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The story of Bill Gates inspires even the harshest of his critics. The young college dropout teamed up with his friend Paul Allen and founded Microsoft from a tiny garage. With no money and only a solid vision, Gates propelled Microsoft to become the largest software company in the world. At the time of his stepping down as CEO, Bill Gates had 128,000 employees.
While we can’t all become Bill Gates, George Soros, or Jeff Bezos, we can learn important lessons about leadership from their success stories. The following are 5 quick tips to become a better leader at your workplace.
Tips to Become a Better Leader
1. Don’t Give Orders, Teach
If you are constantly barking orders, you are on the wrong trajectory. Expecting military discipline and trying to control people to do things in a certain way is counterproductive for several reasons. First, it creates an environment of fear and limits creativity.
People will be afraid of thinking out of the box for fear of making mistakes and will not go the extra mile when looking for solutions. Secondly, you will end up with poor employee engagement. Disengaged employees are likely to be less productive and more likely to leave the organization.
If you want to be a good leader, coach your team members. This means recognizing that they have a mind of their own and allowing them to take ownership of their projects. Be available to offer guidance and encourage growth by teaching. At the end of the day, you will create loyal and inspired employees.
2. Lead By Example
Being a manager does not give you special privileges to break the code of conduct. For example, if you are constantly speaking against using the company resources for your own gain, don’t use the company car to run your personal errands. This will break trust and can encourage dishonesty.
Operating with high standards will set the pace for everyone else and will create a culture of integrity and a value system that espouses accountability, honesty and responsibility. Yes, a position of leadership allows you to shape the actions of others with words, but it is your actions that have the most impact.
3. Develop Yourself
The age-old debate of whether leaders are born or made has never been properly settled. However, research suggests that leaders are most likely made. The fact is that leadership requires a complex set of skills that can only be acquired through education, mentorship and experience.
While you do not need a stellar academic record to make a good leader, you must make a continuous effort to acquire as much knowledge as possible. Therefore, take relevant online courses from time to time, attend industry events and workshops, read books, reach out to successful leaders for mentorship and so on. Becoming a better version of yourself will inspire others to become the best they can be.
4. Set Clear Goals and Involve Your Employees
For employees to be successful in their jobs, they need to be aware of the goal they are working towards and what the expectations are. Do not make any assumptions; you must communicate clearly and articulately so that everybody is in the loop. While goal setting is usually a management function, it helps to include employees in the process. Therefore instead of bombarding them with expectations, allow them to ask questions and give feedback.
Further, share your vision and help them understand how their efforts will help the organization get there. This will help them realize how important their roles are and will make them feel valued.
5. Give Constant and Honest Feedback
Most people will appreciate knowing how they are fairing. If a new employee has to wait till the end of the year to know what you think of them, they might not be confident about their abilities. Therefore, give feedback from time to time. Be forthright about performance and other metrics, and do not be afraid of communicating negative feedback. If someone can do better, point out to them how they can improve. Likewise, good performance needs to be acknowledged and rewarded.
You Can’t Do it Alone
Successful leaders agree that leadership is more about empowering others and creating synergies than being a boss. It’s about selling your vision and inspiring others to help you get there. This is not something that you can learn in a day. To become a better leader, you must be confident enough to start.
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Italy's Govt Removes State Subsidies for Political Parties as of 2017
Italy's government has adopted a decree law envisaging the removal of state subsidies for political parties as of 2017.
As of 2017, political parties will be funded by contributions from citizens, according to reports of Bulgarian daily Sega.
The bill was to be adopted by Parliament but it was delayed.
The bill was only approved by the Chamber of Deputies but not by the Senate, which was why the government took advantage of the opportunity to adopt a decree law taking effect immediately.
In order to remain in force, the law has to be upheld by the Senate.
Until now, the amount of money granted to political parties depended on their election results.
Under the provisions adopted on Friday, political formations in Italy will receive 60% of their allocations in 2014, which will drop to 50% in 2015, 40% in 2016, and 0% in 2017.
In July 2012, the previous government of Prime Minister Mario Monti reduced by half the total amount of public funding for political parties, from a rate of EUR 182 M to EUR 91 M in 2013.
The political parties will be funded by voluntary donations of citizens.
Italian MPs set a limit to these donations of EUR 200 000 a year for companies and EUR 300 000 for natural persons.
On December 9, Bulgaria's Parliament approved a reduction of the annual amount of the state subsidy for political parties to BGN 11 per vote in 2014.
The reduction by BGN 1, or 8.33%, was approved during the second reading of amendments to the State Budget Act.
The subsidy cut is expected to result in savings of around BGN 4 M, according to reports of dnevnik.bg.
After the parliamentary elections on May 12, a total of 10 parties passed the 1% threshold and qualified for state subsidies – center-right party GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria), the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), liberal party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), nationalist party Ataka and the extra-parliamentary nationalist parties National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB) and VMRO, the Bulgaria for Citizens Movement of former EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, liberal party LIDER, marginal conservative party Order, Law and Justice (RZS) of Yane Yanev and the People's Voice of party of rock musician Svetoslav Vitkov.
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A Homeless Father's 'Pursuit of Happyness'
There are many stories of single mothers struggling to raise their kids against incredible odds, and with little help. But rarely do you hear of single fathers going through the same struggle. Chris Gardner is one of those fathers.
Gardner fought to raise his young son while homeless and living on the streets of San Francisco. Gardner, who served a brief stint in the Navy and had no education beyond high school, would eventually get back on his feet to become a millionaire stockbroker and business owner.
Gardner relates his rags-to-riches story -- and his concept of "conscious capitalism" -- in his memoir The Pursuit of Happyness. Gardner's saga is now the subject of a new film starring Will Smith, scheduled to be released later this year.
The misspelled "Happyness" of the book's title comes from when Gardner was looking for daycare for his son so Gardner could pursue his career. He rejected one facility because it misspelled "Happiness" in its name, but gained insight into what happiness meant to him personally when he explained the literal meaning of the word to his curious son.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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To speak of things that happened in residential schools only brings them back into focus and many who were sent to these places rarely talk about their experiences. Hearing his father’s stories for the first time affected Carey Newman in a very different way. His father Victor had always protected his children from the reality that was residential school and only told the funny stories. But when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada held a community event in Victoria, Victor finally opened the door into his past.
“One of the things that seemed to touch him was when he started to talk about when he was first taken and they shaved off his hair,” said Carey. It was, in many ways, “taking the Indian out of the child.”
The emerging stories deeply affected the younger Newman and led to the idea of a project where reconciliation was the theme. Both Newmans are well-known Kwagiulth artists and master carvers with a wide body of private and public work.
“I thought of a blanket and I realized it should include the idea of reconciliation, parts of buildings, parts of churches, government buildings and other related structures,” said Newman. The project is called “Witness Blanket.” The sole purpose is to stand in eternal witness to the effect of the Indian residential school era. As the children sent to these schools were “broken” so are the places they were sent to. The crumbling buildings of authority mirror the lose of language, pride and family for those sent to the residential schools.
A blanket is a universal symbol of protection and for First Nations people it identifies who they are and where they are from. They wear them for ceremony and give them as gifts.
“Blankets protect our young and comfort our elders,” states the project’s website.
Newman wants to “weave” a blanket from those stories and pieces of residential school history. He sees a large scale art installation that will stand as a national monument to recognize the atrocities of the residential school era while honouring the children and symbolize ongoing reconciliation.
From the 19th century until the last school closed in 1996, 150,000 Aboriginal, Inuit and Metis children attended these schools across Canada.
The goal of the project is to collect 2,500 pieces of history for the Witness Blanket. Those pieces can be shingles, bricks, mortar, wood, photos, writings or any fragment that speaks of the time and place of residential schools.A team of six, including Newman, will travel on gathering trips to different parts of Canada.
“We would certainly like to see widespread participation and have the public engage all across the country, all ages and backgrounds,” said Newman. “It is open to anybody who has connection or want to participate in any way.”
Newman said people can contribute items that may have kept from those days and this can include stories of what happened.
They are building a virtual version of the blanket, an exact replica. People will be able to click on an image and interact in a different way that with the physical blanket.
“With the blanket I can hopefully make a powerful legacy but I can’t put all (the stories) into it. This will be another dimension crossing the boundaries between art and digital media,” said Newman. “It means anyone can visit the blanket.”
The stories, which won’t be part of the Witness Blanket itself, will be there for posterity. Stories like the ones Carey got to hear from his father. Victor got kicked out of residential school in Mission when the guys got together to get into the wine cellar. The smallest of the group was sent in through a window and pulled out some holy wine. They went into a field and under an apple tree they polished off the wine. When they were found out, he’s not sure how many others were kicked out of residential school. That’s one of humourous stories Carey’s father tells.
“That’s a lighthearted impression of dad at residential school,” said Newman. “He had his own rebellious way of dealing with it.”
The others weren’t so funny. Newman said Victor spent a long time protecting his children from it.
“He recorded his story for me, some of them for the first time. I heard things I never got to hear or feel — all the negative and bad things I knew were out there.” He said he did a research paper in college on residential schools and his father never wanted to talk about it and he never did until recently.
Carey wants to find that apple tree and find a piece of it to put into the blanket.
The story of having his dad’s hair shaved off has touched the Newman clan and both of Carey’s sisters, Ellen and Marion, agreed to grow their hair for a year and the braids will be on the last part of the blanket.
The Witness Blanket project is funded through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Aboriginal and Northern Development Canada. Part of the funding was set aside by a court ruling to do with reconciliation, said Newman.
For people interested in being a part of the Witness Blanket, they can log onto the website at: www.witnessblanket.ca, on Facebook or email: firstname.lastname@example.org.
The team will travel to every province and territory at least once.
“This is truly a national project in scope,” said Newman.
With a strong belief in the importance of tradition, Carey is active within his culture, a role for which he has been given the traditional name Ha-yalth-kingeme. Under the influence and support of his father and mother, Carey developed his artistic ability and cultural knowledge from an early age. His father Victor, his great, great grandfather Charlie James, and his great aunt Ellen Neel, all renowned wood carvers, each contribute to the artistry in his blood.
In 2008 both Newmans travelled with the Spirit Pole all across British Columbia. People in communities all across the province were invited to carve on the pole, which now resides in Duncan, B.C. Carey created four large panels for the 2010 Olympic games.
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It remains to be seen whether Vladimir Putin's new administration will bring any changes in Russia's politics. Source: ITAR-TASS
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday appointed a slew of former ministers to the presidential administration, reinforcing expectations that there will be no significant policy changes for a Kremlin packed with familiar loyalists. Experts say the result is a triumph of personal politics over the formal constitutional rules of the game.
While Putin had made some
sacrifices in cabinet appointments, which resulted in a considerably renewed
government, his new administration features an array of loyalists who some
experts say may overshadow the novelty of a somewhat fresh Dmitry Medvedev-led
Among the key figures in the new Kremlin administration are former Economic
Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina and former Health and Social Services
Minister Tatyana Golikova, both of whom will serve as advisors. Key Putin
loyalist and former Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov will remain as presidential
chief of staff, while Dmitry Peskov, the president’s longtime and outspoken
press attaché, will become a deputy chief of staff.
Sergei Prikhodko, the Kremlin's longtime foreign policy advisor, left the Kremlin for Medvedev’s cabinet as a deputy chief of staff. Meanwhile, former Russian Ambassador to the United States Yuri Ushakov, who served as Putin’s foreign policy advisor during his premiership, is taking Prikhodko’s place as the president’s key foreign policy aide. Because foreign policy has traditionally been the domain of the Russian president, Ushakov’s role as foreign policy advisor in the White House reflected Putin’s unusually privileged position during the past four years.
Taken together, the job swaps have left observers wondering how the balance of power between Putin and Medvedev will play out, especially as Putin – who served as Russia’s most influential prime minister – brings a significant portion of his old team to the Kremlin, while the Medvedev government is stocked in large part with lesser-known technocrats.
Experts say the news reflects a greater shift of power back toward the Kremlin, where for four years Medvedev had failed to muster any serious clout and Putin-centric politics had remained the order of the day. “When Medvedev was president, his administration was far less important than Putin’s team, and there are few people who doubt that,” said political expert Dmitry Oreshkin. “The point is not about constitutional norms or the politics of a presidential republic – it’s about the rules of the game. And the rules of the game are simple: Putin is always right.”
Yevgeny Minchenko, head of the International Institute of Political Expertise, agrees that the wholesale transfer of Putin’s former colleagues from the government to the Kremlin sends signals that the key power constituencies remain based on personal loyalty rather than formal office. “The logic of the system holds that while people can go from one post to another – or they can begin to create groups of influence around themselves – the basic format of the Putin ‘politburo’ will not change much,” he said.
However, according to Pavel Danilin, the Kremlin-friendly editor in chief of the Kreml.org news portal, the advisory posts within the presidential administration are either decorative roles or transitional jobs given to bureaucrats who are slated to move on elsewhere within the system.
The retention of figures such as former Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Peskov may be prime examples, since both, though under fire for their recent actions – Nurgaliyev for the recent wave of rampant police abuse and Peskov for his harsh comments against the anti-Kremlin protesters – remain Putin’s close allies and incorporated into key decision-making procedures.
First published in Russia Profile.
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Global Roofing Market - 2021-2028
発行: DataM Intelligence
ページ情報: 英文 180 Pages
Global Roofing Market Overview
The global roofing market size was worth US$ XX billion in 2020 and is estimated to show significant growth by reaching up to US$ XX billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of XX% between the forecast period (2021-2028).
Roofing is a form of building envelope made primarily of concrete, polymer, metal, or other materials that protects the building's walls from snow, rain, sunlight, temperature extremes, and wind. Gabled, butterfly, hipped, arched, flat, mono-pitched, and domed are some of the shapes available. Roofs in residential and commercial buildings, including hotels, offices, and educational institutions, are usually made of bitumen, ceramic coated granules, cement, sand, asphalt, and polycarbonate. The structure determines the properties of a roof it covers, the roofing materials available, local construction traditions, and more extended architectural design and practice principles. It may also be governed by local or national legislation.
Roofing Market Dynamics
The global roofing materials market is driven by the growing market of the construction industry across different parts of the globe. The arrival of green roofing, eco-friendly roofing materials, and drones for roof inspections has improved the roofing market, thereby creating immense opportunities in the forecast period.
The global roofing materials market is driven by the growing market of the construction industry across different parts of the globe.
One of the world's most flourishing industries is construction, divided into many subsegments such as civil engineering construction, building construction, and advanced construction. The construction industry grew to a spending value of close to 12 trillion U.S. dollars before the coronavirus pandemic and is expected to grow by 3% per annum. This includes real estate developments, both residential and commercial, as well as utilities and industrial structures. The cost of labor and materials and architectural and engineering costs are all included in construction spending results. Also, the increasing need for medical facilities, the latest hospitals, and senior living complexes to meet an aging population's demands is anticipated as the major pushing forces behind the increased market for roofing market in recent times.
The arrival of green roofing, eco-friendly roofing materials, and drones for roof inspections leads to the improve the technology, thereby expected to create immense opportunity for the product in the forecast period
Growing technological advancements in roofing materials such as the arrival of green roofing, eco-friendly roofing materials, and drones for roof inspections have to build immense opportunities for the product in the forecast period. The increasing inclination towards vegetative roofing, cool roofs, solar roofing, pre-engineered steel, and liquid-applied roof coatings also adds value to the roofing market growth. Furthermore, the market is expected to benefit from introducing reflective coatings applied to dark-colored roofing materials as reflective coatings have superior heat reflection properties and reduce the building structure's total energy consumption. Product demand is expected to increase further in the coming years due to the aesthetics, superior durability, and ease of installation associated with these items.
Increased adoption of paper recycling technologies and growing government and manufacturers' R&D activities are creating immense opportunities for the paper packaging market to grow at the highest rate in the coming tenure.
Lack of skilled manpower for installation, fluctuating raw material prices, lack of safety awareness, the emergence of unorganized players, and installation issues in some areas are all challenges for the industry. They are severely hampering product development. The primary raw material for bitumen is gasoline, and gasoline demand continues to decline. This has had a negative impact on the availability of bitumen and asphalt. Furthermore, costly manufacturing methods such as the oxidation process have increased the cost of bituminous roofing output. As a result, the roofing's business growth is expected to be hampered, particularly in recent years.
COVID-19 Impact Analysis
The COVID-19 pandemic has noteable impacted the construction sector's growth, which is sensitive to economic cycles. In addition, many projects remained in the unfinished stages due to the unavailability of enough funds, and those that were finished remained unsold because of changing buyer preferences. Residential real estate demand was also lagging, as aspirational homeowners postponed their purchases due to various factors, including the COVID crises' uncertainty. Thus, a severe impact on the construction industry has negatively impacted the roofing industry's growth in 2020-2021.
Roofing Segment Analysis
The global paper packaging materials market is segmented based on type, product, application and region.
Increasing demand for roofing materials such as fiberglass/plastics, metals, tiles, membranes, and others among different end-users creates immense opportunities for the material segment of the roofing industry.
In terms of type, the global roofing materials market is segmented into materials and chemicals. Out of the two types material segment is more likely to build a bigger market share in the forecast period due to increasing demand for roofing materials such as fiberglass/plastics, metals, tiles, membranes, and others in non-residential construction activities such as transport infrastructure, power infrastructure, and others. Besides, increasing investment in non-residential infrastructures, including warehouses, transportation systems, manufacturing facilities, power plants, and production units, among other things, is expected to trigger the growth of roofing materials from segments across the globe.
Roofing Market Geographical Analysis
The growing construction industry, which involves both new construction and renovation projects, is triggering the demand of roofing market in the Asia-Pacific region
The Asia Pacific is growing in lockstep with the construction industry, which involves new construction and renovation projects. Furthermore, increased demand for building and construction activities has resulted from increased industrial operations, especially in China and India, and population growth, driving demand for roofing materials. India's construction industry is booming due to ongoing urbanization, upcoming infrastructure projects, and a rising population base. It is the third-largest contributor to economic development, with several ongoing project opportunities. Furthermore, the sector hires over 40 million people and has a wide pool of low-wage labor.
Moreover, government flagship programs such as 'Smart Cities,' 'Housing for All,' 'Make in India,' and 'Atal Mission for Urban Rejuvenation and Transformation (AMRUT)' will spur development. It is predicted that more foreign investment will be attracted due to these efforts and the government's desire to expand public-private partnerships with foreign companies. This leads to uplifted the roofing market in the Asia-Pacific region.
Roofing Market Competitive Landscape
The roofing market is highly competitive with the presence of local as well as global companies. Some of the key players contributing to the market's growth include Atlas Roofing Corporation, 3M, Dow Inc., Duro-Last, Inc, BASF SE, BMI Group, Johns Manville, Siplast, IKO Polymeric, Godfrey Roofing Inc. and among others.
The major players are adopting several growth strategies such as product launches, acquisitions, and collaborations, contributing to the roofing market's growth globally. The key players are adopting acquisition and collaboration as the major growth strategy to build revenue for their company
Overview: Duro-Last Inc. is the world's largest producer of thermoplastic single-ply roofing systems that are custom-fabricated based in Saginaw, Michigan. Up to 85% of field seams can be eliminated using factory-controlled custom welding, resulting in lower on-site labor costs and easier installation. Duro-Last offers roofing systems that are long-lasting and environmentally friendly in nature.
Duro-Last X Membrane: Duro-Last X is an excellent choice for contractors seeking the convenience of roll goods coupled with the customization of custom-cut lengths. The Duro-Last X membrane is offered in 10-foot wide rolls that can be custom-cut to any length up to 200 feet, reducing scrap and improving installation efficiency over typical roll goods.
The global roofing market report would provide access to an approx: 61 market data table, 56 figures and 251 pages.
Target Audience 2022
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If anyone knew the secret to ensuring the sex of a couple’s child he’d be a millionaire overnight! Still, for those women who like to try out a theory, it’s interesting to see the findings of a study published during 2008…
Does a high calorie diet increase your chances of having a boy?
A study, carried out by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford, claimed that a high-calorie diet coupled with regular breakfasts might increase the odds of conceiving a boy.
A sample study was made of 740 first-time pregnant women in the UK. They were asked to provide records of their eating habits during the early stages of pregnancy.
56% of mothers-to-be with the highest energy intake at the time of conception gave birth to boys, compared to 45% of women with the lowest energy intake.
The women who gave birth to sons consumed around 2,413 calories a day compared with 2,283 calories for those who had daughters. Those who had boys were also more likely to have eaten a higher quantity and range of nutrients, including potassium, calcium and vitamins C, E and B12.
The study’s results are certainly interesting and might comfort hearty eaters, but the numbers of women involved in the study do not constitute a worldwide conclusive trend, and shouldn’t encourage all women to start over-eating if they dream of having sons!
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News from the web:
Here is some good news about the fight against Alzheimer. Scientist have declared a human trail successful. The new treatment involves active immunisation, using a type of vaccine designed to trigger the body’s immune defence against beta-amyloid.
In this second clinical trial on humans, the vaccine was modified to affect only the harmful beta-amyloid.
The researchers found that 80 per cent of the patients involved in the trials developed their own protective antibodies against beta-amyloid without suffering any side effects over the three years of the study.
Read all about it HERE
visit us at AlzheimerHeadlines.com
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STD testing is very important for our health and well being for anyone that has been sexually active. Most doctors will do some sexual disease testing, but many will not do all of the tests that may be needed. .Not all doctors are familiar with treating sexually transmitted diseases. Since many of these diseases do not show symptoms to everyone, on a normal your doctor is not trained to ask questions to know which diseases that you could be at risk for. Many people are too embarrassed to go and discuss their sexual patterns and partners with their regular medical doctor. Some people have a fear of someone seeing their name on a test results paper or overhear the reason of their visit.
Visiting Your Specialized Clinic
Many people are realizing that they are more comfortable when they visit a specialized clinic. Most specialized clinics will have a staff well trained and will know what questions to ask about your sexual patterns and partners so they will know which sexually transmitted diseases that you could be at risk for. They know which test that should be ordered and which treatments would work the best for your situation. Everyone on the staff is fully trained from the health counselors to the nurses to the doctors, that hear similar situations daily and know what to look for and how to help their patients get through this trying time. All you have to do is to visit your clinic and be honest with them about any questions that they may ask or any symptoms that you might be having. The more open and honest you are the more they know how to make sure you are healthy.
Advantages Of Visiting The Clinic
• Well trained professional staff
• Many will offer counseling to help you make it through this rough time
• Most will have evening and weekend hours for your convenience
• Some may offer financial assistance if you do not have the money for treatment
• They are experienced every day in handling similar situations as yours
Some Sexually Transmitted Diseases Can Be Life Threatening
When choosing your STD Clinic knowing that you can feel confident in their abilities is a comforting feeling. This is embarrassing time for many and they will make excuses why not to go and get tested or treated. Most trained staff will do their best to make this trip easy and convenient for your comfort. Any time that someone is sexually active it is recommended that yearly testing is completed. There are many of these diseases that do not show any symptoms and can create larger problems for you well being.learn more detailed information at http://www.shimclinic.com/singapore/std-testing
Not only is there the risk of transferring these diseases from one partner to another, but some of these diseases can be deadly if left untreated. The effect of many sexually transmitted diseases, can cause bigger and more in depth health issues. Some of the examples, are diseases such as HIV and HPV that are related to sexually transmitted diseases.for more information, visit the original source.
HIV is caused from a virus that attacks your immune system. As this disease weakens your immune system, this can then turn into Aids that can be deadly to many. The HPV virus may live silently inside of us and can be a cause of many things such as warts and even cancer. If left untreated we all know what cancer can due to our bodies. If you have ever been sexually active it is wise to get yourself tested for the dreaded STD.
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Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc. has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to operate as a passenger airline.
If Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc. is successful in its application, it expects to begin soon the process of FAA certification as a passenger airline under Part 121 of the Federal Aviation Regulations.
According to the company, it has retained legal counsel and consultants for this purpose. The new carrier would be called Eastern Air Lines.
“We are honored to have the opportunity to launch an airline bearing the iconic Eastern Air Lines name,” says Edward Wegel, Eastern’s president and CEO. “We have recruited a world-class board of directors and a highly experienced management team to guide and lead this effort.”
Although Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc. is not affiliated with the former Eastern Air Lines, which operated from 1928 to 1991 as one of the largest U.S. domestic carriers and had a large network to Caribbean and Latin American destinations, the company was specifically formed to re-launch the Eastern Air Lines name as a passenger airline.
In 2009, a professional group of airline managers acquired the intellectual property of Eastern Air Lines to develop a new business plan and financing plan to re-launch the airline.
That work has begun and is being led by certification consultant Locked On, according to Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc.
Like the original Eastern Air Lines, the new Eastern would be based at Miami International Airport (IATA code MIA). It would operate leased Airbus A319 and Airbus A320 single-aisle jets.
The new Eastern says it is working with various aircraft leasing companies to assemble a fleet of Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft.
Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc.’s headquarters is located in Building 5A at Miami International Airport. This four-story building at the corner of LeJeune and 36th Street was the former Eastern Operations Center, once housing all of Eastern Air Lines’ system control and maintenance control centers, and other operating units.
The new Eastern’s management team says it has established working relationships with strategic partners. These include the Miami-Dade Aviation Department (which operates MIA), Amadeus and Airbus, according to Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc.
According to the new Eastern, the original Eastern’s relationship with Amadeus dates back to Eastern’s reservation system, called System One. This system was eventually sold by Eastern and later became the core of the Amadeus system.
The original Eastern had a relationship with Airbus dating back to 1972, when Eastern became a launch airline customer for the Airbus A300.
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A very interesting article that touches upon GS in several contexts, including tracing its improvements over the years. The authors also discuss the debates about how GS works and then also about how useful it is in finding grey literature for conducting evidence reviews. The article concludes that GS is indeed a useful supplement in searches for evidence, particularly grey literature so long as its limitations are recognised. The authors recommend that the assessment of results from Google Scholar, should move on to recording snapshots of all viewable search results: i.e. the first 1,000 records, instead of the first 50 that most Systematic Review authors use. They feel that this change in practice could significantly improve both the transparency and coverage of systematic reviews, especially with respect to their grey literature components. Happy reading!
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LETTERS : No reason why you shouldn't run for public office
Unemployed? Want to make a difference? Run for office!
According to the Elkhart County clerk's office, there is no filing fee to run for county office or to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. You do have to get signatures from taxpayers in order to get on the ballot. This can be accomplished by spending a weekend at University Park Mall.
If you don't spend any money and don't accept any campaign contributions, your campaign finance reports can be filled out using zeroes. Refusing interviews and not responding to surveys lets you use your time as you see fit. Those who spend the least to get into office might spend the least while in office.
Seven percent unemployment translates to some 7,000 unemployed workers in Elkhart County. If 2,000 people run for office in the county primary, printing the ballots will be so expensive people will take notice.
Polling places will be overwhelmed. It takes time to read a ballot 40 or more pages long. It also takes time to insert 40 pages into a ballot box. Those expenditures are not discretionary either.
Go to the county clerk's office by noon Feb. 7 to run for local office. State and federal candidates must file at the state level.
As America moves steadily down the road to a wider definition of marriage, Indiana's proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage is a U-turn weaving through oncoming traffic, back down that road to a more restrictive past, a move we will certainly have to repeal someday.
Some argue the Bible defines marriage as one man and one woman, but David, author of Psalms and from whose house and lineage came Joseph and Mary, had at least eight wives and many concubines. And his son Solomon had something like 700 wives and 300 concubines, and this is in that very same Bible.
Some say marriage is for procreation. But are people beyond child-bearing years to be denied the love and companionship of marriage? Cannot people simply decide not to have children, but still marry, and must those who cannot get pregnant live solo lives?
Some say the amendment will hurt business, but this isn't about money. This is about people's fulfillment and happiness, not more dollars for corporations.
Kill the amendment, but because of human lives, not profits.
If we enact this amendment, we can put a new slogan on our license plates: Indiana: Headin' Backwards.
I would sarcastically like to thank the state of Indiana for putting in a defensive driving course on Lincoln Way from Mishawaka through Osceola. All the chuckholes makes this possible. I'm just wondering when my certification will be in the mail since I paid for it with my taxes.
This is a terrible road hazard and filling the holes is not helping, being that it was done at least three times this year already. If it is not going to be fixed, please refund my tax money I paid for the course.
You don't save a sinking ship by cutting another hole in the hull. And yet that's just what supporters of eliminating Indiana's business personal property tax are proposing. Even as local governments are struggling with restricted property taxes and reduced federal aid, proponents of ending the business tax would slash another $1 billion from county and town budgets. Roads, schools, emergency response and other important services would all suffer as a result.
Working families have sacrificed enough to austerity policies at the state and federal level. Kids kicked out of preschool, seniors losing hot meals, medical research canceled -- these are the human costs of budget cuts. Instead of fruitlessly trying to cut our way to prosperity, we should be asking big corporations and wealthy households to pay their fair share of taxes.
Even with the newest federal budget deal there was no closing of corporate tax loopholes. Instead, a billion-dollar business tax cut on the Indiana state level punches another hole in the boat, further sinking the struggling middle class.
Where's the global warming?
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A few of our most popular commercial and industrial electrical services include but are not limited to:
A few of our most popular commercial and industrial electrical services include but are not limited to:
Your businesses' electrical system will trip when it has too much electricity running through it. These problems are very common in commercial properties and usually stem from one of three culprits: circuit overloads, short circuits, and ground fault surges. Obviously, when your circuits are tripped regularly, your business operations suffer. To help solve your circuit breaker problems, our commercial electricians will come to your location for in-depth troubleshooting. Once we discover the root cause, we'll get to work on repairing your circuit breaker, so you can continue working and serving your customers.
Like tripped circuit breakers, dimming or flickering lights are among the most common commercial electrical problems in South Carolina. These issues typically stem from poor electrical connections. These poor connections will usually cause sparks, which can start fires and wreak havoc on your commercial building. While dimming lights might seem minor, if you leave this problem to fester, you could be looking at permanent damage to your businesses' electrical systems. Given the danger involved in fixing this problem, it's important that you work with a licensed business electrician like Engineered Electrical Solutions as soon as you're able to.
Dead power outlets aren't always dangerous, unlike other recurring commercial electrical issues. They are, however, disruptive to your company's productivity. Dead outlets are common in older commercial buildings and are often caused by circuit overloads. Connecting multiple high-wattage devices and appliances to the same power socket can cause overheating. When the power outlet overheats, it can lead to tripped circuit breakers. In some cases, the live wire catches fire and burns until it is disconnected. For a reliable solution using high-quality switches, sockets, and circuit breakers, it's best to hire a professional business electrician to get the job done right.
Finding a real-deal, qualified commercial electrician in South Carolina is harder than you might think. Whether it's due to availability or budget, you might be tempted to hire a residential electrician for your commercial electrical problem. While it's true that great residential electricians can help solve commercial issues in theory, it's always best to hire a business electrician with professional experience.
Unlike their residential colleagues, commercial electricians are licensed to deal with different materials and procedures suited specifically for businesses. Commercial wiring is much more complex than residential, and is strategically installed with maintenance, repair, and changes in mind. Additionally, commercial properties usually use a three-phase power supply, necessitating more schooling, skills, and technical ability to service.
