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Definition of the start-up balance sheet
The start-up balance sheet is a special balance sheet that is to be drawn up at the start of the commercial sector in accordance with Section 242 (1) HGB. It represents the accounting completion of the formation, ie the Closing balance the founding company, especially in the case of corporations. The foundation balance sheet serves the following purposes:
Balance sheet to determine the success
The determination of the success from the foundation processes. As a rule, this is a loss because expenses are incurred, but the income is only given later.
Disclosure of the company's assets and capital as of its founding date. It therefore serves to inform all those involved in the founding process, such as B. merchant, shareholder, creditor.
The formation of a basis for the current bookkeeping and the following annual balance sheets. In this function, it serves (indirectly) to determine success, because only with its help is it possible to compare assets for the first business period. Corresponding conclusions for the balance sheet and valuations result from this.
Structure of the establishment balance sheet
The structure of the start-up balance sheet is not explicitly regulated by law. However, there is agreement to regard the structure of the annual balance sheet as fundamental (see also Section 242, Paragraph 1, Clause 2 HGB), ie the GoB - above all the principle of balance sheet clarity - apply to the formal structure. There may be voluntary additions or other deviations from the general structure of Section 266 of the German Commercial Code (HGB) for the start-up balance sheet.
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Habagat starts to prevail, bring rains in Luzon
MANILA, Philippines — The southwest monsoon or hanging habagat has started to affect the country.
Ilocos Region, Zambales, Bataan, Occidental Mindoro, and Palawan will have cloudy skies and scattered rains due to the southwest monsoon on Wednesday, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.
Weather forecasters have yet to declare the official start of the rainy season, but the southwest monsoon is the dominant weather system during the rainy season.
Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers.
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Today, a guest post from the folks at Lamps.com, a retailer of lamps, LED lighting and LED outdoor lighting solutions. They provide an interesting pro/con analysis of the three main types of light sources.
Going “green” is one of the largest priorities among businesses today; it seems everyone is doing it. Obviously, while building an energy-efficient structure, one of your main goals should be to conserve resources, but it can also be important to consider how you are going to light the project while still sticking to the green guidelines. It can be costly and stressful to think about lighting a whole construction site at night using solar paneled lights or other energy-efficient means, but with the following few tips you can conserve energy and have a safe, well-lit workspace while still keeping to your budget:
LED Light bulbs: All of the light bulbs that fit in typical sockets can generally be replaced with substitute light sources. LED lights are a great way to shed light on your construction project while still maintaining energy-efficient standards. LED lights come in both flood and track varieties, and are a benefit in the workplace because they do not throw off heat. That means that, no matter how late you’re burning the midnight oil, you are going to be safe from burns and fires. LEDs last close to eight times longer than CFL light bulbs and can be used in almost all light fixtures. LED bulbs also require significantly less wattage in comparison to the other types of bulbs. This makes them the most efficient and longest lasting type to use in a construction setting.
CFL Light bulbs: CFLs are another option for people looking to save energy but still work by light. Although they are not as energy efficient as LEDs they still use fifty to eighty percent less energy than regular incandescent bulbs. Replacing just one incandescent bulb with a CFL will cut about a half ton of C02 out of the atmosphere in just 5 years; that’s a lot of air and water pollution you could be saving. These, like the LEDs can be used in almost all areas where lighting is required.
Solar Paneled Lights: With the rise of solar powered technology, solar paneled lights can be cheap to find if you look in the right place. Purchasing online is a viable option for most, but make sure you read reviews of the product before buying. Solar paneled lights do have the tendency to be dimmer than other varieties, and also can die out more quickly because of their power source being inaccessible.
Along with getting energy-efficient bulbs there are options such as replacing fixtures in your pre-existing equipment, or using energy efficient cording. However, buying new bulbs is the quickest, easiest way to quickly make sure your construction company is working with “green” equipment and conserving as much as it can.
Editor’s Note: Be sure to check out this chart showing complete details of the three types of lights, including energy, environmental impact, and light output.
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Current Programs available for touring:
House of Strings: A Harper's Journey Through Scotland
House of Strings: A Harper's Journey Through Scotland. James Ruff presents a collage of early music for harp and voice from Gaelic Scotland, recreating the 17th-century world of the historic harper-bards. Rarely heard intimate chamber pieces from a Hebridean harp manuscript, stately formal laments commemorating great clan chieftains, poetic and musical invocations of the famed Keppoch murders, and more. The evocative sound of the early Gaelic wire harp coupled brilliantly with the ancient beauty of Gaelic poetry…
The Gaels' Honour
The Gaels’ Honour: Music for voice and harp from Gaelic Scotland and Ireland. Pipe marches to stir the soul, noble laments that bring a tear to the eye, love songs to warm the heart, and stormy politics of 17th and 18th century Scotland and Ireland – James Ruff lends his voice to rare early Celtic music of the Gaelic world, sung in Scottish Gaelic and Irish, and accompanying himself on the wire-strung Clàrsach, whose bell-like tones rang through the great halls of the Gaelic clan chieftans. Music of the great harpers: O’Carolan, the Connellans’, Ruaraidh Dall, Denis Hempson, Hugh Higgins, and drawn from the Bunting, Neal, Forde and Straloch manuscripts.
Of Love and Lamentation
Of Love and Lamentation: Echoes of Gaelic Scotland and Ireland. Love and loss through the eyes of the great clan poets: Sìleas na Ceapaich, Mary MacLeod and more. Sung in Scottish Gaelic and Irish, these rarely heard elegies and love songs naturally blend with the melting sound of the early Gaelic wire-harp. Selected tunes of the great harper-bards (Ruaraidh Dall, Thomas Connellan, Turlough O’Carolan) evoke the haunting poeticism of the Gaelic world.
The Guiding Star of Bridget
The Guiding Star of Bridget: Celtic Saints and Heroes in Song. James Ruff leads you with voice and harp on a journey through rare medieval inspirational repertoire evoking both the early saints of Ireland and Scotland, and the great Gaelic heroes: Fionn MacCumhaill, the mythical hunter-warrior of Irish Mythology, and his band of warriors, the Fianna. This program will include chants from the Irish Offices of Bridget and Patrick as recorded in the 15th century MS 78 - Trinity College Dublin, as well as rare chants to Columba from the 14th century Scottish Inchcolm Antiphoner – some of the few remaining examples of Celtic medieval chant - all accompanied by the melting sound of the Clarsach. He will treat you to traditional Scottish Gaelic lays recounting the fantastic exploits of the Fianna – Fionn MacCumhaill, Oisín, Oscar, Diarmaid, Coailte, Fraoch, as well as sea monsters, Vikings and more - colorful examples of the Gaelic legends once so popular throughout the Gaelic-speaking world. | <urn:uuid:953860ff-1c92-4c75-8fa0-ffdf6f64dfd8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jamesrufftenorharper.com/touring-programs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.894067 | 674 | 1.554688 | 2 |
4 edition of mermaid parade found in the catalog.
|Series||See it, say it, hear it, read it!, Rhyme time, Rhyme time (ABDO Publishing Company)|
|LC Classifications||PE1517 .D686 2005|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||23 p. :|
|Number of Pages||23|
|ISBN 10||1591978041, 1591979102|
|LC Control Number||2004047350|
Winner of a Stonewall Book AwardIn an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and ready to dazzle the riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. Coney Island USA Presents: The Mermaid Parade - Surf Ave, Brooklyn, NY - Rated based on Reviews "Every year I'm going to this.
The Mermaid Parade which takes place during the Summer Solstice, is a hodgepodge of different rituals taken from several cultures. I include in the book a ritual to open the ocean. King Neptune and Queen Mermaid cut four ribbons along a path on the beach which represent the four seasons, then, they jump in the waves, throwing various fruits in. And then there are the people. My favorite image in the book isn’t Julián in his mermaid dream sequence (though it is pretty good). It’s not the Mermaid Parade itself or the old ladies in the pool. It’s a simpler spread than all of those. Julián is dressed in his mermaid costume, walking down the street with Abuela, holding onto her arm.
Discover The Mermaid Parade by Kelly Doudna and millions of other books available at Barnes & Noble. Shop paperbacks, eBooks, and more! Our Stores Are Open Book Annex Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores & Events HelpPages: According to Wikipedia, Coney Island’s first Mermaid Parade took place in , and it is now the largest art parade in the United States, attracting over 3, participants and hundreds of thousands of spectators. Hours before the Parade’s start, the audience begins lining up behind police barricades along Surf Avenue. Spectators and costumed participants ride the subway to.
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It seems an odd parade to celebrate in the format of a picture book, but Mermaid Parade attendee and illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg is up to the challenge. With her bold colors and sense of pizzazz, Greenberg brings to life an event that continues to enthrall both children and adults alike with a love of fun, costumes, and general /5(10).
Mermaid Parade Frequently Asked Questions. About The Mermaid Parade: A completely original creation of Coney Island USA (the not for profit arts organization at Surf Avenue), the Mermaid Parade is the nation's largest art parade and one of New York City's greatest summer events.
Mermaids on Parade book. Read 17 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Dressing up as a mermaid is even more fun when you get to be par /5. The Mermaid Parade, a summer solstice ritual to open the beach season at Coney Island, started in as the revival of an older festival.
Greenberg paints detailed--and accurate--layouts of the neighborhood, complete with shops, arcades, the F train to Coney Island, Astroland, and diverse people decked out in their sea-creature finery/5(10). "Mermaid Parade" is a book celebrating the annual mermaid parade that takes place on Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York.
Beach and ocean vibes permeate the book, displaying one of the many aspects of the city's colorful culture and its rich variety of ers: Mermaid mania is coming around to books again — but this time, the trend has broadened to include nonfiction titles for readers of all ages.
then takes him to the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. The MERMAID PARADE specifically was founded in with 3 goals: it brings mythology to life for local residents who live on streets named Mermaid and Neptune ; it creates self-esteem in a district that is often disregarded as “entertainment”; and it lets artistic New Yorkers find self-expression in public.
Parents might also be interested to know that the Mermaid Parade is a real event: an annual, spirited spectacle that ushers in summer at New York City's Coney Island. This is a really lovely book about an Afro-Latinx family (small gender-nonconforming boy and his grandmother) living in Brooklyn and going to the annual Mermaid.
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade featured in the book is an annual event that has been going on for almost 40 years. One of the learning objectives of this lesson is to teach children to accept and embrace the many ways students may choose to express who they are through clothing.
Which came first, Norfolk or its Mermaids. Norfolk ‘s iconic mermaids can be found throughout the city each one reflecting nautical and Norfolk themes, civic pride, the diversity of the region, and anything else the artists and sponsors could dream up. You’ll find a mermaid covered in coins, sponsored by a bank, while a mermaid sporting a chef's hat and apron sits in front of a.
She’s making a splash. A Ditmas Park author and illustrator has created a children’s book inspired by Coney Island’s annual Mermaid Parade, starring a young boy eager to become a dazzling sea a Love, who will discuss “Julian is a Mermaid” at two different Brooklyn locations on J hopes that her debut picture book will appeal to all young readers, and that it will.
The organizers behind Coney Island’s iconic Mermaid Parade are bringing their love for quirkiness and creativity to a new competition: an online face mask design contest.
The “Put on a Funny Face Mask Contest” celebrates unique masks while honoring mask makers who have provided the world with needed protection throughout the COVID Disneyland Parades Guide: Current Parades.
Parade offerings typically change seasonally, so make sure to check Disney's official website for current offerings or keep this guide bookmarked to stay on top of all the new things coming to the Disneyland Resort.
Here are the current parades on the schedule now for the Disneyland Resort. This picture book is based upon a real parade. For years Coney Island had a Mardi Gras Parade to mark the end of the summer beach season. Eventually in this parade was updated and was named the Mermaid Parade.
Book Reviewed by Stacey on There’s no getting away from the fact that Julian is a Mermaid is a gorgeous book filled to the brim with amazing watercolour style illustrations that capture what I believe is New York in perfect light.
The books, as you would imagine, is about a little boy called Julian. On his way home from swimming with his Nana they board a train/5(K). The Mermaid Parade, a summer solstice ritual to open the beach season at Coney Island, started in as the revival of an older festival.
Greenberg paints detailed—and accurate—layouts of the neighborhood, complete with shops, arcades, the F train to Coney Island, Astroland, and diverse people decked out in their sea-creature finery.
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HTML5. Free. Mobile. The Mermaid Parade draws inspiration from a little bit of everything, including the Fourth of July parade in Zigun's hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and New Orleans' famous Mardi Gras.
The Mermaid Parade begins at Surf Avenue and W 21st Street, traveling along Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk before ending at Steeplechase Plaza. For the best chance of. Trans kids’ book ‘Julian is a Mermaid’ is winning hearts and awards.
Josh Jackman Febru she gives him a pearl necklace and takes him to the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. For a long time I hesitated to write about Julián, a picturebook is about a boy who dreams of being a mermaid, transforms himself, and his abuela who upon seeing him dressed in a headpiece and flowing train, takes him to what I can only describe as a drag parade (the mermaid parade in Coney Island *1).
The book and the author are being talked.Book - Painters of the Peculiar. Regular price $25 View. Book - Shocked and Amazed 5. Regular price $20 Button - Mermaid Parade. Regular price $2 View. Button - Burlesque. Regular price $2 View. Button - CIUSA Logo. Regular price $2. The sultry heat of New York, where Californian-born Love now lives (and where there’s an actual mermaid parade annually), radiates from the pages, and its cast of cool extras – old guys. | <urn:uuid:9c593737-42e3-4201-bda7-d60344613a82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://higisubupe.festivous-ilonse.com/mermaid-parade-book-22814eg.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.927485 | 2,082 | 1.648438 | 2 |
My Patio Garden
It’s time to start planting. But here, in SW Colorado, the weather is capricious and often unpredictable. Warm—even hot— days and cold—sometime below freezing nights. Rain, sun, snow. Alpine or desert. Wherever you live, Colorado gardening calls for creativity. Generally, until Mother’s Day (lower altitude) or Memorial day (alpine), we bring plants in at night then put them back out in the morning, planting a “Portable Patio Garden” (where “patio” can mean anything from covered veranda to raised beds or a wide-open spot in the backyard. (And when plants do go in the ground, we often have to cover them if it’s snowing. | <urn:uuid:32b7bcad-cb0c-4e51-95e4-0b58e6484f66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://silverstage.news/04-20-patio-garden/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.906577 | 164 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Fighting to stay sober can be challenging if you don’t have the proper tools. A housing situation with other people who encourage you to drink or use drugs is not a healthy situation and can often lead to going back down the road of addiction in the future after being in rehab. An option is sober living housing where you’re held accountable for the decisions that you make. There are rules that you will follow in this kind of housing, but there is help offered so that you can be successful in life.
This is an option that allows you to safely get back to living in a healthy lifestyle. There is usually a manager who lives in the home with the other people. Fortunately, there are very few people who live in the home at one time unless it’s a large facility that has been designated for use by more than just two or three at a time. The people who live at the home share in the daily chores so that everyone feels like they are contributing to the upkeep of the house. Support is provided by those who are in the home as well as the people who work in the home. Counseling is available and is something to consider during recovery so that you can get to the root cause behind your drinking or drug use.
Some homes will allow you to stay there without going to rehab first. This is beneficial if you don’t want to spend time in a facility where you’re told what to do every minute of the day and monitored for most of the actions that you perform. Another benefit is that you can begin planning for your future. You can complete job applications, find housing, and enroll in classes if you want to go back to school. | <urn:uuid:2685e81e-45a7-4aef-bd65-8a581522338b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ssanimation.com/a-safe-home-to-stay-sober.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978465 | 343 | 1.632813 | 2 |
MS-DOS Drive Size Limits
I seem to recall the original limit was 32MB.
Due to file system limits (the number of bits available to track where files were on a hard drive), a drive couldn't have more than 1024 cylinders (that is the number of steps the heads could make), 16 heads, and 63 sectors per track. Since a sector was 512 bytes, multiplying all this out made the maximum drive size 504MB. Manufacturers claim 528MB by incorrectly using 10^6 instead of 2^20 bytes as a MB, which is about as accurate as the sizes of TV screens.
Bios Changes to Drive Sizes
Around the time 486 based PCs appeared, BIOS changes (Interrupt 13 extensions that allowed 255 heads and 1024 cylinders) and Logical Block Addressing (LBA) started to support up to around 8GB, by allowing 16384 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors. Since the LBA could lie about the number of cylinders and heads, and the Interupt 13 extentions could use the modified figures, this allowed 8GB.
Windows 95 allowed only 2^16 or 65525 clusters, which gave a 2GB partition limit, and a drive limit of 8GB.
Windows 95B introduced FAT32 file systems, which could use Logical Block Address (LBA) drives, where the drive basically lied about their internal geometry. This woulkd support 2 terabyte in theory, but actually the FAT32 limit is 128GB. I think LBA drives support up to 2^28 power blocks of 512 byte sectors, which is about 128GB.
IDE (or ATA) Drives
Integrated Design Electronics (IDE, also known as ATA) drives tell the BIOS how many cylinders they have, plus the number of tracks and sectors per cylinder. Their limits are 255 sectors, 16 heads, 65536 cylinders, or 136.8GB. The number of sectors is actually larger on outer cylinders than on inner cylinders.
Which BIOS supports which size
AMI was mostly limited to 8GB until around the end of 1997.
Award supported 504MB until 1994, 8GB until 1997, 32GB until the end of 1999.
Phoenix has about the same limits
Bios upgrades, where available, sometimes increase drive capabilities.
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"In five years, we want to have built a brand that makes us the leading gender equality and MINT company in Europe," they say confidently. "We want to reach as many children as possible and be trusted by companies and governments to have a positive impact on society." Listening to Sonia Gonzales and Nicole Oubre you get the feeling: they can do it. Because they are convinced of their idea, because they are incredibly committed and focused. Because they succeed in convincing others of their idea. And because they themselves are "on fire" for the idea of making a contribution to making the world a little better. This is the story of the MINTy Girls, who are now MINTy Education GmbH...
It already began during a social entrepreneurship seminar at the University of Erfurt. The students were asked to develop a business idea that would make a positive contribution to society. Even then, Sonia and Nicole did not want to leave the MINT field, i.e. Mathematics, Computer Science, Natural Sciences and Technology (for Secondary Schools) to the "boys" alone. The students at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt were determined at the time to promote a new generation of self-confident girls in the so-called MINT fields. And to do so, they founded their own start-up - the "MINTy Girls".
"Various studies show that girls in Germany already lose interest in MINT subjects at the age of about fifteen," Sonia Gonzales explains. "The result: engineers are usually men. To make matters worse, girls, unlike boys, tend to underestimate their Mathematics skills. We knew: if we want to change this, we have to awaken a new interest in the girls and strengthen their self-confidence - ideally before they even enter fifth grade. And for that, it's important to overcome stereotypes that supposedly dictate who belongs in which appointment."
And that's exactly what the three founders set out to do with the "MINTy Girls" back then. Their plan: to offer workshops and camps for girls from the age of eight, led by female role models, in which their creativity and interest in MINT subjects is not only awakened, but also promoted in the long term. So the students set out to find supporters and make their project a reality. "We have received overwhelming support in our immediate environment. We also received help from the Erfurt university's start-up service. And the positive feedback we received during the Investor Days Thuringia from the people who came to our stand of course gave us additional motivation," Nicole Oubre recalls.
For their pilot workshop, they quickly found not only an Erfurt school but also a local company to support them in their work. The next big step was an EXIST scholarship from the EXIST funding programme of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, which the students received after graduation and which enabled them to continue building their company full-time. Sonia and Nicole applied for the scholarship together with the team from the University's Founders Service, which supervised and supported them for the duration of twelve months. They also found several cooperation partners who helped them get started and from whom the founders could learn a lot. And they had to, Sonia admits: "We faced several challenges besides the language barriers: The biggest one for us was understanding the German education system, especially for us as foreigners. I come from Peru, Nicole from the USA. Everything is very different there, of course. But through our extensive research and conversations with school headmasters, teachers and parents, we were able to master that too."
Today, the "MINTy Girls", who have since become MINTy Education GmbH (in pairs), are based in Berlin. "We thought the start-up scene here was perfect for us," says Nicole. "But we work all over Germany. Right now, for example, we're doing MINT workshops in Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia." And they can make a living from their business in the meantime. One of their biggest clients is 3M, a global US multi-technology corporation. "It's already a great feeling," the two entrepreneurs explain. "Even our first paying customer was a great moment for us," they recall. "That wouldn't have been possible without the EXIST grant, which was another big step. But the best feeling, and therefore our biggest success, is when we see children learning, having fun and discovering science and technology for themselves through our workshops."
"Sonia and Nicole's story is a success story. And one that proves that start-ups not only work at a humanities university like ours, but can also have an impact on society in the spirit of social entrepreneurship," say Martin Hellmann and Jana Theuerkauf from the Founders Service at the University of Erfurt. "And the fact that we were able to contribute to this also makes us a little proud." | <urn:uuid:7ce3720c-b7c4-40f6-85c8-4add69526ae7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uni-erfurt.de/en/brandtschool/media-events/media/news/newsdetail/only-for-boys-no-way | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.980262 | 1,021 | 2.203125 | 2 |
A must for fans of Beatrix Potter, Hill Top in Ambleside, Cumbria, is a time capsule of the author’s life. Full of her favourite things, and including many references to her much-loved characters, this house appears as if Beatrix has just stepped out for a walk. It is an idyllic 17th-century stone cottage, which Potter bought in 1905 with the royalties from her first few books, written at her parents’ home in London but inspired by her annual holiday visits to the Lake District.
It became the place where she wrote much of her work, until she bought the farm opposite, Castle Farm, which became her main Lakeland base. But before that Hill Top saw the creation of Tom Kitten, Samuel Whiskers and Jemima Puddleduck, and her books contained many pictures based on the house and gardens.
The lovely cottage garden is a haphazard mix of flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables. It contains mainly old-fashioned flowers such as honeysuckle, foxgloves, sweet cicely, lupins, peonies, lavender and philadelphus. Roses grow round the front door and strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries and rhubarb flourish it the grounds.
This most visited literary shrine in the Lake District can get very busy, so operates a timed ticket system to avoid overcrowding and to protect the interior – as a result you may have to wait to enter the house. The garden trail, though designed for children, is hugely popular with adults too, as is the Beatrix Potter Gallery in nearby Hawkshead, where many of the author’s original watercolours and drawings are on permanent display. The National Trust, of which Potter was an early supporter, often uses the gardens for events throughout the year, including demonstrations by its team of countryside rangers on the likes of greenwood working and dry stone walling. One of the last impressions visitors to Hill Top are often left with is the awe-inspiring beauty of the surroundings – the name of the house was not bestowed on it by chance – the Lake District proving as inspirational to Potter’s visitors in her absence as it always was to her.
Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Hawkshead, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 0LF
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Whether you need ACL surgery as the result of a sports injury or because of another type of accident, the recovery timeline is similar for most people. A full recovery, including the return to your pre-injury condition, with full range of motion and stability in the knee joint, usually takes six months.1 However, it’s important to understand that recovery timelines may vary.Read More >
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This article is about when the washing machine drum does not revolve on any part of the cycle. It won’t spin, but the drum won’t turn on the wash or rinse either. Also, if the washing machine drum is turning but appears to struggle to turn, and maybe makes strange noises whilst struggling, then this article may also be of help.
However, if the drum does rotate on wash and rinses – but it’s just not spinning the clothes at the end, then you need this article – washing machine not spinning.
The drum doesn’t turn at all
Open the door and turn the drum by hand. If by any chance the drum is very stiff or has seized up, this is the problem. Either an obstruction has jammed the drum, or the drum bearings or motor have seized up. Take off the drive belt to find out which one it is.
Check the drive belt is still on
If the drum isn’t seized up the next thing to check is the drive belt. Open the door and give it a good spin by hand. If the belt has come off, there should be less resistance than usual.
It may make a different sound. It should also spin around for longer because there’s less resistance – it’s no longer connected to the motor.
The best person to test this is the one that usually empties the drum at the end of a wash cycle. They are used to the resistance on the drum as they turn it to check for items of clothing stuck to the drum.
The only way to know for sure though is with the washing machine unplugged and the back panel and lid removed. You can then see if the belt has come off or not.
Drive belt off?
If the belt is off, there is typically a reason for this. It’s rare for a belt to come off for no reason, although it can happen. Has the washing machine been very noisy for some time? If so, the drum bearings may have collapsed.
If you can’t see anything wrong and the belt looks OK you can try refitting it. If it comes off again after being refitted, there is likely to be a fault. This article describes the causes of the belt coming off – drive belt won’t stay on – keeps coming off.
How tight should a drive belt be?
Quite tight. If you pluck it you should get a nice “ping”. It shouldn’t be over tight though. You should be able to move it from side to side approximately a quarter of an inch in the middle. Most modern washing machines are designed so you can’t adjust a slack belt. You must buy a new one if yours is loose.
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More causes of drum not turning
If the belt is still on, and not overly slack, and the drum hasn’t seized up, then the fault must be related to the motor not running. The most common cause for the motor not running is worn carbon brushes (if fitted).
However, there are many other possible reasons why a motor isn’t working, including other faults on the motor itself – and faults on other parts of the washing machine.
There can also be complications regarding carbon brushes if the main part of the motor is also worn, or there is excessive carbon dust built up in the motor.
Crackling or grating noise from motor
Sometimes the drum turns OK without a load in, but makes a strange crackling or grating sound and struggles to turn with laundry inside. This could also indicate worn carbon brushes in the motor.
Don’t speculatively replace carbon brushes. Even if you find they are substantially worn down. They may well need replacing, but if worn carbon brushes are the cause of your motor currently not working then at least one of them should be charred, black, sooty – see here – carbon brushes (diagnostics & fitting).
Not all motors have carbon brushes fitted
Note that many washing machines these days have brush-less motors. These motors are generally more reliable, and quieter. They are usually totally silent during wash, so you only really hear the water being splashed about.
If you have a brushless motor and the motor is not running then it obviously can’t be caused by worn brushes, so after checking the connections and motor plug you’d be better calling in an appliance engineer
Replacing carbon brushes
If you think the carbon brushes have just worn out and need replacing many people do successfully replace them. But you must be competent to carry out such DIY repairs. I have articles with diagnostic help specifically for the most common Hotpoint & Creda motors.
More causes of motor not running
I’ve covered the most common reasons why the drum isn’t turning on a washing machine. But there are many other possible causes, which are less appropriate for DIY repairs. If none of the above helps, then the main thing is to check the wiring and connections on the motor plug and wiring harness.
In some washing machines if the tacho coil has fallen off the motor under its cover it can stop working. There is information on the tacho coil here – Tacho coil.
Then there are unexpected anomalies that make fault-finding even harder. Some washing machine brands such as Hotpoint, Creda, Indesit, and Ariston running specific software can even stop the motor from running if the main suppressor filter is open circuit. This is totally counter-intuitive.
This will also not result in any error message. Do not mess with the suppressor unless you know exactly what you are doing. They can hold an electric charge after being disconnected from the mains, which could give a nasty shock.
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Other faults are module faults, connection faults anywhere between the control pcb and the motor, PCB faults, and other motor faults such as open circuit field coil, TOC or armature. It would be unwise to start buying expensive parts speculatively.
Note that many PCB faults are invisible to the eye – and many PCB components can get hot and attract a black soot around them. This is commonly mistaken for burning. The best thing is to get a proper repair engineer.
Be Safe: Don’t risk it
Please take a moment to check out my top 4 DIY repair safety tips, which not only covers electrical safety but other things you may be less aware of too.
Don’t get carried away
Even experienced appliance repairmen have been seriously injured or killed.
DIY Washing machine repair warnings. 8 things you should never do!
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January 2015. The doctrine of the Trinity is not simply unique to Christianity but central, intended to frame our Christian experience and living as well as our understanding of salvation. But what should this look like in practice? During our morning together Nick Tucker carlified the doctrine of the Trinity and some of its implications for the church today, as well as helping us think how it might affect our models of ministry. Click on the links below to listen to the two sessions. | <urn:uuid:80a890ab-70f4-4fa5-a17d-1f990ab67793> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sussexgospelpartnership.org.uk/resource/sems-26-january-2015-the-trinity-and-ministry-today/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972277 | 93 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Testosterone is one of the most important hormones that regulates the work of the male body. At a young age its excess is blamed for aggressive behaviour, at an older age men suffer from too low a level of it. The ageing process in men is called andropause, and it concerns the period when men's reproductive organs slow down significantly. This state is accompanied by other numerous changes in the body. Testosterone therapy is one of the solutions for a man entering the state of andropause. However, it should be remembered that an ageing organism is not the only indication for hormonal treatment. So, who is testosterone therapy for?
Testosterone therapy - where should I start?
Testosterone therapy is recommended especially for older men who notice such changes as: reduced sexual drive, reduced mood and feeling of less strength, lack of willingness to act, deterioration of sleep quality (and even insomnia), loss of concentration, memory deterioration, and also a decrease in muscle mass. So if you notice that you have become more irritable in a short period of time, have less willingness to live and less strength, start by seeing a doctor. It is not worth to start treatment on your own.
In the case of testosterone replacement therapy, it is extremely important to examine the level of this hormone in the body, as well as to check at what level there are other hormone levels, such as prolactin or estrogen. A shortage of hormones or any other hormone imbalance may cause changes in mood and mood. Too low a level of testosterone may cause mood weakness, but the same applies to low levels of estrogen or prolactin. Therefore, before you start taking preparations, your doctor needs to know exactly what your hormone balance is so that he or she can choose the right treatment.
Testosterone therapy - for whom are contraindications?
It is also worth remembering that like any other hormone, testosterone can also cause damage to our health. This is, among other things, how important it is to have a detailed medical history and to conduct comprehensive laboratory tests before starting hormone replacement therapy. One of the main contraindications is prostate cancer. Testosterone supplementation may increase cancer aggressiveness. This aspect should also be taken into account by men who are at risk of this cancer, i.e. those who have had family history.
Other contraindications for external testosterone administration include adenoma, severe organic diseases, difficult urine outflow, chronic lung disease and sleep apnea syndrome. The method of administration, as well as the hormone doses, should be adjusted individually. It is possible to take tablets, use a concentrated gel or use patches from which hormones are released directly into the body tissues, bypassing the gastrointestinal tract. | <urn:uuid:9e79e6be-854f-41fc-a54d-6cbcc353d1bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hotfroguk.co.uk/a,sxrt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949214 | 551 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Consultation on the rationalisation of official control shellfish biotoxin and phytoplankton monitoring points in Carlingford Lough
Consultation seeking stakeholders' views on the proposed rationalisation of biotoxin and phytoplankton monitoring in Carlingford Lough and the implementation of Representative Monitoring Points (RMPs) and Associated Harvesting Areas (AHAs).
Who will this consultation be of most interest to?
Carlingford Lough shellfish harvesters, enforcement authorities, official control sampling officers, official control testing laboratories and other interested stakeholders.
A proposal by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to rationalise the number of official control monitoring points for biotoxin and phytoplankton monitoring in Carlingford Lough and introduce Representative Monitoring Points (RMPs) and Associated Harvesting Areas (AHAs) .
Purpose of the consultation
To seek comments from industry, enforcement authorities, and other interested stakeholders on the proposed rationalisation of biotoxin and phytoplankton monitoring in Carlingford Lough and the implementation of RMPs and AHAs.
How to respond
Responses to this consultation should be emailed or posted to the addresses below:
Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland
Executive Support Unit
10a-c Clarendon Road, Belfast
Publication of response summary
Within three months of a consultation ending we aim to publish a summary of responses received and provide a link to it from this page.
You can find information on how we handle data provided in response to consultations in our Consultations privacy notice.
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The Permanent Court of Arbitration (“PCA”) has played key role in the resolution of international disputes for well over a hundred years now. Over the past decade, however, the PCA’s importance and activities have significantly increased. Thirty-five investor-state arbitrations under bilateral or multilateral investment treaties or investment laws are currently pending at the PCA, in addition to twenty commercial arbitrations involving states, state entities, or international organizations. Moreover, several important and now completed state-to-state disputes have recently been arbitrated under the auspices of the PCA, including the Abyei Arbitration between Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, and arbitrations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (“UNCLOS”) between Guyana and Suriname and between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. All of these arbitrations involved international maritime or land boundary disputes with the exception of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission which addressed violations of international law arising out of an armed conflict (over a disputed boundary no less).
Currently, the PCA is administering seven active state-to-state arbitrations. Public information is available on five of these arbitrations, four of which involve some sort of boundary dispute: (1) a maritime and territorial dispute between Croatia and Slovenia; (2) a maritime dispute between Mauritius and the United Kingdom; (3) a dispute over the diversion of a river between Pakistan and India; (4) a maritime dispute between Bangladesh and India; and (5) a dispute over an “effect means” provision in a bilateral investment treaty between Ecuador and the United States. Brief background on these cases and their current procedural posturing follows below.
