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Furthermore, TAF-I interacts with not merely histone H1.2 but also various other histone H1 variations (29). were improved in TAF-I KD cellular material only through the first stages of transcription. Furthermore, histone H1 KD improved ISG transcript. TAF-I and histone H1 dual KD didn’t display the additive impact in ISG transcription, recommending that TAF-I and histone H1 may respond on a single regulatory pathway to regulate ISG transcription. Furthermore, TAF-I histone and KD H1 KD affected the chromatin structure close to the promoters. Based on these results, we suggest that TAF-I and its own focus on histone H1 are fundamental regulators from the chromatin framework on the promoter to keep the silent condition of ISG transcription. Launch Transcriptional legislation is certainly achieved by the regulatory components Helioxanthin 8-1 such as for example promoters and enhancers generally, those which have a number of binding sites for sequence-specific transcription elements, and specify feature chromatin buildings mediated by nucleosome setting, specific histone adjustments, histone Helioxanthin 8-1 variants as well as other elements (1,2). For the transcription of type-I interferon (IFN)-activated genes (ISGs), promoters that contains sequence motifs, referred to as IFN-stimulated response component (ISRE), will be the binding sites from the sequence-specific transcription elements turned on by IFN arousal. The chromatin histone and framework customization around ISRE are controlled by coactivators for ISG transcription (3,4). IFN, specifically type-I IFN, performs a critical function in mobile antiviral systems by inducing instant transcription of ISGs, which encode proteins that not merely have got anti-viral actions but have an effect on host-cellular occasions also, such as cellular loss of life, messenger ribonucleic acidity (mRNA) degradation and translational arrest, with the IFN signaling pathway, known as the JAK-STAT pathway (5). In the entire case of arousal by type-I IFN, the IFN-stimulated gene aspect 3 (ISGF3) complicated comprising transcription elements, transmission activators and transducers of transcription (STAT)1, STAT2 and IFN regulatory aspect 9 (IRF9) bind to ISREs within the promoters, facilitating transcription initiation complicated development and marketing the transcription of ISGs Helioxanthin 8-1 (3 therefore,5). Furthermore, ISG transcription is certainly regulated by a number of different types of coactivators (4). STATs connect to histone acetyltransferases (HATs), which includes p300/CBP and GCN5, and GCN5 acetylates histones Rabbit polyclonal to ZNF101 over the promoter within an IFN-dependent way (6,7). Oddly enough, inhibition of histone deacetylase (HDAC) activity, which opposes activity of Head wear, leads to a worldwide impairment from the ISG transcription (8C10). Furthermore, pp32, a significant element of the inhibitor of acetyltransferase (INHAT) complicated (11), is certainly mixed up in maximal induction of ISG transcription (12). BRG1, an adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-reliant nucleosome remodeling aspect and a subunit from the SWI/SNF complicated, interacts with STAT2 in response to IFN, facilitates the chromatin redecorating from the promoter area and promotes ISG transcription (13C15). BAF200, a subunit from the SWI/SNF complicated, has been discovered to be needed for selective ISG transcription (16). These research claim that ISG transcription via promoters is certainly beneath the control of the mixed ramifications of histone customization and particular chromatin Helioxanthin 8-1 buildings. As protein encoded by not merely have anti-viral actions but also have an effect on host-cellular occasions (5), the ISG transcription must be silenced within the IFN-unstimulated condition. Nevertheless, it really is unclear concerning the way the chromatin framework of promoters is certainly regulated to maintain the unstimulated condition, the transcriptionally silent condition specifically, within the lack of IFN, and the type of elements keep up with the transcriptionally silent condition from the promoter continues to be not known. Linker histone H1 binds near the entry and leave sites from the nucleosome primary particle (NPC), which includes a 147-base-pair (bp)-lengthy deoxyribonucleic acidity (DNA), covered around a histone octamer comprising two copies each one of the primary histone protein H2A, H2B, H3 and H4, and facilitates the bigger order chromatin framework (17C19). Histone H1-reliant chromatin dynamics have already been been shown to be essential in a number of natural phenomena and in the transcriptional legislation of a particular gene (20C24). Furthermore, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching analyses proven that histone H1 is certainly a highly cellular chromatin component weighed against the primary histones and that the binding of histone H1 onto the nucleosome is certainly transient (25,26). These results claim that histone H1 affiliates with and dissociates in the chromatin consistently, but it is certainly unclear in regards to what kind of systems and elements get excited about regulating histone H1 dynamics and H1-reliant chromatin structural modifications. Several elements get excited about the legislation of histone H1 dynamics. High flexibility group protein weaken. | <urn:uuid:52666096-45d3-4daa-9d40-35f2050ab60f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://itseverybodysbusiness.org/furthermore-taf-i-interacts-with-not-merely-histone-h1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.912688 | 1,182 | 2.03125 | 2 |
I love it when I run across a prediction about the time of the deadline. Jakob Nielsen made one on November 20, 2006 that computers will be 1/4th their current price of $379 in five years. Five years later is November 20, 2011. That is today!
In areas like North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia’s advanced countries, computer cost is no longer an issue. Dell’s cheapest computer costs $379 (with a monitor) and is about 500 times as powerful as the Macintosh Plus I used to write my Ph.D. thesis. While it’s true that a few people can’t even afford $379, in another five years, computers will be one-fourth their current price. Would that all social problems would go away if we simply waited five years.
So $379 / 4 = approximately $95.
Dell, the company Nielsen picked on, the cheapest I found was in Dell Outlet a Latitude laptop for $239.
Walmart’s cheapest non-refurbished I found was $212 laptop. (There was a Pentium 4 refurbished desktop for $115 which is old even for 2006 but adding the cheapest $89Â monitor is still $109 too expensive. You would be better off going to a garage sale and picking up the same computer for $25 and getting a kid in the neighborhood to refurbish it.)
Best Buy has a $205 laptop.
I guess after five years they are getting close to half? Maybe this is why the FCC started a $4 billion program to help close the digital divide at $150 a refurbished computer + training + $10 a month broadband. Even this is not Nielsen’s a quarter of 2006 prices. (FCC and “Connect to Compete” Broadband Fact Sheet) | <urn:uuid:7bc0a064-af3b-4500-ab40-a79bd26c893a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ezrasf.com/wplog/2011/11/20/quarter-the-2006-price/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962421 | 382 | 2.109375 | 2 |
UBC Theses and Dissertations
Purchasing power parity methods of making international comparisons Hill, Robert J.
The objective of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of the various Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) methods that have been advocated in the literature on international comparisons. The first of three essays builds on the pioneering work of Van Yzeren(1987) to rationalize the literature, by constructing a taxonomy of PPP methods. In particular, the taxonomy reinterprets PPP methods in a graph theoretic context. This reinterpretation yields many useful insights. The second essay was motivated by the realization that virtually all PPP methods have the same underlying graph theoretic structure. This essay develops a new PPP method which allows the data to choose the underlying structure by using Kruskal’s “Minimum Spanning Tree” Graph Theory algorithm to chain PPPs across countries rather than imposing the structure ex ante. The Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) method may potentially dramatically simplify the procedure for constructing PPPs. The MST method also has important implications for time series comparisons. The essay concludes with an empirical comparison using 1990 OECD data between the MST method and the three most widely used PPP methods. The third essay focuses specifically on the Average Price class of PPP methods identified in the taxonomy. Average Price methods have the very desirable property of generating quantity indices that literally add up over different levels of aggregation when measured in value terms. However, it is widely claimed that Average Price methods overestimate the output shares of any outlier countries in a comparison. This is the so-called Gerschenkron effect. In spite of its significant implications, evidence for the Gerschenkron effect remains largely anecdotal. This essay explains the reasoning behind the Gerschenkron effect. As part of this explanation it is necessary to give a precise interpretation to the hitherto vague notion of an “outlier” country. Also frameworks are developed for empirically verifying and measuring the Gerschenkron effect, which are then applied to 1990 OECD data, with some surprising results.
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Ziji: the puppy who learned to meditate
Ziji is a noisy, bouncy puppy who lives with the Anderson family: Mom, Dad, Jenny, and Baby Jack. He loves to bark and play and—most of all—chase pigeons in the park. Then one day, Ziji sees a new boy from Jenny's school, Nico, sitting in the park. What is Nico doing? Why does he look so calm and happy? Ziji can't wait to find out.
This book, written by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, one of the new generation of Tibetan Buddhist masters, will teach your child the basics of meditation in a fun and engaging way. Included after the story is a guide for parents and teachers with more information on what meditation is and how it can be helpful as well as suggestions on how children can continue to practice meditation on their own. | <urn:uuid:0f2d2f1b-54d6-4d39-82d3-322268d7c28f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://windhorse.com.au/bookproduct/ziji-puppy-who-learned-meditate-0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.961157 | 196 | 2.296875 | 2 |
BY FIDELITY MHLANGA
self-taught eight-year-old Tanatswa April Marembo has defied age after she launched Kubvumbi Stitches and Scissors, a design and clothing line.
Kubvumbi is the Shona name for the month of April.
The designer label, which was launched online yesterday, produces tie-dye as well as bleached clothing (T-shirts, sweaters, denim, face asks and socks), dolls clothes, and loom bands.
Kubvumbi Stitches and Scissors is a fashion and design company founded by Tanatswa, a Grade 4 pupil at Midlands Christian School in Gweru.
Tanatswa, who is also the only child of Tanaka and Priviledge Marembo, had a passion for cutting, fashion and designing as well as philanthropy from a very young age.
“I design off-head, using old T-shirts and old clothes whenever I get an idea. In my spare time I make clothes from paper. My dream is to become a great creative fashion designer who represents Zimbabwe internationally,” Tanatswa said.
The brand is illustrated through a colourful icon that resembles stitches, markings and scissors cuts. The colourfulness is indicative of the vibrancy and youthfulness of the brand. The logo is complemented with elegant text in one uniform colour and is a progressive symbolism that is meant to capture the maturity of the founder as she grows.
The products are of good quality, durable and trendy, targeted for all hip people who have a youthful spirit. Kubvumbi’s brand essence stems from Tanatswa’s beliefs, which is that life should be enjoyed and never be a competition.
“The purpose of Kubvumbi as a brand is to encourage people to let go of ‘the pressure to become’, re-instil hope and urge everyone to enjoy even the smallest things, especially during this year which has been stressful the world over due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Chenesai Majaya, the brand and communication strategist who worked on the project.
Kubvumbi brand values are premised on originality, transparency, youthfulness, passion, raw creativity, positivity and energy.
Tanatswa has received great support from her parents, family, friends, all the teachers who have taught her and her best friend Graham Mataka.
“Tanatswa has been consistent in what she wants to become ever since she was in pre-school — a fashion designer. Not only that, she has also received awards for her fashion and design craft at school. We feel that we would not have done her justice if we don’t support her dream to the fullest potential,” her mother Tanaka Marembo said.
Like all parents, Tanatswa’s parents were initially worried of the effect publicity could have on their child, but their fears that she could neglect school were allayed.
“We believe that the world has changed and this is part of her education. We also believe that the work ethic and discipline fostered through her business through hard work will spill over into her school work. If most of us grown-ups now had received such support from their parents we would have gone far,” Marembo said.
“We support our child by listening and believing in what she is passionate about and putting resources where required, for instance in this case, registering a company [she will assume full ownership when she is 18], buying the materials that she uses and every other cost that was associated with this launch.”
Tanatswa’s story lives as a testament that everyone who had a dream as a young child that never saw the light of day is going to be reminded that it’s possible, even with their own kids.
She has received a number of accolades, including Kind and Generous while in Grade 1, HardWorking and Top 3 for Kid-prenuership Project (she made money from making and selling necklaces, bracelets, rings and loombands) (Grade 2), and Merit for Clothes Project (Grade 3).
“Tanatswa is a warm, considerate young girl and I am glad she has discovered a talent that best describes her character fully. She expresses herself through her art and it speaks volume. Her continued hard-work and creativity in it will take her to amazing places. I wish her the very best,” said Tanatswa’s teacher Kwandokuhle Musa Khumalo.
Guided by Tanatswa’s conviction to philanthropic work, Kubvumbi envisages to pay school fees for underprivileged children from the proceeds of the profits, starting with at least three children and hopefully increasing the number as the brand continues to grow. Kubvumbi is also an eco-friendly brand, they use recyclable/biodegradable carrier bags.
Kubvumbi products are available at Rosepetals shop in Gweru, and they also deliver nationwide.
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The most prominent legal story this week has nothing to do with criminal law. The Supreme Court spent three days hearing oral argument on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care reform law. Two things unrelated to the merits of the case intrigue me. First, lots of pundits think that at least a portion of the law will be struck down (the part requiring individuals to purchase health insurance if they’re not otherwise covered), and the Atlantic argues here that a legal blog has been hugely influential in shaping the public debate about, and the legal fate of, the law. Not this blog, obviously, but still: I am drunk with power! Second, I hugely enjoyed the beginning of this New York Times story: “The three days of Supreme Court arguments . . . on the . . . health care law will be a legal marathon, and the lawyers involved have been training. Last week, there were so many . . . moot courts that they threatened to exhaust something that had never been thought in short supply: Washington lawyers.”
In other news:
- In between all those oral arguments, the Supreme Court actually decided a criminal case this week. Setser v. United States will be of interest to folks who are concerned with the interplay between state and federal sentences.
- Will technology solve the drunk driving problem? Politico reports here that Congress is considering directing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to study the feasibility of “nonintrusive technology based around touch or breathing that would be able to sense when a driver is drunk and disable the car.” The idea is that the technology – such as steering-wheel mounted, touch-based alcohol detectors – could be made available as an option on new cars. The American Beverage Institute opposes the provision, viewing it as the first step to mandating such devices on all vehicles.
- A couple of items regarding the death penalty cropped up this week. Over at Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger commented on an order, issued by a federal judge in Arizona, criticizing the FDA for allowing states to use imported drugs for lethal injections. Those who enjoy Scheidegger’s writing will appreciate his post, including the dry remark that “[u]se of an exclamation point in a judicial opinion, by itself, should raise a presumption of reversibility.” Meanwhile, Sentencing Law and Policy noted here that Japan recently conducted three executions, all by hanging.
- Speaking of writing, I like the writing of Richard Posner, who sits on the Seventh Circuit. In a recent opinion reinstating an inmate’s lawsuit over allegedly tainted jail food, Judge Posner wrote that “[d]eliberate withholding of nutritious food or substitution of tainted or otherwise sickening food, with the effect of causing substantial weight loss, vomiting, stomach pains, and maybe an anal fissure (which is no fun at all, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_fissure (visited March 15, 2012)), or other severe hardship, would violate the Eighth Amendment.” Um, I guess so. The food in question is “nutriloaf,” a staple in at least some correctional institutions, which Judge Posner described as follows: “‘Nutriloaf’ isn’t a proprietary food like Hostess Twinkies but, like ‘meatloaf’ or ‘beef stew,’ a term for a composite food the recipe of which can vary from institution to institution, or even from day to day within an institution; nutriloaf could meet requirements for calories and protein one day yet be poisonous the next if, for example, made from leftovers that had spoiled.” If the foregoing hasn’t ruined your appetite, more details are available here at Above the Law.
- Finally, an item on the lighter side. The Washington Post notes here that in D.C., nonprescription eyeglasses have “become something of a sensation in the . . . courthouse scene: Attorneys say inmates trade them before hearings, while friends and family sometimes deliver them during jailhouse visits. Some lawyers even supply them themselves.” We scooped the Post by over a year, addressing eyeglasses, dress clothes and tattoos here, plus exploring the legal issue of whether indigent defendants are entitled to hipster glasses at the state’s expense. | <urn:uuid:071e3992-8068-4b86-8307-232caa45d9ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/news-roundup-129/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949213 | 913 | 1.507813 | 2 |
DB-90TX IP Audio Encoder
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Developed with the thought of easy of use in mind, DB90-TX can be managed through a standard Web browser, PC, PDA or other device, which makes it the best choice for professional and consumer use.
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See new landscapes.
HAVE NEW EYES.
Welcome to OtherWise Education.
We promote creative writing, powerful literacies, self-reflection and even a bit of joy!
Click 'Our Projects' to see how we can work with you.
The academic is vital, but it is not enough.
For kids to harness the full potential of their intellect, they need opportunities to consider their values, communicate clearly, and reflect upon themselves and their relationships with others.
I run a range of projects with pupils which develop children's self-expression and self-understanding. These include Poetry Retreats, Poetry Residencies, and the Iliad Project. I want for the experience to be transformative, thought-provoking and (unapologetically) enjoyable.
Whilst COVID has temporarily paused things like the Poetry Retreats, I am enjoying working with schools in new ways, focusing on modern ways of telling the oldest stories.
The Iliad Project is my main project for 2021-22, and I am enjoying teaching it in East London schools. I've been obsessed with mythology since childhood, and have relished the chance to get deeply invested in the beautiful weirdness once again.
When creativity, knowledge and self-confidence interweave, children and their teachers can achieve remarkable things together.
From June 2020, we are supported by the Arts Council Emergency Response Fund, with money from the National Lottery. This generous support is enabling us to adapt our organisation to lockdown, and to the new realities facing schools. Our Arts Council/National Lottery funding supported us to restructure our aims, continue KUDOS and Writes of Passage digitally which began pre-lockdown, and to develop new projects to support children and teachers.
Director of OtherWise Education
ADISA THE VERBALISER
Adisa co-facilitates Poetry Retreats and leads staff training and poetry projects with Jonny. He is a dynamic event host and is a published poet, author of 'Lip-Hopping with the Fundi Fu'. | <urn:uuid:4ee91470-da9e-46fe-97b0-a8607bc9e24b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.otherwiseeducation.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95275 | 442 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Its not unusual to see local flooding around a house, or on streets, during exceptionally heavy rainfall.
If you are unlucky you might even see a manhole ‘Pop It’s Top!’ like this one!
This is because the council drains don’t have the capacity to deal with these really heavy rains!
Why It Happens
The roof drainage to get the water off your roof will be designed for very severe storms.
This is because the risk to your property from gutters and downpipes not being able to cope is very high. (see this link: Roof Risk)
Some localised shallow flooding around the house, that will be drained away over an hour or two, however is low risk.
Council Design Considerations
To design the public drains to cope with extreme events would have huge costs. . . Even if the pipes were big enough downstream flooding of rivers would be made worse.
For this reason although the roof drainage will be designed for a storm that may occur only over every 20, or even more years apart; the public drains may be designed for no more than a storm that occurs every 5 years.
The difference in additional rainfall between a 1 in 5 year storm and a 1 in 20 year storm can be an extra 50%. (See this link: Rainfall Intensity)
This is the water that could cause short term flooding around your house.
What You Can Do
Basically the best advise I can give is to avoid buying blocks at the bottom of slopes (These will be the worst affected by temporary flooding)
If you do get some localised flooding in your garden that either
Doesn’t drain away as the rain eases; or
Occurs every time it rains.
You should contact the council as it could be a sign of a problem.
In the case of the above photo this is a combination drain and grate silt pit. (As the water can become stagnant this is a potential breeding ground for mosquitos!)
The pit may be either circular or square, with a base below the level of the inlet and outlet pipes. This means any sand or silt that gets into the drainage system will get washed into the silt pit where it falls to the bottom and can be easily removed.
Collecting the silt in the pit stops it being washed further along the system eventually causing a blockage,
The following diagram illustrates how the silt pit works.
Part of your ongoing property maintenance, after you move in, should to check the silt pits every year. If the silt gets up to the outlet pipe the pit will need to be cleaned.
In Western Australia you are required to dispose of storm water on your block, rather than to a public storm water drain.
There are also many areas that don’t have public stormwater drains including many beach side areas.
In either case if this applies to your block then you will probably need soakwells, so here is some information.
How Soakwells Work
Basically the soakwell is an underground storage tank with holes in it so it ‘leaks’ into the soil.
The soakwell is surrounded by gravel which helps distribute the water ‘leaking’ out of the tank into the soil. It also prevents sand running into the tank.
Traditionally soakwells have been constructed out of precast concrete like this round example on the right.
Now there are a range of options which include:
Plastic Tanks Made of Polyethylene, or Glass reinforced Plastic, these are really just a version of the concrete soakwells
Drainage Cells These are plastic mesh boxes that look something like plastic milk crates. They are stacked in the excavated whole wrapped in a geotextile. Make sure you have a Silt Trap before the drainage cells.
In general soakwells should be further away from all buildings and boundaries than the depth of the soakwell (measured from ground level).
On restricted blocks I have heard of the soakwell being installed under the house. . . . perhaps OK on sand but not so good if there is clay soil (see Building on Clay)
The size and number of soakwells required depend on the following:
Infiltration Rate The rate at which the water can be absorbed into the soil.
Maximum Rainfall The storage volume should be able to take the flow from the maximum rainfall less the amount of water that can ‘infiltrate’ into the soil.
Groundwater Level To be effective the entire volume of the tank needs to be above the groundwater level.
You should contact your local council to find out their requirements with regard to soakwells. A typical requirement is 1 cubic m of volume for every 80 sqm of roof.
For sites that have rocky or clay, the volume required will be much larger.
There has been a lot of talk in the Melbourne papers recently about ‘Slab Heave’ when Building on Clay so I thought I would explain how to minimise the risk during construction.
A key issue when building on clay is to avoid any extra moisture getting into the clay under the slab. causing the clay to swell, by keeping the area around the slab well drained.
This is particularly important where part of the slab is below the natural ground level such as when ‘Cut and Fill’ is required to get a level site.
Detail For Protection Against Soil Heave
The diagram below shows what you should be looking for, during construction, to protect the ground under your slab from gaining moisture.
The key issues are:
The excavated surface falls away from the edge of the slab for at least 1m with a minimum drop of 75mm.
Where the water will not continue to flow away from the slab an Aggi Drain in a granular back filled trench should be provided. This drain should be a minimum of 100mm below the surface level of the clay and fall to a suitable discharge point.
Any trench in the area between the slab and the aggi drain should be topped with well compacted clay to ensure there is no easy passage for water to penetrate under the slab.
Roof drainage should be connected to a suitable point of discharge as soon as possible after the roofing material is fixed. (See Temporary Downspout)
Although the requirement for an aggi drain is not as critical where the ground slopes away from the slab, it is nevertheless good practice to have one.
One check that is often forgotten when buying a house block in an established suburb is how storm water is removed from the site.
Forty, or more, years ago when land was cheaper, it was not unusual for blocks to be quite large compared with the size of the house.
Disposing of storm water by allowing it to soak into the garden in the garden was acceptable. (This is still effective in sandy areas such as much of Western Australia)
As a result many properties were built without connection to a surface water sewer.
Modern Knock Down and Rebuild Problems
If you buy block in an older suburb with the intention of subdividing, or demolishing and building a bigger house, you could have problems if you haven’t got access to a storm water sewer.
Disposal to a much smaller garden area probably won’t work.
In order to protect adjoining properties from overflows from your property the council are likely to make discharge to an approved point conditional on any development approval.
Dealing with the attendant problems if you plan to extend or subdivide a block without a stormwater discharge point can add thousands of dollars to your costs.
Possible options are:
Soakwells. If you are lucky enough to have a sandy block soakwells may be a solution. Low cost.(see this link: Soakwells )
Pipe to existing surface water sewer. This may involve negotiating with adjacent property owners. Very difficult to achieve unless the affected neighbours also want to subdivide. Very expensive.
Discharge to Street Check with your council to see if this is permitted. A typical street connection will look something like this kerb outlet. Can be a reasonable cost if the block is above the road, or very expensive if the block is below road level Pumps and a detention tank will be needed (See these links Pumps and Detention Tank)
Many urban developments, and subdivisions, require stormwater flows from your block to be limited to a maximum flow rate. (See: ‘Onsite Stormwater Dention‘ for the reason why)
Although councils will require the calculations to be done by a qualified hydraulic engineer here is some explanation of the process so you can understand what is required.
Permissible Site Discharge
The ‘Permissible Site Discharge'(PSD), which is a maximum flow rate, will normally be set by your Council based on the block area.
The flow rate is usually controlled by making all the flow pass through a Orifice (a small diameter hole) before it can be discharged.
Reducing the flow involves the following steps:
Calculating the Peak Discharge from your block. The Local ‘Intensity of Rainfall‘ x Total Impemeable Area (The area of roof and hard paved surface)
Calculating the size of a storage required, the Site Storage Requirement (SSR) to take the rainfall that cannot be discharged until the storm has passed. Your council may require this to be calculated in a particular way and/or using a particular computer program.
Designing the storage to fit on your block.
NB The storage volume is different from rainwater collection volume as the detention storage volume is expected to be empty unless it is raining hard.
Onsite Storage Options
The three options that are available are:
Below Ground Tanks. Most expensive option but does have the advantage of being able to located under driveway or garden if you are short of space. May need a pump to empty tank if public stormwater drains are shallow. (Some councils require tank to be emptied by gravity which can make them difficult on some blocks.)
Above Ground Tanks These are less expensive than underground tanks but can take up a lot of area so can be a problem for small blocks. Some councils will allow the detention volume to be provided within the same tank as rainwater storage.
Basins Basins are the least expensive method of providing storage but require much larger areas than above ground tanks. They are normally a low lying area of the garden which can be flooded for a short period of time. Because of issues such as drowning risk there are often council regulations limiting the depth of storage.
If you want to redevelop or subdivide an existing urban house block, you might find that a planning condition is that you will need to provide On-site Stormwater Detention (OSD).
You may also find it is a condition on individual blocks on smaller subdivisions.
Why Is Onsite Stormwater Detention Needed?
Before development of towns and cities a large proportion of the rain that fell in an area soaked into the ground or flowed slowly across the land to a creek or river. When areas started to be developed two things happened:
More and more of the land was built on, or paved, which meant rain was unable to soak into this ground.
Stormwater drains were built to carry the rainwater quickly away from the houses to be discharged into streams and creeks.
Initially while Australia had a small population this didn’t cause too many problems.
Since the mid 1950’s and the rapid growth in population more and more land has been built on.
The result has been more and more water has been discharged surface water drainage systems causing overloading of the piped systems and flooding of the rivers.
In order to try and reduce flooding Planning Authorities are attempting to reduce rainwater flows from developments to a flows similar to an undeveloped site.
OSD On Large Subdivisions
If you buy a block on a large subdivision it is unlikely that you will be asked to provide OSD on your Block. This is because large developers as a condition of the overall development have to provide Stormwater Detention Storage for the whole development.
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Trump leads Biden in Florida, seen as a must-win for the president
President Donald Trump was narrowly leading Democratic rival Joe Biden in the vital battleground state of Florida today, while other competitive swing states that will help decide the election outcome, such as Georgia and North Carolina, remained up in the air.
The two contenders split the first U.S. states to be projected in the White House race, with conservative states like Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee going to Trump and Democratic-leaning Massachusetts, Vermont and Virginia going to Biden, according to projections by television networks and Edison Research.
But in Florida, widely seen by voting experts as a must-win state for Trump in his quest for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, Trump was leading Biden 50.5% to 48.5% based on about 90% of the estimated total votes. Electoral College votes are assigned to each state, in part based on their population.
Part of Trump’s strength in Florida came from an improved performance relative to 2016 in the state’s counties with large Latino populations.
Biden was leading in counties where Hispanics make up more than 20% of the population, but Trump’s share of the vote in those counties was larger than it was in the 2016 election. More than four in 10 Hispanic voters in Florida said they cast a ballot for Trump, according to an Edison Research exit poll.
Biden, 77, still has multiple paths to the 270 Electoral College votes he needs to win without Florida despite having spent lots of time and money trying to flip the state that backed Trump, 74, in 2016.
Biden took the lead in other battlegrounds. He led Trump by 52.5% to 46.4% in North Carolina with 68% of estimated votes reported. Voting experts have warned that the early vote counting in North Carolina could favor Biden because election officials start processing mail-in ballots weeks before Election Day. Reuters/Ipsos opinion polling shows that people who already have voted in North Carolina support the Democratic challenger by a more than 2-to-1 margin over the president.
In Ohio, Biden led 55.3% to 43.5% with 43.5% of estimated votes. And in Texas, Biden narrowly led 49.4% to 49.3% with 55% of estimated votes reported.
Voters, many wearing masks and maintaining social-distancing to guard against the spread of the coronavirus, streamed into polling places through the day, experiencing long lines in a few locales and short waits in many other places. There were no signs of disruptions or violence at polling sites, as some officials had feared.
The winner – who may not be determined for days – will lead a nation strained by a pandemic that has killed more than 231,000 people and left millions more jobless, racial tensions and political polarization that has only worsened during a vitriolic campaign.
Biden, the Democratic former vice president, put Trump’s handling of the pandemic at the center of his campaign and has held a consistent lead in national opinion polls over the Republican president.
But a third of U.S. voters listed the economy as the issue that mattered most to them when deciding their choice for president, while two out of 10 cited COVID-19, according to an Edison Research exit poll on Tuesday.
In the national exit poll, four out of 10 voters said they thought the effort to contain the virus was going “very badly.” In the battleground states of Florida and North Carolina, battleground states that could decide the election, five of 10 voters said the national response to the pandemic was going “somewhat or very badly.”
The poll found that nine out of 10 voters had already decided on their choice before October, and nine out of 10 voters said they were confident their state would accurately count votes.
The poll found signs Trump was losing support among his core base of supporters in Georgia and Virginia.
Edison’s exit polls showed Trump winning seven in 10 white men in Georgia, down from eight in 10 against Hillary Clinton in 2016. And while Trump was winning with six in 10 voters who were at least 65 years old in Georgia, that was down from a seven in 10 four years ago.
In Virginia, Trump is winning six in 10 whites without college degrees in Virginia, down from seven in 10 in 2016. Trump is also winning six in 10 white men in Virginia, down from seven in 10 in 2016.
Opinion polls show Trump is close enough in several election battleground states that he could repeat the type of upset he pulled off in 2016, when he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton despite losing the national popular vote by about 3 million ballots.
“I’m hopeful,” Biden told reporters in his home state of Delaware, after earlier appearing in the pivotal state of Pennsylvania to make an 11th-hour appeal to voters.
Ahead of Election Day, just over 100 million voters cast early ballots either by mail or in person, according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida, driven by concerns about crowded polling places during the pandemic as well as extraordinary enthusiasm.
The total has broken records and prompted some experts to predict the highest voting rates since 1908 and that the vote total could reach 160 million, topping the 138 million cast in 2016.
In anticipation of possible protests, some buildings and stores were boarded up in cities including Washington, Los Angeles and New York. Federal authorities erected a new fence around the White House perimeter.
A REFERENDUM ON TRUMP
Supporters of both candidates called the election a referendum on Trump and his tumultuous first term. No U.S. president has lost a re-election bid since Republican George H. W. Bush in 1992.
Voters on Tuesday will also decide which political party controls the U.S. Congress for the next two years, with Democrats narrowly favored to recapture a Senate majority and retain their control of the House of Representatives.
Trump is seeking another term in office after a chaotic four years marked by the coronavirus crisis, an economy battered by pandemic shutdowns, an impeachment drama, inquiries into Russian election interference, U.S. racial tensions and contentious immigration policies.
Biden is looking to win the presidency on his third attempt after a five-decade political career including eight years as vice president under Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama.
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One in six American children live in poverty. One in six struggle with a developmental disability. An estimated 70 percent of American adults have experienced a traumatic event.
Despite the overwhelming prevalence of these circumstances, societal expectations and the country’s fragmented, under-resourced service systems make it nearly impossible for families experiencing hardship to keep up. In many cases, the system makes their situation worse.
In her book, Zilberstein, Clinical Director of the Northampton, Massachusetts chapter of A Home Within, provides a candid look at how parents contending with poverty, illness, disability, or other constraints are expected to do so much with so little—and the price they and society pay.
Through the unforgettable portraits of six overburdened families, Parents Under Pressure shows how health crises can quickly devolve into the loss of jobs and homes, how public perceptions of poor people hamper the chances for a better life, and the ways in which race and income affect access to assistance. Judged by family, friends and professionals who question their abilities and choices, parents feel inadequate and drained, rather than supported. | <urn:uuid:d1bb3d84-c169-42f5-9e6f-071bde8dc7e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.levellerspress.com/product/parents-under-pressure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94649 | 225 | 2.4375 | 2 |
In the seventies and eighties, for most people, the only choices for home or commercial lighting were incandescent bulbs or fluorescent strip lighting. These came in different wattage ratings based on the brightness levels required. Since then, new technology has been responsible for moving things on and there are now a host of different lighting options available. Some of the most commonly known light bulbs and their properties are described below.
This is the type of bulb most people grew up with in their home. In this type of bulb, light is produced by electricity being passed through a thin tungsten wire. Unfortunately as well as light, a huge amount of heat energy is produced (about 20% light and 80% heat), which is extremely wasteful and makes these bulbs very energy inefficient. In 2007 the UK announced that this type of bulb would be phased out by 2011. However, a loophole in the law has meant that some types of incandescent bulb can still be found on sale today. Even so, their popularity has greatly reduced in the last few years. This is partly due to the lack of availability and partly due to improvements and falling prices of other types of more energy efficient bulbs.