The bottom line? If you're a business owner with commercial electricity problems, it's best to work with a licensed commercial electrician, like you will find at Engineered Electrical Solutions.
Shields Painting has been in the business since 1968. In a world where so much has changed, we are proud to uphold the ideals that make us successful: hard, honest work, getting the job done right, and excellent customer service. Providing you with trustworthy, quality work will always take priority over rushing through a project to serve the next customer. That is just not the way we choose to do business.
As professionals dedicated to perfection, we strive to provide a unique painting experience for every customer - one that focuses on their needs and desires instead of our own. Whether you need residential painting for your home or commercial painting for your business, we encourage you to reach out today to speak with our customer service team. Whether you have big ideas about a new paint project or need our expertise and guidance, we look forward to hearing from you soon.
We want to be sure every one of our customers is satisfied, which is why we offer a three-year guaranteed on our labor. If you're in need of an electrician for your home or business, give our office a call and discover the Engineered Electrical Solutions difference.(843) 420-3029
Nationwide, nursing shortages are plaguing the healthcare system. Piedmont Medical Center now has to compete with other area hospital systems.FORT MILL, S.C. — Piedmont Medical Center is on track to open its new hospital in Fort Mill this fall and the company is looking to hire staff members to fill the new facility.Piedmont Medical Center Fort Mill, which has been in the works for over a ...
Nationwide, nursing shortages are plaguing the healthcare system. Piedmont Medical Center now has to compete with other area hospital systems.
FORT MILL, S.C. — Piedmont Medical Center is on track to open its new hospital in Fort Mill this fall and the company is looking to hire staff members to fill the new facility.
Piedmont Medical Center Fort Mill, which has been in the works for over a decade, is located at the intersection of South Carolina Highway 160 and U.S. 21. Medical equipment is in place and rooms are almost ready to serve a community that, until now, has been forced to travel to Charlotte or Rock Hill for care.
“The population has grown significantly both during COVID and beforehand and we’re really excited to open the hospital,” Chris Mitchell, the hospital's CEO, said.
But the number of skilled bedside nurses in the state is shrinking, leaving every hospital fighting to fill open positions. Officials at Piedmont Medical Center know they’ll have to be competitive as they actively recruit workers. They’ve held several hiring events and are currently offering signing bonuses up to $20,000.
“Our focus is not just meeting the financial needs and what the market is demanding, but also meeting the needs of the individual people who will work in the building and what that means to them when they show up every day, the team and culture,” Tammy Moore, the chief nursing officer at Piedmont Medical Center Fort Mill said.
Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill found North Carolina nursing programs produce less than two-thirds of the nurses needed to staff the state’s hospitals. Leaders with the North Carolina Nurses Association believe building up that pipeline is dependent on the educators training tomorrow's nurses.
“I can make twice as much as a nurse taking care of patients as I can in a teaching role," Dr. Dennis Taylor said. "So, until we get that pay discrepancy and that compensation issue addressed, it’s going to be really hard, I think, for us to recruit folks in."
As the final touches are put on the new hospital in Fort Mill, leaders are hopeful the new building, equipment and opportunity will be appealing.
“It’s essentially a blank slate and you get to write what that looks like,” Moore said. “It’s daunting in some ways but it’s very exciting in other ways.”
The next hiring event is at the hospital on July 28 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Hospital officials said they’ll be making offers on the spot.
The hospital is on track to open on Sept. 7.
Illumination Wines has been open only a week in Fort Mill, but already the new spot feels like home. Which is the point of the place.The building at 201 Springs St., just a short walk across the Tom Hall Street intersection from Main Street, has a long history of residential and commercial uses. Most recently it was filled with offices. Linda Shadday and her daughter, Amanda Tellier, transformed the roughly 2,000-square-foot space into a wine tas...
Illumination Wines has been open only a week in Fort Mill, but already the new spot feels like home. Which is the point of the place.
The building at 201 Springs St., just a short walk across the Tom Hall Street intersection from Main Street, has a long history of residential and commercial uses. Most recently it was filled with offices. Linda Shadday and her daughter, Amanda Tellier, transformed the roughly 2,000-square-foot space into a wine tasting gathering spot.
Hardwood floors were kept. A new bar area welcomes guests near the entrance. Various seating rooms for book club, birthday party or other social gatherings of up to about 20 people fill the downstairs area.
Shadday and Tellier team to own and run Illumination Wines. In a back kitchen, Breanna Tuggle runs the separate but partner business Brie’s Boards, which serves cheeses and meats.
“We do grazing tables at events,” Tuggle said. “We do charcuterie boards, delivery, pickup as well, here. And then we’re also the in-house charcuterie kitchen.”
Both businesses aim to create a comfortable feel for guests who want to walk in and try something different in the downtown area.
“You’re walking to your neighbor’s house,” Tuggle said. “You’re home. You feel relaxed. That’s one of the biggest selling points we’ve heard.”
After a couple of soft opening events, Illumination held its grand opening over Memorial Day weekend.
“The whole front yard was filled with people,” Shadday said. “It was great.”
Shadday lives in Chester, Tellier in Tega Cay. Their family came from North Carolina prior. The new wine spot is several years in the making.
“It’s kind of been one of our favorite pastimes as a mother and daughter bonding thing,” Tellier said. “We would go to wineries together and do wine tastings. One day we were just drinking some wine at a winery not too far from here and we were like, we could do something like this.”
The pair originally envisioned a destination winery in Chester County. Then they heard about an urban winery concept in Davidson, N.C., that they thought they could replicate.
“We said, you know, that’s what we need to do,” Shadday said.
The pair searched for a site for more than a year. Shadday was turning around in Fort Mill one day when she saw a for lease sign at the Springs Street location.
“We are super excited to have it in this house because it just has such character and flair and uniqueness,” Shadday said. “It’s eclectic.”
Illumination offers domestic and international wines, many of the labels unavailable in retail stores. There are wine elixers, or wine-based cocktails. There are unique drinks like a pineapple upside down moscato. There are wine flights in test tube form.
“Wine is both science and art,” Tellier said, “so we’re trying to combine the two into a tasting experience.”
The site has a fermentation room, and eventually will make its own small batch craft wines.
“That’s going to be phase two,” Tellier said. “It’s going to be a couple of months.”
Because few grape varieties grow in South Carolina, Shadday said, most in-state wineries have to bring in grapes from elsewhere. Illumination already has partnerships to get its grapes. Wine will be made in a back room away from the parlors and meeting spaces for guests.
“We’ll be bottling back there, labeling and fermenting,” Shadday said.
Sunday brunch boards, baked brie and other food will be available through Tuggle’s business, which started as a home-based online company more than a year ago. Tuggle grew the business and needed a commercial kitchen, which fit perfectly with what Illumination had with its new site.
“Who doesn’t love wine and cheese, right?” Tuggle said. “Outside that, Linda and Amanda have been fantastic business partners over the last year, year-and-a-half almost that we’ve known each other.”
Illumination also stands to gain from the growing pedestrian traffic downtown, where a slew of new restaurant openings in recent years make for a busy Main Street most evenings. Already Illumination has had calls from groups walking up from other businesses on Main.
“We just want more businesses to bring lots of people to the area, to the park, to shop, eat and drink,” Shadday said. “It’s good for everybody.”
Illumination is open noon to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
This story was originally published June 1, 2022 11:54 AM.
In a year, Fort Mill added more residents than all but two other cities or towns in South Carolina.The U.S. Census Bureau released new population estimates Thursday for municipalities across the nation. The figures show estimates as of July 1, 2021, compared to that same date in 2020. Of the 270 incorporated places in South Carolina, most of the ones in York and surrounding counties grew.The estimated 27,991 residents in Fort Mill in mid-2021 is up 2,736 peop...
In a year, Fort Mill added more residents than all but two other cities or towns in South Carolina.
The U.S. Census Bureau released new population estimates Thursday for municipalities across the nation. The figures show estimates as of July 1, 2021, compared to that same date in 2020. Of the 270 incorporated places in South Carolina, most of the ones in York and surrounding counties grew.
The estimated 27,991 residents in Fort Mill in mid-2021 is up 2,736 people in a year. Those estimates don’t include the vast number of people with Fort Mill addresses who aren’t in town limits, notably Baxter and the Carowinds corridor. Unincorporated, or township, numbers were released with the recent data.
Only the slightly larger municipalities of Bluffton (3,457 resident increase) and Greer (3,068) grew by more people than Fort Mill. If the number of new residents in Fort Mill alone were its own town, it would rank in the top 100 in the state (No. 95).
In a year, York County grew by roughly the population of Clover. Yet much of the county’s population lives in unincorporated areas like Lake Wylie, or beyond the outskirts of Rock Hill and York.
Of the 288,595 estimated York County residents in mid-2021, about 54% live outside the nine cities and towns.
Rock Hill hasn’t grown in recent years at the rate Fort Mill has, but it’s still the largest population center in the county. The 74,102 estimated Rock Hill residents in mid-2021 is almost 26% of the county total. Yet the city population is down 55 residents in a year.
Fort Mill accounts for almost 10% of the York County population. Tega Cay is next at almost 5%.
Trends are visible dating back more than a decade. The 56% of York County residents who lived outside city or town limits in 2010 isn’t far off the 54% current mark. Yet a greater percentage of county residents each year come from the areas nearest Interstate 77 and the North Carolina border with Charlotte.
Rock Hill had 29% of the county population in 2010, 3% more than it does now. Fort Mill had less than 5%, about half what it has now. Tega Cay had about 3% of the county total, a little more than half what it has now.
Since 2010 the county has grown by more than 62,000 residents. Or, almost as many people as lived in Rock Hill in 2010. It’s a growth rate of almost 28%.
In that span, Fort Mill and Tega Cay combine to account for 41,269 more residents, or about two-thirds of that countywide growth rate. Rock Hill has grown by 7,948 residents since 2010.
While they aren’t reflected in the new data, years of new homebuilding trends in the area show similar growth in two other areas that border Charlotte. Lake Wylie in York County and Indian Land in Lancaster County remain some of the highest-growth areas in the region.
Both Lake Wylie and Indian Land are unincorporated areas. Their growth is reflected in countywide totals for their respective counties.
Here’s a look at one-year growth for municipalities in York, Lancaster and Chester counties:
$30 million investment to create approximately 200 new jobs COLUMBIA, S.C. – ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Nutramax Laboratories, an industry-leading manufacturer and marketer of nutritional supplement products for people and pets, today announced plans to expand operations in Lancaster County. The company’s $30 million investment will create approximately 200 new jobs.
For 30 years, Nutramax Laboratories has been researching and developing high-quality nutritional supplement products. In 2010, the company conducted a multi-state site search and moved its animal health business and corporate operations to Lancaster County and, since that time, has been actively engaged in the Lancaster community, providing support to local schools and churches, area law enforcement and fire services, numerous small businesses and many local charitable organizations. Nutramax Laboratories operates facilities in both South Carolina and Maryland and continues to be an industry leader in setting and adhering to high standards in research, manufacturing and quality control.
In addition to three existing locations in Lancaster, Nutramax Laboratories’ new facility will be located at 785 Fort Mill Highway in Indian Land and will house additional warehousing, distribution and future manufacturing capabilities.
Individuals interested in joining the Nutramax Laboratories team should visit the company’s careers page.
The Coordinating Council for Economic Development has approved job development credits related to this project. The council has also awarded a $500,000 Set-Aside grant to Lancaster County to assist with costs related to this project.
“We are pleased to continue to grow in Lancaster County. With this newest expansion to the Indian Land area, we will continue providing a positive impact that goes beyond our economic development commitments. For 30 years, we have been blessed with a fantastic team of employees committed to delivering the very best to our consumers. Our values of glorifying God, serving our people, supporting our community and pursuing excellence have created an unwavering guide to fulfilling our mission.” -Nutramax Laboratories President and CEO Todd Henderson, DVM
“When leading companies like Nutramax Laboratories find long-term success in our state, it shows the world that we have the business-friendly environment and skilled workforce in place where companies can grow. Congratulations to Nutramax Laboratories on this latest expansion in Lancaster County, and we look forward to their continued success in South Carolina.” -Gov. Henry McMaster
“Nutramax Laboratories’ expansion highlights the growth that life sciences companies are experiencing throughout South Carolina. We congratulate them on their expansion and look forward to a strong partnership for many years to come.” -Secretary of Commerce Harry M. Lightsey III
“We are excited that Nutramax is adding a fourth location in Lancaster County. They are demonstrating how businesses not only can succeed, but thrive in Lancaster County. They are a great corporate citizen and embody our economic development tagline – where big ideas become reality.” -Lancaster County Council Chair Steve Harper
Maddie Drerup didn’t have one of her best performances in the opening game of the Class 5A state championship series. That wasn’t the case for Drerup and the Fort Mill softball team in Game 2.The senior and USC Upstate signee tossed a one-hitter and hit a go-ahead grand slam Wednesday as the Yellow Jackets defeated Lexington 7-2.With the win, Fort Mill forced a deciding game in the best-of-three series that it will be played at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Blythewood High School.“Sometimes you have bad games and...
Maddie Drerup didn’t have one of her best performances in the opening game of the Class 5A state championship series. That wasn’t the case for Drerup and the Fort Mill softball team in Game 2.
The senior and USC Upstate signee tossed a one-hitter and hit a go-ahead grand slam Wednesday as the Yellow Jackets defeated Lexington 7-2.
With the win, Fort Mill forced a deciding game in the best-of-three series that it will be played at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Blythewood High School.
“Sometimes you have bad games and you have good games. But I wanted to come out tonight and show who I really am,” Drerup said. “Last night, I don’t feel like I pitched my best game at all. I trust in my team, and we just wanted to prove we were deserving of this right here.”
Drerup gave up eight runs on 13 hits in Tuesday’s opening 8-0 loss to Lexington. But the Wildcats couldn’t get much against her in Game 2. She took a no-hitter into the bottom of the seventh until Peyton Baker’s single with one out.
Drerup struck out 10 and walked five, three of them intentionally to Lexington catcher Sarah Gordon.
Fort Mill coach Chuck Stegall wasn’t going to pitch to Gordon, who doubled and homered twice in the opening game. Gordon has a school-record 19 homers this season and is signed to play at Louisville.
Gordon was intentionally walked twice with nobody on base and again with the bases loaded in the bottom of the fifth and Fort Mill up 4-0. Lexington got a run on the walk and then a Jessica Senn sacrifice fly, but had a runner thrown out at third to end the threat.
“Sarah Gordon is someone who can change the game and the dynamic with one swing,” Stegall said. “I’m sorry, I love the kid but we just couldn’t let her bat.”
Lexington coach Laurie Epps wasn’t surprised by the strategy not to pitch to her star and said she didn’t understand why more teams didn’t do the same this year.
Lexington pitcher MacKenzie Mathis matched Drerup until the Yellow Jackets (18-6) broke out in the fifth. With two on and two outs, Ava Balsinger singled to load the bases. Drerup then homered to make it 4-0 and take some enthusiasm out of the jam-packed crowd at Lexington.
“I have had some good ones in the past, but it would be hard for me to trade her for any of them,” Stegall said of Drerup. “She is a scrapper on defense, a scrapper on offense. … She is electrifying.”
Brynn Bartolini added an RBI single and Balsinger had a two-run homer in the sixth to make it 7-2.
The loss was Lexington’s third off the season and first home loss since last year’s playoff defeat to Summerville.
Epps, however, remains confident in her team and the ability to bounce back. The Wildcats (27-3) played in a deciding Game 3 in 2019 when they defeated Byrnes for the state championship. Some of the team’s seniors this year were on that championship squad.
“We haven’t lost a lot this season, but when we have we have come back and played pretty good softball,” Epps said. “I am confident in the girls I have in that dugout. We are going to be OK.”
WP: Maddie Drerup LP: Mackenzie Mathis. Hitters: FM: Bartolini 2-4 RBI; Balsinger 3-4 HR, 2 RBI; Drerup 1-3 HR, 4 RBI; Poteat 2-3. L: Warren 1-2.
Fort Mill 7, Lexington 2, series tied 1-1
Aynor 2, Broome 1, series tied 1-1
This story was originally published May 25, 2022 10:08 PM.
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One great alternative that will breathe new life into your Mac hardware (regardless of age): Install Linux on it. When you’ve finished this guide, you’ll have set up a dual-boot Mac and Linux system that will allow you to switch between operating systems anytime—meaning it’s a low risk way of trying out Linux to see if you might prefer making the full switch on your Mac. I think you might just like what you find.
Ready to give it a try? Pack your bags, we’re defecting to Linux.
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Yoga can help children with flexibility, concentration
NEWARK – The ancient practice of yoga is having a major comeback.
Although the practice dates back more than 5,000 years, yoga seems to be all the rage these days. The practice has becoming increasingly popular, with nearly 10 percent of Americans saying they participated in yoga in 2012, up from 5 percent in 2002, according to a survey from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But yoga is not just for adults.
The survey also showed more children are practicing yoga. Three percent of U.S. children, about 1.7 million children, practiced yoga in 2012.
Christy Plaugher, owner and instructor of Breathe Yoga in Granville, said yoga can be just as beneficial to children as it can be to adults.
“It definitely helps with their flexibility, but even on a deeper level it can help with focus and concentration,” Plaugher said. “We live in a fast-paced life. Kids lives are bombarded with computers and other things going on, and their minds are not able to be calm, and then there bodies aren’t able to be calm. Yoga can teach them how to channel that energy to calm the mind and stay focused.”
Plaugher has seen yoga popping up in schools across Central Ohio, whether as part of a physical education class or a special workshop. After the children have been practicing, the parents can’t believe the change it causes in their child’s behavior, she said.
She has a program at Breathe Yoga for high school girls and is exploring new workshops for children in the future.
“A lot of people will think about many of the physical elements, but it’s really about the tool to move the body and breathe together and to help calm the mind,” she said. “When we’ve done a little movement and breath exercises, it can make us more productive.”
So where do you start? How about with the ABCs?
“The ABCs of Yoga for Kids,” written by Teresa Anne Power, who specializes in teaching yoga to young children, is filled with poses designed to be easy to learn and accessible to children ages 3 to 8.
Each pose corresponds to a letter of the alphabet, such as D for dog pose or R for rag doll.
Power recommends children move at their own pace and hold poses for about 10 to 15 seconds each, depending on the age of the child.
But how do you get your kids interested in yoga in the first place? It’s a question Power tackles in the frequently asked questions portion of her website, and her advice is simple: Make it fun.
“The goal is to make yoga enjoyable for kids so that they can stay engaged with their yoga practice to learn fitness, relaxation, concentration and awareness,” she said. “Retaining a light tone and intermixing games with the poses keeps the young child’s attention while at the same time fulfilling the educational goal of yoga for kids.”
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Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Märchenerzählungen Op 132. (‘Fairy-tale tellings’) for clarinet, viola & piano (1853)
Lebhaft, nicht zu schnell
Lebhaft und sehr markirt
Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck
Lebhaft, sehr markirt
In September 1853, the 20-year old Johannes Brahms arrived unannounced at Robert and Clara Schumann’s house bearing an introduction from their mutual friend the violinist Joseph Joachim. Robert Schumann’s mental health was deteriorating, but Brahms’ arrival stimulated Schumann to new compositions: a happy collaboration between Schumann, Brahms and Schumann’s close friend Albert Dietrich produced the triple-authored F-A-E violin sonata dedicated to Joachim, and then in three days from 9 – 11 October 1853 Schumann wrote Märchenerzählungen which he dedicated to Dietrich. ‘Predominantly cheerful pieces, written with a light heart’ he told his publisher. The tautological title ‘Fairy-tale tellings’ stands in contrast to his Märchenbilder (‘Fairy-tale pictures’) for viola and piano written four years earlier.
Schumann doesn’t tell us what fairy tales he had in mind, so you can have fun imagining what they were – most of Grimm’s fairy tales were published by then. You might also try projecting onto the pieces the characters of Schumann’s alter egos – Florestan and Eusebius: Eusebius an introverted but compelling poet (perhaps in the third movement) and the exuberant and extroverted Florestan (in the last?); maybe there is also room for the third of Schumann’s persona Meister Raro (ClaRA-RObert) the wise mediator?
Charlotte Bray (b. 1982) ‘Blaze and Fall‘ for clarinet, viola and piano (2017)
Charlotte Bray studied composition under Joe Cutler and Mark Anthony Turnage; she won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2010 and the 2014 Lili Boulanger Prize. Her many commissions include an orchestral work for the Proms, song cycles for the Aldeburgh, Aix, Verbier and Oxford Lieder Festivals, chamber operas and a variety of chamber works.
Today’s work, which lasts about 10′, was commissioned and premiered by the Jacquin Trio. It builds on a line of ‘Homages’ which originated with the Schumann piece we have just heard. Märchenerzählungen inspired György Kurtág’s Hommage à Robert Schumann, which in turn inspired Marco Stroppa’s Hommage à Gyorgy Kurtág. Bray says of her work:
‘Openly embracing the limitless creativeness of Schumann, the enviable precision of Kurtag and the intrepid inventiveness of Stroppa, I have sought to shape their separate offerings into my own voice. Taking themes inherent in the Schumann and Kurtag: night, sun, clouds, cycles, anxiety and love to inspire (as did Schumann) the imaginary world of the piece.
‘The most obvious influence drawn from Kurtag is structural, following his pattern of five short movements succeeded by a sixth that is far longer than the five put together… For each of the first five movements, I borrowed a ‘cell’ of material from Kurtag as a starting point, a harmony or figuration for instance. The final movement was approached more freely, although as the base I inserted a chord structure consisting of an ascending and then descending bass line, which repeats in transposed variations throughout. This technique was influenced by Kurtag’s use of Isorhythm, which he borrowed from the medieval French composer Machaut. The Fibonacci sequence, which attracted Kurtag, plays a part in organising chords, intervals, rhythms and structures.’
Colin Matthews (b. 1946) Two Miniatures (World Premiere)
Colin Matthews and his elder brother David provided each other’s initial training in composition. Colin progresed to Nottingham University where he read classics and subsequently composition. In the 1970s he taught here at the University of Sussex collaborating with Deryk Cooke to produce a performing version of Mahler’s unfinished 10th Symphony and a related PhD thesis.
Paul Griffiths describes Matthews as: ‘…the Isambard Kingdom Brunel of contemporary music: master of great time machines, steamy with energy derived from pulse and from massive, surging harmony, and openly displaying their structural engineering, all finished with a craftsman’s care’ – a description which perhaps applies more to his numerous large-scale works than to today’s Two Miniatures.
Matthews himself says of his new work which lasts about 5′:
‘The eloquent combination of clarinet, viola and piano, first established by Mozart, has become an increasingly popular one for composers in recent years, and the Jacquin Trio’s contribution to the medium has been a substantial one. I was delighted by their performance of my Three Interludes a few years back, and offered to write more for them – here are the first two of what I hope will grow into a group of Miniatures, one of them quite dark, the other more lyrical.’
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Trio for clarinet, viola & piano in Eb (‘Kegelstatt’), K 498 (1786)
Mozart entered this piece into his own list of works as “Ein Terzett für klavier, Clarinett und Viola” with no mention of a skittle alley (Kegelstatt). However, a few days earlier he had noted composing 12 duos for French horns (much less complex music) while playing skittles. The alleged skittle-alley provenance of the Trio was added by later publishers. The piece was dedicated to a piano student of Mozart’s – Franziska von Jacquin – after whom today’s Jacquin Trio are named. Franziska came from a family with whom Mozart was close friends. Her father was a distinguished professor of botany after whom two genera of Central American plants were named (Jacquinia and Jacquinella); her brother Gottfried had the rare distinction of having Mozart compose two Lieder for him with the express purpose of Gottfried passing them off as his own work. Franziska gave the first performance of Mozart’s trio in the Jacquins’ house with Anton Stadler on clarinet and Mozart himself on viola. It was one of three pieces inspired by Stadler’s playing of the relatively new clarinet, the others being the Clarinet Quintet and Clarinet Concerto. The piece was originally published by Artaria in 1788 with the clarinet part (also given as an alternative) arranged for violin; it is usually performed in its original form.
All three movements, unusually, have similar gentle tempi which bring out the lyrical possibilities of both clarinet and viola. Throughout, the viola and clarinet are equal partners, Mozart perhaps showing that his viola was capable of matching the wonders of Stadler’s new clarinet (or vice versa?). In contrast to the underlying gentle tempo, the opening dotted crotchet has a spectacularly rapid written-out turn which squashes four hemi-demi-semiquavers (64th notes) into its final semiquaver (16th note). This rapid turn, which is comparatively easy to play on the viola, recurs in the expanded theme soon introduced by the clarinet and then keeps popping out at the listener as the theme is developed and tossed between the instruments. A similar contrast occurs in the Trio of the second movement where the viola takes off in energetic triplets in reply to a calmly innocuous enquiry from the clarinet. The structure of the Rondeaux third movement is AB–AC–AD–A. “A” is one of Mozart’s perfectly balanced soaring themes, which is contrasted with other episodes of differing mood and energy. Again the viola gets to show off in triplets.
Charlotte Bray (b. 1982) Chant for violin, clarinet & piano (2017)
The title for this new work is taken from the poetic novel, Les Chants de Maldoror, by the Uruguayan-born French writer Isidore-Lucien Ducasse (1846-1870). The piece comprises a series of cantos with diverse bizarre scenes, vivid imagery and extreme shifts in tone and style. Ducasse had a major influence on 20th Century artists and writers, especially the Surrealists, such as Salvador Dalí and André Breton. Dalí, who expressed his thoughts and dreams in remarkable and sometimes-controversial scenes, would seem the perfect artist to depict the book’s iconoclastic imagery, and one of his illustrations (1934, p96) inspired Chant. Click here to see it.
Bray says of the Dali :
‘In the foreground, set on blocks, are two elongated figures: on the left a sinuous female figure, reminiscent of a classical ‘goddess’, hands clasped together, stands next a lumpen, grotesque torso with no discernible limbs (excepting a claw-like foot) perched on the hip of a thick skeletal leg, supported in turn by a thin, bony crutch. Its ghostly face looks adoringly, or perhaps pleadingly, at the robed ‘goddess’ whose face is unseen. In the middle distance, two tiny human forms, an adult and child, stand hand-in-hand. Dwarfed by the frontal figures, the adult appears to be waving at them, possibly to attract their attention. In the distance, a village nestling in the foot of rolling hills in mid-summer, the sun beaming through a soft layer of cloud, completes the picture. Everything in the illustration is drawn to the goddess, she commands total attention.’
And of her own Chant which clast about 5′:
‘At its best, the ensemble is essentially three solo, virtuosic voices that complement each other yet retain a sense of independence. Focusing on sound quality, I wanted to create a unique, somewhat experimental palette through which the musicians discover their own individual voice. Within the piece, passages of ethereal serenity contrast with a more direct and fiery quality. Stratospheric extremes in register are important, with two combinations: high violin, low clarinet and piano far above and below; clarinet and violin as low as possible with piano beneath both. Including register, extremes in dynamics, tempi, timbre, and vibrato are also explored.
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Soldier’s Tale: Suite for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (1918)
1. Marche du Soldat
2. Le Violon du Soldat
3. Petit Concert
5. La Danse du Diable
The tale in question is taken from a collection of over 600 folk tales collected in the mid-19th century by Alexander Afanasyev, who hoped that disseminating native Russian folk tales would help promote the Russian language against the aristocratically-preferred French. Stravinsky’s text however is a French retelling by the Lausanne writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz to whom he had been introduced in 1915 by the conductor Ernest Ansermet. Stravinsky and his family were then living in exile in the Vaudois Alps, a move necessitated by his wife developing tuberculosis following the birth of their fourth child. Ramuz and Stravinsky worked closely together on French libretti for Reynard (1916) and for Les Noces (1917), and then, both strapped for cash (no royalties or estate income for Stravinsky from revolutionary Russia), turned to the idea of a small travelling theatre production: small cast, small orchestra, small space. The patronage of the piece’s dedicatee, the philanthropist and amateur clarinettist Werner Reinhart of Winterthur, allowed their idea to be realised.
The piece was originally written for a troupe of three actors (the soldier, the devil, and a narrator), two dancers, and a conductor with 7 instrumentalists: treble and bass strings (violin & double-bass), woodwind (clarinet & bassoon) and brass (cornet & trombone) plus a nimble percussionist. The instrumental line-up is similar to that of the New Orleans Dixieland Jazz band of whose repertoire Stravinsky was aware. Ansermet conducted the first performance in Lausanne at the end of September 1918, with Lausanne University students taking some of the acting roles. Unfortunately, it did not solve Stravinsky’s money worries.
The Suite that we are hearing today appeared the following year (November 1919), preceding another, eight-movement suite for the original instrumental ensemble (1920). It is scored for clarinet in A (with an eye to Reinhart), violin and piano, giving a substantial reduction of timbral possibilities, but allowing many of the novel rhythmic structures to emerge with clarity: “Rhythm and motion, not the element of feeling, are the foundations of musical art” (Stravinsky). Some of the rhythmic complexities are not immediately apparent. The piano’s left hand in the Marche maintains a stubborn left-right, dominant-tonic pulse, which starts obviously enough in 2/4 but then migrates across bar-lines of 3/8 and 3/4 that follow the syncopated melodic line. Other pieces in the suite have more complex jazz-like integrations and disintegrations of rhythms again against an ostinato beat.
The Soldier’s Tale itself is a Faust-like story from peasant recruits to the Russo-Turkish War. Returning to his native village on leave (Marche du Soldat), Joseph is accosted by the Devil disguised as an old man with a butterfly net. Joseph agrees to give the Devil his beloved old fiddle (Le violon du Soldat) in exchange for a book that describes future events. After only three days realising the book’s financial potential, the now rich Joseph returns home to discover that in fact three years have passed: his girl-friend is married with children and his old friends shun him as an apparition. The Devil reappears as a peddlar and sells him back his old violin. But Joseph can no longer play and hurls both it and the wretched book away.
Persuaded by a friend to try his luck at raising the king’s daughter from her sick bed, Joseph is taunted at the palace by the Devil, now irritatingly a virtuoso violinist. The narrator advises Joseph that he could be free of the Devil’s control if he were to lose all his money to the Devil at cards. He does so and is free; moreover he can play the fiddle again (Petit concert)! He moves into the Princess’s bedroom, changes his tune (Tango-Valse-Rag), and cures her. The Devil, now undisguised, interrupts their inevitable embrace. Joseph protects the Princess by manically playing his fiddle (La Danse du Diable), exhausting the compulsively contorting Devil whom they can then drag away. Today’s suite ends here on a musical high note. But in the main piece, the Devil recovers and reappears to warn Joseph that he will return to the Devil’s power if he were ever to leave the bounds of the castle. Joseph eventually does leave, persuaded by the Princess to visit his mother; the Devil is lying in wait at the boundary, playing his violin. Joseph wittingly crosses over. The moral? Don’t sell your violin, and as the narrator warns…
You must not seek to add
To what you have, what you once had;
You have no right to share
What you are with what you were.