The maritime boundary between Croatia and Slovenia in the Piran Bay has been disputed since the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia in 1991. Because Slovenia has a relatively small coast, its territorial waters are boxed off from international waters by Croatian and Italian territorial waters, and Slovenia seeks a direct corridor from its own territorial waters to international waters. In addition, there are several disputed aspects of the land boundary between the two states. The dispute has had implications with respect to Croatia’s bid to join the European Union as Slovenia, a member of the European Union, blocked Croatia’s accession talk for several years out of a concern that the accession process could prejudge a solution to the boundary dispute between the two countries. In November 2009, however, Croatia and Slovenia signed a bilateral agreement submitting the dispute to arbitration before a five-member ad hoc tribunal, and Croatia signed the European Union-accession treaty in December 2011. Under Article 4(b) of the arbitration treaty, the tribunal is to apply principles of “international law, equity and the principle of good neighbourly relations in order to achieve a fair and just result by taking into account all relevant circumstances.” Article 6(2) provides that the PCA’s Optional Rules for Arbitrating Disputes between Two States are to be the procedural rules for the proceedings.
The tribunal was constituted earlier this year after the parties mutually agreed on three members of the tribunal: Judge Gilbert Guillaume, a French national; Professor Vaughan Lowe, a British national; and Judge Bruno Simma, a German national. In addition, Croatia appointed Professor Vudislav Vukas, a Croatian national, and Slovenia appointed Dr. Jernej Sekolec, a Slovenian national, to the tribunal. The tribunal held a procedural meeting with the parties in April 2012. The parties are scheduled to exchange memorials in February 2013 and counter-memorials in November 2013. A hearing is expected to be held in early-2014.
Mauritius commenced an arbitration against the United Kingdom in December 2010 under UNCLOS over a dispute involving the United Kingdom’s establishment of a Marine Protected Area (“MPA”) around the Chagos Archipelago, a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, the largest of which is Diego Garcia, the location of a major U.S. military base. The MPA, which the United Kingdom established in April 2010, prohibits fishing and other activities within 200 nautical miles of the Chagos Archipelago. Mauritius maintains that the MPA violates UNCLOS and other rules of international law and seeks a declaration regarding the MPA’s legality.
The tribunal consists of five members: Professor Ivan Shearer, the President and a Australian national appointed by the President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (“ITLOS”); Judge Albert Hoffmann, a South African national appointed by the President of ITLOS; Judge James Kateka, a Tanzanian national appointed by the President of ITLOS; Judge Rüdiger Wolfrum, a German national appointed by Mauritius; and Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood, a British national appointed by the United Kingdom. Mauritius challenged Judge Greenwood on the basis of his longstanding professional relationship with the U.K. Government. The other members of the tribunal issued a decision in November 2011 dismissing the challenge.
In May 2010, Pakistan initiated an arbitration against India under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 over a dispute involving India’s Kishenganga Hydro-Electric Project in the Kashmir region. The dispute revolves around India’s plans to construct a 330-megawatt hydro-electric power project on the Kishenganga River, a tributary of the Indus River. Pakistan alleges that India’s plans will divert the course of the river, reducing its flow and making it infeasible for Pakistan to proceeds with plans to construct its own hydro-electric project.
The tribunal for this arbitration – referred to as the Court of Arbitration under the treaty – was the first ever constituted under the Indus Waters Treaty, which the World Bank played a significant role in negotiating. The Court of Arbitration consists of seven members: Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, the Chairman and a U.S. national appointed by the U.N. Secretary-General pursuant to the treaty; Sir Franklin Berman, a British national appointed by the Lord Chief Justice of England pursuant to the treaty; Professor Howard S. Wheater, an engineer and British national appointed by the Rector of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London pursuant to the treaty; Professor Jan Paulsson, a Swedish national appointed by Pakistan; Judge Bruno Simma, a German national appointed by Pakistan; Professor Lucius Caflisch, a Swiss national appointed by India; and Judge Peter Tomka, a Slovakian national appointed by India.
The Court of Arbitration made two site visits to areas at issue in the dispute on June 15-21, 2011, and February 3-6, 2012. During these visits, the Court of Arbitration observed components of the Kishenganga and another hydro-electric project, a gauge-discharge observation site, and a water pumping installation.
The Court of Arbitration also issued an order on interim measures in September 2011. Pakistan had sought an interim order prohibiting India from proceeding with a planned diversion of water from the Kishenganga River until the legality of the diversion could be determined. The Court of Arbitration concluded that India could proceed with the hydro-electric Project, including construction of a temporary diversion tunnel and sub-surface foundations of a dam, except for “the construction of any permanent works on or above the . . . riverbed . . . that may inhibit the restoration of the full flow of that river to its natural channel.” (Order on the Interim Measures Application of Pakistan Dated June 6, 2011, dated September 23, 2011, para. 152(1)(c).) The Court of Arbitration plans to issue a final award in late-2012 or early 2013.
In October 2009, Bangladesh instituted an arbitration against India under UNCLOS over the delimitation of the maritime boundary between the two countries in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh also arbitrated a dispute with Myanmar over their maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal at ITLOS in Hamburg; ITLOS issued an award in that case in March 2012. The disputes are of some considerable political and economic importance given the presence of oil and gas resources in this area.
The tribunal consists of five members: Professor Dr. Rüdiger Wolfrum, the President and a German national appointed by ITLOS; Professor Ivan Shearer, an Australian national appointed by ITLOS; Professor Tullio Treves, an Argentinean national appointed by ITLOS; Judge Thomas A. Mensah, a Ghanaian national appointed by Bangladesh; and Dr. Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao, an Indian national appointed by India.
Ecuador initiated arbitral proceedings against the United States in June 2011 concerning the interpretation and application of Article II(7) of the Ecuador-U.S. bilateral investment treaty, which provides that “[e]ach Party shall provide effective means of asserting claims and enforcing rights with respect to investment, investment agreements, and investment authorizations.” Ecuador’s claim arises from an award issued by an arbitral tribunal in March 2010 that found Ecuador had violated Article II(7) through the failure of Ecuadorian courts to resolve several contractual disputes brought by a subsidiary of Chevron for over ten years.
Ecuador’s position is that the “effective means” language in Article II(7) simply incorporates customary international law relating to the prohibition against denial of justice and therefore sets a high standard. The tribunal in the underlying arbitration concluded that the “effective means” provision is an independent treaty standard subject to a less-stringent standard. (Of note, the tribunal in White Industries Australia Ltd. v. Republic of India recently relied on the award in the underlying arbitration in concluding that India had violated a similar “effective means” provision where the claimant was unable to enforce a commercial arbitral award for several years in Indian courts.) The United States maintains that the tribunal in the state-to-state dispute lacks jurisdiction because the United States has not taken a position on the interpretation of Article VII(2) and, therefore, no dispute exists between the parties.
The tribunal consists of three members: Professor Luiz Olavo Baptista, a Brazilian national and the Presiding Arbitrator; Professor Donald McRae, a Canadian national appointed by the United States; and Professor Raúl Emilio Vinuesa, an Argentinean national appointed by Ecuador.
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Some people mistakenly think the King James Version of the Bible (KJV), with its eloquent thee’s and thou’s, is the original version.But the Bible was not written in seventeenth-century Old English. More than 1,500 years earlier, the New Testament was written in ancient Greek; and long before that the Old Testament was written in ancient Hebrew, along with some Aramaic and Greek (the Old Testament was later translated into the Greek Septuagint).
As time went on, all these texts were translated into Latin, which is the official language of the Church, as well as popular languages like German, French, and English. Today, the entire Bible has been translated into more than 500 languages, and most languages offer several different translations.
It’s important to remember that there is only one version of the Bible, but there are many different translations of it. How can this be? The art of translation is not as simple as taking a word in one language and then using a dictionary to find the equivalent word in another language. Translators have differing opinions about how words and phrases in a text should be reproduced into another language that has different vocabulary, different rules of grammar, and embodies different cultural attitudes than the language of the text their translating.
Formal equivalence translations
One approach they use is called formal equivalence, and it strives to communicate the original words the author used. The most formally equivalent translations of Scripture would be interlinear Bibles that replace the original words in the biblical text with their modern counterparts. Using an interlinear translation, John 3:16, one of the most famous verses in Scripture, sounds like this: “Thus indeed loved God the world that the Son the only begotten he gave that everyone believing in him not should perish but might have life.”
As you can see, interlinear translations sound stilted and can be confusing, because they take words that made sense in one language and transfer them into another language without considering that language’s grammar. Most formally equivalent translations change the order and kinds of words that are used in order to help modern audiences understand the author’s original meaning. The Catholic Revised Standard Version (RSV), which tends to be formally equivalent in its translation, renders the passage in this way: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Dynamic equivalence translations
Another approach to translation is dynamic equivalence, which strives to communicate the original idea the author intended to convey, even if it does not use his original words. Some translators prefer this approach, because the author’s original words may not have the same meaning or not be as recognizable today and so newer words are used to better communicate his original idea. This can be seen in translations that render the Greek word dikaiosis “considered righteous” instead of the traditional term “justified,” as in James 2:24: “a man is justified [or in other translations, ‘considered righteous’] by works and not by faith alone.”
The Message is another example of this approach, especially since it is not technically a translation of the Bible. It is more of a paraphrase that summarizes what the translator, in this case Eugene H. Peterson, thinks the Bible means or what he thinks Jesus would say to people today. In his translation, John 3:16 reads: “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.” Matthew 6:11 is another striking example. The RSV renders it, “Give us this day our daily bread,” butThe Message renders it, “Keep us alive with three square meals.”
Dynamically equivalent and paraphrased translations may be easier for a modern person to understand, but there is a danger that the reader will encounter only the interpretations of the translator and not the words of the sacred author. This can lead to faulty interpretations of the text due to the translation’s misleading language. For example, in John 3:16, the Greek phrase zoen aionion literally means “life eternal” or “eternal life.” The Message’s translation “whole and lasting life” could cause readers to think faith in God’s son will make them live for a long time but not forever.
Not even equivalent translations!
Sometimes a translator’s theology will cause him to mistranslate a text in order to justify his beliefs. This is evident in the New World Translation of the Bible that Jehovah’s Witnesses use. The first verse of John’s Gospel does not say, as it does in the RSV, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Instead it says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.” That’s because Jehovah’s Witnesses deny the deity of Christ and think he is just “a god” or a glorious creation of the one almighty God Jehovah. (For more on how to answer their arguments, see my booklet 20 Answers: Jehovah’s Witnesses).
Although Catholics should be wary of non-Catholic translations of Scripture (especially since they usually lack the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament), there is no single translation of the Bible that all Christians must accept to the exclusion of others. An audience of people at Mass may appreciate a more dynamically equivalent translation of Scripture, such as the New American Bible, that refrains from using complex or outdated words that could obscure the author’s meaning. Someone studying Scripture, on the other hand, may appreciate a formally equivalent translation such as the RSV that use uses words that best reproduce what the sacred author was trying to say in his own language.
Perhaps the most on-point answer to the question “Which translation of the Bible is the best?” comes from the founder of Catholic Answers, Karl Keating: “The one you will read.”
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If you’re a budding entrepreneur, contemplating the entrepreneur life style, it is essential to just take a look at a common day, and individual out the fantasy from the actuality.
Spend the working day with an skilled entrepreneur and you are going to likely see somebody who’s energetic, organized and fired up to get up in the morning! But will not expect them to wake up to an unstructured day. That is a luxurious (or squander) they cannot afford. The seasoned entrepreneur understands that an structured, well-prepared day is an absolute requirement, to take them one particular action closer to their targets and one action nearer to good results. Yet another phrases, never undervalue the energy of a timetable.
Sustain A Set Timetable
Someone who is self-utilized loves to talk about the deficiency of a timetable. But business owners know which is a fool’s fantasy. They know that managing a company calls for a timetable. In Lukas Tsimopoulos Course , you danger distractions and procrastination. Two strong recreation stoppers constantly lurking in the qualifications.
When you consider a seem at an entrepreneur’s day planner, you uncover that they have a set time to get up every morning, followed by specific moments for organizing, study, meetings and every day responsibilities. Amazed? Yes, in purchase to be profitable, each and every component of the true entrepreneur way of life should be pre-prepared.
Budding business people, it is important to note that successful business owners even timetable playtime, time to just sit back and relax. This ensures they do not become also pressured or in excess of-labored, foremost to burn up out, which in the long run can result in your enterprise to die a gradual death.
Continue to be Optimistic
Comprehend from the starting, that any entrepreneur will encounter setbacks at some point. Perhaps a distinct advertising and marketing technique won’t pan out specifically as prepared, or your business loan might not be initially accredited.
But, rather of supplying up, or getting a doom and gloom outlook, select to continue to be optimistic. Commit to uncover a way via, or close to, the setback. Search at every activity as yet another step up the ladder, with no likelihood of a backward phase authorized.
By making an work to continue being optimistic throughout the day, you will go to bed with a sense of accomplishment, whether or not the accomplishment has been huge or little. It’s this choice of determined optimism that serves to drive you, the budding entrepreneur on, as you create your enterprise and your personal day-to-day entrepreneur way of life.
Generate Time For Function And Play
Remember, no entrepreneur performs 24/7. You should respect the importance of balance. Effectively prepare and plan your time so some jobs are even accomplished by other folks, without necessitating your own intervention. Know that play time is as essential as operate in purchase to keep the creative juices flowing.
Perform is certainly a target, but with no time for pals, household or even your self, the function just is not value it. The purpose of owning your very own business is to have time to do the items you adore, appropriate? Together with taking pleasure in seeing your concept take off…
It All Arrives Down To You
While this may audio lonely, entrepreneurs know that the only way they are going to develop and create their possess organization is by doing work in the direction of it on their own, offering it every thing they have acquired. Do not count on anyone else to create the heart and soul of your enterprise for you. As a budding entrepreneur, it is up to you to build a successful entrepreneur lifestyle that will solidly support the framework of your enterprise, and let you to get to your objectives.
This isn’t going to indicate you do not delegate, just that you just take total accountability for major and overseeing the tasks at hand. Be positive to cultivate associations with seasoned business people so they can assist manual you, and pay attention intently to their tips. If you require assist, question for it, or pay professionals to oversee admin for you. Will not be frightened to request a husband or wife or loved ones member to support with straightforward jobs connected to your business. Either way, know that you are in the end accountable for your company. The foreseeable future of your business eventually lies in your possess hands, even when other people are concerned.
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Baton Rouge, LA — Sunday morning, on his 29th birthday, a Missouri man, and honorably discharged Marine, Gavin Long, engaged in a deadly shootout with police. While there were witness accounts stating police were responding to a shootout in progress, it appears that Long’s purpose was to murder.
Long had a significant presence online under the screen name Cosmo. Using this name, Long created a vast trail through the web noting his opposition to police.
Violence is not THE answer (its a answer), but at what point do you stand up so that your people dont become the Native Americans…EXTINCT?
— Convos With Cosmo (@ConvosWithCosmo) July 13, 2016
After the murders of the Dallas police, Long took to the internet to praise that murderer as well.
Gavin Long noted that he acted alone, was not religious, and his motive was police violence against black people. The day before he murdered three innocent people and shot three others, Gavin Long made a final post, seemingly predicting that he would die the next day — and that he was resolute with that result.
As the shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge show us, this sentiment and urge to kill police officers is not isolated. In fact, the day after Johnson murdered the Dallas officers, the Free Thought Project interviewed a group who attempted to claim responsibility for their deaths.
According to a spokesman for Black Power Political Organization, the group which confirmed it claims responsibility for, or at least praised the Dallas shootings, in an exclusive interview with The Free Thought Project, anger over police violence was one of the primary motivators for the act of indiscriminate violence against police.
In addition to a “number of reasons,” he said, “we want to punish them […] for punishing us.”
A quick scroll down Facebook posts, websites, and Twitter feeds on any number of subjects, it is easy to find threats against cops. There is also no shortage of cops threatening citizens, as was illustrated by a Kansas cop taking to Facebook and threatening to murder a young woman’s 4-year-old daughter — for the alleged crime of being black.
Let there be no mistake about it — there is a war brewing inside the Land of the Free. And, until we address the cause of this war, the symptoms will continue to get worse and more senseless and tragic death will follow.
To understand why there is a brewing war, we must look at who’s declaring that war and why.
The State’s drug war came to fruition specifically to criminalize hippies, seen as the radical left, and the black population — and by extension since, every non-caucasian group, as well as anyone opposing government.
“You want to know what this was really all about?”asked John Daniel Ehrlichman, President Nixon’s counsel and domestic policy chief, of Dan Baum for a 1994 article in Harper’s Magazine. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and black people with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Several decades later, and America now has the largest prison population in the world. It is estimated that victimless crime constitutes 86% of the federal prison population. That means the only reason that these individuals are incarcerated is that the state deemed their non-violent personal choices, “illegal.” The majority of that 86% is for illegal drugs only.
Most of the people who are thrown in prison are non-violent. However, when they are locked in cages with society’s worst and treated like cattle in a factory farm, they come out forever changed. America is breeding a torturous and violent environment, and they have the audacity to call this the “justice system.”
As former Congressman Ron Paul pointed out on national television on Jan 16, 2012;
[Black peope] are tried and imprisoned disproportionately. They suffer the consequence of the death penalty disproportionately. Rich white people don’t get the death penalty very often. And most of these are victimless crimes. Sometimes people can use drugs and get arrested three times and never committed a violent act and they can go to prison for life. I think there’s discrimination in the system, but you have to address the drug war. I would say the judicial system is probably one of the worst places where prejudice and discrimination still exists in this country.
If you honestly believe that black lives matter, it is your duty to call for an end to the drug war.
And if police honestly want to prevent violence, it is their duty to refuse to enforce immoral laws that criminalize arbitrary substances and personal choices.
When the government makes certain substances illegal, it does not remove the demand. Instead, the state creates crime by pushing the sale and control of these substances into the illegal black markets. All the while, demand remains constant.
Tasking police with enforcing this ridiculous war creates constant hostile interactions. Remove the drug war and remove most of these confrontations — thereby fostering peace.
We can look at the prohibition of alcohol and the subsequent mafia crime wave that ensued as a result as an example. The year 1930, at the peak of prohibition, happened to be the deadliest year for police in American history. 300 police officers were killed, and innumerable poor people slaughtered as the state cracked down on drinkers.
When the people’s freedoms to do as they wish without harming others become threatened — the people lash out. This can be seen throughout history.
While alcohol prohibition was a deadly time for police, the second deadliest time for police in America was the onslaught of the drug war.
Kidnapping, caging, and killing people for substances has the opposite of its intended effect and it’s high time we stop doing it.
Prohibition creates crime.
Criminal gangs form to protect sales territory and supply lines. They then monopolize the control of the constant demand. Their entire operation is dependent upon police arresting people for drugs because this grants them a monopoly on their sale.
However, the illegality of drug possession and use is what keeps the low-level users and dealers in and out of the court systems, and most of these people are poor black men. As Dr. Paul pointed out, black people are more likely to receive a harsher punishment for the same drug crime as a white person.
This revolving door of creating and processing criminals fosters the phenomenon known as Recidivism. Recidivism is a fundamental concept of criminal justice that shows the tendency of those who are processed into the system and the likelihood of future criminal behavior.
The War on Drugs takes good people and turns them into criminals every single minute of every single day. The system is set up in such a way that it fans the flames of violent crime by essentially building a factory that turns out violent criminals.
The system knows this too!
When drugs are legalized, gang violence drops — drastically. Not only does it have a huge effect on the localized gangs in America, but the legalization of drugs is crippling to the violent foreign drug cartels too.
Until Americans educate themselves on the cause of this violence, uninformed and corrupt lawmakers will continue to focus on controlling the symptoms.
We will see more senseless killings and more innocent lives stripped of opportunity by getting entangled in the system. And, we will see more people enact violence against police officers in retaliation.
It is the duty of those who want peace to spread this information. Those who choose violence as the answer do so because they have yet to see the solution.
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About of Kindom of Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a rich culture shaped by the diversity of its people, which has formed the basis of the cultural identity of the Kingdom. With approximately 30 million inhabitants, the Kingdom has 13 regions all united by the Arabic language, but each with a unique dialect, traditions, heritage, and culinary identity. The Kingdom has three official yearly holidays; two Islamic holidays, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, and Saudi National Day, which is celebrated on September 23rd
The people of Saudi Arabia embrace many social values influenced by the Kingdom’s ancient customs and traditions, including generosity, courage, hospitality, and maintaining strong family relationships, as well as values that reflect the society’s culture and Islamic values
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lies at the furthermost part of southwestern Asia. It is bordered by the Arabian Gulf, United Arab Emirates and Qatar in the east; Red Sea in the west; Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan in the north; Yemen and Oman in the south
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia occupies about four-fifths of the Arab Peninsula, with a total area of around 2,000,000 square kilometers
Geographical Features: Because of its large area, the Kingdom has a diverse topography. The Tihama coastal plain which lies along the Red Sea, is 1,100 kilometers long, 60 kilometers wide in the south and gradually narrows to the north until it reaches the Aqaba Gulf. To the east of this plain, lies a chain of mountains called Sarawat. These mountains rise to 9,000 feet in the south and gradually fall to 3,000 feet in the north. Several large valleys slope eastward and westward from these mountains. They include Jazan valley, Najran valley, Tathleeth valley, Bisha valley, Himdh valley, Rumah valley, Yanbu valley and Fatima Valley. To the east of the chain stands the Najd Plateau which extends eastward to Samman Desert, Dahnaa Dunes and southward to Dwaser valley. This region is parallel to the Empty Quarter Desert and stretches northward to Najd plains, passing through Hail until it connects with the Great Nefud Desert, then to the borders of Iraq and Jordan. There are also some mountains in this plateau such as Twwaig, Al-Aridh, Aja and Salmah mountains. The Empty Quarter in the south-eastern part of the Kingdom occupies an estimated area of 640,000 square kilometers composed of sand hills and lava fields. The eastern coastal plain is 610 kilometers long and consists of large sand areas and Salinas
The climate of Saudi Arabia varies from one region to another because of its diverse topographical features. As a result of a subtropical high-pressure system, the Kingdom is generally hot in summer and cold in winter where rains fall often. Moderate climate is seen in the west and the southwestern part of the Kingdom; dry hot summer and cold winter in the interior parts; and high temperature and humidity in the coastal areas.Major parts of the Kingdom usually receive scanty amounts of rain in winter and spring. However, in the summer, rainfall is significant in the southwestern mountains. Humidity is high on the western coasts and mountains almost all year and it gets lower as we go inland. | <urn:uuid:9e14e822-53ab-4e76-a27a-79a7b3ff0207> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kfu.edu.sa/en/Documents/AboutKSA/sechdule/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.942088 | 693 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Tiger Brands, more than almost any other JSE organisation, with the arguable exception of Pioneer Foods and the now-defunct construction firms, is highly sensitive to suggestions that it may have benefited from increased prices during the Covid-19 crisis.
As unpalatable as it may be, there is evidence to suggest that food prices have increased over the last two months.
A basket of 38 basic food items has increased by 78% or R249 in two months, says Mervyn Abrahams of the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity Group in KwaZulu-Natal. The group monitors food baskets and food prices in supermarkets and among informal traders.
In a discussion on South Africa’s food system in and beyond the crisis, and hosted by the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, Abrahams noted that rice had increased by 26%, sugar beans by 18%, brown bread by 14%, oil by 11% and fresh produce by a “massive amount” under lockdown.
This is despite the fact that the Department of Trade and Industry put in place regulations ahead of the hard lockdown to prevent price gouging by food manufacturers and retailers.
“These were proactive and sensible,” says Noel Doyle, Tiger Brands CEO, “and reinforced issues around excessive pricing.”
The DTI, he said, made it clear that price increases could only be justified in the face of massive cost pressures, and only if they did not benefit gross and operating margins.
“We have had slight increases in our price of wheat and rice products since the lock-down began, but we alerted the Competition authorities that this was due to the weaker rand and rise in underlying commodity prices.
“If there are food price increases they are not coming from the big food manufacturers,” he says.
“You understand our history. It is important for us that we are beyond reproach when it comes to price increases.”
Presenting the group’s interim results to 30 March, Doyle warned that the impact of the pandemic would only be felt in the second half of the group’s financial year, and would be ‘dire’.
That said, revenue for the six months to March (before lockdown), hardly shot the lights out, increasing by 2% to R15.7-billion. Group operating income dropped by 29% to R1.1-billion, with operating profit margins declining to 7.0%, impacted by lower volumes, raw material and conversion costs rising ahead of inflation and increased marketing investment.
Headline earnings per share from continuing operations dropped 35% to 501 cents.
Operating conditions are only getting tougher. The company warned that the full-year (to September) could see profits fall by R500-million, impacted by significant cost-push due to rand weakness, global supply chain disruptions and additional costs incurred during the lockdown period.
Unfortunately for consumers, the real impact of legitimate food inflation is still coming and will be felt in the first quarter of the next financial year (Sept-Dec 2020).
“The consumer is not yet fully feeling the impact of commodity increases,” says Doyle. “My next shipload of rice will be 40% more expensive.”
Covid-19 was the last thing that Tiger Brands needed. Having lurched from one crisis to crisis over the past 13 years, the company is a much-diminished version of its former self, with a reputation in tatters and its share price, at R168.55, lower than it was ten years ago.
In addition, several years of disappointing results have resulted in investors losing confidence in management’s ability to execute.
These are things that its CEO, who is virtually a Tiger Brands lifer, and who stepped into the CEO’s shoes from the CFO’s shoes in February when Lawrence MacDougall retired, is determined to change.
“The bread pricing fixing saw us tighten up on governance and the Nigerian investment resulted in better board oversight, but the most traumatic event was Enterprise. That brought an acute awareness of, and sensitivity towards the safety of our people, both staff and consumers,” Doyle told Business Maverick.
Tiger Brands runs through his veins. As an essential supplier, Tiger’s factories have kept on churning out Jungle Oats, Albany bread, Golden Cloud flour, Mrs Balls and All Gold tomato sauce, among others. On more than one occasion the CEO could be found at one or other Gauteng site at 5 am, monitoring the shift change, checking on staff and ensuring safety procedures were being followed.
“My focus is to ensure the ongoing safety of our employees.”
But he will need to do more than that. Disappointing performances were experienced in almost all divisions, from Grains, Groceries and Exports to Value Added Meat Products. Even the normally solid Beverages and Home, Personal Care and Baby disappointed.
“In the short term, we must ensure the availability of our products while building stock levels in the event of potential disruptions to the supply chain while keeping our employees safe.”
Part of this involves supporting small scale wheat and tomato farmers that supply the firm. “We understand their cash flow challenges and will help to preserve these businesses. There are people in our organisation who have wrapped their arms around these enterprises…”
But the bigger picture requires that Tiger becomes “more nimble and entrepreneurial” within its categories. “We have proven good at diagnosis but poor at execution – we must remedy our weak innovation in the way we go to market,” he says.
Cutting costs is also essential, and job losses are a possibility, but only after other avenues have been explored. “I’m lighting a fire. We need to change the ‘it’s other people’s money mindset.”
The company is in the process of implementing a reengineered organisational structure to grow in its categories and has plans to optimise costs.
In addition, the Group’s business portfolio has been assessed and Tiger has exited businesses and categories that do not align with its growth aspirations. This included the closure of Deli Foods – a biscuit factory based in Nigeria, the intention to sell its Value-Added Meat Products business and exploring options for its Deciduous Fruit business which produces canned fruit and fruit purees largely for export markets.
Tiger Brands is blessed in one respect – it has a strong balance sheet, with no debt.
“This may provide us with opportunities. We won’t be buying a $150-million business in Nigeria, but we could buy into product adjacencies that complement our core brands,” he says.
But the board – older, wiser and infinitely more cautious – has elected not to declare an interim dividend as it prioritises cash preservation given the Covid-19 uncertainty. BM | <urn:uuid:13a64fe8-7ecf-4f16-b55d-ee7312392682> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-05-26-tiger-tries-to-put-its-best-foot-forward-in-the-worst-of-times/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96536 | 1,445 | 1.585938 | 2 |
[EDITORIALS]Be on our best behaviorIn 100 days trumpets will herald the beginning of the Korea Japan World Cup soccer games. Despite an economic crisis and a downturn in our economy, after six years of preparations we have arrived at the point where we can reap the benefits of holding such an event. Although the World Cup involves only one sport, its size and complexity is above that of the Olympics. In addition, the spotlight is brighter and the participation level higher. The 1988 Seoul Olympics was a catalyst for establishing a name for Korea; during the 2002 World Cup, one of the first global sports events of the 21st century, we surely have to do more than announce our existence.
During this much anticipated event the number of foreign athletes, journalists and tourists visiting Korea is expected to reach 400,000. The main task for us is to make their stay safe and comfortable so they will take good impressions back to their home countries. Construction of 10 stadiums, the "hardware," has been completed; the focus must switch to the "software," such as improving our citizens' awareness of the event. Bus and taxi drivers have to work on being kind and driving safely. The lack of persons fluent in the languages of the World Cup athletes and visitors and the serious shortage of accommodations have to be addressed, too. On top of this we cannot forget the bad habit of ripping off foreigners. We need to tackle a lot of serious problems and keep in mind that these fundamentals are a measure of a country's cultural level.
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, security for the event has received more attention than for any previously held World Cup soccer games. Besides the potential danger from terrorists, we must also cope with the prospect of threats from soccer hooligans. Not one mistake, however minor, can be allowed in terms of safety. The performance of the Korean team is of intense interest, and to fulfill our dreams of reaching the second round, everyone involved should do their utmost to ensure this event does not end up a party where we have nothing to celebrate. All Koreans －－ its citizens, athletes and the government －－ must think about their tasks and make sure that everything is going according to plan. | <urn:uuid:21ca6b5d-2688-4b29-a93f-9030ded827df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2003/01/05/editorials/EDITORIALSBe-on-our-best-behavior/1900634.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96841 | 453 | 2.09375 | 2 |
MDE21830 - Rooksfoot Cottages (Monument)
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Type and Period (1)
- None recorded
The site of 'Rooksfoot Cottages' is shown on the 25 inch 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map to the north of Rooksfoot Bridge and to the northeast of the present Rooksfoot Cottage. The building is depicted on the 2nd Edition map but is not labelled. It is apparently shown as unroofed and may have been out of use by this time. The Tithe Map for Challacombe does not depict a building here. It is the corner of a bend in the road and appears to have been the access point for a field. The 2018 MasterMap data no longer depicts the building as extant, although the pattern of its northern elevations are apparently preserved in the land boundaries here.
- <1> SEM6703 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1868-1901. County Series; 1st Edition 25 Inch Map. 1:2500.
- <2> SEM7190 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-1907. County Series, 2nd Edition 25 Inch Map. 1:2500.
- <3> SEM7724 Map: 1839. Challacombe Tithe Map and Apportionment.
- <4> SEM8545 Map: Ordnance Survey. 2018. MasterMap.
|Grid reference||Centred SS 6895 4054 (16m by 12m)|
|Civil Parish||CHALLACOMBE, NORTH DEVON, DEVON|
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- Devon SMR Monument ID: 67486
- Devon SMR: SS64SE/220
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Chapel at Middleton Hall
An oratory, a private chapel in a house. It is Medieval in date and is located in Middleton Hall.
1 A priest is recorded at Middleton in 1086. A chamber with a Norman window is sometimes identified as a chapel, but was probably actually a hall (PRN 117). A timber-framed chapel seems to have been added to the N of the hall by Sir Baldwin Freville, who was licenced in about 1390 to have an oratory in his manor house. It was 8.2 by 4.75 m. The chapel has been altered by later rebuilding, but a fragment of the roof survives with trefoiled and quatrefoiled framing; it included a small bell-turret at its E end, the upper part of which remains under the present roof.
3 1967: The chapel was not positively identified but is probably the building now occupied by the Hall caretaker.
5 Pevsner entry.
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Henry arrived at Beechwood College as a day student with diagnoses of Atypical Autism, Schizotypal Disorder and Bipolar Disorder.
Henry struggled with social interaction and although Henry was able to communicate fluently and articulately, he preferred only to communicate with his close family members. This meant he was generally quiet around people he didn’t know very well and would often ignore new people. Henry had a number of sensory dislikes and, at times of high anxiety, was at risk of self- harm and a history of clawing at his eyes, hitting / kicking himself and dropping to the floor.
Previously Henry had attended a mainstream secondary school but this had broken down resulting in Henry spending a long time at home. He had then attended a small independent specialist school with under 20 pupils on roll. Many of Henry’s anxieties were provoked by group situations and activities and he spent the majority of his time in his own small room, interacting with well-known staff members. He would often refuse to attend school completely.
Henry was heavily involved in the decision to come to Beechwood and the subsequent transition process. Despite it being an inevitably anxious time Henry coped very well and settled quickly into Beechwood College as a Day Student.
What did we do to help Henry develop?
Following the initial assessment period, Henry agreed to participate in individual therapy sessions on a fortnightly basis and selected ‘managing his anxiety’ and ‘going out independently’ as his goals. Supported by the clinical team he then developed a hierarchy of steps towards these goals.
Henry completed a psychological assessment of presenting problems e.g. sexual knowledge, social skills, and emotional expression and understanding and was subsequently given guidance on specific emotional support strategies delivered in partnership by clinical and education staff. Examples included mood diaries, daily talk time, ways to build self-esteem, and work contracts.
