-1/4 off perpendicular while they were being machined on the table saw. I assembled the particle board jig and made two particle board stops that could be clamped to the jigs’ face to increase productivity and accuracy. I attached this jig to the surface of my cross-cut sled, perpendicular to the blade. I figured three ‘fingers’ on each leg, that would mate with two ‘fingers’ on the end of the cross members, would be enough surface area to hold solid. After laying out the joint, and marking the waste for clarity, I proceeded to cut the joints in the legs using the stops. I also made sure I used a flat top blade to produce a nice, even joint.
Once the leg portion of the finger joints were cut, I cut the cross members to length, with the same 10º angle on both of their ends. I numbered the four joints then transferred the location of the joint from the leg ‘fingers’, and reset the stop block. I started with the outside two surfaces, and made sure they were the correct width apart, or just a hair too wide. Checking against the appropriate leg joint gave me accurate measurements. These two surfaces would be easy to trim later with a shoulder plane to get a perfect fit.
When I was satisfied with the outer faces of the cross-brace I set the stops to remove the material between the two fingers. I set it up a little conservatively, not wanting to remove too much material. After a few test passes, I made the final cuts on the cross-braces. I then fine-tuned each joint to make sure each was as strong as could be.
Glue things up
With the legs and cross braces ready, I sanded all the exposed surfaces and prepared for the glue-up. Again, I used Unibond 800 for this assembly. Covering all the fingers with adhesive and bringing the joints together, I clamped across the fingers and left it to dry. I found an interesting quality in this adhesive while using it. PVA glues cause the wood fibres to swell slightly, increasing friction during assembly, but Unibond 800 acted more like a lubricant, allowing the joint to come together a little bit easier.
When the adhesive was dry I flushed up the joint. Because comfort was important I opted for 1/4″ roundover bit in my router to ease all the edges of the legs and cross-braces. At this point, I was ready to join the leg assemblies to the runners, so I mixed up more adhesive, applied it to the joints and brought everything together at the same time.
Start the seat
Break out the two outside seat slats to a rough size of 41″ long and 3-1/2″ wide. Place them on the assembly, overhanging the legs by about 1/2″, and butting up to the front of the runners. Because the runners are on a 10-1/4 angle the outside slats will have to be angled on their outside edge to mate properly. Mark the angle and location on the front of the slats and use a handsaw, or a bandsaw with its table angled, to trim the slat. This angled surface with have to be faired with the rest of the edge with a spokeshave. Bandsawing the rest of the slat to shape is more about aesthetics than anything. Just be sure not to narrow the front of the outside slats as to overly weaken them. Though the backs of the slats are not cut to final shape, temporarily screw them in place while fitting the three middle slats.
The middle seat slats can now be machined, and temporarily screwed in place with even gaps between each slat. The finished length of each slat is about 24″, but keeping them longer for now will allow for more flexibility when laying out their final shape.
Add some curves
With a piece of scrap clamped between the outer slats to give you a center point to use your trammel heads, draw an arc on the tail ends of all the slats and the front end of the middle seat slats. As long as there is some overhang from the two cross-braces, your main concern when drawing the arcs is how the sleigh will look. Remove the slats and bandsaw them to final shape. After rounding over the edges and sanding all the surfaces, reinstall the slats with glue and screws. Don’t forget to add glue and a screw to the front of the outside slats, to fix them to the front of the runner. Plug the screw holes in the slats.
Next, cut the front cross rail to size, bandsaw a pleasing shape on it and fit it to join with the outside slats and runners. It might take some shaping to get it to fit nicely. Don’t worry about a perfect fit though. Once ready, install it with glue and screws. This rail helps add rigidity to the sleigh and gives the user a great place to rest their boots while using the sleigh.
It’s finally time to cut the front of the runners to length. With a piece of 1/2″ material on top of the outside slats, flush cut the runners with a handsaw. Shape the area with a file and sandpaper, leaving no sharp corners. Drill two holes in the front cross-rail to accept the rope, and counter sink its edges so it doesn’t wear the rope. Insert each end of an 8′ length of 1/4″ rope into a hole and tie simple knots underneath the rail.
Finish the sleigh
I applied three coats of exterior polyurethane to the sleigh, sanding between coats. Don’t worry about the underside of the runners, as the finish will wear off very quickly. I think the best finish for that area is a light coat of paste wax, so the sleigh will be easier to pull across the snow and will go faster down the hills.
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Councils with a ‘credible’ local plan will be given extra powers and freedoms, the community secretary said today.
Speaking at the LGA’s virtual conference today, Robert Jenrick said councils will be urged to create a 10-20 year plan for their local area under a new planning system that ‘genuinely trusts’ councils.
He said: ‘I do think the role of the planning inspector could be considered and its role in handling the plan making process could be reconsidered for those councils that have a record of building homes and managing development responsibly in their local area.
‘I do think there may be an opportunity to look at the viable land supply and bring an end to speculative development, again where a council has a plan and is genuinely approaching development in a responsible way.
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Antietam National Cemetery is one of the 130 cemeteries of the National Cemetery System, a system that began during the Civil War. There are 4,776 Union remains (1,836 or 38% are unknown) buried here from the Battle of Antietam, South Mountain, Monocacy, and other action in Maryland. All of the unknowns are marked with small square stones.
