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One of the main clichés foreigners perpetuate about Spaniards is that they’re work-shy hedonists with a “mañana mañana” attitude towards any sort of responsibility.
Even among Spaniards themselves, there are regional stereotypes about southerners that claim they’re all vagos (lazy), especially those from Andalusia and the Canary Islands.
Studies have actually shown that people in Spain work longer hours than Germans and other northern Europeans, so it’s understandably frustrating for many Spaniards to hear the same stereotypes regurgitated again and again.
Without a doubt, there are idle people in Spain, just like anywhere else in the world. So what’s one way to describe this laziness in Spanish?
No dar un palo al agua, which in its literal sense means to ‘not hit the water with a stick’.
In fact, it’s the equivalent of saying in English ‘to not lift a finger’, ‘to never do an ounce of work’ or ‘to do sweet FA’ (FA standing for ‘fuck all’, or Fanny Adams, but that’s another story).
Even though we initially thought that this Spanish metaphor drew a parallel between not being able to do something as simple as throwing a stick in a lake or a river, the origins of this saying are actually from the world of sailing.
Sailors who weren’t willing to put in the work and let everyone else do the rowing were called out for loafing around and told ¡No das un palo al agua!, in the sense that their oars (the palo or stick refers to the oar) weren’t even touching the water.
So the next time you want to describe the fact that someone is not pulling their weight, remember this interesting Spanish expression. You can also use the shortened version – ‘no dar ni palo’.
It’s an expression which is widely used in all manner of settings (including formal ones), so you don’t have to worry about offending anyone, apart from perhaps the person who you are describing as working very little or not at all.
Pedro no da un palo al agua. Se pasa el día en las redes sociales aunque haya un montón de trabajo que hacer.
Pedro doesn’t lift a finger, he spends his days on social media even if there’s loads of work to do.
¡No das un palo al agua! ¡Eres un holgazán! ¡A ver si te pones las pilas!
You do sweet FA! You’re a right lazybones! Get your arse in gear!
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In the context of American animation, Hayao Miyazaki’s films seem nearly unfathomable. With their conspicuous absence of exclusively kid-centric theatrics and their eschewing any burden of pop culture topicality, Miyazaki’s films are instead allowed to explore the limitless imaginative possibilities of animated filmmaking. And there are few imaginations quite like Miyazaki’s.
That’s what makes his retirement on the occasion of The Wind Rises that much more of a loss. It’s difficult to be anything but grateful for the beautiful films the 73-year-old director has made, but his absence will certainly leave a giant, gaping hole that no other filmmaker can replace.
So here’s a bit of free film school (for fans and filmmakers alike) from the man who makes us wish we could call a giant wood spirit our neighbor.
Work for a Richer Culture, Not a Distracted One
“[Miyazaki is] a big critic of our dependence on virtual reality ‐ computer games, TV, and animation, too. He complained, when I met him, that so much in our culture is ‘thin and shallow and fake.’ He’s also an environmentalist, of a somewhat dark and apocalyptic variety. He’s said, not entirely jokingly, that he looks forward to the time when Tokyo is submerged by the ocean and the NTV tower becomes an island, when the human population plummets and there are no more high-rises.”
Miyazaki’s environmentalism is certainly an evident theme in his filmmaking, perhaps displayed most epically in Princess Mononoke. But his portrayal of nature as a living, enchanting being worth caring for comes from an interest in moving beyond the distractions of popular culture and focusing on the things that make us human.
This, perhaps, is what most separates Miayazaki’s view of animation from Hollywood’s: Miyazaki sees animation not as a medium for juvenile distraction, but as a means of allowing the imagination to flourish in such a way that we encounter something real. Animation and fantasy are not an opportunity to distract oneself from our surroundings, but to create new possibilities for understanding such things more intimately.
Let the Images Guide the Pacing
This moment of My Neighbor Totoro, as the BBC interviewer observes is rare not only in animation, and not only in children’s entertainment, but in cinema at large. Too rarely does the pace of a film slow down to consider the act of waiting and the beauty of raindrops. Miyazaki’s testimony about this scene shows that even in animation, there is a flow of events that one can choose to accept instead of simply construct. All one needs is a little patience, and the ability to observe.
Let the Politics of Your Business Match the Politics of Your Films
“Miyazaki is a feminist, actually. He has this conviction that to be successful, companies have to make it possible for their female employees to succeed, too. You can see this attitude in Princess Mononoke. All characters working the bellows in the iron works are women. Then there’s Porco Rosso. Porco’s plane is rebuilt entirely by women.”
In a special feature on the Spirited Away DVD, Toshio Suzuki discusses Miyazaki’s business philosophy at Studio Ghibli, and the remarkably feminist qualities he’s imbued in the company. Hollywood is only just now exploring the possibilities for tentpole women-centric animated films outside of the Disney princess story, while Miyazaki has made a career of empowering female characters at the center of many of his films. It’s vital that the governing politics that make a film are consistent with those that show up in the film itself ‐ they are inseparable. Or should be.
Know Your Limits and Embrace Teamwork
“…at this age, I cannot do the work I used to. If my staff can relieve me and I can concentrate on directing, there are still a number of movies I’d like to make.”
Miyazaki has threatened retirement several times, as the arduous process of animated filmmaking doesn’t accommodate aging. What has driven Miyazaki this far is in part due to his team and supporting family of filmmakers available to collaborate towards a shared vision. It’s important to recognize, as Miyazaki himself does, that his films are not solely his films. That Studio Ghibli logo is perhaps more instructive about what goes into a Miyazaki film than Miyazaki’s own name.
Know How to Balance Old and New Media
“…it’s very important for me to retain the right ratio between working by hand and computer. I have learnt that balance now, how to use both and still be able to call my films 2D.”
Though Miyazaki pointedly believes that hand drawing on paper is the fundamental aspect of animation as an art form, he has gradually and selectively embraced the opportunities that new technologies have afforded his design of films, as long as he maintains a careful balance that preserves the integrity of his hand-drawn process. New technologies for filmmaking should not be embraced specifically because they are new; rather, one should cautiously explore their utility in terms of maintaining an honest effort toward the films that one seeks to make.
Don’t Underestimate Children; Don’t Overestimate Adults
While audiences young and old can appreciate Miyazaki’s films, many of his works tap into imaginative possibilities typically squelched by our development of rational, mature thinking. Princess Mononoke presents an elaborate world of demons, forest spirits, night walkers, and supernatural guardians without providing pointed exposition about the rules of the world ‐ he simply expects you to accept the vast possibilities as is and let the unfolding of the story teach us about the world of that story. This betrays a radically confident sense of imagination, one that’s assured in vision but also places incredible trust and faith in the audience. And sometimes children are more open moviegoers that adults could ever hope to be.
What We’ve Learned
At the beginning of the interview linked twice above, a BBC reporter asks Miyazaki what he thinks of the title as “Japanese Disney,” to which Miyazaki responds that he doesn’t like it much at all. He’s a director, not a producer. Despite the fact that Miyazaki has had and will continue to have an instrumental role at Studio Ghibli, he is first and foremost a filmmaker, not a businessman or surveyor of potential properties. Disney, it can be argued, is more invested in the distractions that Miyazaki’s films attempt to get past.
While Miyazaki makes films that are accessible to children, he refuses to make films that are by any stretch of the imagination childish. Instead, they push past the limitations and conventions of a present-tense rational adult world, exploring the array of possibilities that lie beyond the blinding assumptions of what animated movies can, or should, be. We should all be so lucky as to have a benchmark for cinema’s wondrous possibilities like Miyazaki.
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10 Taking a strategic approach to creativity and innovation
How managers approach both strategy and innovation has significant implications for the long-term success of their organisation. While the traditional view might be that they are separate phenomena, both strategy and innovation are closely linked when it comes to achieving longer-term organisational success. Importantly, by taking a more strategic view and practising what has been called strategic innovation, both managers and organisations are able to maximise the benefits of their creativity and innovation practices for the benefit of customers, employees and stakeholders.
One attempt to link together both strategy and innovation in a meaningful way was outlined by Markides (1997), who coined the term strategic innovation. Key to this approach is that ‘Strategic innovation is about innovating the strategy itself’ (FT.com, n.d.).
In order to kick-start strategic innovation, Markides outlines five key approaches that leaders in an organisation should take:
Redefine the business.
Redefine the who: who is your customer?
- A company should think of new customers or new customer segments and develop a game plan that serves them better.
Redefine the what: what products or services are you offering these customers?
- A company should think of new customer needs or wants and develop a game plan that better satisfies these needs.
Redefine the how.
- Companies should leverage existing core competencies to build new products or a better way of doing business and then find the right customers.
Start the thinking process at different points.
- For example, instead of thinking, ‘This is our customer, this is what he or she wants, and this is how we can offer it,’ start by asking: ‘What are our unique capabilities? What specific needs can we satisfy? Who will be the right customer to approach?’
By following these steps, Markides contends, organisations are able to enhance both their strategic and innovative potential.
While it might require a degree of lateral thinking, these same five key approaches can just as easily apply to a public sector body or perhaps even charity. However, clearly in those contexts the focus might, for example, be less on customers and more on service users, and – equally – less on profit and more on outcome.
Now watch the following short clip in which Markides (Irish Management Institute, 2013) discusses the concept of strategic innovation in greater detail.
In the next section you will consider the key consequences of Markides’ approach.
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SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.
Utilities have been under pressure for years to better inspect and replace aging gas pipes many of them laid years before sprawling communities were erected around them — that now are at risk of leaking or erupting.
But the effort has fallen short. Critics said the regulatory system is ripe for problems because the government largely leaves it up to the companies to do inspections, and utilities are reluctant to spend the money necessary to properly fix and replace decrepit pipelines.
“If this was the FAA and air travel we were talking about, I wouldn’t get on a plane,” said Rick Kessler, a former congressional staffer specializing in pipeline safety issues who now works for the Pipeline Safety Trust, an advocacy group based in Bellingham, Wash.
Investigators are still trying to figure out how the pipeline in San Bruno ruptured and ignited a gigantic fireball that torched one home after another in the neighborhood, killing at least four people. Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the pipeline’s owner, said Sept. 13 it has set aside up to $100 million to help residents recover.
Experts say the California disaster epitomizes the risks that communities face with old gas lines. The pipe was more than 50 years old — right around the life expectancy for steel pipes. It was part of a transmission line that in one section had an “unacceptably high” risk of failure. And it was in a densely populated area.
The blast was the latest warning sign in a series of deadly infrastructure failures in recent years, including a bridge collapse in Minneapolis and a steam pipe explosion that tore open a Manhattan street in 2007. The steam pipe that ruptured was more than 80 years old.
The section of pipeline that ruptured was built in 1956, back when the neighborhood contained only a handful of homes. It is a scenario that National Transportation Safety Board vice chairman Christopher Hart has seen play out throughout the nation, as suburbs have expanded.
“That’s an issue we’re going to have to look on a bigger scale — situations in which pipes of some age were put in before the dense population arrived and now the dense population is right over the pipe,” he said.
Thousands of pipelines nationwide fit the same bill, and they frequently experience mishaps. Federal officials have recorded 2,840 significant gas pipeline accidents since 1990, more than a third causing deaths and significant injuries.
Hart said the tragedy in San Bruno could push other states to begin tougher inspections of their lines.
“It would surprise me if other states didn’t see this and learn from it and be proactive with it,” Hart said.
Congress passed a law in 2002 that required utilities for the first time to inspect pipelines that run through heavily populated areas. In the first five years, more than 3,000 problems were identified — a figure Weimer said underscores the precarious pipeline system.
Even when inspections are done and problems found, Kessler said, there is no requirement for companies to say if or what kind of repairs were made. And Weimer added industry lobbyists have since pushed to relax that provision of the law so inspections could occur once a decade or once every 15 years.
Other critics complain that the pipeline plans are drafted in secret with little opportunity for the public to speak out about the process.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is the federal regulatory arm that enforces rules for the safe operation of the nation’s pipeline system, and has direct authority over interstate pipelines. Most state public utility agencies have adopted the federal rules and carry out inspections and enforcement of pipelines running inside state boundaries.
But the system often relies on the pipeline operators like PG&E to survey their own gas lines and to decide which pipelines are high risk.
The American Gas Association disputes the notion that it cuts any corners and said the industry is subjected to stringent state and federal regulations.
“Safety is unequivocally the No. 1 priority for the natural gas transmission and distribution industry and always will be,” spokesman Chris Hogan said. “The industry spends billions each year to ensure the safety and reliability of the natural gas infrastructure.”
California regulators say current rules are written in a way that relies on industry to report problems and set timetables for repair.
“We’re set up to provide an incentive and a deterrent and to make sure they follow the rules, but we generally avoid telling them how to run their system,” said Julie Halligan, deputy director of consumer protection and safety at the California Public Utilities Commission. “They can’t endlessly defer things and get away with it, because we’ll be looking after the fact to see what they’ve done.”
The challenge of ensuring pipeline safety is compounded by the sheer enormity of the nation’s natural gas network. The federal pipeline agency said the United States has more than 2 million mi. of pipelines — enough to circle the earth about 100 times.
The agency has only about 100 federal inspectors nationwide to ensure compliance, meaning there is no guarantee violators will be caught.
“When you look at two-and-a-half million miles of pipeline with 100 inspectors, it’s not reassuring,” Weimer said. “To a grand degree the industry inspects and polices themselves.”
Potential safety threats have grown as the pipeline network has expanded and age takes its toll on existing infrastructure. More than 60 percent of the nation’s gas transmission lines are 40 years old or older.
Most of them are made of steel, with older varieties prone to corrosion. The more problematic pipes are made of cast-iron. A few places in Pennsylvania still had wooden gas pipes as of last year, according to officials there.
Pipelines in heavily populated locations like San Bruno fall into a category the industry refers to as “high consequence areas.”
Those areas contain about 7 percent of the 300,000 mi. of gas transmission lines in the country, or roughly 21,000 mi. of pipeline. The category has nothing to do with the safety of pipelines, and was created to put the greatest emphasis on the most populous regions.
Industry watchdogs have criticized utilities for not being willing to spend the money necessary to avoid explosions like the one in California. The cost to replace lengthy stretches of pipelines can exceed $30 million.
“They [PG&E] will prioritize and put off work to maintain their level of earnings,” said Bill Marcus, a California attorney whose firm consults nationally with consumer protection agencies and nonprofits on gas rate cases. “To some extent that’s not bad, but it is concerning when those decisions endanger public health or the environment.”
PG&E said it has spent more than $100 million to improve its gas system in recent years, and routinely surveys its 5,724 mi. of transmission and 42,142 mi. of distribution lines for leaks. The utility speeded up surveys of its distribution lines in 2008 and expects to have completed checks in December, it said.
PG&E President Chris Johns said the pipe that ruptured was inspected twice in the past year — once for corrosion and once for leaks — and the checks turned up no problems.
A section of pipe connected to the line that exploded was built in 1948, and flagged as a problem by PG&E in a memo. PG&E submitted paperwork to regulators that said the section was within “the top 100 highest risk line sections” in the utility’s service territory, the document shows.
The fact that it’s in an urbanized area that didn’t exist when the pipe was built is emblematic of a bigger problem nationwide, experts say.
“People have been waiting for a while for this type of disaster to happen because of expanded construction near pipeline right of ways without adequate prevention,” said Paul Blackburn, a public interest lawyer in Vermillion, S.D.
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The Action Bible Colouring Pages
Art meets devotions in The Action Bible Colouring Book, allowing children of all ages to create their own Bible masterpieces while engaging in thoughtful devotional materials. 55 compelling drawings by acclaimed artist Sergio Cariello will captivate children as they create their own unique masterpieces of the real-life heroes of the Bible. Turn the page and discover a wealth of exciting information meant to introduce each Bible person to the child through an informative introduction including the hero’s experiences in God’s Word.
Additional information includes a devotional emphasizing the importance of connecting children to the actions of these heroes, several thoughtful questions meant to be shared with an adult or friend, a Scripture verse, and references to more information on each hero in both The Action Bible and The Action Storybook Bible, where applicable.
Beginning with Adam and Eve and including such compelling people as Abraham, David, Esther, Mary, Peter, Lazarus, and the redemptive story of Jesus, this brand-new product will spark the imagination and deepen the faith of all who encounter it.
Sergio Cariello is a master illustrator. He drew his first regular comic strip for his city’s newspaper at age eleven. Born in Brazil, he spent many childhood hours poring over the Portuguese edition of The Picture Bible. Sergio has worked for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, illustrating Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, Fantastic Four, and dozens more comic book characters.
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The level reached by very fast transients (VFT) overvoltages originated by disconnector switching or line-to-ground faults inside a gas insulated switchgear (GIS) are below the basic insulation level (BIL) of substation and external equipment.
However, aging of the insulation of external equipment due to frequent VFT must be considered.
Transient enclosure voltages (TEV) is a low energy phenomenon and it is not considered dangerous to humans; the main concern is in the danger of the surprise-shock effect. External transients can cause interference with or even damage to the substation control, protection, and other secondary equipment.
Breakdown caused by VFT overvoltages is improbable in a well-designed GIS insulation system during normal operations.
However, at ultra high voltage systems, more than 1000 kV, for which the ratio of BIL to the system voltage is lower, breakdown is more likely to be caused. At these levels, VFT overvoltages can be reduced by using resistor-fitted disconnectors.
Due to steep fronted wave impulses, direct connected transformers can experience an extremely nonlinear voltage distribution along the high-voltage winding, connected to the oil-SF6 bushings, and high resonance voltages due to transient oscillations generated within the GIS.
Transformers can generally withstand these stresses. However, in critical cases, it may be necessary to install varistors to protect tap changers.
Disconnectors and breakers
The insulation system of breakers and switches is not endangered by VFT overvoltages generated in adjacent GIS equipment. Ground faults induced by VFT overvoltages have been observed in disconnectors operations, as residual leader branches can be activated by enhanced field gradient to ground.
Transient enclosure transients (TEV) can:
- Cause sparking across insulated flanges and to insulated busbars of CTs, and
- Can puncture insulation that is intended to limit the spread of circulating currents within the enclosure.
TEV can be minimized with a proper design and arrangement of substation masts, keeping ground leads as short and straight as possible in order to minimize the inductance, increasing the number of connections to ground, introducing shielding to prevent internally generated VFT from reaching the outside of the enclosure, and installing voltage limiting varistors where spacers must be employed.
Very few problems have been reported with capacitively graded bushings. High impedances in the connection of the last graded layer to the enclosure should be avoided.
TEV may interfere with secondary equipment or damage sensitive circuits by raising the housing potential if they are directly connected, or via cable shields to GIS enclosure by emitting free radiation which may induce currents and voltages in adjacent equipment.
The coupling of radiated energy may be reduced by mounting control cables closely along the enclosure supports and other grounded structures, grounding cable shields at both ends by leads as short as possible, or using optical coupling services. Voltage limiting devices may have to be installed.
Reference: The Electric Power Engineering Handbook – Ed.L.L. Grigsby (Get hardcopy from Amazon)
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Recently, the DNL0302 team led by Prof. Mojie Cheng, in collaboration with Assistant Professor Xiaobo Chen of University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), made new progress in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The work was just published in the recent issue of Nano Letters (Nano Lett., 2015, 15(3):1703-1709).
Solid oxide fuel cell is an energy conversion device that produces electricity by clean, efficient and environmental-friendly means. In the past decades, many efforts have been devoted to developing intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT-SOFCs). However, high-performance and reliable IT-SOFCs still remain a big challenge, mainly due to the sluggish oxygen-reduction-reaction (ORR) activity on cathode or poor cathode stability.
In this work, we develop a nanoparticles-loaded SOFC cathode that enhances fuel cell output (200 ? 300% power improvement), and enables superior stability from 600 to 800 °C. The high performance is likely due to the higher TPB densities from the improved LSM-YSZ particle-to-particle contact and the intimate contact between the co-loaded LSM-YSZ nanoparticles and the YSZ framework. The improved stability is likely due to the high-temperature stability of the loaded LSM nanoparticles where the co-loaded YSZ nanoparticles successfully suppress the particle growth of the LSM nanoparticles. This study provides a promising approach for obtaining stable and high-performance cathode at various operation temperatures for IT-SOFCs.
This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.
(By ZHAO Zhe / ZHANG Xiaomin)
DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
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On occasion, the volume on your Panasonic TV may be a little off. Too low, high or scratchy noises may be heard from time to time. Transmission signal interference is the cause of most problems; however, the TV's setup also determines how the TV's sound comes across. Take a few moments to review a list of troubleshooting tips made to cure your TV's audio.
Verify that all TV cables, power cords and connections to external devices are secure if you do not hear audio. Check that your Panasonic TV is correctly set in TV or cable mode.
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Verify that the indoor antenna, if one is used, is securely connected to the TV if the audio seems too loud. The lead-in wire may be broken. If so, replace the antenna; otherwise, adjust the antenna until the TV volume is at a normal level.
Plug in fluorescent light source objects, medical equipment, vehicles and electrical appliances into another outlet, away from the TV. Magnetic interference can cause uneven noise.
Verify that "Mute" is not pressed and increase the volume. Check the connection to external speakers, if connected. Verify that "Stereo" or "Mono" is selected for the audio setting instead of "SAP."
Change the channel to determine if the volume problem is channel-specific. If so, contact your cable or satellite TV provider.
Check the remote control batteries and verify that each one is installed correctly. Replace the batteries and then reprogram the remote control, if necessary.
Take care to observe outside cable and antenna wires from a distance. Contact your cable or satellite TV provider or other service technician if you notice downed lines or broken wires.
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Bitcoin began the week on a down note, declining as much as 8.7 per cent, pushing the biggest cryptocurrency's decline for March to about 25 per cent.
Bitcoin dropped below US$8,000 ($10,964) to US$7,863, according to Coindesk.
Twitter Inc. confirmed Monday that it's banning advertisements for initial coin offerings and token sales on its social-media platform. The decision comes after Facebook Inc. banned cryptocurrency ads in January and Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it would ban such ads starting in June, as part of a broader effort to crack down on deceptive and misleading advertising on their platforms.
After reaching a record high of almost US$20,000 in December, Bitcoin has slumped about 60 per cent as investors reconsider the prospects of the digital currency and regulators around the world increase scrutiny.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sent a number of subpoenas earlier this month to ICO teams it suspects are breaking securities regulations, and it has warned since July that some of the offerings may be breaking securities regulations. Twitter said on March 7 that it was implementing measures to prevent crypto scams.
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It’s pretty remarkable that DNA tests are a normal part of life in the 21st century. For a reasonable fee you can learn all about your ancestry and genetic traits. Of course, mailing saliva to a tech startup so they can analyze your DNA also sounds like a dystopian sci-fi movie. How safe is it to trust these companies with your genetic data?
First, the good news: giving your DNA to a company will not automatically put you in a database where anyone can track you down. The bad news, though, is that it does require you trust each company to abide by their self-imposed rules. Like a lot of data privacy concerns, it’s all a bit nuanced.
23andMe, AncestryDNA, and other popular services
Like a lot of tech companies, 23andMe knows that people are worried about how their data is used and shared, and they spell it out pretty clearly: they don’t share your genetic data with any public databases or law enforcement agencies (unless required by subpoena or warrant, which has yet to happen). And you can also request to delete your data. Ancestry has similar rules and also promises not to share your data with outside parties.
But here’s the thing: at its heart 23andMe is a data company. They’ve even partnered with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline for medical research based on all the genetic information they’ve accrued. You don’t have to participate, but you do have to pay attention before clicking “yes” on every form when signing up. And while they also promise not to use your data without consent, Ancestry has research partners as well.
That’s why skeptical people might warn you not to use DNA services. There’s nothing inherently risky happening right now, but these companies are accruing a lot of data and could change their privacy policies whenever they want. Moreover, it’s possible that courts could allow law enforcement officials to search that data in the future.
What about searchable genealogy databases?
You might’ve heard that law enforcement officials found a murder suspect in 2018 by searching for his DNA online. They were using a public database called GEDmatch, which is used by hobbyists and people looking to cast a wider net when searching for relatives. Your genetic data only ends up here if you choose to upload it.
Why would the suspect upload his own DNA? He didn’t. Rather, investigators found a relative of his. That’s another reason why privacy advocates are wary of genetic databases in general: even if you don’t participate, your relatives can connect you indirectly.
The takeaway from all of this is basically that you need to pay close attention to the policies of whichever company you give your DNA to. Don’t treat it like an iTunes user agreement that you click through without reading. You’re giving them your most personal data—literally your genes!—and it’s your decision how much you’re willing to share.
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A Lutheran is a Christian. Christians trust Lutheran schools and Christians join the Lutheran church because Lutherans preach the whole counsel of God, both Law and Gospel, teach the Bible in all of its truth and purity, and administer the sacraments according to Christ’s institution and mandate. The Word and the Sacraments are God’s means of delivering His Gifts to His Church in every age. The most important thing in the Christian faith is Jesus’ death on the cross and Resurrection from the dead to save you from your sins. A Christian is justified, or made right with God, by God’s action in Christ Jesus by His Gift of undeserved grace, through faith, not by works (so that anyone could boast). Even this faith is a Gift, given by the Spirit at conversion or at Baptism. By this gift of faith, a Christian receives all the Gifts the Lord graciously bestows.
A Lutheran is evangelical. Lutherans focus upon the evangel, that is, the Holy Gospel, the Good News about Jesus Christ. A Lutheran Christian lives in the forgiveness of sins, in the Gospel. This is done by daily drowning the sinful nature, the Old Adam, through daily contrition and repentance so that a new man may arise and live before God in righteousness and purity forever. This baptismal faith is nourished by daily study of the Bible, regular worship attendance, and partaking the Lord Body and Blood in His Holy Supper. Since Christ alone is our hope for salvation, a Lutheran desires to share the Good news about Jesus so that all may have the Gift of Eternal Life. Lutherans were the first to be known as evangelicals because of their focus on the Gospel of Christ.
A Lutheran is confessional. The sainted A. L. Barry wrote, ” A Lutheran is a person who believes, teaches, and confesses the truths of God’s Word as they are summarized and confessed in The Book of Concord. The Book of Concord is a collection of Lutheran creeds that evangelically confess the pure truth of the Holy Bible. The part of the Confessions that Lutheran laypeople are most familiar with is Luther’s Small Catechism. The confessions recognize that, he Word of God is and should remain the sole rule and norm of all doctrine (FC SD, Rule and Norm, 9). Creeds (like the Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creed, and Athanasian Creed) were originally written to combat false teachings and to preserve the church from error. The Lutheran confessors intended the same thing when they presented the Augsburg Confession (1530), the Apology [Defense] of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, the Small and Large Catechisms, and the Formula of Concord (1577). In 1580, all the confessional writings were gathered into a single volume, The Book of Concord. Concord is a word that means harmony. A true Lutheran pastor unconditionally subscribes to the confessions, according to the words of C. F. W. Walther, because he recognizes the fact that they are in full agreement with Scripture and do not militate against Scripture in any point, whether the point be of major or minor importance; and that he therefore heartily believes in this divine truth and is determined to preach this doctrine. A pastor promises to teach according to the Scriptures and Confessions at ordination or subsequent installations.”
An electronic version of the Lutheran Confessions is available to download for free from http://www.bookofconcord.org.
A Lutheran is catholic. That Lutherans are small “c” catholic means that they believe, teach, and confess that which the One Holy Christian and Apostolic Church has always and at all places believed, taught, and confessed about God and the forgiveness of sins from the Bible alone. The teachings of the Lutheran Church are nothing new, but are the pure, authentic, original Christian faith. Luther’s reformation was conservative. He did not start completely from scratch, but made purifying the existing church his emphasis. Anything in the church or her worship that was contrary to the Word of God was removed. Anything that was neither commanded nor forbidden by the Bible was retained as an aid to teaching and nourishing the faith. Therefore, Lutherans have the benefit of the historic (1,600+ year-old) Divine Service, vestments, the use of a catechism, a system of weekly readings for worship, and the treasured hymns and canticles of the church.
A Lutheran is an evangelical, catholic, confessional Christian!
Today, there are 66 million Lutherans belonging to 250 different autonomous Lutheran churches around the world. The largest numbers of Lutherans are to be found in Germany, the place where the Reformation took place during the early part of the 16th century. The 9.5 million Lutherans in North America belong to dozens of different Lutheran church bodies, groups whose teachings vary widely. The largest of these at 5.1 million is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), with 2.5 million baptized members, ranks as the second largest Lutheran church body in North America and the 11th largest denomination in the USA. The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) has 410,000 members and is the third largest Lutheran Church in the United States of America.
Being a Lutheran is much more! Please email, call, write, or visit to ask us for more information!
Who is Martin Luther? Martin Luther (November 10, 1483–February 18, 1546) was a German theologian, an ordained pastor, an Augustinian monk, and a church reformer whose teachings inspired the Reformation. Luther’s call to the Church to return to the teachings of the Bible led to his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church. His translation of the Bible helped to develop a standard version of the German language. His hymns inspired the development of congregational singing in Christianity. On June 13, 1525, he married Katharina von Bora. Luther died confessing the faith he taught.
A Brief Outline of the Lutheran
Hymn based upon the Bible
CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION
Invocation (Matthew 28:19-20)
Confession and Absolution +
(Hebrews 10:22; Psalm 124:8; Psalm 32:5)
SERVICE OF THE WORD
Introit (a Psalm)
Kyrie (Mark 10:47)
Gloria (Luke 2:14; John 1:29)
Salutation (2 Timothy 4:22)
Collect of the Day based upon the Bible
Old Testament Reading (or one from Acts)
Gradual (a Psalm)
Epistle Reading (from a New Testament Letter)
Gospel Reading (from Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John)
Nicene Creed (based upon the Bible)
Hymn of the Day (based upon the Bible)
Sermon based upon the Bible
Offertory (Psalm 51:10-12)
Gathering of Offerings
The Prayer of the Church (Philippians 4:7)
SERVICE OF THE SACRAMENT
Preface / Proper Preface
(2 Timothy 4:22; Colossians 3:1; Psalm 136)
Sanctus (Isaiah 6:3; Matthew 21:9)
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)
Words of Institution
(Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24;
Luke 22: 19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-25)
Pax (John 20:19)
Agnus Dei (John 1:29)
Distribution with hymns
Nunc Dimittis (Luke 2:29-32)
Post Communion Collect
Benediction + (Numbers 6:24-26)
Hymn based upon the Bible
Lutheran worship is Biblical!
Read the Bible citations for yourself!
The Luther Rose, also known as the Luther Seal, is easily the most recognized symbol for Lutheranism, and for good reason. Martin Luther personally oversaw the creation of this symbol. It provides a beautiful summary of his faith, a faith that is common to all Christians, of every place and every time. Here is how Luther explained the meaning of his seal:
“Grace and peace from the Lord. As you desire to know whether my painted seal, which you sent to me, has hit the mark, I shall answer most amiably and tell you my original thoughts and reason about why my seal is a symbol of my theology. The first should be a black cross in a heart, which retains its natural color, so that I myself would be reminded that faith in the Crucified saves us. For one who believes from the heart will be justified” (Rom. 10:10). Although it is indeed a black cross, which mortifies and which should also cause pain, it leaves the heart in its natural color. It does not corrupt nature, that is, it does not kill but keeps alive. ” The just shall live by faith” (Rom. 1:17) but by faith in the crucified. Such a heart should stand in the middle of a white rose, to show that faith gives joy, comfort, and peace. In other words, it places the believer into a white, joyous rose, for this faith does not give peace and joy like the world gives (John 14:27). That is why the rose should be white and not red, for white is the color of the spirits and the angels (cf. Matthew 28:3; John 20:12). Such a rose should stand in a sky-blue field, symbolizing that such joy in spirit and faith is a beginning of the heavenly future joy, which begins already, but is grasped in hope, not yet revealed. And around this field is a golden ring, symbolizing that such blessedness in Heaven lasts forever and has no end. Such blessedness is exquisite, beyond all joy and goods, just as gold is the most valuable, most precious and best metal. This is my compendium theoligae [summary of theology]. I have wanted to show it to you in good friendship, hoping for your appreciation. May Christ, our beloved Lord, be with your spirit until the life hereafter. Amen.” *
* Martin Luther, Letter to Lazarus Spengler, July 8, 1530, as included in the translation by Amy Marga from “Luthers Siegel: Eine elementare Deutung seiner Theologie,” in Luther 67 (1996):66–87. Translation printed in Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. XIV, Num. 4, Winter 2000, pg. 409-410. The text used for this translation is from Johannes Schilling, Briefe, Auswah, Ubersetzung und Erlauterungen in Vol. 6 of Ausgewaehlte Schriften/MartinLuther. The text of Luther’s letter is also found in the Weimar edition of Luther’s Works, Briefe Vol. 5:444ff and in English translation in Luther’s Works: American Edition, Vol. 49:356-359).
IMMANUEL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH—MISSOURI SYNOD,
1300 W 5th Street (Across from the Hospital)
Sheridan, WY 82801
Senior Pastor: The Rev. Paul J Cain
Associate Pastor: The Rev. Rene G. Castillero
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Communication plays a key role in all facets of a business. Effective communication in the workplace starts with not just finding your own voice, but the right tone of voice to deliver your message. Business letters, memos and letters you write can benefit from an expert and authoritative style. When you communicate well with your clients and within your industry, your professional peers will take notice and you will begin to climb through the ranks.
Effective Speaking Can Help You To Accomplish More
Workplace productivity is greatly improved through effective communication. In the business world, time is money. So, when it is about explaining details to your team members, your communication skills will pay off. The ability to speak and communicate clearly will save you a lot of time. Moreover, excellent communication skills save you the trouble of having misunderstood communications with your team or clients that could potentially upset your work.
Opportunities Are Limitless For Individuals Who Can Talk Clearly
Whether you are trying to get your dream job or vying for promotion, training on effective communication skills will help you to achieve your goals. Employers and managers are constantly on the lookout for individuals who can articulately express themselves. Believe it or not, the way you communicate influences your performance at work and makes you seem like the ideal candidate.
Good Communication Skills Help In Solving Problems Quickly
Irrespective of the industry, every professional runs into problems in their workplace. In fact, there are some jobs that are all about problem-solving. Communication plays a pivotal role in many challenges and problems in the workplace. It is often said that many problems are solved through effective communication.
In addition to the above, there are other aspects of using communication training courses. These are as follows:
Some are born talkers whilst others have to develop the skills through training. If you are someone who lacks effective communication skills and finds it difficult to put your thoughts and views across, you must consider enrolling for a training course. Since training courses today are also available online, you do not have to worry about the course hampering your other prior commitments. Alternatively, you can also opt for face-to-face training courses or arrange for communication skills training at your workplace.
A lot of people have benefited from communication training courses and you will too. All you have to do is search for accredited courses that are conducted by industry experts. Also, make sure to go through the course module to determine whether they are offering the things that you are looking for. Register yourself and see the difference in your attitude and personality within days. In addition to improving the way you communicate, these training courses will also help to make you feel more confident about yourself.
Enroll for communication course today and embark on a life-changing journey.
Maguire Training is the UK's leading provider of sales, leadership and management training courses. They also offer healthcare training, personal development and training on effective communication . They provide face-to-face, in-house and online training courses. Upon completion of their courses, the participants are awarded CPD points.
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Water used in the making of Tsar Ivan the Terrible vodka comes from a natural spring and is very soft, not exceeding 4 mg/L. The water treatment process is unique to traditional vodka production in Russia and is not used outside the country. It famously preserves the original purity and freshness of the natural spring water. The water is never boiled or distilled.
Prior to water/sprit blending process, the water is:
- Thoroughly filtered and oxygenated.
Tsar Ivan The Terrible is crafted in the unique Osobaya style. It is neither plain nor flavoured. It uses delicate infusions of Siberian cedar nuts and wild buckwheat honey added in minute quantities to ensure its luxurious smooth finish.
- Only the highest quality golden shade kernels harvested from September to November are used to make the infusion.
- Pure wild buckwheat honey used to make the infusion, has a sweet taste with an added pungent note.
Together these delicate admixtures create a distinctive soft finish making Tsar Ivan the Terrible vodka uniquely enjoyable even at room temperature.
In 1555 Tsar Ivan the Terrible issued an Edict on the State vodka production monopoly, providing for consistency of high quality of state distilled vodka, distributed across the country exclusively through the chain of vodka taverns called Tsar’s Kabaks. Production and sale of vodka outside this rigid system was declared a capital offence punishable by the death penalty.
In line with this ancient tradition Ladoga Group is well known for their adherence to strict production standards and stringent control over the quality of vodka and its packaging.
Spirit base for Tsar Ivan The Terrible vodka is made from the aromatic winter wheat selected on the basis of the following:
- Wheat grain must be one year old or less.
- It must be grown in favourable climatic conditions ensuring its high quality.
- Only “soft” varieties of winter wheat selected for distillation.
- The resulting product, called Lux, is the purest of all spirits, used in the production of super-premium vodkas.
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First Minister leads historic summit on Precision Medicine
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Monday, 10 September, convened industry, academic and clinical experts in Precision Medicine from across Scotland and across the globe, bringing together the sector to declare its intention to lead the world in this exciting new development.
Scotland’s Precision Medicine Summit, which was held in Perth, was co-chaired by University of Glasgow Vice-Principal Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak and Professor David Crossman, Chief Scientist-Health with the Scottish Government. The summit heard from academics, clinicians and major industry partners and involved high-level discussions on how to ensure Scotland capitalises fully on its current strengths in the field.
The centrepiece of the day’s debate was the Science and Innovation Audit Precision Medicine Innovation in Scotland: Accelerating Productivity Growth for Scotland and the UK, which is due to be unveiled in the near future. This report, commissioned by the UK Government and led by the University of Glasgow, sets out in detail the ways in which Precision Medicine can lead to better outcomes for patients, potentially save billions of pounds for the NHS and contribute strongly to economic growth and job creation in Scotland.
The First Minister said: “Scotland has all of the potential to be a world leader in developing precision medicine. I saw that back in April when I visited Hong Kong and China. I spoke to a number of companies there about precision medicine, and they showed real interest in the Triple Helix – the three key strengths which Scotland has to offer.
“First, there’s the quality of our academic research. We lead every other part of the UK in attracting research and development projects. And our universities boast particular specialisms in the areas most relevant to precision medicine – such as genomics, data and informatics, and clinical medicine.
“Second, Scotland is more successful than any other part of the UK in setting up businesses to commercialise our research. That’s one of the reasons why we have such a thriving life sciences sector. Scotland is home to more than 700 life sciences companies - and over 200 of them are involved in precision medicine.
“Third, our single unified health service – NHS Scotland – maintains healthcare data of unparalleled quality. For example, through our Community Health Index we have a comprehensive source of patient, clinical and demographic information – covering a population of over 5 million people. As precision medicine is data-driven – and depends on information about patient genetics, environment, and lifestyle – that’s a huge asset. And – together with our academic and industrial strengths – it’s one on which we’re absolutely determined to capitalise.
“The Precision Medicine work undertaken by the University of Glasgow and the eco-system centred around the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital are key assets for Scotland’s Precision Medicine ambitions, and will be vital as we seek to capitalise on our current position, and cement ourselves as the international leaders in the field.”
Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow said: “Scotland’s Precision Medicine Summit has been a historic opportunity for the health sector in Scotland to speak with one voice – with government, academia, industry and our NHS coming together to declare our intention that Scotland will lead the world in Precision Medicine, an industry projected to be worth $134bn by 2025.
“We stand on the brink of leading a genuine revolution in how we practise medicine – promising not just better outcomes for patients, but upwards of £70bn in savings for the NHS, contributing to inclusive economic growth and supporting thousands of new jobs in Scotland.
“The commitment the Scottish Government has already demonstrated over the last few years has put Scotland in pole position to lead the way – and the progress we have made at this historic summit has put not just international leadership but a transformation in health treatment well and truly within our grasp.”
As well as keynote addresses from the First Minister and Dame Anna, the summit heard from experts from across academia and industry, including President of the US National Academy of Sciences, Professor Victor Dzau; Dr Ken Sutherland, President of Canon Medical Research Europe Ltd; and Jeane Freeman, Cabinet Secretary for Health.
It has been estimated that the implementation of Precision Medicine could see the financial burden of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease and musculoskeletal issues reduced by £73bn over the next 50 years.
The global Precision Medicine market value was estimated at around $43bn in 2016 and is projected to rise to around $134bn by 2025.
Scottish Enterprise estimate that there are around 230 companies already undertaking Precision Medicine activity in Scotland.
First published: 10 September 2018
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It is important to remember that liposuction is a contouring operation, not an operation performed for weight loss. Nonetheless, patients naturally want to know how much fat was removed during their liposuction procedure, and they frequently want to know how much that fat weighs.
Prior to aspirating the fat, a wetting solution (also called tumescent fluid) is infused in the areas that are going to be treated. This wetting solution typically consists of IV fluid, lidocaine, epinephrine. The purpose of tumescent fluid is to provide some pain relief, reduce blood loss, and allow the fat to be aspirated more easily. Different surgeons will elect to infuse different volumes of this wetting solution prior to performing the liposuction.
