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In our society, every now and then, women are wrongly accused of witchcraft. Needless to say, they all belong to the marginalised community and are all women. The practice of witchcraft is believed to have consisted of a common practice in the name of black magic tricks, spell-binding and many more.
Historically, witchcraft practice in Europe was believed as an exercise of alleged supernatural power aiming to take control of certain events and people. It was believed to be done all through magic. Although it is differently interpreted in different parts depending upon the cultural and religious practice in the country, witchcraft throughout Nepal is termed as ‘Bok’.
In the year 2021, a 50-year-old woman from Sunsari district of Nepal was accused of allegations stating that she was responsible for her husband’s declining health, saying that she used black magic to make people fall ill. She was dragged by her hair all the way from the kitchen and harshly beaten up.
According to (Adinkrah and Adhikari, 2014), the most likely to be accused of witchcraft are definitely women who lack education, who are single, windowed or older. As evident, in some of the communities, ‘witchcraft related to gender-based violence is highly prevalent, used as a ploy by aggrieved men to deprive women of their succession rights and inheritance rights to property, (Grigaite, 2018: 17). In most of the cases, women are ostracised by the society, battered brutally and are forced to drink human faeces. This shows the inhuman action at the extremity.
Witchcraft accusations are predominant in rural parts of Nepal even though urban areas aren’t that free (Grigaite, 2018). One of the main reasons for witchcraft to rise in these cases is also because people highly believe in shamans, namely, ‘Jhakri’ in Nepali. These shamans are highly respected and trusted people who are known to be traditional healers when there used to be no doctors. As a result, shamans put up a trusting image of themselves and take advantage of people. They make villagers believe in such magic tricks, which gives more emphasis to the number of rising cases of such witchcraft accusations.
The second reason for this is the historical oppression of women. In most cases, the victims are women. This oppression regulates a system of women being submissive individuals and the men possessing the strength who could do anything. The lack of accessibility of education to young girls and women in remote areas also exacerbates the practice.
After studying the conditions, it is sad to observe that women who have gone through such physical violence hardly gather the courage to speak up for themselves. Such traumatic experiences tend to have very long-lasting negative impacts on the lives of women.
The stigma surrounding ‘witch’ deepen in their hearts so much that it can even lead to mental and physical traumas, which can even provoke them to suicidal attempts (Paudel, 2011).
The Human Right Watch world report (UN) states that the action is still poor. In order to combat such superstitious beliefs, it is important to make rural people aware of this. Furthermore, a number of NGOs that aim to reinforce gender equality and advance women’s development and empowerment have taken initiatives in order to protect and prevent women from witchcraft accusations.
Witchcraft constitutes a global phenomenon of gender-based violence but has barely been on an international agenda. As Philip Alston states, “violence and human rights abuse due to witchcraft accusations have not been addressed systematically in the context of human rights.”
Falsely accusing a woman of practising witchcraft is not simply an act of a misguided individual. Rather, such sexist fabrications have compelled and forced women into a life of agony and trauma. These accusations are a part of immoral conduct, which is giving way to gender-based violence where destitute and innocent women are wrongly harassed, heckled and targeted.
So, what do we do? Such heinous practice could be taken strictly into women’s safety and government consideration whereby a strict legalisation bill can be issued regarding the punishment for perpetrators and provide the victims with a concrete legal backing up system which would open up their door for freedom, protection and justice and to ask why are witches only women most of the time?
Such step needs to be taken to ensure that the naming and shaming of women under false pretexts is stopped.
Susmita Aryal is a third-year student of English Literature and Journalism at St. Xavier’s College, Nepal. She is interested in writing about society, gender and identity.
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dolutegravir - lamivudine
How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
This combination product contains 2 medications: dolutegravir and lamivudine.
Lamivudine belongs to a class of medications known as nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Reverse transcriptase is a part of HIV required to infect cells and make more virus. These two medications prevent reverse transcriptase from working properly.
Dolutegravir belongs to the class of medications called human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) integrase strand transfer inhibitors. Dolutegravir works by blocking an enzyme called integrase that is necessary for the HIV virus to reproduce. In doing so, it reduces the amount of HIV in the blood.
Dolutegravir – lamivudine is used by adults and adolescents older than 12 years of age to help prevent the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from reproducing. HIV is the virus responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV infection destroys CD4 (T) cells, which are important to the immune system. The immune system helps fight infections.
This medication does not cure AIDS and does not prevent it from being spread to others. It is used to slow further growth or reproduction of HIV and seems to slow down the destruction of the immune system. This may help to delay the development of problems such as infections related to AIDS or HIV disease.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are taking this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to take this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
Each oval, biconvex, white, film-coated tablets, debossed with "SV 137" on one face, contains 50 mg of dolutegravir (as 52.6 mg of dolutegravir sodium) and 300 mg of lamivudine. Nonmedicinal ingredients: hypromellose, macrogol/PEG, magnesium stearate, mannitol (E421), microcrystalline cellulose, povidone (K29/32), sodium starch glycolate, sodium stearyl fumarate, and titanium dioxide.
How should I use this medication?
The usual recommended dose of dolutegravir – lamivudine for adults and adolescents 12 years of age and weighing at least 40 kg, is one tablet (50 mg of dolutegravir and 300 mg of lamivudine), taken by mouth, once daily.
This medication may be taken with or without food. It should be swallowed whole with a glass of water.
Many things can affect the dose of medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are taking the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is important to take this medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor.
If you miss a dose, take it as soon as possible and continue with your regular schedule. If it is 4 hours or less before the time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store this medication in its original container at room temperature, protect it from light and moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not take this medication if you:
- are allergic to dolutegravir, lamivudine, or any ingredients of the medication
- are taking the medication dofetilide
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.
The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- abnormal dreams
- difficulty sleeping
- joint and muscle pain
- upper abdominal pain and bloating
Although most of the side effects listed below don’t happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- signs of clotting problems (e.g., unusual nosebleeds, bruising, blood in urine, coughing blood, bleeding gums, cuts that don’t stop bleeding)
- signs of depression (e.g., poor concentration, changes in weight, changes in sleep, decreased interest in activities, thoughts of suicide)
- signs of infection (e.g., fever or chills, sore throat, cough)
- signs of kidney problems (e.g., change in the amount or colour of urine, increased urination at night, blood in the urine, swelling in the feet or legs)
- signs of liver problems (e.g., dark urine, diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea, pale stools, vomiting, weight loss, yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes)
- symptoms of anemia (low red blood cells; e.g., dizziness, pale skin, unusual tiredness or weakness, shortness of breath, fatigue)
- symptoms of lactic acidosis (weight loss, fatigue, generally feeling ill, abdominal pain, shortness of breath) along with an enlarged liver and symptoms of liver problems (nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, weakness, diarrhea)
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- signs of a serious allergic reaction (e.g., abdominal cramps, difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting, swelling of the face and throat)
- signs of a severe skin reaction (e.g., blistering, peeling, rash combined with fever or discomfort, rash covering a large area of the body, rash that spreads quickly)
- symptoms of a hypersensitivity reaction (fever, rash, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal pain; severe tiredness, aches, or generally feeling ill; sore throat, shortness of breath, or cough)
- thoughts of self-harm or suicide
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Anemia: This medication may also cause low levels of red blood cells. If you experience symptoms of reduced red blood cell count such as shortness of breath, feeling unusually tired, or pale skin, contact your doctor as soon as possible.
Blood sugar: Dolutegravir – lamivudine may cause an increase in blood sugar levels and glucose tolerance may change. If you have diabetes or are at risk of developing diabetes, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed. People with diabetes may find it necessary to monitor their blood sugar more frequently while using this medication.
Cholesterol levels: This medication may cause an increase in the amount of cholesterol in the blood. If you have high cholesterol your doctor may want to monitor your cholesterol levels more closely while you are taking this medication.
Hepatitis B: If you have hepatitis B, your condition may worsen or come back if you stop taking this medication. Do not stop taking this medication unless recommended by your doctor. If your doctor recommends that you stop taking this medication, your doctor will monitor you for several months after stopping treatment.
Hypersensitivity reactions: This medication can cause serious hypersensitivity reactions. If you experience any of the following sets of symptoms, stop taking this medication and contact your doctor immediately:
- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal pain
- severe tiredness, achiness, or generally feeling ill
- sore throat, shortness of breath, or cough
These reactions usually occur within 6 weeks of starting this medication, but may occur at any time. If you have previously had an allergic reaction to dolutegravir, or a medication containing dolutegravir, you should not take this medication.
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: This medication may cause immune reconstitution syndrome, where signs and symptoms of inflammation from previous infections appear. These symptoms occur soon after starting anti-HIV medication and can vary. They are thought to occur as a result of the immune system improving and being able to fight infections that have been present without symptoms (such as pneumonia, herpes, or tuberculosis). Report any new symptoms to your doctor as soon as possible.
Kidney function: Lamivudine is removed from the body by the kidneys. If you have reduced kidney function, these medications may build up in the body and cause side effects. If you have reduced kidney function, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Lactic acidosis and enlarged fatty liver: Lamivudine can cause a rare but serious condition called lactic acidosis (build-up of lactic acid in the blood) together with an enlarged liver. This tends to occur more often in women, especially if they are overweight. If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately:
- abdominal pain, swelling, or bloating
- feeling unwell
- shortness of breath
- weight loss
Your doctor will monitor your liver function periodically by ordering laboratory tests.
Liver function: Liver disease or reduced liver function may cause this medication to build up in the body, causing side effects. If you have liver problems, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Dolutegravir – lamivudine may reduce liver function and can cause liver failure. If you experience symptoms of liver problems (e.g., abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, feeling unwell, fever, itching, yellowing of the skin and eyes, dark urine), contact your doctor immediately.
Stopping the medication: If you stop taking this medication, your HIV infection could get worse. Take the medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor, and do not stop taking the medication without checking with your doctor first.
Pregnancy: Dolutegravir – lamivudine has been linked to severe birth defects. It should not be taken by the mother while she is pregnant. Let your doctor know if you are or are planning to become pregnant. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately.
Breast-feeding: Lamivudine passes into breast milk. It is not known if dolutegravir passes into breast milk. Women who have HIV infection are cautioned against breast-feeding because of the risk of passing HIV to a baby who does not have the infection.
Children: The safety and effectiveness of using this medication have not been established for children who are under 12 years old and weigh less than 40 kg.
Seniors: Seniors may be at an increased risk of experiencing side effects of this medication.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between dolutegravir – lamivudine and any of the following:
- aluminum hydroxide
- calcium supplements (e.g., calcium carbonate, calcium citrate)
- HIV non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs; e.g., efavirenz, etravirine, nevirapine)
- other HIV protease inhibitors (e.g., atazanavir, indinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir)
- HIV nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs; e.g., abacavir, didanosine, lamivudine, tenofovir, zidovudine)
- HIV integrase inhibitors (e.g., dolutegravir, elvitegravir)
- iron supplements
- magnesium-containing products (e.g., magnesium citrate, magnesium hydroxide)
- multivitamin/mineral supplements
- St. John’s wort
- zinc supplements
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
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1. PDF to DWG conversion
First of all, conversion! On the whole, its quality is practically the same that you get using the online converter:
- almost exact correspondence to the original file arrangement of vector entities, color, etc.;
- texts conversion style retention, conversion of Unicode characters (including Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters), turned texts recognition.
However, with ABViewer you can forget about size and quantitative limitations. It also allows keeping the layers of the original PDF file and select DWG versions (AutoCAD 2000 DWG or AutoCAD 2004 DWG). In case you have many files to convert the command Batch conversion will come to your aid.
Raster images conversion to vector graphics is still impossible.
2. File editing
A converted file is opened straight away in the edit mode, I think it is handy. The drawings tools and modifying instruments are user-friendly, so there are no problem with them.
ABViewer allows users to measure in 2D mode as well as in 3D mode, let's examine both of them.
In this mode it is possible to use such measuring tools as Distance, Polyline Length and Area. The process of measuring is standard, snap is available.
What I find very useful are Scale factor and Set size as functions. They save you from performing tiresome calculations in situations where, for example, drawing elements are presented in different scales or dimensions indicated on drawings do not correspond to real ones. Also, you can change the scale factor if you just want to measure your drawing in other units of measurement, for instance, millimeters instead of inches.
Here again we have three measuring tools Distance, Edge, Area and the Structure panel that contains general info (overall dimensions, volume, area, center of mass).
The results of measurements are displayed in the special panel and additionally added above the drawing, then such drawings can be printed or saved as BMP.
In general, 3D measuring seems fine, but it has several disadvantages:
- the number of 3D formats in which you can measure is limited, they are IGS, STP, SAT, BREP, 3D DWG/DXF.
- it is impossible to create a 3D section view.
- it is impossible to change units of measurement.
4. Batch print
I can't help saying few words about printing as I have to do it a lot. ABViewer has several printing modes, but the most effective for me is Batch print. With its help it is possible to print at once a) all pages of a document b) several files of different formats. Besides it enables to configure settings for each layout. At first the process of printing seems a bit complicated as it has lots of parameters to be specified, but when you grasp it you will understand that it can substantially save your time.
To sum up, ABViewer is a good software that offers various features to work with 2D and 3D files.
You can try it by yourself as it has a 45-day trial period, just follow link below.
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Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has recently commissioned IDC to conduct a major ransomware and disaster preparedness survey, which revealed that 79% of respondents have activated a Disaster Recovery (DR) response within the past 12 months. Nearly two-thirds (61%) of these incidents were triggered by ransomware or other malware with 60% of organisations reporting they had experienced unrecoverable data during that same time –substantially more than the 43% response rate to the same question a year ago.
The State of Ransomware and Disaster Preparedness: 2022 was carried out across North America and Western Europe among medium to large organisations. Respondents reported an average of 19.3 attacks (all types) and 2.3 ransomware attacks in the past year with 93% of organisations suffering a data-related business disruption during the past 12 months and 67.8% of respondents experiencing four or more such disruptions.
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We are born into this world with the ability to provision our own needs. We can provide ourselves with food, shelter, clothing, and other necessities.
While this may not be a real “condition”, in many ways it is. Many people don’t see the need for it, but there is a need for it to be met.
This is a problem that most of us don’t have, but it will be addressed as soon as we get to know the technology we need.
Self-provisioning is one of the main reasons most people become homeless. The concept is that a person can provide themselves with a place to live temporarily, or even permanently, through the provision of a basic needs item. This is the same concept as giving a car to a person who cant afford a car. The problem is that this temporary need for a car often ends up being a temporary need for rent. But then, rent can be removed, provided you can provide the rent.
In our case, we need a tent to provide us with shelter for the winter, and our local shelter has gone out of business. So we decided to just make our own shelter out of a bed sheet. It took a little bit to get the feel of it, but we’ve almost finished it and it looks pretty awesome. We are going to be setting up our own shelter in a few weeks, so we can afford to pay for it.
The problem is that while our shelter is not full of the usual camping stuff, it probably isn’t as simple to live with as many people as you would like. You could try to build a “camping” somewhere, but then you have to get your own place. A shelter would be nice, but not a great one.
We are currently building a shelter for the future, so when it comes to shelter, you can use the same basic principles as in the first post. We know that shelter is not an easy thing to build. I guess you could build it in a cave, but it might be a cave that is very inconvenient for you to have to leave.
Yes, your house is not going to be easy to build, so you can use the same principle as in the first post. We know that shelter is not an easy thing to build. We have had a lot of hard work and effort put into it, but things are going to take a lot of work to get it done. We will have a shelter that will save us from some very difficult winters, and a shelter that will keep us from having to deal with many very difficult summers.
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A highlight of the late Saturday afternoon sessions at the Society of Biblical Literature meeting was a “shootout” between the leading makers of academic Bible software programs. Having used and reviewed most of them, I thought it would be fun to see advanced users put their whiz-bang features to work in responding to five specified projects.
The presenters, in order, were Logos, the Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible, BibleWorks, and Accordance. Logos 4 showcased a cleaner user interface than I remembered from earlier versions, and demonstrated some surprizing graphical capabilities for illustrating the study of individual words, whether in English or in the original languages. It’s primarily a PC-based program, though a Macintosh version that’s been in the works for years has finally reached “alpha” development status.
The Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible, with which I was not previously familiar, runs on the same Libronix platform that supports Logos. It focuses entirely on a scholarly audience, featuring the most advanced critical editions of Greek and Hebrew biblical texts, complete with the full critical apparatus of each, all in a searchable format. Wow.
BibleWorks 8 is also packed with features and is capable of incredible feats of linguistic searching. The presenter easily walked it through the five assignments, but relied a bit too much on codes and such that are innate to a power-user but mysterious to others, leaving the demonstration hard to follow. BibleWorks is also a PC program, but it is said to work satisfactorily on a Mac with the use of a PC emulator. The problem is, most folks who use a Mac prefer to avoid emulating a PC at all costs.
Accordance 8 is the only one of the academic Bible software programs that runs natively on a Mac, and it runs like the wind. It focuses primarily on the biblical text and supporting resources that assist with translation, and I find it more intuitive than the other programs. To the extent that you can love a software program, I love working with Accordance. Those who normally use PCs can run Accordance with a free Mac emulator program, losing only a few minor functionalities.
Olive Tree Software, which makes Bible software for mobile devices, also presented, and for the first time I really wanted an iPhone, for which it has developed an astounding product. Olive Tree also supports systems by Blackberry, Android, Palm, and several others, though Greek and Hebrew are not available on all of them. For all of their cool factor, mobile phones lack the processing power and memory needed for the kind of intensive searches that most scholars require, and there’s really no need for it. Few researchers who have access to a quality desktop or laptop computer will be relying on their tiny mobile phone screen for serious work.
I’ve been promised a beta version of the Blackberry product when it becomes available, and will write a review when I get a chance to check it out. If it’s anything like the iPhone version, it’ll be terrific.
Anyone still reading by now might be interested in the five problems each of the presenters was asked to solve. Here they are (some questions are reworded for brevity):
1. Give the parsing of a word and its meaning from a standard source. (This one was easy: most of the programs provide the information automatically when the users puts the cursor over a Greek or Hebrew word. Some require clicks, some don’t. All provide easy access to lexical entries for the word).
2. Show all the occurrences of a word in the New Testament and LXX, and show the Hebrew word which corresponds with the Greek in the LXX (LXX refers to the Septuagint, an early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible). This one was also relatively easy. All of the programs allow the user to type a Greek word, paste it from the text, or click on it, and then search for all inflected forms of that word. The tricky part was linking the NT and the LXX for the search. Finding the corresponding Hebrew term for the Greek word was the simplest part.
3. Final all the occurrences of ‘oi dé in Matthew’s gospel that are followed by a finite verb within the clause. This search generally required setting up a formula using syntax codes that look like gibberish to anyone not familiar with them. Accordance offers a more graphical interface, but even it requires some familiarity.
4. Show how to get all the lemmas (basic forms) of a part of speech (such as an interjection or demonstrative pronoun) and organize the results in such a way that one could write an article or monograph based on the data. Each program handled this differently, but all impressively.
5. Find all Hebrew middle weak verbs, plus all of their occurrences, and organize them in such a way that the variations of their inflections are immediately apparent. The data should enable one to write an article about variations of the Hebrew middle weak verb. Trust me, you don’t want to know about this one. It involves creating intricate search formulas that reminded me of calculus.
I came away with a great appreciation for the work that goes into these programs. Most
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This interview with Dean Xiang Bing was originally conducted and published by Chosun Biz in Korean and has been translated into English.
“In the 300 years since the Enlightenment, the global economy, politics, and culture have all been proposed and led by the Western countries. This trend should be changed through economic alliances between Asian countries, including China and South Korea.”
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, established in Beijing with support from Li Ka Shing Foundation, is considered one of the top 4 business schools along with Peking University, Tsinghua University, and China Europe International Business School. Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba, Liu Chuanzhi, Chairman of Lenovo, Guo Guangchang, CEO of Fosun, and Chen Yidan, co-founder of Tencent are some of the notable alumni of CKGSB. The proportion of alumni of CKGSB in top positions at China’s leading 100 companies is about 20%, making up the ‘Who’s Who of Business in China.’
Q. What is the most remarkable achievement of the two countries during the 30 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and China?
At the time of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and China in 1992, the volume of trade of goods between the two countries was only USD $5.05 billion (about KRW 6.61 trillion).
However, as of 2021, it surged to USD $362.4 billion dollars (about KRW 474.74 trillion).
For South Korea, China has maintained its position as the largest trading partner for as long as 18 years, from 2004 to 2021.
According to data from the U.N Conference on Trade and Development, Korea’s exports to China in 1995 (early in the diplomatic relations between Korea and China) were only 7.31%, but increased to 25.28% in 2021.
The proportion of Chinese imports from Korea, which accounted for only 5.48 percent of total imports in 1995, also increased to 22.53 percent in 2021.
These exchanges are accelerating further due to the Korea-China FTA (Free Trade Agreement) that took effect in 2015.
The growth of the China-Korea relations goes beyond economics. As of April 1, 2021, there were 67,438 Chinese students studying in Korea, accounting for 44.2% of all foreign students (Korea Educational Development Institute). On the other hand, in China, 13 cities, including Hong Kong, have established Korean schools ranging from kindergartens to high school curriculums, with more than 5,400 students and more than 600 teachers working there. The two countries have developed a win-win relationship, covering various fields such as business, education, and culture.
Q. How will the two countries benefit from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which took effect on January 1 this year?
As of the end of 2021, the population of RCEP member countries comprises of 29.7% (2.29 billion) of the world’s total population and accounts for 30.57% of the world’s GDP ($29.43 trillion).
In particular, RCEP is the first free trade agreement involving all three countries: Korea, China, and Japan. According to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the combined size of the three economies amounts to 25.1 percent of the global economy. RCEP will pave the way for the three countries to develop closer ties in the future. It will increase economic gains by increasing production and trade in these countries, especially in the high-tech manufacturing sector.
Q. Which industrial sector is particularly competitive for Korea in the Chinese market?
Korea has a competitive edge in semiconductors, electronics, and telecommunications. According to the Korea International Trade Association’s top 10 export items to China in 2021, electronic devices accounted for 41.7%, ranking first, and nuclear reactors, boilers, and mechanical equipment ranked second with 10.75%.
By industry, semiconductors, electric vehicles, and secondary batteries steadily dominate the export market. Korea’s new business sector is likely to remain competitive in the Chinese market in the future. This is because they quickly jumped to the early stages of global market growth and secured first-mover status and achieved quantitative growth in the global market.
Q. The Chinese government forecast economic growth of 5.5% this year. However, countries other than China expect China’s growth rate to be below expectations. What do you expect?
The key depends on the deregulation of the Chinese government. Recently, the Chinese government significantly eased regulations on oil, gas, and financial services. In the future, regulations on power generation, aviation, railways, and media may be eased. China’s unique economic system, driven by the government, is very different from that of the Western world. Therefore, it is very difficult to predict China’s economy by the standards of Western countries.
In addition, the impact of technological disruptions on the market cannot be ignored. Explosive growth may occur in areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, and Blockchain.
Therefore, an accurate prediction is difficult to make. However, given China’s unique economic system, this target is not impossible.
Q. You invented a unique concept called the Confucian Economic Sphere. Could you tell us about it?
In 2017, I coined CES, which stands for the Confucian Economic Sphere, combining four regions of China (including Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and mainland China) and eight economic regions, including Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam. As of 2021, CES’ GDP was USD $26.145 trillion (about KRW 3.4220 trillion), accounting for 27.15% of the world’s GDP. As of 2021, the number of CES companies among the “Fortune Global 500 Companies” stood at 215, accounting for 42%. In addition, the impact of CES is huge as the IMF expects it to drive global economic growth in the future.
“Korea and China are the main pillars of CES, both countries shall lead the world economy in the future.”
Q. What strengths does CES have over other economies?
In Samuel Huntington’s book, Clash of Civilization, he predicted that future wars would be fought over cultures. However, CES, which share the ideology of Confucianism and has relatively minor cultural differences.
I often visit Korea or Japan on business trips, and I have rarely felt a great cultural gap. But similarity this is not the only advantage. Even within CES, political and economic models between countries are different. They can learn from each other’s models.
Q. What should Korea and China do to continue a positive relationship in the future?
There is so much room for cooperation between the two countries. The markets of both countries can be further opened through RCEP, and new opportunities can be further expanded with the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Economic Partnership (CPTPP) and the China, Korea and Japan FTA. The relation between these three countries, China, Korea and Japan, should be reborn as future-oriented and go beyond historical conflicts of the past. We cannot dwell on the past and neglect our present interests. In fact, all EU member states were in territorial and religious disputes in the past. These three countries, which are the main pillars of CES, should create a more future-oriented relationship.
Until now, we have jumped on and followed the world order and values that the West has created. But now, CES should be at the center and contribute to the world by creating Asian values.
Q. How can CKGSB contribute to this goal?
As I emphasized, we should move beyond history and towards the future. At CKGSB, we’ve been nurturing a global mindset and global values from the start among our students.
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Entrepreneurship- a journey towards big goals. It is true that to be an entrepreneur it requires lots of efforts. It includes huge risks and big steps. True dedication, passion, and motivation is something that a person needs to be a successful entrepreneur.[bctt tweet=”SubWhat Entrepreneurship Can Teach You About Life? @Bizztor_IN” username=”policyxcom”]
But are successful entrepreneurs different from others? Do they see the world from a different perspective? What makes them strong enough to launch a new business? Well, as per the conventional wisdom, they carry the required guts, vision, and insight.
Many people try to learn the needful skills of being a successful entrepreneur in business schools but only a bunch of people from them make it possible. It is all about true dedication and passion.
There is always a lesson in every defeat. Those who are successful know the importance of such failures that they face during their journey and take it as a moment or valuable opportunity, not like a punishment.
This is something that each and every person should learn. Like above, entrepreneurship can teach you about different aspects of life such as:-
Purpose in Life
Entrepreneurship is all about having a single goal to achieve. A single goal that requires lots of efforts and dedication and which can’t be achieved without proper planning. Here’s what it brings to a life of a person, a purpose and meaning of life.
There are many people who are working at higher posts but not happy, there are some who are trying to achieve such posts and there are some who live in their own world. All we need is a purpose. What is the purpose of our lives? What should we do to attain it? It is important for you to set a goal in life or find the true purpose.
Anything is possible
“If you can conceive it, and believe it, you can receive it.” It is not just a statement, if you want to attain something and has a desire for it no matter how difficult is to attain the same, you can easily achieve the same with true dedication and hard work.
But for the same, focus is something that you may require, just put your focus in the right domain and achieve your goals.
Don’t do it alone
It is true that many people take entrepreneurship as a singular thing but it is not so. Being a human, it is a normal thing to feel pride in doing it alone but it is not the right thing that you should do. At any moment you can face failure on running things alone.
Never show yourself as a singular person who built the entire company, just take your partners, team, and suppliers along with you and feel honored to have them on board. If you are an entrepreneur then, there is no way to attain goals without a good team.
Don’t take it So Seriously
Yes, mistakes are part and parcel that can happen any time. In fact, if you believe me, then mistakes are great and unappreciated gifts. There is no doubt in saying that the life of the entrepreneur is about the journey, not the purpose.
It is important to enjoy your journey to have the true taste of success. Nothing is bad. Life (and entrepreneurship) is not about how to learn to survive the storms, it’s about dancing in the rain. All of the mistakes are happening for a purpose. Learn from your mistakes and apply it at every possible situation.
Look beyond norms
Entrepreneurship makes a person to think beyond the basic norms of the society and to attain something big that can change your dreams into reality. It is very important for an entrepreneur to look through glasses. Your vision towards the world and your contribution towards the same is important to look for.
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- Namikoye, E. S., Kinyua, Z. and M. W. Kasina, M. (2020). “Sampling procedures and action threshold level of vectors of viruses that cause Maize lethal necrosis disease in Kenya ; International Journal of Tropical Insect Science ( IF 0.536 ) Pub Date : 2020-06- 17 , DOI: 10.1007/s42690-020-00150-7 E. S.