Halogen bulbs are similar to incandescent light bulbs but have a small quartz bulb filled with halogen gas inside the incandescent bulb. Although they last a lot longer than incandescent bulbs they also produce a lot of heat, making them not very energy efficient as well as a fire and burn hazard. At the moment they continue to be popular with many people because they are cheap to produce and therefore cheap to buy.
CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lights) use the same technology as fluorescent strip lighting but are curled into a more compact design. They are much more energy efficient than traditional incandescent bulbs using 1/4 of the energy and lasting 10 times longer. However, the thing that annoys most people about this type of bulb is that when switched on, they can take time a few moments to warm up and reach their optimum brightness level. They also struggle to operate well in cool conditions, so are not good for outdoor use or for lighting areas that are likely to be cold. In addition CFL bulbs contain small amounts of mercury which is dangerous to humans and not good for the environment. This means that when CFL bulbs come to the end of their life they need to be disposed of properly and can’t just be thrown in the bin.
LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) bulbs contain semi conductors that convert electricity into light. They have been around for years in small electronic devices e.g. digital clock displays. The huge benefit of LEDs has always been their superb energy efficiency (up to 90%), leading to low running costs, together with fantastic longevity – they can last for up to 50,000 hours before they need replacing. However, traditionally the high cost of LED bulbs has been the main prohibitive factor for their popularity. Fortunately in the last couple of years their price has come down considerably and they are now the much more affordable option for lighting your home and business.
Main Advantages of LED Lighting
- Up to 90% energy efficiency
- Last up to 50,00 hours
- Safer – as they are cold to the touch
- Dimmable and not dimmable versions available
- Light up to full brightness instantly
- Operate in cold conditions
- Made from 100% recyclable materials
- Full range of colours and styles
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80% of Cambodians work in rice paddies, yet earning a secure living from rice growing can be an impossible task for many smallholders, who barely grow enough to feed their own families. SNV is equiping rice farmers with expert knowledge and information to improve yields, and using tablet technology to do it.
"When there is not enough food to eat, I can't sleep. And the kids cry all day when I don't have anything to give them. Sometimes I cry too." says Mut Sukha, a rice farmer whose low yields mean she is struggling to feed her family, and does not have surplus rice to sell for extra income. SNV is working with Mut using tablet technology, to improve her knowledge and skills as a farmer so her household can be more food and nutrition secure.
Not what you normally expect to find in the average rice paddy, these smart tablets house eAgro software providing up to date information and guidance at the touch of button, helping farmers solve small problems that are encountered along the crop cycle. An initiative of IFAD & Grameen Intel Social Business, and implemented as part of PADEE - the Project for Agricultural Development and Economic Empowerment - this programme aims to equip rice farmers with all the farming knowledge they need to increase yields and access profitable markets.
From seed choices to soil testing, agricultural experts have helped to design the software so that farmers are guided step by step to the right solution for them. Local people have been trained in the software and work with smallholders, developing their own micro businesses as farming advisors.
Mut had never received any advice on rice growing and was surprised to learn through a quick soil test and data from the eAgro software that she was using far too much fertliser. The simple step of reducing the amount will benefit her crop and lower her expenses. The local advisors also work with rice farmers to negotiate bulk order discounts for seed and fertiliser to help reduce costs, and to connect them to rice buyers. The system is already in use in India where it has helped farmers to increase their yields by 300%.
With the potential to ensure a food secure future for rice farmers like Mut and her family, the software will soon be launched across 500 locations reaching over 25,000 farming families. This really is tech for good! | <urn:uuid:0101510b-312a-41ac-a3da-1ced55df37c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ww.snv.org/update/e-learning-comes-rice-field | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965074 | 471 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Omega - 3 for Kids: Benefits
- Omega-3 are essential fatty acids that ensure the overall development of children.
- Fish oils, different types of seeds, milk, and soy products are some of the foods containing omega-3.
- Children may safely consume omega-3 after consulting with a doctor about the recommended dosage.
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When considering a paralegal studies program, students have three degree options: Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Science (AS) or Associate of Applied Science (AAS). The path you choose will depend on your future career or academic goals. The AAS is designed for those who want to join the workforce in an entry-level position directly after school. For students interested in pursuing a bachelor’s, or those who want to become lawyers, the AA or AS programs are usually transferable to four-year schools.
An online associate degree in paralegal studies covers the fundamentals of law, legal processes and the special duties required to assist an attorney. The degree, which can often be completed within one or two years, qualifies individuals to begin their paralegal careers upon graduating. With employment opportunities for paralegals expected to grow 17% between 2012 and 2022, now is a great time to pursue this degree.
By earning a paralegal studies associate degree online, students are afforded additional computer and writing skills, while enjoying flexible class schedules and the convenience of taking their courses pretty much anywhere. Additionally, students save money on commuting, parking and class materials, since most of what you need is available online.
Any one of the online associate in paralegal studies programs on the list below will instill you with the computer, organizational and critical thinking skills you need to succeed in the paralegal field.
|Rank||School Name||School Logo||City||Cost||Address & Contact Info||School Links||Acclaim for Online Programs||School Description|
|1||Keiser University||Fort Lauderdale||$$$$$||1500 NW 49th St|
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
In addition to 19 campuses located throughout the state of Florida, Keiser University has a virtual eCampus offered through its Fort Lauderdale location. Distance learners seeking an associate degree through an online paralegal program may be interested in enrolling at Keiser. This program is considered to be a terminal degree and is only offered online. It includes eight courses that are focused exclusively on paralegal studies, including family law and civil litigation. These classes provide the foundational knowledge needed to succeed in paralegal roles and other legal settings. There are no prerequisites for any of the core courses, providing students with increased flexibility when it comes to planning their class schedules. Kaiser provides distance learners with a variety of services, including career coaching, resume review, writing services, and mentoring.
|2||Liberty University||Lynchburg||$$$$$||1971 University Blvd|
Lynchburg, VA 24515
Liberty University is based in Virginia and is the largest private college provider of online learning; more than 95,000 students are enrolled at Liberty as distance learners. The online paralegal program consists of 60 total credit hours, but students who have already begun their studies elsewhere can easily transfer up to 45 credits. Full-time students can complete this program in two years, but the school also welcomes part-time learners. Upon graduation, students can expect to find employment as paralegals, legal assistants, law clerks, and title examiners. Distance learners at Liberty benefit from many services and resources, including online libraries, writing centers, writing aids, study aids, and preparation courses. Liberty University helps students learn, develop, and grow so that they can impact their communities as champions for Christ.
|3||Holmes Community College||Goodman||$$$$$||#1 Hill St|
Goodman, MS 39079
Located just outside the capital of Mississippi, Holmes Community College is a two-year school offering students the opportunity to complete a paralegal degree online. The full program requires four semesters of study, although students are eligible to apply for a technical certificate after completing 30 hours of coursework. This paralegal technology degree emphasizes advanced technologies that paralegals will need to master in order to be successful. HCC’s online offerings are overseen by the Mississippi Virtual Community College, and the Canvas LMS is used to deliver coursework to distance learners. The curriculum is based on standards developed by the National Association of Legal Assistants’ Descriptions of Certified Paralegal Exams. Online paralegal degree students also have the option to join the Holmes Association of Legal Students, which allows them to network with their peers, alumni, speakers, and current professionals in the field.
|4||Rio Salado College||Tempe||$$$$$||2323 W 14th St|
Tempe, AZ 85281
Operating as part of the Maricopa Community Colleges system, Arizona’s Rio Salado College has numerous campuses throughout the state. Its Tempe campus provides an associate of applied science in paralegal studies. This online paralegal degree covers both foundational and advanced topics in the field, ranging from estate and corporate law to legal investigations and bankruptcy. Aside from this degree, the school also provides a certificate of completion in paralegal studies. RSC gives students in this program the opportunity to complete a paralegal internship while enrolled. Students can further customize their degree by choosing from a range of electives including classes that discuss immigration law and environmental law. Additionally, online classes begin every Monday; students don't have to wait until the beginning of a semester to get started in their program.
|5||Hutchinson Community College||Hutchinson||$$$$$||1300 N Plum St|
Hutchinson, MN 67501
Since 1928, Hutchinson Community College has provided students with a quality foundational education. More recently, the university expanded its reach and now offers online courses through its Hutchinson, Kansas campus. HCC created its associate of applied science in paralegal studies degree specifically for students who aspire to work as either paralegals or legal assistants. This degree can be completed entirely online, although some courses may require that students find a proctor to complete exams. In addition to general education requirements, students pursuing a paralegal degree online receive a comprehensive overview of foundational topics, including litigation, personal injury, legal ethics, and estate planning. Students can also specialize their degree by choosing from a range of electives including legal and ethical issues in healthcare and intellectual property.
|6||Hodges University||Naples||$$$$$||2655 Northbrooke Dr|
Naples, FL 34119
Provided through its school of professional studies, the associate in science in paralegal studies at Hodges University can be completed on campus or completely online. Students who take three courses per term are able to obtain their degrees in four semesters. This program is broken into two main components: a legal component consisting of 10 classes and a liberal arts component consisting of five classes. The average class size in the paralegal studies program is just 14 pupils, allowing students to interact directly with their professors. Online courses are provided through the Blackboard LMS. Upon graduation, students are prepared to take the National Association of Legal Assistants’ Certified Legal Assistant exam to boost their job prospects. Additionally, for students who want to further their education, all credits earned from this associate program can be applied toward Hodges’ BS in legal studies program.
|7||Indiana Wesleyan University||Marion||$$$$$||4201 S Washington St|
Marion, IN 46953-4974
Students seeking an online paralegal degree taught from an evangelical Christian perspective may be interested in attending Marion-based Indiana Wesleyan University. The university’s total enrollment, which includes on-campus and distance learners, currently exceeds 15,000 students. For nearly 100 years, IWU has provided two- and four-year degrees, including its associate of science in paralegal studies. This program was launched in 2014 and can be completed entirely online. The average course in this program is only six weeks long, which lets students finish their course of study in a shorter amount of time compared to other paralegal programs. Transfer credits are also accepted if students started their education at a different academic institution. For nontraditional students, the school provides a range of adult education offerings and support services, including tutoring and career advice.
|8||Southwestern Community College||Sylva||$$$$$||447 College Dr|
Sylva, NC 28779
Located in the hills of Sylva, North Carolina, Southwestern Community College offers a range of on-campus and online classes. The school’s associate of applied science in paralegal technology is a two-year program that can be completed online. Distance learners enrolled in this program are eligible for financial aid. Upon graduation, students planning to work within the state of North Carolina can take the North Carolina State Bar’s Paralegal Certification exam. Throughout their course of study, students are taught the skills needed to work in a range of settings, including banks, insurance agencies, government agencies, and law firms. Students can also elect to take summer classes, allowing them to finish the online paralegal program more quickly. SCC’s online courses are offered through the Blackboard LMS.
|9||Tyler Junior College||Tyler||$$$$$||1400 East Fifth Street|
Tyler, TX 75701
East Texas’ Tyler Junior College is one of the largest community colleges in the state and has provided quality educations for nearly a century. More than 11,000 students are currently enrolled at this school. Courses in the associate of applied science in paralegal studies program are offered through the Canvas learning platform. Students seeking to obtain a paralegal degree online from Tyler Junior College must complete seven general education classes and 13 classes related to their major. In their second year, distance learners are provided with a career coach who helps them focus on their future goals and find internships and jobs opportunities. Additional online services include library access, technological assistance, and writing tutoring. The paralegal studies degree is also offered through a hybrid program, where students can complete most of their degree online while attending some classes in person.
|10||Madisonville Community College||Madisonville||$$$$$||2000 College Drive|
Madisonville, KY 42431
Located in western Kentucky, Madisonville Community College is one of 16 junior colleges in the state that belong to the Kentucky Community and Technical College system. This group of schools provides resources and support to a large number of campus-based and online students. All of MCC’s online programs focus on providing coursework that is easily transferrable to four-year colleges. This online paralegal degree is offered as an associate in applied science. Full-time students can complete this program in two years. The school also offers a paralegal certificate that is comprised of 39 credit hours. MCC uses the Blackboard LMS to deliver lectures and coursework to distance learners. Online students also have access to a technical helpdesk 24/7 and career services, which offer free assistance in locating regional and local employment opportunities
|11||Itawamba Community College||Fulton||$$$$$||602 W Hill Street|
Fulton, MS 38843-1099
Located in Fulton, Mississippi, Itawamba Community College has a comprehensive distance education program. The school offers a one-year certificate of completion and a two-year associate of applied science degree in paralegal technology. Both of these programs allow students to apply for national certification through the NALA or NFPA. Students planning to obtain a full associate degree need to complete 64 credit hours, which generally takes two years of full-time study. ICC also helps distance learners enrolled in this program find paralegal internships near their homes. Students can obtain free online tutoring through NetTutor as well as assistance in scheduling proctored examinations. Distance learners who need technical support are able to work directly with the school’s director of eLearning initiatives. Online courses are offered through the Canvas learning management system.
|12||Georgia Military College||Milledgeville||$$$$$|
Georgia Military College is a liberal arts junior college that has provided academic degrees since 1879. Today, its student body contains more than 13,000 people and is comprised of learners from 39 states and 12 nations; GMC also has a 57% minority enrollment. Unlike the majority of paralegal programs, which require two years of full-time study, GMC’s associate of science in paralegal studies can be completed in just 1.5 years. The college also offers an associate of arts in paralegal studies. Students earning a paralegal degree online focus on critical thinking, communication, research, and computer and organizational skills. Online courses are made available through the Moodle LMS. Distance learners pay the same rate as in-state students. Military service is not required to attend GMC; more than 80% of its students have no military affiliation.
|13||Tallahassee Community College||Tallahassee||$$$$$||444 Appleyard Dr|
Tallahassee, FL 32304-2895
Since being established 50 years ago, Florida’s Tallahassee Community College has become recognized as a leader among junior colleges throughout the nation. More than 37,000 students are enrolled at this school each year, but the student-to-faculty ratio remains low at 24:1. TCC may be especially appealing for students who intend to obtain a bachelor’s degree; more than 75% of its alumni successfully transfer to a four-year institution. Unlike many other online paralegal degrees, which divide general education and core courses evenly, 46 of the 64 credit hours needed to complete an associate in paralegal studies are devoted to classes specific to the major. Upon graduation, learners are prepared for roles as paralegals or legal assistants in both public and private law firms. In addition to academic advising, distance learners have access to technical assistance, writing tutoring, online libraries, and career services.
|14||Eastern Kentucky University||Richmond||$$$$$||521 Lancaster Ave|
Richmond, KY 40475-3102
With a main campus in Richmond, Eastern Kentucky University is a large regional institution with six branch locations across the state. EKU also has a thriving distance education program. Students enrolled in online courses can select from six different start dates each year and enjoy some of the lowest tuition rates in the state. EKU’s online courses are the same price, regardless of a student’s state of residency. Although EKU’s associate in applied science in paralegal studies requires a two-week residency at the school, the remainder of the program can be completed entirely online. Online courses can be accessed through the Blackboard LMS. Students who have obtained a paralegal degree online can also decide to continue their education at EKU and pursue a bachelor’s of arts in paralegal science.
|15||Community Care College||Tulsa||$$$$$||4242 South Sheridan|
Tulsa, OK 74145
Tulsa’s Community Care College was founded in 1995. Although this vocation-focused school started by offering only dental courses, it has since expanded and currently has 11 different programs, including a paralegal studies program. This is the only fully-online paralegal program available in the state of Oklahoma. Its curriculum is developed and taught by an Oklahoma-licensed attorney and graduate of Harvard Law School. Students can expect to graduate with their diploma in less than a year. This paralegal certificate can also be applied to earn an associate of occupational science degree in business and industry management, which takes less than a year of additional study. Distance learners have the ability to communicate with their professors through phone, email, text, chat, Skype, and in person. Coursework for online classes is made available through the Moodle LMS. Members of the U.S. military and their spouses are eligible for reduced tuition and scholarships.
|16||Western Piedmont Community College||Morganton||$$$$$||1001 Burkemont Ave|
Morganton, NC 28655-4511
Western Piedmont Community College is one of the largest junior colleges in the state of North Carolina and enrolls 13,000 local and distance learners each year. WPCC’s online paralegal program has zero on-campus commitments. Most courses are asynchronous, but a few do meet synchronously; for these, students will need to log in at specific times for face-to-face classes with their peers and professors. The associate of applied science in paralegal technology requires 67 credits, and full-time students can expect to complete their studies within two years. Distance learners have access to tech support 24/7, online libraries, writing assistance, career services, and student clubs. The paralegal technology department also provides its students with access to Lexis-Advance, the Cornell Law School’s legal research site, and the North Carolina General Statutes.
|17||Atlanta Technical College||Atlanta||$$$$$||1560 Metropolitan Pkwy SW|
Atlanta, GA 30310-4446
In addition to educating many students who reside in Georgia’s capital city, Atlanta Technical College teaches students around the world through its eCampus. The college uses Blackboard to deliver lessons and coursework to online learners. ATC’s asynchronous online paralegal program students with increased flexibility, while multiple enrollment dates throughout the year make it convenient to start taking classes. ATC has offered its paralegal studies program for nearly two decades. Today the program takes about six semesters to complete and mandates that students participate in two internships to satisfy graduation requirements. Students can further customize their degrees by picking from electives such as bankruptcy/debtor-creditor relations and legal and policy issues in health care. Distance learners have access to a virtual career center 24 hours a day, which helps them find and apply for jobs.
|18||Alexandria Technical & Community College||Alexandria||$$$$$||1601 Jefferson Streeet|
Alexandria, MN 56308
Operating as a member of the Minnesota State University system, students at Alexandria Technical & Community College can easily transfer credits to a four-year MSU institution upon graduation from ATCC. ATCC is partnered with Distance Minnesota, which is a consortium of colleges that work together to provide online programs. ATCC’s online paralegal program has no prerequisites, but scholastic experience in American government, business, computer applications, English writing, and public speaking is helpful. The associate in applied science in paralegal studies can typically be completed in two years; students undertake an internship during their final summer semester to complete the program. School administrators are on hand to help distance learners find suitable internship locations near their homes. Upon graduation, students have the option to complete the Certified Paralegal Examination offered by the National Association of Legal Assistants.
|19||Macomb Community College||Warren||$$$$$||14500 E Twelve Mile Rd|
Warren, MI 48088-3896
Michigan’s Macomb Community College is ranked nationally and is in the top 2% of institutions in the number of associate degrees that they award annually. The school enrolls nearly 50,000 students each year. Its online paralegal program is offered as an associate of applied science in legal assistant program. Although students are not required to complete an internship to earn their degree, administrators are available to help distance learners find appropriate internship opportunities near their homes. Because many of its students plan to obtain four-year educations, the curriculum at MCC is designed to be easily transferred to a bachelor’s program. In addition to coursework related to different types of law, classes emphasize common technologies that are used in the field as well as computerized litigation software.
|20||Drury University||Springfield||$$$$$||900 N.Benton|
Springfield, MO 65802-3791
Missouri’s Drury University has provided liberal arts educations since 1873. In 1999, the university established its online learning program. DU’s associate of science in paralegal studies degree is offered through its continuing professional studies college. This program takes a three-pronged approach to learning: students gain conceptual knowledge of the essential principles and rules within law, refine their focus on different types of law, and then participate in a legal practicum, which allows students to showcase their newfound skills in a real-world setting. This program provides a focused study on American court systems, constitutional law, criminal law, civil law, legal research, legal writing, discovery, and interviewing and investigating. Online courses are delivered in a flexible, asynchronous format and distance learners access their coursework through the Moodle LMS.
|21||Minnesota State Community and Technical College||Fergus Falls||$$$$$||1414 College Way|
Fergus Falls, MN 56537-1000
With four campuses spread across the state, Minnesota State Community and Technical College serves nearly 10,000 local and online students. Among its 25 online degrees is an online paralegal program, which offers an associate of applied science degree. While prerequisites are not required for this program, students must take an Accuplacer assessment to determine whether they need to enroll in developmental courses in reading, writing, and/or math. MSCTC does not require students to complete a legal practicum, but administrators can help students arrange an internship prior to graduation if they would like to gain hands-on training. Students can customize their degrees by choosing electives such as principles of bookkeeping and state and local government. This degree can be completed entirely online and does not require any on-campus participation.
|22||Ivy Tech Community College||Indianapolis||$$$$$||50 W. Fall Creek Parkway N. Drive|
Indianapolis, IN 46208-5752
Ivy Tech Community College started out as a vocational and technical school in 1963. The college has since expanded its offerings to include more than 150 academic programs, which are taught at 32 different campuses around Indiana. It serves more than 170,000 students each year, many of whom take classes online. A popular option is its online paralegal program, which is available entirely online in an asynchronous format. The program can typically be completed in four semesters, allowing students to earn a degree in less than two academic years if they are able to enroll in summer classes. The program concludes with a paralegal studies capstone course, which helps students prepare to sit for the national certification examination offered by the National Association of Legal Assistants.
|23||Albany State University||Albany||$$$$$||504 College Drive|
Albany, GA 31705
Albany State has provided online learning opportunities for more than a decade. Its associate of applied science in legal assistant/paralegal studies program takes four semesters to complete. Students can specialize their degrees by choosing from electives such as criminal law and procedure, principles of microeconomics, and contract law. Online classes and coursework are hosted by the D2L learning management system. Students who are enrolled in this paralegal program can contact an online specialist from the department with any questions. Distance learners also have access to IT help, writing tutoring, career coaching, disability services, and library resources. For students who may not be ready to commit to a full associate degree, the school also offers a legal assistant/paralegal certificate.
|24||Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College||Perkinston||$$$$$||51 Main Street|
Perkinston, MS 39573
With four campuses and centers located along the state’s southern coast, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College currently provides an education to over 10,000 students. It is the only school in the Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana tri-state area to be one of the top-100 associate degree producers in the country. MGCCC is partnered with the Mississippi Virtual Community College consortium, which offers nearly 3,000 courses online. Among these is an online paralegal program, which awards a certificate, diploma, and associate of applied science degree in paralegal technology, allowing students to choose the level of education that is best-suited for their career plan. The associate degree prepares students to become legal assistants in courts, corporations, private law firms, trust departments of banks, and government agencies. MGCCC uses the Canvas LMS to host all of its online courses.
|25||Mountain Empire Community College||Big Stone Gap||$$$$$||3441 Mountain Empire Road|
Big Stone Gap, VA 24219
Mountain Empire Community College is a two-year college serving residents of southwest Virginia. MECC is one of 23 colleges in the Virginia Community College system. The school offers a variety of programs, both at its Big Stone Gap campus and online. Students seeking to enroll in MECC’s online paralegal program must take English and mathematics placement tests; developmental classes in these areas may be required. Although courses are offered online, some classes may require students to arrange for a proctored environment for exams if they are unable to take tests on campus. Additionally, although classroom attendance is not mandatory, professors may require synchronous weekly sessions, which are conducted through Blackboard Collaborate. Most online students take more than two full years of study to complete their associate degree.
What can you do with the degree?
Career opportunities for those who earn an online associate degree in paralegal studies may seem limited, but graduates can often find entry-level employment with law firms, governmental agencies and insurance adjusters. While they are not licensed to provide legal advice to clients, they have a broad knowledge of several kinds of law, including areas like family, business, criminal and property. Paralegals holding associate degrees are equipped with the research and organizational skills necessary for trial preparation.
The mean annual wage for paralegals working for legal services in 2014 was $49,680, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Considering how quickly an online paralegal associate degree can be earned, and the affordability of many online programs, you could earn the money you spend on your education within your first year of work as a paralegal professional.
Keys to Success
One of the best things you can do to ensure you succeed as a paralegal is to keep abreast of changes to the legal system, including the addition of new laws and changes to old ones. Understanding the standards your potential employers adhere to will guide how you conduct research, present information and approach cases that have the potential to be ethically insensitive.
The online paralegal programs listed above offer their students opportunities to connect with instructors and classmates, but you have to take the initiative and make those connections. Reach out to your professors when you need help. Seek out a working paralegal at a law firm in your community and talk to them about what it’s like to work in the field. Start or join virtual study groups to discuss the legal theories you learn in your course materials.
Upon earning your degree, you will either be eligible to transfer your credits to a four-year program or start work as an entry-level paraprofessional. If you’re on the career path, you might want to consider certification. While becoming certified is not necessary, it does show potential employers that you are serious about being a paralegal. The National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) offers paraprofessionals the opportunity to earn the Certified Paralegal Credential. This credential is approved and recognized by the American Bar Association as a level of standards for paralegals. | <urn:uuid:edd2e42a-3a84-4eb2-8142-6617f60805a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onlinecolleges.net/rankings/best-online-associate-paralegal-studies-degree-programs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940211 | 6,070 | 1.664063 | 2 |
I just read John Smith's blog on living with cancer entitled "Back to the Future." As with most poetics written by cancer patients or patients challenged with disease, this one is about life and love, compassion and a granddaughter "marching confidently into the future."
John has lived with multiple myeloma for eight years since diagnosis, and shares his trials and tribulations with the latest wonder drugs: the effects of neurotoxins, the "blunt club" of alkylating chemo and the brain scrambling that comes with steroids.
John also shares his beautiful poetry and the wise words of others, including Lao Tzu, the Eastern Philosopher and father of Taoism. Just remain inthecenter, watching. And then forget that you are there.
In a time when everyone seems to be using the word "mindful," this quote from Tzu is particularly brilliant, since he lived during the sixth century B.C.
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|Releasing Your Expectations|
|The further you distance yourself from your expectations, the more exhilarating your life will become.
As we endeavor to find personal fulfillment and realize our individual ideals, we naturally form emotional attachments to those outcomes we hope will come to pass. These expectations can serve as a source of stability, allowing us to draft plans based on our visions of the future, but they can also limit our potential for happiness by blinding us to equally satisfying yet unexpected outcomes. Instead of taking pleasure in the surprising circumstances unfolding around us, we mourn for the anticipation left unfulfilled. When we think of letting go of our expectations, we may find ourselves at the mercy of a small inner voice that admonishes us to strive for specific goals, even if they continually elude us. However, the opposite of expectation is not pessimism. We can retain our optimism and free ourselves from the need to focus on specific probabilities by opening our hearts and minds to a wide variety of possible outcomes.
When we expect a situation, event, or confrontation to unfold in a certain way, it becomes more difficult to enjoy the surprises that have the potential to become profound blessings. Likewise, we may feel that we failed to meet our inner objectives because we were unable to bring about the desired results through our choices and actions. Consider, though, that we are all at the mercy of the universal flow, and our best intentions are often thwarted by fate. As you grow increasingly open to unforeseen outcomes, you will be more apt to look for and recognize the positive elements of your new circumstances. This receptivity to the unexpected can serve you well when you are called upon to compromise with others, your life plans seem to go awry, or the world moves forward in an unanticipated manner by granting you the flexibility to see the positive aspects of almost any outcome.
The further you distance yourself from your expectations, the more exhilarating your life will become. Though a situation in which you find yourself may not correspond to your initial wants, needs, or goals, ask yourself how you can make the most of it and then do your best to adapt. Your life’s journey will likely take many unpredicted and astonishing twists because you are willing to release your expectations.
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More than 150 years old
, Congregation Emanu-El
is located in Victoria, British Columbia, right off of the TransCanada Highway, and is both the oldest continuously operating Jewish congregation in all of Canada (1859) and the oldest continuously used synagogue (built in 1863) along the west coast of the North American Continent.
Historically, the development of Victoria was similar to that of San Francisco, which had grown from a Spanish garrison on the Presidio (and it’s requisite* nearby lazy mission town in 1774) with only about 500+ non Native American inhabitants, to having achieved ‘vibrant city’ status almost overnight. As we all remember from our history classes, this occurred because of the 1848-1855 California gold rush, when tens of thousands of prospectors flooded into the area. In both cases, this sudden influx of miners drew along with them a smaller flood of entrepreneurial businessmen who were less interested in something as exciting as mining, than in setting up the far more dependably profitable, albeit dull, secondary businesses necessary to support the minors’ endeavors. In fact the business people as a whole, were the ones who made financial killings, while most of the minors went home penniless. Among these shop keepers, far more so than among the miners, were a relatively large number of Jews (because, lets face it, we’re Jews), so that by 1870, San Francisco had the largest population of Jews outside of New York, comprising a full 10% of the city’s population.
*Tangent alert! I say “requisite” because the Catholic Spanish justified their heavy handed, military, colonialist, expansionism as being the spreading of G-d’s word via his ‘true church’ (i.e., Catholic); and, keeping in mind Spain had (till 1492) been a part of the Muslim empire, they initially did it with a jihadist zeal (I will make you love G-d’s word, and if that means killing one hundred of you in order to get just one true believer, that’s good math). Granted, this Islamic influence had tempered out over time, but even in the late 1700’s, ‘ideologically‘ what ‘mattered’ for the Spanish was the church, thereby allowing them to kid themselves that the military was just their to ensure the church got the job done; and, of course, it was all for the benefit of the native peoples being converted rather than any greed on their own part (imagine me faking a sneeze while saying *bullshit!*). This is not to say that Protestant governments did not do the former (military expansionism) … granted, they did, but arguably with a bit less of a concern for the latter (spreading the word). As I studied history I often got the feeling that the military men of protestant countries (of that period) sort of suffered their missionaries as a necessary evil and encumbrance, rather than viewing them as their raison d’être; as in protecting the missionaries who insisted on being out among the ‘savages’ rather than staying close to or better yet, behind, protected walls, just made their jobs harder… rather than being their jobs.
Back to Victoria: Originally founded in 1843, as Fort Victoria — a military and Hudson Bay Company fur trading post (along side a naturally protected harbor), the explosive growth to city status was, again, a direct result of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush (1857), which brought in that same influx of minors, and supporting businessmen — who were again dis-proportionally Jewish (compared to the population of most Canadian Towns); and by ‘same minors’ I mean that most of them had traveled north along the coast from the overworked gold mines of the United States, to this new opportunity in Vancouver Island. In fact, gold had been mined in the Vancouver Island for a while before that, but news of the fact hadn’t reached San Francisco until the then Governor of Victoria (population again, about 500+) had sent a shipment to SF for minting into coins; and he probably had genuinely mixed feelings when what he got back a month later were his coins AND the unexpected and unprepared for influx of 30,000 men (“a record for mass movement of mining populations on the North American frontier, even though more men in total were involved in the California and Colorado“). How he felt about a large percentage of said men being Jewish businessmen, I can’t imagine, although I’m guessing they were the least of his problems, as “The influx of prospectors included numerous European Americans and African Americans, Britons, Germans, English Canadians, Maritimers, French Canadians, Scandinavians, Italians, Belgians and French, and other European ethnicities, Hawaiians, Chinese, Mexicans, West Indians, and others” (same Wikipedia source as above).
According to the woman who showed me around the temple, the first thing the congregation (formed in 1859) did, was to arrange for the purchase of land for a consecrated Jewish cemetery, which they did in 1860, rather than for the Shul (the building wasn’t built till 1863) — as the former was by far the more pressing need at the time. It was ultimately established on a 1.5 acre parcel, that was purchased by one of the members, a gentleman with the unenviable name of Lewis Lewis, who bought it with his own money and donated it to the congregation. And, according to the woman, the parcel purchased was so large and the community of the Shul (which for a long time was the only one in Victoria) has remained so small… that over 150 years later it still isn’t full.
To a Jew, the fact that they were more concerned with a cemetery than a synagogue makes total sense, but let me explain why: unlike Catholics, Jews don’t actually require priests/rabbis or ‘churches/temples’ in order to pray, just a knowledge of the prayer or a copy of the book (hence the religion of the book) — and in fact the 16th century Protestant Reformation returned this attribute to some sects of Christianity. For Jews, most praying can be done alone… although there are a large number of specific prayers — for instance the prayer for the dead, or Kaddish — that require a minyan (a quorum if you will) of 10 Jews who have all had their Bar’Mitzvah ceremony (or bat — if you’re not orthodox). In fact, if you arrive at a synagogue early enough for morning prayers, it’s not the rabbi that you will find the group waiting for, but rather the quorum of 10… with, if necessary, you see individuals running out into the hallways (or the street, if it’s a Jewish neighborhood) to drag people in so they can get started. As such, prioritizing the creation of the graveyard over the building of a synagogue (or shul), makes perfect sense from our perspective…
I first learned about this Shul during the Canada Day festivities when my friend Gina was visiting. As we were walking around looking at the local ‘group’ displays we came across one for the local JCC (Jewish Community Center) and the woman there told us about this historic shul just a few blocks away, and invited us to attend services, if we wanted to. Apparently they only have about 200 families in their entire membership, most of whom only show up for the high holidays. And they don’t do anywhere close to the normal amount of services (technically there should be three a day), but only manage to pull together a regular minyan for Sabbath prayers, and only once a week (Most shuls in major cities do two, Friday night and Saturday morning), and they only manage to do the 2nd Sabbath prayer once a month. She also said that if I came by the office during business hours, they’d be happy to show me around, even if there were no services that day — which is what I ultimately did.