No one can have it all,
That is forbidden.
You must learn to choose between.
One happy thing is every happy thing:
Two, is as if they had never been.
Bela Bartók (1881 -1945) Contrasts, for clarinet, violin & piano, BB116 (1939)
Verbunkos – Recruiting Dance
Pihenő – Relaxation
Sebes – Fast Dance
Contrasts was commissioned by Joseph Szigeti and Benny Goodman. Szigeti originally wanted Bartók to write a short piece with two movements in the style of the Hungarian lassu (slow) and friss (fast) and a total duration of 6-7 minutes so that a recording would fit onto the two sides of a 78rpm record. The two-movement first version of the work, Rhapsody, was performed in 1939 at Carnegie Hall, by Szigeti, Goodman, and pianist Endre Petri. Bartók subsequently added a middle movement and changed the work’s title to Contrasts, emphasizing the contrasting sounds of the three instruments. Szigeti, Goodman and Bartók first performed the final, three-movement work at Carnegie Hall on 21 April 1940, and subsequently recorded it for Columbia – on two 78s. The work falls between Bartók’s fifth and sixth quartets around the time that Bartók moved to the USA.
The Verbunkos is a recruiting-dance performed by the Hussars to lure soldiers to serve in the Imperial armies. The second movement uses gamelan-like sounds in the piano and evokes the atmosphere of the night. The final fast movement is an improvised dance that the recruits performed before signing on. It opens with a mistuned (G#, D, A, Eb) violin playing devilish tritones on the open strings. The clarinettist also switches instruments to the brighter Bb for the fast outer sections of the last movement.
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We climbed the hill for a final tea with Luned and Tegai and quizzed them one last time (well for now at least) and their infinite knowledge of Y Wladfa poured from every pore just like the tea from their cello taped top tea pot. I spoke of my plans for PATAGONIA150 and their eyes sparkled, how I imagined interpreting the extraordinary achievements of their ancestors and how I was hoping for their blessing and support, as after-all it was their story.
I could feel Lewis Jones’ gaze upon me from a family portrait positioned on the wall behind, I am sure Luned glanced at him for a sign….
She smiled, winked and declared You Have it…cant a cant…Marc bach, it sounds so exciting !
Elated, we made our way once more to Dolavon and the mill, where since the 19th century it had processed the valleys wheat into flour. With out the invention of the irrigation system the land would not have flourished and the mill simply would not have existed. A further testament to the ingenuity, resilience and determination of the Welsh….with peristance and patience the land finally delivered its promise.
The mill had a great restaurant which was rather tastefully decked out with artefacts that included a cabinet full of arrow heads and boleros (stone balls used by the Indians for hunting).
Arrowhead: one shaped pebble amongst the millions. A missed shot. Or a successful shot around which the remains of the guanaco have long since rotted. Some sort of life then, out there…
The Tehueches were a noble, happy people: the inevitable pictorial fate of all extinct peoples. They lived for the day. They never kept food. If they didn’t catch anything, they didn’t eat. Bread appeared as manna. ‘Poco bara, poco bara’, they would cry. They would give a horse in exchange, or blankets, or lessons in hunting and fishing, or ostrich feathers.
Or they would just take it, walk in and take it. They blundered against civilisation, against the Argentinian army, like a dodo against the legs of a starving sailor.
The bread swelled in their bellies. It never nurtured them. Then came measles, mumps, chicken pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria…
However humane, in Welsh – in this aspect at least – were true Conquistadores…
We had our first taste of Patagonian lamb with home made pasta from the mill’s flour; delicious it was too especially with a glass of fine Malbec, De Valle der Riva, Chubut.
On our way back we made an attempt to find a place recommended by Luned, the house of Nel bach y books, she sketched out a map on a scrap of paper but we couldn’t locate it…the house that is not the map.
We somehow ended up back at Bod Iwan, Waldo’s farm, he was home this time and warmly welcomed us into the parlor where more Mimosa ancestors stared with curiosity upon us.
Including a charismatic photo of his father taken by Ken Griffiths.
Waldo added to Luned’s map but we still failed to find Nel bach’s place so we gave up and headed home….Helado/Hufen Ia time!
A lovely surprise visit from Luned over breakfast with a copy of Y Camwy from 1985 with a great article about the Los Rifleros, a group of explorers (known as Los Rifleros) who travelled across the Andes to procure minerals and discovered Cwm Hyfryd that become the next Welsh settlement. The chief organiser was John Murray Thomas from Bridgend, who as an eighteen year old had travelled on the Mimosa
He became a keen photographer and documented the expedition via image and pen, his journal was featured in Y Camwy therefore Luned’s gift was perfect as the next day we would be heading out on our own antur (adventure) across the Paith, destined for Cwm Hyfryd and the annual re-enactment of the Los Rifleros arrival and the Eisteddfod.
On the road to Puerto Madryn and Penizular Valdes in search of Penguins. Which are intrinsically linked to Wales.
It took us about three hours to get there across gravelled terrain which shook and rattled our sanity.
But in the end it was worth it as within five minutes of getting to a good vantage point we saw Penguins close up.
Elephant seals on the beach and Orca whales diving in the distance.
Here is Sian’s impression of a Penguin/Seal hybrid.
We stopped by at Puerto Piramida which strangely reminded both of us of Llangranog apart from the Killer Whales!
Then back to Puerto Madryn, both of us rather hysterical with fatigue as the trip all in all had taken 8 hrs.
At the sea front there is a monument dedicated to those that arrived on the Mimiosa in 1865.
Close up the statue looks remarkably like Luned which is most comforting…….she is omnipresent and looking after us.
Which is a very good thing as tomorrow we snake slowly towards the Andes….
Rees & Thomas, the new Los Rifleros…but in Panama hats not Stetsons.
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In the Christian tradition we believe that these rights are a gift from God. These inalienable rights declare that people are equal.
We are not equal in talent, intelligence, beauty, strength, wealth, privilege, or a number of other variables that set people apart from one another. We are equal in that we have the same right to life, self-determination, and responsibility as everyone else has.
The way this equality should be seen is in how people are treated under the law. It shouldn't matter who you are, equal protection should be given to everyone.
You and I are free people, but that doesn't mean that we are able to whatever we want to do. To protect the liberty given to us by God requires living in a certain manner.
Consider the following quote attributed to Samuel Adams:
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man...The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.
What does a free life look like?
According to Samuel Adams the person who enjoys freedom is the person who lives a virtuous life. This is a crucial thought.
Often when we talk about freedom and liberty the focus is on what we are free to do.
"Is this activity legal?" we ask.
We declare, "It is my life I am free to make my own decisions!"
While it is true that freedom often allows you to make all types of choices, that doesn't mean that those choices are equally beneficial.
Enjoying the benefits of freedom is not the same preserving freedom.
I believe that the number one reason why people lose their liberty is because of poor choices. Yes, their freedom allows them to make those choices, but those choices end up stealing their freedom.
Should a person be free to use drugs?
God has gifted them personal responsibility and free will.
Admitting that a person has the freedom to use drugs is not the same thing as proclaiming drug use as a positive thing. The addiction and personality change that can accompany drug use, even with alcohol, is a terrible thing.
Addiction is a self created prison that many people cannot escape.
This reminds me of what the apostle Peter wrote.
In 1 Peter 2:16 we read; Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God (ESV).
Peter taught us that we are to live as free people. The best way for us to live as free people is to live as servants of God.
I know this idea is counter-intuitive, that true freedom is found in being a servant, but when we obey God, we are not being oppressed by some tyrant. Rather, we are being directed by the Creator of the Universe: the One who knows the best way for people to live.
Ultimately freedom is found by living out God’s design for our lives. The way we enjoy freedom is to be faithful to God's will for us.
Please understand this: No one can rob us of our freedom.
Even if someone takes over and destroys the Constitution, along with the Bill of Rights, we are still able to live free lives.
The reason for this is because it is NOT the government that makes us free.
Freedom is a gift from God. The choices we make, even under an oppressive government, enable us to enjoy God’s gift of freedom.
God, in His great wisdom and mercy, placed the control of our lives in our hands.
The choices that we make determine the level of freedom we enjoy. God left it up to us to decide whether or not we will live with freedom. This freedom is not about doing whatever we would like to do. Freedom is ultimately about choosing to live the life God planned for us to live (see Ephesians 2:10).
The ability to be free is discovered in the choices we make. Choose to follow Jesus and enjoy real freedom.
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Publication Type : Journal Article
Publisher : Der Pharma Chemica
Source : Der Pharma Chemica, Scholars Research Library, Volume 1, Issue 2 (2009)
Campus : Coimbatore
School : School of Engineering
Department : Sciences
Verified : No
Year : 2009
Abstract : Abstract Large extent of mild steel corrosion occurs during acid pickling and surface cleaning. Various synthetic chemicals have been studied as corrosion inhibitors and reported. But pure synthetic chemicals are costly. Some of them are toxic and their disposal creates pollution problems. In the present study the acid extract of Ricinus Communis leaves have been investigated as a cheap and eco-friendly corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in 1M HCl medium by weight loss and polarization techniques.
Cite this Research Publication : R. Saratha, Kasthuri, N., and Dr. Thilagavathy P., “Environment friendly acid corrosion inhibition of mild steel by Ricinus communis Leaves”, Der Pharma Chemica, vol. 1, no. 2, 2009.
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National Graphite Corporation (NGC) entered into an agreement with American Graphene to jointly explore graphene business opportunities. NGC will supply high grade graphite samples from its Chedic Graphite mine in Nevada to American Graphene (based in Phoenix Arizona).
American Graphene converted the graphite to graphene using a sonication process. We don't have more details, but sonication means applying sound (usually ultrasound) to agitate particles - which perhaps can be used to reduce graphite to graphene.
NGC says that current graphene prices range from $100 to $1000 per gram, but they aim to produce it with a target cost of around $10 per gram.
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Nipple reconstruction is an important component of breast reconstruction; it completes the procedure, and it is more appealing now that specialized tissues and tattooing can be used. The nipple and areola transform the reconstructed mound into a breast. When breast reconstruction is done correctly and the nipple-areola reconstruction is attractive, the overall result is pleasing and natural.
How is nipple reconstruction surgery performed?
Several approaches can be used in the reconstruction of nipple, depending on the condition of your new breast and surgeon's preferences.
Nipple reconstruction can be done by both surgical and nonsurgical methods:
How much time is required for nipple reconstruction procedure?
Generally, it takes around 1 to 2 hours to complete depending on the type of operation performed.
Is nipple reconstruction surgery permanent?
Yes, It is permanent however, surgically created nipples may flatten and tattoos may fade, necessitating additional procedures to maintain projection and color.
How long is the recovery from a nipple reconstruction surgery?
The recovery is rather quick by using a tattoo, the patient may return to work the following day. Using a flap technique, the recovery will be in two weeks approximately
intense exercises are avoided for three to four weeks in order to allow the surgical scars to heal. However, walking is encouraged beginning the evening of the procedure.
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The Moorland (Dewar-stone, Dartmoor), by John Brett (1831-1902). 1854. Oil on canvas, 356 x 533 mm. Collection: Tate Britain N01477. Bequeathed by Sir J. Russell Reynolds Bt 1896. Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported). Click on image to enlarge it.
Payne, Christiana, and Charles Brett. John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter. London: Yale University Press, 2010.
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What did the Bogomils believe?
The Bogomils were dualists or Gnostics in that they believed in a world within the body and a world outside the body. They did not use the Christian cross, nor build churches, as they revered their gifted form and considered their body to be the temple.
Who were the Paulicians and the Bogomils?
The Paulicians were Christian heretics in the Byzantine Empire between about 600 and 1000. The Bogomils were Christian heretics in the Balkans between about 1000 and 1400. The Cathars or Albigensians (these are synonyms, the original reference being to the Cathars of the city of Albi in Southern France; Müller, p.
What did the Paulicians believe?
The fundamental doctrine of the Paulicians was that there are two principles, an evil God, known as the Demiurge, and a good God; the former is the ruler of this world, the latter of the world to come. From this they deduced that Jesus did not take on human flesh because the good God could not have become human.
Who were the Cathars in France?
The Cathars (also known as Cathari from the Greek Katharoi for “pure ones”) were a dualist medieval religious sect of Southern France which flourished in the 12th century CE and challenged the authority of the Catholic Church.
Why did Cathars reject marriage?
The goal of Cathar religious practice was for the soul to do penance for its sexual transgression so that it could be freed from its bodily prison and return to the spiritual realm. The Cathars rejected anything related to sex or materialism. Their refusal to marry was meant as a repudiation of sexual intercourse.
Who started Monothelitism?
In Armenia in 622, Heraclius first suggested to the head of the Severian Monophysites that the divine and human natures in Christ, while quite distinct in his one person, had but one will (thelēma) and one operation (energeia).
What is the heresy of Adoptionism?
Adoptionism was declared heresy at the end of the 3rd century and was rejected by the Synods of Antioch and the First Council of Nicaea, which defined the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and identified the man Jesus with the eternally begotten Son or Word of God in the Nicene Creed.
What are the 4 heresies?
During its early centuries, the Christian church dealt with many heresies. They included, among others, docetism, Montanism, adoptionism, Sabellianism, Arianism, Pelagianism, and gnosticism.
Who killed the Cathars?
Pope Innocent III
This brutal massacre was the first major battle in the Albigensian Crusade called by Pope Innocent III against the Cathars, a religious sect. The French city of Béziers, a Cathar stronghold, was burned down and 20,000 residents killed after a papal legate, the Abbot of Cîteaux, declared, “Slaughter them all!”
When did Bogomilism come about in the Balkans?
Bogomilism is the first significant Balkan heresy that came about in the first quarter of the 10th century. Bogomilism was an outcome of many factors that had arisen in the beginning of 10th century, most probably in the region of Macedonia. It was also strongly influenced by the Paulicians who had been chased out of Armenia.
Who was the founder of the Bogomilism sect?
Bogomilism was a Gnostic religiopolitical sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Petar I in the 10th century.
Where did the Bogomils get their name from?
Bogomils. A dualist Christian sect which flourished in Bulgaria from the 10th to as late as the 17th cent., and more widely in the Byzantine Empire in the 11th–12th cents. The name comes from their founder, a priest who took the name Bogomil (= Gk., Theophilos ).
When did the Bogomilism heresy come to Macedonia?
Bogomilism is the first significant Balkan heresy that came about in the first quarter of the 10th century. Bogomilism was an outcome of many factors that had arisen in the beginning of 10th century, most probably in the region of Macedonia.
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This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
The paper illustrates the difficulties that women continue to face in the workplace and how terms such as leadership, management and team leader may be gender biased. There is a need for employers and for individuals to consider a variety of different approaches to help create a more positive career environment for women.
The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.
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Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke want the $700bn bail-out of greedy banks to be approved so that the financial system in the United States doesn’t collapse, because if it does collapse then a lot of Americans will be in the shit and it will have a knock-on affect here in Britain too.
So how much is $700 billion dollars? Well, it’s $700,000,000,000 or 700 thousand million dollars, close to a trillion dollars (a million million dollars) and roughly equivalent to the tune of $2300 for every single man, woman and child in the United States today*.
In many respects I want this deal to go through; it *may* just save the US banks and prevent the financial system from caving in, that in turn *might* prevent other financial systems worldwide from failing and ordinary people from suffering.
But at the same time it doesn’t punish those guilty of dreaming up elaborate schemes to sell mortgages to people who can’t afford them and then hide the “toxic assets” in amongst real assets. American citizens, despite being given $600 each to help boost consumer spending, are now being robbed of approximately $2333 per person in order to stop them suffering in circumstances which are not of their own making.
But exactly how much is $700bn in the grand scheme of things?
700 billion dollars is greater than the GDP of more than 90% of the world’s countries, going by the figures on wikipiedia’s list of countries by GDP. Only 16 countries in the world have an annual GDP greater than that; it’s a bit like robbing Turkey of all its wealth for one whole year and giving it to the banks. It’s an even greater amount than the combined GDP of oil-rich states like Saudi Arabia AND Iran. That leaves 164 or so countries with a GDP of less than $700bn or 100 times the GDP of Papua New Guinea!
So before they give the go-ahead to this rescue plan just think about how much money the banks are after in order to save them from drowning in their own poisonous shit.
* The figure comes from the approximate population of the US being 300 million. 700 billion divided by 300 million equals 2333. It’s a very rough and ready figure as it does include the whole population of the US which means we counted children, senior citizens and the unemployed. Realistically, if we had the figure for the number of working population in the USA we’d have a far more accurate figure and a much higher one too! But I’m just a blogger and only an amateur statistician/economist 😉
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Whether your are coping with an sad shopper at work or undergoing difficult times at home and personal life, all of us experience stress each single day. And you can not deny that all of us get worked up after we expertise that.
Luckily, there are a number of methods to fight it quickly and just under 5 minutes. Guess what? It doesn’t really want your whole day.
4 ways to help you reduce stress:
1. Take deep breaths
Practicing mindfulness with paced respiration has loads of advantages. As everyone knows that respiration is an automated perform of the body, our respiration rate and sample alters as soon as we’re harassed. If you might be anxious, you are inclined to take small, shallow breaths. So as a way to handle stress, it’s essential to intentionally change your individual respiration model enhance signs of extended anxiety.
With stomach respiration, you’ll be able to management the nervous system and belief that your body will calm down, thereby bringing a couple of vary of health advantages.
2. Do child’s pose
Child pose aka Balasana will enable you calm down your back, shoulders, and legs muscle mass. Child’s pose or balasana is among the easiest of all yoga poses, and it’s extraordinarily helpful in selling rest (each bodily and mentally).
It is definitely included in yoga periods to successfully handle anxiety because it additionally works as a resting pose throughout routine yoga exercises. It relaxes the stress that will get build up within the neck, shoulders, and back.
3. Drink water
Drinking enough water will preserve stress away. If you might be dehydrated, there are larger possibilities that you simply would possibly really feel harassed. It is a vicious cycle that dehydration could cause stress and vice versa.
For those that don’t know, when you find yourself harassed, your adrenal glands result in manufacturing of additional cortisol, the stress hormone, and if you’re beneath power stress, the adrenal glands can turn out to be exhausted, bringing the electrolyte ranges to lower ranges. Drinking sufficient water is very advisable to cut back stress.
4. Listen to music
Music will help you handle your mental health. Most of us are inclined to consider that we neglect the world round after we are listening to our favorite music. It helps us get via the day and is usually useful in pumping us earlier than an essential second.
Nonetheless, it calms us down too when you find yourself harassed as music has therapeutic results on a variety of mental and physical health issues.
So be sure to observe these tricks to have stress-free life.
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The Ballade of the Skunk I hont de bear, I hont de moose An' sometimes hont de rat. Last night I take my axe and go To hont do pole-cat. My fren, Bill, says. 'Very fine fur An' sometimes good to eat." I tell my wife I get fur coat-- Sometime I got some meat. I walk abont two, three, five, six, miles An' then I feel strong smell, Tink maybe dat dam skonk he die An' fur coat go to hell. By'mby I see dat skonk Close up by one big tree. I sneak up ver' close behind An' tink he no see me. Sacre blue! I tink I blind Jess Crise! I cannot see. I run roun' an' roun' an' roun' Till bump in a goddam tree. By'mby I drop my axe An' light out for de shack. I tink 'bout ten million skonk He climb up my back. My wife, she meet me at de door; She sick on me de dog. She say, "You no sleep here tonight; Go out and sleep with hog." I try to get in dat hog-pen, Jess Crise! Now wat you tink? Dat goddam hog no stand for dat On account of awful stink. I no more will hont de skonk To get his fur and meat. For if his pees he smell so bad, Jess Crise! What if he sheet? Mellinger E. Henry, collected by RW Gordon c1925, in Library of Congress, American Folklife Center 2471 AJS apr97
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The last few days have been a bit of a whirlwind, politically speaking. Most of it has to do with the onslaught of chaos that followed Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey — a move political scientists agree is off the spectrum of normalcy in the history of the American presidency. Before his termination, Comey was leading an investigation into the Trump team’s alleged ties to the Russian government. Keith Ellison, deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has said “we are witnessing a constitutional crisis.” Calls for impeachment are in the air, along with a good deal of conspiracy theorizing.
In sum, the republic as we know it may be its closest yet to tatters. Enter: Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont and the country’s most popular politician. He — alongside Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy, from Vermont, Kirsten Gillibrand, from New York, and Maggie Hassan, from New Hampshire — is encouraging workers to take control of the means of production.
This isn’t some right-wing conspiracy theory, but the intended result of two bills introduced to relatively little fanfare Thursday. The first, the WORK (“Worker Ownership, Readiness and Knowledge”) Act, would direct more than $45 million in funding to state-level employee ownership centers, aimed at providing training and technical assistance to current and prospective worker-owners. A second piece of legislation would establish something called the U.S. Employee Ownership Bank, via $500 million in funds for low-interest rate loans and financial assistance for workers who want to buy out the businesses where they work and either incorporate them as worker-owned cooperatives or establish employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), which give workers an ownership stake in their company.
“By expanding employee ownership and participation, we can create stronger companies in Vermont and throughout this country, prevent job losses and improve working conditions for struggling employees,” Sanders said in a statement. “Simply put, when employees have an ownership stake in their company, they will not ship their own jobs to China to increase their profits, they will be more productive, and they will earn a better living.”
Notably, a provision outlined in the second bill would give employees the first crack at taking over their workplace if owners move to offshore their jobs, according to John Duda.
Duda works for the Democracy Collaborative, a research institute that supports cooperative development. He also helped found the worker-owned cafe and bookstore Red Emma’s in Baltimore, Maryland.
“I think it would be a game changer both in terms of accelerating worker-ownership, and discouraging companies from pursuing a race to the bottom in terms of looking for cheaper wages overseas,” Duda said about the legislation.
Cooperative ownership has a long history in the United States, Duda explains. The earliest champions of organized labor in America pushed for cooperatives as a means to shore up employee control over the workplace. As a document officially adopted by the Knights of Labor in 1878 put it, “The recent alarming development and aggression of aggregated wealth … render it imperative … that a check should be placed upon its power and upon unjust accumulation, and a system adopted which will secure to the laborer the fruits of his toil.” Later, New Deal initiatives like the Rural Electrification Administration provided start-up funds for people in rural areas to create cooperatives, with rural electric cooperatives now meeting 11 percent of the country’s demand for electricity. Civil rights leaders from Ella Baker to Fannie Lou Hamer would also cut their teeth in cooperative self-help programs.
Today, companies from Cabot Creamery to REI are cooperatives of one form or another. And Publix Super Markets and Wawa convenience stores are just two of many major firms in the United States that offer their employees ESOPs. Worker-owned cooperatives, by contrast — governed by the principle of “one worker, one vote” — tend to be smaller in the United States than either ESOPs or producer and consumer cooperatives, but more widespread throughout South America and Europe. In contrast to the estimated 10.3 million Americans covered by ESOPs, just over 5,000 people are a part of worker-owned cooperatives.
Sanders himself is no stranger to cooperatives. He’s introduced similar bills before, and the legislation is partially inspired by the Vermont Employee Ownership Center, or VEOC, of which Sanders has been a longtime booster. Speaking to a forum on workers’ ownership at Burlington City Hall in 1985, then-Mayor Sanders said, “Democracy cannot just mean the opportunity to vote for a Walter Mondale or a Ronald Reagan once every four years … If we have a vision as to what democracy is about, it’s got to mean the right of a working person to control his or her job, to have some say about what’s being produced, to sit down with the other workers and say, ‘This is what I think we should do.’” (You can watch the full clip here.)
One of the other models for the kind of support programs outlined in the WORK Act emerged out of the closure of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube factory in 1977 — a siren song for the kind of deindustrialization that would plague the Rust Belt for years to come. Workers, Duda said, attempted to seize the plant and run it cooperatively in the run-up to the closure. The effort ultimately failed, but captured the attention of Ohioans interested in developing cooperative businesses. Started in 1987, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) has since helped some 90 companies to become employee-owned, creating an estimated 15,000 employee-owners in the Buckeye State. A like-minded push in New York City has seen some initial success after an investment of $1.2 million in worker cooperative business development efforts in 2014.
“It’s hard stuff getting all the legal ducks in a row, getting all the financing lined up, figuring out how to take advantage of the tax incentives that exist. Having technical assistance and having grant support for technical assistance is incredibly key,” Duda said.
He wasn’t overly optimistic about the bills’ chances in Congress, but thought their introduction represented a step forward in terms of bringing cooperatives further into America’s economic mainstream.
“We have a lot of drama going on, and it’s vitally important to pay attention to,” Duda told In These Times, “but we need to not forget that we are seeing historic levels of inequality. We need to be thinking about solutions and a transition to a broader-based ownership of the economy that allows us to tackle that question. We may not be able to pass this legislation today, but there’s going to be a time at which policymaking is possible again and we need to be ready.”
Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic and author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet — And How We Fight Back. She is co-author of A Planet To Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal and co-editor of We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style. Follow her on Twitter @katearonoff.
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On 26 June, 2018, a Korean Air Boeing 777-200ER was struck by the right winglet of an Asiana Airbus A330-300 at Seoul Gimpo Airport. Most probably during the taxiing, the Airbus winglet hit the parked Korean Air aircraft and caused substantial damage.
Luckily no injuries were reported as there was none on board. The South Korean authorities are investigating the incident.
The right winglet Asiana Airbus A330-300 (HL8286) collides with the tail of a Korean Air B777-200ER (HL7764) whilst taxiing at Seoul-Gimpo Airport (GMP, RKSS) resulting in substantial damage. No one aboard both jets was hurt. https://t.co/pbTfoFcmsB pic.twitter.com/ELByH21gV5
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Those who live in Hawaii may have received a mesothelioma diagnosis if they worked in certain areas before the 1980s. When you or a loved one is diagnosed with mesothelioma, the exposure to asbestos likely occurred many years before. While you’re trying to work on getting the care you need and spending time with family, you may also seek compensation for your illness and losses. Having a skilled Aiea mesothelioma lawyer from Frost Law Firm, PC at your side will help you find out where your asbestos exposure occurred. We will fight for you to receive maximum compensation.
Where Could Asbestos Exposure Have Occurred in Aiea?
Aiea, Oahu has a population of about 9,338 people. Compared to other areas in Hawaii, it’s one of the smaller populations. However, Aiea had two places where residents and workers could have been exposed to asbestos:
- California and Hawaiian Sugar Company
- Honolulu Plantation Company
Before the dangers of asbestos were well-known, asbestos was used heavily in infrastructure and manufacturing. Asbestos-containing materials appeared in pipes, ships, ceiling and floor tiles, and many more items. Its heat resistance and resilience made it a popular choice for building, but the effects of using these materials didn’t present until many years later as an aggressive form of cancer without a cure.
Those who worked for these companies may have been exposed to asbestos. While there isn’t a safe amount to be exposed to, being exposed over a longer period of time increases the chances of having an asbestos-related disease. One of those could be developing mesothelioma. Family members of those who worked for these companies could have been harmed as well, as asbestos fibers can rest on a person’s clothes. When those fibers are disturbed and in the air, anyone can inhale them.
Aiea residents can receive fair compensation for this debilitating disease. Our firm is ready to help.
Get Trusted Legal Representation from Frost Law Firm, PC
While a mesothelioma diagnosis is tragic news, our lawyers will do what they can to give you or your loved one a more certain financial future. You deserve to get the compensation that will allow you to have the care you need and to recover the other physical, emotional, and financial losses of having mesothelioma.
The Aiea, Hawaii mesothelioma lawyers from Frost Law Firm, PC are ready to fight for your rights. Get in touch with our office today so we can discuss your legal options. You’ll have peace of mind having experienced attorneys representing your best interests.
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Standing Watch 24/7: NCTC Operations Center
Photos by Jessica Hrabosky, ODNI Office of Strategic Communications
Article by Victoria Piccoli, ODNI Office of Strategic Communications
The National Counterterrorism Center was stood up nearly 20 years ago in the wake of the tragic Sept. 11 attacks. Today, the NCTC Operations Center stands watch 24/7 to provide an integrated threat picture, real time insight, and warning against terrorist threats.
In the years since Sept. 11, NCTC has led intelligence integration on counterterrorism for the entire U.S. government through multiple crisis, attacks, and uncertainty.
“We generate daily situational awareness products for Intelligence Community’s senior leaders and policy makers, by filtering through thousands of cables every day to identify the most significant developments in counterterrorism,” said Stuart Graham, production coordinator, NCTC Operations Center.
The center acts as driving force behind NCTC’s whole-of-government response to events like the attacks in San Bernardino in 2015 or the Pulse Night Club shooting in 2016.
“Our team has been on duty for all kinds of breaking events,” said Graham. “During crisis situations, we gather the most up to date information to inform the community, policy makers, and senior leaders. We are the center of all breaking counterterrorism information.”
Today, the Operations Center falls under NCTC’s Directorate of Operations Support and is primarily focused on the mission of counterterrorism situational awareness, but also provides alerts and warning, education and training to officers, and information sharing across the U.S. government.
Graham, who has been in the IC for 12 years, is in charge of situational awareness products within the Operations Center.
“I go through thousands of cables every day to try to find the few items that the community needs to be aware of,” said Graham. “I will try to find the items that we need to track and brief them to the senior operations officer and deputy senior operations officer on the team.”
Once it is determined to be a significant update to the counterterrorism environment, Graham and his team will compile, edit and revise the situational awareness product — then send it out to the IC and other partners.
“It’s all about getting the complete picture to our customers as quickly and accurately as possible,” said Graham.
The attacks of Sept. 11 exposed systemic issues with how counterterrorism information was coordinated across the IC and U.S. government.
Initially the Terrorist Threat Integration Center was created in 2003 to integrate counterterrorism capabilities and missions across the government.
This organization was later incorporated into NCTC by Executive Order 13354, which became the foundation for codifying NCTC’s authorities under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
Through EO 13354 and subsequently IRTPA, NCTC was given the responsibilities for not only integrating analysis and coordinating information sharing and situational awareness, but also for strategic operational planning in direct support to the President.
The lessons learned through the 9/11 Commission led to the current day NCTC Operations Center’s function and 24/7 capabilities.
“We are the first to notice when things are awry and alert NCTC and our partners across the interagency what is happening,” said Kirsten Gnipp, deputy chief, NCTC Operations Center. “We are now also leading an effort to help ensure that both private and public sector are made aware of issues of importance in the counterterrorism space.”
The officers on the floor work in shifts to cover the 24/7 mission and go through about 9,000 cables per day, said Gnipp.
“I have been with NCTC for over 10 years and before this position had no real appreciation for what the Operations Center does — what it does for the counterterrorism mission, and what the people here do for the safety and security of the country,” said Gnipp.
Gnipp was initially drawn to the counterterrorism mission after Sept. 11.
“At the time, I lived in Arlington, Virginia, just a mile and a half from the Pentagon and would drive past the side that got hit on my daily commute,” said Gnipp. “I remember standing on a berm watching as first responders draped the American flag on the Pentagon — now an iconic image.”
Gnipp has been at NCTC since 2009 where she started as an action officer and moved up as a branch chief in the Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning and later served as DSOP’s Chief for the Transnational Issues Group before joining the NCTC Operations Center.