- Namikoye, E. S., Kariuki, M. G., Kinyua, Z. M., Githendu, M. W. and Kasina, M. (2018). Cropping System intensification as a Management method against vectors of viruses causing Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease in Kenya. East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal Taylor and Francis DOI: 10.1080/00128325.2018.1456298
- Namikoye, E. S., Kariuki, M. G., Kinyua, Z. M., Githendu, M. W. and Kasina, M. (2015). Effects of companion crops on population dynamics of maize lethal necrosis disease vectors in Bomet County of Kenya.Paper KAPAP conference proceedings at KALRO Westlands 10- 12th June 2015; pp 88-91
Books and Books Chapters
- (Accepted: Book chapter Publication) Namikoye, E. S., Kariuki, M. G., Kinyua, Z. M., Githendu, M. W. and Kasina, M.(2018). “Invasive Pest in Africa and their sustainable Management” Chapter 5. Enhancing Monitoring efficiency and management of vectors of maize lethal necrosis disease causing viruses in Kenya (To be published by Springer)
- Participated and presented a paper in the 22nd Meeting and Conference of the African Association of insect Scientists in Sudan Wad Medan titled” Enhancing Monitoring Efficiency and management of Vectors of Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease causing viruses in Kenya” 23rd to 26th October 2017
- Participated and presented a paper on “Effect of selected Botanical pesticides on the survival of various larval stages and adult emergence of Liriomyza huidobrensis on French beans” in the Horticultural Association of Kenya (HAK) Workshop ON Sustainable Horticultural Production in the Tropics between 12th to 16th Feb 2018.
- 1st SAED Biennial International Conference proceedings on Bridging the Gap between Society, Science and Industry. Held Between 30th November And 5th December 2014 at Business and Student Services Center, Kenyatta University
- Namikoye, E. S.; Kariuki, G.; Kinyua, Z. M.; Githendu, M. W.; Kasina, M. (2015-06) Effects of companion crops on population dynamics of maize lethal necrosis disease vectors in Bomet County, Kenya
- Samita, E. N., Chabi-Olaye. A., Ogol C.P. K. O., Salifu, D. and Fiaboe, K. K. M(2018). Effect of selected doses of neem and pyrethrum based bio pesticides on parasitism of Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard) by Phaedrotoma scabriventris | <urn:uuid:9304fae7-6654-4533-badd-d112934ed0bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://agriculture.ku.ac.ke/index.php/departments/department-of-agri-science-tech/89-faculty/175-ms-namikoye-everlyne-samita | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.782244 | 734 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Importance Of Comfort and Great Work Culture In An Organisation
How many hours employees spend at work everyday? Is it Eight? Nine? Ten? Or even more
than that? So, there are high chances that one might spend more than half of his/her
waking hours in the office, so good comfort and great work culture is necessary for each
and every employee in order to keep the work environment perfect. So, here we are listing
some options so that one can make a office great for its workforce.
Comfort often helps people to be happier, and when people are happy then they tend to
work hard, which has a positive impact on the workplace productivity, by creating a
comfortable work environment many tough tasks will be a lot easier to push through.
Poor communications always lead to confusions and misunderstandings. Communications
always has to be precise and proper, and one should be very proper in terms of the
communication. If one is not happy with someone, then rather than keeping quite raising
voice will help to prevent conflicts among employees.
A company must encourage its employees to share works between themselves, by work
sharing they tend to talk more and discuss things that eventually help to increase comfort
zone. A company or a team leader must let the employees work together and take
decisions. A team leader should only come into the picture in cases of severe conflicts and
To make an employee feel important, each individual must be involved in some work as per
the person's choice and interest. However, one should not impose work on an employee; a
leader should let an employee to willingly accept challenges, which will eventually help with
Leaders of a company must promote better transparency and in order to do that, written
communications must be promoted as it is far more reliable than verbal communication.
Various important issues must be circulated among individuals through emails and all the
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Face masks: Due to the sharp rise in Covid-19 infections in our communities and on our wards, we require that all staff, patients and visitors wear face masks in all clinical and public areas, in all health and care settings, unless exempt.
The health board has given the green light to a multi-million pound scheme to cut utility spending and make its sites more environmentally-friendly.
It spends around £6.9 million a year on electricity, gas water, and sewage treatment. This is expected to rise year on year at an above-inflation rate.
Now Swansea Bay UHB has secured funding to carry out a series of initiatives at its major hospitals and other locations, starting this month.
It is being undertaken through Re:fit Cymru, a Welsh Government-backed initiative providing interest-free repayable grants to public sector organisations for carbon-reducing projects.
Planned work includes:
Part of the wider Welsh Government Energy Services programme, Re:fit links public bodies with specialist companies with a track record in providing energy reduction and generation measures.
Swansea Bay has secured funding of £7.7 million for the first phase of the project, to be repaid over seven to eight years.
The initiatives will deliver cost savings of around £850,000 a year, and an annual reduction in CO2 of around 2,500 tonnes.
The health board was the first in Wales to develop a work programme and, after an extensive selection process, awarded the contract to Vital Energi.
Health board Assistant Director of Operations, Des Keighan, said: “We will be carrying out a range of energy conservation measures across a total of nine sites, beginning with Morriston Hospital this month.
“Any disruption will be kept to a minimum. The project team will work with all departments to identify the best method of delivery, including out-of-hours working where possible.”
Energy conservation measures will be introduced in Morriston (pictured); Singleton; Gorseinon; Tonna; Ysbryd y Coed; Cefn Coed; Llwyneryr Unit; Phillips Parade / Westfa; and Cimla Health and Social Care Centre (formerly Cimla Hospital).
Swansea Bay Chief Executive Tracy Myhill said: “It’s great to see our teams leading the way on such important issues.
“As well as keeping our hospitals running 24/7, 365 in order for our clinicians to deliver patient services, this is another example of the way in which our estates teams are making a huge contribution to our patients and communities.
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How much do Constructions make?
The average total salary for a Construction is $65,500 per year. This is based on data from 31 TurboTax users who reported their occupation as Construction and includes taxable wages, tips, bonuses, and more. Construction salary can vary between $23,500 to $136,000 depending on factors including education, skills, experience, employer & location. | <urn:uuid:46af4e11-7e69-4f3e-9438-b22f3d98c3fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mint.intuit.com/salary/construction/dupage-county-il | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971726 | 96 | 1.875 | 2 |
In room-size metal boxes secure against electromagnetic leaks, the National Security Agency is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world.
According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the effort to build “a cryptologically useful quantum computer” — a machine exponentially faster than classical computers — is part of a $79.7 million research program titled “Penetrating Hard Targets.” Much of the work is hosted under classified contracts at a laboratory in College Park, Md.
The development of a quantum computer has long been a goal of many in the scientific community, with revolutionary implications for fields such as medicine as well as for the NSA’s code-breaking mission. With such technology, all current forms of public key encryption would be broken, including those used on many secure Web sites as well as the type used to protect state secrets.
Physicists and computer scientists have long speculated about whether the NSA’s efforts are more advanced than those of the best civilian labs. Although the full extent of the agency’s research remains unknown, the documents provided by Snowden suggest that the NSA is no closer to success than others in the scientific community.
“It seems improbable that the NSA could be that far ahead of the open world without anybody knowing it,” said Scott Aaronson, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The NSA appears to regard itself as running neck and neck with quantum computing labs sponsored by the European Union and the Swiss government, with steady progress but little prospect of an immediate breakthrough.
“The geographic scope has narrowed from a global effort to a discrete focus on the European Union and Switzerland,” one NSA document states.
Seth Lloyd, an MIT professor of quantum mechanical engineering, said the NSA’s focus is not misplaced. “The E.U. and Switzerland have made significant advances over the last decade and have caught up to the U.S. in quantum computing technology,” he said.
The NSA declined to comment for this article.
The documents, however, indicate that the agency carries out some of its research in large, shielded rooms known as Faraday cages, which are designed to prevent electromagnetic energy from coming in or out. Those, according to one brief description, are required “to keep delicate quantum computing experiments running.”
The basic principle underlying quantum computing is known as “quantum superposition,” the idea that an object simultaneously exists in all states. A classical computer uses binary bits, which are either zeroes or ones. A quantum computer uses quantum bits, or qubits, which are simultaneously zero and one.
This seeming impossibility is part of the mystery that lies at the heart of quantum theory, which even theoretical physicists say no one completely understands.
“If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics,” said the late Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, who is widely regarded as the pioneer in quantum computing.
Here’s how it works, in theory: While a classical computer, however fast, must do one calculation at a time, a quantum computer can sometimes avoid having to make calculations that are unnecessary to solving a problem. That allows it to home in on the correct answer much more quickly and efficiently.
Quantum computing is difficult to attain because of the fragile nature of such computers. In theory, the building blocks of such a computer might include individual atoms, photons or electrons. To maintain the quantum nature of the computer, these particles would need to be carefully isolated from their external environments.
“Quantum computers are extremely delicate, so if you don’t protect them from their environment, then the computation will be useless,” said Daniel Lidar, a professor of electrical engineering and the director of the Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology at the University of Southern California.
A working quantum computer would open the door to easily breaking the strongest encryption tools in use today, including a standard known as RSA, named for the initials of its creators. RSA scrambles communications, making them unreadable to anyone but the intended recipient, without requiring the use of a shared password. It is commonly used in Web browsers to secure financial transactions and in encrypted e-mails. RSA is used because of the difficulty of factoring the product of two large prime numbers. Breaking the encryption involves finding those two numbers. This cannot be done in a reasonable amount of time on a classical computer.
In 2009, computer scientists using classical methods were able to discover the primes within a 768-bit number, but it took almost two years and hundreds of computers to factor it. The scientists estimated that it would take 1,000 times longer to break a 1,024-bit encryption key, which is commonly used for online transactions.
A large-scale quantum computer, however, could theoretically break a 1,024-bit encryption much faster. Some leading Internet companies are moving to 2,048-bit keys, but even those are thought to be vulnerable to rapid decryption with a quantum computer.
Quantum computers have many applications for today’s scientific community, including the creation of artificial intelligence. But the NSA fears the implications for national security.
“The application of quantum technologies to encryption algorithms threatens to dramatically impact the US government’s ability to both protect its communications and eavesdrop on the communications of foreign governments,” according to an internal document provided by Snowden.
Experts are not sure how soon a quantum computer would be feasible. A decade ago, some experts said that developing a large quantum computer was likely 10 to 100 years in the future. Five years ago, Lloyd said the goal was at least 10 years away.
Last year, Jeff Forshaw, a professor at the University of Manchester, told Britain’s Guardian newspaper, “It is probably too soon to speculate on when the first full-scale quantum computer will be built but recent progress indicates that there is every reason to be optimistic.”
“I don’t think we’re likely to have the type of quantum computer the NSA wants within at least five years, in the absence of a significant breakthrough maybe much longer,” Lloyd told The Washington Post in a recent interview.
Some companies, however, claim to already be producing small quantum computers. A Canadian firm, D-Wave Systems , says it has been making quantum computers since 2009. In 2012, it sold a $10 million version to Google, NASA and the Universities Space Research Association, according to news reports.
That quantum computer, however, would never be useful for breaking public key encryption like RSA.
“Even if everything they’re claiming is correct, that computer, by its design, cannot run Shor’s algorithm,” said Matthew Green, a research professor at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, referring to the algorithm that could be used to break encryption like RSA.
Experts think that one of the largest hurdles to breaking encryption with a quantum computer is building a computer with enough qubits, which is difficult given the very fragile state of quantum computers. By the end of September, the NSA expected to be able to have some building blocks, which it described in a document as “dynamical decoupling and complete quantum control on two semiconductor qubits.”
“That’s a great step, but it’s a pretty small step on the road to building a large-scale quantum computer,” Lloyd said.
A quantum computer capable of breaking cryptography would need hundreds or thousands more qubits than that.
The budget for the National Intelligence Program, commonly referred to as the “black budget,” details the “Penetrating Hard Targets” project and noted that this step “will enable initial scaling towards large systems in related and follow-on efforts.”
Another project, called “Owning the Net,” is using quantum research to support the creation of quantum-based attacks on encryptions like RSA, documents show.
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Error code sigtrap is a code that is used to indicate an error condition when a program is executed. This error code happens when the program is unable to find a valid instruction to execute. This can happen due to a variety of reasons, including missing or corrupted files, incorrect permissions, or a bug in the program.
Other common searches for this error include:
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1. Restart the computer
- Close all open programs.
- Press and hold the power button for at least 10 seconds to turn off the computer.
- After the computer has turned off, press the power button to restart it.
- When the computer starts up, release the power button.
- When the computer has booted to the start up screen, press the F8 key to open the boot menu.
- Select Safe Mode with Networking.
- Click on Repair Your Computer.
- Click on Advanced Options.
- Click on Restart.
- After the computer has restarted, press F5 to refresh the start up screen.
2. Update the software
- Open the software and click on 'Help'
- Click on 'Check for Updates'
- If there are any available updates, click on 'Update Now'
- The updates will be downloaded and installed
- If there are any errors during the update process, please click on 'Error Report' and provide as much information as possible
- Once the update is complete, please click on 'Finish'
- Please check the 'Status' section to see if the software has been updated successfully
3. Reinstall the software
- Close all open programs and windows on your computer.
- Double-click on the icon of the software that you want to reinstall.
- Select the "Setup" option from the menu that appears.
- Select "Reinstall" from the list of options that appears.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to reinstall the software.
- If the software has a Help file, read the instructions in that file before completing the reinstallation process.
- After the reinstallation process is complete, close all open programs and windows on your computer, and then restart your computer.
If the answers above didn't work then you should also try:
- Run a virus scan
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Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has launched a stinging attack on billionaire Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson over the bailout of cash-strapped regional airline Flybe.
Mr O'Leary - whose airline has threatened to sue the Government after it allowed Flybe to delay a tax payment - accused Sir Richard of rushing to claim credit for business successes but hiding at his Caribbean estate on Necker Island when problems struck.
Virgin Atlantic, the airline Sir Richard founded, is one of Flybe’s three shareholders.
Mr O’Leary said: “There’s no better billionaire to duck bad news than Branson. Branson is only around for the good news days.
"For the flotations and the press conferences. When yet another of his businesses fails or loses money you won’t see Branson for dust, he’ll be over in Necker.”
In a letter to Chancellor Sajid Javid, Ryanair demanded all UK airlines be given a payment holiday on air passenger duty.
Ministers have suffered a severe backlash after striking a deal to rescue Flybe, which was facing collapse over £106m in unpaid air passenger duties. The tax will also be reviewed.
Flybe has now been given extra breathing space, saving more than 2,000 jobs and preventing thousands of customers from being stranded. But critics fear the deal sets a dangerous precedent and have accused ministers of helping shareholders who have deep pockets of their own.
One of the first to criticise the rescue was Willie Walsh, the boss of British Airways parent IAG, who described it as a “a blatant misuse of public funds”.
IAG has filed a complaint with Brussels over the decision and ratcheted up pressure on the Government again on Thursday, demanding to know more detail over support ministers have provided.
The Ryanair boss was more direct.
He said: “I can say the things that Willie can’t. He’s based in the UK and has to be a member of the financial elite in the UK.”
“The business model of Flybe has never been viable. This thing has been sold more times than a dodgy second-hand motor.
“I just don’t think they [Flybe's owners] have any concept of how deeply troubled the Flybe model is.”
Downing Street has insisted there has been no state aid for Flybe. It said any support will be on strictly commercial terms.
Flybe's shareholders, which also include US private equity firm Cyrus Capital and Stobart Group, the owner of Southend Airport, have pledged to invest more money into the business.
Stobart said on Thursday that it has pumped in £9m.
The collapse of Flybe was prevented late on Tuesday night, meaning flights can continue between 71 airports including a string of regional hubs such as Exeter, Newcastle and Anglesey which could have been hit hard by the collapse.
However, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government have come under increasing pressure to explain the move. The rescue deal has been attacked by groups ranging from train companies to environmental campaigners.
A Virgin Atlantic spokesman said: “We continue to focus our efforts on working with Flybe to transform its business, providing vital regional connectivity to customers across the UK, protecting 2,400 jobs for Flybe staff and enhancing Virgin Atlantic’s network into Manchester and London Heathrow.
“Following significant investment of £110 million followed by a further £30 million committed, along with Stobart Group and Cyrus Capital Partners, we are in the midst of a major turnaround of Flybe’s business, and with the government’s support we look forward to bringing the business back to profitability and ensuring that Europe’s largest regional airline continues to fly.” | <urn:uuid:2d96a46e-5fd1-4fd0-b981-99b8961bea2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/01/16/ryanair-threatens-legal-action-flybe-bailout/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956327 | 796 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Use colors to explore what you are feeling. The use of colors through artistic creations can help you gain a better perspective over your emotions.
It is overwhelming to look for perfection. Don’t push yourself all the time to have things figured out. What you need is a path of self-exploration. Accept that things are not perfect all the time and that you can constantly work on your wisdom and tranquility. All the great stoic philosophers worked constantly, and they were incredibly wise men. Just as your body needs to work out, so does your mind.
First, you have to acknowledge your emotions, accept things as they are, and don’t try to suppress your feelings. As you admit your feelings, you can work towards a solution. If you don’t know why you are feeling a certain way, you can use art to explore your emotions.
Using Art, you can figure out why you are feeling a certain way. You can also be more in touch with your intuition by using your observational skills. Look at this video that highlights the way art helps you be more attentive.
The use of colors is a tool for self-exploration. There are two main ways you can do this:
- As a nonrepresentational form of art.
- Using color meanings to communicate.
Here read about the use of colors to communicate. In this post, let’s savor the use of nonrepresentational art and the use of colors to explore our feelings.
Nonrepresentational form of art
Nonrepresentational art usually has no meaning and is disconnected from reality. Its purpose is to explore, to free the mind from figurative objects. Here you can read the meaning of nonrepresentational art more in-depth.
The difference between nonrepresentational art and abstract art is that the latter usually is a distortion of something. Whereas, nonrepresentational art is not symbolic.
This exercise aims to use the feelings you acknowledge to produce something visually. It is for you to use the tools you have at hand to express freely. Don’t put labels on the colors, just grab the one you want and don’t think about the choices. Don’t try to name your feelings, just feel, paint, and observe.
Exercise: connect with yourself
The exercise consists of creating paintings without a guide, without having a plan in particular. Begin painting by choosing the color you want, not the one you “should” be using. Paint and use the colors to explore yourself. Let your feelings guide you in this process.
You are savoring the process itself, of being on your own without being judgemental. You will be using art to help you free your mind from distress and wondering.
This is why painting is a great form of therapy. Paint freely with the color or colors you have chosen and paint anything you want. Whether it’s something figurative or not, it doesn’t matter. Again, don’t think about the outcome but the process itself. Your soul is guiding you, and you are letting it speak through the paper using the colors of your choice.
Below is a creation I did with the use of only one color. Also, look at this list of unicolor paintings. It is diverting and shows you that artists may also use their talent for their reflection.
Explanation: why use color to explore
There’s no doubt that color is a powerful tool to evoke feelings. But is it color a two-way form of expression every time?
That is to say, if you pick a color, for example, black, does it mean necessarily that you are protective? Or you just picked it because you like it or it reminds you of your dog?
Consider for example the paintings shown below. The first painting is during the summer and desperate for water. The second painting is during the winter admiring the snow.
When asked, most people associate the first one with feeling happy and the second painting with being sad. In reality, they are the opposite!
Visual compositions don’t represent every time the state of mind. They are many times subjective and only the person who created them knows exactly what they mean. Well, and sometimes art therapists know too.
It is a personal therapy that many of us choose to incorporate every day. The creations are for yourself. They are merely an expression.
When you paint something, the color is not necessarily associated with a preconceived feeling. Meaning, black is not sad and red happy, as someone might usually assume.
What your choice of colors might mean
After painting freely you might have a better look at your feelings. Maybe during the process, you grabbed a color and realized why you did it. If not, read further and you might find answers.
Looking at your painting associate the colors you chose with memories. Do you use to like that color when you were little? Was that the color of your first car?
By trying to think of your past, you can associate that particular color to a feeling. For example, you chose purple. You used to have a purple car, and you felt safe inside your car. Hence, you can associate purple to calmness.
This study states the following:
Color enhances the effects of perceptual priming.Dennis E. Dal Mas et al.
Priming is when choices are influenced by past events. If you want to read further in the subject, this is a great book.
You can grasp more into your feelings with this exercise. Subconsciously, you can also start figuring out answers because you are doing something oriented towards your well being. Start developing a growth mindset.
Analyze your surroundings and the things you see daily. For example, the banners you see every day or things in your house. Also, consider your cultural background. Which colors people in your country use for ceremonies or special events?
The exercise aims to activate long term memory associations. Through this connection, try to define the feelings you can’t put into words. The colors you used to explore were the perfect way to evoke those feelings.
What the process can say about you
After finishing the painting, try to recall all the thoughts you had when you were painting. What came to your mind when you chose a color? Did you associate the water of the glass to something else? How easily was to choose a color?
You can make yourself a lot of questions about the process itself. You were trying not to think about your decisions, and because of that, other thoughts may have arisen. For example, did you feel uncomfortable? Did you think about your job and the way it matters to you? Did you think about your family or friends?
Just put the date and your signature
You have also the option to make a series of your discovery.
It is possible that you don’t find an association, or that doing so is boring or painful. If you are feeling discouraged by the analysis, you can always come to it back later. Give the exercise some time, and repeat it many times. You might have a glimpse into the process due to associations.
Cherish the experience
In conclusion, this exercise is not about the outcome, it’s about your exploration. It’s about learning about yourself and the things you like or want to learn from. The exercise of using colors to explore, helps you be mindful for a while and gives you another perspective.
Do you have another way to evoke your feelings? What do you think of the use of art for this purpose?
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3 Protective Pediatric Dentistry Solutions Every Parent Needs To Know About
Children require specialized dental care because of developing underlying teeth. Pediatric dentistry is the type of care that children receive. Many parents and caretakers choose dentists who solely treat children. There are several reasons why this is a good option for care, including a dentist's office environment that is designed with children in mind. These offices have support staff members who have also received training that equips them to better understand children. There are a variety of strategies that might be implemented to help children with special needs or dental anxiety. Many of the treatments administered in pediatric dentistry offices are similar to treatments that adults receive. The following points identify a few dental solutions that pediatric dentists offer.
Exams and Cleanings
Dental exams and cleanings are an important part of preventive care. Parents should not take chances and assume that brushing and flossing their children's teeth is and observing for signs of decay is enough. Daily care routines are needed, but exams and professional cleanings are needed to identify early signs of decay and developmental issues. X-rays are used to perform exams, and they can help pediatric dentists to identify issues below the gumline such as crowded teeth. Sometimes early signs of decay cannot be detected by sight because some cavities are translucent. Dentists can identify them with specialized equipment and offer treatment solutions. Exams can also serve as a method of preventing tooth decay when poor oral hygiene signs such as tartar are observed.
Some children have to get their teeth extracted before they naturally fall out. Pediatric dentists might make the recommendation for extractions when there is severe tooth decay, infection, or mouth pain. Children can also lose teeth due to mouth trauma. These circumstances lead to gaps or spaces between their intact teeth. The spaces can cause issues when it is time for their permanent teeth to push through the gums. Dentists can create space maintainer devices to mimic the presence of the missing teeth. These are available as removable or semi-permanent options. They are a valuable solution to improve the likelihood of teeth developing in their natural growth pattern rather than being misaligned.
These treatments may be recommended if a pediatric dentist identifies that a child has a fluoride deficiency risk. Most municipal water supplies have fluoride added. This mineral can also be found in certain foods, dental care formulas such as toothpaste, and some bottled water options. Dentists perform risk assessments and can use the results to determine if a prescription is needed.
If you are looking for the best pediatric dentistry solutions for your child, contact a dental office such as New England Dental Specialists of Norwood. | <urn:uuid:e2455879-aed6-44be-ab21-a615da043354> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lessmack.com/2022/02/22/3-protective-pediatric-dentistry-solutions-every-parent-needs-to-know-about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958317 | 554 | 2.8125 | 3 |
‘’Up close and personal to livestock’’ is the title named after Elanco’s interview with Richard ten Cate, owner of FarmResult. As pioneers in on-farm data management FarmResult illustrated the added value of data management for increase in animal welfare, productivity and sustainability.
The meat industry’s focus has shifted from small-scale farming with a personal animal welfare approach to maximising farm output with integrated structured enterprises and extensive production facilities, partly influenced by the continuously accelerating demand for meat. The introduction of the latest technology in combination with farm data can help farmers reconnect with their ancient way of working and to fulfil individual animal’s needs in modern times on a high scale; precision livestock farming (PLF).
The combination of automatic data retrieving from equipment, sensors, cameras and systems improve the monitoring of the animals and can help predict disease outbreaks. Also, real-time data control and early-warning alerts support optimised productivity while in the meantime it helps to maintain your animal’s welfare. At the same time, personalised feed rations and medication reduce the environmental footprint. If your animal feels better, they will perform better while consuming less energy. Individual animal monitoring is believed to lead futurous livestock-farming practices.
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Weather models improve with COSMIC-2 and Spire Global data
SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Air Force and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) noted significant improvements in numerical weather prediction models with the recent addition of global navigation satellite system radio occultation datasets.
“It’s been a great year for radio occultation,” Sean Healy, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said during an Aug. 12 webinar sponsored by Spire Global. “It’s probably been the best year since 2006.”
Meteorologists are obtaining radio occultation soundings, which reveal temperature, pressure and water vapor, from the second six-satellite U.S.-Taiwan Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC-2) launched in 2019. In addition, commercial data and analytics company Spire Global offered free data earlier this year from its radio occultation satellites to ECMWF, the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office and the U.S. Air Force to help offset the loss of data captured by commercial aircraft.
When air travel plunged in March as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, meteorologists saw dramatic reductions in the amount of data provided by atmospheric sensors mounted on commercial aircraft. Around the same time, numerical weather models began taking in thousands of daily COSMIC-2 soundings and Spire Global offered free data from its cubesat constellation.
While it would normally take ECMWF about six months to assess a new dataset, the agency compressed that into six weeks and began feeding Spire Global data into operational forecasts in mid-May. The addition of COSMIC-2 and Spire Global soundings significantly reduced errors in ECMWF’s 24-hour forecasts, Healy said.
In early 2020, radio occultation data helped reduce errors in 24-hour forecasts by about four percent. With the addition of COSMIC-2 and Spire Global data, radio occultation accounted for 13 or 14 percent of error reduction, Healy said.
The Air Force, which works closely with the U.K. Met Office and relies primarily on the U.K. Unified model for global forecasts, also noted improvement.
The Met Office began feeding Spire Global soundings into its model in May. The Air Force was unable to follow suit until early July, when it established a formal agreement with Spire Global.
“The live trials we’ve had over the last couple of months with the Met Office and assimilating the data in the last month at our own Air Force office have shown positive results as expected for global model performance,” said Mike Farrar, Air Force chief scientist for weather operations.
Next, Farrar would like to evaluate the impact of commercial radio occultation data on short term and regional weather forecasts. The impact on forecasts might be even greater, he said, with hourly observations “over a regional box.”
Like ECMWF, the Air Force observed the growing contribution of radio occultation data to forecasts. As that occurred, forecasters produced a chart showing a slight decline in the relative importance of microwave and hyperspectral sounders, although those instruments remained the most important inputs in terms of reducing errors.
“I think you’re seeing with the volume of COSMIC-2 and Spire being added to this mix, that their influences is growing a little bit at the expense of our number one influencing observation type which are the satellite soundings,” Farrar said. “There’s no reason to believe, although I haven’t done the experiment myself, that that the [global navigation satellite system radio occultation] line wouldn’t continue to go up if more soundings were brought in especially if we’re talking about a rapidly updating model.”
Far more research needs to be done including a cost-benefit analysis to determine how much radio occultation data agencies need to improve regional and global models, Farrar said. “What do you get when you add 10,000 profiles globally versus 20,000 versus 30,000,” he asked.
In addition, Farrar asked whether at some future point agencies could “offset the cost of building new multi-hundred-million-dollar satellites with commercial data.”
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What is SOAR?
SOAR’s aim is to promote SOcial-emotional Adjustment and Resilience in children in the greater Oswego area. It began as a partnership between SUNY Oswego and the Oswego City School District, where trained college student volunteers visit elementary school classrooms to work with children who may be at-risk for developing social and emotional difficulties.
What do college students do in SOAR?