The aspirate that is removed during suctioning consists of a mixture of both fat and fluid. With time, the aspirate will separate into a fat layer on the top (because fat is less dense than water) and a fluid layer on the bottom.
The fat layer consists of particulate fat and a small amount of oils. The volume of fat aspirated will depend upon the size of the area treated, and how thoroughly the area was suctioned.
The fluid layer consists of wetting solution and a small amount of blood. The volume of fluid aspirated will depend upon how much wetting solution was injected prior to suctioning, and how much bleeding occurred during the operation. The greater the volume of wetting solution injected at the beginning of the procedure, (more than likely) the greater the volume of fluid in the aspirate. The goal is to remove fat with as little bleeding as possible; so generally, the amount of blood present in the fluid layer is minimal.
After the entire aspirate is allowed to settle, the volume of fat removed can be directly measured. The density of fat = 0.918 g/mL.
The weight of the aspirated fat can be calculated by multiplying the aspirated volume of fat (in milliliters) by 0.918 g/mL.
The weight of fat (in grams) is converted to kilograms by dividing by 1000.
The weight of fat (now in kilograms) is converted to pounds by multiplying by 2.2 pounds/kilogram.
For example, if 1500 mL of fat were aspirated during an abdominal liposuction procedure, the calculation would be as follows:
1500 mL aspirated fat x 0.918 gr/mL = 1377 gr of aspirated fat
1377 gr = 1.377 kg of aspirated fat
1.377 kg x 2.2 lbs/kg = 3.0 lbs of aspirated fat
Therefore, 1500 mL of aspirated fat weighs 3 pounds.
So for the average patient, their weight changes very little following liposuction.
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In the first part of this series, I covered ancient times up until the Renaissance. I stopped at 1492, which was a very important year around the world. The central ideas of the Renaissance were the human body is a perfect thing, and those with disabilities were not considered perfect at all. During the Spanish Inquisition, disabled children were drowned and burned. Disabled children didn’t have a place in the perfect “Christian” world.
In Colonial America, disabled children were treated horribly. Many of them would be locked in cellars and spectators would pay to “gawk at the oddities”. Many parents forbid these children to leave the home or go out in public. Witchcraft accusations still ran rampant against girls and women, and many disabled females were whipped, tortured, burned or murdered as a result. Worldwide estimates of females killed during the “witchcraft” times is around 100,000.
Asylums and institutions continued to grow around Europe and conditions were inhumane for the residents. Essentially, they were left to rot. Orphanages also housed many of the disabled children.
In 1601, Queen Elizabeth decided to place the groups of poor into 3 subsets. The disabled poor were at the bottom. Called the “disabled poor”, they were ejected from hospitals and monasteries and forced to beg on the streets. Each would be given a cap to get money, thus the term “handicap” came into existence.
Advancements did slowly come for the deaf in Europe. Giralmo Cardano discovered in the 16th century that deaf people can be reasoned with. This eventually led to the creation of deaf schools in the 1700s, the first of which was a school in Germany created by Samuel Heinicke. This was followed by The Academy For The Deaf And Dumb in Scotland.
The blind were starting to be seen as something human when Valentin Huay opened the Institution For Blind Children in Europe. Huay first discovered blind people could actually read texts if the letters were raised. This eventually led to the discovery of Braille in 1829, but it did not become widely used until it was put into use at the St. Louis School For The Blind in 1860.
During the 1700s and 1800s, many disabled people deemed insane were put on ships and sailed from port to port as part of a tour. People would actually pay to view and laugh at these disabled people. This is where the term “Ship of fools” was created. At the end of the tours, the disabled were left at whatever the end of the destination was and abandoned. Even in London, at “Bedlam”, people would pay to see the insane.
Mental illness was starting to be looked at differently by some people in the world. Phillipe Pinel, who was a physician at La Bicetre Asylum in Paris, France, was one of the first to begin classifying these disorders. In 1793, Pinel was so horrified by the treatment of patients that he literally let them loose from their chains. Some of these patients had been shackled by chains for over 30 years. In 1800, Pinel wrote the “Treatises On Insanity”. Pinel put mental illness into four separate groups: melancholy, dementia, mania without delirium, and mania with delirium.
Beginning in 1801, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard began his work with “The Wild Boy Of Ayeron”, of which I wrote in more detail on 7/12/14: https://exceptionaldelaware.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/was-the-wild-boy-of-ayeron-autistic-how-did-this-help-create-special-education-edude/
In 1805, Benjamin Rush published Medical Inquiries And Observation, which was also one of the first modern attempts to explain certain mental disorders and illnesses. Many of these advances for individuals with disabilities were a step in the right direction, but science needed to catch up with theory.
To be continued…
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As humanity’s most significant intellectual and artistic revolution, the Renaissance is rich with tales of remarkable individuals and accomplishments. Women in the Renaissance were typically overlooked in historical research since they did not have the same power and victory as males. Women still had no political rights and often had to choose between marriage or becoming a nun.
As more historians look back at this period, they discover more about women who achieved incredible feats. Despite social constraints, women were challenging gender stereotypes and making their impact on history throughout this period.
This article will examine three notable women who contributed to Europe’s great cultural and creative revival.
Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466)
Isotta Nogarola was an Italian writer and intellectual, considered to be the first female humanist and one of the most important humanists of the Renaissance.
Isotta Nogarola was born in Verona, Italy, to Leonardo and Bianca Borromeo. The couple had ten children, four boys, and six girls. Despite her illiteracy, Isotta’s mother understood the importance of education and ensured that her children received the best education that they could. Isotta and her sister Ginevra would go on to become well-known for their classical studies, writing poems in Latin.
In her early writings, Isotta referred to Latin and Greek writers such as Cicero, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Petronius, and Aulus Gellius. She became well-versed in public speaking and would deliver speeches and conduct debates in public. However, the public’s reception of Isotta was hostile – she was not taken as a serious intellectual because of her gender. She was also accused of a number of sexual misdemeanors and treated with derision.
Isotta eventually retired to a quiet location in Verona, where she ended her career as a secular humanist. But it was here that she wrote her most famous work – De pari aut impari Evae atque Adae peccato (Dialogue on the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve).
- Her most famous work was a literary conversation called De pari aut impari Evae atque Adae peccato (trans. Dialogue on the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve), published in 1451.
- She argued that a woman couldn’t be weaker and yet more responsible when it came to original sin.
- Twenty-six of Isotta’s Latin poetry, orations, dialogues, and letters remain.
- She would become an inspiration to subsequent female artists and writers.
Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549)
Marguerite of Navarre, also called Marguerite of Angoulême, was an author and patron of humanists and reformers, who made became a prominent figure during the French Renaissance.
Marguerite was born on April 11, 1492, to Charles d’Angoulême, a descendent of Charles V and Louise of Savoy. She became the only sister of Francis I, the future king of France, a year and a half later. Even though her father passed away when she was still a child, Marguerite had a happy and affluent upbringing, spending most of her time in Cognac and afterward in Blois.
Following her father’s death, her mother assumed control of the home. At the age of 17, Marguerite married Charles IV, Duke of Alençon. Her mother Louise instilled in Marguerite the importance of knowledge, which was extended by Marguerite’s own passion for ancient philosophy and the scriptures. Even after her marriage, she stayed loyal to her younger brother and accompanied him at court in 1515 once he became the French monarch.
In her position as an affluent woman of influence, Marguerite assisted artists and scholars, and those who advocated for reform within the church. She also wrote many important works, including Heptaméron and Les Dernières Poésies (Last Poems).
- Margeurite was a poet and short-story writer. Her poetry represented her religious non-orthodoxy since she was inspired by humanists.
- In 1530, she wrote “Miroir de l’âme pécheresse,” a poem that was condemned as a work of heresy.
- Marguerite’s “Miroir de l’âme pécheresse” (1531) was translated by England’s Princess Elizabeth as “A Godly Meditation of the Soul” (1548).
- In 1548 following Francis’s death, her sisters-in-law, both Navarre-born, published their works of fiction under the pseudonym “Suyte des Marguerites de la Marguerite de la Navarre”.
- She was called the First Modern Woman by Samuel Putnam.
Christine de Pizan (1364-1430)
Christine de Pizan was a prolific poet and author, today considered the first female professional writer of the Medieval period.
Although she was born in Venice, Italy, her family soon moved to France, as her father took on the position of astrologer in the court of the French king,Charles V. Her early years were happy and pleasant, as she grew up in the French court. At the age of 15, Christine married Estienne de Castel, a court secretary. But ten years later, de Castel died of the plague and Christine found herself alone.
In 1389, at the age of twenty-five, Christine had to support herself and her three children. She began to write poetry and prose, going on to publish 41 separate works. Today she’s popular not just for these works, but also for being a forerunner of the feminist movement, which would come into effect 600 years later. She’s considered by many to be the first feminist, even though the term didn’t exist during her time.
- De Pizan’s writings include a wide range of feminist subjects, from the origins of women’s oppression to cultural practices, confronting a sexist culture, women’s rights and achievements, and ideas for a more equitable future.
- De Pisan’s work was favorably appreciated since it was grounded on Christian virtue and morals. Her work was particularly effective in rhetorical tactics that academics have subsequently examined.
- One of her most renowned works is Le Dit de la Rose (1402), a stinging critique on Jean de Meun’s wildly successful Romance of the Rose, a book about courtly love that portrayed women as seducers.
- Because most lower-class women were uneducated, de Pisan’s work was crucial in promoting justice and equality for women in medieval France.
- In 1418, de Pisan joined a convent in Poissy (northwest of Paris), where she continued to write, including her last poem, Le Ditie de Jeanne d’Arc (Song in Honor of Joan of Arc), 1429.
Although we hear much more about the men of the Renaissance period, it’s fascinating to learn about the women who fought against injustice, prejudice, and the unfair gender roles of their time to still leave their mark on the world.
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A child’s curiosity and natural desire to learn are like a tiny flame, easily extinguished unless it’s protected and given fuel. This book will help you as a parent both protect that flame of curiosity and supply it with the fuel necessary to make it burn bright throughout your child’s life. Let’s ignite our children’s natural love of learning!
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Article 42, Section five of the Honduras Constitution states (roughly translated) that any person “inciting, promoting, or supporting the continuation or re-election of the President” may lose his/her citizenship, by court order.
This past weekend, the Supreme Court of Honduras rejected former President Zelaya’s effort to hold a "national poll", an effort to open the door for a constitutional assembly to eliminate the restriction against a President only being able to serve a single term. Modeled after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ successful endeavor, this action was rejected unanimously by Congress (62 voting members being from the President’s own party), deemed illegal by the Supreme Court, and refused by top military commanders. In other words, in the other two branches of government and within the executive branch itself, there was strong and deep resistance to the President’s extra-Constitutional push for change. But there is more to this issue than the poll itself:
According to reports from the Honduran daily La Prensa, the legislature considered a list of illegal acts undertaken by Mr. Zelaya and concluded that he “carried out unfortunate acts, showing contempt for the legal authorities and failing to carry out his legal and constitutional duties which, in one way or another contribute to the normal development of the activity of the nation’s life.” Included among those were his failure to enforce at least 96 laws enacted by the Congress, and to submit a budget, which he was required to do by September 15 of last year. It is also reported that the ex-President intended to dissolve the Congress as soon as his rogue referendum took place, thus paving the way to enforce it through Executive fiat.
Having spent two years in Honduras as an LDS missionary, I can attest to the people’s strong resistance towards executive usurpation of power. The juntas of the past have instilled in the common citizen a distaste for Chavez-esque reincarnation of domestic tyranny. Currently there is strong support in Honduras for the recent actions of the government in ejecting former President Zelaya.
However, the past few days have not gone by without commentary and official statements from all across the world. Chavez himself has promised an invasion of Honduras unless Zelaya is restored to power. President Obama has called the ejection of Zelaya a “coup”, ignoring the fact that the military’s actions came from orders of the Court and Congress. The UN and other multi-national organizations have strongly condemned the new Honduran government’s actions, and refuse to acknowledge their legitimacy.
So why in the world does President Obama find himself on the same side of an issue as Hugo Chavez (ignoring the fact that both seemingly love to nationalize private industry…)? He and other leaders of nations fear one thing in this Honduran controversy: precedent.
While technicalities of the Honduran government’s actions may be up for dispute on constitutionality, it is absolutely clear that Zelaya’s efforts were specifically unconstitutional. The other branches of government declared as much, and acted accordingly. Now, imagine if in coming days this action stands, and that Zelaya fades into history as an example of another corrupt politician. Precedent having then been established, other countries might be inspired to act likewise under any similar circumstances, and rise up against their own leaders for so brazenly taking actions which have no constitutional validity.
For this simple reason alone, the governments of the world find themselves speaking out against the majority of the Honduran government for removing from office a man who on several counts pursued actions clearly barred by law. President Obama’s ability to create and promote policy that has no constitutional authority without fear of an uprising from the other branches of government and from the people relies upon the general belief that coups, impeachments, votes of no confidence, and other direct attacks upon the executive are unwise, impractical, and contrary to “democracy” (a reverenced, hollow term if ever there was one). This is no far-fetched assumption of another person’s thoughts on the matter—Obama said it himself:
It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, rather than democratic elections.
What this stance fails to take into account is the imminent illegal actions of an elected official to unconstitutionally alter the form of government. This is not some simple policy disagreement that can be settled at the next ballot box through popular vote, but rather a proactive effort (with Chavez’ eager support, both materially in the form of ballots, and ideologically) to make permanent changes to the Constitution that go against the established method for its alteration, and which promote an activity explicitly prohibited by said document (that of “inciting, promoting, or supporting the continuation or re-election of the President”).
I’m with the majority of Honduras on this issue: Zelaya was and is a reckless, power-crazed individual seeking to illegally alter the form of government with no care for the rule of law, public opinion, or the unanimous voice of the other branches of government. Domestic enemies of the Constitution have to be dealt with before their plans are carried out, and while there may be nuances of the government’s actions that were not proper, the general initiative to remove Zelaya from office was and is the right decision for the Republic of Honduras and the continuity of their Constitution and government.
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Axum is an ancient town in Northern Ethiopia. It lies at an elevation of about 2100 meters just west of Adwa in Tigrai region. Once the seat of the kingdom of Axum, it is now a tourist town and religious centre best known for its antiquities tall granite obelisks, 126 in all, stand (or lie broken) in the central square. Once measuring 33 meters, now fallen, is said to be the tallest obelisk ever erected. The obelisks range from nearly plain slabs to intricately inscribed pillars. Door and window-like shapes are carved into some of the pillars, giving them the appearance of slender buildings. The most recent of the obelisks announces the adoption of Christianity in the 4th century by king Ezana. At least 27 carved stone thrones have been unearthed in the overgrown ruins of the ancient palace.
Axum has long been regarded a holy city for the Ethiopian Orthodox church. It forms the setting of the 14th century work Kibre Negest (“Glory of the Kings”), which relates the tradition of the transference of the Ark of the Covenant from Jerusalem to Axum by King Menelik I, the son of King Solomon of Israel and Queen of Sheba (Makeda). It is still believed that the Ark of the Covenant is located in the Church of St. Mary of Zion in Axum. Over the centuries, however the church has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. The present structure is built by King Fasiledes of Gonder in the 17th century. Emperor Haile Silassie I built the new Church of St. Mary of Zion near the old one, in which the Arc of the Covenant is housed, in 1965.
Bahir Dar is the gateway to the Blue Nile Falls and the monasteries on Lake Tana and the surrounding peninsulas. Measuring 68 kms by 73 Kms, Lake Tana is the largest water body in Ethiopia, is dotted with 37 islands of which 20 shelters Churches and monasteries. Bahir Dar is a beautiful town with tree-lined avenues and set on the shores of the deep blue Lake Tana.
The city of Bahir Dar lies on the southern tip of Lake Tana enjoying a pleasant, tropical type of climate. Today the city is developing fast into a place of considerable social, political and economic activities, with a population of about 130,000. It is also becoming a tip commercial center of the Amhara National Regional State, with cotton and oil factories, polytechnic and pedagogical colleges. There are also a growing number of Banks, Insurance companies, Tour and Travel Agents, Hotels, Pensions and Restaurants.
Bahir Dar serves as a departure and destination point along the “historical routes”. Thus, it is now hosting an ever increasing number of in-flowing domestic and international tourists almost throughout the year. The natural, historical and cultural spots in and around the city attract the attention of many visitors; making Bahir Dar a frequently visited place for both heritage and ecotourism.
Debre Damo, located 48 kms from Axum, is the oldest monastery of the nation which dates back to the early Axumite times. It is closed to female visitors. Even for men, it needs some courage to access the monastery, as one need to use a rope to climb the 24 mts (78 ft) high cliff.
The cool celestial island of rock offers the panoramic views of the surrounding countryside and complete seclusion and peace for the hundreds or so monks and deacons who live there.
The treasures include an extensive collection of illuminated manuscripts among the oldest surviving fragments of texts not found anywhere in Ethiopia.
Gonder is 180km North from Bahir Dar, 700km North of Addis Ababa and nestles in the foothills of the Semien mountains at an altitude of 2200 meters above sea level. Gonder, founded by King Fasiledes in 1936, was the capital of Ethiopia for nearly 200 years. This fact is reflected by the number of palace buildings in the castle compound.
The city’s main imperial precinct, known as the Royal Enclosure, covers an area of 7.7 hectares and contains five castles raised walkways and connecting tunnels surrounded by high stone walls. The oldest of these is the Castle of Fasiledes, built of stone in the mid-17th century, reflecting a number of influences, mainly Axumite, Portuguese and Indian. The upper storey offers panoramic views and Lake Tana is visible on a clear day. The castle has been renovated recently. Fasiledes’ grandson. Iyasu the great, built his own castle and decorated it with ivory, gold and precious stones but an earthquake in the early 19th caused severe damage.
Harar is located in the eastern part of the country and part of the historic circuits. The walled city of Harar is an ancient city with rich and colorful history.
Harar is 523 kilometers east of Addis Ababa, the capital. The most dominant feature of Harar is its strong encircling wall, which embraces the town, its exciting market places, and its 99 mosques. Harar is the fourth holiest city after Mecca, Madina and Jerusalem.
Lalibela, a medieval settlement in the Lasta area of Wello, lies at the centre of an extensive complex of rock churches. Lalibela has 11 remarkable rock-hewn monolithic, semi-monolithic and cave built churches, built by one of the Zagwe Dynasty rulers, King Lalibela in the late 12th and early 13th century.
These notable structures are carved, inside and out, out of one solid rock, and are the unofficial eighth wonders of the world. Each building is architecturally unique but each reflects beautifully executed craftsmanship, and several are decorated with fascinating paintings. These astonishing edifices remain places of living worship to this day.
The church of Yemerhana Krestos - or Yemerha in its abridged form - is located some 42kms by road North of Lalibela in the massif of Abune Yosef. According to the Ethiopian tradition it was built by the saintly Zagwe King Yemerhana Kirstos between 1087-1127 A.D. The kings Gadl (Hagiography) describes in a considerable detail the circumstance of its construction and decoration and can be used as a reliable source. The building is three-aisle basilica built of wood and stone imitated the Aksumite architecture, extensively decorated with wood and stucco carving, and wall painting which are the oldest murals so-far known Ethiopia. Today what is left on this capital is his palace and a church, which is still being used by the local population and the occasional pilgrim.
The church is located at the mouth of a natural cave with spectacular views eastward into the surrounding valleys. The palace is placed alongside it, at an angle, some 16 meters to the west. The site was chosen because the cave, despite its elevation at 2600 meters over sea level, had a remarkable feature-a natural lake. All that needed to be done was to shore up the edges of the lake with foundations to support the two buildings and to seal off the space between the buildings with a floor. The floor, which still exists, was made of heavy and durable olive wood beams, with access to the water below provided by a trap door just in front of the church.
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Sof Omar, a tiny Muslim village in Bale (south east of Ethiopia), is the site of an amazing complex of natural caves, cut by the Weyb River as it found its way from the nearby mountains.
The settlement, which is a religious site, is named after a local Sheikh. Armed with torches and an official map, visitors to Sof Omar Cave make their way underground, far into the bowels of the earth, beside a subterranean stream, and there can see an extraordinary number of arched portals, high eroded ceilings and deep echoing chambers.
The part of the country is known as the natural and cultural route, it comprises the south Omo and western area of Gambella.
Here you can find the truly exotic culture and nature. It is an area of paradise for nature lovers. There are several and diverse ethnic groups with their unique life styles each different in their way that makes one to feel that he/she is traveling from one country to another, rather than is in the same region. The untouched nature and culture of this area will keep any visitor on a constant surprise. The parks found in this part are truly wild and isolated enabling you to observe the true behavior of the wild animals and their habitat.
Abyata-Shala Lakes National Park is formed by the twin lakes of Abyata and Shala. It has a total area of 887 square kilometers (550 square miles) in size, of which 482 square kilometer (300 square miles) is water. Both lakes are terminal lakes but very different in nature. The park was created for the many aquatic bird species that use the lakes, particularly Great White Pelicans and Greater and Lesser Flamingos. The surrounding area is mainly acacia woodland, some of which is very degraded by man.
Lake Abyata is a shallow pan, only 14 meters (46 feet) deep and its level fluctuates periodically. The beaches are unstable and saline, which creates a very real danger of sinking on the vehicles that venture too close. The lake provides the main source of food for the colonies of great while pelicans on the nearby Lake Shala.
Lake Shala by contrast, is, at 260 meters (853 feet), Ethiopia’s deepest rift valley lake, possibly the deepest lake in Africa North of the Equator. Shalla’s islands are used as breeding sites by many birds, and are home to the continent’s most important breeding colony of Great White Pelicans. The color of the water is like cold tea and there is a high concentration f salts, making it feel soapy. Few fish are found in this lake. It is also one of the seven nesting sites of the bird in the whole of Africa.
Apart from the above mentioned birds, some others include White-necked Cormorant, African Fish Eagle, Egyptian Geese, various Plover species, and Herons. Local mammals are not numerous but include Grant’s gazelle, Greater Kudu, Oribi, Warthog and Golden Jackal. Besides, some of the scenery is very beautiful, especially at dusk; the sight of Pelicans dipping into the silver waters of Lake Abyata is unforgettable.
Awash National Park, 211 Kms east of Addis Ababa cover 827 square kilometers (319 square miles). The park takes its name from the Awash River which marks the park’s southern boundary. The rivers last gesture is the salt lake, Lake Abbe, on the Ethiopia-Djiboutian border.
The park offers quite good wildlife and outstanding birdlife viewing. It also contains an interesting range of volcanic landscapes. The Beisa Oryx and Sommering Gazelles – in the open areas, Greater and Lesser Kudus - in the bushed areas, the endemic Swayne’s Hartbeest – in the grass plains, the tiny salt Dik-Dik – under the dry acacia bushes and Defarsa waterbuck – in the bushy river area and the two monkey species – the Anubis and Hamadryas - can be seen near the river. Among other monkeys, Colobus and Grivet monkeys are found in the riverside and drier areas respectively. Leopards, Lions, Black-Backed and Golden Jackals, Caracals, Servals and Wildcats are also seen in the park very rarely.
Until recently, 2003, 462 bird species have been recorded. Of these six are endemics namely Banded Barbet, Golden-Backed Woodpecker, White-Winged Cliff Chat, White-Tailed Starling, Thick-Billed Raven and Wattled Ibis. There are several bustard species in the park and secretary birds in the grass plains. The camping grounds, near the bank of the Awash River, and the Filwoha Hot Spring areas are the best sites to spot many species of birds such as Emerald-Spotted Wood Dove, Green Wood-Hoopoes, Red and Yellow Barbets, Carmine Bea Eaters are to name only a few.
One of the main features of the park area is the Fentale Volcano, on the southern flank of which can be seen the dark scar of the last lava flow of 1820. The other feature is the turquoise-blue pools of the natural hot springs in the extreme North of the park where you can spot Waterbucks and Hamadryas baboons and sometimes hear Lions at night.
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Lying south-east of Ethiopia, Bale Mountains National Park covers 2400 square kilometers (1488 square miles) covering wide range of habitats and ranging in altitude from 1500 to 4377 meters (4920 to 14357 feet) at Tulu Dimtu, the highest point in the southern Ethiopia. The spectacular Harenna escarpment running from east to west divides the area into two major parts. To the North is a high altitude plateau area known as the Sanetti Plateau (4000m) formed of ancient volcanic rocks and dissected by many rivers and streams that have cut deep gorges into the edges. In some places this has resulted in scenic waterfalls and alpine lakes.
The vegetation here varies according to altitude. The park can be divided into three main zones. Around Dinsho, in the North, there are grass riverine plains, bordered by bands of bushes, particularly sagebrush and St. John’s Wort. Wild flowers, such as Giant Lobelia, Geraniums, ‘red-hot pokers’ and Alcheilla, form carpets of color. Higher up the mountains heather appears either as small bushes or as mature trees.
The second zone, the Sanetti Plateau, is home to typical Afro-Alpine plants, some coping with the extreme temperatures by either remaining very small or becoming large. The best example of the latter is the curious looking Giant Lobelia, whose stems stand high against the skyline. Wild flowers are many and various, the dominant plant being the Helichrysum, or ’everlasting’ flowers that can be seen in many forms. Keep an eye on the indigenous Abyssinia rose, with its lovely subtle scent.
The third habitat which is the southern part of the park is heavily forested – the moist, tropical Harenna Forest, is home to tree species such as Haenia, Celtis and Podocarpus.
The wildlife of Bale includes many endemic species. The park was originally established to protect the two endemic mammals: the Mountain Nyala and the Semien Fox or Jackal.
The Denakil or Dalol Depression is one of the earth’s hottest and most inhospitable places. It’s more than 100 mts below sea level which makes it the lowest place of our planet. At noon-time, temperature soars to above 500C.
It is also one of the very few places in the world that has high active volcanic activity.
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Situated 510km south of Addis near the town of Arba Minch, in between Lakes Abaya and Chamo.
A wide variety of plains game roams freely amongst 514m2 of savannah, dry bush and groundwater forest, which are also the habitat of 188 recorded species of birds. Animals to be seen are Bushbuck, Swayne's Hartebeest (endemic), Burchell's Zebra, Grant's Gazelle, Guenther's Dik-dik, Greater Kudu, Anubis Baboon, Grey Duiker. Birds seen include Red-billed Hornbill, Grey Hornbill, Fish Eagle, Kori Bustard, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill and more.
A backdrop of hills and mountains combine to make this one of the most attractive national parks in Ethiopia, and its location makes it very accessible. In the far eastern part of the park hot springs bubble to the surface
Omo National Park, located in the south-west on the west bank of Omo River, is 870km south-west of Addis Ababa. It is one of the most beautiful national parks in Ethiopia.
The Omo National Park covers 4,068 square kilometres of wilderness bordered by the Omo river, is home to an amazing range of wildlife. 306 species of birds have been identified here, while large herds of Eland, some Buffalo, Elephants, Giraffe, Cheetah, Lion, Leopard, Burchell's Zebra, are quite common.
The park is not easily accessible. The park HQ is 75km from Kibish settlement. However, a new airstrip is available close to the HQ and to a pleasant campsite on the Mui River.
The Semien Mountains are a must for all those interested in wildlife, scenery and spectacular landscapes; the Park has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Semien Mountains National Park - the mountains high lands constitute one of the major mountain massifs in Africa. The region includes many summits above 4000 meters in the highest point in Ethiopia, Ras Dashen, at 4620 meters, the fourth highest mountain in Africa. Its dramatic topography is the result of the erosion of basalt lavas, which have been calculated to be nearly 3000 meters thick.
It is home to the endemic mammals of Walia Ibex, Semien Fox, Gelada Baboons and many species of birds and plants apart from its spectacular scenic beauty.
Maximum temperatures during the day are about 150 Centigrade (600 Fahrenheit). At night the temperature usually drops to 3 - 50C (35 -40 0F).
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Parental Alienation can be defined as one parent “driving a wedge” between the child / children and the other parent.
In the breakdown of marital and/or defacto relationships the impact upon the children can be immense. The impact is more significant when one parent acts in a way that prevents the other parent from having a relationship with a child and/or the children. As a family lawyer I come across this scenario on a regular basis.
It is the expert’s view (psychologists, social workers etc) that it is in the best interests of the children to have a strong and healthy relationship with each parent. To undermine the relationship between a child and their parent can be damaging for the child / children. The effects of this damage can be far reaching, including mental health problems, problems with future relationships and resentment towards the parent who sought to alienate the child / children from the other parent.
A recent study “The Forgotten Parent: The Targeted Parent Perspective of Parental Alienation – Journal of Family Issues” (May 28 2018) showed that alienated parents considered alienating behaviours to be a form of family violence. They also described poor mental health and concern for their child’s psychological well-being. Such parents also described emotional and financial costs associated with their engagement with systems “such as legal systems and child protection systems.”
In a further article from the Journal of Family Therapy headed “Recommendations for Best Practice in Response to Parental Alienation: Findings from a Systematic Review” (3 October 2016) which reviewed the research on parental alienation, suggested solutions for parental alienation could be:
- Legal and therapeutic management to enhance family functioning;
- Awarding primary parental responsibility to the parent that is being alienated;
- Providing specialised family therapy to break down the parental alienation; and
- The need for a specialised form of systemic family therapy for parental alienation which would aim to improve family functioning and prevent further parental alienation.
Most separations between couples are highly emotional. The experts suggest that parents who are separating need to remain “child focused” and work to an arrangement that is in the best interests of the children, not what best suits either parent.
This is also the overarching principle when parents are before the Family Court. The Family Court’s paramount consideration is “what is in the best interests of the children”. Using a child and/or children as a weapon or a pawn to undermine the other parent is inappropriate and not in the best interest of the child / children.
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What Is Overactive Bladder?
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Causes of OAB vary among patients but commonly include a weakened bladder muscle or muscle spasms, obesity, certain medications, caffeine or alcohol consumption, and nerve damage. Kasraeian Urology offers a caring, confidential environment where you can feel comfortable discussing your OAB symptoms or bladder dysfunction during a private consultation with one of our specialists.
Diagnosis and Treatment for Overactive Bladder
To diagnose an overactive bladder, one of our experienced urologists will conduct an exam to help identify the source of the condition. Together, you can then curate a personalized solution for gaining control of your overactive bladder and relieving your symptoms. Urodynamics testing is a diagnostic approach commonly used to measure pressure in the bladder and evaluate muscle contractions or spasms. This may involve a collection of assessments that provide valuable insight into how your bladder, urethra, and sphincters control the containment and release of urine.
Along with traditional forms of overactive bladder treatment, Drs. Kasraeian proudly offer state-of-the-art services for treating the condition and minimizing its associated symptoms. Treatment may involve lifestyle changes or focus on bladder control therapy, such as the advanced option of InterStim™. As a sacral neuromodulation treatment, InterStim transmits electrical pulses to nerves in the lower spinal cord (sacral area), which ultimately helps control bladder function. By stimulating the sacral nerves, InterStim may aid in improving muscle control of the bladder and reducing OAB symptoms.
Kasraeian Urology also offers Axonics to help with overactive bladder. Axonics provides the patient gentle stimulation to the nerves controlling the bladder/bowel to help the patient control their bladder and reduce symptoms.
WHO IS A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR OVERACTIVE BLADDER TREATMENT?
Ideal candidates for overactive bladder treatment with InterStim or Axionics therapy are men and women who are experiencing urgency incontinence and/or the symptoms of urgency incontinence, do not have an obstruction in the urinary tract, and have not responded to more conservative therapies.
Overactive Bladder (OAB) FAQs
What are the risk factors for overactive bladder?
The most common risk factor for overactive bladder is aging. As we grow older, we are more likely to develop OAB. Other factors that can cause OAB include an enlarged prostate, diabetes, obesity, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, muscle weakness, nerve damage, caffeine and alcohol consumption, and some medications.
Can overactive bladder go away on its own?
While there are things you can do to improve the situation, for the most part, OAB is a chronic condition. This means you may be able to reduce the effects and severity, but OAB will never completely go away on its own. That's why you should always consult a urologist with your concerns.
How can I prevent overactive bladder?
Just because OAB is a chronic condition, that doesn't mean there aren't things you can do to help. Here are a few tips to help reduce the effects of OAB:
- Consult a urologist for a personalized treatment plan
- Drink the daily recommended amount of water at regular intervals
- Limit alcohol and caffeine intake
- Get regular exercise
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Try pelvic floor exercises (Kegel exercises)
- Manage chronic conditions (diabetes, heart disease, obesity)
- Quit smoking
Overcome Bladder Control Problems
Take back control of your bladder and minimize urinary frequency with specialized care from Kasraeian Urology. Our skilled, compassionate urologists offer private, personalized consultations at our Jacksonville and Jacksonville Beach, FL locations, as well as virtual telemedicine visits. Contact our team today to inquire about insurance coverage for OAB care, treatment costs, or to schedule your consultation with Drs. Kasraeian.
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No one is really sure when we began calling dogs ‘man’s best friend’, but everyone is sure why – there are few other animals that can claim the kind of relationship that dogs and humans have shared for centuries. In nearly every field of work or walk of life, dogs have at some point been there to lend a helping paw, accomplishing some things better than humans ever could and others that humans simply could not have done alone.
Humans have reciprocated, creating an entire industry for the sole benefit of dogs; no matter what breed or age you have, there are endless varieties of toys, treats, and housing accouterments available for your furry friends. Even ordinary food, for instance, is tailored to the individual needs of every dog; you’ll find it sorted by breed, size, activity level, age, and a host of other factors that are all intended to ensure that your dog gets nothing but the very best of what it needs.
Many people ask why we go to so much trouble over dogs; after all, they are hardly picky eaters, and won’t come complaining to the manager if they don’t get their preferred dish. Going to such exceptional lengths to ensure that they get such a narrowly defined diet, often with servings calculated to the last gram, might seem to border on obsession, at least to the objective observer.
For working dogs, of course, the answer is simply that they need to stay in peak physical condition, and that includes the strictest adherence to a dietary regimen no less demanding than that of our star athletes and emergency forces. Such a diet in both humans and dogs is often supplemented with a considerable amount of exercise and practicing the critical skills to make them able to perform above and beyond their own personal bests.
When it comes to less active dogs, the answer is more complex, but no less universal – dogs are capable of an emotional bond with humans on a level that the rest of the animal kingdom has rarely, if ever, managed to replicate. We go to such lengths to treat dogs kindly because we form genuine friendships with them, and for your best friend, it’s unsurprising that you should be willing to make an extra effort.
As close as they are to the human psyche, though, the dog’s palette seems to be far less developed; pellets of macerated animal matter are still great for any dog, regardless of how its human feels towards it. What dog in its right mind would walk away from a tasty meal of chicken, beef, or fish?
It turns out that one of the many emotional similarities that dogs bear to humans is boredom; the dog can certainly learn and keep to a routine, but would much rather be moving on to the new and different as much as possible. This attitude extends to the meals in its bowl; your dog may love its kibble now, but can and will lose interest in the same thing every single day.
Additionally, it is a common misconception that regular kibble is made of all animal matter; the majority of kibble includes a substantial amount of filler, such as rice or flour, and are almost invariably made from inferior parts of an animal such as bone or gristle. These parts are tough on the digestive system and contain relatively little nutritional content, so it is a small wonder that your dog may eventually tire of them.
|1. Blue Buffalo Wilderness Trail Toppers Wild Cuts
|2. Stella & Chewy’s Stella’s Super Beef Meal Mixers
|3. Natural Balance Limited Ingredient Diet Formula
|4. The Honest Kitchen Dehydrated Dog Base Mix
|5. CANIDAE Grain-Free PURE
|6. Instinct Original Grain-Free Recipe
|7. Olewo Itch & Allergy Relief Dehydrated Healthy Weight
|8. Wellness CORE Bowl Boosters
|9. Merrick Backcountry Raw Real Beef Recipe
|10. Cesar Loaf & Topper
|11. Nutro Ultra Variety Pack
|12. Ziwi Peak Air-Dried
|13. American Journey Wild Alaskan
|14. Sojos Mix-A-Meal
|15. TruDog Boost Me Mighty Meaty Beef Booster
In contrast, dog food toppers are made from the choicest bits of the animal and undergo as little processing as possible on their way to the buyer. This helps them retain both the taste and texture that your dog instinctively loves to find in its food, as well as preserving the natural nutrients that make it such exceptional food for people and dogs alike.
Dog food toppers come into play when your pet begins to refuse its ordinary fare; by applying them directly to a simple bowl of kibble, you will immediately pique your dog’s interest and make sure that they keep eating enough to stay full and happy, without needing to entirely change your choice of pet food. Food toppers can make great rewards as well, giving your dog something to look forward to beyond either audible rewards, physical affection, or even ordinary kibble.
Depending on your dog, you may also be able to use a dog food topper for veterinary purposes; the stronger taste of the dog food toppers can mask the taste of various medications and convince your pet to take medicine more willingly. Depending on the condition you wish to treat, some dog food toppers may even contain the medication you need to administer; tick removal formula, for instance, is commonly found in the form of dog food toppers, making it that much easier to get your pet pest-free.
All of these come together to make dog food toppers a great trick to have up your sleeve when your pet’s mealtime comes around – simply drop a few into the bowl and your dog will dig in with gusto. It’s a fast and easy way to make mealtime enjoyable again for a dog that may have been losing interest for a while.
The many advantages of dog food toppers have made them part and parcel of the culture that produces dozens of varieties of any given item related to dog care; you can find an astounding variety of dog food toppers on the shelves, each one claiming to be the best for your pet. While you might be gratified to have such a selection available to you and your four-footed friend, it can be difficult to pick which one you want to trust to get your dog eating again.
To help you through that uncertainty, we’ve assembled a list of the best dog food toppers on the market. Pick one suitable for your pet’s characteristics and get ready to see a dog once again happy to be called in for a meal.
Our Best Dog Food Toppers Reviews and Comparisons
1. Stella & Chewy’s Stella’s Super Beef Meal Mixers
Named for the pair of pooches on the logo, this dog food topper comes in an astounding variety of flavors and is among the more popular brands currently on the market.
- Raw beef pellets
- 18 oz package
- 95 percent organic animal matter, percent vegetable additives
- Manufactured in the United States of America
What We Like About
This product is made almost entirely of animal matter to simulate the diet a dog would get in a natural state, with a small number of fruits to introduce vitamins and antioxidants that your pet might otherwise not be taking.
What We Don’t Like About
The freeze-drying process causes the nuggets to become hard and crumbly, making them both difficult and unappetizing for the dogs
- A broad variety of flavors and bag sizes
- All organic material
- Dry nuggets don’t leave as much mess
- Plant-based vitamin and mineral enhancements
- Premium American beef
- Unpleasantly hard and dry
- Nuggets crumble easily
2. Natural Balance Limited Ingredient Diet Formula
This brand uses a painstakingly limited list of ingredients, each one is chosen to provide a very specific benefit to your dog.
- 26-pound bag
- Bison and sweet potato mixture
- Includes peripheral supplements such as attention boosters and skin improvement
- Highly selective ingredients list
What We Like About Natural Balance Limited Ingredient Diet Formula
In making this product, the manufacturer takes care to include only those foods scientifically proven to address a specific problem in your dog.
What We Don’t Like About Natural Balance Limited Ingredient Diet Formula
Manufactured as it is out of several uncommon ingredients, this food topper may not adhere to the traditional view of what will perk up the dog’s interest.
- Chemically balanced snack
- Includes doses of Omega-3 fatty acids
- Complex protein and carbohydrate sources for added nutritional value
- Minimal chance for allergic reaction
- Relatively large package
- The topper comes in chunks too big for pups or small dogs
- Overpowering aroma, even to humans
3. The Honest Kitchen Dehydrated Dog Base Mix
The produce used in this food topper is of the same grade you would put on your own plate, right down to the directions for cooking it up for our dog.
- All-vegetable composition
- Requires rehydration
- Powder mix to be added to other food
- 7 pound package prepares roughly 29 pounds of food topper
What We Like About The Honest Kitchen Dehydrated Dog Base Mix
Many dog foods focus more on meat content – or at least flavor – than balancing out your dog’s nutrient intake. This topper is made entirely with fruit and vegetable matter and is specifically intended to provide your pet with the nutrients they may have been missing out on.
What We Don’t Like About The Honest Kitchen Dehydrated Dog Base Mix
The meatless nature of this product may make some dogs turn up their nose at it unless a meat-based kibble is used as well. Additionally, it requires considerably more human effort to prepare, and unlike dry food supplements, it is possible to get this mixture wrong.
- Supplies much-needed plant-based nutrients
- Relatively high nutritional value
- Helps rehydrate your dog
- Produce contains no preservatives or genetically modified plants
- Even a relatively small package yields a considerable amount of topper
- More preparation needed
- Dogs may not be attracted to produce
4. CANIDAE Grain-Free PURE
This is a grainless food topper meant to deliver a nutritional boost to dogs of any description, especially those with various sensitivities to their food.