Henry also used sessions to focus on change and progression in life and making comparisons to his peers and siblings in where he would want to be and how he is taking more responsibility in life e.g. contributing to cooking at home and other household tasks. He displayed greater empathy for others despite this remaining a difficult area for him.
Henry also started to work on using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Approach to managing anxiety via understanding of his negative thoughts and how these impacted on mood and behaviour. He was able to identify the thinking errors he typically made and link this to his ASC. This work was linked to addressing Henry’s goal of wanting to access the community independently i.e. giving him the coping strategies to do this.
Henry was provided with his own learning space adjacent to the main class area and this helped to him to feel comfortable when engaged in whole class activities in the knowledge he could withdraw if he felt the need to do so and initially Henry did spend a majority of his time in his own space.
What were the Outcomes for Henry?
Henry displayed a good level of attendance (93.5%) in comparison to his previous pattern of attendance at school (67%) and his few absences were related to illness rather lack of engagement.
Henry now attends a local college, completing a level 2 Graphic Design course. This course is not specifically adapted for learners with additional needs. He attends 3 times a week with the support of a Personal Assistant who provides him with consistency and support in what was an unfamiliar environment.
Henry is able to fully participate in classes with a large group of peers and he is doing extremely well with both the level of work and the social aspects of college having reported that he has made several good friends.
Henry’s course attendance has been a huge success and he hopes to use this course as a platform to higher education or employment within the art and design industry. It is thought that as his confidence and familiarity with the course grows, his Personal Assistant will be able to step back enabling Henry to be a more independent and active participant in his local community. | <urn:uuid:eb62bf15-5051-4384-a9bb-453f40d750f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lshealthcare.co.uk/outcome-focused-case-studies/henry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.986703 | 818 | 1.984375 | 2 |
How to find refuge as fear rises over wobbly hryvnia
Last week’s bump in the hryvnia-dollar rate reignited fears of rapid devaluation, sparking even faster reassurances by Ukrainian government officials that everything was under control. Experts agree some level of devaluation will occur before or after the Oct. 28 parliamentary election, but also point to ways in which citizens and businesses can safeguard their assets or even turn a profit amidst the turmoil.
Falling international reserves. chronic current account deficits and a drop in international metal and ore prices have long convinced experts that devaluation was a question of when, not if. Some even argue it is the only way Ukraine can regain some of the competitiveness it lost to its neighbors. Over the past three months, the hryvnia has lost marginally to the dollar, but has gained relative to some regional currencies, 8.7 percent on Poland’s zloty, for example.
Nonetheless, memories of the 40 percent devaluation in 2009 have scarred Ukrainians. Thus, the relatively small jump in the exchange rate in days running up to Sept. 4 was enough to rattle nerves. During that period, the hryvnia slid at street side currency booths from around 8 relative to the US dollar, to above 8.2.
Investment banks currently estimate
an end-year exchange rate of 8.5-8.9, highlighting that the banking sector is much more resilient than it was three years ago. Nonetheless, knowing that herd mentality could easily turn a trickle into a flood, government officials were quick to point fingers and try to reassure the population.
"The rush and speculations were created by banks that have spare funds and can buy huge amounts of currency. They can hire so-called mercenary experts, media, and create hysteria and a rush, thus, forcing ordinary people to buy dollars they don’t need," Ukrainian Prime Minister Azarov said.
Whatever, the devaluation scenario, there are ways to protect and even increase your assets, experts note.
First and foremost, don’t keep the money under your pillows in hryvnia.
Long-term options, according, to Vadim Brailovskyi, head of European Capital Management, are moving your cash abroad to invest in real estate, for example. His top picks are Bulgaria,
Greece, Portugal and other countries discounted by the crisis.
The options, of course, depend on the type of investor and what they are betting on, said Vitaliy Sivach, a fixed income trader at Kyiv’s Investment Capital Ukraine.
Residents of Ukraine have a fairly straightforward option in so-called retail government bonds, as long as they trust the government to pay back. Denominated in U.S. dollars, they are set to be issued by the Ministry of Finance via state banks in coming months, with a face value of $500. "It gives 9 percent [annual] yield and hedges a player totally against hryvnia devaluation," said Sivach.
There are other defensive strategies.
Warsaw-listed sunflower oil producer and grain trader Kernel, for instance, has around 90 percent of revenue in foreign currency making it "the most defensive name among Ukrainian (foreign) listed companies," said Tatjana Telezko, agribusiness analyst at Kyiv-based investment bank Dragon Capital. Another example is grain farmer IMC, which has 80 percent of its revenues tied to the dollar, but only 40 percent of its costs.
More sophisticated investors can hedge their bets using derivative instruments, Sivach said. For example, foreigners selling products bought in dollars but sold in hryvnia at some point in the future can enter forward contracts, in which hrvynia are at some point in the future. This bet is on the future exchange rate, however, and only accessible to large players.
Quick, easy and feasible with even small amounts of money, opening a dollar-denominated account at a major bank is a solid solution, Brailovskyi said. Large banks are currently offering annual deposit rates of 8 or more percent, an absurdly high level by Western standards.
It seems to already have gained popularity among Ukrainians, who poured an additional Hr 3.2 billion into foreign currency deposits in August.
This solution carries another advantage in times of panic, when a surge in demand drains the dollars from the market. Should immediate exchange of cash prove impossible, it is always possible to open a dollar account and lock an exchange rate in.
Buying physical gold is also an extreme alternative. While its price has risen sharply in recent years - beyond what some experts say is sustainable — it offers the ultimate hedge against economic collapse.
"Gold preserves assets in an Armageddon scenario, when most Western economies will enter economic recession and will be forces to print money like there’s no tomorrow," Sivach said.
There’s always the option to bet the other way, he added. A non-resident can try to sell dollars via the forward option, for a six month rate of Hr 9.15. This would give a 26 percent return, over half a year.
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The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control. Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer. In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less crime it tends to have. In other words, there is a very strong positive correlation between more guns and less crime. This is the exact opposite of what the mainstream media would have us believe, but it makes sense. You see, the reality is that criminals really, really, really don’t want to get shot. When you pass strict gun control laws, you take the fear of getting shot away and criminals tend to flourish. Just look at what is going on in America today. The places with the highest crime rates are the major cities where strict gun control laws have been passed. In some of those cities the police are so overwhelmed that they have announced that they simply won’t even bother responding to certain kinds of crime anymore. The truth is that the government cannot protect us adequately, and that is one reason why millions of preppers are arming themselves and gun sales have been setting new records year after year. Unfortunately, the mainstream media and many of our politicians seem absolutely obsessed with trying to restrict our constitutional right to own guns. They are waging a relentless campaign to try to convince the American people that guns are bad. But is that actually the case? Of course not. The following are 18 little-known gun facts that prove that guns make us safer…
#2 A study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy discovered that nations that have more guns tend to have less crime.
#3 The nine European nations with the lowest rate of gun ownership rate have a combined murder rate that is three times greater than the nine European nation with the highest rate of gun ownership.
#4 Almost every mass shooting that has occurred in the United States since 1950 has taken place in a state with strict gun control laws…
With just one exception, every public mass shooting in the USA since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are banned from carrying guns. Despite strict gun regulations, Europe has had three of the worst six school shootings.
#5 The United States is #1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people.
#6 The violent crime rate in the United States actually fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011. During that same time period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000.
#7 Approximately 200,000 women in the United States use guns to protect themselves against sexual crime every single year.
#8 Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives.
#9 The number of unintentional fatalities due to firearms declined by 58 percent between 1991 and 2011.
#10 Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States. In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK. In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year. Do we really want to be more like the UK?
#11 The UK has approximately 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.
#12 The UK has approximately 133 percent more assault victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.
#13 The UK has the fourth highest burglary rate in the EU.
#14 The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
#16 The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States. So has this reduced crime? Of course not. As I wrote about recently, the murder rate in Chicago was about 17 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2011, and Chicago is now considered to be “the deadliest global city“. If you can believe it, there were about as many murders in Chicago during 2012 as there was in the entire nation of Japan.
#17 After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50 percent over the course of the next 23 years and there was an 89% decline in burglaries.
#18 According to Gun Owners of America, the governments of the world slaughtered more than 170 million of their own people during the 20th century. The vast majority of those people had been disarmed by their own governments prior to being slaughtered.
Sadly, you rarely hear any facts like these on the mainstream news networks. Instead, they give countless amounts of air time to the radicals that are obsessed with gun control.
And did you know that there is now an official propaganda manual that has been put out for gun control advocates? This manual actually encourages gun control advocates to emotionally exploit major shooting incidents to advance the cause of gun control…
Democratic strategists have drafted a how-to manual on manipulating the public’s emotions toward gun control in the aftermath of a major shooting.
“A high-profile gun-violence incident temporarily draws more people into the conversation about gun violence,” asserts the guide. “We should rely on emotionally powerful language, feelings and images to bring home the terrible impact of gun violence.”
The 80-page document titled “Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging,” also urges gun-control advocates use images of frightening-looking guns and shooting scenes to make their point.
“The most powerful time to communicate is when concern and emotions are running at their peak,” the guide insists. “The debate over gun violence in America is periodically punctuated by high-profile gun violence incidents including Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson, the Trayvon Martin killing, Aurora and Oak Creek. When an incident such as these attracts sustained media attention, it creates a unique climate for our communications efforts.”
You can read the rest of that manual right here.
So will those pushing gun control win, or will the American people be able to see through the propaganda and insist on keeping their constitutional right to bear arms?
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Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power, and Vehicular Technology
Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power, and Vehicular Technology (hence MEV) is an internationally peer-reviewed journal providing authoritative source of scientific information for researchers and engineers in academia, research institutions, government agencies, and industries. We publish original research papers, review articles and case studies focused on mechatronics, electrical power, and vehicular technology as well as related topics. All papers are peer-reviewed by at least two referees. MEV is published and imprinted by Research Center for Electrical Power and Mechatronics – Indonesian Institute of Sciences and managed to be issued twice in every volume.
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MEV Journal Call for Papers
Authors are invited to submit electronically no more than 10 pages full paper through journal website. The submitted paper should follow the format available on the author guideline.
The scopes of accepted papers are:
- Electrical Power
- Vehicular Technology
- and Selected Application
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Mersa Matruh Weather July
Mersa Matruh is located in desert also known as aridic climate zone that is typically hot dry climate with substantial temperature changes between night and day.
To help you choose the best time to travel, you can find climate data below on the weather in Mersa Matruh in July.
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Temperature in Mersa Matruh
In July the average daily maximum in Mersa Matruh is +29.5°C, and the minimum +21.4°C.
The hottest July day on record is +44.2°C, and the coldest +11.6°C.
Best beach resorts in July:
There are 14.4 hours of daylight in Mersa Matruh in July. Out of these, on average 12 are sunny, which means the sun is nearly always shining.
The average monthly temperature in the Mediterranean Sea on the beaches of Mersa Matruh in July is +25°C.
The water is warm enough for nearly everyone to bathe in.
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Right now, it’s just a wood platform sitting in a parking lot near the University of Denver. But starting in a few weeks, students from DU and the University of California Berkeley plan to turn this collection of nails and wood into an 816-square-foot environmentally sustainable home.
The universities have teamed up to compete in the eighth Solar Decathlon, a biennial competition put on by the Department of Energy and designed to encourage innovation in sustainability. The partnership makes one of 13 college teams from around the globe taking part in the competition to build a sustainable zero net energy home.
The competition will be in Denver in October.
While the building process started this month, the design phase took nearly three semesters to complete. Contestants have about two years to develop their houses, and most of the time goes into designing the home. With the design completed, students from both schools are working this summer to build their home.
The goal is to make a house that produces as much energy as it consumes. The team will use solar panels to generate energy.
The competition will run Oct. 5 to 15 near Denver International Airport, and each team has to transport its structures to the competition site. To make transportation easier, the team is building the house in a few modules that can be disassembled and lifted with a crane onto trucks. While the Denver-Berkeley team has to transport the house only a few miles, some teams from Europe have to transport theirs across continents.
Every team is guaranteed $100,000 for participating, but the winning team will win the $300,000 grand prize.
Berkeley students are responsible for most of the design. At the beginning of the year, Eric Holt, an assistant professor at DU who competed in the decathlon as a graduate student at Purdue, reached out to the Berkeley team and started the partnership. Now, Denver’s students play a key role in helping build the house.
“They did all of the design. We don’t do a lot of that at DU,” said Chris Landsinger, a DU graduate student studying real estate. “But Berkeley realized they were a little short-handed and we figured we could team up with them. We’re in Denver, so we have to transport it less distance and we do a lot of construction management here. This is more our kind of field.”
This is DU’s first time participating in the contest. University of Colorado Boulder has competed and won in the past but is not participating in this competition. DU and Berkeley will compete against a field that includes teams from Switzerland, the Netherlands and a handful of U.S. universities.
Each team creates a general theme it follows when creating its house. While some schools are focusing on combating natural disasters — the team representing the University of Alabama Birmingham and Calhoun Community College in Birmingham is making a tornado-resistant home — the Denver-Berkeley team is focusing on an issue that’s grown common both in Denver and the Bay Area: affordable housing. In support of that theme, the team is using materials more readily available in Richmond, a community near Berkeley.
Once the competition is over, a family will actually live in the home. The house will be donated to the Richmond Community Foundation, which will sell it as affordable housing to a family in its program.
While many of the team members are familiar with designing structures, some had no construction experience. And with the team building the house completely on its own, with the exception of tasks such as installing plumbing and electrical systems, members have to learn on the job.
“Before this, I didn’t know how to build a house and I’m still learning every day,” Berkeley senior Joan Gibbons said. “And that’s where it’s great to be working with DU. Guys like Chris are really experienced, and they have the construction experience we don’t necessarily have.”
Landsinger said playing an active role in building the home is crucial to learning how to manage a construction project.
“You can only explain what a two-by-four is on a screen to a certain level,” Landsinger said. “You have to get out there and put your hands on some two-by-fours and cut some wood before you can even see yourself construction managing.”
While the house is little more than the floor platform now, after getting permits approved Monday, the team is hoping to get inspections done this week and move ahead with construction.
The team will be judged in a series of tests to see how sustainable and livable the structure is. Some tests are straightforward, such as checking how much water a home saves compared with standard homes, while others are more complex. To prove that the homes are livable, contestants will host game nights and dinner parties.
“We really start with the materials and technology we use,” Gibbons said. “We want to make something that pushes people a little bit. After that, it’s really about education. Part of the solar decathlon is all about education. We’re going to be giving people tours and we’re really trying to teach people that sustainability isn’t a big obstacle you have to overcome. It’s something you can incorporate bit by bit into your daily life.” | <urn:uuid:18d0c5eb-972b-4b61-a653-bc5a97e7367d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/03/university-of-denver-university-of-california-berkeley-students-team-solar-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965952 | 1,112 | 2.515625 | 3 |
This research suggests that enrollment “might be a critical step in getting patients access to their information,” said Sumi Sinha, MD, a resident at UCSF and lead author of the JAMA Oncology study.
Although the study did not explore the barriers that kept patients from enrolling, Dr Hong noted that many of their patients do not have computers and smart phones, and they generally may not feel comfortable using the technology. The researchers are currently trying to ease enrollment by allowing patients, or their care proxy, to enroll during the visit. The researchers are also working on translating the portal into more languages.
The findings do not come as a surprise, but they do highlight the need to reduce barriers, according to Traber Davis Giardina, PhD, MSW, assistant professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and researcher at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, who was not involved in the UCSF study.
Dr Giardina said research suggests that interventions designed to train patients on portal use, either in person or online, may be effective.2
“It makes me sad to think that we have this technology that has the possibility [to give patients more knowledge] and that Black patients and older patients are getting left behind,” said Dr Giardina, whose research focuses on whether patient portal use may reduce diagnostic errors and improve patient safety.
There has been very little research exploring whether patient portal use is associated with better clinical outcomes for patients with cancer, particularly because it is difficult to know exactly which outcomes to assess, Dr Hong explained. However, a 2018 study suggested that the types and frequency of messages that breast cancer patients send their providers through the portal may predict their risk of discontinuing hormonal therapy.5
Dr Giardina said there is evidence that using the portal — for reasons such as viewing their provider’s notes from the visit — may make patients feel more involved in their care in general.6
“It is encouraging that you could leverage health IT to help people feel more engaged in their care,” she added.
- Sinha S, Garriga M, Naik N, et al. Disparities in electronic health record patient portal enrollment among oncology patients. JAMA Oncol. Published online April 8, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.0540
- Grossman LV, Masterson Creber RM, Benda NC, Wright D, Vawdrey DK, Ancker JS. Interventions to increase patient portal use in vulnerable populations: a systematic review. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019;26(8-9):855-870. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocz023
- Gerber DE, Laccetti AL, Chen B, et al. Predictors and intensity of online access to electronic medical records among patients with cancer. J Oncol Pract. 2014;10(5):e307-312. doi:10.1200/JOP.2013.001347
- Goel MS, Brown TL, Williams A, Hasnain-Wynia R, Thompon JA, Baker DW. Disparities in enrollment and use of an electronic patient portal. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26(10):1112-1116. doi:10.1007/s11606-011-1728-3
- Yin Z, Harrell M, Warner JL, et al. The therapy is making me sick: how online portal communications between breast cancer patients and physicians indicate medication discontinuation. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018;25(11):1444-1451. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocy118
- Gerard M, Chimowitz H, Fossa A, et al. The importance of visit notes on patient portals for engaging less educated or nonwhite patients: Survey study. J Med Internet Res. 2018;20(5):e191. doi:10.2196/jmir.9196
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The College’s inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staff Retreat seeks to celebrate and raise awareness of the different identities and backgrounds that coexist within our community. Staff presenters from across the College will join us to share insights and lived experiences. Our goal is to promote ongoing individual and collective understanding of our diverse community.
Practicing diversity, equity, and inclusion begins with self-awareness and requires cultural intelligence, humility, and a genuine interest in the lives and perspectives of those from whom you differ. Being curious allows you to expand your knowledge of others and helps you develop interconnectedness and empathy. These qualities are of critical importance in affecting the kind of change that creates meaningful and long-lasting inclusive workspaces.
We aspire to get to know our co-workers. We aspire to foster respect for diverse backgrounds and experiences. We aspire to transform knowledge into action and individual behaviors into enduring practices that benefit the College as a whole.
More details about the presentations will be made available as the retreat schedule is finalized.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Kand McQueen
Changing Perspectives on Sex, Gender, Humanity, and the World
Most people around the planet firmly believe there are two and only two kinds of people in the world: men and women. When we think about human beings, we assume these are the only two possibilities. Above all else, male and female are seen as separate entities, mutually exclusive, complementing but never overlapping categories. Like much of the world, Western society rests on the assumption that all persons exist unambiguously as either man or woman. Like most things, it just isn’t quite that simple.
Our society relentlessly pursues conformity, standardization, and uniformity to the extent that we continually obsess upon and harshly judge our differences and exclude those who do not fit our conventional categorizations despite our common humanity. In this presentation, Dr. Kand McQueen encourages several perspectival shifts that together formulate an alternative to this polarization. Imagine a world where, instead, we chose to embrace both our commonalities and our dissimilarities, and in the process, build a broader and richer conceptualization of humanity; one that has room for all persons, everywhere. | <urn:uuid:dff7aa11-8e6e-49a5-a90c-44678103232b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://college.indiana.edu/about/diversity-inclusion/staff-retreat/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932674 | 451 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The Vermont Statutes Online
Subchapter 001 : TAXES(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 1528)
§ 1528. Collector of taxes
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Steve* was referred to Glow earlier this year following a number of abusive experiences with his partner. He had been abused both verbally and physically, including name calling, biting and choking.
During his relationship, Steve was unable to call for help. When he tried to contact the police, his abuser broke his phone. He was trapped and unable to live life on his terms.
At one point his hand was broken trying to protect himself.
“He (Steve’s ex-partner) made threats against me, but also my mum, that made me go back to him even though I knew he would be abusive to me again.” explains Steve.
“I couldn’t risk leaving him as he always found a way of getting me to go back, even if that meant him threatening to take his own life.”
Luckily, Steve ultimately managed to escape his home and find a phone box, where he called for help.
Steve was then referred to our Derbyshire IDVA (Independent Domestic Violence Advisor) service. He is now being supported and is working to regain the independence that his abuser took from him.
Steve added: “My IDVA has been really good at listening to me and understanding what it is like to be under the control of someone and how powerless that makes you feel.”
Domestic abuse can affect anyone. No matter your background, identity or circumstances, anyone could be a victim of relationship abuse. Research from Stonewall shows that 1 in 4 lesbian and bi women and 49% of gay and bi men have experienced some form of domestic abuse from a family member or partner.
At Glow, we offer support specialist support to anyone affected by domestic abuse. If you need support, click here.
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Padraig O’Morain, The Irish Times, Monday, April 7, 1997
NOTE: This article relates to events prior to April, 1997 and is not intended to reflect practices by St Patrick’s Guild adoption society in Dublin today. The article may be of help to persons who were adopted through St Patrick’s Guild and who wonder why their birth mothers never contacted them.
One of the main adoption societies in the State has admitted giving false information to adopted people about their parents.The society, St Patrick’s Guild, handled the adoption of many Irish babies by people in the United States and more than 10,000 adoptions here.
The new director of the guild, Sister Francis Ignatius, told The Irish Times that the identity of birth mothers had been “disguised” when adoptees asked for information. This was done to safeguard the mothers’ identities, she said.
The practice is understood to have gone on for decades, but the numbers involved are unknown. The society has asked adoptees who believe they were given misleading information to contact it.
St Patrick’s Guild is run by the Irish Sisters of Charity and operates with the approval of the Archbishop of Dublin. The society was replying to queries from The Irish Times, which has spoken to people who believe they were misled.
One woman, Kathleen, told The Irish Times she had learned last year that her file included a note detailing misleading information given to her in the 1960s and stating that the file information was misleading. Over the years, she had been given three different ages for her mother, she says.
Asked whether the files contained misleading information, Sister Francis said in a statement: “Yes, we know that some files do contain misleading information, but we do not know how many. The reason, in part, for this is that the women who came to the guild sometimes came with fictitious or assumed names. They had their own reasons for doing this. For the guild, confidentiality for the mother was paramount at all times. Whatever information was given by the mothers when they came was accepted. In addition, in order to safeguard the mothers’ identity, it was necessary to disguise certain information.”Her statement appears to confirm suspicions voiced to The Irish Times over the past 12 months by adoptees angered at having wasted time searching for people who did not exist. St Patrick’s Guild is the only adoption society about which these suspicions have been voiced.
Sister Francis became director some weeks ago. She succeeds Sister Gabriel, who has retired. Sister Gabriel was named in last year’s RTE Dear Daughter documentary as having given misleading information to Christine Buckley, the woman whose experiences in the old orphanage at Goldenbridge, and subsequent search for her parents, were the subject of the documentary.
Kathleen told The Irish Times that she and her husband went to St Patrick’s Guild in the mid1960s before they married. They were given misleading information which led to decades of fruitless searching. “I have no problem with confidentiality, but I do have a problem with lies”, she says.
Last year she sat in at the society’s offices in an attempt to obtain information. Later, following the intervention of the Minister of State, Ms Joan Burton, and of the Archdiocese of Dublin, she met Sister Gabriel, who read out a note placed in her file in the 1960s which stated that the information given to her at that time was fictitious.
“We would urge any adoptees who believe that they have been given misleading information to contact the guild and we will try to clarify the matter”, Sister Francis said.
St Patrick’s Guild was founded in 1910. It holds more than 13,000 files on children fostered (adoption only became legal in 1953) or adopted.
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There are vocabulary quizzes. Flash cards. Textbooks. Reading assignments. Essays. Speaking exercises. Yet, in the classroom, students rarely get the opportunity to engage in unscripted conversations in a language they want to learn.
Talking about topics that interest you, with real people, is a fun way to quickly pick up a new language. With Lingo, you can do this right within the comfort of Facebook Messenger — no new accounts or external websites are needed, and the conversation feels just as natural as one with a friend.
How it works
Lingo is a simple Messenger bot that pairs people who want to chat in a certain language. New users list languages in which they are fluent and languages they wish to learn. When a user starts a chat, they specify which language and whether they wish to speak with someone who is fluent or someone who is also learning the same language. Lingo pings users that fit the criteria, and once a user accepts, the conversation begins.
Challenges I ran into
I learned how to navigate the Facebook Messenger API and Messenger bot platform. Since Messenger bots respond to message events asynchronously and independently, it's difficult to make interaction with the bot context-dependent (e.g. Instead of having to respond "LEARN French, Spanish" to "What languages do you want to learn?", the user would just write "French, Spanish.") I had to figure out how to determine what state the user was in depending on the message sent.
What's next for Lingo
Lingo is in currently in its very basic stages! Right now, users can only have conversations with one person and in one language at a time — the ability to manage multiple conversations is definitely a useful feature to implement in the future. Also, Lingo could try to pair users based on topics of common interest, to make the conversation even more fun :) | <urn:uuid:c7f3b05b-9c45-4556-9b97-5eccce6e1ab7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://devpost.com/software/lingo-97gv4c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947788 | 387 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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The race to be the first to reach the South Pole was tightly contested and the first to complete the task was a Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928). Roald had originally planned an expedition to reach the North Pole. However, when he heard that Robert Peary claimed to have already reached the North Pole, he made last minute plans and decided to pursue the South Pole. He kept this a secret until the last minute as he was in a race with British explorer Robert Scott to be the first to the South Pole.
On January 14, 1911 Amundsen's ship, The Fram, arrived at the Bay of Whales in Antarctica. They set up camp there and prepared for the trip to the South Pole. They set out to reach the South Pole on October 20th, ten months after arriving on Antarctica. There were five men, 52 dogs, and four sleds. At first they travelled quickly, but soon they had to pass over mountains and avoid dangerous crevasses. Finally, after nearly two months of hard travelling, they reached their destination. On December 14, 1911 Roald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag at the South Pole a little over a month before the British explorer Robert Scott.
One of the reasons Amundsen was so successful over other rivals like Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Scott was the good strategic use he made of his dogs and skis and his meticulous planning and refusal to take unnecessary risks. Amundsen set up food and supply depots along the proposed route and these depots were better positioned and better spaced than those of Scott, whose party perished on their return journey just a few miles short of one of their supply depots.
Amundsen's goal of reaching the South Pole had been ambitious but with careful planning and by breaking his journey into small bits his goal was achieved.
When setting goals it is important that you consider the ABCD of goal setting.
Achievable: Be realistic but also dream
Believable: Be positive and believe it can be achieved
Conceivable: Think through what needs to be done to achieve the goal
Desirable: Choose goals you really want
So as one semester draws to a close it is a time to reflect and then set goals for the final semester. It is important to follow the rules to get what you want to achieve next semester. What are your goals? How will you achieve them? What steps along the way will help you achieve your goals? | <urn:uuid:89cf742f-422d-4006-86fb-4c32a8409d5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ipswichgrammar.com/news/goal-setting | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978913 | 516 | 3.78125 | 4 |
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”Matthew 28:16-20 (NIV)
Today is called Ascension Day in the church calendar. This day has been set aside in the Church to recall Jesus ascending into heaven. The day is always the fortieth day of Easter, or forty days after Easter Sunday. On this day, we reflect upon the account from Gospels (except John’s) and the recording of the ascension in the Book of Acts.
Matthew’s account is what we focus upon here. This passage at the very end of this Gospel is often referred to as the Great Commission. The eleven remaining apostles have gathered at the mountain where Jesus has told them to meet him. Most scholars believe the location is the Mount of Olives but Matthew does not name it specifically. Once gathered, Jesus commissions the apostles to go into all nations. He instructs them to make disciples of all people, baptizing in the name of the Trinity and teaching them his commands to follow. Matthew does not say if Jesus then ascends or not. The first chapter in the Book of Acts indicates his ascension was during a meal he was sharing with the apostles. The writer of Matthew emphasizes the commissioning and the promise of Jesus’s eternal presence.
For the Church, and all followers of Christ, these words in Matthew are the marching orders. Jesus commissions all of us and tells us what we are to be about. He calls us into action with the action word “go.” We are not to be idle but in motion. Then he tells us where to go, “all nations.” Our activity is not to be within the walls of the church but in the world. We are to teach, welcome people into God’s family and show what the life of a follower should reflect. Each of us are given the promise that while we are engaged in living out our commission, Jesus is present in our lives and forevermore.
On the day we acknowledge our belief that Jesus ascended into heaven, we are mindful that we have been commissioned. Each of us has been commissioned to continue Jesus’s ministry in the world. We are to actively go into this world and share Christ wherever we have been sent. We are to teach, welcome, forgive, demonstrate, listen, respond, and love as Jesus continues to do in our lives. | <urn:uuid:60617912-91da-4e36-b9d2-3b956e8cbacf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rays-of-light.consulting/tag/welcome/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972304 | 595 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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Amsterdam Jewish Quarter Walking Tour
If you are curious about the history of the Jewish community in Amsterdam, then you need to take this tour. You will visit a lot of important sites.
And you will learn a lot about the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter’s history. Jewish people were the target of a lot of horrific hostility in Europe from the 16th to the 17th centuries. They were often expelled from their homes. Amsterdam welcomed a lot of Europe’s Jewish population. The Jewish community in Amsterdam then became one of the most important in Europe. Amsterdam was always the center of the Dutch Jewish population.
Tragically, the Holocaust killed around 80% of the Jewish population in Amsterdam. But since then, the community has been rebuilt into a vibrant community.
This is an important tour and one you should go on if you are traveling to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Here are some of the top locations you will visit on this tour:
- This is where the Spinoza monument is located
- The Amsterdam Zoo
- This is where the National Holocaust Memorial is located
- The Hermitage area of Amsterdam
- This is where the Shadow Canal Monument is located
- The Nieuwe Herengracht canal
- This is where the impressive, beautiful Portuguese Synagogue is located
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This is a 2-hour tour with a live tour guide. You can get this tour in English or Spanish. And since it is a walking tour, comfortable shoes are recommended.
Due to COVID-19, the number of visitors allowed on this tour is limited. Which is actually kind of great because it gives you a more private tour. Facemasks are also required to ensure safety.
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Mandiant's release on Tuesday of a mother lode of information on Chinese hacking efforts could turn out to be a financial mother lode for the company itself.
Mandiant, founded in 2004, was well known in Internet security circles for cybercrime response and forensics before this week. But by the end of the day of the release of its 60-page report on what it said was proof of efforts by a Chinese military unit to hack into 141 businesses, most of them in the U.S. -- it was one of the highest-profile security companies in the world.
The report, titled "APT1: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units," led mainstream television network news broadcasts on Tuesday evening, and was featured on everything from National Public Radio to tech journals and blogs. Company founder Kevin Mandia, a retired Air Force officer, was interviewed by multiple media outlets.
The timing could be very good for Mandiant. Several security experts said they think it will go public sometime this year, although Mandiant CSO Richard Bejtlich would not comment on that. And, as Anne Flaherty of the Associated Press put it in an explainer on the company, the report "puts Mandiant front-and-center at a critical time on a national debate about cybersecurity. Its founder [Mandia] testified earlier this month to the House Intelligence Committee on hacking threats."
But it also raised questions about how the report was rolled out, and whether the information it collected could have been made public earlier, to assist companies that may have been hacked by APT1 or "Unit 61398" of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, but were not among Mandiant's clients. Mandiant has been tracking APT1 and other such groups in China since 2006.
The company suggested in its report that the targets of APT1 likely went well beyond its clientele. "The activity we have directly observed likely represents only a small fraction of the cyber espionage that APT1 has conducted," the report said.
But Bejtlich told CSO Online on Wednesday that Mandiant has issued public reports consistently on advanced persistent threats (APT). He said the firm's January 2010 M-Trends report specifically addressed them.
The difference in this report, he said, was that it finally felt confident enough to name a specific Chinese group, with government sponsorship, as the source of a large group of attacks. "We believed we had a really good case," he said.
Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos, said that Mandiant, as a private, for-profit enterprise, doesn't really owe anyone anything. "They are entitled to share what they please," he said.
"It isn't exactly news to those of us in the business of protecting businesses from these types of attacks," he said, aside from the attribution to as specific team in China. "Most of the malware samples were already being detected by our antivirus and I presume the same to be true for others."
Bejtlich said Mandiant felt the timing of the report's release was good for two other reasons. "This is a time when there is a real push for security," he said. "The president just signed an Executive Order, our CEO had just testified on intelligence sharing and there are bills coming [in Congress on cybersecurity.]"
He added that there has been some frustration in the security community about the administration's apparent unwillingness to confront China. He said having White House Press Secretary Jay Carney talking about, "speaking to the Chinese in the most serious tones," is not enough. "We're here to play a part, and we wanted to present the evidence."
Bejtlich said Mandiant felt that this Army unit in particular would be particularly damaged by this. "We don't think they can pivot quickly to backup plan. This was an attempt to make life difficult for the adversary."
Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital, suggested another possible reason. "I think the Chinese goaded them into it," he said, noting that Chinese officials, in denying any involvement with the hack of The New York Times, said it was "unprofessional" to make the accusation "without any conclusive evidence."
"They probably figured, 'OK, we'll show you some evidence,'" McGraw said.