College students accepted into the SOAR program are first trained to deliver social and emotional skills training using the Social SkillsGroup Intervention protocol (SS GRIN). SS GRIN is an evidence-based protocol that is used in many school districts across the nation. After training, college students become intervention/prevention program associates who visit school one to two times per week to deliver the SS GRIN program to children.
What are the SOAR program requirements?
Participation in SOAR is a year-long (Fall/Spring semester) commitment. In addition to the initial training, Associates will visit classrooms roughly one to two times per week, and will be expected to attend weekly meetings and complete program-related academic assignments. Associates earn a total of three credits (allocated at the end of the Spring semester) once they complete the program.
Who should join SOAR?
Students with backgrounds in psychology, human development, education, and communications are encouraged to join SOAR. Other majors are also welcome. Although the project has a minimum GPA requirement, it is imperative the Associates also possess excellent social skills and have the ability to work with children in an open and comfortable way. Associates who participate in this project earn very valuable training in delivering prevention/intervention services to children, which will make them competitive candidates for jobs and graduate school. We also have opportunities for Associates to remain in the program for multiple years.
Students who are interested in joining SOAR must meet the following requirements:
1. Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing
2. Minimum GPA of 3.0 in all coursework; 3.3 GPA or higher preferred
3. Passing grade in PSY320 or HDV322. If these courses have not been taken, they must be taken during participation in SOAR during the Fall semester
4. Willingness to make a full year (Fall/Spring) commitment to the program
Students who meet these requirements should apply to join the program. Application forms can be downloaded from here and dropped off in Dr. Dykas’ Office (402 Mahar Hall). Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and personal interviews will be conducted with candidates who we feel could best meet the program specifications.
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The software development team at Function Point Productivity Software has adopted the Scrum framework for managing product development, resulting in greater responsiveness to client feedback, and a more frequent delivery of new features. Scrum is a flexible and iterative process of product development that encourages teams to work as unit towards achieving a common goal in a short period of time, as opposed to a traditional, sequential process like the waterfall model, in which all of the requirements of a project are mapped out, and then individuals work on items in relative isolation. Delivery of new features also takes a longer time to complete, for example, six months, instead of two to four weeks.
“It’s a big mind shift and you have to train yourself to do small things that are testable, that are shippable, that the client can actually see,” says Alon Sabi, Vice President of Development Services at Function Point. In January 2015, Sabi became a certified Scrum Master, and has since lead the Function Point development team through the Scrum process by adopting new aspects of the method, one at a time. To achieve the regular release of new features of the creative project management software, the team works in two-week “sprints”, in which a story—or new feature—is broken down into a series of tasks that are assigned to various team members.
At the beginning of each sprint, the team has a planning meeting. They go through their list of items that have been requested by clients, and come up with ways to make them happen—knowing that they have to commit to shipping the feature in two weeks. Through experience, the team is now meeting their sprint deadlines; initially, there was a learning curve on estimating how much work they could commit to. The Scrum framework encourages collaboration by all members, so the Function Point team meets for a 10 minute meeting called the “daily scrum”, to review what each person completed the day before, what they’re doing today, and whether they have any blocks. This galvanizes communication, sharing of knowledge, and teamwork, which has allowed them to move faster. During the sprint, every task is reviewed by another developer, to get a fresh look by another pair of eyes, as part of the Scrum method of working together as a unit. Once the feature has passed a product review and quality control it’s released to a group of clients who use the feature and provide feedback.
One of the major changes that was implemented in the workplace is the switch from a digital task list to a physical system. The development team uses a large whiteboard to list all of the stories and tasks in the timeline of a two-week sprint. Each team member has a magnet with their photo attached, and these are placed next to the task they’re working on. Sabi notes, “This physical connection allows people to be more committed to what they say they’re going to do. And you only have one magnet so you can only work on one task at a time.” Moving to a physical system has made improvements to the developers working as a team, because everyone knows what everyone else is working on, and will jump in to help others progress if they see a task is taking longer than a day to complete.
The short period of delivery of new features is only one of the benefits to Function Point and its clients. In the rapidly changing industry of creative agencies, using the process of Scrum provides agility. In the past, a significant software feature might take six months to deliver, and in the time that it took to be completed there was the danger that the market might not need it anymore, because the clients’ needs changed. “It’s about providing ongoing value to the client,” says Sabi. Embracing the Scrum methodology means that Function Point has the flexibility to shift with its clients’ emerging business realities.
About Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Function Point Productivity Software is the leading all-in-one project management solution specially designed for ad agencies, design studios and internal marketing departments who are looking to streamline their business. Our integrated software combines project management, time tracking, CRM, financial, and business reporting tools in one convenient cloud based system. Easy, effective, and efficient — do more with Function Point.
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This paper presents the strength safety of a hydrogen gas composite fuel tank, which is analyzed using a FEM based on the criterion of US DOT-CFFC and Korean Standard. A hydrogen gas composite tank in which is fabricated by an aluminum liner of 6061-T6 material and carbon fiber wound composite layers of T800-24K is charged with a filling pressure of 70MPa and a gas storage capacity of 130 liter. The FEM results indicated that von Mises stress, 255.2MPa of an aluminum liner inner tank is low compared with that of 95%2ield strength, 272MPa. And a carbon fiber stress ratio of a composite fuel tank is 3.11 in hoop direction and 3.04 in helical direction. These data indicate that a carbon fiber gas tank is safe in comparison to that of a recommended criterion of 2.4 stress ratio. Thus, the proposed composite tank with 130 liter capacity and 70MPa filling pressure is usable in strength safety. DOT-CFFC KS FEM . 6061-T6 T800-24K 130L , 70MPa . FEM , von Mises 255.2MPa 95%2 272MPa . , 3.11 , 3.04 . 2.4 . 70MPa 130L . | <urn:uuid:c0819089-04a1-4eda-9d35-e877d75ec987> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://h2tools.org/bibliography/study-strength-safety-composite-hydrogen-fuel-tank-vehicle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.845283 | 275 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Father Didn't Know About Child Support Order Case In Texas
In Moragas and Kawazoe v. Davila, the mother knew of a child support order, but did not communicate its existence to the father for thirteen years. See Moragas, 972 S.W.2d at 91.
In Kawazoe, the court held that the mother was estopped from collecting child support arrearages because she had led him to believe that his parental rights were terminated. See Kawazoe v. Davila, 849 S.W.2d 906, 909 (Tex. App.-San Antonio 1993, no pet.).
The Moragas court explained that the "parent of a child has the duty to support the child and is liable to a person who provides necessaries to the child.... the natural father has the legal duty to support his minor children whether ordered to do so by the court or not." Id. | <urn:uuid:532acd7c-7164-4764-9075-62a8bdc13931> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lawpipe.com/Texas/Father_Didnt_Know_About_Child_Support_Order_Case_In_Texas.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.97334 | 194 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Melanoma (Photo: Blausen Medical Communications, Inc. / Wikimedia Commons) - Credit: Melanoma (Photo: Blausen Medical Communications, Inc. / Wikimedia Commons)
Tuesday, 12 July 2016 - 15:10
Dutch not alert enough to melanomas
The majority of Dutch people between the ages of 20 and 50 years do not sufficiently check their skin for suspicious spots, according to a survey done by the Melanoma foundation. One in five don't even know what to look for, NU.nl reports. Every year about 6 thousand Dutch people are diagnosed with melanoma, the most aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer. It is among the top three of most common cancers among young people. The foundation surveyed over a thousand Dutch and found that a third of them never check their skin for suspicious spots. Twenty-somethings check their skin the least - 39 percent never do so and 79 percent have never visited a doctor or dermatologist for a skin check up. The Melanoma Foundation launched a campaign to make people more aware of the need of checking their skin. When doing so you should check for a growing birthmark, or one that appeared from nowhere. Bleeding or itching marks are also a danger sign. Dermatologists suggest checking the skin once a quarter. | <urn:uuid:3e305f2e-8704-4741-8449-76328b456352> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nltimes.nl/2016/07/12/dutch-alert-enough-melanomas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.943407 | 268 | 2.609375 | 3 |
It is a mixture of hydrocarbons, mainly pentanes and heavier ones, extracted from natural gas. This is obtained through a fractionation process in depropanizing towers, which is responsible for separating the light ones from the heavy ones, the latter remaining at the bottom of the tower. The API of this product is between 50 and 80 degrees API with an RVP between 12 and 14 psi
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), is currently and for several years, the most used alternative fuel, this is obtained by refining oil and during the natural gas extraction process, it is a fuel with a high calorific value, with a very low freezing temperature, it is a colorless gas, with a characteristic odor of propane/butane (methyl mercaptan) that can be used for both domestic and industrial use.
It is a hydrocarbon formed mainly by a mixture of light gases such as methane, although it also usually contains a variable proportion of nitrogen, ethane, CO2, H2O, butane, propane, mercaptans and traces of heavier hydrocarbons.
It is known by the acronym (CNG) – Compressed Natural Gas, it is a fuel for vehicular use that, because it is economical, environmentally friendly and cleaner, is considered a sustainable alternative for the substitution of liquid fuels, it is stored at high pressures
We have a fleet of generation equipment with different types of fuel, including: Diesel, LPG, Natural Gas and By Fuel System. With delivery capacity between 250 kW to 750 kW of different brands on the market. The above as an isolated solution in order to meet the needs of the oil fields
It is a liquid hydrocarbon phase of high API gravity and low density, which exists usually in association with natural gas. Its presence as a liquid phase depends on the temperature and pressure conditions existing in the reservoir, which allow the condensation of the liquid from the vapor.
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At Performance Edge Physiotherapy we treat a wide range of sporting injuries. Many people
who play tagging and touch football sports such as Oztag, League Tag, Touch Football, Tag
20 and Tag Rugby sustain hand and finger injuries. Fingers can get injured when reaching for
a tag or trying to touch a player in the unpredictable environment of the game. Finger
injuries also commonly happen when colliding with a ball and can happen in other sports
like Rugby, AFL, Basketball, Netball, Cricket, Volleyball, Baseball and Waterpolo.
Common sporting finger injuries include fractures, ligament tears and tendon tears. Did you
know that there are 25 bones in each hand! Fingers and thumbs are so important in
tag/touch sports and also in everyday life. It is important to see a physiotherapist about
your hand injury early because some injuries can lead to longer-term damage if not
managed properly early on. Conditions such as osteoarthritis are very common later in life
in tag/touch players when the injury wasn’t managed correctly in the first place. This can
cause a lot of grief and pain down the track and stop players from playing the game that
The more serious injuries to look out for are conditions such as jersey finger, mallet finger
and complicated fractures. Jersey finger occurs when a player is gripping something, eg. a
tag or jersey, and then the fingers are forced backwards. This causes the flexor tendon(s) in
the hands to rupture from its attachment points on the fingertip. These injuries need to be
managed by a Physiotherapist and surgeon ASAP as if left untreated can cause lots of
complications. The common ligaments in the finger that get damaged in sports include the
collateral ligaments and the volar plate which support each joint (knuckle) in your finger.
Mallet finger is another common injury in tagging and ball sports. These injuries commonly
happen when the fingertip is struck by a ball. In tagging sports, these can also happen when
reaching for a tag and hitting your finger on another player’s hip. A mallet finger is where
the tendon that straightens the finger is torn. If left untreated you can lose the ability to
straighten the tip of your finger. It is important to see a Physiotherapist who can make a
splint for your finger. At performance Edge Physiotherapy we can assess your injury and
make you a custom-made thermoplastic splint that fits you perfectly. Most often you will
need to wear the splint and keep your finger straight for 6 weeks.
If you have a new or old hand or finger injury book an appointment today at Performance
Edge Physiotherapy for a full assessment and treatment to ensure you can get back to
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Hazard, H. W. (ed.) / Volume III: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
VII: The Catalans and Florentines in Greece, 1380-1462, pp. 225-277 PDF (23.4 MB)
Ch. VII THE CATALANS AND FLORENTINES IN GREECE, 13 80-1462 229 Rodonella had taken the oath of fealty and done homage, formally making the Catalans in the duchies his vassals and liegemen. He exhorted them to defend the duchies, and promised that within a brief time he would send Dalmau with forces large enough to guarantee their security and chastise their enemies.4 The loss of Thebes rankled in the king's mind. He seems to have thought that Urtubia and the Navarrese were still somehow under the control of the Hospital, and he cautioned the grand master and his commanders against any further attacks upon his Greek dominions. Indeed, he told them that they had better set about undoing the damage they had done, and that they could start by securing the release of Galcerán of Peralta, who had been captured in a vain attempt to defend Thebes.5 Peter had doubtless derived his knowl edge of conditions in Greece from John Boyl and Rodonella, who had told him what they knew (or wanted him to know) about the loss of Thebes. They also told him who had kept faith with the Catalan cause and who had failed it. John Boyl obviously made a very favorable impression upon the king, who wrote on his behalf to Dalmau, the new vicar-general: ". . . We wish that our honored father in Christ Fra John Boyl, bishop of Megara, should receive the archbishopric of Thebes, and in fact we have written to the holy father [Urban VI] that he should remove the present incumbent [Simon Atumano] and give the archbishopric to the said bishop. In the meantime we also want the said bishop to have the movable and immovable goods which belonged to Don Oliverio Domingo, by whose work the city of Thebes was lost, and it was through no fault of his that the city and castle of Athens did not rebel . . . ." John Boyl should continue to receive, Peter said, the annual income of twenty-four gold ducats accruing from the chapel of St. Bartholo mew in the palace of the castle of Athens, la capella de sant Berthomeu del palau del castell de Cetines, as well as the additional allotment which he had been receiving for himself and his two servitors.6 In exchanging Megara for Thebes, John Boyl would merely be giving up one titular see for another, and until the Catalans giving, or bequeathing property or rents to the church, although donations in money might be made (ibid., doc. CD XXXIII, p. 508). 4. Dipl., doc. CDXII, pp. 495—496. 5. Dipl., docs. CCCXCVIII, CD, pp. 488, 489, dated September 10, 1380. 6. Dipl., doc. CCCXCVI, pp. 486—487 (also dated September 10, 1380), and on the confiscation of Oliverio Domingo's property and that of others, whose "hens son confiscats a la cort per lo crim . . . comes en la perdició de la ciutat d'Estives," see also, ibid., doc. CD XXIV, pp. 50 2—503. The ducal palace on the Acropolis was built into the Propylaea, and the lines of the chapel may still be seen east of the so-called Pinakotheke.
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The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History opens “Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th- Century Chesapeake” Saturday, an anthropological exhibition studying the way that early colonists in the Chesapeake region lived and died.
Among collected artifacts are about 340 pieces from the SI and 20 other archaeological organizations around the world, including original lead coffins, facial reconstructions, life size models and other eerie windows into the past.
Insiders bill the exhibition as the Smithsonian’s version of CSI, where scientists have examined the remains of these colonists, reconstructed their lives and retold their stories around their past. It should be a pretty interesting story.
The exhibition will be on display for the next two years, so if you can’t make it down to DC anytime soon, you’ve got a little bit of time to build an itinerary. And don’t forget, access the spectrum of Smithsonian Museums is free, so this could be the budget destination that you’ve been looking for. | <urn:uuid:dea75132-1f76-40a1-b1ee-1d32173947cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gadling.com/2009/02/05/smithsonian-opens-forensic-files-of-the-17th-century/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.926821 | 215 | 2.921875 | 3 |
CSS review exposes FPSC flaws again
âDefenestrateâ was the first word that popped up when I took a look at the objective portion of the Precis and Composition paper, the first paper in the CSS review. Having passed the CSS exam earlier, I was sure I was browsing the CSS net with great ease this time around. However, to my dismay, the first article struck a blow not only on my expectations, but also on the expectations of thousands of other aspirants.
Reading the synonyms and antonyms given in the precise document, aspirants were surprised, shocked and irritated by the way the first paper was conceived. It was obvious that the motive was not to test the candidates’ abilities but to cast a spell on them with all the wrong strategies.
CSS reviews have been under the control of opinion makers for a long time, but the problem remains unresolved with colonial fingerprints everywhere.
The articles were not designed correctly this time. Most of the optional papers were analytical and aimed at testing candidates’ cognitive abilities. This bodes well and the practice should continue. However, the problem is that some documents have been drawn up with the aim of frustrating aspirants. The governance and public policy paper is a good example to confirm that the Federal Civil Service Commission (FPSC) appears to be testing the knowledge and skills of its own paper makers, but through candidates.
The bigger question is how the reviews are conducted. Typically, CSS exams are conducted in the way that a candidate has to pass two exams of three hours each per day. This practically means that an aspiring Babu (think of Babu as a non-sexist term) has to sit for six hours at a stretch every day. This practice is continued for six consecutive days most of the time.
Obviously, even after studying 12 topics extensively for over a year, each topic should be reviewed before the exam. However, what part of the schedule for the next day’s two exams can be revised after completing the exams at 5:00 p.m. Without any revision, the preparation spanning more than a year can go down the drain. This fear of losing the review due to lack of time frustrates candidates even before taking the exam.
The FPSC can claim that two papers per day are designed to complete the process quickly, but what if the process takes 12 days instead of six or what if it takes nine days ( one compulsory paper each day for six days and two optional papers per day for three days). The FPSC completed the exams in nine days in 2018 and it was a relief for the aspirants.
Frankly, the FPSC seems to lack innovation. The test paper filters thousands of candidates each time. Why can’t this essay convert to an entrance test for the next CSS exam? If this practice is adopted, the FPSC can complete the essay exam months before the regular exam. Candidates who pass the essay should then be allowed to write the exam for the remaining 11 subjects. This method would not discriminate against anyone as the essay must be taken by each candidate.
The stumbling block to the MCQ-based entrance test for CSS was the fact that most applicants would face discrimination. The essay as an entrance test can provide a level playing field for everyone. By screening the candidates, the FPSC would ease its own burden and announce the results of the remaining candidates sooner.
The process of selecting bureaucrats should not be easy, but readjusting things slightly in terms of exam timing and applying a filter would lighten the burden on the FPSC as well as the applicants. A positive aspect of the CSS exam this time was a better-written objective paper of 20 points for each subject except the essay.
After testing candidates with an intense routine and mind-blowing vocabulary, the FPSC must do some soul searching for the next CSS exam. Make it analytical and rational. Regarding the third attempt, the FPSC must review it. According to its own report, very few candidates who fail two attempts show up for the third time. The third attempt should only be given to candidates who have erased the written portion of one of the first two attempts.
Reforms are also needed in the interview process where the focus remains on body language. However, let’s leave this debate to another day with the conclusion that the high-level review needs innovation and that there is much to be done at the end of the Federal Public Service Commission.
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Discover IXIQ.Ai | IXICO's AI-Based Brain Segmentation Platform
What is IXIQ.Ai? Find out from our Chief Scientific Officer Robin Wolz
This month, we launch into production on its first clinical trials. IXIQ.Ai is the next generation of our technology platform which we have been developing for more than a decade.
With novel deep-learning AI tools and the increasing numbers of curated datasets at our disposal, we can now automate the accurate measurement of some of the most complex brain structures that play a key role in understanding neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease.
Our Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Robin Wolz, has led the development of IXIQ.Ai with our science team for the last two years. We spoke to him about the evolution of the new platform, the process his team have gone through, and the exciting potential for clinical and healthcare applications both now and in the future.
Robin, what exactly is IXIQ.Ai?
First, a lot of people don’t realise IXICO stands for Information eXtraction from Imaging. And the ‘Q’ in IXIQ.Ai stands for Quantitative.
In summary, IXIQ.Ai is an AI-based platform for brain segmentation. It gives our development engineers an agile infrastructure which enables us to efficiently and rapidly deploy imaging analysis solutions.
IXIQ.Ai can be trained on a specific problem by feeding the platform with training data for a specific brain region in a specific therapeutic indication. We call the resulting algorithm a ‘plugin’ that can be deployed on our data management system, TrialTracker, to perform analysis on clinical trial data.
Taking Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Huntington’s Disease (HD) as examples, there are different brain regions relevant in the two indications, and we need to train the platform on data from the specific population. Taking young, healthy subjects wouldn’t work as well as it wouldn’t be able to learn the patterns of neurodegeneration observed in the different patient populations.
Currently, the platform is pre-trained on our extensive database of clinical trial and natural history datasets across several CNS indications. Through the pre-trained models in the IXIQ.Ai platform infrastructure, plugins can be trained with a reduced number of highly curated datasets to obtain an optimised solution for a specific segmentation problem.
The validation we have performed over the past years in developing plugins for HD and AD has demonstrated IXIQ.Ai offers lower QC failure rates and reduced volume error relative to manual raters when compared to widely used tools. This means more data can be analysed in a clinical trial with increased accuracy.
How long has IXIQ.Ai been in development?
We have been working on this specific project for around two years with a dedicated team of engineers – though it builds on the expertise, know-how and data we have collected at IXICO over more than a decade.
What did the development process for IXIQ.Ai look like?
As we are so closely embedded within the ecosystem of Central Nervous System (CNS) clinical research, we have been all too aware of the shortcomings of more traditional analysis techniques – especially when it comes to the segmentation of more complex brain structures.
Particularly in HD, the striatal regions of the brain are very difficult to segment because there is a very low contrast between those regions and the surrounding brain tissue. Even for a manual rater it’s not straightforward, and this is where traditional techniques fall short.
Our development process for IXIQ.Ai had three key stages:
- Development of the hardware and software infrastructure to perform image segmentation based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) at scale. In this phase, our technology team set up the server infrastructure, specifically the Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) which are the computer processors used to solve neural networks. We then built the software infrastructure (the neural network architecture) that forms the core of the IXIQ.Ai platform and that can take data in to train specific plugins.
- Curation of datasets in our core indications to train the platform on specific instances. Over the past 5-10 years we have built up a database of clinical trial and natural history datasets across the core indications we work in. Leveraging this data to train IXIQ.Ai plugins requires curation and annotation of the data. As part of the development process, we have now completed this for our AD and HD datasets.
- Validation of the developed instances with our academic and pharma partners. Once development of the AD and HD plugins was completed, significant effort went into validating the new technology with our academic and pharma partners to show how IXIQ.Ai increases performance over currently available tools. We have jointly presented those results at numerous conferences with our collaborators.
We are looking forward to presenting further findings with our academic and pharma partners at the CHDI 17th Annual HD Therapeutics Conference in Palm Springs, California, as well as the 15th ADPD Conference in Barcelona, Spain.
How is IXIQ.Ai an evolution from LEAP?
IXIQ.Ai enables us to measure things we couldn’t measure before. It sets a new standard compared to LEAP and other widely used platforms such as FreeSurfer. We set new standards with LEAP 10 years ago, and now we’re raising that standard again.
The main advantages of IXIQ.Ai over traditional machine learning techniques are:
- CNN-based approaches offer an increased ability to ‘learn’ more subtle or challenging data patterns. In practical terms, this makes the platform applicable to more difficult-to-measure brain structures like the putamen in HD.
- A significant reduction in compute time to analyse one scan (seconds vs hours). Traditional tools like FreeSurfer and LEAP run for several hours to segment the brain. IXIQ.Ai takes seconds to minutes to perform the same task, which is an incredible difference. This significantly shortens our development cycles, as the time reduction in analyzing hundreds of data sets is huge, as well as allowing for more efficient deployment in production. This opens up a wealth of potential opportunities for clinical application where real-time processing is a requirement.
How is IXIQ.Ai different to what's out there already?
The concept of a neural network-based approach is not new or exclusive to IXIQ.Ai. Beyond the optimisation of such an approach to 3D brain segmentation, a key value lies in the combination of this approach with the data we have collected which is essential to train the platform.
You might have heard people say, “Data is the new oil” or “Data is the new source code” and that’s absolutely right. When you have the data, you can develop a proprietary algorithm that becomes your ‘secret sauce’.
Our team has spent the last decade collecting and curating a vast number of unique datasets from clinical trial and natural history studies which we have the rights to use as part of our R&D efforts. It is this highly curated and contextualised data which allows us to unlock the full potential of the underlying AI architecture.
What are the clinical applications of IXIQ.Ai in your key therapeutic areas?
IXIQ.Ai provides volumetric segmentation in different brain regions affected in different therapeutic indications, such as the hippocampus and ventricles in AD and the putamen and caudate in HD.
The fact that we can measure volumes in those brain regions enables us to determine patient eligibility criteria for clinical trials. For example, in studies where the drug is administered directly to the brain, we need to understand the size of the brain structure before drug administration.
The platform can also map changes to brain volumes over time, allowing us to measure the long-term efficacy of treatments more accurately. For example, with AD, the hippocampus – which is responsible for short term memory – shrinks, therefore you would expect an efficacious drug to slow that progression and result in a decline in shrinkage. Such changes can be tracked with IXIQ.Ai.
What is the key impact you hope IXIQ.Ai will make in clinical research, and for patients?
With IXIQ.Ai we have a higher chance of identifying a treatment effect in a clinical trial. As we can analyse more data, we gain more statistical power and a more accurate measurement. The platform is sensitive to small changes, and we can look at brain regions that we couldn’t previously because we couldn’t measure them accurately in an automated way. We also expect it will give us additional biomarkers to analyze.
We hope an improved imaging measure will contribute to expediting the drug development process and therefore play an important role in making new and effective treatments available sooner for patients with neurodegenerative diseases.
Want more information on IXIQ.Ai?
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Data ingestion is the process of transporting data from one or more sources to a target site for further processing and analysis. This data can originate from a range of sources, including data lakes, IoT devices, on-premises databases, and SaaS apps, and end up in different target environments, such as cloud data warehouses or data marts.
Now,let us understand few important concepts about Data ingestion:
AWS IoT provides the cloud services that connect your IoT devices to other devices and AWS cloud services. AWS IoT provides device software that can help you integrate your IoT devices into AWS IoT-based solutions. If your devices can connect to AWS IoT, AWS IoT can connect them to the cloud services that AWS provides.
AWS IoT Device SDK :
The AWS IoT Device SDK gives the easiest way to connect your hardware device or your mobile application to AWS IoT Core. The AWS IoT Device SDK enables your devices to connect, authenticate, and exchange messages with AWS IoT Core using the MQTT, HTTP, or WebSockets protocols.
Device Advisor :
Device Advisor is a fully managed cloud-based test capability for validating IoT devices during development. It provides pre-built tests that helps developers to validate their IoT devices for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core. Developers use this to test if their IoT devices can reliably interoperate with AWS IoT Core and follow security best practices.
Device Gateway :
The Device Gateway serves as the entry point for IoT devices connecting to AWS. It manages all active device connections and implements semantics for multiple protocols to ensure that devices are able to securely and efficiently communicate with AWS IoT Core. Currently the Device Gateway supports the MQTT, WebSockets, and HTTP 1.1 protocols.
Message Broker :
The Message Broker is a high throughput pub/sub message broker that securely transmits messages to and from all of your IoT devices and applications with low latency. It's flexible nature allows you to send messages to, or receive messages from, as many devices as you would like.
The Registry establishes an identity for devices and tracks metadata such as the devices' attributes and capabilities. The Registry assigns a unique identity to each device that is consistently formatted regardless of the type of device or how it connects.
Lambda Function is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You can create Lambda functions and add them as actions in your pipelines. Because Lambda allows you to write functions to perform almost any task, you can customize the way your pipeline works.
Scaling : Lambda manages the infrastructure that runs your code, and scales automatically in response to incoming requests.
Concurrency Controls : Use concurrency settings to ensure that your production applications are highly available and highly responsive.If you want to prevent a function from using too much concurrency, and to reserve a portion of your account's available concurrency for a function, then use reserved concurrency. Reserved concurrency splits the pool of available concurrency into subsets. A function with reserved concurrency only uses concurrency from its dedicated pool.
Function URLs : Lambda offers built-in HTTP(S) endpoint support through function URLs. With function URLs, you can assign a dedicated HTTP endpoint to your Lambda function.
Asynchronous Invocation : With asynchronous invocation of function, Lambda queues the event for processing and returns a response immediately.
Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale.
Serverless : There are no servers to manage with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. The on-demand mode further removes the need to provision or manage throughput by automatically scaling capacity when there is an increase in workload traffic. You can get started with Kinesis Data Streams with a few clicks from the AWS Management Console.
Highly available and durable : Synchronously replicate your streaming data across three Availability Zones (AZs) in an AWS Region, and store that data for up to 365 days to provide multiple layers of data loss protection.