Even though this is a conservative shul, the construction of the temple implies that it started out as orthodox, where men prayed on the fist floor and women sat above, looking down on their husbands and sons. (This is highly likely, since the Conservative Jewish movement, which among other changes allows men and women to sit together, was created about the same time as the shul was built.)
The boards with the names (Yahrzeit Memorial Plaques) are traditional, and visible in most shuls around the world. They show the name of all former members and memorialize the date of their death in both the Jewish and Christian Calendars (they are different), with the lit lights reminding friends and family to remember that this week they need to say the prayer for their loved ones (“The Mourner’s Kaddish”).
You have got to love the town where the parishioners feel it’s completely safe for the regulars (those who attend services regularly) to leave their Tallis bags just sitting out in the open like this. At our shul in Chicago there’s a locked closet. These bags will contain the things men need to pray, a Kippa — assuming they don’t wear them all day (orthdox will), their Tallis (or prayer shawl), and Tefillin (the little boxes attached to leather cords that are wrapped around the head and arm during prayers — “…and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.” — Deuteronomy 11:18).
Apparently one of the walking tour-companies (the ones I seen where the leader has a mic and all the followers have Bluetooth earphones) offers a Jewish Victoria tour once a week that walks around looking at the various historic buildings, pointing out the ones that were originally Jewish stores… am thinking about it. | <urn:uuid:4d911243-d3e2-406b-970a-93bc5743eee0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yesshewentthere.com/2016/07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972187 | 2,102 | 2.1875 | 2 |
This is our third straight post on the learned intermediary doctrine. Many things in life come in threes. We bet you have an aunt who, every time a famous person departs this vale of tears, announces that two more will shortly follow. Sometimes the rule of three celebrity deaths is fulfilled by a bit of stretching. Academy Award and Nobel Prize winners die, and then crazy auntie issues an I-told-you-so upon learning of the expiration of a minor actor who once played a villain on “Sheriff Lobo.” Skeptical though we may be, we cannot deny that art, religion, and politics from all the world’s cultures invest a special significance in the number 3. There were three Fates, three witches in Macbeth, three government departments that Rick Perry would eliminate, three Pep Boys, and, of course, Three Stooges.
On an episode of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” the $500,000 question was, “How many actors played the Three Stooges?” The contestant was a former clerk of Sixth Circuit Judge Danny Boggs, and he had chosen Judge Boggs as his “lifeline.” Judge Boggs is certainly one of the most brilliant judges in America. He is famous for the quiz he sends out to clerk applicants that tests wide-ranging areas of learning. For example, “Distinguish Belisarius from Bucephalus from Bocephus.” Anyway, Judge Boggs had to admit on national TV that he couldn’t say how many thespians played Stooges. The answer is six: Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe Besser, and Curly Joe DeRita. (No, Ted Healy and Emil Sitka don’t count.) So the next time you have an oral argument in the Sixth Circuit and are frightened of facing Judge Boggs – who makes any panel “hot” – just remember that you know something he doesn’t.
For some reason, our post on Friday about a federal court making up exceptions to the learned intermediary rule out of whole cloth makes us think of the Three Stooges. It was farcical and we half expected the opinion to end in a pie fight. Not so with today’s two cases. In both of them, federal courts followed the state law as it was, declined to invent anything new, and sent plaintiffs packing based on the learned intermediary doctrine.
Speaking of brilliant judges, we are especially pleased to see a nice learned intermediary opinion from Judge Weinstein in the Zyprexa Prods. Liability Litigation – Greaves v. Eli Lilly, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 129443 (E.D.N.Y. Nov. 8, 2011). A lot of interesting things have come from the Zyprexa litigation. Some good, some bad. When we saw an extensive table of contents in the Greaves case, going all the way from Roman numeral I to Roman numeral V, we were expecting the usual Judge Weinstein tome. But the opinion is barely eight pages long, and it gets to the point with clarity and brevity. We’ll try to cut to the chase as well as Judge Weinstein does, as he becomes the second federal judge to predict that Rhode Island courts, which haven’t yet adopted or rejected the learned intermediary doctrine, would adopt it. The reasoning is straightforward:
— the learned intermediary doctrine has been adopted in almost every state;
— there is nothing in Rhode Island law to suggest that the Rhode Island Supreme Court would not adopt it; and
— given the notoriety of Zyprexa litigation, “the manufacturer has a right to rely on the physician’s duty to warn the patient of clearly perceived dangers.”
Greaves, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 129443 at *23.
Judge Weinstein in a prior Zyprexa opinion held that the March 1, 2004 Dear Doctor letter would be considered the latest possible date on which members of the medical community knew or should have known of Zyprexa’s relevant risks (weight gain and diabetes). The facts in Greaves confirm the wisdom of that holding. When the plaintiff’s doctor treated the plaintiff in May 2004, the doctor discussed those risks with the plaintiff, monitored the plaintiff’s blood glucose, and subsequently reduced the dosage after weight gain. The doctor testified that, despite the risks of Zyprexa, he believed it was the right medication to prescribe. Bottom line: “There is no evidence that Dr. Whalen would have altered his prescription decision had the warning that accompanied Zyprexa been different.” Id. at *24. As Bocephus would say, “Been There, Done That” and “Everything’s Okay.”
As we said last Friday, we really really hate it when a federal court conjures up exceptions to the learned intermediary when there is no hint that the state Supreme Court would adopt such exception. Our position is bolstered by a court that approached the issue the correct way in Swoverland v. Glaxosmithkline, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 127753 (D. Conn. Oct. 5, 2011). The Swoverland opinion appears to be a transcription of an oral ruling from the bench. We actually don’t know what drugs are at issue. But we gather that the plaintiff alleged failure to warn under the Connecticut Product Liability Act. The federal court right away observes that Connecticut has adopted the learned intermediary doctrine. But the plaintiff contended that the doctrine should be called off in this case because “these drugs were directly advertised to the consumer and … were over-promoted by the manufacturer.” 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 127753 at *3-4.
Rather than give way to the inner policymaker, fantasy author, or Platonic Philosopher King, the judge in Swoverland kept it clean and simple. First, there is no “clear indication from the Connecticut Supreme Court that any of these exceptions, potentially exceptions, are available under Connecticut law.” Id. at *4. Second, even assuming these exceptions might be available, the court found them inapplicable because this was not a case where a patient revved up by DTC ads went into the doctor’s office requesting the drug but, “rather, the plaintiff went to his doctor with certain medical issues and the doctor, exercising professional judgment, selected the drugs with knowledge of their potentially positive effects as well as their potential negative side effects.” Id. at *5. If the usual medical facts apply, then so should the usual legal rules. Also, just as in the Zyprexa case, the doctor stuck by his prescribing decision, even knowing whatever he is supposed to know now. Thus, there was nothing in the record “that would support the suggestion that there was a causal link between the lack of warnings complained of and the harm that befell the plaintiff.” Id. at *6-7.
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Norway has established a US$7 million Norwegian ASEAN Regional Initiatives Fund (NARIF) to boost its engagement with the 10-member regional grouping, the ASEAN Secretariat announced on Friday.
According to Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, the fund will support “selected cross-cutting activities of regional importance in-line with ASEAN’s Roadmap” for establishing an ASEAN Community by the end of 2015. This was announced during the signing of ASEAN’s Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) in Bandar Seri Begawan earlier this week.
“Norway’s accession to the TAC is a natural extension of our long-standing engagement in the region and our commitment to multilateralism,” the ASEAN Secretariat said in a press release, quoting Eide.
The TAC, also known as the Bali Concord I, was first signed by all ASEAN members in 1976 in Bali. It was amended in 1996 to allow non-Southeast Asian countries to accede to the treaty. Aside from Norway, so far 32 countries from across the globe signed the TAC.
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The original Oak Orchard Harbor Light House (right) stood on the west side of the Oak Orchard River, along with the keeper’s house between 1871 and 1916. The keepers house, now a private residence, remains intact on Archbald Road, at Oak Orchard on the Lake.
In 1867 a grant of $87,000.00 was made to the port. Two piers, each approximately, 1,000 feet in length, the lighthouse, the keeper’s house, and an elevated walk over one of the piers to the lighthouse were constructed by 1871. Once completed, this structure was recorded as U.S. Light List Number 2365, and was visible for nine miles.
The square pyramidal lighthouse rested on the north end of the west pier, stood over 32 feet tall, was constructed of wood, and the lantern of iron. Wooden ship ladder steps led to a landing, which housed the light. The first floor of the lighthouse was fitted with a locker, a closet with hooks and shelves, and a work table. The second floor housed two lockers and a bunk. The lantern was one floor above and was constructed of boiler plate steel. It could be accessed by a ladder from the second floor.
The piers were maintained until 1905 when they were abandoned by the US Government. During a storm in 1914, a large hole was washed through the west pier. Another storm On December 23, 1916 swept away the lighthouse and what remained of the piers.
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17 November 2020
Zooming in on Micros: Mental health, RDIs, Supps & more…
Last article, I spoke about the basic functions of micronutrients, common deficiencies and their role in physical health. If you’re just tuning in now, I’m going to redirect you to here, otherwise this isn’t going to make a whole lot of sense… To kick of this article, we are going to start with (an introduction to)…
Last article, I spoke about the basic functions of micronutrients, common deficiencies and their role in physical health. If you’re just tuning in now, I’m going to redirect you to here, otherwise this isn’t going to make a whole lot of sense…
To kick of this article, we are going to start with (an introduction to) the role played by micronutrients in mental health.
Micronutrients and psychological health
The first thing to recognise here is that physical and psychological health are not two separate entities, in reality, they’re two sides of the same coin. Your mental wellbeing is the conscious meta-physical manifestation of unconscious physical processes at the level of the brain, and these physical processes can and will be directly and indirectly effected by the state of the body.
Essential in the brain’s energetic processes — and hence your mental health — is once again, mitochondrial proficiency. They have to work damn hard for this glucose guzzling organ! The brain is so metabolically active, that it accounts for approximately 20-25% of your Basal metabolic rate.
With this knowledge, we’ve already arrived at a key point: that the brain it likely to be the place which displays any negative effects due to inadequate nutrients — such as in the form of mental fatigue.
What separates this centre of consciousness — and the remainder of the central nervous system — from the rest of the body, however, is neurotransmitters. The synthesis and reuptake of neurotransmitters partially relies on micronutrient cofactors and co-enzymes. Serotonin, GABA, dopamine, norepinephrine, essentially all the chemicals that make you feel mentally sound, stem, in part, from micronutrients such as magnesium, zinc and B-vitamins.
This is important point number two: you’ve gotta supply the goods to feel the goods.
For these reasons, it’s not hard to find research that strongly links poor diet to the onset of clinically diagnosed mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety disorders, ADHD and suicide (1-8). And, to that point, when poor diets are resolved to become more wholesome, and varied, there is often significant relief of symptoms, and in some cases, total relief (9). Of course, these outcomes can’t be attribute to micronutrients alone. Essential fats, amino acids and other bioactive components such as phytochemicals, play a massive role alongside micronutrients.
What has really interested me, and what actually prompted me to write this article, is the emerging research of micronutrient supplementation on aiding in the battle against psychiatric conditions, via both single micronutrient and broad-spectrum formulas. Considering these cases are more specific to micronutrients, and with the rise of depression and anxiety in Australia — 20% total & 30% of females ages 15-24 (10) — I thought it be worth a detailed account of these results. Not only that, it starts to lead in questions about the efficacy of RDI’s and supplementation.
Starting with the single nutrient interventions into mental health, we need to understand that it’s always going to be unknown whether a single micronutrient is required or whether groups of nutrients are better. But, given what’s know about human physiology and its need to balance between nutrients, a broad-spectrum approach (featuring synergists) would make more sense — though, some monotherapies have been very successful.
Zinc, for example has been shown to be effective in improving depression, especially in conjunction with an antidepressant (11). As for anxiety, one study comparing the mineral status of 38 chronically anxious participants (diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder) and 16 participants without GAD, found that those who had anxiety had slightly higher levels of copper and lower zinc, and that symptoms were significantly relieved with zinc supplementation (12).
A quick add in on the potential physiology behind this study:
Remember that zinc and copper are antagonists, and, in true antagonistic fashion, they fight for absorption. Well actually, it’s more that zinc gets in coppers way. Whether the reverse relationship occurs is somewhat controversial. Copper, when utilised, is involved in the synthesis of the neurotransmitter’s adrenaline and noradrenaline which are known as your “fight or flight” hormones, occasionally inducing feelings of anxiety depending on emotional state. Zinc, on the other hand is partly responsible for the main calming neurotransmitter GABA. It’s been shown in rats that when there’s too much copper, GABA production is blocked but this hasn’t really been shown in humans (13, 14). It’s more likely that these participants just ate stuff all zinc, were commonly eating zinc inhibitors alongside zinc containing foods or had a genetically wired zinc prohibitors.
Extra factoid: People often take ZMA before sleep which makes some sense because zinc can lead to GABA and magnesium and B-6 are the precursors to the serotonin-melatonin pathway, however, neither the zinc nor magnesium used in typical ZMA products are well absorbed, so you’re better off creating your own version. More on this later.
Many other single nutrient studies have also shown some positive effects on depression such as Vitamin D (15)and folate (B-vitamin) (16)and magnesium (17), but I believe they’re a drop in the ocean of human physiology, so to speak, and the bottleneck may simply be moved onto the next metabolic stage.
The next question is, do a broad-spectrum of vitamins and mineral fair better in the optimisation of human physiology, and thus mental health?
Leading the charge in this regard is Julia Rucklidge and her team from the University of Canterbury.
In a 2013 systematic review, Julia and Bonnie J Kaplan reviewed broad-spectrum micronutrient formulas for the treatment of psychiatric symptoms (18). This included, mood, bipolar disorder, ADHD, Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), anxiety and stress, antisocial behaviours and substances abuse. To qualify for review, the formulas had to consist of at least four vitamins or minerals, and they didn’t discount formulas that included some amino acids or herbal additives. Forty-seven (of 738) studies met the inclusion criteria, of which 25 were double-blind randomized control trials (RCT’s) which is important to note because they are the gold standard research method. It was a real free for all in terms of psychiatric conditions and micronutrient formula but it’s the first of its kind and the results are quite amazing.
The one big downside that must be mentioned is that barely any studies reviewed diet before beginning the research. It could just be that everyone from these studies had mental illness borne partially out of poor diet quality and that subsection of the study’s population saw relief. I, however, find this to be doubtful given the large sample sizes, countries in the study and when the results are combined with the research I’ll present later. It’s also somewhat non-concerning because the formulas that got the best results in this review used products that extended well beyond the RDA recommendations. One product was called EMPowerplus and it contained 36-ingredients, 30 of which are vitamins and minerals.
Now a quick brief of the results…
All seven trials on using EMPowerplus for the treatment of bipolar (lasting between 6-24 months) showed improvement in symptoms and less need for medication. Just so you’re aware, these were 15-pill day protocols from a supplement that you can’t find at your local Chemist Warehouse.
One small drawback was that none of these studies were RCT’s which is understandable given the costly timeframes, but the volume of studies at the very least says something about the efficacy and sets a good platform for more rigorous testing. Since this review, another trial of 60 adults with major depressive disorder showed greater reductions when participants received a B-complex formula, compared with placebo (19)
The research regarding mood did include RCT’s and the results were mixed, however, they did include “healthy’ subjects, the timeframes were short, and the formulas were less complete. All factors which no doubt influenced results. Nevertheless, many did still show a significant benefit.
Five RCT’s for anxiety, four of which for double-blind placebo randomised controlled trials, used high dose B-vitamins and all five reported improvements. When using a larger variety of micronutrients (27-29 ingredients) at around the RDA, all but one showed significant benefit in reducing anxiety. All studies on substance abuse and anti-social behaviours even showed significant benefit, most of which were double-blind. Crazy, right?
All four studies on ADHD, ranging from 4-16 weeks showed significant improvement in symptoms and so to all three studies on ASD, ranging from 3 months to 2 years. EMPowerplus (or similar) featuring heavily in both. For ADHD there was only one double-blind placebo randomised controlled trial. However, since that trial, Julia has conducted multiple studies of just that kind (20, 21). Once again, these are powerful 15 pills per day treatments using EMPowerplus, above the RDA’s. In one of these follow up trials, the participants showed less hyperactivity, impulsivity and depression and after 1 year, the group that continued using micronutrients maintained or showed improvements, and the group that stopped or returned back to ADHD medication had a worsening of symptoms (20).
Within the review, there was even preliminary research of the reduction of PTSD using high dose B-vitamins following the Christchurch New Zealand earthquakes in 2010-2011, one of these studies where in participants that also had ADHD. Since then, these results have been replicated after devasting flooding in Alberta Canada, with the broad-spectrum approach showing the greatest improvements (22).
This research is a clear demonstration of how feeding the brain everything is needs (the constituents for effective energy and neurotransmitter production) can help manage psychological health for many sufferers of mental illness. It’s important to note, however, that the benefits aren’t universal and as previously stated, it may just be serving those who previously had poor diet rather than those with unfortunate genetic dispositions.
While emerging research is revealing this strong link between mitochondrial dysfunction in ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and ASD (23-27). I just can’t speak to the genetic side of things; however, it should be made clear that pre-programmed errors in metabolism can only be worsened by poor micronutrient status, and that high dose broad spectrum micronutrients, may still bring about some positive effects.
Many questions sprang to mind after reading this review as well as other work published by Julia Rucklidge. Most questions related to: why some people responded so well to the higher than RDI treatment?
One answer that kept popping up was that it could be poor digestive and absorptive capabilities. It’s always important to note that nutrient intake is not a perfect predictor of nutrient availability and, therefore, the old adage of “You are what you eat” would be better stated as “You are what you absorb.”
Furthermore, it has long been known that chronic psychological (or physical) stress will significantly impact the composition of the microbiota, leading to dysbiosis (28, 29). The microbiome, if you didn’t know, is an ecosystem (mostly bacteria) that reside in your GI tract and their main purpose is to digest food and extract the nutrients that we need — and, in some cases, make nutrients for us. A loss of diversity in gut bacteria (dysbiosis) will, therefore, alter what we can absorb from our food.
Overtime, dysbiosis will also injure the mucosal barrier and increase the permeability between our intestines and systemic systems (aka bloodstream and lymphatic system), by slowly chipping away at what used to be tight “gatekeeping” junctions between intestinal (epithelial) cells. From that point, macromolecules such as bacteria can translocate and cause systemic inflammation via an immune response (30)(or more like autoimmune).
In such unfortunate cases, it’s always hard to know what came first, pre-disposed GI problems or a self-induced condition through poor diet and lifestyle. Without intervention though, wherever it started from, this problem (just like anything got to do with stress) has a way of compounding itself.
It seems destined, that once gut problems arise, errors in energy metabolism will occur and that maybe “supersaturation” of essential vitamins and minerals may be the only way to get enough through the intestinal lining and increase endogenous stocks — hence the positive effects. Of course, dieting interventions won’t win this battle of their own back, lifestyle factors such as your ability to cope with stress also need to be corrected.
RDIs: Good Enough?
This brings me to the grand question, which I’ve been building to through both articles: Are the recommend daily intakes (RDI’s) for micronutrients up to scratch?
To answer this question, I’m going to summarise a brilliant review article by David Benton from the university of Swansea (31), however, if you’re interested in this topic, I suggest you glaze over it yourself*.
(*I’m not going to reference articles that are discussed within this review. You’ll need to check it out for yourself. )
It’s wonderfully written and packed full of interesting research on the effects of micronutrients on cognition in healthy adults and school kids (fluid vs crystallized intelligence) and mood, all of which showed positives signs and all most of which pre-dated Julia Rucklidge’s work. If you’re disappointed that I haven’t touched on cognition, read this article!
First, before we can get an idea of whether the RDI’s are adequate, we need to understand what the RDI’s were designed for.
For the scientists involved, creating the recommend daily values for each nutrient through population-based research was a painstaking process — to say the least. And, due to this draining and expensive style of research, the “need” that was met by researchers was for participants to be free from disease (within the study timeframe), anything fancier such as optimising cognition was out of the question.
This highlights that they wereneverput in place to optimise physiological function. Nutrients often showed a variety of physiological effects at different levels of intake, yet once the burden of disease was taken care of, the set value became somewhat arbitrary. Some nutrients even showed beneficial or therapeutic effects, but unfortunately, such dosages surpassed their definition of “requirements.”
The answer of “we don’t know” was also unacceptable because law required that recommended daily values be labelled in proportion to the food product, so in many cases, due to time pressure, the results were nothing more than a best guess…
David’s main argument is that because the brain is by far the most metabolically active organ, constantly requiring an influx of glucose and cofactors from micronutrients, it would show the first signs of deficiency. Those deficiencies would show up as things such as inattentiveness and mental lethargy to begin with which could then spiral more towards anxiety, depression and anger. However, when establishing the nutrient reference values, no psychological or behavioural parameters where studied, therefore RDI’s are invalid when taking psychological well-being into account.
Through biological assay (which tests the concentration of a substance in humans or other living organisms) Benton was able to show that levels of thiamine (B1) significantly above the average RDI, compared with placebo, improved feelings of happiness after 3 months in women who already had, by RDI’s definition, a suitable amount to avoid deficiency. In fact, multiple studies on thiamine, have shown this!
In another one of Benton’s studies, he gave healthy subjects ten times the RDI’s for nine vitamins, or a placebo, for one year. The females reported better mental health and feeling more agreeable and composed. The males reported being more agreeable and this was in subjects, who through biological assay, were judged to be adequately nourished prior to the study with the slight exception of B2 and B6.
To put it plainly, we set the RDI’s a while back in a pretty half-as*ed manner (relative to how we could study them now), with no consideration into mental wellbeing and now they’re our standard nutritional metric in monitoring nutrient intake.
The consensus amongst leading researchers is this field is that optimisation of physical and mental health lies somewhere just prior to the upper limit for many, if not all nutrients.
Physical health may have been mostly covered (although unlucky not to be optimised) by our current parameters but mental health is all but unknown. However, given the research I’ve presented so far, I’d say the RDI’s aren’t sufficient for enough of the population’s mental — especially given the grounds under which these recommendations where developed. And supplementation may boost many already healthy people need or even “nutritional medicine” for those facing psychological difficulty.
If you’ve made it this far, you’re probably very enthused about getting your hands on a broad-spectrum supplement, and hopefully eating a more varied and nutritious diet. But, you’re also almost certainly confused at what to go for. A single nutrient option like zinc? A “complete” multivitamin like centrum? A b-vitamin mix? Well, that’s what I’m here to help answer, and in fact, I’ve created a check list of sorts for you to use. But first, we simply have to return back to the topic of bioavailability to find out why you’re better off avoiding the common brands.
I’ve already touched on the fact that just through diet alone, anti-absorbers exist (an example from the previous article was oxalates and iron) but the realm of multivitamin/multimineral supplementation is twice as complex…
A solid definition of bioavailability is also hard to pin down. For prescription drugs, it’s typically considered to be the quantity of an administered substance that gets into circulation and is not metabolised before it can exert a biological effect. Too often people will consider absorption without putting a thought toward utilisation which is always the end goal. Bioequivalence is also another term worth noting because for some nutrients, for example folate, have multiple nutrient sources with different chemical structures, meaning equal amounts doesn’t mean equal absorption or biological effect. (It’s the heme iron vs non-heme iron issue. And, Vitamin A has the same problem… plant-based vitamin A (Beta carotene) is next to negligible compared to animal-based sources).
There are two inhibitor categories to absorption and utilisation. One is host factors such as the dysbiosis example I gave earlier, and the other is product factors such as the chemical ingredient source as well as bindings, coatings, surfactants and excipients that effect the completeness or rate of release.
1. Host factors
If a person is low on iron and you ingest a large amount of red meat or sardines, there body will be very effective at taking on board all they iron it can. Conversely, this homeostatic mechanism will work inversely if iron stocks are already high. You’ve got enough, why take much on more?
Factored into this is the load per mealof a nutrient. Studies on calcium and folate have shown that the larger the load, the more absorption and utilisation is impacted (32, 33). This may be part of the reason why the 15 pill per day protocols were so profound – doses were spread out across that day.
This is also why the “balanced meal” approach — meaning that you have a little bit of protein, fats and carbs per meal from wholesome sources — is such effective advice; it keeps nutrient load moderate and consistent, allowing for maximal saturation throughout the day. Water soluble vitamins and some minerals are the most sensitive to being excreted so spreading out a b-vitamin and/or mineral multi is important.
Then, just to re-mention it, there’s intestinal health impacting absorption, which is paradoxically solved, in part, by a healthy diet. Some people also get an unlucky genetic draw, making some nutrients undesirable to the body. Lastly, once you hit old age, the less absorptive capabilities you possess.
2. Product factors
One of the biggest product faux pasthat I see is the adage of multiple antagonists. It’s just plain silly. Instead you want to find a formula that looks to enhances synergisms between nutrients.
To be fair, however, creating a stacked multivitamin without having any antagonist issues is a puzzle that seems unsolvable. Some companies, though, are better than other because the ratios between these antagonists allow both to see the light of utilisation. I’ll mention these companies at the end.
Then most importantly: Do they have all the ingredients that you’d want? Do they have the nutrients that people are commonly deficient in?Or, if you’re looking for something more specialised like a bone mix or an iron mix, Do they have the cofactors?
Next, we have the chosen chemical ingredient.
Have you ever noted how, when shopping for a vitamin or mineral such as magnesium, there’s about 10 different forms to choose from? There’s magnesium… chloride, citrate, glycinate (or bisglycinate), malate, oxide, sulfate, taurate and threonate.
Well, guess what… Each one differs in bioavailability!
I’ve always found that, when looking to buy a supplement, looking online for which chemical form has the greatest absorptive capabilities is the easiest way to go.
Hint: it’s often then ones attached to an amino acid like glycinate or organic salts such as citrate, chelates and phosphates. Inorganic salts such as oxides, chlorides, and sulphates tend to limit uptake and cause GI distress.
Hint 2: You sometimes have to be careful of enantiomers. An example is R-Alpha-lipoid acid which is the one the body can utilise versus dl-alpha lipoic acid which is basically a useless fake. If you see an extra letter, and the common ones are D and L, at the start of a nutrient, once again, look up which ones actually work.
Excipients such as binders, disintegrating agents and lubricants are something I know little about, but I do know they are responsible for the rate of release and often are purposefully put there to create a slow release from. Alongside excipients, fillers, coatings and surfactants, often put their to maintain pill structure or dampen the bad taste have also been shown to change the bioavailability of many micronutrients (34). This is why capsulated multi’s are a good idea.
Don’t trust what you see…
Unfortunately, the same kind of rigorous testing doesn’t apply to multivitamin/multimineral supplements as it does for prescription drugs. Manufacturers determine both the types and levels of vitamins and minerals. Take a swing at which form of a nutrient a company is most likely to use? Factor in that most companies only care about their bottom line, and, because the greater public is unaware of product bioavailability differences, they don’t need to worry about much else. Companies like centrum, not only have very small amounts of micronutrient, but there’s no consideration into nutrient form and nutrient-nutrient interactions.
Not only this, overreporting of nutrients is also a common occurrence (34).
With bioavailability out of the way, I can now sum up the key points for micronutrient consumption, factoring in everything that’s been spoken about thus far.
- Always look to improve your diet first. This the healthiest and most cost effect strategy there is. Not only will this maximise your micronutrition from diet, but it will also keep calories to an acceptable level, and, it’s the only reliable place to get phytochemicals (supplementation cannot effectively cover this area yet). The aim should be to fill your diet with 80-90% wholesome foods — preferably 100% but we aren’t robots. To be wholesome, the diet must be varied and consistent across meals. Do this first, see how you feel and then consider supplementation, but I dare say most of you will still benefit from it anyhow. Supplementation should not be used as the lazy persons insurance for eating a poor diet, however, if you’re not going to change your tune with eating, go for it, I guess.
- If you’re overweight/obese, have mental health conditions or any other conditions that may imply mitochondrial dysfunction, once again, first look to diet (after seeking advice of course). However, I think these are cases where supplementation can be suitably added straight away. Micronutrients won’t work magic, but they will likely lead to some improvements, especially in conjunctions with a change in lifestyle factors. Plus the downside is minimal.
- Athletes should consider supplementation given the high metabolic demands of sport.
- When looking to fix something specific such as osteoporosis or anaemia, look for synergistic formulas i.e. calcium, magnesium, Vitamin D and phosphorus for osteoporosis and iron with vitamin C and some b-vitamins for anaemia. (Also do more exercise, especially resistance training for osteoporosis as a lifestyle change as well as eating in a calorie surplus for optimal growth if it’s due to being underweight).
- Buy formulas that are synergistic, in correct ratios and use bioavailable forms of each nutrient. The two brands that I know that account for this are Life Extensionand Thorne Research. I would recommend the Life Extension mix without copper or Thorne’s Advanced nutrients or Basic nutrients V. Thorne also has a multi that is specifically for athletes. They are expensive relative to what you’d but at your local chemist but that’s because they factor in what’s require for a decent multi. They are 8 pill per day servings, however, I would start with 5-6 and take 2 with each meal to spread out the doses. Make sure each meal contains some fat for enhanced absorption of fat-soluble vitamins.
- It seems that iron absorption is the most interfered with when paired with other nutrients. So, don’t buy multis that have iron in them, especially if that’s the deficiency you’re wanting to fix. Always take iron supplements on its own and with the necessary cofactors. The forms of iron you’re looking for are ferrous ascorbate, ferrous gluconate or ferrous bisglycinate.
- Due to age related malabsorption and a reduced endogenous antioxidant system, the elderly should take a broad spectrum multi.
- If you’re anxious or depressed and don’t want to spend much money, you can try some of the single nutrients option I spoke about such as zinc, magnesium or even B-vitamin mixes. Be sure to look up bioavailable forms of zinc and magnesium.
- If you’re an office worker or you spend a lot of time indoors, take vitamin D. This is a micronutrient that you’re not going to get from diet very effectively. I would recommend 1,000UI per day at minimum. Higher might be better and it is tolerated well.
- Supplement with a broad spectrum multi when in a moderate to large calorie deficit.
- If you’re taking a prescription medication look to the extras section under drug interactions for further guidance.
My final say.
A lot of the research I’ve presented is considered to be “a good start” rather than something concrete and I don’t want anyone to go away thinking I’ve illuminated a magic bullet. Each piece of research is promising but none of it is anything akin to a eureka!moment. Optimisation of mental or even physical health through micronutrient consumption is an extremely challenging thing to measure for any researcher given the genetic and environmental variances between humans resulting in numerous confounding variables.
Humans also struggle to objectively rate how they’re feeling retrospectively, and many trials ask to do just that, and a few are without placebos. There’s also the lack of regulation in what constitute and broad-spectrum formula, nor is there a consensus what should be the standard dosages if there was to be one.
Lastly, these studies don’t go through the same trials that a prescription painkiller, for example would, not even close. Why fund research for nutrients? Isn’t it something we know everything about? This may change in the future but for now, gold standard trialling is confined to small sample sizes and short trial durations until it proves itself to be worthy of more.
With that said, when it comes to health optimisation, what the research begins to state is that heading north of the RDI’s is likely the correct direction to travel, and, to reach that place will likely require supplementation of some sort, especially given our current food environment. Exactly how far beyond is uncertain, but there’s considerable space between the upper limit and the current RDI’s.
You may think it’s an overly expensive purchase but contrast that with all the unnecessary purchases you’ve made that are anything but an investment in your health and future. This one may not be tangible, but it is healthy one and it may just be a potentiator of healthier decisions to come — a variable that is likely underestimated.
At the very least, if there’s one thing you should do after reading this, it’s to top up your diet with plenty of fruit and veg of all different colours, make the majority of your remaining carbs whole grain, have some dairy, some leans meats, seafood and poultry, and then, and only then if you’re able to afford it, a decent multi. And the more you restrict your options, whether that be for ethical or experimental reasons the more straightforward this decision should come.
Blood tests and symptomology.
There’s a common issue when it comes to analysing symptoms of a nutrient deficiency and that is the commonality between symptoms. Fatigue can arise from a deficiency of magnesium, iron, B12, Vitamin D and more. Muscle weakness, headaches and dizziness all have long lists as well.
Some are more exclusive such as diarrhea and zinc deficiencies or magnesium and high blood pressure, but, once again, there could be many other reasons for these outcomes.
This is where blood tests can help and if you’ve got probable cause (i.e. a symptom), a thorough doctor and healthcare, you can get these for free. They’ll test for the most likely suspects such as Iron and vitamin D as well as any others that are common for that gender or after assessing diet. Blood tests should be a quarterly to half yearly habit in any case, you know, just to see if you’re going to live for the foreseeable future. When you do that, get whatever nutrients you can for free.
Testing for some micronutrients that people are uncommonly deficient in will likely cost you. It’s better in this case to come back to assessing symptoms, lifestyle and diet. For this, you’ll likely need help, and this is where it is handy to consult with a nutritionist or dietician. I think it’s handy to be in contact with one anyway because you may think your tired from work and stress, and that’s no doubt apart of the problem, however you may be totally unaware that you’ve got next to no magnesium or B12 in your diet.
