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BERLIN — The European Union’s normal course of action is to muddle through. But Russia’s war against Ukraine has snapped the 27-member body to attention.
Many European countries had let down their guard after the end of the Cold War seemed to usher in an era free of conflict on the continent.
Europe has pulled together — in close coordination with the United States — to unleash sanctions against Russia and to aid Ukraine with lethal weapons. Usual divisions among different groupings, such as the frugal northern states or central European countries once behind the Iron Curtain, are muted for now. Domestically, countries are rapidly reorienting to respond to the crisis. Germany, for example, is embracing hard power after three decades of staying oblivious to threats, while Poland has opened its doors to refugees after previously blocking E.U. requests to accept more refugees.
Many European countries had let down their guard after the end of the Cold War seemed to usher in an era free of conflict on the continent. But Europe was quick to act after the invasion of Ukraine. Not since World War II has its security been so endangered. Once Europe grasped that its peace and stability could once again be threatened by a nuclear-armed Russia, it moved swiftly to respond to the current challenge and embarked on a road toward transformation.
But confronting attacks from authoritarian powers like Russia in a sustained way will require enduring resolve and better threat perception on the part of Europeans going forward. The E.U. is realizing that when it acts as a bloc, it wields power. To be effective for the long haul, though, European countries must invest in their militaries and cordon off sensitive industries such as energy and technology from Russia, as well as China. The decision to change was the easy part; the harder hurdle will be adopting a strategic mindset and avoiding old habits.
So far, indications on whether this joint effort is here to stay are mixed. Take Germany. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, reunified Germany felt secure in a Europe becoming whole and free, and shrugged off the need to invest in defense, often citing its history as a reason to refrain from military engagement. In 1990, its military spending was more than 2 percent of gross domestic product, which is the amount NATO has since said all member countries should contribute annually by 2024. In recent years, the amount has been well under 1.5 percent, presenting German policymakers today with the grim reality of a military lacking in resources and readiness.
Instead, Germany emphasized economic leadership. But Europe’s largest economy didn’t see the pitfalls associated with establishing commercial links to authoritarian actors. Germany thought its policy of Wandel durch Handel (change through trade) was a means of deterring conflict — an idea now embarrassingly debunked with Moscow’s wanton aggression. Ironically, Germany’s deals for the Nord Stream Russia-to-Germany gas pipelines, which raised red flags from allies, didn’t change Putin but made Germany more energy dependent on Russia. Today 55 percent of Germany’s natural gas imports come from Russia.
On the eve of the invasion, Germany halted certification of the newly constructed Nord Stream 2 pipeline and reversed its decision to prohibit lethal aid to Ukraine. With tanks rolling into Ukraine and women and children forced to flee, relations with Putin’s Russia were no longer tenable. Then Germany went one step further. Just days into the war, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a ramping up of military spending, causing shock waves in Berlin and beyond. By tying his decision to militarize with protecting freedom and democracy, he thus far has had the backing of a majority of Germans, who favor more involvement in international crises.
But will Germany, usually comfortable with the status quo, stick to a path of change? Fearful of damaging its own economy, Germany is still putting the brakes on an E.U. energy embargo, championed by the U.S., to weaken Russia. This ambivalence over whether to fully cut off Russian energy is also on display in Italy and other European countries that pay Russian energy suppliers close to one billion euros a day.
And other countries beyond Germany have also been unwilling to meet their NATO defense spending commitments. Only a third of the 30 NATO members have reached the target of 2 percent of GDP.
Yet fear of Russian hostility has changed this attitude, at last in the short term. The war has spurred a rush to honor pledges, with Denmark, Belgium, Romania and several other states lining up alongside Germany to increase defense spending. Meanwhile, Finland and Sweden, long nonaligned militarily, are contemplating NATO membership. In the past they were wary of antagonizing their neighbor Russia, but they look at Ukraine’s plight and see NATO as an insurance policy. Some 62 percent of Finns now favor NATO membership, according to Finnish broadcaster Yle, which said it was the first time the idea has had majority support.
Europe clearly wants to turn the page on past blind spots. Building up military capabilities and isolating Russia are on the agenda, but this could still be stalled by politicians’ fears over how voters will react when they realize the costs. European leaders must prepare their citizens for volatility and instill a culture of resilience for the sake of regaining long-term stability.
Europe must continue filling military voids and stop being dependent on autocratic actors. The challenge doesn’t end with Putin’s Russia; Europe can fall into the same trap when it comes to China.
One of the E.U.’s top two trading partners is China. Yet Beijing has announced a partnership without limits with Russia and has joined in on pushing negative narratives about NATO. On both sides of the Atlantic, there is consensus that Washington and its European partners must coordinate to ensure China plays by the rules.
Yet though Europe has long been aware of China’s unfair trade practices and increasing use of disinformation to weaken democracies, it has allowed Beijing to invest in ports all over Europe. It has also been poised to expand China’s presence in 5G infrastructure via Huawei. The Chinese telecom provider is viewed as a security threat, and recently governments across Europe have taken measures to curtail its presence in the market. European policymakers need to get a better reading on China before the door of vulnerability opens wider.
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Lycopene, a biologically occurring carotenoid, exhibits the highest physical quenching rate constant with singlet oxygen (kq = 31 X 10(9) M-1 s-1), and its plasma level is slightly higher than that of beta-carotene (kq = 14 X 10(9) M-1 s-1). This is of considerable general interest, since nutritional carotenoids, particularly beta-carotene, and other antioxidants such as alpha-tocopherol (kq = 0.3 X 10(9) M-1 s-1) have been implicated in the defense against prooxidant states; epidemiological evidence reveals that such compounds exert a protective action against certain types of cancer. Also, albumin-bound bilirubin is a known singlet oxygen quencher (kq = 3.2 X 10(9) M-1 s-1). Interestingly, those compounds with low kq values occur at higher plasma levels. When these differences are taken into account, the singlet oxygen quenching capacities of lycopene (0.7 microM in plasma), beta-carotene (0.5 microM in plasma), albumin-bound bilirubin (15 microM in plasma), and alpha-tocopherol (22 microM in plasma) are of comparable magnitude. | <urn:uuid:74aefe3f-8c4d-4659-8b53-3042989f75ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2802626/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.89378 | 283 | 2.75 | 3 |
Diversification and Rebalancing a Retirement Saver’s Best Friend (6/2019)
Longer-term bonds—reversed course and are this year’s winners, reaffirming that the one free lunch available to investors is diversification.
Reviewing Your Accounts Do’s and Don’ts
Diversification is the proverbial don’t put all your eggs in one basket. So, within an asset class like bonds, a diversified investor owns treasury bonds, corporate bonds, high-yield bonds, and international bonds, benefiting from the fluctuations from year to year in returns.
2019 Bond Market Returns
The Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, which consists of treasuries, government-related bonds, and corporate bonds, is already up 2.97%. High-yield bonds (riskier corporate bonds) had a lackluster last year—but the Standard & Poor High Yield Corporate Index reversed course and is up 8.55% this year. Strangely enough, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), are up. The Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Index is up 3.5%, even though what it is designed to protect against inflation remains tame.
The Stock Market and Gold Market Returns
U.S. stocks have had a great year so far recovering all the losses from last year’s terrible 4th quarter. The S&P 500 is almost 18% while the MSCI Index, which represents large and mid-cap stocks across 21 developed countries excluding the US and Canada, is up 12%. The MSCI Emerging Market Index is up 12%.
As of May 2019, the price of gold at \$1282 is still below its all-time price high of nearly \$2,000 an ounce in September of 2011 as inflation fears wain.
Rebalancing Your Portfolio
Because the stock market is significantly overvalued at this time, now is an excellent time to consider rebalancing your portfolio. By rebalancing instead of selling what has gone down or buying what has gone up, investors remain diversified but go back to their original allocation. So while diversification is about the eggs, asset allocation is about the basket. What percentage of your basket is going to be in stocks and bonds?
For example, if six years ago you were comfortable with an asset allocation of 60% in stocks and 40% bonds, now, after the doubling of the stock market, that portfolio might be 75% stocks and 25% bonds. Rebalancing simply puts your asset allocation and its risk level back to the original 60/40.
Retirement accounts are ideal for re-balancing, because they enable you to buy and sell within the account with no tax consequence, and usually no fee or commission.
Investors approaching retirement who fail to rebalance might unwittingly end up closer to retirement with a riskier portfolio. That is why, when such investors rebalance, they might want to update their targeted allocations.
Nobody knows for sure what the rest of the year will bring, as the adage goes, past performance is not indicative of future results. But I think the scare that interest rates will continue rising is probably over.
*Diversification, rebalancing, and asset allocation strategies do not assure a profit or protect against loss. These are the opinions of financial advisor Tim Hayes and not necessarily those of Cambridge Investment Research. They are for informational purposes only and should not be construed or acted upon as individualized investment advice.
Comparison of Returns of Different Asset Classes (Investors cannot directly invest in an index)
Return as of 05-01-2019
Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index
S&P High Yield Corporate Index
The Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) Index
Barclays Aggregate Bond Index
The MSCI Emerging Market Index
MSCI EAFE Index
S&P 500 Index
*Diversification, rebalancing, and asset allocation strategies do not assure a profit or protect against loss.
These are the opinions of Tim Hayes, and not necessarily those of Cambridge Investment Research. They are for informational purposes only, and should not be construed or acted on as individualized investment advice. Securities are offered through Cambridge Investment Research, Inc., a broker/dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Investment advisory services are offered through Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc., a federally registered investment advisor | <urn:uuid:10c65ae9-38ee-45eb-b1ac-23c2d666f865> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independentadvisorthayes.com/diversification-and-rebalancing-a-retirement-savers-best-friend-june-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.923299 | 1,014 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Fourteen children have now died during a pneumonia vaccine trial run by GlaxoSmithKline in Argentina, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail. Argentine authorities are investigating. GSK says the deaths are not linked to the tests.
This issue first emerged for GSK in July, when TradingMarkets.com reported that 12 babies had died during the trial. GSK has pointed out that 19,000 kids have received Synflorix so far and that the number of kids who have died is in fact lower than Argentina's natural child mortality rate.
Foreign drug trials are a PR tinderbox for drug companies (just ask Pfizer how its trials for Trovan in Nigeria turned out) and the Synflorix situation illustrates that perfectly. It has all the makings of a controversy for GSK -- even if the company is completely innocent.
First, there's the fact that GSK is testing Synflorix in a poorer country than the U.S. That naturally lends itself to allegations that the company is farming out the dangers to foreigners. True, but then in order to test a pneumonia vaccine you need to actually be in a country that has a significant number of pneumococcal infections, and they're harder to find in the U.S.
Second, there's the conflicted nature of local politics in foreign countries that don't have a long history of democracy. In this case, one of the lead GSK investigators is Enrique Smith, who happens to be the brother of Juan Carlos Smith, the Argentine provincial health minister. So even if GSK has done nothing wrong, it just looks... weird.
Third, there's the inconvenient timeline. Argentine authorities asked GSK to halt recruitment of new subjects in the trial, and GSK complied -- but added that it had already gotten enough of them anyway.
Fourth, GSK's independent safety monitor briefly halted the tests while it reviewed the situation, then allowed the tests to resume even though the Argentine province of Santiago del Estero is continuing its look at the trial. However, that province's health minister is Juan Carlos Smith, so even if it comes back with a legitimate finding that there's nothing wrong, people will ask questions about the role of the Smiths in the case, and why GSK continued its program even though the local government was still investigating.
In short, it's a lose-lose situation for GSK, from a PR point of view, even if Synflorix turns out to be a wonder drug.
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By Betty Borenstein Scher ‘50
Mabel I. Wilcox, class of 1911, was the first Hopkins Nursing graduate from Hawaii. But it was far from easy for her. Although she always had felt that nursing was her career-to-be, her wealthy and influential parents considered nursing “unladylike” and refused to consent to her desire. Finally, they agreed that if she still wanted to pursue nursing when she was 25 years old, they would consent. Of course, Mabel already had applied to Hopkins and been accepted; however, she waited until she was 25 years old and entered the first class after that birthday.
After graduating and working for a few years in public health, she returned to Hawaii and set to work revolutionizing healthcare on her home island of Kauai. First she convinced residents to be treated for tuberculosis, and through her efforts the disease was wiped out on the island.
When World War I began, she became a Red Cross nurse and took a group of 15 nurse aides to Europe to help refugee children and civilian populations. She then served 18 months as a head nurse in France and Belgium with part of this service “directly behind the firing lines in Belgium.” For her work she received medals from the Queen of Belgium and from the city of Le Havre in France.
Upon her return to Kauai she resumed working in public health. She created and led the Tuberculosis and Health Association. She also helped form the Kauai Nurses Association and became its first president, serving for 14 years. She improved prenatal and maternal care for women and their children and established classes for midwives in the area. Equally important, Kauai got its needed separate TB hospital after “Miss Mabel talked to Uncle Albert and Aunt Emma,” who gave the money to build the hospital for tuberculosis patients.
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System Resilience Part 4: Classifying System Resilience Techniques
A system resilience technique is any architectural, design, or implementation technique that increases a system's resilience. These techniques (e.g., mitigations, such as redundancy, safeguards, and cybersecurity countermeasures) either passively resist adversities, actively detect adversities, react to them, or recover from the harm they cause. System resilience techniques are the means by which a system implements its resilience requirements. Resilience techniques can also be viewed as architecture, design, or implementation patterns or idioms. This post begins by clarifying the relationships between resilience requirements and resilience techniques. Because system-, software, and specialty engineers have many techniques that can be used to increase a system's resilience, this post also presents an ontology for categorizing these resilience techniques.
System Resilience--a Brief Recap
As I outlined in previous posts in this series, system resilience is important because no one wants a brittle system that cannot overcome the inevitable adversity. If adverse events or conditions cause a system to fail to operate appropriately, all manner of harm to valuable assets can result.
In the first post in this series on system resilience, I addressed these questions by providing the following more detailed and nuanced definition: A system is resilient to the degree to which it rapidly and effectively protects its critical capabilities from harm caused by adverse events and conditions.
The second post identified the eight subordinate quality attributes categorizing the adversities (i.e., adverse conditions and events) that can disrupt the critical system.
The third post covered the engineering of system resilience requirements and how they can be used to derive related requirements for subordinate quality attributes.
This fourth post in the series provides a way to classify system resilience techniques and shows how they relate to system resilience requirements.
System Resilience Techniques
A single resilient technique can often protect a mission-critical capability from multiple adversities of multiple types. Each critical capability can typically be disrupted by a large number of adversities of multiple types. Often there are more adversities than can be properly addressed within limited project resources (e.g., staffing, schedule, and budget). The emphasis is thus first on the critical capabilities that must be protected from disruptive harm. Risk management can then be used to identify, prioritize, and analyze a sufficient number of the most important adversities to provide adequate protection of the mission-critical capabilities.
As shown in the following diagram, resilience requirements do not directly drive the selection of resilience techniques. Rather, this selection is driven by specific adversities captured in the derived resilience-related robustness, safety, security, anti-tamper, survivability, capacity, longevity, and interoperability requirements. The following figure shows how critical capabilities, the critical assets that implement them, and the disruptive harm that can occur to them drive the engineering of resilience requirements. Specific adversities are used to derive requirements for the subordinate resilience-related quality attributes (i.e., robustness, safety, security, anti-tamper, survivability, capacity, longevity, and interoperability requirements). Architects and specialty engineers then select appropriate resilience techniques to implement these adversity-specific derived requirements directly and thereby indirectly implement the resilience requirements.
Many resilience techniques increase multiple quality attributes in addition to resilience and its subordinate quality attributes. For example, redundancy can also improve availability and reliability, while modularity can also improve maintainability.
Resilience techniques are abstract and must be implemented in the system to achieve their intended effect. If a technique is poorly chosen or improperly implemented, however, the result might be different than intended or may even decrease the system's resilience. Resilience techniques are therefore not always "best practices," so adding more techniques is not necessarily better. Considerable expertise, analysis, and testing is required to ensure that the selected techniques as implemented achieve the system's resilience requirements without causing the system to fail to meet its other quality attribute requirements.
The following figure shows three different ways to classify resilience techniques. From left to right, they are by:
- Degree of autonomy (purple). Autonomous resilience techniques automatically execute without human intervention, unlike manual resilience techniques. Hybrid resilience techniques are partially autonomous and partially manual.
- Resilience functions performed (yellow). Resistance resilience techniques passively resist adversities. Detection resilience techniques actively detect adversities, while reaction resilience techniques actively react to detected adversities, and recovery resilience techniques actively repair the harm caused by adversities. Many techniques combine two or more of these types of techniques.
- Composition (blue). Subsystem resilience techniques are implemented by dedicated subsystems (e.g., fire detection and suppression systems). They may be implemented with hardware (e.g., hardware interlocks and redundant sensors) or software (e.g., various voting schemes). Similarly, data resilience techniques are primarily implemented in data (e.g., check sums), although they typically require software to manipulate the data.
The following figure shows how resilience techniques can be mapped to resilience requirements. However, unlike resilience requirements, which should be cohesive and specify only a single, implementation-independent need, individual resilience techniques often perform more than one function. For example, fire detection and suppression systems (FDSS) both detect adversities (existence of smoke) and react by suppressing the associated fire to minimize additional harm.
Wrapping Up and Looking Ahead
There are clearly many techniques that can be used to implement system resilience requirements. These techniques can be categorized in multiple ways, the two most important of which are by resilience function and by implementation. This abundance of techniques and types of techniques provides system architects and specialty engineers with a great deal of flexibility when it comes to ensuring a sufficient resilience, especially when a multi-layer "defense-in-depth" approach is used. On the other hand, incorporating resilience techniques increases system complexity and can therefore, paradoxically, make the system less resilient. Selecting the right number, type, and balance of resilience techniques is anything but trivial.
In the fifth post in this series, I will explore a relatively comprehensive list of resilience techniques, as well as provide a table that organizes them by the resilience function they perform and by their composition.
Read the first post in this series, System Resilience: What Exactly is it?
Read the second post in this series, System Resilience Part 2: How System Resilience Relates to Other Quality Attributes.
Read the third post in this series, System Resilience Part 3: Engineering System Resilience Requirements.
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Is Tom Jones black or white? Of African descent or European heritage? Well, due to his swarthy complexion, gravelly voice, snakelike hip movements and allegedly large member, some people believe Tom Jones is black.
Of course, this supposition involves a degree of racial stereotyping, which is kind of strange because Tom Jones is probably not black. But he is definitely Welsh.
Being Welsh may not be significant, but some argue that both Tom Jones’ skin color and voice are a direct result of his Welshness, and not his blackness, which is definitely confusing.
Tom Jones Skin Color
Welsh people are often born with slightly darker skin in comparison to their English neighbors. Many believe this is due to the Welsh love of coal mining, which, over the years, has turned the population slightly darker than ‘normal white.’ Tom Jones’ father was a coal miner, so the coal dust may well have had an influence on the Jones family skin tone.
Tom Jones Singing Voice
The Welsh love to sing, be it in the mines, in the valleys or in the pub. Rather than having a black or ethnic voice, therefore, Tom Jones simply has a Welsh singing voice. A bit like the Welsh soldiers in the classic movie Zulu.
But that still leaves the snakelike hip movements and the allegedly large member. The allegedly large member is probably true. According to a 2012 article by The Telegraph, “Jones himself has admitted that during his Lothario period he slept with up to 250 women a year.” That would certainly account for the snakelike hip movements, as anyone who sleeps with 250 women a year must have pretty awesome hips.
And anyone who sleeps with 250 woman a year probably has a large member.
Is Tom Jones Black? A Racial Examination:
It seems fairly safe to say that Tom Jones is not black (nor is he a “half-caste,” as is sometimes claimed).
But in order to bring true closure to the Tom Jones race debate, we need some irrefutable scientific proof. We enlisted the help of professional photographic manipulator Arthur Glass. Mr. Glass spent three weeks examining photos of both the young and the old Tom Jones. Here are his fascinating results:
Arthur Glass: “Having manipulated the image using modern technology, we can see exactly how a black Tom Jones would have appeared in black and white photography of the late 1960s.”
Arthur Glass: “In this side-by-side, we see two photos of the elderly Tom Jones. The first (‘Before’) is an unadulterated image. The second (‘After’) shows what tom Jones would look like today if he were black. It is quite clear to me that Tom Jones is not black, but white.” (original photo by Ger1axg, Wikimedia Commons)
As you can clearly see, Tom Jones is not black. Using the patented StudioKnow World Skin Tone Chart, we would say that Tom Jones has a skin color that ranges from Alcoholic Pink to Western Jesus. However, it is possible that Tom Jones has some black ancestry, which would help explain his thick, curly hair; his singing voice; his dancing ability; and his large member.
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Ron Dreslinski Selected for IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award
Dr. Dreslinski conducts research in the area of energy efficient processor architectures
Research Scientist Dr. Ron Dreslinski has been selected to receive the Young Computer Architect Award from the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA). The award recognizes outstanding research contributions by an individual in the field of Computer Architecture and is open to any individual who has completed his/her PhD degree within last 6 years. The winner of the award will be someone who has made an outstanding, innovative research contribution or contributions to Computer Architecture.
Dr. Dreslinski conducts research in the area of energy efficient processor architectures, a subject that has evolved from his dissertation work at Michigan entitled, “Near Threshold Computing: From Single Core to Many-Core Energy Efficient Architectures,” which takes the position that approaches to the impending end of Moore’s Law, brought on by the energy dissipation limitations of CMOS, must come from enhanced devices, design styles, and architectures, rather than a reliance on the emergence of radically new technologies. He is investigating the universal application of aggressive low voltage operation across all computation platforms through an approach called “near-threshold computing” (NTC) and novel methods to overcome the barriers that have historically relegated ultra-low voltage operation to niche markets. As a proof of concept, Dr. Dreslinski has designed a 3D integrated multicore prototype with 128 ARM Cortex-M3 cores and 256MB of DRAM that operates at near-threshold levels, but that can also boost selected cores when single thread performance is needed. The prototype was received from the foundry, tested, and passed all tests, and it demonstrates over a 6x improvement in energy efficiency over conventional processors.
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This Saturday marks my 23rd week in Paris. As I get more acquainted with and orientated in this beautiful city full of history and modernity, I feel increasingly happy with my decision to study abroad here.Delving fully into the language and culture, I’ve had the opportunity to see the polar opposite sides of a resident filled Paris in January to the overwhelming influx of tourists starting early April. Despite the heat of an underground metro without air-conditioning and the invasion of foreigners in a city I now claim as my own, I find myself more in love and happier with my Parisian experience every day as I near my final weeks here.
Lately, I’ve noticed the city stays light long past dinnertime so I take the scenic route home while I usually head straight back to my room to start my work. However, am I really succumbing to the City of Love . . . or is the lingering sun really the cause of my increased feelings of happiness and simultaneous difficulty in focusing on my work? At a latitude of 48.8457°N, Paris currently experiences days that last over 16 hours (Sun and Moon, 2015). Due to such a northern latitude, we get 2 more hours of daylight to explore the city here in Paris than the 14-hour days Emory University receives in Atlanta, GA.
Light on Happiness
The circadian rhythm follows a 24-hour clock that changes our biological, mental, and behavioral processes in response to light and dark (Jackson, 2014). Light, a main natural cue we receive from our environment, regulates these rhythms and is affected by changes in daylight from one season to the next. While little research has been published showing that sunlight will actually make you happier, many studies have been conducted on the topic of light significantly easing depression. A current study aims to artificially mimic the effects of daylight through the use of light therapy for clinically depressed patients suffering from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), where symptoms of depression manifest particularly during winter months when there is a marked decrease in available sunlight (Reeves et al., 2012). Participants received 1 hour of bright light therapy and 1 hour of placebo (a dim red light used as a phony treatment and expected to have no clinical affect) in a randomized order. Using two different self-reporting depression scales, the Profile of Mood States-Depression-Dejection subscale and the Beck Depression Inventory II, Reeves et al. measured patients’ depressed mood before the start of the experiment, after hour 1 of treatment, and after hour 2 of treatment. Researchers found a statistically significant decrease in self-rated depression scores after treatment from before starting the light therapy. Multiple neurotransmitters, molecular compounds that neurons release in order to communicate with other neurons, are responsible for this rapid mood change. Upon light therapy stimulation, serotonin (a main neurotransmitter responsible for mood balance and involved in seasonal depression) was found to rise at a rate directly correlated to the amount of light administered (Reeves et al., 2012). Our long summer days in Paris allow for natural sessions of light therapy, which in turn leads to happier people.
Light on Attention
So now that I know why I feel happier, I also wondered if these lengthened spring nights in Paris could be having a reverse effect on my ability to concentrate on tasks rather than blaming my lack of motivation on an increasing infatuation with the “City of Love.” As we approach the longest day of the year during the summer solstice on June 21st, the day will be 7 hours and 56 minutes longer than it was when I arrived in the middle of winter (Sun and Moon, 2015). Not only am I staying outdoors longer, I’m going to bed 2-3 hours later than during the spring semester, while still waking up at the same hour as I did in winter. As the days lengthen and we stay more active, the potential for sleep deprivation and associated negative impacts on the brain’s ability to perform increase. Further, certain individuals can be more vulnerable to sleep deprivation, amplifying the resulting impact on performance and sleepiness (Chua et al., 2014). So, as we approach June 21st, I am reminded of the erratic behavior of the young lovers and comedic actors I saw in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream at La Comédie Française this April. Perhaps it wasn’t the meddlesome fairies after all, but rather neuroscience that would suggest they were vulnerable to sleep deprivation caused by the long summer day!
~ Amy Yeh
Chua EC-P, Yeo S-C, Lee IT-G, Tan L-C, Lau P, Cai S, Zhang X, Puvanendran K, Gooley J (2014) Sustained Attention Performance during Sleep Deprivation Associates with Instability in Behavior and Physiologic Measures at Baseline. Sleep 37(1): 27-39.
Jackson C, Capozzi M, Dai H, McMahon DG (2014) Circadian Perinatal Photoperiod Has Enduring Effects on Retinal Dopamine and Visual Function. The Journal of Neuroscience 34(13): 4627-4633.
Reeves G, Nijjar GV, Langenberg P, Johnson MA, Khabazghazvini B, Sleemi A, Vaswani D, Lapidus M, Manalai P, Tariq M, Acharya M, Cabassa J, Snitker S, Postolache TT (2012) Improvement in Depression Scores After 1 Hour of Light Therapy Treatment in Patients With Seasonal Affective Disorder. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 200 (1): 51–55.
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Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS
In 1964, the Chevrolet Chevelle made its debut on the market, as a mid-sized vehicle. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Chevrolet produced the Chevelle, which became one of the General Motors group’s most successful vehicles. It appealed to the public, as this model ranged from an ordinary family vehicle to a powerful, and more expensive convertible or coupe. After 1977, the Malibu name replaced Chevelle, and it was the pride and joy of GM.
The Chevelle was designed as the competitor of the Ford Fairlane, with similar size and similar concept, according to the 1955 to 1957 model vehicles. During the years 1967 to 1972, hardtops with four-doors were available and during 1964 to 1965, consumers could purchase two-door station wagons.
Chevrolet entered into the muscle car ranks with the Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS, and during the years 1964 to 1965, the Malibu badge appeared on the vehicles. The Z16 option is an extremely sought after model, and has the emblem on the front of its fender. The badge reflecting Malibu SS only appeared on models sold in Canada after 1966. The Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS was a high performance vehicle, and therefore, it had its very own line of performance equipment and its own line of engines. Engines that were available were the 325hp, 350hp and 375hp V8 engines. After the COPO dropped their displacement rule in regard to engine power, bigger, more powerful engines were fitted into these muscle cars. The engine ratings began to decline in 1972. The most popular Chevelle of all time was the 454. It could rocket over a quarter mile, reaching speeds of 105 to 108 miles per hour within 13 seconds.
The models that were produced between the year 1973 to 1977 were very popular with the public, although collectors are not interested in them. All models between 1974 and 1977 carried the Malibu name. The SS option was available to all the Malibu coupes, and quite unbelievably, the station wagons. Purchasing a Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS, would include black out trims and bucket seats. In 1978, GM decided to downsize on the intermediate models, which led to the Chevelle name being dropped, and all following models, being named Chevrolet Malibu. | <urn:uuid:f041f9cb-8ebc-4400-9d9a-f6cea4184887> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.autoracing.com/reference/muscle-cars/chevrolet-chevelle-malibu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.977803 | 489 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Another state sees Constitutional Carry passed into law; Ohio continues to lag behind nation
TheHill.com reported recently that South Dakota has become the latest state to pass a Constitutional Carry law allowing residents to carry concealed handguns without permission from the government.
From the article:
[Gov. Kristi] Noem(R) who just entered office earlier this month, signed the bill repealing the permit requirement that was passed by the state legislature.
She said she was “proud” that it was the first bill she signed as South Dakota governor.