Low latency : Make your streaming data available to multiple real-time analytics applications, to Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, or to AWS Lambda within 70 milliseconds of being collected.
Dedicated throughput per consumer : You can attach up to 20 consumers to your Kinesis data stream, each with its own dedicated read throughput.
Applications: Even if you use Kinesis Data Streams to solve a variety of streaming data problems, a common use is the real-time aggregation of data followed by loading the aggregate data into a data warehouse or map-reduce cluster. The process goes like this.Initially,data is put into Kinesis data streams, which ensures durability and elasticity. Then,the delay between the time a record is put into the stream and the time it can be retrieved (put-to-get delay) is typically less than 1 second. In other words, a Kinesis Data Streams application can start consuming the data from the stream almost immediately after the data is added. The managed service aspect of Kinesis Data Streams relieves you of the operational burden of creating and running a data intake pipeline. You can create streaming map-reduce-type applications. The elasticity of Kinesis Data Streams enables you to scale the stream up or down, so that you never lose data records before they expire. | <urn:uuid:8bbd0ce1-c6ce-4c89-b3e7-c943ccb25d3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://basalanalytics.com/blog/big-data-with-aws-series-data-ingestion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.901105 | 1,145 | 2.40625 | 2 |
This week’s readings are all from Luke 1. Click here to see a full listing of each day’s reading and the full chapters of Luke 1. Full readings of each day’s smaller segments of the readings will be posted on this site during the week.
39 In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah, 40 and entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 She exclaimed with a loud voice, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb! 43 And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me? 44 For the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45 And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
46 And Mary said,
“My soul exalts the Lord,
47 and my spirit has begun to rejoice in God my Savior,
48 because he has looked upon the humble state of his servant.
For from now on all generations will call me blessed,
49 because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name;
50 from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.
51 He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.
52 He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;
53 he has filled the hungry with good things, and has sent the rich away empty.
54 He has helped his servant Israel, remembering his mercy,
55 as he promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.”
56 So Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then returned to her home.
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Certification of IT security management systems
(ISMS) ISO 27001:2014
The ISO 27001 standard published in 2013 was translated into Italian and converted into the UNI standard in March 2014 as UNI CEI ISO/IEC 27001: 2014 – IT technologies – Security technology – IT security management systems – Requirements.
The standard specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continuously improving a management system for IT security and dealing with any risks related to IT security (adapted to the needs of the organisation).
It is important to raise awareness (both the company itself and also those who use the services/products offered by the same) that information is an asset to be protected; this guarantees the legal and contractual bases and promotes trust in contact with customers, public organisations and e-commerce. | <urn:uuid:e59d0ed6-71d7-4afb-8125-9b04a9f94c9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.svcertification.com/en/certification-of-it-security-management-systems/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.936676 | 164 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Digital marketing enables companies to use data to analyze marketing measures in real time. For example, you can measure website traffic very precisely and use conversion rates to determine exactly which marketing channels you should focus on. In this article we will introduce you to the advantages of digital, data-based decisions, make a proposal for structuring your data and recommend a tool that allows you to bundle and visualize it.
The advantages of digital, data-based decisions in companies
Company decisions are based on objective, quantitative and qualitative data. Smart data and business intelligence dashboards help with analysis, consideration and preventive measures. You can use them to identify patterns, trends and influencing factors on the market, in your target group and on the part of the competition. This gives you greater control over the direction your business is taking.
The quality of your decisions thus has a direct impact on your future profitability. Smart data enabled
- more transparency and overview
- recognizing trends
- reliable forecasting options
- best possible control
What is the best way to aggregate and visualize the data?
Whether in your database, bundled with individual employees or in the wide network, important data sources can be found everywhere. But it is only by bringing together the data from these different sources that you can create a basis for your decision-making in the company.
In order to maintain an overview and to structure the data, it is advisable to look at the following four perspectives:
- Competition (Competitor View)
- Customers (Customer View)
- Market (Market View)
- Company (Company View)
Understand your competitive environment better
The competitor view enables you to adapt your online strategy directly to the behavior of your competitors and thus use competitive advantages in a targeted manner.
Leverage your digital data sources and
- measure various rankings of your competitors (such as competitive relevance, traffic, brand interest, social media buzz, marketing performance),
- make comparisons (such as organic traffic, paid traffic, traffic volume, social media interactions, audience sentiment),
- observe developments (such as traffic flow, social media presence, brand interest)
- Find out what keywords your competitors are ranking for
Understand your customers better
Based on the customer view, you can better estimate your future sales. Use this information to plan your new customer acquisition in a targeted and efficient manner and exploit the cross-selling potential of your existing customers.
are important here
- for general needs, customer segmentation (age, region, gender, purchase value, product group)
- to be able to estimate the effort of customer acquisition, the forecasts (customer life cycle, future customer lifetime value)
- history (purchasing behavior, repeat purchase rate, activation of new customers) to assess profitability
Understand your relevant market better
With the Market View, you can identify trends and changes within your specific market segment in good time and use them to your advantage.
Help as a base
- External data sources (such as weather data, mobility data, Covid19 data, trend data, financial market data, social listening, holidays and public holidays)
- Market development data (such as benchmarks in the market, changes in market shares, demand recognition, sentiment on social media)
- Data for trend recognition (such as consumer interest, market influences, sales potential, characteristics of your audience)
Understand your business numbers better
With Company View you can see how your company is developing. Trends and deviations can be identified quickly and converted into data-based and transparent decisions.
Regardless of whether
- Website (visits, session duration, acquisition channels, bounce rates),
- important key figures (sales, inquiries, CPO, ROAS, media costs, best seller),
- Traffic analysis (demographics, devices, locations, comparisons) or
- Social listening (brand mentions, social media buzz, audience sentiment, audience analytics)
The place where everything comes together: the right software
In order to use your data to the maximum and to conduct digital marketing in a customer-centric and targeted manner, you need the right tool in addition to a convincing structure. Because the right software bundles all the information relevant to you and processes it in a visually appealing way. There are various providers on the market for this.
jfkcash recommends the BIGNITE tool from Performance One
All-in-one dashboards in BIGNITE are created automatically and are self-explanatory and extremely user-friendly. The data structure is modular in the perspectives of competitor, customer, market and company views:
The individually set up modules create clarity and orientation for data-based decisions in real time. This helps you to keep an optimal eye on your company, your competition and your customers.
Curious? Simply request your product demo via this website:
Would you like to use your data in the best possible way for your digital marketing? Then, as a first step, you should determine how you want to bundle and evaluate your data. We recommend an overview from the perspectives of competitor, customer, market and company and hope that we have been able to inspire you with this article. Do You Have Questions? Feel free to contact us! | <urn:uuid:44d6dddf-5f7c-4c72-868b-abbf7f40f33c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jfkcash.com/2022/08/05/this-is-how-you-make-sensible-data-based-decisions-in-digital-marketing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.900067 | 1,063 | 1.8125 | 2 |
The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division.
The United States celebrates Arbor Day on the last Friday in April to remind us of the need to plant and nurture trees. This year, the national celebration day prompted me to check the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. How many of the thousands of tree-related pictures at the Library of Congress represent the planting of new trees?
While only a few digitized images relate directly to Arbor Day, several hundred pictures show people establishing new trees in their own yards, attending special memorial tree dedications, and working on major conservation projects. Two of the digitized images especially caught my eye.
A delightful scene called Quentin Roosevelt Planting a Tree shows the young son of President Teddy Roosevelt with a sapling at Sagamore Hill, the family estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. The empty bottle might have held water for the tree. Taking a look at the group of portraits of Quentin and his brothers, made in 1904 by master photographer Edward Curtis, revealed, however, that the images are primarily about boys playing. The bottle was also used to hold June bugs!
The second photograph, Tree Planting Ceremony, shows Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam with a large group of people gathered outside the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C. A photographer working for Underwood and Underwood captured this scene around 1920. Might the event be honoring Library staff who fought in World War I? Is the tree still standing almost one hundred years later?
I’ll check in with the savvy reference librarians who follow the Library’s own history and report back! | <urn:uuid:05bed2d7-e503-4ea4-9144-8ee92b97d7b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2013/04/its-arbor-day-tree-planting-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940463 | 351 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Categories Grade 6-8 Grade 9-12 Residential Schools Residential School Lesson Plans Grade 8-12 Post author By FNER Post date October 8, 2013 No Comments on Residential School Lesson Plans Grade 8-12 Credit: Wikipedia Residential School Lesson 1 download pdf Residential School Lesson 2 download pdf IRS Colonialism, History and Impacts download PowerPoint SOURCE: Central Okanagan School District Rate this:Share this:TweetPrintEmailLike this:Like Loading... Tags Grade 8-12 Residential Schools Lesson Plans ← An Introduction to Residential School unit K-7 → Residential Schools – 100 Years of Loss Timeline – PDF Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. | <urn:uuid:fd6cc402-3939-43c1-92d5-57f043565f65> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fner.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/residential-school-lesson-plans-grade-8-12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.833633 | 243 | 3.296875 | 3 |
With Halloween fast approaching, work slowly mounting up and the cold nights drawing in, now is the perfect time to curl up and read some appropriately chilling fiction. Whether you’re an avid trick-or-treater or averse to anything ghostly or pumpkin related, this list will undoubtedly inspire you to get stuck into some spooky, scary and unsettling reading.
the perfect time to curl up and read some appropriately chilling fiction
This iconic gothic horror novel recounting the story of its vampiric antihero, Count Dracula, is for many the cornerstone of Halloween fiction. Bram Stoker’s work has become a cultural icon, with countless film adaptations, themed holidays to Dracula’s Castle and Count Dracula outfits lining fancy-dress shops. Set between Transylvania and London, Stoker confronts the anxieties of Victorian England and the tensions between tradition, superstition and scientific progress. This results in multiple levels of meaning; it is on the one hand a pillar of vampire narratives, and on the other a social commentary tackling how our beliefs and our rationality intersect. Sometimes our ingrained fears and superstitions can manifest themselves despite us ‘knowing better’. Written in the form of an epistolary novel, this is as close a gothic literary alternative to a found-footage horror film like Paranormal Activity that you can read.
The Yellow Wallpaper
A shorter read but no less powerful or unnerving. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story is considered one of the most influential early works of American feminist literature, but it is not this element which makes it a perfect read for Halloween. As a first-person captivity narrative, the reader is not only immersed in the narrator’s treatment from her physician husband, but also in her gradual descent into madness. The book’s constant suspense crescendos into a horrific scene combining elements of the haunted house, ghosts and psychological thriller. This will be a book you cannot help going back to again and again, even after Halloween has passed and which only becomes more and more unnerving the more layers you uncover.
The Haunting of Hill House
Netflix’s adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel rose to fame in October last year. Whilst the series itself is only loosely based on Jackson’s novel, if you enjoyed the suspense and terror of the Netflix version, the book is sure to meet your expectations. The inspiration for this work was, according to Jackson, a group of 19th century psychic researchers who during their investigation, instead of unravelling the story of the haunted house, ended up revealing more about the inhabitants themselves. This is evident in that the most chilling aspects of the book are not the house in itself or the supernatural occurrences, but the ambiguous, unexplained minds of its characters. Due to its reliance on terror as opposed to horror, she presents a series of events which are never fully explained. It is never made explicit whether the haunting is happening to the protagonists or is in fact all in their minds. Labelled by Stephen King as ‘one of the finest horror novels of the late 20th century’, this is a book that cannot be missed this Halloween.
one of the finest horror novels of the late 20th century
Lunar Park is the most contemporary offering on this list of recommendations. Released in 2005, Bret Easton Ellis’ mock memoir is by no means a typical horror. Whilst I have hopefully shown that Halloween fiction is so much more than the clichés of vampires, ghosts and haunted houses, this novel extends far beyond its supernatural events. Utilising the tropes of horror fiction, Ellis explores contemporary American society, psychological trauma and the nature of writing in itself. The narrative isn’t one of the expected fear and terror, but instead one which prompts unsettling questions about society and humanity which endure long after the final chapter.
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Water Innovations is pleased to be selected by Georg Fischer (GF) for installation of its functional prototype “Smart Valve”. We are the first installation of this next generation valve in North America, installing two of them on a project that is being commissioned on a rinse water recycling and waste treatment system in Placentia, CA. This is the 3rd product that we have been honored to beta test for GF.
This is a 24V actuated 3-way ball valve that has a 360° LED Smart board inside the actuator. The “Smart Valve” is used with a tablet and can be connected and commissioned via a proprietary GF app (not avail. in app store). Once commissioned, the app can display live data and be able to operate the valve remotely. The live data that can be displayed via the app includes number of cycles since reset, number of cycles total, re-setting number of cycles, valve position, and the ability to set the valve position and colors.
Water Innovations is very excited about the future of wastewater recycling and the opportunities for live data mining that products like this GF “Smart Valve” will provide. The screenshots below are a sample of some of the data that is viewable via the GF app for these valves. | <urn:uuid:0674a730-96d9-42dc-8a21-9a2360e5d285> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://waterinnovations.net/tag/bluetooth-actuated-ball-valve/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.93922 | 260 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Brachytherapy is term used to describe the short distance treatments of cancer with encapsulated radioactive source. Currently, high dose rate brachytherapy with Iridium-192 is mainly used in radiation treatment. In conventional brachytherapy, C-arm and ultrasound imaging device is used to simply confirm the location of source. However, the dose distribution of radiation source in human body and location of source is necessary to be measured accurately in brachytherapy. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of applying the SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) system for estimating the dose distribution of after-loading brachytherapy source. The three-dimensional dose distribution of brachy-therapy source detected by SPECT system was simulated using a detection system with planar detector provided two-dimensional projection of three-dimensional configuration around the phantom. Scintillation detectors which were consisted of 0.5 × 0.5 × 5 mm3 BGO pixels with 3mm parallel lead collimator were arrayed. To construct three-dimensional image in SPECT system configuration images were taken around 360 degree. The two-dimensional projection represented the dose distribution and the location of source. However two-dimensional projection limited to confirm the location of source. Therefore, projection images were reconstructed by using filtered back-projection method. The three-dimensional reconstruction image during the brachy-therapy treatment was well matched the location of source in phantom. In addition, the dose distribution in phantom was able to be acquired through the SPECT system. | <urn:uuid:d034597c-efd0-44e9-8617-1bf8f5df7b73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://koreauniv.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/brachytherapy-source-reconstruction-for-estimating-the-dose-distr | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948458 | 313 | 2.828125 | 3 |
On April 4, 2004 Newsday.com reported, "As the Jewish holiday of Passover begins at sundown Monday and Christians observe Holy Week, leaders of both religions say more must be done to build connections between them. 'The ongoing work has slowed down tremendously,' said Rabbi Leon Klenicki, a 30-year veteran of interfaith outreach with the Anti-Defamation League. One sign of the times: The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League are now the only major Jewish organizations with full-time interfaith relations people on staff, experts say. Jewish success assimilating into American culture is a main reason why, said Rabbi James Rudin, who worked for 32 years in the job Elcott now holds. As Jews focused inward--on issues such as religious education and intermarriage--national agencies responded by trimming their outreach programs, he said...When [David] Elcott took the job [as the national head of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee] last September, relations with the Roman Catholic Church were strong, even though some tensions arose soon after over the response to the film [Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"] by some church leaders. But dialogue with mainline Protestants had suffered over Israel...Elcott said relations were so poor when he was first hired, that he had to spend weeks badgering international policy officials in mainline denominations before they would return his calls...In May, he hopes to convene a summit of American Jews and Christians on Israel to examine, as he describes it, 'Are we going to work together on peace or are we going to fight each other?'" | <urn:uuid:6e95e7e3-7eb8-41dd-8b5d-2acbf73eb127> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pluralism.org/news/low-point-christian-jewish-relations-jewish-official-promotes-conversation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.971348 | 338 | 1.851563 | 2 |
China has solved a major scientific conundrum by updating the geographic information of the world's third largest country in terms of land area.
The National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation announced on Friday the completion of the 2014 version of China's geo-database, meaning all data is accurate up to last year.
The updated database, encompassing 24,000 pictures, shows that China had about 6,000 km railways, 7,000 km highways, 34,000 km national or provincial expressways and 138,000 km county roads added to the existing transportation network in 2014.
About 9,000 square km of urban blocks were created last year with 9,000 km new power lines. More than 830,000 geographical names were changed and 350,000 place names were created.
The database will be used for irrigation projects, transportation, land, agriculture, forestry, environment, rural and urban planning and national defense, said an official with the administration.
China boasts a vast and complicated geography which changes rapidly, creating barriers for updating data frequently. Other spacious countries, such as Russia, Canada, Brazil and Australia, have not completed their geo-database construction. | <urn:uuid:607bfc9c-e197-4461-ae52-336f1685329e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ecns.cn/2015/05-22/166494.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.939599 | 238 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Girls in Technology (GIT)
Since the early 2000’s, Girls in Technology (GIT) volunteers, funded by STEM for Her, have created amazing programs showcasing how girls and young women can prepare themselves for careers in STEM fields. STEM for Her also funds GIT Higher Education and STEM Camp scholarships for GIT girls. GIT is powered by our founding organization, Women in Technology.
This legacy program in Maryland and Virginia expanded into D.C. in 2016. Future plans include adding programs in Prince George’s County, Maryland and Alexandria/Arlington, Virginia. Through a series of five sessions, the mentorship programs introduce high school girls to STEM focused leadership development, networking, and public speaking activities. In 2019, the program included a Career Development Day and various field trips.
Sharing Our Success (SOS)
This GIT program for girls in grades 6–12 generates awareness and nurtures girls’ interest in STEM. The girls hear from professional women in successful STEM careers, participate in panel discussions, and hands-on STEM activities.
CyberPatriots – STEM Trek
In partnership with University of Maryland, GIT supports girls’ participation in CyberPatriots in schools in Maryland and Northern Virginia. The program offers high school students the opportunity to participate in web-based, tournament style cyber-defense competitions sponsored by the US Air Force. Since 2016, STEM for Her has funded a “STEM-Trek” event to bring CyberPatriot girls together with girls from other GIT programs to demonstrate cyber skills, hear speakers, and have fun! | <urn:uuid:727211c2-d89c-4986-a81d-12f9089a40cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stemforher.org/programs/program-girls-in-technology-git/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.927615 | 338 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The Omni-Gen Relational OnRamp is a set of relational tables and protocols used to load data into an Omni system. This section describes how data can be integrated with the Relational OnRamp.
Excel workbooks, generated on deployment, provide documentation for each IDS subject. The top-level subject and each child collection are described on separate worksheets of the workbook. The worksheet describes each attribute, its data type, and the layout of the corresponding ramp and model tables of a subject. Table mappings can be obtained from the Deployment area of the Omni Console, where a Download Documentation option is available.
Each OnRamp table has a group of identifying columns, which taken together, map to the source system record. These columns will be part of the primary key.
For top-level subjects, the identifying columns are:
For child collections, the identifying columns are:
Equivalently, the identifying columns of a child collection may be defined recursively as the combination of the following:
Finally, the full primary key for any of these tables, whether top-level, or child collection, is comprised of the identifying columns described above and the batch_id column, which is present in each ROR table.
Note: The identifying column values are restricted to the following characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and underscores (_), hyphens (-) and carets (^).
The following are conventions for forming OnRamp fields from their IDS names, based on their type.
<lower_case> + _src <lower_case> + _set <lower_case> + _val
<lower_case> + _subjectName + _snm <lower_case> + _subjectName + _sid
<lower_case> + _subjectName + _sbj <lower_case> + _subjectName + _snm <lower_case> + _subjectName + _sid
<grp_id> + <lower_case>
Source Codes and Source Code Sets are loaded through the OnRamp tables like other subjects. The top-level subject to use when submitting a batch with either or both is SourceCodeSet. However, the IDS structure for SourceCode and SourceCodeSet is slightly different from standard subjects, so the following considerations apply. | <urn:uuid:f6c35e8f-3fda-4ba5-9296-f0fbee71e4cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iwayinfocenter.informationbuilders.com/TLs_omni/TL_omni_gen_integrated_svs/source/01intro10.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.844259 | 507 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Using Scholarships & Crowdfunding to Pay for Student Travel
Teachers who lead student trips want to make sure every child has access to the opportunity, which means being resourceful when it comes to finding financial support for families in need. Scholarships and crowdfunding are great resources for raising the money needed to ensure everyone has the chance to participate.
15 Great Ways For Kids to Raise Money For a School Trip
Educational tours are a great way for students to learn all kinds of lessons in responsibility, including how to earn and save money to help pay for the trip. Here are some suggestions for ways preteens and teens can invest themselves in the student travel experience. I’ve heard many parents say they offer to pay for […] | <urn:uuid:6adc554e-25df-44a9-a05b-f2a851ae4142> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nationsclassroomtours.com/students/registration-payments/fundraising/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96586 | 148 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Tenuis retroflex velar click
Tenuis retroflex uvular click
voiceless or more precisely is a rare tenuis retroflex click click consonant. There is no symbol for it in the International Phonetic Alphabet. The Douglas Martyn Beach convention is ⟨ ‼⟩, used in practical orthography.
Features of the tenuis retroflex click:
airstream mechanism is lingual ingressive (also known as velaric ingressive), which means a pocket of air trapped between two closures is rarefied by a "sucking" action of the tongue, rather than being moved by the glottis or the lungs/ diaphragm. The release of the forward closure produces the "click" sound. Voiced and nasal clicks have a simultaneous pulmonic egressive airstream. Its
place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue contact can be apical (pointed) or laminal (flat). Its
phonation is voiceless, unaspirated, and unglottalized, which means it is produced without vibration or constriction of the vocal cords, and any following vowel starts without significant delay. It is an
oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only. It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
The tenuis retroflex click is only confirmed from a single language, | <urn:uuid:a6d36d01-5456-4963-8354-9931a0d26b15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://db0nus869y26v.cloudfront.net/en/Tenuis_retroflex_click | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.915127 | 389 | 2.4375 | 2 |
A slow network is the bane of any organization’s existence. Business networks need to operate at an efficient pace in order to keep employees, IT teams, and clients happy. If a network is running slow, your company can’t properly perform critical tasks, which can cause massive headaches to your organization. How can you avoid slow speeds on your network?
Network performance monitoring (NPM) can help you reduce times when your network is performing slowly. Using a network monitoring solution, you can identify poor network speed and take steps to correct the issue. Because slow network speeds can be caused by a variety of issues, you need a monitoring solution to be constantly searching for slow performance. Below, we explain how you can avoid a slow-performing network using a network monitoring solution.
Finding the cause of a slow network
The basic functions of a network monitoring solution revolve around scanning a network for performance issues and alerting the user to any it finds. This includes monitoring your network for slow performance. Slow network speed can happen for a number of different reasons – excess data transmissions, malfunctioning devices, applications, malware, etc. An NPM searches for these issues and reports them to you. With a network monitoring solution, you can learn about slow performance on your network, even if it’s undetectable to the human eye.
Continuous network performance monitoring
Performance issues can happen at any time on your network. Rather than wait until a user on your network discovers a problem, your IT team should learn about the problem as it happens. If there’s slowdown on your network that you weren’t able to predict, you need to know about it ASAP.
Network monitoring solutions constantly observe the network and scan for performance issues. When it detects that the network is performing slower than it should be, it will alert you to the problem. An NPM can inform you whether or not the slow performance is network-wide or is contained in on area of your infrastructure. Depending on the tool, it can also perform diagnostics on the problem to help your company understand the issue before it begins troubleshooting. That way, you can start applying potential fixes quicker.
Optimizing network speeds
Sometimes, the issue isn’t about correcting major slowdown issues with your network. You can also use a network monitoring solution to help optimize your network speeds. It’s a safe bet that there are at least a handful of small performance issues that are marginally affecting your network. Even if these issues aren’t causing a huge problem, it’s still in your IT team’s interest to examine them. This way, you can optimize your network’s speed and help it operate even quicker. Fixing problems like this should be done on a case-by-case basis; not every small performance issue will be worth correcting, but depending on the problem, you can increase your network’s efficiency in small but effective ways.
Looking for a solution to help you improve your network performance? Our Network Monitoring Buyer’s Guide contains profiles on the top network performance monitor vendors, as well as questions you should ask providers and yourself before buying.
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- The 8 Best Wireless Routers for Businesses in 2022 - February 3, 2022 | <urn:uuid:50521e5e-469c-4b72-a557-607d17d2c1b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://solutionsreview.com/network-monitoring/how-to-avoid-a-slow-network-with-network-monitoring/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.920925 | 722 | 1.625 | 2 |
Corn on the sole of feet
A doc friend of mine developed a painful corn on foot with cracked heels and peeling skin. The corn was surgically removed but came back.
The history was that this happened after vaccination. I gave carcinosin and low dose Epstein barr which removed the heel cracks and stopped the skin peeling. The corn started to shrink but was still painful.
I called her back to ask if there were any other symptoms. She said for years she has had severe constipation with anal constriction. She has been through various procedures to dilate the anus but it contracts.
She is a very calm person and lycopodium didnt fit. I still tried it but it didnt work.
Lastly i gave her curzinc 2 weeks ago. The constipation and anal constriction cleared away in 5 days and this is todays corn picture below. Complete healing is seen with no remaining pain. She has some lingering anal pain from previous multiple dilation attempts which is slowly healing now
Zinc role in removing various infections from viral to bacterial is well known but pushing it inside the bugs to kill them has been very difficult, with curzinc we can push zinc to places it needs to go. Post vax corn is always ebv, we have treated post vax penile ulcers also with carc and ebv. This case shows the role of zinc in eliminating these bugs and the role of curzinc in healing the gut treating the chronic constipation. | <urn:uuid:fd92c062-44c9-4328-aba5-76fa9ffc18ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tariqjagmag.com/2022/07/27/corn-on-feet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.983039 | 302 | 1.765625 | 2 |
How to raise a bilingual child: Online workshops for parents
Learning a second language has become an essential component on the 21st century. There are clear benefits of learning a language, however, there isn’t enough support for parents. The worshop will cover practical activities, strategies at home, resources and questions/answers.
Date: 30th Septmber
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Electrostatic analyzers (ESAs), in various forms, are used to measure plasma in a range of applications. In this article, we describe how ions reflect from the interior surfaces of an ESA, the detection of which constitutes a fundamentally nonideal response of ESAs. We demonstrate this effect by comparing laboratory data from a real ESA-based space instrument, the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument, aboard the NASA New Horizons spacecraft, to results from a model based on quantum mechanical simulations of particles reflected from the instrument's surfaces combined with simulations of particle trajectories through the instrument's applied electrostatic fields. Thus, we show, for the first time, how reflected ions in ESAs lead to nonideal effects that have important implications for understanding the data returned by these instruments, as well as for designing new low-background ESA-based instruments. Specifically, we show that the response of SWAP widens considerably below a level of 10-3 of the peak response. Thus, a direct measurement of a plasma distribution with SWAP will have an energy-dependent background on the order of ≤ 10-3 of the peak of the signal due to that distribution. We predict that this order of magnitude estimate for the background applies to a large number of ESA-based instruments because ESAs operate using a common principle. However, the exact shape of the energy-dependent response will be different for different instruments. The principle of operation is that ions outside the ideal range of energy-per-charge are deflected into the walls of the ESA. Therefore, we propose that a new design paradigm is necessary to mitigate the effect of ion reflections and thus accurately and directly measure the energy spectrum of a plasma using ESAs. In this article, we build a framework for minimizing the effect of ion reflections in the design of new ESAs. Through the use of existing computer simulation software, a design team can use our method to quantify the amount of reflections in their instrument and iteratively change design parameters before fabrication, conserving resources. A possible direction for the new design paradigm is having nonsolid walls of the ESA, already used in some applications.
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A Logistic Approach for Kinetics of Isothermal Pyrolysis of Cellulose
[Abstract] A kinetic model is proposed to fit isothermal thermogravimetric data obtained from cellulose in an inert atmosphere at different temperatures. The method used here to evaluate the model involves two steps: (1) ...
Properties of Mosquito Repellent-Plasticized Poly(lactic acid) Strands
[Abstract] Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is an attractive candidate for replacing petrochemical polymers because it is fully biodegradable. This study investigated the potential of PLA as a sustainable and environmentally friendly ...