“My background prepared me for this management and leadership role,” said Gnipp. “I wanted to join the Operations Center to be on the more tactical side of the mission space, particularly as counterterrorism is evolving.”
The national security threat environment has evolved and counterterrorism is no longer the preeminent threat like it was after Sept. 11, largely due to the work of NCTC, said Gnipp.
“Now we need to ensure that we are engaging with those focused on other threats within the global power competition, transnational organized crime, counterintelligence, threat finance, and others to ensure we are constantly sharing and learning from one another to create a robust national security posture,” said Gnipp.
NCTC has been successful in executing its mission to lead the U.S. government in the counterterrorism fight through interagency cooperation and coordination in planning, information sharing, identity intelligence and analysis, said Gnipp.
“NCTC must continue doing what it is doing to ensure counterterrorism doesn’t retake that number one threat spot,” said Gnipp.
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Shamans perform a variety of functions depending upon their respective cultures; healing, leading a sacrifice, preserving traditions by storytelling and songs, fortune-telling, and acting as a psychopomp ("guide of souls"). A single shaman may fulfill several of these functions.
Shamanism is not associated with any particular religion nor is it itself a religion. Instead, shamans across the world belong to different organized religions and view shamanism more as a spiritual practice.
Although shamans' repertoires vary from one culture to the next, they are typically thought to have the ability to heal the sick, to communicate with the otherworld, and often to escort the souls of the dead to that otherworld.
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Although shamans and Daoist priests occasionally experience private ecstasies, they are primarily professional ecstatics whose mysticism is a component of group religious activities.
"To qualify as a mystic, as one who has had a mystical experience, or a series of mystical experiences, it really means allowing yourself to let go of your identity and just... being." "A mystic is someone who has an experience of union with The One—and The One may be God, it may be Mother Earth, it may be the cosmos.
False Mystics examines why the Catholic church viewed the accused as deviants and argues that this categorization was due in part to unconventional aspects of their spirituality and in part to contemporary social anxieties over class and race mixing, transgressions of appropriate gendered behavior, and fears of Indian ...
Gertrude, St. Francis, Jacopone da Todi, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas, Ramon Lull, Dante, Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, Ruysbroeck, Groote, Thomas à Kempis, Nicholas of Cusa, Rolle of Hampole, Walter Hilton, Juliana of Norwich, Margery Kempe, St.
Christ-mysticism appears again in The Gospel According to John, particularly in the farewell discourse (chapters 14–16), where Jesus speaks of his impending death and of his return in the Spirit to unite himself with his followers.
Eastern Christianity has especially preserved a mystical emphasis in its theology and retains a tradition of mystical prayer dating back to Christianity's beginnings.
Mysticism is a religion or religious belief based on union or communion with a deity, or divine being. Mysticism is what lets you transcend the physical to experience enlightenment — let's just say you'll recognize it when it happens.
What is another word for mystic?
Mystical feelings are feelings of an all-encompassing unity which ultimately concerns us. Therefore, they involve a transformation at the level of existential feeling.
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synonyms for healer
healer. noun. someone who is believed to be able to cure people who are ill, using special powers.
Healers in Final Fantasy lore are called White Mages.
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for witch doctor. medicine man, shaman, shamanist.
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“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Our oceans matter
Save our planet. Say no to plastic. Act before it’s too late. We keep hearing or reading these words constantly in the news or on social media but have you ever wondered what’s the urgency that lays behind or why is our planet and our oceans screaming for help or that maybe the real culprit is no one else but us, human beings?! The reason why our oceans are of such great importance is because they stand as the largest ecosystem on Earth and as the planet’s life support system. The world’s oceans cover three quarters of the Earth; they contain 97% of the Earth’s water and are home to an amazing wildlife and at the same time they cater for billions of people with food and income. Besides, they also generate half of the oxygen we breathe while absorbing half of all man-made climate-warming carbon dioxide. As you may have noticed, the list can be endless when it comes to how our oceans enhance our lives hence the necessity for us to keep our oceans healthy. For the past decades, things are not going swimmingly at sea and latest figures show a dramatic decline in ocean health and the causes are already known – Our seas are overused and under protected and despite having the appropriate solutions, the challenge is to get every single one of us on board and to act efficiently for our oceans’ recovery.
“It’s just one straw, it’s just one disposable cup, it’s just one plastic bag”
– 7.4 billion people
The story of plastic is the story of all of us.
Plastic undeniably touches all of our lives, be it the food packaging we buy, the computers we work with or the means of transport we use and the reason why plastic stands as an impediment is because many of the plastics we use in our daily life are used only once and thrown away. As a result, much of plastic ends up in our oceans. As the amount of plastic in our oceans is on a drastic rise, we might end up with a pound of plastic for every three pounds of fish in the sea in the years to come. Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic ends up in our oceans, arousing havoc on marine wildlife, fisheries and tourism and thus amounting to approximately $8 billion in damage to marine ecosystems where up to 80% of all litter in our oceans is made of plastic. According to studies carried out, the rate at which we are dumping items such as plastic bottles, bags and cups after a single use, our oceans will carry more plastic than fish by 2050. From the tiniest plankton to the largest whales, plastics impact nearly 700 species in our ocean; it has been found in more than 60% of all seabirds and in 100% of sea turtle’s species that mistake plastic for food. When animals ingest plastic, it can cause life-threatening problems, including reduced fitness, nutrient uptake and feeding efficiency—all vital for survival and some of these incidents have happy endings but in reality many more do not.
About 80% of marine pollution comes from land-based activities. Waste is dumped into drains and rivers and ultimately ends in our seas. Oil, fertilisers, sewage, plastics and toxic chemicals are all part of the mix. While all of the pollutants are having severe negative impacts, plastic is so far the one with the most disastrous impacts. Around 275 million tons of plastic waste is generated each year around the world; between 4.8 million and 12.7 million tons is either washed or dumped deliberately into the sea. According to the World Bank, the planet’s municipal solid waste is expected to double within 15 years, much of this in the form of single-use plastic items as bottles, bags, balloons, packaging, shoes take decades to break down and decompose. Today, 60% of the plastic waste in the ocean comes from just 5 countries – China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. By 2025, plastic consumption in Asia will increase by 80%, surpassing 200 million tons. Industry experts expect that by 2050 we will be producing three times as much plastic as we do today. We can clearly deduce that the future of plastics in our ocean will be determined by the way we handle plastics on land.
“Plastic oceans deserve the support and participation of all of us who hope to bequeath a liveable world to future generations.” – Noam Chomsky, Scholar, Linguist, Author
UNITED NATIONS – #CleanSeas campaign
The UN has included as its 14th Sustainable Development Goal the target to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources.” This is one of UN sustainable goals to be achieved by 2025 in which it aims at preventing and significantly reducing marine pollution of all kinds, especially land-based activities. Similarly, UN Environment launched at the Economist World Ocean Summit in Bali, Indonesia a major global #CleanSeas campaign to end marine litter. This campaign is a global movement which targets governments, industries and consumers, urging them to urgently cut off the production and excessive use of plastic that are damaging the Earth’s oceans, causing harm to our marine life and threatening human health. UN Environment aims at thoroughly transforming all spheres, be it habits, practices, standards and policies around the globe in order to reduce marine litter and the harm it causes. Today, ten countries have already joined the campaign: Belgium, Costa Rica, France, Grenada, Indonesia, Norway, Panama, Saint Lucia, Sierra Leone and Uruguay. Erik Solheim, Head of UN Environment, said, “It is past time that we tackle the plastic problem that blights our oceans. Plastic pollution is surfing onto Indonesian beaches, settling onto the ocean floor at the North Pole, and rising through the food chain onto our dinner tables. We’ve stood by too long as the problem has gotten worse. It must stop.”
“Refuse what you can’t reuse. Together, we can chart a path to a cleaner, greener world.”
– UN Secretary-General António Guterres
A solution as wide as the ocean
Plastic in the ocean is a people problem, which means people like you and me can help solve it. With 8 million metric tons dumped in the ocean every year, our oceans can’t wait for long term solutions and this is why we need to act now to make sure the accompanying wave of plastic waste never reaches our ocean. Considering plastic lurks in every nook and corner of our lives, it appears to be unrealistic and impractical to banish it completely from our daily lives and indeed, plastic is a useful material which does facilitate our lives in many ways. However, it needs to be managed in the right way where it is valued as a resource and not as waste or a danger to our ocean and its wildlife. Each of us can make a difference by rejecting single-use plastics and recycling what we do use. As individuals, we can also help by making lifestyle changes by recycling more or drinking from reusable water bottles. We might think our contribution is small or that such actions are of minor importance but together our collective action is powerful and every single action matters. If we take plastic pollution and environmental issues as our own problem and if we get together to save our blue planet, things will gradually and eventually get back on the right track and we can prevent things from getting worse.
“No one can solve the problem of plastic pollution alone, but together we will fuel global change.”
– UN Environment Erik Solheim
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Top 10 Essential Tools for My Boat 🧰
Posted Jul 23 2021 in Boating tips
Discover the best ten tools every sailor needs to have onboard his boat here.
Whether boating is a hobby or a career path for you, it is your responsibility as a boat owner to maintain the vessel in perfect condition. The best way to ensure your water endeavors run smoothly is to have a full-on tool kit aboard.
Boat tools will help you perform better at both basic and advanced boating tasks and also, to get the vessel back in shape whenever needed.
Ready to build a great tool kit for your boat? Here is a list of the most essential tools every boat owner could have onboard:
Basic boat tools and equipment
Screwdrivers are some of the most important boat tools to have on your watercraft. They make boat maintenance easier than ever. Don’t get just one though! Make certain you have screwdrivers of various sizes and lengths on board:
- Straight slot
- Phillips head
- Torx head
- Hex screwdriver
- Square head
- Tri-Wing screwdriver
There are numerous multi-screwdriver tools on the market that come with a handle and replaceable heads. They are a great addition to the boat equipment because they allow you to switch between heads. As an alternative - buy a classic screwdriver set with a big variety of heads. Essentially, you will be able to assemble or disassemble almost anything on board.
2. Wrench Set
Wrenches are a necessity in sailing. These boat tools are great for tightening and loosening bolts and nuts, as well as for gripping and fastening watercraft fittings and fixtures. Therefore, it is essential to have multi-purpose wrenches available in the maintenance tool kit such as ratchet wrench, hex wrench, crescent wrench, etc. Go for sets offering different sizes and configurations, so you can use them all around the boat.
Pliers are great boat tools to own! Their main purpose is to tighten or loosen nuts, pipes, hose clamps, and other marine fasteners. The two main types to have in your boat maintenance kit are regular ones and needle-nosed pliers.
A hammer is one of the most essential boatbuilding tools, so respectively it helps you deal with basic vessel repairs. A wooden ball-peen hammer is your best friend for tackling small jobs around the boat. It can be used to fix up cracks, tap chisels, and work on wood without damaging its surface.
Whether you are boating at night or you simply need additional lighting when doing chores and repairs, a flashlight makes your boating life easier. Do not settle for cheap and unreliable boat tools. Go for a strong LED light source. Because if you ever need illumination to get around or work on thigh areas, at least you have a bright flashlight with a long-lasting battery. Feel free to get a LED headlamp as an alternative.
Quick fixes, leak repairs, loose wiring - tape can solve a lot of minor boat problems. There are different types of tape, of course, and they vary in functionality. Regular tape will hardly do your boat any good. However, duct tape is super strong and water-resistant, making it a valuable addition to the boating equipment. And while duct tape is excellent, make sure to add rescue tape and electrical tape to your tool kit as well.
7. Inspection mirror
Peer into dark shafts and crevices with a LED light inspection mirror. Whenever you need to allocate a break or a leak, this boat tool allows you to illuminate and properly inspect hardly accessible and tight spaces.
8. Telescoping wand with a magnet
Working with hard-to-reach spaces sometimes results in losing a bolt, screw, or other boat tools and components. A telescopic mirror/wand with a magnet attachment can solve this problem and reach loose parts even underwater.
Experienced sailors have a multi-tool with them on every journey on the water. The basic components of a multi-tool include a corkscrew, screwdrivers, pliers, files, knives, and a saw. All tools that make every quick repair easier. On top of that, multi-tools are usually compact and effortless to carry around.
10. Rigging knife
Another boat tool you can bring on a sailing trip is a rigging knife. Due to its small size, it can fit in your pocket, so you can carry it around for instant cutting and loosening jobs. The tool is lightweight so it would not cause any inconvenience.
Want to add more tools to your boat kit? No problem.
We love captains and boat owners who sail prepared! Check out this shortlist of additional boat tools that can help with potential repairs and on-board maintenance:
- Wire cutters
- Cable ties
- Docking lines
- Round and flat files
- Wire brush
- Sealing compound
- Voltmeter / Ohmmeter
- Jumper cables
- Penetrating oil
Gloves, face protection, and a fully-stocked first-aid-kit are also must-haves for every watercraft.
Last but not least, opt to buy high-quality boat tools. Low-quality tools stand for bad performance and less durability. At first, saving a few bucks might seem like a good deal but in the long run - cheap equipment is surely not worth it.
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Today marks the start of the second week of the UN Climate Summit COP26 in Glasgow. During the second week, the high-level segment of the meeting will begin with negotiations at the ministerial level. After that, the countries will, among other things, negotiate the last parts of the Paris Agreement rulebook. A major focus will also be on the need to increase ambition in global climate action.
We are already in the midst of a climate crisis and now the countries of the world need to work together to reverse the trend and reduce emissions quickly. Environment and Climate Minister Per Polund says the outcome of the climate negotiations should point a way toward increased ambitions and tougher climate targets.
The results of COP26 will also be evaluated on the basis of whether developed countries have succeeded in achieving the goal of mobilizing $100 billion in climate finance by 2020-2025. The money will go to enable climate change countries from developing countries. British Presidency commissioned Per Polland to lead a ministerial dialogue on climate finance on Monday. The dialogue is taking place with Egypt and the starting point are the reports on forward-looking climate finance that donor countries have been invited to submit in accordance with Article 9 (5) of the Paris Agreement. This is the first time that this kind of dialogue has taken place within the framework of the Paris Agreement.
I am happy with the confidence to lead the conversation on climate finance and I look forward to together finding a way forward. Per Polund says the issue of finance is key to how well we can handle the climate crisis, if we solve the problem of climate finance, we’ll have good conditions to take bigger steps forward.
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An intelligence quotient, or IQ, is a score derived from one of several standardized tests designed to assess intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" comes from the German term Intelligenz-Quotient, originally coined by psychologist William Stern. When current IQ tests are developed, the median raw score of the norming sample is defined as IQ 100 and scores each standard deviation up or down are defined as 15 IQ points greater or less, although this was not always so historically. By this definition, approximately 95 percent of the population scores an IQ between 70 and 130, which is within two standard deviations of the mean. IQ scores have been shown to be associated with such factors as morbidity and mortality, parental social status, and, to a substantial degree, biological parental IQ. While the heritability of IQ has been investigated for nearly a century, there is still debate about the significance of heritability estimates and the mechanisms of inheritance. IQ scores are used as predictors of educational achievement, special needs, job performance and income.
The translations of i.q. from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «i.q.» in English.
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «i.q.».
FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «I.Q.» OVER TIME
The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «i.q.» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «i.q.» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.
Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about i.q.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «I.Q.»
Discover the use of i.q. in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to i.q. and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The Book of IQ Tests: 25 Self-Scoring Quizzes to Sharpen ...
Readers test their intelligence--and that of their friends--with a self-scoring collection of twenty-five challenging IQ quizzes that include diagrams, numerical challenges, wordplay, and other entertaining elements.
Philip J. Carter, Kenneth A. Russell, 2008
IQ and Immigration Policy
"The statistical construct known as IQ can reliably estimate general mental ability, or intelligence.
Jason Richwine, 2009
Test Your IQ: 400 Questions to Boost Your Brainpower
These include The Times Book of IQ Tests (Books 1 to 5). Philip Carter is also the author of IQ & Psychometric Tests and The IQ & Psychometric Test Workbook, all published by Kogan Page.
Philip Carter, 2009
Asian Americans: Achievement Beyond IQ
This authoritative book shows how the gap between a group's mean IQ and achievement can be precisely measured, and then partitioned between two factors -- an important methodology with potential application for all ethnic groups.
James Robert Flynn, 1991
IQ Testing 101
This book provides a brief, compelling introduction to the topic of IQ testing-its mysteries, misconceptions, and truths. This newest edition to the popular Psych 101 Series presents a common-sense approach to what IQ is and what it is not.
Dr. Alan S. Kaufman PhD, 2009
The Times Book of IQ Tests
The popular series of IQ testing books continues! This latest addition of The Times Book of IQ Tests: Book 4 contains 400 brand new questions.The questions are typical of those you are likely to encounter in actual IQ tests.
Kenneth A. Russell, Philip J. Carter, 2004
Succeed at IQ Tests: Improve Your Numerical, Verbal and ...
IQ tests are a commonplace feature of both the educational system and recruitment and selection procedures. Succeed at IQ Tests contains 400 questions, typical of those you are likely to encounter in actual IQ tests.
Philip Carter, 2008
IQ and Psychometric Tests: Assess Your Personality Aptitude ...
Technical. aptitude. In. psychology the word 'aptitude' generally means the
potential for achievement. The object of aptitude testing is to determine whether a
person's performance will increase markedly with additional training. Aptitude
Philip Carter, 2010
Mommy IQ: The Complete Guide to Pregnancy
Enter pregnancy expert Rosie Pope. With her signature style, humor, and razor-sharp expertise, Rosie offers women the ultimate guide to these unique nine months ahead.
Rosie Pope, 2012
IQ and Aptitude Tests: Assess Your Verbal Numerical and ...
Invaluable to those who are faced with an aptitude or IQ test, this book will also help anyone who needs to improve their verbal, numerical and reasoning skills.
Philip Carter, 2010
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «I.Q.»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term i.q. is used in the context of the following news items.
Mensa mini-quiz: High I.Q. organization holds convention in Louisville
This five-day event happens every year during the Independence Day holiday and is an opportunity for members of the high I.Q. organization to ... «WDRB, Jul 15»
Do minorities disproportionately fail the death penalty IQ test …
The high court decided because Brumfield has an I.Q. below 75, ... then perhaps minority death row inmates disproprotionately fail IQ tests ... «American Thinker, Jun 15»
« EDUCALINGO. I.q. [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/iq>. Aug 2022 ».
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The Haj Committee of India Tuesday officially cancelled applications for Haj-2021 as Saudi Arabia bars foreign travellers due to COVID-19.
In a historic first, several high-resolution photos of an ancient religious stone in Mecca have been released by the Saudi government.
A bomb on Wednesday struck a World War I commemoration attended by European diplomats in the Saudi city of Jeddah leaving several people wounded.
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Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured after a bus crashed with heavy vehicle excavator near Mecca in western Saudi Arabia,
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BTS — which is also known as the Bangtan Boys — has finally come back from their month-long rest starting from 12th August.
Iran is refuting U.S. allegations that it was behind drone attacks on two massive Saudi oil plants. Trump says United States was prepared to respond to it.
The Saudi media reports have not said anything yet about who could be behind the attacks that happened.
Saudi Arabia will allow women to travel abroad without permission from a male guardian, ending a restriction that came under heavy international criticism.
Eid Al Fitr 2019: Looking for Masjids that accommodate the world's largest Eid Congregations. The name of Mosques are Masjid-e-Haram, Masjid-e-Nabawi, Faisal Masjid, Jama Masjid.
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“Can’t you recognize the human in the inhuman?”
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
No matter if you’re a science-fiction enthusiast or if you’ve only watched a handful of movies about laser battles in outer space because your friends made you do it — if you’re my friend, then probably I made you do it — I’m sure all of us are already acquainted with stories about aliens. We have all heard stories about mysterious sightings, or have been scared to death at night, hiding under our sheets, only waiting for the moment a flying saucer would come down from the sky and abduct us or the ones that we love. We’ve all watched ET the Extraterrestrial, and we’re all well acquainted with Ancient Aliens. No matter your literary tastes, aliens are part of our imaginary, and even exert a certain fascination on us.
It could seem an easy answer at first. We humans understand the world through narratives, since the beginning of time, and these stories are the closest we’ll probably get to peeking into the universe of things we don’t understand: death, life, love, magic, mysteries. Looking up at the starry sky at night can be a beautiful, yet frightening experience. What ‘s up there? Are we alone? What would be more terrifying: knowing that we are all by ourselves in the middle of the infinitude of the universe, or knowing that, somewhere among all of those stars, someone — someone so different from us that we can’t even begin to imagine — is looking back at us at our little blue dot?
But, as everything in life, I’d say that there’s more to it. Yes, our will to explore and to know makes us look at the sky and wonder, just like it made humans who lived centuries ago look at the ocean and wonder what was on the other side of it. But why haven’t our stories changed? Just like the ancient people, who imagined monsters roaming across unknown lands and pictured foreign people as barbarians, almost inhuman, the main portrait of the beings who would live beyond our Solar System is still surrounded by an aura of strangeness — and, often, of an implicit threat.
Think of an alien movie — any movie. Chances are that plot which came to your mind revolves around a mysterious event that later becomes an invasion that threatens the human way of living, and that humankind has to come together and fight against those strange newcomers who don’t look like us, or speak our language, or even think like us.
Now, think about any event in history — big or small, recent or distant — in which two different cultures or civilizations came into touch, and you’ll start to understand what I mean.
Yes, our imagination can take us to wonderful distant places, but there’s always an anchor connecting us to reality. We can’t completely escape the context in which we are immersed, and some of it will always make an appearance in our stories, no matter if it’s the way of telling them, the words we use, a different lesson at the end.
Stories about aliens are no different. The idea of an other has always fascinated us: what would our complete opposite look like? That thought has accompanied us throughout history. If you stop and think, the definitions of who we are are often supported by the idea of who we aren’t. We were born here, we’re not foreigners. We’re civilized, we’re not barbarians. Countries and people have been shaped by these ideas, and it’s not a surprise that they made their way into our fictional imaginary.
The biggest example of it, in my opinion, is (wait for it): Ancient Aliens. I know, it’s funny and all of us, including myself, already had a good laugh with the absurd conspiracy theories. But why are only some civilizations associated with aliens? It’s not a coincidence that these people are seen as strange and different by Western eyes. Why did aliens have to help build Ancient Egypt, but not Ancient Rome? Why “we” could have done it by “ourselves,” but not “them?”
We won’t undo this way of thinking in a few months or years, but I like to think and say that we who enjoy speculative fiction, we have a part of ourselves that insists on believing that another world, filled with other narratives, is possible. A world like the one Becky Chambers has imagined in The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (yes, I’ll talk about this book every single time I can), in which the only way out is collaboration and genuine understanding between completely different species and individuals. Or stories like Arrival (2016), in which science is more important than war, in which communicating is more important than fighting. Different ways of seeing space and time are possible. Different ways of seeing ourselves and the others are possible. But for that, we first have to know the ground from where we’re standing.
I still continue to enjoy science-fiction movies about humans exploring outer space. I’ll still read about different planets populated by each writer’s unique imagination of different ways of life. But thinking about the stories we tell ourselves can bring us some of the answers we often ask the stars: who are we? Where do we come from? And where are we going?
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I am a PhD student and part of the PhD College MOMENT. Together with my colleagues, I try to deepen our knowledge of the coupled carbon and water cycle for three different compartments: forests, grasslands and agricultural areas. We especially focus on the impact of weather extremes, such as the drought of summer 2018, on these ecosystems. My part involves a lot of data-driven analysis to advance the definition of essential variables for the early and targeted recognition of the effects of extreme events. I work with flux, meteorological and biological data, as well as soil and biomass parameters combined with footprint analysis and (geo-) statistical methods, including machine learning approaches.
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For you and your family to get all the nutrients needed by the body, it's important for your meals to
have all the basic food groups (bread and grains, fruits and vegetables, meat and legumes, milk and
To help you choose the right foods, we present you with a simple list of healthy food choices and
others to avoid for better health:
- Choose lean white meat like chicken and fish more often than red meat
- Replace lamb with lean beef or veal after you remove the visible fat
- When serving chicken, remove the skin and try to serve the chicken breast instead of the chicken
- Serve sources of vegetable proteins like lentils, beans and chickpeas which have high
- Reduce intake of fast foods which are loaded with unhealthy fats, as well as processed and
- Avoid using ghee and butter, and use a variety of vegetable oil instead.
Cereals and starches:
- Choose whole grain cereals like whole wheat, brown bread, brown rice and whole wheat pasta more
often because they are rich in fiber, minerals and vitamins.
Milk and dairy products:
- Replace regular products with low-fat versions. This way you will get the same nutritional value
without the fat.
Vegetables and fruits:
- Serve a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits every day. Use frozen vegetables as well, since
they retain their nutritional value.
- Replace processed sugars with its natural form found in fruits as much as possible.
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Serve a wide variety of fruits and vegetables; the more variety, the more nutrients. Make sure you
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Two senators who normally find themselves on opposite sides of the aisle are casting partisanship aside for one night.
Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) announced Sunday that they would buck the tradition of sitting only with their own party during President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech Wednesday.
"I called up Tom... and he graciously agreed. We're going to sit together Wednesday night at the State of the Union and we hope that many others will follow us," Schumer told NBC's David Gregory Sunday. "That's symbolic, but maybe it sets tone and everything gets a little more civil. We believe in discourse in America. We believe in strenuous discourse. We don't sweep differences under the rug. Tom and I have real differences, but we can do it civilly."
"I think the key, David, is people go back to motive and what we can't question is our president's love for our country, Chuck Schumer's love for our country," Coburn noted. "Where we get in trouble is when we start looking at motives rather than differences of ideology. And I think where we've had problems in the Senate, it's been small. But the fact is that always comes about when people are questioning motives."
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) asked lawmakers Wednesday to show unity by sitting together during the annual speech following a shooting in Tucson, Arizona that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in the hospital.
Both senators from Alaska also have agreed to mingle with the other party during Obama's speech.
"Congressional reaction to the President's State of the Union address has increasingly come to symbolize the sharp partisan divide in Congress," Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) observed. "So we think a good first step towards greater civility would be for senators and congressmen, Republicans and Democrats, to sit together in the House chamber on Jan. 25 when President Obama addresses a joint session."
Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) suggested that he could join with Rep. Don Young (R-AK) and Murkowski to sit together as a delegation.
"Democrats and Republicans sitting together at the State of the Union is an excellent way to show we share a common goal of working to make this country a better place for every American," he said. "It may only be a symbolic gesture on one evening, but I believe it's a positive step toward showing unity and ending some of the partisan practices that have become common."
Partisan division may have a reached a high point during last year's State of the Union address when Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted "You lie!" reacting to the president's pledge that his health reform laws would not extend taxpayer dollars to cover illegal immigrants.
This video is from NBC's Meet the Press, broadcast Jan. 10, 2010.
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Because cholesterol is a major buffer of dietary
and metabolic acids that can cause the breakdown
of cells and tissues leading to a cancerous state.
It is the stomach that produces the body’s number
one acid buffer – sodium bicarbonate.
When the body needs more sodium bicarbonate to buffer
dietary and metabolic acid there is an equal amount
of hydrochloric acid that is secreted into the stomach.
The newly created sodium bicarbonate by the stomach
is either used to buffer the acids of food in the stomach
or taken up into the blood stream to buffer metabolic acids
when cholesterol is not present.
Bottom line, it is the body’s increased need for
cholesterol to buffer acids in the extracellular
fluids. When cholesterol is not present to buffer
dietary or metabolic acids then the stomach kicks
in and starts producing sodium bicarbonate.
This process leaves toxic hydrochloric
acid in the gastric pits of the stomach that can
destroy stomach cells leading to ulcerations and a
Japanese researchers are suggesting that people with
very low cholesterol levels seem to be at
increased risk of developing stomach cancer. This
is because of the body’s increased need for sodium
bicarbonate and the residues of hydrochloric acid
that is left to ferment the stomach leading to
a cancerous stomach.
Some studies have linked low cholesterol levels to
higher death rates from cancer in general, Dr. Kouichi
Asano, of Kyushu University, Fukuoka, and colleagues
explain in the International Journal of Cancer.
“With respect to gastric cancer, a limited number
of studies suggest this inverse association, while
others do not.”
The researcher looked into this in a study involving
some 2,600 residents of Hisayama, Japan, who were
followed for 14 years.
Gastric cancers developed in 97 subjects. After
accounting for age and gender, stomach cancer rates
rose significantly with descending cholesterol level.
For example, among subjects with the highest cholesterol
levels, the gastric cancer rate was the equivalent
of 2.1 cases per 1000 persons per year; among those
with the lowest cholesterol, the rate was 3.9 per
“Our data suggest that patients with low serum
cholesterol should consider regular gastro-intestinal
examination for the prevention of gastric cancer,”
the investigators conclude.
To prevent a cancerous condition, including stomach
cancer one needs to include liberal amounts of
sodium chloride (salt) and medium and long chain
According to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research
scientist from the pH Miracle Living Center, states,
“the stomach is an organ of contribution not an
organ of digestion. Its main contribution to the
health and well-being of the body is to produce
alkaline salts of sodium and potassium bicarbonate.
The purpose of the stomach in producing these
alkaline salts is to buffer the acids of diet and
metabolism for maintaining the alkaline design of
the body fluids and thus protecting the alkaline
integrity of the cells.”
“To prevent and/or reverse a cancerous condition one
must incorporate liberal amounts of sodium and
potassium bicarbonate and good healthy fats.”
To learn more about the importance of mineral
salts and good oils in the diet in the preventing
a cancerous condition, even a cancerous stomach, go to:
International Journal of Cancer, February 15, 2008.
The pH Miracle for Cancer
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Reminiscent of The Name of the Rose, this is a cracking murder mystery, literary novel, and perhaps the finest work of historical fiction in twenty-first-century Indian literature.
BOOK DESCRIPTION (INR 799, 360PP)
3 May 1857. India stands on the brink of war. Everywhere in its cities, towns, and villages, rebels and revolutionaries are massing to overthrow the ruthless and corrupt British East India Company which has taken over the country and laid it to waste. In Delhi, the capital, even as the plot to get rid of the hated foreigners gathers intensity, the busy social life of the city hums along. Nautch girls entertain clients, nawabs host mushairas or poetry soirees in which the finest poets of the realm congregate to recite their latest verse and intrigue, the wealthy roister in magnificent havelis, and the drinking dens of the city continue to pack in customers.
One morning, Kallu, a retainer at a Delhi haveli, cleaning up after a grand mushaira, discovers a poet stabbed to death with a polished agate dagger. Gruesome as it is, the murder appears to be a fairly run of the mill crime until anxious officials of the East India Company make it a matter of the highest priority. Instructions are issued for the murderer to be found and arrested immediately. But who is the killer? The dead man had many enemies and the investigating officer Kiromal Chainsukh soon discovers there are dozens of suspects, an equal number of motives, and waves of secrets and lies that threaten to overwhelm him. As the pressure on him to solve the crime increases, Chainsukh turns to Mirza Ghalib, poet laureate and amateur detective, for help. Ghalib’s tools are his formidable intelligence, intimate knowledge of the machinations of Delhi high society, ferocious curiosity, and reliance on the new science of forensics that his friend the scientist Master Ramachandra has introduced him to. As Ghalib begins to collect evidence and dig into the case, he uncovers an ever-widening list of suspects, and a sinister conspiracy that involves many of Delhi’s most important men and women.