“It's special for me to be signing a bill into law that protects our Second Amendment rights," Noem said.
The law, referred to by its proponents as “constitutional carry,” gives South Dakotans to choose whether to obtain a concealed carry permit.
It does not change the restrictions around who is allowed to carry a concealed weapon, which excludes those with convictions for a felony, weapons related misdemeanor or for controlled substances...
The law will go into effect on July 1, making South Dakota the 14th state to allow constitutional carry.
Constitutional Carry bills have been introduced in every Ohio General Assembly for more than a decade, and one will no doubt be introduced again this session.
Constitutional Carry is an exciting possibility for gun owners in Ohio. It used to be said that it only worked in rural Vermont. Alaska is considered wilderness and didn't seem to matter either. Then, in 2010, Arizona passed a Constitutional Carry law. The success there has changed the thinking of many, and this once "radical" idea is becoming mainstream and is now working its way through many state legislatures. At least eighteen states now allow some form of unlicensed concealed carry, and several other states are considering legislation.
It took a few years after Florida passed a "shall issue" law for the idea to become popular across the country. Will the Buckeye State see a similar change from blue to green? (See graphic)
We don't need permission from the government to go to church or exercise our First Amendment right. Nor do we need a license to exercise our right for a speedy trial (Sixth Amendment.) It makes no sense that a person would need permission from the government to remain silent (Fifth Amendment) or be secure with our belongings that a Government can't just take or search at their whim (Fourth Amendment). The whole idea in the "Bill of Rights" is that they are, well, rights. They are rights of the people, and our Founding Fathers codified them because government tends to overstep its bounds.
If we have the "right" to "keep" (own) and bear (carry) arms, then why do we need permission?
Society generally agrees that there are actions that will cause a person to lose some of their rights. A person convicted of a crime and sentenced to jail forfeits his Fourth Amendment rights while imprisoned. He and his cell may be searched without his consent. Convicts also forfeit their Second Amendment rights.
The Second Amendment is the only right people have, that is commonly regulated to the point where they need a license (permission from the government) to exercise that right. This has lead many to the incorrect assumption that carrying a gun is a privilege, like driving, that can be highly regulated and exercised only by those with specific permission from the government.
Even though this bill would make desirable changes to Ohio's concealed carry laws, it faces an uphill battle. Considering that the Ohio legislature has not even been willing to remove the duty to retreat from our self-defense laws, and considering that we had to move from four hours training to eight hours just to get HB 234 passed in 2014 - it's safe to say we're still a ways away from this becoming law in Ohio.
In Guns & Ammo's ranking of "Best States for Gun Owners," Ohio ranks 28th, and falls behind all but one of its border states. Michigan, which passed concealed carry one year before Ohio, ranks 26th. Indiana comes in 20th, West Virgina ranks 15th, and Kentucky is ranked 14th.
It must be noted that legislators in Constitutional Carry states did not suddenly change their position on firearms restrictions. Rather, voters sick of the status quo were involved in contacting their legislators. They explained the issues facing them and educated their officials about the need for change. They were polite and persistent and now they are reaping their just rewards. It will be interesting to see which state's gun owners rally their legislators to become the next state to adopt Constitutional Carry.
Simple steps you can take to help the cause:
- Become a member of Buckeye Firearms Association.
- Volunteer to get help us with campaigns and projects.
- Reach out to other gun owners on a personal level and get them involved.
Does your club, range, and gun store hand out information about Buckeye Firearms Association?
Do instructors you know hand out Buckeye wallet cards?
Are members of clubs you belong to informed on firearms issues?
If not, talk to them about getting more involved. They saw an increase in business when concealed carry passed. Their success is directly related to the success of Buckeye Firearms Association. Help build a relationship that allows us to work together.
Reach out to non-shooters. Take them shooting with you and make it fun for them.
If we could each recruit one new person, we would double in size. Repeat as necessary until the desired results have been obtained.
Gun owners are encouraged to contact these Representatives and express your hope that pro-gun legislation will take center stage in the 133rd General Assembly.
If you want to see the General Assembly act to improve gun rights in ways that are already enjoyed by the majority of other states, call your Representative and Senator NOW and tell them you expect pro-gun legislation to move in Ohio THIS YEAR. They asked for your vote on Election Day. Tell them we want their votes too.
Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Secretary and an NRA-certified firearms instructor. He is co-founder of BFA-PAC, and served as its Vice Chairman for 15 years. He is the editor of BuckeyeFirearms.org, which received the Outdoor Writers of Ohio 2013 Supporting Member Award for Best Website. | <urn:uuid:6acc67c3-7826-457c-97ef-bccb011f7145> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/another-state-sees-constitutional-carry-passed-law-ohio-continues-lag-behind-nation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.974401 | 1,292 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The term “Genocide” was coined during the Holocaust (Bauer, 1992), referring to the murder of 6 millions Jews by the Nazis in World War 2 (1933-1945). In 1948, Genocide was defined by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” (United Nations), and was declared an international crime.
Holocaust survivors are individuals who were persecuted by the Nazi regime but managed to escape, survive or were liberated. These individuals may have been displaced; lived in a ghetto or concentration, extermination, or forced/slave labour camps; and/or hid in occupied Nazi territory (Israeli Ministry of Finance, 2018).
As a result of this anti-Semitic persecution, there were a wide-variety of adversities among the survivors (Levav, 1998).
Two competing hypotheses arose; stating that prior exposure to genocide would either reduce (owing to resilience) versus increase (owing to vulnerabilities) the risk of physical and mental health conditions. However, the implication that being exposed to war and genocide might increase the risk of developing dementia had not been specifically explored, until now.
This study (Kodesh et al, 2019) tested the competing hypotheses that the Holocaust survivors were at reduced vs. increased (resilience vs. vulnerability) risk of dementia. The authors also stated that they would methodologically account for potential covariates relevant to the risk of dementia.
This cohort study was conducted in Israel and used an observational design. By law, every Israeli resident must join a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) of his or her choice. This study obtained data from the Meuhedet HMO, the third largest HMO in Israel, consisting of 14% of the total population. Meuhedet is the only HMO that included data on dementia.
The sample included 51,752 individuals from the Meuhedet register, born before 1946 and who were still alive as of 1st January 2012. Participants were followed up between 1st January 2013 and 30th October, 2017. Prior to the start of the follow-up period, the authors declared that none of the cohort had a diagnosis of dementia. The mean-age of the cohort was 60.4 years.
There were strict criteria in identifying Holocaust survivors. To establish exposure to the Holocaust, the authors used the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority, at the Ministry of Finance. It is the organisation responsible for implementing laws regarding survivors of the Holocaust living in Israel, granting monthly payments, medical treatments, rehabilitation and welfare services.
The presence of dementia was ascertained by a clinical diagnosis made by a geriatrician, psychiatrist and/or neurologist, that was documented in the Meuhedet register. The diagnosis was based on the criteria from ICD-9 and ICD-10.
10,781 (20.8%) individuals were classified as having been exposed to the Holocaust and 5,584 (10.8%) individuals were diagnosed with dementia during the follow-up interval.
The following covariates were chosen a priori based on their association with the exposure and/or outcome and were adjusted for:
- Demographic covariates (year of birth, sex, and city of residence)
- Diagnostic covariates (obesity, diabetes, cancer, vitamin deficiencies, concussion or head injury, migraine, depression, PTSD, sleep and schizophrenia)
- Neighbourhood socioeconomic status
- Educational attainment
- Standard of living, employment and social benefits.
Participants were stratified into holocaust-exposed and unexposed groups. Using Cox regression models, the hazard ratios for dementia and 95% confidence intervals were estimated. The hazard assumptions were then examined using Schoenfeld residuals (Therneau, 2015). The authors fitted unadjusted and adjusted models and interpreted the hazard ratios as effect sizes.
The primary results were then further explored in 12 sensitivity analyses based on the covariates measured.
The key results were:
- Of 51,752 participants:
- 1,781 (16.5%) Holocaust-exposed individuals had a dementia diagnosis,
- compared to 3,805 (9.3%) Holocaust-unexposed individuals.
- In the primary analysis (compared to the unexposed group), the model showed that the Holocaust–exposed group had:
- an estimated unadjusted hazard ratio of 1.77 (95% CI; 1.67 to 1.87)
- an adjusted hazard ratio of 1.21 ( 95% CI; 1.15 to 1.28).
- The series of sensitivity analyses replicated the result of the primary analysis. The covariates did not statistically attenuate the increased hazard ratio of dementia in the Holocaust–exposed group, compared to the Holocaust-unexposed group.
This was the first observational study to explore the association between prior exposure to genocide and the risk of dementia, with results supporting the vulnerability hypothesis.
The increased risk of dementia in those who were exposed to the Holocaust, compared to those who were unexposed, remained significant even after controlling for known confounding variables.
Strengths and limitations
Strengths of this study included:
- The strict criterion for identifying Holocaust survivors and the in-depth reports of the severe anti-Semitic European genocide, obtained by the Ministry of Finance. This limited the margin of error when collecting the cohort members
- The extensive follow-up period increased the study’s ability to capture the number of dementia cases which may have emerged over time
- There were no exclusion criteria for the sample in this study, therefore increasing the chance of identifying as many Holocaust survivors and dementia cases as possible
- The study effectively controlled for other known covariates, and conducted 12 sensitivity analyses, therefore maximising the validity of their findings.
Limitations of this study included:
- There may have been inaccuracies in detecting dementia. Holocaust survivors have been found to be more likely to report worse subjective health, compared to unexposed groups (Ohana, Golander, & Barak, 2018). Therefore, Holocaust survivors may have reported more memory issues, and therefore experience higher rates of referrals for dementia assessments
- Selective mortality was unavoidable. Holocaust survivors who were still alive at the time of the sample collection already represented the particularly “resilient” individuals
- The Meuhedet HMO is not representative of the entire population of Israel, and therefore, not all Israeli Holocaust survivors would be on the Meuhedet register.
Implications for practice
The current cost of dementia in the UK is £26 billion per year, and it is predicted to triple by 2040 (NHS England). It is estimated that 803,021 people are living with dementia in England (Alzheimer’s Society, 2019), a 14.2% increase since 2014.
While we do not have preventative or curative measures to tackle a diagnosis of dementia, it is still important for healthcare professionals to know who is at risk. Following this study, we should take into account the health implications of genocide. More consideration is required to prioritise specialist care towards the elderly exposed to genocide, such as engagement in cognitive exercise (Valenzuela & Sachdev, 2009) and targeting risk factors associated with dementia, such as depression (Deckers et al., 2015).
Statement of interests
Kodesh, A., Levav, I. and Levine, S.Z. (2019), Exposure to Genocide and the Risk of Dementia. JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS, 32: 536-545. doi:10.1002/jts.22406
Alzheimer’s Research UK, Dementia Statistics Hub, https://www.dementiastatistics.org/statistics/cost-and-projections-in-the-uk-and-globally/
Bauer, J. (1992). History of the holocaust. New York, NY: Franklin Watts.
Deckers, K., van Boxtel, M. P., Schiepers, O. J., de Vugt, M., Munoz Sanchez,J. L., Anstey, K. J., . . . Kohler, S. (2015). Target risk factors for dementia prevention: A systematic review and Delphi consensus study on the evidence from observational studies. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 30, 234–246. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4245
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Levav, I. (1998). Individuals under conditions of maximum adversity: The holocaust. InB. P.Dohrenwend (Ed.), Adversity, stress, and psychopathology (pp. 13–33). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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Ohana, I., Golander, H., & Barak, Y. (2018). Aging of Holocaust survivors: Discrepancies between subjective and general haelth in the greater Tel Aviv area. Israel Medical Association Journal, 20, 207–210.
Therneau, T.M. (2015). A package for survival analysis in s. R package Version 2.38. Retrieved from http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=survival
Valenzuela, M., & Sachdev, P. (2009). Can cognitive exercise prevent the onset of dementia? Systematic review of randomized clinical trials with longitudinal follow-up. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17, 179–187.: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2009.05.544
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The first line contains one integer N — number of points.
Each of the next N lines contains two integer numbers xi, yi — coordinates of i-th point.
Output file should contain one real number — the minimum perimeter. Answers with a relative or absolute error of at most 10 − 7 will be considered correct. Degenerate triangles -— triangles with zero area -— are ok.
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the thirteenth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. David Schwartz.
Human Nature, Ethics, and Ants
Human nature is a perennial topic of Western philosophy: What does it mean to be human? What distinguishes humans from other species, or from machines? The history of philosophy is filled with answers, the most famous being that humans are the political animal, the thinking animal, the self-conscious animal, the tool-making animal, the warring animal, and the linguistic animal. Of particular interest to my field, ethics and value, is the claim that humans are the ethical animal. That is, we are the only animal that has a sense of fairness and justice, can act altruistically, and that possesses the free will needed to choose moral duty over instinctual reaction.
While it has taken philosophers a long time to catch up, this way of thinking about humanity – that we are different in kind from all other species – began to crumble with the work of Charles Darwin. His idea of natural selection offered a plausible mechanism that confirmed the idea that species are not immutable ‘natural kinds’ but only temporal snapshots of an on-going developmental process. This greatly upset many people because it implied that humans were not different in kind from all other species, the sole possessor of an immaterial mind. Rather, humans differ from other species only by degree of evolutionary development. So while only humans can do mathematics or write literature, this does not mean these abilities are super-natural or somehow transcendent of material processes. It does mean that understanding human nature now requires understanding our evolutionary history.
The implications of evolution for ethics are just as significant. Darwin himself wrote that our moral conscience originated in the same love of kin felt by all social animals, and that traits such as fidelity, courage, and altruism quickly spread through our species because they had clear survival value for our early ancestors. But not until the 1970s did these ideas begin to be appreciated widely. In his 1978 book On Human Nature, entomologist E.O. Wilson elegantly argued that explanations of human ethical traits such as altruism and reciprocity need not appeal to transcendent values but could be explained materially using a combination of natural selection and population genetics. Now, a full-blown, interdisciplinary industry exists to explore human morality in evolutionary terms.
If Darwin and Wilson are correct, one would predict finding at least rudimentary forms of ethical behavior in other species. And once scientists started looking seriously, that is exactly what they found. We now know that altruism and reciprocity exist in a wide variety of species, including bonobos, chimpanzees, dolphins, wolves, vampire bats, and many different birds. Many readers may not find this surprising given that all these species are vertebrates with sophisticated nervous systems. Yet this is precisely where things get really interesting, for in fact such behaviors are not confined to these more complex organisms. Rather, they also occur in critters that are not much like us at all, which brings us to the ant. While they may have six legs, an exoskeleton, and little to no brain, ants adhere to strict social hierarchies and perform specialized jobs. They bury their dead in dedicated chambers and practice agriculture by cultivating edible fungus on leaves they import into the colony. Other ants go a rung further up the agricultural ladder and keep livestock. That’s right, livestock. Several ant species diligently tend aphids, moving them from place to place on a plant and ‘milking’ from them a sugary excretion which they slurp up as an energy-rich food source. When an aphid has consumed all the nutrients available on one leaf, an ant picks it up and carries it to a new leaf to continue production. Further, when a rain storm approaches and threatens to wash way or drown the aphids, the ants – just like all good shepherds — pick up the aphids and shuttle them to more protected foliage near the plant’s center. Once the danger passes, the flock is quickly returned to its ‘pasture.’
Returning to ethics, E.O. Wilson has argued that the organisms that come closest to practicing the extreme forms of altruism found in humans (i.e., altruistic suicide) are not mammals but — you guessed it – ants and other social insects. This raises questions that go to the core of our beliefs about ethical life. Even if one thoroughly accepts that human ethical behavior arose as an evolutionary adaptation, surely this happened relatively recently, only after mammals appeared and developed sophisticated nervous systems. How is it possible that such behavior is also found in a creature with almost no brain at all? What does this mean for our understanding of ethics (and of ourselves)? Perhaps one thing it means is that that we don’t understand ourselves (or our ethical life) as well as we like to think. Could it be that altruism and reciprocity are not in fact grounded in the higher cognitive faculties possessed only by humans and mammals? While we no doubt apply these higher faculties when grappling with ethical problems, perhaps such cognition is an ethical superstructure built upon a much simpler foundation that we do share with ants. While tackling these questions would require a team of entomologists, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists (to name just a few), simply pondering these questions rattles our received wisdom about human ethical life.
And the questions don’t stop with ethics. If one grants the seemingly safe assumption that ants are not capable of robust subjective experience akin to humans and other mammals, then what are we to make of the complex behaviors – from the altruism to agriculture – observed within ant colonies? One plausible explanation is that these behaviors reflect a pattern of intelligent action without conscious experience. That is, perhaps the ants act out an intelligent pattern of behavior developed through natural selection but lacking in conscious awareness or control. If so, then similar questions arise for other behaviors found in both humans and ants, such as the construction of artifice. Assuming their simple anatomy precludes conscious awareness, how are we to explain the ability of some termites to construct earthen mounds up to 17 feet high that don’t overheat in the hot Australian sun because of a sophisticated system of ventilation tunnels and a geographic orientation that minimizes the surface area exposed to the sun during the hottest times of the day? If ants can do this with little or no consciousness, should we be so certain that human artifice is rooted solely in our conscious awareness? Again, we no doubt apply our big brains to make exceedingly complex objects that ants could never make, but this does not mean that the fundamental drive to construct things is not rooted in forces much deeper in our evolutionary history and our Pleistocene psyche.
This discussion of evolution and artifice leads inevitably to consider art. No, I’m not talking about what some have called an evolutionary drive to make art but rather an object of art that I drive every day – “The Ant Car.” Inspired by the amazing life of ants (along with the amazing work of other car artists around the country), ”The Ant Car” is an homage to ‘the little things that run the world.’ It is also a car being reclaimed by nature. The artifice that is a Volvo sedan is being taken over by vegetation, by erosion, and… by ants! Yet a closer look shows that these natural forces are in fact thoroughly artificial – the ants are made from steel, the grass from aluminum, and the vines from copper. And the ant mound on top – while not 17 feet high — – is made of that most unnatural of substances, Bondo. An even closer look reveals that each ant is carrying an icon of human artifice, such as the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, and a can of Five Hour Energy Drink. Ants were here long before us and will likely be here long after. The great achievements of human culture may well be but fodder for the recombinant forces of nature, however sublime or miniscule. We humans seem to be the only ones bothered by this in the least.
David Schwartz is the Mary Frances Williams Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Randolph College. He has written books on public funding for the arts and consumer ethics. His current research focuses on ethical issues raised by the environmental practice of re-wilding. In fall 2017, he will be the Garrey Carruthers Endowed Chair in Honors at the University of New Mexico. See pictures and video of The Ant Car at www.theantcar.com. For more on consumer ethics, visit www.consumingchoices.com. | <urn:uuid:3de54267-df1d-4d7d-bcf0-6b77f47e9401> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailyant.com/2017/05/19/philosophy-phriday-human-nature-ethics-and-ants/?like_comment=643&_wpnonce=552d14eaca | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.946386 | 1,792 | 3.09375 | 3 |
A woman who spotted vile graffiti on her fence has turned it into a 'No Offence Fence' - and asked children to write goodwill messages on it instead.
Maxine Sims saw someone had named a girl and called her a 'slag' on her wooden fence at the bottom of her garden.
She was so appalled she decided to turn it into a No Offence Fence - and asked for kind-hearted messages instead.
Dozens of children have now written on the fence, which sits on a footpath close to a primary school in Portishead, Somerset.
Maxine has even been contacted by the bullied girl's parents, who said the idea had been "a ray of sunshine in a miserable few months".
She spotted the vile graffiti in May - four months after the fence was installed.
Maxine's note to the bullies said: "Thank you for seeing our fence as a blank canvas to be filled. Words are powerful!
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There are useful helplines and websites available now.
Samaritans (116 123) operates a 24-hour service available every day of the year. If you prefer to write down how you’re feeling, or if you’re worried about being overheard on the phone, you can email Samaritans at email@example.com .
Childline (0800 1111) runs a helpline for children and young people in the UK. Calls are free and the number won’t show up on your phone bill.
PAPYRUS (0800 068 41 41) is a voluntary organisation supporting teenagers and young adults.
Depression Alliance is a charity for people with depression. It doesn’t have a helpline, but offers a wide range of useful resources and links to other relevant information. http://www.depressionalliance.org/
Students Against Depression is a website for students who are depressed, have a low mood or are having suicidal thoughts. Bullying UK is a website for both children and adults affected by bullying. http://studentsagainstdepression.org/
The Sanctuary (0300 003 7029) operates a 24-hour service available every day of the year, for people who are struggling to cope - experiencing depression, anxiety, panic attacks or in crisis.
“Used carelessly they can hurt. But used well, words have the power to show courage, build hope and inspire others.
“We would like to invite you to fill our fence with kind words and positive messages. Nice messages will be celebrated.
“Negative messages will be treated as vandalism of our property and reported to the police.
“See the light in others and treat them as if that is all you can see.”
She noticed four of five nice messages written by children a week later, and 16 more have appeared since.
One girl drew a rainbow, and wrote: “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”
Another wrote: “If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.”
One child quoted Roald Dahl, writing: "If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
Maxine, who lives with husband Adam, 32, was "really annoyed" when she spotted the abuse - but is overwhelmed by the response.
She said: "Schoolchildren use the footpath to cut through meaning they pass the fence regularly.
"I’m surprised and overwhelmed that it’s been taken so positively - there’s a lot of hope in young people which is really beautiful.
"It would be nice to turn it into a community art space - I have set up an Instagram for it too."
Maxine, who works in the careers service at Bristol University, added: "The parents of the girl who the original graffiti was about also saw it and got in touch with me.
"They said thank you for what you've done - and that its been a ray of sunshine in a miserable few months for her.
"That was the best thing for me."
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The discipline that amateur boxer Litzy Adilene Vázquez Ochoa shows has put her on the path of professional success.
Women Punching Their Way Up: Female Boxers In Mexico
What began as a childhood curiosity over time became a professional option for many athletes. Now, many women have won the hearts and respect of boxing fans.
One example is Litzy Adilene Vázquez Ochoa, a 19-year-old boxer and high-performance athlete from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a medalist in both National Olympics and national tournaments at the amateur level and an upcoming rookie at the professional level.
Professional boxing requires effort inside and outside the ring. Boxing promoters have done their business on foundations of sweat and blood, allowing spectators to enjoy the most noble of the arts.
Vázquez Ochoa retells how her interest in the field started
“Across from where I lived, there was a boxing school. My coach always told my mom to allow me to train. I originally said no as I preferred dancing, till one day, when I was 11, that I saw two girls sparring, and so it motivated me to try it as well.”
She thanks all the support that her family has given her over the years.
“My mom and sister were super happy as they wanted me to practice it and have had supported me since then,” she said.
For years, boxing was considered a men-only sport, but more women have started to dabble.
Mexico is the birthplace of many famous boxers, and it is no exception when it comes to female athletes. Female boxers such as Jackie “Princesa Azteca” Nava, Yesenia “Niña” Gómez, Esmeralda “Joya” Moreno, Silvia “Guerrerita” Torres, Kenia “Jaguarcita” Enríquez, and Mariana “Barbie” Juárez are some of the women who serve as an inspiration for thousands of young women and girls who are starting their boxing careers.
In recent decades, women’s boxing has become one of Mexico’s most deeply ingrained professional sports.
Thanks to competitions and tournaments held in Mexico’s many states, amateur female boxers can find a foothold in the different weight classes.
“I started to train only as a hobby but soon found out I had fallen in love with the sport with the fast sparring I had, a month into my practice,” said Vázquez Ochoa. “My coach was amazed by my footwork and punches, which seemed unusual for a girl that had never practiced. I was a natural. Sadly, I soon had to move to a new house and had to stop practicing. However, I meet a new teacher, Nicolás Hernández. Thanks to him, I began to improve even more and started to participate in amateur fights.”
One of the most challenging moments for young athletes is when they decide if they will continue it as a hobby or have to give themselves, body, mind, and soul to try their luck in professional sports. It involves putting aside personal issues, studies and social life to dedicate themselves professionally.
“I want to be a professional boxer, to have a good career. I know that once I make the jump to professional boxing, I will have to make more sacrifices, give my 100 percent, and go prepared for every one of my fights,” said Vázquez Ochoa.
To maximize an amateur’s level, a coach must offer their guiding hand to the athlete. Discipline is paramount and is the basis for a professional career.
“I have had competent coaches who have done an excellent job, both with my teammates and with me,” said Vázquez Ochoa. “I improved under their watch. I have been here, at the Zaragoza Gym, for five years, and it was here where I began participating in national competitions. As long as I have been here, I have had the support of David Ayala and Reyes Rodríguez. They have always supported me, guided me, and accompanied me to all my competitions.”
Vázquez Ochoa’s efforts have paid off. She will sign a contract with an international company that has followed her career and will promote her professional ventures. Her next goal is to become a world champion.
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Are you interested in learning more about the incredibly talented yet short tennis players who managed to make great success despite their height? We got you covered!
Learning more about the amazing world of tennis can be a bit difficult when you’re not sure where to start looking. Although the Internet is very handy when you need to look up info quickly, it can also be quite time-consuming to go over a ton of results without finding exactly what you need right away.
That is why compiled a perfectly summarized guide that will walk you through all the details about the shortest tennis players of all time in only a few minutes! Stop wasting time and find out all you want to know from our lists right away!
Top 5 Shortest Male Tennis Players
1. Diego Schwartzman
The first male tennis player on our list of the shortest players in history has to be Diego Schwartzman. Schwartzman is a professional tennis player from Argentina. He was born in 1992, and he turned professional in 2010.
As for Schwartzman’s height, he is 5’7’’ (170cm) tall. Although he’s not very tall, his career and success did not suffer any consequences. He is an incredibly skilled player who has managed to win 4 ATP singles titles, as well as reach his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in 2020. He is also a clay court specialist, so some of his best and most notable results have been on the clay surface.
2. Arnaud Clement
The next one on our list is Arnauld Clement—a former professional tennis player from France. Clement is a very well-known and popular tennis player who has a very large fan base and for a good reason.
He was born in 1977, and he is 5’8’’ tall (172cm). During his career, he showcased how talented he is, especially when defeating the then-unseeded future world No. 1, Federer, as well as the former world No. 1, Yevgeny Kafelnikov. The highlight of his career was reaching the final of the Australian Open and claiming a career-high ranking of world No. 10 in 2001.
3. Ken Rosewall
We’ll continue with Ken Rosewall—an Australian former professional tennis player, as well as a world top-ranking amateur player. Rosewall is 5’7’’ (170cm) tall, the same as Schwartzman. When it comes to Rosewall’s career, there’s no denying it was extremely successful. He managed to claim a record of 23 Majors in singles, which include 8 Grand Slam singles titles and a record of 15 Pro Slam titles (before the Open Era).
In total, he managed to reach a record of 35 Major finals. Rosewall also won the Pro Grand Slam back in 1963. He retired in 1980, but the fruits of his success will forever be remembered and talked about in the world of tennis.
He is also on our list of the oldest Grand Slam winners.
4. Rod Laver
Rod Laver is, as some of the tennis fans who have been following the sport for a while may already know, one of the best-known tennis players out there. He is incredibly talented, and the mark that he has left is undeniable.
He was born in Australia in 1938, and he is 5’8’’ (173cm) tall. When it comes to his success, Laver has claimed a total of 198 singles titles, which is the most in tennis history.
He also set an all-time men’s record of 10 or more titles annually for 7 years in a row. He was also the best on every surface of his time, which included grass, hard, clay, wood, and carpet.
5. Michael Russell
We’ll conclude our list of the shortest male tennis players with Michael Russel—one of the most athletic players in his era. Russell is the same height as Laver, which means he’s 5’8’’ (173cm) tall.
He’s also very skilled, which he proved by becoming the 3rd highest ranked American in the work when he set an all-time record of 23 United States Tennis Association (USTA) Pro Circuit singles titles. Russell was also ranked No. 1 in both singles and doubles in the USTA Boys’ 16 rankings.
He retired in 2015 and started a private tennis coaching business, Michael Russell Tennis, where he coached Ryan Harrison, Sam Querrey, Frances Tiafoe, and more.
Top 5 Shortest Female Tennis Players
1. Gem Hoahing
Continuing with the shortest female tennis players, we’ll start off with Gem Hoahing. Hoahing was an English tennis player born in 1920. She was the active player who dominated the court in the 1930s and 1960s.
Hoahing managed to win the junior singles Championship of Great Britain and of France, and she was the singles runner-up at the South of France Championships in 1938, where she was defeated by Gracyn Wheeler.
She is widely known as the shortest female tennis player in history, being 4’9.5’’ (146 cm) tall. Although she competed in the 19 Wimbledon Championships, the best singles result that she managed to claim was reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1949 and 1957.
2. Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer is a South African former professional tennis player born in 1971. Coetzer turned professional in 1988, after which she reached 3 Grand Slam semifinals, including the Australian Open and the French Open.
She also reached one Grand Slam doubles final in 1993—US Open. Amanda Coetzer is 5’2’’ (158cm) tall, but she has managed to win a number of upset wins despite her height. That is why she was awarded the nickname “The Little Assassin”. She also built quite a reputation for herself by frequently besting players who were ranked higher than she was.
Coetzer retired in 2004, but the tennis world will hardly forget such a catchy nickname and interesting player.
3. Dominika Cibulkova
The next player on our list is Dominika Cibulkova—a Slovak professional tennis player who is considered one of the best female tennis players of a shorter build.
Although 5’3’’ (160cm) tall, Cibulkova never let her height get in the way of her success. She managed to win 8 WTA Tour singles titles, as well as 2 on the ITF Circuit.
She has also reached the quarterfinals of all 4 Grand Slams tournaments once, and one of her most notable accomplishments was her final appearance at the Australian Open in 2014. She didn’t win, but she did become the first female Slovak tennis player who managed to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament.
Another notable accomplishment of Dominika Cibulkova is becoming the 4th player to win the tournament on her debut.
4. Nuria Llagostera Vives
Nuria Llagostera Vives is a Spanish former professional tennis player born in 1980. She is 5’1’’ (155cm) tall, but she has managed to reach her best singles ranking of world No. 35 nonetheless. She also peaked as world No. 5 in the WTA doubles rankings in 2009.
During her career, she has claimed a total of two singles and 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Alongside María José Martínez Sánchez, she defeated Serena and Venus Williams.
However, in 2013, she announced her retirement. It’s believed that this was a consequence of her testing positive for Dextroamphetamine and being banned from playing for a few years. That meant she wouldn’t be able to attend the 2016 Summer Olympics.
5. Sara Errani
The last female tennis player that we’re going to mention is Sara Errani. She’s one of the most successful Italian tennis players to date. Even though she is 5’5’’ (164cm) tall, her accomplishments and success are quite impressive.
She claimed a total of 9 WTA singles titles and 27 doubles titles, which makes her the Italian female tennis player with the most WTA titles ever. In 2012, she became the world’s No. 1 in doubles for the first time.
Errani reached the final of the French Open in 2012, as well as a career-high of No. 5 in the world in 2013. She also reached the semifinals at the French Open in 2013, the quarterfinals at the same tournament the following year, the 2014 US Open, and qualified for the WTA Finals twice.
However, similarly to Vives, she was banned from playing due to failing a drug test—though only for 10 months.
Height may be an extremely important factor when it comes to being successful in some careers, but tennis doesn’t seem to be that way.
There is a number of players, both male and female, who proved that being shorter doesn’t have to stand in the way of accomplishing everything you want and making your dreams come through. You can scroll through our above-listed user-friendly guides to find out who these players are.
Although tennis is a very exciting and suspenseful sport, it is also quite difficult and requires a lot of dedication, hard work, and honing your skills.
However, if you are debating whether you’ll be successful or not due to you’re height—don’t! Once you put in the work, you’ll be able to achieve everything in time! Remember, practice makes perfect!
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Denice Hagerman worked hard to fulfill her dream of learning how to grow grapes for wines. Now she is a passionate viticulturist and expert winemaker in her native Canada.
"I am up to my eyeballs in crush. Mother Nature is having her way as usual. She always does," declared my friend Denice when I asked her to divulge more of her grape-growing and winemaking knowledge. Seems like I remember her saying the same thing about the same time last year, and the year before that. The challenge is to know the optimal time for grape harvest, and it varies each year depending on temperatures, water and sun; so Denice has learned to work around Mother Nature's quirks from year to year. Now she is immersed (figuratively) in the crucial crush process so the yeast can start fermenting. But that's just the beginning of the winemaking process with which Denice and her husband Bruce produce their delicious wines.
I visited Denice and Bruce in Penticton, British Columbia this past July and got to see their most recent creation called This Is It Vineyard. We spent a few warm evenings sipping wine in the vineyard surrounded by cascades of vines with green grape clusters, overlooking Okanagan Lake, and getting caught up on our lives. Then, it was a waiting game - a wait for the grapes to ripen, but Denice does everything but wait. To bring the grapes to their ultimate best, she fights weeds and pests, observes how much rain Mother Nature delivers and irrigates the bases of the vines with just the right amount of water. Next is thinning. Long, lateral vine extensions reached into the open space between the rows. So, she rose at 5:00 a.m. to let the field workers through the gate to thin the vines to open up their canopies. Growing premium grapes that will be sold to the Okanagan Valley winemakers is not just an eight to five job. It's a job that requires knowledge of the rhythms of the seasons and the best care and nurturing of a crop for optimal growing. It's knowing about timing, efficiency, and avoiding waste. I admire my friend for her intimate understanding of this process.
Lifting a healthy green leaf from a long and sturdy trellis, Denice explains some leaf and grape differences in the varieties that she grows. Penticton viticulturists grow Pinot Noir, Riesling, Merlot, and Gewutruminer grapes. I had a lot of questions about grape culture, and find it fascinating all the considerations that go into growing good grapes. Denice told me that the "lake effect" is another ingredient in the grapes' success; there is a natural air flow between land and lake, which prevents frost.
I realized Denice loves her grape vines like the ecologist loves the nature of his land, and the gardener her garden. It's about nurturing and caring for the land and establishing a deep connection to it.
Okanagan Lake in Penticton, British Columbia
Optimal climate and geology/geography for growing wine grapes
Thinned vines - This Is It Vineyard
During the 25 years I have known her, Denice's pursuits usually involve a knowledge of and connection to the the land in which she lives, which these days is more often in Penticton. Our friendship began in the rugged and arid mountains that surround California's Coachella Valley. We walked mile upon mile together, along with other close friends. We explored almost every trail, trudging through sandy washes, walking up steep mountainsides, and rambling among the barrel and beavertail cacti of rocky mesas. "We've solved the world's problems!" Denice would say after each hike.
Then one day, Denice said that she was going to take courses in making wine. She and Bruce bought an apple orchard in Oliver, British Columbia in 2006, tore down the trees and raised rows of grape vines. "Oliver Twist" is what they named their winery, which still operates today selling excellent wines and now sparkling wine! Now Denice spends more time in her beloved Canada; I think she feels rooted there.
What a reward it must be to start with winter-dormant, bare vines and create the verdancy that will result in a fine wine enjoyed as a toast to friendship. From the ground to the glass - a centuries-old tradition.
We hiked in the hills overlooking blue Okanagan Lake and gazed down at vineyards with their long green rows of grapes marching toward the water. The hot, dry Penticton air brought back memories of hiking in California's Colorado desert. Gravel crunched under our boots as I listened to Denice's plans for her harvest and then we solved a few of the world's problems. Afterward, a celebration with a glass of Oliver Twist's fabulous Merlot.
Workers arrived at 5:00 a.m. to begin the process of thinning grape vines
Sue and Denice in Penticton, British Columbia - July 2018
Bruce Hagerman sailing on Okanagan Lake in his boat Windseeker
This Is It Vineyard - Penticton, British Columbia
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Blockchain technology offers a great many advantages to many industries, with the financial sector being one of the most notable examples. It has the potential to have an even greater impact in developing countries, where blockchain-enhanced fintech can help improve financial accessibility for the 1.7 billion unbanked people around the world through services such as peer-to-peer loans and alternative currency payments and investments.
This Is why it should come as no surprise that, while most of the first wave of cryptocurrency influencers such as Erik Voorhees, Charlie Lee, Tim Draper, Andreas Antonopoulos and many more all hail from first-world Western countries, it is from the developing countries that some of the technology’s biggest thought leaders can be found.
In fact, four highly respected champions of blockchain technology are Odia, referring to people who originate from Odisha, a state in the Indian subcontinent. Despite being one of the poorest states of the country, Odisha has produced four trailblazing journeys, united by both geographic origin as well as their respective challenges in the tech industry. In particular, these personalities are making their mark in the world of blockchain, in remarkably exciting times for disruptive technology.
Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer of MAS (the Monetary Authority of Singapore)
Sopnendu Mohanty got his start in the IT industry back in 1995, following both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in information science. In 1997, he moved to Japan to join Citigroup’s product and services development division. He would stay with the company for 18 years, eventually being promoted to Head of Citigroup’s Asia Pacific Branch Operations, and then later to Head of Citigroup’s Global Consumer Lab.
In 2015, Sopnendu Mohanty left Citigroup and joined the Singapore government-run Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as Chief Financial Officer. At MAS, he has helped contribute to Singapore’s rise as one of the world’s top fintech hubs.
In addition to his work at MAS, Sopnendu is also an avid speaker and global thought leader in fintech, and an outspoken advocate for an accelerated transformation to a digital blockchain-based economy.
“Having a distributed ledger by design takes away the whole complexity behind settling things, checking things. And it allows some of the business rules to be built into the use cases — the payment process, the settlement process, the underlying business rules can be encoded to a single stream,” said Sopnendu Mohanty.
“There are two different processes in today’s world. There’s a process where you pay each other and there’s a process in which we exchange goods and services. Blockchain digital currency brings together these two processes into a single process in which you’re not only paying each other but also ensuring that goods and services are exchanged at the point of payment.”
In September 2021, the MAS granted DBS Vickers — a subsidiary of DBS Bank, the largest bank in Southeast Asia — a license to officially offer cryptocurrency services.
“This is a natural progression in any innovation and there has been a very clear growing interest in digital assets,” Sopnendu Mohanty said.
“Fintechs are always pushing banks out of their comfortable traditional finance space. It’s very encouraging for us to see DBS think about such new areas where they can add value and create a new service. This is truly a sign of the maturity of the Singaporean fintech sector. Here, we don’t see a difference between fintechs and banks. Both are complimentary, they come together and work together.”
Mriganka Pattnaik, CEO and Co-founder of Merkle Science
Hailing from the ancient city of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, Mriganka Pattnaik got his fintech career off the ground with numerous internships even before he finished his technology Bachelor’s degree from ITT Guwahati in 2013. Upon graduation, Mriganka went straight to work at Bank of America as an analyst in their Mumbai branch.
Two years later, he left to found his first company, Datatrix Healthcare Technologies, to help people remotely order medication and home diagnostic tests from nearby pharmacies.
“I saw an opportunity to address a need and to this day, I believe that entrepreneurship is the most direct way to bridge these gaps,” Pattnaik said
“Unfortunately, there was a lot of regulatory ambiguity in the area of online pharmacies. It was difficult to understand the full picture in terms of risk. Through this experience, I understood how regulatory ambiguity can really hinder innovation and hurt early startups. Afterward, I moved to Singapore in 2016 to work at Luno, a prominent crypto exchange, to support strategy and country-specific execution across three continents.”
During his time at Luno, he witnessed firsthand the compliance challenges faced by digital asset businesses in diverse jurisdictions and the key role regulations play in the industry’s health and sustainable growth. He then joined the Entrepreneur First tech incubator where he met Nirmal Aryath Koroth, with whom he co-founded his second company, Merkle Science, in 2018.
Merkle Science is a risk and intelligence platform that helps companies and government organizations detect, investigate and prevent illegal activities involving cryptocurrencies.
“As blockchain and cryptocurrency gained popularity, more financial institutions, retail platforms and governments started adopting the technology. Unfortunately, as the legitimate use cases rise, so does its illegal use,” Pattnaik said. “In 2020 alone, it is estimated that more than 12 billion dollars worth of crypto was involved in illicit transactions.”
“Unsurprisingly, this has led to many governments around the world introducing new laws and regulations that govern how cryptocurrency businesses can operate. These new regulations seek to mitigate the risk that comes with cryptocurrencies. However, these new laws and regulations have made it difficult for companies to work with cryptocurrencies and they struggle to figure out how to comply. With these new laws, there is then a need for new-age solutions and this is where Merkle Science comes in. We have developed a suite of solutions designed to make use of the blockchain’s transparent and traceable nature in order to help businesses identify and protect themselves against criminal use,” commented Pattnaik.
Debajani Mohanty, Bestselling Blockchain Author
Debajani Mohanty is the bestselling author of five books on blockchain and was ranked among the top 30 Blockchain influencers from India on Singapore Fintech news as well as the world’s top 100 blockchain social influencers by Piktale awards. Born in coastal Odisha, she studied Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at Sambalpur University before launching straight into what would become a 24-year career (and counting) devising software solutions for companies from India and, since 2020, England.
She got her feet wet with blockchain in 2017, from which point she has worked in development using numerous blockchain technologies. “The true potential of blockchain is yet to be realized,” Debajani Mohanty said. “We need much more dedicated research.”
Debajani Mohanty’s books range from broad blockchain overviews for new students on the subject, such as her five-star books “Blockchain for Self Sovereign Digital Identity” and “Ethereum for Architects and Developers”, to deep-dive courses on the specific blockchain technologies R3 Corda, Ripple and Ethereum. She has also published a novel focused on themes of the empowerment of women, titled “The Curse of Damini”, for which she was honored with the Arya award by Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi.
Since the beginning of her blockchain career, she has tried to share her learning through books, blogs, videos and live sessions at numerous blockchain summits in India and abroad. She stresses that “propagating knowledge especially to business leaders and decision-makers is the need of the hour, as they have the authority to carry forward this blockchain journey to the next level.”
According to Debajani Mohanty, the next big trends in blockchain are expected to be CBDC, Decentralized Identity and enforcement of data acts (GDPR, CCPA, PDPA etc.) in handling personal data leading to privacy-preserving solutions.
Naquib Mohammed, CEO / Founder of MRHB DeFi
Born in the city of Cuttack, Naquib Mohammed studied information technology at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in Bhubaneswar. He then spent more than a decade in information technology, starting as a software engineer then later as a business architect, working for companies across the globe.
“My interest in cryptocurrency really started to get serious after spending a few years learning and working on enterprise use cases of distributed ledger technology in the bull run of late 2019,” said Naquib Mohammed.
“As an enterprise architect, researching the growing IT market was a natural move, and this is where I noticed blockchain as an important part of Industry 4.0 technologies.”
Mohammed was invited to Australia in 2020 by invitation of the Australian government as a “Distinguished Global Fintech Talent”. There, he dove headfirst into blockchain technology, devoting 7-8 hours a day to study and learn the technology.
“During this tenure, I completed over 15 certifications in different areas of blockchain within a six-month span.”
In April of 2021, after working at another startup he decided to launch his own pioneering decentralized finance startup, MRHB (pronounced Marhaba) DeFi. This was to address what he felt was a major gap in a crypto space that excluded many communities due to their faith (in particular himself as a Muslim), lack of access and technological complexity. The demand for financial services which are consistent with faith principles is evidenced by the Islamic Finance industry, currently worth around $3 trillion USD.
In addition, Mohammed wanted to build a more empowering, ethical and community focussed project that would cater to those new to crypto and also address the negative perception created by extensive instances of fraud, risk and opacity in the sector. As such, he hopes to create a more ethical and inclusive project that benefits everyone regardless of faith.
“As our platform is based on very high ethical standards, one of our product offerings is a crypto-based donations platform, the DePhi, a decentralized philanthropy protocol, planned in Phase 2. We sincerely hope to attract investors from all walks of life who are interested in making sure their investments have some form of social impact in addition to benefiting from the wealth opportunities of the cryptoverse,” explained Mohammed.
“By approaching the new crypto economy with a more ethical approach from the very start, we can all do our part to create a more equitable and more inclusive future for all.”
A landmark project in the DeFi ecosystem, being the first to target the USD 3 trillion Islamic Finance ecosystem and other excluded communities, MRHB DeFi is notably backed by Polygon Technology. A prominent Layer-2 blockchain, Polygon is supporting the development of the first dApp focussed on the Islamic and ethical finance sector.
With their blockchain stories impacting different industries and use-cases, from regulations, compliance, intelligence gathering and security to education, ethics, inclusion, and philanthropy, these blockchain personalities are an inspiration to people all over the world who wish to be involved in the revolutionary technology.
As the blockchain and decentralized finance movements sweep across the world, we will undoubtedly see more professional representation from everywhere. Hopefully, blockchain innovators and startup founders from underdeveloped economies especially will find great success, for these are the regions where the technology can do the most social good. Financial services such as zero-fee payments and transactions, peer-to-peer loans and all manner of banking transactions for excluded communities are possible in the realms of blockchain and cryptocurrency.
We need only for more pioneers to step up and seize the opportunity.
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Writing that his father had a lifelong "faith in what for lack of a better name, one must call Spiritualism," the son of famed biblical Greek text editor B. F. Westcott admits to considerable public alarm at his father's activity.
Westcott and his famed partner, Hort, were among the founders of the Ghost Society in the 1850s. Fascinated by the spirit world, their club was dedicated to pursuing knowledge of ghostly encounters with spirits.
It was also Westcott and Hort who worked together to discard the centuries-old Majority Text upon which the King James English Bible was based, replacing it with a polluted text gleaned from manuscripts provided by the Roman Catholic Church. Little wonder that their texts omitted many Scriptures which the pope found embarrassing!
When they were working on this Greek text, preparing to destroy the world's faith in the Greek scriptures which had served generations, they began to worry that things like their "ghost chasing" would undermine their efforts.
Hort cautioned Westcott to hide their strange views saying, "This may sound cowardice I have a craving that our text should be cast upon the world before we deal with matters likely to brand us with suspicion. I mean a text issued by men who are already known for what will undoubtedly be treated as dangerous heresy will have great difficulty in finding its way to regions which it might otherwise hope to reach..."
He was right! Building upon their fame as Cambridge scholars, the two partners convinced the world that their biblical text was better.
It was used for all modern translations, including the recent NIV and NASB. As more manuscripts are discovered, their theories are being discredited, but the public is unaware of it.
Just like evolution textbooks teaching old, disproven theories as though they were fact, the pews still pile up with Bibles based upon the disproven theories of Hort and Westcott.
In her thorough book, "New Age Bible Versions", educator Gail Riplinger peels away layer by ghostly layer from the Hort and Westcott myth, showing that the Bibles they influenced are setting us up for a One World Religion, based upon the principles of the occult New Age. Hort and Westcott would have been proud.
What kind of church is being produced by these new Bibles? Perhaps it can best be described in Westcott's own words, "There was a time when it was usual to draw a sharp line between religious and worldly things." He wrote: "That time has happily gone by."
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Paddy Fahey (1916-2019)
Paddy Fahey (aka Paddy Fahy) was an Irish composer and fiddler who is considered one of the finest ever composers of traditional Irish music.
Fahey was from Kilconnell in East Galway. His music has a distinctive yearning quality due to its ambiguous modal nature. He is particularly noted for his use of minor keys and modes. His music has been recorded by many of the finest traditional Irish musicians including Martin Hayes, Planxty, John Carty and Kevin Burke. In recent years a few recordings featured Fahey's music prominently including recordings by Liz and Yvonne Kane, Dave Flynn and Breda Keville.
Fahey is something of an enigma in the traditional Irish music world in that he never made a commercial recording despite the fact that he was an exceptional fiddler, nor did he publish a book of his compositions. There are some privately made recordings of Fahey which have been distributed amongst musicians since the 1970s, and transcriptions of his tunes are found in many tune collections and on Internet resources such as www.thesession.org.
There is a Master Thesis on his music done by Maria Holohan through the University of Limerick in which most of his tunes are notated.
Fahey never gave his compositions names, instead they tend to be simply named "Paddy Fahey's Reel No.1", "Paddy Fahey's Jig No.2", etc. His known compositions number around 100 tunes, all of which are either jigs, reels or hornpipes.
In 2001 Fahey was named Composer of The Year by Irish Language TV station TG4 at their annual award ceremony 'Gradam Ceoil TG4'.
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HRM Recruitment and Selection
Introduction The paper presents the recruitment and selection as a role of human resource management. The essentiality of the process to the individuals, business, and society, is discussed. The trends in the uprising in the recruitment and selection are discussed. Legalities and ethics surrounding the process are outlined too.
Section 1: Technology and HRM Technology is a beautiful thing. It has transformed lives in all dimensions of the world. The global world today looks like a village. Through technology trade and communication are conducted with ease. According to Woodhams (2013), human resource management is transforming due to technology and the changes in the business labor force.
Section 2: Recruitment and selection Recruitment forms the first step of the contract between the employer and the potential employee. It should be bored in the mind that the applicants might or are already clients of the organization. It is thus useful and beneficial for the experience between these parties to remain active. Successful recruitment relies on finding persons with the necessary skills, qualifications, and expertise to deliver organizational goals (Cornelius, 2001). The person should also possess the ability to contribute positively to the objectives and values of the organization. On the other hand, selection process follows the recruitment. During selection, the credibility of an individual is established on potentiality to do the job, ability to impact organization effectiveness positively, and ability for development (Woodhams, 2013).
The need for recruitment and the analysis of the requirement for recruitment are an essential part to kick starts the process. The requirements are based on job analysis, role analysis, attributes analysis and competency analysis. Recruitment and selection are important both to individual and business organization (Cornelius, 2001). At a personal level, the selected person will be rewarded salary or wages due to the labor performed by the company. Such a person would be in a position to raise their standard of living. An organization recruits for a need. If recruitment and selection are conducted as planned and lead to the best people in the organization, then the organization would improve quality or quantity of production or both (Compton et al., 2009). Innovation from the new employees from recruitment and selection process may result in the development of organization or society as a whole.
Section 3: Current events in recruitment and selection Currently, the main trending issue in the recruitment and selection is the use of the internet. Countries across the globe like the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia among other have utilized the opportunities in advertising job vacancies on websites to reach both national and global market.
The use of internet in the process of recruitment saves the cost for applicants and organizations (Compton et al., 2009). The job vacancies advertisement reaches a large number of people. Hence, the selection is not strained.
Social media is current playing a significant role in recruitment and selection. Organizations have Facebook and Twitter accounts and others. They post the information regarding the jobs in these sites. The staff members make use of their WhatsApp group accounts to forward the information to the friends and relative (Landers & Schmidt, 2016).
In this manner, the information ends up reaching as many people as possible. It thus clear that the internet is contributing a lot in human resource management particularly, recruitment and selection.
Section 4: Legalities and ethics in recruitment and selection Campbell, Macklin and Pinnington (2007) state that it is essential for the human resource management and other stakeholders involved in the recruitment and selection process to understand and take into consideration the equal opportunities legislation and the occurrence of the discrimination processes.
Free and fair recruitment and selection should be conducted to ensure validity and non-discriminatory process and in long avoid the implication that may result from discrimination processes (Campbell, Macklin and Pinnington, 2007).
Embracing legal practice and ethics is the right way to make. Recruitment and selection involve decision making. According to Compton et al. (2009), attention and best practice guidelines are useful in mitigating corruption and unfair practices.
The good news is that governments and organizations have the comprehensive route maps that guide human resource managers to make the right movements. The government and civil rights should continue to tighten laws concerning ethics and legalities in ascertaining that the minority groups and ad hoc groups such that of people living with disabilities are not sidelined.
Conclusion To sum up, the paper explored one of the roles of human resource management, hiring. Staffing is conducted through recruitment and selection process. Hiring is developing with technology just like other sectors. The most current trend in this process is the use of social media, and Internet Recruitment and selection are necessary to the society, organizations as well as individuals. Legalities and ethics are essential to the process. It is thus deduced that recruitment and selection are treasured to the organization, and it should be carried in an appropriate manner to yield the intended purpose.
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Cornelius, N. (2001). Human resource management: A managerial perspective. London [u.a.: Internat. Thomson Business.Top of Form Landers, R. N., & Schmidt, G. B. (2016). Social media in employee selection and recruitment: Theory, practice and current challenges. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
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Cherry Blossom at Ebara Shrine – Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Ebara Shrine has a history of over 1300 years. Famous as the earliest cherry blossom in Shinagawa Ward.
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This section describes how to connect to Act! CRM following the standard JDBC connection process in DBeaver: Add the driver JAR, provide the driver class name, and provide any Act! CRM-specific parameters in the JDBC URL.
Add the JDBC Driver for Act! CRM
Complete the following steps to add the driver .jar file:
- Open the DBeaver application and, in the Database menu, select the Driver Manager option. Click New to open the Create New Driver form.
- In the Driver Name box, enter a user-friendly name for the driver.
To add the .jar file, click Add File on the Libraries tab. Select the cdata.jdbc.actcrm.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
Note that the.lic file must be located in the same folder as the .jar file.
- Click Find Class, and in the list select, "cdata.jdbc.actcrm.ActCRMDriver".
- In the URL Template field, enter jdbc:actcrm:.
Create the JDBC Data Source
Complete the following steps to select the Act! CRM driver and build the JDBC URL to create the JDBC data source:
- In the main DBeaver window, click Database > New Connection.
- Select the driver definition you created in the dialog that is displayed.
- On the next page of the wizard, click the Driver Properties tab.
Enter any connection properties required to connect to Act! CRM.
Here is a typical connection string:
jdbc:actcrm:URL=https://myActCRMserver.com;User=myUser;Password=myPassword;ActDatabase=MyDB;See Establishing a Connection for a connection and authentication guide.
- Finish creating the connection with the default settings or configure advanced network settings -- proxy, firewall, and SSH.
Discover Schemas and Query Act! CRM Data
Complete the following steps to query information from the tables exposed by the connection:
- Expand the node for the connection to access the database metadata.
- Browse the table metadata and edit the table data by right-clicking a Table and then clicking Edit Table.
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With new methods of regenerative medicine into a
healthier world: The vision of the founders drives the
scientists and biotech experts at ISAR Bioscience
Strong team, great goals
With new methods of regenerative medicine into a healthier world: The vision of the founders drives the scientists and biotech experts at ISAR Bioscience
The history of ISAR Bioscience begins with plans of Hans Schöler at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster to establish a translational research institute. The aim was to make the results of basic research quickly available for medical use. Specifically, Hans Schöler’s team was interested in new technologies in stem cell research, in particular the so-called iPS cells (= induced pluripotent stem cells). These are stem cells that can be produced from the body’s normal cells such as fibroblasts, and offer researchers an ethically unproblematic alternative to embryonic stem cells. With the help of iPS cells it is possible to generate intact as well as diseased human stem cells. These can then be specifically differentiated into other cells, such as nerve cells or heart cells. They can be used as models for research into the development of diseases, but also for possible new therapies.
The core of the concept is the close cooperation between public research institutions and smaller as well as established companies from biotechnology and pharmaceutical research. ISAR Bioscience sees itself as a bridge-builder between these institutions and creates a direct link between basic research and new therapies and products – in other words, “translation”.
The Free State of Bavaria took up the concept. To start realizing it, private donors established the non-profit Foundation for Stem Cell Research and Applied Regenerative Medicine. The foundation is the sole shareholder of ISAR Bioscience GmbH, which has been in existence since 2018 and is initially funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economics with 20 million euros.
In the same year, laboratory facilities were set up in Planegg, in the southwest of Munich - in the direct vicinity of numerous research institutions and biotech companies. The Lead Discovery Center of the Max Planck Society, which has its Munich branch in the same building, was of great help in this process. The first research projects in the field of stem cell research and neurodegenerative diseases started as early as 2018. Since then, ISAR Bioscience has been growing both in its research spectrum and in terms of personnel. The declared goal is to become a center of translational biomedicine in the Munich area.
Who we are
ISAR Bioscience GmbH is a Bavarian research company with a worldwide network. We develop regenerative therapies against dementia, heart failure and immune diseases using iPS cells and differentiated human cells derived from them. We use them to test new therapeutic principles and drug candidates.
Our scientists come from the fields of medicine, biology and chemistry, from universities and non-university research institutions, from biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
We work in modern laboratories in Planegg near Munich – at the heart of the biotechnology scene. We do research on our own projects and on issues that we investigate together with partners from our worldwide network. Together, we seek to identify innovative projects, develop them further in collaboration with teams of inventors from public research institutions and industry, and help them become reality.
ISAR Bioscience is led by a team of scientists and biotech entrepreneurs who came with their rich experience in research and development, medicine and business development. We develop and manage our projects and are happy to serve as contacts for current and future partners from research and industry.
Foundation for stem cell research and applied regenerative medicine
Excellent research and science are the basis for new approaches in medicine and new therapies and at the same time for social progress and prosperity. They cost money and, therefore, require special funding.
In order to further develop the potential of regenerative medicine in general and induced pluripotent stem cells in particular for the benefit of patients, the non-profit Foundation for Stem Cell Research and Applied Regenerative Medicine (StemCellRegMed Foundation) was established in 2017.
Mission of the foundation
The foundation aims to promote applied research and development activities in medicine, especially in regenerative medicine. In this context, the foundation established ISAR Bioscience GmbH. In order to support the application-oriented research of the young company, the foundation also relies on donations, gifts, bequests and other contributions. The money is intended to go towards the foundation’s basic assets or to support the foundation’s funding programs.
Become a co-founder!