There are also questions about the comingling of media strategy with Mandiant's commercial interest. The New York Times had hired Mandiant in January to trace an attack on the computers of reporters and other employees following the newspaper's stories on the financial dealings of China's Premier Wen Jerboa.
Mandiant then allowed The Times to break the story on its APT1 report by providing it with an advance copy, allowing time for reporters to "test the conclusions with other experts, both inside and outside government," and providing advance interviews with company leaders. The Times published its story Monday, a day before the official release of the report.
The newspaper acknowledged in its story that while Mandiant is not now working for the Times, "it is in discussions about a business relationship."
Bejtlich acknowledged that the relationship developed between Mandiant and The Times during the investigation of the newspaper hack led to the coordination of a story in The Times on the release of the report.
That is normal, Chester Wisniewski said. "It isn't unusual to prefer your customers when it comes to these things," he said.
"It was mutually beneficial," Bejtlich said. "We were not in a position to talk to others in the intelligence community, but The Times could." He added that Mandiant felt this was the best way to give the report as much exposure as possible.
He acknowledged that some other media outlets scooped by The Times, were upset. "And I'm totally sympathetic to that," he said.
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We’re really going to need those locally produced covid jabs
At least 40 out of the 80 countries first allocated vaccines through the Gavi / Covax program are now facing the prospect of vaccine shortages, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, according to Bloomberg. “Well over half of countries have run out of stock and are calling for additional vaccines,” a WHO adviser said. “But in reality it's probably much higher."
Egypt and six other countries have used 80% of the shots sent by Covax, the WHO said. Others, such as the Ivory Coast, Gambia and Kenya, have consumed all of their shipments. Egypt has so far received 2.6 mn vaccines from Covax, more than half of the 4.5 mn it has been allocated.
Covax is falling far short of its targets: The goal of the organization is to distribute 1.8 bn doses to more than 90 developing countries by early next year, but almost six months into the rollout, it has delivered just 80 mn.
Why the delay? The shortage has been caused in large part by India’s export ban, which took offline one of the program’s biggest suppliers of Oxford / AstraZeneca shots, the Serum Institute.
Our next 1.9 mn-dose shipment has been delayed: Health Minister Hala Zayed said last month that the batch would arrive in Egypt by the first week of June, but we are yet to hear anything from the ministry or from Covax.
Luckily for us, we have other sources: China has sent over more than 2.1 mn Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines, while Vacsera’s production facility is expected to produce 6 mn shots of Sinovac by the end of the year. The US is also going to donate some of its surplus to us, but given that we’re splitting 14 mn shots between at least 30 other countries, the shipment will be relatively small.
What’s the solution to all of this? Take a leaf out of China’s book. Beijing has now handed out more than 1 bn vaccines to its citizens. As this graph in Axios shows, China’s vaccination campaign has left the US, the EU and India in the dust, administering 500 mn doses in just one month. As of Wednesday, more than 945 mn doses were administered in China, which is 3x the doses given in the US, and almost 40% of the 2.5 bn shots given globally, according to CNN’s covid-19 tracker.
How did China manage it? Local production — a model Egypt is going to follow as we look to make a jab from Sinovac at Vacsera. The first batches should be rolling off the lines these days and could be distributed as early as next month of quality control checks go well.
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“youaresofartohackme” has been one of taunts thrown at security researchers this year. And obvio, it was Ransomware crooks who could do this. Though, the wily criminals used ‘comment tactic’ in the middle of the year, but seems like they have been carrying ill-intentions even before 2016 initiated.
2016, also designated as ‘year of ransomware’ has seen enormous growth in Ransomware diffusion, transmission and ransom thieving. So much so, that criminals have made cyberware models and invite amateur crooks to host the Ransomware flag to newer heights. The wreak havoc is seeing no stoppage anytime soon. Until now, Ransomware flow has seen an increase of 500% from the previous year. To help you have better insight, we have collected a piece of organized Ransomware statistics. Get a clear sense with it and protect your data before the malicious Trojan takes over it.
Also Read: 7 Lesser Known Facts about Ransomware
- Rise in Ransomware Distribution: From the beginning of the year, ransomware attacks have bombarded like never before. In total, there is an increase of 500% in malware spread. Criminals have taken up different mediums for distribution, including email, website attachments, social media, USB drives, business application, unknown source. Refer to the graph below for acute data.
Note: Emails include two categories of 31% & 28%, standing for Email Links & Email Attachments respectively.
- Growth in infection: Apart from distribution, Ransomware variants were able to inflict on to users’ devices massively. On an average, Ransomware infects 30,000 to 35,000 devices in a month. However, in March 2016 the Trojan variants managed to pollute 56,000 devices. These devices also included Macs and it was vitiated by KeRanger Ransomware.
- Growth in Ransom payment: Along with Ransomware distribution and infection, thieving has also seen a growth. Approximately $209 million was paid to criminals in the first quarter of the year. FBI estimates are even higher. They have expected $1 billion ransom as the mediocre income of cyber criminals.
Must Read: 7 Biggest Ransomware Threats of 2016
- Growth in Business Ransomware:
A research conducted in June 2016 by Osterman Research says, almost every second participant confirmed their organization was once taken on by Ransomware in past 12 months. Despite that, 4% of organizations were confident enough on their security strategies, so much so that it would prevent all sort of Ransomware attacks (in case they face any).
- Average Ransomware demand: Ransom demand has increased radically. Criminals are now demanding more than double the ransom they demanded in the previous year. Ransom demand for every attack has seen a jump from $294 to $679 in the current year.
- New Ransomware families: Seems like malware distribution has become the easiest income source in this day and age. There is a 600% upsurge in new ransomware variants. On numbers, wily criminals have developed 50 new variants every single month in the first five months of 2016.
- Data protection Stats: While many are falling prey to Ransomware attacks, some have been smart enough to deal better. According to a research conducted by Barkly, 100% organizations actively backup their data in order to take prior measures against Ransomware. Perhaps, 4 out of 5 organizations were confident that they’ll be able recover their data via backup, without paying ransom. Less than half of the organizations (summing up to 42%) actually recovered it with backups. And despite all this, 5% organizations even considered paying ransom as an option.
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How much do Dietitians make?
The average total salary for a Dietitian is $58,500 per year. This is based on data from 12 TurboTax users who reported their occupation as Dietitian and includes taxable wages, tips, bonuses, and more. Dietitian salary can vary between $35,000 to $89,000 depending on factors including education, skills, experience, employer & location. | <urn:uuid:3f06be6e-bd4a-4049-91e3-6f025128b180> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mint.intuit.com/salary/dietitian/durham-nc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.973968 | 103 | 1.648438 | 2 |
At the North American Spine Society (NASS) annual meeting in New Orleans, USA (9–11 October) DePuy Synthes Spine announced the launch of the new Synflate Vertebral Balloon as part of its portfolio of procedural solutions for the treatment osteoporosis-related fractures.
According to the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), more than 700,000 people suffer these types of fractures each year.
The announcement was made at NASS, where DePuy Synthes Spine exhibited multiple vertebral balloons and cavity creation instruments and vertebroplasty cements and needles, including the high viscosity Confidence Spinal Cement System and Vertecem II Bone Cement.
The Synflate Vertebral Balloon is semi-elastic with material stiffness that has been optimised to enhance the structural stability of the balloon during inflation, enabling controlled and predictable cavity creation. At maximum inflation volume, the Synflate Vertebral Balloon is nearly double the strength of standard elastic balloons currently available on the market, it states in a company release.
The Synflate Vertebral Balloon is available in several sizes (10mm, 15mm and 20mm), is offered with mono- or bilateral-access kits, multiple-access trocars, and can be used with bone fillers including Vertecem II and Confidence Cements.
“The Synflate Vertebral Balloon offers versatility not found in other vertebral body augmentation portfolios,” said Max Reinhardt, worldwide president, DePuy Synthes Spine. “The access kits accommodate different physician preferences and surgical approaches, and the multiple balloon sizes enable selection based on specific patient anatomy.”
Vertebral body balloon procedures are used to reduce pain and strengthen and restore the shape and height of collapsed vertebra. In the procedure, the balloon is inserted into the vertebra and inflated to attempt to restore normal bone height. The balloon is then removed and the space or cavity that was created by the inflation of the balloon is filled with special bone cement to strengthen and stabilise the bone.
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PE001557 - Photographs: [Images of Edmonton and surrounding area]
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Album (19 x 29 cm.) bound by string between black covers. Contains 160 b/w photographs pasted down in the album. There is a single image - a portrait of a young woman - loose in the album. Most of the photographs are accompanied by manuscript annotations. Some captions include dates.
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The origins of the album are unclear, but it could be the record of British immigrants to northern Alberta. The verso of the loose portrait contains a photographer's stamp that includes a Westbourne Grove address, a retail area of west London. Several of the earliest photographs appear to be taken from a ship in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (including a picture of an iceberg), which could indicate a trans-Atlantic trip.
The majority of photographs, however, are from Alberta locales: Fallis, Rexboro, Lake Wabumun, and, most commonly, Edmonton. The album contains several photographs of the Hudson's Bay Company's 250th anniversary pageant held in Edmonton on 8 May 1920. There are also Edmonton images of the University of Alberta, cutting ice from the river, and Cree and Blackfoot participants in an unnamed 1922 event.
Many of the images are of individuals - presumably family members and friends - in agricultural and other settings. The captions do not always fully identify the subjects, but several surnames are mentioned: Bennett, Cannell, Margerison, Warning, Mullett, Merryweather, and Mills.
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Sneeze, jump, laugh out loud. Without hesitation.
The pelvic floor muscles form a 'sling' to support the organs inside the pelvis—bladder, bowel (colon), uterus. Proper function of these muscles can be disrupted by surgery, heavy lifting, being overweight, childbirth, constipation or menopause, affecting bladder and bowel control, leading to incontinence (leakage) or prolapse. Physiotherapists are experts in muscle function, tone, and strength, and therefore have the expertise to help with these and many other pelvic floor conditions.
Vestibular rehabilitation is concerned with the treatment or a range of conditions that affect the inner ear and your sense of balance, dizziness and nausea. A simple assessment could determine if physiotherapy is suitable in treating your type of vestibular issue. For the majority of cases one or two sessions can significantly reduce symptoms or eliminate them altogether.
PHYSIOTHERAPY AT HOME
If you are unable to leave your home and require physiotherapy home service, Home Care Physiotherapy allows a Registered Physiotherapist to visit your home to help you increase your mobility and better adapt to your home environment, or even your work place. This will include a complete physiotherapy assessment as well as treatment for a period ranging from two to twelve weeks of home physiotherapy visits.
Cancer and its treatments can cause a number of physical problems such as pain, inflammation, numbness, weakness, and loss of balance.
70% of those diagnosed with cancer struggle with physical side effects 1-10 years after treatment.
Cancer rehab physiotherapists advocate for physical and emotional well-being both during and after treatment.
Regular physiotherapy and a carefully devised exercise programme help to improve health and function, enabling patients to return to work and other activities as soon as possible. | <urn:uuid:1c7474fe-e84f-45e4-9dfd-a9b6cb4273f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ptmovementmasters.com/our-treatments | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.927369 | 413 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Paying interest on reserves is a nonsense.
Frances Coppola (if I’ve got her right) argues here that where commercial banks have unprecedented amounts of reserves, the central bank can still control lending by uping the interest paid on those reserves. But that throws up an absurdity, as follows.
If I decided to keep thousands under my matress in the form of physical cash, and someone suggested that government / central bank / taxpayers should pay me interest for that useless activity, that would be regarded as a joke. But physical cash is base money: just like reserves. I.e. paying interest on reserves is as absurd as paying people to keep cash under their matress.
I suggest the solution to that absurdity is that the currency issuer, ideally, should never pay anyone simply to hold currency. Instead, demand should be controlled by controlling the AMOUNT of currency issued. And indeed the latter policy has been or is advocated by others: e.g. Prof. Richard Werner, Positive Money, Warren Mosler and (as far as I can see) Milton Friedman at one point in his career. Thus if and when central banks start dishing out large amounts of taxpayers’ money to banks (and hence bank customers) for effectively keeping cash under their matresses, the latter individuals and groups will have a good chortle.
Moreover, two recent studies have shown that interest rate adjustments are pretty ineffective in regulating demand. See here and here. | <urn:uuid:23739a2b-b48d-4f5e-bdb0-7c6af62492b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ralphanomics.blogspot.com/2014/03/paying-interest-on-reserves-is-nonsense.html?showComment=1395138194870 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968912 | 305 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Money The united states concentrates his or her credit on pawn finance but features other types of services, contains brief financing, and look cashing.
Pawn finance are not commonly known, so it is crucial that you receive all of the truth before acquiring one. Cash advance loans tend to be smaller than average are typically become secured by guarantee within the client. The security helps you to recognize large and low-risk borrowers. Typically, a pawn mortgage will consist of fifty dollars to $200. That isn’t the bounds, but and money tends to be protected extraordinary thousand bucks. The greater the mortgage required, the greater price the collateral necessity.
Profit The usa provides a pawn money for thirty days. Essentially the most popular size for a financial loan. At the end of now, installment is anticipated fully. An extension may be required if finance are not paid. We also have the option for surrendering the security for transaction. The pawn finance is not a worry to protect. After the application process is done, only possess the security. The significance of the item is going to be examined, and the debt are going to be recommended in a few minutes.
Funds America bases the mortgage amount from the value of the guarantee given.
The better them or equipment are worth, the more the mortgage levels. The security supplied will experience an appraisal to determine its current value. It will aid funds The united states figure out how a great deal of the item may be offered for. Pawn personal loans differ from the commonly known pawnshops. During the time you secure a pawn financing, you’ll still own the security for that period of the borrowed funds. At the end of the word, when funding is actually returned, you will definitely get the equity to return the favour. From the quantity the mortgage is founded on value of them becoming surrendered, lots of people opt to incorporate jewellery as guarantee. Real diamonds and coins has big selling pricing, therefore allowing wealth America to offer you an improved amount you borrow toward the customer. Keep in mind that all collateral are placed safe and secure during the mortgage. All Cash The usa stores are completely protected for all the property value all products.
If you opt to use accessory as guarantee, them can be analyzed and evaluated for its benefits. All precious metals and rocks are actually checked to figure out really worth. The number of assessment lies in current market price back then the borrowed funds is being secure. Cost will change according to the steel composition. Eg, the provided price tag for 24K golden would be higher in contrast to 10 or 14K golden. The collateral you determine to give up should conform to the total amount you desire to borrow. It may possibly be advisable to put two or more bit of collateral any time finalizing the borrowed funds. This will likely ensure you can get the level of loan dollars essential.
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It is not important in the event that product is definitely amazing. Extent cited will be a pre-owned amount. This is certainly one particular little bit of critical information to recall when selecting what we should make use of for collateral. This approach is utilized since shop must discover at what cost that is often supplied. Appraisals are performed by skilled and prepared pros to ensure that each buyers obtains the greatest appraisal benefits obtainable.
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It is recommended can be a taste of safe and secure if obtaining a pawn money. Money America Pawn shops is audited typically. The inner review and Security Department runs these audits to ensure which organization try functioning truthfully and is offering a good service to the shoppers. All personnel of money The united states happen to be prepared doctors. The corporate works to present the absolute best economic service accessible.
Obtaining credit from Cash The united states is actually an easy and simple steps. Users take a look at a local store making use of collateral at hand.
The assessment is done on location, and an advantage has within seconds. Any item may be used as equity, including electronic devices, accessory, video games, along with some countries, weapons. After the assessment value was estimated, the customer must program a legitimate image ID. The borrowed funds is then used, along with funds are given to the consumer. Normally, the complete money techniques requires about ten minutes. The greatest benefit of acquiring a pawn loan would be that you don’t need to for virtually any sorts of credit rating. Many of us who happen to be wanting money don’t have a very good credit history. This particular service makes it possible for these people the opportunity to receive a loan without any anxiety and fear of denial. Money The usa is the biggest pawn lender in the united states. Her treatments keep on being the best, creating associates with a good as well as simple method to obtain a cash financing. | <urn:uuid:a5e7303f-38ac-44dd-9117-5346ba5d9504> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://melissinos-store.gr/2021/09/09/wealth-america-provides-niche-debts-to-people-of/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954671 | 1,078 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The highest-paid federal employee in history, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), recently announced his retirement effective January 2025. His estimated first year pension payout will exceed $414,000, or $14,000 more than the salary of President Biden ($400,000).
Fauci will turn 85 years old and have served in the federal government for 59 years when he retires. His lucrative golden parachute was secured through long-term service, a generous federal defined pension plan, and a massive pay increase (by then-President George W. Bush) for his bio-defense work. In 2004, Fauci’s pay increased 68 percent — from $200,000 to $335,000 a year. This award was permanent and carried forward through 2020.
This increase to Fauci’s salary made him the most highly compensated federal employee, giving him $417,608 in 2019 and $434,312 in 2020. For both years, Fauci was the top-paid federal employee, earning more than “the president, four-star generals, and roughly 4.3 million of his colleagues.” In 2021 his salary increased to $456,028, and today he makes $480,654. It is estimated he’ll make $504,686 in 2023, and then $529,921 in 2024 — all at the taxpayers’ expense.
Fauci’s retirement benefit is calculated by his length of service, as measured in months, and the average of the highest three years of salary, but the benefits cannot exceed 80% of his final salary. He can also cash in any unused sick leave. Employees of Fauci’s tenure also get an additional 2% annuity payment every year.
The current federal pension plan was introduced in the mid-twentieth century. Currently the president earns $400,000 a year while in office, plus a $50,000 expense allowance. The Former Presidents Act of 1958 (FPA) established that former presidents are entitled annually to an amount “equal to the annual rate of basic pay, as in effect from time to time, of the head of an executive department” — that is, the base pay of a Cabinet secretary, not the presidential salary. Today, that amount is $226,300.
Former presidents haven’t always had a golden parachute. Ulysses S. Grant’s family nearly became penniless until his deathbed autobiography, published and marketed by Mark Twain, became a bestseller.
The FPA was inspired by former President Harry Truman’s life of modest means after leaving office. After returning home to Independence, Missouri, Truman lived off his Army pension — about $1,000 a month in 2021 dollars — while spending thousands responding to correspondence. In 1957, Truman admitted to House Majority Leader John McCormack that he was going broke, and in 1958 McCormack succeeded in winning passage of the FPA to “maintain the dignity” of the office of the president with an annuity of $25,000 per year and office expenses. However, although Truman lived well more than a decade after the act’s passage, it didn’t apply to him. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower became the FPA’s first beneficiary.
Congressional salaries haven’t changed since 2009. In 2022, most senators and representatives collect an annual salary of $174,000. The speaker of the House gets paid $223,500, and the Senate president pro tempore and the majority and minority leaders of the two chambers earn $193,400 each year while they’re in office.
Representatives and senators become eligible to receive retirement benefits only after serving in Congress for at least five years. That’s nearly one full term for a senator, and more than two terms for a House member. Those who have completed the minimum service could begin collecting their pensions at age 62, according to the Congressional Research Service report. Those with a longer record of service can start collecting sooner.
Fauci’s golden parachute is a highly visible example of why public employee and government pension plans need to be revised. These plans are out of sync with working Americans and have grown into a substantial financial burden on taxpayers. Considering historically high inflation and massive federal debt, pensions such as the one Fauci will receive need to be restructured — if not sunset — by Congress, and the sooner the better. | <urn:uuid:ed928ab1-b04c-4c91-a1a9-c9a883731146> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cpanews.org/faucis-pension-to-exceed-presidents-salary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970837 | 936 | 1.921875 | 2 |
*originally posted to RGJ.com
The growth of independent contractors in the workforce has prompted some to call the new, post-recessionary U.S. work world the “1099 Economy,” referring to the name of the tax form filed by independent contractors.
An estimated 10.3 million U.S. workers are independent contractors, according to 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data, and all indications are that number is rapidly growing.
But, the growth of independent contractors has led to growing scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service, which is seeking out companies that are misclassifying employees as independent contractors to avoid paying taxes and employee benefits.
Here are two steps a company should take to avoid the penalties, back taxes and interest that can come from misclassifying a worker as an independent contractor.
Be careful to make the correct classification
Get the classification of workers right the first time and continually monitor independent contractors so you are aware if a contractor’s relationship with your company changes and necessitates a re-classification as an employee.
The Internal Revenue Service uses a 20-part “right-to-control” test to determine whether a worker is an independent contractor or an employee. The more control a company has over when, where and how work is performed, the more likely the worker is an employee and not an independent contractor. Refer to the IRS website to review a list of all 20 elements that the IRS uses to determine whether a worker is an independent contractor vs. an employee.
Don’t be afraid of reclassifying your workers
While the IRS is turning up the level of scrutiny on companies that misclassify their workers as independent contractors, they also are offering leniency for those that address the problem. The Voluntary Worker Classification Settlement Program recently was expanded by the IRS and offers companies a way to avoid stiff penalties.
“Employers accepted into the program will generally pay an amount effectively equaling just over 1 percent of the wages paid to the reclassified workers for the past year,” according to the IRS. The program eliminates interest and penalties, and assures that employers will not be audited on payroll taxes related to the reclassified workers’ prior work.
When executed correctly, the independent contractor relationship can have benefits for both workers and companies.
Independent contractors have greater flexibility in work schedule and location and are able to pursue multiple entrepreneurial opportunities. Companies gain an on-demand workforce that can scale with the ebb and flow of business without the long-term costs and commitments of hiring full-time employees.
John Solari is the managing partner of J.A. Solari & Partners. He has 25 years of accounting experience and also is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants. | <urn:uuid:c5482505-463a-4985-b31f-2253e118059d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jasolariandpartners.com/use-care-in-classifying-contractors-vs-employees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952799 | 577 | 1.789063 | 2 |
The Boreal Arrow
Code BA384: English Sundial J. LIZARS Compass
This is an extremely rare example of a sundial hunter compass. It is marked J. LIZARS GLASGOW LONDON ETC but was probably made by the famous BARKER & S compass maker. It is also marked with a serial number 396957. I would date this compass to around 1900. The case has a nice old patina and a strong hinge. It has no dings or dents. Only some scratches due to age. Upon a push on the button, the front lid springs open to reveal a nice compass with a gnomon that unfolds and can be adjusted from 10o to 90o. It clicks when closed. The compass has a silver chapter ring and dial. It has Roman numerals divided to 15 minutes intervals. It is very precise and points North. The transit lock is also in perfect working order when lid is closed. The compass measures 51mm in diameter. | <urn:uuid:8aa469ec-a05d-4454-95c0-9ac763fd97a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://borealarrow.com/Compasses/BA384/BA_384details.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.948076 | 215 | 1.992188 | 2 |
As stated by the New Statements, the reality that of Climate Change is Groundless. What Are The Research Proofs for This sort of Assertions?
As stated by the up to date states, the point that of global warming is groundless. Are there any medical evidence for these sort of claims?
The green house effect clarifies that unwanted gas just like co2 trap electricity coming from the sunlight causing the earth’s mood to behave exactly like a shut strategy. Any additional warm up stuck culminates into climatic change. Challengers about this thought declare that associated green house gas to climate change is known as a infringement of technological values, specially the to begin with laws of thermodynamics.online research papers Energy levels could only be transformed from a style to another but cannot be provided or wrecked. On the other hand, some scholars think that the earliest legislation of thermodynamics relates to net high heat loss only. As outlined by Hammer, global warming is legitimate and should be corresponding to personal photons that radiate overall information. Photons can transmit temperature from popular physical objects to ice cold objects and the other way around. A significant talk within the reliability of climatic change is, and so, necessary. When high temperature and light through the sun is confined to the earth’s setting by high temperatures-holding fumes, the green house influence transpires. Therefore, the world’s temps climb. Garden greenhouse fumes comprise of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and others . The effects for the more comfortable heat, to the the earth, are overwhelming. In particular, the globe is having a rise in ocean standard, much stronger storms, melting an ice pack caps and modifications to climatic illnesses. Tests done throughout the last five decades tell us which the planet is heating up noticeably. With each driving time of the year, a .60 o C to .65 o C increase in heat level are being expert throughout the world.
Foes of global warming believe that the greenhouse result can not be authenticated because it violates the normal principles of science. Quoting Gerlich’s and Tscheuschner’s, O’Sullivan reiterates that, not like a garden greenhouse which options to be a sealed system, the earth’s setting is undoubtedly an wide open structure . Subsequently, warmth acquired through the the earth ought to be similar to the heating lost. As per the to begin with regulation of thermodynamics, the general electricity while in the world is consistent. An overview for this laws is provided via the blueprint: Esy Esu =Eun. The subscripts sy, su and Eun denote the program, the surroundings and then the world respectively. The letter E denotes the force. Electricity during the world, at big, must be equal to the power inside of a product together with the surroundings. Moving through this, it truly is unlikely that your globe is encountering a world-wide-web warm acquire.
The sense that climatic change are unable to manifest since the universe is much cooler as compared to the globe in uncalled for. The 2nd laws of thermodynamic pertains to the internet heating reduction yet not specific photons. So, what the law states is not going to eliminate warm up from going from colder to more comfortable organisations. Tests implemented in three dimensional with precious metal hinders at several temperature ranges affirmed that photons radiate warm up in any instructions. They also proceed coming from the colder blocks to more comfortable blocks or through the warm for the chilled ones. Climatic change, for this reason, is not going to, at all, defy your second law of thermodynamics. When the garden greenhouse unwanted gas were being not offer, the earth’s area would radiate temperature into the universe, and the internet high temperature decrease through the the earth might possibly be significant given that the external room space is extremely freezing. Therefore, greenhouse gases protect against a whole lot of heating from escaping on the outer spot.
As a result, it will be acceptable that climate change is one of the most warmed arguments global. Some scholars feel that it is due to the buildup of green house gas during the setting but other individuals state that the trend is a fairy tale. Amazingly, both sides belonging to the debate shield ourselves with important clinical verification. Enemies advise that with the garden greenhouse results to validate climatic change is often a infringement of science and, really, your first legal system of thermodynamics ever since warm accumulated by your the earth should really be comparable to heat shed. The promoting area, in contrast, indicates that there is always information the fact that the earth’s temperature is enhancing inspite of the universe currently being chillier. Nonetheless, this area of interest ought to have extra collaborating than opposite factions ever since climate change is serious. Its impacts are exposed, regardless of if the garden greenhouse consequence infringes over the legislation of thermodynamics or perhaps not. | <urn:uuid:4c712f42-d802-4c34-80e4-5f78be5f1879> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://krnb.com/blog/as-stated-by-the-new-statements-the-reality-that/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.933935 | 994 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Why Event Stream Processing Is Leading the New Big Data Era
Big Data is probably one of the most misused words of the last decade. It was widely promoted, discussed and spread around by business managers, technical experts, and experienced academics. Slogans like “Data is the new oil” and all its different shades were widely accepted as unquestionable truth.
These beliefs pushed really forward the Hadoop technologies. Its stack, formerly developed by “Yahoo!” and lately owned by the Apache Software Foundation, was recognized like “The” Big Data solution.
Many companies started to offer commercial, enterprise-grade and supported versions of Hadoop until it’s started to be experimented and adopted by a large number of industries, ranging from medium-sized companies to Fortune 500.
The possibility to analyze huge amounts of data generated by heterogeneous sources, trying to boost the company’s competitiveness and profitability, was the key reason for the investments made on Hadoop.
Another important point was the idea to replace the expensive legacy Data Warehouse installations with Hadoop, trying to improve both performances and data availability while reducing operational costs at the same time.
However, during the last few years, a growing number of analysts focused on the Big Data market, started to publish articles declaring an upcoming fall of the Hadoop world. Their mainly motivation behind such statements can be summarized as follows:
- the deployment model is moving from on-premises solutions to a Hybrid, Full and Multi-Cloud architectures. Hadoop isn’t a technology made to be completely cloud-ready. Furthermore, cloud vendors have already been selling cheaper and easy to manage and use solutions for years;
- Machine Learning technologies and platforms are quickly reaching a productiveness maturity. Hadoop stack was not ideated around Machine Learning concepts even if support for it has been added during the years;
- Advanced and Real-Time Analytics market is rapidly increasing, Hadoop stack doesn’t seem to be the best fit to implement those innovative kinds of analytics.
In a few words, the analysts started to declaring that Hadoop was not anymore an innovative technology and to solve the future challenges something different needed to be put on the plate.
On the opposite side, from a more empirical point of view, analyzing our personal past experiences, the solutions based on the Hadoop stack were proven to be really hard and expensive to be developed and maintained. Furthermore, the professionals having the right skills and any proven experience were not easy to be recruited.
Hence a lot of adopters finally didn’t reach the maturity of its vertical solution developed on top of the technology. The consequence was that moving those systems from PoC and prototypes statuses to real productiveness seemed almost an unreachable finish line.
Those aren’t the unique key reasons for the recent disillusion around the Hadoop technologies and in general on the “Big Data” movement. One of the main motivations can be identified on the proposition used by many Hadoop vendors, positioning concepts like Data Lake as central.
While creating a unique denormalized data repository is still a need for big and complex organizations, at least to empower data governance and data lineage practices, the projects aiming to feed Data Lakes usually tend to lasting years in large enterprise before reaching the maturity. Most of those initiatives finally demonstrated to be really expensive both from an economic and project governance point of view.
These complex repositories called Data Lake are filled with historical data referring, in the lucky case, to a series of snapshots of the last closing day. While that could be acceptable in a lot of business scenarios, the enterprise world is needing to instantaneously react to the happenings. For this reason, companies are increasingly asking for more accurate and rapid insight to immediately forecast the possible outcomes and scenarios generated by the available set of input actions.
Nowadays, one of the best available ways to solve effectively these pressing requirements is to embrace an Event Stream Processing architecture. Coming back also to the points raised by various analysts, it’s clear that the Event Stream Processing could become a perfect backbone for at least:
- the implementation of Multi-Cloud architectures (real-time or near-real-time integration of distributed data across different data centers and cloud vendors);
- the deployment and monitoring of Machine Learning models, enjoying the power of real-time predictions;
- real-time data processing without losing accuracy while analyzing historical data.
For these reasons streaming technologies are improving every day, eating market shares to more canonical solutions working with batch processing. The Hadoop vendors majority decided to answer to these pressing needs by incorporating into their Big Data Distribution one of the streaming frameworks offered by the open-source landscape. The selected solutions were normally Apache Storm or Apache Spark Streaming.
Unfortunately, the consequence was to finally add even more complexity into their stack; the offered products eventually included a wide number of computational engines, making the choice of the right tool for the job painful for operative figures like architects and developers. Other vendors are trying instead to follow new ways of dealing with the combination of bounded (e.g. a file) and unbounded (e.g. an infinite incoming sequence of tweets) kind of data sources through the employment of stream engines also for batch processing.
Which is the relationship between stream and batch processing? While it’s almost impossible to run a stream processing job on top of a batch processing framework, the opposite is largely feasible. For instance, we can read a text file using a stream processing framework, translating each file row into a single event and processing it. On the other side, a batch processing framework cannot work on every single event, although it can process a set of events, to reach a similar result it has to be continuously scheduled.
Summarizing, stream processing can be identified as a superset of batch processing, therefore, batch processing can be recognized as a special case of stream processing.
In conclusion, the usage of an Event Stream Processing engine can bring a lot of benefits. It can:
- work on both bound data (data on-rest) and unbound data (data on-motion);
- process data offering a tunable low latency (ranging from milliseconds to seconds) still acting with a high throughput;
- offer different processing semantics (at-most-once, at-least-once or exactly-one);
- process heterogeneous data in a distributed fashion scaling out the systems horizontally.
However, there is a dark side in all of this: it’s not as easy as it might seem to architect and develop solutions based on stream processing. Although such technologies are lightweight and they usually need a less complex stack, they are not straightforward to be used in the right way at first.
Instead, considering its importance and benefits, Event Stream Processing should be democratized by tackling the impediments with the use of high-level self-service tools enforcing best practices and patterns by leveraging the Big Data stacks often already present in the companies and trying to preserve the investments made in the past. | <urn:uuid:c152fd3a-dd9c-467b-9968-9d1692427879> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://radicalbit.medium.com/why-event-stream-processing-is-leading-the-new-big-data-era-c9b3d59dd5f6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.951496 | 1,452 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Public Health officials continue to investigate an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness associated with attending the Open Source Bridge Conference at the Eliot Center in downtown Portland from June 23 to 26, 2015.
We have determined that Salmonella caused gastrointestinal illness among conference attendees. Laboratory tests helped investigators identify a distinct Salmonella strain (Salmonella typhimurium) in six attendees who became ill between June 26th and June 30th. In addition to these six cases, 45 other people reported having symptoms consistent with Salmonellosis. They were among more than 220 conference attendees who responded to a Health Department survey that conference organizers shared last week.
The Health Department is continuing its investigation to identify the source of the bacteria that caused the illness. There is no indication that this outbreak spread beyond people connected to the conference. We are monitoring illness in Oregon to assure this is the case.
Salmonella is a bacteria that causes people to develop diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps (also known as gastrointestinal illness). Most people start getting sick one to three days after infection, though that can vary from twelve hours to seven days. While it is common for people to recover without treatment, they are often ill for several days, a week, or sometimes longer. The elderly, infants, and people with an impaired immune system are more likely to have a severe illness.