Set against the backdrop of India’s First War of Independence, Murder at the Mushaira is at once a brilliantly constructed murder mystery and the finest historical novel by an Indian author in recent times.
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The Manchester Literature Festival Blog
Review: Beth Underdown
Centre for New Writing student Adam Wolstenholme enjoys Beth Underdown’s Quarry Bank ghosts.
There were stories to chill the spine and warm the heart at an event to launch the new collection by local novelist Beth Underdown this week.
Beth read from Love makes as many at the Anthony Burgess Foundation on Tuesday. Her collection dramatises the women featured in the exhibition Lost Voices which ran at National Trust property, Quarry Bank Mill, documenting the lives of mill workers who lived through the First World War and the fight for female suffrage.
The stories were commissioned by the National Trust in partnership with Manchester Literature Festival and inspired by Beth’s research at Quarry Bank, where she was writer in residence last spring. They feature characters both real and fictional, all of them living and working around the mill during the October 1918, with some more modern snapshots of the site.
The stories are rich in sensual as well as technical details, adding a sense of verisimilitude and authenticity. They conjured a world where women lived in dread of hearing their men had been killed at the front, where cotton shortages could bring an eerie silence to the mill, and where it was unwise to speculate about the ‘provenance of the mince’ in one’s cottage pie.
The stories set in 1918 are interspersed with those set in the present day. As Beth read to the full room, a projected image of Quarry Bank would fade into black-and-white for stories set a century ago, then back to colour for the modern-day pieces. This simple effect added to the spellbinding atmosphere as Beth’s characters were brought vividly to life.
Between readings, Beth responded to questions from the audience and host Tania Hershman.
She explained how the project was different from her debut novel, The Witch Finder’s Sister. The novel, which is featured in the Richard and Judy Book Club series, is based on the life of notorious 1640s witchfinder Matthew Hopkins. It is a sinister tale of a time when, for a woman, being different could mean death.
Love makes as many is of course another piece of historical fiction, but the new collection comprises ghost stories about love, and love stories about ghosts.
Beth, who lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, said: “There’s a lot of death and sadness in The Witch Finder’s Sister, but not very much about love. This time I wanted to write about love – and ghosts.
“For me, going around National Trust properties has always been about listening for ghosts. When you walk around these old buildings – especially if you’re alone – there are some corners that just make you stop.
“At Quarry Mill, I’d talk to the staff. The mechanics would say, ‘Oh, you’re the writer, are you?’ But I found that asking them about ghosts was a way to get them talking. It was overwhelming how many of them had a ghost story. But maybe that’s the case with a lot of people who work in old buildings.”
There are political elements to some of the stories, which mark the centenary of partial women’s suffrage, in which only women over 30 who owned property were granted the vote. It is thought that the government was careful to limit the votes of those women most likely to have lost men in the war.
Beth said historical fiction was a way of addressing our ‘common humanity’.
She said: “For me, writing about the past is a way of writing about the present, while pretending I’m not.”
Such a lack of pretension is in a way typical of Beth’s stories, in which spiritual themes are firmly grounded in down-to-earth detail.
Beth, who was born in Rochdale, has a life-long fascination with local history.
She added: “My childhood was punctuated by the chimneys coming down.
“And like my characters I do enjoy cottage pie – but I like to know the provenance of the mince.”
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Hondo admired the courage and devotion of the Jedi younglings particularly the youngling Katooni. Despite the misgivings of Hera and Kallus about his plan, the other rebels placed their trust on Hondo and latched onto the cargo ship once it had exited hyperspace. , When the rebel recovery team assembled in the Ghost's cargo bay, Hondo tried to dissuade Azmorigan from coming by claiming that the recovery mission was too arduous for the frail Jablogian. Sing was accompanied by Boba Fett, Bossk, and Castas. At some point, the Millennium Falcon landed on Batuu, where Resistance members established a base outside the outpost. Chopper, Ezra, and Zeb followed soon. Iron Squadron sees Grand Admiral Thrawn plotting against his enemies all the while Ghost crew encounters three young… Sriluur Ezra told them to get ready to leave but Hondo insisted on taking the treasure. Biographical information The crew of the 'Ghost' from Star Wars Rebels. 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At some point after the rise of the Galactic Empire and the fall of the Republic, the Imperials broke up the Ohnaka Gang, forcing Hondo to continue his life of piracy alone. Goal , Hondo and Ezra's team including Rex traveled to Yarma in the assault shuttle Phantom. Kaitis was eventually killed. The Stormtroopers engaged the crew of the Ghost in a firefight within the halls of Nixus Hub 218. When Hondo demanded the payment that he was owed, Ezra refused, making the Weequay pirate very proud of his young friend. Hondo then watched as the Imperial Complex was destroyed and Lothal freed.. "A Fool's Hope" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the animated television series Star Wars Rebels. General Armitage Hux is a major antagonist of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, serving as the secondaryantagonist ofStar Wars: The Force Awakens, as a major antagonist of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and a minor antagonist of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (despite becoming a spy for the Resistance). As anImperialoperative, Kallus was a firm believer in bringing order tothe galaxy. Following a brief dogfight, the rebels fled into hyperspace and reached Yarma. After Dok-Ondar used a lightsaber to cut the statue, Hondo was confronted by Chirrut Ãmwe. He used his command of the Ugnaught language to convince the Ugnaught laborers at Reklam Station to help the rebels steal Y-Wing Starfighters and to accept him as their leader. Upon arriving above the Lothal Cliff Dwelling, Hondo and Melch helped the rebels to route Governor Arihnda Pryce's attack force by shooting down two Imperial Patrol Transports. Hondo had another run-in with Obi-Wan and Anakin on Felucia, which Hondo's pirates routinely raided. Ohnaka admired the courage and devotion of the Jedi younglings, particularly the youngling Katooni. Content approaching. Rate. This prompted Kallus to respond that they believed that they could. Hondo Ohnaka While visiting the village, he also attempted to buy-out the bounty hunters but Sugi rejected the offer. When questioned by Ezra, Hondo claimed that he had won the Broken Horn in a game of sabacc with Vizago. Following the events on Nixus Hub 218, Hondo was imprisoned by the Empire at the Imperial prison on Naraka. He began to recruit a new crew: Melch and his new partner Azmorigan. Ultimately, he would indirectly aid the Rebellion against the Empire, providing critical aid and intelligence at pivotal moments. These stormtroopers were serving under the Imperial Security Bureau Agent Kallus, a perennial foe of the Spectres, who ordered his men to seize them alive. , Hondo Ohnaka was a self-centered, avaricious pirate who was solely concerned with getting the best business deal for himself. While Ohnaka claimed to care for his "partners," he was known to put his pecuniary interests ahead of others; as exemplified by his exploitative attitude towards Azmorigan. Black With a career spanning several decades, Ohnaka gained notoriety and often found himself involved in the tumultuous conflicts of his time. Hondo and Melch working with Garazeb Orrelios. After Hondo tried to load one of his treasures with Ezra's help, Zeb objected and reminded Hondo that the rebels got to load their weapons first. Hondo retreated with the remainder of his loyalists, and when he asked Kenobi where Gallia was, he told him she was dead. He was also skilled enough to handle an Electrostaff in combat and managed to put up a decent fight against Anakin. , Hondo, Melch, Azmorigan, and the Spectres, Later, Hondo struck a business partnership with the Jablogian crime lord Azmorigan, who had acquired the flight plan for an Imperial cargo ship. The series was in production of a sixth season, but was cancelled shortly after the season five finale on March 2, 2013 following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm.The episodes of the series that were in production were released as a … Jim Cummings provided the voice for both animatronic, as well for live-action video material in the Smuggler's Run attraction, while the live-action Hondo was performed by actor Robert Nairne. Before the Imperials could capture the rebels, Hondo secretly contacted Ezra and warned him of the approaching Imperials. Ezra, Sabine, Zeb, Chopper and Hera set out to rescue Hondo Ohnaka, while Kanan finds an ancient Force creature known as the Bendu. , Though Hondo's schemes were often frustrated or thwarted by the various Jedi he encountered, he never grew to resent them or hold a grudge, instead seeming to remember those adventures fondly and growing a liking for jedi generally. In response, Commander Jun Sato reminded the pirate that he would be paid only if his information was useful. , Ohnaka was also known for his flowery rhetoric and liked to refer to his Ugnaught crew as his "short, fragrant family." Hondo also realized that Ezra was a Jedi after the youth used The Force to stop the dolly from hurling him into space. Before leaving, Hondo contacted Ezra to thank him and his friends for rescuing him. Blasters, cannons, that glowy thing, voom-voom…” Obi-wan Kenobi: “You mean a lightsaber?” Hondo: “That’s it.” In his first episode, “Dooku Captured” from Season One, Hondo … Hondo and his crew tried to capture the Padawan but failed. Male He also had pet Kowakian monkey-lizards named Pilf Mukmuk and Pikk Mukmuk. On one occasion, he successfully convinced the young bounty hunter Boba Fett to reveal the location of two Republic hostages. Despite the odds, the rebels and the Lasat refugees managed to navigate safely through the maze due to Zeb's bo-rifle. At the urging of Captain Rex and Ezra, Hera agreed to send a reconnaissance mission there to investigate Hondo's claims. Brown skin, black hair, gray eyes At some point after the rise of the Galactic Empire and the fall of the Republic, the Imperials broke up the Ohnaka Gang, forcing Hondo Ohnaka to continue his life of piracy alone. The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels Supervising Director Dave Filoni, voice of Ahsoka Tano, Ashley Eckstein, and Lucasfilm Story Group’s Pablo Hidalgo discuss untold tales of Ahsoka’s past, including her discovery by the Jedi Order as a young child and much more! The two rebels were cleaning the rebel starship Ghost which was parked on the planet Garel. On the way, the rebels were ambushed by two DTS-series Dismantler Droids but managed to shoot them down. At the urging of Zeb, Hondo admitted that he had contracted the rebels after losing his Ugnaught crew. Hondo then convinced the Spectres particularly his former one-time partner Ezra Bridger to rescue him in return for disclosing this valuable information. Eventually though, Hondo was tricked and double-crossed by IG-88 when Qi'ra manipulated Hondo into revealing the bounty on his head was higher than both IG-88 and Qi'ra's combined. Ohnaka demanded that Dok-Ondar tell him how he acquired the hilt, and after hearing the story, departed. On the run from the Empire. Dooku was on the run from the Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker and had crash-landed his solar sailer on the planet Vanqor, which lay a few parsecs away from Florrum. Hondo was unconcerned about Melch's disappearance and claimed that he had fallen to his death. , Hondo's men took out the large turret as the traitorous pirates pursued them, and they surrendered, knowing they were outmatched. In fact, Ohnaka later affirmed that there was nothing he would not do to help Ezra.. In the end, the rebels did not have to pay Hondo directly because he found a ship and crew at Reklam Station himself. Thrawn managed to force Ezra to come to him to discuss an unconditional surrender by bombing Capital City. As a result, Ezra realized that Hondo only cared for himself. He was also friends with Jango Fett, whom Hondo saw as an honorable man. In retaliation for his imprisonment during their first encounter, the Separatist leader had come to take over Florrum and to dismantle Ohnaka's arsenal. Season 2 | Episode 6. After the station began to collapse, Hondo and his Ugnaught allies took the shuttle and fled. When Ezra and the others returned to the cargo bay with Sentry Droids behind them, Hondo and Melch were attempting to load a crate onto the cables. Hondo and Dok-Ondar then boarded their ship and slipped past the Imperial blockade. Située entre le troisième et quatrièm e épisode de la saga et par son appellation "Rebels", cette série d'animation ne délaisse pas le côté Jedi/Sith. Impressed, Hondo offered Ezra the chance to assist him in selling five power generators at extortion rates. However, Ohnaka managed to placate the Ugnaught by offering him a two percent share of the treasure. Pirate At the urging of Zeb, Hondo admitted that he had contracted the rebels after losing his Ugnaught crew. Hondo's ploy worked and the rebels were able to enter Lothal's atmosphere undetected. Star Wars Rebels (TV Series 2014–2018) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Hondo then convinced the Ghost Crew particularly Ezra to rescue him in return for disclosing this valuable information. , While Zeb was angry at Hondo's deception, Ezra tried to defend him by claiming he at least told half the truth. Fighter Flight – Ezra and Zeb steal a Tie Fighter. After Azmorigan disappeared and Zeb vanished while trying to find him, Ezra tried to ask Hondo for help but the Weequay pirate was more concerned about his share of the treasure. Appearance However, Hondo and his new-found rebel partners managed to escape due to the quick actions of Ezra and Chopper, who managed to power up the engines and make a jump into hyperspace. Sing had become Boba's mentor and was helping the youth to hunt down and kill the Jedi Master Mace Windu, who had killed his father Jango Fett during the First Battle of Geonosis. Hondo was a self-centered, avaricious pirate who was solely concerned with getting the best business deal for himself. Later in the war, Hondo tried to take Jedi Kyber Crystals from Ahsoka and a band of Padawans. Hondo then informed the rebels about Reklam Station and the Y-wings being dismantled there. While Hondo was disappointed at not getting his share of the treasure, he claimed to have learned the value of friendship. At first, Hondo refused to hand the Argora over to them and told them that they had other things to worry about than stormtroopers. After leaping onto the hull, Hondo, Azmorigan and the rebels led by Zeb managed to find a manhole which led inside the ship. Star Wars Rebels Hondo Ohnaka debuts in the fourth episode of Season two, " Brothers of the Broken Horn ". Hondo, Azmorigan, and the rebels managed to enter the cargo bay with the help of Chopper and Ezra. He concluded his statement by saying Ohnaka was a Jedi sympathizer. Darth Maul 2, Darth Maul 3, Darth Maul 4, Dooku Captured, Almost a Jedi, Kindred Spirits, Bounty Hunters 8, Pirate's Price, Star Wars Adventures: Flight of the Falcon, Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide, Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire, Galaxy's Edge 3, Galaxy's Edge 4, A Crash of Fate, Black Spire: Return to a Shattered Planet, Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide, Star Wars Helmet Collection 41âclass. In this clip from the Star Wars Rebels episode, "The Wynkahthu Job," Ezra and Zeb eagerly listen to the story behind pirate Hondo Ohnaka's latest endeavor. Following the battle, Hondo along with Melch and Ketsu met up with Ezra. While under capture by Koon, Hondo managed to convince the young Fett to reveal the location of the Republic hostages Admiral Shoan Kilian and a Clone officer, telling him that it is was what his father would want him to do. Ezra and the crew of the Ghost traveled to Nixus where they discovered that these two refugees were Lasat who had survived the fall of Lasan. Spark of Rebellion (Episodes 1-2) —Ezra Bridger, a young boy on the planet Lothal, crosses paths with a group of operatives fighting back against the … During a skirmish on Felucia, Hondo showed a reasonable understanding of battle tactics. Binks accidentally caused the tanks to ram into each other and knock out the power grid. Jiro, one of the traitorous captains, begged for mercy, and Hondo accepted him and the remaining pirates back into the gang. During the fighting, Gallia was killed by Opress. As part of their plan, the rebels used an unwilling Pryce to gain landing rights at the Dome. 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« السابقةمتابعة »
His late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty,
GEORGE THE THIRD,
EMBRACING ITS MOST MEMORABLE INCIDENTS, AS THEY WERE DISPLAYED
IN THE IMPORTANT RELATION OF
SON, HUSBAND, FATHER, FRIEND, AND SOVEREIGN.
WITH A VARIETY OF
SECRET ANECDOTES OF HIS MAJESTY, THE ROYAL FAMILY, AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED
CHARACTERS, CONNECTED WITH THE BRITISH COURT ;
The whole Collected from the most Authentic Sources,
AND TENDİNG TO ILLUSTRATE THE CAUSES, PROGRESS, AND EFFECTS, OF THE PRINCIPAL
POLITICAL EVENTS OF HIS GLORIOUS REIGN.
COMPRISING, ALSO, A MOST VALUABLE AND INTERESTING
HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF THE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK,
FROM ITS EARLY FOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT PERIOD,
TRANSLATED EXPRESSLY FOR THIS HISTORY, FROM THE CELEBRATED LATIN WORK, ENTITLED
WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.
BY ROBERT HUISH, ESQ.
AUTHOR OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, LIFE OF QUEEN CAROLINE, &c. &c.
AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
D/3119 & 3
TO HIS MAJESTY,
As it is not the custom of this country to approach a Personage of such exalted distinction but according to the rules of courtly etiquette, I may be thought to have taken an indecorous license, in dedicating this work to Your Majesty. Indeed, I should be the foremost to pass a judgment of censure on my own obtrusion, did I not flatter myself that the subject to which I solicit
your condescending attention, will effectually secure me from such a sentence. Happily for me I stand before Your Majesty on this occasion, not as an insignificant individual, but as the humble Representative of Millions.
Seated on the throne of your Illustrious Predecessors, their bright and splendid example must be ever present to your contemplation, whether you recall to your consideration the mighty deeds which they achieved for their country's welfare, or the noble intrepidity which they ever displayed in defence, and in support, of the Glorious Constitution of the Land. Splendid, indeed, have been the deeds of your Ancestors, but brightest and foremost in the rank of English Sovereigns
stands your late Honoured Sire ; nor, while memory lasts, will your manly sensibilities suffer you to dismiss from it the gratifying, though melancholy, recollection of those Tears which a Ņation shed, when he exchanged his Earthly for an Heavenly Crown-you then beheld with what unabating fervency and zeal the English People can attach themselves to a Sovereign, whose Parental Regards, whose Personal Virtues, and whose Beneficent Attentions to their Prosperity, both merited and commanded their Veneration and their Love.
The Country proudly acknowledges the Virtues of your Father as their Patriot King; and to Your Majesty the example of such a Sire, must be ever dear and valued. Though the great Original is, by the Will of Providence, removed to a better sphere, his memory still lives with You and Your People. In the following Work you may again trace him in the relation of your Sovereign and your Father; and though the remembrance may wake a sigh, the Splendour of his Deeds, his Sentiments, and Principles, will remain with you for ever, as the most valued Legacy he could bequeath to you.
Honoured as this work has been with Your Royal Patronage, I am emboldened to entertain the pleasing idea that this humble offering will be deemed neither officious nor impertinent—were such my thoughts, no excess of apology should be wanting on my part. With the most humble submission, I therefore lay it at the feet of Your Majesty, earnestly entreating you will have the condescension to estimate it, not according to the abilities of the writer, but according to the grandeur of his aim.
EMPIRES have their origin, their progress, their glory, and their fall, and they who are by Heaven appointed to wield the destinies of Nations, are subject to the same mutations. Death has rioted in our palaces, and the arrow, which flieth by day and by night, has reached its victims: Corruption has claimed its tribute over royalty, and in the shroud now lie the earthly remains of our Monarch; Majesty, however, may pass and be forgotten, when it is unallied with endearing virtues, or it may
be remembered with a curse, when it has wielded a despotic sceptre, and clothed itself in terrors ; but Majesty, known only as a mild and protecting Providence, is blessed by millions whilst it runs its earthly course, and regretted by succeeding generations when it has been recalled to its native Heaven.
The Historian, in recording the noble deeds of his compatriots,-in enrolling the names of those who have benefited their country by their discoveries,—or who, by their philanthropic acts, have lesseped the sum of human misery, feels his breast swell high with pride, that he can call the land his own which gave them birth, and with exultation he calls upon posterity to bless the benefactors which his country has produced; but it is with a trembling hand that he writes the number of the slain in battle, or the private fall of a virtuous man ; in the latter case, one of the finest links in the chain of human society is broken, and a chasm is created, which may not be filled during the lapse of centuries. There is a hallowed veil which covers departed virtue, to be lifted only by the delicate hand; and when virtue, in its dearest and fondest relations, accompanies royalty to the tomb, the human mind, pondering on the instability of human happiness, is sunk with grief at the loss which the nation has sustained. George III. now sleeps with his fathers, and another Sovereign already fills the throne of this great Empire; but his memory shall not fade; it is implanted too deeply in the hearts of a whole people to wither beneath the awful visitation; it
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Natick Pack 310 is participating the in this year’s Playground Clean Up Sunday, April 8th at 2:00pm at Memorial School.
Bring the whole family along with your gloves, rakes, clippers, and shovels to help remove debris, mulch, and plant to make the Memorial grounds a more beautiful play to play and learn. Refreshments will be provided for the kids.
Assistant Cubmaster Robert Anderson will be leading our pack during the event.
Volunteers we have been busy planning Earth Day festivities at the Memorial School! In addition to enrichment programs at each grade level on topics including recycling, solar power, bee pollination and water systems, they will be hosting a Family Playground Clean Up on Sunday, April 8th from 2-4 PM. (Raindate is 4/22.) And we need your help! They are also in need of contributions of mulch, annuals, or cash to put towards purchasing supplies.
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Stop Automatic Payments during Bankruptcy
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A direct debit is an agreement that the recipient can take money out of your account to pay your bill. You might authorize a direct debit for an electricity, phone, or credit card bill. Of course, a direct debit could be authorized for most any bill.
When you file for federal bankruptcy protection, the bankruptcy court automatically issues a temporary injunction called the automatic stay. This court order prohibits all of your creditors from taking any action to collect a debt from you. The automatic stay is very broad and applies to most creditors; even the ones that you want to continue paying.
Because of the automatic stay, creditors will routinely stop any direct debit of your bank account and refuse automatic payments. The purpose of this refusal is to remain in compliance with the court order and avoid further entanglement with the debtor’s bankruptcy case. This can be frustrating to the debtor who wants to pay a monthly mortgage payment or car loan bill.
The answer to this problem is simple: mail your payment to the creditor! Remember, the automatic stay prohibits a creditor from collecting on a debt, not accepting a voluntary payment. It is good practice to maintain good records of all payments made to secured creditors during your bankruptcy. Your check may not be cashed for weeks while your lender forwards the payment to another department now handling your loan (e.g. bankruptcy department). By sending your payment via registered mail, you will have a receipt of timely payment, regardless when the check is cashed.
The bankruptcy process provides quick and powerful relief when you have the help of an experienced guide. An experienced bankruptcy attorney knows how the laws and common practices will affect your case, and can lead you to a fresh start without complications.
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The River Tweed is one of the most famous salmon rivers in Scotland. It is renowned for having a good autumn run of fresh fish. People from all over the world come to Scotland in September and October to the Scottish Borders to fish for the king of fish. Large numbers of hard fighting fresh Scottish salmon can be caught from the river at this time of year. An added bonus is that the Tweed is the latest river to remain open on the Scottish salmon fishing calendar. It does not close its banks to anglers until the 30th of November.
In recent years the autumn salmon fishing on the River Tweed has been disappointing. There appears to have been a lack of fresh fish entering the river later in the season. As is often is the case weather conditions have also not been favourable during the autumn months during some years. After a big lift in water, the River Tweed has the potentially to get quite coloured and this can render the river unfishable for a number of days.
Last week saw heavy rain fall across much of Scotland including over the River Tweed catchment area in the Scottish Borders and this led to the first big spate of the autumn season. Over the last few days the water has dropped and cleared nicely and currently the Tweed is at an excellent height for salmon fishing. The good fishing conditions coincide with what is traditionally the prime time on the River Tweed. In the past October has been a prime month on the river with large catches being made and hopefully, over the next few days, plenty of salmon will be caught.
Looking at the current river levels any of the beats on the Tweed could be worth a cast in the upcoming days. Most of the beats are producing fish with the beats below Kelso being especially productive. The majority of fish being caught in recent days have been older fish with the odd fresh salmon being landed. Most of the fresh fish have been caught on the beats located on the bottom river (below Coldstream) and this trend is likely to continue until there is a further lift in water.
Hopefully, there will good numbers of salmon caught in the upcoming days from one of Scotland’s premier salmon rivers. With a decent weather forecast and good water conditions, anglers could enjoy some good sport over the next few days.
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It is December in northern Illinois, and that means the cold grip of winter is upon us. With the change in temperature comes a certain change in precipitation. Snow is here. When Ryerson Woods conservation area is blanketed with a fresh snow, it is one of the most peaceful experiences. Snow has a great impact on forest systems, and is a necessity to the natural cycle of the seasons.
Having a snow pack on the forest floor does assist in maintaining the health of an area. Most importantly, it affects the soil. The layer of snow acts as a blanket, keeping the soil insulated. This insulation prevents the soil from actually freezing. Warmer soil keeps root systems healthy and vibrant throughout the winter. When snow is present, fine roots are able to stay healthy and maintain their productivity. If snow is not present, these roots often die due to intense cold. When roots are disrupted in the winter, they have an increased loss of carbon and nitrogen.
When there is no snow pack, the frozen soil cannot hold carbon. This is a looming issue, as the eastern forest of North America absorb roughly 15 percent of the total carbon in the world. If they continue to loss snow pack, the forests ability to be a carbon sink may be tested. This is one of the main concerns of a global temperature change. If our snow pack is continually lower than what it once was, we will lose large amounts of carbon to the air. When snow melts in the warmer months, it is necessary water for the soil. If we do not have snow, it can easily put forests into drought conditions before the growing season, slowing productivity.
Snow also plays a large role in the shaping of the forest canopy Heavy snow and winds during winter storms affect the branch systems of many trees. Dead branches, as well as some live ones, will inevitably break from this sitting snow. The snow opens the canopy, and allows in more light. This will regenerate certain tree growth. By increasing the amount of light to the forest floor, these gaps in the canopy assist the overall productivity of the forest.
A snowy winter also affects the fauna within a forest. When temperatures drop and ice freezes over most small lakes and rivers, it can be very difficult for animals to find drinking water. Snow is an integral fix to this situation. Many birds, such as Black-capped Chickadees, actually eat snow to gain water necessary for survival. Also, snow acts as great cover for many smaller mammals. If you walk in a fresh snow, you may see tubes burrowed into the snow. Mice and voles often create intricate networks for tunnels throughout the snow, even making nests. The snow gives protection from top predators, and also provides the small mammals with insulation.
Finally, snow is a great addition to the woods for anyone wanted to experience winter. It is aesthetically pleasing and can be used for recreation. Many people use the ski trails at Ryerson woods. Cross-country skiing is a great way to get exercise and see lots of forest quickly. Snowshoes are also a great way to play in the snow, but they usually require a very deep snow pack to be effective. Visit Brushwood Center's website for upcoming programs, such as Introduction to Snowshoeing (January 25, 2014) and Introduction to Cross-country Skiing (February 1, 2014).
Although it may make driving a hassle, snow in the wintertime is a wonderful thing that should welcomed. The forest in northern Illinois have adapted for annual snow, and hopefully it will be present all winter, creating a more healthy forest.
This blog post was written by Luke Buckardt, who assists Brushwood Center with social media. Luke graduated from Northland College in 2012 with a degree in biology. He grew up in Riverwoods and has roamed Ryerson Woods since he was young, knowing the preserve intimately.
This blog is written by the staff and partners of Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
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Much on the Civil War in a pro-South newspaper...
Item # 654794
April 06, 1864
THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, April 6, 1864 Among the front page reports are: "Mixing The White and Black Races in Ohio" which takes 2 1/2 columns. Also: "A Letter From the Army" "Massa Lincoln" "Mr. Lincoln's Re-Election and Rebel Discouragement" and more.
Other items inside include: "War News of the Week" "Gen. Banks's Order" "The German Movement for Fremont--Progress of the War Against Lincoln" "John Morgan's
Brother Gives an Account of His Treatment in the Ohio Penitentiary--Shocking & Disgraceful Barbarity to Prisoners of War" and so much more.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, some foxing, nice condition.
Described as "The Hottest Rebel Sheet to be found in the North or the South", this newspaper opposed the war and attracted the hatred of the Republicans and the Lincoln administration. It insisted that slavery could not be prohibited by law. So obnoxious was this paper to Unionists that it was denied circulation in some cities. In 1863 the press was raided by a hateful mob.
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Recorder Fingering Hints in Score
I thought I would share a quick-and-dirty way I have found of easily showing alternate recorder fingerings and trills in my scores. Here is an example.
By my own convention, I put an asterisk above the note I want to indicate using staff text, I then add a second staff text element on the same note, bumping up the font size to 14pt and framing it with a rectangle using the Inspector. The finger holes are annotated by repurposing five characters under Master Pallet > Symbols > Wind Techniques as shown. I separate the thumb, LH, and RH holes with a "space" character.
I put the five symbols in a custom pallet. When editing I copy and paste an existing chart and tweak its holes by clicking in the new pallet. I get what looks like an image without fussing with managing a bunch of images.
What I am still missing is a non-ambiguous way of showing trilling on half-holed fingers such as low G-Fsharp on an alto.
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What you'll get from this guide
- A practical guidance on how to assess capacity and the basic principles in the Mental Capacity Act (2005).
- Information on assessing best interests, dispute resolution, use of restraint and deprivation of liberty.
- Advance refusals of treatment and Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs).
How to use this guide
The tool kit is designed to raise doctors’ awareness of the Mental Capacity Act, and to provide an aid for good decision making.
It is not intended to provide definitive guidance on all the issues surrounding the Act. In cases of doubt, legal advice should be sought.
This tool kit applies to England and Wales.
In Scotland, decision making in this area is covered by the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000.
In Northern Ireland, decision making is currently governed by the common law, although at the time of writing change was anticipated.
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I was speaking to one of my clients this week who joked to me that I must think he is “a complete psychopath.” I assured him that I did not think anything of the sort, yet it is amazing how many therapy clients believe themselves to be psychopathic without really knowing what they are suggesting about themselves.
(It is funny how many clients seem to worry about what the therapist
thinks of them… It really can get in the way at times… That is a
discussion for another day though.)
In the village where I lived while I was at secondary school, a boy who went to the same school used a samurai sword to dismember and kill a man who used to bully him… He may be considered more of a psychopath! His attack was in the middle of a fired up psychotic episode and many debates were held as to the difference between ‘mad’ and ‘bad.’
Today I want to cite some fascinating research about psychopaths… Because not all of them are criminal apparently…
So what do think, do you have anyone who might be a psychopath in your life?
Experts have recognised for some time that not all psychopaths are violent criminals. Many of them live inconspicuously amongst us… So please do spend most of this weekend looking sideways with squinted eyes at everyone you encounter 😉
However, according to Mehmet Mahmut and his colleagues, these less overt psychopaths have been relatively uninvestigated. Something which may well worry us therapists whose clients keep insisting they are psychopaths! It’s not even clear how comparable they are to their more notorious counterparts.
It is worth noting, from my own training, research and reading, that psychopaths are not universally what we deem ‘crazy’. They do not necessarily hallucinate or believe things that we deem to be crazy-type things — though they do often lack empathy and tend to display cold sadism and highly manipulative, narcissistic and controlling behaviour… Although I could just have been describing many office managers and estate agents… Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Psychopaths can come across as empathetic if it suits their selfish ends and means and can seem genuine and concerned or on the surface appear highly social, charming, even charismatic — Did you ever watch the film ‘American Psycho’?