The Soldiers’ National Cemetery; The battlefield sites of Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, and Culp’s Hill; The History of Gettysburg National Military Park. The Battle of Gettysburg is, according to many historians, a pivotal period of time in the Civil War. In fact, the battle would eventually determine the fate of the nation.
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To meet the South Coast’s need for more telephone numbers, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is taking the first step toward adding an additional area code in the 805 Central Coast region. If it doesn’t, the 805 will run out of three-digit prefixes — the numbers immediately following an area code — in December 2018, according to an April report published by the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA).
“Area code exhaust” will force government officials to introduce a new code by June 2018, said NANPA’s senior director John Manning. With only 792 prefixes in each area code, explained senior Numbering Plan Area (NPA) relief planner Joe Cocke, just 40 remain in the 805. Each prefix forms 10,000 phone numbers, but some are unusable because they start with service numbers like 9-1-1, 2-1-1, or 5-5-5.
“This is a normal life cycle of an area code,” said Cocke, who pointed to similar shifts planned for downtown Los Angeles, Oakland, and Sacramento. “It’s not just unique to the Central Coast.”
It remains to be seen whether the tri-counties will opt for the “area code overlay” option, in which existing users keep their numbers and new users take the new area code, or what’s known as a “split,” in which a smaller region within the 805 sees a new area code tacked onto existing users’ numbers. In both scenarios, everyone will have to start dialing the area code, even when making a local call. Calls that were local before the new area code will remain so, according to the NANPA’s website.
Following public information meetings in Oxnard and San Luis Obispo — Santa Barbara meets 7 p.m., August 22 at the Eastside Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Wing (1102 East Montecito Street) — the CPUC must still approve any proposed changes, which would be further vetted in a month of public comment. The phone carriers, said CPUC spokesperson Christopher Chow, are pushing for area code overlay.
Since 1957, when the region broke off from Los Angeles’s 213, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties, as well as parts of Monterey and Kern counties, have branded themselves as the idyllic 805 — a place to drink Firestone Walker’s 805 beer and be close to the sea and mountains. From marijuana dispensaries to boba shops (805 Greens, 805 Ink, Fitness 805, 805 Roadside Assistance & Towing, and 805 Boba), local businesses have branded themselves with the logo.
“Using 805 in the name is really geared towards locals,” said Michael Norris, owner of 805 Boba at Paseo Nuevo. Norris believes the new area code will offer out-of-towners a little more of a story behind the shop’s name. Owners at State Street’s 805 Ink, founded seven years ago, said “[We] don’t think it’ll change anything for us.” The shop plans to “keep it old school.” | <urn:uuid:e5389408-6ca4-40b9-a888-e616d8e81558> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independent.com/2016/07/18/805-area-code-no-more/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.917734 | 697 | 1.578125 | 2 |
BBC 2 screened the documentary Choosing to Die presented by the author Sir Terry Pratchett on Monday. The programme showed the last moments and the death of Peter Smedley, who was terminally ill with Motor Neurone Disease, at Dignitas in Switzerland. It has subsequently been reported in some media that the BBC has received a number of complaints about the documentary from the likes of Care Not Killing, and Care – two organisations opposed to a change in the law on assisted dying. However, as well as the comments on message boards and in social media being overwhelmingly in favour of the documentary, a YouGov poll conducted about the programme found that most people (70%) thought that it was ‘right to show the film’.
Sarah Wootton, Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying said:
“I agree with the majority of the public who believe that it was right for the documentary to be aired. While the programme was at times difficult to watch, it showed the reality that many dying people and their loved ones face at the end of their lives in this country. We need to have a sensible debate on assisted dying, and Choosing to Die will play an important part in that debate.
“We must be careful to ensure that complaints from a minority over how and where the documentary was aired do not overshadow the important question the programme raised; how do we address the current problem that dying adults in the UK are either suffering unbearably and against their wishes, or taking matters into their own hands at the end of their lives? Not only are people travelling abroad to die, but there are also those who are ending their lives at home, behind closed doors, or with the help of doctors and loved ones who are helping illegally. Much better would be an assisted dying law with upfront safeguards, which would investigate a request to die when the person is still alive and alternative options can be set out. This would both protect potentially vulnerable people and provide choice at the end of life for those suffering unbearably. Furthermore it would allow people to die at home surrounded by their loved ones.
“The problem is clear; it is now time for decision-makers to engage with how we ensure that all people can have what they consider to be a good death.”
Notes to editor:
About Dignity in Dying:
- Dignity in Dying campaigns for greater choice, control and access to services at the end of life. It advocates providing terminally ill adults with the option of an assisted death, within strict legal safeguards, and for universal access to high quality end-of-life care.
- Dignity in Dying has over 25,000 supporters and receives its funding entirely from donations from the public.
- The British Social Attitudes Survey 2010 found that 92% of non-religious and 71% of religious people support assisted dying. This relates to overall support of 82%.
About the Poll:
- All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2706 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 13-14th June 2011. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+).
- For full results of the Poll go to:
For all Dignity in Dying media enquiries, please contact Jo Cartwright on 020 7479 7737 / 07725433025 or at firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:20ffd9db-982d-4286-b2f8-fdeabed51f82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dignityindyingscotland.org.uk/news/majority-70-people-believe-bbc-right-screen-terry-pratchetts-documentary-choosing-die/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970905 | 766 | 1.8125 | 2 |
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