- 24-pound bag
- 8 main ingredients
- Dry kibble consistency
- Duck and sweet potato
What We Like About CANIDAE Grain-Free PURE
This product can be used both as a nutritional supplement for your dog’s ordinary fare or as a standard kibble for dogs with gastrointestinal issues or allergies to mainstream kibble recipes.
What We Don’t Like About CANIDAE Grain-Free PURE
Dogs with no specific reactions to ordinary kibble may find this unattractive, especially if it is being served as a meal instead of as an added food topper.
- Addresses sensitive dogs
- Eight all-natural components
- Multipurpose product
- No grains
- Soft enough for senior dogs
- Healthy dogs may not eat
- Relatively expensive if used as a kibble
5. Instinct Original Grain-Free Recipe
This topper makes use of rabbit meat to more accurately simulate the game that your dog’s digestive system is designed to handle, leading to an enjoyable experience and smoother ingestion.
- 20-pound bag
- 71 percent meat, 29 percent produce
- Internationally sourced ingredients
- Domesticated rabbit meat
What We Like About Instinct Original Grain-Free Recipe
You get more than just a good topper or kibble from this bag – your pet will benefit from a high produce content, as well as the finest ingredients from several countries and specially farmed rabbit to make the meat elements lean and rich in nutrients.
What We Don’t Like About Instinct Original Grain-Free Recipe
A large number of the ingredients can make some dogs shy away, and the large produce content can produce soft stools or gastrointestinal pains.
- Wild game meat element is naturally attractive to dogs
- Added produce content for a wider array of vitamins and minerals
- Finest of both foreign and domestic ingredients
- No grain included in the production
- Minimal processing before packaging
- Dogs may not like smelling so many ingredients in their food
- May cause messy droppings or abdominal aches in your pet
6. Olewo Itch & Allergy Relief Dehydrated Healthy Weight
Most dog food toppers rely on meat of some kind to draw the dog’s attention, and many promote how flavorful they are as opposed to what they are doing for your dog. This model takes a different angle, aiming to entice your dog with healthy and delicious beet chunks to stimulate a variety of natural processes.
- One pound bag
- Sole ingredient – dehydrated beets
- Some preparation work necessary
- Lasts a year and a half after opening
What We Like About Olewo Itch & Allergy Relief Dehydrated Healthy Weight
Using all-natural, unprocessed beets makes this topper capable of kickstarting the various digestive processes that dogs do not usually get enough of; because they are naturally inclined to eat meat, they only rarely trigger such processes as skin and coat repair, which rely on plant vitamins. This product is exceptionally durable and will last more than a year after it is opened if for some reason you do not finish it first.
What We Don’t Like About Olewo Itch & Allergy Relief Dehydrated Healthy Weight
Although marketed as a cure for itchy or flaking skin in your dog, there are a concerning number of reports of this topper having no visible curative effect. There are many dogs who will not be interested in the vegetable matter in the first place, and who will ignore this product for that reason.
- No additives
- Highly shelf-stable
- Relatively inexpensive
- Counters specific conditions
- Rich in antioxidants
- Will not cure all dogs
- Some dogs may lose interest quickly or refuse this product outright
7. Wellness CORE Bowl Boosters
This brand of dog food topper specifically packs as much pure protein as possible into every pellet to ensure that the dog is enjoying the greatest possible nutritional value in each bite.
- 70 percent raw turkey
- No grain content
- Two-pound bag
- Infused with plant-based vitamins
What We Like About Wellness CORE Bowl Boosters
You can use this product either as a full meal of its own or as an enhancer to a different brand of dog food; simply drop a handful into the bowl just as you set it out. Your dog will love the high-intensity meat flavor that is packed into every mouthful.
What We Don’t Like About Wellness CORE Bowl Boosters
This is a relatively small bag if it is to be used as a standard kibble and fairly expensive for a dog food topper. If your dog does not already eat a poultry-based kibble, it may not even recognize these pellets as food in the first place.
- High protein content
- Vitamin boost
- Versatile product
- Strong meat flavor to draw dogs
- Soft enough for both young and old dos
- Dogs may not recognize the smell
- Somewhat inconvenient bag size
8. Merrick Backcountry Raw Real Beef Recipe
In this topper, the manufacturer has found a clever way to ensure even more nutritional value gets into the same size bag, with the same size kibbles as well.
- 12.5 oz bag
- Cooked material included
- Beef-based pellets
- Strictly grain-free
What We Like About Merrick Backcountry Raw Real Beef Recipe
This topper uses both cooking and deboning to make sure that problematic parts of the beef, such as bone or gristle, are not included in the topper. This ensures that the only thing that goes into the topper is deboned beef, with nothing but meat for your dog to enjoy.
What We Don’t Like About Merrick Backcountry Raw Real Beef Recipe
Cooking tends to include throwing the baby out with the bathwater, or at least a significant amount of nutritional value. Additionally, dogs do not naturally seek cooked food and may not respond to this product for that reason.
- More nutritious than other beef toppers
- Contains fatty acids and Omega-3
- Coated pellets ensure the dog enjoys every last one
- Nutrient-rich enough to support a food reduction
- No artificial flavoring or preservatives
- Cooked material may interfere with raw kibble’s drawing power
- Extremely small package for the price
9. Cesar Loaf & Topper
These trays are great on their own as a smaller meal for overweight dogs or as a food topper for ordinary pets.
- Pork based kibbles
- Plastic tray with individual compartments
- Can serve as rewards
- Chewy texture
What We Like About Cesar Loaf & Topper
By putting every individual treat in its own compartment, the manufacturer has ensured that these will stay fresh for as long as needed; simply open the packaging one small compartment at a time to preserve freshness. This is an exceptional product for picky eaters, containing the flavors and tastes that even the most disinterested of dogs are sure to enjoy.
What We Don’t Like About Cesar Loaf & Topper
There are relatively few treats, so you will need to get more of these sooner than you would have to restock on other products. The treats also create the genuine possibility that the dog will eat the food topper but nothing else.
- Convenient size to carry with you
- Individually wrapped treats
- Specifically made to entice picky dogs
- Soft texture for older dogs
- Made of fine United States of America pork
- Relatively little value for money
- Dogs can eat the topper without the rest of their food
10. Nutro Ultra Variety Pack
Not for nothing – variety is called the spice of life – this pack keeps your pet coming back to something new and delicious every time you open it, with a diverse blend of high-value proteins in each one.
- Individual food trays
- Food boosters based on turkey, salmon, and more
- Cases of 12
- 3.5 ounces per tray
What We Like About Nutro Ultra Variety Pack
Routine is what may have made your pet start to ignore mealtimes in the first place; with these food toppers, you’ll be able to surprise your dog over and over again with fresh tastes of chicken, salmon, turkey, and beyond.
What We Don’t Like About Nutro Ultra Variety Pack
These trays are relatively small and will need to be restocked far more frequently than one would need to buy more of a bagged product. Continual rotation in the dog’s diet can cause an upset stomach, and the dog may not like all the flavors one can find in these packs.
- Single serving convenience
- Experiment easily to find out what will get your dog eating again
- Comes with several servings
- All flavors are natural, high-yield proteins
- No soy or wheat included
- On the pricey side
- Cannot continue with a flavor the dog likes on a regular basis
11. Ziwi Peak Air-Dried
This food topper takes an approach of minimal processing as well as minimal additives, ensuring that maximum flavor and nutrition remains in the food until it’s in your dog’s bowl.
- Lamb based topper
- 5.5 pound bag
- Useable both as standard food or as a topper
What We Like About Ziwi Peak Air-Dried
Air drying kills harmful bacteria in the lamb meat in the most natural way possible while leaving all nutrients still looked into the meat when it gets to your pet. The kibble is made with little processing beyond that, and as a dried food lasts far longer than most chewables would.
What We Don’t Like About Ziwi Peak Air-Dried
As a dried food, this may prove difficult for elderly dogs to handle, as it could be too tough or sharp for them to chew properly. Although it is extremely high in protein, it lacks many of the other nutrients that your pet will need, and so is recommended only in conjunction with other foods.
- Ethically sourced meat
- Air drying to prevent damage to the meat
- Versatile product that can be a treat or a steady diet
- High protein content
- Vegetable additives instead of fruit lower sugar levels
- Hard and painful for older dogs
- Minimal nutrients besides protein
12. American Journey Wild Alaskan
While most food toppers would require you to keep two bags on hand, this product lets you just give your dog’s food a quick nutrient bath without taking up more space in the house or bowl.
- Liquid product
- Naturally sourced salmon
- Squeeze bottle with drip-free cap
- 18 ounces per bottle
What We Like About American Journey Wild Alaskan
Using a liquid food topper is simpler for a number of reasons, starting with the greater concentration of nutrients for your pet and including the ease with which it can be stored and applied. It also makes it harder for your pet to only get the food topper while ignoring the rest of the meal, a common problem in dogs that need food toppers.
What We Don’t Like About American Journey Wild Alaskan
As a liquid, this product has the potential to be considerably messier than other food toppers if spilled. Additionally, it cannot be removed if overapplied or swept up and reused if spilled.
- Wild salmon oils boost pet skin and hair
- Easy to apply bottle
- Absorbs rapidly into the rest of the meal
- Suitable for dogs of all sizes
- Contains Omega-3 acids in quantities not found in other foods
- Does not contain similar protein contents to other toppers
- Much harder to clean up if spilled
13. Sojos Mix-A-Meal
There is exactly one ingredient in this product, so you know that your dog is getting only what you want it to be eating.
- Freeze-dried product
- Solid cubed beef
- Eight ounces per bag
- Globally sourced ingredients
What We Like About Sojos Mix-A-Meal
There’s a reason why the back of this bag simply says ‘beef-it’ being the only thing inside, with no additives, preservatives, or other ingredients trying to sneak in. Globally sourced meat allows you to get the same nutritional value for a relatively low cost, and Sojos’ ethical commitment to their ingredients means you can use this with a clear conscience.
What We Don’t Like About Sojos Mix-A-Meal
Because there is only meat in the bag, this product should not be used if you are attempting to balance out a nutrient shortage in your dog’s diet. It comes in relatively small packages as well, so you will need to buy several of them to keep your pet happy for any length of time.
- Ethically sourced prime beef
- Relatively low cost
- Can also be used as an independent treat during training or playtime
- Freeze-dried to give a longer shelf life
- A natural blend of healthy fats and meat protein
- A small number of treats per bag
- Contains little besides meat protein and fat
14. Blue Buffalo Wilderness Trail Toppers Wild Cuts
Next time you go to feed your pet, you can grab a pouch of this and pop it into their bowl with no extra hassle – this topper uses a rich blend of nutrients and flavors packaged into handy pouches to save you time and effort.
- Three-ounce bags
- Comes in cases of 24 units
- Wet food topper
- Single serving per pouch
What We Like About Blue Buffalo Wilderness Trail Toppers Wild Cuts
This product takes the guesswork out of using a food topper with single-serving pouches ready-made for your dog; just grab one and pour it into the bowl, with no need for the measuring and weighing that can make other food toppers so tedious. A hearty gravy surrounds the morsels of real meat to spread the flavor through your dog’s meal and make sure that they finish every bite.
What We Don’t Like About Blue Buffalo Wilderness Trail Toppers Wild Cuts
Because portions are premeasured, there is no way to adjust your serving size for your dog’s particular needs; make sure that it is suitable for your pet’s size and weight before applying it to their meal. Since it is a wet product, you will need to refrigerate it after opening if you do not use the whole pouch, and it will tend to have a relatively short shelf life.
- Quick and easy to apply
- Wet elements absorb into ordinary kibble
- Variety of possible flavors
- Genuine wild-sourced meat
- Wet toppers can get messy with a rowdy dog around
- Cannot adjust the serving size
You don’t need to break the bank to love your pet. This is a cost-effective product that gives the same benefits of designer food toppers without the added expense.
- Beef material
- 3.5 ounce bag
- Freeze-dried chunks
- 99 percent animal matter
What We Like About TruDog Boost Me Mighty Meaty Beef Booster
Using this topper will give you the same nutritional boost as other beef-based food toppers but at as little as two-thirds the price of most brands. Premeasured pouches make it easy to give just the right amount of food every time, with no need to guess and check how much you should be giving your dog per meal.
You May Also Like: Purina Dog Chow Review
What We Don’t Like About TruDog Boost Me Mighty Meaty Beef Booster
Unlike more designer toppers, this product does not contain only meat – there are also elements of gristle, bone, and herring oil that make it of lower grade than other toppers. Because it is sold in small portions only, you will need to have a fair amount of these stored to keep your dog interested.
- Relatively affordable
- Herring oil adds fish-based nutrition
- Premeasured portions
- Health benefits to teeth and coat as well as overall health
- Boosts immune system
- Small packages
- Less refined than other foods
Final Verdict: Blue Buffalo Wilderness Trail Toppers Wild Cuts
This topper includes multiple beneficial elements, using both meat chunks to give your dog something tasty to bite into and a liquid gravy for greater concentrations of nutrients that will be more readily absorbed into the rest of the meal. A series of exotic meat flavors will keep your dog coming back every time and introduce a rich and balanced set of nutrients to its diet, and getting a large case of small pouches solves both the need for a significant supply of pouches and the need to measure out your food topper each time.
It is worth noting that this is a wet topper, and so it will need to be refrigerated if, for some reason, you decide not to use the entire pack at once. Make sure to add it only to a bowl solidly balanced or firmly held, as a liquid food topper is considerably harder to clean up if spilled by an overexcited dog.
For a dog owner whose pet has started to ignore its meals, you want to make sure you are buying a topper that will get them back to cleaning their bowl every time. Here are some tips you can use to make sure you are selecting the one that will have your furry friend hungry again in a hurry.
First and foremost, you’ll want to make sure that you are selecting the right food for their size, age, and breed; each of these is a significant factor in a dog’s diet, and getting any of these criteria wrong can rob your dog of the nutritional value it needs for an optimum lifestyle. Consider activity level as well; a dog with a largely sedentary routine will need different food than a working dog with regularly scheduled exercise.
If you are changing foods or toppers, take a moment to make sure no one in your household is allergic to any of the new food’s ingredients. However much your dog likes it, it shouldn’t be unpleasant to have around.
Make sure that your chosen topper properly addresses any health issues that you may have been noticing in your dog. While many dogs dislike medicine and will actively avoid taking it, a medicated or nutritionally infused dog food topper is a great chance to make sure your pet is getting the treatment they need without having to fight with them over pills, suppositories, or other methods of dosing a dog.
Check the packaging of your chosen topper for feeding schedules or suggestions as to how often to give your dog’s meal a boost. It may be beneficial not to use a topper in every meal; this will make it easier to ease your dog back into eating normally once its appetite has been restored by a few enhanced meals.
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When an Indian children’s rights group tracked down two boys aged 6 and 8 after it was told that their parents were both severely ill with COVID-19 and unable to care for them, the children had not eaten for days.
The case, reported by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) group that located the boys in a small town in India’s rural heartland, was one of a growing number of emergencies involving children affected by India’s devastating coronavirus crisis.
The exponential rise in infections and deaths has left some children, particularly in poor communities, without a carer because their parents or other relatives are too ill to cope or have died.
“Because the number of deaths has increased, the crisis is that either children are losing their parents, or their caregivers are hospitalised, and there is no one to take care of them,” said Dhananjay Tingal, executive director of BBA.
India’s underfunded social services are struggling to cope, and in certain parts of the country there is still stigma surrounding people who contract the virus, leaving some children isolated.
“Neighbors and extended family do not want to help because they are afraid of infection, treating these families almost like outcasts,” said Tingal.
He did not share further details of the two boys because of concern for their privacy.
Tingal said BBA, which is headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Sayarthi, started receiving calls about children in dire situations linked to the COVID-19 outbreak in early April. The volume of calls increased after Sayarthi posted a helpline number on Twitter on April 29.
BBA now receives about 70 calls a day seeking help for children whose parents are dead or seriously ill, and a greater number of calls from parents who have tested positive and want to know if the group can take care of their children if their health fails.
‘Need a breast milk donor’
With 3.57 million active cases of COVID-19, India recorded more than 400,000 new infections over the last 24 hours – the highest daily tally reported globally – while deaths rose by a record 3,980.
Experts say actual numbers could be five to 10 times higher. Citizens across the country, the world’s second most populous, are struggling to find beds, oxygen, or medicines needed for treatment, and many are dying for lack of treatment.
Desperate pleas to help children have been appearing on social media.
“Need a breast milk donor for a one-day-old baby in Delhi. Her mother passed away due to COVID,” read one Tweet. The person later said help had been found.
Protsahan India Foundation, a children’s rights NGO, said its frontline workers recently attended to children who had gone without food for days after their mother, the main caregiver, passed away.
“The father is a daily wage worker and is in a state of shock and trauma himself. We are helping with food and immediate care, education and protection needs of those kids,” said Sonal Kapoor, founder-director at Protsahan.
In the state of Karnataka, home to the tech city of Bengaluru and an epicenter of the second wave, the government has appointed an official to identify children orphaned by COVID-19 ensure they receive appropriate support.
The state this week also ramped up messaging around children’s safety and appealed to citizens not to seek help online from unknown groups.
In the capital New Delhi, the city-state’s child protection arm this week wrote to the police asking them to investigate posts on social media calling for urgent adoptions.
“They may also be cases of trafficking and sale-purchase of the children,” the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights warned.
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Fashion is constantly borrowing and recycling trends from previous generations. When I was little my parents bought me a book of fashion through the decades and I wore the pages thin soaking in the beauty of defining fashion movements, recognizing the similarities and the thread that tied it all together. Changing accents, modernizing silhouettes, altering hemlines, and updating fabrics are all done in an attempt to keep things fresh and fashion moving forward, however in a bizarre way fashion is just as much about its regression as it is about progression. I have witnessed cropped tops, flared jeans, leggings, and flannel cycle in and out obscurity in a relatively short time. So what is the driving force behind the cyclical nature of fashion? I believe it is style.
While fashion is beautiful and inspiring it would be stagnant without style. Style is much more than the clothes, but instead the interpretation, this interpretation is what really makes fashion interesting. The stylish taste-makers throughout history that have defined decades of sartorial bliss are what inspire future greatness, this is what propels fashion forward. Street style is a force to be reckoned with today. This is partly due to the fact that we are living in a digital age, but also due to the fact that street style is real, it is relatable, it is a unique. Street style is the ultimate manifestation of looking towards the past to elevate the present. So in order to understand where we stylistically stand today we must examine what brought us here.
In honor of mother’s day this post is dedicated to the truest icons, our mothers and their infallible interpretation of fashion and their exceptional styles. For this post, my friends compiled vintage pictures of their mothers in the height of their sartorial excellence. This special Mother’s Day post will serve as a road map as you navigate your way through the history of fashion. I would also like to thank everyone that shared pictures with me and a very special thank you to our moms for setting the standard for true grace, strength and impeccable style.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Kathy, early 1960s
Kathy, early 1960s
Denese, late 1970s
Betty, late 1950s
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Happy New Year! So a new year traditionally means New Year resolutions and what could those be? Could they include improving your English? If so, have you ever wondered how difficult it is for course book writers to choose topics which will appeal to students all over the world? We’ll be hearing from Lindsay Clandfield, lead author of the Global series of coursebooks about some of those issues. Maybe your New year’s resolution is learning about one intercultural diagnosis tool such as the 4 Cs of culture? If so then you will want to hear Margarita Gokun Silver explain what they are. Or maybe you want to make a huge change in your life but don’t know where to start. One step in that direction may be to attend the free Living Your Ideal Global Life summit starting on January 13th. We’ll be hearing from Sabrina Ziegler, one of the organisers about some more of the interesting angles about living abroad and what is possible in this connected world.
Have you ever wondered how your language course book gets written? In show 166 we heard about the topics that don’t make it into the course books, the so-called PARSNIP topics. But as I had Lindsay Clandfield, lead author of the new MacMillan Global series on the line, I took the opportunity to ask him how he decided what SHOULD go into his new coursebook. So let’s go absolutely global and start by asking why the world needed another coursebook for learning English!
Now I want to tell you about a new page on our website which is a 30 minute edited version of a workshop I did at the SIETAR Congress in Tallinn Estonia in September. The workshop was about podcasting for Intercultural trainers and we have released it as a special edition of the podcast on its own page. Thanks to Sigvor Bakke from Norway who did a magnificent job of recording on her mobile phone including a short snippet where we were looking at why you might want to podcast. The snippet included Matthew Hill from the UK. And if you want to hear the whole 30 minutes where I go into more detail about the whys and wherefores then catch it on its dedicated page.
In a globalised world it becomes even more important to understand intercultural dynamics within yourself and others. Margarita Gokun Silver told us about how accompanying spouses can be helped in Show 170. You may remember that Margarita is a trained coach so let’s ask if she has additional tools to help people deal with intercultural situations? Honouring your values is a key takeaway. Margarita’s website is at www.globalcoachcenter.com where you can find loads more information about the 4 Cs and intercultural coaching generally. I have added the book mentioned by Margarita to the Absolutely Intercultural Amazon store where you can find many other books relevant to intercultural communication. We receive a small amount of what you pay for every book which helps keep the site running. Browse our Amazon store here.
And finally, I return to the unique idea of the Living Your Ideal Global Life Summit which is free and online for 5 days starting January 13th. In Show 172 one of the organisers, Sabrina Ziegler of Authentizen , told us about a couple of the speakers so let’s go absolutely ideal as I asked Sabrina about Terry Rogocki’s contribution. Do you have any ideas about how to live your ideal global life? Don’t forget that the summit is free.
Don’t forget we also have a Facebook Page where we recently got our 300th like! Welcome Hamdi Erestreams in Tunisia! Hope you are enjoying the page and the links we add there regularly.
The next show will be coming to you from Australia with Laurent Borgmann on February 7th so until then Happy New year!
The host of this show is: Anne Fox
Editor: Younes Jaber
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“Howard W Odum”
I rarely do this, but can I tell you what I dreamt last night?
First, a bit of background. Blues as we know it has its origins in West Africa, and the musical traditions they brought to the U.S. as a result of slavery. When slavery gave way to sharecropping, small scale agricultural production and building of the railroads, the call and response along with what was heard in jook joints (throw in ragtime, country aka white folk music of the time, what was heard in black churches) and well, it started to sound a lot like modern day blues. That was the period from 1870 to 1900. Soon after 1900, many people report having heard the blues.
Early research of blues music was conducted by Howard W Odum, who made the first non-commercial recordings of the blues about 118 years ago, and published a collection of songs from Lafayette County, Mississippi and Newton County, Georgia about 110 years ago. Those recordings are now lost to history, so instead we must use historical logic to piece together what those recordings probably/should’ve/could’ve sounded like.
I dreamt that I found those recordings. And they were surprising! The recordings weren’t exactly the older cousins of early existing recordings such as “St Louis Blues” and “Crazy Blues.” Instead, they contained a “never before heard” fusion of West African idioms along with the chord changes and call and response one would have expected to hear. The music world went nuts! They said this was the most significant recording in the history of the blues. (All apologies to Robert Johnson…) Artists started to record their own versions of these songs. New material was written in this “new old” style.
And the recordings brought on a cultural moment. African Americans found new meanings in the music, providing a spiritual link to their own identities. A humanitarian movement sprung up to provide a “Marshall Plan” of relief not only to raise incomes and life expectancy in West Africa but also to preserve their own cultures. And a massive wave hit schools around the world to study human history and natural history, and to save the human race and the planet.
(Because if I just said “I dreamt I discovered the lost work of Howard W Odum,” you would’ve stop reading…)
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Focus and productivity are constantly at the forefront of every business owner’s mind, especially those with socially conscious businesses or non-profits. Every dollar matters, and as the old saying goes, “time is money,” so being focused on efficient productivity is key for a young, socially conscious business or non-profit to be able to maintain solid profit margins and make the most impact. Here are some really great tips to help you stay focused and on track for one of your most productive months yet!
1 | Try out a new workflow style.
A new style for organizing your workflow is sweeping the internet. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s the Pomodoro style. What this entails is selecting a task, setting a timer (usually 25 minutes), finish the task, and crossing it off your list. If you accomplish less than four tasks in the predetermined time, take a short break (3-5 minutes). If you have more than four tasks completed, take a longer break (20-30 minutes).
The point in this working style is to show that your brain needs a break. You need time to breathe in order to give the next task the complete, undivided attention that it deserves.
There are some really great tools out there for giving this new productivity trend a try:
- Tomato Timer – 25 minute work periods and pre-set short/long breaks built in
- Marinara Timer – Set custom timers designed for your team’s specific needs
- Classic Timer – Having a good ole classic timer can’t be beat. No more internet distractions
2 | Prioritize your to-do list but do quick things first.
Productivity is clearly linked with personal intention. Before you dive into any work for your day, it’s important to think about what must get done that day, versus what should get done that day versus what could get done.
By prioritizing your action items, you are able to effectively tackle them while managing your workload and minimizing your risk of overload.
When you do your quick wins like “send Jane Doe an email” or “Input tasks in Asana,” you are able to cross things off right away and feel more accomplished.
You can use this feeling of accomplishment to motivate you as you move onto the more difficult or timely tasks.
3 | Set up your schedule for the day ahead of time.
Once you have your to-do list set and you’re comfortable in your workflow style, it’ll be most helpful for you to set up your schedule to reflect the day’s objectives. Allocate your time and schedule breaks to avoid burnout. In doing this ahead of time, you’ll be able focus your attention and increase your productivity.
Within your digital calendar (Gmail, Outlook, etc.), it can help to set up the blocks of time with the task and notes that apply to the task so that as you move throughout the day; you can get reminders for when it’s time to move to the next task.
Just like budgeting and financial planning takes time to train your brain, you have to train your brain for workflows, but even more so for concentration. The more you practice, the better you’ll get at fully allocating your attention to a task and getting it done in an allotted amount of time.
What’s your ideal day? Can you bring that to reality with organization and increased productivity?
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What is cash flow, and why is it such an important factor when making decisions on what kinds of assets to invest in?
When we talk about cash flow, we refer to the money flowing in and out of a business within a specified period. When applied to investing, cash flow refers to the amount of cash generated by the different assets in your portfolio and how much cash has gone into those same assets.
Positive cash flow means that the investment is generating cash. But if the cash flow is negative, you are sourcing cash from alternative sources and putting that money into the asset. For most investors, the primary goal of investing is to generate positive cash flow.
Understanding cash flow is important when designing an investment portfolio to serve as the bedrock of your retirement plan. You want assets that generate enough cash to let you continue your current lifestyle in retirement. To some extent, every asset in your investment portfolio can generate income, but not all assets sustainably generate revenue for the long term.
To get cash out of most assets, you have to liquidate the asset by selling it. This kind of asset is self-depleting. The best assets that create positive cash flow are those assets that can generate cash without any need to liquidate them. These are called income-generating assets.
Building a real estate portfolio for sustainable wealth
Owning rental properties is the most efficient and most reliable way to build a portfolio of assets that will generate a steady supply of cash in the distant future. Multiple, well-managed rental properties in the right locations are the foundation for a retirement lifestyle not threatened by economic factors. It is best to market your apartment buildings and other rental properties to get here.
As long as they are in high demand and properly maintained, rental properties can generate significant income for their owner over time. The value of a rental property lies in its ability to meet a basic human need, people’s need for a comfortable home.
Additionally, unlike most asset classes, the value of a rental property is not easily affected by inflation. As inflation raises the prices of goods and services in an economy, it also forces the rental rate for the property to go up. As a result, the rental income from your property is able to keep up with the inflation rate.
Important factors when investing in rental properties for cash flow
There are four things you must keep in mind when looking for rental properties with the potential to generate positive cash flow predictably over the long term:
The first and most important criteria when buying a rental property is its location. The best areas will have specific qualities that make them attractive to many potential renters.
These qualities may include job opportunities across various industries, the presence of good schools, multimodal transportation, shopping or entertainment center, and low crime rates.
The state of the rental market in a location is another critical factor. A property may be located in a good area, but if there is insufficient demand for that kind of property due to competition, you might not want to invest in that location. If landlords are offering incentives to tenants, do not buy in that location. Wait for a better time to invest in the location or look for opportunities elsewhere.
3. Your costs
Running a rental property includes the cost of capital (mortgage payments and interest), maintenance and repair costs, taxes, professional fees, insurance, and many more.
If you don’t know how much it will cost to operate and how much income it can potentially generate before you buy a property, you really can’t know if that property will be profitable or not.
Appreciation is the rate at which a property’s value increases with time. Although your primary motive for buying the rental is to earn rental income, you should still watch the possible appreciation.
You can utilize the equity in your owned properties as capital to finance other rental properties. The rate at which your property appreciates determines how quickly you can do this.
What kind of rental properties should you buy?
There are several different types of rental properties: residential and commercial. The kind of rental property right for you depends on your location, level of expertise, capital, and investment objectives.
- Single-family homes are where most investors start. They are easy to buy and often more profitable because there don’t need a property manager.
- Multi-family homes let you invest in several income-generating assets at once. Their shared facilities make them convenient to manage.
- Studio apartments are a great option in locations with a high population of college students and single young adults. They are usually low maintenance.
- Apartment buildings enjoy high demand but buying and managing them can be challenging if you are just starting.
- Commercial properties are by far the most profitable rental properties in which to invest. But these types of investments are more complicated.
We are pledged to the letter and spirit of U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the Nation. See Equal Housing Opportunity Statement for more information.
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’Breonna’s Law’ unanimously passed by Louisville Metro Council
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Louisville Metro Council unanimously passed a measure called Breonna’s Law Thursday evening, a measure that bans the use of no-knock warrants.
It was named after Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed in her apartment by LMPD officers serving a no-knock warrant during what police described as a drug investigation in March.
Ben Crump, an attorney representing Taylor’s family in a lawsuit against the three officers involved in her death, said Thursday before the vote that Breonna’s Law is a step forward for the city in regard to changes that are needed.
“This is the first step to getting justice for Breonna Taylor,” Crump said.
Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, addressing metro council Thursday before the vote, asking them to vote yes.
“All Breonna wanted to do was save lives,” Palmer said. “So it’s important this law passes because with that she will continue to get to do that after her death.”
Councilwomen Jessica Green and Barbara Sexton-Smith created the ordinance, with the help of other council members. The ordinance was initially written to limit no-knock warrants. Over the last several days, Green said other council members started to voice their opinions to completely ban them.
“We had more on Monday to begin to say it publicly,” Green said.
Green said they started having conversations with council members and got the final sponsor to sign on Thursday around noon.
“I’m still kind of pinching myself where we ended up,” Green said. “Because as I said, anybody who has been around Metro government, we don’t agree unanimously on anything, anything, even innocuous things. So for us to end up here, it’s nothing but the will of the people and the power of God.”
With 26 yes votes, council voted to ban no-knock warrants. The ordinance also requires officers wait a minimum of 15 seconds after knocking and announcing their presence when serving a warrant.
Officers must wear body cameras during the execution of a warrant, turning them on five minutes before and off at least five minutes after the completion of serving the warrant. All of the data from the body camera footage must be saved for five years following the execution of the warrant.
There will be penalties for failing to follow these new guidelines, including oral reprimands, written reprimands, suspension without pay, and/or discharge under the appropriate union contract, civil service commission rules, or department work rules.
“We respect the Council decision. We are committed to changes which address safety and build police-community relations,” Jessie Halladay, a spokesperson from the Louisville Metro Police Department, said after the vote.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has revealed he plans to sign the measure as soon as possible.
“I plan to sign Breonna’s Law as soon as it hits my desk,” Fischer wrote on his Twitter page. “I suspended use of these warrants indefinitely last month, and wholeheartedly agree with Council that the risk to residents and officers with this kind of search outweigh any benefit. This is one of many critical steps on police reform that we’ve taken to create a more peaceful, just, compassionate and equitable community."
I plan to sign Breonna’s Law as soon as it hits my desk. I suspended use of these warrants indefinitely last month, and wholeheartedly agree with Council that the risk to residents and officers with this kind of search outweigh any benefit. 1/2— Mayor Greg Fischer (@louisvillemayor) June 11, 2020
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Just saw this on comp.text.xml, posted by Jorn Barger:
An SGML fan, an XML fan, and an HTML fan are watching a movie when they
notice smoke coming out of a trashcan.
The SGML fan says "We must convince the theater management to hire an
expert to write a DTD for emergency-announcements, and sell them an
expensive application for archiving announcements, and get them to hire a
team to convert all their old announcements to SGML!"
The XML fan says, "There's no time for that! We must train all the
audience members to recognise XML, and then start a committee to
investigate the possibility of starting negotiations to form a working
group to write a paper on the future evolution of emergency-announcement
Meanwhile, the HTML fan takes out his wireless PDA and types in:
which he quickly hacks the digital projection system to display, saving
the lives of everyone in the theater.
the pragmatic web: http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/pragmatics.html
IBM developerWorks - http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks/
XMLDatabases ------- http://www.btinternet.com/~xmldatabases/
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Mole Removal Strategies
Mole’s tunnels are an annoying yard problem for any prideful homeowner, but one that can easily be fixed with the help of Trutech’s mole removal experts. You can ensure that these critters are no longer looking for food in your yard by implementing Trutech mole control. Using our mole removal services will help you keep your yard looking as pristine as the rest of your home without lifting a finger.
Our humane mole traps and other mole control services are sure to solve your problems without weighing heavy on your animal-loving heart. Whether you are searching for mole control, trapping, or removal services, you can be confident that you are doing it in the most environmentally sensitive way. With each passing day, a mole can make 100 feet more of tunnels covering your yard, so don’t wait to reach out to Trutech for all of your wildlife removal needs.
Signs a Mole is on Your Property
Did you look outside your house only to notice that the beautiful grass in your yard has been replaced by unsightly, uneven ground? This oddly deformed landscape is more than likely due to moles making tunnels just underneath the surface. Moles love to spend all of their time under the cold, wet, grass, looking for nutritious treats like earthworms and grubs. Since moles are very territorial, there are typically only 1 or 2 moles present on a property at once, however, a single mole can tunnel up to 100 feet within a single day causing a lot of lawn damage.
Dangers of Mole Infestation
Gardens, farmlands, grassy fields, and golf courses all suffer the effects of mole infestations. Since they excavate dirt near the surface, moles often create tunnels that deform landscapes. Additionally, the roots of grass and other plants become damaged as moles scoop away soil in search of food.
Humane Mole Removal & Control Strategies
Entry into property
Large populations are rare, as no more than three to five moles inhabit the same acre of land. Even so, they are capable of digging tunnels up to 100 feet long in a single day, and their voracious appetites mean they are constantly on the move in search of food. Well-kept lawns, golf courses, and public parks often have the perfect soil consistency and harbor plentiful populations of grubs and worms.
Trapping & Removal
The use of mole traps is a valid control option but requires the knowledge and expertise of wildlife professionals. Property owners facing mole problems should not hesitate to contact the mole removal personnel at Trutech, who can remove troublesome moles in the most efficient and humane ways possible.
Prevention & Exclusion
Keeping moles out of yards and gardens often entails modifying the landscape to make it inhospitable. This can be accomplished by removing access to food sources like worms, grubs, and larvae in the soil, or by compacting the soil with a heavy roller to make digging too difficult. Moles can be kept away from garden plots by installing fencing buried at least a foot into the ground, as well.
Frequently Asked Questions
The easiest way to identify mole damage to lawns is the presence of tracks and mounds. These are created as the pests tunnel just below the surface of the ground, overturning dirt with their powerful front feet. Their tracks can become so extensive that they intertwine like labyrinths, and dirt mounds found in yards are usually the entrances to burrows.
Gardens can be destroyed in no time by an infestation of moles, as a single pest can tunnel one foot per minute in the right soil conditions. While they don’t eat plants, moles do destroy their roots as they tunnel. Additionally, moles dig deeper into the ground for sleeping, mating, and riding out extreme weather. These can be as deep as 24 inches and cause sections of a yard to cave-in.
Moles can be extremely difficult to remove because they spend so much time underground and are unusually fast for their size. Common prevention tactics include castor oil-based repellents, annual lawn grub treatments, and planting certain bulb plants like garlic, shallots, and daffodils. However, these hardly work as long-term means of controlling mole damage. Trapping is the most effective way to get rid of infestations but is dangerous without a professional. To ensure that moles won’t do further damage to the yard, contact the skilled staff at Trutech.
Moles are known carriers of rabies, which is typically transmitted to humans through the saliva of infected animals. While moles tend to be shy, they will bite if they feel confused, threatened, or when they’re handled. However, people are more likely to contract a mole disease from the pests that live in their fur. Ticks and fleas can carry Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, and tularemia.
Moles prefer to live in cool, moist soil, and their diet consists of the insects found underground. As such, they rarely surface and instead spend most of their time in elaborate tunnel systems of their own creation. However, they may find themselves in basements on occasion.
Older homes with dirt floors are the most likely to have a mole in the basement. Additionally, moles may enter basements through gaps in building foundations or open cellar doors or windows. Property owners who encounter moles in basements should assume that the pest is lost or confused.
Since residential neighborhoods are often built on the loose soil that moles prefer to live in, property owners and the pests share many close encounters. Though they are more likely to be found in yards and gardens, moles may unintentionally find themselves in garages. Most often, this happens when the pests burrow underneath homes and get into garages through holes or gaps in the foundation.
However, moles may also wander into garages aboveground or be carried in by pets. Though moles do not typically enter garages on purpose, the spaces are damp, dark, and moist, which is the kind of environment these pests enjoy most. Still, they need access to soil and food to survive and do not usually stay in garages for long.
When moles enter homes, it’s typically by accident. Most infestations occur outdoors in gardens and yards. Since the pests are known for their tunneling behavior and live primarily in underground burrows, they generally need to stay outside in the soil. Nevertheless, residents may find moles in the house in basements and cellars from time to time. In most of these cases, the moles are invading older homes with dirt floors, cracks in the foundation, or gaps in the basement windows and panes.
Insects and grubs are moles’ main food sources. Digging through the ground builds up a large appetite, which means that moles are constantly on the hunt for worms, beetle larvae, and other insects found within the soil. Since moles’ favorite foods are typically attracted to gardens by roots or decaying plant matter, flower beds are excellent hunting grounds for the pests. Additionally, garden soil is generally loose and moist, which makes it easy for moles to tunnel through.
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Few elements of working class history are still as present among workers today as the memory of the "Casas del Pueblo" (People's Houses) of the Second International in Spain. They were the largest experience of organization of militant groups of the time, but above all, they represented a massive effort of workers' training and discussion. In them were born the two founding groups of the Third International in Spain and the largest section of the Spanish Communist Left. Studying them, we discover the true face of what the Second International was in a country where most of the unions were aligned with anarchism while breaking some myths about the PSOE in the time of Pablo Iglesias.
The "Casas del Pueblo" were born from the initiative of Antonio García Queijido. García Queijido was one of the few militants who participated in the birth of the first three Internationals. Typographer, head of the left wing of the PSOE, opposed to the "junction" with republicanism, an internationalist during the war, founder and briefly general secretary of the UGT, he would become the first general secretary of the unified PCE under the leadership of the Communist International in 1922. Although the current historiography remembers him above all as "the Marxist" to the left of Pablo Iglesias and as director of "The New Age" (La Nueva Era), the only relevant theoretical magazine that the International produced in Spain, in reality García Queijido was above all an organizer and a "crowd educator" according to Morato's expression. Having been one of the founders and leaders of the "[Asociación del Arte de Imprimir](https://books.google.es/books? id=vm0sAAAYAJ&q=inauthor:%22Juan+Jos%C3%A9+Morato%22&dq=inauthor: %22Juan+Jos%C3%A9+Morato%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-nKqv75fqAhVIKBoKHdjgDJIQ6AEwA3oECAUQAg)", a co-operative of printers from which the internationalist movement in Spain would emerge, always maintained a strong co-operative activism following the [guidelines of the Council of the First International](https://www. marxists.org/english/m-e/1860s/isdp66s.htm). From there and from his first-hand knowledge of the first Belgian "Maisons du Peuple" (Houses of the People), the Spanish movement was born.
On September 5, 1897, García Queijido called a formal meeting of twelve workers' organizations. They participate from the Montepio Obrero -represented by Morato in the meeting- to the association of waiters, as well as the Partido Obrero itself represented by Pablo Iglesias. García Queijido gave them, according to the minutes, "extensive explanations about the project, highlighting the magnificent results that the Casas del Pueblo are giving in the different countries where they already exist". Official historians have always tried to portray "the houses" as a container of trade unions, but that was neither the idea of their promoter nor the reality until many years later. The official name of what was founded at that meeting is already significant: "Aglomeración Cooperativa Madrileña Casa del Pueblo". As pointed out by one of the few studies published on the movement:
The intention was therefore very clear: to found a workers' cooperative that, in imitation mainly of those operating in Belgium, such as those in Brussels or Ghent's "Vooruit", would promote socialist action and the growth of the number of militants, first in Madrid and then in the rest of Spain, creating a network of cooperatives and, through them, a network of People's Houses throughout the country.