There is no vaccine to prevent salmonellosis. Avoiding undercooked animal products (eggs, poultry, or meat) is a good way to avoid exposure to Salmonella. It is also important to avoid cross-contamination between raw meats and ready-to-eat foods like produce. In fact, large outbreaks of salmonellosis have been linked to produce like bean sprouts and cantaloupes, and to poultry and poultry products. As with all foodborne illnesses, outbreaks can also occur when there are breaches in good food handling practices. For more information on good food-handling practices, go to: http://www.foodsafety.gov/poisoning/causes/bacteriaviruses/salmonella/
The Salmonella bacteria can be passed from person to person by contact with stool (feces) of a person shedding the bacteria (sick or well). Therefore, to prevent spread to household members, please wash your hands with soap and warm water after using the toilet. If you or someone in your household develops diarrhea and works as a food handler, healthcare worker, or in a childcare, please contact your local public health authority for testing and do not go to work while ill. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate about 1.2 million cases of salmonella infection occur every year in the United States. A useful Q & A and lots of other Salmonella information can be found at the CDC’s main Salmonella website: http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/
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May is EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) Awareness Month, and it has become an annual tradition for me to write about it. If you haven’t done so already and have a few more minutes to spare, click here to read last year’s post, in which I discussed the condition and how it relates to a sense of belonging. EDS is a genetic connective tissue disorder that, depending on the type a person has, carries with it symptoms ranging from fragile skin to joint hypermobility to strong risk of arterial rupture. I am fortunate to be free of that last symptom, but the other two have been part of my daily life from day one. Thanks for lending an ear (eye) here, as I discuss the way having this “invisible” and largely misunderstood (or, more often, completely unknown) condition intersects with the world of accommodations for people with disabilities.
Our society (in the U.S.A. at least) has come a long way in terms of accepting the notion of accommodations for the disabled. Of course we need wheelchair accessibility, and of course it makes sense to have Braille in elevators and of course qualified people should not be denied employment or educational opportunities because they have disabilities that will be inconvenient for others to accommodate. Accepting these as truths of a humane society is a relatively recent phenomenon, though, and it’s a lot easier to stand behind clear-cut examples like the ones I just gave than it is to address the gut reaction many people have to the healthy-looking person taking the handicapped spot in a parking lot and walking into the store without a cane or wheelchair (if it’s someone with EDS, that may be the bodily equivalent of a half-mile walk and that may be that person’s only time spent out of a wheelchair that day). Really, the world we inhabit falls in a very ambiguous place between the extremes of “make sure everyone has the chance to thrive” and “survival of the fittest.”
At my first EDNF (Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation) conference in 2002, I met a music student who had to change majors because a required course was only offered on the second floor of a wheelchair-inaccessible building, with no alternatives offered by the department. I think anybody compassionate enough to read this far can agree that this is just wrong and represents a college (which I will decline to name) failing to meet its legal obligations. Many others with EDS, however, look and act sufficiently normal that folks have a hard time processing the idea that there is a legitimate disability. One of the saddest things about this to me is how it encourages the EDS-sufferer to push beyond what is physically appropriate because the resulting physical suffering seems preferable to the social or professional consequences of being “high-maintenance.” If you have reason to doubt that people will understand and accept why you have been granted a copy of the elevator key, you might just take the stairs and pay for it with your hips, knees and ankles later. If you are around able-bodied people who are on their feet for hours (and are tired as a result), will you feel morally entitled to sit? If so, will you be immune to the potential for resentment and other social backlash, subtle as it may be?
These sorts of questions can become convoluted – last year when I made the (very careful) step of returning to tennis playing, my physical concerns were compounded by concern over whether people would assume that I was “all better” (or, worse, had been exaggerating the severity of my issues all along). Like many with EDS, I inhabit a somewhat amorphous middle-ground between able-bodied and disabled. I look normal and am not totally disabled (whatever that means), but my body’s ability to function is in many ways impaired. There is an irony to my existence, in that I put a lot of time and energy to maintain my physical health to the point where I can assimilate into the world of the able-bodied, but if I actually act as though I’m able bodied, that compromises everything. So I control my diet, sleep, physical activities and so on, and as a result I am almost as healthy as if I were “normal.” It is as if I am working hard to hang on to my membership to the “able-bodied club,” though once I walk through that club’s doors, I have a limited capacity to experience the perks. After all, normal people can spend a late night at a club, have a beer and a burger while sitting on a hard barstool, and not pay for it – for me, any one of those activities has an impact significantly greater than for a “normal” person. So it’s a good thing that being a jazz musician doesn’t require late nights and provides almost total control over things like equipment, diet and amount and type of physical exertion and that all jazz gigs are governed by the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), ensuring that anyone with physical challenges is accommodated accordingly, both during the gig and in the hiring process. Oh, wait . . .
For obvious reasons, my professional ambitions are often at odds with my physical reality. I like to think I do a good job of finding creative solutions, though ultimately respecting my body’s needs. I am, however, hardly so enlightened that I’m immune to struggling with these issues. An example that comes to mind is the ring splints that I began wearing to play the piano in 2004, and which have unquestionably extended my performance career. While I had some skepticism that they would help (which, thankfully, proved to be totally wrong), there was also a lot of other resistance in there. Specifically, I had worked hard to develop my technique to overcome EDS and play on a level that I felt legitimately represented my love for the music and the work and study that I’d done. Here I was, though, considering a pile of metal to diminish the pain and fatigue in my fingers. I wondered “Is this fair?” After all, no other accomplished jazz pianist in my age group wears splints on his or her fingers. So if I can only ply my trade with large amounts of metal bracing, doesn’t that cheapen anything I subsequently accomplish?
Fortunately this narrative is not the dominant one in my mind, or else I would have continued to resist the ring splints on principle . . . and very likely would have either quit performing several years ago or at best would have continued to do so in an impaired and unnecessarily painful manner. Or at the very least my last 4 albums would have been released with stickers on the covers offering the disclaimer “the music here is fraudulent, hope you enjoy it anyway.” But it’s striking that I’m vulnerable to these thought patterns, even after years of working internally on these issues and even with a spouse and a large circle of friends and colleagues who consistently reinforce the notions that my ability to still play is beneficial to everyone and that I gain nothing and help nobody when I push my body beyond what it can handle. As of this writing, I can play for only minutes without my splints before my fingers begin to throb and crumple, yet I was seriously considering saying no to the splints that make it possible to keep playing. What, then, about the people whose environments and communities actually reinforce this kind of thinking? Worse yet, what about those who are in that situation and don’t yet have the diagnosis to explain the fragility of their bodies? By some calculations, 80% or more of those with EDS never get an accurate diagnosis, and thus spend their lives with no real explanation to validate or legitimize the reality of their physical suffering.
I’m sure others have studied this phenomenon more thoroughly and more intelligently than I have, but I have observed two common mindsets that particularly seem to foster intolerance (whether subtly or dramatically) towards accommodations for less-obvious challenges.
1) If someone can get by without accommodations, doesn’t that make them unnecessary? Furthermore, accepting unnecessary accommodations reflects poorly that person, who must therefore be lazy, a hypochondriac, or somehow trying to evade responsibility. Have people forgotten how to just suck it up and show some strength?
You and I both know people of whom this is, in fact, true in some way. Sure there are people who are looking for the easy way out, even people with disabilities who “milk” them, and it is frustrating to see this. However, there are a lot of people who aren’t like this. And I know for a fact that there are a lot of people with EDS for whom this sort of “taking the easy way” couldn’t be farther from the truth. Over the last 10 years I have been blessed to build a wide circle of EDS friends who would like nothing more than to thrive doing the things that are important to them. From the small business owner to the biochemist to the dentist to the mom who can no longer lift her child . . . is it really plausible to think that these people enjoy being stripped of their physical self-sufficiency? That having other people (or machines) do things they used to do themselves represents some sort of luxury? Rather than being branded as weak, shouldn’t people in this predicament be celebrated for the immense amount of strength that allows them to continue to live their lives in a resourceful and dignified manner?
2) Resources are finite and my own interests must be protected. By that logic, any opportunity or accommodation afforded to somebody else imperils my own well-being. If someone else gets a gig or a grant or a job, that’s money out of my pocket. If they get those things with the aid of accommodations that were not available to me, it’s not only threatening but it’s unfair!
This second phenomenon started to become clear in my mind a few years ago through a circumstance unrelated to disability. As a foster and adoptive parent, my daughters have access to some state subsidies for their college educations. On numerous occasions I have mentioned this to people (invariably parents of kids at or approaching college age themselves) and gotten the response “wow, what do I have to do to get MY kid into that program?” You may be shocked by that response or you may have actually thought the same thing yourself, and my point is not to vilify those folks for their insensitivity, but rather to illustrate their feeling somehow gypped by the fact that other children are getting this opportunity that their children are being denied. Never mind that the folks making these comments are intelligent people who, with a second sober thought, would realize that any kid who has access to these subsidies has endured trauma and loss that no decent human would wish upon his own children.
If you’re feeling bad about your lot in life (either in general or in an isolated moment of self-pity, however justified), it’s human nature to resent those who you perceive to have been granted things that makes their lives easier, especially if they don’t “deserve” it more than you. As such, this particular mindset is a very emotional one that tends not to make a lot of rational sense. Someone taking that handicapped spot probably doesn’t directly impact your well-being regardless of the legitimacy of his handicap. But if that’s just another piece of proof that others are getting a free lunch while you’re being left to toil, those feelings can come out in pretty intense ways.
And you know what? Those of us with EDS endure enough on a daily basis that we don’t need to be resented, on top of it all, for attempting to better manage our obstacles. Or, depending on your perspective, maybe we do and I’m just being a pansy by even saying so . . .
So what’s the solution to this? If I knew, I would’ve fixed it by now. Workin’ on it. I do know two things, however.
1) If more people know about EDS, things will be a lot easier for those of us who have it. Thank you for reading on and if you have the opportunity to share it, even better.
2) If people stop and acknowledge the impossibility of understanding the suffering of a stranger, this will be a more tolerant world, and one in which EDS sufferers are given the space to maximize our ability to live and contribute to society with fewer physical and social barriers. Sounds good, eh? | <urn:uuid:96919ad0-ea45-464d-a56b-d110f71a4315> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://noahjazz.com/eds-awareness-month-2011-accommodations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.973742 | 2,664 | 1.851563 | 2 |
the Taíno Museum
Since near 50 years, Kathy Dicquemare (80+) has bring together more than 5,000 pre-Columbian artifacts, the majority of which are Taíno pan-Caribbean archaeological objects from Haiti. This is from far the first unique Private Collection on Taíno People up to now.
Since 2009, Kathy has create the KATHY DICQUEMARE FOUNDATION, a non profit organisation. The main purpose of the foundation is to build the first national Taíno Museum to share this collection with the public. The Taíno Museum has a strong core of revival or Taíno legacy materials that include fine photographs, graphics and contemporary works influenced by Taíno heritage and history. It speaks to the power of the original images to note that they have sustained their inspirational force for over five centuries.
As soon as the project is fully sustainable and financed, the construction of the Taíno Museum building will start. The Museum is hosted inside the Cormier Beach Resort area. Here is a view of the domain including the Museum (check the video at 01:34 to 02:11).
Thank you for
Up to now, you can only visit the Taíno Museum virtually on this website. $300 000 is needed to build the Museum in a safe and accessible environment and to preserve the collection.
The Museum will be located in Cormier Beach Resort, one of the best resort in the North of Haiti.
Kathy thanks you for your precious help.
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There are many types of malware and one of them is adware (also known as ‘ad-supported’ software). The ‘ad supported’ software, which causes the appearance of Mesmobilea.com pop-up ads or the redirect to this unwanted web-page, have a negative impact on the functioning of your computer. It modifies PC settings, generates a large amount of various advertisements, slows down the Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox and MS Edge and the speed of your internet connection. Moreover, it may lead to the fact that web sites are slow to load and the browser interface can even freeze. The main function of the adware is showing advertisements, so it may redirect your web browser to an unwanted web-site like Mesmobilea.com, instead of the one that you want to visit. Even if you try to type an address into the internet browser’s address bar, then the web browser is anyway will show an unwanted ad page.
The ad supported software is the part of the software that is used as an online promotional tool. It is created with the sole purpose to open dozens of pop-up ads, and thus to promote the goods and services in an open web-browser window. So, the Mesmobilea.com is just one of the many sites of the so-called ‘ad-support’ type. It is designed to fill the browser’s constant stream of ads, or redirect the web-browser to not expected and intrusive advertising web sites. Moreover, the adware can substitute the legitimate advertising banners on misleading or even banners that can offer to visit harmful web-pages. The reason is simple, many advertisers agree on any ways to attract users to their web pages, so the creators of ‘ad supported’ software, often forcing users to click on an advertising link. For each click on a link, the authors of the ad supported software receive income. It’s the so-called ‘Pay-Per-Click’ method.
The malicious software from the adware family that alters the settings of web-browsers usually affects only the Google Chrome, Firefox, IE and Microsoft Edge. However, possible situations, when any other internet browsers will be affected too. The ad-supported software may change the Target property of a web-browser’s shortcut, so every time you run the browser, instead of your homepage, you will see the annoying Mesmobilea.com advertisements.
Table of contents
- What is Mesmobilea.com
- How to remove Mesmobilea.com pop up advertisements
- Manual Mesmobilea.com advertisements removal
- Uninstalling the Mesmobilea.com, check the list of installed software first
- Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove Mesmobilea.com redirect
- Delete Mesmobilea.com redirect from Internet Explorer
- Remove Mesmobilea.com pop-ups from FF
- Remove Mesmobilea.com redirect from Google Chrome
- Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks
- How to get rid of Mesmobilea.com pop-up ads with free programs
- Manual Mesmobilea.com advertisements removal
- How to stop Mesmobilea.com redirect
- How to avoid install of Mesmobilea.com pop-up ads
- Finish words
The guide below explaining steps to get rid of Mesmobilea.com pop up ads problem. Feel free to use it for removal of the adware that may attack Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, IE and Edge and other popular web-browsers. The step by step guide will allow you delete adware and thereby clean your internet browser from all undesired advertisements.
How to remove Mesmobilea.com pop up advertisements
In the steps below, we’ll try to cover the Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge and provide general advice to get rid of Mesmobilea.com pop-up ads. You may find some minor differences in your MS Windows install. No matter, you should be okay if you follow the steps outlined below: remove all suspicious and unknown programs, reset web browsers settings, fix internet browsers shortcuts, delete harmful scheduled tasks, use free malware removal utilities. Read this manual carefully, bookmark or print it, because you may need to close your web-browser or reboot your computer.
Manual Mesmobilea.com advertisements removal
The step-by-step guidance will help you get rid of Mesmobilea.com ads. These Mesmobilea.com removal steps work for the Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and MS Edge, as well as every version of Microsoft Windows operating system.
Uninstalling the Mesmobilea.com, check the list of installed software first
In order to remove potentially unwanted programs like this adware, open the MS Windows Control Panel and click on “Uninstall a program”. Check the list of installed software. For the ones you do not know, run an Internet search to see if they are ad supported software, hijacker infection or PUPs. If yes, uninstall them off. Even if they are just a applications that you do not use, then deleting them off will increase your personal computer start up time and speed dramatically.
Windows 8, 8.1, 10
First, click Windows button , then press Search . Type ‘Control panel’and press Enter as shown on the screen below.
After the ‘Control Panel’ opens, click the ‘Uninstall a program’ link under Programs category as shown on the image below.
You will see the ‘Uninstall a program’ panel like below.
Very carefully look around the entire list of programs installed on your system. Most likely, one or more of them are responsible for the appearance of ads and web browser redirect to the intrusive Mesmobilea.com site. If you have many programs installed, you can help simplify the search of malicious applications by sort the list by date of installation. Once you have found a suspicious, unwanted or unused program, right click to it, after that press ‘Uninstall’.
Windows XP, Vista, 7
First, click ‘Start’ button and select ‘Control Panel’ at right panel as shown in the figure below.
Once the Windows ‘Control Panel’ opens, you need to click ‘Uninstall a program’ under ‘Programs’ as on the image below.
You will see a list of programs installed on your machine. We recommend to sort the list by date of installation to quickly find the software that were installed last. Most likely they responsibility for the appearance of pop-ups and web browser redirect. If you are in doubt, you can always check the program by doing a search for her name in Google, Yahoo or Bing. When the program which you need to delete is found, simply press on its name, and then press ‘Uninstall’ as on the image below.
Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove Mesmobilea.com redirect
When the ad-supported software is started, it can also alter the browser’s shortcuts, adding an argument similar “http://site.address” into the Target field. Due to this, every time you open the web-browser, it will show an unwanted site.
To clear the web-browser shortcut, right-click to it and select Properties. On the Shortcut tab, locate the Target field. Click inside, you will see a vertical line – arrow pointer, move it (using -> arrow key on your keyboard) to the right as possible. You will see a text similar “http://site.address” which has been added here. You need to delete it.
When the text is removed, click the OK button. You need to clean all shortcuts of all your web-browsers, as they may be infected too.
Delete Mesmobilea.com redirect from Internet Explorer
The Internet Explorer reset is great if your browser is hijacked or you have unwanted addo-ons or toolbars on your web-browser, which installed by an malware.
First, run the IE. Next, click the button in the form of gear (). It will open the Tools drop-down menu, click the “Internet Options” as shown in the figure below.
In the “Internet Options” window click on the Advanced tab, then click the Reset button. The Internet Explorer will display the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” window as on the image below. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box, then click “Reset” button.
You will now need to restart your system for the changes to take effect.
Remove Mesmobilea.com pop-ups from FF
The Firefox reset will keep your personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, web form auto-fill data, restore preferences and security settings, remove redirects to annoying Mesmobilea.com web page and adware.
First, open the Firefox and click button. It will open the drop-down menu on the right-part of the internet browser. Further, click the Help button () as shown on the image below
In the Help menu, select the “Troubleshooting Information” option. Another way to open the “Troubleshooting Information” screen – type “about:support” in the web-browser adress bar and press Enter. It will display the “Troubleshooting Information” page as on the image below. In the upper-right corner of this screen, click the “Refresh Firefox” button.
It will show the confirmation prompt. Further, press the “Refresh Firefox” button. The Mozilla Firefox will begin a process to fix your problems that caused by the adware which cause unwanted Mesmobilea.com ads to appear. After, it is finished, click the “Finish” button.
Remove Mesmobilea.com redirect from Google Chrome
Like other modern web browsers, the Chrome has the ability to reset the settings to their default values and thereby recover the web browser’s settings like new tab, startpage and search engine by default that have been replaced by the ‘ad supported’ software that cause annoying Mesmobilea.com pop ups to appear.
- First start the Google Chrome and press Menu button (small button in the form of three horizontal stripes).
- It will show the Google Chrome main menu. Select “Settings” option.
- You will see the Chrome’s settings page. Scroll down and press “Show advanced settings” link.
- Scroll down again and click the “Reset settings” button.
- The Google Chrome will show the reset profile settings page as shown on the screen above.
- Next press the “Reset” button.
- Once this procedure is finished, your browser’s home page, new tab page and search engine by default will be restored to their original defaults.
- To learn more, read the article How to reset Chrome settings to default.
Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks
If the undesired Mesmobilea.com web-site opens automatically on Windows startup or at equal time intervals, then you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all the tasks which have been created by adware.
Press Windows and R keys on the keyboard simultaneously. This shows a prompt that called Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and press OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, like below.
In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Please choose the first task, its properties will be show just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Pay attention to that it launches on your computer. Found something like “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address”, then remove this malicious task. If you are not sure that executes the task, check it through a search engine. If it’s a component of the unwanted software, then this task also should be removed.
Having defined the task that you want to delete, then press on it with the right mouse button and choose Delete as shown below.
Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by adware. Once is done, close the Task Scheduler window.
How to get rid of Mesmobilea.com pop-up ads with free programs
The easiest solution to remove Mesmobilea.com redirect is to use an antimalware program capable of detecting this ad supported software that redirects your web browser to unwanted Mesmobilea.com web page. We recommend try Zemana Anti-malware or another free malicious software remover that listed below. It has excellent detection rate when it comes to ‘ad supported’ software, hijacker infections and other potentially unwanted programs.
Automatically delete Mesmobilea.com pop up ads with Zemana Anti-malware
Zemana Anti-malware is a utility that can get rid of ad supported software, potentially unwanted applications, browser hijackers and other malicious software from your system easily and for free. Zemana Anti-malware is compatible with most antivirus software. It works under Windows (10 – XP, 32 and 64 bit) and uses minimum of PC resources.
- Download Zemana anti-malware (ZAM) by clicking on the link below.
Author: Zemana Ltd
Category: Security tools
Update: July 16, 2019
- After the downloading process is finished, close all programs and windows on your PC. Open a file location. Double-click on the icon that’s named Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup.
- Further, click Next button and follow the prompts.
- Once installation is finished, press the “Scan” button . This will begin scanning the whole personal computer to find out ad supported software that causes lots of undesired Mesmobilea.com ads. This process can take quite a while, so please be patient.
- After the scan is finished, you may check all items found on your PC. Make sure all items have ‘checkmark’ and click “Next”. Once disinfection is finished, you can be prompted to restart your PC system.
How to get rid of Mesmobilea.com with Malwarebytes
We recommend using the Malwarebytes Free. You can download and install Malwarebytes to detect ad-supported software and thereby delete Mesmobilea.com pop-up ads from your web browsers. When installed and updated, the free malicious software remover will automatically scan and detect all threats exist on the system.
Download Malwarebytes Free on your PC by clicking on the link below. Save it on your desktop.
Category: Security tools
Update: April 15, 2020
Once the downloading process is done, close all windows on your computer. Further, run the file named mb3-setup. If the “User Account Control” dialog box pops up like below, press the “Yes” button.
It will show the “Setup wizard” which will allow you setup Malwarebytes on the system. Follow the prompts and don’t make any changes to default settings.
Once setup is complete successfully, press Finish button. Then Malwarebytes will automatically start and you can see its main window as shown on the screen below.
Next, click the “Scan Now” button to perform a system scan with this tool for the adware that causes browsers to open intrusive Mesmobilea.com advertisements. This task may take some time, so please be patient. While the tool is checking, you can see how many objects it has identified as being infected by malware.
As the scanning ends, the results are displayed in the scan report. You may move threats to Quarantine (all selected by default) by simply press “Quarantine Selected” button.
The Malwarebytes will delete ‘ad supported’ software that cause intrusive Mesmobilea.com advertisements to appear and move items to the program’s quarantine. Once the clean up is done, you may be prompted to restart your computer. We suggest you look at the following video, which completely explains the process of using the Malwarebytes to remove hijackers, adware and other malware.
Run AdwCleaner to remove Mesmobilea.com redirect
If MalwareBytes anti-malware or Zemana anti malware cannot remove this adware, then we suggests to use the AdwCleaner. AdwCleaner is a free removal utility for browser hijackers, PUPs, toolbars and ad-supported software that causes multiple annoying advertisements and pop-ups.
Download AdwCleaner by clicking on the link below.
Author: Xplode, MalwareBytes
Category: Security tools
Update: April 28, 2022
When downloading is done, open the folder in which you saved it. You will see an icon like below.
Double click the AdwCleaner desktop icon. After the utility is launched, you will see a screen as shown on the screen below.
Further, press “Scan” button to perform a system scan with this tool for the ad supported software which causes unwanted Mesmobilea.com popup ads. This task can take some time, so please be patient. After the scan is finished, it will show a scan report as shown on the screen below.
Review the results once the utility has done the system scan. If you think an entry should not be quarantined, then uncheck it. Otherwise, simply click “Clean” button. It will show a dialog box as shown below.
You need to press “OK”. Once disinfection is finished, the AdwCleaner may ask you to reboot your computer. When your PC system is started, you will see an AdwCleaner log.
These steps are shown in detail in the following video guide.
How to stop Mesmobilea.com redirect
Running an adblocker program like AdGuard is an effective way to alleviate the risks. Additionally, ad blocker applications will also protect you from malicious advertisements and web-sites, and, of course, stop redirection chain to Mesmobilea.com and similar sites.
- Download AdGuard application from the following link.
Author: © Adguard
Category: Security tools
Update: November 15, 2018
- When the download is finished, launch the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” program window. Follow the prompts.
- When the installation is complete, click “Skip” to close the install program and use the default settings, or click “Get Started” to see an quick tutorial that will allow you get to know AdGuard better.
- In most cases, the default settings are enough and you don’t need to change anything. Each time, when you run your PC, AdGuard will start automatically and stop popups, web sites such Mesmobilea.com, as well as other harmful or misleading sites. For an overview of all the features of the application, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the icon named AdGuard, which is located on your desktop.
How to avoid install of Mesmobilea.com pop-up ads
Now your PC should be clean of the ad supported software which created to redirect your internet browser to various ad web sites such as Mesmobilea.com. Delete AdwCleaner. We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you stop unwanted pop up ads and annoying malicious web pages) and Zemana Anti-malware (to periodically scan your PC for new hijackers, malicious software and ‘ad supported’ software). Probably you are running an older version of Java or Adobe Flash Player. This can be a security risk, so download and install the latest version right now.
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Dr. Jose Pizarro Explores the Uses of Radiology to Diagnose Many Injuries and Diseases
Most patients are familiar with the basic job functions of a radiologist. For example, if a child falls, an X-ray will be taken to determine whether the child has broken a bone. This technology has existed for over a hundred years and has developed into an exciting field full of many essential advancements.
Dr. Jose Pizzaro, a respected neuroradiologist from Longboat Key, Florida, explains how radiology goes beyond broken bones and diagnoses problems in many areas of the body. The course of scientific innovations is tracked for several locations within the human body.
Radiology of the Brain
One of the most important applications of radiological science is in scanning the brain. Until recently, the brain could not effectively be studied in a living person. Advances in radiological scans have enabled doctors to effectively diagnose strokes, brain tumors, circulation problems, and neuropsychiatric conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.
On the brain, CT (computed tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) are often used together to diagnose various ailments. These scans can detect blood flow constrictions and obstructions that cause stroke, and they can help doctors determine whether it is safe to operate on a brain tumor.
Transcranial Doppler ultrasound measures blood flow to the large arteries of the brain. It is used to detect blockages and other conditions that increase the risk of stroke.
Brain scans have also been used to detect problems that stem from severe COVID-19 infections. Problems with encephalopathy, seizures, cerebellar systems, and peripheral nervous system disorders were observed. Sixty-eight percent of the patients in this study had abnormal brain pathologies.
One of the newest techniques using radiology to study the brain is called diffusion tensor imaging. With this technique, the flow of fluid within the brain can be tracked, leaving doctors with images of where gray and white matter is located. The technique involves taking several MRI images that are calibrated to view the flow of water in the brain between different types of tissue.
Using diffusion tensor imaging means that doctors can better judge the safest routes for removing lesions like gliomas and other brain tumors.
Another use of diffusion tensor imaging is creating an image of the brain’s gray matter. This technique is known as fiber tractography. This enables neuroradiologists to create a 3-D map of the brain showing all of its vulnerable areas.
The Nervous System
The spinal canal can be studied using myelography, which is an X-ray study. By injecting an iodine-based dye into the spinal fluid, the structures can be seen in X-ray images. This procedure can diagnose blockages in the spinal canal caused by arthritis, herniated discs, infections, or tumors.
Radiology of the heart has undergone many exciting developments over the past several years. The heart can be studied using ultrasound, EKG testing, ECG testing, and MRI, among other techniques. Cardiac catheterization is used to determine how much damage a patient’s heart experienced during an adverse event such as a heart attack. Patients are examined through catheterization to find whether they may have further blockages or abnormalities in their heart that could cause more problems. During the catheterization process, doctors can also perform interventional therapies like inserting stents.
Ultrasound is commonly used for both the male and female reproductive systems. Systemic abnormalities can be diagnosed, and the health of a pregnancy can be checked. A female patient’s fallopian tubes can be examined for blockages that may be causing infertility in a hysterosalpingogram.
Bones and Muscles
Radiology can also be used to diagnose problems with bones and muscles. In addition to X-rays, the traditional method of examining bones, radiologists can use MRI and CT scans. An X-ray is a relatively simple and cost-effective method of getting images, but MRI and CT scans have their advantages.
MRI scans can be used to examine the bones and joints and soft tissues like tendons, muscles, and cartilage. These scans are beneficial for checking for structural abnormalities, tumors, bone marrow disease, and herniation of spinal cord discs. They are also frequently used for patients with arthritis. These scans can help doctors understand how their patients’ conditions have progressed.
The Impact of Radiology
Radiology can provide effective means of helping doctors to understand how the body works and how certain conditions may be affecting it. The science of radiology has developed a great deal since its first uses on the battlefield in the late 19th century. Patients have come to benefit a great deal from applying these technologies.
Having a good grasp of how radiology affects the medical field can help a person understand how much medical science has evolved over the past decades. Radiologists and neuroradiologists like Jose Pizzaro have been hard at work advancing their craft.
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In the past few years, we've seen a tremendous swing from metrics to analytics. However, a lot of people and companies are still confused about the difference. Or they think they know the difference but have a difficult time explaining it.
Metrics are a standard measurement that usually involves a count, e.g., number of days without an accident or number of pieces produced during a shift. For decades, process and production metrics have been the primary source of information to evaluate performance and show the shop floor how its systems are doing. For years, data historians and enterprise manufacturing intelligence have supported these applications.
Analytics don’t measure anything; instead, they answer specific business-related questions and, as the name suggests, involve analysis rather than just reporting of data. In the past five years, the manufacturing industry has seen a wide range of new analytics applications in asset performance management (APM) and other maintenance-related processes, typically focused on high-cost resources. Unsurprisingly, process industries with high-cost, high-risk, highly regulated operations, such as oil and gas and chemicals manufacturing, have led the way.
The difference is an important one: Metric tracking tells you what’s happening, while analytics allows you to figure out why things happen—and what to do about them. Analytics—when configured correctly—can add significantly more value than metrics, including shortening maintenance windows, improving throughput and quality, and generally having a positive impact on manufacturing outcomes.
Not all companies are moving at the same pace of adoption, however, and there are a variety of maturity levels within the global manufacturing space. To gauge maturity, LNS Research defined the stages of analytics adoption (shown in the table above).
The first step in preparing to move to broad-based analytics is building business use cases. Our research data shows that the use cases companies most often apply are the most straightforward and focused on high-cost items. The No. 1 use case is remote monitoring of presses, robots/automation systems and other expensive assets to optimize maintenance and reduce planned and unplanned downtime. Improving asset reliability falls in the same category.
By focusing on straightforward use cases, a company can easily forecast and track the ROI for analytics. This simplifies approval for pilot projects; when pilots hit or exceed targets, it’s a lot easier to get a green light from the C-suite to scale programs.
Businesses considering the move from metrics to analytics should prioritize these actions. First, analyze the company’s current use of metrics and build use cases—with specific goals—for each. Compare target use cases against those typical in manufacturing right now. If your industry uses high-cost assets, focus on improving utilization and reducing costs associated with those assets. All others should zero in on use cases to drive up revenue, improve the cost structure, or both. Even product quality and risk management are legitimate and powerful starting points for analytics.
Second, gather a cross-functional team to examine data silos and establish a data architecture to power analytics. Keep in mind that analytics will evolve as new technology emerges; a data-centric architecture will future-proof today’s efforts and investments.
LNS Research and MESA International recently examined the state of play across metrics and analytics in the industrial space. The report can help you evaluate where your company is compared to the rest of the market, and explore the architecture required for effective analytics.
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EVENING WITH MELANARGIA GALATHEA
Today, at the end of this hot, sunny day, I spent some time in the meadow a couple of kilometers from my hometown. I parked the car by the side of the road, and after a short walk through the tall grass ...
... I came across this lovely butterfly. The Melanargia galathea. Commonly known as the Marbled White. This is the female.
At one point the butterfly spread its wings, so in this photograph, you can take a look at the upper surface of those wings.
Here you can see another female. In this case, the underside of the wings is slightly different. Definitively paler, with a less yellow tinge.
And now, is time for the central, most important part of this post. The video I recorded while observing two of those butterflies feeding on the flowers of the Knautia arvensis plant. 🙂 Have a good viewing.
A slow motion video of Marbled White butterflies feeding on the tiny flowers of the Knautia arvensis plant. I recorded it a couple of hours ago. The video looks slightly better combined with a few more photographs and a bit of text, as a part of the post on hive, than as a standalone thing. The music is some free stuff that I found on Pixabay.
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Keetmanshoop nurses to receive trainingElizabeth Joseph
KEETMANSHOOP- In recent times, health workers all across the nation have been at the forefront in combating Covid-19.
//Karas Region governor Aletha Frederick gave the keynote address on the training of healthcare workers in oxygen therapy case management for nurses in high care units at the University of Namibia (Unam) Southern Campus in Keetmanshoop this week.
Frederick said the training was specially designed for nurses who are involved in the management of oxygen therapy.
"The unprecedented and invisible enemy Covid-19 has heavily impacted the world including our beloved country, Namibia. Certainly, the //Karas Region was no exception. We have lost so many lives and productive citizens in Namibia due to the pandemic," she said at the opening ceremony.