This is more of public service announcement:
Many prescription drugs interact with nutrient absorption OR can aid in depleting current nutrient stocks!
There’re a few common ones that I have been able to get from this paper, and there’s more in there if you’re interest.
- Contraceptives – May decrease vitamin B-6 & B-12
- Nicotine (smokers) – May decrease vitamin B-3
This websitealso has a list for psychiatric drugs and the nutrients they deplete but I can’t really speak to the validity of this website.
It’s a good idea to supplement with what you may be missing.
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Lady & The Tramp: Golden Anniversary
Pure-bred cocker spaniel Lady meets the handsome stray known as Tramp, and the result is one of the most beloved romances to ever grace the screen, a doggie Romeo and Juliet story, with the added bonus of a happy ending. Over the course of lovely Lady’s romance with the roguish mutt, the pampered pooch encounters a colorful cast of canines, from next-door-neighbors Trusty the Southern gentleman bloodhound and Jock the proud Scottish Terrier to Peg the faded show dog. There’s also the sneaky Siamese cats Si and Am, Jim Dear and Darling’s new baby and Lady and Tramp’s son, a real little “scamp.” This cavalcade of unforgettable moments (including Lady and Tramp’s romantic “Bella Notte”) is unleashed in celebration of Lady and the Tramp’s 50th anniversary.
This limited-edition sericel recreates several key moments featuring the much-loved canine cast from Walt Disney’s Lady and the Tramp (1955). The gentle and nostalgic animated feature told from a dog’s eye view reached the screen after almost two decades of development. The charming story of Lady began with an oft-told anecdote of Walt Disney presenting his wife with a cocker spaniel puppy in a hat box, but the specific genesis came from legendary preproduction and story artist Joe Grant. In the late 1930s, Joe drew up countless inspirational drawings about his family pet, a pampered cocker spaniel named Lady. Included in the concept were two sneaky Siamese cats, a Scottie dog-next-door, and a birth in the human family inspired by the birth of the artist’s daughter. A romantically inclined mongrel was eventually added to the storyline, the mutt’s name evolving from Homer to Rags to Bozo and finally to Tramp. When the film went into full production in the 1950s, sultry vocalist Peggy Lee composed the film’s songs along with Sonny Burke, and also provided the voices of several characters, including Si and Am and Peg. Animator Eric Larson studied Peggy Lee’s seductive performance of “He’s a Tramp” in animating the aging showdog. “The way she sang the song was a great inspiration,” Eric later recalled. “Also the way she walked. Because she had a pretty nice movement and these are things that you try to pick up from the human being and translate into the animals.” The delightful result is reflected in this interpretive artwork, a canine kaleidoscope of favorite moments and unforgettable characters from one of Walt Disney’s loveliest animated features.
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We went in search of the ancient synagogue of Um El Kanatir. All in all, this is now one of our favourite sites in Israel precisely because it combines the very ancient and very modern – so please excuse us if we try to twist your arm to work in into your Israel itinerary!Um el Kanatir is an elaborate fifth -sixth century synagogue which was destroyed by the mighty Golan earthquake of 749 CE. As you can see from the photo, the bima was reached via a short flight of stairs, and the size of the synagogue – 18 x 13 metres, and 12 metres high – makes it one of the largest ancient synagogues which have been found, and indicates the wealth of the Jewish community which lived in this area around the 5th and 6th centuries AD.
Fast forward to modern day Israel, and archaeologists Yeshu Drei and Haim Ben-David, are using innovative and highly specialised computer technology to code and digitally record each of the ancient stones which remain after the earthquake. Blocks are labelled with computer chips and a special crane lifts and inserts them in the correct sequence. This technology is creating a synagogue now restored with great accuracy, allowing us to really see precisely how ancient synagogues of this time would have looked. When complete the work will be a fine monument to the skill of the original builders of the fifth and sixth centuries CE and the meticulous reconstructors of today. If you’re looking for something a little bit off the beaten track during your tour of the North of Israel, we would love to help you include a visit to Um El Kanatir!
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History of Hua Hin
Hua Hin, which means stone head in Thai, is steeped in history. It is the oldest resort in Thailand. Once, a sleepy fishing village where local fisherman would bring in their catches of fish to feed their families, Hua Hin was ‘discovered’ as a resort by King Prajadhipok in the 1920s. Hua Hin is widely recognized as a royal resort and has the King’s Summer Palace here called Klai Kangwon, which means far from worries. Up until 1934, Hua Hin was called Samore Riang, which means rows of rocks when translated into English.
Also, up until June 23rd 1939, Thailand was originally known as Siam. Although Hua Hin was originally better known as a fishing port only, the town still has an active fishing fleet here today. If you travel just past the Hilton Hotel, you will come to a small jetty. Here, you can not only watch the Thai fishing boats bringing their catches of fish in, but you can also watch the local fishermen that fish along the jetty. Khao Takieb is also another place where you can watch the fishermen brining in their catches of fish, crab and prawn. At nighttime, looking out over the Gulf of Thailand, Hua Hin’s horizon is covered with neon green lights. These lights are used by the hubdreds of Thai fishing boats to lure the squid to them.
The King of Thailand’s Klai Kangwon summer palace was built in the early twentieth century. The palace is very attractive and has mature gardens. The town of Hua Hin came to be because farmers that farmed the land further north in the province of Petchaburi were affected by water shortages. Therefore, they decided to move south to the area where the beach had brilliant white sand and big rocks jutted out of the water – now known as Hua Hin or stone head in Thai.
The King’s Summer Palace is located just north of Hua Hin. It is built next to the sea and the gardens are spectacular with many different exotic plants. There are also some big lakes and the grounds are open to the public in the morning and the afternoon for people to visit. You must dress appropriately. Every day, floating about a kilometre out in the Gulf of Thailand, you will see numerous ships of the Thai navy that guard the palace. At night, these ships light up the horizon beautifully with their green lights and make a stunning backdrop for those eating their dinner at the numerous restaurants along the beach.
The King’s Summer Palace is not the only piece of architecture famous in Hua Hin. The Hua Hin railway station located in the centre of the town is also iconic in Hua Hin. Also built during this time, this distinctive red railway station was originally a Thai sala or pavilion from Nakhon Pathom province. There is a room called a Royal Waiting Room that used to be used for receiving the King and other elites on their arrival to Hua Hin. The railway line, finished in 1911, brought many affluent Thais and aristocracy to Hua Hin and who then decided to build holiday homes here.
The Sofitel Hotel in Hua Hin, which was opened in 1986, used to be called the Railway Hotel. It was originaly built in the 1920s. The Sofitel is located right on the beach in Hua Hin and is one of the most stunning hotels in Hua Hin. It is located directly down the street from Hua Hin railway station. The Royal Hua Hin golf course – Thailand’s oldest and most famous golf course – was commissioned by King Rama VI and constructed in 1922 to welcome the hotel guests. Interestingly, the Sofitel hotel was used as a location for the famous film The Killing Fields about Cambodia’s civil war with the Khymer Rouge in Cambodia. The movie won 3 Academy awards.
Take time to really look around at some of the historic sites when you come to Hua Hin. Even if you are not too interested in history, The King’s Summer Palace is simply stunning; the Railway Station has lots of character and is a great place to take photos; the golf course is right next to the railway station so should be seen for its beauty and the Sofitel Hotel is just down the road on the beach and has beautiful grounds and architecture. There are some very beautiful old temples too. The big one in the centre of town near the clock tower is fascinating. And, on Soi 116, just 5 minutes south of Hua Hin, there is a temple with a beautiful roof on it. | <urn:uuid:89aca909-1e1c-4ac4-b405-3ea9be67da09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.whatsoninhuahin.com/history-of-hua-hin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978272 | 938 | 2.71875 | 3 |
With economists widely in agreement about the efficiency and effectiveness of carbon pricing as a key tool to reduce emissions and the Supreme Court of Canada having ruled in favour of the constitutionality of the federal carbon tax, it’s time for Alberta to take a different approach than it has recently.
Instead of letting the federal government collect the carbon tax and decide what to do with the revenue, the provincial government should implement its own consumer carbon tax and keep the revenues in Alberta. The revenue could be used for any number of ways to support Albertans and invest in our competitiveness. For example, the provincial government could use it – or some portion of it – to reduce income taxes for all Albertans. By reducing income taxes (and raising the basic minimum amount) Alberta can let people who work here keep more of their wages and salaries.
In the process it can help attract skilled labour, give businesses another reason to relocate to the province, and make the province an even better place to earn a living – all without increasing what Albertans are already paying for carbon taxes. | <urn:uuid:13ed3417-4473-4a12-b714-a774bbed1a16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thenext30.ca/idea/repatriate-the-carbon-tax/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952229 | 213 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Book of Earth
A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color
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- Publication Date: May 16, 2023
- Imprint: Abrams Books
- Trim Size: 8 x 10 7⁄8
- ISBN: 9781419764653
- Page Count: 224
- Illustrations: Full-color images throughout
- Rights: World/All
Art meets science in this guide to creating color with earth’s extraordinary pigments and exploring their fascinating uses today and throughout history
Part anthropological study, part art book, and part how-to, Book of Earth immerses you in the world of ochre, a naturally occurring mineral used to make pigment. Each chapter delves into author Heidi Gustafson’s rare pigment archive and provides a thorough exploration of natural color, while challenging our notions of the inanimate world. The book includes practical advice and techniques for creating your own pigments and applying these skills in everyday life.
Called the “ochre whisperer” by American Craft, and noted as the “woman archiving the world’s ochre,” in the New York Times, her personal collection of more than 600 pigments from around the planet is a unique treasure, and her passion and field experience will captivate you from the first page to the last.
About the author
Heidi Gustafson is an artist and ochre specialist with a working archive of more than 600 pigments. She frequently collaborates with artists, award-winning scientists, paleontologists, and other experts, including Jason Logan, author of Abrams’ bestselling book Make Ink. She lives in the Pacific Northwest. | <urn:uuid:fc96e188-8d68-471e-adb1-8145dddab106> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/book-of-earth_9781419764653/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.906506 | 375 | 2.28125 | 2 |
A teenager from Warwickshire has won the top prize in a national careers competition, hosted by the Freight Transport Association (FTA) on its stand at the Skills Show 2017 and run in partnership with careers campaign Think Logistics.
Ben Bardell won an iPad for achieving the highest score in the Think Logistics quiz, the campaign which aims to encourage more young people to consider careers in the logistics sector. Ben, who is a Year 11 student at the St Thomas More Catholic School in Nuneaton, beat off several hundred other entrants to scoop the top prize.
The Think Logistics quiz posed a variety of questions about the contribution made by the logistics industry to the UK economy and tested competitors’ knowledge of key transport facts and figures. The prize was donated by Career Ready, the charity which works to prepare young people for employment. Ben was presented with his iPad on behalf of Think Logistics by Charlotte Wright, West Midlands Regional Manager for Career Ready.
The Freight Transport Association’s Head of Skills Campaigns, Sally Gilson said:
“I am delighted to hear that Ben has won the iPad in our Skills Show contest. I worked on our stand at the CV Show and I know the competition was extremely tough indeed. Some of the questions were very difficult and many adults were stumped, so it’s great to see Ben came out the winner. I know everyone at FTA would like to offer him our congratulations.”
According to FTA’s most recent Skills Shortage Report, around 2.5m people work in jobs associated with the logistics sector and the number of opportunities is growing. It is estimated the industry needs around 50,000 commercial vehicle drivers, alongside technicians, engineers and qualified transport managers. Ms Gilson says the labour shortage remains a key issue for the industry:
“FTA has been working incredibly hard to raise awareness of the labour shortage in the logistics sector and particularly the lack of qualified HGV drivers. We want to spread the word that logistics offers job hunters of all ages and backgrounds a wide variety of exciting and varied career opportunities. We are particularly keen to reach young people and we hope Ben’s visit to our stand along with the thousands of other young people who came along, will have attracted the interest of some logistics stars of the future.”
Efficient logistics are vital to keep Britain trading, directly having an impact on more than seven million people employed in the making, selling and moving of goods. With Brexit, new technology and other disruptive forces driving change in the way goods move across borders and through the supply chain, logistics has never been more important to UK plc. A champion and challenger, FTA speaks to Government with one voice on behalf of the whole sector, with members from the road, rail, sea and air industries, as well as the buyers of freight services such as retailers and manufacturers. | <urn:uuid:c8c3400c-28a5-400a-9d42-e4bf25f70118> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://logisticsvoices.co.uk/warwickshire-teenager-scoops-top-prize-in-freight-industry-competition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.974895 | 587 | 1.5625 | 2 |
(NOTE: this post is part of a series of posts I’m doing reflecting on the task and calling of preaching on this, the 10th anniversary of my own preaching ministry… hope you’ve enjoyed them so far!)
In the last post I contended that one of the most basic practical tasks of the preacher is knowing your stuff, and knowing it well. That is, a good deal of the work during the week of preparation is not just coming up with great content but also seeking to understand, and understand deeply, the manifold connections between the various bits of content, so that you have a more or less “global” sense of how your first story is related to your last story, how that quote you’re going to read from at around minute 8 ties into that bit of Pauline theology you want to expound before you make your final invitation, how the statistic you mined aids and abets your gentle critique of pop culture later on in the message, and so on and so forth. There are as many ways of doing this as there are preachers, I suppose, so the critical thing is developing your own method.
My “method” (if it can be so called) looks something like the following: As I’m looking at the text of Scripture for the week, I make sure to have a legal pad handy. I write down whatever thoughts, impressions, stories, quotes, etc., that come to mind. I mean seriously–anything. As I’m reading over the text, I’m also making use of the original languages, noticing interesting words or turns of phrase that release something of its potency. Eventually, I start playing with sentences or phrases of my own that capture this potency or release it into the congregation in clear and concise and memorable ways. I keep jotting down thoughts, impressions, stories, quotes, etc. As I get closer to preaching on Sunday, I start working the connections between the text and the things I’ve written down, a process that includes, by its very nature, whittling that pile down to its barest elements. I’m also, in the midst of this, developing something of a “narrative account” of what my sermon is going to be about. What’s the story, the flow, the movement, the journey that I’m going to take these people on? By the time Sunday rolls around, I’ve reduced the entirety of my message to a dozen or so key “elements”, arranged in a more or less logical/intuitive fashion, that frame out the journey we are going to go on.
What I’ve posted below I almost hesitate to show you at all, for fear that it will either mess up your own process or make you think I’m a total idiot (haha). So as a disclaimer here, I want to say that I’m showing you this NOT to encourage you to do it just like me but rather to illustrate the point I’m making above and set up the next lesson. Here she be:
This is my little “map” of my message from last week (a message on the call of Jesus to come into the community of faith not with an agenda to have our star rise but rather with an agenda to abandon ourselves in the service of others). All of the elements have a very “tactile” feel for me (the previous week’s talk, the Gospel reading and its central thrust, the “two ways”, captured beautifully in the John 13 and James 3 passages, etc etc.), and are arranged in a very intuitive, “narrative” way. The “story” here, if I can call it that, is about how Mark 9:30-37 speaks to our life together as a community, challenging our prejudices and fears along the way, and drawing us into a life far richer and better than the one we would have had if this text had not come along and opened up a new window of possibility for us.
The important thing I’d like you to notice here is the relative scarcity of “elements.” And this speaks to the 7th lesson:
Lesson 7: Less is Usually More. Sometimes, rarely, “more” is more. There are times that you just have a lot to say and you need to say it. That’s fine. But in the normal flow of congregational life, usually, I have found, less is more. Too many sermons have too many elements. Five great stories instead of two, eight amazing points rather than three, ten shocking statistics rather than one to ponder deeply. The result of this is the congregation is left with the horrible feeling that they were “drinking from a firehose” rather than lovingly led on a patient and deliberate journey of understanding.
The really tragic thing is that lots of preachers, particularly the inexperienced ones (although I’m aware that there are lots of experienced and wildly popular preachers who haven’t figured this out yet) take the layperson’s comment “boy I felt like I was drinking from a firehose” as a huge compliment. Self-satisfied in their ability to generate that much (often quality) content, the inexperienced preacher fails to see the disservice they do both to themselves, their listener, and the congregational as a whole by carrying that much luggage into the pulpit.
I can speak with great confidence and authority on this point because I have spent a good deal of my ministry as a preacher pummeling people with content. Hard experience has taught me that this is a disservice…
To the listener because it tends to bewilder and/or amaze rather than focus
To the congregation because it pulls the corporate liturgy out of shape by making it about a single “main attraction” rather than about the whole sweep of the people of God’s weekly ascent to Zion, a sweep that includes preaching, and much else besides: singing, confession, creed, prayer, communion, silence, etc…
To the preacher because having to generate that much content each week invariably puts excess strain on his or her creative ability (not to mention spiritual capacity)
And the truth is that it’s just not necessary.
That is, it’s not necessary if we see our messages as (as I have contended) rhetorical acts that open up a window into an alternative reality and invite the listener to taste and see that the Lord is good in all kinds of beautiful and compelling ways. It IS necessary, however, if you see your sermon as a sort of corporate theological or biblical lecture intended primarily to inform or educate. If that is your understanding, your sermons will probably need to be long and (usually) cumbersome. The problem here is that viewing people as walking heads to be educated rather than whole beings needing to hear and heed the call of Christ truncates the person and invariably leads to a preaching ministry where your listeners are loaded down each week with intellectual burdens they can hardly carry, while you yourself, even if willing, are unable to lift a finger to help them. It’s generally too much.
What makes this all really difficult is that many of our churches, built on the assumption of the long message, are training younger preachers to think of their sermons along “more is more” lines. And that’s not just evangelical churches that aim at 45 minutes of education. It’s also charismatic/pentecostal churches that aim at 45 minutes of fire-breathing prophetic harangues, and more or less “pop” evangelical churches that aim at 45 minutes of inspiration or “practical” instruction. Whatever the case, it really is a lot of talking, a good deal of it unnecessary.
Again, we must ask: what is it that we are trying to do with our messages? Stated as simply as I know how, we are trying to call people, week in and week out, to put their whole trust in Jesus. This involves BOTH stimulating the mind AND speaking to the heart. And when our preaching is good, it will do both, in a way that takes the listener by the hand and guides them into the presence of Christ, who lovingly challenges us, disturbs us, and finally heals us. (Perhaps the best compliment I ever received about my own preaching was from a lady in our congregation who said to me “What I like about your preaching is that when I listen to you, I find my intellect stretched and then all of a sudden I’m crying…I don’t know how you do that but keep it up.”)
The best way that I know of to do that is by LIMITING the amount of content you bring with you into the pulpit. This is especially tough for the young preacher, who feels like they have a lot to prove to people. I remember one friend of mine in my early years of pulpit ministry saying to me, “I love your messages, but they’re like four messages all piled into one…why don’t you just do one at a time?” He was right. Though I wouldn’t have admitted it then, my insecurity as a young preacher drove me to bring WAY too much content with me into the preaching moment. The result was that instead of leading people on a single, well-developed journey, I was leading people on three or four inadequately developed ones. It wasn’t until I started listening to preachers like Will Willimon (who does more with 17 minutes than most preachers can do with a month’s worth of 45 minute talks) that I started to see the truth of his comments and with it, another possibility for my preaching.
It takes time and patience with yourself to grow into this, and above all, I think it takes great courage to believe that the handful of “big things” you’re carrying with you into the pulpit are sufficient for the Holy Spirit to do his work. The challenge is learning to recognize the potency of the few things you do in fact hold in your hands–something that many preachers really struggle with, myself included (I still find myself preaching unnecessarily long messages here and there). I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in my preparation process and knew that after expounding this or that text, I would need to tell a good story to open up its riches for contemporary life… and then somewhere along the line feelings of insecurity about that story would grip me and I would think to myself, “Golly, maybe if I had one or two more stories right there to help bolster the first one.”
What I did not realize was that as often as not, the “excess” would not only NOT bolster what came before, it would distract and fatigue. Did it actually add anything? Not usually. Far better than adding would have been subtracting and trusting the potency of what remained.
Whenever I talk about these matters with other preachers, I’m often reminded of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s advice to his young preachers at the Finkewald seminary, where he said, in essence, “The first few minutes of your message are the most favorable…do not waste time with long introductions…get right to your content…and trust the Word!” It’s an interesting mental exercise to ponder how much of our sermon content is content we generate because we are fundamentally insecure either about our own ability or, frankly, about the power of the gospel to woo and draw and finally unmake human hardheartedness.
What I have found is that when I trust the potency of the few things I know that God has put in my hands and in my heart for the week, it creates a simplicity and clarity that would not have been available otherwise. It creates “white space” in our messages, “margin”, where the risen Christ can walk among us, tapping us on the shoulder, whispering to our hard and wayward hearts. Maybe the hardest and best thing for the preacher to do is find a way to use words to get out of the way. “He must become greater, I must become less” should be the cry of every preacher’s heart.
My guess is that most of you preachers out there don’t have trouble generating good content. You’re bright. You read a lot. You experience things. You see God at work in people’s lives. You’ve got killer stories. Where you struggle is in letting any of that stuff fall on the cutting room floor.
If that’s you, let me give you two bits of practical encouragement:
- Any good creative knows that an enormous amount of content is going to wind up on the floor. If you’re not ok with that, you’re really going to struggle. Keep an open hand with your stuff.
- By the same token, be aware that some (maybe a lot) of what winds up on that floor is really great content for some other fantastic message down the line. I can’t tell you how many times I had to take out some large chunk of a message because at the end of the day it either was too much or just didn’t fit, only to find that a month or two down the road, that “chunk” of content was exactly the engine that made another sermon go. Again, keep an open hand.
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Layer modulus values are important input parameters in mechanistic pavement design and evaluation methods. Direct measurement of the stiffness characteristics of pavement base/subbase has been a challenging task. Nondestructive testing methods that are commonly used based on surface deflection measurements not only require a backcalculation process, but also have limitations on measuring local stiffness within the layer. This paper presents the result of a recent research effort at the University of Illinois aimed to develop a new sensor for the direct measurement of the in-situ moduli of constructed unbound pavement layers. The new sensor employs bender element (BE) shear wave transducers embedded in a granular base/subbase to evaluate the layer modulus from shear wave velocity measured at any depth and any orientation. To provide appropriate protection for the BE sensor and its cable connections, a stainless-steel cable guide, a sensor protection module, and a protection cover for the sensor were designed and optimized. A laboratory calibration box containing sand-sized crushed aggregates was used in the development stage of the BE sensor design. The BE sensor results were also studied for a typical dense-graded base course aggregate commonly used in Illinois. Finally, the BE sensor was installed in a field trial in newly constructed airport pavement test sections, and its layer modulus measurements were compared with results estimated from Dynamic Cone Penetrometer testing. The new BE field sensor has proven to be a viable direct measurement technique in transportation geotechnics applications to monitor stiffness characteristics of pavement granular base/subbase layers. | <urn:uuid:efb0cf90-5d17-4b7a-9528-883a2b41cc95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/bender-element-field-sensor-for-the-measurement-of-pavement-base- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.92841 | 311 | 2.46875 | 2 |
PREVENTING CONDENSATION IN YOUR HOME
We are receiving a number of reports from tenants regarding condensation and mould in their homes, particularly those who are currently working from home. With the days getting colder, if your rooms/home isn't getting enough ventilation, you will begin to see mould forming, water on windowsills etc.
To reduce the amount of condensation and the formation of mould, please ensure that you have the heating on, with doors left slightly ajar and windows on trickle vent, particularly during the night when you're sleeping, but if you're also working in your bedroom during the day, it is especially important. Please find below further information on how to reduce condensation and prevent mould. | <urn:uuid:942188c1-72b0-4fd6-a059-1e86752370de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.felthamgroupproperties.com/condensation-in-your-home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955317 | 147 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Say Goodbye to Metal and Hello to Tooth-Colored Fillings
posted: Aug. 21, 2011.
It used to be that when it came to treating tooth decay (cavities), your primary option was to have the tooth decay removed and filled with a metal amalgam (silver-colored filling). This treatment sometimes requires a special shape cut called an “undercut” to be drilled into the tooth to hold it in. Unfortunately, it can also involve removal of some healthy tooth structure. Silver amalgam fillings still have limited applications and are still used in back teeth where they don't show in the smile. This is because they are strong and resist biting well; however, over time they can fatigue and fracture.
Older restorative concepts were based upon the development of strong and stiff materials such as gold, which tends to be unyielding and therefore contributed to failures of the remaining tooth substance around restorations (e.g., decay or cracking). Newer concepts tend to get away from the “stronger and stiffer is better” concept and have moved towards safety principles using materials that involve mimicking the properties of natural tooth structure. In fact, it is now clearly established that a new “biomimetic approach” (“bio” – life; “mimetic” – mimicking) to dentistry is possible through the use of tooth-like materials such as composite resins and porcelains. And unlike metal alloys, these newer materials bond directly to the remaining enamel and dentin of which the teeth themselves are made, which both stabilize and strengthen teeth.
These techniques are also suitable for children's teeth and can incorporate fluoride to reduce further decay. But perhaps best of all, using these materials and more modern technologies can restore proper tooth function and normal wear while producing results that appear indistinguishable from natural teeth.
To learn more, continue reading the Dear Doctor magazine article “The Natural Beauty of Tooth Colored Fillings.” You can also contact us today to schedule an appointment to discuss your specific questions about replacing your metal fillings with tooth-colored ones. | <urn:uuid:9482be19-cd98-4779-8926-63e47dff3894> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bevilledentalcare.com/blog/565274-say-goodbye-to-metal-and-hello-to-tooth-colored-fillings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946382 | 440 | 2.625 | 3 |
Let's Get Real About Sexuality
Instead, most of us have already picked our sides on issues like this. Whenever someone says or does something that contradicts what we think or believe (or what those on our sides think or believe), we react accordingly. That's what I did when I initially heard about Ramin's article.
I felt exactly like Kristin—I was offended by it and thought it was incredibly homophobic.
But then I actually read Ramin's article myself. After reading it—along with his very thoughtful follow-up response to the controversy—and watching an interview he did on MSNBC, I don't think it was actually his intention to argue that gay actors can't play straight roles. Instead, I think it was to comment on this issue in a straightforward way, and in doing so, share a perspective that, while not so popular, is at least honest and promotes discussion.
Like most important things in life, it would be nice if this were a simple, cut-and-dried issue, but it's not. Even for someone like me—a straight, white, 36-year-old man who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been close to and around gay people since childhood and has passionately defended and supported the rights of gays and lesbians for much of my life—there are still times and situations in my life when I notice my own homophobic tendencies.
Whenever I find myself subversively judging someone else or separating myself from others based on sexuality, it isn't coming from a place within me that thinks they're bad, wrong or evil—it's simply that they're different than me, it can be hard for me to relate to them and with something as fundamental, visceral and primal as sexual desire and orientation and it can often be hard to comprehend or understand someone who doesn't have the same natural desire that I do.
This isn't something I'm proud of, that I find easy to admit and write about here or that is common to hear people talk about publicly. However, we all have a complexity of thoughts and feelings within us, some of which even contradict one another. So if we're going to begin to make real progress in our culture as it relates to sexual orientation equality, we have to start getting even more real about how we feel personally and do what we can to understand how others feel.
What if we felt more comfortable to share our true thoughts and feelings more openly? What if the discussions that took place about homosexuality in the media, and more importantly in our lives, had a deeper sense of authenticity to them?
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The ownership of the houses which are built through PMAY(U)-LIFE Project being implemented through Kudumbashree in Kerala is given to women as part of ensuring women's participation, in addition to providing safe and secure homes. Out of the 1,11,835 approved beneficiaries 87,753 of them are women. Under certain circumstances, when it is unable to give the ownership in the name of the women, the ownership would be given jointly in the name of man and woman or in the name of the man. As of now, construction of 70,463 houses have been completed. By giving the ownership of the completed houses, Kudumbashree is making a notable intervention in women empowerment. Through the 31 Women Construction Units functioning in the urban areas, under the leadership of Kudumbashree, construction of 52 houses which is included in the programme has been completed.
In addition to providing the houses to the beneficiaries, the project ensures a better lifestyle for them as well. As part of this, with the convergence with Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, gas connection was provided to 7490 families at subsidy rates and LED lights were provided to 17603 families free of cost. In addition, by converging with Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme, each beneficiary was given 90 additional work days and additional financial assistance of Rs 26,190 was also provided to them. Financial assistance of Rs 70 crores was provided to them in this manner. 95 % of the project beneficiaries are Kudumbashree members. The efforts to make the remaining 5% as Kudumbashree members is progressing. | <urn:uuid:ec0d84be-ca56-46e7-a2dc-902a1330ea59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lsgkerala.gov.in/en/kudumbashree/news/pmayu-life-project-ensuring-womens-participation-and-women-empowerment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.980098 | 335 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Port Blair, Feb 12: ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute conducted an awareness programme on “Potential of Fishery Wastes for By-product Development” at Junglighat fish landing centre on 12thFebruary, 2021. The programme was organized to sensitize the fisherfolk regarding the potential of fishery wastes in processing and by-product development. Various by-products which can be prepared out of the fish wastes such as fish meal, fish silage, fish oil, etc. were explained to the fisherfolk by the scientists of Division of Fisheries Science, ICAR-CIARI. The Officials from Department of Fisheries, Andaman and Nicobar Administration explained about the PMMSY scheme and its role for the benefit of fishermen community. The queries raised by the fisherfolk participants were addressed by the experts and also provided the suggestions regarding waste management and its utilization. A total of 27 fisherfolk from Junglighat have participated in the programme. The programme was organized under the NABARD funded project entitled, “Sustainable utilization of fish wastes for by-product development – an initiative for entrepreneurship development in the Island” by Mrs. Sreepriya Prakasan, Ms. Deepitha, R.P., Dr. R. Kiruba Sankar, Dr. Gladston Y, Mrs. Ajina S. M, Dr. K. Saravanan and Dr. J. Praveenraj. | <urn:uuid:dc5edc95-4501-4171-8fb8-d84ffc98f318> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reflectornews.in/city/icar-ciari-conducted-an-awareness-programme-on-fishery-wastes-for-byproduct-development/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.93129 | 297 | 2.234375 | 2 |
As you might have seen a few weeks ago, the California Assembly Transportation Committee killed a bill that would have ensured that our neediest communities are represented in state transportation decision-making. Apparently, some on the Transportation Committee think the interests of the freight industry are more important than those of disadvantaged communities.
The fact is, oil industries dump millions of dollars into ensuring that they can continue polluting our communities and limiting people’s transportation options to the one mode—driving—that requires buying more gasoline. The oil industry spends more money on lobbying in California’s capital in one year than the California Bicycle Coalition spends on our entire operation in twenty years. Our state lawmakers take money from the oil industry, and then roll over and play dead when pressured by their lobbyists.
Sign your name immediately to tell lawmakers: You represent us, not Big Oil.
As some California lawmakers are more willing than ever to take bold action to work to help our communities be less dependent on automobiles, lawmakers backed by secretive PACs and oil companies regularly disappoint us. Most recently they killed our bill to ensure the most environmentally burdened communities are represented on the California Transportation Commission; they gutted the provision of SB 350 that would have cut petroleum use in half by 2030. The members that take oil money talk about “pavement health” more than public health.
That’s why the California Bicycle Coalition is teaming up with a dozen partnering organizations in getting our collective members to demand that California’s elected officials stop taking money from oil companies.
Take action now. Demand that California lawmakers stop taking oil money.
Thanks for your support,
Jeanie Ward Waller
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when we counted on our anchors to hold us steady:
our bodies to be strong
our bank accounts to be full
our healers to keep us well
our leaders to be reliable
our churches to comfort us
our communities to connect us,
what did we know of need?
What were the disciplines of
but optional or obligatory or obsolete rituals
we considered ‘enriching’ at best
and at worst, unnecessary?
We’re good, we’ve got this,
was the undercurrent that buoyed us,
even as we professed to ‘live by faith’.
An untested faith.
as we watch the anchors we held onto
slip out from beneath us,
one by one,
leaving us floating, untethered,
in a sea of uncertainty, questions, panic,
we are undone and desperate with need.
Realizing, perhaps for the first time in our lives,
how truly helpless, dependent, and fragile we are.
With no guarantee of what tomorrow will bring,
we need your vision to give us hope for ourselves,
our families, our communities.
Without adequate healthcare for this growing tide of sickness,
we need your strength to sustain and heal us.
Without strong leaders we can trust,
we need your wisdom and truth to help us navigate these unpathed waters.
Without financial security,
we need your generosity and provision for our daily needs.
Without the nearness of friends and family,
we need your Spirit to comfort and connect us across our distances.
No longer anchored in our self-reliance,
we are drifting out into deeper waters,
tossed by a storm we cannot manage or control,
waiting on you
to awaken from your sleep
to tell us who we are—
o ye of little faith—
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Some fertility problems are more easily treated than others. In general, as a woman ages, especially after age 35, her chances of getting pregnant go down. But her risk of miscarriage goes up.
If you are 35 or older, your doctor may recommend that you skip some of the steps younger couples usually take. That's because your chances of having a baby decrease with each passing year.