So anyway, this piece of research at Science Direct had one hundred university students completed a self-report measure of psychopathy that investigated four key areas — lack of empathy, grandiosity, impulsivity and delinquency. The top 33 per cent and bottom 33 per cent of scorers subsequently formed high and low psychopathy groups. The low and high psychopathy groups then completed the kinds of neuropsychological tests that have often been used on research with criminal psychopaths.
The high psychopathy students, as well as recording low empathy on the self-report test, also scored poorly on tasks that reflected the same kind of performance seen in criminal psychopaths. This gambling task, known as the Iowa task is thought to measure functioning in a specific frontal region of the brain called orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which is known to be involved in emotion and decision-making.
The high psychopathy students did actually show usual executive function and IQ, just as most criminal psychopaths do. The researchers said their findings show that criminal and non-criminal psychopaths share the same neuropsychological profile.
Is this something we should be worried about?
So what is it that makes criminal psychopaths get into trouble, while non-criminal psychopaths do not? The researchers speculated that “criminal psychopaths may be steered towards criminality by their backgrounds, in particular a lack of early parental supervision, deprivation and having a convicted parent.”
I knew it would come down to social circumstances, I feel safe again.
“An increased research focus as to the nature of psychopathy across non-criminal and criminal populations is important in that it may reveal factors protecting non-criminal psychopaths from becoming criminal psychopaths and hence reduce the emotional and financial havoc they can wreak” the researchers concluded.
The research examines the point that not all psychopaths are criminal. Phew! People can be psychopaths but not commit crimes although they can cause extensive emotional fallout in the lives of others. It does not mean you do actually have to now accuse anyone whoever caused you emotional upset of being a psychopath, ok?!
As we are seeing in the media, some psychopaths can find themselves in power and influntial positions and as such, may not have to follow the letter of the law as the rest us and so can openly display their psychopathic nature developing right in front of the eyes of the world… And then you get your knighthood stripped off you by the Queen, who obviously does not want psychotic peers of the realm!
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Tonality sentence example
Humidity most certainly affects the tonality of a pipe organ.
So persistently does the human ear rebel against the division of the tetrachord into two greater tones and a leimma or hemitone, as represented by the fractions 9, 9, 26, that, centuries before the possibility of reconciling the demands of the ear with those of exact science was satisfactorily demonstrated, the Aristoxenian school advocated the use of an empirical scale, sounding pleasant to the sense, in preference to an unpleasing tonality founded upon immutable proportions.
These scales were not, as is vulgarly supposed, wholly abolished in favour of our modern tonality in the 17th century.
The tonality is confident not boastful, intelligent but not parental, playful and in plain English.
I heard greater dynamic contrast, a larger and more cohesive soundstage, and a clearer, more realistic rendering of tonality.Advertisement
The front satellites incorporate tweeters and mid-range drivers for detailed mid-to-high tonality, and the reinforced wood subwoofer provides dynamic bass.
Plus, a Tone knob adjusts the overall tonality of the pedal.
It can be useful when dealing with some of the compositional matters that intrigue me and also in exploring tonality.
His class however continued in their search for a modern voice without abandoning tonality.
When it comes time to add vocals - or another acoustic instrument - the mic simulator recreates the ideal tonality for various recording applications.Advertisement
The finale reworks the opening orchestral theme from a minor tonality to a modal one.
Great singing isn't necessarily limited to those with the best tonality, pitch, or vocal range.
It is not such a secret it was already clear for Marx that greed is the basic affective tonality of calculative reason.
But in fact the music of India and Africa and Asia and America is fantastically close to western tonality in its scalic intervals.
The wrong voice tonality could absolutely kill a session.Advertisement
The bluesy tonality of this haunting song created a decidedly late-night feel, as did the gently drifting melody.
Great singing is n't necessarily limited to those with the best tonality, pitch, or vocal range.
In antiphonal music, or music modeled on the antiphonal situation of solo and chorus, tonality shifts regularly between solo and chorus sections.
This can be important if a particular guitar phrase has a tonality that can't be found on certain strings - the wound strings of the bottom three strings might be able to sound the same note as one of the three higher strings.
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Mountains that Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama
A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation
2009 | 97 minutes | Color | DVD | Order No. 111015
MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING offers the gift of these two remarkable women’s lives, sharing the pair’s recorded exchanges in 1996 and 2008. The film’s unique format honors the scope and depth of their knowledge on topics ranging from Jim Crow laws and Japanese American internment camps, to Civil Rights, anti-war, women’s and gay liberation movements, to today’s campaigns for political prisoners and prison reform. Intercut with compelling period footage, Davis and Kochiyama’s cogent observations, keen analyses, and steadfast resolve to create a more equitable, humane world offer inspiring lessons in empowerment and community building for current and future generations.
“What is so striking about this film is its living history lessons, the breadth of singular and plural movements, the shared humanity and generations present in the room with subjects Yuri Kochiyama and Angela Y. Davis.”
“Illustrated with rare footage of extraordinary speeches and events from the late 1800’s to the 1960’s through today, the film explores the critical role women, youth and crosscultural, crossracial alliances played in…important social movements.”
"…illuminates a subaltern history of courage and activism across racial/ethnic borders--an internationalist history that is an important (and forgotten) legacy of the civil rights, labor, feminist, and anti-imperialist struggles of the second half of the twentieth century. An invaluable film for students in Women’s and Gender Studies, Black Studies, Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, History, and Political Science."
"…offers a refreshing counterhistory of the twentieth-century U.S. freedom struggle, documenting conversations that the two women had over a twelve-year period."
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- San Francisco Black Film Festival, Winner, St. Clair Bourne Award for Best Feature Documentary
- Frameline - San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
- Harlem International Film Festival
- COMMFEST (Global) Community Film Festival - Toronto, Canada - Winner, MADA Award (Make A Difference Award) for Best Feature Documentary
- La Femme International Film Festival – Los Angeles, California
- Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series – Brooklyn, NY
- Mid-Atlantic Black Film Festival - Norfolk, Virginia - Finalist, Best Feature Documentary
- International Film Festival South Africa – Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.
- This Human World: International Human Rights Film Festival – Vienna, Austria
- Pan African Film Festival - Los Angeles
- Some Prefer Cake Lesbian Film Festival - Bologna, Italy - Winner, Audience Award for Best Feature Film
- Nominated for a 2011 American Library Association Notable Video Award for Adults.
C. A. (Crystal) Griffith is an independent filmmaker and Associate Professor of Film and Media Production in the School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University (ASU). Griffith was raised in Washington, D.C., sojourned in Barcelona, Spain at age 16 where she learned fluent Spanish and developed a passion for filmmaking. She received her B.A. in Communication from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Art Studio from the University of California - Santa Barbara. Griffith's film credits include JUICE (1992), award-winning PBS and BBC documentaries such as A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AUDRE LORDE (cinematographer), BRANFORD MARSALIS: THE MUSIC TELLS YOU (camera operator) and DEPECHE MODE 101 (both directed by D.A. Pennebaker), EYES ON THE PRIZE I & II, St.Clair Bourne's MAKING 'DO THE RIGHT THING' and music videos from Tracy Chapman and Public Enemy to The Rolling Stones. Griffith's publications appear in Reinventing North America (forthcoming), Filming Difference, Black Feminist Cultural Criticism, Black Women Film and Video Artists, The Wild Good, the journals Meridians, SIGNS and CALYX. Recruited to help build ASU's new film production program, she relocated to Phoenix in 2006. Previous academic appointments: Columbia College Chicago, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
A finalist for the 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Labs, Griffith's feature-length screenplay, BLUES FOR THE SEA is adapted from her short screenplay, winner of the 2007 Martha Muñoz Award of the Latino Screenplay Competition. Also awarded a 2004 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Media Arts, and a 2000 Panavision/Kodak University Outreach Program Grant, Griffith's short film, BORDER.LINE...FAMILY PICTURES won the Vision in Color Award of the New England Film/Video Festival. In 1999, she received an in-kind grant from Digital Media's Avid Feature Film Camp for her film, DEL OTRO LADO (THE OTHER SIDE). Shot on location in Mexico City and screened extensively at U.S. and international film festivals, Griffith directed, co-edited and co-produced this Spanish language, independent feature on love, AIDS and immigration.
Griffith is also co-founder of QUAD Productions, a non-profit media collective focused on the research, development and production of film and video projects that support and effect progressive social consciousness. QUAD produces short, social justice themed documentaries, provides media training to progressive community organizations and frequently collaborates with local, national and international organizations and individual activists with forward thinking and action. (02/11)
H.L.T. Quan is a political theorist and documentary filmmaker. An Assistant Professor of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, and an Affiliate Faculty in African/African American Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, she received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her research centers on race, gender, and economic and radical thought. She is currently writing a book about savage developmentalism and its tendentious propensity to secure order and capitalist expansion. This study investigates foreign policy conducts by Japan in military Brazil, the United States in occupied Iraq, and China in Sudan amidst humanitarian disasters. She is also working on a collaborative project on the historical and political development of Black capitalism in the United States, a 17-city comparison.
Quan has produced, hosted and served as a regular correspondent on radio and community access television public affairs programs for almost twenty years. Her work has been published in Social Identities, Race and Class, Meridians, SIGNS, and the edited volumes, Race & Human Rights, and Global Africa.
Quan is also co-founder of QUAD Productions, a non-profit media collective focused on the research, development and production of film and video projects that support and effect progressive social consciousness. QUAD produces short, social justice themed documentaries, provides media training to progressive community organizations and frequently collaborates with local, national and international organizations and individual activists with forward thinking and action. (02/11)
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On this page you have the possibility to download different instruments, developed by researchers of the foundation’s board. The instruments focus on autism spectrum disorders and other neuropsychiatric conditions (ESSENCE).
The questionnaires have been translated into many international languages and are used in both clinical and research settings around the world. We are continuously working on developing new screening instruments.
The A-TAC (Autism-Tics, ADHD and other Comorbidities) is a telephone interview developed by Christopher Gillberg and his group. This screening instrument is currently available in English | Swedish Download A-TAC
The ESSENCE-Q is a questionnaire designed for clinical and research purposes, with the aim of helping clinicians and researchers to identify children (of all ages, but primarily small children) who may have some kind of ESSENCE disorder. This screening instrument is currently available in Swedish | English | Norwegian | French | Japanese | Polish | German | Portuguese | Serbian | Slovenian | Croatian | Bulgarian | Bosnian | Macedonian | Montenegrin | Download ESSENCE-Q
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The Five to Fifteen-R (FTF-R) questionnaire is a parent and teacher interview created in the 1990’s by researchers and clinicians in the Nordic countries. This screening instrument is currently available in English | Swedish | Norwegian | Russian | Turkish | Finnish | Norwegian | Japanese | Estonian | Hebrew | Dutch Download 5-15-R (FTF-R)
The ASDASQ was developed to screen for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in adult psychiatric out-patient clinics. This screening instrument is currently available in English | Swedish | Finnish | French Download ASDASQ
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If you've ever seen a pirate movie (or had the privilege of listening to this avian-fronted metal band), you're aware that parrots have the gift of human-sounding gab. Their brains—not their beaks—might be behind the birds' ability to produce mock-human voices, the Sci Show's latest video explains below.
While parrots do have articulate tongues, they also appear to be hardwired to mimic other species, and to create new vocalizations. The only other birds that are capable of vocal learning are hummingbirds and songbirds. While examining the brains of these avians, researchers noted that their brains contain clusters of neurons, which they've dubbed song nuclei. Since other birds don't possess song nuclei, they think that these structures probably play a key role in vocal learning.
Parrots might be better at mimicry than hummingbirds and songbirds thanks to a variation in these neurons: a special shell layer that surrounds each one. Birds with larger shell regions appear to be better at imitating other creatures, although it's still unclear why.
Learn more about parrot speech below (after you're done jamming out to Hatebeak).
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COUNTRY NUMBER #52 #53 & #54:
🥳 SOUTH AFRICA, ESWATINI & LESOTHO 🥳
Flight Number: SA53
Route: Accra (DGAA) - Johannesburg (FAOR) - Eswatini (FDSK) - Maseru (FXMM)
Aircraft: South African Airways A330-300
I don’t think I have to tell you where this nation is located, but here’s a lesser known fact: South Africa is the only nation in the world to have three official capitals which are Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Cape Town. The nation is home to many valuable crystals and minerals, it was once the world’s largest gold producer, and is today the largest producer of platinum. South Africa is home to the great Nelson Mandela, who helped topple the white minority ruled apartheid system. The nation is known to be the “Rainbow Nation” due to its diverse population. Springbok is national animal of South Africa, notably referenced in the callsign of the flag carrier, South African Airways.
You may have heard of this nation as that one country which changed its name back in 2018, but Eswatini is certainly more than that. The nation is a tourist favorite and amongst due to its status as one of the most scenic places on the African continent. The nation is home to the oldest mine in the world: the Ngwenya Mine.
Lesotho is a nation within a nation, surrounded on all sides by South Africa. It is known as “the Kingdom of the Sky” because it’s the only nation that is entirely above 1,000 meters. A person from Lesotho is called a Mosotho, and a group of people from Lesotho are called Basotho. The official language is Sesotho.
54 OUT OF 54 COUNTRIES DONE!!!
Hey all! So we’ve finally reached the end. This really has been a great experience!
I’d like to thank everyone who has supported me throughout this journey, whether if you joined one of my flights, a close follower of the thread, an ATC on one of my flights or even just someone who’s a fan of Africa, I appreciate you for helping me get here. I’d also like to shout out everyone who were inspired by my thread, to encourage others to fly to places and regions many overlook. As I promised before, here are some stats:
First flight: Port Sudan (HSPN) - Khartoum (HSSK), Sudan Airways A320 (Generic)
Out of 54 flights/sectors, 32 of them was flown on a generic livery.
Out of every airport visited, 5 of them were 3D.
Most used aircraft: Boeing 737-800
Most used livery: Asky Airlines Boeing 737-800 (Generic)
Last flight: Accra (DGAA) - Johannesburg (FAOR) - Lubombo (FDSK) - Maseru (FXMM)
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Every one from your father to your buddies to your bank manager has said to change your oil regularly. Well, everyone at AAA Kavtech Inc. will join the chorus. Your engine generates temperatures in excess of 200 degrees, or higher. Your motor oil lubricates and helps to cool your engine.
Over time motor oil loses some of its viscosity (its ability to flow). It is recommended that you change the oil in your car every 5,000 kilometres. Just call us at AAA Kavtech Inc.. We can change your oil this time or set up a schedule for you to regularly have your oil changed with the seasons, or each month depending on your driving habits.
And be sure to check your oil regularly. The proper fluid level is important to have your engine function at its peak efficiency.
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Finance for construction loans is where many lenders differ in both interest rates and fees. The lender may or may not charge an application fee, however they will all charge progress draw(i) fees and often inspection fees will also apply. Some lenders also restrict the type of loan products available for construction loans or charge a higher interest rate during construction.
There are 2 types of construction finance —
1. Project builder – you engage a licensed project builder to complete the home. You enter into a fixed price building contract and the builder has a particular timeframe to complete the construction. You will need to provide BFS with a copy of the fixed price contract, plans and specifications, plus any variations to the contract in order to apply for finance.
2. Owner builder – as the owner of the property you decide to either construct the home yourself or act as a building supervisor and engage your own tradesmen. This is a specialised area of finance as there are many additional requirements for owner builder’s to obtain finance. Buurman Finance Solutions can advise you on the process and which lenders are more likely to grant approval. Owner builder’s will need substantial equity or a large cash deposit as the LVR (lending value ratio) is usually restricted to 60% of the value or cost.
Progress payments are made to the builder at each stage of construction. This way the builder is paid as work is completed rather than upfront or at completion. The progress draw fee charged by the lender is to cover the transfer costs of each payment to the builder.
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“Teachers need training based on modern methods to improve the level of learning at school”
Global Youth Ambassadors, Teachers and learning, Technology and education
Tablets have been given to teachers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to train them through online workshops.
I am a teacher at Shankar Mardan primary school and I teach children aged between four and 12 years. This is a government-funded primary school in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
A few months ago, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa decided to give tablets to teachers in order to train them through online workshops.
Teachers need this sort of training based on modern methods in order to improve the level of learning of the students at school.
As a teacher of class two, I received one of the tablets purchased by the government, which were distributed in June.
We are all very excited about using the tablets and have started to work on this new method of training through the online workshops – with the hope it will help us with our daily routines in the classroom.
Unfortunately, the government cannot afford to distribute tablets among the students so they are not currently using them. However, I do show them cartoons or other materials on the table that I think can help with their learning and development.
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AP (Advanced Placement) is a special course for high school students offered by the College Board in the United States. It is more challenging than regular high school courses and allows students to take rigorous courses at the collegiate level. AP courses are often mandatory for applying to universities in the United States, and as such are offered in many international schools in Japan. By taking more AP courses, students will have a wider range of options for colleges to which they can apply.
EGSIS AP Course Key Points of Instruction
・Thorough guidance on past problems and practice tests
AP scores, graded on a scale of 1-5 are determined by a single final exam. Since there is no midterm exam, it is important to prepare for the exam at an early stage. At EGCIS, we regularly conduct AP practice exams and mock exams, focusing on subjects in which students have difficulty. We cover a wide range of AP subjects in the sciences and humanities, so students can be assured that they will be well-prepared for the exam.
・Balancing Your AP Score and Class Grade
AP classes are a part of the high school curriculum and thus affect your GPA. For this reason, it is very important to maintain a high class grade along with your AP scores—a good score means nothing without a good class grade, and vice-versa. To ensure neither aspect is neglected, our expert tutors will support you in both daily assignments and planning for final exams.
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At EGSIS, students are guided by expert tutors who have achieved high scores on the AP, and thus are able to directly ask them about AP-related study methods, test preparation, course registration counseling, and much more. In addition, by working together from the early stages to create a schedule and study plan that suits the student’s needs, students can learn more effectively. We also provide counseling on high school admission and transfer, as there are many high schools in Japan that accept AP.
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Are you ready for the historical transformation of banking?
The banking sector is globally changing because the new generation digital banks, also known as challenger banks, are starting to capture an essential market share against traditional banks. Özgür Bayraktar, who leads the critical fintech projects in Turkey and in Europe, draws up this historic transformation of traditional banking in his third book of the Next Generation Banking.
Bayraktar: "Branch banking will completely come to an end in a decade.
" Bayraktar stated that 2.4 billion people around the world carried out their banking activities completely through digital channels in 2020 according to Juniper Research. He also underlines that this figure could exceed 3.6 billion by 2024 and this situation could bring the end of branch banking in 10 years.
The book is of interest to young people who want to pursue a career in the financial world and to all business people interested in financial technologies. Also, it addresses the transformation in which banks evolved from the past to the future, RPA, Open Banking, Blockchain, Wealthtech, and RegTech in 18 chapters.
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This is a general view of a 35-meter-high riverbank exposure of the ice-rich syngenetic permafrost (yedoma) containing large ice wedges along the Itkillik River in northern Alaska. Image courtesy Mikhail Kanevskiy; University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering. For a larger version of this image please go here.
Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and key academic partners including the University of Colorado Boulder have quantified how rapidly ancient permafrost decomposes upon thawing and how much carbon dioxide is produced in the process.
Huge stores of organic carbon in permafrost soils – frozen for hundreds to tens of thousands of years across high northern latitudes worldwide – are currently isolated from the modern day carbon cycle. However, if thawed by changing climate conditions, wildfire, or other disturbances, this massive carbon reservoir could decompose and be emitted as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, or be carried as dissolved organic carbon to streams and rivers.
“Many scientists worldwide are now investigating the complicated potential end results of thawing permafrost,” said Rob Striegl, USGS scientist and study co-author. “There are critical questions to consider, such as: How much of the stored permafrost carbon might thaw in a future climate? Where will it go? And, what are the consequences for our climate and our aquatic ecosystems?”
At a newly excavated tunnel operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers near Fairbanks, Alaska, a research team from USGS, CU-Boulder and and Florida State University set out to determine how rapidly the dissolved organic carbon from ancient (about 35,000 years old) “yedoma” soils decomposes upon soil thaw and how much carbon dioxide is produced.
Yedoma is a distinct type of permafrost soil found across Alaska and Siberia that accounts for a significant portion of the permafrost soil carbon pool. These soils were deposited as wind-blown silts in the late Pleistocene age and froze soon after they were formed.
“It had previously been assumed that permafrost soil carbon this old was already degraded and not susceptible to rapid decomposition upon thaw,” said Kim Wickland, the USGS scientist who led the team.
The researchers found that more than half of the dissolved organic carbon in yedoma permafrost was decomposed within one week after thawing. About 50 percent of that carbon was converted to carbon dioxide, while the rest likely became microbial biomass.
“What this study adds is that we show what makes permafrost so biodegradable,” said Travis Drake, the lead author of the research. “Immediately upon thaw, microbes start using the carbon and then it is sent back into the atmosphere.” Drake was both a USGS employee and a master’s degree student at CU-Boulder during the investigation.
The researchers attribute this rapid decomposition to high concentrations of low molecular weight organic acids in the dissolved organic carbon, which are known to be easily degradable and are not usually present at high concentrations in other soils.
These rates are among the fastest permafrost decomposition rates that have been documented. It is the first study to link rapid microbial consumption of ancient permafrost soil-derived dissolved organic carbon to the production of carbon dioxide.
An important implication of the study for aquatic ecosystems is that dissolved organic carbon released by thawing yedoma permafrost will be quickly converted to carbon dioxide and emitted to the atmosphere from soils or small streams before it can be transported to major rivers or coastal regions.
Co-authors on the study include CU-Boulder Professor Diane McKnight and Florida State University faculty member Robert Spencer. McKnight is affiliated with the Center for Water, Earth Science and Technology (CWEST) in CU-Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. CWEST is a partnership of CU-Boulder and the USGS.
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A shape is classed a Bar Size Shape when its greatest dimension (length excluded) is less than 3 inches . It is a Structural Shape when at least one of its dimensions (length excluded) is 3 inches or greater . The shapes listed in this section conform to ASTM A 36, a standard specification for structural steel . ANALYSIS HOLLOW STRUCTURAL SECTIONSThe dimensions, including nominal width, nominal depth, nominal diameter and nominal wall thickness are subject to the permissible variations stipulated in ASTM A500 Standard Specication for Cold-Formed Welded and Seamless Carbon Steel Structural Tubing in Rounds and Shapes.
10Dimensions and Section Properties of Rectangular HSS. bNominal width minus 3 times the design wall thickness, t (in.) CTorsional shear constant of 3cross-section (in. ) DOutside diameter of round HSS (in.) hNominal depth minus 3 times the design wall thickness, t (in.) IMoment of inertia of 4cross-section (in. ) Handbook of STEEL SIZES & WEIGHTSPLATE SHAPES:CIRCLE Diameter x Diameter x Thickness x .2227 = Lbs. Each RING Diameter x Diameter - I.D. x I.D. x Thickness x.2227 = Lbs. Each CIRCLE SECTORRadius x Radius x Number of Degrees in Arc x Thickness x .0025 = Lbs. Each TRIANGLE Base Length x Height x Thickness x .1418 = Lbs. Each (Right Angle) Our product catalog Stainless StructuralsStainless Steel Channels. We offer a variety of stainless steel channels in bar channel, standard C-Channel, and MC-Channel sizes. We stock and produce many different channels in the hot rolled or laser fused form. Custom sizes are also available. Please click on
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We offer a range of standard sizes and lengths, and provide cut-to-length services, as needed, to give you steel shapes that match your design requirements. Our selection of steel structural shapes includes:Steel Channel (also available galvanized) Steel Angle. Steel Beam. Steel Tees. Structural Shapes - Chatham SteelDimensions D e s i g n a t i on Web Flange Distance Ar ea D pth Thickne st w Wd Tk k Ad t 1 w 2 b f In.2 In. In. In. In. In. In. In. In. W12x 14 4.16 11.91 11 7 8 0.200 3 16 118 3.970 4 0.225 14 10 38 34 91 6 x 16 4.71 11.99 12 0.220 1 4 11 8 3.990 4 0.265 14 10 38 13 16 9 16 x 19 5.57 12.16 12 1 8 0.235 14 11 8 4.005 4 0.350 38 10 38 7 8 9 16 W beams:stainless steel wide flange beams sections Stainless Steel W Beams Wide Flange. The American wide flange beam represent a broad product line of bar-shaped building elements with parallel internal surface of the flanges. Their tolerances are defined by ASTM A 484, and being laser fused, the product standard is defined by ASTM A1069. A stainless steel beam can be jointed then it is welded or bolted or warm manufactured then it is
Structural Stainless Steel and presented in an equivalent set of tables to those in the AISC Steel Construction Manual for carbon steel sections. The following structural sections are covered in this publication: W- and S-shapes C- and MC-shapes Equal angles Rectangular hollow structural sections (HSS) Square HSS Circular HSS.
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Anne Robinson, Karen Saxby
This timely entry into the award-winning DKfindout! series, explores the past, present, and future of our climate.
In 2019 kids around the world went on strike for the future of our planet, and for their own futures. This amazing book on climate change for kids covers what we can do every day as potential activists to help prevent further damaging changes to the climate.
The subject matter of this book has become a very hot topic! Find out why climate change is such a big deal. It contains a wealth of facts about the world, figures, predictions and graphical data to help you understand exactly what it all means. It is a great addition to any bookshelf, and a valuable and contemporary resource for all ages.
Climate change is now one of the biggest issues we face as a society, and the British and Irish governments have become the first in the world to declare a climate emergency. This book lays out the science behind this natural process that has been exponentially sped up by humans. It explains the different ways in which we have caused the Earth to heat up, from traffic pollution to animal farming, and the vast, widespread effects we are causing.
It covers key developments such as the Industrial Revolution, the advent of air travel, and climate activism, such as the People's Climate March to Greta Thunberg and the Extinction Rebellion. Come to understand the facts about climate change in these pages and discover what we can do to improve the human impact on our environment.
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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp finally instituted a stay-at-home order Wednesday after weeks of dragging his feet, telling reporters he was taking the action because he just learned that people without symptoms can spread the novel coronavirus—a fact that has been widely known both to officials and the general public for weeks. “Finding out that this virus is now transmitting before people see signs, so what we’ve been telling people from directives from the CDC for weeks now that if you start feeling bad, stay home...those individuals could’ve been infecting people before they ever felt bad,” the Republican said. “But we didn’t know that until the last 24 hours,” said Kemp.
It’s unclear how Kemp—an ally of Donald Trump, who has also displayed a stunning ignorance about the pandemic currently paralyzing the nation—managed to never encounter this basic fact about the novel coronavirus, which he described Wednesday as a “revelation” and “game-changer.”
But Kemp’s refusal to issue a shelter-in-place order until now may have already put his state behind in its efforts to slow the spread of the virus. While New York remains the American epicenter of the pandemic, far outpacing other states in confirmed cases with more than 84,000 and deaths with 2,220, Georgia is quickly becoming a hotspot in its own right; with 4,748 confirmed COVID-19 cases, the state has seen its number triple over the past week. While Kemp had earlier closed bars and restaurants, limited large public gatherings, and canceled public school through the end of April, he and his team had downplayed the crisis; Tim Fleming, his chief of staff, accused municipal governments in the state of “overreacting” to coronavirus just last week.
But after apparently learning about the concept of asymptomatic carriers—part of the reason coronavirus has spread so easily—Kemp reversed course. It’s better late than never, perhaps, but nevertheless infuriating that it took so long. “Kemp will have to live with these facts: He was slow to act in a state where the statistics on this pandemic are among the worst in the nation; his delayed action almost certainly means things will be worse than they might have been in Georgia,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote in an editorial Wednesday. “Finally, Gov. Kemp has acted to try and improve [experts’] dire predictions. Let’s hope that his actions haven’t come too late.”
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Alma must remonstrate his son. As with most fathers who love their sons, this is not a task that Alma relishes. He would much rather praise his sons, as he has done with Helaman and Shiblon. Nevertheless, he must because the Lord has commanded him to do so. Notice that the Lord’s commandment is generic, not specific. Even though Alma has only had one son who has led people away through his actions, all of his sons might do so. The command is for all, but the necessity of the command at this time is for Corianton.
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Old Red Iron is the local name given to the railway bridge which spanned the river Suir in Waterford. It was abandoned in 1995.
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The National Gas Turbine Establishment (NGTE Pyestock) in Fleet was once the UK’s focal site for developing and testing gas turbines and jet engines.
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Why should you do the CISRS COTS Course
CISRS COTS training is a single day course that is conducted for those who are applying for their first CISRS Scaffolding Labourer or CISRS Trainee Scaffolder card. This course is mainly seen as a requirement in the United Kingdom.
The CISRS COTS course ensures that the applicants are aware of all the rules and regulations of the industry. Also, while working with scaffolding and access solutions, it important to be aware of how to keep oneself safe. This course is ideal for the newbies of the industry and experienced workers who are looking to get up to date on the industry standards.
The validity of CISRS Scaffolding Labourer cards is 5 years. The applier needs to take a refresher training of the CISRS COTS course for them to gain the eligibility to renew their CISRS Scaffolding Labourer card. The eligibility of the CISRS Initial Trainee cards is 18 months. Successful completion of their CISRS Part 1 training is required for the eligibility to renew CISRS COTS Trainee card.
There are multiple training agencies in the UK that conduct this course on a regular basis. Below mentioned are the topics that will be covered in the course by any training agency:
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Price of the COTS training varies in different training institutes. However, there are Grants and Funding that are provided by some employers to complete the course certification. Candidates may check this with the training institute or the employer for more information on the funding.
CISRS Operative Training Scheme (COTS) – What are the criteria and How to apply
It is mandatory that the candidate complete the CITB Health and Safety and Environment Test within the past 2 years of applying to COTS. This is a mandatory requirement since last year. As an alternative, the candidate should have completed the tests mentioned below within 2 years of applying to COTS:
- IOSH Working Safely/IOSH Managing Safely/IOSH
- Directing Safely
- FAS Safe Pass
- NEBOSH H&S Certificate
- SMSTS Certificate
- SSSTS Certificate
- Current CCNSG Safety Passport (SCATS)
- Current CCNSG Safety Passport Supervisor (SCATS)
- Current MIST/BOSIET/OPITO Approved Offshore Certificate
There are multiple training institutes that conduct the CISRS COTS training and provide certification on a regular basis. There are so many CISRS COTS Training centres that are pioneered in conducting the CISRS COTS course available nowadays. However, you also get reliable services at www.constructionhelpline.com.
So, what are you waiting for, just pass the test and get yourself a card?
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Underwater footage of wrecked ship in Malta Harbour - from NP 296.
Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown.
Admiralty films of wrecks in Malta Harbour (some of this material was used in New Pictorial NP 296.)
Underwater shots of coral, sea vegetation and fishes. Shot of diver James Hodges from the Admiralty Research Lab swimming along underwater with camera and diving apparatus. Footage is quite grainy and scratched in places. Several shots of wrecked ship - Tribal Class Destroyer 'Maori' ('Maoru'?) - on the bottom of the harbour, covered with vegetation, barnacles and gunk. We see the ladder, inside cabin and propellor of the ship.