She said as a responsible and responsive government, the government of Namibia, including the leadership of the //Karas Region, has put necessary efforts in place to assist with combating Covid-19.
"The government has put aggressive multi-sectoral response programmes to work and bought the vaccines. The government has continuously encouraged the nation to go for vaccination so that the painful situation we went through cannot return to us again."
She encouraged nurses and other healthcare workers to keep up the good work of the last few months.
"I need to acknowledge that sometimes your efforts pass unnoticed, unappreciated, and even criticised. But, for the sake of your professional pledge and the love for your work, you continue to do your job compassionately as responsible citizens," Frederick said.
The governor said she believed the workshop would sharpen the knowledge and skillset of the health practitioners and would fill them with confidence.
She said the healthcare workers had exceeded her expectations and risen to the demands of treating and looking after Covid-19 patients.
"Many of us are indebted to express our gratitude to you for your heroism. Let me pause and say, thank you so much to all the nurses for demonstrating your resoluteness in honour of your calling with the support of your professional skills.
“Your dedication and response to the call of your duties at the most trying times in the history of our health sector have been commendable – and are equally equivalent to soldiers in the frontline of a war zone," she said.
Caption 1: //Karas Region governor Aletha Frederick at the official opening.
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Low-interest debt is a strong hedge against inflation. Loaners often get a raw deal while borrowers with good rates make out like bandits.
During the end of the Great German Hyperinflation period (1919–1923), the German mark was worth one-trillionth the value from four years prior. Bondholders were wiped out. The money they were owed became worthless. Zimbabwe experienced a similar phenomenon, where they eventually were printing one trillion-dollar bills. At one point, 3 billion Zimbabwe dollars could only buy you three eggs.
I should warn you against taking out loans amid inflation as that interest is likely baked into those loans. Stick with what you have.
Own quality stuff
The best way to protect against inflation is to get your money out of the bank. And therefore, assets are invaluable tools.
Commodities, property, and stocks often rise in price during hyperinflation periods—especially when a ton of money is being printed.
I saw a random keyboard warrior saying, “Hey, just buy stocks that earn a lot of money. Your inflation problem is solved. Morons.”
Oh wow. Is that all I need to do? I’ve been trying to invest in sinkers.
Sarcasm aside, this introduces an obvious question, “What things should I buy?”
Some specific investing tips
Let’s say you have $10,000 extra that you need to put into something.
Remember, if you don’t invest the $10,000, it’ll be worth between $9,000 and $9,999 by the end of the year because of inflation.
What to buy
I invest half of my portfolio in the S&P 500 Index fund. It tracks the largest 500 publicly traded companies (by market cap).
If I buy a $1 of Netflix (which is cheap but extremely risky) or any random stock, I have to put $1 into the index fund.
The S&P 500 Index is the golden goose.
Look at this chart. It’s the annual return each year for the S&P 500 Index.
I get it, there’s a lot of red. It’s scary. Don’t be afraid.
The S&P 500 only goes down temporarily. You won’t be able to access that money without taking a loss for a couple of years. No matter what, remember that the S&P 500 never stays down for long periods of time.
Over time, it wins bigtime. It has averaged around 10.5% returns since its inception.
The S&P 500 is so damn good that billionaires often hold their hedge fund managers up against it: “Why should I pay you to manage my funds when the S&P is outperforming you!?”
The S&P 500 is the boogeyman that keeps hedge fund managers awake at night.
Generally speaking, with the S&P 500
Within three years, you’ll have a ~67% chance of making money.
Within five years, you’ll have a ~97% chance of making money.
However, when the S&P starts going up, it often surges up in a big way.
Sadly, +10.5% a year isn’t exciting enough for many people.
Countless tears are shed because people get greedy.
No matter what, stay away from random users on social media promoting stupid penny stocks (or any stock for that matter).
Two other options
SPY and VOO are also gold standard ETFs. Very similar to Index funds. They are a basket of handpicked stocks from the S&P 500.
They have an annual fee of ~.03%, but it’s worth it (.03% is $30 a year on $100,000 investments). These funds average +10–11% a year.
You can also buy VTSMX (Total Stock Market Index Fund), which tracks the entire market and has comparable returns.
The big idea: rather than betting on one animal, bet on the cycle of life. Nature always wins. Even if individual stocks don’t.
There is no free lunch
I had a friend come to me and say, “I want something that will give me a 15% return in 12 months, that is guaranteed not to have a loss.”
I said, “There is no such thing.”
He gave me that whole “Well, my one friend made 25% in one year and sold.”
I said, “He rolled the dice. And the dice landed in the right spot.”
It’s worth overstating the obvious—because I don’t think people really understand—investing is a form of gambling.
But—and this is a big but—it doesn’t have to be insanely risky and lopsided like a casino.
When you put money into dumbass penny stocks, you are spinning a roulette wheel.
When you put money into boring, mundane, awesome index funds—that have long track records of returning value—you are betting on the cycle of life.
While penny stocks rapidly die and get reborn like gnats, your index fund is smiling at the cruel rules of Darwinian economics.
While people lose their shirt buying cryptocrap they saw on Twitter, you are investing in proven companies that sell things people like and generate value for the public.
Play god with your wallet. Don’t listen to prey.
Lastly, don’t be part of the problem
If you can wait a little longer before making big purchases, it could save you a huge sum of money.
Flex your price sensitivity. Stop paying top dollar. This is what pressures sellers to lower their prices.
It also reduces demand on their supply chain, which increases costs.
I’ve stopped going to traditional Publix and expensive grocery stores. I’m back on the Wal-Mart plan.
There’s another side to the inflation coin that people forget to mention. Yes, things will go up in price. But in the long run, losing $1 will hurt less. You will lose your sense of value of the current $1.
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EISA(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual EISA(4)
Powered by man-cgi (2021-06-01).
Maintained for NetBSD
by Kimmo Suominen.
Based on man-cgi by Panagiotis Christias.
eisa -- Introduction to EISA bus machine-independent drivers and support
Machine-dependent; depends on the bus topology and EISA bus interface of
your system. Typical EISA buses are either connected directly to the
main system bus, or via an PCI to EISA bridge. See the intro(4) documen-
tation for your system for details.
NetBSD includes a machine-independent EISA bus subsystem and several
machine-independent EISA device drivers.
Your system may support additional EISA devices. Drivers for EISA
devices not listed here are machine-dependent. Consult your system's
intro(4) for additional information.
NetBSD includes machine-independent EISA drivers, sorted by device type
and driver name:
Disk and tape controllers
cac Compaq array controllers.
mlx Mylex DAC960 and DEC SWXCR RAID controllers.
ahb Adaptec 174x SCSI interfaces.
ahc Adaptec AIC 7770, 274x, and 284x SCSI interfaces.
bha BusLogic BT-74x SCSI interfaces.
dpt DPT SmartCache/SmartRAID III and IV SCSI interfaces.
uha Ultrastor 24f SCSI interfaces.
ep 3Com 3c579 and 3c592 10Mbit Ethernet, and 3c597
10/100Mbit Ethernet interfaces.
fea Digital DEFEA FDDI interfaces.
le Digital DE422 Ethernet interfaces.
tlp Digital DE425 Ethernet interfaces.
Note that most or all EISA devices also have PCI or ISA equivalents.
These are listed in pci(4), isa(4), or isapnp(4), respectively. The man-
ual pages for each individual driver also lists the supported bus vari-
ahb(4), ahc(4), bha(4), cac(4), dpt(4), ep(4), fea(4), intro(4), le(4),
mlx(4), tlp(4), uha(4)
The machine-independent EISA subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.2.
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Emergency contraception (EC) is available in Serbia: LNG EC and UPA EC are included in national policies for family planning, and local pharmacies distribute EC pills, but EC is not reimbursed or covered by social security.
- Sexual & reproductive health background information
- Accessibility & prescription status
- Guidelines & common practices
- EC use
Sexual & reproductive health background information
|Female population aged 15-49||Median age at first sexual intercourse for females between ages 15 and 24||Mean age at birth of first child||Total fertility rate||% use of modern contraceptive methods|
Accessibility & prescription status
In Serbia, LNG EC is available behind the counter from pharmacies, which means that EC is available without a prescription but is not on the shelves and needs to be requested in order to purchase. According to regulations, a prescription is required to purchase UPA EC from pharmacies. However, anecdotal data suggests that UPA EC can be bought without a prescription in some pharmacies.
Physicians are the sole health care professionals who are authorized to prescribe UPA EC and to provide or prescribe LNG EC.
|Type of EC||Approximate Cost||Brand(s) Available|
|LNG||€ 8,80||Escapelle, Postinor-2|
The cost of EC is not reimbursed or covered by social security in Serbia.
Guidelines & common practices
Serbia has two guidelines that cover EC: Kontracepcija, by G. Radonjic, B. Nikolic et al. (2011), which is the official book for students of the Medical Faculty; and a publication by the Center for Family Planning of the Dr. Vukan Čupić Institute for Health Protection of Mother and Child of Serbia, authored by Dr. Katarina Sedlecky. These guides provide recommendations on LNG and UPA EC pills.
Health care providers rarely provide general information about EC during regular consultations or prescribe EC in advance of need.
|Ever use of EC||% of all women aged 15–49 years who have heard of EC (Serbia)||% of all women age 15-49 who have heard of EC (Serbia Roma Settlements)|
1 Population Census of the Republic of Serbia, 2011.
2 Ministry of Health, National Institute of Public Health of Serbia. Istraživanje zdravstvenog stanja stanovnistva Srbije 2013). Belgrade, NIPH. 2014.
3 Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 2013.
4 European health for all database (HFA-DB), World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. Total fertility rate. Retrieved 18 June 2013, from http://data.euro.who.int/hfadb/.
5 Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia and UNICEF. Serbia Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and Serbia Roma Settlements Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, 2014. Final Reports. Belgrade, Serbia: 2014.
6 Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia and UNICEF. 2020. Serbia Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and Serbia Roma Settlements Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, 2019, Survey Findings Report. Belgrade, Serbia: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia and UNICEF. Retrieved 10 December 2021, from https://mics.unicef.org/surveys.
Last update: December 2021
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Tricks to Get Perfect Crepes
Crepes are incredibly versatile, offer a variety of stuffing options, and are healthy, tasty, and filling. You can have them as a part of a scrumptious breakfast, a nutritious lunch, a delectable dinner, or even as a noon snack. Here are some useful pointers to help you make mouth-watering crepes.
Enable the Crepe Batter to Rest
It may seem like an important thought to quickly whip up the batter, pour it on to the pan to get thin crepes, and eat them immediately. However, it is advisable to organize it in advance and permit it to relaxation no less than for an hour. This will add to the flavour and provides your crepes higher texture and taste. When you feel like having crepes for breakfast, you may even prepare the batter the night time before.
Keep away from Lumps within the Batter
To get the right paper-thin crepes that taste great, you have to make sure that there are not any lumps within the batter while making it. Use a strainer and a blender to mix the ingredients properly to get a smooth batter.
Get the Consistency Right
One of the secrets and techniques to getting soft, perfect crepes is to get the consistency of the batter right. Make certain that your batter is ‘runny,’ unlike pancake batter which is meant to be thick.
Use the Right Quantity of Batter
It’s essential to pour an adequate quantity of batter on to the pan. When you use too little or too much of it, you will not get the desired quality. Ideally, one-fourth cup of batter makes one crepe. If you want to have a slightly larger one, pour one-third cup on the pan instead.
Very best Temperature
It is essential to heat the pan adequately and get the temperature right. Start with medium heat and adjust accordingly. Bear in mind, the primary few crepes might take 1 to 1 1/2 more minutes to cook properly. Do not be in a hurry to flip them.
Put Your Own Spin on Them
You’ll be able to relaxation assured that everything tastes nice with crepes. Get creative with the fillings and use fruits, vegetables, syrups, jams, and more. There are no specific set of instructions, which is why you possibly can put your inventive skills to work and come up with new recipes every time.
Endurance is Necessary
In case you are making this iconic French food item for the first time, be affected person because the very best way to good crepes is practice. The key to crepes is dimension, temperature, and thickness of the batter. Once you have these down, you’ll be making perfect crepes in no time!
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Does Ubuntu have its own kernel?
All of the Ubuntu Kernel source is maintained under git. The source for each release is maintained in its own git repository on kernel.ubuntu.com. To obtain a local copy you can simply git clone the repository for the release you are interested in as shown below.
What is the current Ubuntu kernel version?
2 LTS Released with Linux Kernel 5.8 from Ubuntu 20.10, Download Now. Canonical released today the Ubuntu 20.04. 2 LTS point release to its long-term supported Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series with new kernel and graphics stacks.
Is Lubuntu 18.04 still supported?
Lubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) was released April 27, 2018 and will reach End of Life on Friday, April 30, 2021. This means that after that date there will be no further security updates or bugfixes released. We highly recommend that you re-install with 20.04 as soon as possible if you are still running 18.04.
What Linux kernel does Ubuntu 20.04 use?
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is based on the long-term supported Linux release series 5.4. HWE stack updated to Linux release series 5.8. NOTE: Users who installed from Ubuntu Desktop media should see the note about desktop tracking the rolling hardware enablement kernel series by default here.
Is Ubuntu based on Debian?
Ubuntu develops and maintains a cross-platform, open-source operating system based on Debian, with a focus on release quality, enterprise security updates and leadership in key platform capabilities for integration, security and usability. … Learn more about how Debian and Ubuntu fit together.
How do I find my kernel version Ubuntu?
To check Linux Kernel version, try the following commands:
- uname -r : Find Linux kernel version.
- cat /proc/version : Show Linux kernel version with help of a special file.
- hostnamectl | grep Kernel : For systemd based Linux distro you can use hotnamectl to display hostname and running Linux kernel version.
What kernel is in Ubuntu 20.04 2?
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vaccine - a computer program which protects
your computer from or rids your computer of viruses.
vaporware - software that does not exist
and never will. See SF.
variable - a value which can change, or the
name given to a location in memory used to store variable data. See string,
local variable, global
variable, property, instance
VAX - a once-popular line of mini-computer and
workstations from DEC. See VMS,
VAXen - the plural of VAX.
VB - See Visual Basic
VC - Viet Cong.
vector - 1. the carrier or transmitter of a
disease, as in, "a mosquito is the vector for malaria". See daycare.
2. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction. 3. a line drawn between
two points. Multiple vectors are used to draw more complicated shapes. See
vector-based - a vector-based graphic
stores specific coordinates that can be used to reconstruct the graphic,
not each and every pixel. For example, a rectangle can be defined by two
opposite corners. Although less memory-intensive than comparable pixel-based
graphics, these may be drawn more slowly because run-time calculations are
required. See bitmap.
Veronica - See Archie,
Betty, Gopher, Jughead.
VGA - Video
Graphics Adapter. See CGA, EGA,
VHS - a standard for video tape machines. Compare
video - see QuickTime,
and Video for Windows.
video capture - the process of digitizing
video from an external source, such as a video camera or video tape. Director
does not support video capture, but third-party Xtras may allow you to include
such functionality in your Director presentation. See capture,
screen capture. See Beta,
video driver - a driver
designed to interface with a particular video card. See DirectX,
Video for Windows - Microsoft standard
for video playback. See codec and AVI.
Video Graphics Adapter - a display
standard, supporting 256 colors at 640 x 480 resolution, commonly referred
to as VGA. See CGA, EGA,
VideoWorks - a precursor to Director.
Refer to the Director version History.
virtual memory - the use of disk space
to simulate additional RAM, also called a swap
file. Virtual memory allows you to run programs for which you would
otherwise not have sufficient RAM. Because disk access is much slower than
RAM access, virtual memory will have poor performance relative to that of
actual RAM. Refer to the TechNote, "Memory
Configurations." for instructions on configuring virtual memory.
virtual reality - 1. Uncle
Cid 2. computer-simulated reality that gives the illusion of reality.
See immersion, Brinkley,
virtual surreality - see Dali.
virus - a malevolent computer program ranging
from the merely annoying to the terribly destructive. see Disinfectant,
Symantec Anti-Virus, McAfee.
Visual C/C++ - an implementation of C/C++
from Microsoft, known as MSVC.
Visual Basic - an implementation of Basic
from Microsoft, abbreviated VB.
See Visual C/C++.
VM - 1. see Virtual
Memory. 2. Virtual Machine. See Java.
VMS - Virtual Memory System,
the operating system used on DEC VAX
computers. See VT100.
voice recognition - software and/or
hardware which allows a computer to accept voice commands. The general consensus
is that VR is not quite ready for prime time.
VR - 1. Voice
Recognition; 2. Virtual Reality.
VRAM - Video Random Access Memory - the amount
of VRAM determines how many colors and what resolution your monitor can
display. The speed of VRAM affects the speed with which the screen updates.
VT100 - a popular terminal for connecting to
VAX computers, often used as a standard in dial-up BBSes.. See terminal,
terminal emulation. Other models
in the line included VT101, VT102, and VT104.
VWPBL - Void Where Prohibited
By Law, an uncommon e-mail abbreviation
used as a generaly disclaimer. See YMMV.
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Resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits is one of the burning topics for the persecuted minority community of Kashmir. India’s ruling party – the BJP will revive a plan to build what Pakistan calls – secured camps for the Resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley.
Ram Madhav, who is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary responsible for Kashmir, the BJP was committed to helping bring back some of the estimated 200,000-300,000 Kashmiri Pandits who fled the Kashmir Valley in the aftermath of an armed revolt that began in 1989. Yes, the Pakistan media calls it an armed revolt and not the beginning of terrorism and persecution of minority community in the name of religion.
“Their fundamental rights of returning to the valley have to be respected. At the same time, we have to provide them proper security,” Madhav said in an interview”.
Pakistan media says that nearly 7 million people live in the Kashmir Valley, 97 per cent of them Muslim, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Indian troops and armed police deployed to quell an uprising against Delhi’s rule. The media report claims that nearly 50,000 people have been killed in the conflict in the last three decades.
Madhav said that a previous BJP-backed government in Jammu and Kashmir state had considered building either separate or mixed resettlement townships, but had been unable to make headway. “No consensus could be built around any one view,” he said.
The media report says that the construction of segregated enclaves for the resettlement of Kashmir Pandits has little or no support from the region’s local political parties, Muslim leaders and groups representing the Hindus who fled. The media report from Pakistan surprisingly has access to top-secret data authenticated data which even the Indian government or leaders of Kashmir community themselves do not have.
India’s federal home ministry, which would be involved in any such building activity in the Kashmir Valley, did not respond to a request for comment.
A blueprint unveiled by the state government for resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits in 2015 which had proposed self-contained, heavily guarded colonies for returning Pandits, complete with schools, shopping malls, hospitals and playgrounds. Separatist groups in the region had opposed the project, with some likening it to Israeli settlements within Palestinian territories according to the report by Pakistani media. The plan eventually stalled, particularly after the BJP’s alliance with a major regional party collapsed in June 2018, leading to the state coming under New Delhi’s direct rule.
The BJP is confident that it will win the upcoming state poll, Madhav said, adding that the resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits plan would be back in play. “I am sure when we come back to power, we will again take it up and try and see if a solution can be found,” he said.
Unlike the last time, the BJP isn’t looking to come to power through alliances, Madhav said, freeing itself of major regional parties that represent the region’s Muslims. The issue of Pandit resettlement in the Kashmir valley has long been on the agenda of the BJP, but appears to have received fresh impetus after the party’s second successive general election victory in May.
The Pakistan media report acknowledges that – After living side-by-side with Kashmiri Muslims for centuries, Kashmiri Pandits fled for safety after a sharp rise in killings and attacks by militants when the insurgency flared in 1989.
One of the largest migrations since India’s independence from Britain in 1947, many Kashmiri Pandits settled in refugee camps around Jammu. Only around 800 Pandit families now remain in the Kashmir Valley, according to some estimates.
Resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits
But there is widespread opposition to any push for separate townships and resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits ranging from separatists to Kashmiri Pandit leaders claims the report.
Sanjay Tickoo, a Pandit community leader who has continued to live in Kashmir, said the idea of building exclusive settlements with enhanced security was an unrealistic solution that would invite a backlash.
“Is it possible to live in a caged manner, in a caged zone, with security?” he said. “I have to move out of that township, I have to work, I have to earn. I cannot get everything in that township.”
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference, the unified separatist movement in Kashmir, met some Kashmiri Pandits last month and found that there was a consensus against separate settlements, its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said.
“If you put them in separate colonies, in settlements and under barbed wire, that kills the whole purpose of trying to build, again, a community, which is based on mutual trust and respect,” Farooq, also considered the regions spiritual leader by many Kashmiri Muslims, said in an interview in Srinagar.
Leaders from the National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party, the two main regional parties in Kashmir, said they supported the return of Hindus but were opposed to separate townships.
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Building a single masjid costs from around £7000 to £12000
● Masjids are built to worship Allah and learn deen.
● Daily Madrasah classes for local children are also set up so that they learn the teaching of our Prophet (PBUH)
● Masjid is the source of unity among the community.
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Billionaire Johnson Paulson is the latest traditional financial investor to criticize cryptocurrencies. In a Bloomberg interview today, the 65-year old billionaire gold investor said it is not advisable for anyone to invest in cryptocurrencies because they are worthless and will eventually go to zero.
“I wouldn’t recommend anyone invest in cryptocurrencies […] There’s no intrinsic value to any of the cryptocurrencies except that there’s a limited amount,” Paulson said.
Paulson Sees Gold as a Better Inflation Hedge
According to the billionaire, the popular yellow metal — gold — is a better inflation hedge because it has a “limited amount.”
On the contrary, it is not feasible to calculate the total supply of gold to know whether it is limited or not because of the possibility of unraveling a gold mine at any time.
Paulson’s comment about gold being a better hedge against inflation due to its limited amount would most likely attract criticism from the cryptocurrency community.
This is because the long-term debate in the financial space to identify the best financial instruments between gold and Bitcoin (BTC) has seen many opt for the latter because it has a fixed and limited supply.
Paulson also expressed this in the interview by saying that the reason cryptocurrency values have increased in recent times is due to their limited supply.
“[…] There’s more demand than the limited supply, the price would go up. But to the extent the demand falls, then the price would go down,” Paulson added.
Paulson’s Opinion May Not be Taken Seriously
Despite cryptocurrencies outperforming gold on a year-to-date (YTD) basis with more investors adopting the former as a hedge against inflation, Paulson does not seem to believe cryptos are better financial instruments than gold amid inflation.
Many crypto investors may not agree with Paulson’s opinion about cryptocurrencies due to his controversial investment choices in recent times.
Last year, the billionaire converted his hedge fund to a family office, with all external investors’ capital returned.
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State Level Carbon Pricing Outreach
State Level Efforts Background
CCL’s primary goal is the adoption of strong, effective carbon pricing by the US Congress, ideally carbon fee and dividend. State level policies can help us achieve our national goal.
CCL's Government Affairs team works with interested volunteers to bring CCL’s effectiveness and grassroots power to state-level carbon pricing campaigns. One way to find out more is to join the State Carbon Taxes Action Team. In most cases, CCL volunteers are already deeply engaged with these efforts, often playing key roles these organizations. CCLers are encouraged to reach out to their local state organizations for information on how to get involved.
CCL has guidelines that help determine the process for endorsements and efforts of support to an initiative or policy. While the endorsement process is more straightforward, the process for support requires more details. If you are interested in learning about the process to support an initiative or policy, see the strategical goals below and contact CCL's Government Affairs Coordinators Hardy Almes (email@example.com) or Jamari Hartley (firstname.lastname@example.org) for more information.
Strategic Goals for of CCL’s State-Level Policy Work
The strategic goals that should be considered when deciding whether to join a state policy campaign are:
- Pressure and/or cover for federal legislators to take bolder action.
- Pressure and/or cover for important advocacy groups to take a bolder federal advocacy position.
- Growing the diversity of the movement calling for strong climate legislation.
- As that movement grows, being open to opportunities for endorsements/statements of support for federal legislative priorities.
- Build bipartisan support for climate action.
CCL's State-Level Criteria
How does CCL determine whether to support a particular state-level policy? CCL supports climate policies or resolutions efforts that meet five criteria:
- Aligns with our Strategic goals (above).
- They are designed to be effective at reducing GHG emissions beyond existing policies.
- They will protect low income households from price increases.
- They are politically viable for the state.
- They will harmonize with a federal Carbon Fee and Dividend and other state carbon pricing.
State-level efforts have been underway across the country including in a number of states you might find surprising. Massachusetts-based ClimateXChange is managing the State Carbon Pricing Network which provides resources to carbon pricing groups and catalogs information on the various efforts underway.
Bills have already been submitted in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Washington, New York, Oregon, California, and Utah, Virginia, New Mexico, Vermont, Maine, and more.
Policies vary from state to state as the political, economic, and legal environment vary. Some states have restrictions on how fees can be collected or how taxes must be allocated (e.g., fuel taxes must go to highway funds). Since states can’t easily do border adjustments, they must use other systems if they want to provide a level playing field for businesses in other states and prevent ‘emissions leakage’ when businesses shift production to other states where there is not a carbon tax.
Most states are focused on a carbon tax with the exception of Oregon and California, which have been considering a cap and trade program. Some of the bills are revenue-neutral, often including some form of dividend, while others include at least some reinvestment of revenue, generally into climate related programs.
CCL volunteers can bring some key experience to these efforts, since most of what we know about building political will and building relationships can apply at the state-level as well. We know how to work with the media. We know how to lobby elected officials and build relationships with them and their staff. We know how to build and demonstrate grassroots support on climate. We are learning how to engage community leaders and business leaders to seek endorsements and build their support for climate action. All of this can apply at every level of our government.
In some states, significant work has already been done in building coalitions with potential allies, in crafting policy, and in building relationships with legislators and other stakeholders. In others, this work is just beginning. You will find, though, that the political climate of each state is different and the key stakeholders are different. For instance, in a state that leans Democratic you might not find the same insistence on revenue neutrality that you might find in a more Republican state. In states without a big extractive economy you may find different dynamics from one where a lot of fossil fuels are produced. It can be important not to come in to state level work with too many assumptions and to start by taking time to understand the political landscape.
CCL’s goal is to provide support to these efforts as we are able, and to be a catalyst for effective carbon pricing efforts. In turn we hope those efforts will provide us an additional point of leverage as we push towards our goal of a federal carbon fee and a healthy climate.
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Controlling LED lighting using triacs and quadracs
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Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are fast becoming the most popular lighting option.Industry forecasts anticipate the market will continue to expand at an annual rate of 20% from 2011 to 2016, with the greatest growth coming in the commercial and industrial lighting sectors.
As incandescent lamps have been made largely obsolete, given the U.S. government’s mandate to save energy, they have frequently been replaced by LEDs due to their long life (typically 25,000 hrs.) and the ease of adapting them to many different socket and shape requirements. However, LED lighting control presents a few problems not encountered with incandescent lamps. For example, with much less current from the LED load, normal types of triacs may be challenged in terms of latching and holding current characteristics. | <urn:uuid:0c3aa874-5f20-4803-901e-e49986f72747> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jotrin.de/download/details/2273 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.891524 | 225 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The controversial memo written by James Damore, a 28-year-old former Google engineer, rattled Silicon Valley last weekend when it became public and stirred a fierce debate about diversity in the workplace.
This week the company fired the author for “perpetuating gender stereotypes,” he said.
Until now, little has been known about Damore. But since his firing, he’s given at least two lengthy interviews with the hosts of right-wing YouTube channels and a significantly shorter interview with Bloomberg TV.
“I’m not saying that any of the female engineers at Google are in any way worse than the average male engineer,” Damore told Stefan Molyneux, a vocal supporter of President Trump and the host of Freedomain Radio. “I’m just saying that this may explain some of the disparity in representation in the population.”
Damore filed a complaint Monday with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging he was subjected to “coercive statements” by Google, according to the Associated Press. Damore told the AP that he filed the complaint before being fired later that day, and that he’s also weighing other legal options.
“It’s illegal to retaliate against a NLRB charge,” he said. A Google spokesman told the AP on Tuesday that the company could not have retaliated because it was unaware of his labor complaint until reading about it in the media after his dismissal.
Both YouTube interviews with conservative hosts lasted more than 45 minutes. Damore appeared reserved and composed, his words carefully chosen and interlaced with nervous laughs. He told Molyneux he decided to write the memo after attending a Google diversity program, where he heard things he “definitely disagreed with.”
“There was a lot of just shaming and ‘no, you can’t say that, that’s sexist,’ Damore told Molyneux.
“There’s just so much hypocrisy in a lot of things they are saying,” he added.
Molyneux is unabashed in his views against feminism and has generated a large YouTube following, with more than 654,000 subscribers. Damore told him he wrote the document on a 12-hour flight to China for a work trip, and shared the document internally multiple times a month ago.
Initially, the reactions weren’t “explosive,” he said. But once it leaked outside of Google, he said he “couldn’t really get ahead of it at all.”
“People got offended because it goes against the left’s ideology,” Damore said, adding that those on the right in Silicon Valley often feel the need to “stay in the closet” in a workplace culture he defined as a “progressive echo chamber.”
Since his firing, Damore said he has received an outpouring of support in personal messages from individuals within and outside of Google, as well as a number of job openings.
He told Molyneux that Google should attempt to become a more “female-friendly environment” by capitalizing on his viewpoint that women tend to be “more people-oriented” while men are “more things-oriented.” He suggested promoting more collaboration among coders, skills in which he says women tend to excel.
Molyneux criticized the mainstream media’s portrayal of Damore’s memo and praised him for writing it. The host also said he believed critics targeted Damore in large part because he is a white man, and claimed white privilege is “the opposite of privilege.”
In another interview, Damore spoke with Jordan B. Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, a critic of “political correctness,” feminist postmodernists and the concept of white privilege. He said that Damore’s memo was well-supported by scientific facts and is “certainly not an anti-diversity screed.”
Damore told Peterson he has mostly declined to speak to the mainstream news outlets because they will “twist whatever I say towards their agenda.” Peterson, however, encouraged him to rethink that position.
On Wednesday night, Damore told Bloomberg TV: “The whole point of my memo was to improve Google and Google’s culture and they just punished me and shamed me for doing it,” he said. “I’m not a sexist.”
A number of Google leaders have spoken out about the memo in the days since it circulated. The most personal response came from one of the company’s highest-ranking women, Susan Wojcicki, the chief executive of YouTube, which is owned by Google.
In an essay published by Fortune on Wednesday, Wojcicki wrote that her daughter asked her about the memo.
“Mom,” her daughter asked her, “is it true that there are biological reasons why there are fewer women in tech and leadership?” After some thought, her mother responded, “No, it’s not true,” she wrote.
“I thought about the women at Google who are now facing a very public discussion about their abilities, sparked by one of their own co-workers,” she wrote. “And as my child asked me the question I’d long sought to overcome in my own life, I thought about how tragic it was that this unfounded bias was now being exposed to a new generation.”
In response to Wojcicki’s essay, Damore told Bloomberg TV “there are simply fewer women” wanting to get into tech.
“But if you’re a girl and you’re interested in technology, then that’s great,” he added.
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Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation
If you have been trained to do rescue breathing, proceed as trained.
Poisoning and Overdose
1. Determine what substance is involved and how taken.
2. Stay with victim and assist as necessary.
3. If choking, lower victim’s head.
Fainting, Unconsciousness and Shock
1. Have victim lie or sit down and rest with feet elevated.
2. Keep victim comfortable.
3. As or look for emergency medical I.D. Bracelet.
4. Treat other injuries as necessary.
Burns, Thermal and Chemical
1. Flood chemical burn with cool water.
2. Cover burn with dry bandage.
3. Keep victim quiet and comfortable.
Severe Bleeding and Wounds
1. Apply direct pressure on wound.
2. Use clean cloth or hand.
3. Apply pressure to blood vessel, if necessary.
4. Elevate body part.
5. Add more cloth if blood soaks through.
6. Keep pressure on wound until help arrives.
1. Check victim’s mouth and clear of foreign matter.
2. Use abdominal thrusts.
1. Place victim on his/her back.
2. Give resuscitation or CPR as necessary.
3. Keep victim comfortable.
4. Ask or look for emergency medical I.D. Bracelet.
Fractures and Sprains
1. Keep victim still.
2. Keep injured area immobile.
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How long does it take to cook soft boiled eggs?
Bring a saucepan (large enough to hold the eggs in a single layer) of water to a boil over medium-high heat. Using a slotted spoon, gently lower cold-from-the-fridge eggs into the water one at a time. Cook for exactly 6½ minutes, adjusting the heat as necessary to maintain a gentle boil .
How do you know if a soft boiled egg is done?
Timing the Perfect Soft – Boiled Egg Bring the water up to a boil , then lower it to a rapid simmer. Add the eggs to the pot, and then begin timing. If you’re just cooking one or two eggs , five minutes is perfect for a runny yolk, or cook as long as seven minutes for a more firmly set, but still spoonable, yolk.
How do I make soft boiled eggs?