It's important to understand that even if you are able to get pregnant, no treatment can guarantee a healthy baby. On the other hand, scientists in this field have made many advances that have helped millions of couples have babies.
Take time to plan
Before you and your partner start treatment, talk about how far you want to go with treatment. For example, you may want to try medicine but don't want to have surgery. You may change your mind during your treatment, but it's good to start with an idea of what you want your limits to be. Treatment for fertility can also cost a lot. And insurance often doesn't cover these expenses. If cost is a concern for you, ask how much the medicines and procedures cost. Then find out if your insurance covers any costs. Talk with your partner about what you can afford.
Thinking about this ahead of time may help keep you from becoming emotionally and financially drained from trying a series of treatments you hadn't planned for.
Treatment for the woman
Treatments for fertility problems in women depend on what may be keeping the woman from getting pregnant. Sometimes the cause isn't known.
- Problems with ovulating. Treatment may include taking medicine, such as:
- Clomiphene. It stimulates your ovaries to release eggs.
- Metformin. It's used to treat polycystic ovary syndrome.
- Unexplained infertility. If your doctor can't find out why you and your partner haven't been able to get pregnant, treatment may include:
- Hormone injections.
- Blocked or damaged tubes. If your fallopian tubes are blocked, treatment may include tubal surgery.
- EndometriosisEndometriosis. If mild to moderate endometriosis seems to be the main reason for your infertility, treatment may include laparoscopic surgery to remove endometrial tissue growth. This treatment may not be an option if you have severe endometriosis.
- Pregnancy-related issuesOften a pregnancy is classified as high risk because of issues that arise from the pregnancy itself and that have little to do with the mother's health.
Treatment for the man :
Your doctor might recommend that you try insemination first. The sperm are collected and then concentrated to increase the number of healthy sperm for insemination.
When initial treatments don't work
Many couples who have problems getting pregnant arrive at a common point: They must decide whether they want to try assisted reproductive technology (ART).
- In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the most common type of ART. In this treatment, a fertilized egg or eggs are placed in the woman's uterus through the cervix.
- Intracytoplasmic sperm injection, or ICSI (say "ICK-see"). In a lab, your doctor injects one sperm into one egg. If fertilization occurs, the doctor puts the embryo into the woman's uterus.
If you haven't already thought about adoption, this might be a time to think about it. Some couples decide at this point to spend their resources on adoption instead of IVF. Other couples see IVF as the best option. | <urn:uuid:ce93a254-4775-4ec0-80ca-5c4985ede015> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://genesiswomensclinic.in/blog_item.php?n=Infertility | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955388 | 747 | 1.96875 | 2 |
How To Set Up An Ecommerce Site
Step By Step
The following Steps, in answer to the question, How To Set Up An Ecommerce Site, are recommended:
- Domain Name: A brand new Ecommerce site is often characterized by the Domain Name. This may be the first step towards a Brand Name. It is therefore worth considering very carefully. A vast number of Domain Names are always up for purchase, but the Domain targeted by the new Ecommerce site must be visualized very early on the game. If the target is local only, a single Domain Name may be fine. But if the target is multiple, or in different localities, regions or countries, then purchasing several Domain Names may well be in order. Of course, some organizations or individual entrepreneurs plan to deliver all their products and services through a single, international door (or brand), then a suitable single Domain Name may just be the right approach.
- Secure Certificate: Ecommerce starters not using a pre-packaged service, will also need an SSL certificate. This is to secure communications between a visitor’sweb browser and the web server hosting the User’s website. For this, one needs to approach one of the several SSL certificate providers in action right now. Some of the most popular are Symantec and Thawte. Other options also exist, such as inclusive hosting companies who take care of a number of requirements for a new Ecommerce website, such as purchasing SSL certificates. Costs vary from provider to provider, but it is not prohibitive.
- Hosting Package: OfferIng a choice of Domain Names often comes wrapped in an all-inclusive Hosting Package , together with necessary services like obtaining an SSL certificates. But the main areas to select the Package wisely are often as follows:
Uptime and Performance: The ability and record of the hosts to support continuous usage, especially times of high demand, is sn essential feature of the decision to choose one host over another. The host is the true support of an Ecommerce site, and it is their reliability in providing quality support continuously that can determine the performance and hence the future of a budding Ecommerce site.
Shared hosting environments: This is clearly not a good idea, as there is no choice in the matter of who is co-hosting. Both the Control and Security of the User’s site is at stake here, and if and when the site takes off, this may become an insurmountable hurdle. New Starters would be well advised to steer clear of this option. You may be sharing hosting with a company or site that is completely unrelated to yours. You wouldn’t necessarily wanted to be hosted with a sex site like free fuck book or another adult site for example if you have products that aren’t geared toward that same demographic.
Website Speed: The website speed can vary relative to the time difference between the location of the Site and the buyer’s location. This may involve different countries altogether. Of course, if the locality is the same, the website may be rapidly loaded. In general, however, its best to use a CDN (Content Delivery Network)to help localize the Owner;s site to different target countries. No visitor can then be lost in this way.
PCI: Most hosts can offer PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant hosting for Ecommerce customers, thereby making payments for purchases more customer-friendly and also easy for the seller.
- Platform: Ecommerce is extremely dependent on the Platform selected for access to the right customers. Of course, it is possible to change Platforms later as the business ripens, but it is a very time consuming process to move large numbers of products, sometimes numbering in the thousands. SaaS (Software as a Service) storefronts offer a vast range of Ecommerce Platforms, with many offering customized solutions. Benefits and drawbacks should be carefully considered before choosing the right Platform.
- IMA: An Internet-ready Bank account is necessary for Ecommerce transactions online. This IMA (Internet-ready Merchant Account) have a number of requirements and information that the Bank may need in order to set an account up for the Owner of the Site (or “Merchant”). These accounts are different from normal accounts in that the Merchant has no direct access to the funds collected until they are cleared by the Bank.
- PSP: Ecommerce Merchants must next secure a PSP (Payment Service Provider) or a gateway for processing the payment. The rates for PSPs vary widely, so a shrewd Merchant shops around for a PSP before making the final choice.
- PCI SSC Compliance: The PCI SSC (Payment Card Industry Security Standard Council) has an International presence, and ensures the best practices for security of online card processing for Ecommerce transactions. Each online Merchant needs to satisfy the level of compliance dictated by this worldwide organization, which creates a safety net for all the parties concerned in each online transaction.
- Digital Marketing: Ecommerce Merchants must actively promote their website to draw customer attention to the products and services advertised online. Professional help is available, but again, careful selection of the appropriate expert is essential. | <urn:uuid:6b4ab83d-0b50-4548-aa2c-5f8932c5bd86> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.bizsupportonline.net/2020/04/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.934102 | 1,059 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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When the legs tingle there is talk of paresthesia, but not only. This sensitivity disorder it's not just about thesensory organsand not only the lower limbs but also the upper one, it can also occur in a very localized way, it is not at all pleasant even if it cannot be defined as painful. It seems a pinch and it is not immediate to understand why it comes and how to make it stop.
For paresthesia officially means the alteration sensitivity of the limbs or other parts of the body. It is therefore not necessarily characterized by the sensation of ants, it can also seem to be pierced by many small needles in a specific area of your body. What is certain is that it is not at all pleasant as a thing.
There are cases where it doesn't mean anything serious. For example when you keep your legs crossed for too long, then they feel tingling but it takes very little to get well. Even when you fall asleep on one arm, something similar happens.
If we experience this sensation too often, not only in cases like those mentioned, it is good to go to a doctor who with simple tests he can understand what lies underneath.
To locate the causes of paresthesia a simple examination at your GP is enough, for example to understand how we react if, closing our eyes, they touch us with a cotton swab, glass tubes containing hot or cold water or a needle. From our answers the doctor will be able to understand if some specific tests are needed and which ones.
There paresthesia it can result from a problem affecting the nerve fibers and emerge in correspondence with some neurological diseases. Other causes can also be rheumatoid arthritis, direct nerve damage, an autoimmune disease. In the latter case, the suggested remedy is to take a lot of omega 3s contained in olive oil, corn, sunflower and sesame seeds and increase vitamins A, C and E. We will see the others shortly.
We have already described the symptoms of paraesthesia. We can describe two types of ailment. The first is linked to an error of a certain sense organ upon receipt of a certain stimulus, the second instead has no connection with any stimulus.
When it arrives an impulse to our body and it fails to recognize it is like when we pour hot water on an arm and don't feel that warm sensation. In the second case, however, what happens is that you feel a pinch without anything happening. Or of sensations of hot or cold, in the absence of external stimuli.
Among the most common causes of paresthesia are circulation problems, both the most trivial and the most serious.
Paresthesia and anxiety
Among the symptoms of paresthesia there is also anxiety. We find associated with it other symptoms such as a sudden need to urinate, numbness, increased tingling while walking or an action is performed that requires physical effort.
Fatigue and muscle spasms can also result from a sensitivity disorder such as the one we are talking about. When there is a need to periodically move the lower limbs for no reason and with exaggerated frequency, we speak of RLS, Restless Leg Syndrome.
Starting, or continuing, to eat healthily and regularly is one of the first things to do to try and remedy. It is indeed important that the blood flows well in the veins and no clots form. Better to cut back on alcohol, stop smoking, exercise regularly, and maintain a healthy weight.
Other recommended remedies are related to causes of paraesthesia. For example, if it is triggered by carpal tunnel, daily stretching exercises or yoga, if by a neuropathy, regular physical activity is required. It can also happen that the doctor prescribes specific medicines such as, for example, those cortisone, immunoglobulins or some creams.
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© 2020 The Author(s). Background: Advances in peri-operative oncological treatment, surgery and peri-operative care have improved survival for patients with oesophagogastric cancers. Neoadjuvant cancer treatment (NCT) reduces physical fitness, which may reduce both compliance and tolerance of NCT as well as compromising post-operative outcomes. This is particularly detrimental in a patient group where malnutrition is common and surgery is demanding. The aim of this trial is to assess the effect on physical fitness and clinical outcomes of a comprehensive exercise training programme in patients undergoing NCT and surgical resection for oesophagogastric malignancies. Methods: The PERIOP-OG trial is a pragmatic, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial comparing a peri-operative exercise programme with standard care in patients with oesophagogastric cancers treated with NCT and surgery. The intervention group undergo a formal exercise training programme and the usual care group receive standard clinical care (no formal exercise advice). The training programme is initiated at cancer diagnosis, continued during NCT, between NCT and surgery, and resumes after surgery. All participants undergo assessments at baseline, post-NCT, pre-surgery and at 4 and 10 weeks after surgery. The primary endpoint is cardiorespiratory fitness measured by demonstration of a 15% difference in the 6-min walk test assessed at the pre-surgery timepoint. Secondary endpoints include measures of physical health (upper and lower body strength tests), body mass index, frailty, activity behaviour, psychological and health-related quality of life outcomes. Exploratory endpoints include a health economics analysis, assessment of clinical health by post-operative morbidity scores, hospital length of stay, nutritional status, immune and inflammatory markers, and response to NCT. Rates of NCT toxicity, tolerance and compliance will also be assessed. Discussion: The PERIOP-OG trial will determine whether, when compared to usual care, exercise training initiated at diagnosis and continued during NCT, between NCT and surgery and then during recovery, can maintain or improve cardiorespiratory fitness and other physical, psychological and clinical health outcomes. This trial will inform both the prescription of exercise regimes as well as the design of a larger prehabilitation and rehabilitation trial to investigate whether exercise in combination with nutritional and psychological interventions elicit greater benefits. | <urn:uuid:d32bc03e-3a3e-4193-aa0f-30995cb10b10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ulris3.ul.ie/live/!W_VA_PUBLICATION.POPUP?LAYOUT=N&OBJECT_ID=2963418 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.930163 | 503 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Duloxetine is used to treat depression and anxiety. In addition, duloxetine is used to help relieve nerve pain (peripheral neuropathy) in people with diabetes or ongoing pain due to medical conditions such as arthritis, chronic back pain, or fibromyalgia (a condition that causes widespread pain). Duloxetine may improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level, and decrease nervousness. It can also decrease pain due to certain medical conditions. Duloxetine is known as a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI). This medication works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (serotonin and norepinephrine) in the brain.
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RALEIGH: Despite sunny skies, North Carolinians need to look out for flooding in low-lying areas, avoid flooded roads, and stay tuned to local weather updates, Governor Roy Cooper warned today.
"We're grateful that the rains have ended and the sun is back out, but communities in eastern North Carolina cannot let their guard down,"
said Governor Cooper. "Forecasters are still predicting some of our rivers to crest today or as late as Monday and we need to remain alert for more flooding."
Local and state Emergency Management officials continue to monitor several rivers and smaller streams such as the Cashie near Windsor; the Tar River in Rocky Mount, Tarboro and Greenville; and the Neuse in Goldsboro and Kinston.
The unofficial amounts of rainfall range from 3.5 to 5.5 inches in the foothills, to between 5 and 9 inches of rain across the Piedmont and 4 to 5.5 to 9 inches of rain in coastal counties. There remains some chance of rain over the next few days, but the coverage area for any additional rain is expected to be scattered and limited.
Gov. Cooper is continuing to get regular updates from state Emergency Management and Transportation officials.
Transportation and emergency management are monitoring several dozen flood gauges for minor to major flooding that will continue, in some areas, as late as Monday. Some of the more critical areas of concern as of Wednesday include Clayton, Smithfield, Rocky Mount and Greenville.
There is the potential for major flooding along the Tar River in Rocky Mount through Thursday morning and in Greenville through Sunday. The Cashie River near Windsor may have some flooding later today or tomorrow that could impact several properties in low-lying areas. Moderate flooding is expected on the Tar River tomorrow at Tarboro and potentially in Princeville (peaking Friday afternoon); and in Greenville (peaking Sunday morning). The Neuse River near Goldsboro also will see moderate flooding peaking Sunday evening with Kinston peaking on Monday morning.
As of midmorning on Wednesday, there were eight primary routes and 109 secondary routes impacted by high water. I-795 in Wilson County is also closed in both directions between Exit 40 (NC-42) and Exit 43 (US-301) due to flooding.
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New Start with Sustainable Agriculture
For a long time, Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of Africa. However, the landlocked country, which once boasted a booming agricultural industry and a wealth of natural resources, has been mired in an economic crisis for years. It can no longer provide staple foods for its residents, with more than a quarter of all children under five years of age suffering from chronic malnutrition.
Poor Harvests and Little Healthy Food Despite Fertile Soil
A road trip through western Zimbabwe will show off a landscape with impressively green and lush vegetation. The same cannot, however, be said of its fields. Farming families generally cultivate only a single crop such as maize or millet. This dependence becomes problematic if the crop fails because of droughts or a lack of rain due to the effects of climate change. Many smallholders do not have the knowledge and experience to apply cultivation methods that are more effective and appropriate for local climate. They hardly have access to infrastructure, new equipment or technology and also lack the credit to invest in, for example, high-quality seeds.
The smallholder agricultural economy has been neglected by the government for years. Agricultural production diminished drastically under the authoritarian government of Robert Mugabe. In the course of the land reforms at the end of the nineties, many large farms were expropriated. Thousands of farmers lost their jobs or were displaced. Unemployment and food and nutrition insecurity have been a defining feature of daily life ever since.
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The Vickers MG Collection & Research Association is marking the 100th anniversary ofthe disbandment of the British Army's Machine Gun Corp.
1922 saw the disbandment of the British Army’s Machine Gun Corps. Raised during the midst of the First World War In 1915, it provided the British Army with an expert corps of machine gunners who saw action all around the world. This year the Vickers MG Collection & Research Association (VMGC&RA) are marking the centennial of the Corps’ disbandment with a series of special free events to commemorate their legacy of machine gunnery.
On Sunday 3 July, 2022 at 4 PM, the Association will be holding a unique commemorative shoot at NRA Bisley. 16 Vickers Guns will be in action with members of the Vickers MG Collection & Research Association operating the guns in contemporary uniform ranging from 1914 through to 1968, when the Vickers finally left British service. This will be a unique opportunity to see a live fire shoot which demonstrates how the guns would have been used.
On Friday 15 July, 2022, at 12 PM, Director of the VMGC&RA Richard Fisher and Sir Andrew Graham will present a fascinating discussion of the history of the Machine Gun Corps at the National Army Museum, Chelsea, London. The talk will reflect on the impact and legacy of the Corps 100 years on from its disbandment. Lieutenant General Sir Andrew Graham Bt CB CBE is the great grandson of Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, one of the members of the MGC who was awarded a Victoria Cross.
On Saturday 16 July, 2022, between 10 AM and 5 PM, the National Army Museum will also host a very special ‘Spotlight Saturday’ event where there will be displays sharing the history of the Machine Gun Corps and the British Army’s use of the Vickers Gun. Members of the VMGC&RA will be on hand to explain how the guns were operated, what equipment was used and the role of the Machine Gun Corps. There will be living historians who will bring the stories of the soldier’s experiences to life and a series of talks from experts throughout the day.
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Q. Explain the distinctions in between continuous parasites, sporadic insects, and also prospective insects. Biological control additionally consists of techniques whereby the insect. is naturally modified, as in the manufacturing and also launch or great deals of sterilized men and the use of pheromones or adolescent hormonal agents. Pick a strategy that will be most effective and will create the least harm to people and the environment. Monitoring of bug, insect-like, mollusk, and vertebrate bugs normally is done by capturing or by looking.
Traps, displays, obstacles, fencings, nets, radiation, as well as power in some cases can he made use of to avoid the spread or parasites right into a location. Surveillance is not necessary in scenarios where a bug is consistently present and also the limit is zero. For example, there is absolutely no tolerance for the presence of germs in running spaces and also other sterilized areas of health care centers. In these situations, regular parasite control steps are required to stop pests from getting in an area and also to get rid of any type of parasites that might exist.
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When the balance is disrupted, specific organisms may be destroyed or minimized in number, and also others– often the bugs – might control. They include insecticides made use of for pest control, herbicides utilized for weed control, fungicides used for fungis as well as mould control, and rodenticides utilized for rodent control. Household parasites can include insects such as flies, cockroaches and mosquitoes, or rodents like computer mice or rats. During the expanding period is critical to accomplish maximum grain yield.
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If you’re a fan of tea, then you’ve probably tried a few different types – green tea, black tea, oolong tea. But have you ever tried pu-erh tea? This article will introduce you to pu-erh tea, including its history and how it’s made.
What is Pu-erh Tea?
Pu-erh tea is a type of Chinese tea that has been fermented. It is usually made from a special type of tea plant called the Camellia sinensis sinensis. The leaves are typically picked and then processed into different shapes. Pu-erh tea can be found in many different colors, including green, black, red, and white. The flavor of pu-erh tea can vary depending on how it is processed and how old it is. Pu-erh tea is often aged for several years before it is consumed.
The History of Pu-erh Tea
Pu-erh tea is a type of Chinese tea that has been fermented and aged. It is typically dark in color and has a strong, earthy flavor. Pu-erh tea is said to have many health benefits, including weight loss, improved digestion, and lower cholesterol.
Pu-erh tea has a long history, dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). It was during this time that the tea was first fermented and aged. Pu-erh tea became popular in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), when it was used as a currency. The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) saw a decline in pu-erh tea production, due to the warring states period. However, pu-erh tea regained popularity in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), when it was once again used as a currency.
Pu-erh tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. The leaves are picked, withered, rolled, and then fermented. Pu-erh teas can be either raw or ripe. Raw pu-erh teas are young and have not been aged, while ripe pu
How to Make Pu-erh Tea
Pu-erh tea is a type of Chinese black tea that has been fermented. This process gives it a distinctive taste that is often described as earthy or musty. It is usually drunk in small quantities and is known for its health benefits, which include aiding digestion and reducing cholesterol levels.
To make pu-erh tea, start by boiling water and letting it cool to around 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Then, place pu-erh tea leaves in a teapot or cup and add the hot water. Steep the tea for 3-5 minutes, depending on how strong you want it to be. After steeping, strain the tea and enjoy!
Health Benefits of Drinking Pu-erh Tea
Pu-erh tea is a unique type of tea that has many health benefits. Pu-erh tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant and is typically grown in the Yunnan province of China. This tea is unique because it undergoes a special fermentation process that allows it to develop its distinct taste and health benefits.
Pu-erh tea has been shown to improve digestion, lower cholesterol levels, boost metabolism, and reduce inflammation. Additionally, pu-erh tea contains high levels of antioxidants, which can help protect your cells from damage and promote overall health.
If you’re looking for a healthy beverage option, pu-erh tea is a great choice. Not only does it have numerous health benefits, but it also has a delicious taste that will make you want to drink it again and again.
Recipes with Pu-erh Tea
Pu-erh tea is a unique and flavorful tea that can be used in many different recipes. Here are some ideas for how to use pu-erh tea in your cooking:
-Add pu-erh tea to soup for an extra depth of flavor
-Brew pu-erh tea and use it as a marinade for chicken or fish
-Make a pu-erh tea infused stir-fry
-Create a pu-erh tea custard or pudding for dessert
Pu-erh tea is a unique and interesting tea with a long history and many benefits. If you’re looking for a new tea to try, pu-erh is definitely worth a shot. And if you’re looking for an easy way to incorporate pu-erh into your diet, our Pu-erh Tea Capsules are a great option. Made with 100% organic pu-erh tea leaves, they provide all the benefits of pu-erh in an easy-to-take form.
What is pu-erh tea?
Pu-erh tea — or pu’er tea — is a unique type of fermented tea that’s traditionally made in the Yunnan Province of China. It’s made from the leaves of a tree known as the “wild old tree,” which grows in the region.
Although there are other types of fermented tea like kombucha, pu-erh tea is different because the leaves themselves are fermented rather than the brewed tea.
Pu-erh is usually sold in compressed “cakes” of tea leaves but can be sold as loose tea also.
Many people drink pu-erh tea because it not only provides the health benefits of tea but also those of fermented food.
Benefits and uses
May promote weight loss
There’s some limited evidence to support the use of pu-erh tea for weight loss.
Animal and test-tube studies have shown that pu-erh tea may help synthesize fewer new fats while burning more stored body fat — which can lead to weight loss (1Trusted Source, 2Trusted Source).
Yet, given the lack of human studies on the topic, more research is needed.
Additionally, pu-erh tea is fermented, so it can also introduce healthy probiotics — or beneficial gut bacteria — into your body.
These probiotics may help improve your blood sugar control, which plays a key role in weight management and hunger (3Trusted Source, 4Trusted Source, 5Trusted Source).
A single study in 36 people with overweight found that consuming 333 mg of pu-erh tea extract 3 times daily for 12 weeks resulted in significantly improved body weight, body mass index (BMI), and abdominal fat measurements, compared with a control group (6Trusted Source).
Still, this research doesn’t prove that drinking pu-erh tea can help you lose weight. These studies employed highly concentrated extracts, which contained the active ingredients of pu-erh tea in much higher doses than those you’d get from drinking it.
Several animal studies have observed that supplementing with pu-erh tea extracts benefit blood fat levels (7Trusted Source, 8Trusted Source, 9Trusted Source).
Pu-erh tea extracts may help reduce cholesterol levels in two ways (10Trusted Source).
First, pu-erh tea increases how much dietary-fat-bound bile acid is excreted in the feces, thus keeping the fat from being absorbed into your bloodstream (10Trusted Source).
Second, in animal studies, pu-erh tea also decreases fat accumulation. Together, these effects can decrease heart disease risk (11Trusted Source, 12Trusted Source).
Yet, animal studies using concentrated extracts do not prove that drinking pu-erh tea will have the same effects in humans.
Inhibits cancer growth
In test-tube studies, pu-erh tea extracts have killed breast cancer, oral cancer, and colon cancer cells (13Trusted Source, 14Trusted Source, 15Trusted Source).
While these findings offer a promising starting point for future research, pu-erh tea should not be used as a cancer treatment.
These studies involve applying highly concentrated extracts directly to cancer cells, which is not how drinking pu-erh tea would interact with cancer cells in your body. More research is needed to understand how drinking pu-erh tea would affect cancer cells.
May boost liver health
Because it can help decrease fat accumulation, pu-erh tea may help prevent or reverse nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a disease in which excess fat accumulates in your liver. However, this has only been noted in animal research so far (16Trusted Source).
Another animal study also found that pu-erh tea extract may protect the liver from damage caused by the chemotherapy drug cisplatin (17Trusted Source).
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Between 2010 and 2012, Somalia experienced what was considered one of the worst famines in the past 25 years. However, the United Nations only declared famine in July 2011, due to the unrest between Somalia and western groups who were offering aid. Somalia’s Southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions were the first to be affected and thereafter spread to Middle Shabelle, Afgoye and Mogadishu.
Fatalities reached an estimated 260 000 during the 2010-2012 period; half of the deceased were children under the age of 5, meaning that 4.6% of the total population and 10% of children under 5, in Southern and Central Somalia, had succumbed to the famine. While conditions have since improved, Somalia still remains one of the highest rates of child malnutrition and infant mortality in the world.
Gift of the Givers Response:
Responding to the human misery resulting from the catastrophic famine in Somalia and the appalling impact it had on thousands of people - mainly children - we set about a R40 million emergency relief mission, facilitating one of the greatest humanitarian efforts ever co-ordinated in South Africa.
Our efforts saw 11 flights, carrying a total of 175 tons of emergency aid to Mogadishu, in Somalia. This was immediately augmented by four ships, carrying 2 080 tons of additional supplies setting sail for Somalia's capital, located in the coastal Banadir region.
We sent 94 personnel - inclusive of 57 medical specialists - comprising multiple teams to help bring relief to the thousands of malnourished and badly dehydrated victims of the famine. These teams established four feeding centres in the established refugee camps, feeding a total of 30 000 people three so-called 'wet' meals a day. In addition, 300 families, newly-arrived at these camps were provided 'dry rations'.
In addition to the feeding programme, our medical personnel delivered medical care on-site in refugee camps located in several districts. They were also responsible for treating patients admitted to four hospitals. Crucially, Forlanini Hospital, which had been closed for several years, was made available to our organisation. Our dedicated personnel made this facility functional - as set-up our own operating theatre - within three hours. Our medical teams were amazing... working in the camps and at four hospitals, including Banadir, Madina, Saint Martini and the re-instituted Forlanini Hospital, our medical personnel treated 10 700 patients and performed 80 operations, an invaluable contribution to our famine response. Children treated in either the camps or hospital were provided with nutritional supplement packs, worth R1 300 each. We also installed our first borehole in Somalia, which cost US$15 000, bringing potable water to the 30 000 refugees inhabiting the 11 camps for the first time, immensely easing their predicament.
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What is Buyer Person? Definition of Buyer Person, Buyer Person Meaning and Concept
The buyer persona is the fictitious profile of the ideal client of a certain company. It is built on the basis of different real data of the consumers and allows to attract a greater number of potential clients so that they consume the good or service marketed.
Establishing the buyer persona consists of identifying the ideal profile of a company's client, thanks to the use and analysis of real consumer data. The objective is to know which are the easiest potential customers to convert due to their characteristics and consumption habits. In this sense, it is about identifying the needs of consumers to be able to offer them solutions and to consume the goods or services of the company.
The importance of defining the buyer persona lies in being able to plan, guide and carry out marketing campaigns that capture the attention of potential customers and manage to turn them into consumers of the company.
How to make a buyer person?
To design a buyer persona, as we have mentioned above, it is necessary to obtain data from both your own customers and the rest of the market consumers . This information will allow us to create a fictitious profile of our ideal client to be able to more correctly target our audience.
The data must be obtained as follows:
- First of all, we should receive feedback from our current clients to find out their tastes and needs.
- Demographic and social data that provide information about the evolution of society as a whole.
- The sales department must contribute its point of view related to how the market is and what needs exist at all times.
- Conducting surveys to the largest possible number of clients or potential clients to manage more information.
- Analysis of our sales to know how demand fluctuates.
Once this information is obtained, it will be necessary to analyze it to obtain the ideal profile of our client.
Buyer persona template
Below we explain the different information fields that we must fill in to make a buyer persona correctly:
- Personal and work situation: It is necessary to know what your job and personal situation is.
- Demographic information: Knowing your age, income or gender will allow a more exhaustive analysis.
- Identifiers: Try to know the personality and the different characteristics of the person surveyed.
- Objectives: Know what are the goals you are trying to achieve.
- Challenges: It is important to know what problems the respondent is facing.
- Solutions offered by the company: In this section it is necessary to specify how to help you solve your challenges.
- Concerns: Concerns that generate resistance to change will be written. They can be unfounded by past experiences or own perceptions of reality.
- Comments: All the extra information that is considered relevant to the person's behavior will be noted here.
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Not all stress is a bad thing. Moderate amounts of pressure from a teacher or a coach, for example, can motivate a child to keep her grades up in school or to participate more fully in athletic activities. Successfully managing stressful situations or events enhances a child’s ability to cope in the future.
Children are future adults, and through these experiences, they develop resilience and learn how to deal with life’s inevitable bumps and hurdles. However, when the stress is continuous or particularly intense, it can take a toll on both the psyche and the body.
Major events, especially those that forever change a child’s family, such as the death of a parent, can have lasting effects on children’s psychological health and well-being. Minor daily stresses can also have consequences.
Sudden stressful events will accelerate your child’s breathing and heartbeat, constrict blood vessels, increase blood pressure and muscle tension, and perhaps cause stomach upset and headaches. As stress persists, it can make a child more susceptible to illness and experience fatigue, loss of sleep, nightmares, teeth-grinding, poor appetite, tantrums, or depression. Children may become irritable or their school grades may suffer. Their behavior and their willingness to cooperate may change.https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/emotional-wellness/Pages/Helping-Children-Handle-Stress.aspx | <urn:uuid:a00883d6-1c57-40b5-8be7-b1c9648dae1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nutritionaldirect.com/symptoms-of-stress-in-children-stress-management-for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942144 | 292 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Wax worm saliva contains enzymes capable of breaking down plastics
A team of CSIC researchers has discovered that wax worm saliva degrades plastic; a discovery with numerous applications for treating or recycling plastic waste. Back in 2017, the team discovered that this worm species (the lepidopteran Galleria mellonella) is able to break down plastic (polyethylene), and now they have discovered just how it does this: its saliva contains enzymes (pertaining to the phenol oxidase family) that can rapidly set off polyethylene degradation at room temperature. These enzymes are the first and only known enzymes capable of degrading polyethylene plastic without requiring pre-treatment, according to Federica Bertocchini, a CSIC researcher at the CIB-CSIC (Centre for Biological Research) who led the study. The results of the work, pending review, have been published in preprint in the BioRxiv online archive.
"For plastic to degrade, oxygen must penetrate the polymer (the plastic molecule). This is the first step in oxidation, which is usually a result of exposure to sunlight or high temperatures, and represents a bottleneck that slows down the degradation of plastics like polyethylene, one of the most resistant polymers," explains Bertocchini. "That is why, under normal environmental conditions, plastic takes months or even years to degrade," she adds.
"Now we have found out that enzymes in the wax worm's saliva perform this crucial step: they oxidize the plastic. This means they can overcome the bottleneck in the plastic degradation process and accelerate its decomposition," she adds.
Polyethylene is one of the toughest and most widely used plastics. Together with polypropylene and polystyrene, it makes up 70% of total plastic production. Plastic pollution poses a threat to the planet's health and environment, so it is urgent to find solutions to tackle the plastic waste problem. One of the most promising research areas with the greatest potential is the biological degradation of plastics. This process is known as biodegradation and is associated with microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi. However, to date, only a handful of microorganisms are known to break down the tough plastic polymers forming polyethylene. What is more, in most cases, aggressive pre-treatment is needed to guarantee oxidation and thus enable the micro-organisms to exert some effect (albeit slow) on the plastic.
A few years ago, a new field of research opened up with the discovery that some insect species of the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera orders are able to degrade polyethylene and polystyrene. "In our lab, we discovered the insect that seems to be the fastest of all: the larvae of the lepidopteran Galleria mellonella, commonly known as the wax worm," says Bertocchini. "These larvae are able to oxidize and break down the polymers in the plastic really quickly" (after just one hour's exposure).
"In recent years, efforts have been made to find out how these insects manage to do this. Numerous studies have focused on the microorganisms inhabiting the digestive system of these worms, based on the assumption that the worms can use plastic as food and that its degradation would be the result of their metabolic activity and digestive processes," remarks the researcher. "But this assumption is highly questionable so, from the start, our research has focused on the worm's oral cavity," she explains.
"We have scrutinized the wax worm's behavior when it comes into contact with polyethylene and found that the enzymes present in the worm's saliva (i.e., the liquid inside the insect's mouth) can degrade polyethylene," Bertocchini tells us. "On coming into contact with saliva, the polymer oxidizes and depolymerizes within a few hours. We have identified degraded residues that form in the presence of the worm's saliva," she says.
Furthermore, the researchers have analyzed the saliva using electron microscopy and observed a high protein content. "We have isolated two enzymes from the saliva that can reproduce the oxidation produced by the saliva as a whole," explains the researcher. These two proteins, called Demetra and Ceres, belong to the family of phenol oxidase enzymes.