You want to make a difference, for example help to fight a specific disease? Do you feel a strong sense of responsibility towards your fellow human beings? Are you considering supporting a selected research institution with your donation or an endowment?
We are happy if you want to support applied medical research as a benefactor or donor. With your donation to our foundation, you support important medical innovations. Your commitment can help to ensure that new and known diseases may be treated better in the future. With your donation you support our work - in a specific manner according to your wishes.
Prof. Dr. Horst Domdey
Phone: +49 (0) 89 / 89 96 79-0
The Supervisory Board monitors the legality, expediency and economic efficiency of the management of ISAR Bioscience. This supervisory body brings together four members from the fields of politics and technology transfer. Dr. Wolter is the Chairman, and Dr. Erselius is his deputy.
Scientific Advisory Board
For the selection as well as the further development of our research areas and projects, we use not only internal but also external expertise. The scientific advisory board, which combines proven scientific expertise with the perspectives of the pharmaceutical industry and investors, serves this purpose. The members of the scientific advisory board reflect the spectrum of the work of ISAR Bioscience.
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Howard Mumford Jones was a U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English at Harvard University.
Jones was the book editor for The Boston Evening Transcript.
Howard Jones was born in Saginaw, Michigan. Before moving to Harvard, Jones was a member of the English faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In 1925, he approached the president of UNC-CH, Harry Woodburn Chase, lamenting the absence of a bookstore in the town of Chapel Hill, and offered to open one in his office. This eventually became the Bull's Head Bookshop, now located in Student Stores.
In February, 1954, Mr. Jones gave the dedicatory address at the opening of an addition to the University of Wisconsin Library. It was entitled "Books and the Independent Mind." The crux of his comments was perhaps contained in his midpoint comment: "While it is true that we in this nation remain free to be idiotic, it does not necessarily follow, that we must be idiotic, in order to be free!"
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Did Prime Minster Justin Trudeau break his government’s own rules by visiting his family over the Easter long weekend?
He sure did. But remarkably, many Canadians didn’t believe it.
When I posted this message on social media on Monday morning, it caused quite the stir.
Mainstream media journalists and partisan Liberals on Twitter were quick to refute my claim and suggest I was being unfair and I was wrong.
So, let’s set the record straight. What rules did Trudeau break?
Justin Trudeau has been staying alone at Rideau Cottage, a home on the property of 24 Sussex in Ottawa, since March 29th. That is when his wife Sophie tested negative for the coronavirus after previously having the disease and then packed up with the three kids to move to Harrington Lake, Quebec, the official country residence of the Prime Minister.
In order for Trudeau to travel to Quebec to his country residence, to stay with his family, Trudeau broke the following rules:
1. He crossed a provincial boundary and entered Quebec
After telling Canadians not to travel and to stay at home, Trudeau himself packed his bags and headed for his country residence in rural Quebec. He crossed a provincial border in order to do it, despite that border being closed.
Gatineau police set up checkpoints on interprovincial roadways last week in an unprecedented effort to enforce the province’s new ban on non-essential travel into western Quebec.
Sure, it’s only about 35 kilometres between the two residences, but Trudeau had to cross a boundary that was closed to other Canadians. Gatineau police said checkpoints were set up at bridges, ferries and major intersections, and that drivers could be fined up to $6,000 for trying to make “non-essential” trips.
Trudeau and his motorcade were let through, while other families trying to do the same thing were turned away.
2. He went to a cottage.
Trudeau’s top public health official Dr. Theresa Tam has stressed on multiple occasions for Canadians not to travel to their cottage, cabin, camp or rural home, because of the potential strain on health care in rural places.
3. He visited family who doesn’t live with him
Trudeau has admitted that he lives in one household, Rideau Cottage, and his family lives in another, Harrington Lake. According to his government’s rules, they should have celebrated Easter digitally, through Skype or Zoom.
Here are just a handful of the many examples of the Trudeau government and the media telling Canadians that they cannot visit family members living in other households.
This CBC report specifically said, “Physical distancing means: Not interacting with anyone outside your household, including immediate family members and significant others who don’t live with you.”
Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Njoo: Unfortunately any religious celebrations this year will have to be “strictly limited to your existing household members only,” says Dr. Howard Njoo, Canada’s deputy chief public health officer.
Dr. Tam: “That means dinners and celebrations need to be strictly limited to your existing household members only,” Tam said.
4. Trudeau and his family did an outdoor Easter egg hunt, after specifically telling Canadians to do their Easter egg hunts indoors.
5. Trudeau left his house, he went outside, and he enjoyed the great outdoors while telling Canadians to stay inside, not leave their homes and not to go out into public parks this long weekend.
Rules like these are for the little people.
Trudeau likes to say we’re all in this together. But he doesn’t seem willing to follow the same set of rules that he demands we follow.
Perhaps the worst part of all of this is that everyday Canadians are getting ridiculous and exorbitant fines, frankly, for doing far less than what Trudeau did.
And equally as bad, rather than fielding tough questions from the media about his hypocrisy, so many journalists were falling over themselves to defend Trudeau while attacking me, a journalist, for asking the wrong questions.
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What does MRUUV Stand For?
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At 3.7%, Lakeland has the third-lowest industrial vacancy rate in the country. A company that was prudent in the recession moves quickly on the opportunities.
Greg Ruthven is on a roll again.
The president of Lakeland-based warehousing titans The Ruthvens is touring his new construction site off Drane Field Road, navigating his Range Rover through mounds of freshly turned dirt.
By October he expects to complete a 131,000-square-foot spec industrial building on the 47-acre site near the Polk Parkway. Shortly after that he plans to start construction on a 116,000-square-foot spec building there.
If the tenants come — and Ruthven, 57, has no doubt they will — he could add yet another spec building by the end of 2016.
The projects are part of a wave of new construction for The Ruthvens, which until recently had not built any new space for nearly six years. But Lakeland is virtually starving for new inventory, and because of his father's foresight, Greg Ruthven will be able to deliver.
“We got ready to build on this site in '08,” Ruthven says of the Drane Field Road property. “I had plans in my hand, we had bank financing, all of the architectural and engineering work was done. Everything was ready. I was walking out the back door and my dad (company founder Joe Ruthven) said, 'Hey son, where are you going ... hang on a minute.'”
The elder Ruthven helped the firm avoid catastrophe as the economy collapsed in Central Florida.
“Had it been me, we would have been blowing in the wind out there. We were just lucky he was there to tell me to stop,” Greg Ruthven says.
Now the centrally located Lakeland area serves as a distribution hub for the state. And with the economy swinging again, big names like Amazon and O'Reilly Auto Parts have been opening massive distribution centers in the region.
Ruthven's firm is now scrambling to add spec buildings to meet demand. The U.S. industrial vacancy rate is at its lowest point in nearly 14 years, and Lakeland has the third-lowest vacancy rate in the country at 3.7%, according to Cushman & Wakefield. “Nobody built anything for a while,” Ruthven says, “and everything stopped for five or six years.”
The Ruthvens, founded in 1957, now controls more than 80 buildings and 3 million square feet of warehouse and industrial space in the Lakeland area. During the recession, the company's vacancy rate reached a record high of 23%, but has since returned to a comfortable norm of 5.5%. And it's falling.
Greg Ruthven says the firm relied on cash reserves during the downturn and avoided asking lenders for concessions. The company also allowed tenants to downsize their space as a way to help retention.
The strategy paid off.
“They might have been on a lease for a longer term, but we downsized with them, and they came back and expanded with us,” Ruthven says. “You can either work with your tenants or you can turn about-face. We worked with them, and they remembered that. I don't know of anybody we worked with that has left us.”
The Ruthvens' recent flurry of construction is already getting results.
Last year the firm spent $1.26 million for a 22-acre property on County Line Road, near the Amazon and O'Reilly sites, and recently finished construction on a 50,400-square-foot multi-use spec building there.
Two tenants have already leased half of the space, and Ruthven predicts the rest will be gone within a couple months. The Ruthvens already have plans to start another 60,000-square-foot spec building this year in the red-hot County Line Road area.
Also, within the next few years, the company and its partners might spend upwards of $30 million on the 47-acre Drane Field Road property alone. But Ruthven says they are mindful of the near miss in 2008.
“Do I hope we can turn the spigot off when it's time to turn it off? Yeah I hope we do, I hope we learned that lesson,” he says. “It'll happen, there will be another bubble. We're trying to be like my father and predict when the next one will be. But right now, the window is open.”
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We can expect thundershowers, possibly with heavy rain, possibly with hail, every few days in the afternoon on our Outdoor Club summer Yosemite and Grand Tetons trips, or other mountain trips.
Bring decent rain gear (you’ll be happier and dryer with a rain jacket and pants instead of a rain poncho) and a tent with a full rain fly. You can get a set of rain pants/jacket at Home Depot then Improve your inexpensive rain gear. If you’ve never packed for a trip with expected interesting weather, take a look at Snow or rain camp must-haves or Snow camp equipment checklist
Hikes to peaks need to start early, so you can get to the top and get back down before the afternoon clouds build up.
The National Weather Service warns:
“Myth: If it’s not raining or there aren’t clouds overhead, you’re safe from lightning.
Fact: Lightning often strikes more than three miles from the center of the thunderstorm, far outside the rain or thunderstorm cloud. “Bolts from the blue” can strike 10-15 miles from the thunderstorm.
You are never fully safe outside:
If you can’t get indoors in time,
During a lightning storm stay in a section of forest of trees the same height, not on a ridge, not under the tallest trees, not in a cave, under a rock overhang, leaning against a tree or standing on the exposed roots of a tree.
In a campground, if a sturdy, substantial building is not nearby, a hard topped metal vehicle with the windows closed offers good protection.
If caught out in an open area (you saw the clouds forming, and you had plenty of time to get to a safe place–what are you doing there?), spread everybody far apart and crouch down (don’t lie down). Keep your feet close together. Keep your hands off the ground. Do not lie flat on the ground!!
National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) backcountry lightning safety guidelines describe this crouching position:
“This position includes squatting (or sitting) and balling up so you are as low as possible without getting prone. Wrap your arms around your legs, both to offer a safer path than your torso for electrons to flow from the ground, and to add enough comfort that you will choose to hold the position longer. Close your eyes…
Keep your feet together so you don’t create potential for current to flow in one foot and out the other … current may spontaneously trigger your leg muscles to jump while in the lightning position, so take care to avoid being near hazards when you drop into this position.”
From Grand Canyon National park:
and see the Grand Canyon National Park lightning safety advice page
Read more advice at:
https://www.weather.gov/media/safety/backcountry_lightning.pdf has a drawing of the lightning safety position:
Crouch on something insulating if possible, such as your ensolite sleeping pad, or climbing rope. Even dry moss or grass or a snow patch is better than bare rock. Especially if you have to sit instead of crouch, get some insulation under your buttocks.
Get metal objects away from you (they don’t attract lightning but they carry induced currents which, although they are small, can add to ground currents and make the difference between getting zapped a little and getting zapped too much or burnt. A woman’s watch was burned to her wrist in one instance.)
Stay out of small depressions. Pick a slight rise instead. Not in standing water or a puddle.
Hey! Spread out your group so you aren’t all hit at once.(NOLS says 50 feet apart.)
But mostly, pick a place quickly and get down, and stay down.
Coaches: stay away from metal bleachers, railings, backstops and fences. Lightning can travel long distances through metal. Avoid dugouts, sheds. If a sturdy, substantial building is not nearby, a hard topped metal vehicle with the windows closed offers good protection.
If in a building , don’t take a shower or use a sink, including washing your hands or laundry or dishes. Don’t talk on a land line phone. You can use remote controls, but don’t touch electrical equipment such as computers, TVs or cords. Do not sit of lie on concrete floors or lean against concrete walls or touch metal doors.
From Aquatics International:
“Over the years there have been documented lightning-related fatalities to persons talking on a corded phone (including a cell phone that was plugged in and charging) or while using a computer plugged into an outlet. Because of this, the NWS” (National Weather Service) “recommends people stay off corded phones, computers and other electrical equipment that makes direct contact with electricity.”
“You hear thunder and head indoors — great way to stay safe. But now, the landline phone . . . is ringing. Should anyone answer it? No, let the answering machine pick it up.
People have been shocked by lightning when talking on the phone. One person was killed in Kincaid, Illinois in 1981 when lightning struck an outside telephone line and traveled to the house via a phone line, causing the phone to explode.”
Don’t use your iPod (more on that below.)
Lightning moves at the speed of light: very, very fast. The sound of thunder moves a little slower (yup, at the speed of sound). If you count the seconds between when you see the light flash and when you hear the thunder and divide by 5 you will know about how far away in miles the lightning hits are. (For example, ten seconds would be about 2 miles.) BUT thunder is only heard up to about 10 or 15 miles away.
Some groups recommend using this flash to bang / bolt to clap method of deciding how far away a thunderstorm is to decide when to go to safety, but it is not recommended by most weather experts who say to get to safety IMMEDIATELY whenever you hear thunder (or even before you hear thunder when the clouds are building up and look ominous).
Lightning has hit from a storm 5 to more than 15 miles away, so you can be hit by lightning in an area where it is actually not raining.
There is really no such thing as heat lightning, it is just regular lightning far enough away that you did not hear the thunder that accompanied the lightning.
If someone gets hit by lightning, or even nearly hit, they may be thrown a distance, so if they need ventilations (also known as rescue breathing and/or artificial respiration) you’ll need to treat them as a spinal injury and use a modified jaw thrust rather than head-tilt chin-lift. If you are out in the wilderness, away from quick EMS help, you might need to give ventilations for a whole hour or even longer. Don’t give up if they still have a pulse. NO, you won’t get electrocuted by touching someone who was hit by lightning.
Medicine for Mountaineering says:
“Clearly the emergency treatment for a lightning victim consists of immediate, and sometimes prolonged, artificial respiration. (Cardiac resuscitation should be given also, if needed, but the heart most often resumes beating on it’s own.) Over seventy percent of the persons struck by lightning have enough disruption of brain function to lose consciousness. Recovery of enough function to resume breathing commonly takes as long as twenty to thirty minutes, and occasionally takes hours.
If more than one person has been struck by lightning, which commonly occurs, attention should be directed first to the ones who are lying still, not breathing and appear dead. Those who are groaning or rolling around, although unconscious, are breathing and do not require immediate attention.”
You can reassure anyone who might have lost vision or has some
paralysis that it is common with a lightning hit, and is usually temporary. Short term memory may be lost for a few days.
Lightning strikes in the last 24 hours are recorded at:
We can find the answer from the Charolotte observer:
GLAD YOU ASKED
Why don’t fish get fried by lightning?
“Q. They always urge you to get out of the water when a thunderstorm begins. Why doesn’t lightning kill fish? — Mel Helms, Charlotte
“…The best answer to Mel’s question we found comes from Don MacGorman, a physicist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla. When Sciencenetlinks.com asked him why fish don’t get fried by lightning, Don said it’s probably because they’re underwater.
“Basically lightning stays more on the surface of the water rather than penetrating it. That’s because water is a reasonably good conductor, and a good conductor keeps most of the current on the surface,” he said.
So, when lightning hits the water, the current zips across the surface in all directions. And if you’re swimming anywhere in the vicinity, it’ll probably zap you. But below the surface, most of the electricity is neutralized, and the fish are generally spared. Some fish underwater near the strike are probably hurt or killed by electricity that penetrates to some extent…
The National Weather Service sends out these reminders:
• You SHOULD get out of the water right away.
• Outdoors is the worst place to be during a thunderstorm. Quickly move indoors or into a hard-topped vehicle and stay there until well after lightning stops.
• If you’re outside, make yourself the lowest point in the area. Lightning hits the tallest object. Crouch if you are in an exposed area. Stay away from trees.
• Don’t huddle in a group.”
From an Associated Press article,
Lightning Strikes Reported by iPod Users
“Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes. A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through his music player’s wires.
Last summer, a Colorado teen ended up with similar injuries when lightning struck nearby as he was listening to his iPod while mowing the lawn.
Emergency physicians report treating other patients with burns from freak accidents while using personal electronic devices such as beepers, Walkman players and laptop computers outdoors during storms.
Michael Utley, a former stockbroker from West Yarmouth, Mass., who survived being struck by lightning while golfing, has tracked 13 cases since 2004 of people hit while talking on cell phones…
Contrary to some urban legends and media reports, electronic devices don’t attract lightning the way a tall tree or a lightning rod does.
“It’s going to hit where it’s going to hit, but once it contacts metal, the metal conducts the electricity,” said Dr. Mary Ann Cooper of the American College of Emergency Physicians and an ER doctor at University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago.
When lightning jumps from a nearby object to a person, it often flashes over the skin. But metal in electronic devices — or metal jewelry or coins in a pocket — can cause contact burns and exacerbate the damage.
A spokeswoman for Apple Inc., the maker of iPods, declined to comment. Packaging for iPods and some other music players do include warnings against using them in the rain.
Lightning strikes can occur even if a storm is many miles away, so lightning safety experts have been pushing the slogan “When thunder roars, go indoors,” said Cooper.”
Read more at:
New England Journal of Medicine:
Thunderstorms and iPods — Not a Good iDea
which includes a case of a jogger in a thunderstorm listening to his IPod, who suffered a broken jaw and a severe hearing deficit due to both of his tympanic membranes being ruptured. The IPod did not increase the chances of being struck, but the “combination of sweat and metal earphones directed the current to, and through, the patients’ head.”
see also: Cell phones in the wilderness which has advice on how/when to use a cell phone to contact 911 in the wilderness and a warning about interference between cell phones, iPods and avalanche beacons.
From the National Park Service Morning Report of Thursday, August 3, 2000
Yellowstone NP (WY) – Lightning Strike with Multiple Injuries
Park dispatch received a 911 call at 10:45 p.m. on August 1st reporting that lightning had hit a large lodgepole pine between two campsites at Bridge Bay and that 13 campers had been injured. A ranger in the area was on scene within minutes. Three of eight people in tents at the campsite located closest to the lightning strike were transported to Lake Hospital and treated for minor injuries; two of five campers who had been sitting by their campfire at a second site were treated at the scene and refused additional medical attention. One said that he was knocked off his feet by the strike. All 13 reported that they felt electricity from the lightning run through their bodies. The entire rear and side windows of a vehicle parked near one of the campsites were blown out, and a 40-foot section of the tree landed inches away from a tent occupied by three visitors. Additional debris from the strike was scattered in a 50-foot radius around the point where the lightning hit.
3 bolts jolt climbers
Caught in a storm high on the Grand Teton, a team endures trial by fire and ice.
By Whitney Royster
“Lightning bolts near the summit of the Grand Teton struck three climbers three times Aug. 21, singeing jackets and skin as the men hunkered down and prayed for their lives.
Dave Schwietert, 25, Fletcher Brinkerhoff, 28, and Mike Gauthier, 33, were within 200 feet of the 13,770-foot summit, tied to one another with a rope, when a storm rolled in. Schwietert said he saw the first charge strike.
“I see this blue-green ball coming down the rope at me,” Schwietert said. “It was like the size of a beach ball. Then boom! It hit….
…”It went from Fletcher to Mike to me down the rope,” Schwietert said.
The charge ran through the whole body, Brinkerhoff and Schwietert said.
“When you get shocked from an outlet, usually it shocks you to your shoulder and it really hurts,” Brinkerhoff said. “This was more intense and went through the whole body.”
Gauthier said the sensation was of being electrocuted.
“I felt as though someone was kicking me in the back of my head really hard,” he said.
Schwietert hid in the nook with his partners, and Gauthier told him to take off caribiners and other metal objects.
“We were scrambling to get it all off,” Schwietert said. “We’re thinking we’re going to hunker down and wait it out.”
Amid 35-mph winds and hail and rain came another blast. “Out of nowhere we get a second hit,” Schwietert said
The bolt again hit a nearby rock, then bounced to Brinkerhoff, Gauthier, then Schwietert.
“This one was bigger,” Schwietert said. “It actually lifted us. That one spooked us bad. We weren’t touching each other or touching the rock.”
Gauthier said the novelty of adventure evaporated.
“The first one got my attention, the second and third one instilled the fear,” he said.
Schwietert yelled to his buddies, “So much for what they say about getting hit by lightning twice!” Then he sat, held his head in his hands and prayed.
“We were trying to wait this thing out,” he said. “I kept moving my limbs to make sure I was still okay.”
Brinkerhoff said the second strike changed the situation.
“We realized it was very serious, that this was still the beginning of the storm cell,” he said. “It was kind of one of those things where you think, ‘There’s a chance I’m going to live, and there’s also a very good chance that we won’t.’ It was very serious there for a while.”
Brinkerhoff said he thought he smelled his hair burning after the second hit.
The climbers talked about moving from their nook but decided higher was too exposed and lower was too risky. Then the third bolt hit.
“It was the same feeling,” Schwietert said. “We were still curled up shaking because of the weather and the cold.”
Schwietert said the ordeal lasted about 30 minutes. The team scurried to the top, then began a descent down the Owen-Spalding route.
Once they reached the Lower Saddle, Brinkerhoff discovered what looked like a small cigarette burn on his jacket. The nylon burn was likely the smell after the second strike, Schwietert said. The bolt went through five layers of clothing.
Brinkerhoff then found a burn on the top of his left shoulder.
Schwietert said when he took his gloves off at the saddle, his hands were purple and his veins were prominent.
“I think it was from the first strike when my hands were on the rope,” he said.
In all, Brinkerhoff had four burns on his body: one on his shoulder, one on each ankle and one on his left shin. Gauthier had one burn on his back by his ribs that is more of a streak, Schwietert said.
“Since Fletcher was the highest, I think he took the brunt,” he said.
Schwietert said the incident won’t stop him from climbing but gave him a sense of his luck.
“That was my eight lives,” he said.”
“A total of 13 people had been flown on and off the upper reaches of the mountain in the span of three hours. The rangers had proved just how good the search and rescue safety net can get when a highly competent, well-supported staff stands by waiting to save lives. Unfortunately, as crowding increases in America’s iconic landscapes, such emergencies inevitably become more common. The rangers worry that successful missions like this one may encourage climbers and hikers to take unnecessary risks.”
try these chapters:
X A WIND-STORM IN THE FORESTS
XII SIERRA THUNDER-STORMS
According to FEMA:
“Severe Thunderstorm Watches and Warnings
A severe thunderstorm watch is issued by the National Weather Service when the weather conditions are such that a severe thunderstorm (damaging winds 58 miles per hour or more, or hail three-fourths of an inch in diameter or greater) is likely to develop. This is the time to locate a safe place in the home and tell family members to watch the sky and listen to the radio or television for more information.
A severe thunderstorm warning is issued when a severe thunderstorm has been sighted or indicated by weather radar. At this point, the danger is very serious and everyone should go to a safe place, turn on a battery-operated radio or television, and wait for the “all clear” by the authorities.”
· Secure outdoor objects such as lawn furniture that could blow away or cause damage or injury. Take light objects inside.
· Shutter windows securely and brace outside doors.
· Listen to a battery operated radio or television for the latest storm information.
· Do not handle any electrical equipment or telephones because lightning could follow the wire.
Television sets are particularly dangerous at this time.
· Avoid bathtubs, water faucets, and sinks because metal pipes can transmit electricity.
· Attempt to get into a building or car.
· If no structure is available, get to an open space an squat low to the ground as quickly as possible. (If in the woods, find an area protected by low clump of trees–never stand underneath a single large tree in the open.) Be aware of the potential for flooding in low-lying areas.
· crouch with hands on knees.
· Avoid tall structures such as towers, tall trees, fences, telephone lines, or power lines.
· Stay away from natural lightning rods such as golf clubs, tractors, fishing rods, bicycles, or camping equipment.
· Stay from rivers, lakes, or other bodies of water.
· If you are isolated in a level field or prairie and you feel your hair stand on end (which indicates that lightning is about to strike), bend forward, putting your hands on your knees. A position with feet together and crouching while removing all metal objects is recommended.
Do not lie flat on the ground.
If in a car:
· Pull safely onto the shoulder of the road away from any trees that could fall on the vehicle.
· Stay in the car and turn on the emergency flashers until the heavy rains subside.
· Avoid flooded roadways.
Estimating the Distance from a Thunderstorm
Because light travels much faster than sound, lightning flashes can be seen long before the resulting thunder is heard. Estimate the number of miles you are from a thunderstorm by counting the number of seconds between a flash of lightning and the next clap of thunder. Divide this number by five.
Important: You are in danger from lightning if you can hear thunder. Knowing how far away a storm is does not mean that you’re in danger only when the storm is overhead.
Hail is produced by many strong thunderstorms. Hail can be smaller than a pea or as large as a softball and can be very destructive to plants and crops. In a hailstorm, take cover immediately. Pets and livestock are particularly vulnerable to hail, so bring animals into a shelter.
Check for injuries.
A person who has been struck by lightning does not carry an electrical charge that can shock other people. If the victim is burned, provide first aid and call emergency medical assistance immediately. Look for burns where lightning entered and exited the body. If the strike cause the victim’s heart and breathing to stop, give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) until medical professionals arrive and take over.
Remember to help your neighbors who may require special assistance–infants, elderly people, and people with disabilities.
Report downed utility wires.
Drive only if necessary. Debris and washed-out roads may make driving dangerous.”
Lightning Risk Management for Backcountry Campers and Hikers
Enhance your hike by reading:
The day hike gear section at Camping equipment checklist
Safe distances from wildlife includes reasons to stay away from even friendly seeming animals in parks and charts and photos to better be able to determine and visualize how far away from wildlife you need to stay to be safe (and obey laws that do have penalties).
The use of cell phones for photography (with or without a selfie stick) has made preventable injury or even death by selfie common They were just taking a selfie . . .
Can a person who is prescribed an epi-pen risk going into the wilderness? and some sting prevention notes are at: Anaphylaxis quick facts
Hiking Advice has hot weather hiking advice, hiking logistics and the answer to the question: When is the best time of day to cross a mountain stream?
Enhance your drive to your next adventure: Road trip advice and etiquette
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A close friend always describes situations in terms of the glass being half empty or half full. Sometimes I’ll point out that there may not even be a glass. But in America a lot of us assume there always is a glass, or a bucket, or the water tank belly of a fire fighting aircraft.
Cruising home to Santa Monica from the Valley last week, I took in a sight I hadn’t seen before: A twin engine fire-fighting tanker plane flying across the 405, on its way to retrieve more water to dump on the brush fires. I’d seen images of them countless times on our local news, but I’d never actually seen one in the air, going about its job.
A few moments later, the same plane, or another, flew back in the opposite direction. Help, rescue, water for putting out threatening fires. “A massive, rapid, and well coordinated response…” that resulted in fire fighters saving 2,000 threatened homes, according the LA Times. And the planes kept flying, the fire fighters kept fighting, and the expensive homes continued to be protected.
I won’t fatigue you with a detailed comparison of this rescue effort to the one following Hurricane Katrina. Except to note the new regulations insisting that home owners clear brush away from their homes, or have it cleared by enforcement and then pay for it, played a major role in keeping those homes safe from fire. Maybe the homeowners used some of their own elbow grease and cleared that brush. Or maybe they had the resources to pay someone else to do it.
And there is that small air force of fire fighting aircraft. At the ready, standing by… to save the costly homes, ranches, and livestock. So, we can ignore the elephant in the room and emphasize that “preparedness” and well-coordinated mobilization were the key factors. Or we can concede that when neighborhoods contain homes valued at one million dollars or more each, the emergency rescue service is better than in, say, any number of parishes in New Orleans.
Far from diminishing in any way the human contributions in last week’s efficient fight against the brush fires, it was clear that lessons learned from previous fires had taken hold. Communications were improved, intelligence was shared. The equipment, manpower, and planes… all were there and this time they were more effectively deployed.
But, yeah, they were there. They were nearby. Ready. In New Orleans, local, state, and federal officials had enough paperwork on the deficiencies of the levees that they might have used the reports themselves instead of sand to at least do something about the levees but instead, for years, they did nothing. And then there’s that troubling, “What if FEMA were called to Palm Beach?” conjecture that, ultimately, doesn’t get us anywhere we aren’t already when we witness fire-fighting planes in action over neighborhoods full of lovely, expensive homes.
The accurate measure of Hurricane Katrina’s damage may take years, but when it comes to what the disaster revealed about discrepancies between economic classes, we can get some raw data in a hurry simply by contrasting the quality of our own lives to those of the afflicted areas. A photo on the front page of the LA Times shows a home “unscathed” after fire burned the surrounding hills. Officials involved in fighting the fires were quick to point out the role that luck plays in saving lives and buildings. Yes, it certainly does.
This Week’s “Know Your News” Quiz
1) Studio execs concede that box office slowed
(a) because of bad movies.
(b) because “Bewitched” was confusing.
(c) because “Veggie Tales” was confusing.
2) O.J. Simpson appeared at
(a) a horror movie confab.