Near Room Temperature Dielectric Transition in the Perovskite Formate Framework [(CH₃)₂NH₂][Mg(HCOO)₃]
(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012-05)
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We have some sad news to report. Bill 24 – the legislation that guts environmental regulations, weakens measures that protect pigs from barn fires, and opens the door to pig industry expansion in Manitoba, passed earlier this week. Unsurprisingly, Manitoba Pork has been quoted as saying it fully expected the bill to pass. If one thing became clear during the public hearings, it’s that the conservatives planned to push the bill through, regardless of the ethical and environmental implications of it. Perhaps also unsurprisingly, on the day of the bill’s passing, Manitoba Pork increased its estimate for the number of barns it hopes to build from 80 to 100.
Just a few days prior, 7,500 sows and piglets burned to death in a massive barn fire. The barn was located in a Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea “buffer zone”, leading to wide speculation that the barn had been infected.
Thank you to everyone who fought to prevent this bill from being passed. The fight will now move to the municipal level where we’ll continue to work to block building of the new barns individually as they are proposed. We will never give up – it’s the least the pigs deserve.
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Fort Worth TX Auto Body Repair
What is Fender Repair?
whats a fender?
A fender is a part of the car that frames a wheel well. Its purpose is to prevent sand, mud, rocks, liquids, and other road debris from being thrown into the air by the rotating tire. One of the most common areas of your car to be damaged in a collision is a fender. A fender can have anything from a tiny ding to a serious dent.
There are three classifications of fender repair and damage: Minor, Moderate and Severe.
Minor Fender Damage
Minor fender damage can happen from a variety of everyday car activity, It is possible that your fender can be repaired easily, without the need for a full paint job, if the damage is minor. The most common causes for minor fender damage that we see are from:
- Door Frame Dents
- Shopping Cart Dings
- Bad Weather
- Rocks and pebbles
Moderate Fender Damage
If your fender is damaged more than just a slight ding, this is considered a moderate fender damage. If you accidentally bump into a utility pole or drive into a small ditch, this could lead to what qualifies as moderate fender damage. Our technicians have worked on all types of fender repairs and will determine the extent of damage and suggest the best repair method.
Severe Fender Damage
A major car accident is the most common cause of severe fender damage that we frequently see at our shop. Depending on the severity, you may require a complete fender replacement.
In that case, we use only the highest-quality parts so you know your replacement fender will be a perfect match to your vehicle. We use an innovative paint matching system to ensure there is no difference between your new fender and the rest of the car.
Five Star Autoplex Can Help
Our Fender Bender Repair Goals
- Fully restoring the performance and safety of the vehicle
- Perfectly restoring the exterior appearance of your vehicle.
- Provide lasting repairs with high quality replacement parts and paint
- Offer honest pricing and an unbeatable customer experience.
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Why Choose Us
- Industry Leading Paint-Matching Technology
- Highest-Quality OEM Materials
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- Hassle Free Negotiation with Insurance Company
- 30 yrs Of Collision Repair Experience
- Fast, Quality Lifetime Warranty Service
File an Insurance Hail Damage Claim: Step-by-Step Guide
Let’s Get Started!
Step 1: Call Your Insurance Company
Call your insurance claims department to report your fender damage for your car insurance claim number. From there, they will guide you to make your claim.
Take note of the claim number they give you. This number is specific to you, your vehicle, and the damage done to your car.
Step 2: Call or Text 817-656-3500
After you’ve filed your auto damage car insurance claim, simply call Five Star Autoplex at 817-656-3500. We will pair you with a claims specialist who will schedule a time that works best for you to drop off your vehicle or have it looked at.
Don’t have time to drop it off? No problem! We offer FREE pickup-delivery.
We make it fast and easy! We merge several steps by having your insurance adjuster come to our shop and write the estimate on your vehicle. Adjusters can give the most accurate estimate in our shop because we wash, light, and locate all damage on your vehicle before they arrive! This takes the guess work out for everyone!
We handle all the “car talk” with your insurance company for you!
Step 3: Choose Your FREE Rental Car
Once you’ve dropped off your vehicle, or called to have it picked up, we will have a FREE rental of your choice scheduled for your use if needed.
We know life doesn’t stop, even after car damage, so we offer rental cars for you use at your will throughout the duration of your car’s repair. Sit back, relax and go about the rest of your day! Even if your insurance doesn’t cover a rental, we will still provide it free of charge!
Step 4: Leave the Repair to Us
Once the auto damage car insurance claim adjuster has seen the vehicle and has written the final estimate, we can start repairing! Wait time on this process varies on the insurance company.
Our advanced technicians will begin repairing your vehicle, which usually takes only 2 – 7 days, depending on the damage’s extent. Innovative technology, special tools and years of training allow our team of technicians to expertly provide a complete restoration, lifetime guaranteed!
Step 5: Your Car is Brand New!
Once your car is repaired, we will provide a FREE wash and detail.
Due to COVID-19, our team offers a complimentary double sanitation service where we fully sanitize the interior of your car before and after we work on it. Trust that your car is squeaky clean inside and out, in way better condition than how it was brought to us.
We will contact you to pick up your vehicle but if you can’t pick it up, we also offer FREE delivery, just call us and ask!
Simply drive your free rental car to the rental location. They will transport you to our site, and there you will inspect your vehicle and make sure you are 100% satisfied with the repair. If not, we have a 100% lifetime warranty so if you aren’t happy with our service, just bring it back and we’ll take care of it.
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Last week I was asked to give a presentation comparing Java web frameworks for an upcoming project. This is very similar to the a presentation given by Matt Raible, so I started there to see what he had to say. He’s obviously done a lot of work with the appfuse project which supports a pretty impressive number of frameworks out of the box. I’d highly recommend folks checkout the documentation he’s done over the years and even watch his presentation from past conferences.
After going through his slides and presentations there are a few comments I’d like to toss in. For the most part, Matt is a pretty objective reviewer of the frameworks, but his bias is definitely from the point of view of a web developer and not a Java developer. There’s nothing wrong with that, but some of the points he makes aren’t really valid for me as a straight up Java developer. The best point made in is presentation is, Use whatever tool is right for your project/team. There is no one web framework that will be best for all projects.
Before plunging into the various frameworks, a very important decision must be made. The most often overlooked question when choosing a web framework is what programming paradigm are you looking for? Do you want a component or an action based framework? Choosing between component or action frameworks is as important as choosing what language you’ll use. I would personally make this decision before choosing the actual framework. Since most developers don’t know the difference between the two, here’s a brief intro:
Action frameworks focus mainly on request/response processing. They tend to have a lower barrier to entry and are more simplistic than component oriented frameworks. Action frameworks tend to be very procedural with little reuse of code/components or object oriented design (ever tried to reuse components with JSP?). Even the coveted Ruby on Rails falls into this category (though it is a fantastic action framework).
Component frameworks remove the restriction of basic “request/response” processing and focus on object oriented web design. It takes a considerable mind shift to work with component frameworks, but the benefits include developing object oriented applications where components/widgets can be reused across the application very easily. Developers strong in Java and Object Oriented design will have an easier time picking up Component frameworks while developers more familiar with procedural or scripting frameworks will take some time adjusting.
And now, the abbreviated version of my presentation…
Struts…sucks…that includes Struts2
Spring MVC…would you like some Java with your xml?
JSF…you’ve got to be kidding me
It’s just that simple! =) This version of the presentation was a big hit, but if you need more explanation, here you go…
Spring MVC is a Model2/Action web framework built on top of the popular spring framework library. It builds on the standard concepts of Models, Views, and Controllers and adds a well defined lifecycle for binding, validation, etc.
Many parts of the framework are pluggable. You can choose from several different view layers (JSP, Velocity, Freemarker, etc). The framework is sometimes too flexible and causes confusion on how to best accomplish a task.
Lots of configuration in xml is necessary. Even with the new annotation support, you’ll still need to feel comfortable with xml to configure many parts of the system.
Developers will need to understand core Java concepts such as Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection in order to be productive with Spring MVC (or Spring in general).
Spring MVC is a bare bones web framework which is very customizable, but comes with very little out of the box. Everything from security to redirect-after-post to ajax must be built within your webapp.
NOTE: Every web framework offers integration with spring, so it is not necessary to use Spring MVC in order to use spring for your business/service layer.
Struts2 is another Model2 web framework that has been around much longer than Spring MVC. It’s an evolution of the legacy struts framework and integrated with the popular WebWork framework. It is more mature than Spring MVC with a larger community of developers and users.
The Struts2 API is fairly complex since they have abstractions in place to mask working with HTTP specific implementations. It takes quite a bit of time to learn the “Struts2 way” (ex: interceptors). Finding documentation and user support is frustrating since there is still such a large community around the legacy Struts1 framework.
Requires lots of configuration using either annotations or xml files.
Quite a few user contributed plugins of varying quality.
Able to work with a variety of view technologies (JSP, Velocity, Freemarker). Provides a number of utility tags to output common constructs (form inputs, etc). The default rendering of the tags can be customized to fit the look/layout you need.
Very powerful library used for rendering view layer (OGNL) can be useful, but has very poor feedback so if anything goes wrong, you’ll have extreme difficulty figuring it out. Wicket used to use OGNL and ditched it in favor of a simpler/easier to understand custom library.
JSF is the “Standard” component framework created by the JCP and distributed as part of Java EE systems. Using JSF requires running a full-blown Java application server, and can not be run on standard servlet containers without extra work.
Although the JSF design is a standard, there is no standard implementation. There are several implementations of the standard, each with strengths/weaknesses. For example, Seam is a particular JSF implementation that has gained a lot of traction recently, but building a “Seam” application is not the same as building a “JSF” application. Building to a Standard API is intended to allow for portability between implementations, but that is far from reality. Since you end up building to a specific implementation, why build with a standard at all?
Considerable ramp up time and tool support is a requirement to be productive. Instead of just working with standard Java and HTML, you end up locking into a particular toolset. The tools get you up and running very quickly, but you pay for the convenience since you can only build what the tool supports and they restrict how much you can do with the internal framework.
Simple things are definitely not simple. JSF relies on tools to do all of the grunt work instead of having simple conventions or sensible defaults. JSP’s become cluttered and unreadable very quickly with all of the custom tags required. Design of JSF is targeted for internal/intranet applications and does not easily support web security or bookmarkable urls because of this.
Releases are far and few between. Since JSF is designed by committees, it takes an extremely long time to agree upon new features. For example, AJAX took the world by storm over the past few years and all of the other major web frameworks were able to evolve to accommodate AJAX, while JSF still lags behind.
User community is very absent. Commercial JSF vendors are the only people actually using (and selling) this stuff. Very few open source plugins/components available.
Wicket is a component based framework with an API more similar to building Swing applications than traditional Model2 web applications. It has a much smaller learning curve than other component based frameworks (ex: JSF, Tapestry).
Wicket is the only framework that provides for a true separation of concerns where the view layer is standard HTML and behavior/logic is captured in Java. This allows for a team of web designers to use standard WYSIWYG HTML editors to build the UI without any knowledge of programming languages or tag library syntax. This is in stark contrast to all other frameworks that require lots of custom tags and logic to litter the view layer causing the page to not be previewable outside a running application.
Out of the box Ajax support makes it easy to build Web 2.0 applications.
Wicket has an extremely active community. Questions asked on the mailing lists are answered by core developers within minutes. It is now a top level project at Apache, and has seen a huge increase in popularity with the recent 1.3 release. There are a large number of user contributed projects (wicket-extensions, wicketstuff) that provide extensions and integrations with other libraries (hibernate, spring, scriptaculous, rss/atom generation, etc).
It’s FUN! Seriously, it took me ten minutes to build my first webapp with wicket. Try it and see for yourself.
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Bitcoin is a decentralized, peer to peer, digital currency system, designed to administer online users the chance to to process transactions via digital unit of exchange known as Bitcoins. In other words, it can be a virtual currency.
The Bitcoin system was created a year 2009 by an undisclosed programmer(s). Since then, Bitcoin has garnered huge attention as well as controversy as an alternative to US dollar, Euros and commodity currencies such as gold and an extremely.
Rise to Popularity
Bitcoin we hadn’t attained much attention ultimately world of business and finance before 2011 2009. It rose to prominence a 2011-2012 period when it gained over 300%. Bitcoin has any 400% development in its value since the August of last twelve months. As a result, venture capital firms and investors across the world still pay importance to the cryptocurrency.
In one half of 2014, capital raising firms invested $57 million in Bitcoin in the first quarter, with another $73 million previously second quarter amounting any total of $130 million, which is 50% as compared to last year’s total of $88 mil. This is a thorough contrast to the scenario in 2012 where Bitcoin firms amassed a fairly meagre sum of $2.2 million.
These statistics prove certainly that Bitcoin is worth your investment, which begs the question, how are you able to buy and invest in Bitcoin?
A guideline for novice investors in Bitcoin
The easiest and least complicated method devote in Bitcoin is by ordering bitcoins. Many a lot of established firms, mainly in the US also as abroad, who may take place in enterprise of buying and selling bitcoins, abbreviated as BTC.
If tend to be living inside of U.S. then Coinbase is the place you’re looking for. Coinbase provides it’s clients with BTC in an estimated mark up of 1% over the present market price. Residents of our great have selection to sync their Coinbase wallets using bank records. As a result, future payment transfers made hassle open. This company also gives you the option of automatic bitcoin buying sometimes. For instance, if you’re interested to purchase $50 in bitcoins at the beginning every and every month, Coinbase allows a person set up an auto buy for the amount.
Be aware about the finer points before begin to take advantage of this service. Should have subscribed to an automatic bit coin service, anyone will not be able to control the price at which your BTC is bought week after week. Note that Coinbase is does not function like a Bitcoin exchange i.e. you buy and sell the coins directly from the firm. Since the firm has to source the coins from other buyers, feasible face delays or disruptions when laying orders during fast market moves.
BitStamp suits the requirements of a regular bitcoin send. Bitcoin acts for intermediary makes it possible for you to trade with the other users and not necessarily the company itself. Here the liquidity is higher and you always have a good chance identify someone is actually willing to trade along with you. There a initial fee of 2.5% which can be reduced to 0.2% if you trade $150,000 in the perfect opportunity of period.
Alternative ways to purchase Bitcoins
Exchanging isn’t only knack of investment in bitcoins. Local Bitcoins commonly used to buy BTC offline. The website developed to to link potential clientele sellers. The bitcoins are locker from the seller a great escrow allow it to only be released to clientele.
Buying bitcoins offline isn’t always very reliable or tested. Hence it’s preferable to the sellers during daytime and let a friend tag combined with you just in case things go south.
Bitcoin is not just equipment can definitely trend. Investment capital firms consider Bitcoin to a decent substitute to standard currency in the long run. Will be the major cointless methods of you to get in the sphere of bitcoin investment. Let me before, Coinbase, BitStamp and native Bitcoins are the most popular channels for investing in bitcoin a United Areas. Do your homework to get out which of these avenues ticks each and every boxes. | <urn:uuid:5d35380f-14ba-489f-94db-65a08b7e178b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://beamon.maddestmaximvs.com/page/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942978 | 840 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Zebra sharks are a type of carpetshark, a category of small, prominently colored or patterned sharks that live in shallow water.
Coloration is brown with a lighter, yellow underbelly and vertical stripes and spots covering its body
Body is cylindrical
Snout is short and blunt
Head is flattened
Eyes are small and on either side of the head
The zebra shark is torpedo-shaped, with a rounded snout, small eyes, and a small mouth with 50-67 small teeth designed to suck prey out of the sand.
Female zebra sharks will lay up to four egg cases, which are generally dark brown to purple-black in color. These egg cases will remain on the ocean floor for up to six months, held in place by tendrils which snag them in the substrate. Upon emerging, pups are 8 to 10 inches (20 to 26 centimeters) long. Juveniles will have a striped pattern on their body which changes to spots as they mature.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed the zebra shark population as Endangered due to ongoing threats from fishing and habitat loss and suspected reductions of over 50% of its population within three generations. Endangered populations are defined as being at a very high risk of extinction in the wild.
60 to 70 inches (150 to 180 centimeters)
Mollusks and small bony fish
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Tiger Eye Cufflink Ankers
This stone is widely known for its silky and lustrous appearance with alternating yellow or brown bands that roll across the surface. The brown color is derived from iron oxides. Roman soldiers wore Tigereye for protection in battle because it was thought to be 'all seeing' due to its appearance.
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“Just For Fun!” review by Kevin Butler
Local: WNEW TV Ch.5 NYC
Saturday Mornings: Saturday Mornings:Saturday October 3,1959-Saturday September 4,1965.
Hosts: Sonny Fox (10/3/59-7/31/65)
“Uncle Fred” Scott (8/7/65-9/4/65)
In the fall of 1959..Sonny Fox’s wife Gloria was expecting another child.Her husband went to the station execs At WNEW TV C.5 and asked them for a pay raise.
The station execs refused his request for a pay raise, but they did offer Sonny an ulternitive.If he could create, produce and present another kids tv series for Ch.5’s saturday morning scheduale?
They would pay him more monies for mc’ing that program.
Not wanting to host a saturday morning edition of the station’s popular sunday morning kids’ variety program: “Wonderama!”, Fox began to tinker with different concepts.
His thoughts soon went back to the days.when he and the members of his bunk at summer camp were engaged in “The Color Wars”, a series of stunts that the campers played in teams, in order to earn points and win prizes.
Using this idea as the basis for the show’s format and hiring former WOR TV Ch.9 NYC producer and director: Bob Cahn (Who was one of the first producer/director’s of Ch.9 “Merry Mailman” )to help create the games.Sonny And Bob presented their concept to the heads of WNEW TV.
Impressed with the format..the station gave the show the green light and “Just For Fun!”made it’s debut on Ch.5 on Saturday morning October 3,1959.(the show’s theme music was the theme tune from The Bing Crosby/Fox movie musical”High Time”which was composed and arranged by Henry Mancini)
Every week Sonny put the members of “The Blue, The Gold And The White” Teams thru their paces. As they tried to throw LP discs thru a hanging target without breaking it or placing a tennis ball ontop of a vacum cleaner hose and balancing the ball on a cushion of air, as they tried to get the ball into a paper cup.
Two of the show’s most unique segments were: “The Mystery Chest” where one boy or girl had to try and find a certain key hidden inside of a large bowl..the right key would open a chest and when the chest was opened.
A siren was heard throughout the studio and that lucky kid would win a treasure chest full of toys and games from the show’s
The other segment was”The Mystery Guest”, based on the popular feature of Mark Goodson’s Sunday Night CBS TV Game Show” What’s My Line?!”. A panel of three kids (made up from members of the three teams)would try to find out the identity of the “Mystery Guest” by asking the guest questions..while blindfolded.
Such well known performers and personalities as Dayton Allen, Huntz Hall,Joe Flynn,Tim Conway,Carl Ballantine.Billy Sands,Jimmy Nelson, Paul Winchell,Chuck McCann & Paul Ashley,Mickey Mantel,Charolette Rae and Yogi Bera would engage the kids in the fun.(“The Mystery Guest”segment would be revived two decades later on WWOR TV Ch.9’s”Steampipe Alley”) | <urn:uuid:9a47bbcf-a148-47c4-9a92-7e8d2dd2be91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.skooldays.com/blog/just-for-fun/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95292 | 787 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Christoph Trinkl helps people to make wise decisions. Who look around, quickly realizes that savers and investors currently almost exclusively from their sense of Act, assumptions about the crisis keep them for facts and only a few are looking for decision alternatives. For Christoph Trinkl are typical reactions that increasingly occur in particular in crisis situations. Trinkl, who is working as a decision coach in Kirchseeon in Munich knows that especially the naked fear the money drives savers and investors, emotionally to make decisions without carefully weighing the pros and cons. To read more click here: Martin O?Malley. While a panicked and made the others like a rabbit before the snake feel, decide anything better, because they are completely confused by the negative news and the complexity of the crisis\”, said the expert. Top Forex: peace save for the thinking errors that make, that accumulating especially in times of crisis, is one of Trinkls experience, that it is often only about, a Maladministration from the world to create, no matter what it wants. \”Who but not thought about whether he starts at the crucial point, produces often nothing more than a consequence problem\”, so the decision coach. Tan therefore advises to remain calm and to look to fix the really relevant points with distance to the events or the problem.
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The smelly beach side community of El Segundo may be losing one of its most famous landmarks. The City's power plant stacks may be coming down to make way for a new resort development along the beach. Last week, the ES City Council voted 3-1 to begin the process of a rezone of the power plant land for commercial uses. City staffers believe the 33-acre site may present opportunities to attract revenue from tourists to a new hotel/resort destination. The Daily Breeze notes that a hotel resort in El Segundo could result in $3 million annually in bed taxes. If built, it would be the only beach resort operating between Santa Monica and Huntington Beach. It would also likely be the smelliest. Now if they could only get rid of that Chevron refinery and wastewater treatment plant. Oh, and the noise from the airport, too. What a great place to vacation.
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There is no denying that starting and running a successful business requires a lot of dedication and proper planning. One aspect that is important for your business to thrive properly is purchasing business insurance. The insurance will provide your business with adequate protection from a number of risks that it may face on a daily basis.
For example, you may wake up one day and discover that your entire company has been engulfed in flames. Or, you may face costly lawsuits from customers who claim compensation for damages or injuries they sustained while in your company.
With the numerous coverage options available on the market, it is important that you do extensive research before you buy a policy. Here are four things to consider before you purchase insurance for your business.
Shop around for different insurance providers
Before deciding which types of insurance you should purchase for your business, it is recommended that you shop around for different insurance providers. The thing is every insurance provider offers multiple options, all of which may vary in price and can suit different business needs.
If you are a startup company, it is best that you consult with a reliable insurance broker to help you along. Make sure you get different commercial insurance quotes, so you can purchase the insurance coverage that best fits your budget, needs, and preferences.
Know the different business insurance types
When choosing a business insurance coverage for your company, it is important that you get familiar with the most common types of insurance plans available. These include general liability insurance, product liability insurance, professional liability insurance, and workers’ compensation.
General liability insurance is suitable for small businesses and provides protection against payments as a result of bodily injury, property damage, medical expense, libel slander, lawsuits, and settlement bonds. Product liability insurance, on the other hand, is a type of insurance coverage suitable for businesses that sell a product, as it can cover any legal costs if the product has caused harm to customers.
Professional liability insurance, for instance, is similar to product liability insurance as it provides protection against harm caused by the services you provide. Workers’ compensation insurance covers businesses when employees become sick or injured at work.
Other common types of business insurance include business owner’s policy, commercial property insurance, and business income coverage.
Beware of the terms and conditions
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If you change your business, make sure you also update your insurance provider. All policy changes should be in writing.
Consider your business’s location
You might want to consider the geographic location of your business before you choose an insurance provider. It is recommended that you only work with local insurers because the risk levels in different regions are different. That’s why it is important to find an insurer that serves your region. In addition, in case of an emergency, an insurer that has an office near you will be able to respond quicker.
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IFAT Africa is the leading environmental technology trade fair in sub-Saharan Africa focusing on water, sewage, waste and recycling. The next edition will take place from July 9 until 11, 2019.
Meet the Dutch water sector at IFAT Africa
Reuse of industrial waste water and water efficiency is high on the agenda at IFAT Africa. The Dutch water sector will be represented in the Holland Pavilion in booth D33. The theme of the pavilion is 'Co-creating solutions for water efficiency'. It is the ideal location to meet Dutch water experts and to talk business.Read more
Full spectrum of technology behind water
With an exhibition space of 6,000 square meters, IFAT Africa 2017 witnessed 152 exhibitors from 16 countries and 1,800 visitors from 38 countries. The next edition of the biennial event will take place at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg, co-located with analytica Lab Africa and food & drink technology Africa. This collaboration brings the full spectrum of the technology behind water, sewage, refuse and recycling, food and beverage production, and laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology and diagnostics.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote an op-ed for the Capitol Times praising Arizona Corporation Commission Chairwoman Lea Márquez Peterson for her prior support of common-sense clean energy rules that would reduce electricity rates and attract more business to the state. She voted in favor of these rules last fall.
However, when those same rules were up for a final vote last week at the commission’s May 5 meeting, Márquez Peterson preformed one of the most stunning and inexplicable flip-flops imaginable.
She voted in favor of Commissioner Justin Olson’s amendment to dramatically weaken the rule she had staunchly defended in the weeks leading up to the vote. In fact, Márquez Peterson had rejected Olson’s very same motion back in November.
The four years of analysis, debate, and stakeholder involvement she often touted no longer mattered. Her claims that the new rules would be “an economic development driver for the state” no longer mattered. Strong support for the rules by Arizona Public Service, Tucson Electric Power, and Southwest Gas no longer mattered.
Her stated excuse for this acrobatic reversal was that she “could not in good conscience support a rule in which we did not know the financial impact to the ratepayer.”
The problem with that argument is that we do know what the financial impact to the ratepayer would have been: cheaper electricity!
There is no mystery here. Due to aging coal and gas generating plants becoming more costly to maintain and operate, electricity from those sources costs between $45 and $80 per megawatt hour (MWh). New solar plants generated electricity paired with storage for night generation is selling for between $14 and $25 per MWh—and that price is locked in for the next 20 years!
One does not exactly need to be a math whiz to figure this out.
The proposed Energy Rules would have moved Arizona to 100 percent clean energy by 2050. Clean energy being primarily solar and nuclear, two sources that play to Arizona’s strengths.
The only conceivable wild card regarding price would be if utilities were forced to retire existing coal or gas plants early. But that is not the case. Remember, we are talking about 2050. By that time, every existing coal or gas plant will already be well beyond its projected life.
That is why it was so easy for APS and TEP to support the proposed Energy Rules.
The low cost of solar and storage has dramatically transformed the energy market in the Southwestern U.S. over the past several years. That is why in 2019 the Nevada legislature unanimously passed a renewable energy standard of 50% by 2030. Every single Republican voted for it!
Why? Because they did the math and realized that overreliance on aging power plants and out-of-state natural gas was hurting ratepayers.
In fact, all of Arizona’s neighboring states have moved to take advantage of low cost solar for their ratepayers. In addition to Nevada’s 50% renewable standard, New Mexico and California both have a 100% clean by 2045 standard, and numerous localities in southern Utah have enacted 100 percent clean by 2030.
By weakening and thus sinking the rules, Márquez Peterson has ensured that Arizona, with its old and paltry 15% by 2025 standard, will fall far behind those neighboring states in attracting businesses that have set their own internal clean energy goals.
She has also ensured that Arizona families and businesses will see higher utility bills because the state will not be taking full advantage of its massive solar potential and the resulting savings in electricity costs.
The last commission meeting was a troubling example of failed leadership. Márquez Peterson now has a choice. She can double down on her mistake at the expense of Arizona’s future, or she show real leadership by putting the original Rules up for reconsideration in the next few weeks—and take the do over.
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“Working humans are so much more than ‘resources’. This is one of the central lessons of the current crisis.”
So begins a manifesto drafted in the spring of 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which argues that work needs to be democratized, de-commodified and made sustainable.
The Manifesto has been translated in multiple languages and supported across the globe: https://democratizingwork.org/read/#english.
This conversation on Democratizing Work, which will take place on Wednesday, November 18th (11:00 EST), is an opportunity to bring together its authors with leading representatives and specialists from the world of work in a dialogue about the Manifesto and current priorities for the pandemic and beyond.
To participate: advance registration is required. Register on https://bit.ly/35Zi3hL
Marguerite Mendell (Concordia University)
Gregor Murray (Université de Montréal)
Julie Battilana (Harvard University)
Isabelle Ferreras (Université catholique de Louvain)
Lana Payne (UNIFOR)
Andrew Jackson (Broadbent Institute)
Esteban Kelly (U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives)
Jim Stanford (Centre for Future Work)
Note that a similar event will take place with other participants in French on Tuesday, November 17th from 9:30 to 11:10 (EST).
The Conversation on Democratizing Work is an initiative of the CRIMT Partnership on Institutional Experimentation for Better Work, the Karl Polanyi Institute, and Industry 4.0, Work and Employment of the International Observatory of the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology
Biographical details on the participants
Julie Battilana : Julie Battilana is one of the coauthors of The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Remediate. Julie is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation and Change Initiative.