The statutes of the "agglomeration" stressed that its objective was: "To provide those interested in it with charitable assistance, instruction and anything that would contribute to raising their intellectual and moral level or to improving their material condition" and its source of financing the co-operative activities, both in consumption and production. The dream expressed in the first plan: to meet the food, clothing, heating, lighting and medical needs of the workers through cooperative efforts while "the House" was established as a publishing house, printing house, library and school for the workers and their families.
The funding for the implementation of the project was established through 200 shares of the workers' organizations, each of 250 pesetas. It was more or less the pay of 100 working days. It was not an overwhelming effort for the organizations, it would be the equivalent today of putting in a contribution of about 3,200 euros. But even though Montepio and the Party made contributions, most of the unions stood aside and it seems that not even 50 shares were obtained. Garcia Queijido tried to overcome the situation by directly mobilizing the workers, whose contributions were set at 25 pesetas, the daily wage for ten days of work. This new strategy, skipping the organizations, was much more successful: 12,000 workers became shareholders. After this first capitalization, in 1899 he asked the Centro Obrero de Madrid - which was on Calle de la Bolsa - to allow the cooperative to use its ground floor to open in the form of consumer cooperatives, a grocery store and a café, and as the joint effort of these, a workers' library. They opened in a hurry on March 18 - the 28th anniversary of the Paris Commune. And the "agglomeration" began to generate the statutory income of 5 pesetas for its shareholders that same year. After moving from the Workers' Center to Relatores Street, the two organizations merged and cooperative activity grew. The cooperative then became "Cooperativa Socialista Madrileña" with 83 organizations and 21,000 members. Under it, the growing strength of the "El Trabajo" bricklayer's society, which in 1906 ended up forcing the Centro Obrero to buy a building and reform it. This building, the palace of the Marquis of Béjar, would finally become the Casa del Pueblo on Piamonte Street, inaugurated in 1908.
The many fronts of the People' s Houses
The People's Houses were first and foremost common spaces of what was then the party|class party, a mixture of workers' societies, trade unions, parties with parliamentary aspirations, cultural groups, educational groups and cooperatives. Like all public spaces, the mere existence of the People's Houses affirmed a certain power. In a single space the entire "conscious labor movement" met and shared conversations and activities, discussed the press and prepared struggles. Tomas Meabe defined them as "our physical base of socialist propaganda". But the political strengthening of the working class found in the people' houses many more tools at its disposal than space itself, however much it helped to foster spontaneous coordination or to confront atomization. This is where the typical party of the Second International found its true function of class orientation and leadership, where national discussions first arose - one of which led in 1920 to the simultaneous transformation of the Socialist Youth into the Spanish section of the Communist International, for example.
But these discussions were having an immediate impact because the People' s Houses were bustling with life in a way that the "People's University" or the most active cultural center could not aspire to. The "conscious worker" was collectively discovering the capacity of his class through his whole militant activity. This activity was not limited to participating in struggles and reflection, but was fed by the mutualization of whatever could be mutualized and the organization of work cooperatives for whatever had to be produced. We will highlight two axes in this other part of militant life - knowledge and health - to then move on to the new modes of socialization - the café, relations between the sexes, small daily ceremonies, cultural and propaganda excursions... - which tried to express the communist morality that was emerging.
From the first moments, libraries appeared, some of them with a "circulating section", that is, books on loan that the workers could take home. This was a novelty in a Spain where there were only public libraries in the big cities and the few that existed either exaggerated how unwelcome were workers or prevented them from entering directly (as the Spanish National Library still does today). Socialist literature, of course, prevailed. And through Zugazagoitia we discovered that within it there were quite a few "anonymous translations" - not very good ones, we presume - of the great French, Italian and German authors of the Second International. The libraries were the center of a life of their own: teachers dedicated to literacy, Esperanto groups that taught the new neutral language which promised to render publications from all over the world accessible... In general the library served as an attraction and base for all kinds of educational activities. For adults in many cases, but when possible also for the children of workers. In Villareal (Badajoz), the People' s House school had 300 students, Sama and Turón - in the Asturian mining valleys - had 250 and 200 students respectively, and another 200 in Chamartín de la Rosa in Madrid. The school of the Casa de Mieres is still active today... as a public school.
The assembly halls were theaters prepared for large partisan rallies that were also used for theatrical performances, music and movies. The one in Madrid, the largest, had room for 4,000 people, the one in Vigo for 2,000, Palma and Salamanca for 1,000, Gallarta and Tarazona (La Mancha) for 800, Oviedo and Mieres for 500... Specialized groups, such as the "Socialist Artistic Association of the House of the People of Madrid", moved by a reflection close to the best of the Arts & Crafts movement, were in charge of energizing the spaces and encouraging the formation of theater groups and choral societies such as the one in Madrid or Bilbao, which was the first to publish a songbook of the workers' movement.
The creation since 1903 of consumer cooperatives alongside production cooperatives - a movement that began in Manlleu and Bilbao - was soon followed by the mutualization of Health. This was probably the priority of many of the People' s Houses of the time, since doctors' offices, medical centers and even surgery rooms appeared in many cases almost immediately after the creation of insurance for sick leave. These insurances did not cover casualties resulting from private brawls -although they did cover injuries suffered from police repression- or alcoholism. They covered the whole family, forming, although it is forgotten today, the first network of gynecological and childbirth assistance in Spain. Healthcare was accompanied by mutual pharmaceutical companies that organized dispensaries in their own offices or agreed on prices with pharmacists. For the first time, mutualism meant that workers had access to something a little like a health system and in many cases simply to healthcare.
It was aligned with a whole range of activities that emerged spontaneously from the needs of workers when they first accessed basic scientific knowledge: healthy diets with products guaranteed by the consumer cooperative, a culture of moderate alcohol consumption - the café vs. the pub - the first conferences and programmes concerning sexual health and contraception
The whole is extraordinarily coherent: healthcare and lifestyle changes go hand in hand. Authors of the time already point out that among socialist workers hygiene norms are kept, alcoholism is significantly lower and mortality rates decrease.
(To be continued...)
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Manchester Cathedral has reopened following an innovative renovation project which has radically adjusted its heating system. The new system will make Manchester Cathedral the most environmentally friendly cathedral in the country because the ground source heat pumps will deliver 80% of its heating requirements from “natural energy stored in the earth”.
The Cathedral renovation was long overdue since its previous heating system had been in place since 1950, before the term ‘green energy’ was even invented! During the excavation process a number of burial sites were found which were analysed and the remains reburied; also safely removed was a large amount of asbestos from the previous system.
The Very Reverend Rogers Govender, Dean of Manchester, said: “levels of heat are very important for both visitors and worshippers alike. The recent extremely cold winters have embarrassed the Cathedral as temperatures were unacceptably low. We are incredibly pleased that we can carry out this work in a sustainable and responsible way, ensuring the Cathedral is fit for the future.”
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When we were little kids, we got a lot of different commands from our parents. “Baby steps,” as how they called it. We were told to “Walk!” while they were supporting our hips, to “Close-open!” our hands, and to play “Peeak-a-boo!” by putting our hands over our eyes and then removing them, as though trying to scare them but ended up looking like a cute, little monster, among many others. Our parents, of course, made all the decisions for us then. It was their decision whether we would eat breakfast, whether we would take a bath, or whether we would go to school.
Basically, we grew up in the concept of having to follow orders from our parents for us to grow, step by step. But we are not always kids. We eventually grow up and our thinking skills develop. It is then when we already become aware about the many forces surrounding us that may or may not affect the decisions that we make for ourselves.
As we grow older, it becomes harder and harder for us to make decisions because of so many possible choices laid out in front of us. There are people whose being dependent to their parents’ decisions still matter a lot, and there are some who have already become matured enough to make decisions for themselves. Thus, not all people enjoy making decisions when, in fact, it has to be done by each and every one of us in order to live a life where regrets are absent.
So how do we find our own voice? Fortunately, there are two easy steps we could follow:
1. Check if you are hearing yourself clearly.
In order for you to make decisions for yourself, you have to make sure that you are hearing what your intuition is saying. Hearing, after all, is a prerequisite to listening. And listening to yourself, let alone hearing yourself, is very important for you when you are making decisions. Sure, people around you would always have something to comment on whatever it is that you are thinking or going through, but never allow your own reasoning to be buried by theirs.
2. Listen to theirs, but follow only yours.
Hearing other people’s comments on matters is just about inevitable. In every decision-making situation, they will always be there whether you like it or not. You can opt to listen to them, but make sure that at the end of the day, your decision is still the one that would weigh more.
Hearing and listening to yourself do not just help you to know your decisions because they also assist you in actually making decisions—from the pettiest (“What pair of shoes will I wear today?”) to the life-changing (“What career path should I take?”). That’s how crucial it is for you to know how to hear and listen to your own intuition. Always remember that you can listen to what others are saying, but never forget to follow what your heart’s desires are.
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Tap in to the Future of Subscription-based Content
How contactless payment could get you exclusive access to shows, movies, and videos from your favorite content creators in the future.
Where are we now?
About 11 months ago, I left home to study abroad in London for my spring semester. I was excited for the independence of living in a new city — even the small things like using public transport or grabbing a coffee on my way to class. I quickly noticed that all the money I had saved up, much of which I converted to pounds before I left, never did me much good. Everything was contactless payment — from getting on the underground or one of London’s iconic buses to paying for lunch or going to the grocery store. When my friends visited, they waited in long lines at the underground station to get temporary tickets as I watched those with contactless credit cards stroll through the turnstiles with ease. Keep in mind, this is before the pandemic came along and made me fear touching any unsanitized surface or item.
So when did contactless payment and the (somewhat) abandonment of cash happen? Apple Pay, Google Pay, and now most major credit card companies allow users to simply tap their phone or card to pay. No touching, no signing, no hassle. Contactless cards have been available in many countries, including the United States, for well over a decade — but they’ve taken off in places like Australia and the United Kingdom much more quickly than in the U.S. Despite being introduced in many countries in the 2000s, contactless payments did not really begin to take off until the early 2010s in most countries.
At least part of this delay in popularity can be attributed to the Kondratieff Wave (K-Wave) which predicts different economic cycles. Contactless payment was introduced soon before the financial crash of 2008, but was not widely used until years later, where experts believe we may have entered into a new K-wave of economic mobility. Most recently, a huge reason for the increase in contactless payment is the coronavirus pandemic, as concerns over hygiene and social distancing have given more incentive for consumers to tap a card or a phone rather than rely on cash.
Contactless payment is also profitable for banks, credit card companies, and payment apps like PayPal or Venmo who can charge third-party fees and charge consumers to upgrade to contactless cards. For a lot of people already reliant on credit or debit cards for most of their payments, going contactless is easy and doesn’t require a lot of effort. It seems like a no-brainer, especially several months into a global pandemic.
Credit card companies could see obvious benefits in embracing contactless payment in the U.S. But there is untapped potential for them to expand profits by infiltrating the media space and partnering with notable social media and streaming services. Streaming services, in particular, are a rapidly growing facet of the media industry, with giants such as Netflix and Hulu growing to surpass traditional cable television. Even social media websites such as YouTube have rolled out premium, subscription-based content for users. Beyond this, websites like Patreon and Substack are specifically designed with a subscription model for people to consume exclusive content from their favorite content creators. So where do credit card companies and contactless payment fit into subscription-based media?
In his book C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today, Larry Kramer outlines the four Cs that have the most impact on media: consumers, content, curation, and convergence. Here we will talk about consumers, who drive the changing forces of media, and convergence, where companies team up to provide something new to their consumers. The potential here for innovation is simple: credit card companies can allocate points for every contactless payment, which can then be used to redeem exclusive content on social media or streaming services. Content creators can generate more revenue without advertisements, consumers can gain special access to content they’re already paying subscriptions to see, and card companies can incentivize users to upgrade to contactless cards and use their cards to pay for subscriptions.
Where can we go?
The idea of using credit card payments to unlock exclusive perks and benefits seems simple because you have seen it before. Airline credit cards have been around since the 1980s, offering miles, free checked bags, and other perks to frequent flyers who also happen to use their credit cards a lot. Over decades, these partnerships between credit card companies and airlines have become more competitive and more profitable for both industries, generating billions of dollars in profit. Bringing similar partnerships to the media industry would increase the incentive to upgrade to contactless cards and increase subscriptions for ever-growing media companies.
Technological progress is one of the key factors that would make this trend take off in the media space. As we have already discussed, the technology of contactless cards has the potential to advance even further in a post-COVID world. The easy, fast, no-touch system makes these cards appeal to consumers and, because contactless payment has not yet taken off in the U.S. as it has in other countries, hopping on this trend now would put media companies ahead of the game. COVID has made us more dependent on technology to get through work, school, and to entertain ourselves, and undoubtedly more innovations will come from this.
Of course, economic growth will be another key trend to consider with any innovation. In an ever-changing global economy, there lies opportunity for new ideas to succeed. For the media industry, taking advantage of a possible emerging trend such as partnering with credit card companies for subscription-based content could prove to be very profitable. Of course, this will also increase profits for credit card companies issuing the contactless cards, as well. Even if we look beyond how this will benefit these major industries, individual content creators could see profits raised, as well. Influencers on some of the most popular social media sites among young adults — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and various others — could profit from this subscription-based content without relying on ad revenue. A subscription-based system could also allow creators to put out different types of content, such as adult content, for example, which would allow them to widen their audiences and increase profit. One company that already specializes in subscription-based adult content, OnlyFans, has allowed some sex workers to make six-figure salaries for their work.
Taking advantage of this possible new media trend will have obvious effects for the tech industry and the economy, but how will it affect the consumer? First, the U.S. will likely follow in the footsteps of other countries who have embraced contactless payment and now use it regularly. The simplicity of contactless payment will undoubtedly give this technology at least somewhat of a boost in the years to come. Next, with this model, users can easily adapt to a subscription model as many of the platforms they already frequent either require a subscription or offer premium features. About 61 percent of young adults in the U.S. use primarily streaming services to watch television, and about 90 percent of 18–24 year olds watch videos on YouTube. Also, in a subscription-based model, users can choose who they subscribe to and have authority over what kind of content they want to see. This allows the consumer to subscribe to creators with a diversity of backgrounds, interests, and skills, which would be beneficial, especially for young people, in an increasingly globalized world.
What would this future look like?
When we look at what airlines and credit card companies have been doing for decades, it really isn’t all that jarring to picture what the future could look like if the media industry embraced this new trend. For instance, say it’s ten years down the line and you’ve gotten rid of your cable provider because the cost just wasn’t worth it anymore and streaming services have every show you could ever want, anyway. When you go to the grocery store and use your CitiBank Netflix contactless card to buy food for the week, you’re earning points that you can redeem to see an exclusive movie the same day it hits theaters. Maybe you get Starbucks on your way to work every day, and your contactless payments then earn you points for a month-long Patreon or YouTube Premium subscription to the creator of your choice. Or maybe you yourself are a content creator, free to make videos about what you want and post them when you want, without worrying about deadlines from brand deals. The possibilities for this future are endless and could result in solid benefits for creators and consumers alike.
This possible trend also opens the doors for new, subscription-only media companies — such as Patreon, Substack, and OnlyFans, as referenced earlier. These companies could be a huge player in the media industry moving forward, especially if this trend were to take off. Existing media giants could also take hold of the trend, partnering with different credit card companies to offer these special perks and rewards. This is obviously an optimistic scenario of what it could look like if this trend were to take off. However, when considering this new trend, we can focus on three different ways it could impact technology, media, and the economy.
First, of course, we can entertain the scenario that this new trend does not take off and current trends will not change. Perhaps contactless cards will not become commonplace in the U.S. like they have in other countries, eliminating the need for people to upgrade their cards. Also, there’s no question that those who use social media regularly like that it is free, and offerings of exclusive content may not be enough of an incentive for people to actually make the switch and begin earning points.
Second, we can hypothesize an optimistic scenario, which is basically what I detailed at the beginning of this section. In this scenario, creators could share exclusive content with their audiences and build niche fan bases. Media and social media companies would gain revenue from subscription fees, and credit card companies would profit from card upgrades and third-party fees. Consumers would jump at the opportunity to get exclusive content from their favorite series, franchise, or creator, just by purchasing things they normally would in daily life.
Finally, we can look at a pessimistic scenario. Of course, there is the potential that this trend could fail for any reason. As we have already covered, social media is free, so why fix something that isn’t broken? If this trend took off, people may just continue moving to new, free social media platforms. Especially among Millennials (and possibly Gen Z down the line), who are already doing worse financially than generations before them, a subscription-based platform may be unrealistic for them to rely on for content.
Of course, there is a lot of opportunity on the individual level with this trend as content creators can be rightfully paid for their content without relying on advertising revenue as they do today, but it also could pose some issues. One key thing to note is that this model is not widely accessible. If this trend took off it would only really be available to consumers who could afford subscriptions to multiple different platforms at once, as well as one or more credit cards with extra fees. Most of social media today is free and allows people to consume and post freely, so a key issue with this model would be denying people who can’t afford subscriptions access to content. For this reason, this trend may not take off, especially among younger users in tighter financial binds. In this case, social media companies in particular could just continue their current model of using ad revenue to make profit.
It is no question that the world is different today than when I first traveled to London almost a year ago and saw firsthand the ease of using contactless payment. If media companies were to embrace this possible trend, it could lead to more convenience for consumers and profits for media companies, credit card companies, and content creators alike. In an increasingly technological world, the impacts of this trend could breed new innovations and change the way we consume media.
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TikTok’s design makes it a breeding ground for misinformation, the researchers found. They wrote that videos could easily be manipulated and republished on the platform and showcased alongside stolen or original content. Pseudonyms are common; parody and comedy videos are easily misinterpreted as fact; popularity affects the visibility of comments; and data about publication time and other details are not clearly displayed on the mobile app.
(The Shorenstein Center researchers noted, however, that TikTok is less vulnerable to so-called brigading, in which groups coordinate to make a post spread widely, than platforms like Twitter or Facebook.)
During the first quarter of 2022, more than 60 percent of videos with harmful misinformation were viewed by users before being removed, TikTok said. Last year, a group of behavioral scientists who had worked with TikTok said that an effort to attach warnings to posts with unsubstantiated content had reduced sharing by 24 percent but had limited views by only 5 percent.
Researchers said that misinformation would continue to thrive on TikTok as long as the platform refused to release data about the origins of its videos or share insight into its algorithms. Last month, TikTok said it would offer some access to a version of its application programming interface, or A.P.I., this year, but it would not say whether it would do so before the midterms.
Filippo Menczer, an informatics and computer science professor and the director of the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University, said he had proposed research collaborations to TikTok and had been told, “Absolutely not.”
“At least with Facebook and Twitter, there is some level of transparency, but, in the case of TikTok, we have no clue,” he said. “Without resources, without being able to access data, we don’t know who gets suspended, what content gets taken down, whether they act on reports or what the criteria are. It’s completely opaque, and we cannot independently assess anything.”
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, Twitter was a runner-up social media company. It never grew to the size and scale of a Facebook or an Instagram. It simply muddled along.
Then, Elon Musk, a power user of the service, stormed in. He offered $44 billion to buy Twitter and declared that the company could perform far better if he were in charge. He disparaged Twitter’s executives, ridiculed its content policies, complained about the product and confused its more than 7,000 employees with his pronouncements. As Mr. Musk revealed the company’s lack of business and financial prospects, Twitter’s stock plunged more than 30 percent.
Now, as Mr. Musk, a billionaire, tries to back out of the blockbuster deal, he is inexorably leaving Twitter worse off than it was when he said he would buy it. With each needling tweet and public taunt, Mr. Musk has eroded trust in the social media company, walloped employee morale, spooked potential advertisers, emphasized its financial difficulties and spread misinformation about how Twitter operates.
set to sue Mr. Musk as soon as this week to force a completion of the deal. The court battle is likely to be protracted and immense, involving months of expensive litigation and high-stakes negotiations by elite lawyers. A resolution is far from certain — Twitter might win, but, if it loses, Mr. Musk could walk away by paying a breakup fee. Or the two sides could renegotiate or settle.
On Monday, the damage that Mr. Musk, 51, has inflicted was evident. Twitter’s stock plunged more than 11 percent to one of its lowest points since 2020 as investors anticipated the coming legal battle. Since Twitter accepted Mr. Musk’s acquisition offer, on April 25, its stock has lost over a third of its valueas investors have grown increasingly skeptical that the deal would get done on the agreed terms. (In contrast, the tech-heavy Nasdaq index was down about 12.5 percent in the same period.)
Twitter declined to comment on Monday. In a letter to Mr. Musk’s lawyers on Sunday, the company’s lawyers said that his move to terminate the deal was “invalid and wrongful” and that Mr. Musk “knowingly, intentionally, willfully and materially breached” his agreement to buy the firm. Twitter would continue to provide information to Mr. Musk and to work to close the transaction, the letter added.
cited the number of fake accounts on Twitter’s platform as the reason that he cannot buy the company, tweeted a picture of himself laughing at the situation.
the best it could obtain, suggesting it saw no way to reach that price on its own.
Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief executive, said in a memo to employees in May that the company had not lived up to its business and financial goals. To address the issues, he pushed out the heads of product and revenue, instituted a hiring slowdown and began an effort to attract new users and diversify into e-commerce. In April, the company stopped providing a forward-looking financial outlook to investors, pending the acquisition.
That trajectory is unlikely to change as uncertainty over the deal discomfits advertisers, the main source of Twitter’s revenue.
“Twitter will have trouble in the near future reassuring skittish advertisers and their users that they’re going to be stable,” said Angelo Carusone, the president of the watchdog group Media Matters for America.
In what was an implicit dig at Twitter’s top executives, Mr. Musk said he could have done way better with the company. In a presentation to investors in May, he said he planned to quintuple the company’s revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028 and to reach 931 million users that same year, up from 217 million at the end of last year.
letter filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The company’s “declining business prospects and financial outlook” had given him pause, his lawyers wrote, especially considering Twitter’s recent “financial performance and revised outlook” on the fiscal year ahead.
Mr. Musk, who has more than 100 million followers on Twitter, has also jackhammered the product, saying it is not as attractive as other apps. He has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that Twitter is overrun with more inauthentic accounts than it has disclosed; such accounts can be automated to pump out toxic or false content. (The company has said fewer than 5 percent of the accounts on its platform are fake.)
His barbs about fake accounts have weakened trust in Twitter, just as the company prepares to moderate heated political discussions about an upcoming election in Brazil and the midterm elections this fall in the United States, misinformation experts said.
In another criticism of Twitter and the way it supervises content, Mr. Musk vowed to unwind the company’s moderation policies in the name of free speech. In May, he said he would “reverse the permanent ban” of former President Donald J. Trump from Twitter, allowing Mr. Trump back on the social network. That riled up right-wing users, who have long accused the company of censoring them, and renewed questions about how Twitter should handle debates over the limits of free speech.
Inside the company, employee morale has been battered, leading to infighting and attrition, according to six current and former employees.
Some of those who remain said they were relieved that Mr. Musk seemed to have decided against owning the company. Others shared nihilistic memes on the company’s Slack or openly criticized Twitter’s board and executives for entertaining Mr. Musk’s offer in the first place, according to internal messages viewed by The New York Times. The mood among executives was one of grim determination, two people with knowledge of their thinking said.
illustrated the mood with a cartoon that showed a shattered company that had been bumped off a shelf by Mr. Musk’s careless elbow. His caption: “You break it, you buy it!”
Ryan Mac and Isabella Simonetti contributed reporting.
To fight disinformation, California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would force social media companies to divulge their process for removing false, hateful or extremist material from their platforms. Texas lawmakers, by contrast, want to ban the largest of the companies — Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — from removing posts because of political points of view.
In Washington, the state attorney general persuaded a court to fine a nonprofit and its lawyer $28,000 for filing a baseless legal challenge to the 2020 governor’s race. In Alabama, lawmakers want to allow people to seek financial damages from social media platforms that shut down their accounts for having posted false content.
In the absence of significant action on disinformation at the federal level, officials in state after state are taking aim at the sources of disinformation and the platforms that propagate them — only they are doing so from starkly divergent ideological positions. In this deeply polarized era, even the fight for truth breaks along partisan lines.
a nation increasingly divided over a variety of issues — including abortion, guns, the environment — and along geographic lines.
a similar law in Florida that would have fined social media companies as much as $250,000 a day if they blocked political candidates from their platforms, which have become essential tools of modern campaigning. Other states with Republican-controlled legislatures have proposed similar measures, including Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Alaska.
Alabama’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, has created an online portal through which residents can complain that their access to social media has been restricted: alabamaag.gov/Censored. In a written response to questions, he said that social media platforms stepped up efforts to restrict content during the pandemic and the presidential election of 2020.
“During this period (and continuing to present day), social media platforms abandoned all pretense of promoting free speech — a principle on which they sold themselves to users — and openly and arrogantly proclaimed themselves the Ministry of Truth,” he wrote. “Suddenly, any viewpoint that deviated in the slightest from the prevailing orthodoxy was censored.”
Much of the activity on the state level today has been animated by the fraudulent assertion that Mr. Trump, and not President Biden, won the 2020 presidential election. Although disproved repeatedly, the claim has been cited by Republicans to introduce dozens of bills that would clamp down on absentee or mail-in voting in the states they control.
memoirist and Republican nominee for Senate, railed against social media giants, saying they stifled news about the foreign business dealings of Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
massacre at a supermarket in Buffalo in May.
Connecticut plans to spend nearly $2 million on marketing to share factual information about voting and to create a position for an expert to root out misinformation narratives about voting before they go viral. A similar effort to create a disinformation board at the Department of Homeland Security provoked a political fury before its work was suspended in May pending an internal review.
In California, the State Senate is moving forward with legislation that would require social media companies to disclose their policies regarding hate speech, disinformation, extremism, harassment and foreign political interference. (The legislation would not compel them to restrict content.) Another bill would allow civil lawsuits against large social media platforms like TikTok and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram if their products were proven to have addicted children.
“All of these different challenges that we’re facing have a common thread, and the common thread is the power of social media to amplify really problematic content,” said Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel of California, a Democrat, who sponsored the legislation to require greater transparency from social media platforms. “That has significant consequences both online and in physical spaces.”
It seems unlikely that the flurry of legislative activity will have a significant impact before this fall’s elections; social media companies will have no single response acceptable to both sides when accusations of disinformation inevitably arise.
“Any election cycle brings intense new content challenges for platforms, but the November midterms seem likely to be particularly explosive,” said Matt Perault, a director of the Center on Technology Policy at the University of North Carolina. “With abortion, guns, democratic participation at the forefront of voters’ minds, platforms will face intense challenges in moderating speech. It’s likely that neither side will be satisfied by the decisions platforms make.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, made securing the 2020 U.S. election a top priority. He met regularly with an election team, which included more than 300 people from across his company, to prevent misinformation from spreading on the social network. He asked civil rights leaders for advice on upholding voter rights.
The core election team at Facebook, which was renamed Meta last year, has since been dispersed. Roughly 60 people are now focused primarily on elections, while others split their time on other projects. They meet with another executive, not Mr. Zuckerberg. And the chief executive has not talked recently with civil rights groups, even as some have asked him to pay more attention to the midterm elections in November.
Safeguarding elections is no longer Mr. Zuckerberg’s top concern, said four Meta employees with knowledge of the situation. Instead, he is focused on transforming his company into a provider of the immersive world of the metaverse, which he sees as the next frontier of growth, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
hearings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have underlined how precarious elections can be. And dozens of political candidates are running this November on the false premise that former President Donald J. Trump was robbed of the 2020 election, with social media platforms continuing to be a key way to reach American voters.
2000 Mules,” a film that falsely claims the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump, was widely shared on Facebook and Instagram, garnering more than 430,000 interactions, according to an analysis by The New York Times. In posts about the film, commenters said they expected election fraud this year and warned against using mail-in voting and electronic voting machines.
$44 billion sale to Elon Musk, three employees with knowledge of the situation said. Mr. Musk has suggested that he wants fewer rules about what can and cannot be posted on the service.
barred Mr. Trump from its platforms after the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has worked over the years to limit political falsehoods on its sites. Tom Reynolds, a Meta spokesman, said the company had “taken a comprehensive approach to how elections play out on our platforms since before the U.S. 2020 elections and through the dozens of global elections since then.”
recently raised doubts about the country’s electoral process. Latvia, Bosnia and Slovenia are also holding elections in October.
“People in the U.S. are almost certainly getting the Rolls-Royce treatment when it comes to any integrity on any platform, especially for U.S. elections,” said Sahar Massachi, the executive director of the think tank Integrity Institute and a former Facebook employee. “And so however bad it is here, think about how much worse it is everywhere else.”
Facebook’s role in potentially distorting elections became evident after 2016, when Russian operatives used the site to spread inflammatory content and divide American voters in the U.S. presidential election. In 2018, Mr. Zuckerberg testified before Congress that election security was his top priority.
banning QAnon conspiracy theory posts and groups in October 2020.
Around the same time, Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $400 million to local governments to fund poll workers, pay for rental fees for polling places, provide personal protective equipment and cover other administrative costs.
The week before the November 2020 election, Meta also froze all political advertising to limit the spread of falsehoods.
But while there were successes — the company kept foreign election interference off the platform — it struggled with how to handle Mr. Trump, who used his Facebook account to amplify false claims of voter fraud. After the Jan. 6 riot, Facebook barred Mr. Trump from posting. He is eligible for reinstatement in January.
Frances Haugen, a Facebook employee turned whistle-blower, filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission accusing the company of removing election safety features too soon after the 2020 election. Facebook made growth and engagement its priorities over security, she said.
fully realized digital world that exists beyond the one in which we live. It was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash,” and the concept was further explored by Ernest Cline in his novel “Ready Player One.”
The future. Many people in tech believe the metaverse will herald an era in which our virtual lives will play as important a role as our physical realities. Some experts warn that it could still turn out to be a fad or even dangerous.
Mr. Zuckerberg no longer meets weekly with those focused on election security, said the four employees, though he receives their reports. Instead, they meet with Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs.
Several civil right groups said they had noticed Meta’s shift in priorities. Mr. Zuckerberg isn’t involved in discussions with them as he once was, nor are other top Meta executives, they said.
“I’m concerned,” said Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who talked with Mr. Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s chief operating officer, ahead of the 2020 election. “It appears to be out of sight, out of mind.” (Ms. Sandberg has announced that she will leave Meta this fall.)
wrote a letter to Mr. Zuckerberg and the chief executives of YouTube, Twitter, Snap and other platforms. They called for them to take down posts about the lie that Mr. Trump won the 2020 election and to slow the spread of election misinformation before the midterms.
Yosef Getachew, a director at the nonprofit public advocacy organization Common Cause, whose group studied 2020 election misinformation on social media, said the companies had not responded.
“The Big Lie is front and center in the midterms with so many candidates using it to pre-emptively declare that the 2022 election will be stolen,” he said, pointing to recent tweets from politicians in Michigan and Arizona who falsely said dead people cast votes for Democrats. “Now is not the time to stop enforcing against the Big Lie.”
Ahead of the 2020 elections, Connecticut confronted a bevy of falsehoods about voting that swirled around online. One, widely viewed on Facebook, wrongly said absentee ballots had been sent to dead people. On Twitter, users spread a false post that a tractor-trailer carrying ballots had crashed on Interstate 95, sending thousands of voter slips into the air and across the highway.
Concerned about a similar deluge of unfounded rumors and lies around this year’s midterm elections, the state plans to spend nearly $2 million on marketing to share factual information about voting, and to create its first-ever position for an expert in combating misinformation. With a salary of $150,000, the person is expected to comb fringe sites like 4chan, far-right social networks like Gettr and Rumble, and mainstream social media sites to root out early misinformation narratives about voting before they go viral, and then urge the companies to remove or flag the posts that contain false information.
“We have to have situational awareness by looking into all the incoming threats to the integrity of elections,” said Scott Bates, Connecticut’s deputy secretary of the state. “Misinformation can erode people’s confidence in elections, and we view that as a critical threat to the democratic process.”
Connecticut joins a handful of states preparing to fight an onslaught of rumors and lies about this year’s elections.
ABC/Ipsos poll from January, only 20 percent of respondents said they were “very confident” in the integrity of the election system and 39 percent said they felt “somewhat confident.” Numerous Republican candidates have embraced former President Donald J. Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election, campaigning — often successfully — on the untrue claim that it was stolen from him.
Some conservatives and civil rights groups are almost certain to complain that the efforts to limit misinformation could restrict free speech. Florida, led by Republicans, has enacted legislation limiting the kind of social media moderation that sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter can do, with supporters saying the sites constrict conservative voices. (A U.S. appeals court recently blocked most aspects of the law.) On the federal level, the Department of Homeland Security recently paused the work of an advisory board on disinformation after a barrage of criticism from conservative lawmakers and free speech advocates that the group could suppress speech.
“State and local governments are well situated to reduce harms from dis- and misinformation by providing timely, accurate and trustworthy information,” said Rachel Goodman, a lawyer at Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan advocacy group. “But in order to maintain that trust, they must make clear that they are not engaging in any kind of censorship or surveillance that would raise constitutional concerns.”
Connecticut and Colorado officials said that the problem of misinformation had only worsened since 2020 and that without a more concerted push to counteract it, even more voters could lose faith in the integrity of elections. They also said they feared for the safety of some election workers.
“We are seeing a threat atmosphere unlike anything this country has seen before,” said Jena Griswold, the secretary of state of Colorado. Ms. Griswold, a Democrat who is up for re-election this fall, has received threats for upholding 2020 election results and refuting Mr. Trump’s false claims of fraudulent voting in the state.
Other secretaries of state, who head the office typically charged with overseeing elections, have received similar pushback. In Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, a Republican who certified President Biden’s win in the state, has faced fierce criticism laced with false claims about the 2020 election.
In his primary race this year, Mr. Raffensperger batted down misinformation that there were 66,000 underage voters, 2,400 unregistered voters and more than 10,350 dead people who cast ballots in the presidential election. None of the claims are true. He won his primary last week.
Colorado is redeploying a misinformation team that the state created for the 2020 election. The team is composed of three election security experts who monitor the internet for misinformation and then report it to federal law enforcement.
Ms. Griswold will oversee the team, called the Rapid Response Election Security Cyber Unit. It looks only for election-related misinformation on issues like absentee voting, polling locations and eligibility, she said.
“Facts still exist, and lies are being used to chip away at our fundamental freedoms,” Ms. Griswold said.
Connecticut officials said the state’s goal was to patrol the internet for election falsehoods. On May 7, the Connecticut Legislature approved $2 million for internet, TV, mail and radio education campaigns on the election process, and to hire an election information security officer.
Officials said they would prefer candidates fluent in both English and Spanish, to address the spread of misinformation in both languages. The officer would track down viral misinformation posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, and look for emerging narratives and memes, especially on fringe social media platforms and the dark web.
“We know we can’t boil the ocean, but we have to figure out where the threat is coming from, and before it metastasizes,” Mr. Bates said.
Twitter, which went public in 2013, has also had a tumultuous corporate history. It has repeatedly dealt with board dysfunction and drama with its founders, and was courted by other interested buyers in the past, including Disney and Salesforce. In 2020, the activist investment firm Elliott Management took a stake in Twitter and called for Jack Dorsey, one of its founders, to resign as chief executive. Mr. Dorsey stepped down last year.
“This company is very much undermonetized, especially compared to other platforms and competitors like Facebook,” said Pinar Yildirim, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. “If you look at it from a point of pure business value, there’s definitely room for improvement.”
In a statement, Bret Taylor, Twitter’s chairman, said that the board had “conducted a thoughtful and comprehensive process” on Mr. Musk’s bid and that the deal would “deliver a substantial cash premium” for shareholders.
Regulators are unlikely to seriously challenge the transaction, former antitrust officials said, since the government most commonly intervenes to stop a deal when a company is buying a competitor.
The deal came together in a matter of weeks. Mr. Musk, who also leads the electric carmaker Tesla and the rocket maker SpaceX, began buying shares of Twitter in January and disclosed this month that he had amassed a stake of more than 9 percent.
That immediately set off a guessing game over what Mr. Musk planned to do with the platform. Twitter’s executives initially welcomed him to the board of directors, but he reversed course within days and instead began a bid to buy the company outright.
Any agreement initially appeared unlikely because the entrepreneur did not say how he would finance the deal. Twitter’s executives appeared skeptical, too, given that it was difficult to discern how much Mr. Musk might be jesting. In 2018, for example, he tweeted that he planned to take Tesla private and inaccurately claimed that he had “funding secured” for such a deal.
“And almost without exception, these influencers feel that they have been wronged by mainstream society in some way,” Mr. Brooking added.
Dr. Malone earned a medical degree from Northwestern University in 1991, and for the next decade taught pathology at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Maryland. He then turned to biotech start-ups and consulting. His résumé says he was “instrumental” in securing early-stage approval for research on the Ebola vaccine by the pharmaceutical company Merck in the mid-2010s. He also worked on repurposing drugs to treat Zika.
In extended interviews at his home over two days, Dr. Malone said he was repeatedly not recognized for his contributions over the course of his career, his voice low and grave as he recounted perceived slights by the institutions he had worked for. His wife, Dr. Jill Glasspool Malone, paced the room and pulled up articles on her laptop that she said supported his complaints.
The example he points to more frequently is from his time at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego. While there, he performed experiments that showed how human cells could absorb an mRNA cocktail and produce proteins from it. Those experiments, he says, make him the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology.
“I was there,” Dr. Malone said. “I wrote all the invention.”
What the mainstream media did instead, he said, was give credit for the mRNA vaccines to the scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, because there “is a concerted campaign to get them the Nobel Prize” by Pfizer and BioNTech, where Dr. Kariko is a senior vice president, as well as the University of Pennsylvania, where Dr. Weissman leads a laboratory researching vaccines and infectious diseases.
But at the time he was conducting those experiments, it was not known how to protect the fragile RNA from the immune system’s attack, scientists say. Former colleagues said they had watched in astonishment as Dr. Malone began posting on social media about why he deserved to win the Nobel Prize.
The idea that he is the inventor of mRNA vaccines is “a totally false claim,” said Dr. Gyula Acsadi, a pediatrician in Connecticut who along with Dr. Malone and five others wrote a widely cited paper in 1990 showing that injecting RNA into muscle could produce proteins. (The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work by injecting RNA into arm muscles that produce copies of the “spike protein” found on the outside of the coronavirus. The human immune system identifies that protein, attacks it and then remembers how to defeat it.)
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, took an unusual step last week: It suspended some of the quality controls that ensure that posts from users in Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries meet its rules.
Under the change, Meta temporarily stopped tracking whether its workers who monitor Facebook and Instagram posts from those areas were accurately enforcing its content guidelines, six people with knowledge of the situation said. That’s because the workers could not keep up with shifting rules about what kinds of posts were allowed about the war in Ukraine, they said.
Meta has made more than half a dozen content policy revisions since Russia invaded Ukraine last month. The company has permitted posts about the conflict that it would normally have taken down — including some calling for the death of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and violence against Russian soldiers — before changing its mind or drawing up new guidelines, the people said.
The result has been internal confusion, especially among the content moderators who patrol Facebook and Instagram for text and images with gore, hate speech and incitements to violence. Meta has sometimes shifted its rules on a daily basis, causing whiplash, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
contended with pressure from Russian and Ukrainian authorities over the information battle about the conflict. And internally, it has dealt with discontent about its decisions, including from Russian employees concerned for their safety and Ukrainian workers who want the company to be tougher on Kremlin-affiliated organizations online, three people said.
Meta has weathered international strife before — including the genocide of a Muslim minority in Myanmar last decade and skirmishes between India and Pakistan — with varying degrees of success. Now the largest conflict on the European continent since World War II has become a litmus test of whether the company has learned to police its platforms during major global crises — and so far, it appears to remain a work in progress.
“All the ingredients of the Russia-Ukraine conflict have been around for a long time: the calls for violence, the disinformation, the propaganda from state media,” said David Kaye, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a former special rapporteur to the United Nations. “What I find mystifying was that they didn’t have a game plan to deal with it.”
Dani Lever, a Meta spokeswoman, declined to directly address how the company was handling content decisions and employee concerns during the war.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Meta said it established a round-the-clock special operations team staffed by employees who are native Russian and Ukrainian speakers. It also updated its products to aid civilians in the war, including features that direct Ukrainians toward reliable, verified information to locate housing and refugee assistance.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer, have been directly involved in the response to the war, said two people with knowledge of the efforts. But as Mr. Zuckerberg focuses on transforming Meta into a company that will lead the digital worlds of the so-called metaverse, many responsibilities around the conflict have fallen — at least publicly — to Nick Clegg, the president for global affairs.
announced that Meta would restrict access within the European Union to the pages of Russia Today and Sputnik, which are Russian state-controlled media, following requests by Ukraine and other European governments. Russia retaliated by cutting off access to Facebook inside the country, claiming the company discriminated against Russian media, and then blocking Instagram.