(b) a new Popeye’s Chicken opening.
(c) a food bank, with a shopping list.
3) Leo Sternbach, the inventor of Valium, has
(a) died at age 97.
(b) not died, but is very calm.
(c) invented the stimulant “Tweakium.”
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2) (a) “Which I don’t exactly ‘get’…”
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Wednesday, August 10th
Creativity in Paradise
Counties of the Emerald Coast
Escambia County -
Its county seat and largest city is Pensacola. Escambia County is included in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Santa Rosa County -
The county seat is Milton, which lies in the geographic center of the county. The largest communities are Navarre, Pace, and Gulf Breeze.
Okaloosa County -
Okaloosa County is located in the northwestern portion of Florida, extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Alabama state line.
Walton County -
Its county seat is DeFuniak Springs. The county is home to the highest natural point in Florida: Britton Hill, at 345 feet.
Bay County -
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Take a Learning Journey through Guatemala
Spend a week enjoying the richness of Guatemalan culture, history and landscape.
Share experiences with Maya Villagers in cultural exchange, and give of yourself to support our children’s literacy programs.
You’ll return with a new perspective.
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Travel to Guatemala. Shuttle to the colonial town of Antigua.
Begin the day with a historical, social, and political overview of Guatemala. Travel to Lake Atitlan with a tour of Mayan ruins along the way.
Visit a rural Mayan community and get acquainted with our local team of teen reading promoters. Walking tour of the community and a chance to see the promoters
Participate with local families in activities central to daily life in the village (eg, weaving, tortilla-making, agriculture, etc).
Travel by boat across Lake Atitlan to the town of San Juan La Laguna to visit a model community library and a coffee farmers cooperative. Free afternoon in Panajachel.
Work alongside the teen reading promoters to put on a “reading fiesta” for young children in the village.
Return to Antigua, declared by the United Nations a “World Heritage City.” Enjoy a free afternoon of sightseeing, dining, and shopping in this exquisite colonial city.
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Who we are
Chic Mamas Do Care is a South African volunteer based social enterprise and non-profit organisation, raising funds to support early childhood development projects in our neighbouring communities. We sell good quality pre-loved garments and Swap4Charity at our shops in Durban, Joburg and Cape Town. We also have an online pre-loved marketplace, Love It Again.
We believe that every child should be given the opportunity to grow in a safe and stimulating environment. ECD plays an essential role in the fight to eliminate poverty, helping to reduce social and gender inequality and enhancing the child’s potential economic contribution to society.
Impoverished children often enter the school system physically, socially, cognitively and emotionally under-developed, thereby lacking the foundations to cope with literacy, numeracy and life-skills at school. Thanks to the ongoing vision, mission and commitment of Chic Mamas Do Care Durban, we are giving children these foundations and making a real difference to their futures. There are extensive needs amongst the ‘unseen’ communities right on our doorstep, so we select projects where we can add great value and inject hope into the children’s lives who we touch. The early childhood phase is highly specialised, requiring teachers to be equipped with the skills and insights that enable their calling to be most effective. We therefore invest heavily in teacher training and development.
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In a move celebrated by progressives, the Federal Trade Commission filed a revised antitrust lawsuit against Facebook on Thursday, providing additional data and stronger details to back up its allegations that the corporation has maintained a monopoly on social media services for the past decade by \u0022illegally acquiring innovative competitors and burying successful app developers.\u0022\r\n\r\n\u0022While Facebook could buy or bury competitors, it can neither buy nor bury the revitalized FTC under new Chairperson Lina Khan.\u0022\r\n—Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG\r\n\r\nThe amended complaint (pdf) comes about two months after the FTC\u0026#039;s initial case was dismissed because, a federal judge said in late June, the regulatory agency had failed to present sufficient evidence to support its claim that Facebook has monopolized the social networking sector.\r\n\r\nPolitico noted that \u0022the suit seeks to force Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp, in what would be the United States\u0026#039; first court-ordered breakup of a company on antitrust grounds since AT\u0026amp;T in the early 1980s.\u0022\r\n\r\nWhile the FTC\u0026#039;s overall argument hasn\u0026#039;t changed much, the updated lawsuit is almost twice as long and includes more statistical analysis and facts to bolster the government\u0026#039;s accusation that \u0022after repeated failed attempts to develop innovative mobile features for its network, Facebook instead resorted to an illegal buy-or-bury scheme to maintain its dominance.\u0022\r\n\r\n\u0022Facebook lacked the business acumen and technical talent to survive the transition to mobile,\u0022 Holly Vedova, acting director of the FTC\u0026#039;s bureau of competition, said in a statement. \u0022After failing to compete with new innovators, Facebook illegally bought or buried them when their popularity became an existential threat.\u0022\r\n\r\n\u0022This conduct is no less anti-competitive than if Facebook had bribed emerging app competitors not to compete,\u0022 Vedova continued. \u0022The antitrust laws were enacted to prevent precisely this type of illegal activity by monopolists. Facebook\u0026#039;s actions have suppressed innovation and product quality improvements. And they have degraded the social network experience, subjecting users to lower levels of privacy and data protections and more intrusive ads.\u0022\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAccording to the FTC, Facebook \u0022unlawfully acquired innovative competitors with popular mobile features that succeeded where Facebook\u0026#039;s own offerings fell flat or fell apart.\u0022 The most prominent examples include Instagram,\u0026nbsp;its one-time photo sharing rival, and the messaging app WhatsApp, which Facebook purchased in 2012 and 2014, respectively.\r\n\r\n\u0022And to further moat its monopoly, Facebook lured app developers to the platform, surveilled them for signs of success, and then buried them when they became competitive threats,\u0022 said the FTC, which added:\r\n\r\n\r\nAfter starting Facebook Platform as an open space for third-party software developers, Facebook abruptly reversed course and required developers to agree to conditions that prevented successful apps from emerging as competitive threats to Facebook. By pulling this bait and switch on developers, Facebook insulated itself from competition during a critical period of technological change. Developers that had relied on Facebook\u0026#039;s open-access policies were crushed by new limits on their ability to interoperate. Facebook\u0026#039;s conduct not only harmed developers such as Circle and Path, but also deprived consumers of promising and disruptive mavericks that could have forced Facebook to improve its own products and services.\u0026nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\nOnce Facebook lacked serious competition, the FTC noted, it was \u0022able to hone a surveillance-based advertising model and impose ever-increasing burdens on its users.\u0022\r\n\r\nFacebook on Thursday called the new lawsuit \u0022meritless,\u0022 and noted that the FTC approved the company\u0026#039;s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp years ago. The agency, however, is under new leadership now. President Joe Biden appointed Lina Khan, a 32-year-old \u0022antitrust trailblazer,\u0022 to lead the FTC and she was confirmed\u0026nbsp;by a bipartisan Senate vote in June.\r\n\r\nKhan, who was just days into her role as FTC chair when the first antitrust lawsuit against Facebook was thrown out, \u0022represents a wave of new thinking about the industry among administration officials and many lawmakers, arguing that the government needs to take far more aggressive action to stem the power of technology giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple,\u0022 the New York Times reported Thursday. Biden, meanwhile, \u0022has appointed multiple regulators with similar aims and lawmakers proposed updates to antitrust laws to target the power\u0022 of Big Tech.\r\n\r\nThe FTC\u0026#039;s new lawsuit was met with praise from progressives lawmakers and advocates.\r\n\r\nRep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, tweeted that she was happy to see Khan and the FTC \u0022continuing to hold tech giants like Facebook accountable while taking on their monopolistic practices.\u0022\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn a statement, Ed Mierzwinski, senior director for consumer programs at U.S. PIRG, said that \u0022fortunately, while Facebook could buy or bury competitors, it can neither buy nor bury the revitalized FTC under new Chairperson Lina Khan.\u0022\r\n\r\nAnd in a series of tweets, the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP) applauded\u0026nbsp;the FTC\u0026#039;s amended complaint, describing it as \u0022a huge and promising step toward restoring the promise of the American economy.\u0022\r\n\r\nThe anti-monopoly group added that \u0022it shows the new leadership of the FTC is committed to pursuing economic fairness and meaningful competition, no matter how powerful the enemies it makes doing so.\u0022\r\n\r\nAccording to the Times:\r\n\r\n\r\nThe criticisms of the first version of the Facebook case levied by the judge, James E. Boasberg of the District Court of the District of Columbia, showed the steep challenges regulators face. Although the companies dominate the markets they are in—social media, in the case of Facebook—the courts often look at whether prices are rising as an indication of monopolization. Facebook\u0026#039;s most popular services are free.\r\n\r\n\u0022No one who hears the title of the 2010 film The Social Network wonders which company it is about,\u0022 Judge Boasberg wrote. \u0022Yet, whatever it may mean to the public, \u0026#039;monopoly power\u0026#039; is a term of art under federal law with a precise economic meaning.\u0022 He instructed the FTC to back up claims that Facebook controlled 60% of the market for \u0022personal social networking\u0022 and that it blocked competition.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn the past, Facebook has defended itself from charges of anti-competitive behavior by pointing to the success of other companies, including new entries like TikTok, as proof that it doesn\u0026#039;t engage in monopolistic practices.\r\n\r\nWhile many of the statistics in the public version of the suit have been redacted because the data are proprietary, the FTC \u0022refuted Facebook\u0026#039;s claims that it has many competitors in social networking, instant messaging, and entertainment,\u0022 the Times noted.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe company\u0026#039;s closest competitor is Snapchat, which has tens of millions fewer users per month than either Facebook or Instagram, the top social media platforms in the U.S. As for other apps, the FTC asserted they are not comparable to Facebook, which exists in a league of its own.\r\n\r\nBecause Facebook\u0026#039;s products are for \u0022personal social networking,\u0022 the FTC said they are distinct from specialized sites or neighborhood-based apps like LinkedIn and NextDoor. The agency added that Facebook\u0026#039;s products are also \u0022different from messaging services like Signal and iMessage because users don\u0026#039;t typically use those services to send notes to big groups, nor do they use those services to find contacts,\u0022 the Times reported.\r\n\r\nFinally, the agency said that Facebook must be distinguished from Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok because content on those sites is meant to be consumed by the broader public, including strangers, unlike content created on Facebook, which is typically shared with a smaller circle of friends and family.\r\n\r\n\u0022By reining in anti-competitive behavior, we can protect consumers, innovation, small businesses, and our democracy.\u0022\r\n—Rep. Pramila Jayapal\r\n\r\n\u0022Facebook has today, and has maintained since 2011, a dominant share of the relevant market for U.S. personal social networking services, as measured using multiple metrics: time spent, daily active users, and monthly active users,\u0022 the FTC said in its amended complaint. \u0022Individually and collectively, these metrics provide significant evidence of Facebook\u0026#039;s durable monopoly power in social networking services.\u0022\r\n\r\n\u0022Without meaningful competition,\u0022 the agency added, \u0022Facebook has been able to provide lower levels of service quality on privacy and data protection than it would have to provide in a competitive market.\u0022\r\n\r\nAs Common Dreams has reported, Facebook and Amazon responded to Khan\u0026#039;s appointment by pressuring her to recuse herself from antitrust cases involving the tech giants, prompting Jayapal and Sens. 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In order to support steady growth, businesses need funding, customers, resources, and labour. Most often, businesses still struggle with getting the funds they need to support a long-term growth strategy. For many businesses, particularly those reliant on highly skilled workers, this is no longer the most urgent issue. With developed countries around the world facing an escalating skill shortage, finding and retaining qualified workers is becoming increasingly important for businesses to manage proactively.
A great recruitment strategy does more than simply bring in applicants. Rather, it helps businesses to attract interest from potential candidates, to streamline the recruitment process, and to better retain new hires. This allows them to hire better candidates more efficiently, while also reducing the costs involved in hiring and training new workers.
Communicate effectively to filter candidates up front
Filtering through hundreds of applicants in hopes of finding a few qualified candidates is both frustrating and time consuming. Often, this is the result of a poor job description that doesn’t effectively communicate who the business is looking for. It’s tempting, in some cases, to include all of the potential responsibilities that might be required of an employee, or to create a job description so vague that the new hire could be put to a variety of uses. This is not, however, a good way to attract candidates with specific skills and qualifications.
A great job listing should be clear and concise, from the job title to the requirements. Required skills should be listed in order of importance, and the description of the responsibilities of the role should be specific without being pedantic. This allows candidates to quickly scan the listing to see if they are a good fit, without being distracted or confused by vague language or unnecessary details.
Interview fewer candidates in greater depth
Businesses that operate in industries with a high demand for skilled labour need to move quickly to get top quality talent. This means that long recruitment processes that involve many rounds of interviews are going to be counterproductive. Slowly whittling down a long list of candidates through a process of elimination is only an option for businesses who are working to fill a very high-value position, with many eager applicants.
In a high-demand labour market, highly skilled workers can expect to receive multiple offers from competing businesses. By the time an indecisive employer offers a fourth interview, the best candidates involved in the process will have already been hired by competitors. Instead, businesses need to choose just a few promising candidates from the long list of applicants to interview in depth, and move from the initial interview to an offer with as few intermediary steps as possible.
The onboarding process takes longer than you think
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This story is Part 2 in a two-part series about how communities are affected by the drought and the state's effort to manage groundwater more sustainably.
Californians are becoming more reliant on underground water during the drought. But policymakers and environmental groups agree better management of the resource is needed.
Vic Bruno’s home isn’t connected to a public water system. Like most rural homeowners in Madera County, his water comes from a deep hole in the ground.
"It’s a three-quarter-inch pipe that goes all the way down 300 feet," he says.
Bruno has lived here for 25 years. His ranch is also home to a whole gang of farm animals. So when his well started pumping up sand, he thought of them.
"I’ve got horses, sheep, pigs. These guys need water," he says.
Bruno has water, for now. But he’s at the bottom of his well. He’s been told he’ll have to drill deeper.
“I don’t think anybody’s prepared to pay $16,000 to $30,000 out of their income," he says. "I’m 61 years old, I have my finances set for retirement, not for this”
He’s convinced that the nut-tree farmers just down the road are to blame – but that’s hard to say. Central Valley regional water regulators don’t keep track of who is using how much well water. Nor does the state.
"We are seeing a doubling or more of permits, some related to persons out of water, but some related to new construction as well," says Wayne Fox, who is with the Environmental Health Division of Fresno County, located south of Madera.
Local agencies, not the state, manage groundwater in California. But the extent of their monitoring and authority varies widely. Fox says Fresno County hasn’t denied one well permit this year.
“The fact that surface water isn’t available to our Westside farmers has caused a very large surge in those farmers drilling wells where they didn’t have a well before," says Fox.
Laurel Firestone, with the Community Water Center, says the situation has turned into "a free for all."
"Anyone that can afford to stick a straw into the ground and drill a well can pump close to as much as they need or want," she says.
California state water managers say groundwater levels have been at all time lows in most areas of the state since 2008, especially in the San Joaquin Valley.
Firestone says it’s hard to manage a resource effectively when governments don’t have basic information.
"One of the components of starting to manage groundwater sustainably, is ensuring that we have adequate data, that we have data on where wells are, and how they’re being used, how much water is being pumped,” says Firestone.
She says local agencies don’t have clear powers over groundwater use. But that’s something the Governor’s administration is hoping to change this year.
Californians are turning to underground water during the drought. Marnette Federis / Capital Public Radio
California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross says a number of agencies are working on a long-term sustainability plan.
“It’s very important that we not try to dictate 'one-size fits all'" says Ross.
She says California’s landscapes are so diverse, groundwater is best managed by local agencies. But in its plan, the state would be a backstop when, for example, there is no local political will.
“Where we have severely impacted groundwater basins, the state is also signaling that we will step in to actually develop a plan until the locals are able to take that over themselves," says Ross.
The state water board already has the power to intervene in cases of wasteful or unreasonable water use. That power has rarely been in dealing with groundwater.
California Farm Bureau President Paul Wenger says if policymakers aren’t careful when creating new groundwater rules, the state’s farmers could suffer something similar to the mortgage crisis.
"We have a lot of farmers trying to survive right now, and their survival is groundwater and what they see is, folks now want to come after their groundwater," says Wenger. "It’s called check mate. You’re done, you’re finished, you’re out of business."
Wenger says the best way to manage groundwater is to increase surface water supplies. He says that helps recharge what’s underground. But Wenger says he only water option he hears is “less.”
"If there’s two people floating in the ocean, and there’s only one life ring to go out there," says Wenger. "One of those people is going to think they’re more important than the other one. And that’s exactly the discussion we have going on right now.
Two bills calling for sustainable groundwater regulation are being considered in the legislature right now. It’s too early to tell what kind of change will come, and when.
Additional editing from: Amy Quinton
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Bodhinatha gives an overview of his talk that will be given in Mauritius about the importance of Ahimsa-non violence in thought, word or deed. He shares with us Gurudeva's useful guideline of only speaking words that are true, kind, helpful and necessary.
Good Morning Everyone.
As we mentioned a few weeks ago we're working on twelve talks for Mauritius, one for each month for the coming year.
The two purposes, one is there first Sunday of month Homa at the Spiritual Park. Three or four hundred people are attending every month now so it's a pretty good group and the main focus is on homa, burning prayers and lots of beautiful chanting, singing bhajans. But also Mardemootoo gives a talk in Creole so we thought it'd be nice to create 12 subjects that would work well in talks there, very practical subjects something you can go away with and have something to do, you can say okay I'm going to go home and do this. It gets down to that level, it doesn't just change your thinking it changes your actions.
Also we have an opportunity from Dr. Pillay who publishes a monthly Hindu newspaper called Vanakkam, he said he'd give us a full page every month. That's a generous offer so we thought we could have this same talk probably in English as part of that page
One of Gurudeva's key teachings is that we are a soul, a divine being. However, Gurudeva also acknowledges that we are a soul living in a physical body, an embodied soul. Therefore, in addition to our soul nature, we also have an instinctive nature and an intellectual nature. Gurudeva describes this as the three phases of the mind: superconscious or spiritual, which is the soul; intellectual or mental; and instinctive or physical-emotional.
It is the instinctive nature, the animal-like nature, which contains the tendencies to become angry and harm others. Therefore, part of making progress on the spiritual path is learning to control the instinctive mind. This is where the yamas, the ten ethical restraints, come into play. They give us a list of tendencies we need to restrain. The classical Hindu depiction of restraint is the charioteer pulling back on the reins of a team of three, four or five horses to keep them under control. One of the uses of the yamas is as a convenient reference list to see how well the instinctive mind is being controlled. Adults can use this for self-examination as well as a guide for thinking about their children's behavior and refining it. The first yama, of course, is noninjury, ahimsa: Not harming others by thought, word or deed. Ahimsa, nonviolence, as we all know, is a central principle of Hinduism. Of course, most of us do not indulge in physical violence. Therefore, we may conclude that ahimsa presents no challenge to us.
However, let's look more closely at the definition of ahimsa, which is not harming others by thought, word or deed. This points out that we need to practice ahimsa in our speech and even our thoughts. An important attitude to have to make progress on the spiritual path is that we need to focus on our weak points and strive to improve them. Furthermore, we need to hold the attitude that no matter how well we are doing in a particular practice, such as ahimsa, we can still do better. We can always find a way to further refine our behavior. Thus in this talk we are focusing on speech, specifically looking at words that hurt, and exploring ways we can improve our speech so that it is less hurtful to others.
There are four common forms of hurting others with our speech. They are joking, teasing, gossiping and backbiting. Let's look at some examples that illustrate joking and teasing. First example: someone has a special privilege or position that we don't. So we say "He was exempted from the work we had to do today. He really has it easy!" Second example: someone speaks French with a foreign accent. You repeat back his pronunciation and laugh. Third example: someone has difficulty multiplying numbers. When she is having trouble making a calculation, you make fun of her. The rationale for the behavior in these three situations is "I'm joking," "Just being humorous," "Creating some laughter." However, in truth, your words are himsa, you are harming another through your speech and justifying it by saying you are just joking. Words can hurt, and many don't realize their power to do so, even if they are said in jest. Your humor comes at the direct expense of the person you are joking about.
Gurudeva has given us a very useful guideline for seeing if our speech is appropriate. It provides us a fourfold test: Speak only that which is true, kind, helpful and necessary. I know some of Gurudeva 's devotees who initially took this guideline a bit too literally and decided most speech was unnecessary and almost stopped talking altogether. Of course, that was a misinterpretation!
In terms of joking and teasing, the first test to apply is the test of helpfulness. In other words, everything we say to others should be designed to help them do better in some way. Let's look at our three examples again, and see if they pass the test of being helpful. First example: someone has a special privilege, so we complain rancorously: "He really has it easy!" Second example: a man speaks with a foreign accent. You mimic his pronunciation and chuckle. Third example: a girl has difficulty with math. When she stumbles with a calculation, you poke fun at her. Certainly none of the three passes the test of being helpful.
Let's take another example, this time the case of a friend or family member who is overweight. We are genuinely worried that it is vital for his health to lose some weight. Therefore our words pass the test to be helpful because we have the person's well-being at heart. But to simple tell them straight out, "you are fat" fails the test of being kind. We need to express our concern, our desire to be helpful more gently. Such as "it might be good for your health if you lost a little weight." So that's the kindly, helpfulness. We want to be sure to be helpful that we also want to be kind.
Next is gossip. Gossip is talking about the details of others' personal lives for the delight of it when they are not present. Gossip is like creating and watching our own television soap opera. It clearly fails the test of being helpful, as it is designed to entertain the participants at the expense of the individual being gossiped about. There is no desire to help that individual. Some wives regularly gossip about their husbands. While their husbands are at work, they spend a great deal of time on the phone or on the Internet with other wives, sharing at length the details of their husbands' lives. The gossip you spread about your husband may be true, but it fails three tests: kind, helpful and necessary. Husbands usually don't gossip, but they frequently tease their wives, and that too fails the three tests of being kind, helpful and necessary. Husbands need the support of their wives to be successful. Wives need the support of their husbands to be happy. This can be achieved by controlling our speech and making sure it pass all four of the tests.
Last but not least is backbiting. Finding faults in another and sharing this finding with others is a hobby many enjoy. It is so much easier to look for faults in others and complain about them than to see the same faults in ourselves and change them. The Tirukural devotes an entire chapter to "Avoidance of backbiting", which shows mans nature hasn't changed much in over 2000 years. One verses: "If men perceived their own faults as they do the faults of others, could misfortune ever come to them?" Of course, this fails our speech test of kind, helpful and necessary. The truth is that unless we are responsible for someone's upbringing or training, such as parents to their children or supervisors to their staff, then it is best to ignore the faults of others and focus instead on finding and improving our own faults.
In conclusion, remember that we always have a choice. We can choose to hurt others through our speech by joking, teasing, gossiping and backbiting. Or we can choose to help others through our speech by speaking in a respectful, kind and constructive. And above all remember Gurudeva's key; speak only that which is true, kind, helpful and necessary.
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Whether it’s driving to work, running errands, dropping the kids off at school, going out early in the morning, heading west at sunset, driving in the dark or during all sorts of weather, for most Canadian adults driving is a big part everyday life. Poor eyesight can significantly reduce your safety while driving on the road, which is why it’s not only important to wear your glasses while driving but also to wear the proper glasses and lenses to ensure your safety. Here’s what you should know about what glasses are the right choice when driving.
Properly Fitted Frames
You can’t drive properly and safely if your glasses are sliding down your nose or even falling off! A great way to ensure that your glasses are a good choice for driving is to make sure they fit your face properly and can stay in place without assistance. When choosing your frames, make sure to take the time to test to see if they stay up properly, and once your glasses are fitted with lenses, make sure to have your optician adjust them properly to your face.
While driving during the day, it can be really easy to become distracted by the sun in your eyes. But many drivers don’t want to have to continuously switch from their regular glasses to sunglasses while driving as this poses its own set of risks. Photochromic lens
sunglasses are perfect driving glasses because they react to ultraviolet (UV) rays in sunlight to automatically adjust, allowing you to see clearly in the morning, afternoon, and evening without switching frames.
Seeing clearly is the most important part of driving safely. It can be very difficult to see clearly and without distraction if your glasses are smudged, dirty, or dusty. If you drive a lot, we recommend that you invest in anti-static lens coatings for your frames, as these are dirt and spot repellent, keeping your glasses clearer for longer.
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Media release 5 July 2018
NZNO welcomes Ngā Poutama Oranga Hinengaro
NZNO is encouraging its members to participate in the Health Quality and Safety Commission’s mental health workforce safety survey – Nga Poutama Oranga Hinengaro that will be available at the end of next month.
Mental health nurses make up nearly half the mental health and addiction sector workforce. And the complexity of mental health and addictions issues, and the over representation of Māori in need of mental health services are factors that mean the sector requires a well-supported nursing workforce in order to deliver high quality mental health care.
Chair of the NZNO mental health section Helen Garrick, says that the combination of a decade of underfunding, growing demand and increasing complexity of need means the workforce is at ‘breaking point’ and these factors are combining to staff feeling increasingly unsafe.
“Our recent survey of members found main concerns were high caseloads, low staffing levels, inadequate community and inpatient services and insufficient inpatient beds,” Ms Garrick said.
“We also call for the working environment and overall environment for inpatients to be better suited to modern-day needs and believe this will make the environment safer for all.
“The workplace nurses are coming into is increasingly unsafe. Over 71% of survey respondents report feeling unsafe at work this survey will be a good way to examine this further,” she said.
Staff working for a district health board, non-government organisation and primary care MHA services across the country will be invited to complete the survey during August 2018 and it can be done anonymously.
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There are plenty of people the world over who dream of getting a dog.
Of course, it’s not difficult to see why. Dogs have earned their moniker as man’s best friend, and can be truly amazing companions if given a good home to thrive in.
Sadly, there’s one thing some people simply fail to grasp: Dogs are family members, and must not be discarded simply because of a change of circumstance in the home.
One dog, named Wall-E, knows all about how painful that can be …
Wall-E was adopted from the Maricopa County Animal Care and Control shelter in 2015. He was moved to a new home, one where he was overwhelmed with love and care. In short, he was given the life all dogs deserve.
Unfortunately, the dream would soon end. One day in October last year, Wall-E watched as all of his toys and bedding were packed into two plastic bags.
The 6-year-old dog couldn’t possibly have understood why all his things were taken to an unknown place, the Arizona animal shelter. He couldn’t possibly have fathomed why his owner stood and said goodbye to him with tears in his eyes.
Alone and afraid
The only thing Wall-E knew for sure was that he was alone. He became frightened and destitute.
Wall-E’s family could no longer take care of him as they once had, so gave him up to the shelter.
“He was very scared. In his kennel, he would bark and bark.”
The shelter where Wall-E had ended up was cold and strange to him. He also went without his toys, for there was no room for them.
Wall-E didn’t know why his family had abandoned him. Confused and lonely, he quickly fell into depression.
The dog sat alone in his cage, and refused to respond to people who tried to cheer him up. When people came looking to adopt, they passed Wall-E by, not giving him so much as a cursory glance.
The poor pup went two months without getting a new family. Worse, the shelter he was at had no choice but to euthanize dogs when they ran out of space, because they have to legally take every dog that comes in.
Staff at the shelter knew Wall-E for what he really was, however, and so were keen to see him passed to a loving, caring family.
One day, they hatched an idea. When Wall-E had first been left at the shelter, with all his toys and belongings, they had taken a picture of him. They knew the image was enough to turn heads, and so decided to try and use it to tell his story on Facebook.
Here is Wall-E when he was getting surrendered by his owner ? They brought all his stuff.. like it was gonna be there…
The results were more than they could have hoped for.
“We knew this picture would be heartbreaking and would get a lot of attention, but we had no idea it would blow up like it did. We had so many people interested in him,” Jordan Bader told The Dodo.
One of the people who saw the photo and knew she couldn’t ignore it was Lynn Lee. She went directly to the animal shelter to meet Wall-E, and the two got on like a house on fire.
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At last, Wall-E was given a forever home that he can grow old in.
As you can see, he seems to like it!
Safe and sound
We think it’s so wonderful that Wall-E was given a second chance in life. We hope he has the peace of mind that all dogs deserve.
Just look how happy he is!
Animals simply can’t be treated like material objects, ones that you can throw away when you’re bored of them. Dogs are family members, and should be afforded the respect that comes with it.
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Termite control is a significant part of private pest control. Maybe, there isn’t anything more damaging to a design that is made generally of wood than a state of termites. The issue is very common. Due to the dangerous impacts of a termite pervasion on a property, one of the essential administrations presented by proficient pest control organizations is termite control.