"We found that the Demetra enzyme had a significant effect on polyethylene, leaving marks (small craters) on the surface of the plastic, visible to the naked eye; this effect was also confirmed by the appearance of degradation products formed after exposure of the polyethylene to this enzyme. The Ceres enzyme oxidizes the polymer too, but does not leave visible marks, suggesting that the two enzymes have a different effect on polyethylene," she sums up.
How phenol oxidase enzymes work
Phenols are molecules used by plants to defend themselves against potential enemies, such as insect larvae. Therefore, insects could produce phenol oxidase enzymes as a way to oxidize plant phenols, and thus neutralize them, meaning they could feed safely on the plants. Phenols are also present in many plastic additives, which could make them targets for these enzymes and create the necessary conditions for oxidation and depolymerisation of the plastic. "So far, this is just speculation and further experiments will be needed to investigate the enzyme's mechanisms of action in depth," researchers warn.
An even more interesting question is how wax worms have acquired this ability. Researchers speculate that it could be due to an evolutionary process. Wax worms feed on hive wax and pollen from a wide variety of plant species. Considering that hive wax is full of phenols, this type of enzyme would be very useful to these bugs. Indirectly, this would explain why wax worms can break down polyethylene. However, so far this theory is only speculation and we must carry out more research combining insect biology with biotechnology. | <urn:uuid:6c5dfde2-0db3-48c1-95bd-3f15d28833bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phys.org/news/2022-05-wax-worm-saliva-enzymes-capable.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958323 | 1,198 | 3.34375 | 3 |
A Library of Things allows people to borrow stuff that they only need now and then. Blending a grassroots movement with technology, hundreds more are in planning
Already, 5,000 Londoners are on to it: borrowing anything from sound systems to sewing machines from a catalogue of around 50 items. They are the pioneers of the Library of Things (LoT) model, which helps people to save money and reduce waste by affordably renting out household items. They’ve collectively saved around 50 tonnes of waste from landfill since it all began.
Following a successful crowdfunding campaign, the model will now be expanded from the existing seven neighbourhoods to 50 across England. The team at the women-led social enterprise are optimistic that those 5,000 borrowers in London are the first of many. They raised almost £375,000 to expand, saying that the model is a valuable one, at a time when one in seven UK shops lie empty, and councils and communities are casting around for solutions.
“We see a Library of Things as an activator for the community hubs it inhabits – whether arts venues, libraries, or reuse and repair shops,” says co-founder Rebecca Trevalyan. “The service brings diverse footfall, income and impact – helping local people do projects affordably and learn practical skills, while reducing waste.”
Putting purpose ahead of profit, Library of Things services are currently housed within six other libraries, community venues and reuse shops across the capital, with another set to arrive next to Ikea in a Hammersmith shopping centre. Brand partners like Bosch and Kärcher provide the products at low – or no – cost, in exchange for insights into product usage and maintenance.
The model remains essentially the same since Trevalyan and co started testing the idea from shipping containers in south London in 2016: people can rent hedge-trimmers, carpet cleaners, drills, pressure washers and other items from as little as £1 a day. (Borrows usually work out at about 5 per cent of the cost of buying items new, the team says.)
But things have got smarter: they’ve now developed their own software and have integrated it with an off-the-shelf locker system, to ensure smoother borrowing and returning.
“Communities want hopeful alternatives to consumerism,” says Trevalyan, who notes that more than 400 councils and groups have expressed interest in setting up their own Libraries of Things.
Though funding for any new enterprises remains tight at the moment, they have found ways: Bromley council funded the launch of Bromley Library of Things through its Carbon Offset Fund, while nine other London councils have chosen to fund the enterprise to help tackle waste and emissions, and the rising cost of living.
“Our high streets need fresh ideas, and communities and councils are serious about coming together around hopeful climate and waste solutions,” says Trevalyan. “So now’s the time to make this happen in every neighbourhood that wants it.”
The concept in numbers
80 %The proportion of household items that are used less than once a month
2 ndThe UK is the 2nd largest contributor to electrical waste in the world
5,000Number of people who have already borrowed from their local Library of Things
£ 240,000Amount people have collectively saved using Library of Things (plus an estimated 50 tonnes of waste)
This article is the latest in our ‘reinventing the high street’ series. Over the coming weeks Positive News will be shining a light on the people, places and projects that are breathing new life into the UK’s town and city centres as many retail giants abandon them.
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The Russian government has condemned missile strikes by the US on a Syrian airbase, saying Washington’s action would “inflict major damage on US-Russia ties”, according to Russian news agencies.
In its first public response to missile strikes by the US , the Kremlin on Friday issued a strong statement labelling Washington’s move as “aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law”.
The US fired dozens of missiles at Sheyrate airbase earlier on Friday from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week in Syria’s Idlib province.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the missile strikes created a “serious obstacle” to creating an international coalition to defeat ISIL and said that Russia views the strikes as an attempt to deflect world attention from civilian deaths in Iraq – where scores of people died in a series of US-led coalition air strikes in Mosul last month.
“Putin views the US strikes on Syria as aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and on a made-up up pretext,” Peskov was cited as saying.
“Washington’s step will inflict major damage on US-Russia ties.”
Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands, reporting from Moscow, said that Russia is recalibating its position towards the US.
“It’s clear for the Russians that Donald Trump is not the president that they thought they were getting,” he said.
“They are talking about how the US is basically acting now like it did in the invastion of Iraq 14 years ago, when it acted without the permission of the United Nations – essentially taking unilateral action with its various allies.”
A statement by the Russian foreign ministry on Friday also announced that Moscow was halting an agreement with the US aimed at avoiding clashes between their forces and ensuring safety of flights in the skies over Syria in response to Washington’s missile strikes.
Russia, which has been bombing rebel-held areas in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad since September 2015, said the US strike had been carried out on an “invented pretext” and reiterated its view that the Syrian army did not possess chemical weapons.
Russia has maintained that Syrian air strikes hit a depot where anti-Assad rebels were building chemical weapons – a claim the US has vigorously disputed.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaking just after the strikes were announced, said Russia had “failed in its responsibility” to deliver on a 2013 deal it helped broker to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.
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List of Highest Salary Jobs India
The whole world has witnessed the digital transformation across all the industries, all because of the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with advancements in technologies that have brought about a drastic change in the demand of skill sets across different business functions. This digital transformation has increased the demand for experienced and skilled talent with specific technical knowledge and skills to tackle new complex challenges faced by current businesses. Many people are aware of their lifestyle and living standards, and future securities, therefore striving for financial stability is becoming important to ensure a high-quality life and a secure future. So, people are seeking the highest salary jobs to find their niche according to their interests and market conditions.
Within the past two years, when the pandemic spread all over the world, the pattern and working style has changed completely. It leads to new opportunities for job roles that can be performed even working from home. So in India, the job market has undergone a radical change. The choices of becoming an Engineer, an architect, or a Doctor are still on the top list but there are many more options and opportunities that have come up and revolutionized the job market in India and the whole world. So the organizations require professionals with expertise in some of the emerging areas such as data science, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc.
Here this article will focus on some of the highest salary jobs in India that are now most in-demand for upcoming years.
Highest salary Jobs In India
Often candidates, professionals, freshers, and even students are confused as to how to choose their career in terms of money, reputation, standards that too with moral satisfaction. Here is the list of some of the highest-paying salary jobs in India that can help you choose your career path with confidence.
- Data Scientist- When companies are going through digital transformation and churning out a huge volume of data, the demand for data scientists has increased as a report says, there has been a 29% YoY increase in the demand for data scientists. So this job role is considered the most sought-after job opportunity and many organizations are actively hiring them with other skills like programming, visualization, and machine learning. Data scientists can earn 36% more than professionals in the analytics industry. The basic annual salary for data scientists is quite attractive in India as they can earn between 5-7 lakh at entry-level, 12-15 lakhs per annum at mid-level, and further at high-level, they can earn 21-25 lakh per annum.
- Machine Learning Professionals- In today’s evolving and competitive world, artificial intelligence and machine learning development are paying the big bucks to their professionals and are also considered as the most up-and-coming field in the digital world. Here entry-level professionals can earn up to 6 to 7 lakhs as average salary per annum and can reach 2 crores for experienced employees. Machine learning jobs are self-sufficient that are totally dependent on self-learning systems so the exclusivity of this domain ensures a safe place among the highest paying jobs in India.
- Blockchain Development- Very less people know about the importance and value of blockchain. Therefore there is a large gap between the demand and the supply of skills in this field which makes it a very lucrative industry. Professionals who are experienced in this sector are involved in blockchain development and easily rank among the highest salary jobs in India. Once experienced, these professionals can earn around 45 lakhs per annum. But it requires the right skills along with sound knowledge of computer science and information technology.
- Product Manager- Software product manager is one of the most in-demand career options today. Software product managers manage the development of software products. They are responsible for coordination between various teams that ensure the product is performing well and at its best. They create business plans to optimize the product’s development and to fix or eliminate related issues. The average salary for a software product manager is Rs. 17,66,274 per annum while the base salary is around Rs. 9 lakh per annum.
- Cyber Security Experts- The requirement of security and protection of data is a compulsory step of every organization as digital assets have become a priority today. Therefore there is increased demand for cybersecurity professionals in the tech industry. They ensure individuals, governments, and businesses are equipped against all types of cybercrime and threats. At the entry-level job, they can earn up to 6 lakhs, at mid-level 10-12 lakhs, and 30 to 40 lakhs per annum at the senior level.
- Chartered Accountancy- While everyone is busy choosing a career in several different money-making fields, money management remains a constant requirement across the board. Chartered accountants are the professionals who are giving financial advice for businesses and living, and are often ranked among the highest salary jobs in India as there is a huge gap between the demand and supply for the skilled professionals in this domain. They can start their journey with a starting salary of 7 to 8 lakhs per annum. Further, they can earn more (around 20 lakhs) with growing experience.
- Digital Marketing Managers– We are living in a digital era where almost all tasks are performed digitally on a daily basis. So the role of digital marketing manager is another high-paying job in India that demands a broad range of responsibilities. To land a career in the digital marketing sector, there are several routes that can be taken in terms of education and experience. The primary job responsibilities in this domain involve working with maintaining and improving the brand image of the organization, implementing business strategies, aligning fresh creative ideas, and managing product development teams perfectly. These professionals can earn a starting salary of 4 to 7 lakhs per annum and beyond.
It must be noted that salaries in all industries and organizations are always subject to the employee’s training, experience, and education/practical knowledge. The more the experience, the greater the pay. The above mentioned are some of the examples of highest paying jobs in India today, but these are not the only ones available. Medical fraternity, Full-stack software developer, Investment Banker, Marketing manager are some a few more examples of attractive and highest paying jobs in the country. So it is clear that the highest paying jobs in India are basically, in Information technology, healthcare, business management, data industry, BFSI, and marketing. Choose your stream wisely and find your niche. | <urn:uuid:2ed38f6c-f993-4fb4-bede-cec8a2ff743f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://worldlink-education.com/list-of-highest-salary-jobs-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957307 | 1,313 | 1.890625 | 2 |
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Bendix, TCM, CMI magnetos are commonly referred to as “Bendix Mags” or Bendix Magnetos. Since 1947, Bendix Magnetos have been in continuous production. Bendix Magnetos are known for light weight, compact design, reliability, and high output. There are four different series of Bendix Magnetos offered currently S-20, short cover, S-200, and S-1200 series. The S-20 series Bendix magneto can be impulse coupled or direct drive. This series will have a feed through capacitor that filter out radio noise from the Bendix Magneto. The variation from S-20 series is the “short cover” Bendix Magneto which is easily distinguished by the rear contact cover, where the feed through style condenser is mounted. When looking at a Bendix Magneto model number such as “S6RSC-25”, the underlined portions means it is a short cover magneto. Another type of Bendix Magneto is a S-200 series which use ignition vibrator along with a retard breaker assembly to start the engine. The last series is the S-1200, these Bendix Magnetos can be impulse coupled or use retard breaker contact assembly. This Bendix Magneto series is able to reach higher voltages to allow for higher altitude of flight. All of these types of Bendix Magnetos are able to be serviced by Quality Aircraft Accessories.
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Week commencing 4th Nov 2019
In English this week, we have continued with our newspaper reports. We are all writing about different things that have happened in Trumpington. We have people writing about mysterious disappearances, an unexplained hole in the field, global warming problems, and a huge selection of other reports. We have written our introductions and the second and third paragraphs, which include quotes from key witnesses and leading experts.
In Maths, we have finished our multiplication and division unit. We learnt about how to solve problems using BODMAS (the order in which to solve equations). BODMAS stands for Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction. Here is some of our work:
We have also learnt about factors and multiples. A particularly challenging part to this was finding common multiples or common factors between two different numbers.
For example, can you find the common multiple of 4 and 7 that is between 40 and 60?
In Science, we are following a line of scientific enquiry to do with paper planes. Different groups are conducting different experiments. Variables for the experiment include: wingspan, types of paper, size of plane, etc. Some groups are timing how long their planes stay in the air, while others are measuring the distance their planes travel. This week, we wrote the question we were investigating, the aim, predictions and equipment we will need. Next week, we are writing the method and conducting the experiment.
In History, we talked about Remembrance Day in preparation for next week. In groups, we found out about:
- Why we wear poppies
- What the UK’s Remembrance Day traditions are
- Remembrance traditions in other countries
- Why remembrance is important
We will share our findings in class next week!
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The Comox Valley School District is saying that school property vandalism hurts all valley students.
The district is picking up the pieces after a rash of vandalism at three schools last weekend.
A number of windows were broken from large rocks thrown at Highland Secondary School and Ecole Robb Road Elementary.
A third site, a construction trailer located at Ecole Puntledge Park, was also damaged when it was broken into.
The district says this vandalism will cost it funding that would have been allocated to other resources that would benefit students and staff.
Superintendent of Schools, Tom Demeo, said vandalism impacts the entire district.
“An attack on one school is an attack on all schools,” Demeo said.
“The cost of repairs and the overtime for our carpentry staff will come out of funds that could be directed toward other programs. Sadly, when the district has to reallocated money, it has an effect on all students.”
The cost of the damage is estimated at $2,000.
Roughly 15 hours of labour went into repairing and replacing windows and cleaning up the shard glass inside the schools.
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PERSONAL ASSESSMENT OF CONFLICT MANGEMENT
Differences of opinion with a co-worker. Disagreements with your significant other. Arguments with relatives or friends. What do each of these scenarios have in common? Your ability to manage conflict is either effective or ineffective. How do you know if it’s effective or ineffective, and how can you learn from it? In this first discussion for the final week, you will consider areas of strength and improvement associated with your own style of conflict management based on your own experiences.
Read Chapter 11 from The Interpersonal Communication Book; answer the 10 true/false statements regarding your interpersonal conflict behavior (p. 297 – 298). Then, review your results and consider whether your interpersonal conflict management skills are effective or ineffective.
Initial Post: Prepare a 300-word minimum reply that sufficiently addresses each of the items below. Don’t forget that it is critical to cite your sources of information, including the textbook, using APA formatting.
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answer the 10 true/false statements regarding your interpersonal conflict behavior (p. 297 – 298). Then, review your results and consider whether your interpersonal conflict management skills are effective or ineffective.
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Our Glorious Popes
I could not put it down. Such enthusiastic responses as this are typical upon reading this powerfully written history of the Church as illustrated in the challenging pontificates of ten of her more illustrious champions of orthodoxy. As one reads through the first forty-two pages, one is virtually taken on a journey through some four hundred years of tempus ecclesiae, from the momentous entrance of Saint Peter into the fearsome capitol of Satan’s doomed empire, to the triumph of the last Christological Council, Chalcedon, held under the pastoral eye of Leo I, the first Pope that Catholic posterity dared to call the Great. Sister Catherine vividly brings to life the painful and virile maturation of the Church Militant from its infancy in Jerusalem to its full manhood as expressed by the Toma of Leo solemnly read at Chalcedon in 451. The remaining bulk of information dovetails into the major periods of religious crises and tells of those heroic Popes who steered the Church through these gravest trials. For example, see how the little known Greek Pope Saint Zachary fought the Moslem influence which generated eastern Iconoclasm; see the Gregorys form the temporal city of God into the vibrant and monolithic power that Jesus intended; and see how the two Pius’s re-establish orthodoxy with one sword and humiliate the brazenly open anti-Christian forces with the other burying them for a time. This is a book that can restore hope and confidence in the might of the papacy. | <urn:uuid:ed6aa776-9e0a-45fc-8792-3aa1091d46f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fraternitypublications.com/product/our-glorious-popes/?add-to-cart=5227 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.931051 | 348 | 2.375 | 2 |
On Wednesday, bipartisan Senate negotiators reached a deal on an infrastructure package after weeks of tense discussion. The package includes billions in new funding, including more money to connect every household to high-speed broadband, according to the White House.
The Senate’s infrastructure package is expected to be around $1.2 trillion over the next eight years with around $559 billion in new spending. The White House sent out a press release Wednesday outlining what’s included in the bill, focusing on “hard” infrastructure issues like roads, bridges, EV charging, public transit, and high-speed broadband. Specifically, the package includes a $65 billion “investment ensuring every American has access to reliable high-speed internet,” according to the White House.
Telecom companies that receive this funding will be required to offer “low-cost affordable” internet plans to consumers along with easy ways to “comparison shop” amongst providers. Still, the bill text remains unwritten and it’s unclear how the new investment in broadband will be delegated.
The $65 billion figure is significantly lower than what President Joe Biden originally proposed last March. The administration’s initial goal was to pass $100 billion in broadband spending and include language that would prioritize networks affiliated with local governments, nonprofits, and cooperatives.
The White House also announced Wednesday that the package would include language from the Digital Equity Act that would create a permanent program to subsidize the cost of broadband for low-income families along with a new program to help pay for devices like laptops and tablets.
As the Senate moves to start voting on this package tonight, the agency in charge of broadband expansion, the Federal Communications Commission, is still without a permanent leader. Earlier this year, former FCC Chair Ajit Pai stepped down, leaving the agency deadlocked with two Republicans and two Democrats. Biden has yet to appoint a fifth commissioner or formally appoint a permanent chair. | <urn:uuid:87b9664a-e465-4883-b33f-1cb153eaaa46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22598636/white-house-infrastructure-broadband-package-bipartisan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95469 | 398 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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The 1994 by the then Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia, Dr. med. Bernhard Vogel, inaugurated Thuringian Weintor stands at the beginning of the "Wine Route Saale-Unstrut", which leads over Bad Kösen, Naumburg, Freyburg and Laucha to Nebra.
It is located in the immediate vicinity of the graduation house "Louise".
It is the first and so far only wine gate in the new federal states and stands for the importance of viticulture in the region around Bad Sulza.
May 11, 2019
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In children, antibiotics as well as asthma drugs are frequently prescribed. We investigated the effects of the codispensing of antibiotics and asthma drugs to children.
Using a health insurance database, we examined dispensing and codispensing of antibiotics and asthma drugs for the period of a 1 year in 892 841 Belgian children aged <18 years.
For a 1-year period, an antibiotic was dispensed to 44.21% of children: 73.05% aged <3 years; 49.62% aged 3 to 7 years; and 34.21% aged 8 to <18 years. An asthma drug was dispensed to 16.04% of children: 44.81% aged <3 years; 17.90% aged 3 to 7 years; and 7.64% aged 8 to <18 years. Overall, an antibiotic was dispensed without an asthma drug to 38.62% of children versus with an asthma drug to 73.50% of children (P < .0001). More frequent dispensing of antibiotics to children who received an asthma drug (odds ratio: 1.90; 95% confidence interval: 1.89–1.91) occurred in all age categories (P < .0001). In 35.64% of children with an asthma drug dispensed, an antibiotic was dispensed on the same day.
In all age groups, dispensing of antibiotics is more likely in children who have an asthma drug dispensed in the same year. In all age groups, codispensing of antibiotics and asthma drugs is a common practice. Efforts to decrease antibiotic use in children could be improved by focusing on children who are being treated with asthma drugs. | <urn:uuid:f9492b6c-bda5-45a0-bb30-620c0e6da634> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/127/6/1022/30022/Coprescription-of-Antibiotics-and-Asthma-Drugs-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968646 | 340 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The SWIFT network continues to be the best system available for cross-border payments. However, its ascendancy has been threatened in recent times by the development of cryptocurrencies but SWIFT is fighting back. The latest move by the network to stay relevant is to launch a new service that will allow for real-time international payments. This is being done by integrating gpi and domestic payment networks into a single service.
One of the main features that cryptocurrencies always tout is that they can transfer money internationally faster than normal banks. With this new integrated service, SWIFT will be able to make the same instant international payments that cryptocurrencies boast about. Senders will have to pay an additional fee but they will now be able to send their money instantly all over the world.
This is a major move since it will extend the existing gpi network into domestic markets. This will allow banks to deliver a better service with their current investment. Thanks to the approach of using the current gpi network and the domestic real-time payment networks, there are no additional implementation costs or the need to shift to a new network structure. This saves banks a lot of money in the long run and allows them to start offering this service in no time.
According to SWIFT, this service will be available to all customers ranging from a small business to a major multi-national company who will be able to access this new service that provides for speedy global payments.
SWIFT has demonstrated to the market how effective this new service is as several national networks have used the new service with success. Trials with the New Payments Platform (NPP) in Australia show that it only takes 18 seconds to deliver payments between Australia and China.
Singapore’s Fast And Secure Transfers (FAST) trials saw the fastest payments and the most comprehensive tests. With seventeen banks in 7 countries being tested, 13 seconds was clocked as the fastest time while continental payments required 25 seconds. The slowest recorded trial was at 41 seconds which is still under a minute.
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Who can register to vote?
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can register to vote?
To register in Wisconsin, you must meet the following requirements:
- A citizen of the United States
- A Wisconsin resident and have lived at your residence for at least 28 days prior to the election
- 18 years of age or older
- Not currently serving a sentence including probation or parole for a felony conviction
- Not found by a court to be incapable of understanding the electoral process objective
- Not make or benefit from a bet or wage depending on the election outcome
- Not voted at any other locations, if registering on election day
What do I need in order to register to vote?
- If you have been issued a State of Wisconsin Driver License or ID card that is current and valid, you must provide the number and expiration date.
- If your WI driver license is canceled or expired; or your WI ID is expired, provide the number and the last 4 digits of your Social Security number.
- If you have not been issued a WI driver license or state ID, you must provide the last 4 digits of your Social Security number.
- Photo ID is never required when registering to vote. However, a Proof of Residence document is always needed when registering to vote in Wisconsin.
How do I register to vote?
- Online: Voters who have a valid State of Wisconsin Driver License or ID card can register to vote online on the MyVote Wisconsin website: http://myvote.wi.gov. To register online, the voter must enter a name, date of birth, Driver’s License, or ID number, and an address that matches what is on file with the Wisconsin DMV. If all of the fields match, the voter will be able to register to vote completely online without needing to print, sign, or mail the form and without needing to send a proof of residence document. Voters who are not able to match their information with the information in the DMV database will be given the option to register by mail.
- By mail: Registration forms should be mailed to your municipal clerk. You can start your voter registration form online at http://myvote.wi.gov. Your form must be printed, signed, and mailed or delivered, to your municipal clerk. You must always provide a Proof of Residence document when registering. If you are registering by mail, you can use any of the forms of Proof of residence except a residential lease.
- In the municipal clerk’s office: You may register in person in your municipal clerk’s office up until the Friday before the election at 5:00 p.m. or close of business, whichever is later. You must always provide a Proof of Residence document when registering to vote. At the polling place on Election Day. You may register at the polls on Election Day. You must always provide a Proof of Residence document when registering to vote.
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Rob Koch, BS, OTR/L, has been in clinical occupational therapy practice for more than 30 years, working with people of all ages with a diverse range of diagnoses. He spent the first 11 years of his career in Utah working in developmental disabilities. There, he specialized in adapting activities and learning environments for people who have severe multiple handicaps, as well as creating several published software programs that provide better opportunities to actively participate in learning.
For 22 years, Mr. Koch worked in inpatient and outpatient neurological rehabilitation in North Carolina where his occupational therapy practice included extensive emphasis on promoting the skilled use of functional therapy activities to optimize the independence of patients with CVA, ABI, and SCI. this focus resulted in the creation of Functional Therapy Activities, a CD-ROM for use in adult neurological rehabilitation. He currently practices in a skilled nursing facility working with persons in rehab and long-term care with a variety of cognitive deficits.
Over the last decade, Mr. Koch has been developing a functional approach to improving the lives of patients with cognitive deficits due to brain injury and stroke. This approach – utilizing a sequence of functional, “real-life” activities to promote independence – is presented in detail in this seminar. | <urn:uuid:0e0c9a9f-7345-4e8e-bcfa-c06ead77ab93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pesi.com/speaker/details/01608255/robert-koch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959406 | 249 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Leading Investigations into PFAS in the Environment
The 20th and 21st centuries have seen the rise of PFAS as a challenging new environmental contaminant and a growing body of science has found potential adverse health impacts associated with high levels of PFAS exposure, including liver damage, thyroid disease, decreased fertility, and certain types of cancer. The EPA has classified PFAS as an emerging contaminant while scientists establish standard toxicity values and potential pathways to human exposure.
Stone’s Environmental Assessment and Remediation team leverages site understanding and knowledge of how PFAS accumulate and migrate to support comprehensive investigations and ongoing monitoring to inform decision making. Stone provides in-depth knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations, and deploys cost-effective data collection, assessment, and design expertise for the benefit of our clients.
Our Services and Expertise Include:
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Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the streets, among
Nothing mattered or had a name:
The world was made of air, which waited.
I knew rooms full of ashes,
Tunnels where the moon lived,
Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost',
Questions that insisted in the sand.
Everything was empty, dead, mute,
Fallen abandoned, and decayed:
Inconceivably alien, it all
Belonged to someone else - to no one:
Till your beauty and your poverty
Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.
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Hospitals say delta COVID-19 variant is still biggest threat
The majority of people in the hospital are still unvaccinated COVID-19 patients and here at University of New Mexico Hospital, they are operating at over 140% capacity.
This means every single bed and even different units are being used and converted into patient areas but as we continue to fight the virus and the pandemic, hospital workers are tired and there is a shortage of workers
Both Presbyterian and UNMH have said their worker shortage has prompted hundreds of traveling nurses.
The other topics of concern are different COVID-19 variants, both hospitals say that the best tool for current or new variants are vaccines.
Dr. Jason Mitchell, Presbyterian chief medical officer said, “If every New Mexican who can get vaccines, that's everyone in New Mexico, five and up, got vaccinated in the next couple of weeks. This pandemic would end in New Mexico within the next probably six to seven weeks. So we have that ability to return all of our life's normal.”
Doctors are still waiting for more information on how effective the vaccine is against the new variant but say mask wearing and vaccines are still effective.
Regardless of the new variants doctors at Presbyterian they say right now the main concern is still the delta variant.
Doctors are also encouraging people who haven't gotten a booster to get it.
Only 23% of New Mexicans have received a booster.
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CGN offers tailor-made courses on the conservation and management of plant genetic resources and related policies. These courses can be organized in Wageningen, the Netherlands, or on-location in your country.
Every year in April, CGN co-ordinates, together with the Centre for Development innovation (CDI) a 3-week-long course on genetic resources (Contemporary approaches to genetic resources conservation and use).
For those unable to spend 3 weeks in Wageningen in the month of April, CGN also offers shorter, tailor-made courses on the conservation and management of genetic resources (including genetic resources policies), either in Wageningen, the Netherlands, or on location elsewhere.
Possible elements of our courses include:
- Ex situ, in situ, and on-farm management
- Composition of collections
- Seed handling
- Characterisation and evaluation
- Seed storage
- Seed vitality monitoring and regeneration
- Molecular tools for genebank management
- Genebank documentation
- Management of field collections
- Phytosanitary issues
- PGR Policies
- Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS)
- Genebank and field visits
In the past, extensive on-location courses were already given for representatives from genebanks, universities, ministries and NGO’s in Rwanda (2014), for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in Ireland (2017) and various academics and PGR practitioners in Armenia (2019). Also in Wageningen, various tailor-made courses were organized for visiting groups, often consisting of genebank staff of various sizes. If you are interested in exploring the options for a tailor-made genetic resource course for your organization, please contact Theo van Hintum or Martin Brink. | <urn:uuid:2d8075aa-ea14-4b4d-91dc-c3131bd322ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wur.nl/web/show/id=14157831/langid=13504497 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.894243 | 363 | 1.617188 | 2 |
In June 1986, a group of men riding all-terrain vehicles slipped unseen into the city’s underground storm drain system, heading for the First Interstate Bank at Spaulding and Sunset. They carried gas-powered generators, hammer drills, power saws, and—most important—digging equipment, which they used to tunnel their way 100 feet up and into the bank’s vault. They made off with $172,000, a Matisse, and a reputation for audacity. The following year the gang hit the Bank of America at Pico and La Cienega, grabbed $98,000, and then vanished forever, though tips continued to pour into the FBI: The thieves were Vietnam vets, familiar with the Viet Cong’s tunnel systems, or maybe they were actual ex-V.C. or mole people—troglodytes who inhabit the sewers yet still know how to get their hands on a $2,000 diamond-infused drill bit. Whoever they were, they were smart enough to know when to quit. The vault’s alarm had been tripped in the second heist—perhaps the reason that when a third tunnel was eventually unearthed in Beverly Hills, it was found abandoned. | <urn:uuid:243cc1ba-0a07-4552-b298-6f170b80c5b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/gone-gang-the-group-that-got-away-with-backtoback-heiststhen-vanished/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970877 | 254 | 1.8125 | 2 |
What are the usual dates for the Cold War?
The Cold War was ‘fought’ in the aftermath of World War Two, from the collapse of the wartime alliance between the Anglo-American led Allies and the USSR to the collapse of the USSR itself, with the most common dates for these identified as 1945 to 1991.
When was the Cold War in the 80s?
The renewed Cold War (1979-1987) was the period of increased tensions between the US and the Soviet Union after détente.
When did the Cold War end and start?
1947 – 1991
What president ended the Cold War?
Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev and U.S. President Reagan signing the INF Treaty, 1987.
How did the Cold War affect the meanings of American freedom?
How did the Cold War affect the meanings of American freedom? Certain elements of society were elevated to central roles in the idea of freedom, particularly what came to be called “free enterprise.” Free enterprise, capitalism, and market economics became essential to the idea of freedom.
What was the timeline of the Cold War?
Timeline of the Cold War 1945 Defeat of Germany and Japan February 4-11: Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin – the ‘Big Three’ Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins May 8: VE Day – Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin
What did Reagan do during the Cold War?
He revived the B-1 Lancer program that had been canceled by the Carter administration, and began producing the MX missile. In response to Soviet deployment of the SS-20, Reagan oversaw the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) deployment of the Pershing missile in West Germany.
When did the Reagan era start and end?
Reagan Era Prehistoric and Pre-colonial until 1607 Colonial period 1607–1765 1776–1789 American Revolution 1765–1783 Confederation Period 1783–1788
Who was the British prime minister during the Cold War?
Along with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Reagan harshly criticized the Soviet Union on ideological and moral terms. In 1983, Soviet Union fighter planes shot down a Korean Air commercial passenger plane, killing all 269 passengers, including a US congressman. This prompted a harsh diplomatic and economic response by President Reagan. | <urn:uuid:64428c5a-fc11-4370-a2bc-4ea35e3c6934> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://runyoncanyon-losangeles.com/popular-lifehacks/what-are-the-usual-dates-for-the-cold-war/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94333 | 501 | 3.34375 | 3 |
The Ethics of Seafloor Mapping: Will it Make or Break our Environment?
The history of mapping the ocean can be traced back 3,000 years when evidence of water depth measurements was first found in Egypt. Modern sound-based seafloor mapping was invented in the 1910s, a product of World War I. As technology has developed, seafloor maps have become advanced enough to help scientists decipher much of the world’s mysteries, such as the formation of deep-sea trenches and underwater ridges in the 1960s, and plate tectonics in the 1970s. More recently, seafloor mapping has been utilized to find more metal and mineral-rich locations for deep sea mining. While it is true that seafloor mapping has many benefits for the environment and sustainable uses, it is vital to ensure that the ocean’s marine life and ecosystems are not destroyed in the process, and the information gathered is not used for damaging purposes.
Firstly, seafloor mapping is essential to scientific discovery in that it helps us to gain a better understanding of the planet's oceans and their marine-ecosystems. Understanding our impact on the environment, especially with climate change endangering not only the oceans and their creatures but the rest of the world is crucial. Today, seafloor mapping technologies have advanced enough to detect the surrounding “wave action, schools of fish, and changes in coral reefs that can indicate marine oxygen levels.” Using this information, scientists are able to better plan marine conservation and protect environments. (Wright, 2022) The ocean is vital in the fight against climate change, as it sequestered large amounts of carbon emissions that would otherwise stay in the atmosphere. If the ocean is not in a equilibrium, its carbon absorption ability will be reduced. Mapping the ocean allows for increased knowledge of how human activity affects the sea and its inhabitants. Then, scientists can measure the changes climate change causes to the ecosystem. Full ocean mapping also assists scientists to predict how natural disasters “travel and intensify as they cross the ocean,” which gives more time for authorities to evacuate populated areas and help towns and cities stay safe. (Wright, 2022) Furthermore, accurate seafloor mapping can increase the “ability of climate models to simulate global phenomena such as El Niño events.” (Wölfl et al., 0001)
Beyond identifying climate and environmental issues, seafloor mapping provides opportunities for the utilization and development of renewable energy and clean technology. As the world grows more aware of the detriments of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases, renewable energy has grown in demand and popularity. Technology such as coastal sensors and autonomous vehicles are powered by hydropower/hydraulic energy, which requires obtaining ocean data and information to build and function properly. (Weller et al., 0001) Without seafloor and ocean mapping, the battle against our rapidly changing climate would be drastically more challenging. Mapping the ocean not only identifies the issues and the development of new ones—but also provides the knowledge we need to solve them.