This month, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine praised Meta for moving quickly to limit Russian war propaganda on its platforms. Meta also acted rapidly to remove an edited “deepfake” video from its platforms that falsely featured Mr. Zelensky yielding to Russian forces.
a group called the Ukrainian Legion to run ads on its platforms this month to recruit “foreigners” for the Ukrainian army, a violation of international laws. It later removed the ads — which were shown to people in the United States, Ireland, Germany and elsewhere — because the group may have misrepresented ties to the Ukrainian government, according to Meta.
Internally, Meta had also started changing its content policies to deal with the fast-moving nature of posts about the war. The company has long forbidden posts that might incite violence. But on Feb. 26, two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Meta informed its content moderators — who are typically contractors — that it would allow calls for the death of Mr. Putin and “calls for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion,” according to the policy changes, which were reviewed by The New York Times.
Reuters reported on Meta’s shifts with a headline that suggested that posts calling for violence against all Russians would be tolerated. In response, Russian authorities labeled Meta’s activities as “extremist.”
Shortly thereafter, Meta reversed course and said it would not let its users call for the deaths of heads of state.
“Circumstances in Ukraine are fast moving,” Mr. Clegg wrote in an internal memo that was reviewed by The Times and first reported by Bloomberg. “We try to think through all the consequences, and we keep our guidance under constant review because the context is always evolving.”
Meta amended other policies. This month, it made a temporary exception to its hate speech guidelines so users could post about the “removal of Russians” and “explicit exclusion against Russians” in 12 Eastern European countries, according to internal documents. But within a week, Meta tweaked the rule to note that it should be applied only to users in Ukraine.
The constant adjustments left moderators who oversee users in Central and Eastern European countries confused, the six people with knowledge of the situation said.
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Putin’s advisers. U.S. intelligence suggests that President Vladimir V. Putin has been misinformed by his advisers about the Russian military’s struggles in Ukraine. The intelligence shows what appears to be growing tension between Mr. Putin and the Ministry of Defense, U.S. officials said.
The policy changes were onerous because moderators were generally given less than 90 seconds to decide on whether images of dead bodies, videos of limbs being blown off, or outright calls to violence violated Meta’s rules, they said. In some instances, they added, moderators were shown posts about the war in Chechen, Kazakh or Kyrgyz, despite not knowing those languages.
Ms. Lever declined to comment on whether Meta had hired content moderators who specialize in those languages.
take action against Russia Today and Sputnik, said two people who attended. Russian state activity was at the center of Facebook’s failure to protect the 2016 U.S. presidential election, they said, and it didn’t make sense that those outlets had continued to operate on Meta’s platforms.
While Meta has no employees in Russia, the company held a separate meeting this month for workers with Russian connections. Those employees said they were concerned that Moscow’s actions against the company would affect them, according to an internal document.
In discussions on Meta’s internal forums, which were viewed by The Times, some Russian employees said they had erased their place of work from their online profiles. Others wondered what would happen if they worked in the company’s offices in places with extradition treaties to Russia and “what kind of risks will be associated with working at Meta not just for us but our families.”
Ms. Lever said Meta’s “hearts go out to all of our employees who are affected by the war in Ukraine, and our teams are working to make sure they and their families have the support they need.”
At a separate company meeting this month, some employees voiced unhappiness with the changes to the speech policies during the war, according to an internal poll. Some asked if the new rules were necessary, calling the changes “a slippery slope” that were “being used as proof that Westerners hate Russians.”
Others asked about the effect on Meta’s business. “Will Russian ban affect our revenue for the quarter? Future quarters?” read one question. “What’s our recovery strategy?”
In the days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Twitter accounts shared messages of support for Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president.
They tried to deflect criticism of the war by comparing it to conflicts instigated by Western countries. Their commentary — along with tweets from other users who condemned it — made the hashtag #IStandWithPutin trend on Twitter in several regions around the world.
While some of the accounts said they were based in Nigeria and South Africa, the majority of those with a declared location on Twitter claimed to be from India and targeted their messages to other Indian users, researchers said.
evacuating nearly 20,000 of its citizens who were in the country when Russia’s invasion began. Hundreds of Indian students remained stuck amid heavy shelling at the time. India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, who has avoided condemning Russia, appealed to Mr. Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelensky, for help.
Russia’s local embassy used Twitter to instruct Indian media outlets to not use the word “war” but to instead refer to it as a “special military operation,” as media outlets in Russia have been forced by law to do. Some Indian Twitter users responded by mocking the embassy, while others chastised local media outlets as inept and needing instruction from Russia.
Pro-Russian sentiment has taken hold in right-wing circles in the United States, misinformation that has spread within Russia claims Ukrainians have staged bombings or bombed their own neighborhoods, and myths about Ukrainian fortitude have gone viral across social media platforms. But in India and other countries where social media users joined the hashtag, pro-Russian narratives have focused on ethnonationalism and Western hypocrisy over the war, themes that have resonated with social media users.
“There were dense clusters of communities engaging with it, many of which were based in India or based in Pakistan,” said Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor of Middle East studies and digital humanities at Hamad Bin Khalifa University who analyzed the accounts using #IStandWithPutin.
It was not clear whether the accounts promoting pro-Putin messages in India were authentic, although Dr. Jones said some of the most popular ones engaged in suspicious behavior, like using stock photos as profile pictures or racking up likes and retweets despite having few followers.
blog post this month. “These accounts represent a wide range of attempts to manipulate the service — including opportunistic, financially motivated spam — and we don’t currently believe they represent a specific, coordinated campaign associated with a government actor.”
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Ongoing peace talks. During peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, Russia promised it would “reduce military activity” near Kyiv, and Ukraine said it was ready to declare itself permanently neutral. Even so, weeks of further negotiation may be needed to reach an agreement, and Russia appears determined to capture more territory in eastern Ukraine.
On the ground. Russia’s apparent concessions in the north of Ukraine reflected a successful Ukrainian resistance that has bogged down Russia’s forces around Kyiv’s suburbs and retaken territory near the capital and cities closer to the Russian border.
New sanctions. The United States is preparing new sanctions targeting the supply chains of Russia’s military industrial sector as it seeks to erode Moscow’s ability to attack Ukraine. The new measures will be rolled out in coordination with Western allies.
But some of the accounts in India most likely belonged to real people, Dr. Jones said. “If you can get enough people spreading a message, then real people will join in,” he said. “It becomes hard to sort the organic behavior from the inorganic because it’s a mesh.”
In India, some right-wing groups have advanced similar messages. An organization called the Hindu Sena marched in support of Russia this month in the heart of India’s capital. Carrying Russian flags ordered for the occasion as well as saffron ones often flown by Hindu nationalists, participants were led by the group’s president, Vishnu Gupta.
Over 300 activists chanted, “Russia you fight on, we are with you” and “Long live the friendship of India and Russia.”
“Russia has always stood by India and is its best friend. While America supports Pakistan and does not want any Asian power to rise,” Mr. Gupta said in an interview. “We don’t believe in war. But now that it’s happening, India must go with Russia. We must make our position clear.”
Russia’s embassy in India has also used Twitter and Facebook to promote conspiracy theories about biological research labs in Ukraine and to pressure the Indian media.
largest supplier of weapons, and Ukraine by abstaining from voting against Russia at the United Nations. India has also sent medical supplies to Ukraine. It has been looking for ways to maintain its trade relations with Russia despite sanctions imposed on it by many Western countries.
But public sentiment about the war could pressure local politicians to choose a side, experts said.
“It’s a major, major flashpoint for a truly global competition for information,” Mr. Brookie said. “Its an inflection point where a number of countries — not just Russia but the United States, its allies and partners, as well as China — are positioning themselves.”
When Victoria Nuland, an under secretary of state, was questioned in the Senate this month over whether Ukraine had biological weapons, she said laboratories in the country had materials that could be dangerous if they fell into Russian hands. Jack Posobiec, a far-right commentator, insinuated on his March 9 podcast that Ms. Nuland’s answer bolstered the conspiracy theory.
“Everybody needs to come clean about what was going on in those labs, because I guarantee you the Russians are about to put all of it onto the world stage,” said Mr. Posobiec, who did not respond to calls seeking comment.
Russian officials also latched on to Ms. Nuland’s comments. “The nervous reaction confirms that Russia’s allegations are grounded,” the country’s official account for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted on Twitter.
Beyond the bioweapons conspiracy theory, Joseph Jordan, a white nationalist podcaster who goes by the pseudonym Eric Striker, repeated Russia’s claim that a pregnant woman who was injured in the bombing of a Ukrainian maternity hospital had faked her injuries. In his Telegram channel, Mr. Jordan told his 15,000 followers that the hospital photos had been “staged.” He did not respond to a request for comment.
Some Russians have publicly commented on what appears to be common ground with far-right Americans. Last week on the Russian state-backed news program “60 Minutes,” which is not connected to the CBS show of the same name, the host, Olga Skabeeva, addressed the country’s strengthening ties with Mr. Carlson.
“Our acquaintance, the host of Fox News Tucker Carlson, obviously has his own interests,” she said, airing several clips of Mr. Carlson’s show where he suggested the United States had pushed for conflict in Ukraine. “But lately, more and more often, they’re in tune with our own.”
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Reduce the Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
Preventive therapies and oral hygiene education before conception and during early pregnancy may help reduce the severity of periodontal diseases and the negative effects of inflammation on pregnancy.
After reading this course, the participant should be able to:
- Identify the adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with inflammation and periodontal diseases.
- Explain how maternal oral infection can affect a developing fetus.
- Discuss the current professional recommendations for treating and managing pregnant patients.
This course was published in the February 2015 issue and expires February 28, 2018. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose. This 2 credit hour self-study activity is electronically mediated.
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Adam Spencer's Time Machine
Following the runaway success of his Big Book of Numbers and World of Numbers (2015), Adam Spencer is back with a fascinating – and fun! – romp through history.
- Publish Date
- November 2016
Starting with the big bang and ending in the present day (with a few glimpses of the future for good measure) Time Machine is a history book unlike any other. Jam-packed with quotes, quizzes, anecdotes and trivia, Adam’s latest book is a full-colour treasure trove for ages 8 ... all the way to 108.
Did you know that some of the earliest mathematicians and astronomers were indigenous Australians? Or that Lord Byron’s daughter, Ada Lovelace, was a pioneer of computer programming ... despite dying in 1852? Can you believe that pinball was actually illegal across much of the US until the 1970s? Will time travel ever be possible? And who (or what) is the Witch of Agnesi?
Time Machine is 2016’s ultimate compendium for curious minds.
‘As gripping as any of my adventures, but with fewer exploding heads and a lot more maths!’ Matthew Reilly
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By the end of 2013, China will have increased its share of global cotton stocks to 60%, according to a recent projection. This will make the country the main driver of cotton prices worldwide.
The projection, released by the International Cotton Advisory Committee, estimates that China will draw down its cotton reserve from 9 million tons to 8 million tons by the end of July. China should then resume regular cotton purchases to bolster its reserve in the 2013/14 harvest season.
The US Department of Agriculture increased its 2012/13 export estimate to 3 million tons last month, anticipating further strong sales to China. At the same time, 2013/14 production is predicted to fall to 2.9 million tons, as drought continues to impact the southwest.
The Cotlook A Index was up to 96.65 cents per pound in mid-June, but has been hovering in the low 90s since then. The NYMXE price is 86.22 cents per pound for the October contract, with a spot price of 81.84 cents.
China will also see declining production, according to ICAC estimates. The country is expected to move land out of cotton cultivation, as government reforms aimed at opening the economy speed urbanization and growth.
The People’s Bank of China is moving to tighten monetary policy at the same time, with the aim of shrinking asset bubbles and delivering a more sustainable growth rate. This is affecting spinners, who are slowing purchases from China’s cotton reserve, which demands payment on delivery, and switching to imports, which can be paid with 90-day letters of credit.
The cotton reserve program has a distorting influence on the market, which has been acknowledged by Chinese policymakers. The aim of the program is to subsidize cotton plantings, and the government is currently experimenting with a direct subsidy to farmers in Xinjiang. Farmers already receive a direct subsidy in Hebei.
World cotton production outstripped consumption in 2010/11, according to the ICAC. Half the stock increases in 2012/13 will flow to China, with the rest being distributed around the world.
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Credits is a public, fast, and completely decentralized blockchain platform with Turing-complete smart contracts.
The beta version released in March 2018, with the mainnet platform released in June 2018, Credits Blockchain platform is an innovative technological platform for the development and execution of blockchain technology and smart contracts based decentralized applications.
During the first stage of the Credits Blockchain Platform load test, its transaction speed reached 1.3 million transactions per second.
A Node refers to as a client-side application installed on the user equipment. The Node performs the storage and processing of transactions, the deployment, and confirmation of the smart contract conditions, and provides data upon the request.
It is a blockchain explorer that contains current and previous transactions, as well as smart contracts on the network.
Explore your transactions history
Credits Monitor is a multifunctional web-based tool used to monitor the transaction history of all network members, circulation of nodes globally and gathering of general statistics.
Credits Wallet enables you to transfer currency to other network members (CS internal currency or tokens) without requiring to install the Network Node and use existing smart contracts available in the network registry.
Written in Java, this electronic wallet is accessible using public and private keys.
Developments undergoing the patenting:
Credits Blockchain uses a completely unique consensus and decision method based on data processing and multiple validations with strong implementation solution.
It offers an innovative high-speed data Transmission Protocol within a decentralized network. That is capable of executing transactions from 0.1 sec per transaction.
Based on high-security cryptography algorithms, it gives a different block and transaction validation and confirmation solution.
The blockchain platform is open source with self-sufficient smart contracts.
It aims to create services for blockchain systems using self-automatic smart contracts with a public data registry.
Speed: Transaction processing speed around 0.1 seconds
Fees: Approx. 0.001 USD
Volume: 1.3 Million transactions per sec
Develop decentralized applications and services using Credits blockchain solutions.
Storing data on the blockchain
Credits Blockchain Platform features
Financial assets issuing
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May 20, 2016: To address overuse of land mass, a good proposal is to build luxury floating oceanic apartments for the brainless pollutants, keeping them busy in ocean farming / salt water breeding, which possibly can also clean these variants endless greed and accumulated carbon hunger. A likely moonshot vision of billionaires and idealistic architects can become a concrete solution to several of the world’s most pressing challenges. At a United Nations roundtable last week, a group of builders, engineers, and architects debuted a concept for affordable floating cities.
Unlike instances in the past when these futuristic designs have been met with skepticism , the executive director of the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat), Maimunah Mohd Sharif, said the UN would support and shepherd this project to fruition.
“Everybody on the team actually wants to get this built,” said the CEO of a company that builds floating structures. “We’re not just theorizing.”
The company believes a floating city project would address both dire housing shortages and threats from rising sea levels and civil wars. The structures themselves would be designed to withstand all sorts of natural disasters, including floods, tsunamis, Category 5 hurricanes and Category 9 Nukes..?
The concept designed by architect Bjarke Ingels in collaboration with Oceanix. Though it still needs funding, it’s essentially a toolkit for investors brave enough to take on the project. The city would essentially be a collection of hexagonal platforms that can each hold around 300 residents.
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Keywords:Typhoon, TCHP, Numerical simulation
It is sometimes pointed out that the increase in the upper-ocean temperature, particularly sea surface temperature, is one of the factors that cause stronger landfalling typhoons such as FAXAI and HAGIBIS in 2019.Since these landfalling typhoons cause serious disasters, it is necessary to explore the effects of increases in the upper-ocean temperature on the typhoons. First, an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis method was applied for tropical cyclone thermal potential (TCHP) data from 1982 to 2019 to investigate upper ocean temperature variations. From the EOF analysis, we can find the correlation map that TCHP increased in almost all areas in the North Pacific as the second mode, while the first mode shows the variation corresponding to the El Nino-Southern Oscillation. In 2019, we find that the second mode is dominant. In order to investigate the impact of the increase in the upper-ocean temperature on typhoons in 2019, numerical simulations were conducted for Typhoons FAXAI and HAGIBIS with a nonhydrostatic atmosphere model and the atmosphere-wave-ocean coupled model, and with two different oceanic initial conditions. One oceanic initial condition is the average from 1982 to 2019, while the other is the daily operational oceanic analysis data in the Japan Meteorological Agency. The simulation results show that the difference in track predictions between the four simulations was very small although all simulated tracks showed the westward errors. However, the simulated central pressures and the simulated maximum wind speeds show that the simulated typhoon intensity became weak when both the coupled model and the average from 1982 to 2019 were used. In some experiments, there was no systematic difference between the four experiments as to the accumulated precipitation distribution over the Japanese archipelago. Therefore, the effect of the increase in the upper-ocean temperature on landfalling typhoons can be found only in the intensity.
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Honey has had a particular place in residence treatments for a whole lot of years. It is called one of many best from all-natural healers. In addition, honey presents many well being advantages, be it cough reduction or its antioxidant properties. There are a number of methods to learn from the superpowers of honey.
Honey is sort of a treasure field with too many nice surprises. It comprises bio-actives that equip honey with therapeutic skills. It additionally carries an array of different well being advantages. Like when used rather than refined sugar, honey may be very helpful. The motive? Sugar offers empty energy. On the opposite hand, honey is wealthy and might have a number of advantages. This article talks about numerous spectacular advantages of honey and methods to make use of it.
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The 3rd edition of RRAS’ Common Birds of Northwest California by local birder Kenneth Burton and photographer Leslie Anderson is now available!
This acclaimed book introduces readers to the 164 most-reported birds in Del Norte, Humboldt, and Trinity Counties, with a full page dedicated to each species.
Each species account includes the bird’s classification, size, seasonal status, and habitat preferences; three paragraphs of text describing its nomenclature, ecology, and identification; and stunning photos of different poses and plumages.
Proceeds from sales of the book will benefit RRAS’ conservation and education program.
$25.00 + 2.07 tax.
We are happy to mail copies to you, and they are also available in many local locations. Click here for instructions to have one sent, and local locations to purchase a book.
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Myth: Only young and irresponsible women have abortions.
This is simply untrue!
Any woman may choose to access abortion care. Women have about 3 decades of fertility to navigate, and many women who choose to access abortion care already have children.
Myth: If women used contraception they wouldn’t need abortions.
It’s estimated that every year 33 million women all over the world will have an unplanned pregnancy while they are using contraception. The reality is that no contraception is 100% effective. Even if ‘the morning after pill’ is taken, if you are already at a point in your cycle when you are ovulating, this may be ineffective.
The most effective type of emergency contraception is to arrange to have an IUD (coil) fitted within five days of having unprotected sex (the failure rate of the coil as emergency contraception is less than 1%). Unfortunately, some women become pregnant through rape, or may be being controlled by their partner, in which case contraception may not have been an option at the time.
Myth: Having an abortion will make it difficult to get pregnant in the future, it can make you infertile.
It will be possible to get pregnant immediately after an abortion. If you don’t wish to become pregnant it’s important to start using contraception immediately. We can give you information and advice about contraception options and can provide your chosen method.
In a regulated, safe, and legal clinic there should be no cause for fertility issues after treatment. A safe facility will follow the World Health Organisation’s recommendations to provide safe ‘vacuum aspiration’ for surgical abortion, and medical abortions up to 9 weeks + 3 days using mifepristone and misoprostol tablets.
This myth most likely started when women were using illegal abortion providers, which didn’t use the safe procedures and medical checks that clinics use today. This myth could lead to more unplanned pregnancies if women believe they will be infertile after an abortion.
Myth: Abortions are unsafe and often fatal, even with specialist providers.
This myth tries to make women afraid of accessing legal abortion care.
In truth, abortion is very safe when performed in the clean conditions of a clinic registered with the Ministry of Health.
In fact, the World Health Organisation says that the risk of death from a safe abortion is lower than death caused by a penicillin injection, or by continuing with a pregnancy.
Myth: An embryo or fetus feels pain during an abortion procedure.
Many trusted, peer-reviewed studies show that a fetus cannot start to feel pain in any sense until the nervous system begins to develop, which is at least 24 weeks gestation. A study in the Journal of American Medicine goes further and suggests that it’s probable that a fetus cannot feel pain before 29 or 30 weeks gestation. This is well before the development of a nervous system.
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Bawal I-Fold? 9 Wallets That Are Long Enough For The New Peso BillsPlus, how to take care of the new Philippine Peso bills.by Aussy A. Perfecto .
We’ve come a long way since Mickey Mouse Money, but the joke may still be on us. As both the US Dollar exchange rate and gas prices rise, the Philippine Peso continues to look like play money in an expensive world. Let’s hope the Philippine Eagle’s fierce stare on the new P1,000 bills gives us the courage, dignity, and unity we are all working hard for.
Recently, however, the incoming Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) governor Felipe Medalla’s suggestions na bawal i-fold ang new Philippine Peso bills have people scratching their heads and raising their eyebrows. What’s the big deal with the polymer banknote anyway? And why do people have to consider getting longer wallets for it?
What’s the difference between polymer banknotes and paper money?
Polymer banknotes are essentially made of plastic, or polypropylene. According to The Manila Bulletin, the previous BSP governor Benjamin Diokno said this decision was made “to address public concerns for a more hygienic, durable and cost-effective, pro-environment, and difficult to counterfeit banknotes.”ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW
Polymer banknotes are water-resistant, dirt-proof, and difficult to counterfeit. That’s because they are printed on a film-like material that makes it smooth and actually more hygienic.
The downside is that it’s not suitable to being folded and it will develop a visible crease if you force it. This is why the BSP official guidelines specify that the polymer P1,000 bill should be kept flat, clean, and undamaged.
Another thing about polymer banknotes is that it will get sticky when wet. The film-like substance produces a strange feeling to the touch when it is exposed to too much moisture, so maybe don’t wash your money even if it’s supposed to be waterproof.
The BSP notes that the Philippines will now be among other countries that use polymer bills such as Canada, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, Mexico, Vietnam, Fiji, and Malaysia. The United States, on the other hand, will continue to use paper money, which can be crumpled, torn, dampened, and tampered with. Previously, the paper money of the Philippine Peso used 80% local abaca.CONTINUE READING BELOWRecommended Videos
9 Long Wallets For The New Money
Perhaps people who live in those polymer-using countries have already grown accustomed to using long wallets, but it may take a while for the Philippines. (Can you imagine your suki tricycle driver having to use one of these?) Nevertheless, we’re prepared to embrace change and, if we can literally save money by keeping the new P1,000 polymer bill crisp, clean, and of value, then let’s do it.
Moms may have the best of luck in this problem because there are so many cute long wallets to choose from. From affordable but no less chic designs like the Shigetsu Chichibu Folding Wallet with Flip Pocket (P999), which can be found on Zalora, to the Zara Animal Print Crossover XL Wallet (P1,995) -- maybe just have a long wallet for every other day, depending on your mood. Or, get the Charles & Keith Ombre Zip-Around Wallet in Peacock (P1,799) and let it match whatever you're feeling anyway.ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW
BSP governor Medalla said, "Mas madali yan sa babae kasi may handbag kayo." It's true, but he didn't offer any solutions for dads. If misis doesn't mind carrying another one of these long wallets for you, then great! But if not, at least you have a lot of space in these slim designs.
The Tannery Manila's multi-currency and zipper compartments can hold everything from cash to receipts in the Brianne, Black Yama (P1,800). Or, you can keep it simple and compact with a Swiss Polo (P1,190) long wallet, which uses genuine leather, 11 card holders, and has RFID-blocking technology, available on Zalora. The Herschel Thomas (P3,490) may be the priciest option on this list, but it also has space for your smartphone.
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While these pouches are used for cosmetics or accessories (like keys or charger cords), they can also be used for money if they’re long enough and you want a more casual, unisex look. The Jansport (P390) Accessories Pouch has a single main compartment that is straight to the point, available at Zalora. We suggest that maybe don’t put anything else in the pouch that might damage the money, though! The same goes for the pricier but more hip Herschel Fourteen Hip Pack (P1,990) that cool dads can sling around, but an affordable (and actually more secure) Neck Strap Bag (P799) option can be found at H&M.
How to keep your polymer bank notes clean and crisp
1. Use a damp cloth or towel to wipe it.
2. Do NOT staple, write on, or fold the polymer bill.
3. If you accidentally fold or crease the bank note, put the bill under a heavy book or something similar for a short time to flatten it. Do NOT iron or expose the bank note to extreme heat or cold.
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‘There should have been more oversight’: City issues report on metate moved from La Jolla
The City recently issued a letter to a sub-commitee of the San Diego Historical Resources Board (HRB) and local tribal councils explaining its role in the removal of an artifact without input from native tribes from Cuvier Park in La Jolla in 2017. In the letter, the City acknowledges “there should have been more oversight,” and attempts to state what could be done to prevent it from happening again in the future. However, some of those involved are not satisfied with the findings.
The Native American milling rock, known as a “metate” (pronounced mah-ta-tay) or “bedrock mortar” was located in the park alongside Coast Boulevard, but removed in 2017 to accommodate a sidewalk expansion project. The metate had not been inventoried as a formal historic artifact with significant ties to the site, prior to its removal. It is currently and “temporarily” being housed in a secured area of the City’s Rose Canyon operations yard.
It is unknown when, how or why the rock came to rest in La Jolla. Historically, Native Americans lived in what’s known as the Spindrift Archaeological District in La Jolla Shores, but the extent of this Village has not been mapped. Artifacts, which include ashes from a campfire to pottery to human remains, have been found buried in piecemeal searches and out at sea.
The metate discussion took place at the Feb. 11 HRB Archaeological and Tribal Cultural Resources sub-committee meeting downtown, where the City presented its response.
“The bedrock mortar got removed because there were issues between departments not sharing information, and City staff not consulting with the experts on staff and the Park & Rec Department thinking they were doing the right thing by moving it to protect it,” HRB sub-committee chair Courtney Coyle told La Jolla Light. “You aren’t just supposed to talk to City staff, you talk to tribes. That didn’t happen. What happened here seems to bear witness to a systemic issue where the City only looks at the archaeological value, not tribal value, of some of these resources. That resource, where it was, was really important could be one of the last accessible bedrock mortars in La Jolla.”
At the request of local tribes, the City produced a report, authored by Myra Herrmann, City Planning Department planner/archaeologist/tribal liaison. The three-page report delved into the sidewalk expansion project, which required the metate’s removal, and an “Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of Cultural Resources” conducted in the 1990s that the City used to reference resources that needed to be preserved.
“None of the cultural resources tested, and evaluated for significance in 1996, were found to be important, primarily because of a loss of integrity due to impacts sustained over many decades of public use and facilities improvements, and due to a lack of research potential beyond that realized by the testing effort that has been completed,” the report read.
Further, the report determined: “City staff agrees there should have been more oversight regarding the removal and relocation of the bedrock mortar to facilitate project implementation. While we cannot place blame on this oversight with one individual or department, we regret there was not a clear line of communication regarding this specific incident to avoid conflict and/or concern. We do believe however, that the quick action by Shoreline Parks staff resulted in ultimate protection and safe keeping of the bedrock mortar, despite not consulting with qualified archaeological staff, or members of the local Kumeyaay community.”
Going forward, Herrmann’s report stated the City would conduct “staff training regarding the importance and sensitivity of archaeological and tribal cultural resources” and would work with its IT department to better map these resources in the future.
The report concluded: “We look forward to working with the Kumeyaay community to identify an appropriate location in Cuvier Park or another coastal park location where it can be reinstalled or replicated and appropriately interpreted; or, if agreed to by all interested parties, repatriate the bedrock mortar to the Kumeyaay community as previously discussed. These options are still on the table, and we are available to bring closure and resolution to this important issue.”
“The conversation fell short of an apology,” Coyle said. “There wasn’t any assurance that things have been corrected at the City, so this wouldn’t happen again. It seemed as though staff wanted to jump ahead to reinstall it rather than iron out the process. I’m a little disappointed at the lack of change to the system.”
And she is not alone.
While some tribal council representatives declined to comment, Native American historian, comedian and storyteller Abel Silvas told the Light: “The City wants to sweep this issue under the rug. It’s a sad story and all comes down to the City not wanting us to talk about or care about these resources.”
He added: “These artifacts represent how people got their food; they’re spiritual and special. (The metate) is a sacred item. But apparently the City just sees it as a rock. When you die, your body goes into the soil. So soil is sacred, but the soil around the bedrock is not treated as such. They should have kept it where it was and called the tribes. We should have been consulted.”
However, Silvas said he appreciated the cultural sensitivity training to which the City has committed.
Ron May, architect, president and principal investigator for the preservation consulting firm, Legacy 106, critiqued the City’s use of a study from the 1990s as its basis and concluded: “The rock belongs in the park, not in a warehouse somewhere. This is a very valuable educational tool for children, tourists and adults. There should have been an interpretive plaque installed on the park lawn to explain how the milling feature functioned in the prehistoric society. (To have it) removed to a warehouse is a travesty.”
According to the report, the next step is to organize a trip to the La Jolla Shores and Cuvier Park areas to see if there is an appropriate location for it to be replaced.
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The Montreal Tower is most notable for its dramatic 45-degree angle as well as being the highest inclined tower anywhere in the world. On a clear day, people can see up to 50 miles from the Montreal Observatory Tower. You will not only be treated to awe-inspiring vistas of the city, but also the Laurentian Mountains, the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, and all of the breathtaking surrounding landscape. The Montreal Light Tower (as it is referred to by some) is part of the World Federation of Great Towers. Other celebrated towers in this elite federation include the CN Tower in Toronto and the Empire State Building in New York City. In a city that features a virtually limitless supply of attractions and activities, the Montreal Tower ranks among the must-see attractions.
The Montreal Observatory Tower takes up the top three floors. There are also two reception halls, an elegant bar, and the Salon Montreal, a facility which can be rented for banquets, wedding receptions, business conferences, and much more. One of the top features of the Montreal Tower is riding the funicular to the top of the tower. Even though you will be traveling along over 800 feet of rails, the ascent takes less than two minutes. Up to 76 people can fill into the funicular, which provides stunning views of the city through broad windows. The natural beauty of the topography in the region combined with the spectacular skyline make for amazing photo opportunities. If you are planning a trip to the top of the Montreal Observatory Tower, you will want to be sure to bring along the camera and/or camcorder. These are memories that you are going to want to be able to share for years to come.
There are several ways to enjoy the Montreal Light Tower experience. There are guided tours available that really help you make the most of your experience in the observatory. You will get insightful information about the vast array of sights below, including notable attractions in the city including the Notre Dame Basilica, the Montreal Biodome, and the Old Port. For those people who like to have context for what they are seeing, this is an invaluable part of the experience. Guided tours of the Montreal Light Tower, including the observatory, generally last for about 30 minutes. The knowledgeable and experienced tour guides will cover a range of information, from the 1976 Olympic Games to the history of the observatory itself. You will also have the opportunity to explore the Sports Centre including the Olympic Stadium.
When you finish with your tour of the Montreal Tower, you can enjoy a wide range of options for restaurants, cafes, and bars located within immediate proximity of this popular attraction. You are never far away from a great place to eat or grab a drink in the city of Montreal. There are also plenty of hotels in this part of the city.
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UPDATED: Return to Sub26er Land!!
Long-time readers will remember that throughout the 2014 Open Enrollment period, there was much fuss and bother made by both the Obama administration, the HHS Dept., myself and some ACA detractors over the "sub26er" population: Young adults aged from 19-25 years old who are covered by their parents policies thanks to provisions in the Affordable Care Act requiring all new policies issued since 2010 to allow this.
During the fall of 2013, leading up to the ill-fated launch of the exchanges, the HHS Dept. kept throwing around a hard number to hype up the "sub26er" factor: 3.1 million, which actually came from this ASPE Issue Brief from back in June 2012:
There are 29.7 million adults in this age group, as of the most recent Census data (see Footnote 6). There was a 10.4% increase in insured young adults (64.4% to 74.8%) from Q3 2010 to Q4 2011 (Table 8). 10.4% of 29.7 million is 3.1 million young adults...
A recent survey from the Commonwealth Fund found that 6.6 million young adults who have enrolled in their parents’ health plans since November 2010 were unlikely to have been eligible for those plans before the Affordable Care Act. This number exceeds our calculation because it includes some individuals who were already insured, often through their own private coverage.
However, throughout the heady 2nd half of the 2014 season, Forbes columnist, Duke University research scholar, AEI adjunct scholar and general curmudgeon Chris Conover and I butted heads several times over competing surveys and reports which gave conflicting results for the "sub26er" figures. Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler also joined in the mix with yet more conflicting young-adults-enrolled-on-their-parents-plan data; the whole thing got to be quite messy.
Furthermore, some states already had laws requiring policies to allow young adult children to stay on their parents plans, and some individual policies did so anyway even where they weren't required to, making it even harder to sort things out.
In the end, I ended up switching my "sub26er" estimate from a solid 3.1 million to a range of between 1.6 million - 3.1 million, and called it a day. In fact, the ASPE issued a quickie report right after the end of the 2015 open enrollment period in March in which they quietly downshifted their 2010-2013 sub26er number to 2.3 million...right in the middle of my revised "range".
Then, last fall, as part of the spreadsheet/graph overhaul for the 2015 season, I took another look at the whole situation and decided to just scrap the sub26er section altogether. My reasoning was simple:
I've decided to completely delete the "Sub-26er" column, not because they don't exist (there should still be 1-2 million out there), but because they've basically been absorbed into the other QHP numbers at this point (and were extremely tricky to accurately count in the first place).
Consider that the original 3.1 million estimate used by the HHS Dept. 2 years ago was dated June 2012 but the data itself was as of December 2011, six months earlier. Also remember that the age range is pretty narrow: 19-25 years old. It's 3.5 years later now, so at least half of those people are now 26 or older and have moved on to other coverage, Of course, they've been at least partly replaced by new young adults who were 15-17 at the time, but the point is that there's a tremendous amount of churn in this particular subgroup.
This is all further complicated by the fact that, as I noted last fall, there's no further point in counting this group separately in my view because they're mostly already being counted as part of either the exchange or off-exchange QHP tallies (around 10.3 million on-exchange, around 8.2 milion off). It's not that they don't exist, just that they're already being accounted for elsewhere.
OK, so why am I bringing this all up again now?
Mainly because thanks to an industrious effort by site supporter Esther F., I now know the answer to at least one mystery: Just which states required the sub26er coverage and which ones didn't prior to the ACA being signed into law. The table below comes from a report in the Journal of Health Economics by Marcus Dillender last year:
As you can see, prior to the ACA being signed into law, 35 states already had such laws on the books...however, almost all of them required the adult children to be single, 4 states required them not to have any children, and 8 states required that they be students. Finally, the cut-off age is all over the place, ranging from as low as 22 in South Carolina to as high as 30 in Nebraska and Pennsylvania.
Anyway, both Esther and I just thought this was an interesting bit of food for thought. In some ways it's sort of parallel to Medicaid expansion (at least for the states which expanded "standard" Medicaid); instead of the eligibility threshold being all over the map from state to state, there's a single cut-off point for every state which participates: 138% of the Federal Poverty Level.
UPDATE: As supporter Deb Soc just pointed out via Twitter, it'd be interesting to find out whether the pre-ACA rules listed above in Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (ranging from 27 - 30 years old) are also still in place. My guess is that they are, just as state-level minimum wage laws still apply in cases where they're higher than the federal minimum wage. However, if so, that would also presumably mean that the other restrictions (can't be married, have to be a student, can't have kids) would also apply for those over 25 in those states.
If anyone happens to find documentation about that question, please feel free to pass it on, thanks!
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Are you feeling tired or overwhelmed with chronic worry?
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Love Indian Food?
Passing by an Indian restaurant mesmerized by the aroma of Indian food makes many of us want to attempt a home-cooked Indian meal. The freshness of the ingredients used and the aroma from the spices come together to create some of the most delicious dishes in the world. Indian food is known to be one of the most popular foods around the globe.
However, it can be a bit intimidating as sometimes there are so many ingredients, including spices, that are combined to create an authentic Indian meal. But before you put away the thought of ever cooking an authentic Indian meal, it's important to understand what an authentic Indian meal consists of and that it is not as complicated as it seems.
Variations in Indian Cooking
Although you will find certain variations in the types of foods and spices used throughout the Indian Sub-Continent and the Indian restaurants you eat in, the general concept of an Indian Meal remains consistent in most regions.
Some exceptions include, the southern regions of India which serve battered and fermented rice dishes as oppose to the bread. However the concept of vegetables curries/meat curries and lentil soups along with condiments remains the same.
Indian Food Is A Luxury On Tour !
- Mahesh Bhupati
Typical Foods Served in An Authentic Indian Vegetarian Meal
Choice of Vegetable curries.
Normally, there is a choice of at least two Sabjis.
Naan, Paratha or Chapathi
Fresh buttered bread
Served hot with the vegetables.
Chawal, Vari, Pulao, Biryani
White rice or spicy rice
Served on the side with other foods.
Crunchy, crispy, round (like a tortilla)
Served as an appetizer in restaurants.
Achar or Avakaya
Served as a "salsa" for more added flavor and spicyness
General Spices Used In Indian Meals
The Recipe for An Authentic Indian Meal
Spicy French Beans, Chana Masala, with Paratha
|Cook time||Ready in||Yields|
For Spicy French Style Beans (1st vegetable):
- 1-2 cans french style beans, Washed and Drained
- 2 Tablespoons oil
- 1 Tablespoon mustard seeds
- 1 Tablespoon chili powder, `
- 1 Tablespoon tumeric powder
- 1 Teaspoon Each coriander power, cumin power, garam masala
- 1 Tablespoon salt
For Chana Masala (2nd Vegetable):
- 1 can garbanzo beans, Pressured Cooked for 5 minutes
- Half onion, Diced
- 1/4 cup canned tomato puree
- 1/2 tablespoon coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala, chole masala (found in any indian grocery store)
- 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon chill powder
- 1 tablespoon tumeric powder
For the Paratha (bread):
- 2 cups wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup water, or as needed
- Extra oil in a small bowl
Instructions To Cook Spicy French Style Beans:
Heat oil and then add mustard seeds. Once mustard seeds start popping, add washed beans. Stir in oil and cook on low for few minutes. Then add chilli powder, tumeric, and salt. Stir on low, cover, and cook for 5 minutes (stirring occasionally). Then add coriander powder, cumin powder. Stir on low, cover, and cook for 5-8 minutes (stirring occasionally). Lastly, add garam masala and stir and cook for another 2 mins. And it's ready. Serve hot!
Instructions To Cook Chana Masala:
Pressure cook chickpeas for 5 minutes. While that is pressure cooking, heat oil in a pan and once the oil start heating add cumin seeds. Wait about 30 seconds, and then add diced onions. Cook until onions are lightly brown. Then, add chole masala, cumin powder, and coriander powder. Stir well. Let it cook for a couple of minutes (if it's dry and sticking to pan add a little bit of water and stir again). Then add tomato puree and salt and stir well covered for a 3-4 minutes. Then add drained and cooked chickpeas. Stir well, cover and let it cook for 10-15 minutes stirring occasionally. Once it's done cooking, add garam masala and stir. Serve hot!
Instructions To Cook Paratha:
Take wheat flour in a semi-large plastic or stainless steel bowl. Add oil and salt. And then very slowly add water as you are mixing it together with your hands. Careful not to use too much water. The goal is to make it into a round shape dough (not too soft and not too hard). Then leave it covered aside for few minutes while heating on medium heat a flat non-stick pan on the stove. Keep a small jar of oil on the side as you will need it later. Start by making round 4-6 inch balls of the dough and rolling then out into a circle shape. Put the rolled out dough onto the hot pan. Once the dough start to turn slightly brown, flip it to the other side and spread oil on both sides of the dough. Let both sides cook until golden brown on both sides. Take it off stove and serve hot! (Some also add extra clarified butter on top of the paratha to enhance the taste).
How to Plate Indian Food Like a Pro
In my recipe (see above) the condiments I used are spicy mango pickle and white rice. However, to plate your Indian Authentic Meal, you can add a side of salad, papad, chutneys (a type of sweet, spicy or sour salsa), or any type of colorful fried snack foods such as pakoras (as the dish below). Also, keep in mind if any vegetable dishes are dry, then a lentil soup is usually added to the meal.
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© 2019 Aanvi
Question & Comments
Aanvi (author) from United States on October 22, 2019:
Thank you liza. :-)
Liza from USA on October 20, 2019:
My husband and I love Indian food. Since I'm originally from Malaysia, Indian food is not a new 'thing' to me :) Paratha and naan is one of our favorites if we went to an Indian restaurant. I also used some of the Indian spices in my cooking. Thank you for sharing your expertise in Indian cuisine, Aanvi. Excellent presentation!
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Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer.
Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano. At sixteen, he was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, graduating two years later with the institution's highest honor, Premier Prix (first prize). He was hired by the Concerts Lamoureux in which he played for three years.
While still a member of the orchestra in Paris, Ponty picked up a side job playing clarinet (which his father had taught him) for a college jazz band, that regularly performed at local parties. It proved life-changing. A growing interest in Miles Davis and John Coltrane compelled him to take up tenor saxophone. One night after an orchestra concert, and still wearing his tuxedo, Ponty found himself at a local club with only his violin. Within four years, he was widely accepted as the leading figure in "jazz fiddle".