Isabelle Ferreras : Isabelle Ferreras is one of the coauthors of The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Remediate. She is a tenured senior fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation. She is a professor of sociology at the Université catholique de Louvain where she teaches in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, at the Institut des sciences du travail and at the Economics School of Louvain. Since 2004, she has been an associate of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. In the spring 2017, Ferreras was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts of Belgium, Class Technology and Society. Isabelle is also a researcher and coordinator in the CRIMT Partnership on Institutional Experimentation for Better Work.
Andrew Jackson : Andrew Jackson is the former Director of Social and Economic Policy at the Canadian Labour Congress. He was the Packer Professor of Social Justice at York University and is currently senior policy adviser at the Broadbent Institute (broadbentinstitute.ca. Author of Work and Labour in Canada, now in its third edition, his new book, The Fire and the Ashes: Rekindling Democratic Socialism will appear in spring, 2021 (btlbooks.com/book/the-fire-and-the-ashes.
Esteban Kelly : Esteban Kelly is the Executive Director for the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (usworker.coop) and is a worker-owner and co-founder of AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance), a worker co-op that builds capacity for social justice projects through intersectional training and consulting. Esteban is a compassionate leader and visionary strategist who inspires organizers by drawing on science fiction, social theory, and collective liberation. He is an advisor to the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table, and he represents the US on the board of the international worker co-op association known as “CICOPA.” To support the US Federation of Worker Co-ops work, visit : https://bit.ly/36ywHx1
Marguerite Mendell : Margie Mendell, economist, is Director of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy and Distinguished Professor Emerita, School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University. She is also a researcher in the Industry 4.0, Work and Employment Axis of OBVIA. Her engaged research on the social and solidarity economy and processes of economic democratization is inspired by the work of Karl Polanyi.
Gregor Murray: Gregor holds the Canada Research Chair on Globalization and Work at the School of Industrial Relations at the Université de Montréal. He is Director of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and of the CRIMT Partnership on Institutional Experimentation for Better Work. He is also a researcher in the Industry 4.0, Work and Employment Axis of OBVIA. Gregor’s research focus is on making work better.
Lana Payne : Lana Payne was elected to the role of Secretary-Treasurer by more than 1,800 delegates at Unifor’s Convention in August of 2019 (www.unifor.org). Lana brings over 25 years of inspired leadership to workers in her previous position as Atlantic Regional Director of Unifor. She has built Unifor through consistent, powerful and vocal leadership. In 2014, she was named one of Canada’s 23 Bold Women of Vision.
Jim Stanford : Jim Stanford is Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work (centreforfuturework.ca. He divides his time between Sydney, Australia and Vancouver, Canada. Jim is one of Canada’s best-known economic commentators. He served for over 20 years as Economist and Director of Policy with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union. To read Stanford’s study Ten Ways to Improve Work After COVID-19 Pandemic, click here : https://bit.ly/3l2seIR
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Mr. Mohammad Younas
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Location: 63-001 and 003
The function of the lab was to teach engineering graphics and drawings that include standard conversion, tolerances and surface finish. Currently, the drafting is done in computer labs using Solid Works.
Courses supported are:
ME 210 - Mechanical Engineering Drawing & Graphics
ME 308 - Machine Design II
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As an electronics hobbyist it seems like everybody has an oscilloscope, but why? What makes it more useful than a volt meter or any other test equipment? Maybe you picked up an advanced bench Oscilloscope for a few hundred dollars or a small handheld one like the Xprotolab around $50 (US). Now what can it really do?
An oscilloscope displays an input Voltage over a defined time frame. This definition while accurate simply scratches the surface of what can be discovered while using an oscilloscope to test a circuit.
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Our intention at OscopeTutorial is to provide some steps to help troubleshoot circuits of all types. Where possible very practical household items will be used for experimenting.
Our greatest challenge is trying to explain concepts so they can be used on all of the available makes and models of Oscilloscopes. There are several older books that are model specific, but those step by step directions become difficult for the beginner to translate to their specific scopes. Please check the "Discussion" tab to ask clarifying questions.
The "Mains" wiring in the wall can be very dangerous to you and your test equipment! Please review the specific article below if you want to test this safely. Also see EEVBlog #279 - How NOT To Blow Up Your Oscilloscope! for an overview of the warnings involved.
Getting Started Start here for some quick tips and other important information about Oscilloscopes.
All electronics need power of some kind. Most people don't know (nor need to know) about the kind of power supply to use or what the differences are.
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The Hornell Common Council has banned smoking, vaping, cannabis and any other kind of tobacco use in any municipal park.
The vote was unanimous during the June meeting in an effort to curb smoking marijuana in parks after it was made legal.
The ordinance was created by the Quality of Life Committee and quickly approved by the Law and Ordinance Committee in an effort to get it in front of the Council before the 4th of July weekend.
Deputy Mayor Jessica Cleveland explained they were trying to get the ordinance in place before any kind of family event took place.
There was no law before, only a resolution requesting there be no smoking in the parks. Now residents can be fined by Hornell Police anywhere between $50 and $250.
Cannabis has also been added to a list of substances that cannot be within 30 feet of bus stops if students are present.
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A thought provoking tour de force - March 25 - 4.00pm - 2022
Professor A C Grayling considers technology, climate and rights
The title was a tad intimidating, especially on such a gorgeous Friday afternoon. After all… ‘Technology, Climate, Justice and Rights: Can We Get the Whole World To Agree On Any of Them?’ is a big ask when you’re in t-shirt and sandal mode. But if anyone can do it, Professor A C Grayling is clearly leading the competition.
For starters, it is always astonishing when someone delivers an intricate, complex and mosaic talk without a single reference to notes (indeed, I don’t believe Grayling used any ). But furthermore, when so much of what a speaker delivers is purposeful, weighty and succinct in equal measure, you can’t help but close down all other outside distractions in order to simply…listen.
Which in this particular case meant chewing over every sentence and weighing every pause, while desperately trying to digest its significance (although it was clear from Grayling’s opening words that not everyone has always agreed with his take on life. “I always stand by the lecturn,” he explained “in case someone throws a shoe. Which shows we can learn from history…”).
On this occasion however there was rapt attention. Subjects as alarming as climate change and Artificial Intelligence were exquisitely dissected and again and again we were left reeling from Grayson’s insights. For instance, how DO we take action to mitigate sea rises, floods and disease caused by climate change. Or the threats posed by new technologies such as genetic engineering of foetuses?
All in all, fascinating, sobering and uncomfortably alarming…
Dinomania for those aged 7 to 99 - April 3 - 3.46pm - 2022
Heard the one about the blood donor scheme for bats…? - April 2 - 11.44am - 2022
As dazzling as the HAL 9000, as entertaining as Woody Allen - April 1 - 3.37pm - 2022
‘Round like a circle in a spiral…’ - March 31 - 6.15pm - 2022
Food for thought - March 31 - 3.32pm - 2022
Fit for Royalty - March 30 - 3.56pm - 2022
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This Thursday, along with children in more than 100 different countries around the world, we’re celebrating the 24th annual World Book Day!
Books are a key part of everyone’s education. However, with the internet becoming an increasingly common learning resource, books risk being marginalised. At The Manor CofE VC Primary School, we still recognise the importance of books in helping children to learn, develop, and discover new worlds. World Book Day is an amazing opportunity for us to help our pupils understand what reading has to offer.
All the children at The Manor School (& staff!) have been invited to dress up as a book character or to create a hat based on a book! We are holding a Celebration Worship in the morning to highlight the fantastic costumes and hats everyone is wearing! All the teachers have wrapped up a book of their choice and will be sharing 2 clues to see if the children can guess which book they have.
During the day, children will be taking part in World Book Day activities and the class teachers will all be sharing a new story with them. In the afternoon, we're also holding a Family Book Quiz! Families are invited to join Mrs Gordon and Miss Shires in a quiz.
When we go back to school, to continue our World Book Day excitement, we are having an art day to create displays linked to the story 'Rain before Rainbows.' Each class has been assigned a page to re-create so we are able to tell the story around the school.
Developing a reading habit opens a world of endless possibilities to our children. Every different book is unique and there are books to suit and challenge everyone. Whether a six-year-old wants to know more about their favourite dinosaur or a 15-year-old wants to get lost in a story of adventure, there is always a book that is perfect for them.
Our celebrations promote the underlying message that reading is not only important for learning, but is also a wonderful hobby. Helping pupils become lifelong learners is an important goal for The White Horse Federation and its schools, and we want our World Book Day celebrations to encourage all our pupils to get into the habit of opening up a book. | <urn:uuid:a7063473-467a-4d3f-8b46-88d4d0cbd0a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.themanor-school.co.uk/school-news/world-book-day-and-the-joy-of-reading | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962145 | 447 | 3.0625 | 3 |
UFM Underwear – Nonsurgical Option For Male Incontinence
A medical symptom, Incontinence is not a disease but is treated like one. According to the definition, it is a condition that leads to unintentional leakage of urine. Men and women can experience this condition for a variety of reasons, for instance; after a long illness, because of advancing age or as a side effect of a surgery. Whatever the reason is, men are more likely to experience these symptoms as compared to women.
There are different types of incontinence that all have similar effects – leakage of urine. Read on to find out which category you fit in.
This is experienced when the bladder does not empty out completely and becomes stretched with a large volume of urine. The urine has no other option but to leak out of the overstretched bladder. Another cause of overflow incontinence is that the bladder has lost its contractile power and cannot efficiently squeeze out the urine.
Another popular type, stress Incontinence may occur in males, who have recently undergone a urogenital surgery. You can experience this condition when your urinary sphincter mechanism is disrupted. Loss of urine can be experienced with simple activities such as sneezing, laughing or even standing.
It is the most common type of Incontinence that is caused by over activity of the bladder. Discharge of urine occurs because of the unstoppable urge to empty the bladder. It may be caused by infection, incomplete emptying of the bladder or urethral growth.
This is caused when symptoms of both stress incontinence and urge incontinence are observed at the same time. A person can experience this condition when he is unable to control his urine while sneezing or coughing and is rushing to the bathroom all the time.
A common problem, male Incontinence is not a widely discussed topic. Patients feel embarrassed talking about their condition with their friends and family and hence it remains as one of the most neglected topics. If you are suffering from this disease and feel embarrassed talking about this problem of yours, do you want to avail a nonsurgical method of treatment? If yes, you have come to the right place.
Incontinence can effect both males and females at any age, however, elders are most severely affected. Here is a short guide that will help you to choose the best Incontinence underwear.
When making the decision to choose an Incontinence underwear, people often do not understand the importance of a perfect size. If you do not opt for a perfectly sized underwear, there will be greater chances that the pad will not sit properly and you will experience leakage. UFM underwear has been designed to make the wearer comfortable in his underwear.
While buying the Incontinence underwear, make sure that you are buying one depending on the severity of your condition. UFM underwear is a perfect solution for patients dealing with mild to moderate symptoms of Incontinence.
At UFM – Underwear for Men, we design US patented and Intl patents pending adjustable support underwear that can be used easily by the
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September is the time when festivals are more exciting than ever. When it comes to Austin city in Texas, the Pecan Street Festival is one of the largest fests that you have to experience once in your life.
If you’ve come to the city of Austin, you’ve probably heard that this city has a bunch of festivals. And that means that no matter when you travel to Austin, you would meet at least one festival happening somewhere around the city. This gives Austin visitors and locals plenty of choices to enjoy the weekends.
One of the most well-known festivals in Austin is the Pecan Street Festival. If you don’t want to miss it, then check out all the information about this great event in this post.
1. What Is The Pecan Street Festival?
Known as the largest arts and crafts festival in Texas, the Pecan Street Festival is a free two-day fest held twice yearly by the Pecan Street Association (PSA). The mission of PSA is to preserve and develop the Sixth Street Historic District, so it works as a non-profit organization.
The first celebration of the fest was in 1978. Going through a long journey, it has become bigger and better each year, attracting tourists from all over the world. In the previous celebration, the fest welcomed over 300.000 visitors with amazing live performances and special events.
The Pecan Street Fest attendees are pretty diverse like the city of Austin itself. Some come for the food, some come for the music, and others come to buy artworks. Whatever their interest is, they all have one common purpose: to spend a great time with their friends and family.
2. Where Does The Pecan Street Festival Take Place?
Although the fest is named after Pecan Street in Austin, it’s actually not located there. The fest takes place on 6th Street in the Sixth Street Historic District, which is found between Interstate 35 and Brazos Street.
Offering art galleries, restaurants, bars, this stretch of 6th street is quite popular among world artisans and local people.
3. When Is The Pecan Street Festival?
The Pecan Street Festival usually occurs on the first weekend of May and the last weekend of September every year, from 11 am to 10 pm on Saturdays and from 11 am to 8 pm on Sundays. This year, the festival was held on September 18-19.
4. What Can I Expect To See At This Fest?
The Pecan Street Fest is one of the best places to celebrate the fall season in Texas. Setting foot on the fest, you will never run out of interesting things to do. The festival features plenty of great local tasty food vendors that could please the pickiest eater such as Burros Cheese Kitchen, Kettle Korn Vic’s BBQ, Mighty Cone Hill Country.
Besides, there are a ton of festival special events, live bands, and great live music that give you the best festival experience. You can also find original handcrafted creations from national artisans, from woodwork, metalwork, fiber work, leatherwork, to name a few.
Not only adults but also kids can find a lot of fun at the fest. The Pecan Street Festival has multiple activities for kids, including face painting, children’s rides, kid-friendly street performers, a magical show, and a petting zoo.
To get more information about the music band and vendor lineup for the upcoming Pecan Street fest, you can visit the fest’s official website.
5. What To Wear To The Pecan Street Fest?
The fall season is about to come, and the best thing about fall is that the weather is nice and comfortable. That means you will be able to try different outfits, and it’s kinda flexible.
When it comes to festival outfits, remember one thing: Creativity is key. So don’t be afraid of mixing fabrics, patterns, and colors on your outfits. Festivals are where you can fully use your imagination, even though that could be bold and reckless.
So here are some festival ideas inspired by the past fall festivals. So if you don’t know what to wear to the upcoming fest, you can learn a little bit.
Nothing is more comfortable than a tee. It’s true. But is it a little bit boring to wear tees to festivals? Definitely not. For those who love basic style, a band tee is a must for your festival outfit. They look simple and have a vintage vibe, which goes really well with fall.
For the bottom, shorts match pretty well with a band tee. Add a pair of Doc Marten boots because it is the ultimate shoe for the Pecan Street Festival. You will never have to worry about getting hurt when you stay outside for a couple of hours or being stepped on by other people.
Animal Print Outfits
Zebra print, leopard print, cow print, or any other kind of print is beautiful. Animal print is a great option for a bold and trendy look at the same time. Just wear animal print pants and a basic tee or crop top, you will have heads turning.
Looking around any fest, you could probably see fringe everywhere. A fringe dress makes your look more attractive and brings in the bohemian vibe, definitely suitable for a fall day. There are also a lot of other choices, from fringe skirts, bags, pants, whatever you like. But no matter what you choose, remember to apply sunscreen to not get burned by the sun.
If you have an opportunity to visit Austin, you shouldn’t miss the Pecan Street Festival. We hope that this post will provide you a helpful guide to enjoy the fest with your family and friends.
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It is easy to believe that only the finest food you can prepare in a fancy restaurant should be better than what you could prepare at home. The experts who have been around for a long time now noted a lot of dishes that usually appear in restaurant menus but which actually shine when prepared in the kitchen. You are most likely familiar with the classic steak and chips or the creamy vegetable soup. A number of people may not know that you can prepare a lot more and taste a lot better food at home than you can in restaurants.
It may not seem very practical at first if you think about food preparation at restaurants but once you see how it is done, you will see the logic. At a restaurant, chefs get their start from different aspects of cooking and then they work their way up the food chain. To be an apprentice chef, you need to start with the basic training and then work your way up. If you have good training, you will be able to move from apprenticeship to being the head chef and eventually becoming the CEO of the company or heading your own restaurant. It sounds like a dream come true doesn’t it?
But do you have the cooking skills to become one of these well-known chefs? The answer is yes! Anyone who wants to become a chef should know the basics of food preparation, especially at home, and then work hard at honing their skills in their chosen field. You must always have a clear idea of what is going on in your kitchen at all times and be able to keep your family and guests well informed. If you don’t have the right level of experience, it can be quite difficult to master the skills required to run a successful restaurant.
At home, the kitchen is an extension of the house and there is so much more going on in people’s homes compared to a restaurant. You will need to plan your meals ahead of time, prepare the ingredients ahead of time and prepare and cook each and every meal in advance to ensure that everything cooks through properly. A lot of the preparation for food at home involves thinking about the health of the family and ensuring that everyone is as healthy as possible. Eating unhealthy food can have a number of adverse consequences including diabetes and heart disease. Eating too many fatty foods, high in saturated fats, can also increase your risk of heart attack. As you can imagine, eating healthy foods that are lower in saturated fats and sugar can help prevent heart attack and stroke and improve the blood flow in your body. Healthy food at home is important, because you are more likely to eat them on a regular basis, therefore reducing the chance of developing heart disease.
When planning family meals, remember that many meals are served as part of a larger celebration and you want to have as many guests as possible to share the meal with you and your guests. So you should take extra care with your meal planning. The best thing to do when looking at foods is to read and research the recipes and to think about whether you would like to have one dish prepared for the entire group. This way, you will not have to worry about how to fit in each dish as everyone will be eating and will be happy to share and will probably even ask questions when you are serving the meal. This will also allow you to serve your guests something different to what they expect.
Another important consideration for preparing healthy food is to make sure that your food is prepared and served quickly. This allows you to have time to enjoy the food before the party is over. It is difficult enough cooking a full meal and if the event is too long you may not have the time to finish it in a reasonable amount of time. With the extra time you save, you may consider having more guests at the event or even hosting it at a more attractive venue. This will also help you increase your profit as well, because it is better for your customers to be at a good, attractive venue for their dining experience rather than a place they think they will be uncomfortable. | <urn:uuid:4eab447d-21d1-4678-a4e3-e6230329347a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.hanjip.com/2020/09/02/tips-for-preparing-healthy-food/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.979692 | 808 | 2.515625 | 3 |
New in the background section of the final guidance, FDA says when considering how to meet many regulatory requirements related to data integrity
, it may be useful to ask a series of questions.
So what will cause the issue to be exposed, and how will the improvements in data integrity
be pushed into research?
Applicability - The company should establish requirements and implement programs to provide employees with training on the fundamental principles of data integrity
Working with an LIS that helps protect data and data integrity
has a direct impact on quality and patient safety.
Failing to maintain data integrity
will cost an organization money from regulatory penalties, customer trust, and market position, among other areas.
Section 2 describes the security goals, system model, and the overall architecture of our approach; Section 3 presents the collaborative multicloud data integrity
audition scheme; in Section 4, we make the theoretical analysis and evaluate our protocol on security and performance aspects; Section 5 discusses the related work; and Section 6 concludes the paper.
The proposed work considers remote data integrity
checking is required to secure user's data in multicolor environment and the cloud provides random blocks to verifier for integrity checking which is to protect user privacy from the third party.
(1) By redefining the research problem of data integrity
verification in cloud storage, we introduce a new model through both a high-level architecture and a formal syntax.
Actions cited within those focus areas include 1) providing laboratory expertise for health information technology decision-making in the design, development, and implementation of EHR systems; 2) guiding and maintaining data integrity
and usability to ensure that laboratory data are accurately presented in the EHR and available at the point of care; and 3) partnering with stakeholders to stimulate innovation in EHR technology and usability to reduce laboratory data--related errors attributed to the use of EHR systems.
The underlying problem with ACC data integrity
is that many cardiology providers lack the resources necessary to automate data capture, analysis and reporting.
In the never-ending quest to maintain volume, data integrity
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- Consider marriage and family a life-long commitment, no matter what, just as Christ is eternally committed to His bride, the church, no matter what.
- Agree to listen to each other’s feelings, always, even if you disagree.
- Commit yourself to honesty.
- Attempt and be determined to love each other unconditionally.
Before a “fair fight”
- Consider all factors in a conflict before bringing it up with your family member.
- Confess any personal sin on your part.
- Aim for conflict resolution, not for a win. Remember you both win if the conflict is resolved.
- Pray about each conflict before discussing it.
During a “fair fight”
- Limit the conflict to the here and now. Never bring up past failures.
- Limit the discussion to the issue at hand.
- No name calling or blaming or sneering.
- Your goal is not to get even.
- No excuses, take responsibility for your part.
- Treat a person’s feelings with respect.
- Identify the problem and focus on the problem not the person.
- Attack the problem not the person.
- Listen with an open mind.
When to stop and call Foul
If there are any of the following you need to stop:
- Put downs
- Not taking responsibility
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Objective: To assess the prevalence of depression in secondary school students and its association with socio-demographic status Study Design: Cross-sectional study Place and Duration of Study: Nine student academies located in city Sialkot, Pakistan from August 2019 till January 2020. Material and Methods: The Beck’s Depression Inventory-II (Urdu translated) was administrated to the students to see the prevalence and severity levels of depression. Moreover, the depressive problem was associated with socio-demographic variables e.g. family type (nuclear/joint) or possession of mobile phone of any brands using Chi-square test. Results: Of 208 subjects, 40 revealed depression (prevalence rate = 19.2%: Mild 13.0% and moderate 6.2%).A female student had 5-fold more likelihood of the problem than male under study (95% CI : 2.205 - 11.553, p = .0001). A higher rate of overall depression was seen in students from nuclear (30.1%) compared to joint family system (8.6%) (p = .0001). However, the rate was seen slightly lower in Grade 9 than 10 (18.3 vs. 20.2%, respectively; p = .73).Sadness (58.7%) was found to be a remarkable clinical variable for depression followed by concentration difficulty and self-criticalness. Conclusion: Depression exists among 1/5th population of the secondary school students. There is need of awareness among parents and teachers to help the depressed students.
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Exposure to parental smoking early in life associated with greater carotid IMT in adulthood
Exposure to parental smoking in childhood or adolescence is associated with increased carotid intima-media thickness in young adults: evidence from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study and the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study
Gall S, Huynh QL, Magnussen CG, et al.,
Eur Heart J. 2014 Mar 4. [Epub ahead of print]
BackgroundPassive exposure to cigarette smoke has been shown to affect vascular health, including impaired endothelial function [1,2], arterial stiffness and greater arterial intima-media thickness (IMT)[2,4]. The largest source of passive smoke is parental smoking.
It has recently been demonstrated that exposure to parental smoking in childhood or adolescence is associated with lower brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) in adulthood, independent of own smoking status and traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors . The current study examined the role of exposure to parental smoking in childhood or adolescence on carotid IMT in adulthood, using the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (YFS) cohort and the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) cohort , with follow-up periods of up to 25 years.
- Exposure to both parents smoking earlier in life was associated with greater carotid IMT in adulthood in pooled analyses (mean carotid IMT: 0.653 vs. 0.637 with no smoking parents, P=0.001), as well as in cohort-specific analyses. This association was maintained after adjustment for confounders in childhood and adulthood (0.652 vs. 0.637, P=0.003).
- Having one smoking parent was not associated with carotid IMT in adulthood in pooled analyses (mean carotid IMT: 0.638 with either parent smoking vs. 0.637 with none smoking, P=0.729).
- Adult smoking status did not modify the association between parental smoking in childhood and adult carotid IMT.
- Greater exposure to parental smoking (based on number of smokers) was associated with a significantly greater carotid IMT in adulthood, in both cohorts. This association was largely unaffected by adjustment for age and sex, sociodemographic and health factors at baseline and follow-up, and CV risk factors at follow-up.
ConclusionTwo independent cohorts reveal that adults who were exposed to both parents smoking in childhood or adolescence, had greater carotid IMT than those with one or no parent who smoked. This effect was largely independent of CV risk factors, indicating an irreversible impact of smoke exposure on arterial health later in life. Considering this pervasive effect of cigarette smoke on endothelial function later in life, reducing young people’s exposure to tobacco smoke is a public health priority.
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2. KallioK, Jokinen E, Saarinen M,et al. Arterial intima-media thickness, endothelial function, and apolipoproteins in adolescents frequently exposed to tobacco smoke. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2010;3:196–203.
3. Kallio K, Jokinen E, Hamalainen M, et al. Decreased aortic elasticity in healthy 11-year-old children exposed to tobacco smoke. Pediatrics 2009;123:e267 – e273.
4. Geerts CC, Bots ML, van der Ent CK, et al. Parental smoking and vascular damage in their 5-year-old children. Pediatrics 2012;129:45–54.
5. Juonala M, Magnussen CG, Venn A, et al. Parental smoking in childhood and brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation in young adults: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study and the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2012;32:1024 – 1031.
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A diagnostic radiologist uses imaging techniques like X-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, MRI scans and nuclear medicine scans detect issues and treat patients. When you have sympthoms of a disease, these scans can help other specialists identify the cause.
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Taking up the sport of motorcycle riding can be both healthy and enjoyable. Many studies show that riding a motorcycle improves mental health and reduces stress levels. The adrenaline from riding a motorcycle releases endorphins, which are happy chemicals that improve mood. The increased exposure to the sun also increases Vitamin D absorption, which is good for the mood. And it’s not just the physical benefits that make motorcycle riding a great sport. Read on to learn more about the benefits of riding a motorcycle.
The first step is to check the position of the mirrors. If they aren’t in the right position, you may have to manually turn the handlebar to the left. On the right side of the handlebar, the start button is located next to the throttle handle. This black button must be pressed once the ignition key is in the right position. The left side of the handlebar contains a separate clutch lever. Pulling the handle against the handlebar disengages the clutch and letting go releases it.
Some motorcycles come with speedometers. The rpm (revolutions per minute) of an engine is displayed on them. In some countries, a motorcycle’s speedometer must be lit in the dark. The motorcycle’s speedometer may also have multiple screens or knobs so that the rider can easily switch between the different functions. Another important safety feature is mirrors on both sides. Most countries require motorcycles to have these devices.
A motorcycle is one of the most versatile vehicles ever created. A motorcycle is fun to ride and interesting to learn about. A motorcycle is a vehicle that uses three wheels and has a seat for the rider. The seat keeps the motorcycle upright due to the conservation of angular momentum, which points along the axle. The angular momentum of a motorcycle tends to “want” to go in the same direction. Its unique characteristics allow it to remain upright even during bumpy roads.
The construction of a motorcycle is a complex process that involves a combination of engineering, manufacturing, and assembly. Modern motorcycles typically consist of a steel or aluminium frame, telescopic forks that hold the front wheel, disc brakes, and body parts. They typically have a gasoline-powered engine and a manual or automatic sequential transmission. These transmissions drive the swingarm-mounted rear wheel via a chain or belt.
While the term motorcycle was first coined in the UK, it is used as a synonym for bicycle in the Americas. Some bikers refer to a motorcycle as a “hog,” while some call it a “bike” while some use it as their sole term. It is possible that the word motorcycle is more commonly used in America than in the UK because Americans outnumber the UK and Australia by 860 million. Therefore, the usage of “motorcycle” is relatively low compared to the UK.
A motorcycle license can be obtained through the Driver Services Center in your state. Applicants who have a valid driver’s license in Tennessee may qualify for an exemption from the skills and knowledge tests. This certificate is valid for one year. There are two types of motorcycle licenses available in Tennessee. Both have different requirements. For example, you need to know the difference between a motorcycle license and a bicycle license. If you are applying for a motorcycle license in Tennessee, you may want to get a license from the Department of Motor Vehicles | <urn:uuid:6bf24e32-12ff-4ac2-9697-04ae221e3dd1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://proautoexpert.com/the-benefits-of-riding-a-motorcycle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949323 | 684 | 2.6875 | 3 |
In celebration of Earth Day, the Peralta Community College District hosted the 11thannual EcoFest Sustainability Festival at Laney College on Thursday, April 20, 2017. The festival featured over 100 groups including live music, dancing lessons, local programs, environmental companies and non-profits, exhibitors featuring sustainable goods, and food trucks.
ReThink Disposable participated as a sponsor and educated and engaged the campus community at a booth to showcase the results of the Laney College campus litter study that Clean Water Action conducted with 55 student volunteers in March, 2017. Our goal was to identify sources of trash on campus in order to stop litter before it pollutes Peralta Creek, which flows through the campus and drains into the San Lorenzo Bay, a designated trash-impaired hot spot in the city of Oakland.