However, as beneficial as the information collected from seafloor mapping can be for protecting marine life and formulating climate solutions, it can also be just as harmful and damaging. Two leading seafloor mapping technologies, sonar and seismic surveys, can cause significant harm
and even kill sea animals. Both sonar and seismic surveys operate by using sound/air to bounce off the seafloor and map out the terrain in the ocean. These types of mapping require deafeningly loud sounds, causing “gradual or even outright death of sea creatures.” (Robbins, 2019) Ocean noise pollution can affect all marine life no matter the size, ranging from the smallest of plankton to the largest of whales. Even if these creatures survive, many are left with long-lasting — if not permanent — damage to their hearing and brain function. These effects can prove to be easily fatal, as many marine animals — especially those in the deep sea — rely heavily on their hearing to navigate, communicate, and detect predators.
In 2017, a study tested the possible damage caused by ocean noise pollution, by blasting a loud noise into the ocean. The blast was quieter than seismic blasts, but still managed to kill almost “two-thirds of the zooplankton in three-quarters of a mile on either side.” While they may seem trivial, the loss of zooplankton could severely affect animals higher up in the food chain, causing harmful population disparities in the species inhabiting the area affected. Researchers have also studied the noise-sensitive beaked whales and learned that “in frantic efforts to escape seismic air guns or navy sonar,” the whales are forced to change their diving patterns and become at risk of decompression sickness and death. (Robbins, 2019)
Seafloor mapping also poses a major issue to ocean habitats due to its contribution to the deep sea drilling and mining industry. As much as deep sea drilling benefits the economy and general society, it is heavily detrimental marine life and their ecosystems. Although mapping the ocean doesn’t directly cause deep sea mining, these industries profit from the information provided by seafloor mapping technology — using the results to determine the most profitable locations to mine for sought-after metals and minerals. Likewise to sonar and seismic surveys, deep sea mining also generates a dangerous level of ocean noise. Noise from deep sea mining can be heard in a large area underwater, as it can travel “horizontally and vertically through the ocean,” which can affect marine life from “the sea surface throughout the water column down to the seafloor.” (Alberts, 2021) Ironically, the best solution to limit the destruction of ocean habitats produced by deep sea mining is to increase ocean observation and mapping. With more research comes more knowledge on how to best extract the resources needed from the ocean floor whilst limiting the damage and disruption to the surrounding environment.
Luckily, in this day and age, there are many people developing environmentally friendly solutions and technologies to address the problems posed by seafloor mapping and its ties to other industries. For example, seismic surveys can be replaced by underwater vibrators that produce “smaller sound footprint and a lower peak pressure,” reducing the potential for harm risk to marine life, while simultaneously lowering ocean noise pollution. (Jones, 2019) Companies around the world are developing new technologies by the day, many of which will hopefully replace the current methods used to map the seafloor, allowing ocean research to continue doing good whilst without the harmful downsides. Ultimately, seafloor mapping has many benefits for the oceans and is crucial in keeping the environment we share with other animals habitable. Additionally, mapping provides us with the accumulation of scientific research vital to reducing our harmful impacts. However, careful regulation, observation, and re-assessment is necessary to ensure that ocean mapping causes more good than harm.
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2. Robbins, J. (2019, January 22). Oceans are getting louder, posing potential threats to marine life. The New York Times. Retrieved July 22, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/science/oceans-whales-noise-offshore-drilling.html
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4. Wölfl, A.-C., Snaith, H., Amirebrahimi, S., Devey, C. W., Dorschel, B., Ferrini, V., Huvenne, V. A. I., Jakobsson, M., Jencks, J., Johnston, G., Lamarche, G., Mayer, L., Millar, D., Pedersen, T. H., Picard, K., Reitz, A., Schmitt, T., Visbeck, M., Weatherall, P., & Wigley, R. (1AD, January 1). Seafloor mapping – the challenge of a truly global ocean bathymetry. Frontiers. Retrieved July 20, 2022, from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00283/full
5. Alberts, E. C., (2021, November 24) If marine noise pollution is bad, deep-sea mining could add to the Cacophony. Mongabay Environmental News. Retrieved July 20, 2022, from https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/if-marine-noise-pollution-is-bad-deep-sea-mining-could-add-to-the-cacophony/#:~:text=Besides%20noise%20pollution%2C%20studies%20suggest,migratory%20species%20and%20key%20fisheries
6. Weller, R. A., Baker, D. J., Glackin, M. M., Roberts, S. J., Schmitt, R. W., Twigg, E. S., & Vimont, D. J. (1AD, January 1). The challenge of Sustaining Ocean Observations. Frontiers. Retrieved July 20, 2021, from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00105/full
7. Jones, N. (2019, April 10). Ocean uproar: Saving marine life from a barrage of noise. Nature News. Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01098-6 | <urn:uuid:1e49abdd-dfe2-42c3-abe7-2f91600cdaad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.baycs.org/post/the-ethics-of-seafloor-mapping-will-it-make-or-break-our-environment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.915864 | 2,157 | 3.90625 | 4 |
What happened to the Golden State? In the mid-twentieth century, California was the American Dream within the American Dream; a booming economy, vibrant middle-class, and an unshakeable optimism for the future were hallmarks of a state that had become the crown jewel of the Empire of Liberty.
Historian Victor Davis Hanson chronicles the sad decline of the once great state of California in his book, The Decline and Fall of California: From Decadence to Destruction. Clearly modeled on famous British historian Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hanson’s book makes it clear that the increasingly dystopian California has been the author of its own decline. A half-century of bad policy and failed ideology has reduced the Golden State to a shell of its former glory.
Hanson—a college professor, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and an expert in the classics—is a product of many generations of Californians who made their home in the state’s mostly agricultural central valley. Few come closer to Thomas Jefferson’s idealized philosopher-farmer than Hanson, who is highly educated in history, warfare, and philosophy, yet runs a working farm like his forefathers.
Unfortunately, Hanson’s prognosis for California is bleak—especially for conservatives and middle-class Americans. “The old blue/red war for California is over,” Hanson writes. “Conservatives lost. Liberals won—by a combination of flooding the state with government-supplied stuff, and welcoming millions in while showing the exit to others. The only mystery is how Carthaginian will be the victor’s peace, e.g., how high will taxes go, how many will leave, how happy will the majority be at their departure?”
California’s conservative holdovers will understand. The Republican Party’s power in the state is relegated to a few holdouts from the less populated, red interior. Most of the California GOP’s leadership embraces the most watered-down “me-too” liberalism. The feeble resistance to the left’s big government designs mostly comes from moderate Democrats if it comes at all. It is clear that Hanson is mostly attempting to warn fellow Americans about a future that looks like California, rather than preach to his native state which is intent to keep the wheels of history turning in a militantly progressive direction.
Though Californians are overtaxed and over-regulated as a general rule, the state of the infrastructure is in prolific decay. How can this be? Hanson writes that while their forefathers created an incredibly efficient system of infrastructure and water management, Californians reversed this trend in the 1970s—they opted for low-growth, environmentalist policies that simply could not handle an explosion in population. The philosophy of if you don’t build it they won’t come didn’t work as the state’s population has nearly doubled in 30 years.
The sin of not investing in “infrastructure” to keep up with population growth was compounded by a greater sin still of misappropriating infrastructure. Those who had stopped the building of more unnatural dams—a green movement birthed among the opulence of Northern California that sought exemption from the ramifications of its own ideology—now wanted infrastructure to store the water necessary for its own dreams of replenishing salmon in the rivers.
The impact of these policies has been enormous. The agricultural heart of the state has dried up, the middle-class has fled to more favorable tax environments, and new, mostly illegal immigrants—who come in droves due to the open borders policies of the state’s elites—find fewer and fewer opportunities to rise out of their condition. However, the elites are mostly ensconced in affluent corridors and immune to the negative effects of their ideas.
Hanson writes that “as in most of California’s existential crises—budgeting, infrastructure, pensions, immigration, education, law enforcement—the problem lies in its thin coastal corridor, a surreal place where liberal grandees assume that they are exempt from the chaotic ramifications of their own utopian ideologies.”
“There is a great sickness in California, home of the greatest number of American billionaires and poor people, land of the highest taxes and about the worst schools and roads in the nation,” Hanson writes. “The illness is a new secular religion far more zealous and intolerant than the pre-Reformation zealotry of the Church. Modern elite liberalism is based on the simple creed that one’s affluence and education, one’s coolness and zip code, should shield him from the consequences of one’s bankrupt thoughts that he inflicts on others.”
The situation seems dire and bleak for those who wish to restore the state. Though Hanson has a tiny sliver of hope that the new, mostly Mexican and Latin-America residents will someday rise to the level of middle and upper-middle class and throw out their coastal elite overlords.
“Is there hope? Can there be honesty about our crises and courage to address them?” Hanson writes. “I sometimes fantasize that a new conservative movement of second- and third-generation upper middle-class, over-taxed Mexican-Americans will demand competitive schools for their children without the fantasies of Chicano studies and coastal global warming indoctrination.”
Hanson hopes that this new middle class “will push for energy development, beefed-up law enforcement, and reasonable taxes and power rates, and so lock horns with the coastal elites, well apart from abortion, the death penalty, and the constant alternative lifestyle agenda. Some already are heading that way; more would if the borders were closed and the old forces of the melting pot were not impeded.”
Hanson’s book is an excellent primer for Californians and Americans in general to discover what went wrong in a state with almost unlimited natural and geographical advantages. It is a dissection of the rapid descent of the Golden State that stood above all others in power, wealth, and prestige–to a national laughingstock in three generations.
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Lecture ten is a gem! In this lecture from Practical Advice to Teachers, Rudolf Steiner outlines the three stages of the Waldorf curriculum. He’s getting more concrete and specific here because it’s only five days until the very first Waldorf school opens its doors!
As you may know, Steiner never wrote out a detailed curriculum. Many believe he intended to eventually, but he died five years after the first Waldorf school opened and those years were consumed with all of the challenges that come with opening a new school.
Steiner did write a few outlines. Aside from this one on the stages of the curriculum, he also wrote a list of the stories that are suited for each grade. Click here for the “Waldorf Story Content for Each Grade.”
Steiner opens this lecture by describing the need to go from the simple to the complex, to build up the curriculum slowly. Helpful advice for those of us homeschooling!
“The curriculum will not at first contain everything, for we shall build up the way we view things by degrees.”
This lecture details a critical piece of the Waldorf curriculum framework. And is a great starting point for homeschoolers because the three stages are not grade-specific but a sequence of subjects from about age six or seven to age fourteen or fifteen. Alison: Love the fluidity and the relaxation that this brings: thinking about the school years as being broken up into three longer more fluid stages versus grades.
“It will be good (speaking now of the ideal) to have less of a sharp differentiation between the classes within each stage than between the stages themselves.”
The Three Stages of the Waldorf Curriculum
I. Up to the 9th Year
- the artistic realm is the starting point
- music, painting & drawing (including geometric forms)
- writing arising out of drawing, reading out of writing
- foreign languages (only learning to speak)
- arithmetic somewhat later
II. Up to the 12th Year
- developing self-awareness
- grammar, word-inflections
- natural history of animal kingdom
- natural history of plant kingdom
- foreign languages
III. Up to the 14th or 15th Year
- grammatical syntax (sentence structure)
- minerals (through geometric forms linking to physics)
- physics & chemistry
- foreign languages
- history & geography
“We must bring our intellectual age back to the realm of the will…what the teacher speaks is not followed by reflection on what he has said or by a slow spoken answer, but by action.”
Steiner reiterates that it is economical to teach in this way. We want to remember, too, that we build from the bottom up, from those first subjects and then add from there.
Steiner also mentions compromise in this lecture. “Naturally we shall have to compromise…” He speaks specifically of needing to share space in the school in a way that the activity of different subjects will not disturb other classes or subjects.
Steiner’s example here is that the young children cannot be doing music in the same classroom or even next to others who need absolute quiet in their lessons, so it may need to be moved to the afternoon. At home, we have to juggle these considerations as well if we have more than one child, but on a much smaller scale, of course.
Alison’s reflections: To heal the culture by incorporating a more ancient slower time table – to unite the intellect with feeling and will through practices like working with the memory and reciting and the idea of reading coming from writing…”binding the human being to the world versus abstracting the human being from the world.” This bears a lot more thinking about:)
I also noticed once again Steiner’s similarity to Charlotte Mason with his emphasis on narrative retelling instead of formal composition up until high school. Steiner definitely thought that the ability to retell accurately and thoughtfully (versus completely imaginative or creative writing) was one of the most important goals for the scope of the entire education and the foundation upon which any fruitful composition instruction must rest.
Back to Jean: I also find it reassuring to realize that Steiner and his first Waldorf school had to factor in the constraints of reality just like we do. Steiner was a pragmatist. And these lectures in the Teacher’s Seminar can at times be more helpful to us as homeschoolers than trying to model ourselves after a Waldorf classroom.
These three stages of the Waldorf curriculum are a simpler starting point for our homeschooling.
This outline is a progression, a sequence. This could also allow for combining grades or at least overlapping some subjects in a homeschool setting.
Just as Carrie Dendtler over at the Parenting Passageway has expressed, I believe that Waldorf homeschooling is becoming (or always has been?) a movement in and of itself rather than just an offshoot of a Waldorf school.
The three-stages-of-curriculum approach is something I personally want to explore more, particularly as it applies to Waldorf homeschooling. This year, the 9th annual Taproot Teacher Training reflects this, with a workshop on main lessons before the 9-year change and one on main lessons after.
What are your thoughts on the three stages of the Waldorf curriculum?
The Steiner Cafe is a place to explore and reflect on the lectures that Rudolf Steiner gave at the Teacher’s Seminar in 1919, the very first Waldorf teacher training.
To read reflections on previous lectures, check out The Steiner Cafe.
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The National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Plants (NSPCP)
For years, we have run a Plant Rescue Centre and when plants have outgrown gardens or have been uprooted and dumped by the roadside, they have been rescued and given a home.
At the HoBB, our first rescue operation took us only a few miles south to a garden that was being subjected to major new developments. The plant owners were trying to find good homes for lily, hydrangea, mombretia, honeysuckle, clematis and many more plants, some that had made 12 years undisturbed growth. We re-homed many of these in a new artist’s garden near Swansea where they will inspire and become the subject of many wonderful paintings.
Recently we found three 40cm wide domes of saxifrage, yellowing and almost dead, upturned with builder’s rubble at the side of a road. They were probably between 6 and 10 years old and were rescued and taken back to the HoBB and given fresh compost mounds and daily misting. After three months we managed to get some new green shoots on them and one of them is now planted out into the HoBB Gardens and has put on about 10cm growth. The other two wonderful domes are doing well and we plan to show them.
It might be a long time before we see NSPCP stickers saying “Plants are for life …. not just for Christmas”, but the world waited too long a time to see the start of the NSPCC and the RSPCA. Once, not too long ago, children, wives and animals were treated without respect. In some regions, this lack of respect continues but in many more places there is still too little respect for plant life, a legacy that we should not hand down any further.
Respect of plant life should be intuitive without a working NSPCP.
We all need to foster a full working respect covering the whole environment as it is a part of us; inseparably we co-exist, if divided, everything we have worked to build, decays. Which generation wants to re-instate the balanced way and which take the flak for disruption?
The picture (above) shows ‘the holly and the ivy’ , and at the rising of each sun they give so much. At the HoBB, these two plants are given good earth and space to live in, yet rooted to the spot, they have a set leeway. Our leeway is one ‘blue’ planet within space, as rooted to our spot in the universe as any tree. For us to grow, we also need good earth.
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4 Child psychologists in applied settings
Child psychology is not just about developing theories to explain development, it also has a practical reason. It is about working with children and young people to support their lives. Child psychologists often work in practical settings such as schools and hospitals, to help support development. Here we offer two examples of work in practical settings.
Educational psychologists work with children who find it difficult to learn, understand or communicate with others or may have behavioural difficulties. Educational psychologists work in schools with teachers, families and school administrators to help children who are struggling with specific educational issues.
Activity 2 What is the role of an educational psychologist?
Click on the link to watch the following video and then answer the question below. At one point it uses the acronym SENCO, which stands for special educational needs coordinator.
- If you are reading this course as an ebook, you can access this video here:
- How does the video suggest that educational psychologists can support the lives of children and young people?
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As the video suggests, educational psychologists work closely with a child’s parents or carers as well as those offering support in schools, such as the special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs), to help maximise the support that can be offered for children and young people in educational contexts. Educational psychologists must be aware of how changes in a child’s behaviour might indicate a more serious problem such as abuse or bullying, and are responsible for ensuring that appropriate action is taken. The psychologist can assess the child using standardised tests. A standardised test is one that is administered and scored in a consistent manner across all children. Using standardised scores, educational psychologists can assess how an individual child’s development is progressing compared to that of other children in their age group. Educational psychologists often use a range of measures to identify and diagnose specific learning difficulties and make suggestions for interventions in the classroom and school generally.
Clinical psychologists study, assess and treat a wide range of biological, psychological and social problems that children and young people may experience in their personal lives. This might involve the assessment of individuals to find out what they are struggling with, interventions that support individuals to cope with that difficulty or prevention programmes that stop them suffering. Clinical psychologists also consult with other professionals to offer as holistic a support structure for individuals as possible.
Similarly to educational psychologists, clinicians often use diagnostic tests to identify children who are experiencing mental health difficulties, who are at risk of having some kind of developmental disorder, such as autism or ADHD, or to assess the progress of children who have suffered physical or mental damage. By understanding how children of a certain age typically respond, clinical psychologists can identify symptoms of mental health difficulties, or developmental disorders with the goal of securing children appropriate support as early as possible. | <urn:uuid:4cf6d574-d02a-4a84-8c98-e3ffcb3c0e6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/childhood-youth/introduction-child-psychology/content-section-4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963727 | 601 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Congratulations on your pregnancy. Your employer cannot fire you if you are pregnant under the California Family Rights Act and federal laws. This is very important if you are planning to return to work after you have your baby. A business in California must give a new mother up to 16 weeks of unpaid leave and she cannot be replaced permanently.
Some companies give the expectant mother accrued sick pay, personal leave, and vacation pay during this time. She may also qualify for disability or other payments under some supplemental insurance plans. Her insurance continues while she is on leave and the new baby may be added to the policy that includes dependent coverage.
Federal Law plus California Law
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act was amended to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect expectant mothers in the workplace if they have been employed for 12 months. Terminating or refusing to hire a pregnant woman is sex discrimination. The law applies to employers with 15 or more employees.
If a woman is unable to perform her job as the result of her pregnancy, she is to be treated in the same way as a person who is temporarily disabled under the California Pregnancy Disability Leave law and federal rules. A pregnant woman must be allowed to modify her tasks or be transferred to another job at the same pay rate if her health and her condition are in danger from her work.
Under California law, the woman does not have to work for 12 months to qualify for the CFRA and the company only needs five employees. Her first 12 weeks of leave are concurrent with the federal law and the last four weeks are covered by the California law.
A parent may take time off to care for a sick child or another immediate family member under California’s laws. This applies to registered domestic partners and spouses who may be needed to care for a newborn baby or another immediate family member. This law protects the new father or domestic partner who may take time off from work. The law does not discriminate against the gender of the domestic partner.
Paid Family Leave
California offers temporary disability insurance under the Paid Family Leave act to parents who must take time off for a new baby, including an adopted child. Men adopt children and they are entitled to the same considerations for bonding with the new child. This partial payment also applies to care for a seriously ill child, spouse or parent.
State Disability Insurance pays for up to six weeks of leave time. Certain requirements and medical authorizations apply.
Companies that supply health insurance or participation in shared insurance costs must cover pregnancy and childbirth in the same way as other medical conditions. This includes spouses covered by an employee’s insurance plan. This is required by federal and California laws.
Medical benefits for pregnant women must cover expectant mothers who are not married. An employer and the insurance companies cannot discriminate against unmarried pregnant women and those who adopt a child.
Telling Your Employer
It is the decision of the expectant mother to tell her employer about her condition. She can do so at any time. Many women wait until their second trimester to explain their pregnancy, especially if they have had previous complications.
A woman may need a temporary sick leave during her pregnancy and return to work while she awaits her due date. She may decide to start her leave the last month of her pregnancy.
A woman who experiences morning sickness may tell her employer why she is late for work. This is often a temporary condition in the early stages of pregnancy and it should be treated like any other medical condition.
Contact Aiman-Smith & Marcy if you feel your employer has discriminated against you during your pregnancy or your allowed leave. Many employers do not understand the state and federal laws regarding pregnancy and family leave. Let us know if your manager or employer tries to intimidate you into quitting your job while you are pregnant. We are here to help you protect your benefits. | <urn:uuid:488a1716-ada0-4b0f-8422-2d74a4151a9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.asmlawyers.com/employers-cannot-discriminate-against-pregnant-employees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.967895 | 782 | 1.585938 | 2 |
THE PROSTATE CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES & NATURAL REMEDIES
Dr Bamisaiye Davies Onipinsaiye FNCPNM, ACIA, MD, ND (Indian)
Living Spice Nature Cure Hospital, Abuja. Nigeria
By the time you finished reading this expository write up on the prostate, you should have understanding of the following :
– What is prostate and its significance in the body
– What is prostate enlargement and prostate cancer
– What causes prostate enlargement and prostate cancer?
– Why is it tagged incurable by orthodox medicine?
– What are the signs of prostate enlargement and prostate cancer
– Can it be prevented, if yes, how?
– Is it truly curable using herbal synergy? If yes, how is this to be achieved?.
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Few homeowners in Colorado ask about the hinges used on kitchen cabinetry even though every cabinet and door in their home has a hinge. Hinges serve both functional and aesthetic purposes. The three most common types for new kitchens in Denver are butt hinges, concealed hinges and surface-mounted hinges.
To help make sense of different hinge options, there is some basic terminology to be familiar with to help assure you select the perfect hinges for your dream kitchen.
- The leaf is the part of the hinge that extends out from the barrel and is screwed into the door and frame.
- The pin is the rod running through the length of the barrel. High-end hinges are shipped assembled with the pins installed.
- Leaf width is the dimension of the leaf from the center of the pin to the edge of the leaf.
- Open hinge width is the overall dimension of the hinge when the two leaves are open flat.
- The arm is associated almost exclusively with concealed hinges. It is the part of the hinge that extends from the hinge and is attached to the inside of the cabinet.
- The cup is the part of a concealed hinge that is attached to the door.
- The Barrel is the circular, hollow section at the center of the hinge that the pin runs through.
- Knuckles are the joining parts of a hinge through which the pin passes through.
Types of Cabinet Hinges
Butt hinges also referred to as mortise hinges, are what most homeowners in Colorado associate with kitchen cabinets. A butt hinge comprises two matching leaves of metal connected by a central pin and barrel system. One leaf of the butt hinge is mortised, or recessed into the door, while the other is attached to the cabinet frame. When properly installed, the two leaves of a butt hinge should sit flush against each other, which allows the door to sit perfectly flush with the frame. Most butt hinges specified for Colorado homeowners are made of brass or stainless steel and can be finished to match the cabinet or other hardware in the kitchen. Butt hinges can be enhanced with finials or decorative tips that allow homeowners in Colorado Springs to put their own personality into their cabinet hardware.
Concealed hinges, as the name implies, are not visible when the door is closed and often are spring-activated or provide a soft-close feature to the cabinet door. Concealed hinges are often preferred by Denver Metro homeowners because of the clean, modern look that they provide and ease of use.
A third popular cabinet hinge is a surface mount. This is a hinge where one leaf is attached to the face of the door and the other leaf is attached to the face of the frame. Neither side is mortised. A half-surface mounted hinge has one leaf attached to the face of the door and the other is mortised into the edge of the frame.
What’s the right hinge for the cabinets in your dream kitchen? That depends on the look, feel and functionality you desire. To determine what’s best, give us a call or make an appointment to visit any of our showrooms listed here.
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There is no one easy solution to the challenge of homelessness in our towns and cities. That’s why Mark Masters, of You Are The Media introduced us to Ian Jones, Head of External Engagement at Bournemouth University and a trustee of Change for Good, a local homelessness partnership. Mark’s objective was to gather a collective of professionals to build a website that educates people’s understanding and perception of homelessness in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area.
Where to start a new project?
There had been much debate and uncertainly as to how to brief a new website project in. There were many ideas and opinions, which began to feel unwieldly. What Mark and Ian needed, which we were well placed to advise, was insight and understanding on user requirements and expectations, to cut through the noise. We proposed a series of user research sessions with people who frequently visited Bournemouth town centre to gauge a reaction to Change for Good’s new initiative of contactless donation points.
Matt Fisher, UX Consultant, led the project to facilitate qualitative research sessions, through which the team was able to build a picture of participants’ understanding, attitudes and behaviours towards homelessness. Each session was split into three steps:
- A free task asking participants, in their own time, to learn more about homelessness in Bournemouth.
- Observe participants using the project’s existing website, utilising the learnings from Step 1.
- Observe participants using an exemplar website, utilising the learnings from Steps 1 and 2.
Through analysis and prioritisation, Matt and Emma identified seven priority findings, leading to 14 recommendations. The research revealed the importance of how a website conveys implicit trust. Participants left one website with many unanswered questions and expressed an unwillingness to donate or learn more.
In stark contrast, participants were observed spending a great deal of time on the homepage of the exemplar website, which provided significant assurance of the website’s trustworthiness and credibility. This website also equipped participants with instant recognition of how the initiative worked, through still and moving images. Participants were frequently observed understanding the concept within less than seven seconds of arriving on the website.
Experience UX have answered questions we didn’t know to ask and provided us with a strong foundation. I have enjoyed engaging with Matt and the team throughout this project and am delighted with the quality and detail of their report and recommendations.
Ian Jones, Bournemouth University
In addition to website recommendations, the research uncovered the need for consistent marketing and communications as an important part of the solution. Participants were pleasantly surprised to discover what is taking place locally to support people who are homeless, due to having zero prior knowledge. However, it was surmised that, whilst frequently encountering people who appear to be homeless, people do not give it a second thought moments later.
When you start a project and step into the unknown, there is a lot of unchartered territory to figure out. Working with Experience UX is like being on an expedition with a guide, who is four steps ahead of you, cutting down the overgrowth and creating a path so everything we need becomes visible.
Mark Masters, You Are the Media Learning Community
This insight, along with our wider report of recommendation, has allowed Mark and Ian to simplify and focus the website brief, providing a clear and intuitive handover for the next stage of the project, the design and content. We look forward to continuing to support this collaborative project as this team of designers, developers and communicators set about creating the new website based on these user-led foundations. | <urn:uuid:d45cf837-e4f8-4dce-9ee9-e3eb379d00d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.experienceux.co.uk/ux-blog/user-research-to-scope-digital-homelessness-initiative/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957764 | 745 | 1.5625 | 2 |
An amateur British astronomer was looking through images of Comet 67P and found a previously unknown vertical cliff, that some on the web are describing as resembling Mordor from Lord of the Rings.
The original image was captured on December 10 by Rosetta’s NavCam 20.1 km from the center of the comet.
From Stuart Atkinson’s blog:
[As] soon as I saw that image I could see one area was just crying out to be cropped and turned into one of my landscape views – there was our best view yet of the towering cliff face on the inside of the small lobe…Looking at that part of the image I could see that with a little work (which turned out to be a LOT of work, but never mind!) those cliffs could be isolated and their true magnificence brought out. So, that’s what I started to do, and some time later this is what I came up with…
The image shows a smooth terrain at the foot of the cliff, dotted by boulders.
Atkinson’s discovery earned him NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day yesterday. But in a humble acknowledgement, he said the image wouldn’t have been possible if the European Space Agency didn’t make the original photos available to the public.
I am so, so happy about that, seriously. Not just because personally it is nice to have an image which took a long time to make being seen and shared so widely now, but mainly because it shows why the ESA decision to regularly release navcam images from the ROSETTA mission was the right one to take – it has allowed people like me to use ROSETTA images for Outreach, and to promote the mission to the media and the public. Every reTweet and every FB share and comment proves how much interest in the mission there is out here. People are blown away by that image and the view of the cliffs it shows, so thank you AGAIN to ESA for letting us see the navcam images and allowing us to use and play with them! | <urn:uuid:6afaddca-dcf0-4515-9669-9bd9498b3982> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://deadstate.org/this-cliff-on-the-surface-of-rosettas-comet-looks-like-mordor-from-lotr/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97367 | 430 | 2.90625 | 3 |
When health experts gathered in Boston in February for a medical conference hosted by the biotechnology multinational Biogen, they had no idea that kind of history they were going to make.
But according to a new study, the conference helped spread the coronavirus across the country to ultimately infect more than 300,000 people. That comes to about 2 percent of the more than 16 million U.S. cases reported so far by the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
News that the conference spread the virus was not new. Initially, contact tracing showed about 100 cases were linked to the event, according to CBS. But that was just the tip of the iceberg, researchers found.
A report published in the journal Science that that as of Nov. 1, somewhere between 261,000 and 439,000 cases were linked to the event, with the researchers giving the most likely number of infections as 333,000.
The study came to its conclusions by tracking the genetic code of the virus, according to its lead author.
“It’s as if some viruses have polka dots and others don’t, and we follow those polka-dot viruses across time and space,” Jacob Lemieux, an infectious diseases staff physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, told CBS.
In the Boston region alone, the study estimated that 51,000 cases were linked to the conference. However, the strain of COVID-19 linked to the conference was soon seen elsewhere in the country and abroad, according to CBS.
“That genetic marker started appearing in other states in early March, being especially prevalent in places where conference attendees returned home. Those include Florida, where 29% of the conference-linked cases ended up. was well as Indiana and North Carolina. The strain of virus was also found as far away as Australia and Slovakia,” CBS reported.
Florida ended up with 29 percent of the cases linked to the conference. Cases linked to the conference were also recorded in Australia and Slovakia.
“It’s surprising to the public to realize that a single event can cause so many downstream infections,” Lemieux told CBS.
“These events have been going on since day one — the Wuhan seafood market, ski resorts in Europe, cruise ships, Mardi Gras, a wedding in Maine, the Sturgis motorcycle rally” in South Dakota, he said.
The study noted that not all serious events spread the virus. For example, the study said an outbreak of the virus that killed 24 at a skilled nursing facility was confined to the facility and never spread outside of it.
So what made the conference such a super-spreader event?
Attendees “tended to be younger, healthier, and were traveling more, and we found that they went to a lot of different places,” Lemieux told CBS.
“We don’t think these strains had a propensity to spread more than any other,” Lemieux said, turning to the technical name for COVID-19. “We suspect that these types of events have been happening over and over again, and are major contributors to the propagation and spread of SARS-cov2 throughout the world.”
The report said that it highlighted “the close relationships between seemingly disconnected groups and populations: viruses from international business travel seeded major outbreaks among individuals experiencing homelessness, spread throughout the Boston area including to other higher risk communities, and were exported to other domestic and international sites.”
“It also illustrates the role of chance in the trajectory of an epidemic: a single introduction had an outsize effect on subsequent transmission because it was amplified by superspreading in a highly mobile population very early in the outbreak, before many public health precautions were put in place, and when its effects would be further amplified by exponential growth and subsequent superspreading events (e.g., among the homeless),” the study stated.
The study noted that as society seeks to battle the virus, understanding how it spreads will be important even as a vaccine has emerged to fight off its impacts.
“While superspreading events among medically vulnerable populations, such as nursing home residents, have a larger immediate impact on mortality, our findings raise the possibility that — paradoxically — the implications may be greater, when measured as a cost to society, for superspreading events that involve younger, healthier and more mobile populations because of the increased risk of subsequent transmission,” it stated.
“With the possibility of vaccines that protect against disease but not infection, this consideration may be increasingly important. In summary, this study provides clear evidence that superspreading events may profoundly alter the course of an epidemic and implies that prevention, detection, and mitigation of such events should be a priority for public health efforts,” the study said.
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Emergency treatment from Paraguay's President. Fernando Lugo is being treated in a hospital in Brazil for complications from cancer.
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo was flown to a Brazilian hospital for emergency treatment. The president has lymphatic cancer. The doctors found a blood clot in a jugular vein, which prompted immediate medical treatment. The cancer was diagnosed in August of this year.