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A termite invasion is generally underground with the goal that the most punctual signs are imperceptible from the land owners. More often than not, when there are noticeable signs, the invasion has effectively surpassed a gigantic piece of the house, but unbeknownst to the proprietor. Experts with mastery on pest control for the most part play out a review to find the exceptionally dynamic regions. The initial step, which is the main advance, is figuring out where the termites are. Termite burrow are unmistakable when they are on a superficial level. Assuming that there is gossip of termites, it is ideal to affirm their essence by searching for mud tubes. Typically, a few bugs can be found there. One more method for learning the presence of termites is to search for empty spots on uncovered wood. Take care not to confuse subterranean insect swarms with termite swarms. Termites and insects both make due as bug settlements, however the creepy crawlies appear to be very unique from each other. For instance, individual insects are either red or dark in shading, while termites are cream white in shading.
Termite mediation choices for private pervasions
There are numerous ways of managing a diet moi tan goc invasion. Here are a portion of the techniques utilized by pest control specialists: Dynamic decrease of termite food sources by the mortgage holders. Utilization of termite lures. Lure stations are powerful at managing the entire settlement, at last and resolve the whole termite indication. Use of termiticides on the dirt and on structures that are inclined to termite invasion. Fluid insect poisons are very viable at resolving tremendous pain points and resolve serious harm. Pesticides and termiticides should have earlier endorsement from the specialists before use. There are substance medicines that are compelling at managing termites while presenting least danger to people and the climate. Guidelines direct that main prepared staff should deal with synthetic applications in neighborhoods. One of the advantages of recruiting an authorized pest control firm to manage a termite pervasion is that they thoroughly understand the right utilization of compound medicines.
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You can get from Madrid to Teruel by train, bus or flight.
To get from Madrid to Teruel on Aug 10 we recommend taking a train because it’s the best combination of price and speed.
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|Distance||136 miles (220 km)|
|Available travel modes||Bus, flight, ferry or train|
|Ticket price range||$3 - $18|
Take a bus, flight, ferry or train to travel 136 miles (220 km) between Madrid and Teruel. Travelers can even take a direct bus from Madrid to Teruel.
There are 4 ways that you can travel from Madrid to Teruel. You can take a bus, flight, ferry or train.
The cheapest way to travel between Madrid and Teruel is by taking a flight with an average price of $3 (€3).
This is compared to other travel options to Teruel:
Taking a flight is usually $10 (€9) less than taking a bus to Teruel, which costs on average $13 (€12) for the same trip.
Taking a flight is usually $15 (€14) less than taking a train to Teruel, which costs on average $18 (€17) for the same trip.
The fastest way to get to Teruel from Madrid is by travel with an average travel time of min.
Other travel options to Teruel can usually take longer:
In comparison, taking a bus requires on average 11 h 50 min of travel time.
In comparison, going by flight can take 0 h 0 min on average.
In comparison, taking a train requires on average 5 h 32 min of travel time.
Teruel is approximately 136 miles (220 km) away from Madrid.
The average frequency per day from Madrid to Teruel is:
However, we recommend checking specific travel dates for your route to Teruel from Madrid as scheduled services by bus, flight, ferry or train can vary by season or day of the week.
These are the most popular departure and arrival points from Madrid to Teruel:
Yes, there are direct services available from Madrid to Teruel with the following travel companies:
Direct services tend to save you time and add more convenience in getting you to Teruel as you won't need to transfer at another stop in between, so it's worth paying attention to before booking your tickets between Madrid and Teruel.
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Host responses to infectious and inflammatory stimuli are altered with aging. Because cytokines and their antagonists are significant factors in these host responses, the present research on aged subjects was designed to investigate plasma concentrations of the cytokines interleukin 1β (IL-1β) and tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) and those of their antagonists IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) and soluble TNF receptor (sTNFr). For this research, 122 apparently healthy aged subjects (79.6 ± 5.8 yr), 39 aged individuals with documented urinary tract infections (UTIs) (81.6 ± 6.3 yr), and 100 young controls (39.32 ± 11.2 yr) were included. Plasma IL-1β, TNFα, IL-1ra, sTNFr (55 kDa), and neopterin were measured using enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay techniques. In subsets of normal aged subjects and UTI patients, we investigated relations between plasma concentrations of cytokine antagonists and IL-2 production by phytohemagglutinin-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The results show that plasma concentrations of both IL-1ra and sTNFr were greater in healthy aged subjects than in young controls. Plasma neopterin, a product of activated monocytes/macrophages, was likewise elevated in the aged. IL-1 and TNF were not detectable in the majority of plasma samples. There was a positive correlation between neopterin concentration and both IL-1ra and sTNFr. There was a significant negative correlation between plasma IL-1ra and IL-2 production by phytohemagglutinin-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cell in healthy aged subjects. IL-1ra and sTNFr concentrations were significantly greater in patients with UTI than in the healthy aged subjects. In UTI patients IL-2 production in vitro was lower than in healthy subjects, but there was no significant correlation with IL-1ra in plasma. Therefore, plasma concentrations of cytokine antagonists are increased in plasma of apparently healthy aged subjects. Elevated concentrations of neopterin suggest that this increase can be traced to monocyte activation. The negative correlation between plasma IL-1ra and IL-2 production in vitro suggests that enhancement of this cytokine antagonist can contribute to immunodepression of aging. We propose that unapparent infections in aged subjects cause monocyte activation and release of cytokine antagonists. These cytokine antagonists reduce IL-2 production and the capability of T cells to proliferate, thereby inhibiting immune responses in the elderly.
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The Family of Israel (Jacob)
1-2Israel’s (that is, Jacob’s) sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3-9Judah had Er, Onan, and Shelah; their mother was Bathshua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was so bad before God that God killed him. Judah also had Perez and Zerah by his daughter-in-law Tamar—a total of five sons. Perez had Hezron and Hamul; Zerah had Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Darda—five sons. Carmi had Achar, who brought doom on Israel when he violated a holy ban. Ethan’s son was Azariah. And Hezron had Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
10-17Ram had Amminadab and Amminadab had Nahshon, a prominent leader in the Judah family. Nahshon had Salmon and Salmon had Boaz. Boaz had Obed and Obed had Jesse. Jesse’s firstborn was Eliab, followed by Abinadab, Shimea, Nethanel, Raddai, Ozem, and finally David; David was the seventh. Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah gave birth to three sons: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel; Abigail was the mother of Amasa (the father was Jether the Ishmaelite).
The Family of Caleb
18-24Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and also by Jerioth. Azubah’s sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. After Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who gave birth to Hur. Hur had Uri and Uri had Bezalel. Some time later Hezron married the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead; he was sixty years old when he married her; she gave birth to Segub. Then Segub had Jair who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. Geshur and Aram captured the nomadic villages of Jair and Kenath and their satellite settlements—sixty towns. These all belonged to Makir the father of Gilead. After the death of Hezron, Caleb married Ephrathah the wife of his father Hezron; she then gave birth to Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
The Family of Jerahmeel
25-26The sons of Jerahmeel, Hezron’s firstborn: Ram his firstborn, followed by Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. Jerahmeel had another wife whose name was Atarah; she gave birth to Onam.
27The sons of Ram, Jerahmeel’s firstborn: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
28-29The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada.
The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. Abishur’s wife was Abihail; she gave birth to Ahban and Molid.
30Nadab had Seled and Appaim. Seled died leaving no sons.
31Appaim had Ishi; Ishi had Sheshan; and Sheshan had Ahlai.
32Jada, Shammai’s brother, had Jether and Jonathan. Jether died leaving no sons.
33Jonathan had Peleth and Zaza.
This is the family tree of the sons of Jerahmeel.
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34-41Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. But Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, Jarha. Sheshan married his daughter to Jarha and she gave birth to Attai. Attai had Nathan, Nathan had Zabad, Zabad had Ephlal, Ephlal had Obed, Obed had Jehu, Jehu had Azariah, Azariah had Helez, Helez had Eleasah, Eleasah had Sismai, Sismai had Shallum, Shallum had Jekamiah, and Jekamiah had Elishama.
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42Jerahmeel’s brother Caleb had a son, his firstborn, named Mesha; Mesha had Ziph; Ziph’s son was Mareshah the father of Hebron.
43-44The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. Shema had Raham the father of Jorkeam; Rekem had Shammai.
45Shammai’s son was Maon and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
46Caleb’s concubine Ephah gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez; Haran had Gazez.
47The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
48-50 Another concubine of Caleb, Maacah, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah. She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah and Sheva the father of Macbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Acsah. These made up the Caleb branch of the family tree.
50-51 The sons of Hur, Ephrathah’s firstborn: Shobal who had Kiriath Jearim, Salma who had Bethlehem, and Hareph father of Beth Gader.
52-53The family of Shobal, father of Kiriath Jearim: Haroeh, half of the population of Manahath, the families of Kiriath Jearim, the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. The Zorathites and Eshtaolites also came from this line.
54-55The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, half of the Manahathites, the Zorites, and the families of Sopherim who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. They made up the Kenites who came from Hammath the father of the house of Recab.
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A cash-strapped Massachusetts museum can sell dozens of pieces of art, including works by Norman Rockwell, a judge on the state's highest court ruled Thursday.
Justice David Lowy, of the Supreme Judicial Court, approved an agreement reached by Massachusetts' attorney general and the Berkshire Museum that will allow the museum to sell up to 40 pieces of art so it can keep its doors open.
The museum celebrated the ruling, which came after months of legal wrangling over the future of the artwork.
"We recognize this decision may not please those who have opposed the museum's plans," said Elizabeth McGraw, of the museum's board of trustees. "Still, we hope people will be able to move forward in a constructive way to help us secure and strengthen the future of this museum, at a time when our community needs it more than ever."
Under the plan given the green light by the judge, Rockwell's "Shuffleton's Barbershop" will be sold to another U.S. museum.
The Berkshire Museum says it will sell the rest of the artwork until it reaches $55 million in proceeds. Officials say they may not have to sell all 39 other pieces, which include Rockwell's "Shaftsbury Blacksmith Shop" and works by Alexander Calder, Albert Bierstadt and George Henry Durrie.
Michael Keating, an attorney for a group of Berkshire County residents who challenged the sale, said they are disappointed in the decision but don't believe they have any further recourse. Keating had unsuccessfully urged the court to appoint someone to oversee the sale and ensure the museum is using the money appropriately.
"He's now spoken," Keating said of the judge. "We have to respect that decision."
Rockwell's sons, who initially opposed the sale, dropped their challenge after it was announced that "Shuffleton's Barbershop" would remain in public view.
The museum that buys "Shuffleton's Barbershop" will loan the work to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge for a period of time before lending it to other museums in the state, according to the agreement.
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Written by Roger MalcolmBorn August 20, 1890, Howard Phillip Lovecraft contributed greatly to the literary world of horror fiction, which even more after his death on March 15, 1937 he has inspired generations of story-tellers to retell and borrow elements for their own tales of terror. However most film directors tend to struggle when directly adapting Lovecraft to screen as much of Lovecraft’s exquisite prose gets lost in the translation, yet others have found more success it seems when only borrowing elements to compliment their more original tales. Regardless, Lovecraft has infiltrated our modern culture to degrees only he would have believed his Cthulhu mythos to have reached in his world of literary fiction. Continue reading H.P. Lovecraft Infected Cinema
Dagon Spain | 98 mins | Fantasy/Horror/Mystery/Thriller | Color
A shipwrecked couple raft to a local fishing town on the Spanish coast for help, only the residents of Imboca aren’t quite what they were expecting. Based off Lovecraft’s The Shadow of Innsmouth, it is named after Lovecraft’s short story Dagon, which borrows elements for the film. Dagon is the fourth film based off Lovecraft directed by Stuart Gordon, the others being Re-Animator, From Beyond, and Castle Freak. The screenplay was written by Dennis Paoli, who also has writing credits on all three films just mentioned. Gordon and Paoli had originally intended Dagon to be filmed in 1985, yet instead it would be in some form of production for over 15 years.
Continue reading Dagon (2001)
The Fog (1980) USA / 89 min / Horror / Color(metrocolor)
“Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?”
Edgar Allan Poe
The inhabitants of a small sea-side northern California town are haunted by avenging ghosts during its centennial celebration.
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(March 13, 2019) Just this week, a California jury found Johnson & Johnson liable for causing a woman’s mesothelioma because its talcum-based baby powder contained cancer-causing asbestos.
The Oakland jury deliberated for roughly two days before concluding with a verdict in favor of plaintiff, Teresa E. Leavitt. The jury found the asbestos-contaminated baby powder was a substantial factor in causing her cancer.
The 12-person jury found J&J failed to adequately warn of the potential risk of cancer in its product, adding that Leavitt would have redirected her use of it had she known the full scope of the facts.
Many jurors found the powder’s “failure to perform safely” was a large factor in her mesothelioma.
Talcum powder has been at the center of controversy for quite some time. Talcum powder is derived from talc, a soft fine mineral that is useful in wicking away moisture.
Colloquially known as “baby powder”, it has been used for decades and is a common household name. Asbestos is a fine mineral similar to talc. The two are found together in underground mineral deposits.
Late in the 1970s, researchers found asbestos in various baby powder products. They tried to warn the public about the potential for mesothelioma because of this. J&J has denied claims that its products contained asbestos and caused cancer. However, there has been an incredulous amount of lawsuits over baby powder causing mesothelioma and ovarian cancer.
The jury found Johnson & Johnson was found 78 percent liable while J&J Consumer Inc. was found 20 percent liable. The company that provided the talc, Cyprus Mines, was found 2 percent liable for the injuries.
As is the story for many people across the world, Leavitt was first exposed to baby powder when she was a child in the 1960s living in the Philippines. She continued using it after her family moved to the United States in 1968, powdering her hair and face with the product well into the 1970s.
Now, Leavitt suffers from mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer that typically occurs after exposure to asbestos. According to the National Cancer Institute, malignant mesothelioma can show up at least 20 years after exposure.
Unfortunately, there is no cure for the disease. Life expectancy ranges anywhere from 12 to 21 months after a diagnosis.
The breakdown of the award was divvied up between her and her partner, Dean McElroy.
Leavitt was awarded $291,000 for past medical expenses; $1 million for future medical expenses; $1.2 million for a loss of earnings; $7 million for past physical pain and mental suffering; $15 million for future physical pain and mental suffering.
McElroy was awarded $2 million for past loss of love and companionship and $3 million for future loss of love and companionship.
Contact a Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder Lawyer
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer or mesothelioma and you were a user of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder, you are not alone. To learn how our talcum powder lawyers can help you and your family, please contact us for a Free Case Evaluation. We would be honored to speak with you and will respond promptly to every inquiry we receive. | <urn:uuid:49140fb0-a0e2-4905-b47b-a94611fb2a69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/johnson-johnson-hit-with-29-5m-baby-powder-lawsuit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972453 | 709 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Mastering charcoal grilling is crucial for every chef who is into outdoor cooking. With so many techniques and additives involved, things can get a bit intimidating but your effort is worth it if your taste buds get to meet delicious food loaded with smoky flavor.
In this article, we will help you master all the important aspects related to a charcoal grill. After all, who doesn’t like perfectly seared meat!
Table of Contents
Tools required for charcoal grilling
- Fire Poker
- Charcoal Chimney
- Chimney starter
- Grill gloves
- Grill cover
- Food thermometer
- Roasting pan
- Wire brush
- Lump charcoal
Tips to ace charcoal grilling
Before starting, ensure that you have all the materials listed above. The fuels and cooking grate which you use should be susceptible to high temperature. One should also make sure that their charcoal grate is compatible with different fuel types. Here’s a short guide on usage :
Load your charcoal grill with hardwood lump charcoal and spread it throughout the cooking grates. Leave out some room in the center of the grill grate to allow fresh air intake through the charcoal grill vents.
Fire up your charcoal grill using a match or a fire starter liquid. Make sure that the grill lid is open and you are wearing protective grill gloves. When the temperature reaches 250-300F, move to the next step. Keep a charcoal pouch handy if you have to add more charcoal later.
Tip: If you do not have an inbuilt thermometer to measure the internal temperature, you can hold your palm over your charcoal grill. If you cannot hold it for more than 3-5 seconds, that means that the charcoal is ready.
Move the light charcoal lumps in the direct heat zone. Mix some wood chips or pour some briquettes in the cooking chamber.
Close the grill vents to slow down the combustion and to facilitate a smoke cloud formation inside the grill.
Let your meat rest in the drip pan and keep the grill vents slightly ajar. You can use some vegetable oil or marinade on your meat for a richer flavor. While the food cooks, measure the temperature using a thermometer. When it reaches the desired temperature, open your grill’s vents and take your food out on a paper towel. Let it rest for 10 minutes before its ready to serve. Never lift the lid vent too often. Here are some additional tips :
You can use newspaper as a fire starter by placing it near the bottom vents or below the charcoal. This will put a good use to them and help the coals burn hotter and quicker.
As per the rule of thumb, you should use roughly 1/4 cup of lighter fluid per pound of charcoal used. This will help light the fire quickly.
Lighter fluid contains petroleum and alcohol which help in keeping the oxygen flowing. Many experts advise against using them as they are harmful and may impart a bitter taste to your food.
Cleaning the grill grates
Use a wire grill brush to scrape the remains of your previous grilling sessions which stick to the cooking surface. You should also oil your grill vent to prevent food from sticking to the surface.
Know your charcoal
With myriads of charcoal varieties available in the market, it is important to choose the right one. Charcoal is available in two forms : lump charcoal and briquettes.
Lump charcoal is naturally derived from ingredients such as mesquite, taramind and coconut shells. Experts use it for slow cooking, dishes like brisket, pork and ribs do well with it. It burns faster and doesn’t offer uniformity while burning.
Briquettes on the other hand, are composed of sawdust and compressed hardwood. Due to molecular compression, briquettes burn slower and give a consistent and long lasting flame.
How to use Grill Vents
Temperature control is important if you want to achieve a good sear. Your charcoal grill has upper and lower vents which help regulate the airflow through the exhaust damper. The intake damper feeds oxygen to your grill which helps it to keep the coals burning.
To begin with, open up the intake damper and exhausts so that oxygen can reach the inside of the grill. Then partially close the lid to limit oxygen flow. This will lower the temperature.
This will assist you in reaching the smoker’s temperature (225F) which is ideal for cooking.
Once you are through with the grilling part, you can shut the vents in order to extinguish the fire.
Cooking food with a charcoal grill
On high heat, you should grill for 5-10 minutes. Keep in mind to flip the food often. Vegetables such as onions, corn etc can handle high heat.
Hotdogs, sausages, eggplants etcetera go on medium heat. It requires upto thirty minutes to get ready. Furthermore, grilling on low heat is not recommended because it sucks the protein out of your food.
Now it’s your turn to apply these principles and bring out the inner chef in you. In case you feel stuck, there are plenty of tutorials online to help you straighten your learning curve. Maintenance and technique is key.
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Top Choices Of pets animals
Brisbane City Council’s Animals Native Law 2017 regulates the keeping of home animals. Common Well being: As proven in this graph, the final well being rankings of dog and cat homeowners were barely larger than of non-pet owners. However this difference vanished when factors like income, race, and marital status were considered. Briefly, there was no proof of a constructive influence of pet ownership per se on the general well being of the forty two,000 contributors within the study.
Do you will have younger kids? Some forms of pets tolerate kids better than others. Living in Brooklyn Park, you might see non-home wildlife. Do not feed the wildlife together with deer and squirrels. It isn’t allowed and may attract unwanted animals to neighboring properties.
Some animals that now stay in the wild within the Netherlands don’t naturally belong right here, like the rose-ringed parakeet. These non-native animals are known as alien species. Some of them are a significant menace to native plants and animals. They’re referred to as invasive alien species. The principles defending wild animals additionally apply to alien species (together with invasive species).
Many breeds of sure animal species – canines and cats, for example – have a protracted history of being human companions, and retaining these as pets is morally good, since that is the natural way for these animals to live. Indeed, forcing such animals to live in a wild surroundings that they’re unfitted for would be morally improper.
Earlier than you get your new pet, it’s worthwhile to discover out all you can about it – what kind of food, when to feed, when to go to the vet, the place is the closest dog coaching centre (only in case you are getting a canine in fact – I do not assume they train spiders or mice or even crocodiles!) Take a look at for more information about dogs. | <urn:uuid:16a5a4da-551c-4929-8679-1e392e71aa3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dogfan.net/top-choices-of-pets-animals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956422 | 398 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Rules, Policies & Statutes
Property Tax Laws
The majority of Arizona laws regarding property valuation and appeals are listed in the Arizona Revised Statutes and the Arizona State Constitution
The State Board of Equalization (SBOE) is required under A.R.S. § 42-16154(C) to make rules of procedure for hearings before the SBOE;
The members of the state board shall adopt administrative rules and rules of procedure for hearings before the board. The state board of equalization may adopt by reference judicial rules and rules of the state board of tax appeals to the extent that they apply to the proceedings of the state board of equalization. All hearings that are conducted before the state board, either by the board or a panel, a member or a hearing officer of the board, shall be conducted according to the rules.
Substantive Policy Statements
The Administrative Procedure Act requires the publication of substantive policy statements issued by agencies (A.R.S. § 41-1013(B)(14)). Substantive policy statements are written expressions which inform the general public of an agency's current approach to rule or regulation practice. Substantive policy statements are advisory only. A substantive policy statement does not include internal procedural documents that only affect the internal procedures of the agency and does not impose additional requirements or penalties on regulated parties or include confidential information or rules made in accordance with the Arizona Administrative Procedure Act. If you believe that a substantive policy statement does impose additional requirements or penalties on regulated parties you may petition the Agency under A.R.S. § 41-1033 for a review of the statement. | <urn:uuid:e951b47f-1655-4981-8106-0cf01773efff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sboe.az.gov/resources/rules-policies-statutes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.934516 | 332 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Suzie Baldwin of Hollywater Hens has appeared in many magazines and has written several books. These books are available in the Hollywater Hens Shop at our smallholding on the Surrey / Hampshire border and also online. Click on the cover images below to be taken directly to the Amazon page for that book.
Suzie's latest book is "The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale" which was published on 28th May 2015.
The Smallholder's Handbook is a detailed manual to start, plan and manage your own smallholding. Suzie explains the level of work involved, how much space you need and how to prepare your land. There are chapters on keeping poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese), as well as pigs, cows, goats and sheep, and bees. She also explains why having a variety of animals makes the best use of your resources and how many of each type to keep. Comprehensive advice includes choosing breeds, transporting, feeding, housing, daily care and wellbeing, as well as international legislation that applies to livestock.
The previous book from March 2012 is the No. 1 best seller "Chickens: The Essential Guide to Choosing and Keeping Happy, Healthy Hens. Foreword by Joely Richardson", in which chicken expert and poultry breeder Suzie Baldwin offers a practical guide to everything both the beginner and more experienced hen owner needs to know, from whether to buy chicks or hens, what varieties to chose, how to tell if you're buying a healthy chicken and how to ensure it stays that way, to how many chickens you should keep, and what kind of coop is best. She also answers all the questions commonly posed by first-time owners, from whether you need to have a cockerel, whether chickens ever fly away and how quickly they will start laying, to how to prevent them being attacked by foxes and what to do when they become unwell.
Reviews for "Chickens"
'Take my word for it, you become involved and fascinated. The moment I get home I wander out into the garden to collect my hens' newly-laid eggs.' From the Foreword by Joely Richardson
'Susie has written a very useful book that clearly reflects her love and understanding of these wonderful birds. For the beginner it has all that is required to make a good start, and for the experienced keeper it covers a lot of useful reflective information that will add to their hobby. A great addition to anyone's library.' Mark Elliott BVSc VetMFHom MRCVS
'A colourful 142-page book filled with everything you need to know about the birds, from details about the various different breeds to tips on how to care for and handle the birds.' House & Garden
'It's a great book for any first-time hen-keeper.' YOU Magazine
'Practical advice right through from choosing your chooks, to taking care of them and general information. Brilliant for the novice and the experienced keeper alike.' Grown Your Own
Note that you will occasionally see the following book for sale in the UK (on amazon.co.uk for example) but that it is essentially the same as the "Chickens" book above but aimed at an American audience.
Chickens are back! More-relaxed suburban and urban ordinances on raising and housing chickens, plus the desire for homeowners to become more self-sufficient as "backyard homesteaders," has led to renewed interest across the country in keeping chickens. "Chickens for the Backyard Homesteader: The Essential Guide to Choosing and Keeping Happy, Healthy Hens" is packed with tips, strategies, and advice that gives readers the confidence to look after their hens and avoid common problems. | <urn:uuid:78c9d756-8a71-480c-9e96-d384d4d6a218> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hollywaterhens.co.uk/about-us/books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961744 | 779 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The package consists of several parts, which are built to be as modular as possible, allowing extensions and integrations to be made easily. Some extensions are called “plugins” (formerly known as “Mambots”). Plugins are extensions working in background that provide new functionality to Joomla. There are over 4,500 extensions for Joomla available via extension Directory.
Beside plugins, more extensions are available. The “components” are used to perform tasks such as building a growing community with features for users, backup a website, translate content and create URLs that are optimized for SEO in search engines. Some “modules” are used to perform tasks such as displaying a calendar or custom code for Google AdSense etc., to insert in the code base of Joomla.
Although there is a more important extensions for older Joomla, new compatible with the latest version extensions are now made available at a remarkable pace. Some extensions of older versions can be used with the latest version.
Joomla allows administrators to set global configuration parameters that affect all items. Every page conforms to these parameters by default, but a page can have its own setting for each parameter. For example it is possible to choose to view the article, the author, to hide the author, etc.
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Puttering around the solar system is all well and good, but why not cruise the galaxy? Little things like the light-speed barrier certainly never stopped sci-fi writers. Now physicists are getting in on the act. We spoke with Marc G. Millis, the project manager of the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project (see the sidebar “Break on Through”) at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
“Space drives, warp drives, and wormholes may sound like science fiction,” Millis told us recently, “but they are being written about in reputable journals. New theories and phenomena in recent scientific literature could eventually lead to voyages to other star systems.”
When serious researches want to discuss warp drives and transportation by wormholebut head off the giggles that can sometimes followmetric engineering is the term they use. The term fits well, actually. The warp drive and wormhole methods take you from point A to point B by adjusting the metrics of spacetime so you don’t have to go faster than light.
Think of space as a sheet of paper. Mark two spots on the page about 10 inches apart, then fold the sheet over so the spots touch. A bug on the paper could then go from point A to point B in a single step (assuming you didn’t crush it), rather than walking 10 inches. Do the same with spacetime, bringing points together that are light years apart, and you can travel a vast distance in a hurry without getting anywhere near the speed of light. That’s a wormhole.
The problem with wormholes is creating them. One approach requires cosmic strings with negative mass. While theoretically possible, such building blocks are not exactly handy. Warp drives may be more promising. In 1994, theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre mathematically described a warp drive’s workingsnot how to build one so much as what abilities you’d need to do so. | <urn:uuid:20aad180-679b-4f36-a5ad-4b9b3351c905> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/75182-inter-stellar-travel-farther-away | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.937948 | 404 | 3.5 | 4 |
Contextualizing the Role of the Consort in Early Modern Europe
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The idea for this volume originated from discussions at the first international conference of the HERA project “Marrying Cultures”. Colleagues from museums, galleries and university contexts were asked to focus not on the figure of the early modern consort herself but on specific objects or genres of objects associated with her. When a royal bride moved from one territory to another, she transported quantities of furniture, books, paintings, clothes, or jewelry to her new home. In later life, she often continued to acquire things from her native country or via her dynastic networks or she could serve as a conduit through which objects were “exported”.
Two introductory essays look at patterns of exchange and inheritance. The case studies of objects that follow reveal general patterns of cultural exchange set in motion by royal consorts, in several cases focusing on relatively under-studied courts and dynasties. East and west, north and south were interconnected by objects and people through physical travel and via letters and in print. Gifts, trade or inheritance played a part in moving objects over space and time. These essays give examples of how objects on the move could transfer value (symbolic, dynastic or financial) and how the perception of these objects, many of which have become part of contemporary national heritage, changed across generations along with the impact they had, both culturally and politically. | <urn:uuid:f9dbbb2e-8e8a-4802-801b-fcfcecaa0480> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Telling_Objects/title_5725.ahtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947063 | 452 | 2.03125 | 2 |
34% of British people are willing to try lab-grown meat while more than a quarter would try edible insects, a recent survey from the FSA (Food Standards Agency) reveals.
The survey on protein alternatives, which was carried out last December shows plant-based proteins are still the most popular alternative protein. 60% are willing to try it in comparison to a third who would try lab-grown meat and around a quarter who would try edible insects.
77% said they saw plant-based proteins as safe to consume, while half thought the same for edible insects and only 30% responded this way towards lab-grown meat.
A large portion of Britons know about alternative proteins. 80% said they had heard of edible insects, and 78% said they knew about lab-grown meat. Plant-based proteins were again however the most commonly heard of, with 90% of British people having said they knew the term.
Within the survey, when asked why they would try plant-based proteins, 44% answered that it was because they understood it to be safe to consume. When British consumers were asked why they would try cell-based meat and edible insects, the most common response was that it would be for reasons related to sustainability and the environment.