Immediately after cooking the desired amount of time, remove eggs from hot water and transfer to an ice bath. Let stand in the ice bath until chilled, about 5 minutes or so. 5 minutes for a super runny yolk. 7 minutes for a gorgeous, jammy yolk. My favorite! 12 minutes for the perfect hard- boiled egg .
How do I boil the perfect egg?
Four Steps to Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs : Place eggs in a saucepan or pot and cover with cold water. Eggs first, then water. Put pan over high heat and bring water to a rolling boil . Remove pan from heat and cover. Let the eggs stand in the hot water for 14-17 minutes. Drain eggs and put in a bowl filled with ice water.
How long cook soft boiled egg Jamie Oliver?
Cook for the following times, depending on how you like your eggs: 5 minutes for soft boiled, 7½ minutes for semi-firm or 10 minutes for hard-boiled. Remove the eggs with the spoon and serve with hot, buttered toast, or allow to cool before peeling.
How long do you boil an egg for runny yolk?
How long to boil an egg: 5 minutes : set white and runny yolk – just right for dipping into. 6 minutes: liquid yolk – a little less oozy. 7 minutes : almost set – deliciously sticky. 8 minutes: softly set – this is what you want to make Scotch eggs. 10 minutes: the classic hard-boiled egg – mashable but not dry and chalky.
How many minutes should egg be boiled?
What do I do if my eggs are not fully boiled?
I did this today without a problem. Put cold/tepid water in the pan, took the half-done eggs out of their cold water bath, put the eggs back in the pan and brought the water up to a boil , left them in there about 15 minutes on low. Then put them in cold water bath again to make sure they would peel well.
Are soft boiled eggs safe to eat?
Soft – boiled eggs are absolutely fine – just make sure the yolk isn’t completely runny. Wash your hands with soap and water after handling uncooked eggs so there is no risk of transferring bacteria from the eggshell surface to other foods in the kitchen.
Do you put eggs in cold water after boiling?
After boiling your eggs for 10-12 minutes, put them in cold water to bring the temperature down rapidly and stop the cooking process. You can even use ice cubes in your water , and you can change the water as it warms.
When boiling eggs do you boil the water first?
By boiling the water first , it also doesn’t matter which type of pot you use as the eggs only hit the water once it’s boiling (212 degrees fahrenheit). Reduce the heat to low and use a skimmer to gently place the eggs in the water . By reducing the heat to low, you ‘ll prevent the eggs from bouncing around and cracking.
How do you boil eggs so they peel easily?
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The Effects of Eye Teaming and Tracking Issues On Your Child's Vision
Did you know that your child may still have a vision problem even if they can see the letters on an eye chart clearly? If their eyes don't work together as a team, or they have trouble following the words on a page, it may be much more difficult to read, play sports, or even walk through the house without bumping into the walls.
Eye Teaming and Tracking Problems
Good vision is dependent on input from both of your eyes. The brain combines the information it receives from the eyes to produce one clear image. Normally, the information received from the eyes is almost identical. When there is an eye teaming issue, each eye sends slightly different information to the brain, which can cause blurred or double vision.
Tracking is essential for many visual tasks from writing legibly to playing sports. If your child's eyes don't move smoothly and quickly from one object or word to the next, they may find it difficult to copy words or numbers correctly or follow the path of a ball in the sky. Reading can be especially difficult. Words seem to jump on the page, which may make them lose their place often or decrease their reading speed. If they need to use a finger or pen to keep their place while reading, they may have a tracking problem.
In some cases, behavioral problems in children may actually be caused by tracking or eye teaming issues. When it's difficult to read or concentrate, kids may be more likely to daydream, misbehave, or fail to follow instructions correctly.
If you're an adult, and your eye teaming or tracking problems weren't addressed during childhood, you may have trouble reading long reports or manuals, might have trouble remembering what you read, or may find it difficult to read without developing eyestrain or becoming fatigued.
Eye teaming and tracking issues can be caused by a variety of conditions, including:
- Strabismus. Strabismus, or "crossed" eyes, occurs when the eyes aren't properly aligned.
- Amblyopia. The brain ignores the information received from one eye if your child has amblyopia (lazy eye). The condition can occur if strabismus isn't treated.
- Convergence Insufficiency (CI). CI affects your child's ability to focus on near objects and requires both eyes to turn slightly inward. If they don't, vision problems may occur.
- Convergence Excess (CE). The eyes turn too far outward when your child has CE, which can also cause eye teaming problems.
- Stroke and Neurological Conditions: Visions problems can be related to a stroke, Parkinson's disease, or another neurological condition.
- Eye Injuries. Injuries that affect the nerves or muscles that control eye alignment can cause eye teaming and tracking issues.
Common Eye Teaming and Tracking Symptoms
Eye teaming or tracking problems can cause these symptoms:
- Blurred or double vision
- Poor depth perception
- Clumsiness (as a result of poor depth perception)
- Concentration issues
- Difficulty catching or hitting a ball
- Tilting the head or covering one eye when reading
- Fatigue after reading or doing close work for a short period of time
- Trouble focusing on near objects
- Mistaking one word for another
- Motion sickness
How Vision Therapy Can Help You or Your Child
Vision therapy can help you improve your vision no matter what your age. The therapy is more than just eye exercises, although exercises can be helpful. Vision therapy enhances the connection between the eyes and the brain, allowing you or your child to use your vision more effectively.
Our treatment plans focus on correcting your child's particular issues and may include prisms, lenses, balance balls, activities, and even special video games. Video games designed to improve the symptoms of amblyopia, strabismus, and convergence insufficiency is not only fun but effective. In fact, children who had amblyopia improved their ability to see images clearly in their "bad" eyes by 28 percent in a video game study published in the Journal of Vision.
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In Stephen R. Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, he mentions his research through the last 200 years of writing on success. (Other people’s writing, I don’t believe Stephen Covey is multiple centuries in age.) He mentions that among those writings he found that the last 50 years had shifted away from what he calls the character ethic and into the personality ethic. The copyright in the book is stamped 1989, so that makes it the last 80 years at the writing of this post.
Unless, of course, they’ve taken a shift for the better. I’ll stay optimistic and say that they seem to be going that way. 😉
The point is, he noticed that literature on success used to talk about core traits: things like courage, patience, modesty… things that would give you a solid foundation when it came to interacting with the world. And with yourself, for that matter. Then we seemed to hit a point where the literature pointed to things that look an awful lot more like slogans and buzzwords: “your attitude predicts your altitude.”
That is an uplifting saying… but only if your plane is already off the ground. You can display a positive attitude all you like but that alone won’t get you airborne.
It’s important to understand what both character and personality are. Character is the core of your being: the guiding principles that we use to drive our choices and behaviour. Personality is what is presented on the outside: the social bridge to everything outside of ourselves. Having a bright and shining personality can make for smooth social connections and a welcoming air of charm, but when this is the main focus of one’s personal development it can be all too easy to build your house on the sand.
As I’m writing about this now I find my thoughts drifting to a specific breed of ugly car I’ve seen driving around the street: beat up economy cars that have had a small fortune spent on fancy rims, low profile tires, a spoiler, fancy lights, and of course a “high performance” muffler. And somehow the people driving these vehicles think that the lipstick they have applied makes their pig look like something to be envied.
Underneath all of these accouterments is still the same base model economy car… except now it’s horribly ugly. The juxtaposition of parts designed for a high performance machine now glued to a vehicle better suited for pizza delivery suggests a glaring mismatch between the owner’s desire and their perception of reality.
And so it seems that what’s important for the people living this example is the personality of the car – how it looks to the outside world. (Or, at least, how they think it looks.) This holds a strong parallel to those that practice the same effort for their own identity – it’s just as obvious to the outside world when you’ve dressed up your personality with spinning rims and a four inch high-flow muffler while neglecting what’s really important.
It’s easy to shine a car up with wax, but how does it run? Do you even know how to check the oil? Without proper care for the core parts of the machine what is the point of the mirror shine? So that it looks good being wheeled along behind a tow truck?
Character and personality have a strong cause and effect relationship: your guiding principles deep within you will inevitably shape how you come across on the surface.
Let’s look at a person that is highly accountable for what they say and do. If accountability is important to a person you know that you can trust what they say. When they say they’ll meet you at the art gallery at 3’o’clock on Saturday you know they’ll be there.
Now let’s look at a person that values the image of accountability over all else. They’ll probably impress you while you’re a priority to them – when you have something they need from you. But as soon as their need for someone or something else becomes more important you’ll find they become much less reliable and much more absent.
This will probably get stuck in a confusing state of assessment in your mind for a while; they’ve bought themselves some fudge room simply by being consistent enough at first to earn your trust, now they can afford to miss appointments with you at least a few times while you rationalize it away. “They must be stuck in traffic… maybe there was an emergency…”
But if accountability is your game then you won’t have to worry about juggling the priorities of what’s more important to you in the moment, what bridges can you afford to burn, and how do you keep your image flying high. Consistent, honest principles will materialize as consistent, honest behaviour.
The tragic part of this is that there are so many people that lean too hard on their personality and don’t even recognize the chain that links their choices to their inevitable consequences. They don’t even know enough about themselves to understand that you can live a life where you don’t burn relationships with flaky behaviour. Instead they stay locked in to a half working blueprint for life assuming that the downsides that come with it are inevitable. Bless those poor souls, and may someone bless mine for the parts of me that operate this way.
On the flipside of it, that’s what’s wonderful about character: when you’ve built that up as the core importance of who you are it shines through. Even when you falter in some way and end up missing an appointment or forgetting to call somebody, your generally good reputation will be able to stand a ding here and there. Since we’re not perfect we need room to make mistakes, but when you’ve built yourself on a house of cards, each mistake can be fatal.
Back to your altitude – your attitude can predict your altitude when you’re already up in the air. But to get there first you need a plane. And this plane needs a runway. And you need to know how to start the engine. Then how to actually get it rolling. Then how to get it off the ground! There are so many steps to get you aloft in the first place and I can promise you that “a great attitude” will not be a workable substitute for them. All of these prerequisites are the solid foundation of good character that allow you to take on something so miraculous as flying through the clouds.
When you’ve built a good strong character with which to go through life you’ll find that you won’t have to work so hard to get off the ground. Once the core pieces are in place and you keep your nose to the grindstone, success has its way of finding the room we’ve build for it within ourselves. This is where the virtue of patience will fill in the seemingly endless wait between work and result. We all do what’s natural for us to do, and being successful in life is one of those natural skills we all have within us. We are all destined to fly.
For those that live in alignment with a good life, a strong understanding and command of our own character is essential. Then flying becomes easy – it’s what we’re born to do. Then and only then will we find that our attitude can be a great influence on our altitude. When you’re already flying through your life with a semblance of success, the glowing attitude of a polished personality will definitely make your interactions with the world much more constructive.
One bright side of all of this is that personality is malleable. If you take a good long look at yourself and see that your personality is something that goes against your principles, there’s nothing to worry about. As you connect with the character underneath your personality will adjust itself to form an accurate presentation of who you truly are. It’ll be a bumpy and frustrating ride, I promise you. But it will also be a ride away from stagnation – a ride to something better.
I read the 7 Habits book years ago and it was one of those books that changed my life. I had never seen these concepts come together so coherently. And I had never realized how much our lives are a reflection of our chore character traits, let alone how much power there is in accepting responsibility for them.
How about you? Do you find it hard work to maintain your image? Do you feel like you’re juggling too many balls at once? Or is it easy for you to maintain consistency?
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Tile Deal by Winston Freer, Karl Norman(c. 1976,1986) (Submit Review) (Submit Update)
Wow! Winston Freer was a Genius! What an incredible miracle this effect is! Very different in method from anything similar that I have seen. This is based on a principle developed by Paul Curry called the Curry Paradaox c. 1953. However Freer adds an ingenious allowance for the area lost by redistribution which allows you to show the area to be EXACTLY THE SAME, before and after the removal of three tiles.
This version is much more cheaply made than the one by John Rogers. It works the same way and some may feel it is more authentic but I’d go with the John Rogers version if I had a choice.
Effect: In a nutshell the effect is this: a puzzle fills a frame and is made up of 10 different sized pieces with 7 x 9 = 63 squares. On 3 successive tries a single tile is removed. Each time the puzzle can be quickly reassembled and each time there are 63 squares. In the end, the puzzle is put back into the frame, and even though 3 squares are missing it still fits the frame precisely the same as when you started.
Now for the good news, nothing is added or taken away, the props and moves look clean, and there are no false compartments or slides. It really is as clean as it looks and reset is as easy as counting from 1 to 10! Learning to actually do the moves will take five minutes or so, however, performing it will take a little longer so that the presentation flows nicely with the amazing effect. The routine that is included is an entertaining story involving the Theory of Relativity and comes with written directions and a DVD. On the DVD John Rogers performs the effect and includes basic instructions and performance tips.
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About the Agent
The Agent is a lightweight application WhatsUp Gold can distribute to devices on your network. First and foremost, it is important to note this is an optional feature. Currently, because the Agent solely supports Log Management, if your license does not include this feature, you do not need to deploy Agents on your network. If you do plan to use Agents with Log Management, please ensure no organizational policies exist which do not allow for this type of deployment. In the event you are unable to deploy Agents, you can still take advantage of Log Management features using the centralized log collector.
The Agent can be deployed automatically using the Agent deployment manager or manually using a .zip install package depending on your preference and network configuration. It utilizes an encrypted communications channel based on gRPC and HTTP/2 to communicate back to WhatsUp Gold. This encrypted channel ensures the Agent is able to connect back to the parent WhatsUp Gold server from which it was deployed and blocks any attempts to intercept the connection. Each Agent is given a unique ID (AgentID) which is used for identifying itself to WhatsUp Gold whenever a given request or response is issued. Accordingly, the dedicated Agent service provides it with data applicable to the configuration settings for that device.
Unique System Requirements
WhatsUp Gold Agent implementation currently only supports Windows operating systems. As such, only Windows Event Log configuration can be managed at this time. Additionally, the operating system installed must be 64-bit; 32-bit (x86) Windows operating systems are not supported. For additional system requirements, please see the latest WhatsUp Gold Release Notes.
Planning for using the Agent
In contrast to WhatsUp Gold which initiates a connection to acquire information about devices on your network, and therefore is attempting to reach the device it is trying to monitor, the Agent reverses the approach by initiating the connection and sending data to the WhatsUp Gold server. (For comparison, this is similar to WhatsUp Gold Remote environments in which the remote WhatsUp Gold installation needs to be able to communicate information back to the central WhatsUp Gold server.)
The Agent system uses TCP port 9749 by default. If you have firewalls filtering traffic on your network, an exemption for this port may be necessary. Alternately, users with administrator privileges can change the port using the Agent General Settings dialog. For additional information on port number, see Configuring WhatsUp Gold Agent General Settings.
The Agent requires full TLS/SSL trust. Certificate errors are not and cannot be ignored. The intent is to protect the privileged data the WhatsUp Gold server returns to the Agent. The Agent service auto-generates a set of certificates for use with the Agent, upon initial startup. If the default settings are not appropriate, the WhatsUp Gold administrator can regenerate a new set of certificates. For additional information on certificates, see Configuring WhatsUp Gold Agent General Settings.
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UCLA researchers stimulated brain repair in mice with two of the most widely used analogues for multiple sclerosis by treating them with estrogen. The hormone induced the expression of cholesterol synthesis genes in cells that make myelin, the protective coating around nerves. The researchers found that mechanisms underlying this process, called remyelination, appeared to mimic known processes of myelination when the fetal brain is developing and is exposed naturally to a related estrogen in the mother’s blood.
In MS, the body’s immune system attacks the protective myelin coating around nerve fibers, leaving the nerves vulnerable to damage. Current treatments for MS help relieve inflammation but don’t repair the underlying brain cell damage or loss of myelin.
Different types of estrogen already have been investigated in early studies as possible treatments for MS because there is evidence that they might have anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers began by looking at how the expression patterns of genes in the brain changed in MS patients throughout the course of their disease and treatment. By looking at those patterns in individual brain cells and regions, rather than the brain as a whole, they found one cell type and two areas of the brain that showed critical changes. The most pronounced changes were in genes related to the production of cholesterol, which the brain must make from scratch because it doesn’t cross the blood-brain barrier. The researchers confirmed the importance of cholesterol in a mouse model of MS that undergoes some natural remyelination; as the myelin sheath was repaired, the same cholesterol synthesis genes were turned on.
Finally, the team tried to spur that cholesterol synthesis by treating adult mice with an estrogen receptor beta compound, mimicking the hormonal womb environment in which myelin is originally laid down to coat nerve fibers in both mice and humans. They found that the treatment induced remyelination in mice with two analogues for MS.
Nearly 1 million people in the U.S. have MS, and the incidence is increasing. Treatments that can reverse the course of disease, rather than temporarily ease symptoms, are needed. Estrogens are already well-studied and treatment with a pregnancy estrogen (estriol) is in initial trials for people with MS. The possibility that remyelination and brain repair could be induced warrants study into whether that phenomenon is occurring in people with MS in clinical trials.
The study’s senior author is Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl, a UCLA professor of neurology, director of the UCLA MS Program, and the Jack H. Skirball Professor of Multiple Sclerosis Research; the other authors are Noriko Itoh, Alessia Tassoni, Macy Matsukawa, Emily Ren, Vincent Tse, Ellis Jang, Timothy Suen and Yuichiro Itoh, all of UCLA.
The study was published (PDF) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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We are a Procurement and Supply Chain Management partner for all bio products. Executing Kaizen (continuous improvement) in every process throughout the Supply Chain, we strive to achieve Supply Chain Excellence to supply the best valued bio products to the consumers through our BioKai systems which involve everyone in the Supply Chain to continuously improve every element of the Supply Chain Operation.
In addition to BioKai, Our clients work with us because we follow three simple principles:
Fresh materials are used to avoid contamination of the product. Actual costs are opened to the partners with agreed margins for building mutually fair and beneficial relationships. Renewal materials and processes are used to protect the environment.
OEM – Original Equipement Manufacturer Projects
ODM – Original Design Manufacturer Projects
Improvement ideas are everywhere in the manufacturing operations. Company wide suggestion systems are installed.
Quality is manufactured into the product with station and process control tools at each station throughout the supply chain.
Continuous Improvements are encouraged with incentive programs to continuously supply better value to the customers.
- Bio Light
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Our management staffs in Procurement, Quality Control, Engineering and Supply Chain Management have been working and servicing American and Germany Multi-national Conglomerates in the corresponding functions since the Quality era in the 80’s. All of our and partners’ operations and products manufactured are complied with International Quality and Safety Standards.
We are developing an online BioKai systems which documents our Kaizen projects to provide traceability whenever review is needed. To provide accurate information, every station in the production must be have detailed standards of operations (SOP) and every operator must trained to record correctly. Wrong data will only give wrong information to make wrong decisions – Garbage In Garbage Out (Gigo). Basic Input Output needs Kaizen too. BIOKAI will have two modules – one is for the demand markets and one is for the supply source.
- Due Diligence Review
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He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright. (Gen. 25:34)
ESAU HAD IT ALL. He didn’t have to work to prove he was worthy of his father Isaac’s blessing. He didn’t have to be smarter, stronger, or more righteous than his brother. His inheritance, the covenant promises God gave to Abraham, authority over the entire family, and even a special place reserved for him at mealtimes were all his simply because he had been born first. All he had to do was accept his birthright.
Instead, Esau showed contempt for this gift. As we might say today, he “blew it off.” We don’t read of him saying to Jacob, “You must be crazy! Why would I do such a foolish thing?” You’d think he might have even tried to overpower his “quieter” brother. Wasn’t Esau the mighty hunter? Couldn’t he have just threatened Jacob with a pop in the jaw? No. Unwilling to protect his precious gift, Esau traded his birthright for a meal.
Likewise, we have been given a gift from our heavenly Father. The indwelling Holy Spirit provides everything believers need to live a holy life. He convicts us of sin, He reminds us of what we’ve learned, and He even prays for us when we don’t know what to say. And Romans 15:16 says we are “sanctified [set apart for holiness] by the Holy Spirit.” We simply have to accept the help He offers. In our pursuit of holiness, may we never “shrug off” the precious gift of the Spirit.
Listen for the Spirit’s voice today, reminding you to be holy!
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Marine Life Protection Act will have negative impacts
By Carl Lind
La Jolla residentIn response to the July 15 ‘Reasons to back protection act, here are some important points. To understand California’s Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) it is important to know that it is not a scientific creation. It is political, approved by the legislature largely along party lines. At its heart is the attempt to ban sport fishing along much of California’s coastline by establishing “no-take” marine reserves.
Primary support for the MLPA comes from research institutions and the animal rights lobby. A motivation for the former is the desperately needed millions of dollars in potential study grants for the proposed reserves.
MLPA activists deceptively argue that the “oceans are in crisis.”
They neglect to say that California’s Department of Fish & Game has provided excellent stewardship of the state’s ocean waters. Certainly there are some problems, but no-take reserves are not the answer to any of them because they actually prohibit marine management. To create such a reserve, a boundary is established in an ocean area, and whatever happens within that area — is allowed to happen. It’s a Utopian, “nature knows best” approach that ignores real dangers to our environment.
One only has to see the hordes of sea lions along San Francisco’s waterfront, damaging boats and docks, eating marine resources and polluting the water to understand this. La Jolla has its own escalating pinniped problem.
Fortunately, all cities now have the right, under federal law, to control nuisance marine mammals. This right ceases to exist within the proposed MLPA no-take reserves. Why would any coastal city willingly give up its option to control problem animals by acquiescing to MLPA? Claims that existing no-take marine reserves are “successful” are mostly anecdotal. So many variables exist (e.g., water temperature, pollution, marine mammal predation) that scientific experiments are nearly impossible to replicate.
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Dance of Death
The Metnitz dance of death
This brief term refers to two great cultural achievements in Metnitz, the CYCLE OF FRESCOES with its text banner underneath on the wall of the ossuary, and a FOLK PLAY performed in front of the ossuary by amateur actors and choirs from Metnitz.
Both forms of presentation go back to the Middle Ages, and deal with the same subject: the fact that everyone is equal before death, which does not recognise differences in either social status or age. All too often the figure of Death appears unexpectedly and remorselessly before individuals people, seemingly fetching them “for the dance”.
The texts written along the line of frescoes and those of the play are different. The quatrains placed on the lips of Death and his victims on the fresco were taken from the Heidelberg blockbook (printed in Basle in 1465). The play, which was originally theological and mainly preaches penitence, is an amalgamation of various song texts. The tradition of the play originated from monasteries and towns, and was preserved amongst the peasant population. Thus the dance of death was still performed in the region around in 1870, and in 1924 it was recorded there as the “Carinthian dance of death”.
On 28 July 1957, the dance of death was restaged through the initiative of the mayor, Med. Rat Dr. Hans Staunig.
The play is performed periodically in Metnitz as the “Metnitz Dance of Death”, enhanced by Carinthian songs about death.
The content is simple and straightforward: the angel declares the theme:
"Auf, auf, o Mensch, mach dich bereit, ... es gilt ein Kranz, der Tot rufet allen nach sein Gefallen zu seinem Tanz."
[“Arise, oh people, get ready and find your wreath … you are summoned to the dance at the pleasure of Death.”]
Once Death has fetched everyone to his dance, one after another, the play ends with the realisation:
"Tretet all zu meinem Reigen dar,
die ihr das Leben schon habt gegeben
in Gottes Händ zum seligen End!"
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WASHINGTON, DC, June 2, 2014 (ENS) – For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to limit emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from existing power plants, the single largest source of carbon pollution in the United States.
Democrats and public health and environmental groups rejoiced in the proposal of a measure they have advocated for years to fight climate change, but Republicans cried doom, warning that the rule would destroy the American economy.
Power plants that burn fossil fuels such as coal and oil account for roughly one-third of all climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. There are currently no national limits on carbon dioxide emissions, although limits are in place for the levels of arsenic, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particle pollution that power plants can emit.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said, “Climate change, fueled by carbon pollution, supercharges risks to our health, our economy, and our way of life. EPA is delivering on a vital piece of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan by proposing a Clean Power Plan that will cut harmful carbon pollution from our largest source – power plants.”
The Clean Power Plan is expected to provide up to $93 billion in climate and public health benefits, according to the EPA.
“By leveraging cleaner energy sources and cutting energy waste, this plan will clean the air we breathe while helping slow climate change so we can leave a safe and healthy future for our kids,” said McCarthy. “We don’t have to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment. Our action will sharpen America’s competitive edge, spur innovation, and create jobs.”
In 2009, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the agency to determine whether or not carbon dioxide is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, EPA determined that atmospheric carbon dioxide threatens Americans’ health and welfare by leading to long lasting changes in Earth’s climate that can have a range of negative effects on human health and the environment. This determination gave the EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
On September 20, 2013, EPA proposed carbon pollution standards for power plants that will be built in the future and began the process of outreach to states, stakeholders and the public to establish carbon pollution standards for currently operating power plants.
On June 2, 2014, under President Obama’s Climate Action Plan announced in June 2013, the agency proposed the Clean Power Plan to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants.
The Clean Power Plan will be implemented through a state-federal partnership under which states identify a path forward using either current or new electricity production and pollution control policies to meet the goals of the proposed program.
The proposal provides guidelines for states to develop plans to meet state-specific goals to reduce carbon pollution and gives them the flexibility to design a program that makes the most sense for their unique situation.
States can choose the right mix of generation using diverse fuels, energy efficiency and demand-side management to meet the goals and their own needs. It allows them to work alone to develop individual plans or to work together with other states to develop multi-state plans.
Included in today’s proposal is a flexible timeline for states to follow for submitting plans to the agency. Plans are due in June 2016, with the option to use a two-step process for submitting final plans if more time is needed.
States that have already invested in energy efficiency programs will be able to build on these programs during the compliance period to help make progress toward meeting their goal.
By 2030, the Clean Power Plan is expected to cut carbon emissions from the power sector by 30 percent nationwide below 2005 levels. This is equal to the emissions from powering more than half the homes in the United States for one year.
As a co-benefit, the Clean Power Plan is projected to cut particle pollution, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide by more than 25 percent.
The EPA says that as a result up to 6,600 premature deaths will be avoided, as well as up to 150,000 asthma attacks in children, and up to 490,000 missed work or school days.
Since last summer, EPA officials have engaged with state, tribal, and local governments, industry and labor leaders, non-profits, and others. The agency said these consultations confirmed that “states have been leading the way for years in saving families and businesses money through improving efficiency, while cleaning up pollution from power plants.”
To date, 47 states have utilities that run demand-side energy efficiency programs, 38 have renewable portfolio standards or goals, and 10 have market-based greenhouse gas emissions programs. The EPA says these programs represent a proven, common-sense approach to cutting carbon pollution.
EPA will accept public comments on the proposal for 120 days after publication in the Federal Register and will hold four public hearings on the proposed Clean Power Plan during the week of July 28 in: Denver, Atlanta, Washington, DC and Pittsburgh.
Based on this input, EPA will finalize standards next June, following the schedule laid out by President Barack Obama in the June 2013 Presidential Memorandum.
In his weekly address to the nation last Saturday, President Obama anticipated criticism from Republicans in Congress, saying, “Now, special interests and their allies in Congress will claim that these guidelines will kill jobs and crush the economy. Let’s face it, that’s what they always say. ”
“But every time America has set clear rules and better standards for our air, our water, and our children’s health – the warnings of the cynics have been wrong. They warned
that doing something about the smog choking our cities, and acid rain poisoning our lakes, would kill business. It didn’t. Our air got cleaner, acid rain was cut
dramatically, and our economy kept growing.”
“These excuses for inaction somehow suggest a lack of faith in American businesses and American ingenuity. The truth is, when we ask our workers and businesses to innovate, they do. When we raise the bar, they meet it. When we restricted cancer-causing chemicals in plastics and leaded fuel in our cars, American chemists came up with better substitutes. When we phased out the gases that depleted the ozone layer, American workers built better refrigerators and air conditioners. The fuel standards we put in place a few years ago didn’t cripple automakers; the American auto industry retooled, and today, they’re selling the best cars in the world, with more hybrids, plug-in, and
fuel-efficient models to choose from than ever before,” said Obama.
“In America, we don’t have to choose between the health of our economy and the health of our children,” he said. ” The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technology to break the old rules.”
“As President, and as a parent,” said Obama, “I refuse to condemn our children to a planet that’s beyond fixing.”
Republicans lost no time in criticizing Obama’s Clean Power Plan. Although the EPA projects that the plan will shrink electricity bills roughly eight percent by increasing energy efficiency and reducing demand in the electricity system, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio disagrees.
“The President’s plan would indeed cause a surge in electricity bills – costs stand to go up $17 billion every year,” said Boehner. “But it would also shut down plants and potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every year. It’s a sucker punch for families everywhere paying more for just about everything in the president’s fragile economy.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a coal-producing state, said, “Today’s announcement is a dagger in the heart of the American middle class, and to representative democracy itself.”
“By imposing these draconian new rules on the nation’s coal industry, President Obama and every other liberal lawmaker in Washington who quietly supports them is also picking regional favorites, helping their political supporters in states like California and New York while inflicting acute pain on states like Kentucky.”
While environmentalists and Democratic Members of Congress praised the Clean Power Plan, predictably, the fossil fuel industries rejected it.
American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard said, “This proposal is not consistent with the administration’s own ‘all of the above’ energy strategy. The uncertainty created will have a chilling effect on energy investment that could cost jobs, raise electricity prices and make energy less reliable.”
“The energy sector is already one of the most heavily regulated industries in the United States,” said Gerard. “Our air is getting cleaner under existing regulations, and carbon emissions are down due to technological advancements developed by the private sector. We can continue to make environmental progress without damaging the economy.”
Texas Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson who serves as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, said,
“The impact of climate change on American citizens is being felt today and the consequences are growing more severe. Acting on climate change is not only an environmental imperative, but a public health one too. Higher risks of asthma attacks, heat stroke, and respiratory disease are all consequences of a warming climate.
“The climate and health benefits of this proposed rule are estimated to be worth up to $93 billion per year in 2030, far outweighing the plan’s estimated annual cost of up to $8.8 billion per year in 2030,” said Johnson. “The long-term job creation and health benefits are clear and I fully support the work the EPA is doing to curb carbon emissions and protect the health of every American.”
Environmental groups support the proposed rule, saying it would protect, not destroy, the economy.
Rebecca Stanfield of the Natural Resources Defense Council blogged, “On May 16, a coalition of companies including Starbucks, the Gap, Levis, Jones Lange LaSalle, Ikea and Nike wrote to Illinois Governor Pat Quinn urging him to, ‘seize the economic opportunity embedded in addressing climate change.'”
They explained that ‘the health of our economy depends on our ability to capitalize on the opportunities in front of us.’ These companies are part of a growing chorus of business leaders who know that America is at its best when it faces challenges head-on, that ignoring climate change is costing us billions every year that we can’t afford, and that putting people to work on solutions is both the right thing to do for future generations, and the best way to grow our economy.”
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Kitty Monahan, a beloved Santa Clara County conservationist, educator and historian who led efforts to protect the area’s parks for decades, died on July 25. She was 89 years old.
Monahan, who died around midnight at her New Almaden property where she had lived since 1972, left behind a long list of achievements, most notably the 4,000-acre Almaden Quicksilver County Park, where mercury mining in the county Helps to lead the purchase and protection of The 19th century marked the beginning of California’s gold rush economy.
Although Monahan was not married and had no children, those who knew her well said that the surrounding community stood as her family. In the days before his passing, Monahan had dozens of visitors to say goodbye to her New Almaden home.
“She was like our bonus mom,” said Chris Peretti, a close family friend of Monahan’s. “He never had children … we were his children.”
Peretti said that although Monahan had difficulty talking in his final days, he said “thank you” to each of his guests.
“She was always very much loved,” Peretti said. “But she was a very strong, independent woman. Even until she was older, she could throw a lump of hay faster than me.”
Born on December 4, 1932, Monahan grew up in San Jose and attended Notre Dame High School. She then served as a nun for the next two decades and spent time teaching in various locations across the state, including the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. Friends say that he broke away from the church after disagreements with the leadership of Pope John XXIII.
In the early 1970s, Monahan became a math teacher at William C. Overfelt High School. Mark Fleming, who was Monahan’s student during his junior and senior years, described him as a “dedicated and knowledgeable” teacher.
“If you were slow, she would have worked with you, which I was,” Fleming said. “Beyond her math skills, she cared about the students. They were personal to him. ,
It was around the same time that even Monahan began to ramp up his conservation efforts. Along with other community members, Monahan worked to get Santa Clara County to purchase the 4,000-acre Almaden Quicksilver County Park for approximately $4 million. The area was once the largest mercury mine on the North American continent, the element used to separate gold from its ore. Mining operations began in the mid-1840s and lasted more than a century, generating profits of $70 million and improving the region’s economy.
By the mid-1970s, she was informally known as the “Mayor of New Almaden” because of her advocacy for the region, said Michael Cox, who worked with Monahan for decades.
In 1983, along with Cox, Monahan helped found the New Almaden Quicksilver County Park Association, or NAQCPA, which to this day serves as an educational resource for the historic site and has about 400 members. The group quickly began consolidating the park’s facilities and helped direct the county’s purchase of a private collection of park historical artifacts and the 1850s Revival-style mansion known as Case Grande, both of which had Eventually the Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum was formed.