At that time, Ponty was leading a dual musical life: rehearsing and performing with the orchestra while also playing jazz at clubs throughout Paris. The demands of this schedule eventually brought him to a crossroads. Critic Joachim Berendt wrote that "Since Ponty, the jazz violin has been a different instrument".
At first, the violin proved to be challenging; few at the time viewed the instrument as having a legitimate place in the modern jazz vocabulary. With a powerful sound that eschewed vibrato, Ponty distinguished himself with bebop phrasing and a punchy style influenced more by horn players than by anything previously tried on the violin. In 1964, at age 22, he released his debut album, Jazz Long Playing. He performed on stage in Basel, Switzerland, with string players Stuff Smith, Stéphane Grappelli, and Svend Asmussen. The performance was released as the album Violin Summit (1966).
John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet invited Ponty to perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1967, which led to a recording contract with the World Pacific label and the albums Electric Connection (1969) with the Gerald Wilson Big Band and Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio (1969). That year also brought Sunday Walk (1967), the first collaboration between Ponty and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.
In 1969, Frank Zappa composed the music for Ponty's solo album King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (World Pacific, 1970). In 1972 Elton John invited Ponty to contribute to his Honky Chateau (1972) album. At the urging of Zappa and The Mothers of Invention who wanted him to join their tour, Ponty emigrated with his wife and two young daughters to the United States and made his home in Los Angeles. He continued to work on a variety of projects – including two of John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra albums Apocalypse (1974) and Visions of the Emerald Beyond (1975) and tours until 1975, when he signed with Atlantic.
For the next decade, Ponty toured the world repeatedly and recorded 12 consecutive albums, all of which reached the Billboard jazz charts top five, selling millions of albums. His early Atlantic recordings, such as 1976's Aurora and Imaginary Voyage, established Ponty as one of the leading figures in jazz-rock. He went on to crack the Top 40 with the album Enigmatic Ocean in 1977 and Cosmic Messenger in 1978. In 1984, a video of time-lapse images was produced by Louis Schwarzberg for the song "Individual Choice" (1983).
Besides recording and touring with his own group, Ponty performed with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Radio City Orchestra in New York, and symphony orchestras in Montreal, Toronto, Oklahoma City, and Tokyo. In the late 1980s he recorded the albums The Gift of Time (1987) and Storytelling (1989) for Columbia.
On Tchokola (Epic, 1991) Ponty combined acoustic and electric violins for the first time with polyrhythmic sounds of West Africa. He performed for two months in the U.S. and Canada with African expatriates he had met in Paris. In 1993, he returned to Atlantic with the album No Absolute Time. In 1995 he joined guitarist Al Di Meola and bassist Stanley Clarke to record an acoustic album, The Rite of Strings. This trio undertook a six-month tour of North America, South America, and Europe. He reunited his American band in 1996 for live performances following the release of a double album for Atlantic entitled Le Voyage: The Jean-Luc Ponty Anthology. One of these concerts was recorded in Detroit, Michigan on June 29, 1996, and released in October 1996 by Atlantic under the title Live at Chene Park.
In 1997, Ponty reunited his group of Western and African musicians to pursue the fusion music he had begun to explore in 1991. They toured for three years from the Hawaiian Islands to Poland and in North America and Europe. Ponty performed duet with bassist Miroslav Vitous in December 1999. In January 2000, he participated in Lalo Schifrin's recording Esperanto. In June 2001 he performed duets with Russian violinist Vadim Repin and at the Film Music Festival in Poland with American jazz violinist Regina Carter.
In August 2001, Ponty released his album Life Enigma on his label (J.L.P. Productions), a return to his concept from the 1970s with modern production. He played all the instruments on some tracks and was joined by band members for others. He gave a concert with his band in his native town of Avranches in the French province of Normandie on 21 September 2001. He was honored during a ceremony at City Hall. He then embarked on a tour in the U.S. in October and November 2001. In May 2001, he recorded a concert with the same musicians at the opera house in Dresden, Germany. This recording was released in July 2002 on Live at Semper Opera. In January 2003, he toured India for the first time, seven shows in six major cities for the Global Music Festival organized by Indian violinist L. Subramaniam. He and bassist Guy Nsangué Akwa performed with Subramaniam's band and drummer Billy Cobham who was a guest on that tour. In 2004 the DVD Jean-Luc Ponty in Concert was released. It contained a concert with his band filmed in Warsaw in 1999. The band toured in 2004 in France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Lithuania (and in Mumbai, India, in their first concert as a complete ensemble).
Ponty performed on a reunion tour with Stanley Clarke and Al Di Meola from June to October 2004 in the U.S. and Canada. In 2005, he toured with Trio! with Stanley Clarke and Béla Fleck. In 2006, he reunited Jean Luc Ponty & His Band and toured in the U.S., Chile, Venezuela, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, The Middle East and India; they recorded a studio album called The Atacama Experience (2007) with guitarists Allan Holdsworth and Philip Catherine. In April 2012, Ponty performed in an acoustic trio with Clarke and guitarist Bireli Lagrene for the second set of a concert at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris to celebrate five decades in music. The first set featured Ponty with a string orchestra. In 2014, Ponty recorded a jazz album entitled D-Stringz with Clarke and Lagrene. In September 2014, Ponty formed the Anderson Ponty Band with Jon Anderson, lead singer of Yes. After the release of the album Better Late Than Never (2015) they toured in the U.S. and Canada.
Ponty has been an avid user of five-string electric violins (with a low C string) since 1978. He sometimes uses a six-string electric violin called the Violectra, with both the low C and low F strings (not to be confused with the "violectra" he played from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s that had the usual four strings but tuned an octave lower). He combined violin with MIDI, distortion boxes, phase shifters, and wah-wah pedals. This resulted in his signature, almost synthesizer-like sound.
In 2011, Ponty was invited by bandleader/keyboardist Chick Corea to join the group Return to Forever for a series of concerts throughout the year. The group is labeled 'Return to Forever IV', as it is the fourth incarnation of the group. Ponty had first recorded with Corea on his 1976 solo album My Spanish Heart.
Ponty is married and has two daughters. One daughter, Clara Ponty, is a pianist and composer; Ponty has collaborated with Clara on several projects, including her third album, Mirror of Truth (2004).
With Chick Corea
With Mahavishnu Orchestra
With Frank Zappa
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Sweater weather comes to Southwest Florida as cold front arrives
Quick, break out the knit winter wear and hot chocolate. Southwest Florida's annual, albeit short, reprieve from sweaty temperatures is here to usher in the final month of 2020.
Like bank account balances after Thanksgiving, temperatures in Lee and Collier are dropping — fast.
On Monday, a line of showers and thunderstorms brought a cold front across Southwest Florida. Forecasters at the National Weather Service said the front would settle in the area overnight Tuesday, taking temps to the mid-40s Wednesday morning.
“Once that line of storms moves through, much colder and drier air will move into the region through Wednesday bringing significantly cooler temperatures across Southwest Florida,” said John McMichael, a forecaster at NWS’s Tampa Bay office, which covers Lee County.
There’s a chance that wind chill will make it feel even colder, McMichael said. It’s the coldest air the area has seen so far this season.
Shawn Bhatti at NWS’s Miami office, which covers Collier County, said temperatures should moderate again Wednesday night into Thursday. He said the cold front moving in will also dry the air a bit.
“Generally relative humidity is higher overnight, but with the front passing there will be a drop in relative humidity,” he said. “It could be as low as 40 to 50% Tuesday afternoon.”
The cold front moving over the Gulf will kick up some clouds, McMichael said.
“There will still be residual cloudiness as the cold air moves over the Gulf,” he said. “There will be a lot of cloudiness lingering especially in coastal areas, but the interior may clear out.”
While outdoor plants won’t have too much trouble in Southwest Florida, McMichael said anyone north of Tampa should be bringing temperature-sensitive plants inside.
Toward the weekend, there is a possibility a Gulf flow could bring some showers to the area, but Bhatti said it’s still a bit too early to tell just how that will affect Southwest Florida.
Weekday forecast for SWFL
Tuesday’s temperatures will be in the mid-60s during the day, but the cold front moving in will drop them down into the 40s through early Wednesday morning.
Wednesday will reach the 70s with lows dropping into the 50s at night.
Thursday’s temperatures will warm up a bit with highs in the upper 70s and lows in the 60s at night.
Friday could see showers from the Gulf flow with temperatures in the 70s.
Karl Schneider is an environment reporter. Send tips and comments to firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow on Twitter @karlstartswithk
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British Gaskets Ltd provides a comprehensive range of materials for processing into Gaskets and Rubber Moulded components.
The manufacture on high temperature Mica laminated materials are manufactured under tight controls at our Sudbury Manufacturing site. We also offer our own range on Non-Asbestos gasket materials that are formulated to the latest requirements. High quality compressed sheets for gaskets made of mineral fibre, aramide and dispersed inorganic loads mixed in a matrix of type SBR rubber.
This material has got exceptional flexibility and behaviour on cutting what add to its characteristic of under-control swelling in oils making a material with good suitability for the automotive industry and machinery construction for general use. It has good resistance to compression, excellent adaptability and low gas permeability.
Over the last 80 years British Gaskets Ltd have developed over 600 compound formulations and manufactured components in all the common thermoset rubbers such as SBR, Neoprene, EPDM, Natural, and Nitrile; also in highly specialised polymers.
Many of these materials are produced with in the group using bespoke equipment: These include: K4 internal mixer, mill room & test laboratory; injection and compression presses from 20 tonnes to 500 tonnes capacity; and composite bonding of rubber to metal, plastics and fabrics.
Polymer Type (Common Brand Names)
Perfluoroelastomer (DuPont™ Kalrez® and 3M™ Dyneon™ FFKM)
Fluoroelastomer (DuPont™ Viton® and 3M™ Dyneon™ FKM)
British Gaskets Limited have developed a seal to be used on the Solar Orbiter that is due to fly closer to the sun than any previous craft has ever been. Take a closer look by clicking this link: http://>http://www.stfc.ac.uk/research/astronomy-and-space-science/solar-orbiter/
High Temperature Materials
Rubber Sheeting and Compound
Graphite: Our graphite products are manufactured using the highest quality materials. Sheeting is available in different formats, Plain (foil), with steel, stainless steel or nickel reinforcement layers, either plain or tanged. We also produce laminates with metal covers on top and bottom surfaces, which are used in some of the most extreme conditions a flat sealing material can be expected to perform in.
Gold: A high temperature material manufactured from the highest quality Mica flake, bonded together with Silicon resin and reinforced with tanged stainless steel. Suitable for use in hot dry gas installations, it is the perfect material for turbines, exhaust manifolds, turbo chargers and air heat exchanger applications.
Mastite Rubber products include all of the standard, and many of the non-standard, elastomeric materials produced today.
Our Moulding and Compounding manufacture facility includes a comprehensive range of equipment for processing materials and moulding rubber components. These include: K4 internal mixer, mill room & test laboratory; injection and compression presses from 20 tonnes to 500 tonnes capacity; and composite bonding of rubber to metal, plastics and fabrics. Over the last 40 years we have developed over 600 compound formulations and manufactured components in all the common thermoset rubbers such as SBR, Neoprene, EPDM, Natural, and Nitrile
Harvested from the Cork tree, our supplies of this material come mostly from the western Mediterranean area. Although the raw material is replenished. (as the tree continues to grow another layer of cork bark after the harvest), the management of this truly natural product used since the Roman times, has to be monitored very closely. Some modern alternatives (such as moulded plastic stoppers now used in some wine), have been introduced – but as we enter into the 21st Century, cork is still an important commodity for many industries world-wide.
British Gaskets NASB brand of of materials include Non-Asbestos gasket material, Graphite, PTFE, Mica and Mica laminate.
We stock a huge range of NASB materials. Our NASB materials are widely used in the heavy diesel engine, automotive and railway industries. These materials were developed especially with our customers in mind, and involvement.
We also stock other known and qualified brands including, Interface, Klinger, Flexitalic, and Novus. Whatever your requirements are, we will select the material that best fits your application.
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Keywords: sint-amands | st. amandus | dragon (green) |
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by Filip van Laenen
Sint-Amands is located in the arrondissement of Mechelen.
The flag is vertically divided red-white-red (1:2:1), with St. Amandus trampling a dragon in the white stripe.
Saint Amandus was a missionary (7th century, bishop of Tongeren and Maastricht, c. 647), whose feast is on 6 February.
The flag was adopted by Municipal decision 10 July 1985, confirming the Ministerial decision 7 May 1985.
Source: Van evers en heiligen. Wapens en vlaggen van de gemeenten in de provincie Antwerpen [pbd98]
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Lifespan: 12 – 14 years
Mass: 14 – 20 kg
Height: 43 – 51 cm
Temperament: Spirited, Lively, Intelligent, Even Tempered, Loving, Familial
Colors: Black, Fawn, Tan, Blue, Brown
Nature and character
The German Pinscher is a friendly and spirited dog who loves to play and romp around, making him a good family dog. Due to his ability to learn quickly, he is also an ideal candidate for activities such as dogdance, trickdog, agility and the like, which also provides mental utilization.
However, people who opt for this breed, already have experience in handling and education, as this self-confident and strong-looking dog needs a consistent education. His watch and hunting drive should not be underestimated.
Activities with the German Pinscher
Compared to the past, the German Pinscher is no longer used for hunting today, but has become a family and companion dog. With dedication he protects home and masters. He is especially popular among riders as a companion on horseback rides. His muscular, agile body and his enjoyment of sustained movement empower him in this area. But also in dog sports, which is becoming increasingly popular among dog owners, he shows great commitment. The German Pinscher wants to be challenged and challenged in a positive sense.
Origin & History
There are various opinions on the origin of the German Pinschers. One says that he is descended from the peat dogs of the pile-dwellers, so his story began about 1000 years ago. Another takes him back to the dogs of the German rural population of the late 19th century. His ancestors could also have been found in other European countries. His task was to guard the possessions of his masters and to keep them free of rodents. This earned him the nickname "Rattler". His robust and agile nature enabled him to take care of himself and to pursue his task as guardian and protector. Over time, he developed into a loyal and vigilant domestic dog with a pronounced hunting instinct.
Racial characteristics of German Pinscher
The Pinscher is a strong dog of medium size. According to the standard, it is 40 to 45 cm in height and reaches a weight between 14 and 20 kg. Striking is his short, shiny coat, which grows very tight and tight. In general, the German Pinscher has a black coat, with the lower part of the legs, the muzzle, and the eye area are light brown to brown. Another variety of the Pinscher has a completely red or brown coat. Especially beautiful is his strong body with upright posture, which makes him look elegant and proud. His high set, folded down ears and dark eyes complete the overall picture.
The German Pinscher has a pronounced urge to move and needs daily sufficient spout to satisfy this. He is a very good and persistent runner, making him an ideal companion for cycling or jogging tours. In addition, he should also be mentally busy because of his intelligence.
As a small variant of the German Pinschers is the Miniature Pinscher. He is according to standard only 25 - 30 cm tall but is similar in essence but the great relative. Sometimes the German Pinscher is mistaken for the Doberman, but he is stronger and taller.
In the past, the tail and ears of the German Pinscher were cropped. According to the Animal Protection Act, this measure may not be carried out since 1998.
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Salute to Pearl Harbor Tour
Visit the site of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn how the United States entered WWII & pay your respects to the thousands who lost their lives on December 7, 1941.
Highlight Tour Stops and Sights:
- Pearl Harbor
- USS Arizona Memorial
- Aloha Tower
Get your Pearl Harbor Tour tickets and stand at ground zero of the surprise attack that drew America into World War II. Gaze up at a crystal-blue sky once filled with enemy planes. History was made in this place on December 7, 1941. It began as a quiet Sunday morning. Now that date, as President Roosevelt said, will forever “live in infamy.”
Our Salute to Pearl Harbor tour immerses you in sights, sounds, and personal stories. Your guide will provide helpful and fascinating historical and cultural background. You’ll never forget your visit to the WWII Valor of the Pacific National Monument and USS Arizona Memorial. And E Noa Tours will provide the entry tickets and convenient transportation.
You’ll feel the power of this sacred place upon entering the Pacific Historic Parks Pearl Harbor Visitor Center. Here you’ll witness rare artifacts and multimedia displays. They explain what happened before, during and after the aerial attack. The assault killed more than 2,400 American sailors, soldiers, marines that fateful day.
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• Please report any disability requiring special attention at the time of booking. E Noa will make all reasonable attempts to accommodate visitor’s needs.
• All reservations subject to availability with departure times, dates, schedules, and fares subject to change without notice.
- Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, the Navy may suspend boat operations to the USS Arizona Memorial at any time. In such cases, there will be no refunds. You can still enjoy the USS Arizona exhibits, the Visitors’ Center, and park monuments.
- Security restrictions at Pearl Harbor will be enforced. Please do not bring large bags or anything that could offer concealment. No IPad cases and clutch wallets allowed. Wallet must be the size of a regular size cell phone. Storage is available at Pearl Harbor for $6.00 per bag.
- A government-issued ID is required.
- Dress comfortably, but please remember that shirts and shoes are required on the USS Arizona Memorial; swimsuits not permitted. High heels, dresses, and skirts not recommended.
- Guide reserves the right to adjust routes for maximum visitor enjoyment and safety.
Be ready for spur-of-the-moment stops, unexpected views, and special sightseeing along the way!
Salute to Pearl Harbor Tour
Ages 12 and up
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Key points to note
Intravenous administration of material can be technically difficult, and use of a restraining device is often required. These should be selected carefully to be an appropriate size for the animal to be injected. Too small a device can result in injuries to the animal and can interfere with respiratory movements. Too large a restrainer can also result in injury, caused by movements during restraint.
After use, restraining devices should be cleaned thoroughly, to avoid pheromonally-induced stress or cross-infection.
Although rapid buffering by the blood and rapid dilution can allow a wider range of materials to be administered, injection into a peripheral vein can result in irritation, and in some circumstances, flushing with normal saline should be considered.
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Nursing-sensitive indicators play a large role in bedside nursing today. They encompass the care given to patients, how it is given, policies, procedures, and different levels of staffing, education, and experience (ANA). They also provide a means to measure patient satisfaction. Not all involved with patient care will share the same knowledge and experience as can be seen in the scenario of Mr. J. How could nursing-sensitive indicators have changed his outcome? How can data collected on nursing-sensitive indicators advance quality care for all patients?
One of the risk factors for acquiring a pressure ulcer, a deep vein thrombosis, or hospital acquired pneumonia is immobility.
There can be several causes of immobility and in this case it is the use of restraints. Mr. J has developed a pressure ulcer due to lying flat on his back in bed restrained. When the nurse’s aide assisted him back to bed, lying on his back again, she showed she did not have a clear understanding of a pressure ulcer as a nursing-sensitive indicator.
She should have propped him up with pillows so the reddened area was relieved of pressure. Had she or the nurse possessed that knowledge they would have been assessing his skin frequently and repositioning him in bed often enough so as to prevent such an event from occurring.
The patient’s need for restraints could be reassessed as well. Is he trying to get out of bed unassisted and is considered a fall risk due to his hip fracture and mild dementia? Perhaps a bed alarm or a sitter would have been better alternatives.
Either would have allowed Mr. J to move independently in bed and he would have been less likely to develop a pressure ulcer. Restraints are often used without considering alternatives first. They can cause more injury than good and decrease patient satisfaction. In this case, it may be difficult to gauge Mr. J’s satisfaction but his daughter certainly wasn’t satisfied with his care. It is possible his hospital length of stay has been increased by the staff’s lack of knowledge regarding nursing-sensitive indicators. At this point the staff must take action to correct the situation and hopefully heal the pressure ulcer.
How can hospitals use data collected based on nursing-sensitive indicators to increase the quality of patient care? Hospitals measure certain occurrences such as falls and pressure ulcers. Nursing care directly impacts these. If the number is higher than the national average, for example, a hospital may perform a study to determine the cause and then implement interventions to try to reduce the occurrence of falls or pressure ulcers. By analyzing data collected after an intervention was applied, the hospital can determine if the outcome was achieved or not. Once an intervention proves successful a new policy can be implemented throughout the hospital, decreasing falls or pressure ulcers, leading to improved quality care for all patients and greater patient satisfaction (AmericanSentinelUniversityBlog).
Another nursing-sensitive indicator is patient satisfaction with overall care. In Mr. J’s scenario I would say the patient’s family was completely dissatisfied. As a Jewish rabbi he requested a kosher meal and was served pork cutlet due to an error with his order. Were he not mildly demented he may have noticed what he had been served, but he did not and ate it. When the daughter was notified the next evening she discovered the nursing staff had kept it from her and that the nurse was not sensitive to the needs of her father. This was just another complaint in several that had occurred over the last six months. The physician and administrator were notified. This is a serious offense and may prompt the Jewish community to seek care at another hospital.
In order to resolve this issue and keep Mr. J’s trust and that of his daughter, several things must take place. The nurse and physician caring for the patient should acknowledge the error and offer a heartfelt apology. They should also assure the family, steps are being taken to prevent this from reoccurring. If the orders are entered through an electronic health record, IT may need to get involved to determine where the error is occurring in the order process in order to have it filled correctly.
The dietary supervisor should be notified and perhaps find a new way to indicate clearly if a tray contains a kosher meal. A sign on the patient’s door could indicate his meal preference so that all entering, whether it is a dietary tech, a nurse’s aide, or the nurse, will clearly see it. That way, even if the patient is confused and alone, as Mr. J was, there will be no mistake made. The issue here is patient satisfaction. Mr. J’s family may still leave dissatisfied but this event may help implement new policies respecting ethnic preferences and the incorporation of them in a patient’s care.
In healthcare today, nursing-sensitive indicators are important to hospitals in that they provide a gauge to measure the quality of care patient’s receive. The more knowledge a nurse has of nursing-sensitive indicators, the greater quality care she can provide to produce better outcomes for her patients, resulting in their improved satisfaction.
American Nurses Association. (2015, January). Nursing-Sensitive Indicators. Retrieved March 12, 2015, from Nursing World: http://www.nursingworld.org/mainmenucategories/ThePracticeofProfessionalNurses/Research-Measurement/The-National-Database/Nursing-Sensitive-Indicators_1 American Sentinel University Blog. (2011, November 02). Health Care On Call. Retrieved March 12, 2015, from American Sentinel University Blog: http://www.americansentinel.edu/blog/2011/11/02what-are-nursing-sensitive-quality-indicators-anyway/
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June 23, 2017 (New York, NY) - The Sikh Coalition’s educational brochures provide an easy way to inform friends, colleagues and classmates about the basic tenets of Sikhism. “The Sikhs” brochures
give an overview of the Gurus, Guru Granth Sahib, articles of faith and core Sikh beliefs.
Through the generous support of the Munshi Bishan Kochhar Foundation, “The Sikhs” brochures are available in 18 languages and are completely free.
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TAKE ACTION -- Use brochures to easily share basic tenets of Sikhism
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– Request brochures and keep them on hand for non-Sikh visitors to your gurdwara.
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– Share brochures with teachers, parents and administrators for easy reference.
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– Whether or not you’re traveling to an English-speaking country, we likely have the educational brochures you need. Scroll down this website
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In addition to disseminating educational materials, the Sikh Coalition continues to invest in new initiatives aimed at combating and preventing hate, like our gurdwara security initiative
. We welcome your ideas and feedback for making our community more resilient and we will continue to share resources in the coming weeks and months.
As always, the Sikh Coalition urges you to practice your faith fearlessly.
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Machine learning model management is an underpinning procedure that spans and supports all stages of the AI project lifecycle. Then assisting the business in completing responsibilities such as risk management and the development of trustworthy Intelligent systems. Its goal is to make dealing with models more straightforward, clear, and efficient.
MLOps includes model management. At scale, ML models should be consistent and fulfill all business needs. A rational, convenient machine learning model management strategy is required to make this occur. ML model management is in charge of creating, training, versioning, and implementing ML models.
When researchers work on innovative ML models or implement them in new domains. They conduct a large number of tests (model training and testing) with various model configurations, optimization techniques, loss functions, variables, hyperparameters, and information. Such experiments are used to find the best model architecture.
That architecture will extrapolate the finest or has the enhanced performance-to-accuracy concessions on the dataset.
Why do we need ML Model Management?
However, if we don’t have a system to identify the performance of the model and configurations across experimental studies. All can dislodge because it won’t be easy to correlate and select the optimal answer. Although only one research scientist is testing individually, it is difficult to keep track of all tests and outcomes. That is why we need model management. It enables organizations and teams to do the following:
- Resolve common corporate issues (like regulatory compliance).
- Proactively guides losses, script, data, and model versioning to facilitate repeatable experimental studies.
- Models should be packaged and delivered in reproducible configurations to facilitate reuse.
Significance of ML Model Management
As previously stated, Model Management is an essential component of any ML piping system (MLOps). It simplifies the management of the ML lifecycle, from model development to model implementation, including configuration, experimenting, and monitoring of various experiments. It is significant to mention that we handle two factors inside machine learning model management:
- Models: It handles model wrapping, model lineage, model implementation & deployment methodologies (A/B testing, etc.). Helps in model retooling (which occurs when the implemented model’s output falls below a predefined threshold).
- Experiments: This section log training measures, failure, visuals, text, or other metadata you may have, and also script, data, and pipeline version control.
Data science groups would struggle to create, monitor, compare, recreate, and implement models without model management. Ad hoc practices are a substitute for model management. It guides experts to develop ML initiatives that are not reproducible, unviable, unorganized, or unscalable.
ML Model management allows for a single source of information. It allows versioning for data, code, and model artifacts for benchmark tests and replicability. It is simpler to mitigate/debug troubles (such as underfitting, overfitting, effectiveness, and/or bias). Through creating the ML option conveniently detectable and compliant with regulatory requirements.
It conducts faster and more effective R&D activities. Groups become more productive and have a strong sense of model requirements. The goal of model management is to facilitate the use of ML models as efficiently and effectively as possible in all modeling operations.
Why should it be Consistent?
Because Ml model quality is defined by accuracy and consistency. So, a consensus algorithm is used to determine consistency. This practice is manual, time-consuming, and a security risk without automating the advanced AI tools. When the model testing and analysis processes are inadequate and inconsistent, the decision’s accuracy suffers.
As a result, it is critical to concentrate on enhancing the coverage of reproducible and repeatable model evaluation and experiments.
The consistency level between and within models should be evaluated once they are implemented to make business decisions. As an arbitrarily defined method chosen, the model may result in a different outcome. Perhaps one and the most basic requirement for a machine learning approach is consistency.
Consistency is an exponential characteristic of a learning algorithm that guarantees the algorithm yields modeling a predictive model when enough training data is provided.
The results of the modeling actions are eventually fed into the business operations. They must be comprehended and endorsed by industry professionals. Data science professionals, i.e., engineers, analysts, experts, and scientists with experience and/or knowledge in these activities, perform the tasks.
It has already been observed the incredible results from the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Capital markets, life, and health sciences, and industrial production are all undergoing fundamental changes as a result of AI and ML.
Even so, these businesses are also tightly regulated, and for an ML model to truly change a market, it must be reproducible and have a transparent audit log. Corporate and IT executives must have trust in the consistency of the outcomes. If they are to make the corporate strategic transitions that the ML model can enable.
With this much dependent on such initiatives, data scientists require an infrastructure that allows them to be fully reproducible from start to finish. While also convincing company managers of the project’s importance.
Obtaining consistent results from previous projects can be difficult since the data science discipline has a range of tools, and hardware requirements become more complicated. Systems and processes for managing the environment are essential for increasing workgroups.
For instance, if you’re functioning as a data analyst on your computer. The data engineer has a modified version of a library running on a cloud Virtual machine. Your model may produce different outcomes from one computer to another.
It is possible since open access model-building libraries frequently change standard configurations. As new finest procedures emerge, resulting in different models when employing default configuration from two variant library versions. Participants require a consistent method of same software environment sharing.
As the practice area evolves and becomes more relevant, reskilling and upgrading data science models becomes increasingly significant. Models develop over time, and as more data are collected, data can begin to diverge. Perception of a model as “one and done” is inconsistent with a dynamic business environment that introduces new fee structures or product offers.
Model Management for Machine Learning models is an important aspect of the MLOps process. It allows taking a model from design to execution, reproducing every test or model version. Machine learning model management methods improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your machine learning process. Allowing you to share the findings of previous models and their performances.
The best approach is to understand that as the business alters, so does the data, and the model’s configuration will also alter. A stock of alternative model iterations will aid in the management of modifications. And the measurement of performance for various models across time.
An author of Namaste UI, published several articles focused on blogging, business, web design & development, e-commerce, finance, health, lifestyle, marketing, social media, SEO, travel.
For any types of queries, contact us on info[at]namasteui.com.
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Author/Illustrator: Eric Ramos
Description: Bombo loves tortas. Bombo never forgets to pack his tortas for lunch. But when he accidentally drops one of his tortas in a bucket full of radioactive goo while on a school field trip, the only person that can save the city from doom is Bombo himself!
Suggested Ages: 3 - 8
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Paco Portalo is a computer games pioneer from Spain when he and his friends create the computer game "Bugaboo (The Flea)" in 1983 under "Indescomp". Originally done for the ZX Spectrum as this one was just released in UK.
The game was published by Quicksilva and caused a kickstart of the "Golden Era of Spanish Software" in which Spain became the second largest 8 bit computer entertainment software producer in Europe (just behind UK).
The game was also the first game to ever use animated non-interactive scenes (later coined as "cutscenes" by game designer Ron Gilbert in 1987 when this technique gained wide audience awareness due to his point & click adventure "Maniac Mansion")
In this interview, Paco Portalo also talks about the beginning of computing in Spain, correcting Spanish computer game history in 2009 by writing the book Bugaboo, un hito en la Historia del software español by Francisco Portalo Calero.
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Different treatment options for pulmonary hypertension have emerged in recent years, and evidence-based management strategies have improved quality of life and survival in adults. In children with pulmonary vascular disease, therapeutic algorithms are not so clearly defined; this study determined current treatment initiation in children with pulmonary hypertension in participating centres of a registry.
Through the multinational Tracking Outcomes and Practice in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension registry, patient demographics, diagnosis, and treatment as judged and executed by the local physician were collected. Inclusion criteria were >3 months and <18 years of age and diagnostic cardiac catheterisation consistent with pulmonary hypertension (mean pulmonary arterial pressure ⩾25 mmHg, pulmonary vascular resistance index ⩾3 Wood units×m2, and mean pulmonary capillary wedge pressure ⩽12 mmHg).
At diagnostic catheterisation, 217/244 patients (88.9%) were treatment naïve for pulmonary hypertension-targeted therapy. Targeted therapy was initiated after catheterisation in 170 (78.3%) treatment-naïve patients. A total of 19 patients received supportive therapy, 28 patients were not started on therapy, and 26 patients (10.7%) were on targeted treatment before catheterisation. Among treatment-naïve subjects, treatment was initiated with one targeted drug (n=112, 51.6%), dual therapy (n=39, 18%) or triple-therapy (n=5, 2.3%), and calcium channel blockers with one targeted medication in one patient (0.5%). Phosphodiesterase inhibitors type 5 were used frequently; some patients with pulmonary hypertension related to lung disease received targeted therapy.
There is a diverse therapeutic approach for children with pulmonary hypertension with a need of better-defined treatment algorithms based on paediatric consensus for different aetiologies including the best possible diagnostic workup.
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In terms of health advantages, the quantity of beneficial train relies upon upon the aim, the kind of train, and the age of the person. Even doing a small amount of train is more healthy than doing none. The at-residence treadmill isn’t what it was in the ’90s. Today’s machines usually come with a large display screen, where you possibly can stream treadmill workouts and track your progress. Plus, many apps — together with Peloton — could be paired with a treadmill to make operating at home really feel, nicely, fun.
Regular cardio train improves signs related to a wide range of central nervous system issues and may be used as an adjunct remedy for these disorders. There is evident proof of train remedy efficacy for main depressive disorder and a focus deficit hyperactivity disorder. Reviews of medical evidence also assist the usage of exercise as an adjunct therapy for certain neurodegenerative problems, significantly Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Regular train can be related to a lower danger of developing neurodegenerative issues. A massive body of preclinical evidence and rising scientific proof helps using exercise as an adjunct therapy for the therapy and prevention of drug addictions. Regular train has additionally been proposed as an adjunct therapy for brain cancers. The useful effect of exercise on the cardiovascular system is nicely documented.
There is a direct correlation between physical inactivity and cardiovascular disease, and physical inactivity is an unbiased danger factor for the event of coronary artery disease. Low ranges of bodily train enhance the chance of cardiovascular ailments mortality. Early motor skills and growth can be related to physical activity and performance later in life. Children who are more proficient with motor abilities early on are more inclined to be bodily lively, and thus are likely to perform well in sports and have higher health ranges. Early motor proficiency has a constructive correlation to childhood bodily activity and health levels, whereas much less proficiency in motor expertise ends in a more sedentary lifestyle.
Worldwide there was a large shift toward much less bodily demanding work. This has been accompanied by growing use of mechanized transportation, a greater prevalence of labor-saving technology within the home, and fewer energetic leisure pursuits. Personal lifestyle changes, nevertheless, can correct the shortage of bodily train. Physical exercise was stated to lower healthcare costs, improve the rate of job attendance, in addition to increase the amount of effort ladies put into their jobs. There is a few level of concern about further publicity to air pollution when exercising outdoors, especially near traffic. A meta-evaluation from July 2016 concluded that bodily exercise improves general quality of life in individuals with melancholy relative to controls.
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You have just completed your first training for the new class of interns at your employer, Bank of Wealth Investment Brokers. Part of your role as the new Portfolio Analyst is to train the new research interns on all of the facets of investing. You have now been asked to conduct another training on the purpose of fundamental and technical analyses with examples and explanations of equations.
You will need to develop a PowerPoint presentation that explains the differences and similarities of fundamental and technical analyses. Include in your presentation a few examples of equations used for company analysis such as ROE, EPS, PE ratio. A PowerPoint presentation will provide brief and clear information on the required subject. Often, bullet points are utilized in a PowerPoint presentation; however, since interns will be expected to know and understand the material thoroughly, your presentation should be more detailed and offer supporting evidence, including a reference list. Be sure to use the Notes section under each slide to add information. Here is a link to information about adding speaker notes.
- The presentation should give the interns enough information to understand the similarities and differences of fundamental and technical analyses. Be sure to use audience-specific language and tone in the presentation. Remember, you are writing this presentation for the interns; however, the Portfolio Manager may attend.
- Be creative, and make your presentation fun, yet still clearly organized. In addition, you can use this link for help on creating a PowerPoint presentation.
APA formatting for the reference list, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required. APA help is available here.
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Publicado el julio 21, 2020julio 21, 2020 por Por defecto del sitioWithin the game of internet dating, women and men you will need to amount up, research discovers Within the game of internet dating, women and men you will need to amount up, research discovers The boffins unearthed that women and men delivered initial communications to possible lovers who have been more desirable than them – men went 26% higher an average of, whilst the ladies aimed 23% greater. Did these users just think these were more desirable than they really had been? Or did they already know that these people were searching for reasonably more attractive gay friend finder username mates? To learn, the researchers analyzed the communications they delivered, picking right up on some patterns that are clear. Ladies consistently delivered more absolutely worded communications to guys if the “desirability gap” had been greater, the scientists stated – an indication they had been investing in more work for an even more man that is desirable. Guys, nevertheless, did the exact opposite: They delivered less definitely worded communications to more desirable females. “My coauthor and I also utilized to joke that the guys are playing it cool, ” Bruch stated. “They’re perhaps maybe not being as enthusiastic whenever they’re approaching more desirable lovers. ” Strangely, the men’s strategy appeared to work. In every four towns and cities, males had somewhat reduced answer prices from females if they composed more favorably worded communications. “That had been a astonishing choosing — I became perhaps maybe not anticipating that, ” Bruch said. A kind of emotional manipulation where someone makes a backhanded compliment to another person in order to erode their confidence and increase their need for approval“That behavior resonated with pickup artist strategies” such as negging. Bruch stated certainly one of her graduate pupils is developing a reason for why this plan appears to work. Another typical tactic males and ladies used would be to deliver desirable prospects longer communications – but it didn’t really appear to end in a greater response price, she stated. There was clearly one exclusion: Seattle males had the “most pronounced” rise in message size for desirable lovers, plus the strategy really appeared to work, leading to an increased reaction price. Seattle can also be an industry where men that are straight need to work harder to get a night out together, the scientists revealed. “Seattle presents the essential unfavorable relationship climate for males, with as much as two guys for almost any girl in certain sections regarding the individual population, ” the research writers penned. It would appear that individuals do search for more desirable lovers – but that desirability is closely calibrated for their very own attractiveness. So is everybody condemned to get mates that are unreachably “out of the league”? Because it ends up, aspirational message-sending does work – not absolutely all the full time, much less often once the desirability space is larger. For males searching for more desirable ladies, the reaction price went since high as 21% — sufficient that the time and effort may be valued at it, the boffins stated. “One for the get hold of messages the following is so it might spend become persistent, ” Bruch said – to send communications to numerous desirable users, when you look at the hopes of having a reply from 1 of these. “It seems like even composing 10 communications to locate somebody you see extremely desirable is a fairly modest investment of the time and energy, ” she stated. Bruch additionally pointed to many other research showing that, basically, individuals are at their superficial that is most within the earliest phases of once they meet, and start to appreciate other traits because they get acquainted with one another. “If that’s true, then everything we would expect is the fact that these desirability differences matter most in this very very first message and response, ” she said, “and then a desirability space ceases to be as essential in determining whether individuals proceed to the second phase. ” Possibly learning the true quantity of follow-up messages, or the articles for the replies, could begin to shed more light on that powerful, said Bruch. In the meantime, Bruch stated the findings from Seattle – where men published longer communications and had been additionally rewarded for this, as opposed to ny, Boston and Chicago – has influenced her to appear deeper in to the variations in dating experiences between various urban centers. Follow aminawrite on Twitter for more science news and “like” Los Angeles days Science & Health on Twitter.
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New funding source for trials of new technologies that reduce carbon emissions.
Xylem will be sponsoring an innovative new funding mechanism for water utilities to deploy promising new technologies. The partnership with water consultancy Isle Utilities is one such approach to funding and scaling breakthrough water technologies, called the “Trial Reservoir”. It provides water technology innovators access to capital for pilot projects, with an initial focus on technologies that reduce the carbon emissions of water systems. Technology trials and pilots are generally required in advance of full-scale implementations.
Sivan Zamir, head of Xylem Innovation Labs, said: “Innovation and new approaches to water management will be essential for cities and communities to solve their increasing water challenges and decrease their carbon footprint. This fund will help lower one of the biggest barriers to deploying and scaling breakthroughs innovations: the question of who pays for the trial. The fund, itself, is an important innovation. It’s a new approach to financing that lowers the economic risk of trying new technologies that can solve communities’ water challenges.”
The Trial Reservoir will make a pool of funding available to early-stage technology companies, giving them the capacity to undertake trial deployments with water utilities. The ‘reservoir’ of funding will be replenished from the proceeds of commercial contracts, when the trials move to full deployments. Xylem is a foundation sponsor of the initiative along with other water sector partners.
Dr Piers Clark, chairman of the Isle Group, added: “The Trial Reservoir brings together all the players needed to bring new technologies to market – utilities, investors, start-ups, non-profits. By removing financial uncertainty, partnerships between utilities and innovators can focus on solving a community’s water challenges and getting new water technologies proven in the marketplace.”
The Trial Reservoir is open to technology vendors around the world, actively supporting trials in high, medium and low-income countries. The only requirement is that the technology being tested must help reduce the carbon footprint of the water system, be that a municipal utility or an industrial or commercial water user.
The Trial Reservoir expects to fund its first utility pilot in Q1 2022.
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Welcoming the Stranger
Thursday 14 September in the Thurber Room – Meal at 19h; Presentation 19h45-21h15
Come to the Thurber lecture given by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) France and find out how you may help, even if ever so modestly.
Every night thousands of asylum seekers sleep on the streets of Paris. Faced with this situation, JRS France has put into place its Welcome Program, the heart of which is defined as “reciprocal hospitality”. In the course of 10 years, JRS France has learned what works and has come up with a practical framework to closely guide families who accept to host an asylum seeker between 4 and 6 weeks. Get to meet other families in the Welcome network and share best practices. Above all, get to know an asylum seeker. If you want guidance on the spiritual benefit you may draw from such an experience that too is available to you.
You can’t host? Find out how you can participate.
Père Antoine Paumard, S.J., Director of JRS France and Marcela Villalobos Cid, Coordinator of Welcome in France will explain how the program works and what they have learned over the years. Nicola Craig will tell you about her experience hosting asylum seekers, her motivation for doing so, what it was like and why she decided to do it four times.
Thurber Lectures is an adult community gathering and growth time that is open to all.