In just one hour, over 2,600 pieces of litter were collected, including 122 straws and 150 bottle caps! The results of the study revealed that most of the litter found on campus originated from sources outside of campus and primarily is comprised of single us disposable food and beverage packaging and cigarette butts. . After learning about the sources of litter and how it creates pollution in our environment, dozens of students, faculty, and community members took the ReThink Disposable pledge to reduce their use of single use disposables by switching to reusable alternatives and refusing them all together like straws!
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Murkowski Advances Offshore Revenue Sharing Bill
Receives Commitment from Colleagues that Alaska Will be Included in Any Revenue Sharing Bill Agreed to by Congress
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) offshore revenue sharing bill, S. 2996, the Alaska Offshore Parity Act, advanced late last week out of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR) to the full Senate. Murkowski’s bill, co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), would establish a federal offshore revenue sharing program for Alaska that provides parity with revenue sharing elsewhere in the outer Continental Shelf.
“I have made it very clear that Alaska must be eligible for the same level of offshore revenue sharing as other coastal producing states, notably the Gulf Coast states. During my time as Chairman of ENR, I drew a bright line that there would not to be any updates to this program unless Alaska was included—as a matter of equity and fairness—and I still ensure the committee adheres to that,” said Senator Murkowski. “Alaska has the largest coastline in the nation and tremendous offshore energy potential, so it is unfair and unacceptable that we would be left ineligible for the same revenue sharing as other states. Fortunately, after working with interested members for nearly a year, we have agreed to a path forward that ensures Alaska will not be left behind any longer.”
Click here for video of Senator Murkowski’s remarks during last week’s ENR markup.
Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf contains an estimated 27.3 billion barrels of oil and 131.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Under current law, however, Alaska does not receive any revenue from the development of those resources, outside of the nearshore areas designated under Section 8(g) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. | <urn:uuid:0acff006-6efa-4900-bbe3-5512477402e0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/release/murkowski-advances-offshore-revenue-sharing-bill | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.936369 | 392 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Parents in America constantly deal with the worry of deciding what time is right for their kid’s preschool education. Some would rather prefer homeschooling for the first few years of the children’s life.
Many believe the cradle stage is the perfect time to bond perfectly with their kids and share their values with them. However, at some point, the debate on which of the preschool institutions to attend comes up between parents. Let’s preview the pros and cons of preschools.
Receptive Learning Environment For Kids
For a million reasons, parents believe the home is the best and most conducive environment for learning. However, conversations on American preschool education conclude that kindergartens are a better option. Parents can always get free papers about preschool education here at paperap.com/preschool-education/ for a better comparison between homeschool and preschool learning. Kids learn better when learning with a group of friends or peers. Limited communication with society can negatively affect the future of your children.
Developing Social Skills
Home preschool education limits your child’s chances to a wider network of friends. At most, they only get neighbors and cousins as friends with homeschooling. However, ensuring their education starts with preschool institutions increases their social and networking skills.
Kids learn to make friends faster than any group of adults or teenagers. They bond over the littlest things and share common interests almost immediately after meeting. Preschool education prevents your children from being isolated.
Exposure To New Experiences
In the four walls of your home, kids are limited to the experiences they get about life and humanity in general. Home preschool education restricts children from having their best childhood fun experiences.
On the other hand, enrolling them in preschool institutions enables them to play new games, share toys, and sing beautiful songs with friends. With kindergarten education, every day unveils a new chapter of fun, excitement, and an educational experience for the children.
Builds Their Relationship With Other Adults
Kids could be highly selective when accommodating other adults. In most cases, children only accept the company of their parents and other trusted adults. Except your kid is extremely social, that list comes down to an uncle, aunty, godparents, and elder siblings.
Enrolling children in preschool institutions helps them familiarize themselves with other adults. Aside from the faces of other kids, which they see as equals, they learn to accept other adults in their space.
Wide Scope Of Learning
In school, toddlers have a nationwide approved curriculum teachers work with. This helps children study and learn following accredited standards. With home preschool education, your child is limited to the expertise of a few subjects. Especially when the teaching is instructed by one of the parents. However, learning in a class guarantees that the child stays informed and educated on all subjects as a toddler.
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High Cost of Learning
One of the major reasons parents ignore preschool institutions is the high cost of learning. The idea of spending so much on a child at such a tender age never settles well with parents. Hence, the origin of homeschooling and tutoring.
Parents believe they’d rather homeschool their kids than spend such an enormous amount on a toddler. The cost of learning for kids is expensive, even for preschool institutions. For this reason, they are often left with no option but to make the learning fees high.
Kids Getting Sick
Another disadvantage attached to preschools is the health risk on every child. At a tender age, children have quite a sensitive body system that picks up germs and diseases around them easily. To enroll your child in a preschool literally means exposing them to health risks daily. Their chances of catching flu, contracting food diseases, and other airborne diseases become extremely high.
For this reason, parents would rather homeschool where the environment can be trusted than risk their children’s health.
Preschools have several pros and advantages children could benefit from where learning and socialization is concerned. Nonetheless, preschools also have a few cons that prompt nursing mothers and fathers to homeschool. Others may include balancing their work schedule by picking up the kids and not being in control of their friends.
However, all of these are also major concerns for parents with students, even at the university level. In the end, you’d have to decide what works best for you and your spouse. Most importantly, the future of your kids.
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Bulk powder applications include virtually any loose, dry commodities, such as fillers, chemicals, pigments, recycled plastics, sugars, and starches. Available in bulk quantities, powders are a subclass of granular materials that are composed of very fine, free-flowing, and dry solid particles.
Combined, bulk solids and powders account for over 80% of goods transported around the globe. Bulk powder processing presents unique dust control challenges. The dust properties for your bulk powder application will help determine the type of dust collection system required. A baghouse, cartridge collector or bin vent are ideal options for bulk powder dust free of moisture or oil.
The dust collection system must also have sufficient velocity in order to capture dust and adequate ductwork installed to convey the dust properly.
Attention should also be given to air to cloth ratio within the dust collection system so the dust load can be filtered properly without plugging the filters. Applications with combustible dust should also be addressed through proper venting to reduce the risk of explosion.
To address these challenges, we work closely with you to design and fabricate a dust collection solution that will not only clear the air but create a safe environment for your team in compliance with all air quality regulations.
Here are some examples of common bulk powder applications that we have serviced over the years:
- Powder coatings
- Food products
- Chemical powders
Full-Service Dust Control Solutions
At U.S. Air Filtration, we can provide full-service capabilities to design, manufacture, and install a brand new, turnkey dust collector system from the ground up. Our system installs include, not only the dust collector itself but the ductwork and electrical fittings as well.
Our baghouse, cartridge collector and bin vent systems rely on innovative pulse jet technology to clean filter bags more efficiently. This characteristic allows for improved air filtration and system performance.
Bulk Powder Dust Collection Case Study
To see an example of a recent bulk powder dust collection system we designed and installed, check out our Bulk Powder Processing Plant Case Study.
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With over 70 years of experience, our engineering team can provide you with design recommendations based on your unique environment and dust characteristics. We also offer in-stock, turnkey modular units for applications with airflow requirements below 10,000 CFM. Contact us today to speak with an equipment specialist about your project.
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Automotive Castings Plant Dust Collection
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If you want to make your mobile application project successful, choosing the right technology stack is a must. A relevant tech stack can be quite cost-effective and will take a reasonable amount of time for a Custom mobile app development project. We will here evaluate the most trendy mobile app development approaches and the current tech stacks you can implement.
Native Mobile App Development
Specific programming languages, software kits, and further explicit tools are used for native app development. This means you will need to employ separate technologies to develop native apps for different platforms.
iOS Tech Stack
There are specific tech stacks to consider when creating a native app for iOS.
- Objective-C/Swift are the two programming languages for building an IOS app. Objective-C provides a dynamic runtime environment. On the other hand, Swift is far more functional and offers code that is less error-prone since its aligned support manipulates text strings and data; also it contains dynamic libraries directly uploaded to the memory; cutting down the initial size ultimately boosts up the app performance.
- When developing your iOS app using Swift, Apple Xcode is the toolkit you will require for developing your native app. This helps you build apps not only for mobile but for desktop also. This toolkit comes amid the integrated support for Git repositories which is a graphical editor that creates user interfaces, debugging and instrumentation tools, and integrated documentation.
- SDK includes API (an application programming interface). It is a link between a software application and the platform where they run. APIs are built in various ways and incorporate required programming libraries together with other tools. SDK is required not only for iPhones but for other Apple devices also; like iPad.
Android Tech Stack
If you are up to creating an Android native application, please review the technology stack listed below.
- Java and Kotlin are the most important programming languages used for Android mobile app development. Java is a highly reputable programming language with vast open-source tools and precious libraries to assist Android app developers. Moreover, Kotlin is a more stable and appropriate option for Android Studio. Within Java, you will have definite limitations that further impede the Android API design. Whereas Kotlin is clean and comparatively less verbose. Kotlin is designed specifically to improvise the existing Java models.
- Android Studio is specifically designed for android development and it provides code editing, performance tooling, flexible system, debugging, and above all instant build & deploy the system. It helps you focus on creating exclusive and quality apps.
- ADT (Android Developer Tools) is another toolkit that helps you gain full support to develop an android app. In addition to android specific coding support, ADT also helps developers use different bugging tools, graphical UI builder, and moreover a fully extended and automated scripting support.
- Android SDK helps developers write programs with the latest features. So, it is vital to develop each version of it for a particular mobile phone. The components and the third-party add-ons of Android SDK are available to download separately.
Cross-platform Mobile App Development
This approach is used to develop apps usable on multiple mobile platforms. With the help of a single code base, it helps developers create a Standout business app for your company. These apps will be adaptable to various devices.
Cross-Platform Tech Stack
- Typescript is another language to build cross-platform applications. It imparts some good features that quickly and easily detect errors while writing React components.
- Xamarin is a cross-platform tool that helps experts share a good amount of code across all major platforms with the help of C# as the core language.
- C# is a typed language that includes mature tooling and integrated development environment (IDE) support. Applications created with this language are cross-compiled to both binaries – Android and iOS.
Hybrid Mobile App Development
Hybrid Tech Stack
The following are mobile app development frameworks-
- Based on the Angular JS framework, Ionic shares an entire set of advantages with the well-known framework. It is well executed for giving hybrid apps a native look. Like, with the help of DOM elements, Ionic handles one of the major causes of poor mobile performance.
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Westbury: Putting us on the map one tourist at a time
Last year, Florida broke another tourism record for the fifth consecutive year, Gov. Rick Scott announced Thursday. More than 105 million people came to the Sunshine State in 2015.
While the majority of those visitors came for our beaches, theme parks, spring training or balmy climate, a significant number came in search of Florida culture and history.
St. Lucie County tourism officials don't yet track specific numbers of cultural or heritage tourists, but past statewide studies indicate at visitors in this category tend to stay longer and spend more than regular tourists while they're here.
It's an important weekend for cultural tourism in the county.
On Saturday, the city of Fort Pierce officially unveiled the Highwaymen Trail, a 10-stop tribute to the group of black landscape painters who in the 1960s and 70s took to Florida's highways to peddle their art.
Also this weekend is an exhibit of vintage Highwaymen paintings at the A.E. Backus Museum that highlights Backus' artistic influence and generosity to the Highwaymen.
In addition, a small group of travel writers are in town. They were invited by county tourism staff to sample local culture in the form of both the Highwaymen and Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, who spent her final days in Fort Pierce.
The object behind this "familiarization tour," according to St. Lucie County Tourism and Venue Manager Charlotte Bireley, is to showcase the richness of our heritage and to inspire the writers to write glowingly about what they encountered here.
I spent part of Friday with the group taking part in a panel discussion on the importance of Hurston.
Naomi Tene Austin is a freelance writer from Atlanta who will chronicle her tour of Fort Pierce for Cuisine Noir, a food, wine and travel publication.
"It's a borderline tragedy" the city is not better recognized for its culture and art, especially Zora, Austin believes.
"Fort Pierce wasn't even on my radar, but you have so much here. Yesterday I stood in the room where Zora drew her last breath, I was in her little house where she wrote. Outside (of the area) people simply don't know (what's here)."
Austin said tours for outside writers are a good way to help spread the word and suggested using social media for more publicity. "It's not hard to get something to go viral," she said.
This is not the first "fam tour" to be held here, Bireley noted.
Last year, she hosted a tour of foreign travel writers from seven countries and one last summer that showcased the county's fishing attractions.
"Everyone I've brought here has written a story. It's so much more valuable than just placing an ad," Bireley said. "(Writers) are usually blown away by what we have to offer. There are so many people who aren't even aware of where St. Lucie County is, or that we even exist."
Libby Woodruff, grants coordinator for the city of Fort Pierce, also hopes the new Highwaymen trail will put the city on the map. Fort Pierce is partnering with St. Lucie County to celebrate the Highwaymen legacy through advertisements nationally and in Britain and Germany.
"We've been doing that for the past five years (mainly for ecotourism attractions)," Woodruff said, "and we saw a 16 percent increase in visitors last year (over 2014)."
The city recently took over the Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail, originally established in 2004, and is refurbishing information panels about sites important during Hurston's three-year stay in the city.
Adrienne Moore, who worked in public relations for local public radio station WQCS for more than 30 years, often hosts informal tours for out-of-town visitors fascinated by Hurston.
Mostly, Moore said, it's word-of-mouth that brings visitors here, but she acknowledged the impact of some good press.
"Five years ago, Zora was the subject of a New York Times story, and we're still getting results from that," she said.
Moore noted how children in particular are amazed to meet people who knew Hurston personally.
"When they meet Hassie Russ (owner of Granny's Kitchen restaurant on Avenue D), or Marjorie Harrell (one of Hurston's students at Lincoln Park Academy), their faces shine. They learn so much more than in a book."
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Canadian Manufacturing has an article covering General Fusion. General Fusion is creating a prototype and subsystems at full scale. They have made a full scale plasma injector that create the magnetized targets and individual full scale pistons. They have made a one meter diameter sphere with 14 pistons to demonstrate the symmetry of the compression.
They recently closed on another round of funding for $19.5 million
Magnetized Target Fusion is a fusion concept that first showed promise in the 1970s, but has gone mostly unexplored in recent years. General Fusion believes that a power plant based on its technology could be built at a much lower cost than using conventional magnetic and laser fusion approaches. Such a power plant would make fusion a commercially viable clean power source. This funding round comes on the heels of General Fusion achieving the first milestone in its Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) project, undertaken in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory. | <urn:uuid:5072af70-ee7b-4f77-bcd0-43a06bb3da2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.planettechnews.com/general-fusion-targets-prototype-by-2015-and-a-working-reactor-by-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950046 | 186 | 2.796875 | 3 |
In packaging, natural materials such as cardboard, Kraft, and Cardstock are really common. Brands and individuals like to use organic material to pack their products. Here are some uses of custom Kraft boxes:
1. Gives physical protection
With the help of Kraft boxes, goods are protected from shock, humidity, air, vibration, electrostatic discharge, and other environmental factors. As the packaging is like a barrier between the product and the external environment. However, it is often necessary to provide a barrier against oxygen, water vapor, dust, and other pollutants. In terms of design, penetration is crucial. To help extend the shelf life, some packages include desiccants or oxygen absorbency. Some food packaging has also changed or controlled the atmosphere. One of the most important functions is to keep the products clean, sterile, and safe for as long as possible.
In addition, the packaging can help to reduce the safety risk during shipping and transportation. To prevent tampering, packages can be created with improved tamper resistance and tamper-evident features to indicate tampering. Packages can be designed to reduce the possibility of package theft. All these benefits are because of the material of packaging. While shipping goods, the seller must use sturdy boxes to improve customers’ experience.
2. The better way to market product
Marketers can use packaging and labels to encourage potential buyers to buy the product. Graphic design of packaging and physical design have been important and constantly changing phenomena for decades. We cover the packaging surface and the display at the point of sale with marketing communications and artwork. Also, with the help of Kraft and cardboard boxes the marketing has become easy. In a short span of time, you can send goods in the proper way to the end consumer. As we all know brands communicate with their targeted audience through packaging. They use this technique to allure the customers and force them to buy their products. Here are some of the ways you can connect with the customers with the packaging:
- Provide a guarantee of the product
- Write manufactures’ name and address
- Nutritional values if food items are packed
- Expiration and manufacturing dates
- Suggestions or recipes
- Amount of calories
In this way, you interact with the customers. Further marketing through packaging is a unique and interactive way. Customers may not see digital ads but when they go to grocery stores, they do look at different brands. Also, they try to purchase those goods which are relatively cheaper and provide good quality.
3. Labeling and symbols on the boxes
Labeling and symbol can only be done on absorbent material like Kraft and cardboard. All these natural materials make the printing convenient for the seller. However, the printing technique is more durable in these materials. The brands use their logo or symbol on the boxes. So the customers can easily recognize them among other brands. Many types of symbols for packaging marking have been standardized nationally and internationally. There are symbols for product certification, trademarks, and proof of purchase on consumer packaging. To convey aspects of use and user safety, there are several requirements and symbols. Budget notes, for example, record compliance with European rules on weights and measurement accuracy. The recycling symbol, the resin identification code, and the “green dot” are examples of environmental and recycling symbols.
4. Boost e-commerce sales
To boost e-commerce sales, packaging is the essential thing. However, e-commerce is incomplete without Kraft boxes wholesale. In bulk amounts, they get good quality packaging at a cheap price. Also, the shopping trend is changing day by day and more and more people are using online shopping platforms. It is because online stores provide more convenience. The customers can easily check several online stores before buying.
Moreover, the e-commerce industry is growing day by day. Suppliers choose Kraft boxes to distribute items because they are practical and reliable. Despite the fact that e-commerce has made shopping easier, it also has some benefits. This method simplifies the customer and gives them more options for each type of product. Therefore, the packaging industry is no exception. People are more attracted when they have access to online deals. The reason for this is more variation and availability. Now you can buy high-quality custom features easily in custom packaging boxes online. The quality of packaging matters more for online customers. It is because the shopping experience can build or shatter their trust in the brand.
Secure for the environment
As Kraft material has considered ideal for the online and otherwise sellers. Thus, the demand and popularity increase because the boxes are environmentally friendly. These boxes do not harm the environment at any cost. So most of the brands are switching their packaging to sustainable material. However, minimal wastage has been produced in this way. Similarly, the material for packaging is obtained is through nature. The more organic the packaging is, the more convenient it will be for the brands.
Furthermore, using eco-friendly boxes is not only good for the environment but also for the reputation of the brand with customers. When the customers have satisfied with the great custom packaging boxes. You will remain convinced of your purchases in the future too. As a result, most people rely on this business expertise to meet their marketing needs. Small-sized boxes like Kraft pillow boxes reduce the cost of production. Small items of goods can easily pack into these boxes. The shipping of small boxes is more convenient than of large boxes.
Kraft use in custom Kraft boxes is long-lasting material used to make them pack the products. It is because this material is low-cost, long-lasting, and durable. Also, making it an excellent choice if you want to save money in the long run. Because these boxes do not require any additional materials, such as plastic or metal clips, they can be recycled, making them an extremely cost-effective option for businesses looking to save money while still providing high-quality packaging to their customers. Many businesses prefer Kraft because it is versatile enough to be used with a wide range of products. | <urn:uuid:c4703e1c-fecd-4fb2-b850-c4fd0ad8e1c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://technostalking.com/business/what-are-the-common-uses-of-custom-kraft-boxes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.943651 | 1,227 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Transport and storage of seedlings with exposed root system.
Maintaining balanced moisture content in soil.
Water stress in young seedlings.
High losses of seedlings that fail to root, falling out of seedlings in forest plantings.
Curling roots of seedlings during planting.
Protection of seedlings with exposed root system
The product prevents drying out of roots while they are not covered with soil, i.e. during transport or storage
The position of roots covered with hydrogel pulp makes planting and replanting easier
Reduced water stress in seedlings
Stable water conditions for plants
Reduced water consumption for irrigation
Improved moisture properties of soils and substrates used to fill pots
Stimulation of the root system and increased dynamics of positive processes in the soil environment
Precise application of growth-supporting preparations, such as mycorrhiza fungi or symbiotic bacteria
The emerging pulp designed for covering the root mass will prevent the root system from drying during transport, storage and the planting process.
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THE EDACTIS METHOD
A new concept of social learning
HOW iT WORKS
WE DEMOCRATIZE EDUCATION
They receive the class they are looking for and choose the NGO they want to receive free classes.
When an NGO reaches 100% of contributions generated thanks to the classes taught, Edactis proposes to give a solidarity class (free for the NGO but paid 10$ to him).
When the teacher has given a solidarity class, his benefit for each class will go from 80% to 85%.
Contributes 5% of the class to generate free classes for students in difficult situations (social, economic, physical):
– Support classes for families without resources.
– Help immigrants and refugees.
– Collaboration with NGOs.
– Help for people who cannot attend classes due to their reduced mobility, such as hospitalized students, those confined to their homes and prison inmates.
They receive free classes for their beneficiaries. To be a collaborating organization in Edactis, they must ensure the minimum infrastructure (device with internet connection) so that their beneficiaries can receive live classes with the teachers.
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In an era where your browsing history is sold legally, net neutrality is dying & just the whole climate of Internet privacy, you might just want to double-check your VPN is working. Let’s ensure your VPN is secure & protecting you from today’s modern threats.
Check your VPN is Secure
Below are a series of tests we will use to check your VPN is working and actually protecting you.
1. WTF is my IP
While it may not be the prettiest website name, it sure gets the job done with no ads or trackers. Click the link and ensure that when you connect to your VPN, your IP address changes on the website. The location may be nearby you, but the IP address needs to change. If it does not check the VPN leaks section below.
Whoer is our favorite way to truly test a VPN and browser combined. This is an extended test that can seem a little scary, but it’s super easy. Once you visit the webpage you will want to scroll down a little bit and look for the block labeled ‘Interactive Detection.’ Don’t mind what is or isn’t checked and enabled. Click the green run test button right next to the words ‘Interactive Detection.’ Whoer will check if you have Flash, Java, WebRTC, etc. enabled and try to use the application. It reaches out to sources within your browser and returns the IP it detects. Ensure that either no IP address is detected or only the VPN IP address appears. If any IP address other than your VPN appears, your leaking, visit the VPN leaks section below.
3. DNS Leak Test (critical)
By far our favorite website to test for the most common and critical leak of all, the DNS leak. Do an extended DNS leak test, yes the test can take some time or even freeze, be patient. Now, this is where things can get a little spooky. Take a look and ensure that any of the possible dozen DNS servers that may show up are not related to your Internet Service Provider (ISP). You may see an array of DNS hosts, anything from Google to bizarre sounding names, this is good. The only thing we need to ensure is that the DNS is not your personal DNS, such as mumbojumbo.comcast.127.terribleisp.com. If it is, check the VPN leaks section below for solutions.
Now if your VPN passes all three tests you’re good to go. Before you depart, I’d like to be the bearer of one last piece of bad news. These tests don’t prove your VPN is actually encrypting your data. This is simply checking your VPN is masking you. The algorithms your VPN provider is employing is a whole nother topic, but if you’d like to learn more feel free to click around VPNFTW. I’d like to warn you, this is not for beginners, have fun learning!
My VPN is Leaking
Don’t fear, VPN leaks are common and happen often for an array of reasons, at times, it’s even the VPN’s fault. Now there are three main types of VPN leaks that we will cover today, including IP Leaks, WebRTC leaks, and DNS leaks. Now all three of these VPN leaks are relatively critical as they can expose your real IP or even reveal your traffic in certain situations.
A majority of IP leaks stem from the VPN not being set up properly. If your IP address does not change when you click connect, uninstall and reinstall the VPN client. Make sure you install the latest VPN client from the provider’s official website or the proper OpenVPN package your provider recommends. When you click install, make sure you install any TAP drivers, if prompted, and “Allow” any firewall bypasses, if prompted, by the VPN. If leaks still occur after checking these steps contact your VPN’s support, this is an irregular client issue.
Leaks coming from WebRTC are oftentimes a browser issue and can expose your real IP in rare situations. Our diagnoses is to install a browser plugin, uBlock Origin. It’s a privacy plugin that blocks modern trackers and ads. Much better than it’s rival, Adblock, who has begun selling ads. Now trust me, I am no fan of installing anything someone recommends me on the web, but uBlock Origin really provides some great functionality. Install uBlock Origin on your browser of choice and follow the instructions below.
Solution: uBlock Origin
Once installed, click the beautiful red button on the top right of your browser. Underneath the big power symbol look for the three lines with dots on the right hand side. Click that tiny icon. It will bring you to a new webpage, look for the Privacy checkbox slightly down the settings tab, put a check mark next to “Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses.” That’s about all I got, it’s an amazing plugin and will save you with or without your VPN automatically.
DNS leaks are very common and actually very detrimental to the very core of a VPN. A great photo from the beautiful website, DNS Leak Test, very accurately describes the very impact of a DNS leak.
Solution: DNS Leaks can be caused for a number of reasons, our top 2 solutions to a DNS leak are:
- Manually change the DNS Server on your computer
- Use a VPN with DNS leak protection (I know not much help)
How to Change Your DNS Manually
Now changing your DNS manually varies for your operating system and version. Now for the sake of time, I will go ahead and link out to individual guides on how to manually change your DNS for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Chromebook, Android, iOS, DD-WRT and TomatoUSB.
Well, what do you change your DNS too? Be mindful of the option you choose, remember the DNS leak photo above. In my privacy eyes, there are only four DNS providers I would ever trust:
- IPv4: 188.8.131.52 and 184.108.40.206
- IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001
- IPv4: 220.127.116.11 and 18.104.22.168
- IPv6: 2620:119:35::35 and 2620:119:53::53
- Google Public DNS
- IPv4: 22.214.171.124 and 126.96.36.199
- IPv6: 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844
- CentryLink (Level 3 Communications)
- IPv4: 188.8.131.52 and 184.108.40.206
- IPv6: 2001:428::1 and 2001:428::2
Now why choose any of these providers, especially the all-seeing eye, Google? DNS is a critical component to the very infrastructure of the Internet and still very vulnerable. You never want to be using an untrusted John Doe’s DNS. Google’s public DNS is absolutely amazing in terms of speed and security, not so much privacy. It’s Google after all. The number one reason we mentioned OpenDNS first, it’s been used and trusted by millions for years. Level 3 is a major corporation that’s been providing free and secure DNS for years.
If you’re already integrated with Google, use Google Public DNS, they already know everything. If you’re a little more conscious, use OpenDNS to plug your DNS leaks.
VPNs With Leak Protection
While this article is not aimed at being an advertisement, I figured I would share some of our favorite VPNs that have leak protection built-in. A feature that is mind-bogglingly still not industry standard.
NordVPN is our number one choice as they force you onto Nord’s SmartDNS (it’s actually pretty smart), offer a VPN kill switch, and include an additional key privacy feature. Nord offers an application kill switch, this allows you to kill specific applications of your choice if the VPN connection drops. Say you don’t want your game to turn off if the VPN disconnects, but you do want to ensure that pesky BitTorrent that keeps popping up gets cut-off. Just click the app.
Private Internet Access comes in close second as they offer the most flexibility when it comes to leak protection. All the settings are built right into their Windows, Mac, and Linux clients. Private Internet Access has an individually enabled VPN Kill Switch, DNS Leak Protection, and an IPv6 Leak Protection button built-in. Enabled with one click.
Windscribe also offers a flexible killswitch firewall, and you don’t even have to worry about DNS leaks as everything is directly piped through their DNS servers, completely eliminating your ISP’s DNS.
Often times VPNs can be as easy as one-click-connect, making it hard to know if the VPN is working properly or even securing you.
Any type of VPN leak is critical as it exposes the real intention you’re using the VPN. Not only does it leave you vulnerable, but some services also may not work properly as you have an IP in one area and a DNS coming from a whole other area. Checking your VPN is vital to ensuring that your VPN is secure.