It was only in August 2010 that Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo was diagnosed with lymph glands cancer (Hodgkin's disease). It is a very rare cancer that affects the human lymphatic system. If Hodgkin's disease is recognized in good time, the chances of a cure are correspondingly good. Conventionally, lymphoma cancer is treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The so-called Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) or a functional disorder of the immune system are often pre-existing diseases.
Yesterday evening, however, the president's state of health seems to have deteriorated. The attending doctors found a blood clot in a jugular vein yesterday evening. As a result, the President Lugo immediately had to be flown to a clinic in Brazil. According to medical experts, Lugo is now in an intensive care unit.
In principle, the president is allowed to leave the country for five days
In principle, a president in Paraguay is allowed to leave the country for five days. Then the congress is turned on. So if Lugo does not return home by Thursday, the Congress will deal with it. Until then, Vice President Federico Franco will take over the office.
Health status stable
The São Paulo Clinic provided the following information about the current state of health of the President: "The President of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, was admitted to the Sírio-Libanês Hospital at 5:30 pm local time yesterday. Diagnostic tests showed that the patient had thrombosis in the vena cava has and cannot be operated on at the moment. The examinations showed no worsening of the lymphoma. The state of the president is stable, the treatment proceeds undisturbed ". (sb, 03.10.2010) | <urn:uuid:d1ef0899-5f3a-47c3-9ee7-5051c59b1b27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.f84thunderjet.com/24889-cancer-emergency-treatment-by-paraguays-president.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963765 | 449 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Advocacy Best Practices
The mission of the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust (VKBPT) is to carry forward the vision for the development and use of Virginia Key Beach Park, promoting and maintaining absolute public ownership and access, fostering its perpetuation as a passive open green-space that includes nature trails, recreational facilities and museum structures appropriate and compatible with the nature of Virginia Key; preserving it as a valuable resource to be enjoyed for posterity, and to honor the rich historical legacy of the
social and civil rights history of South Florida.
Therefore, we have compiled resources designed to help you understand the political framework and provide necessary tools to get involved in the process.
Established on August 1, 1945 as “The Colored Only Beach”, the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust operates Historic Virginia Key Beach Park (HVKBP) highlighting its rich cultural history, regional African American contributions, civic activism, and environmental preservation to educate future generations. Additionally, the Trust partners with organizations to help improve our communities through HVKBP programs and events.
On June 13th the City of Miami’s Commission will vote on the release of $20.5 previously set aside for the Civil Rights Museum. Link to resolution
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Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a serious problem that involves several parts of the left side of the heart. It is quite rare and occurs in about one out of every 5,000 babies born. In the United States, about 1,000 babies with HLHS are born each year. Two thirds of the babies affected are boys. Most babies with HLHS are otherwise healthy, but some have other medical problems including other heart problems, neurologic problems, and Turner's syndrome.
The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital was among the first congenital heart programs to achieve consistent success in the surgical treatment of HLHS. While historically every baby born with HLHS died in infancy, today – thanks in large part to the heart specialists at University of Michigan – outcomes for children with HLHS have dramatically improved. More than 90 percent of HLHS babies treated at the University of Michigan survive to discharge, making the U-M Congenital Heart Center a worldwide leader in the treatment of HLHS. Learn more about the Congenital Heart Center.
What is hypoplastic left heart syndrome?
In children with HLHS, for unknown reasons, the left side of the heart does not develop properly while the baby is in the mother's womb. The parts of the heart that are usually affected are the mitral valve , the left ventricle, the aortic valve and the aorta. In the normal heart, red blood returning from the lungs, flows from the heart's left upper chamber called the left atrium through the mitral valve to the left ventricle where it is pumped through the aortic valve and out to the body. In babies with HLHS, the left side of the heart is underdeveloped and cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.
How is hypoplastic left heart syndrome diagnosed?
HLHS is often diagnosed before a baby is born, usinga type of specialized ultrasound called a fetal echocardiogram.
If there is a family history of congenital heart disease or if concern is raised during a routine ultrasound, the family is referred to a pediatric cardiology center where a detailed study of the heart is performed. Learn more about our Prenatal Heart Program.
Most newborns with HLHS have mild heart-related symptoms until the patent ductus arteriosus closes, usually within 48 hours of birth. Prior to closure of the ductus arteriosus, the baby's lips or fingernails may look slightly blue, especially when the baby cries. Babies with HLHS often breathe fast, have low energy levels, and/or have feeding problems. These changes can be subtle and can be difficult to detect in a newborn baby. When the ductus arteriosus does close, the baby may get very ill very quickly and develop symptoms of shock.
How is hypoplastic left heart syndrome treated?
For babies diagnosed prenatally, in a small number of cases, fetal intervention for HLHS may be beneficial for babies with a restrictive atrial septal defect. These treatments are not a "cure," however, and children with HLHS will need expert medical attention for the rest of their lives.
For babies with HLHS, treatment generally consists of a three-staged surgical approach, or heart transplantation.
For children who are candidates for surgery, treatment usually consists of three heart operations done during the first two years of life. The goal of these operations is to rebuild the heart so that the right side can be used to pump blood out to the body. The first stage usually consists of a Norwood operation, which is done during the first two weeks of life, but in certain cases a combined surgical and catheterization approach called a Hybrid procedure may be done instead. The Hemi-Fontan procedure is done when the child is about four to six months old, and the Fontan procedure is done when the child is about two years old.
In addition to the three operations, one or more heart catheterizations may also be done. A heart catheterization is a heart test that is done by a cardiologist with the help of cardiovascular technicians. Soft, thin plastic catheters (tubes) are placed in the large blood vessels in the leg and threaded carefully to the heart. The catheters are used to take pressure measurements inside the heart and to inject contrast or dye so pictures of the heart can be taken. Overall, this is a very safe test and children can go home the same day.
Heart transplantation is another option for treatment of children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and remains an option even after staged surgical treatment. While the risks associated with the operation itself are quite low at most centers, there can be limited availability of donor hearts of a size suitable for an infant. Our center has a dedicated transplant team that specializes in caring for the complex long term needs of children who undergo heart transplant.
What are the long-term health issues for children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome?
The outlook for children with HLHS has improved dramatically. While HLHS was once uniformly fatal, our experience so far indicates that the majority of children will now reach adulthood. Some children will need other catheter-based or surgical procedures, such as a pacemaker for abnormal heart rhythms. Others may need a heart transplant. Heart function, as well as the function of other organs that may be impacted by abnormalities in the circulation, will be monitored over the long term. Overall, it is expected that these children will have a good quality of life: have friends, play, and go to school just like other children.
Exercise guidelines: An individual exercise program is best planned with the doctor. Regular exercise is encouraged and children with HLHS are most often able to participate in recreational sports and participate in gym class. Contact sports and other types of vigorous activity may be limited.
Neurodevelopmental delays: Research shows that children who undergo cardiac surgery during the first year of life are at higher risk for developmental, learning, and/or behavioral concerns later in life. Continued evaluation for these children is highly recommended to ensure early identification of delays. The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital Congenital Heart Center Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up Program offers a complete developmental assessment and referral program to ensure early intervention and support for children experiencing neurodevelopmental delays, and provide a solid foundation for later learning and future development.
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The Faculty of Agriculture on the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus in Bible Hill helped to provide 1500 vaccinations to the local community through multiple immunization clinics on campus in partnership with Nova Scotia Health.
“We initiated a partnership with Nova Scotia Health to bring an additional venue and immunization resources to our local community including students, staff, faculty and the broader community,” explained Dean David Gray.
The Faulty of Agriculture provided an accessible space in the MacRae Library and volunteers including students, staff and faculty, supported the initiative over the past month by filling positions as schedule organizers, clinic set-up volunteers, greeters and wayfinders, screeners, immunizers, and recovery attendants.
“When people say it takes a community to make things happen, this is a perfect example,” explained Carolyn Bartlett, primary care manager health services. “Together we are doing our part to overcome the pandemic, stop the spread and reduce the impact of COVID-19.”
Over 1500 people were served by providing first, second and booster doses with both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine. Great vaccines can be developed, evaluated, produced, and delivered, but they are only effective when administered.
“Every dose in arms provides an additional layer of health and safety to our communities. Every dose given gives us hope. We are extremely pleased with this success and are thankful for all those who came to get their vaccine,” Bartlett added.
Many thanks were received from those in attendance and many positive comments on the venue, access to appointments, ease of securing an appointment, walk-ins being welcomed and the kindness of all involved.
One generous attendee took the time to craft her thanks. One small act of kindness that meant so much to all!
Consultations with Nova Scotia Health will be ongoing now and, in the future, to provide resources for additional clinics if necessary.
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Training is a must-have for many employees today. According to the consultant group, Guthrie Jensen, 68% of workers consider training and development the most important company benefit.
And these educational perks don’t just result in more engaged employees. Companies that invest in employee training also have a 24% higher profit margin than companies that don’t.
Providing learning and development opportunities to your employees should be a no-brainer, but the costs can still be a hard pill to swallow.
Holding in-person classes or sending productive employees away to seminars is expensive. Businesses want to train employees while staying within budget.
Learning management systems (LMS) offer a cost-friendly alternative to traditional training sessions. They’re used by businesses to help employees learn and grow in their jobs – without breaking the bank.
What is a learning management system?
A learning management system delivers and tracks educational and training content online. E-learning tools include customizable content, mobile lessons and gamification. A LMS is used by companies to onboard and train employees, and it can improve engagement and retention.
Here are five cost-friendly training ideas using LMS software.
1. Offer on-demand training and professional development
Employees are more likely to stay with a company when they’re offered professional development opportunities, such as management skills or sales training.
The cost, however, of hiring instructors, renting a physical classroom and coordinating times when all employees can attend classes can often be too high.
LMS software provides on-demand classes that employees can access online or through mobile devices. That means businesses save on teachers, facilities and lost productivity.
Vendors often use a software-as-a-service (SaaS) pricing model, so customers pay a subscription fee instead of a large upfront cost. Typically, the fee is $5 or less per learner, per month.
In addition, having managers run training sessions isn’t always a good idea. They may not have the experience or time necessary to prepare course materials or accurately assess performance.
On the other hand, LMS software can help employees learn efficiently and effectively, because they’re designed using teaching best practices. These include microlearning, multimedia, pre- and post-training assessments, convenient access and individual learning paths.
2. Onboard new employees
Studies show engaged employees stay with companies longer, and engagement begins with a structured onboarding program.
LMS software can provide educational materials to help new hires get acclimated to your company’s culture and the responsibilities of their role.
Because some solutions include more features than you would ever possibly need, it pays to find a vendor with a per-use pricing plan. This allows clients to opt out of certain parts of the software and pay only for what they put to use.
This could mean being charged based on certain modules, the number of active accounts or a specific piece of content. It depends on the arrangement made between the vendor and client.
Prices generally range from $1 to $10 per use. Companies that don’t need to train employees regularly or only need an LMS platform to onboard new hires should consider this option.
3. Provide online industry certifications
Some industries or jobs, such as human resources, healthcare and safety, require certifications or continuing education credits.
In the past, this meant employees had to travel and miss work to attend days-long seminars and classes. Now, an LMS solution can help businesses with these industry-specific requirements either by providing on-demand content available in its internal library or by partnering with third-parties to deliver lessons.
Additionally, LMS software can help administrators track which employees need additional credits and when certification must be renewed.
In this situation, vendors usually charge companies per course. Compared to a per use pricing plan, there’s a premium, since the content is specialized for compliance-focused industries. However, this option should still be much cheaper than in-person certification classes.
4. Try open-source or free versions of LMS software
Many companies want the ability to deliver training and education but don’t need all the bells and whistles that come with advanced software. In this case, open-source or free versions of LMS solutions may be a good option, as they generally include basic functionality and provide access for a limited number of users.
Open-source LMS software has source code that’s publicly available. Companies can download, install and customize the software on their own, for free. Some LMS vendors also offer free versions of their software.
Businesses that choose these options will still have to consider implementation, customization, integrations and maintenance. In particular, installing and customizing open-source software can be complicated for companies that haven’t used an LMS before, and there’s no support if something goes wrong.
Companies that choose this route should also have a knowledgeable in-house IT team or hire implementation consultants. But if your company already has the technical know-how, using open-source software can provide a cost-friendly alternative.
5. Use a premade course library or build custom content
One of the difficulties of training employees is finding relevant content to your business.
In response, many LMS vendors offer course libraries with premade lessons for a variety of industries, from safety to workplace ethics to sales. Companies should research vendors to see if they have content for their specific needs.
Businesses that have more site-specific requirements, such as assembly line procedures, often rely on third-party professionals to create training videos. However, this can be a costly process.
LMS software provides course authoring tools that can help organizations create course content using templates or from scratch. And it’s not generic content either. The software can handle a range of content from site-specific videos to PowerPoint slides and also make interactive quizzes and games.
If your company doesn’t have the resources to create this content, some vendors can also create custom training courses. This service may be charged per hour or as a one-time fee. But the benefit of using an LMS content creator versus a third-party is that the content will be designed to be used in their specific software.
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Phishing emails pretending to be from Netflix are designed to steal personal information from consumers, the Federal Trade Commission says in a Wednesday blog.
The emails state that Netflix is “having some trouble with your current billing information,” and that the account is on hold. “Please update your payment detail,” the headline says. Victims are asked to click on a link to update their payment method.
The FTC urges consumers to take a closer look at incoming emails. “While some phishing emails look completely legit, bad grammar and spelling can tip you off to phishing,” it says.
Other possible clues: “Your name is missing, or you don’t even have an account with the company. In the Netflix example, the scammer used the British spelling of “Center” (Centre) and used the greeting, “Hi Dear.” Listing only an international phone number for a U.S.-based company is also suspicious.” | <urn:uuid:84962628-b1c7-4d43-ad78-a501b3abce34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/329853/ftc-warns-of-phishing-scam-using-netflix-name.html?edition= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.934342 | 206 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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Middle English shaken, from Old English sceacan "move (something) quickly to and fro, cause to move with quick vibrations; brandish; move the body or a part of it rapidly back and forth;" also "go, glide, hasten, flee, depart" (as in sceacdom "flight"); also intransitive, of persons or parts of the body, "to tremble" especially from fever, cold, fear (class VI strong verb; past tense scoc, past participle scacen). This is from Proto-Germanic *skakanan (source also of Old Norse, Swedish skaka, Danish skage "to shift, turn, veer"). No certain cognates outside Germanic, but some suggest possible connections to Sanskrit khaj "to agitate, churn, stir about," Old Church Slavonic skoku "a leap, bound," Welsh ysgogi "move."
Of the ground in earthquakes, c. 1300. The meaning "seize and shake" (someone or something else) is from early 14c. From late 14c. in reference to mixing ingredients, etc., by shaking a container. The meaning "weaken, impair" in any respect is from late 14c. on the notion of "make unstable." The meaning "rid oneself of by abrupt twists" is from c. 1200; the modern colloquial use for "get rid of, cast off, abandon" (by 1872, American English) is likely a new extension on the notion of "throw off by a jolting or abrupt action," perhaps with horses in mind. The verb also was used in Middle English as "evade" responsibility, etc.
To shake hands "greet or salute by grasping one another's hands" dates from 1530s. Colloquial shake a (loose) leg "hurry up" is recorded by 1904; to shake a heel (sometimes foot) is an old or provincial way to say "dance" (1660s); to shake (one's) elbow (1620s) meant "to gamble at dice." In 16c.-18c. English, shake (one's) ears was "bestir oneself," an image of animal awakenings. The phrase more _____ than you can shake a stick at "more than you can count" is attested from 1818 (Lancaster, Pa., "Journal"), American English. To shake (one's) head "move one's head from side to side as a sign of disapproval" is recorded from c. 1300.
expressing motion or direction from within or from a central point, also removal from proper place or position, Old English ut "out, without, outside," from Proto-Germanic *ūt- (Old Norse, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Gothic ut, Middle Dutch uut, Dutch uit, Old High German uz, German aus), from PIE root *uidh- "up, out, up away, on high" (source also of Sanskrit ut "up, out," uttarah "higher, upper, later, northern;" Avestan uz- "up, out," Old Irish ud- "out," Latin usque "all the way to, continuously, without interruption," Greek hysteros "the latter," Russian vy- "out").
Sense of "to a full end, completely, to a conclusion or finish" is from c. 1300. Meaning "so as to be no longer burning or alight; into darkness" is from c. 1400. Of position or situation, "beyond the bounds of, not within," early 15c. Meaning "into public notice" is from 1540s; that of "away from one's place of residence," c. 1600. The political sense of "not in office, removed or ejected from a position" is from c. 1600. Meaning "come into sight, become visible" (of stars, etc.) is by 1610s. In radio communication, a word indicating that the speaker has finished speaking, by 1950.
As a preposition, "out of; from, away from; outside of, beyond; except; without, lacking;" mid-13c., from the adverb.
Meaning "from harmonious relations, into quarreling" (as in to fall out) is from 1520s. Meaning "from one's normal state of mind" (as in put out) is from 1580s; out to lunch "insane" is student slang from 1955. Adjectival phrase out-of-the-way "remote, secluded" is attested from late 15c. Out-of-towner "one not from a certain place" is from 1911. Out of this world "excellent" is from 1938; out of sight "excellent, superior" is from 1891. To (verb) it out "bring to a finish" is from 1580s. Expression from here on out "henceforward" is by 1942. Out upon, expressing abhorrence or reproach, is from early 15c.
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|Districts of Cyprus|
Επαρχίες της Κύπρου (Greek)
Kıbrıs'ın kazaları (Turkish)
|Location||Republic of Cyprus|
|Populations||No data stated|
|Areas||Not enough data|
Cyprus is divided into six districts (Greek : επαρχίες; Turkish : kaza), whose capitals share the same name. The districts are subdivided into municipalities and communities. The districts of Cyprus are listed in the table below.
|Famagusta (Αμμόχωστος; Gazimağusa)||47,338||1,985.3|
|Kyrenia (Κερύvεια; Girne)||N/A||643.9|
|Larnaca (Λάρνακα; Larnaka)||145,365||1,120.1|
|Limassol (Λεμεσός; Limasol or Leymosun)||239,842||1,393.3|
|Nicosia (Λευκωσία; Lefkoşa)||334,120||2,710.0|
|Paphos (Πάφος; Baf or Gazibaf)||90,295||1,389.8|
Note: Northern Cyprus-controlled lands are included in the area figures, but population was not enumerated there. The UN Buffer Zone is included in both population and area figures. Akrotiri and Dhekelia are not included in the area figures, but non-military Cypriot citizens residing there were enumerated.
The people of Cyprus are broadly divided into two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, who share many cultural traits but maintain distinct identities based on ethnicity, religion, language, and close ties with Greece and Turkey respectively. Before the dispute started in 1964 the peoples of Cyprus were dispersed over the entire island.
Denver is the central city of a conurbation region in the U.S. state of Colorado. The conurbation includes one continuous region consisting of the six central counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. The Denver region is part of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. Such regions are neither legally incorporated as a city or town would be, nor are they legal administrative divisions like counties or separate entities such as states; because of this, the precise definition of any given metropolitan area can vary with the source. The statistical criteria for a standard metropolitan area were defined in 1949 and redefined as metropolitan statistical area in 1983. A typical metropolitan area is centered on a single large city that wields substantial influence over the region. However, some metropolitan areas contain more than one large city with no single municipality holding a substantially dominant position. MSAs are defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and used by the Census Bureau and other federal government agencies for statistical purposes.
Larnaca District is one of the six districts of Cyprus. Its capital is Larnaca. It is bordered on the east by Famagusta District, on the north by Nicosia District and on the west by Limassol District.
Paphos District is one of the six districts of Cyprus and it is situated in the western part of Cyprus. Its main town and capital is Paphos. The entire district is controlled by the internationally recognized government of Cyprus. There are four municipalities in Paphos District: Paphos, Yeroskipou, Peyia, and Polis Chrysochous.
Ormideia, sometimes also spelled Ormidhia, is a village in Larnaca District in south-eastern Cyprus. It is one of the four exclaves surrounded by the Eastern Sovereign Base Area of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory administered as a Sovereign Base Area. The others are the village of Xylotymvou and Dhekelia Power Station. It is administered by the Republic of Cyprus. Its population in 2011 was 4,189.
Lakatamia is a southwestern suburb of Nicosia, Cyprus. In terms of population, Lakatamia municipality is the third largest municipality in Nicosia district and the fifth largest municipality in Cyprus. In 2011 Lakatamia had a population of 38,345.
The Census of Ireland, 1911 was a last census that covered the whole island of Ireland. Censuses were taken at ten-year intervals from 1821 onwards, but the 1921 census was cancelled due to the Irish War of Independence.
Latsia, a town on the south east outskirts of Nicosia, Cyprus, is today one of the city's largest suburbs. It hosts the new Nicosia General Hospital, the new GSP Stadium and the Mall of Cyprus. Latsia has seen a great increase of population right after the Turkish invasion of the island and it became the home of many refugees since refuge housing was developed there. The population in 2011 has reached 16,774 people.
Kolossi is a village on the outskirts of Limassol, Cyprus. It lies partly in the British Sovereign Base Area of Akrotiri and Episkopi. Its population in 2011 was 5,651.
Dali is a large village in Cyprus, located south east of the capital Nicosia and close to the ancient city of Idalion. In 2001, it had a population of 5,834. By 2011, the population had almost doubled to 10,466.
Astromeritis is a large village in the Morphou Department of the Nicosia District of Cyprus. It is located 30 km (18.64 mi) from the capital Nicosia. By the 2001 census it had a total population of 2,361.
Xylofagou is a sprawling Greek-Cypriot village situated close to the A3 Motorway between Dhekelia (Larnaca) and Paralimni / Agia Napa. It lies on the northern flank of a hill, on the edge of an area of a group of several similar villages known as the "Kokkinochoria", known for growing vegetables, especially potatoes, in red soil.
Aradippou is a town and municipality in Cyprus, located on the outskirts of the city of Larnaca. It was established in 1986 following a referendum of local residents. It has a population of approximately 20,000. After it received town status, Aradippou defined its municipal limits and is now the second-largest municipality of Cyprus as it extends over an area of 42,982 square governmental acres.
Kornos is a village located in the Larnaca District of Cyprus, 27 kilometres west of the city of Larnaca and 25 kilometres south-west of Nicosia.
Alethriko is a village in the Larnaca District of Cyprus, west of Larnaca. The first known census was carried out under Ottoman Rule in 1831; it listed only males: there were 46 Greek Cypriots and 18 Turkish Cypriots. In the census of 1891 the population of Alethriko was recorded as 37 Turkish Cypriots and 233 Greek Cypriots of both sexes. In 2011 its population was 1,101.
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From Humble Beginnings: Evolving Mentoring Within Professional Development for Academic Staff
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This paper reports on a research case study into a form of mentoring for teachers in higher education in Ireland with 30 academic staff. It begins with an exploration of the concept and practice of mentoring in the world of higher education professional development; focus will be limited to an overview of the concept of teacher mentoring, an exploration of its various expressions, and identification of facilitative measures that institutions can take to foster teacher mentoring. In theory, mentoring is beneficial for the mentor, the mentee, and the organization. Much of successful facilitating requires not only the transmission of information but also the care and encouragement of individuals to encourage reflective practice. Some problems arose in matching mentors and mentees, with too much of a knowledge/status/experience gap inhibiting and impeding the process. However the scheme is maximizing the best resources that a higher education can have – its own staff. Ultimately, the study discusses the nature of the benefits and considers how might this good idea be more widely adopted and practiced within the field of teacher professional development.
Donnelly, R., McSweeney, F.: From Humble Beginnings: Evolving Mentoring Within Professional Development for Academic Staff. Journal of Professional Education, Vol.37, 2, 2011, pp.259-274. | <urn:uuid:90122d6f-4a09-47be-9f3b-728459bb2031> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ltcart/13/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.889273 | 318 | 1.671875 | 2 |
When may one extinguish the Chanukah candles?
Leaving home shortly after candle lighting, afraid that the unsupervised candles can lead G-d forbid to a fire? Many ask due to these reasons if they may extinguish the Chanukah candles after it has been lit for some time. This question is especially pertinent in Shul.
May one extinguish the flames once they have been lit for a half hour?
Once the flames have been lit for their minimum time, which is a half hour past nightfall, they may be extinguished. Initially, it is proper to stipulate that only a half hours’ worth of the oil is designated for the Mitzvah, if one intends to extinguish it after this time. [According to all, the Shamash may be extinguished after this time, even without stipulation.]
Michaber 672:2; Rif and Rosh; Rashal 85
Other opinions: Some Poskim rule one is not to extinguish the candle even after the time has passed, being that all the oil was placed for the sake of the Mitzvah, and that so is the custom. [Bach and Tzeida Laderech, brought in M”A 672:4; 677:10; Peri Chadash 677; Shulchan Gavoa 672:9; Kaf Hachaim 672:21] Furthermore, some Poskim rule that those who light inside their home, must place enough oil to last until the people at home go to sleep, and one may not extinguish or make use of the candles until the time people go to sleep and the candles thus no longer serves as a publication. [Mishmeres Shalom 48:1; Piskeiy Teshuvos 672:4-5 footnote 24; see there footnote 16 and 23 for Melaktim who bring a similar opinion] Other Poskim rule that those who light outside their home are to place enough oil to last until people are no longer found outside, which is approximately 9:00, and one may not extinguish or make use of the candles until that time. [Teshuvos Vehanhagos 1:390; Moadim Uzmanim 2:141; 6:86; Piskeiy Teshuvos 672:5] Practically, this novelty is not recorded in the classical Poskim.
The reason: As one only designates the amount of oil necessary to fulfill the Mitzvah, and hence the excess oil is not considered Holy. The candle may thus be extinguished and then relit for one’s personal use. [Beis Yosef 677; M”B 672:7]
Mahariy brought in Beis Yosef 677; M”A 677:10; Elya Raba 672:2; Chayeh Adam; M”B 672:7; Kaf Hachaim 672:21
The reason: Some Poskim conclude that it is initially proper to stipulate that one does not have intent to designate the oil for more than the necessary amount of time, as there are Poskim [Mahariy brought in Beis Yosef] who rule that if did not make this stipulation, then the entire oil is designated for the Mitzvah and may hence not be extinguished. [Poskim ibid]
Other opinions: Some Poskim rule it is not necessary at all to make any stipulation when placing the oil, and it may be extinguished after a half hour in all cases. [Taz 672:1; first answer in Beis Yosef 677] The Elya Raba ibid negates this opinion of the Taz.
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Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translation
In a previous article, we discussed the importance of internationalization for mobile apps. We reflected on how internationalization is relevant regardless of how many languages or locales your app is intended for and on how taking internationalization into account from day one can make a huge difference and save you time and money down the road. In this article, we’d like to focus on some key concepts for GILT, the acronym for Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translation, to go into more depth on this topic.
What is GILT?
Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translation are four key concepts that will help your product reach global audiences. But, what do each of these concepts mean, exactly? This can often be a source of confusion, so let’s look at each of them individually.
What is globalization?
In this particular context, globalization is used as a blanket term for internationalization and localization. Globalizing an app or piece of software means you have a global audience in mind before you start the development stage of your product. A globalized app is one that has been adapted to different markets or locales (which are countries or regions that share the same language and cultural conventions). Creating an app this way has many benefits, including reaching bigger markets, providing an inclusive product and developing better code that is extendible and easier to manage.
What is internationalization?
Internationalization is all about designing software so it can be easily adapted to various languages and locales later on with virtually no engineering changes. Its main purpose is to make the later stages of localization and translation easier. If done well, it only needs to be done once before you can add other languages without any major complications.
If you decide to tackle an extra language with your app, there are many aspects to take into consideration, such as length, non-Latin characters, or the fact that some languages are written from right to left instead of left to right.
However, contrary to what many may believe, internationalization does not necessarily involve more than one language. Single-language apps may also need to be internationalized. For example, when it comes to English, different countries have different date formats (month/day/year in the US versus day/month/year in the UK) and currencies, start the week on different dates (Sunday in the US and Monday in the UK) and may have a 12 or 24-hour format for their clock.
What is localization?
Localization is the adaptation of the content of your product to specific locales. Simply put, internationalization is what goes under the surface, while localization is what users actually see.
A lot of people confuse this term with translation, but localization goes beyond the merely linguistic. Localization takes into consideration the whole of the culture of the country or locale you are trying to reach to provide a product that will appeal to them. It can include your color scheme, logo, layout, images and just about everything that makes up the content and appearance of an app. For example, you might want to consider that the color green evokes joy in Iran but disgrace in China, where red is preferred.
What is translating?
In contrast with localization, translation is restricted to the linguistic aspect of this process. It consists of converting text from one language to another. As we’ve mentioned, many people use the terms “translation” and “localization” interchangeably, but it is important to emphasize that translation is only one of the aspects of localization. However, this does not mean we can isolate translation from localization as both activities are inextricably linked if we aim at successfully globalizing a product.
As we’ve mentioned, GILT has many benefits for your app such as saving you time and money in the long run and creating an inclusive product. If all of that still hasn’t convinced you that GILT is worth the effort, here are some other reasons that might:
- It gives you access to a larger market and, therefore, increases your revenue.
- It gives you a competitive advantage.
- It will increase your app’s visibility.
- It will open the doors to a larger talent pool for your business.
- It helps improve your company’s reputation.
Globalization and Internationalization Final thoughts
In today’s global market, thinking about the future of your app is key. Even if you are positive you will stay within a specific locale, you might be missing the bigger picture as your target demographic may include multicultural and multilingual people. We hope these concepts have shed some light on your mobile app project, as thinking about globalization from early on may save you a major headache later down the road. | <urn:uuid:4ede26bb-8252-4269-a3c2-7a10d14d1fc1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.asapdevelopers.com/globalization-and-internationalization-concepts-for-apps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940015 | 993 | 2.859375 | 3 |
An Eerie Public Art Exhibit Just Sprouted in NYC's Madison Square Park
"Brier Patch" uses school desks and tree branches to comment on the US education system.
If you're headed to the Flatiron District's Madison Square Park anytime soon, it will be hard to miss the 100 school desks arranged carefully throughout the space. The haunting display is part of an exhibit called "Brier Patch" by Texas-born artist Hugh Hayden, which was installed earlier this week.
The desks take multiple formations throughout the park, with the largest grouping of 48 sitting on the oval lawn and sprouting tree branches. Others appear in smaller groups, with some un-branched desks even open for sitting. The exhibit's uniform rows mixed with its chaotic branches are meant to be a commentary on the US education system, from its uneven outcomes to its student loan debt.
"The overgrown configuration of branches overwhelms and encumbers the placidity of seats of childhood learning," said Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Deputy Director and Martin Friedman, Chief Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy in a press statement. "'Brier Patch' is both visually powerful and loaded with inherent tensions—growth and stagnation, seduction and peril, individual and community—that ask us to consider how these dichotomies coexist in engrained systems and the work on view."
The new installation is the latest eerie public art with a message to come to Madison Square Park. Last year, the park hosted artist Maya Lin's Ghost Forest, a stand of 49 dead Atlantic white cedar trees meant as a commentary on climate change.
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How to password-protect your website with Octauthent
Octauthent is a simple and free service that adds login forms to your website
Once installed on your site, Octauthent provides a dashboard where you can manage users, settings, analytics…
Password protection made easy
Create a login form in less than a minute Integrate it to your site without a single line of code Manage your users…
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to setup Octauthent on your website. In the end, you’ll have a customized login form on all the pages you want to password-protect, like this:
1. Setup Cloudflare on your site
First of all, your domain needs to be managed by Cloudflare to make it work with Octauthent.
If you already use Cloudflare on your site, it is just a matter of minutes to have your site protected, you can jump to the next step. If you don’t, I wrote a step-by-step tutorial where I explain how to install Cloudflare on your site.
How to install Cloudflare on your site
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to setup Cloudflare with your domain name.
2. Install Octauthent
Now that all your traffic is passing through Cloudflare, let’s install Octauthent on it.
Note: For all my examples below, I’ll use my example WordPress blog, which is already working with Cloudflare: example-blog.ml.
Sign up to Octauthent, then click on the New Site button. For each step, answer the questions, and click Next.
The last step to create your site will be to choose users and passwords. In my case, I’ll start with only one user: “demo”, and I’ll set the password to “octauthent”.
Once your site is created, go to the Install tab.
You will first see a tutorial to create an API Token on your Cloudflare account, just follow the instructions.
Then, you’ll be asked to choose on which Cloudflare site you want to install Octauthent.
In my case, I choose the “example-blog.ml” site, which is my example site.
Finally, configure which pages will be protected by Octauthent, and which pages will stay public.
For my example, let’s say I want to protect:
- All the wp-admin pages, which contain the admin part of my WordPress
- A very private page where I can write private things. I created a page that can be accessed at example-blog.ml/private-page/ (in my case, there is a trailing slash, but maybe not in yours!)
Here is my config:
Click on the install button, wait a few seconds and the Octauthent login form should appear on your website in the next minute! That’s it! | <urn:uuid:100b1a03-a1d8-4672-b98d-4020a28425df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://octauthent.medium.com/how-to-password-protect-your-website-with-octauthent-5e634d00faa2?source=user_profile---------0------------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.880283 | 640 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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