Despite the overall small number of people willing to try edible insects, two in five respondents who’d taste them, said they would if they were used in foods like burgers and falafels. 60% of Britons said they would not try edible insects whole.
Out of the respondents in the survey who did not want to try any alternative proteins, the majority of them did not want to try lab-grown meat and edible insects as they didn’t find the concept appetising, while those who didn’t want to try plant-based proteins said it was because they thought they’d prefer the taste of animal meat.
If efforts were made to highlight that edible insects and lab-grown meat are safe to eat, this group would be more likely to try alternative proteins, says the survey.
While 42% of this group said they would not be encouraged to try lab grown meat, nearly 30% said they would be tempted if they knew more about its safety.
Nearly 70% in this group said that nothing would encourage them to try edible insects, but 13% would be motivated to try it if they knew more about its safety, and 11% would try it if it was made to look more appetising. | <urn:uuid:342c2c58-132f-4101-bdfb-aab793e3f7cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://foodmatterslive.com/article/a-third-of-britons-open-to-try-lab-grown-meat-and-insects-reveals-fsa-survey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.99095 | 505 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Here’s a statistic: the average employee turnover rate, across all industries, is right around 10 percent.
In the service industry, however, it’s not uncommon to see numbers much higher than this. In 2017, the restaurant industry saw turnover rates of 73 percent, with manager turnover at around 25 percent. To put that in perspective, imagine starting the year with 100 employees. With these statistics, you’d be losing 73 employees – not to mention a quarter of your managers – by the end of the year. This type of operation not only puts a stain on company morale, it’s also extremely expensive. In fact, according to a study from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, the cost of replacing an hourly employee is $5,864. Multiply that by 73 employees and that’s over $425,000 in added annual expenses as a result.
When employees leave, it’s bad for business. When those employees are your frontline managers, the effects can be even greater.
Frontline managers are your company’s foot soldiers, responsible for executing much of the business’ day-to-day operations. They supervise other employees. They make critical business decisions. And in many cases, your frontline managers serve as the first line of defense when it comes to dealing with customer service issues.
Despite their importance to your company’s bottom line, frontline managers are frequently the most inexperienced tier of management in any given organization, oftentimes taking on a leadership role for the first time. To add, employee retention among frontline managers is a constant challenge for service industry franchisees and HR professionals.
So how do you ensure your frontline managers thrive at work? Begin by understanding why these employees typically leave in the first place. Here are five reasons your frontline manager might be a flight risk:
They were never trained
Even someone with previous managerial experience isn’t going to understand what makes your company and your customers different. All employees need guidance and direction. New employees need even more support in learning the nuances of your organization, especially if they’re going to be expected to lead others on the team. Lack of training can cause an otherwise capable manager to fall behind in their level of performance and cause them to question their own abilities.
You don’t encourage them to think for themselves
The role of a manager is to do just that, manage. Your frontline managers should be trusted to make everyday decisions, from how they lead their teams to how they organize their day. They also want to feel valued and appreciated.
Be approachable, encourage collaborative efforts and ask for their opinion. When your managers feel respected, it will trickle down to how they ultimately treat the rest of your employees.
There’s no incentive
No one wants to work hard only for someone else to reap all the benefits. At the end of the day, your employees, particularly your frontline managers who deal with the brunt of daily operations, should feel a sense of accomplishment. Whether that’s a solid benefits package or a strong company mission, find ways for everyone to feel good about the work they’re doing.
Keeping Your Front Line in Tact
It’s fairly simple: when your managers are successful, your company is successful. The most effective managers are the ones who are able to inspire and guide others to succeed. In order to make sure your frontline managers are successful, you must invest the time and effort into recruiting and training qualified individuals. And once they’re on board, you must continue to nurture your talent, always remembering that their time spent working for you should be mutually beneficial. | <urn:uuid:4945979b-da2b-4b06-bacd-5f1c7a2bf18d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.instant.co/signs-your-frontline-manager-could-be-a-flight-risk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959949 | 750 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Emergencies and unexpected events can easily threaten and disrupt the intricate operations of financial institutions. IT incidents, store closures, civil unrest, medical emergencies, and extreme weather conditions can all affect operations – to name just a few.
That is why it’s so essential for organizations to develop plans to respond and recover quickly when an adverse event does occur. Preparedness strategy is called by many different names: business continuity plans, emergency response and evacuation plans, disaster recovery plans, and crisis management plans – it all comes down to the same thing. A financial institution must be prepared for a crisis and must have an action plan in place to respond to adverse circumstances.
Effective communications is essential to business continuity
For efficient implementation, a disaster plan must have access to advanced communication capabilities. In other words, organizations should ensure that the right person receives the right message as quickly as possible.
With the incredible connectivity we have today it really shouldn’t be difficult – yet, in practice, emergency communications is easier said than done. Sure, the tools are out there: emails, SMS, land lines, mobiles etc. But without a unified platform and established communications process, as outlined by a response plan, things can go wrong quickly. Instead, there is a real risk of misinformation, errors, and late responses. This article clearly outlines why mass notification systems are designed specifically for emergencies and unexpected events.
Disaster communication from Tekmon
The table below includes some real-world use case scenarios for Tekmon’s Mass Notification System in the financial sector. Our system is incredibly capable, but it is simple and quick to implement. it doesn’t take more than a week to set up and initiate our emergency response system. In fact, see here how one of SEE’s largest banks took just 7 days to roll out an emergency response platform that covers its 12 000 employees.
|Use Case||Example||How Tekmon Mass Notification helps|
|Urgent safety notifications Notify your employees and stakeholders immediately about a threat or an incident at one of your locations.||
Riots taking place right now in this area: …
Robbery in progress at store “D” – stay away.
Use the platform by graphically selecting an area on the map (eg radius of 2km) and send an immediate SMS notification to those working in that area.
Notify your employees and your response teams about events that might affect their operations.
Today there’s a high risk for wildfires in this area: …
Temporary traffic arrangements because of tomorrow’s national parade.
Extreme weather conditions, there is high risk of system failure.
|Use the platform to create groups of recipients, and do it on-the-fly using multiple criteria (eg geography, role, seniority level etc.). Reach recipients through multiple communication channels (SMS, email, voice calls) all at once.|
When an operational change occurs, immediately inform all those involved with clear instructions that keep your business running.
From tomorrow, all stores in area “C” need to operate with minimum personnel, due to orders of the Ministry of Health in relation to COVID-19.
Floor 3 of the office building “Z” will be vacated tomorrow for disinfection, please work from home.
|By using multiple filters, notifications can be highly targeted – even at the floor level. Escalation of communications ensures that the right people will be informed – immediately.|
Instantly inform staff to evacuate a space or building by providing evacuation instructions that covers both staff and customers or visitors.
|We received a threatening phone call about an explosive device. Do not touch anything, head straight to the underground passage south of the building and wait there for updates. Detailed instructions here. For confirmation, press 1.||
When life is at stake, two-way communications enable real-time updates on who has been informed and who has not. Communications are escalated to multiple devices to ensure that the notification will reach the recipient as soon as possible.
|Immediate damage estimation
Right after a dangerous natural phenomenon (eg an earthquake) damage should be reported quickly to enable response teams to act accordingly.
|Please, if you have to declare damage to your office or building, press 1, if not press 2, if you are out of office and are unaware press 3.||The two-way communication feature gives a clear picture of the situation in a few minutes.|
In the financial sector, downtime of an information system can rapidly lead to extremely high costs. Response teams and affected employees should be notified immediately.
Server is down. Save your files locally until further instructions.
Scheduled system maintenance will take place in 1 hour. Emails will not work for 15 minutes.
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By BUUMBA CHIMBULU
A digital payment platform for the retail sector in Zambia which will enable businesses and their consumers to accept and transact seamlessly has been introduced by Cellulant Zambia.
This is an effort to foster growth for both the formal and informal sector in Zambia, says Cellulant Zambia Country Manager, Gilbert Lungu.
Mr Lungu explained that his firm was addressing the fragmentation in payment processing for retailers by rolling out Tingg, a digital payments platform enabling businesses across Zambia to accept payments from their customers seamlessly.
“Today, roughly 50 per cent of retail customers request to pay for their purchases using digital payment options.
“Therefore, for all businesses – small, medium, large- digitising their payments has moved from a good to have to a game-changer in what has become the new norm,” he said in a statement.
Mr Lungu said this demand however presents several challenges for most merchants who might not always support the customer’s preferred payment method, resulting in merchants having to enable multiple solutions to support numerous wallets.
“We want to partner with these businesses and makes it easy for them to conveniently and affordably accept payments with fewer hoops,” he said.
A single integrated solution, Tingg offers simplified payment tools and processes for a merchant to manage their payments. As a result, businesses can allow their customers to make payments for goods and services using locally relevant payment options.
“In rolling out this digital payments platform, we are slowly removing the dependency on cash and Point of Sale (POS) terminals.
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GRIEF & LOSS
Interactive memorials providing a space to heal and honor.
Remembering and honoring victims in our own way
As published in The Aspen Times June 6, 2022
When tragedies happen in our world, even though we may not have a relationship with the victims, we grieve. The deaths may bring forward our past grief or trigger something deep inside of us from our past. We also grieve from a place of fear. When senseless acts of violence happen, it shakes our world, and we stop trusting the world around us. Grief can come in many forms with loss of trust, security and safety among them.
The most recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was an unimaginable tragedy, and it rocked us all, whether or not we knew the victims. Allowing our own grief to surface around a tragedy like this is important. For some, it is putting love in to action by taking supplies to Uvalde, as one of my closest friends is doing. For others, it is donating money. I know for many it is taking political action. One of our first reactions, when a loss like this happens, is to do something, allowing our grief to speak through our actions.
Along with processing what we feel, it is also important to sit with the grief. This can be one of the hardest parts. “What does that even mean?” you may wonder. For me, it is allowing myself to acknowledge all of the emotions a tragedy brings to my mind and to not try to distract myself or push them all away. It is about being fully aware of my fear, my sadness and anger, and not trying to run away or deny it. Then I just feel and allow that feeling to be a part of my honoring. It is in these spaces that I find I can get to the heart of healing.
For those struggling with the events of the past few weeks, I encourage you to take the time you need to process them. Find the time to sit down alone and light a candle, play music or do anything that will help you quiet your mind. Take time to think of the children and adults who died. Allow yourself to go inside and take some time to find the compassion and pain and fear you have inside. Allow your heart to wrap itself around them and tell them how sorry you are that they were killed for no reason. Just feel for them and those who love them.
Then ask yourself, from that place of compassion, what is it you can find within yourself that can honor them today? What is one small thing you can do to just remember and hold space for those who died? Maybe it’s simply just being quiet and allowing yourself to feel for them, or it’s planting something that you can look at to remember them. Let it be personal and private.
Our past and our present surface when we grieve. If you are employed in a school, you may be questioning your basic fears of working in a space that you may never know is safe or if you have experienced trauma or violence in your past, current incidents may dredge up emotions and bring them to the forefront again. Grief is deeply complicated, even when it doesn’t involve someone we know.
We all need a place to house our love, grief and sadness. We all have these emotions, and although sometimes they are hidden deep within, if we take the time to listen to them, to nurture what we are feeling, we become kinder and more compassionate with ourselves and others. And eventually, in time, our love becomes greater than our fear.
For the families in Uvalde who have lost their loved ones, their lives are never going to be the same. While we cannot live from a place of perpetually hurting for others and their loss, what we can do is take the time to remember and honor them. We can find our own unique and personal ways to visit their memory, hold them close, and promise that we will not forget them.
Allison Daily is the executive director of Pathfinders, a local nonprofit serving residents from Aspen to Parachute. Pathfinders provides free/low-cost counseling for those dealing with grief, loss and serious illness. To learn more or donate, visit pathfindersforyou.org.
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Photo by Steve Mundinger
Grief can build a community
As published in The Aspen Times May 19, 2022
Grief and loss are two inescapable realities of life, and yet as a culture, they are something that few of us are comfortable with addressing. It can be especially difficult to help children and young adults navigate.
The past two years have brought many losses for all of us. There have been losses of life, but also loss of old ways of being, events, community and more. These impact each person differently and how we navigate these losses shape who we become moving forward.
At Pathfinders, a nonprofit serving Pitkin, Garfield, Eagle and Mesa counties with psycho-social support, they have found that supporting those experiencing loss and grief is an opportunity for growing community.
More than two decades ago, Patherfinders’ founders Kristin MacDermott and Tina Staley began their work with cancer support groups with the belief that “no one should have to walk alone through a cancer diagnosis.” While their work began with a focus on cancer, it has since evolved into providing support for anyone needing assistance related to grief, loss, chronic illness, end-of-life planning or stress.
In 2016, after realizing the gap for school-aged children, a school-based program was created after Melissa Seigle, a licensed professional counselor and certified bereavement counselor, joined Pathfinders. Her work in schools with Denver supported the development of Pathfinders Schools Based Grief and Loss Program, which now serves schools across their service area.
This program has grown exponentially since its inception and especially since the start of the pandemic.
Allison Daily, Pathfinders executive director and grief counselor, said, “COVID affected children’s ability to be children. Children saw more fear at home, they were isolated and with adults who also had older, unprocessed grief.”
The school-based grief program is referral-based. Most of the referrals come from elementary and middle schools. Pathfinders counselors meet either with individual students or in groups. In the first week of the 2021-22 school year alone, Pathfinders received 27 referrals from school counselors about students who needed support for a loss and the needs have continued to grow across the region since.
Pathfinders’ support for students is long term and built on strengthening relationships while also teaching coping and resilience skills.
“When you are in grief or stress, you breathe at a lower capacity. We help children recognize this and teach them how to breathe when scared or sad and how to move through,” Daily said. These skills support increasing their emotional intelligence and are valuable for moving through the rest of their lives.
Daily points out that middle schoolers are especially vulnerable to the impact of grief and loss because they are often overlooked and already experiencing a lot of physical and emotional changes.
“Middle schoolers are experiencing so many changes at once and the expectations put on them are changing. Our counselors work to redevelop trust by being honest and giving support for their human needs,” she said.
Aspen Middle School experienced loss of a student through death by suicide early this school year. Pathfinders has been meeting with a group of their peers and is committed to continuing to support them as the grief evolves and becomes less acute. Counselors support students in understanding that processing grief and loss is not linear and does shift over time. Acknowledging this and providing space to speak openly is one of the ways the organization and counselors support community building.
Students who are supported by the program are better equipped to support others in need because they have been shown that there are people they can depend on and can offer support. This creates a deeper sense of community for them and has a ripple effect.
Pathfinders teaches students about service and how to show care for community. Daily shared that high school students who have been supported by the program have gone on to make meals for families experiencing loss or going through cancer treatments as an ongoing effort to build community through the process of moving through grief. “One student shared recently that without Pathfinders she would not have the skills to support her boyfriend who is now going through a loss of his own,” she said.
While loss and grief are a part of life, no one has to walk alone. Whatever stage of grief you are in, Pathfinders is committed to supporting the residents of this community.
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Grief is Complicated
One of Pathfinders' most sought after services is Grief and Loss Support and Counseling.
At some point, we will all experience losing a loved one. When that happens, allowing a compassionate, supportive person to help you through the process can be a gift beyond value.
When someone we love dies, we are often left, not only sad and lonely, but with a wide range of emotions churning around inside. That is when it is vital to have someone emotionally uninvolved in the loss, available to help process and allow the space for whatever feelings arise while not attempting to change the way we feel.
The gift of Pathfinders lies in providing a 'Witness' to the pain and loss, and as a 'Guide' to help process the enormous range of emotions that come with grieving.
We also have a lovely program that we have developed to help you through this difficult time — GRIEF & HONOR. Click the link below to see if this program is something that feels right for you to try.
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REACH regulations : the SVHC product list
Safic-Alcan is a global specialty chemicals distributor that offers a direct access to a large and diverse portfolio of innovative products. Our regulatory support accompanies our partners not only to ensure they remain compliant in any market, but also in anticipating upcoming industry trends.
What does SVHC mean ?
SVHC stands for Substances of very high concern, they are :
- Carcinogens category 1A or 1B
- Mutagens category 1A or 1B
- Toxic to reproduction category 1A or 1B
- Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic
- very persistent and very bioaccumulative
- Substances with an equivalent level of concern to those listed above (e.g. endocrine disruptors, respiratory sensitisers)
Who and how decides if a chemical is SVHCs ?
Member States, or ECHA at the request of the European Commission, may propose a substance to be identified as a substance of very high concern (SVHC) by preparing a dossier in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex XV to REACH.
The intention is published in the registry of intentions before the proposal is submitted, to inform interested parties in advance of the submission.
After publication of the proposal, interested parties can comment on it or provide further information during the 45-day consultation. Comments can be made on the properties of the substance, its uses and alternatives.
When comments are received that provide new information or challenge the basis for the identification as an SVHC, both the proposal and the comments are referred to the Member State Committee (MSC) to agree on the identification of the substance as an SVHC.
If the committee reaches a unanimous agreement, the substance is added to the Candidate List. If the committee does not reach a unanimous agreement, the matter is referred to the Commission.
SAFIC-ALCAN advises you comment during the public consultation, so that decisions are based on as much information as possible.
When is the SVHC list updated ?
The list is updated every six months, often in January and in July. It has 224 entries since the last update 10/06/2022. It can be consulted from the ECHA website.
Am I concerned ?
Companies may have legal obligations resulting from the inclusion of substances in the Candidate List. These obligations, which are effective from the date of inclusion, refer not only to the listed substances on their own or in mixtures but also to their presence in articles. Definition of substances, mixtures and articles is in Article 3, REACH¹.
SAFIC-ALCAN advises you to clearly identify whether your product is a substance, a mixture or an article under REACH.
What is the obligation ?
The obligations including informing customers and consumers, notifying ECHA, submitting information in SCIP Database, providing Safety Data Sheets, minimizing releases. Requirements can be different according to the article’s composition. The details can be found on ECHA’s dedicated page².
SAFIC ALCAN reminds you that as long as the SVHC substance is not in the authorization list (Annexe XIV of REACH), it is not prohibited.
What is the relation between SVHC and Authorisation ?
The authorisation process aims to ensure that SVHCs are progressively replaced by less dangerous substances or technologies where technically and economically feasible alternatives are available.
ECHA regularly assesses the substances from the Candidate List to determine which ones should be included in the Authorisation List as a priority. The prioritisation is based on information on the intrinsic properties, wide dispersive use or high volumes that fall within the scope of the authorisation requirement. ECHA launches a three months consultation as part of the process.
What is the impact if a substance is in the authorisation list ?
Companies that want to continue using a substance included in the Authorisation List after the sunset date need to prepare an application for authorisation and submit it before the latest application date.
Companies also need to pay for the authorisation application. Standard fees for applications for an authorisation are as follow :
- Base fee EUR 54 100
- Additional fee per substance EUR 10 820
- Additional fee per use EUR 48 690
SAFIC ALCAN advise you start to look for substitute solution as soon as the substance is included in the SVHC list. Because the main aim is to phase out these substances.
CSR: Chemical safety report
ECHA: European Chemicals Agency
EEA: The European Economic Area
EU: European Union
MSC: Member State Committee
PBT: persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic
REACH: Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals
SCIP: Substances of Concern In articles as such or in complex objects (Products)
SVHC: Substance of Very High Concern
UVCB (unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products or of biological materials)
vPvB: very persistent and very bioaccumulative
WFD: Waste Framework Directive
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Living in rural areas sometimes means that the local wildlife will end up wandering into town to explore the areas where humans live. One such deer walked into a small convenience store after the door had been propped open…and wouldn’t leave!
Lori Jones was taken aback when a deer walked into her workplace in Colorado! The deer was sniffing about the chips and sunglasses when Jones realized that she would need to convince the deer to leave on its own. Trying to manhandle wild animals is in reality very dangerous, but she had a crazy idea.
She opened up a peanut bar and used it to lure the curious deer outside. It worked! The deer scampered off with its delicious treat, and Jones thought that it was the end of her deer problem.
She went back to minding the store, checking the stock and going about her business when she felt a familiar presence!The deer was back…and this time, it had brought a few friends along! Jones grabbed her phone and snapped a few pictures of the bold deer that were wandering into her store. The three new deer were waiting by the entrance as if they were waiting for permission.
Jones realized that giving them more food wouldn’t stop them from returning, so she clapped loudly, startling the deer into leaving on their own.
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A spelling reform was made in 1990. This booklet presents the main changes brought about by this reform.
And to answer the question we all ask ourselves: "Should I use the 1990 spelling reform recommandations?"
Actually, it's up to you. However, you should know that this reform has always been widely disapproved of in France. The Academy endorsed these recommendations, but asked that they be put to the test of time.
From 2023, schoolchildren in French-speaking Switzerland (Romandie) could write French in this "simplified" spelling.
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I put the tube down, pump it and sulurp it (maybe this doesn’t work quite as well as Missy Elliott’s lyrics). What I mean to say is that two weeks ago, it was time for racking, the process used to remove fermented and pressed red wine from dead yeast cells (aka., the lees) that have settled to the bottom of the tank. Removing the wine from the lees means carefully transferring the wine into a clean container through siphoning. With my one borrowed tank, I also needed to return the wine back to the original tank.
So, I gathered the materials necessary to carry out this delicate process. I opted for a plastic auto-siphon and 3/8 inch plastic tubing. There is a tool called a racking wand that you can buy, but they can be fairly pricey. Originally, Mr. B intended to come to Houston to help me with this process. But, alas, he ran out of time. So, he walked me through everything I needed to know. Mainly, avoid splashing! You want to keep splashing to a minimum so that you introduce as little oxygen as possible to your wine (which is no longer protected by a layer of CO2 like it was during fermentation).
Then, I suckered my parents into helping (my husband was out of town). Racking is only doable alone if you have the right tools. But, I knew I needed help. After a few trials running sanitizing solution through the siphon and tubing, we realized that gravity was quite necessary. Luckily, I had the tank on my handy lil’ red scissor lift. So, I hoisted up the tank, took off the top, and started siphoning!
Siphoning and Beyond
Once we siphoned out most of the wine, I had to call Mr. B to see how much wine to leave behind. In essence, he said to leave an inch or so of “mud” (lees and other particles) behind. Then, we grabbed a sample to send to Mason, TX, cleaned the tank, and did the process in reverse to return the wine to the tank.
After the wine (sans the gross lees/mud) was safely returned to the tank, Mr. B advised me to “gas” the wine. Without a commercial operation, this can be a slight challenge. But, Mr. B suggested an at-home easy method using a wine preserver (combo of inert gases). So, I hooked up the wine preserver can to some tubing and pumped some gas into my wine. As mentioned above, gases are released during the fermentation process, but once the CO2 dissipates, the wine can easily be exposed to O2. Too much O2 ruins the wine. With the gassing process successful, we closed the tank and transferred it to the cellar. Phew! Racking complete!
Oops, I Forgot to Mention the Malo!
After pressing the wine, winemakers often add a cultivated malolactic bacteria to coax the wine into malolactic fermentation (MLF) before it happens naturally. You want to use a cultivated bacteria to have better control over the process and flavors. So, what is malolactic fermentation, aka. MLF, aka. ML, aka. secondary fermentation?! It is the process where bacteria converts malic acid into lactic acid, thereby softening the wine. It isn’t really a fermentation at all, but it is a conversion process.
Why do I bring this up now? Well, I added malo bacteria after pressing. But, I am still not convinced that it actually happened. Sometimes, the bacteria is slowed or stopped if SO2 is too high or if alcohol levels are too high. During racking, I grabbed a sample to be tested. I will hopefully find out soon if malolactic fermentation actually occurred! Fingers crossed. | <urn:uuid:63f74f92-56d0-481f-b939-c57c9f8aedda> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecauseurbanwinery.com/is-it-worth-it-let-me-work-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965013 | 817 | 1.546875 | 2 |
An Acupuncture Puzzle
Can you solve this puzzle? I bet you can.
Last week, a patient of mine who was coming in for help with low energy told me that she also needed to schedule an appointment with her chiropractor. ‘Why?’ I asked. Well, it turns out that her shoulder was bothering her, and because it was ‘structural,’ she needed to see a chiropractor for an adjustment.
This week, a different patient who was coming in for help with arthritis which was bothering her foot and her shoulder (see above) mentioned that she needed to see her doctor because of her recent issue with a significant digestive disorder.
The puzzle is, which of these patients is right?
Is it possible that they are both correct and maybe-not-entirely-correct?
Why yes, you have figured it out!
What can acupuncture treat?
Acupuncture is a part of Chinese medicine, which is a complete medical system. With acupuncture, we treat everything from digestive problems to shoulder problems to back problems to low energy issues. Actually, we treat even more than that.
This is why, when you come in to Acupuncture Works for acupuncture, you are encouraged to complain about everything that bothers you. We do our best to keep you healthy on every level.
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HPC (India) has been involved with local juvenile homes to improve the conditions of the homes and access to education. We work on improving the sexual and reproductive health of 100 young people in juvenile homes in Karnataka through workshops and podcasts.
We have successfully convinced the juvenile justice board to have SRHR training sessions as part of their rehabilitation programme. HPC also advocates to child rights groups about the importance of adolescent sexuality and agency.
Who are these girls and boys?
At present there are plenty of girls and boys who are in the juvenile institutional systems in India. Juvenile homes are supposed to be a chance for them to help attain their best selves, but hardly anyone talks about their sexual and reproductive health well being. These girls spend considerable amount of time without any support and all alone, and learn everything from these institutions who lock them away.
Most of these girls come from lower economic and social backgrounds, and have been discriminated based on their caste, class, and historical injustice.If you look at the limited data available on these girls, most of them belong to lower caste, certain minorities and have no access to any kind of economic support. Most of them come from domestically violent spaces.
They are already in juvenile homes, where they branded as the criminals, and no one wants to deal with their well being.
What we aim to do?
We are aiming to ensure that girls who become part of juvenile homes still have access to sexual and reproductive justice. They are not lost in systems, they still continue living their lives with complete access to information, so that they still flourish.
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Improving Government Decision Making through Enterprise Risk Management
While historically, the federal government has tended to focus risk management in the financial arena, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has recently launched a major reassessment of the government’s approach—encouraging the use of Enterprise Risk Management.
But OMB policies don’t readily translate into action. In this report, Webster and Stanton describe the evolution of federal risk management approaches and several agencies’ experiences in adopting Enterprise Risk Management. The authors asked current and former federal executives to describe the challenges of adopting an enterprise approach to risk management in their agencies and across the government. The report presents six challenges that they identified and concludes with six steps that organizational leaders can take to make Enterprise Risk Management actionable as a tool for successful implementation of agency programs. | <urn:uuid:e5b1ac0e-5968-4e5d-a63e-b5a2f6ed1ed2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businessofgovernment.org/report/improving-government-decision-making-through-enterprise-risk-management | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.919993 | 166 | 1.507813 | 2 |
In Cambodia, there are many "little peddlers", children who sell souvenirs on the street. They often go barefoot because they lack money for shoes or sandals. China is the world's second-largest producer of corn, much of which is exported to other countries in the region. This design concept involves the art of straw weaving, which is part of China's intangible cultural heritage. Simple Instructions on how to weave sandals from corn husks would be printed on the side of every export packing boxes for corn. Corn husks, because they are strong and durable, are very suitable for weaving into footwear, and have the additional health benefit of inhibiting foot odor.
The “Eco-Woven Shoes” project is based on a good understanding of the context of use, the advantages of using easily available materials and combining these two with a technique the designers derive from their own cultural heritage. The design is sustainable in two ways: the sandals are made from a sustainable yet moderately resistant material, and the children learn and practice a simple weaving technique so they can make another pair whenever they need to. Although the project is targeted at Cambodian children who sell souvenirs, it can translate to any scenario where poor children are in need of a pair of sandals.WINNER STATEMENT
We are very excited to receive this award. Thanks to our supervisor, Associate Professor Zhang. We will continue to work hard to create more good design.UNIVERSITY | <urn:uuid:963987a7-9f21-4c26-a949-6a37ce1925da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ifdesign.com/en/winner-ranking/project/eco-woven-shoes/292506 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953661 | 308 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Someone San Diego Should Know: Oliver Smoot
At 5 feet 7 inches, Oliver Smoot was just the right size. He was in the right place at the right time. It took just two hours to secure a legacy that will last generations.
He created the “smoot.”
It was 1958 and Smoot, now a Scripps Ranch resident, was a fraternity pledge at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. The pledge master said he was late twice that week walking to class across Harvard Bridge. He wanted pledges to use the shortest pledge’s body as a ruler to measure and mark the bridge.
That happened to be Smoot.
Accompanied by the pledges, Smoot went to Harvard Bridge on a chilly October night around 10 p.m. after finishing his homework. He lay down and his height was marked with paint on the bridge sidewalk. Then he stood up, moved one length farther and did the same.