“We were both obsessed with Almaden and both wanted the park to be developed into something more,” said Cox, currently the NAQCPA’s vice president. “Because of its rich history, it can become a learning center for young people and those who share in the social and geological history of the park.”
Cox described Monahan as having “a very positive outlook on things”, “tough,” “always smiling” and “tireless” in his quest to protect the history of the area.
“She kept a little calendar she wrote in,” Cox recalls. “She used to write small prints in each calendar square. There would be eight or nine things in it. She was constantly jumping from one thing to another.”
In the intervening years, Monahan would continue in his conservation efforts, establishing various groups such as Friends of Santa Teresa Park. He also served as a member of the Open Space Authority of Santa Clara County and the Horsemen’s Association.
In all, she spent 14,000 hours volunteering for the county’s parks, which were recognized through the Presidential Volunteer Service Award in 2014. Most recently, Monahan was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Santa Clara County Preservation Alliance in May.
In addition to his conservation work, Monahan was also an ardent follower of the San Francisco 49ers and Giants. In her spare time, she loved to solve soduko and crossword puzzles and ride horses.
Garnetta Annable, a member of the Open Space Authority who worked with Monahan and described her as a “sister,” said Monahan’s demise leaves a huge gap for the area’s conservation efforts.
“We lost a really strong lawyer,” Annable said. “We need the younger generation to move forward. We need a champion like Kitty.”
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Using tiny wires and fishnet structures, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found new ways to bend light backward, something that never occurs in nature.
This technology could lead to microscopes able to peer more deeply and clearly into living cells. And the same kind of structures might one day be adapted to bend light in other unnatural ways, creating a Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak. "This is definitely a big step toward that idea," said Jason Valentine, a graduate student and a lead author of a paper being published online on Wednesday by the journal Nature. But scientists are still far from designing and manufacturing such a cloak.
The work involves materials that have a property known as negative refraction, which means that they essentially bend light backward.
Once thought to be pure fantasies, these substances, called metamaterials, have been constructed in recent years, and scientists have shown they can bend long-wavelength microwaves.
Negative refractive materials can in principle lead to fantastical illusions; someone looking down at a fish in a pool of negative refractive liquid would see the fish swimming in the air above.
Two separate advances are described in two scientific papers, both out of the research laboratory of Xiang Zhang, a professor at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center in Berkeley.
When a ray of light crosses the boundary from air to water, glass or other transparent material, it bends, and the degree of bending is determined by a property known as the index of refraction. Transparent materials like glass, water and diamonds all have an index of 1 or higher for visible light, meaning that when the light enters, its path bends toward an imaginary line perpendicular to the surface.
With the engineered metamaterials, scientists can create refractive indices less than 1 or even negative. Light entering a material with a negative index of refraction would take a sharp turn, almost as if it had bounced off the imaginary perpendicular line.
In the Nature paper, the Berkeley researchers created a fishnet structure with 21 layers, alternating between a metal and magnesium fluoride, resulting in a metamaterial with a negative index of refraction for infrared light. The researchers said that by making the fishnet structure even smaller, they should be able to do the same with visible light.
In the second paper, to be published in the issue this Friday of the journal Science, a different group of scientists in Zhang's laboratory used a different approach, building an array of minuscule upright wires, which changed the electric fields of passing light waves. That structure was able to bend visible red light.
One application of negative index materials could be a "superlens." Light is usually thought of as having undulating waves.
But much closer up, light is a much more jumbled mess, with the waves mixed in with more complicated "evanescent waves."
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Hardware kits, internet-connected toys and robots that teach kids to code are now commonplace. But Osmo, an early entrant in IoT toys, is pulling ahead of the pack with funding and partnerships with top names in the field.
Specifically, Osmo has raised $24 million in new venture funding from Mattel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Collab+Sesame, the venture fund run in partnership by New York-based Collaborative Fund and Sesame Workshop and Calibrate Partners. The company’s earlier backers, Accel Partners, Upfront Ventures and K9 Ventures, also joined the round.
The Palo Alto startup, which launched in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2013 as Tangible Play, makes products that integrate physical puzzle pieces, board games and blocks with mobile games and content on the iPad.
In its version of the classic educational game Tangrams, kids rearrange geometric pieces to form the shape of an animal, or another image, shown on an iPad screen. The company’s software uses the camera of the iPad to see how the kid is progressing. So the Tangrams app can see when a player has successfully pieced a desired image together, congratulate them and serve up a new challenge.
Osmo products are used in 22,000 schools globally, and sold in 50 countries, the company says.
According to CEO and co-founder Pramod Sharma, Osmo will use its funding to adapt some of its popular toys and games for use on the iPhone, including Words, Tangram, Newton and Numbers.
Perhaps more excitingly, for fans of characters like Elmo or Barbie and toys like Mega Bloks, Osmo is also working in partnership with Sesame Workshop and Mattel to develop new, character-driven content for its products.
Sesame Workshop is providing research to Osmo for the creation of educational products that will help more children learn through play, a Sesame spokesperson said. There are currently no plans to develop toys with Osmo based on Sesame Street characters.
Sharma said the company also has an engagement with a big research firm pending to figure out how Osmo toys impact learning and development in kids and schools.
However, the CEO explained, “When we pitch Osmo to teachers nobody asks for research. They know these are classic things that are good for kids, like playing a word game to learn about spelling. We bring a high level of engagement to that. Coding as well. So in some sense we don’t have to prove this is educationally sound. Teachers already know.”
Correction: This post was updated to reflect the scope of what Sesame Workshop plans to build with Osmo in the near-term. The story previously implied there were plans for Sesame, and another investor in Osmo, Mattel, to develop mixed reality toys based on Sesame’s characters. | <urn:uuid:da46a0a1-7f4a-4f48-bb53-d61e0b494891> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/08/osmo-raises-24-million-from-sesame-mattel-and-other-big-names-in-toys-and-education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959218 | 610 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Classical economic models assume that people are rational, predictable, and make the most optimal choices, but are we really so? Trying to answer this question, a new economic sub-field emerged and it’s called “behavioral economics”. It is an attempt to prove that there are psychological, social, and emotional factors that influence our decision-making.
Behavioral economics is a branch of economics that seeks to understand how the human mind makes decisions when faced with scarce resources. Essentially, it’s about taking psychology and other social sciences into account to understand economic decision-making.
Unlike the classical economic models, behavioral economics approaches the subject by taking into account that humans act and react to a number of different factors, not just pure economic rationality, and tries to analyze why humans behave irrationally and unpredictably from an economist’s perspective.
The goal of behavioral economics is to understand those factors and determine how they can be incorporated into economic models.
Several principles that emerged from behavioral economics research have helped economists better understand human economic behavior. From these principles, governments and businesses have developed policy frameworks to encourage people to make particular choices.
The origins of behavioral economics:
Although the term “behavioral economics” was first coined by psychologist Daniel Kahneman in his groundbreaking work “Thinking Fast and Slow” in 2011, it has a long history that can be traced back to 18th-century Scottish economist Adam Smith.
Smith is mostly known for his “invisible hand theory” which argues that economic agents, by following their own interests, can lead the economy to prosperity. But he also acknowledged that people are often overconfident in their abilities, more afraid of losing than eager to win, and more likely to seek short-term benefits than long-term ones. These ideas (overconfidence, loss aversion, and self-control) are today fundamental concepts of behavioral economics.
More recently, the work of Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman on uncertainty and risk has made the biggest contributions to this field so far.
Tversky and Kahneman came up with a concept known as the “availability heuristic” that states that, when making a judgment or a decision, people often rely on easily recalled information, rather than actual data, it’s the tendency to use information that comes to mind quickly and easily rather than conducting research and collecting reliable data. This concept contradicts the classical “utility theory” that states that economic agents are always well-informed and have all the needed data to make the most optimal decisions.
Another Tversky and Kahneman theory that reinforced behavioral economics is the ” prospect theory”.
According to prospect theory, we don’t evaluate the possibilities of gains and losses in the same way, we are more concerned about avoiding losses than making gains.
For example, studies have shown that if presented with an opportunity to win $250 guaranteed or gamble on a 25% chance of winning $1,000 and a 75% chance of winning nothing, most people will choose the sure win. But if presented with the chance to lose $750 guaranteed or a 75% chance to lose $1,000 and a 25% chance to lose nothing, most people will risk losing $1,000, hoping for the slim chance that they will lose nothing at all.
So, the prospect theory, also known as the loss-aversion theory, shows how, presented with a choice, both equal, most of us will choose the one presented in terms of potential gains.
If people were rational they would consistently make the same decision given identical options, but studies show that most of the time people’s preferences are dependent on how options are presented, psychologists call this type of cognitive bias: the framing effect.
What is a “nudge” in behavioral economics?
A nudge in behavioral economics refers to any aspect of the choice architecture that tries to influence people’s behavior and decision-making. A “nudge” is a way to manipulate people’s choices to lead them to make specific decisions but without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.
An example of a nudge: putting fruit at eye level or near the cash register at a high school cafeteria to get students to choose healthier options.
It is to note that behavioral economics doesn’t blow up the traditional economic theory, it just seeks to understand when and why people behave differently than old economic models suggest.
Classical economists ignored many irrational elements of decision-making, behavioral economics tries to fill this void by treating the topic from another perspective and covering those neglected elements.
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Water –v- Coca Cola
BY MARIE YORKE
WATER: WHAT WATER DOES FOR THE BODY
•75% of Irish People are chronically dehydrated due to lack of water consumption.
•In 37% of Irish People, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger
•Even mild dehydration will slow down ones metabolism by 3%
•One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs if you are on a diet
•Lack of water is the number one trigger of daytime fatigue
•2 litres of water a day will significantly ease back and joint pain for 80% of sufferers
•A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory loss, trouble with basic math and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
•Drinking 5 glasses of water a day decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79% and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer. Are you drinking the correct amount of water your body needs each day?
•Water moisturises the body from the inside out. You can put on all the expensive moisturisers you want on your skin but you will never cover up the dehydration in the layers below the skins surface. The muscles, Organs, Blood and everything else that lies beneath the surface needs to be looked after for you to look your best on the outside.
COCA COLA: ASTONISHING FACTS !
•It’s true, that in the USA, Police cars carry at least two gallons of Coke in the boot to remove blood from the highway after a car accident
•You can put a T-Bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days
•To clean a toilet: Pour a can of coke into the toilet bowl and let the “real thing” sit for one hour and then flush. The Citric Acid in coke remover stains from vitreous china.
•To remove rust spots from chrome car bumbers. Rub the bumper with a rumpled up piece of aluminium foil dipped in coca cola
•To clean corrosion from car batterie terminals, pour a can of coca cola over the terminal to bubble away the corrosion.
•To loosen a rusted bolt. Apply a cloth soaked in coca cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
•To bake a moist ham. Empty a can of coca cola into the baking pan. Wrap the ham in aluminium foil, and bake. 30 minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.
•To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent and run through a regular cycle. The coca cola will loosen grease stains.
It will also clean road haze from your windscreen.
COCA COLA: SCARY FACTS
•The active ingredient in coke is phosphoric acid. It will dissolve a human nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the increase in osteoporosis.
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Number of Mumps cases in Wichita County for 2017 as of 5/24/17: 6
Signs and Symptoms:
Mumps is best known for the puffy cheeks and swollen jaw that it causes. This is a result of swollen salivary glands.
The most common symptoms include:
- Muscle aches
- Loss of appetite
- Swollen and tender salivary glands under the ears on one or both sides (parotitis)
Symptoms typically appear 16-18 days after infection, but this period can range from 12-25 days after infection. Some people who get mumps have very mild or no symptoms, and often they do not know they have the disease. Most people with mumps recover completely in a few weeks.
There is no treatment for mumps, and it can cause long-term health problems in a small number of those who become ill including temporary or permanent deafness, swelling of the brain (encephalitis), sterility (inability to reproduce) and in very rare cases death.
Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus. It spreads through saliva or mucus from the mouth, nose, or throat. An infected person can spread the virus by
- coughing, sneezing, or talking,
- sharing items, such as cups or eating utensils, with others, and
- touching objects or surfaces with unwashed hands that are then touched by others.
The best way to protect against mumps is to get the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination (MMR). Doctors recommend that ALL children get the MMR vaccine.
- Children 12 months of age or older should have two doses of MMR vaccine, separated by at least 28 days.
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If you think you or a family member has mumps and you plan on seeing a health care provider, please call them before visiting their medical office. This will help them take precautions to prevent the spread of the mumps to their staff and other patients.
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Just 6% of small businesses that were negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic have fully recovered their losses, a Job Creators Network survey showed.
The vast majority of U.S. small business owners continue to “claw their way out” of the hole caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the poll commissioned by small business advocacy group Job Creators Network (JCN) and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. While 6% of small business owners that suffered losses related to the pandemic said they have recovered, 43% believed they would be fully recovered within six months.
The poll also showed that small business owners – who listed taxes as a top overall concern moving forward – are worried about President Joe Biden’s economic policies. More than half of respondents said they disapproved of the White House’s proposal to raise the corporate tax rate.
“Most small businesses won’t be able to fully recover until unemployment benefits go back to pre-pandemic levels,” JCN Chief Communications Officer Elaine Parker told the DCNF in a statement Thursday. “The overly-generous unemployment benefits that were included in the President Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending bill are incentivizing people to stay home, instead of rejoining the workforce.”
Parker added that the unemployment benefits may have made sense months ago, but are only preventing a stronger recovery now.
The U.S. economy added a meager 266,000 new jobs last month, well under predictions, government data showed. Conservatives have blamed the federal $300 weekly unemployment bonus introduced by Democrats’ $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, arguing it incentives people not to look for work.
There were a record 8.1 million job openings nationwide at the end of March, according to a recent Labor Department report.
“Now, as the economy returns to normal, Main Street is open for business,” Scott Rasmussen, who conducted the survey for JCN alongside fellow pollster John McLaughlin, said in a statement. “Fingers crossed that their concerns over Biden administration policies don’t come to fruition.”
Rasmussen and McLaughlin surveyed 500 small business owners between May 1 and May 19 for the report.
The JCN poll released Thursday was the inaugural “JCN Monthly Monitor” survey. The group will continue to regularly poll small business owners in an attempt to track the state of small businesses in the U.S.
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In Nigeria, barrenness or the inability to bear children by a couple is a serious issue because of the fact that the African society places a lot of importance on children and parenting. Therefore, any couple that doesn’t have children will do anything g in their power to get.
Well, for people who have the money, there seems to be a hope for you guys with IVF, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), they use assisted reproduction technology (ART), in aiding fertilization outside of the body using “test-tubes. It’s basically taking the sperm from a man and the woman’s egg cells and fertilising them outside of the woman’s body.
If the procedure is successful, as it mostly is, the woman who is having child issues can have a good shot at becoming a mother. In 1978, in the United Kingdom, Louise Brown became the first child in the world to be born via IVF.
This is a good procedure for helping couples with conception issues, so today in this article, am going to be telling you all you need to know about IVF, including the cost of IVF in Nigeria.
Cost of IVF in Nigeria
The cost of IVF in Nigeria isn’t fixed as the cost of IUVF in Nigeria depends on many factors but the cost usually ranges from N600, 000 to N1, 900,000. This price could be more or less depending on the centre and the treatment plan used for the patient.
Patients often wonder if they can pay the cost of IVF in Nigeria in instalments rather than paying all at once. Well, in some hospitals and circumstances, you may be allowed to pay 50 to 75% of the whole cost before the treatment begins. Then you can pay the balance when the treatment is completed.
Now, the cost of IVF in Nigeria is heavily dependent on some factors, and you can’t get an informed article on the cost of IVF in Nigeria if you do not know these factors.
Generally, the younger the couples are, the higher the success rate of the IVF. This means it is quite expensive if you are trying to have a child with IVF as an older couple.
Generally, for couples below the age of 35, the IVF success rate is between 40 to 45%. For couples between 35 to 39 years, the success rates are between 30 to 35%. However, for couples older than 40 years, the IVF success rate is around 10% or even less, so I wouldn’t advise you to go through the whole stress of researching and knowing the cost of IVF in Nigeria if you are a much older duo.
Number of cycles
Another very important factor to consider when weighing the cost of IVF in Nigeria is the number of cycles, For example, at Nordica, which is the best hospital for IVF in Nigeria, the cost ranges from N870, 000 to N1, 760, 000 depending on the number of cycles. Below is an overview of the cost of the IVF in Nigeria gotten from Nordica;
- A Single Cycle package costs N870,000
- A Two-cycle package costs N1,260,000
- A Three Cycle package costs N1,760,000
Involvement of egg donor or surrogate
This is a very important step when considering the cost of IVF in Nigeria, your eggs(woman) will be assessed and if found viable, then you won’t have to pay all fees involving a donor, such as assessment and drugs, all these fees greatly inverse the cost of IVF in Nigeria greatly.
If you are planning to carry the pregnancy yourself without a surrogate, you would pay less for the IVF procedure because all fees attached to involving a surrogate for the procedure.
Known or unknown donor
A very important aspect to consider about the cost of IVF in Nigeria is the sperm donor. If you happen to know the donor, then your IVF costs will be slightly less than what you will pay if an unknown donor was involved. Below is a comparison of the cost of IVF in Nigeria between Known donor and unknown donor.
|The Number of Cycles||Known Donor||Unknown Donor|
|A Single cycle||N2.20m||N2.32m|
So you see how important the donor is to the total cost of IVF in Nigeria
The Cost of drugs
Another aspect of the cost of IVF in Nigeria is the cost of the drugs and supplements being used. These drugs can cost up to N200, 000 or even much more and add a whole of additional cost to the cost of IVF in Nigeria.
Most of these drugs are prescription drugs and supplements, which can cost can cost as much as N500, 000, if a surrogate is being used, the drugs for both the surrogate and the donor could cost well over N1, 000,000 in price.
Another aspect of treatment that can increase the cost of IVF treatment in Nigeria is the cost of embryo freezing. The reason why embryo freezing is done is to provide a back up for the patient if the initial fresh embryo fails to result in pregnancy. If this happens, then the woman can easily fall back on her stored embryo at little or no cost instead of starting all over again for a new IVF.
Now, legal fees are a must if you are considering a surrogate mother. This fee is part of what is paid prior to commencing your IVF treatment, this fee could cost up to N150, 000, and plays a key part in the overall cost of IVF in Nigeria. It is a very important fee to pay.
Can something be done about the Cost?
It is very important to know that the cost of treatment is generally specific to individuals so you cannot really give a clear estimate of the cost.
However, a fun tip to know is that the cost of IVF in Nigeria in teaching hospitals is much lower than that of private hospitals. For example, the cost of one cycle in any of the teaching hospitals in Nigeria is between N400,000 and N600,000 which is about half the price of what you’ll get at any of the private IVF centers thereby making the cost of IVF in Nigeria very low for you.
Hospitals Where IVF is done
Am going to give you a list of the best places you can get your IVF done. These places make it worth the cost of IVF in Nigeria:
- University of Benin Teaching Hospital
- Lagos University Teaching Hospital
- National Hospital, Abuja
- Lagos State University Teaching Hospital
- University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital.
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Who would have thought that we would still be dealing with distance learning in 2021? Whether you are brand new to teaching music online, or your students are losing steam because it’s been so long, this post has some of the best distance learning engagement strategies.
I’ve been teaching from home March-December. I am writing this post on my first day back in the school building (my classroom is a mess!). Even though I am going back, and we are beginning a hybrid situation, most of our kiddos are still at home, so I am still teaching mostly online.
In all the months and months that I’ve been at this, I’ve learned a few things.
As we go through the distance learning engagement strategies, some will work better than others. To be honest, with my little kiddos, I do almost exactly the same thing that I do in the classroom. Very little is changed other than the whole muting situation and the fact that I cannot hand them things.
As far as distance learning with music, I definitely find it more difficult to engage the older kids. Most of the things that work in the classroom, we can’t do online (like instruments!). I also run into issues with it being a bit weird. A lot of things like singing and dancing are fine in my classroom, but feel different at home. The fourth and fifth graders love to dance in my classroom, but are less inclined to dance at home by themselves with their headphones on. And to be honest, I completely understand it!
These tips will focus mostly on those older students.
If you need some lessons ideas, I have a FREE PDF guide that has pages and pages of ideas for activities you can use via Zoom. My kiddos have tested them all, and I can attest to the fact that they do in fact work.
Want some more ideas?
You can get my Teaching Elementary Music Online ebook by clicking here! It has 80 pages of ideas for lessons that work online for students kindergarten-fifth grade.
Distance Learning Engagement Strategies
As we go through these strategies, remember this: The goal is for you to talk less and the students to do more.
That is the magic of engagement– the students are engaged. They are doing something. In order for them to be doing something, you need to talk less. The more you talk, the more students are inclined to get distracted. And there is a lot of distractions while they are in their houses!
Mirror Words is an engagement strategy taught by the Whole Brain Teaching Method. I learned about it by taking their (free!) online course, which you can check out by clicking here.
The idea of Mirror Words is to get the students involved while you are telling them things. You start by saying, “Mirrors up!” or “Mirror words” and putting your hands in front of your face like mirrors.
The students then do the exact same thing. The students are your mirrors.
Then, you tell the students whatever they need to know in SHORT phrases with big hand gestures.
The students repeat all of the words and all of the hand gestures.
At the end, you say, “Mirrors away” and students repeat that and put their hands down. This is their signal to stop repeating.
For example, it may look like this:
- Teacher: Mirrors up! (hands up)
- Students: Mirrors up! (hands up)
- Teacher: Swan Lake (puts a hand up like a swan neck) is a ballet (hands above the head like a ballerina)
- Students: Swan Lake (puts a hand up like a swan neck) is a ballet (hands above the head like a ballerina)
- Teacher: A ballet (hands up like a ballerina) tells a story (hands open like a book) through dance (two fingers waving back and forth– the sign language for dance)
- Students: A ballet (hands up like a ballerina) tells a story (hands open like a book) through dance (two fingers waving back and forth– the sign language for dance)
- Teacher: Mirrors away! (puts hands down)
- Students: Mirrors away! (puts hands down)
Mirror words is a SIMPLE distance learning engagement strategy. It is genius for a couple of reasons:
- If forces you to think in concise sentences. You cannot ramble on and on and on. The first of Mr. Rogers’s 9 rules for talking to children is to put your sentence into words that preschoolers can understand. This is what we want to do.
- The kids are doing something. They aren’t just sitting and ignoring you.
- If helps them remember. Repeating and doing hand gestures allows students to actually remember what it is that you are telling them. They are so much more likely to remember what you are talking about when there is an action associated with it.
- They know when to start and stop! As music teachers, we often need the kids to repeat after us. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had many times where they don’t realize they are supposed to repeat after me, or they don’t know to stop. This takes the uncertainty out of it. I even use this for learning lyrics now!
I thought that the older kids would think this is baby-ish, but my fifth graders actually really seem to love it.
Let them Move
While we are discussing movement, let’s go with this to: Let the children move!
First off, kids need to move. They cannot sit still very long– and neither can you! Think about the last time you were in a long, boring PD or staff meeting. You were probably dying, right? Yes!
The kids feel the same. So anytime you can, let them get up. Let them do actions. Even if you make them up on the spot– or have the kids make them up!
Can you find a GoNoodle video on this topic? Could we practice steady beat with this song? Any movement is good.
One of my favorite engagement tools is a scavenger hunt. While students are home, I will tell them to go find…. Whatever. And bring it back. And show us.
We often do percussion instrument scavenger hunts, which we then use to play rhythms along with songs.
We also find items related to our songs. So if we are singing Doggie, Doggie Where’s Your Bone?, then I will have the kids go find a stuffed animal. Or their real animal! I once had a kid holding his cat and having it do the actions to the song we were singing, which I thought was hilarious.
Students love showing off their house and their stuff– and I am able to say that even though a lot of my kids have very little. They are still excited to go find something they can use as a percussion instrument. (Note: because students have different levels of homes and items, I often give a lot of different items they can bring, and I don’t push it if one just really doesn’t want to bring something.)
One of my favorite things is when we watch videos or read books in class. I tell them to get extra cozy, and go grab a blanket or a stuffed animal or go sit on the couch for our story time. They love getting to snuggle up with a blanket and listen to a story. It is also a nice change of pace, which brings me to….
Change the Pace
This probably should have been the first one. This is the distance learning engagement tip that I give every one. Actually, it’s the normal engagement tip that I give everyone.
Change the pace.
You class period should not be 30 or 45 minutes of sameness. Change it up.
Have a five minute activity where students are dancing. Then a 10 minute activity where we are working on a new song and figuring out the solfege. They a 5 minute activity where we turn that into a game or a song. Then maybe we to something together on Google Slides or we watch a video. Then we do a lesson on our own that we turn in for a grade.
The idea is that you want to change the energy. One activity that is high energy, then one with less.
The more you need students to pay attention, the more energy the activity before it should have. So if I am introducing a new concept, and I need the students to really understand ta and titi, then right before that, we will be dancing or doing a GoNoodle. We will do something that gets a lot of wiggles and energy out, so that they will not be squirming as we are learning something new.
Also change the focus level. If you are doing an activity where they really need to concentrate, make the activities before and after less concentration heavy.
Also read: How to Survive as a Distance Music Teacher
Give them Choice
Students always need choice in their school, day in order to feel engaged and in control of their learning. Right now, a lot of their choice has been taken away. Things I would typically allow them to choose in my class are taken away.
So as you are coming up with lessons, think about ways you can insert choice into their days.
One thing I love to do is have students come up with actions. Sometimes, we will go through a new song or chant, and I will ask them, “What’s a movement for this word?” They will enjoy the activity more because they are choosing.
Plus, then you don’t have to come up with the movements, so it saves you time. Win-win.
I also like to do songs like Did You Ever See a Lassie? or Mama Lama where one student gets to pick what dance moves everyone is doing for the song.
Other examples of choice could be to ask students about the order of your lesson. Especially with the older kids, sometimes I’ll ask if they want to do one thing or another first. We do both, but they get to pick the order.
If you’re playing a video, ask them which one looks better. It could literally be two read alouds on Youtube– which one do they think looks better?
If you have assigned lessons, do a choice board! Tell them they have to do three of the options, but they get to pick which ones. Or they have to do all of them but they get to pick which one to work on first.
There are so many different ways to add a little bit of choice into their days. Plus, every time you have them decide something, that’s one less thing for you to decide.
When you are in your classroom, there are a lot of visuals to help students with their learning– word walls, anchor charts, instruments, etc.
Online, those things don’t really exist.
To help students get engaged, it is really helpful to have visuals of whatever you are talking about that day. This allows students to see rather than hear. It helps students who are having audio issues. It accommodates students who are visual learners.
And it allows one more way for students to be engaged.
For visuals, I have begun making Google Slides presentations. I have on for each grade. They are super simple. I put all of the things that I need that week. Talking about a banjo? Put a picture of a banjo in there! Talking about music from Zimbabwe? Better believe that I’ll have a map!
I also add in lyrics, form charts, anchor charts, and important words.
I use these (FREE!) Google Slides templates from my TPT shop. They are completely editable, and come in a few different colors (I use a different color for each grade).
Engagement Strategies for Distance Learning Tools
The previous section focused on best practices for engaging your kiddos. This next section is going to be more specific tools that you can use in order to engage your students.
As much as distance learning as a music teacher has been a bit of a mess, these are all tools that I never used before this past year. I would have never had the chance to try them if we had not had distance learning– and a lot of them are things that I will keep in my curriculum for years to come!
NearPod or Pear Deck
NearPod and Pear Deck are both online presentation (think Google Slides or Powerpoint) that makes your lessons more interactive. You make your NearPod or Pear Deck (I use it free!), then give the students a code. I love this, as then students don’t have to try and find anything in our Learning Management System (we lose 10 minutes every time they try to find my class).
They both allow students to only see what they need to depending on the activity. For example, I did a matching game in Pear Deck. The students could only see their matches. Then we did a slide that looks like sticky notes, where we could all add comments about the piece we were listening to, and the students could all see each other’s answers (after I approved them).
You are also in charge of changing the slide, so you can make sure everyone is on the correct page.
Both also allow you to present (live session) or the students to go at their own pace. So if you are teaching some students in person and assigning activities for students online, you can make one (just one!) activity, and all of the students can do it– the ones with you will do it together, and the students at home will do it on their own time.
I am more familiar with Pear Deck, because it connects with Google Slides, but I have tried NearPod, and I think it may be better for elementary music. You can try them both and decide for yourself!
Breakout rooms in Zoom are a way to have students do virtual centers. You can use them to have kids work on projects or to take a few students out to remediate. You can pop into all of the different rooms, so that you can check on the students.
I like to use this with larger online classes and give them about 2 minutes to talk about one specific topic. I don’t do longer than that, because they’ll get off topic. I find 1 is too short because it takes a bit to get in and out of the room.
This is like a virtual way to do a think-pair-share.
FlipGrid has been my best friend this year.
It is a website (free!) where students can easily record themselves. You just create an activity, give kids the code, and they can add their recordings.
You can also make it so that you have to approve the videos. I like this, because 1. I can make sure the video is appropriate and 2. I have some students who don’t want people to see their videos. I totally get that, so I usually tell them I will only make it public if they say it is ok.
We’ve used FlipGrid to make raps about our favorite food, show off our cup routine skills, and create our own cup routines. You can use it for anything that requires video.
This is also a great accommodation for students who struggle with writing. Talking can be easier. You can even have them talk and then write their answers.
Also read: How to Teach Elementary Music Online
Jamboards or Slides
Google Jamboards and Google Slides are two ways to make your lessons more interactive.
Slides are basically powerpoints. I will often assign a Google Slides activity to my students. The new thing I have discovered, though, is this: Make one presentation for a class. Each slide is exactly the same. Put the link to the presentation in the chat. Each kid gets a slide for their answers.
Why is this amazing? You may ask.
- It gets rid of trying to find the correct activity. Just put it in the chat.
- You can have a separate presentation for each class. My online classroom/LMS has all of the students for a grade in one classroom. Trying to put grades in is a NIGHTMARE, because I grade kids according to the class they are in. That means I have to figure out who is in what class, which students have finished an assignment…. It’s rough. Instead, I just pull up the Slides from that class (I will title it Jazz music Davis or Jazz music Westphal), and then I can easily find the students.
Bear in mind, this does mean that the students can see each other’s screens. I use this mostly for opinion questions rather than quizzes.
Virtual Field Trips!
Virtual Field Trips! That is a lot of typing, so I am going to refer to them as VFT for the rest of this section.
A VFT means that you “go” somewhere to learn about something.
One way to do this is with museum walk throughs. There are a lot of museums that have been offering free “walk throughs” online. Last year we “went” to the Mozart museum and the American Jazz Museum.
I like to intersperse these walk throughs with videos. So when we get to a particular singer in the jazz museum, we will pause and go watch one of their videos.
Another way to to a VFT is to make your own. To do this, you will use a Google Slides presentation. The first page will be a “map”, and the others will have information.
I recently made this virtual field trip all about the opera Carmen. I presented it as, “We’re going to the opera!” On the map slide, there are characters and symbols that represent different parts of the opera (like a person for Carmen, a Spanish flag because it is set in Spain, a book to represent the story).
Students click on the different parts and learn about that section. For example, if they click on Carmen, they learn a little about the character and watch a video of one of her arias. Then, I have them tell me what they learned about that part.
Then they go back and click on something else. Maybe they click on Bizet, and then they can learn about the composer.
This integrates some student choice, because they get to decide the order they go in while in the VFT. It’s interactive and fun!
I have done this type of VFT for Carmen, Swan Lake, and I am working on a Jazz themed VFT through Harlem (stay tuned!).
I wrote a whole blog post about my love for Boom Card here, so I won’t wax on too long today.
Boom Cards are basically digital task cards that the students can do. I love them because you can practice a concept, and it feels like a game!
You can do a subscription through your school where you can actually get reports for how students do (what questions they get right and wrong), but I use the free version. I just purchase, find a free or make a deck, and then I give students the fast play link. At the end, it gives them a score for how many they get right.
I’ve been having them put their score in the chat (privately!), and then I’ll send them the link to play in Chrome Music Lab. This way I know they finished, they have an incentive to do the activity (Does anyone else have students that completely refuse to do anything? Like you give them an assignment and they just stare at you? Let me know on Instagram @beccasmusicroom), and then I can use that as an assessment.
Of course, they could lie to you, so you may want to have them share their screen with you so that you can see. I haven’t have any problems with this though.
Kahoot or Quizz.iz
I could continue to go on and on and on, but I will stop myself here. Kahoot and Quizz.iz are two quiz platforms that are FUN. They are more like trivia than quizzes.
You can search through their quizzes, or you can make your own. You can add pictures, videos, change the question format, have students type things in, and more.
Again, I use the free version of both, because I am a teacher, and I get paid like a teacher.
I’ve been using Kahoot for months, and my kids beg me for it. I tried Quizz.iz in a PD the other day, and it was really fun, so I may try that one and see which one the kids prefer.
Both have the ability to play the game together, or to do a self paced activity. This means that you can assign the same one to your kids in person and online!
Also read: Fun Music Activities for Zoom
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