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Once you get accustomed to your crutches, you will be able to grab yourself from destination to put adequately. But once you use them for an extended period of their period, become familiar with to realize they can actually hurt. Here are a few concepts on how you can create your crutches easy to complete the recovery with just a little amount pain as you possibly can.
IDEA #1: EXTRA PADDING
When you have distress in the hands as well as in your armpits, you might like to purchase Pads for Crutches to assist you pillow those areas further. The pads that are already on the crutches have a tendency slender and hard and they also do not go quite definitely if you are feeling discomfort.
IDEA #2: FABRICS
If you feel like the cushioned areas on the crutches are rubbing you wrong, after that add fabric to them to greatly help soften the blow. You may also get creative and obtain fabric that essentially shows your character. Or simply find a thing that blends together with your normal clothes.
If you realise it cumbersome to get around while carrying one thing, purchase a crutch tote to carry on your crutches. You can carry small things like your wallet, cash, secrets and other activities along minus the distress of producing use of your mouth, your fingertips, or looking to stuff your wallets.
IDEA #4: THE CORRECT CLOTHES
Based on the season, you might be using clothes that rubs you the incorrect manner through the use of your crutches. Take notice of the stuff that feel greatest and try to purchase some tops and various other clothing because materials. Thicker is way better so you have significantly more insulation between you and the crutches to guard your armpits from the pressure.
IDEA #5: WORKOUT
Section of your trouble together with your crutches may be that your forearms are simply just not strong a sufficient amount of to assist your weight. Spending some time in the fitness center lifting hands weights in order to strengthen your muscle tissues. You might be sore for two days, however the pain will use off once you build-up those areas.
IDEA #6: STRETCH
Crutches will make you walk in a fashion that you are not accustomed. To remain from obtaining sore in the areas, ensure you execute a large amount of stretches to maintain those muscle tissues limber. Crutches will help you obtain around, however they can also make you sore in areas that are not injured.
IDEA#7: GET CREATIVE
Everything you could actually need is an easy period of period from your crutches in order to permit the hands and armpits period to heal. Make use of your rolling office seat to bypass the primary degree of your house or your place of work. You can also consider alternatives to crutches, that may help even more.
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Stable carbon isotope ratios of ambient aromatic volatile organic compounds
Received: 25 May 2016 – Discussion started: 02 Jun 2016 – Revised: 24 Aug 2016 – Accepted: 26 Aug 2016 – Published: 21 Sep 2016
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Measurements of mixing ratios and stable carbon isotope ratios of aromatic volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the atmosphere were made in Toronto (Canada) in 2009 and 2010. Consistent with the kinetic isotope effect for reactions of aromatic VOC with the OH radical the observed stable carbon isotope ratios are on average significantly heavier than the isotope ratios of their emissions. The change of carbon isotope ratio between emission and observation is used to determine the extent of photochemical processing (photochemical age, ∫ [OH]dt) of the different VOC. It is found that ∫ [OH]dt of different VOC depends strongly on the VOC reactivity. This demonstrates that for this set of observations the assumption of a uniform ∫ [OH]dt for VOC with different reactivity is not justified and that the observed values for ∫ [OH]dt are the result of mixing of VOC from air masses with different values for ∫ [OH]dt. Based on comparison between carbon isotope ratios and VOC concentration ratios it is also found that the varying influence of sources with different VOC emission ratios has a larger impact on VOC concentration ratios than photochemical processing. It is concluded that for this data set the use of VOC concentration ratios to determine ∫ [OH]dt would result in values for ∫ [OH]dt inconsistent with carbon isotope ratios and that the concept of a uniform ∫ [OH]dt for an air mass has to be replaced by the concept of individual values of an average ∫ [OH]dt for VOC with different reactivity.
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In 2015 Ross Douthat coined the term "woke capitalism" when writing a piece for the New York Times. He defined it as how companies signal their support for progressive causes in order to maintain their influence in society. He really tapped into something. Since then, this mindset has only grown, as the largest corporations are now weighing in of almost every major (and not-so-major) public policy issue. The problem: they increasingly land on the "leftist" side of the issue.
So what is the impact? Is this a coordinated effort? What is the antidote to this "corporate wokeness" infiltrating our largest American companies? On this episode, Andy Olivastro joins us to weigh in with a unique perspective. He led communications and reputation strategy for some of the largest corporations and best known brands, and witnessed first-hand this gradual shift toward "corporate wokeness."
Tim Doescher: From The Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Doescher and this is Heritage Explains.
Doescher: A new law to protect elections in Georgia was recently passed. It will do several things to ensure elections are safe and secure. The left predictably went nuts.
James Quincey: This legislation is unacceptable. It is a step backwards and it does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around fraud access to voting around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity. And this is frankly just a step backwards.
Ed Bastian: This is about protecting the voices of our people. When I speak to our people, particularly within the black community, and we're here in Atlanta, we've got a very, very large black employee base, almost universally they are hurt by the law and the legislation that was enacted. And we need to make certain their voices are heard.
Darren Walker: This entire effort is based on a lie, a lie that the election that we just experienced was in somehow not legitimate. In fact, it was an election that we should be celebrating because more Americans voted. And when more Americans vote, our democracy is more strong.
Doescher: So who are these voices speaking in protest of the law passed by the duly elected Georgia legislature and signed into law by the Governor? Nope, not politicians, not TV personalities on cable news, it's Coca-Cola CEO, James Quincey, Delta Air Lines CEO, Ed Bastian, and Ford Foundation President, Darren Walker. In addition to their protest, you've probably also seen the extensive coverage of Major League Baseball's punishing move of the All-Star Game out of Atlanta to another state. But this episode is not about a Georgia law designed to promote election integrity, that's for a whole 'nother episode entirely. This is about those helping lead the charge against more and more conservative ideas. Corporate America. To better set the stage, here's Charles Payne on Fox Business.
Charles Payne: The largest businesses in this country, well, they decided to preempt the torch and pitchfork crowd, because they know that there will be an evolution of capitalism or a devolution backwards to something like corporatism. Corporatism, by the way, is a system that would have business, government, and unions all sharing in the decision making duties.
Doescher: This trend toward corporatism or corporate wokeness is becoming more and more popular throughout corporate America. Corporations are willingly becoming activated political arms for left-wing causes. Why? What happened to these historic brands remaining neutral, letting the quality of their products speak for itself on the open market, and letting politicians worry about politics? What about shareholders and the employees of these corporations? Do they have a say in such divisive policy stances? Who's behind this increased wokeness in the boardroom?
Andy Olivastro: If you're a shareholder of a corporation, you literally own the company and it's your property in the form of capital. That capital is now being diverted to causes and purposes that you never intended to support, but it's all because of this Great Reset that there are people that believe so much about how things should be done, that they're using your money to advance their own initiatives.
Doescher: Andy Olivastro is the director of coalition relations here at The Heritage Foundation. Before this role, he led communications and reputation strategy for some of the largest corporations and best known brands. He witnessed firsthand this gradual shift towards corporate wokeness. On this episode, he gives us the antidote to corporate wokeness and ways we, as conservatives, must pushback. More after this.
Doescher: Andy, thank you so much for being with us on Explains this week.
Olivastro: It's a pleasure to be here, thank you for having me, Tim.
Doescher: Well, there are a lot of terms floating out there. I've seen the lot of them and I've actually made up one as trying to explain these myself. So I've got corporate wokeness, I've got woke capitalism, my term, which is woke corporatism. I know Ross Douthat from the New York Times was one of the first who coined the phrase woke capitalism in 2015. That's some of the research I did. He said woke capitalism is how companies signal their support for progressive causes in order to maintain their influence in society. But I wanted to get your definition before we get started with this interview.
Olivastro: Unfortunately, Ross's definition is pretty good and that's part of the problem, but I like your phrase, Tim, woke corporatism. What it is is a top-down anti-democratic movement. And it's on the part of some of the biggest and most important names in American business to change the way that business functions, to change the definition of capitalism itself, and to permanently change the relationship between the citizen and the state.
Doescher: It's so funny. You should just go right there to anti-democratic, because the recent law passed in Georgia, which fixed a lot of the election issues within the state of Georgia, was greeted with a ton of criticism from the left. I mean, all the usual suspects, including President Biden criticized it, but then right after it, we saw companies like Delta Air Lines, we saw Coca-Cola, even American Airlines, all these major corporations piled on to criticize this duly passed law by the state legislature signed into law by the Governor. I mean, is this coordinated between everybody?
Olivastro: I wouldn't say it's coordinated, but it certainly is a shared effort in that sense. Our colleague at Heritage Action, Jessica Anderson had a great tweet over the weekend. And she said that the left is blatantly manipulating Georgia's business community and assaulting Georgia's election law based on falsehoods. No executive should cave to pressure to disavow this law. And I think that is a perfect summary of what the situation is in Georgia. Look no further than President Biden who got four Pinocchios from the Washington post itself in his description of the Georgia voting law.
Doescher: Yeah, yeah. No kidding. In your recent piece, which I'm going to link to, it's called Success, Not Corporate Wokeness, Elevates the Human Condition. You worked in corporate America for the better part of a decade. And you paint a picture of when you were giving a speech, I think it you were an accepting award for your corporation's contribution to the arts or something like that. And you talk about the virtues of the private sector, creating opportunities to realize dreams, but then you notice halfway through that you started losing the crowd. Maybe that speech would have worked in the 80s, but not now. So tell me just a little bit, from your perspective, being in corporate America, what's changed.
Olivastro: I think what's changed, Tim, I appreciate the question, I think what's changed is that there are growing numbers of people that want to impose their political and cultural preferences on the world, and they want to use your money to pay for it. And I think the reason why I felt like I was losing the audience in front of me when I simply said that successful businesses improve the human condition and that I added that I was accepting the award on behalf of our share owner's board of directors and more than 200,000 employees around the world, that meant that there were too many other voices that were going to have a point of view on how that money was going to be spent. And when you're in a room in the middle of Central Park at the boat house in black tie surrounded by other business leaders and members of the arts community, these are a lot of people that have a point of view on how the world should run and they're more than happy to use your money to pay for it.
Doescher: Michael Jordan, if you watch The Last Dance, which is great, they asked him about why he didn't get more political. And he said something along the lines of, "Well, conservatives buy sneakers too." So what does that look like from a corporate perspective? Are they just planning on people, whether they disagree or agree with them, "Well, they're going to buy sneakers from us anyway, so we don't really care," taking this really hard line stance. What is the thought process there for a CEO or a board of directors?
Olivastro: Well, unfortunately, CEOs are not as strong, and as stubborn, and as insightful in all the same ways that Michael Jordan was 30 years ago. And unfortunately not even like Charles Barkley was over the weekend. The American people shouldn't let any organization divide us. And I think that's a key attribute of leadership. Leaders unite, they don't divide. And the question of corporate leaders need to be called on the carpet and they need to be told to do better. And Heritage President Kay James, I think had the best quote on this during the early days of the BLM conversation. It was direct and it was very pointed. And she said, "Corporations want to be socially relevant, but they've also got to be smart. Fund the good guys, don't fund the bad guys. And when corporations give millions of dollars to the BLM organization, which was started by Marxists, which hates corporate America, they're funding the beast."
Olivastro: And this was something that motivated Mike Gonzalez and I to point out in a piece that we wrote, we can't be certain of this, but it's hard to believe that that radical agenda is what most people signed up for when they made a Black Lives Matter social post or that every employee, customer, and share owner at Nike endorses a disruption of the family. It's beyond the pale, but we're smarter than that and we know better than that.
Doescher: I wonder, I really do wonder how many of these employees at these companies are really, really excited about the fact that a corporation is giving to a Black Lives Matter or some sort of Soros funded organization, which they are giving to.
Olivastro: I agree with you. I think this is where you start to again, see the real difference in understanding what leadership is and what business's role in society is. It was about a year ago, maybe a little bit more that the US Chamber of Commerce partnered with the Harvard Business Review and they published a paper on the Business Case for Civics Education. And it came out before the pandemic hit, and so it didn't get a lot of attention because everything was obviously focused on the pandemic. But in the paper, they made the case that civic learning isn't limited to the classroom. It occurs at school, at home, and at work. And because workplaces are one place where all races, religions, and ages congregate, business is uniquely positioned to help ensure that the next generation of Americans have the knowledge, skills, and disposition to take a productive role in civic life.
Olivastro: But the Chamber and its member companies didn't read or even heed its own findings. And so I make the point in my piece that we talked about earlier, CEOs in prior generations, they led with the bearing of generals and quarterbacks, but their modern counterparts, they can't even stand up straight because they're constantly kneeling before an endless array of stakeholders. And in this, they weaken themselves certainly, but they weaken the share owners and the employees. We all pay the price for this.
Doescher: The left is calling for a Great Reset. So, along with corporate wokeness or woke capitalism, talk a little bit about what a Great Reset would look like if the left had their way.
Olivastro: I think the reason why it tinges on this conspiracy theory mindset is because of the outfits that Klaus Schwab wears at World Economic Forum events. I mean, it's sort of like this Mike Myers villain and-
Doescher: Dr. Evil?
Olivastro: Yeah, Dr. Evil meets corporate boardroom kind of a thing.
Olivastro: But this is indicative of where control of the financial interests that you have as an individual and where the corporation either intersect or don't intersect. Share owners are being robbed. If you're a share owner of a corporation, you literally own the company. And it's your property in the form of capital, which has made the production of useful products and services possible and it's now available in the marketplace for consumers. That capital is now being diverted to causes and purposes that you never intended to support, but it's all because of this Great Reset that there are people that believe so much about how things should be done, that they're using your money to advance their own initiatives.
Olivastro: And if you're an employee of a large corporation, in a sense you're being hoodwinked here, because everyday you allocate your property in its purest sense, your time, and your talent, and your intellect, and you're only to watch it be abused. Your agreement to give of yourself could reap greater rewards in the form of higher salary and benefits, but it's all being called at the top and allocated towards, what I'd like to call the sort of Neo-Malthusian Luddites who think that population control and climate change are these initiatives that have to be undertaken at the behest of everybody and they're just using their brands to do it, or they're flying over in their corporate jets to Davos and having conversations that have no relevancy to elevating the middle-class around the world or creating more opportunity for people in America, which American multinational corporations should be focused on.
Doescher: So what is the recourse that we can take on the right to push back against this?
Olivastro: I believe, like I said earlier, that this is the battle of ideas. And I often think about what Frederick Douglass said about the three boxes, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box. I try to apply it a little bit differently. I think we get three votes. I think we vote when we vote politically, I think we vote where we spend our money, and I believe we vote with our investments. And I think through that lens, we should be out there buying three rows of seats behind every home plate at every Major League Baseball park. And we should be wearing t-shirts that say we support election integrity.
Olivastro: I think that organizations like 2ndVote that do detailed research reports that highlight how many retail companies spend their money and which non-profits they support. I think people should be following them on social media and they should be looking and seeing how they can get smart on what they support. There's a really good piece in the Daily Signal today by David Almasi, 1 Investor With 1 Share Can Call Out Corporate Leftism. And it's a simple process that they use over at the Free Enterprise Project at the National Center for Public Policy Research. David lays out how anyone can be vocal when exercising their shares.
Doescher: Wait. Well, hold on a second. So you're saying that people can, and I've actually heard this before, but people will buy one share of Coca-Cola and then they'll stand up at a shareholders meeting and talk about the free market? Is that what's happening?
Olivastro: You can, as a shareholder and a share owner of the corporation, you can submit a question, and you can raise your question, and you can ask that question of the CEO. And most companies, when you try to do it through a shareholder resolution, will negotiate it away before the meeting itself. But during the meeting, you can elevate any issue that you want. And I would encourage people to read David's piece and I would encourage them to be familiar with some of the work of Justin Danhof, a colleague of his at the Free Enterprise Project. He's a shareholder activist on the right who does that. And I think it comes down to if you stay quiet or you stay home, then you're going to be ignored and you're going to allow yourself to be divided.
Doescher: I can't imagine there being a more uncomfortable position for a bunch of elitists sitting at one of these meetings for someone like you or I raising our hand to talk about conservative ideas and holding them accountable to ignoring them. Because if you think about this, we are a majority of America. There's no question about that. And so, for everybody out there to buy one share at a corporation and stand up, I mean I can only imagine the news headlines that would give and the awareness that that would build for such a cost.
Olivastro: And for most Americans, if they don't individually own shares in a corporation, they certainly have their mutual funds and their retirement funds. They need to be asking their fund managers how are they voting and where are they taking their guidance from? And maybe you trust it, but maybe you verify it as well, because that is where influence will be driven.
Doescher: Yeah, it's funny because as you're talking about this, the one thing that keeps going in my head is, "How come the left always gets their issue championed by big corporations? How come it's always the left's issues that get championed? How come there aren't corporations standing up and saying, 'Hey, abortion is terrible. It's a bad thing?' You just don't hear that. You don't see that. Maybe that's just because we're not being loud enough.
Olivastro: I think there was an assumption for a long period of time that the boardrooms of corporate America were largely aligned with what might be traditionally conservative or Republican issues. And whether that was once true or not, it is no longer the case.
Doescher: Yeah, Andy, it's a great, great effort here. And I'm so glad that you're heading it up. You're taking your years and years of corporate experience and you are giving the conservative movement some action steps to go for. So I hope people log on, read this stuff. And most importantly, I hope people realize that they do have a voice, that they do have a vote here, whether it's, whether it's becoming a shareholder activist, as you talked about, or simply just voting with your resources. I thin it's all important. And man, thank you so much for the work. We look forward to having you back.
Olivastro: Well, thank you for having me. Thank you for platforming the conversation. I do think it's an important one and I agree with everything you just said and the way you said it. Everybody does have a voice, but in the manner of how the business world works, if you're a share owner or an employee, this is your property, this is your time, this is your talent, this is your expertise, this is your capital that's being used in a way that may undermine your values, it may undermine your beliefs, and it's certainly going to undermine the American way of life if we don't step in and stop it.
Doescher: Andy, thank you so much for being with us this week. And that's it, the show's over folks, but there's a lot of information that helped build out this episode. And all of it is linked up in the show notes. So please log on. Also, don't forget to leave us a comment, rate us five stars, and most importantly, share us with people who could benefit from this show.
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by Judith Curry
“For decades, scientists and policymakers have framed the climate-policy debate in a simple way: scientists analyse long-term goals, and policymakers pretend to honour them. Those days are over. Serious climate policy must focus more on the near-term and on feasibility.” – Y. Xu, V. Ramanathan, D. Victor
On twitter, Joe Duarte drew my attention to an editorial published in Nature: Global warming will happen faster than we think.
No surprise that the article sounds the ‘alarm’, accelerated warming, speeding freight train, and all that.
Towards the end of the article, the authors make some very astute recommendations regarding climate policy, which is reproduced in its entirety:
“Scientists and policymakers must rethink their roles, objectives and approaches on four fronts.
Assess science in the near term. Policymakers should ask the IPCC for another special report, this time on the rates of climate change over the next 25 years. The panel should also look beyond the physical science itself and assess the speed at which political systems can respond, taking into account pressures to maintain the status quo from interest groups and bureaucrats. Researchers should improve climate models to describe the next 25 years in more detail, including the latest data on the state of the oceans and atmosphere, as well as natural cycles. They should do more to quantify the odds and impacts of extreme events. The evidence will be hard to muster, but it will be more useful in assessing real climate dangers and responses.
Rethink policy goals. Warming limits, such as the 1.5 °C goal, should be recognized as broad planning tools. Too often they are misconstrued as physical thresholds around which to design policies. The excessive reliance on ‘negative emissions technologies’ (that take up CO2) in the IPCC special report shows that it becomes harder to envision realistic policies the closer the world gets to such limits. It’s easy to bend models on paper, but much harder to implement real policies that work.
Realistic goals should be set based on political and social trade-offs, not just on geophysical parameters. They should come out of analyses of costs, benefits and feasibility. Assessments of these trade-offs must be embedded in the Paris climate process, which needs a stronger compass to guide its evaluations of how realistic policies affect emissions. Better assessment can motivate action but will also be politically controversial: it will highlight gaps between what countries say they will do to control emissions, and what needs to be achieved collectively to limit warming. Information about trade-offs must therefore come from outside the formal intergovernmental process — from national academies of sciences, subnational partnerships and non-governmental organizations.
Design strategies for adaptation. The time for rapid adaptation has arrived. Policymakers need two types of information from scientists to guide their responses. First, they need to know what the potential local impacts will be at the scales of counties to cities. Some of this information could be gleaned by combining fine-resolution climate impact assessments with artificial intelligence for ‘big data’ analyses of weather extremes, health, property damage and other variables. Second, policymakers need to understand uncertainties in the ranges of probable climate impacts and responses. Even regions that are proactive in setting adaptation policies, such as California, lack information about the ever-changing risks of extreme warming, fires and rising seas. Research must be integrated across fields and stakeholders — urban planners, public-health management, agriculture and ecosystem services. Adaptation strategies should be adjustable if impacts unfold differently. More planning and costing is needed around the worst-case outcomes.
Understand options for rapid response. Climate assessments must evaluate quick ways of lessening climate impacts, such as through reducing emissions of methane, soot (or black carbon) and HFCs. Per tonne, these three ‘super pollutants’ have 25 to thousands of times the impact of CO2. Their atmospheric lifetimes are short — in the range of weeks (for soot) to about a decade (for methane and HFCs). Slashing these pollutants would potentially halve the warming trend over the next 25 years.”
Although these recommendations come from a position of ‘alarm’, I agree with each of these recommendations, since each can be justified in terms of ‘no regrets’ actions.
I most particularly agree with the first recommendation on focusing on climate variability/change over the next 25 years. This is the time scale that is of greatest relevance for city/regional planning and for industry/enterprise. While recognizing the key importance of natural climate variability on this time scale, the authors miss what is likely to be the most significant event during this period: a transition to the cold phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
The second recommendation recognizes the farce of the current international policy on emissions reductions.
Adaptation makes a lot of sense, and the adaptation objectives are mostly the same whether the cause of the extreme events or trend is caused by humans or nature.
And finally, the climate rapid response plan. I don’t know why this hasn’t received more traction, particularly related to soot.
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Approximation and Online Algorithms / Third International Workshop, WAOA 2005, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October 6-7, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Erlebach Thomas, Persiano Giuseppe
Автор: Buhmann Название: Approximation Theory and Optimization ISBN: 0521118441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521118446 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5203 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Authorities in numerical analysis and optimisation combine to write an important volume in the area.
Автор: Korneichuk Название: Exact Constants in Approximation Theory ISBN: 0521111560 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521111560 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6846 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A self-contained introduction for non-specialists, or a reference work for experts, on the area of approximation theory concerned with exact constants.
Описание: This book is intended to be used as a textbook for graduate students studying theoretical computer science. It can also be used as a reference book for researchers in the area of design and analysis of approximation algorithms. Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms is a graduate course in theoretical computer science taught widely in the universities, both in the United States and abroad. There are, however, very few textbooks available for this course. Among those available in the market, most books follow a problem-oriented format; that is, they collected many important combinatorial optimization problems and their approximation algorithms, and organized them based on the types, or applications, of problems, such as geometric-type problems, algebraic-type problems, etc. Such arrangement of materials is perhaps convenient for a researcher to look for the problems and algorithms related to his/her work, but is difficult for a student to capture the ideas underlying the various algorithms. In the new book proposed here, we follow a more structured, technique-oriented presentation. We organize approximation algorithms into different chapters, based on the design techniques for the algorithms, so that the reader can study approximation algorithms of the same nature together. It helps the reader to better understand the design and analysis techniques for approximation algorithms, and also helps the teacher to present the ideas and techniques of approximation algorithms in a more unified way.
Описание: In a book that will appeal to beginners and experts alike, Oxford University’s Nick Trefethen presents approximation theory using a fresh approach for this established field.Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice is a textbook on classical polynomial and rational approximation theory for the twenty-first century. It uses MATLAB? to teach the field’s most important ideas and results and differs fundamentally from other works on approximation theory in a number of ways: its emphasis is on topics close to numerical algorithms; concepts are illustrated with Chebfun; and each chapter is a PUBLISHable Matlab M-file, available online.In addition, the book centers on theorems and methods for analytic functions, which appear so often in applications, rather than on functions at the edge of discontinuity with their seductive theoretical challenges. Original sources are cited rather than textbooks, and each item in the bibliography is accompanied by an editorial comment.Each chapter has a collection of exercises, which span a wide range from mathematical theory to Chebfun-based numerical experimentation.
Описание: This volume contains refereed articles originating from the 3rd International Dortmund Meeting on Approximation Theory in Witten-Bommerholz. The contributors are renowned international experts in their individual fields of research, including, in particular, approximation methods, orthogonal polynomials, radial basis functions, multivariate spline approximation and interpolation, Pade approximation, polynomial approximation, and quasi-interpolation.
Автор: Vazirani Vijay V. Название: Approximation Algorithms ISBN: 3540653678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540653677 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8084 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book covers the dominant theoretical approaches to the approximate solution of hard combinatorial optimization and enumeration problems. It contains elegant combinatorial theory, useful and interesting algorithms, and deep results about the intrinsic complexity of combinatorial problems. Its clarity of exposition and excellent selection of exercises will make it accessible and appealing to all those with a taste for mathematics and algorithms.Richard Karp,University Professor, University of California at BerkeleyFollowing the development of basic combinatorial optimization techniques in the 1960s and 1970s, a main open question was to develop a theory of approximation algorithms. In the 1990s, parallel developments in techniques for designing approximation algorithms as well as methods for proving hardness of approximation results have led to a beautiful theory. The need to solve truly large instances of computationally hard problems, such as those arising from the Internet or the human genome project, has also increased interest in this theory. The field is currently very active, with the toolbox of approximation algorithm design techniques getting always richer.It is a pleasure to recommend Vijay Vazirani's well-written and comprehensive book on this important and timely topic. I am sure the reader will find it most useful both as an introduction to approximability as well as a reference to the many aspects of approximation algorithms.LГЎszlГі LovГЎsz, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Автор: Pinkus Название: On L1-Approximation ISBN: 0521057698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521057691 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5477 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This monograph is concerned with the qualitative theory of best L1-approximation from finite-dimensional subspaces.
Автор: Wendland Название: Scattered Data Approximation ISBN: 0521131014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521131018 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7531 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Many practical applications require the reconstruction of a multivariate function from discrete, unstructured data. This book gives a self-contained, complete introduction into this subject. It concentrates on truly meshless methods such as radial basis functions, moving least squares, and partitions of unity. The book starts with an overview on typical applications of scattered data approximation, coming from surface reconstruction, fluid-structure interaction, and the numerical solution of partial differential equations. It then leads the reader from basic properties to the current state of research, addressing all important issues, such as existence, uniqueness, approximation properties, numerical stability, and efficient implementation. Each chapter ends with a section giving information on the historical background and hints for further reading. Complete proofs are included, making this perfectly suited for graduate courses on multivariate approximation and it can be used to support courses in computer-aided geometric design, and meshless methods for partial differential equations.
Автор: Temlyakov Название: Greedy Approximation ISBN: 1107003377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107003378 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7942 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides the theoretical foundations for algorithms widely used in numerical mathematics. Includes classical results, as well as the latest advances.
Описание: Semidefinite programs constitute one of the largest classes of optimization problems that can be solved with reasonable efficiency - both in theory and practice. They play a key role in a variety of research areas, such as combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, computational complexity, graph theory, geometry, real algebraic geometry and quantum computing. This book is an introduction to selected aspects of semidefinite programming and its use in approximation algorithms. It covers the basics but also a significant amount of recent and more advanced material. There are many computational problems, such as MAXCUT, for which one cannot reasonably expect to obtain an exact solution efficiently, and in such case, one has to settle for approximate solutions. For MAXCUT and its relatives, exciting recent results suggest that semidefinite programming is probably the ultimate tool. Indeed, assuming the Unique Games Conjecture, a plausible but as yet unproven hypothesis, it was shown that for these problems, known algorithms based on semidefinite programming deliver the best possible approximation ratios among all polynomial-time algorithms. This book follows the “semidefinite side” of these developments, presenting some of the main ideas behind approximation algorithms based on semidefinite programming. It develops the basic theory of semidefinite programming, presents one of the known efficient algorithms in detail, and describes the principles of some others. It also includes applications, focusing on approximation algorithms.
Автор: Cohen Название: Numerical Approximation Methods ISBN: 1441998365 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441998361 Издательство: Springer Цена: 9239 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents numerical and other approximation techniques for solving various types of mathematical problems that cannot be solved analytically. In addition to well known methods, it contains some non-standard approximation techniques that are now formally collected as well as original methods developed by the author that do not appear in the literature.This book contains an extensive treatment of approximate solutions to various types of integral equations, a topic that is not often discussed in detail. There are detailed analyses of ordinary and partial differential equations and descriptions of methods for estimating the values of integrals that are presented in a level of detail that will suggest techniques that will be useful for developing methods for approximating solutions to problems outside of this text.The book is intended for researchers who must approximate solutions to problems that cannot be solved analytically. It is also appropriate for students taking courses in numerical approximation techniques.
Автор: Williamson Название: The Design of Approximation Algorithms ISBN: 0521195276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521195270 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7668 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Designed as a textbook for graduate courses on algorithms, this book presents efficient algorithms that find provably near-optimal solutions.
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The Internet has since inception held the potential to make our vast world more compact … and has, over a short time, moved from being a network of computers to an Internet of Things. Within just 2-3 decades, the Internet has nurtured itself on an ultra-fast pace through several phases, in a steady way such that we don’t even feel the speed anymore. In the modern world today, it’s no longer amusing to hear of a simple home appliance having WiFi functionality – a ‘strange’ concept that was almost totally unheard of in the 90s. In fact, any older technology that is still in demand has its thanks to offer to the Internet, for the opportunity it availed to integrate with it. Think about it; the wrist watch, the Automobile, the Television, the Sound Systems, … have been made SMART simply by handing them the magic wand of the Internet.
Even electricity, our oldest most mysterious and cherished invention, is only made reliable today due to the help and support of the exact same concept behind the Internet. Although, this can be considered a survival strategy, judging from the mere fact that the Internet’s enabling components also rely on electric power. It’s a symbiotic relationship.
The dominion of this space age technology is so great that even in developing parts of the world like Nigeria where electricity supply and distribution is extremely scarce to unacceptable levels of concern, the country ranks as the highest population of Internet users in Africa. Perhaps, Nigeria uses all its electric power to sustain the use of the Internet.
But why is the Internet this much of an influence in modern society? Electricity is also a very strong force but the Internet is just an enigma… especially with the way it can also mysteriously present itself as a wireless conduit for what it conveys – Information. It’s probably an indication on the plausibility of the popular phrase ‘Information is Power’.
Information over the Internet is consumed for different purposes. In my understanding, the Internet is generally used in global economies for 4 main reasons; Educational, Entertainment, Business and Governance. A healthy proportional mix in employing these motives with a great stint of positivity represents the true value of the Internet. Although, the Internet’s potential is definitely not fully utilized anywhere in the world, the main idea is to keep the pareto efficiency at good standing.
Nigeria’s Internet literally lacks good governance and is largely susceptible to the highly variable mood swings of its entertainment aspect, which is currently dominated by today’s social media. To bring stability to the imbalance of the nation’s powerful Internet potential, public and private institutions need to leverage respective positions by utilizing all relevant powers to evenly and positively distribute the influences of the Internet, especially through the veins of Education, Business and Governance, and with respect to the most ailing sectors such as Power and Infrastructure.
Ironically, these applications can be achieved through the same Social Media tool that the nation’s entertainment industry thrives with. Just ask Google ‘how’.
Speaking of social media, please take a moment to follow our Instagram and Twitter accounts @LevelocityNG.
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Discovery advances control of starch digestion
(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling diet-induced degenerative disorders such as Type II Diabetes and obesity could be as easy as sprinkling a dietary supplement on your food in the future.
A national research team, including two Simon Fraser University scientists, has chemically mapped the molecular structure of the second of four enzymes in our intestinal lining that are responsible for converting starch into glucose.
SFU chemists Mario Pinto and Sankar Mohan, University of Waterloo biologist David Rose and University of Toronto biochemist Lyann Sim are among six scientists who have just structurally characterized the human enzyme sucrase-isomaltase (SI).
They’ve also compared it to maltase-glucoamylase (MGAM), the first starch-digesting enzyme mapped by them about five months ago.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology published their latest findings in its June 4 online issue.
Glucose is absorbed into our bloodstream and either converted to energy or fat, depending on the rate of conversion, which is tied to genetics, diet, lifestyle and the microbial flora in our guts.
Too much glucose upsets a critical balance and increases our body’s fat storage rate, a condition that has led to 180 million people developing diabetes worldwide—a number that is expected to double by 2030.
Pinto, SFU’s vp-research, belongs to an international consortium that is analyzing how the activities of starch digesting enzymes, known as intestinal glucosidases, occur in concert and might be altered to control diet-induced degenerative disorders.
“We have two more enzyme activities to characterize,” says Pinto, who credits Mohan, one of his doctoral students, with synthesizing enzyme inhibitors, which were used to characterize the glucosidases.
“We’ve created three dimensional structural models of the glucosidases that have led to the design of new molecules that can selectively turn the glucosidases on and off. One day, these inhibitors could be sprinkled on to food in a powder form to control starch digestion.”
Mohan—who along with SFU postdoctoral fellow Jayakanthan Kumarasamy identified structures in a Sri Lankan plant that inhibit glucosidases—is testing the effectiveness of various iterations of the structures in regulating glucosidases.
Pinto and Mohan will discuss their latest research with colleagues in the international starch digestion consortium at a workshop in Vancouver on June 12 and 13, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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Axonal arbors of principal neurons form the backbone of neuronal networks in the mammalian cortex. the CA3c neuron with that traced from the same cell by a different operator on a standard commercial setup. Morphometric analysis revealed substantial differences among neurons. Total length ranged from 200mm (CA3b) to 500mm (CA3c), and axonal branching complexity peaked between 1mm (CA3b and CA3pv) and 2mm (CA3c) of Euclidean distance from the soma. Length distribution was analyzed among sub-regions (CA3a,b,c and CA1a,b,c), cytoarchitectonic layers, and longitudinal extent within a three-dimensional template of the rat hippocampus. The CA3b axon Ruxolitinib extended thrice more collaterals within CA3 than into CA1. On the Rabbit polyclonal to ACSS2 contrary, the CA3c projection was double into CA1 than within CA3. Moreover, the CA3b axon extension was equal between strata oriens and radiatum, while the CA3c axon displayed an oriens/radiatum ratio of 1 1:6. The axonal distribution of the CA3pv neuron was intermediate between those of the CA3b and CA3c neurons both relative to sub-regions and layers, with uniform collateral presence across CA3/CA1 and moderate preponderance of radiatum over oriens. In contrast using the dramatic coating and sub-region variations, the axon longitudinal pass on across the soma was identical for the three neurons. To totally Ruxolitinib characterize the axonal variety of CA3 primary neurons will demand higher-throughput reconstruction systems beyond the three-fold speed-up of the technique adopted right here. rat CA3 pyramidal neurons intracellularly stuffed in vivo with biocytin (Li et al. 1994; Wittner et al. 2007). The experimental information on the histological planning are referred to in those earlier reports and so are just summarized here. Quickly, neurons had been electrophysiologically located stereotactically and determined, and animals had been perfused Ruxolitinib 2 hours after shot. After mind fixation and removal, 70 m coronal areas had been incubated in avidin-biotin horseradish peroxidase (HRP) organic and stained by 3,3-diaminobenzidine-4HCl (DAB) intensified with Ni(NH4)Thus4. Slices had been installed on gelatin covered slides and protected with DePeX. The reconstruction and evaluation procedures referred to below expand our previous advancement (Scorcioni and Ascoli 2005) and so are expected to be suitable for fast Golgi preparations. Nomenclature In this study, we follow the hippocampal anatomical terminology originally introduced by Lorente de N (1934) and subsequently adopted in numerous reports (e.g. Ishizuka et al. 1990; 1995; Li et al. 1994; Witter and Amaral 2004). The long axis of the hippocampus curves from the septal pole located dorsally in the most anterior end, to the temporal pole, located ventrally after passing the most posterior end. Transverse to this longitudinal curvature, Cornu Ammonis (CA) is divided into seven adjacent sub-regions, namely CA1a, CA1b, CA1c, CA2, CA3a, CA1b, and CA3c. CA1a lies near the subiculum, while CA3c is located between the supra- and infra-pyramidal blades of the dentate gyrus (Fig. 1a). CA3a is the region of maximum curvature at the origin of the fornix, while CA1b may be recognized as the straightest CA1 sub-region. Because of its small size, CA2 is not always identifiable in all slices, and here we consider it lumped together with CA3a. Along the depth of the transverse plane, four cytoarchitectonic layers are identifiable throughout CA, named (from outermost to innermost) stratum oriens (bordering the alveus), stratum pyramidale, stratum radiatum, and stratum lacunosum-moleculare (bordering the fissure). Since stratum lucidum, the mossy fiber layer, is present in CA3 but not CA1, here we consider it lumped together with stratum radiatum. Open in a separate window Fig. 1 Axonal reconstruction process: from micrographs to digital treesa) Representative micrographs of dorsal hippocampus captured by lenses with different magnification power: 4 (top) with captioned sub-regions (Sub, Supra, and Infra indicate subiculum and the two granular blades of the dentate gyrus, respectively) and asterisk marking the somatic position within CA3c; 8 (bottom) with visible dendritic tree further enlarged at 20 and 40 (boxed insets indicated by black arrows) to highlight branches and spines (white s arrows), as well as.
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By CBSNews.com producer David Morgan
The First Film VampireF.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922) was the first (and unauthorized) film version of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula." Stoker's widow sued for copyright infringement, but fortunately prints survived, so Max Schreck's terrifying "Count Orlok" continues to see the light of day.
I Don't Drink ... WineHungarian stage actor Bela Lugosi was renowned for playing Christ, but was a hit in the Broadway play "Dracula." The 1931 film version (pictured here with Helen Chandler) made him an international star, but sadly, his career never escaped the shadow of the vampire's cape.
Hammer HorrorIn 1958 Britain's Hammer Studios became the first to film "Dracula" in color (and what color!), starring Christopher Lee (top left) and Peter Cushing. Lee returned as the vampire in several more installments of varying quality. For "Taste the Blood of Dracula" (1970, right) Lee reportedly had so much disdain for the dialogue he refused to utter it.
TV VampiresAmong the most memorable TV vampires: Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins in the '60s soap "Dark Shadows" (top left); from the 1979 miniseries "Salem's Lot" (bottom left); and Louis Jourdan in the faithful 1977 BBC adaptation, shown crawling down the wall of his castle. Rudolf Martin's Dracula was but one creature of the night who faced off against "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Out Of The ShadowsMirrors won't work if you want to catch a glimpse of a vampire coming up behind you, like Klaus Kinski approaching Isabelle Adjani in Werner Herzog's faithful remake of "Nosferatu" (1979), for which thousands of white laboratory rats were painted gray because real gray ones were unavailable.
No FangsLike Lugosi, Frank Langella followed a stage turn as Dracula to the screen in a sweeping 1979 adaptation co-starring Laurence Olivier as the intrepid vampire hunter Van Helsing. Langella said he never actually wore fangs; the stare was enough.
Femmes FatalesDracula may be dead, but he's not that dead, judging by the company he keeps. Among the female kindred spirits that have followed in his footsteps were (left) Carroll Borland in "Mark of the Vampire" (1935); (center) one of the "Brides of Dracula" (1960); and Elena Anaya in "Van Helsing" (2004).
The HungerIn "The Hunger" (1983), Catherine Deneuve's 4,000-year-old vampire takes the blood of her lovers to preserve her youth; in return, they get to age but never die, which leads to a collection of doomed, decaying ex-lovers. In one scene David Bowie, bereft of life-sustaining blood, visibly ages in a flash.
Not To Be CrossedEven in comedies like "The Fearless Vampire Killers," "Love at First Bite" and 1985's "Fright Night" (pictured, with Roddy McDowell applying a crucifix to Chris Sarandon), the code of vampires must apply: Garlic is repellent, crosses and sunlight are to be avoided, and a stake in the heart means the end.
LifeforceThere are vampires, and then there are space vampires! When astronauts discover aliens in suspended animation within Halley's Comet, they unwittingly bring some back to Earth (bad idea!), whereupon they awaken only to suck the lifeforce out of most of London.
The Lost BoysBefore saving the world as Jack Bauer on "24," Kiefer Sutherland was out to conquer the night as the ostensible leader of a gang of vampires in "The Lost Boys" (1987).
The Vampire ReincarnateDirector Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 telling of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" was sumptuous and not a little over-the top, but beneath the malevolence of Gary Oldman's vampire (seen here as his aged self and in a younger guise) was pain for the loss of his beloved, whose reincarnation he's convinced he sees in Winona Ryder.