Above the water in the pilot boat we see the breathing apparatus. A sailor starts a generator on board the deck.
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Maya & Vray Tutorial – How to create Cloth Shaders / Advanced material workflows HD
Check out this awesome Maya & Vray tutorial where Oasim will go over explaining how to create some realistic soft cloth shaders inside Maya using V-Ray, this technique actually works on any type of renderer. Oasim will start by explaining how to create a really simple cloth shader that you can use in your cartoony projects, and then he’ll show you the “standard” cloth technique, and finally he’ll build an awesome shader network that will blow your mind!
To download the Maya scene with the shaders and the lighting setup please follow this link:
If you enjoyed this tutorial please check out Oasim’s social media / website links below to show your support!
Blog – http://www.pixelophy.com/
Thanks for watching,
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Advanced practice nursing has grown and developed through the guidance of different frameworks and models helping to define one group of nurses from another. Acknowledging and licensing nurses who go beyond the basic skills set of nurses started the journey of advancement. Hamric developed a model that would apply to all the different advanced practice nurse roles to define characteristics to support the growth of the practice. All of the elements in the model Hamric designed are essential in providing optimal potential. The top three that I find most important are direct clinical practice, clinical and professional leadership, and ethical decision making.
Direct clinical practice is imperative to the definition of APN. It is one of the central competencies identified in the Hamric model. The nursing training, bed side care and hands on approach is what sets APN aside from other mid-level practitioners in the medical field. The better the direct clinical practice the better the patient or research outcome will be.
Clinical and professional leadership is the second element of the nursing model that I chose. Advanced practice nursing provides the umbrella term for all nurse specialists. If it were not for nurse leaders we would not have the developed system that allow us to practice at the graduate level. Professionally we need nurse involvement at the local, regional and national organization levels. Leadership goes far beyond patient care, it incorporates a certain advocacy as well. Leaders need to be strong and confident, balanced with critical thinking skills, and goal focused.
The last characteristic I chose is ethical decision making. APN enables much more autonomy than a registered nurse. Ethical decision making blends technical data and clinical knowledge with emotional and spiritual knowledge. It is a very gray area that tends to go beyond evidence based practice. “A problem becomes an ethical or moral problem issues of core values or fundamental obligations are present” (Hamric, 2014). An APN needs to have strength and competence in order to make the appropriate decision. This can be a deciding factor in the outcome of treatment or patient goals.
Hamric, A., Hanson, C., Tracy, M., & O’Grady, E. (2014). Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative
Approach. (5 ed.). St. Louis: Saunders.
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After months of rigorous planning, the Health in Our Hands team began summer professional learning in July in preparation for middle school units, “What controls my health?” (Diabetes) and “How can looking for thrills make me miserable?” (Substance Use Disorder-SUD). The professional learning, hosted by the Genesee Intermediate School District (GISD), began with two virtual sessions. In attendance were seven teachers from Flint Community Schools, Atherton Community Schools, Genesee STEM Academy,Montrose Community Schools, and Wayne-Westland Community Schools. Two additional sessions were held face-to-face in July for SUD teachers. However Diabetes was delayed until late August as several teachers were needed for summer school teaching and districts finalized late position hires.
In preparation for return to the classroom, the virtual sessions began with community building where teachers discussed times when they have participated in a professional learning group that exhibited inclusion (where their voice was heard and valued). Teachers also discussed their classroom norms and the transition from traditional face-to-face learning to virtual classrooms, then back to face-to-face as the trajectory for this upcoming 2021-22 school year.
Teachers then separated into two groups (Diabetes and SUD) to experience a “sample teach” where they took on the learner role to experience the phenomenon and initial activities of their curriculum. Teachers usedJamboard, an interactive digital whiteboard by Google, that to construct a driving question board which supports students in “figuring out.” Teachers also constructed models. From there, teachers launched into a close inspection of the Health in Our Hands units and how they incorporate Next Generation Science Standards and principles of Project-Based Learning.
During the last two face-to-face sessions, SUD teachers experienced a lab using a “Science Take Out” kit to learn about the role of the brain reward in addiction. To build relationships and prepare for the final Health Summit that will take place in December, teachers were also introduced to community partners Leyla Sankar from University of Michigan-Flint Discovery Place and Alaina Larrea from Greater Flint Health Coalition, These partners represented the HiOH-Flint/Genesee Partnership, a collaborative whose mission is to connect the science classroom to community health through student centered learning and action research. They shared resources to support students and families, teachers and schools.
“HiOH professional learning is extensive and of critical importance to students' learning and development of a STEM mindset,” said Renee Bayer, HiOH principal investigator. “Through these initial sessions, teachers gain an understanding of project-based learning, begin to demonstrate the instructional shifts necessary to help students meet the new Michigan Science Standards, and feel confident to teach the first 3 learning sets of the unit.”
Teachers from Holmes STEM, Atherton and Montrose will begin enacting HiOH units this fall. We will host health summits, where students share their community action projects with the community planned for the second week of December.
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Fill in the blanks with appropriate past continuous form of the verb given in the brackets. When I went to see Miss. Affirmative Sentences. Use the Past Simple: When the action is finished and the time is past. 4. "For five minutes" and "for two weeks" are both durations which … Students > Solutions > Upper-Intermediate > Grammar > Exercise 2 - Past perfect simple and continuous. We already have talked about present perfect continuous/progressive tense usages and sentence structures. I had been waiting for him in the cold, and he didn’t call to say he’d be late. English Exercises > past simple exercises. Had ________________________(Maria/drive) for many hours when that accident happened? Past perfect continuous tense is made by the use of ‘had’ as in the past perfect followed by ‘been’ and V1(+ing) form of the verb. In the article below we have prepared present perfect continuous tense exercises with answers for ESL students and teachers. - Life accident 1 - Past Perfect Simple or V-ing - Dream and Back to reality 2/2 - Life accident 2 - Past Perfect - Dream Holiday 1/2 > Double-click on words you don't understand Past perfect simple, past perfect continuous 8. Idiomatic Expressions Quiz December 3, 2020; Intermediate Level Grammar Exercise November 29, 2020; Gap Filling Exercise November 26, 2020; Sentence Completion Exercise November 26, 2020; General Grammar Exercise November 23, 2020; Simple, Complex Or Compound Sentence November 18, 2020; Tenses Exercise November 18, 2020 I would like to write and share my experience through this website and help people learn ESL and enhance their writing skills. ( had lived, had sung …). Exercise 2 - Past perfect simple and continuous. Why were you so hot when we met? 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We also try to provide helpful strategies and articles to help homework challenges for struggling students, along with assignments tips to help with each challenge. Home Page >> Grammar Exercises >> Advanced >> Past Tense Exercise Past Tense Worksheet. Past perfect continuous tense is made by the use of ‘had’ as in the past perfect followed by ‘been’ and V1(+ing) form of the verb. [ . ] He was in trouble with the teacher because he___________________________________(not / go) to classes.
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Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Mystery Monsters Revisited
Every culture tells stories of strange beasts that haunt the edges of civilization. Seldom corroborated, the accounts of those who have encountered such creatures are brushed aside, or at best turned into colorful local legends. But always lurking beneath such myths are more than a few shreds of doubt?for what if the stories were true? Mystery Monsters Revisited presents 10 elusive creatures inspired by real-world folklore. Each monster entry investigates the types of evidence the cryptid leaves in its wake, the creature?s bizarre and secretive ecology, eyewitness accounts of the beast and its strange powers, advice on how to integrate it into your game, how the monster fits into the world of Golarion, and more. Inside this book, you?ll find: Bunyips, ravenous seal-like beasts whose hunger threatens coastal communities. Death worms, acid-spitting desert dwellers whose fatal poison and beams of electricity spell the end for unwary travelers. Mokele-mbembe, long-necked saurians forgotten by time. Mothmen, unfathomable agents of destiny that presage catastrophic events. The Sandpoint Devil, a fire-breathing equine terror that ravages the hinterlands of its namesake community. Water orms, whose myriad forms have spawned countless legends near the lakes they inhabit. Yetis, misunderstood natives of mountain peaks whose violent urges can be traced back to fell, otherworldly energies. Other enigmatic creatures like the towering sasquatch, destructive sea serpent, and of course, the notorious, blood-sucking chupacabra! Mystery Monsters Revisited is intended for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and Pathfinder campaign setting, but can easily be used in any fantasy game setting.
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Watership Down (Rosen, 1978) is, without a doubt, one of the pivotal cinematic experiences in my life. It captivated me at a very young age with its danger and darkness. It also taught me a number of valuable lessons, things I have thought about ever since. Fortune favoring the bold is an idea that is high on that list. Bravery, even recklessness, has to be a part of our journey if we are going to have epic adventures. Another lesson I gleaned is that kindness is crucial in forging bonds and resulting in gaining unlikely friends and allies. The most important thing it taught me, though, is to come to terms with the idea that I will not go on forever. It was humbling and necessary. Mortality can be a confusing and thorny concept for a kid to process, but these rabbits and their quest helped me with that. I found great comfort in the idea that a benevolent black rabbit would shepherd his brethren across that threshold. After many trials and travails, we would receive a well deserved rest.
Watership Down remains a favorite because the power of those lessons never diminishes. The beauty of the watercolor animation never fades. It’s there like an old friend any time I want to return to it. I hope others find it as wonderful and instructive and we all get to the top of that hill where it feels like we can see the whole world.
What you’ll find in this episode: trauma versus catharsis in kids’ entertainment, lessons big and small, man’s encroachment on the natural world, fairy tale, myth, and fable, and rabbits with a Cassandra complex.
Links and Recommendations:
Check out Watership Down on IMDB.
Ericca’s further viewing pick of Charlotte’s Web.
Cole’s further viewing pick of Pink Floyd: The Wall.
A breakdown of Native American rabbit mythology.
A young person’s guide to the work of Watership Down contributor John Hubley.
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Cyber security for Switzerland’s electricity supply
What is the status of cyber security in Switzerland’s electricity supply, and what is the strategy for its digital future? Deloitte in its capacity as author of a study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).
The Digital Innovation Office of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) commissioned Deloitte to produce a basic study which, among other things, outlines the current status of cyber security and resilience within the Swiss electricity sector.
The study also proposes a holistic concept for how the sector can guarantee an appropriate level of cyber security in the future in the face of rapidly advancing digitisation and constantly changing threats.
The full report from the SFOE can be found here.
We have briefly summarised the most important findings of the study below:
1. Increasing digitisation and a changing threat situation
The pace of digitisation is increasing, and new technologies are constantly finding their way into Switzerland’s power plants and electricity grids.
Cyber-attacks on companies in the electricity sector are becoming increasingly common, and the cyber threat to Switzerland’s electricity supply is currently undergoing major change.
2. Sharply fragmented legal landscape for cyber security and resilience in the electricity sector
At present, the issues of cyber security and resilience are not uniformly or comprehensively regulated for all relevant stakeholders in the electricity sector.
Many of the existing guidelines are also voluntary in nature. Further, mandatory specifications and minimum requirements are still pending within the sector.
3. At present, the level of development for cyber security within the sector is lower than expected
The evaluation of the E-Survey for 2020 carried out as part of the study with regard to the IT security of the Swiss electricity market participants clearly shows that the players have not yet taken all the necessary steps on an independently and voluntary basis.
Accordingly, the majority of companies are not yet compliant with their own industry guidelines and are still far from the target of an average maturity of “2.6”, set specifically for all areas as the federal ICT minimum standard.
4. Our neighbours in the EU currently have a head start
Most of the federal government’s priorities set out in the National Strategy for Protecting Switzerland from Cyber Risks 2018-2022 (NCS) are compatible with the measures of the EU’s first directive on security of network and information systems (NIS).
However, EU member states currently appear to have a considerable lead in terms of cyber security and resilience. Many of the measures currently being discussed for Switzerland have already been put into practice and are well-established in EU countries as a result of the NIS Directive.
5. As part of the study, a clear need for action was identified and a concept for addressing the open points was drawn up
Based on the need for action identified for Switzerland, the holistic concept described in the study primarily focuses on four action areas: (1) Framework conditions, (2) Review, (3) Reporting and (4) Knowledge-sharing.
All approaches described in the study need to be systematically further defined and implemented within the sector in the near future, so that Switzerland’s electricity sector can guarantee an appropriate level of cyber security in the face of rapidly advancing digitisation and constantly changing threats.
Conclusion: What does this mean for companies in the Swiss energy sector?
The federal government is currently working at full speed on the implementation of the national strategy to protect Switzerland against cyber risks 2018-2022 (NCS).
Accordingly, companies within the Swiss electricity sector can expect new requirements and changes in the status quo in the areas of cyber security and resilience. According to the study, the most important possible future changes would be as follows:
- The existence of a simplified regulatory environment for cyber security and resilience in Switzerland’s electricity sector with mandatory minimum requirements, as well as more support from the federal government
- A regular, central review by the federal government to determine whether a company is complying with the law
- The obligation to nominate a cyber officer within every company in Switzerland’s electricity sector to represent it in relation to the federal supervisory body
- The introduction of an obligation to report major cyber incidents to the federal government, as well as easier access to relevant information regarding the current threat situation (threat intelligence) for all companies in the electricity sector
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YouTube has managed to boost the careers of many influencers throughout its history, helping these creators to build an established income within the influencer marketing industry. Data suggests that there are more than 51 million YouTube channels on the platform, with that number rising each month. The platform now aims to help up-and-coming influencers navigate the industry and help others learn how to keep themselves safe online. Netinfluencer explores the influencers taking part in the YouTube Reframe campaign.
What is YouTube Reframe?
YouTube Reframe is a series from YouTube Spotlight UK, a channel that delivers the latest news and stories occurring on the platform. The project collates some of the most interesting and popular influencers into one place, encouraging them to be frank about creating content online.
There are now two series of YouTube Reframe, each containing six short episodes. They discuss topics such as misinformation and online bullying, all under the guidance of the hosts Munya Chawawa and Amelia Dimoldenberg.
Why was it established?
Many influencers first saw their rise to fame on YouTube, leading them to gain a plethora of new brand opportunities. However, YouTube Reframe was designed to educate audiences on the more difficult parts of being an influencer. Thus, both series explore how these young content creators achieve a work-life balance whilst sharing their lives online.
YouTube Reframe is mostly aimed at Gen Z, a generation that has welcomed social media and the rise of influencer marketing. This series aims to explore how young people can better communicate with their favorite influencers and create a safe and healthy community.
The platform has also partnered with charities such as Childline and Ditch the Label to help children find resources if they are struggling with their mental health. Therefore, both audiences and influencers can find support and guidance when the pressures of social media get too much.
Who are some of the influencers taking part?
Each episode of YouTube Reframe gives a small glimpse into the life of an influencer, sharing their opinions of online life. Listed below is just a small selection of influencers who are contributing to the YouTube Reframe campaign.
After launching his music career in 2019, Ramz saw great success with his hit single Barking, earning him 57.7K subscribers on YouTube. The single received 48 million views on the platform and became a viral hit on TikTok. Despite such talent, Ramz experienced a lot of online abuse, causing him to suffer detrimental mental health issues. His episode on YouTube Reframe named, Don’t Suffer in Silence, discusses how negative comments affected his self-esteem and made him feel less competitive in the music industry. Ramz also uses this episode to discuss how he remains levelheaded and mindful when producing content online.
GRACEY blends vlog content with her self-produced music, showing her 25.1K subscribers what she does on a regular basis, both professionally and privately. In her episode, Online Abuse Has Real Impact, she explains how she kept her online abuse a secret from her friends and family, which made the issues a lot worse. Host, Amelia Dimoldenberg, also uses this episode to explain the varying types of online abuse. GRACEY also channels these emotions through her music, seen in her single the internet. She ends her episode by expressing her gratitude for her online presence, especially as it helped her career grow to the size it is now.
Jacob and Ollie
Best friends Jacob and Ollie first found viral fame on TikTok as their famous food reviews saw them gain 1.7 million followers. The pair have now expanded their content onto YouTube, earning an additional 83.8K subscribers. Their episode, Tackling Online Hate, highlights the negative attention brought on by viral fame. These men also mention that these comments never happen in real life, creating more dissonance between social media and reality. This episode also gives advice on how to handle these types of comments such as reporting the account.
Adam Beales, better known as Adam B, first created his YouTube channel in 2012 and has gone on to present some of the UK’s most popular children’s television shows. His YouTube content sees him completing various challenges such as spending 50 hours in solitary confinement. Adam B’s episode explains Balancing Time Online & Offline, helping him to detach from his life as an influencer and TV personality. This episode follows Beales’ wind-down routine, sharing what he does to reset himself after releasing a lot of content for his 3.42 million subscribers.
George the Poet
As one of London’s most acclaimed spoken-word artists, George the Poet has managed to gain a lot of online attention throughout his decade-long career. His YouTube channel shares some of his most famous performances such as Cat D as well as some of his TV appearances. This episode is called Should You Say It? and discusses the balance between hate speech and free speech online. George the Poet also states the racist comments he receives on his work, especially the poems that explore the experience of black British men. He expresses that audiences need to uphold a sense of responsibility when commenting harsh words online.
With 2.32 million subscribers, Chunkz has gained a positive reputation on social media. He has also completed campaigns with retail giants such as Footasylum and JD. Chunk’s episode of YouTube Reframe is called Let’s Talk Conspiracy Theories and details how false stories are formed and spread in an inescapable manner. The host, Munya Chawawa, works with Chunkz to create the most absurd conspiracy theory to give context to how these ideas can lead us to spread misinformation. Chunkz also gives his own experience of being friends with these theorists and how it can lead to challenging relationships as opinions continue to divide them. The episode also gives helpful information on how to spot and report conspiracy theories.
YouTube Reframe sends out a positive message to both audiences and influencers, helping all of us to better manage our time online. The series also highlights how online abuse can seriously affect a creator and offers ways to limit this type of behavior online. To discover more about becoming an influencer, visit our website.
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>CRISPR-Cas technology: Targeted Genome Editing Technology
The interactions between prokaryotes and the viruses that infect them have evolved, leading to a wide diversity of CRISPR-Cas systems. CRISPR-Cas systems are generally divided into two categories (Class 1 and Class 2). To date, most researchers have used the Type 2 CRISPR-Cas system, and in this class, the most studied type II is the CRISPR-Cas9 system.
CRISPR/Cas9 system involves two essential components: target-specific CRISPR gRNA and Cas9 nuclease. In eukaryotic systems, CRISPR/Cas9 is used for genomic editing through specific targeting of DNA by sgRNA, a combination of the CRISPR RNA (crRNA) and the trans-activating crRNA (tracrRNA), mediated through base pairing over the ~20-nt guide sequence . Cas9 recognizes a very short conserved sequence (a few nucleotides in length) adjacent to the guide sequence called the “protospacer adjacent motif” (PAM). Once directed to the DNA target site, Cas9 generates a double-strand break (DSB) that can be repaired either through the indel mutation-introducing non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) or the high-fidelity homologous directed repair (HDR), resulting in gene knockout effects or template-dependent gene replacement.
Measured by its ability to cleave a targeted DNA substrate. Cas12a achieves >90% substrate cleavage, comparable to competing products
The purity of NLS-Cas12a Nuclease (Cat. No. CAA-L5149 ) is more than 90% and the molecular weight of this protein is around 135-165 kDa verified by SEC-MALS.
1. Westermann L, Neubauer B, Köttgen M. Nobel Prize 2020 in Chemistry honors CRISPR: a tool for rewriting the code of life. Pflugers Arch. 2021 Jan; 473(1):1-2.
2. Application of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in tumor immunotherapy
3. Zaib S, Saleem MA, Khan I. CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Engineering: Trends in Medicine and Health. Mini Rev Med Chem. 2022;22(3):410-421. doi: 10.2174/1389557521666210913112030. PMID: 34517795.
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Many health issues were extensively discussed in past seven weeks, and I can truly say they were all informative. The subject of hydraulic fracking, however, caught my attention. I have vaguely paid attention to the effect of hydraulic fracking on communities prior to taking this class. Therefore, I have to say, watching the documentary “Gasland” By Fox was a true eye opener for me. To see the devastation caused by the process of fracking which was fueled by the greed of some American politicians and the gas industry was very disheartening and inexcusable; the blatant disregard for human lives, wildlife and the environment for monetary gain is inexcusable.
Also In this section of the class, I also realized that my state of residence, Illinois,…show more content… Unfortunately, some politicians and citizens do not realize that even though, the current Illinois water are not yet black in color and does not catch on fire when exposed to a flame, eventually the citizens that reside within or outside the vicinity of fracked lands will suffer detrimental health consequences in the event of any chemical slippage into the ground water or air.
Secondly, I would like to investigate the cost analysis of possible contamination from fracking in terms environmental contamination, human life, and wildlife. Thirdly, I would like to research other types of energy available to the state legislators for consideration as an alternative energy source for the state.
In my opinion, there are many issues with fracking that the public is naive to, issues of how the actual record (not the summary) of the safety record of fracking in Illinois will be disseminated to the public. This and all the other questions raised in the above paragraph are questions that the public need detailed answer to, in order to stir the state away from sanctioning such a dangerous and unpredictable practice of producing
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I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
The Spin Behind The “No Health Benefits To Organic Food” Scam:
According to the UK’s Food Standards Agency, and as gleefully reported today by the BBC, ‘Organic has no health benefits’, so we can all breath a sigh of relief and return to eating pesticide and chemical filled garbage. There’s probably no health benefits to unleaded paint then, eh? Any benefits left in quitting smoking? Do we even need to debunk this utter foolishness? Personally, I wouldn’t expect an organic pepper to have significantly more nutrients than any other pepper, since they are usually not genetically engineered, though nutrient levels were the only factor in the study’s determinations. Turns out organic peppers do indeed have elevated nutrient levels, but not significantly elevated, according to the FSA. The health benefits of not ingesting a host of ingredients far too dangerous to be included in a child’s chemistry set is a glaring omission
My Commentary: Discover the TRUTH behind the latest BLATANTLY MISLEADING PROPAGANDA-PIECES AGAINST ORGANIC FOOD, brought to you by the mainstream media, on behalf of the UK’s Food Standards Agency (which, in a glaring CONFLICT OF INTEREST, is FUNDED by the FOOD INDUSTRY).
PEOPLE DON’T EAT ORGANIC FOOD BECAUSE IT CONTAINS MORE NUTRIENTS! THEY EAT IT BECAUSE IT HASN’T BEEN ADULTERATED WITH TOXIC CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS, PESTICIDES, ANTIBIOTICS & HORMONES!
EVIL CORPORATIONS that rely on INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE ARE IN A SWEAT!!! They have taken note that the Western World is slowly waking up to the fact that FACTORY FARMS are UNNATURAL, WASTEFUL & POISONOUS TO THE ENVIRONMENT! More & more people are seeking out food that is PURE – the way NATURE INTENDED IT!
Do you think that this growing trend in healthy eating will stop these CORPORATIONS from engaging in their SELFISH, ENVIRONMENTALLY SHORT-SIGHTED PRACTICES, BASED SOLELY IN PROFIT? HELL NO! Instead, they will simply engage in efforts to POLITICALLY-ASSASSINATE their COMPETITION!
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The Gretel and Gordon Bootes Medical Research and Education Foundation has donated $55,983 to fund five research projects proposed by researchers at John Curtin School of Medical Research.
Dianne Garner, Director of the Foundation, attended the School to announce and meet with the successful applicants and their collaborators on 20 July 2021.
The successful recipients and their projects are:
- Daniel Enosi Tuipulotu: “Killer peptides” – a silver bullet for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Rebecca Buckland: Α-synuclein-induced immune activation: a potential cause for Parkinson’s disease?
- Navneet Singh: Targeting a cellular regulation pathway to treat latent HSV infection
- Anthony Newman: Engineering Cas9 gene editors to cure type-I Neurofibromatosis
- Pablo Acera Mateos: Dissecting the role of RNA modifications in onco-ribosomes to inform new anti-cancer therapies
L-R: Navneet Singh, Daniel Enosi Tuipulotu, Rebecca Buckland, Anthony Newman, Pablo Acera Mateos, Graham Mann
In the past few years, the Foundation has continued its support to researchers at the John Curtin School of Medical Research to assist with research.
The support is two-fold. On the one hand, the grant helps to make it possible for the researchers to put their ideas to the test.
“This grant will allow us to perform key experiments of our research,” said Pablo from the Eyras Group, who wrote his first scientific grant and succeeded.
“This is an immense aid in difficult and uncertain times when science is needed more than ever,” he remarked.
On the other hand, the grant program gives the emerging researchers an early taste of grant-writing—a critical communication skill for research scientists.
“As I understand it, PhD students aren’t generally expected to write grants for funding,” said Anthony, A PhD Student from the Burgio Group, “The Foundation grant was a great way for me to practice the art of grant-writing and gain some valuable career experience!”
“Communicating the research project in non-scientific, simple terms was a valuable experience for me,” echoed Navneet from Tscharke Group.
“Being the first successful grant, it is a boost to my career,” Navneet said.
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One thing that many people worry about with retirement is outliving their savings, and it’s not because they think they’ll live well into their 100s — it’s because they don’t think they’ll have enough saved. One way to put yourself in a position to retire comfortably is by understanding the power of compounding. Once you realize just how powerful compounding is, you’ll see that time is your best friend and can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
Don’t believe it? Just check out the below table, which shows the hypothetical value of $1,000 monthly investments that return, on average, 10% annually until age 65.
Years Until 65
This is the most important retirement table you’ll likely ever see. Not because of the specific figures — those will vary based on how much you invest and your returns — but because it illustrates just how important a role time plays in growing your wealth.
Notice that beginning at age 55 versus 45 results in just over a $490,000 difference; starting at age 45 versus age 35 results in just over a $1.28 million difference; and beginning at age 35 versus 25 results in a $3.34 million difference. Even though the difference in the principal invested between the time increments is the same $120,000, the gap between the end results widens as the time horizon grows longer.
Figuring out how much you’ll need
It becomes easier to save for retirement when you know exactly how much you’ll need. Unfortunately, there’s no universal answer as each person will inevitably have different lifestyles and expenses. There are, however, rules of thumb you can follow to give you a good baseline. For example, start with the 80% rule, which encourages retirees to aim to generate 80% of their annual preretirement income.
Once you have this number, you can use the 4% rule to give you an idea of how much total you should aim to save. The 4% rule says retirees should plan to withdraw 4% of their savings each year for 30 years (adjusting for inflation) to avoid outliving their savings. You can calculate this total by multiplying your target annual income by 25. For example, if you currently make $80,000, you would aim to have $64,000 annually in retirement. Multiplying $64,000 by 25 gives you $1.6 million, your savings goal.
Investing shouldn’t be optional
Many people will find they need $1 million or more saved for retirement, and while not impossible, that’s a very hard goal to reach simply by setting money aside in a savings account. Even if you have 40 years to do so, that would require $25,000 each year — a tall order. But you can invest to ease that burden. Many younger people put saving and investing on the back burner, because retirement is decades away, but small investments with more time can go further than large investments with less time.
Even if you only invested $200 monthly over 40 years with a 10% average annual return, you can accumulate over $1.1 million while only putting $96,000 of your own money into the portfolio. Someone who bumps their monthly contribution to $2,000 but only has 15 years would only manage to save about $400,000 while personally on the hook for $360,000 of that. As you can see, time and consistency are key to setting you up financially in retirement.
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Award-winning author Reyna Grande shares her personal experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her memoir, The Distance Between Us—“an important account of the many ways immigration impacts children” (Booklist, starred review).
When her parents make the dangerous and illegal trek across the Mexican border in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced to live with their stern grandmother, as they wait for their parents to build the foundation of a new life.
But when things don’t go quite as planned, Reyna finds herself preparing for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years: her long-absent father. Both funny and heartbreaking, The Distance Between Us sheds light on the immigrant experience beautifully capturing the struggle that Reyna and her siblings endured while trying to assimilate to a different culture, language, and family life in El Otro Lado (The Other Side).
Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US–Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory, Across a Hundred Mountains, and Dancing with Butterflies, the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young ReadersEdition, and A Dream Called Home, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information.
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The festival of Thanksgiving is one of the most positive events on the American Calendar. Not only does it bring together friends and family, offers tons of delicious foods, officially initiates holiday shopping season but it also gives you the opportunity to take stock of all your blessings and be thankful for them.
If robust health and fitness are among the list of things you are deeply thankful for, then on the 4th Thursday of November you need to show your gratitude by guarding what you hold so close to heart. Yes, I am talking about creating a strategy to avoid falling victim to the notorious “Food Coma” on Thanksgiving.
Here are a few simple tips to stay healthy this Thanksgiving Season and beyond:
Cheating Is Allowed
It’s a festival, with friends and family in attendance so forget about your routine diet and indulge a bit. According to experts, treating yourself every now and then helps you stay on track. According to Nancy Redd, author of Body Drama and Diet Drama “There is no way to sustain constant dieting without a cheat day,” Work hard the rest of the year, and just enjoy yourself when the holiday comes.” Moral of the story: A successful diet is a sustainable diet! There is no need to torture yourself with deprivation, since the stress associated with thinking about overeating is actually what causes overeating.
Mindful eating is about feasting on it visually as well. Scarfing down food usually ends up in over eating. You may find it hard to believe but studies carried out in this area show that mindful eating is closely linked to lower BMIs. Savoring each bite and reflecting upon its colors, textures and flavors can honestly save you from over indulgence.
Turkey is Healthy
Turkey is any Thanksgiving meals main attraction, and turkey is white meat which in turn is a healthy choice of meat. Packed with protein, selenium, B vitamins, and amino acids that help balance your mood, and in moderate serving sizes can be a very healthy meal.
Sharing is Caring
There is nothing more depressing than eating alone. Family meals or eating with friends usually results in people making healthier choices in cooking as well as eating. According to Rutgers University researchers, family meals tend to be healthier meals. People who ate with their families were found to have lower BMIs. The key, of course, is keeping up those positive family vibes year round.
Gratitude is Essential
Its Thanksgiving so showing gratitude should come naturally. People who are grateful usually have a very positive frame of mind, and studies show that positive people are more likely to take better care of themselves and their health. So be thankful for your body (whichever shape or size it may be), celebrate it being healthy and strong, and chances are you’ll treat it with respect.
Rest. Roast. Rejoice
Thanksgiving is a holiday across the country. Holidays are a great way to relax and enjoy. According to a Framingham Heart Study, people who took at least two vacations a year were eight times less likely to suffer coronary disease. Residual happiness of festive holidays usually lasts for almost two weeks, not to mention that it’s a great opportunity to catch up on missed sleep and rest during your routine work cycle. It’s no secret that people who take time off of work are generally happier than those who don’t.
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Work is underway to conserve the 14th-century Cloister at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the cathedral’s 10-year development plan and includes the completion of work to restore the Cathedral’s North Nave.
Gloucester Cathedral has just announced the long-term conservation of its world-famous Cloister –better known to Harry Potter fans as Hogwarts.