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Lutein belongs to the carotenoid family of antioxidants. Lutein has been found in the eye, brain, breast, and cervix. In the eye, it is found in the retina, ciliary iris bodies, and lens, but mostly it occurs in the macular region. Increased serum levels of lutein can increase macular pigment density, which helps to quench free radicals that result from photo-oxidation by enhancing the filtering of blue light.*
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The Illusion Of Public Opinion
Why opinion surveys usually exaggerate public engagement in social issues.
In my last post, I talked about why the #1 challenge for animal advocates (as it is for most social change advocates) is just getting people to pay attention to their issues. This is also a challenge for social scientists (like those of us at Faunalytics) who use surveys to understand opinions about issues that have relatively little public awareness. Simply by asking someone a question, researchers lend substance to the issue being addressed.
In other words, by asking people about their opinions of animal protection issues, we presume that they in fact have opinions. In these cases, many respondents will feel compelled to offer their thoughts, even if they’ve never considered the issue before. This is part of what author/professor George Bishop calls the Illusion of Public Opinion.
One stark example comes from a survey conducted by Bishop and his colleagues regarding a fictitious piece of legislation, the “1995 Social Security Reform Act.” When asked if they favor or oppose repealing the act, a surprising 22-25% of respondents offered an opinion. So the desire to respond (or to avoid saying “I don’t know”) compels up to a fourth of U.S. adults to give their opinions regarding a law that doesn’t even exist. Similarly, people will respond to a question about farm animal confinement (for instance) even if they’ve never thought about it before.
This doesn’t necessarily mean the survey results are inaccurate, but in a lot of cases they will overstate how much consideration respondents have given the issue. The lesson for animal advocates using research is to be cautious when relying on public opinion surveys to accurately portray what people think about animal issues. Until these issues are elevated further in the public’s consciousness, most people just do not have well-formed opinions.
This is not meant to suggest that such surveys aren’t useful. Quite the contrary, at Faunalytics we believe that animal advocates should be doing more surveys to measure public opinion and identify trends over time. However, we also encourage animal advocates to be smart consumers of research, and to get outside help when needed. Public opinion may be an illusion, but there are those who have the knowledge and tools to see past the smoke and mirrors.
In my next post I’ll talk about a few of those tools, including “deliberative” opinion polls to measure the impact of an informed audience, and the “mushiness index” to determine how firmly (or not) the public believes something. Both are cognitive tools to understand how people respond to survey questions and to improve quantitative research design.
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The app was designed to be a simple way of paying for products in most restaurants and retailers without all the hassle of putting in your debit card information, or signing for your credit card. However, the Google Hands Free payment service did not run as smoothly as the company had expected.
It existed for iOS and Android since its inception last year and you would simply say “I’ll pay with Google” to your phone. The cashier would then look at an image at your phone that would give them the green light to finish your order.
However, the offering did not prove to save any time or perform any better than competitors such as Android Pay. Additionally, it only managed to work in a few stores in the South Bay, including McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) and Papa John’s Int’l Inc. (NASDAQ:PZZA).
This is not the end for the technology that was used on Google Hands Free payment’s services as the company promises that it may use the best elements of it for an app, or some other payment product in the future.
How do you think that Alphabet’s ambitions could be furthered in a manner that would work with everyone?
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In 2020 we grew our farm with the addition of two super sweet, super fluffy alpacas. Anytime you add a new type of animal to the farm, there is a ton of new information to learn. Alpacas are no exception. They were our first foray into larger livestock so there was even more to learn. Handling a 150 pound alpaca is a lot different than a 8 pound chicken!
Seek out other alpaca owners
While we are far from experts, we have learned a ton in the past several months. One of the most important things you can do as a new alpaca owner is to find a knowledgeable mentor. The breeder you purchase your alpacas from should be a valuable source of information, and they know your particular animal really well.
You will also want to find a local veterinarian that has experience with camelids. Your vet will be able to advise you on parasites in your area, help you monitor the alpaca’s health, give vaccines, and be there in case of an emergency.
Online communities can also be a great resource. I personally have learned so much from the Facebook group “Alpaca Everything”. Group members with decades of experience, and people brand new to keeping alpacas all coming together for the love of alpacas!
Blogs, research websites, YouTube, and books also offer valuable sources of information. The more prepared you are and the more reading you can do before you bring your alpacas home, the smoother everything will go.
Following are the most asked questions new and prospective alpacas owners have, along with some online resources I have found helpful in my journey.
What do alpacas eat?
The majority of an alpaca’s diet will be made up of hay and grass. They are herbivores, so they can only digest vegetation. You should never feed your alpaca meat or animal products. Alpacas have a three chamber stomach and chew cud, allowing them to process small amounts of foods efficiently. An adult alpaca will eat 2-3 pounds of hay or grass per day. Hay should always be offered free choice, year round for them.
You should also supplement your alpaca’s diet with some quality alpaca pellets. We give each of our alpacas 1/2 cup of pellets in the morning and 1/2 cup of pellets at night. They will gobble these up so fast, you don’t want to offer pellets free choice. Given the option they will completely gorge themselves and end up with bloat or other digestive issues.
Alpacas have some pretty specific dietary needs and often local hay can leave them lacking in certain minerals and salt. We offer loose minerals specifically designed for alpacas free choice at all times. Stillwater Minerals is a popular source of camelid minerals.
Fresh, clean water should also be available at all times. Each alpaca will drink between 2-5 gallons of water each day (more in high heat, less in the cold). They can be a bit picky about their water temperatures, they don’t like it to be too warm or too cold!
How much space do you need to keep alpacas?
Alpacas are such efficient grazers they can be raised on smaller farms than some of the other large livestock options. The number batted about most often is you can keep 2-8 alpacas per acre. That is a huge swing! If you don’t mind supplementing a lot of hay you can get 8 alpacas on an acre pasture. If you want to spend less on hay you will want to keep your herd closer to the lower end.
Pasture quality plays a role too. If your proposed pasture is patchy with more dirt and weeds than grass, you will want to keep your herd smaller, or be prepared to supplement more hay.
In addition to pasture, they will need an indoor shelter. It can be as simple as a three sided open shed or a fully enclosed barn. The indoor space will offer them shelter from the elements, and if it is fully enclosed, safety from predators. It is recommended to have at least 40 square feet of shelter space per alpaca.
Alpacas are herd animals and do best in larger groups. You should never keep a single alpaca. The stress of not having a herd can make them very sick and could even lead to death. At minimum you should plan to have two alpacas, but three will allow them to more adequately trade sleep shifts.
Is it a lot of work to keep their area clean?
No! Alpacas are very clean animals. They prefer to poop in a communal pile (like a really large litter box area!). The alpacas will pick out one or two spots to do their business. Once a day I take a shovel, rake, and farm wagon and clean up the pile and dump it in the compost area. Easy & fast!
They also are great at keeping the grass in their paddock area trim, meaning much less yardwork for you. Alpacas don’t have top incisors, so when they eat grass, they are only trimming the tops. Other grazing animals have top & bottom incisors and tend to rip grass out by the roots.
Do alpacas spit?
Camels, llamas, & alpacas are all camelids. Camelids don’t have a lot of natural defenses, but they do all spit. Llamas probably have the worst reputation for spitting, but alpacas do also spit. Most often alpacas don’t spit at humans. Usually the spitting is at other alpacas when they are feeling grouchy or territorial. Alpacas all have their own personalities and some are more prone to spitting than others, but in general you have to make an alpaca pretty angry for it to spit at you.
Fair warning – the spit smells. It smells REAL bad! It’s green and smells like vomit (because it basically is, it’s contents from their stomach) it is something you want to avoid. Their spit also tastes really bad. After an alpaca spits they will walk around for 15-20 minutes with their lower lip hanging way down trying to air out & drool the taste out of their mouth.
Do alpacas need a vet?
You will want to find a knowledgeable local camelid vet. Often farm vets or horse vets will also treat alpacas. At the very least, you will want to have a vet lined up for annual check ups. It nice to have a professional familiar with your animals that you can call in case of an emergency. In most areas, an annual clostridial vaccine will be given along with other vaccines to prevent diseases endemic to your area. You veterinarian will also be able to advise you on local climate or disease considerations, help with breeding and birthing, cria care, and so much more.
Do alpacas need to be wormed?
Your vet will be able to advise you on what worms are prevalent in your area and together you can come up with a plan to keep your flock free of parasites.
In most areas, alpaca owners are moving away from routine worming schedules. Routine worming is beginning to cause problems with drug resistant worms and can also be harsh on your alpaca’s body.
Internal parasites are not unusual in grazing animals, and left untreated can make your alpaca very sick or even kill them. Instead of routine worming you will want to run regular fecal tests. If your alpacas are healthy and their poop is looking normal, you can have fecal tests done every 1-3 months. To have the test run, you collect fecal samples from each alpaca and send them into a lab. The lab will send you back results, letting you know exactly what type of worm you are dealing with, or if your alpacas are worm free. Then you can treat for that specific worm. The lab we have been using is Mid America Agricultural Research, you can find their lab forms & instructions here.
What about Meningeal worm?
Meningeal worm (or m-worm) is a parasite every alpaca owner needs to be aware of. M-worm is carried by white tail deer, with snails & slugs being secondary hosts. The deer are generally not effected by the worm. In areas with white tail deer, alpaca owners will want to take steps to protect their herd. M-worm infestations effect the nervous system in alpacas, treatment is very difficult and the alpaca can often not be saved. White-tailed deer are found in every state in the United States except Alaska (and are not present in small parts of Utah, Nevada and California)
Preventing m-worm in your alpacas is easy by injecting them with Ivermectin every 4 weeks. So far, m-worms don’t seem to be forming resistance to medication so this is the exception to the “no routine worming schedule”. Consult your vet, but generally 1 cc per 70 pounds of body weight injected subcutaneously is the recommended dosing.
We had our mentor show us how to best give injections, but also watched several videos on it before we tried it ourselves. I was really nervous about doing it! But it is for their own good and it’s over pretty quickly once you know what you are doing. I found this video from Old Redding Farm to be really helpful.
Toes & Teeth
Alpacas do not have hooves like horses or goats, instead they have soft feet with two large toenails. Just like humans, their toenails are constantly growing and will need to be trimmed. Every animal is different, but generally toenail trimming will need to be done every 2-3 months. This is something the alpaca owner can learn to do themselves, or you can hire a professional to come to your farm and take care of their toes.
Alpacas have 3 sets of molars on each side in the back of their mouth. These are used for chewing cud and grinding food. The chewing motion keeps these teeth properly worn, and beyond monitoring them for gum disease & tooth abscesses, you don’t need to be worried about these teeth.
In the front of their mouth, alpacas have 6 incisor teeth on the bottom and a hard dental pad on top. The incisors should line up properly with the dental pad in order for them to grab and cut grass & hay. It is common for the incisors to wear or grow strangely requiring them to be trimmed back into shape. Some alpacas will never need incisor trimming, some will need it done regularly. It is important to be familiar with your alpaca’s teeth so you can act when you notice a problem. Teeth trimming is something the alpaca owner can learn to do, or you could have your vet take care of it.
Male alpacas (and some females) also have two fighting teeth. Curved and sharp canine teeth up to an inch long, these teeth are used for defense and fighting with other males. Fighting teeth should either be removed or regularly trimmed to avoid your alpaca injuring another member of the herd.
WHY keep alpacas?
First, obviously they are really adorable! They do also provide lots of great manure for the garden. Bonus: their manure doesn’t need to be aged like horse or chicken manure. It can be used right away. But most people keep alpacas for their wonderful fiber.
Alpaca fiber is 5 times warmer than sheep wool. It is also more durable & lightweight as it contains no oils or lanolin. Because less people keep alpacas, alpaca fiber is considered rare and fetches a much higher price than sheep wool. Alpacas are sheared once a year, usually in the spring.
The amount of fiber you get depends greatly on the genetics, age, & diet of your alpaca. Young alpacas on an excellent diet with stellar genes might produce 9-10 pounds of fiber. An older alpaca of sub-par breeding might only produce 1-2 pounds. On average, you can expect 4-5 pounds per alpaca per year. Obviously this is going to be VERY general based on yarn weight and knitting style and size but that is enough to make about 15-20 pairs of mittens or socks. You can sell the fiber raw, process it into yarn or finished products yourself, or send it to a fiber pool or crafter to have them turn it into products for you.
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Today's topic is about elementary and/or secondary school activities. We are going to reminisce about our time during our younger days in public school. Whether it's about our insecurities and our fears, or the dreams we used to have and still have, this light episode could give us something to reflect and even laugh back on. In this episode, we are going to talk about the incredible time of recess and lunch. Two big parts of our lives during our younger days in school, and possibly some of the biggest impacts it had on our lives growing up.
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US trade offensive takes out WTO as global referee
US disruption of the global economic order has reached a major milestone as the World Trade Organization (WTO) loses its ability to intervene in trade wars.
This threatens the future of the Geneva-based body.
Two years after starting to block appointments, the US will finally paralyse the WTO’s Appellate Body, which acts as the supreme court for international trade, as two of three members exit and leave it unable to issue rulings.
Major trade disputes, including the US conflict with China and metal tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, will not be resolved by the global trade arbiter.
Stephen Vaughn, who served as general counsel to the US Trade Representative during Trump’s first two years, said many disputes would be settled in future by negotiations.
Critics say this means a return to a post-war period of inconsistent settlements, problems the WTO’s creation in 1995 was designed to fix.
The EU ambassador to the WTO told counterparts in Geneva yesterday that the Appellate Body’s paralysis risked creating a system of economic relations based on power rather than rules.
The crippling of dispute settlement comes as the WTO also struggles in its other major role of opening markets.
The WTO club of 164 has not produced any international accord since abandoning “Doha Round” negotiations in 2015.
Trade-restrictive measures among the G20 group of largest economies are at historic highs, compounded by Trump’s “America First” agenda and the trade war with China.
Phil Hogan, the European Union’s new trade commissioner, said last week that the WTO was no longer fit for purpose and in dire need of reforms going beyond just fixing the appeals mechanism.
In a statement today, Commissioner Hogan called the move as a regrettable and very serious blow to the international rules-based trade system, which, for the past 24 years, has relied on the WTO’s Appellate Body – and dispute settlement generally.
“This is a critical moment for multilateralism and for the global trading system.
“With the Appellate Body removed from the equation, we have lost an enforceable dispute settlement system that has been an independent guarantor – for large and small economies alike – that the WTO’s rules are applied impartially,” he added.
For developed countries, in particular, the WTO’s rules must change to take account of state-controlled enterprises.
In 2017, Japan brought together the US and the European Union in a joint bid to set new global rules on state subsidies and forced technology transfers.
The US is also pushing to limit the ability of WTO membersto grant themselves developing status, which for example gives them longer to implement WTO agreements.
Such “developing countries” include Singapore and Israel, but China is the clear focus.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Reuters last week the US wanted to end concessions given to then struggling economies that were no longer appropriate.
“We’ve been spoiling countries for a very, very long time, so naturally they’re pushing back as we try to change things,” he said.
The trouble with WTO reform is that changes require consensus to pass. That includes Chinese backing.
Beijing has published its own reform proposals with a string of grievances against US actions.
Reform should resolve crucial issues threatening the WTO’s existence, while preserving the interests of developing countries.
Many observers believe the WTO faces a pivotal moment in mid-2020 when its trade ministers gather in a drive to push though a multinational deal – on cutting fishing subsidies.
“It’s not the WTO that will save the fish. It’s the fish that are going to save the WTO,” said one ambassador
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While English did have three genders until around the 11th century, it has no gendered articles today. That’s modern. Gendered articles are not 21st century. In most romance languages one uses a feminine article for a female person, a male article for a male person and also a male article for any mixed gender group of people. German does the opposite. German has three articles, der for masculine, die for feminine and das for neuter. Even stranger is that the German language uses the same article – die – for multiples as is used for feminine words. Der Mann – the man, die Frau – the woman, die Männer – the men, die Frauen – the women. However, when it comes to many professions mixed groups are expressed with the male word. For example, a male teacher is der Lehrer, a female teacher is die Lehrerin. a group of female teachers is die Lehrerinnen, but a mixed group of teachers is die Lehrer – using the plural article that is the same word as the female article PLUS the word for male teacher.
I learned that in German one can use a new word combination to address a person who may either be male or female. Teacher becomes Lehrer*In and the plural becomes Lehrer*Innen. One can also use an underscore instead of the asterisk. But how does one pronounce this word? If one pronounces all of the letters Lehrer*In it would sound just like die Lehrerin. It would be cool if everyone actually pronounced the asterisk, say with a tongue click.
Germany was one of the first countries to take steps to impose both feminine and masculine forms in all official documents. One usually adds in to any profession to create the feminine version. Lehrer becomes Lehrerin, Fahrer – driver – becomes Fahrerin. American English is already past this. Words have reverted to one form, for example actor instead of actress. Flight attendent instead of stewardess. The ending “ess” was never going to work anyway. Presidentress? Killeress? Musicianess?
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Access to imaging diagnostics has been shown to result in accurate treatment, management, and optimal outcomes. Particularly in low-income and low-middle-income countries (LICs, LMICs), access is limited due to a lack of adequate resources. To achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, access to imaging services is critical at every tier of the health system. Optimizing imaging services in low-resource settings is best accomplished by prescriptive, integrated, and coordinated tiered service delivery that takes contextual factors into consideration. To our knowledge, this is the first recommendation for optimized, specific imaging care delivery by tier. A model for tier-based essential imaging services informs and guides policymakers as they set priorities and make budgetary decisions. In this paper, we recommend a framework for tiered imaging services essential to reduce the global burden of disease and attain universal health coverage (UHC). A lack of access to basic imaging services, even at the lowest tier of the health system, can no longer be justified by cost. Worldwide, affordable modalities of modern ultrasound and X-ray are becoming an accessible mainstay for the investigation of common conditions such as pregnancy, pneumonia, and fractures, and are safely performed and interpreted by qualified professionals. Finally, given the vast gap in access to imaging resources between LMICs and high-income countries (HICs), a scale-up of tiered imaging services in low-resource settings has the potential to reduce health disparities between, and within countries. As the access to appropriately integrated imaging services improves, UHC may be achieved.
Diagnostic imaging, Global health, Population health, Radiology
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DeStigter K, Pool KL, Leslie A, Hussain S, Tan BS, Donoso-Bach L, Andronikou S. Optimizing integrated imaging service delivery by tier in low-resource health systems. Insights Imaging. 2021 Sep 16;12(1):129. doi: 10.1186/s13244-021-01073-8. PMID: 34529166; PMCID: PMC8444174. Link to article on publisher's site
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DeStigter K, Pool K, Leslie A, Hussain S, Tan BS, Donoso-Bach L, Andronikou S. (2021). Optimizing integrated imaging service delivery by tier in low-resource health systems. Radiology Publications. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13244-021-01073-8. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/radiology_pubs/654
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Mar 01, · Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like you aren’t in control of your life. If you’re ready to tackle the fears that hold you back, this book is your go-to guide. Packed with the most effective skills for assessing and treating anxiety, this evidence-based workbook contains the latest clinical aureusid.com by: Bourne refuses to be complacent, and brings his classic book up to date with new topics such as overcoming worry and preventing relapse.
This is part informational, part workbook, part repository of practical steps, and part resource directory for all things to do with Phobias book, phobias, and even obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).Author: Edmund J.
Bourne PhD. Please don't ask me about curing phobias because I know little about them. My interest is in the names only. All the phobia names on this list have been found in some reference book. If you're looking for a phobia name that's not on the list.I'm afraid I don't have it.
Phobias, the most common type of anxiety disorder, involve specific situations which cause irrational anxiety attacks. For instance, an individual with agoraphobia (fear of open spaces) may be too anxious to leave their house.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder occurs when an individual relentlessly pursues a thought or action in order to relieve.
Your phobias leap out at you in realistic paper-folding art of Pop-up books. Pop-up books are just so much fun. I remember reading one at an Airport play area as a kid, I wish I remembered what its called because it was this charming Fantasy Pop-up book, one of its pages had a detailed, gigantic tree house, with little rooms inside, etc/5.
Jan 26, · The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper suffers from xanthophobia (fear of the color yellow) with a smattering of koinoniphobia (fear of rooms) Sure, the poor narrator was phobia-free at the beginning of the story, but by the time she’d slept in that yellow-papered room for a couple of weeks, her various new phobias combined to make something so much worse than the sum of their parts.
Phobias cause people to worry about, dread, feel upset by, and avoid the things or situations they fear because the physical sensations of fear can be so intense.
So having a phobia can interfere with normal activities. A person with a phobia of dogs might feel afraid to. This website is dedicated to fears and phobias. It contains a large list of phobias and teaches how to cope with and ultimately cure your fear.
You can also learn more about phobia symptoms and what fear is. Support my work by sharing this phobia list. Not sure if you have an anxiety disorder. Phobias book Take the anxiety test. Top Phobia [ ]. Phobias are one of the most common mental illnesses in the United States.
The National Institute of Mental Health suggests that eight percent of U.S. adults have some type of phobia. Women are more likely to experience phobias than men.
Phobias & Fortitude – This book contains 2 short stories. Princess Lemon & Her Yellow Shoes and Scared Out Of her Wits, both of which are suitable for 8 to 12 year old kids. Princess Lemon & Her Yellow Shoes (new edition): Kate has lots of shoes.
She loves them all. Topics covered range from the etiology of fear to clinical syndromes such as agoraphobic syndrome, animal phobias, Phobias book phobias, illness phobias, and obsessive phobias.
Comprised of four chapters, this book begins with an overview of the historical aspects of phobias and the components of phobias, followed by a discussion on the etiology of fear.
Nov 05, · Phobias usually start in children or teens, and continue into adulthood. The causes of specific phobias are not known, but they sometimes run in families. Treatment helps most people with phobias. Options include medicines, therapy or both.
NIH: National Institute of Mental Health. Classification. Most phobias are classified into three categories and, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (), such phobias are considered sub-types of anxiety aureusid.com categories are: 1.
Specific phobias: Fear of particular objects or social situations that immediately results in anxiety and can sometimes lead to panic aureusid.comtion: Antidepressants, benzodiazepines, beta. Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name.
Sometimes it leads to bizarre results, such as suggestions to cure "prostitute phobia". Fear comes in many shapes and sizes.
One of my kids is afraid of the dark while the other is terrified of public speaking, water, dentists, and abandonment, among other things. Thankfully, there are some great books available to help kids manage their fears and phobias. Here are some that have helped my family.
Phobias When Fear Becomes Irrational (Book): Losito, Maeve: Fear is a natural human response that developed to help people survive, but it can be more of a hindrance than a help. A phobia is a fear of something that is not inherently harmful that interferes with a person's daily life.
These fears are explained through up-to-date charts and annotated quotes from medical experts that augment. Specific phobias in adults generally start suddenly and are more lasting than childhood phobias.
Only about 20% of specific phobias in adults go away on their own (without treatment). 5 Book-Related Phobias for the Curious Bookworm. Etinosa Uwadiae There are over phobias ranging from the fear of small spaces to fear of spiders to the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
Here is a short list of the phobias associated with books and aureusid.com: Etinosa Uwadiae. Drawing on vivid examples from history, literature, and personal testimonies, Phobias is the first book to describe case histories, assess theories both ancient and contemporary, and seek to answer all the questions about one of mankind’s oldest medical aureusid.comed on: May 01, Oct 15, · The Pop-Up Book of Phobias by Matthew Reinhart ★ Help us reach a subscribers and subscribe to our channel!★ Are you scared of clowns, spiders or heights.
Does a. Phobias are increasingly common amongst the general population, sometimes resulting in a very significant social disability and burden for the family. Most cases remain undiagnosed, and many of those which are diagnosed are treated inappropriately. Written by internationally renowned psychiatrist, Mario Maj, this book provides an update of research evidence and clinical experience concerning 3/5(2).
What is Bibliophobia. Bibliophobia is the fear of books. People who have this fear usually cannot read, which sometimes is the cause of the fear. The origin of the word biblio is Greek (meaning book) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear).
Bibliophobia is considered to be a specific phobia, which is discussed on the home page. What are the causes. This book explains the differences between fears, phobias, and anxieties and includes some of the most frequent fears and phobias.
From inside the book. What people are saying - Write a review. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Contents. Sep 23, · If you experience bibliophobia, you may have difficulty when forced or encouraged to read.
You may fear the stories themselves. Or, even the simple act of reading, holding a book, or being in a library may cause anxious behavior associated with your phobia.
Phobias (Book): Features a collection of essays on phobias, discussing such topics as their symptoms, causes, and current treatments, and contains profiles of individuals with different types of. Understanding phobias Specific (simple) phobias These are phobias about one thing, such as spiders or flying.
They often develop in childhood or adolescence, and for many people they will lessen as they get older. This list shows some of the more common phobias. However, there are many more: • animals (such as dogs, insects, snakes, rodents). This book can forever change how you think about your inner fears.
Based on field studies and the author’s own life experience, Fear, Phobias, and Freedom will take you on a fantastic journey of discovering the root of all fear and how it affects every cell in your body. This book, written fro. Nov 28, · Brought to life by outrageously macabre artwork and startlingly innovative pop-ups, The Pop-up Book of Phobias is an engineering marvel and cult classic in the making—an offbeat holiday treasure sure to become this season's most talked-about gift book/5(8).
phobias. This brochure focuses on specific phobias. For information about agoraphobia and social phobia go to aureusid.com What is a specific phobia. People with a specific phobias have an excessive and unreasonable fear in the presence of or anticipation of a specific object, place, or situation.
Common specific phobias include animals, insects. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Like Room, The Lovely Bones is a book that makes you worry about the children you love.
For me, this book has the added element of giving me a phobia about icicles. I don’t want to spoil it for you if you haven’t read it, but whenever it snows I make sure no one walks underneath any hanging aureusid.com: Karina Glaser. The Pop Up Book of Phobias by Gary Greenberg.
I bought "The Pop-up Book of Phobias" because I was visiting a friend and he had it on his on his coffee table and I enjoyed it so much I had buy it. I love this book. But then, I always enjoyed pop ups for kids.
This book is /5(21). Jan 03, · It's impossible to name all of the possible fears that people can have, but here's a list of the most common and unique ones, including a fear of phobias, as well as treatment aureusid.com: Corinne O'keefe Osborn.
POP-UP BOOK OF PHOBIAS [O/P] by Greenberg, Gary and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at aureusid.com Specific phobias usually begin in adolescence or adulthood.
They start suddenly and tend to be more persistent than childhood phobias. When children have specific phobias--for example, a fear of animals--those fears usually disappear over time, though they may continue into adulthood. Phobias can be for just about anything and new phobias are constantly emerging in the changing world.
So, how do we deal with phobias. There are a number of ways psychologists treat phobias and treatments will often depend on the type and severity. Phobias and Manias Phobias, fears, anxieties, dreads, terrors, panics, and angst all contribute to our abhorrence of certain situations and aureusid.com what conditions cause you to abhor (excessively fear) what is usually considered by most people to be a “normal situation”.
A complete summary of current knowledge about phobias, for the academic and clinician First comprehensive handbook on the topic for 10 years The latest research and findings presented in a single source Contributions from eminent international clinicians and researchers Psychological treatments available for specific phobias have been refined considerably in recent years.
This extensive. Oct 13, · The worst phobias. From the fear of loosing your phone to trypophobic shapes that give the sufferer anxiety. These people suffer from phobias that leave them with a difficult way of living their.
Understanding And Treating Biological And Chemical Phobias From the perspective of psychologists and sociologists, a phobia is an irrational fear. However, biologists and doctors sometimes use the term to describe the reaction of animals, plants, and human beings to certain stimuli.
Biological and chemical phobias are reactions certain biological or chemical elements that can make. Oct 15, · The pop-up book of Phobias is written by stand-up comedian Gary Greenberg and illustrated by Balvis Rubess.
It’s also one of the very first pop-up books engineered by Matthew Reinhart. In a sequel (and just as scary) pop-up book followed with the title: The Pop-up Book of Nightmares. Created by the same team and also a collectable classic.8/10(8).
A social phobia can make it nearly impossible for a kid to stand up and give a book report or even enjoy a birthday party. Although most kids might be a little afraid of giving a book report to a big group of kids or talking to a teacher, kids with a social phobia become so afraid that they can't fully enjoy life or function the way other kids do.Jan 10, · Phobias of all types share similar physical and emotional symptoms.
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