The Vampire LestatInitially Anne Rice said she was "stunned" (and not in a positive way) by the casting of Tom Cruise in the film version of her "Interview With the Vampire." But by the time of the film's 1994 release she had reversed course: "He has the immense physical and moral presence; he was defiant and yet never without conscience; he was beautiful beyond description yet compelled to do cruel things."
Foreign FearRecent foreign films involving vampires include "Night Watch" (2004), which became the highest-grossing Russian film ever. The Swedish tale "Let the Right One In" (2008) tells of a withdrawn boy who befriends a new girl in the neighborhood whose appetite for blood is more than unusual.
Teen TerrorIn "Twilight" (2008), Kristen Stewart's Bella is attracted to the glowering good looks of local boy Edward (Robert Pattinson), who is hiding a dreadful secret. And while he has (so far) been able to abstain from his vampiric thirst for blood, there are others who are less reticient (AND there are several more books in the series to go)!
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As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are changing tack regarding their recommendation to the public about wearing face masks, some experts explain how certain masks could help keep the coronavirus at bay. However, these should be our last resort, they warn.
A few days ago, the CDC issued new guidance on the circumstances under which it is advisable to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The federal agency now “recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies) especially [original emphasis] in areas of significant community-based transmission.”
Yet, by advising the use of homemade cloth masks, the CDC are upholding their earlier recommendation that people refrain from purchasing surgical masks and N95 respirators, which they deem to be “critical supplies” for healthcare workers, who face shortages of protective equipment.
A newly published study from the University of Maryland, College Park and The University of Hong Kong now shows how surgical masks, in particular, could help prevent people with a viral infection from shedding infectious particles.
The researchers started their study before the new coronavirus pandemic, so their investigation does not include people who contracted SARS-CoV-2.
Nevertheless, their findings may be relevant to current international debates about the efficacy of masks in preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
The researchers’ findings appear in the journal Nature.
In the study, the team worked with 246 participants who had acquired a respiratory infection from a flu virus, a coronavirus, or a rhinovirus.
The researchers split the participants into two groups, providing some with surgical masks and leaving others without.
Then, they asked everyone to exhale through an innovative machine designed to capture particles emitted through exhalation — a device suggestively named Gesundheit II — to determine whether the masks could effectively catch the tiny droplets that carry these viruses.
This idea for the test arose in the wake of a previous study, spearheaded by Prof. Donald K. Milton. The study also used the Gesundheit II machine, and the results indicated that a person with the flu could shed infectious particles without coughing or sneezing.
Even minuscule droplets carried by regular breathing were able to spread the flu virus, that study demonstrated.
In the current investigation, the team found that surgical masks could help reduce the amount of coronavirus shed by participants — and suggested that simply breathing could spread this type of virus.
Masks also helped reduce the amount of flu virus shed through coughing or sneezing, but not through aerosols emitted by just breathing.
“In 111 people infected by either coronavirus, influenza virus, or rhinovirus, masks reduced detectable virus in respiratory droplets and aerosols for seasonal coronaviruses, and in respiratory droplets for influenza virus,” says the study’s first author, Nancy H. L. Leung, Ph.D., who had conducted the research for her doctoral dissertation.
“In contrast,” she went on to note, “masks did not reduce the emission of rhinoviruses.”
Based on the current findings, co-senior author Prof. Benjamin J. Cowling — also the co-director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control — notes that surgical masks could play a role in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The ability of surgical masks to reduce seasonal coronavirus in respiratory droplets and aerosols implies that such masks can contribute to slowing the spread of COVID-19 when worn by infected people,” says Prof. Cowling.
However, the researchers emphasize that for members of the public, masks should be the very last protective measure in the context of the current pandemic.
“Personal protective equipment like N95 masks are not our first line of defense. They are our last, desperate thing that we do.”
– Co-senior author Prof. Donald K. Milton
Instead, a more useful first-line measure for protecting the public may be to install more appropriate ventilation in public spaces such as supermarkets, Prof. Milton notes.
It may also be helpful, he explains, to install UVC lighting by ceiling fans, a method that may kill some viral particles and bacteria that are sucked through the fans.
For live updates on the latest developments regarding the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, click here.
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Having a good breakfast helps boost your metabolism, gives you energy and is important in preventing a binge until your mid morning snack or lunch. There are so many breakfast cereals these days and you want to be sure you pick one that will be the most beneficial to you. With that in mind next time you visit the cereal aisle consider the following
Make sure you read between the lines. Just because a cereal may be labelled as “low fat”, or “low Sugar” doesn’t mean that it is healthy for you. The product may have extra hidden calories. Often if a product is low in fat they add more sugar to enhance flavour.
Make sure the cereal includes healthy grains. Look for cereals labelled as “whole grains”. Cereals with 7 grams of fibre or more are also recommended. Some cereals to consider are Nature Path, Kashi, or Go Lean. You want to get at least 25-30 grams of fibre per day.
Avoid sugar. When picking a cereal you want to choose one that has no more then 5 grams. Be aware of fruits containing dried fruit, they are often full of sugar. Some of the worst offenders when it comes to sugar are Fruit Loops and Apple Jacks.
Saturated Fat. Your cereal should have no more then 2 grams of saturated fat and definitely no trans fat. The American Heart Association recommends that that no more then 1% of your daily calories should come from trans fat that means you should take no more then 2 grams of fat in.
Remember breakfast is extremely important in losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight so choose your cereal wisely.
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Ratnanidhi received 800 pcs of TOOTH BRUSHes from Ms. Sarlaben Parekh. These tooth brushes were distributed among the balwadi and scholarship students of our partner NGO (Family Service Centre) located in Colaba and Ambedkar Nager Community in Mumbai.
The community teachers created awareness among student’s age group of 2 years 6 months to 12 years about the cleanliness and personal hygiene. Children were very much happy to get brushes and awareness has been generated among the children.
Though story telling the teacher created awareness among the students about oral hygiene. They were informed how to keep their teeth, gums and mouth clean. These things are often taken for granted but are very essential in everyday lives. They were informed about various ways to keep their dental health well.
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On Tuesday, Facebook pledged to be on 100% renewable energy in the next two years, the second announcement in about a month to help cut down the company’s environmental impact. In July, Facebook announced a partnership with Pacific Power—an electric company in Oregon, one of several states where Facebook’s data centers are housed—to support the development of renewable resources.
Of course, Facebook isn’t alone in the fight. Earlier this year, Samsung made the same pledge to run completely on renewable energy by 2020, and Apple, among others, says it’s already met this massive milestone. Even smaller—yet sizable—companies like Proterra are making progress.
Since its founding in 2004, the zero-emission vehicle maker has developed an efficient, battery-electric bus, raising more than $470 million in support of the effort. Last week, it was selected by the state of Georgia to supply buses and charging stations for the state’s public transportation needs. A big win toward cleaner air for all.
But in the fight to make green by going green, younger companies are still up against a disproportionate struggle. VC funding to early-stage cleantech startups has slowed greatly in recent years.
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Dutch studio Unknown Architects used four oxide-red steel columns to open up the previously constricted interior of this apartment in Amsterdam.
House With Four Columns is a two-floor apartment situated in Amsterdam’s De Baarsjes neighbourhood.
The apartment previously had old-fashioned interiors and, despite measuring 200-square-metres, a poor sense of space as the ground floor was dominated by a central load-bearing wall.
Unknown Architects was brought on board to refine the home’s floor plan and give it a more modern fit-out.
The practice first set about removing the obtrusive load-bearing wall. In its place simply stands a series of four exposed steel columns, turning the ground floor into a singular open-plan living space.
When the columns first arrived on-site they had been finished with an oxide-red primer, but due to Dutch safety regulations, a black fire-resistant coating had to be applied.
Instead of leaving them like this, the practice decided to add a top coat of paint that matched the columns’ original shade.
“As a result, the steel structure becomes the most distinctive element of the interior, which makes sense to us because it is the most dramatic element in the transformation,” the studio told Dezeen.
With the load-bearing wall gone, the ground floor is instead anchored by three elements – the first is a boxy white volume that accommodates a fridge, wardrobe, toilet and extra storage space.
The second element is the nut-wood breakfast island in the kitchen, which is topped with grey marble. The third is the gently twisting staircase that leads down to the basement level.
Surrounding walls on the ground floor are painted white, and the floor is smooth concrete. The columns are complemented by an oxblood-coloured leather sofa, which backs onto a tall wooden bookshelf.
There is also a couple of contemporary artworks and a striking pendant lamp composed of an interlocking circle and square-shaped lights.
The basement also has a central load-bearing wall. It’s punctuated by two openings, however, the practice was unable to add more because of the high groundwater level and subsequent risk of leakage.
Wide doorways have been introduced in House With Four Columns’ bedrooms to improve sightlines throughout the rest of this level and foster a sense of spaciousness.
Unknown Architects was established in 2012 by Daan Vulkers and Keimpke Zigterman. The practice has previously overhauled a corner-plot property to revive its original decor features and updated a 200-year-old home to feature a twisting staircase.
Photography is by MWA Hart Nibbrig.
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Jewels symbolize the beauty and classicism, the nature of valuing beauty is a trait that all humans have and women in particular. The feeling of being desired is increased through the daily use of different items of jewelry to enhance their beauty and charm. … And that is really why we love jewelry so much.
Why does jewelry make me happy?
There’s also no denying that wearing a beautiful and distinctive piece of jewelry will make you feel great and super confident. It just will. … Wearing a fab piece of jewelry not only gives me confidence but also helps connect me with my memories and loved ones.”
What does wearing a lot of jewelry mean?
A person who wears large jewelry such as big hoop earrings, thick dangling necklaces, or extravagant rings is likely to be an active, social and bubbly person. They are the ones usually surrounded by groups of people at a party. Their generous and cheery personalities draw people to them like metal filings to a magnet.
Why is jewelry a want?
Jewelry symbolizes birth, sex, marriage, covenant, wealth, mourning, martial success, so forth and so on. It is a need to have the most beautiful, awe-inspiring things and employ them as language, so as to define our nature, our stature.
How does jewelry make a woman feel?
It makes them feel good and gives them self-confidence.
It is important for women as it can make them feel beautiful, stylish, special, and confident. It ultimately plays a big role in making a woman feel good about herself, which is why it’s so valuable to many women.
Why jewelry is a good investment?
In fact, many investors prefer investing in jewelry more because it is less risky than other markets. Interestingly enough, while the value of the world’s currencies constantly fluctuates, gold, diamonds, and other precious metals and stones have remained stable. … Its value continues to steadily appreciate over time.
What does jewelry say about a person?
A person who likes to wear large pieces such as big hoop earrings, thick dangling necklaces or extravagant rings is likely to be an active, social and bubbly person. These people are often the life of the party. You’re likely to be cheerful and many like you because you’re just so much fun.
Is it OK to wear a lot of jewelry?
“You can potentially damage your jewelry by constantly wearing it, but there are no major health risks to wearing jewelry every day, which includes sleeping and showering,” she says (unless you’re wearing costume jewelry, but we’ll get to that later).
How much is too much jewelry?
Generally speaking, it is best not to wear more than three accessories at a time. Too many accessories will make the overall look too cumbersome and can not get a good decoration effect. In addition, it is best to choose a similar style for each type of jewelry, so that the matching will be more coordination.
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Ginny Williams Built a Singular Collection of Work by Leading Women Artists
Portrait of Ginny Williams with her pooch, Willie, in front of a Joan Mitchell painting. Photo By Karl Gehring for The Denver Post. Image via Getty Images.
In 1989, collector Ginny Williams visited Robert Miller Gallery to look at a group of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. Williams was a practicing photographer herself, who exhibited the medium at her eponymous Denver art gallery. While she was checking out the Mapplethorpes, she saw a catalog for the Museum of Modern Art’s 1982–83 Louise Bourgeois retrospective. Williams became so entranced by the work that she stole the catalog. Over the next few decades, Williams would go on to become the largest private collector of Bourgeois’s work in the United States.
Jerry Gorovoy, Bourgeois’s long-time assistant, recounted this anecdote of benign theft ahead of Sotheby’s major sale of Williams’s collection, a multipart affair that begins on June 29th. A total of 450 works will be on offer, with the entire grouping estimated to earn over $50 million. Female titans of 20th-century American art—including Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin, and of course Bourgeois—enjoy strong representation among the lots. Williams was, according to Sotheby’s contemporary art specialist and VP, Elizabeth Webb, “keen to hear” from these older female artists who hadn’t enjoyed the critical or market attention they deserved.
Louis Bourgeois, Observer, 1989. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.
Lee Krasner, Re-Echo, 1957. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.
Three top Bourgeois works are on offer during the headlining evening portion of Sotheby’s upcoming sale (12 more are on offer in the June 30th day auction). They include Observer (1947–49, estimated at $1.5 million to $2 million), a lithe bronze sculpture that resembles a smoothed-over Giacometti; Untitled (With Growth) (1989, estimated at $1.2 million to $1.8 million), a giant, craggy plinth with finger-like growths emerging from the surface; and Eye Benches I (1996–97, estimated at $800,000 to $1.2 million), which indeed consists of black benches shaped like massive, sultry eyeballs.
Such eccentric work excited Williams, who was a bold, curious figure herself. The collector, who died in 2019 at age 92, developed an appreciation for art later in life. After working as an English teacher in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she settled in Denver with her husband Carl Williams, a pioneer of cable television. In her fifties, Williams went back to school to earn her master’s degree in art history from Colorado Women’s College. She translated her passion into practice as she took her own photographs and opened her gallery (which is still running today as the Ginny Williams Family Foundation) in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood.
Joan Mitchell, Straw, 1976. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.
Portrait of Louise Bourgeois with Jerry Gorovoy and Ginny Williams (wearing a latex costume made by Bourgeois) at her Brooklyn Studio in 1991. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy of Louise Bourgeois.
While Williams served on the board of the Denver Art Museum from 1992 through 2001, her philanthropic ambitions grew beyond state borders: She joined the boards of the Hirshhorn and the Guggenheim and made frequent pilgrimages to the East Coast. Robert Lehrman, a Hirshhorn trustee and former board chairman, recently recalled his time working alongside Williams at the institution. He described her interests, skills, and point of view as “a breath of fresh air” for his team. While Williams never shared her philosophies on art collecting or philanthropy with him, Lehrman said “it was nevertheless clear that what she loved about art was the ideas of the artists and their ability to enhance our lives with their creativity.”
Webb added to that sentiment, noting that Williams looked at art as an artist herself. She shared that as a photographer, Williams could “look at a mountain and see a dark triangular shape,” suited to the camera’s frame. “You can understand why Ellsworth Kelly was of interest to her—somebody who was also looking into nature and kind of reducing a way of seeing into another visual language,” Webb said. Kelly’s Purple Panel (1986, estimated at $1.5 million to $2 million) will be the sixth lot in Sotheby’s forthcoming sale of Williams’s collection. On July 14th, the house will auction off about 100 photographs from her collection, including works by Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Laura Gilpin, Diane Arbus, Margaret Bourke-White, and Ruth Bernhard.
Alex Katz, Forsythia, 1997. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Nets V.A.T, 1959. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.
If many artists intrigued Williams, it’s clear that Bourgeois enchanted her on a different level. Gorovoy recalled how Williams visited the artist’s Brooklyn studio each time she came to New York. The trio even spent a Thanksgiving together, during which Bourgeois ripped off the turkey legs with her bare hands. Gorovoy believes a certain fortitude drew Williams and Bourgeois together. At the time Williams met the artist, he remembered, the collector had just divorced. “I think she was interested in Louise’s story about her relation to her own father, her own family life,” said Gorovoy. He believes Williams “saw herself in terms of the struggle but also in the determination of Louise’s strength.”
Gorovoy and Williams became close, too, frequently traveling together. By the time they met, Bourgeois was no longer installing her own shows, so the duo would work together to set up presentations in galleries from Colombia to Norway to Japan. Williams loved exhibitions and crates. “Ginny was unique, quirky,” said Gorovoy. “You say go left, she goes right. If you said ‘be here at eight,’ she’d show up at nine. She had an impulse to do exactly what she wanted.”
Richard Tuttle, Yellow Dancer, 1965. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.
Alice Neel, Lilly Brody, 1977. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.
Williams’s art-buying impulses also led her to purchase an Alice Neel painting with a subject who sounds like an appropriate proxy for the collector herself. Lilly Brody (1977, estimated at $500,000 to $700,000) features an older woman, dressed in a chic black dress and wide-brimmed hat, who plants her legs in a firm, wide-legged stance and boldly meets the viewer’s gaze. According to Sotheby’s lot description, “Brody had a unique personal aesthetic that swiftly became her calling card.”
Brody, in fact, was a respected artist whose work ended up in institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She used her own wealth to support the art world, at one point paying the rent for Richard Bellamy’s Green Gallery for about a year. For women such as Brody and Williams, cultural philanthropy wasn’t about writing checks—art was a way of life.
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How would this ‘Worst-Case’ Scenario affect the Pinellas County area?
The “Tampa Bay Catastrophic Plan: Project Phoenix”, a worst-case scenario plan developed in 2010 by The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council and multiple other contributors included FEMA has laid out the following outcomes of a fictitious storm dubbed “Hurricane Pheonix”.
Day 1, Landfall
Landfall as the center of the eye hits Indian Rocks Beach at noon.
Storm surge will be reach levels of 11-16 feet above normal tides levels.
Just hours later the surge will rise to over 20 feet.
The three major bridges that connect St. Petersburg to Tampa Bay are now damaged or submerged and no longer passable. **Personal Opinion: Likely closed well before landfall is made.
Storm surge flooding and high winds damage buildings and homes to an extensive degree.
Day 2, Aftermath
Rescue operations begin but are hard going as debris blocks roadways.
Casualty estimates are high.
Pinellas County power outage estimate:
- 425,113 persons without power for up to 3 days.
- 418k powerless for 7-15 days.
- 224k without power for over 30 days.
Cell Phone Infrastructure:
Project Phoenix does not specify a timeframe but does state that the cell phone system will be “barely operational” due to wind and flood damage.
“All water for human and pet use will require boiling.”
Pinellas county households displaced: 383,213.
Individual Persons Displaced in Pinellas County: 889,054
Estimated Direct Casualties:
Pinellas County: 889
Including not only Pinellas County but also the surround areas the economic impact could reach $250 billion in losses.
We highly recommend you have a close look at the PDF in the above link as it is very detailed in the exact ramifications of a Category 5 hurricane devastating Pinellas County and the surrounding areas.
Potential Timeline of Worst-Cast Scenario Hit By Irma
Sunday 9/10: South of Cuba
Tuesday 9/12: Stalls & Strengthens. Hurricane Irma stalls & strengthens to a Category 5 in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Thursday 9/14: Landfall. Landfall is made in St. Petersburg, fl. At this point hurricane Irma hinges on becoming the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the U.S. Severe winds and high flooding could result in massive casualties.
**Disclaimer: This timeline and plot is a hypothetical ‘worst-case’ outcome based on the potential of a series of circumstances culminating in the ‘perfect storm’.
It is highly recommended that you keep a close eye on the professional forecasts for hurricane Irma and plan
accordingly. Do not wait till the last minute to evacuate or prepare food and water for a worst-cast scenario.
**If you have pets please take extra time to consider their needs as in the event of major flooding they may not be able to be rescued with you.
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RIBBENTROP von Rudolf ~NEW
von Ribbentrop Rudolf
* May 11th, 1921 (Wiesbaden/Hessen, Germany)
+May 20th, 2019 (Ratingen/Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Knights Cross: 15. Juli 1943
As: Führer, 6. Kompanie, II. Abteilung, Panzer-Regiment 1, 1. SS-Panzer-Division “LSSAH”
Postwar signed photo measuring 4” x 6”
Son of the German diplomat and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. He certainly did not take advantage of his father’s position. When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, he joined the Infantry Regiment Deutschland in Munich.
In October he was transferred to occupied Czechoslovakia, where he served in the 11th Company of his field regiment. His Company fought in the invasion of France. Von Ribbentrop was wounded in action and was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class. He was promoted to the rank of Sturmmann.
After France, he was trained as a platoon leader in Braunschweig. He received a commission as Untersturmfuhrer, in command of a platoon in the 1st Company of the Reconnaissance Battalion ‘Nord.’ Ribbentrop distinguished himself in the Finnish campaign against the Soviet Union and was awarded the Finnish Freedom Cross Fourth Class.
He was wounded in Finland on September 2, 1941. After nearly six months in a hospital and some rest at home, he was assigned to the Panzerregiment of the 1st Division Leibstandarte . The regiment had only just been created.
In February 1943 Ribbentrop participated as a tank commander in the Third Battle of Kharkov.
Paul Haussler, the commander of the Panzer Corps, was ordered to attack the Soviet spearhead, which threatened to encircle them, from the north. Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Meyer attacked with his regiment at the weakest point of the Soviet encirclement, at Nowaja Vololaga.
The 2nd Platoon of the 6th Company of that Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Erckardt, was caught in a village. Erckardt was killed in the firefight, and Ribbentrop was ordered to assume command of the platoon. Ribbentrop received the news shortly before his tank’s antenna was shot off.
Ribbentrop immediately ordered a high-speed advance, which went relatively unnoticed by the Soviets. Only a few light tanks and anti-air guns were destroyed on the way. This audacious maneuver put Meyer 40 kilometers behind Soviet lines. Having raced through Kharkov and with little resistance, the tanks captured Alexeyevska on February 13. They held out against a fierce Soviet counter-attack.
In that engagement, Ribbentrop was shot through the lung by a sniper. Despite this he continued to rescue wounded soldiers and refused to be taken to a hospital, He was awarded the Iron Cross First Class for his courage. After recovering, he became commander of 7th Company and led it to the recapture of Kharkov on March 15, 1943. The encirclement was broken, and the Soviet advance was temporarily halted.
Ribbentrop then became a Regimental Adjutant. A few weeks later he trained Luftwaffe members of the LSSAH. He returned to the field on June 15 as commander of the 1st Platoon of the 6th Company. He saw action during the retreat from Kharkov in August 1943 and was wounded in the right and left shoulder. On July 20 he received the Knight’s Cross.
He was transferred to the 12th Panzer Division HJ on August 1, 1943, and commanded junior officer training. In November he became commander of 3rd Company I./PzRgt 12. He was wounded yet again on June 3, 1944, when a Spitfire attacked his car returning from a training exercise. But he was back in command only six days later.
Ribbentrop was awarded the German Cross in Gold and the Panzer Assault Badge during the defense of Normandy in June 1944. He was made Regimental Adjutant to Panzer Regiment 12 and fought in Operation Wacht Am Rhein, the last major German offensive (better known by its Allied name, the Battle of the Bulge).
On December 20 he was wounded in defense of Germany and awarded the Wound Badge in Gold. He then commanded I./PzRgt 12. He remained in this command until the German surrender on May 8, 1945. His division gave themselves to the American forces.
Here follows a recommendation for the German Cross in Gold for Rudolf von Ribbentrop, who would instead be awarded the Knight’s Cross…
"Obersturmführer von Ribbentrop was himself a Zugführer in the winter fighting this year and now serves as Führer of a Panzer Kompanie in the present break-in fighting. In both roles he has especially distinguished himself through outstanding courage, coldblooded bravery and circumspect leadership.
After successful close combat in the area Nowaja Wodolaga, he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class on the 01.03.1943 for proven and outstanding courage.
In the hard fighting north of Kharkov, on the 12.03.1943, he penetrated the enemy defenses in street fighting and made a connection with the other Grenadiers around Red Square, which provided further jump-off points for the advance into the city. After the occupation of the city of Kharkov, the resulting push on Belgorod placed him in the lead Kompanie. He penetrated into the city on 18.03.1943 at the head of his Kompanie in a personal, bold action. He thus holds an outstanding share of the success of the attack on Belgorod.
On the 07.07.1943 the II./Pz.Rgt. 1 LAH, following a successful attack on Teterewino, was attacked numerous times in the flanks by strong Russian tank forces. From a favourable attack position a Russian armoured group of 40 T-34s drove right in front of the Kompanie of Obersturmführer von Ribbentrop. He immediately took charge of the situation, attacked the enemy with his smaller force and with this shot up 6 enemy tanks without loss. This courage and boldness resulted in the failure of the enemy attack, also forcing them to retreat.
On the 08.07.1943 the Abteilung attacked Rylski. Obersturmführer von Ribbentrop once again took part in the deliberate attack, within the framework of the Abteilung. The village are was occupied by 80 enemy tanks. He himself shot up numerous tanks and forced the remainder to flee. A large amount of these remained stuck in the swamp. Of the 30 tanks destroyed by the Abteilung by far the largest share fell to the Kompanie of Obersturmführer von Ribbentrop.
On the 12.07.1943, the Russians penetrated near Prochorowka with about 150 tanks of the type T-34 in the early morning, threatening the security of the positions of the Grenadiers. The combat-ready Kompanie of Obersturmführer von Ribbentrop threw itself toward this enemy and became engaged in battle with the much stronger foe. The whole Abteilung fought through a hard 3-hour tank battle and the most important share of the success was on account of the decisiveness and fearlessness of Obersturmführer von Ribbentrop. In this fight he destroyed 14 enemy tanks.
For repeated displays of bravery and outstanding courage by SS-Obersturmführer von Ribbentrop, I ask that he be given the German Cross in Gold as he is worthy of this high award."
Was recommended to receive the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold but was awarded the Ritterkreuz.
The awarding date varies on different primary sources, the date of July 15th, 1943 is reported on the Verleihungsvorschlag and on the Ritterkreuzträgerkarteikarte.
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Staff appraisals, both developing them and implementing them, can be a key part of HR leadership and development when it comes to ensuring that you’re getting the best out of all your teams. This article dives into that topic, and how you can be successful in it today! Enjoy the read!
Whenever people hear the term “staff appraisals,” their minds likely go to their annual performance review. While the idea of an annual review can cause anxiety for many, it doesn’t always have to be this way!
When properly implemented, staff appraisals are an incredibly valuable tool for promoting the development of employees (Interested in development? Check out our post about Talent Management right now). At the same time, they can also be used to strengthen the relationships between employees and managers.
This article has everything you need to know about staff appraisals, how they work generally, and how they can work in favor of your organization and corporate culture.
What Are Staff Appraisals?
A staff appraisal is a management tool to help support employee development. Centered around an appraisal meeting, this is management’s chance to determine how an employee is faring, and what they might need to be better at their job in a precise and actionable way.
Why Do Staff Appraisals Matter?
In contrast to annual evaluations, which only happen once a year (typically), a staff appraisal is a more frequent check-in with an employee to see where they are at in their work.
In this sense, ongoing and informal exchanges are essential. That’s because feedback should serve as an integral part of a company’s culture to ensure that it is put into everyday practice (Curious about performance management cycles? Click here for our full guide to continuous employee performance).
Building on that, though, feedback can take a wide range of forms. It could be:
- Meeting for a coffee and having a chat about a recent project.
- A recap every time a project is finalized to discuss what went well (or not so well).
- Messaging one another using your company’s internal communication tool.
Appropriate Timelines For Staff Appraisals
Annual appraisal meetings are a good time to discuss performance in a formal setting. Processes should ensure that those involved do not approach these meetings randomly.
Staff appraisal meetings, on the other hand, should never be limited to just a single meeting every year. Meetings should instead be held at least quarterly, with some going into greater depth and others remaining more informal.
What Should You Discuss During An Appraisal Meeting?
Staff appraisals are about facilitating an exchange of ideas regarding expectations, plans, and goals (including, but not limited to, monetary goals). This is all in an effort to arrive at a common denominator.
Things like learning how things are going at the moment, some of the high-priority items on an employee’s to-do list, or the outlook for the months ahead.
In sum, they are about promoting an employee’s personal and professional development, about motivating them through appreciation, and about strengthening overall employee loyalty.
What Is The Best Time For A Staff Appraisal Meeting?
Let’s start with a baseline distinction. There are essentially two types of ‘triggers’ for staff appraisal meetings, which include event-related and institutionalized appraisal meetings.
The first is as it sounds. A staff appraisal based on some kind of event that recently happened, which could include:
- Particularly outstanding or poor performance
- Necessary interventions in work processes, process changes
- Failure to meet requirements
- Optimization of work processes
- Accidents at work
- Prolonged or frequent employee illness
By contrast, institutionalized meetings are conducted regularly without a trigger beyond the passage of time.
They serve to assess employees’ overall performance and are conducted in a standardized form that relies on set guidelines.
During these meetings, managers evaluate employee performance over a certain period of time and develop options to further an employee’s career.
One of these could include professional development. For our full guide to professional development, and implementing it effectively, click this link to learn more.
Ready for the rest of this deep dive into staff appraisals? You can check out the full article by clicking here.
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Try our weekend teaser which tests our readers' grey matter and may be gain a little bit of knowledge along the way. Rearrange the letters of each phrase to find ten words or phrases with a common theme. These will all be places which can be found on a map of a particular area of the British Isles. They could be names of towns, villages or streets, geographical features, tourist attractions or places of historical importance. We recommend OpenStreetMaps for the finer detail at street level.
Ignore any punctuation symbols in either the clue or the answer. So for example 'Chums cry "trash"!' unravels to become St Mary's Church.
Some will be easy but we will try and throw in a tricky one or two each week.
Try and find the ten places located in the modern boundaries of Staffordshire, a county associated with the historical pottery industry and home to the pioneering manufacturers of excavators, JCB.
1. Our bowmen
2. Heat softener
3. Dank parson
4. Tolerant sow
5. Fed chilli
6. Fold craft asset
7. Wildcat nose
8. Cloth line
9. Live rebirth
10. Elusive inert key
Generic map illustration - not a hint!
Last week we were in the Devon. How many did you get right?
Plaster ban - Barnstaple
Ease storm town - Smeaton's Tower
Tin hand patrol - Hartland Point
Sort fleshy cast - Ashclyst Forest
Dark anthem alert - Landmark Theatre
Toad thrum - Dartmouth
Control RAG unit - Arlington Court
Sword wheat - Westward Ho!
Enough mitt - Teignmouth
Stolen camp cot - Compton Castle
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Roald Dahl Collection 16 Books Box Set - Ages 7-9 - Paperback
From one of the bestselling and most iconic authors in the world comes this 16-book collection from Roald Dahl. This collection contains fan favourites such as The BFG, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. This is a perfect collection as an introduction to the beautiful work of Roald Dahl or long-time fans and is ideally suited to children aged 7+.
Titles in This Set :
- Going Solo
- The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me
- George's Marvellous Medicine
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- The Magic Finger
- Esio Trot
- Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator
- The BFG
- The Witches
- The Twits
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
- James And The Giant Peach
- Danny The Champion Of The World
- Billy And The Minpins
In this award-winning Roald Dahl title, Matilda Woodworm is a child of magnificent intelligence and is different from the rest of her family. Misunderstood by everyone and ignored at home, she escaped into a world of reading. She soon discovers that she has supernatural telekinetic powers. This edition features a new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
The second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy, tells of his time working in Africa and his wartime exploits. This edition has a great new cover with illustrations by Quentin Blake and some new facts about Roald Dahl and his world.
The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me
The giraffe, the pelican and the agile monkey set out to prove that they are the best window-cleaning company around. This edition has some new facts about Roald Dahl, and a great new cover featuring Quentin Blake's illustrations.
George's Marvellous Medicine
In this popular Dahl story, George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits. All the books in this edition contain an exciting new section with interesting facts about Roald Dahl. Each book is beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Fantastic Mr Fox
Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the meanest three farmers you could meet. They are determined to get Mr Fox - but he has other plans! This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover and new author biography.
The Magic Finger
The story of a little girl with magical powers. When someone makes her angry she zaps a punishment on them with her magic flashing finger! This edition has a great new cover, with illustrations by Quentin Blake, and some new facts about Roald Dahl and his world.
The wonderful warm-hearted story of Mr Hoppy, Mrs Silver and the tortoise who brings them together. This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as some new biographical facts about Roald Dahl.
The remarkable autobiographical story of Roald Dahl's early years at school and with his family. Like his stories, Dahl's childhood tales are unmissable. This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover and a new end section of facts about Roald Dahl.
Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator
This new edition features a fresh Quentin Blake cover, of the superb sequel to the ever-popular Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as well as a whole new exciting autobiographical end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
The BFG is one of Dahl's most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of big-heartedness.
The bond between the boy and his grandmother becomes the centrepiece of the tale--a partnership of love and understanding that survives even the boy's unfortunate transformation into a mouse. And once the two have teamed up to outwitch the witches, the boy's declaration that he's glad he's a mouse because he will now live only as long as his grandmother is far more poignant than eerie.
Mr and Mrs Twit are an extremely nasty pair. So the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they rightly deserve! This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
For the first time in a decade, Willy Wonka, the reclusive and eccentric chocolate maker, is opening his doors to the public--well, five members of the public, actually. The lucky five who find a Golden Ticket in their Wonka bars will receive a private tour of the factory, given by Mr Wonka himself. For young Charlie Bucket, this is a dream come true.
James And The Giant Peach
A new edition of this hugely popular story of James Henry Trotter and his journey to New York with the strangest group of seven magically- altered insect friends. After living with his two cruel aunts for three years, Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge, James meets a mysterious man who gives him a bag of magical crystals. He instructs James to use them in a position that would change his life for the better. Join James and his fantastical group of friends as they go on an exciting voyage in a giant magical peach, facing many great dangers along the way. This edition includes a great new Quentin Blake cover and new author biography.
Danny The Champion Of The World
A new edition of the well-loved story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. With a great new cover by Quentin Blake, this edition includes a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
Billy And The Minpins
Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond. So, one day, that's exactly what he does. There he meets the Minpins, tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks. They live in fear of the terrible, galloping GRUNCHER. Will it gobble Billy too - or can he find a way to defeat the hungry beast?
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When it comes to asthma and obstructive lung diseases like COPD, the Lower Shore has some of the highest incidence rates compared to other regions in Maryland, and it is resulting in record-making emergency department visits and hospital admissions and readmissions.
In fact, Wicomico and Somerset counties are third and fifth in the state for the rate of asthma emergency department discharges while Worcester is 10th. But, what if you could take a ground level view of a patient’s life by addressing triggers in the place where they should be the safest – their homes? That is the premise behind a $125,000 program of integrated interventions called the EXHALE Asthma Control Program, funded by Rural Maryland Prosperity Investment Fund grant.
EXHALE Asthma Control Program is a pilot program launched by TidalHealth Peninsula Regional, in partnership with Chesapeake Housing Mission and Habitat for Humanity. Based off a National Centers for Disease Control model, the Asthma Control Program peels back the layers of issues that contribute to the high rate of uncontrolled asthma and other obstructive lung diseases on the Lower Eastern Shore.
The pilot program focuses on six six strategies:
“Our interest in developing the EXHALE program happened during the pandemic,” said Kat Rodgers, Director of Community Health Initiatives at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional.
"Our community health workers were going into homes to connect with individuals who needed care," she said, "but who were basically cut off from access since they didn’t have Internet access or transportation.”
At the same time, there was a research project under way that was looking at the multifaceted issues that impact patients with asthma and respiratory diseases. “When we saw the RFP for the grant we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to go beyond screening and assessments to a point where we could make some long-term impact,” Rodgers added.
The way the program works is that a CHW does a home visit and a comprehensive assessment of the environment looking for possible asthma triggers like as dust mites, cockroaches, rodents, mold, and irritants like tobacco smoke and other indoor air pollutants from gas stoves or unvented portable heaters.
During the home visit, the CHW does an Asthma Self-Management Education session with the homeowner so they understand how environmental conditions impact respiratory conditions.
For one CHW the work is particularly meaningful as her own son suffers from asthma.
“My son, now 11, was diagnosed with asthma when he was four-years-old. His asthma was activity and seasonally induced,” says Keyana Kellam. “This work really helped me realize that there’s a lot more to asthma than you realize. I’ve been surprised about how many people don’t know about the resources available to help them as well as specific things like the different types of inhalers available and how to use a peak flow meter.”
The grant program doesn’t begin and end with education and the mitigation of triggers though, but instead it goes a step further by addressing the link between poor housing conditions, poverty and health on the Lower Shore and the high rates of children with asthma and adults with asthma, COPD or lung cancer.
Through the grant, some homeowners can qualify for up to $10,000 in no cost home repair services to fix issues that directly impact asthma and respiratory issues like excessive moisture, unvented appliances and pest management, but also energy efficiency problems and hazards for trips and falls. The overarching goal is to make housing healthier, safer and more energy efficient so that families have more money for necessities such as healthcare and healthy food.
For Rodgers, the big picture is about creating a healthcare model that focuses on prevention and health promotion. TidalHealth Peninsula Regional is currently negotiating alternative payment models with Medicaid Managed Care Organizations based on the anticipated reduction in healthcare costs and improvement in health outcomes among MCO members.
“The EXHALE project was a perfect match with (RMPIF) grant goals,” said Charlotte Davis, Executive Director of the Rural Maryland Council (RMC), which administers the grants. “We particularly look for projects that not only address a community need, but also has legs to continue on once the grant ends.”
For more information visit rural.maryland.gov/Grant Opportunities, 410-841-5774, email email@example.com or connect with the Rural Maryland Council at facebook.com/RuralMaryland.
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Option agreements are a great way for landowners to reduce risk when a third party is interested in buying some of their land for development. However, poorly worded agreements can be costly. Rural property adviser Julie Liddle offers her top tips for getting it right.
What are option agreements? Back to basics
Put simply, an option agreement, when used for development, is a way for landowners to realise an increase in land value without footing the substantial cost of obtaining planning permission. That risk is taken by a developer who, if successful, enables both parties to receive a percentage of the enhanced market value. The percentage each receives is a point for negotiation at the outset.
Option agreements have been successfully used by many farmers and landowners when working with developers seeking planning consent for residential development or renewable energy projects.
Other advantages for landowners and developers
As the landowner, you can take advantage of the skills, knowledge and funds of an experienced developer. As most options are ‘take’ options, unless there is a severe downturn in the market, or conditions attached by the planners to a successful consent are too onerous for the developer to proceed, you are assured of an interested buyer at some point in the future.
You’ll normally receive a non-refundable deposit at the commencement of the option but this is not always the case. This should not be a deal breaker as it will depend on circumstances. If the developer is successful in getting planning permission for the land but does not proceed with the option to purchase, you’ll still be left with land that holds the benefit of planning permission, as well as receiving the deposit.
Securing an option agreement also reduces risk for the developer. If obtaining planning permission takes longer than expected, the developer can be confident they have a legally binding agreement that prevents you getting frustrated and changing your mind about the whole matter.
Avoiding the potential pitfalls
Landowners often confuse option agreements with pre-emption agreements. The latter simply give the prospective buyer the right of first refusal if the vendor decides to sell, whereas an option agreement is a legally binding contract. In other words, if you succeed in completing the event on which the execution of the option depends, for example gaining planning consent, you will have to sell your land, even if other circumstances have changed. This is why good drafting is so important.
There are many pitfalls associated with badly drafted option agreements and below are just some of the areas you need to be aware of.
Duration: A typical option agreement is for three to five years, though this can be longer or extended if a developer’s planning application is ongoing. Therefore, you should consider how a protracted planning process may affect your plans for the farm and whether you’ll be entitled to additional payments if it takes longer than expected. A timetable of the developer’s obligations should be included so that both parties are clear what is expected and by when.
Purchase price: To avoid surprises, be certain as to how the purchase price is calculated and whether deductions apply for unusable parts of the land, or do these parts ‘enable’ the remaining development? You will also want provision in the agreement to ensure the scheme only goes ahead if a minimum land take or a minimum sale price is achieved.
Impact on unpurchased land: Sometimes a developer will want to buy the land in several stages (tranche development). You must therefore ensure the option agreement gives you the right to use the land as freely as possible while planning is sought and obtained. A tranche purchase can make a huge difference to when sale proceeds are received, so this will need to be made clear in the contract.
Third party interests over land: Consultation with other third parties may be needed before an option agreement can proceed. For example, are any areas of the land subject to wayleave? Will you have access to services once the sale of the land is completed? Have you consulted with your bank or whomever has a first charge over the property?
Tax planning: Your accountants and other professional advisers need to be involved at an early stage to ensure you aren’t left with unforeseen charges or tax penalties. The agreement needs to protect your right as the landowner to suspend or delay exercise of the option if there is a substantial or adverse change in the tax regime.
Decommissioning: If your option agreement is for a renewable energy scheme you will need to agree a decommissioning period. Will that be included in the agreement and who is paying?
Future increases in value (Overage): You will want to ensure the value of the land is not increased after it is bought from you, such as by a new planning permission being obtained, without receiving your share of that subsequent increase.
Walk away: How easily you can end the agreement if the developer doesn’t conform to the contract provisions? Conditions on which the parties involved can walk away from the agreement need to be made clear.
Seeking professional advice
There are many more matters to consider than those listed above. Don’t expect all your concerns to be picked up when the option is being drafted. By then it may be too late. Matters like overage, for example, are incredibly complex and need to be dealt with by an expert. With accurate drafting, option agreements and can provide both developers and landowners with security no matter how unpredictable the future.
For advice on any rural land and property issues, call Julie on 01768 254 354.
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