The Cloister is widely regarded as one of the best and earliest examples of fan vaulting in the world making it of international architectural significance.
But to many it is famous as ‘Hogwarts’ in three of the Harry Potter movies.
A 2019 survey confirmed it is at risk and in urgent need of conservation and following generous support of £550,000 from Julia and Hans Rausing, the Cathedral’s Stonemason Team and other specialists have started a trial phase of The Cloister Project.
The project will see the Cathedral’s stonemason training and mentoring scheme further developed with the creation of 11 new apprentice roles, these new craftspeople will learn vital heritage skills to pass on to future generations.
Julia and Hans Rausing said:
“No one who walks through the Cloister at Gloucester Cathedral can fail to be struck by its overwhelming beauty. The intricate design of the stonemasonry, particularly the fan vaulted ceiling, is remarkable and its visual impact touches the many thousands of visitors to the Cathedral each year.
“We are delighted to help ensure that this magnificent feat of medieval architecture is preserved so that visitors and worshippers can continue to enjoy it for hundreds of years to come.”
The Cloister Project will start by removing the Victorian cement used to repair between the stones and replacing it with a lime-based mortar to better let the stones breathe.
Visitors to the Cathedral will be able to see this conservation work first-hand, learning about the people and the techniques used to protect the heritage buildings.
As the project evolves, there will be opportunities for the public to engage with the stonemasons through carving workshops, demonstrations and a range of other activities.
Canon Dr Andrew Braddock, Interim Dean of Gloucester, said:
“We are hugely grateful to Julia and Hans Rausing for their incredibly generous support of this project.
The Cloister, with its amazing ‘fan-vaulted’ ceiling, is one of Gloucester Cathedral’s most iconic and beautiful spaces. Sitting at the heart of the Cathedral’s buildings, it is a place of encounter, meeting, reflection and wonder, attracting thousands of visitors every year. This project will ensure the Cloister remains open for everyone and will be at the very heart of the Cathedral’s daily rhythm of life for generations to come.”
The Cloister was completed in around 1412 and formed a central part of daily life for the monks who lived there; a place where they ate, slept, studied and exercised. Today, the Cloister is every bit as central to the 21st-century Cathedral. It is a place for prayer and reflection, as well as a space for art exhibitions and community events, an iconic filming location and so much more.
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Buddhist practice and Buddhist art have been inseparable in the Himalayas ever since Buddhism arrived to the region in the eighth century. But for the casual observer it can be difficult to make sense of the complex iconography. Not to worry—Himalayan art scholar Jeff Watt is here to help. In this “Himalayan Buddhist Art 101” series, Jeff is making sense of this rich artistic tradition by presenting weekly images from the Himalayan Art Resources archives and explaining their roles in the Buddhist tradition.
Himalayan Buddhist Art 101: Why Paintings Are Made, Part 2
Art has been traded as a commodity in Tibet for the last several hundred years, with paintings produced in advance for sale to pilgrims and traders traveling from India, Nepal, China, and Mongolia. The marketplaces of Lhasa and Shigatse in central Tibet were the primary sources for such paintings.
Fortunately for casual observer and expert alike, many of these paintings are very easy to identify. Visitors from Nepal were the largest single consumer market for Tibetan art. Art produced for the Nepalese travelers and traders can be identified by a black border at the bottom of the composition. Inside the black border there is often either a short or lengthy inscription in a Nepalese Newari script. The inscription almost always includes a date and the name of the donor, along with the special purpose of dedication and the name of the individual to whom the merit is dedicated.
The first example depicts Amitabha Buddha in the Pure Land of Sukhāvatī, the famed Western Paradise. In the rainbow circle he is accompanied by the Eight Great Bodhisattvas of Mahayana Buddhism. At the bottom of the composition you’ll find a lengthy inscription—three lines deep—in a Nepalese script.
The second example is of the female meditational deity Sitātapatrā, White Parasol Goddess. At the top are the Seven Buddhas of the Age, and below, the Three Mahakala Brothers acting as special protectors for the practices of Sitātapatrā. On the black border at the bottom of the composition is a short, single-line inscription stating that the painting was dedicated by a loving husband to honor the memory of his deceased wife in 1864.
It remains unclear whether artists in Tibet wrote these inscriptions or whether they left them blank, only to be applied by the travelers upon their return to Nepal. The process of inscription and the identity of the scribes remain mysteries in the history of the commodity and pilgrimage souvenir trade between Tibet and Nepal.
View other pilgrimage paintings at Himalayan Art Resources, here.
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CBSE Sample Papers for Class 12 Biology Solved 2016 Set 12
1.Reproductive and child healthcare programme has been made by the government of India to each people and create awareness about reproduction related aspects. State one major task of such programme.
2.State the way of predicting a genotype of an organism exhibiting a dominant phenotype trait.
3* Macrophages plays an important role in providing immunity to the humans. Discuss.
4.After performing certain experiments on Drosophila, TH Morgan came to a conclusion that the phenotypic ratio of F2 population tends to deviate from a normal 9:3:3:1. How did he made this conclusion?
5.Mention the cause of occurrence of snowblindness in human beings.
6.Lac operon is considered to be regulated by its substrate. Explain.
Mention the key concepts about the mechanism of biological evolution/speciation according to
- deVries (ii) Darwin
7.Cite out the differences between the types of male and female gametocytes found in human being.
8.Reeta went for a MTR Doctor diagnosed and tell her that she is carrying a foetus been developed by an XX-egg being fertilised by a Y-carrying sperm. What do you understand by this situation?
9.Ecosan toilets are being functional in Kerala and Sri Lanka. State the role played by them in conserving environment.
10. It has been noticed since years that chemical pesticides and insecticides are responsible for polluting the environment. Justify.
11. Does according to you, the alternate splicing of exons may enable a structural gene coding for several iso-proteins from one and the same gene? If yes, how ? If no, why so?
12. Plasmid is a boon to biotechnology. Justify the statement quoting the production of human insulin as an example.
13. Kartik have isolated and identified a useful gene in a bacterium. Now, how will you prepare a flow chart of the steps following the transfer of this gene to a plant?
14. Observe the type of the ecological pyramid given below. Also give one example each of pyramid of number and pyramid of biomass in such cases.
Mention the pioneer and the climax species in a water-body ecosystem. Highlighting the changes observed in the biomass and the biodiversity of the successive serai community been developed in the water-body.
15. Bioactive molecules of fungal origin helps in restoring good health of human. Justify.
16. It is often seen that honeybees produces their young ones only by sexual reproduction. Inspite of this, in a colony of bees, both haploid and diploid individuals are also found. Explain how?
17. Differentiate between the process of spermatogenesis and spermiation in human males.
18. In an angiosperm, the embryo sac is haploid, zygote is diploid and endosperm is triploid. Justify the statement giving reasons of each stage.
19. If you are a manager of a dairy farm. What measures would you undertake to improve the quality and quantity of milk production?
20. Cite the differences between the following terms related to the molecular inheritance.
- Repetitive DNA and satellite DNA
- mRNA and small fRNA
- Template strand and coding strand
21. The developed countries are often related to the biopiracy cases when compared to the underdeveloped or developing countries. Explain the statement giving an example justifying it.
22. The hnRNA undergoes additional process after the completion of process of transcription in eukaryotes. Mention the two such processes.
23. Akshay was concerned about the pollution being made by the unnecessary horns of buses cars and other vehicles in the residential area.
He along with his friends decided to make their area a ‘no noise have’. For this they meet with the senior authorities and put forth the issue in front of them.
Discuss the major causes, effects of it. Also share some measures to control it. Keeping in mind about the ill effects of noise pollution.
24. Ankit had been to Hyde’ ibad for his vacations at his cousins place. He demanded to eat chicken out there. His cousin denied to take him out for eating non-veg as he told him that it is not safe to eat chicken these days due to bird flu.
Mention the harmful action of bird flu and the different ways to present the spread of this disease.
Selective breeding of animals is mainly done to increase the possibility of the animals to obtain a desired trait in the resulted offspring. Discuss the ways being employed to achieve a successful animal breeding. Also mention which is the best method out of these being discussed and why?
25. (i) Radhika visited a hill station with her family. Everyone out there was
complaining for shortness of breath and some other problem. Discuss the fact behind. Why the tourists visiting high altitude places or mountains are advised to resume normal ‘active life’ only after a few days of reaching there?
- Is it possible to find small animals in the polar regions? Give reasons.
- Draw an ideal pyramid of energy upto four trophic levels where 1,000,000 J are available from sunlight to the primary producer. Indicate the amount of energy available at each trophic level.
- Pyramid of energy always upright. When compared to the pyramid of number of biomass? Explain.
- Discuss the major limitations of an ecological pyramid.
26. A true breeding pea plant homozygous for axial violet flowers (AAW) is allowed to crossed with another pea plant with terminal white flowers (aaw).
- Predict out the phenotype and genotype of Fx-generation.
- Find out the phenotypic ratio of F2-generation.
- Discuss the Mendel’s generalisation that can be derived from the above cross.
Workout a cross between a homozygous tall pea plant with green seeds and dwarf pea plant with yellow seeds.
- Find out the phenotype and genotype of F1-generation.
- Also predict out the phenotypic ratio of F2-generation with the help of a Punnett square.
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The movements of breathing are innervated from a nervous centre situated in the medulla oblongata, in the grey substance of the floor of the fourth ventricle a little above the point of the calamus scriptorius. The part above this may be sliced away without stopping the respiratory movements, but they completely cease when the part indicated is destroyed.
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The Sharp PC-122 is a small, handheld computer which was released in 1980. It was also marketed as the Tandy TRS-80 PC1.
The pocket computer which measures only 175 x 70 x 17 mm, and weighs 170g, was named as a "contender for the title of the first genuine pocket computer" by Practical Computing in July 1980. The pocket computer featured a 57-key alpha-numeric keyboard, 24-character 7x5 dot matrix LCD display, connector for printer and tape drive, and was powered by four 1.5 V lithium button cell batteries, which claimed to provide 300 hours of battery life. The computer had a memory capacity of 1,424 steps and a resident Basic interpreter containing 15 mathematical functions, 21 statements, six commands and six control statements. The interpreter is a shortened form of standard Basic.
This model was powered by a 4-bit CPU laid out in power-saving CMOS circuitry.
This example in our collections comes in a case with a printer/cassette interface and has the serial number: 11001337. It was kindly donated by Alan Leeson.
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In the current political climate, no greater need for security has been evident with the rise of global terrorism and politically motivated violence. Increased security measures are not only costly, but are manpower exhaustive and often intrusive.
Furthermore, data, in the most basic sense, has been secure in datacenters with the advent of strong security procedures, access control systems and a myriad of technological advances. Over the last three decades, various forms of metal detection have been used, in some degree, to screen datacenter workers for potential hardware that may have left the center.
In some cases, it has shown progress in stopping some larger items from going undetected. The challenge for the industry though, has always been smaller hard to detect items like thumb drives and mini SD drives.
Recent advances in software algorithms and hardware detection levels have allowed newer, more novel approaches to help organizations secure even more potential threats. Additionally, testing has shown that new systems capable of facial recognition with both biometric recognition and iris scanning, adds another level of critical authorization and advanced screening.
In this discussion, we will highlight the issues many organizations face with older technology and the latest advancements in both object detection, as well as combined threat analysis with biometrics and iris advancements. This paper will explore current issues with both personal security and cyber security.
George S Clason, Businessman and ‘The Richest Man In Babylon’ stated that “In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors, we succeeded.”
With so many magnificent by-products of innovation, entrepreneurship, genius and bravery, that statement rings true in so many ways and is demonstrated through the technology we use in our daily lives.
In this the technological age, we as humans have achieved some truly amazing feats of advancement. In the short space of the past 130 years, we have come from the horse and cart to the automobile, from phonographs to iPods, we’ve mastered flight, space travel, communication, and of course the internet. We are truly enjoying the golden age of technology.
We have discovered that with every problem, there is a solution.
And with every solution, our instinctive curiosity and intuition causes us to improve and develop these solutions to make them better. That is how we have evolved as a civilized society.
As we come up with answers, we then discover new problems to solve. The wheel may certainly have been invented, but it went through, and still goes through, various stages of improvement to make it an optimal commodity. We are a Research and Development society.
We have created ways to do things through technology, and it has become a valuable part of our day to day lives. Some would argue that it is the ultimate level to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
1. Cyber Security
The word Cyber Security was unheard of 30 odd years ago, but has now become an industry in itself as we struggle to maintain integrity and privacy. The issue of Data Theft has outweighed the fear of property theft in many cases, and this is what I’m here today to talk about.
McAfee estimates a loss to the global economy of between $400 and $575 billion dollars in cybercrime per year. These figures are based on known data only- it is likely much higher.
An IBM study found the average consolidated total cost of a data breach is $3.8 million, representing a 23% increase from 2013.
• The average cost per record breach is $154,
• for healthcare organizations $363, and
• 47% of data breaches are malicious!
• A further study found that 36% of data breaches were from employee misuse or negligence, while 25 percent were intentional attacks from an insider.
Think about that for a moment.
Let us then ask ourselves the following questions:
• How does data leave the data center, and
• what can we do to minimize these breaches?
2. Physical hacks
Many Data Centres have firewalls and other network security measures to minimize risk, and for the most part these are effective. Cyber Security experts though, claim that the five simplest ways to hack into a data center are by;
1. crawling through void spaces in the data center walls,
2. lock-picking the door,
3. “tailgating” into the building, (tailing other employees)
4. posing as contractors or service repairman, and
5. jimmying open improperly installed doors or windows.
You’re effectively leaving the front door open for thieves!
With emerging trends such as Big Data, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) mobility and global online collaboration sparking an explosion of data, the data center will only become more important to your organization and will continue to be the target of not only breaches, but advanced malware and other cyber-attacks.
Additionally, compromised targets can unwittingly become attackers themselves. At the bidding of cybercriminals who can control comprised systems remotely, the data centers are commandeered as potent weapons in attacks against fresh targets
The emphasis on Data Centre Security is paramount, and whilst hacking and cyber-attacks require their own defence mechanism, today I’m here to address the physical breaches, and how to best counter them within an organization.
3. Front line defence
For those familiar with SAS 70 compliance and audits, the ‘Data Center Physical Security Best Practices Checklist’ below contains a data center physical security best practices program that is quite comprehensive and no doubt costly, time consuming, and resource heavy.
Data Center Physical Security Best Practices Checklist
• Built and Constructed for Ensuring Physical Protection
The exterior perimeter walls, doors, and windows should be constructed of materials that provide Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) rated ballistic protection.
• Protection of the Physical Grounds
The data center should have in place physical elements that serve as battering rams and physical protection barriers that protect the facility from intruders.
• Bullet Resistant Glass
Certain areas within the data center, such as the lobby area and other entrance mechanisms, should be protected by bullet proof or bullet resistant glass.
• Maintenance of Vegetation Flowers
Plants, trees and other forms of vegetation should be appropriately maintained for purposes of not allowing these elements to conceal or hide an intruder.
• Security Systems and 24×7 Backup Power
The data center’s security systems should be functioning at all times, complete with
uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for ensuring its continuous operation.
• Cages, Cabinets and Vaults
These physical structures which house equipment must be properly installed with no loose or moving components, ultimately ensuring their overall strength and rigidity.
• Man Trap
All data centers should have a man trap that allows for secure access to the data center “floor”.
• Electronic Access Control Systems (ACS)
Access to all entry points into and within the data center should be protected by electronic access control mechanisms which allow only authorized individuals to enter the facility. Included within the framework of electronic access control should also be biometric safeguards, such as palm readers, iris recognition, and fingerprint readers.
• Provisioning Process
Any individual requesting access to the data center should be enrolled in a structured and documented provisioning process for ensuring the integrity of the person entering the facility.
• Off-boarding Process
Personnel working for the data center or clients utilizing the facility services must be
immediately removed from systems that have allowed access to the facility itself. This includes all electronic access control mechanism along with removal of all systems, databases, Web portals, or any other type of sign-in mechanism that requires authentication and authorization activities.
All visitors must be properly identified with a current, valid form of identification and must be given a temporary facility badge allowing access to certain areas within the data center. This process must be documented in a ticketing system also.
All exterior doors and sensitive areas within the facility must be hard wired with alarms.
The facility should have a mixture of security cameras in place throughout all critical areas, both inside and out, of the data center. This should include the following cameras: Fixed and pan, tilt, and zoom (PTZ) cameras.
• “Threat Conditions Policy”
Consistent with the rating scale of the Department of Homeland Security, the facility should have a “threat conditions policy” in place whereby employees and customers are made aware of changes in the threat.
• Badge and Equipment Checks
Periodic checks should be done on employees and customers regarding badge access and equipment ownership.
• Local Law Enforcement Agencies
Management should have documented contact information for all local law enforcement officials in the case of an emergency.
• Paper Shredding
A third-party contractor should be utilized for shredding documents on-site, then removing them from the facility, all in a documented fashion, complete with sign-off each time shredding is done.
• Data Center Security Staff
As you can see, this is a comprehensive list of measures that no doubt add to the effectiveness of security, but ultimately ‘Data security starts with physical security.’
4. Layers of Security
The Anixta White Paper suggests a Four Layer approach to Data Center security.
First Layer: Perimeter Security
Second Layer: Facility Controls
Third Layer: Computer Room Controls
Fourth Layer: Cabinet Controls
Not all organisations have the resources to be able to take this approach, and as you can see from the following example, some companies have spent a fortune securing their data.
Example: A top-secret financial data center on the East Coast, an 8-acre facility is a model of a serious approach to physical security with perimeter safeguards such as hydraulic bollards to stop speeding cars and a drainage pond that functions as a moat.
That is the millennial version of a castle with a protected outer layer.
It is the Inner Layers though, that are the most crucial in securing Data.
This is where Entry Control Points (ECPs) can be secured with technological security rather than Human Resources in a cost effective, discreet Threat Detection System (Ronin) that will detect even the smallest of devices such as USBs from entering or leaving a building.
Access control systems act as the primary keys to the castle and should use methods that cannot be shared, such as biometric access. Coupling a key card with biometrics requires the user to match the access card and the biometric such as fingerprint or retinal recognition.
Sharing access is strictly forbidden.
Physical security is broken into two pieces: the physical elements such as cameras, access control systems and locks; and the operational processes such as visitor and contractor policies and general awareness training. If both elements are not addressed, neither will be 100 percent effective.
The most important aspect though, is to be diligent against the biggest threat: People!
Unless you are pro-active in your approach, you will always be a target for theft.
Don’t make the assumption that it will never happen to you.
As stated in the opening sentence “We have discovered that with every problem there is a solution.” As far as reducing the ‘front door’ risk, the focus must be on implementing technologies to assist human resources in detecting security breaches that either introduce, or remove devices such as USBs etc. that intend on stealing data. A small, hidden device may or may not show up on a metal detector, and can definitely be strategically hidden to avoid such measures (internally).
In developing security systems that have;
• pinpoint accuracy of detection,
• simultaneous detection of location, size, & orientation,
• requires minimal manpower to operate and, more importantly,
• is discreet, unobtrusive, and can be hidden
5. Real Time Threat Detection Systems – The Keys To The Castle!
To this point, we have covered the protection and security of data and suggested solutions in maintaining data integrity. But a growing and ever present threat to humanity is the rise of terrorism, violence, and attacks on people and property. Airports, venues, military installations, schools, and government installations to name a few, have all increased security measures in an attempt to minimise harm but opportunistic criminals will always find ways to exploit defences and conduct attacks. Physical security, that is to say security personnel, are a deterrent but can still be overcome by force at close range. Weapons are also easy to conceal, and can avoid detection via personal searches or visual inspection. Knives, guns, pistols etc. are primarily used at close range and require the user to be in close quart range. Explosives on the other hand, can be detonated at distance, keeping the perpetrator out of range.
It is therefore necessary to be able to screen people in large volumes from a distance, and fortunately the technology for this is now available with products that are able to do the following:
• Reduce human error-
• No Dedicated Monitoring
• Simple Training
• Large Traffic Throughput
• One System/Multiple Gates
• Updates Via Cloud
This paper has discussed key issues surrounding both cyber and personal security. As threats continue to increase, so must the capacity to outwit and defeat those who would seek to do harm.
It has highlighted deficiencies in the above-mentioned areas of security and presented possible scenarios for applicable solutions for each.
It is in no way exhaustive, but indicates the main security threats to organisations and people today.
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The Myra Falls (German: Myrafälle or rarer: Mirafälle; alway pronounced with a German "i") are located in a ravine in the municipality of Muggendorf in the Austrian federal state of Lower Austria (N.B. not to be confused with the Mira Falls (Mirafall) 50 km further west in the Ötschergräben). The ravine has been cut by the Myrabach, a small tributary of the Piesting. The Myra, as the stream is also known, rises at the foot of the Unterberg from the Myralucke, a spring steeped in legend, that is fed by an underground lake. Although the Myra is only a few kilometres long, it used to power a large number of mills and sawmills in the Myra valley.
In 1899 plans were laid for "the exploitation of this waterfall for industrial purposes and thus the destruction of a natural beauty".
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As you’re looking for ways to fund your small business, you’ve likely come across numerous suggestions and terms. Between loans, tax credits and other forms of financial support, Canadian entrepreneurs can explore a few avenues to help them take the next step in pursuing their dreams of business ownership. What about grants?
Also known as subsidies, rebates, nonpayable loans and awards, grants are a funding opportunity you can pursue to jump-start your small business. Unlike loans, which you have to repay, or tax credits, which you must qualify for through specific tax parameters, small business grants are dedicated funds entrepreneurs can apply for when they need support. While grants come with varying requirements, you rarely have to repay them — and that’s what sets them apart.
Below, you’ll find information about small business startup grants in Canada and how they work.
Small Business Funding Opportunities
No matter what province your business is in, you have access to several small business funding opportunities. You can explore three primary types of funding — government, private-sector and nonprofit. Within each category, you’ll find numerous grants.
Here’s a quick look at each source so you can better understand which suits your business’ needs best.
- Government funding: Through the federal and provincial governments, you can find funding for various applications. These grants focus on helping small businesses grow, so you’ll typically find opportunities for hiring, investing and more. Additionally, the government aims to assist multiple industries, so whether you’re involved with book publishing or international shipping, you can rest assured government grants are likely available to you.
- Private-sector funding: Pursuing private funding means you’re receiving a grant from an individual or a private company. This source could be an angel investor, an incubator group or a crowdfunding platform. If the money you receive doesn’t come with repayment requirements, it likely qualifies as a grant.
- Nonprofit funding: Multiple nonprofits offer small business grants across Canada. These organizations can be networks, foundations, counsels, universities and other structure types. Typically, a grant’s requirements will depend on the organization offering it. For example, a nonprofit focused on Indigenous rights may only accept applications from small businesses that share their goals.
Types of Grants to Start a Small Business
Among the avenues you can explore for grants to start a business, you’ll find general and specific options. While all awards and nonpayable loans come with some application qualifications, many are more particular than others. A general grant may offer funds to all businesses that have fewer than 500 employees. Alternatively, you may come across more specific grants geared toward women-led businesses in education.
Here are a few examples of Canadian small business grants that target different business owners.
Grants for Women Small Business Owners
Across Canada, governments, private companies and nonprofits provide small business grants for women. As of 2016, 85% of Candian women said they had entrepreneurial goals — and subsidies and rebates geared toward women help them achieve their dreams.
Private Grants for Small Business Owners
Often, individuals and companies will set aside money to help support startups in their communities. Note that grants may not only be monetary. For example, you may get a grant from an incubator that includes a small financial contribution and access to mentoring and office space.
Grants for Minority Small Business Owners
In Canada, minority small business owners are few and far between. As of 2017, just over 12% of small businesses in Canada were majority-owned by a visible minority. Because finances can be a significant deterrent to launching a startup, you can find an increasing number of minority small business grants. An example would be the First Peoples Economic Growth Fund: Business Contribution Fund, which provides grants for businesses owned by Manitoba First Nations peoples.
Grants Based on Industry
Depending on the industry you’re in, you can apply for specific grants to support you in that sector. Whether you work in apparel, technology or conservation, you can find sources that assist you in your particular field. For instance, Canada’s Music Incubator supplies up-and-coming musicians with various resources to build their brands and businesses.
Federal Government Funding Sources
For many businesses, starting with federal small business grants is the most accessible option. These nonpayable contributions assist businesses all over Canada. If you search the official government website for grants for businesses of all sizes throughout the country, you’ll find an extensive list of grants that may work for you.
Check out a few other examples of government grants for small businesses.
- Commemorate Canada Program: Funds initiatives that celebrate “historical figures, places, events and accomplishments of national significance” with up to $10,000 in grants.
- Strategic Innovation Fund: Funds businesses that positively contribute to a productive economy with up to 50% eligible costs of a $20 million minimum budget.
- NSERC Alliance: Formally known as the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the NSERC Alliance supports research and development collaborations between businesses and universities with up to $1 million yearly.
These three examples are only a glimpse at the plethora of funding opportunities the Canadian federal government provides. To find more grants that align with your business goals, look at the official government website and modify your search accordingly. The Business Benefits Finder tool provides the most comprehensive results.
Tips for Applying for Startup Business Grants
Before you send out multiple applications for awards, subsidies and other types of grants, you should remember a few tips. These applications can take time, so preparation is essential. The following are a few handy tricks for ensuring you and any business partners know how to get a small business grant.
- Finalize your business plan: Note that almost every grant you apply for will require you to submit a business plan so the grantor can ensure you meet their requirements. Check that your business plan aligns with the recommended parameters.
- Know your terminology: As stated earlier, grants go by many names. This style of nonpayable funding may also come in the form of subsidies, rebates, nonpayable loans or awards. By incorporating grant variations in your search, you can broaden your reach.
- Search based on specific criteria: Remember that grants depend on various qualifications. Do you plan to launch a health care startup? Are you a nonwhite entrepreneur? Consider your business’ unique characteristics to help you narrow down your search.
- Understand all requirements: Most grant opportunities are competitive. To ensure your application is correct and relevant from the beginning, you must understand the grant’s requirements. Do you have to submit a project proposal? Is the grant only available to a specific group of people? Be sure to read every fine detail.
With a broad search and thorough preparation, you can successfully apply for the maximum amount of small business funding.
Reach out to CPA4IT Today
Aside from grants and other kinds of nonpayable funding, corporate tax returns can help increase your finances. At CPA4IT, we help businesses correctly file their corporate tax returns, ensuring they get the most return with our experienced team’s assistance. To learn more about our services, book a free consultation today!
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Medical Considerations for Bruises
Complications associated with foot bruises can be progressive and may vary depending on the underlying cause. Easy or unexplained bruising of the feet can be due to serious diseases, so it’s important to see your doctor if you bruise easily and/or frequently for no apparent reason. Once an underlying cause is diagnosed, following the treatment plan outlined by your doctor can lower your risk of potential complications.
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By Albert H. Fulcher | Editor
Now in its fifth year, the GI Film Festival San Diego is one of San Diego’s premier festivals with its military themed movies, documentary and short films. With its select films, this festival features films with the art of storytelling about the history, struggles, victories and experiences of those who have served.
Happening in San Diego Sept. 24-29 at various venues, this festival brings all walks of life to watch its yearly selection of compelling films. Organized by KPBS in partnership with the Film Consortium San Diego and the GI Film Group, submissions have a variety of military experiences, stories from people of different ethnicities, races, genders, economic backgrounds, and individuals who identify as LGBTQ. The GI Film Festival endeavors to represent perspectives are often overlooked, underrepresented and untold, but play an important role in U.S. military history and culture.
This year’s line up of films embodies the core mission of the GI Film Festival, including three LGBTQ short films with impact and heart. All three shorts play in a series of short films “Drama Block: Not Your Everyday Story” at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park on Friday, Sept. 27 at 6:15 p.m.
It is well worth the drive just to see the San Diego premiere “The Real Thing,” directed by Brandon Kelly. In 7-minutes, this film is a gripping short that will tug at every emotion. With no dialogue, with the exception of three words it’s a journey through parental love, and the issues this film tackles are loud and clear. A staff sergeant is returning home from deployment to his son, who has now transitioned to her true self during his absence. Back and forth scenes between daughter and father, the film explores the emotional impact that both are facing with this major change in their lives as they anticipate reuniting again. This film is powerful, poignant and has all of the essential elements of filming at its very best. This film is nominated for Best Narrative Short.
“Deviant” directed by Benjamin Howard exposes the horrors of early electrotherapeutic conversion therapy in the early 1960s. During this time homosexuals were involuntary committed by their own families to “cure” them including the use of electroshock therapy, castration, medical torture and lobotomies. After a young man’s attraction to other men is discovered by his deeply religious mother, she sends her son for electroshock therapy. It is a personal journey through the revulsions of conversion therapy. It’s graphic account is disturbing to watch, but this is the essential element in the story of a young gay man who is struggling with his identity and his deep embedded faith in God. This film is 10 minutes that will make many people uncomfortable, but this film’s message is brilliantly accomplished. This film is nominated for Local Film Showcase – Best Narrative Short, Best Film Made By or Starring Veterans or Military and Local Film Showcase-Local Choice Award.
“The Man I Want to Be,” directed by Devin Scott is told through the eyes of a boy who is gay, but whose father is a Vietnam war hero earning the nickname “Macho Joe Nichols.” This film delves into the individual elements of what it takes to “be a man” in the 1970s. It’s a struggle between father and son with foundations of fear, bravery and the quest to live one’s authentic life in the spirit of this film. This film is nominated for Local Film Showcase – Best Narrative Short, Local Film Showcase-Best Film Made By or Starring Veterans or Military and Local Film Showcase-Local Choice Award.
For more information about all films, dates and times for the San Diego GI Film Festival visit gifilmfestialsd.org/2019.
—Albert Fulcher can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Human rights group Amnesty International wants a Nazi-style Islamic state capable of persecuting Israel.
Amnesty International on Thursday welcomed “Palestinian” Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s move to seek admission in some 15 UN and international organizations, conventions and treaties. The group further urged the Arab Palestinians to sign up to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Abbas’s move came in the midst of efforts to seal a deal by which Israel would have released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and implemented a partial settlement freeze in exchange for a Palestinian agreement to continue peace talks and refrain from seeking membership in international bodies.
Source: Jerusalem Post
It worth noticing that Amnesty International has “okayed” human right crimes against the Jewish people.
The Arab terrorist organization “al Fatha’ refuse to accept International law, by recognizing the state of Israel’s right to exist. Still Amnesty wants to persecute Israel, by misusing the International Criminal court system.
This remind me about the Nurenberg laws in Nazi-Germany. There was one set of laws for German’s of aryan origin. And there were a separate law system for people of Jewish origin. Not only was this racism. It was a systemic system of persecuting people based on their ethnic origin, and belief system.
What has triggered Amnesty?
Israel’s refusal to release more blood thirsty Islamic killers. Amnesty seems to support a premium system. If an Arab has slaughtered a Jew, he should be rewarded. Not only by being released from prions, but also being honored for demonizing the state of Israel.
Shame, shame and eternal condemnation awaits all who support this evil. Repent, or perish.
Written by Ivar
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