During the next two hours, he repeated it hundreds of times with help from pledges who carried him much of the way after he grew exhausted.
At the end, the bridge was marked in intervals and the distance was reported as 364.4 lengths of Oliver Smoot plus an ear.
Smoot went on to graduate MIT in 1962 and attend law school with the fraternity prank out of his mind … until several years later when he received a call. It was a reporter from a magazine writing an article about MIT.
Smoot’s bridge measurement was considered a big event in the school’s history. Later, other media picked up the story, and it grew to become a popular legend.
When in 1987 the bridge was renovated and Smoot’s markings were threatened, a movement emerged to keep them. Boston police pointed out that the markings had been used in police reports. They were preserved and a plaque erected memorializing the 1958 event.
The word “smoot” was officially included in the American Heritage Dictionary in 2011 as a standard unit of measurement and it was added to Google Earth.
In 2016, during a school celebration parade, Smoot crossed the bridge triumphantly on a float followed by dozens of MIT students — all 5 feet 7 inches — called “The Smoot Brigade.” One of the students was quoted as yelling, “The man, the legend, the unit of measurement!”
Smoot sees a message in his saga: “You should always think about the consequences of your actions,” he said. “Small things can have big consequences. I don’t know of a better example than this one thing that affected my life. Luckily, it’s a positive.”
The measurement was not the only time he was in the right place at the right time to make an impact, although not in two hours but during a 43-year career.
While in law school in 1964 he began working in a new field called computer programing. “I became head over heels on computer work operating big main-frame computers that used computer cards and tape,” he recalled.
He continued with computer programming after graduating law school in 1966.
In 1969, he began working for a computer industry trade association and was assigned to help develop computer standards. He was part of a pioneer group of professionals dealing with key issues ultimately paving the way for the computer and internet age.
Among the key issues was privacy. The group proposed limitations on data collection and retention, transparency on how the data would be used and ways to dispute data collected on a person. These are still cited today as the Code of Fair Information Practices.
Smoot went on to become a recognized leader in establishing industry standards for a wide variety of consumer products and services.
Since his retirement in 2007 Smoot has resided in San Diego with his wife of 56 years, Sandy. They have two adult children and two grandchildren.
Both children attended MIT and both were asked to replicate their dad’s feat. They declined.
Being different heights than their dad, they did not want to change the “smoot” unit of measurement. That will live on for generations as 5 feet 7 inches.
About this series
Jan Goldsmith is a former member of the U-T Community Advisory Board. He is an attorney and mediator. He is also a former Superior Court judge, California state legislator, Poway mayor and San Diego city attorney.
Someone San Diego Should Know is a weekly column about local people who are interesting and noteworthy because of their experiences, achievements, creativity or credentials.
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Israel and the Gulf states had quiet ties for decades with no diplomatic breakthroughs. What has changed now?
After the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain broke the ice by establishing full relations with Israel, US President Donald Trump announced that many more Arab countries were in line to do the same, including Saudi Arabia. Dr. Alexander Shumilin, of the Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that if this holds true, we could soon see the formation of a new Middle East.
According to the teachings of Abraham
Following not only the announcement of the UAE and Bahrain deals, but also the warm atmosphere in which the new relations were being conducted, it became clear that these monarchs, and indeed the Arab world as a whole, were ready to take responsible strategic decisions to reshape the region.
The signing of the agreements was nearly a carbon copy of what happened 41 years ago, when US President Jimmy Carter oversaw the Camp David Accords between the leaders of Egypt (Anwar Sadat) and Israel (Menachem Begin). This includes the fact that in both cases there was enticement for the Arabs in the form of billions in US military aid to Egypt in 1979 and the supply of F-35s to the UAE today.
But some things are not the same. The first attempt to normalize relations between Egypt and Israel in 1979 sparked condemnation and even outright rejection from most Arab countries. In protest, Egypt was expelled from the Arab League and its headquarters was transferred from Cairo to Tunis. The Arab League only returned to the Egyptian capital in 1991.
In was in that same year that an international coalition intervened to eject Iraq from neighboring Kuwait in the first Gulf War. The events around the Iraq-Kuwait conflict were a turning point that opened the eyes of Arab elites to the fact that most of their troubles and unrest were not linked to Israel, but to deeper social, political and religious divisions. It also became apparent that the Soviet Union was not as ready as before to stand with its radical regional agents such as Saddam Hussein, Hafez al-Assad and Muammar Gaddafi. Hence the desire of responsible Arab politicians to lay the foundation of a new Middle East, which meant turning the page on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In 1994, Jordan concluded a peace treaty with Israel. In 2002, an Arab peace initiative (originally authored by Saudi Arabia) was presented. Until then, all two-state solutions had come from Western peace brokers. This was the first manifestation of a realistic approach by the Arab League in which a Palestinian state did not replace Israel, but was established alongside it. It is upon this principle of accepting Israel as the first step toward a two-state solution that the UAE and Bahrain chose to normalize relations with the Jewish state.
As we know, the Palestinian leadership rejects the positions of the UAE and Bahrain as insufficient to pressure Israel, and tantamount to a betrayal of the “Palestinian struggle.” But they have failed entirely in their efforts to revive the policy of boycotting “Arab brothers” for making peace with Israel, as happened to Egypt from 1979 to 1989. On September 10 of this year, the foreign ministers of the Arab League member states rejected a Palestinian request to condemn the UAE over its agreement with Israel. “The discussion on this issue was serious, comprehensive and took time. But we failed to reach an agreement on the text of the resolution proposed by the Palestinians,” Hossam Zaki, Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League, said. Something unprecedented had happened: The Palestinians found themselves isolated in the Arab League.
At the same time, the number of countries willing to follow in the footsteps of the Emirates began to increase. Bahrain quickly got onboard in time to join the White House signing ceremony, and President Trump said that many more Arab states would soon do the same. This list is an agglomeration of conservative Arab states (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain), which, by virtue of tradition and rigidity, have delayed normalization of relations with Israel for much longer than others, namely Egypt and Jordan. To break this unfortunate cycle, the UAE and Bahrain have taken a step that will undoubtedly affect the military and political situation in the Middle East, and especially in the Persian Gulf. That doesn’t mean the entire region will instantly become stable and calm. Many new political processes have now been set in motion according to a whole new set of rules that, as the signatories say, follow the “commandments of Abraham,” the father of all Semitic tribes.
Why Bahrain and the Emirates?
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates resemble their neighboring Arab kingdoms in many ways, including the same foundational interpretation of the Sunni doctrine of Islam (only Qatar differs here, holding to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood) and an economy based on the export of hydrocarbons.
Where Bahrain and the UAE differ from the others is in their long-standing constitutional traditions (since the early 1970s) that have created systems to harmonize the interests of different classes of society while preserving the privileged positions of their ruling clans. They have also been ahead of the curve in their interest to modernize their economies, while preserving national and religious customs. Bahrain and the UAE were the first in the region to open up to foreign tourism, and both have become important hubs of international activity, including air travel between Asia, Africa and Europe.
To maintain the long-term effectiveness of this “modernization,” a special socio-psychological atmosphere was established in these two monarchies, under which foreigners were allowed to lead their usual way of life (in the liberal Western style), but in a way that did not undermine the foundations of traditional society. It is a careful coexistence of two civilizations in a small space, something that is unimaginable in other Gulf monarchies. The inhabitants of the Emirates and Bahrain are imbued with a spirit of tolerance. While Islam remains an important component of their culture, it is not declared in rigid forms nor is it the only criterion that defines the daily life of local residents.
For years already, interfaith forums have been hosted in both Abu Dhabi and Manama, where representatives of Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism have been free to discuss the common problems of all people. And this is notable considering that these two countries have different religious landscapes. A majority of Emiratis are Sunni Muslims, while Shiites are a majority in Bahrain. Additionally, Jewish communities have lived and prospered in both countries for centuries. The state and social systems based on the axioms of moderate Islam in the Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain represent a special phenomenon, and it is little wonder that both are strongly opposed to fundamentalism in the region.
As noted, Israel has had quiet communication with both Bahrain and the UAE for decades, but with no diplomatic breakthroughs. What has changed now?
Among the main factors are the exacerbation of the Sunni-Shiite strife with regard to the conflicts in Syria and Yemen, and the outbreak of unrest in Iraq and Lebanon. All this is a direct result of Iran’s intensifying expansionist policy in the region. The Turkish leadership is also actively trying to re-establish its influence within the former Ottoman Empire, reflected in its policies toward Syria and Libya, which the Arab states consider hostile. Put simply, Iran and Turkey are expanding their presence in the Arab space, and doing so at the expense of the Arab community. This has put the Arab monarchies in a difficult position and compelled them to upgrade relations with the most advanced and effective military power in the region, Israel.
Related to the above is the mounting concern of the Arab monarchies that the Western countries, Russia and China will return to a policy of “excessive complacency” toward Iran, and reinstate a nuclear deal that Israel and the Arabs deem to be a threat to their security. The Arab Gulf states view Iran’s increased aggressiveness in recent years as a direct result of this nuclear deal, and are worried that Joe Biden will return to the regional policies of his former boss, Barack Obama, that facilitated the present situation.
Nor can we ignore the impact of President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century,” which provided backing for Israeli efforts to annex parts of the West Bank, which in turn compelled the Gulf states to take a drastic step to “save” the vision of Palestinian statehood by preventing the Israeli move. Whether or not the outcome was by design, Israel’s delaying the annexation was exchanged for full normalization.
As a result of all the above, there was a convergence of interests between the Arab states, Israel and the US that could end up permanently altering the military and political alignments of the Middle East. The parties to the Abraham Accords argue that an “alliance of stability and moderation” is being established in the region to confront the “alliance of resistance” that Tehran has forged in Syria, Yemen, among the Shiites of Iraq and Lebanon, and with the Palestinian terror group Hamas. Through partnership with Israel, the Arabs intend to curb Tehran’s expansionist appetite, and send a firm message to the Turkish regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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About the Research Initiative
The Pew Research Center (Center) is undertaking one of the most comprehensive studies to date on the demographics, attitudes and experiences of Muslim Americans.
The Center, which has expertise in public opinion research, demography and the role of religion in public life, will conduct a national public opinion survey of Muslim Americans as well as a series of focus groups and community surveys among Muslim Americans in select cities. The year-long research project will focus on experiences and attitudes toward assimilation and discrimination; it will explore religious identity, beliefs and practices; and it will examine opinions on a range of political, social, economic and international issues. The first report based on the research is expected to be released in mid 2007.
Relatively little is known about the Muslim American population, in part because the U.S. Census does not include religion among its demographic measures. In addition, because Muslim Americans comprise a relatively small percentage of the overall population, standard national public opinion surveys typically sample too few Muslims to allow for reliable analysis of their characteristics, opinions and experiences. The scale of the Center’s study and the special sampling techniques to be employed will yield a sufficiently large sample so that the results can be generalized to the broader population of Muslim Americans.
Leadership and Advisory Board
This research project is being overseen by Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, Scott Keeter, director of survey research, and Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life (Forum), which is a project of the Center. Amaney Jamal, assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and a specialist in the study of Muslim public opinion, serves as senior project advisor. Pew Forum Research Associate Greg Smith serves as project manager and is the primary contact for information.
The project’s outside advisory board includes researchers with expertise in the study of Muslims in America:
- Ihsan Bagby, University of Kentucky
- Zahid H. Bukhari, Muslims in American Public Square Project (MAPS) and the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
- Louis Cristillo, Teachers College at Columbia University
- Sally Howell, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
- Peter Mandaville, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University
- Ingrid Matteson, Hartford Seminary
- Farid Senzai, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
- Affiliation listed for identification purposes only.
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Menorrhagia is a condition characterized by abnormally heavy or extended menstrual bleeding. With menorrhagia, you may have excessive blood loss and pain that disturbs your normal activities.
The most common symptoms of menorrhagia are:
- Menstrual flow that soaks one or more pads per hour for several consecutive hours
- The need to use double sanitary protection to control the flow of blood
- Need to change your pad frequently during the night
- Menstrual period that lasts longer than seven days
- Menstrual flow that includes large blood clots
- Affects daily routine activities due to heavy menstrual flow
- Fatigue, weakness or shortness of breath (symptoms of anemia)
The cause of menorrhagia is not known in some cases; however several conditions that may cause menorrhagia include hormonal imbalance, dysfunction of the ovaries, uterine fibroids(noncancerous (benign) tumors of the uterus), uterine polyps, adenomyosis (where endometrial glands are found in the muscular wall of the uterus), intrauterine devices (IUDs), pregnancy complications, cancer, inherited blood disorders, certain medications (anti-inflammatory medications and anticoagulants), and other medical conditions such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), thyroid problems, endometriosis, and liver or kidney disease.
Your doctor will perform a pelvic examination and may recommend other tests or procedures such as a pelvic ultrasound scan or a biopsy of the lining of the womb if the woman is over 40 years of age. Biopsy is a technique of removing a piece of tissue from the inner lining of the uterus which is examined under a microscope. This is done to make sure that the cells are growing normally. Your doctor may also recommend an examination called hysteroscopy, which involves placing a tiny tube with a light through your cervix to obtain a direct view of the lining of the womb.
Treatment options will depend on the cause of menorrhagia, the severity of menorrhagia and the overall health of the patient. Some common treatments include:
- Iron supplements may be started if your iron levels are low.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may help reduce menstrual blood flow as well as cramping.
- Oral contraceptives may be given to help reduce bleeding and make menstrual cycles more regular.
- Oral progesterone may be given to help correct hormonal imbalance and reduce menorrhagia.
- Mirena, a type of intrauterine device, releases progestin in the womb that thins the uterine lining and reduces the blood flow.
Surgery may be needed if medication therapy is not successful. The surgical procedures include:
- Endometrial ablation: It is a procedure that permanently destroys the entire lining of your uterus (endometrium) resulting in little or no menstrual flow.
- Dilation and curettage (D&C): It is a procedure in which the cervix is dilated and the lining of the uterus is scraped to reduce menstrual bleeding. You may need additional D&C procedures if menorrhagia recurs.
- Hysterectomy: It is a surgical removal of the uterus and the cervix that leads to infertility and the cessation of menstrual periods.
- Hysteroscopy: This procedure involves the use of a hysteroscope, a tiny tube with a light to view your uterine cavity and to remove abnormalities such as polyps that may be causing heavy menstrual bleeding.
- Endometrial Resection: It is a surgical procedure that uses an electrosurgical wire loop to remove the lining of the uterus.
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The congregation of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church has been worshiping in Manhattan since 1808. This building is our fourth church home in the city. We invite you to learn more about this historic brownstone church, in the midst of midtown Manhattan.
From the lowest point of the center aisle to the highest reaches of the ceiling, the Sanctuary is 63 feet, one inch high—less than five feet shy of the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Completed in 1875, ours is the largest Presbyterian sanctuary in Manhattan. The main floor and balcony can accommodate more than 1,800 people.
The Sanctuary is actually a building within a building. Neither its walls nor its windows directly face the street outside. They are nested within the rectilinear exterior of the church. Clear, leaded-glass windows on the exterior protect the stained glass windows inside. The interior of the Sanctuary contains no right angles. The floor slopes, the pews fan outward, and the curvature of the balcony surrounds all that is below, bringing the entire congregation within clear sight and hearing range of the preaching and music ministry.
The openness and lightness of the Sanctuary render the modern Gothic decoration more comforting and accessible, suggesting a God who is present in the lives of the people. The stained glass windows, exceptional examples of the 19th century Aesthetic Movement, were designed and executed by John C. Spence & Sons of Montreal. This was one of the window-maker’s few commissions for a non-Anglican church.
The Sanctuary interior follows strict, Reformed Protestant worship precepts, the most important being the emphasis on the spoken word. The pulpit is the focal point of the worship space, with the choir loft and organ above and communion table below. There are no Biblical figures or saints depicted in the Sanctuary, reflecting an iconoclastic austerity prevalent among 19th-century Presbyterians, who believed no one should be venerated other than God. One exception is the woodcarving on the front of the pulpit, which features the symbols of the four Gospel writers—Matthew (angel), Mark (lion), Luke (ox) and John (eagle). The images are arranged in a quatrefoil (four leaf) design that is common in Christian architecture.
Most of the carved woodwork is original. Thistle features prominently, a tribute to the Scottish roots of the Presbyterian Church. The New York firm of Kimbel and Cabus designed the woodwork using ash, a durable, light-colored wood that has taken on a darker patina over time.
The Sanctuary organ, built in 1961 by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, Connecticut, has four keyboards, a pedalboard, and 119 ranks comprising more than 7,000 individual pipes. The current instrument incorporates pipework from two previous organs: the E.M. Skinner organ of 1913 (for which the current case was built) as well as the Jardine organ of 1875, our first pipe organ.
The Chapel is named for the Rev. Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland, who served as senior pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1962 until 1987.
Kirkland Chapel is part of the Curry Church House, which was added to the grounds in 1925. The Church House is named for Elizabeth and Ravenel Curry, in honor of their generous contribution to our 2016 capital campaign.
The Chapel and Church House were designed by the New York architect James Gamble Rogers (1867–1947). Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Rogers was best known for his Gothic-style Harkness Tower and Memorial Quadrangle at Yale University. He was the favored architect of New York philanthropist Anna Marie Harkness, who provided 75 percent of the funds for the Chapel and Church House. (The rest was raised by the congregation.)
Kirkland Chapel was designed to feel like a small parish church. At the front is a semi-circular apse with a raised pulpit on one side and a lectern on the other. In a pre-Reformation (Roman Catholic) church, the center of the apse would contain an altar, where the priest celebrated the Eucharist. Following the Reformation, however, seats for ministers replaced the altar. This simple change in design accentuated the Word rather than the Eucharist as the central act of worship. The hard stone surfaces of the interior, with their resultant echo, make the Chapel a superb venue for organ and choral music. The church hosts concerts here several times a year.
The Chapel windows are by G. Owen Bonawit of New York, a favorite collaborator of James Gamble Rogers. The windows reflect Bonawit’s Art Deco style—a 1920s interpretation of the angels, apostles and prophets depicted for centuries in the cathedrals of Europe. The window at the north end of the Chapel depicts the four Gospel writers, the 12 apostles and other disciples. At the south end, above the balcony, is an exquisite window featuring Christ surrounded by seven archangels. This window was fully restored in 2011. The silvery light passing through on a sunny day gives you a sense of how natural light (which originally permeated three sides of the Chapel) created a mystical feel to the worship space.
The art on the Chapel walls features starkly different images of Jesus, intended to reflect the multicultural dimensions of the congregation and of Christianity itself. John Howard Sanden’s Portrait of Christ has hung on the west wall since 1980. The portrait was a gift of the artist, who created it (using a live model) before an audience here on Sunday mornings. Praying at Gethsemane, by the Chinese artist He Qi, was added to the east wall in 2010 during a visit by the artist. John August Swanson’s Last Supper, on the west wall, was added in 2012. The most recent image, added to the west wall in 2016, is Sermon on the Mount, by the New York City-based artist Laura James.
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church was designed in the Victorian Gothic style by the architect Carl Pfeiffer (1834–1888).
Pfeiffer was a little-known, 37-year-old German emigre when he was selected to design this church. Ten other architects were considered, including George Post, who designed the New York Stock Exchange and the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue.
The church is constructed of New Jersey red sandstone. With its steeple rising 286 feet, the church was the tallest building in Manhattan when the steeple was completed in 1876 (eclipsing Trinity Wall Street Church by just five feet). The 10-ft. Celtic cross atop the steeple was added in 1964.
The original clockworks, high inside the south tower of the church, are still in good working order more than 140 years since they were installed. The clock is not electrified and must be wound by hand once a week. Manufactured by E. Howard & Co., ours is one of just two manually operated tower clocks built by the Boston clock maker that is still in operation in New York City.
There are no bells or chimes in the tower; when the church was built, St. Luke’s Hospital was housed in what is now the Peninsula Hotel (across 55th Street), and there was a concern that church bells might disturb the patients.
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Microsoft has been moving toward a subscription-based model in recent years in order to make incremental changes rather than big changes to file types that posed all sorts of difficulties for Excel users. Right now there is not much difference between Excel 365 and the new 2019 version in terms of functionality, rather it just involves a different licensing agreement.
The Difference Between an Excel Perpetual and a Subscription-Based License.
Excel 365 is the subscription-based version of Excel and Excel 2019 is the perpetual, stand-alone, bought-outright version. A perpetual license has always been made available by Microsoft for outright purchase and outright ownership. The user will not receive any updates until the next version of the software is released. Understandably this has caused users to become impatient when they find out about new features included in a newer model.
Subscription-based Office 365 is designed to regularly release updates which means that changes are gradual and users have time to get used to the changes. Organizations are able to choose their update channel on the subscription model to occur monthly or semi-annually.
While Excel 2019 licenses are available for purchase, Microsoft strongly recommends organizations and individual users to use the subscription option. To support this preference Microsoft announced in 2017 that users using Office 2016 on a perpetual license will not be able to connect to their cloud-based services after 2020. It is expected that the 2019 version will have similar limitations and it seems likely that this will be the last version that will be offered on a perpetual license.
What’s New in Excel 2019 and Excel 365 Subscription Version?
The following features have been introduced in the new Excel 2019 version which is already available to those with an Office 365 subscription:
Visuals such as bullet charts, speedometers, and word clouds previously available only in Power B1.
Full SVG Graphics
The new version will have full SVG graphics support. In addition, the Excel application features 500 built-in icons which look great on infographics and dashboards.
Expanded Insights Feature
By clicking on a table with data and selecting ‘Insights’ from the Insert tab, several charts on the right-hand side of the page gives insight into the data. This is rather handy as a data analysis tool.
Excel Connection to Flow
Excel’s connects to Flow that allows the creation of automated workflows to collect data automatically or to synchronize data sources. This is a particularly useful feature for models that need constant updating such as currency exchange rates or stock prices.
Excel Connection to Forms
Excel connects to Forms which means a form user interface that is very easy to use and can be shared through a link.
New Functions such a SWITCH, IFS, MAXIFS, MINIFS, and TEXTJOIN.
Map and Funnel Charts
Map charts allow data to be displayed on a map using provinces, states, countries, and even zip and postcodes. Numbers can be color-coded or displayed as a heat map.
Power Query Data Cleansing New Features
New features include parameters, conditional columns, and new transformations.
When a file is stored on OneDrive or Sharepoint users can edit simultaneously using the co-authoring feature.
Default Behavior for Pivot Tables
For those who regularly change their preferences for Pivot Tables, a default behavior can now be assigned.
Online Data Types
The first two online data types supported are Stocks and Geography with more promised to come. Using the all-new A1-powered Online Data Types feature, a cell containing a country or region value, for example, can extract more details such as capital city, area, population, etc.
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Unlocking memories through sounds - Reading in the news Thu 26 Apr26 April 2018
Here is your daily news coverage round-up.
Sound and dementia: Professor Arlene Astell (Psychology) appeared on the BBC Radio 4 PM show (50 mins 52 secs) to discuss how sounds can unlock memories for dementia patients.
Drug dementia risk?: The Guardian and BBC News quote Dr Parastou Donyai (Pharmacy) on new research looking at the link between antidepressants and bladder medicines and dementia later in life. She warns against an assumption that the drugs do increase the risk of dementia. The story is reproduced by other international news websites.
Israel deportation: A letter co-authored by Dr Ruvi Ziegler (School of Law) imploring the Israeli Attorney General not to deport Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers from Israel is covered by Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and Israeli websites Mako and ynet. The Israeli government subsequently announced all deportation orders had been cancelled.
IPCC author: Environ News Nigeria cover the news of Professor Chuks Okereke (GES) being appointed as a coordinating lead author for the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report, in a feature about recent successes for Nigerian nationals in the field of climate science. Read our news story about the seven Reading scientists appointed as IPCC authors.
Street Support: BBC Radio Berkshire (25 mins 15 secs) interviewed Community Relations Manager Sarah Gardner on the University’s new Street Support Scheme, where security staff are deployed in the community to help students and residents feel safe and supported while socialising in the evening. Read our news story.
Cybernetics: Visiting Professor Kevin Warwick (Cybernetics) and the University of Reading is referenced in an episode of Dr Who spin-off series Torchwood: Believe as the man who pioneered computer implant technology, and inspired a sub culture (in the episode) who use the technology for criminal means.
- BBC Radio Solent (1 hr 38 mins 40 secs) interviewed Professor Helen Bilton (IoE) on the rise in home tutoring in certain parts of the country
- A study conducted by Reading (Food and Nutritional Sciences) for British Summer Fruits, which suggests berries improve our cognitive health and concentration, is mentioned in a Finance Digest article on a new study showing more Brits are relying on caffeine to get through the working week
- The Star in Malaysia reports an MOU agreement between the University of Reading Malaysia and Sutera Mall to enhance their Real Estate students’ learning experience
- The CBBC programme Absolute Genius, featuring Dr Gemma Walton (Food and Nutritional Sciences) explaining what bacteria is found in poo, was repeated on Wednesday evening | <urn:uuid:f33ca0f7-8054-4741-881a-410d4a66bc41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.reading.ac.uk/news-events/2018/April/pr763941.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.925844 | 561 | 1.960938 | 2 |
National Report on Schooling in Australia 2011
National initiatives and achievements
2.1 Developing stronger partnerships
Australian governments have committed to working with all school sectors to ensure that schools engage young Australians, parents, carers, families, other education and training providers, business and the broader community to support students’ progress through schooling, and to provide them with rich learning, personal development and citizenship opportunities (Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians 2008).
States and Territories are committed to fostering:
school-based partnerships with parents, carers and families; with local community groups; with Indigenous communities and between schools
system-based partnerships with business, higher education, government agencies and others.
Jurisdictions are developing these partnerships on an individual basis, sharing and learning from best practice across jurisdictions and school sectors.
Smarter Schools National Partnerships
Through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), the Australian Government and State and Territory governments have entered into national partnerships for:
Known collectively as Smarter Schools National Partnerships, these contribute to achieving objectives, outcomes and targets for schooling under COAG and the policy and reform directions outlined in the National Education Agreement (NEA)
. In addition to the Australian Government funding shown below, States and Territories contribute to the implementation of National Partnerships in money terms and in kind. Participation by non-government schools in these partnerships is determined through collaboration between the non-government sectors and State and Territory governments.
Improving Teacher Quality
Under the Teacher Quality National Partnership (2008–09 to 2012–13), governments and school sectors are implementing a range of reforms that aim to attract, train, place, develop and retain quality teachers and leaders in Australia’s schools. Commonwealth funding of $550 million has been committed to this partnership over the five-year period. All teachers and school leaders are targeted under this partnership. In 2011, activity was focused on establishing structures, institutions and nationally agreed standards to carry forward major reforms in teaching. There has been activity at system, regional and school levels across the reforms. Some examples include the establishment of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership in January 2010, and the endorsement by Education Ministers of the National Professional Standards for Teachers in December 2010. Under the National Partnership various activities are undertaken at a jurisdictional level including improving performance management systems and pay structures.
Further information on this partnership and its implementation in 2011 is included in Part 2.2: National initiatives and achievements – supporting quality teaching and school leadership. More detailed information is available on the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Smarter Schools National Partnerships website.
Low Socio-economic Status School Communities
Through the Low Socio-economic Status School Communities National Partnership (2008–09 to 2014–15), participating schools are working with their local communities and education authorities to identify reform activities that will generate the best educational outcomes for their disadvantaged students, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, students from non-English speaking backgrounds and students with disabilities. Commonwealth funding of $1.5 billion is being provided to States and Territories over the seven-year period, to be matched by State and Territory co-investment. Over the life of this National Partnership, approximately 1,700 schools serving low socio-economic status communities will be targeted for support. This National Partnership is supporting student engagement and attendance through whole-of-school strategies as well as targeted intervention for particular cohorts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. There has been a strong focus on the establishment of external partnerships with parents and organisations to support student learning and wellbeing.
Further information on this partnership and its implementation is included in Part 2.7: National initiatives and achievements – improving educational outcomes for Indigenous youth and disadvantaged young Australians. More detailed information is available on the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Smarter Schools National Partnerships website.
The $540 million Literacy and Numeracy National Partnership (2008–09 to 2011–12) aims to deliver sustained improvement in literacy and numeracy outcomes for students, especially those needing support. Over the life of this National Partnership, approximately 1,070 schools will be targeted for support. Progress has been made on improved literacy and numeracy outcomes through explicit and individualised support for students and targeted professional learning for school leaders and classroom teachers. Intensive, school-based coaching by literacy/numeracy experts on the use of data to identify individual student learning needs has made a significant contribution to improved learning outcomes.
The Literacy and Numeracy National Partnership provides for the development of an internet-based national database of effective literacy and numeracy strategies and approaches through a framework of effective practice, referred to as the National Evidence Base.
In November 2011, the Teach Learn Share: The National Literacy and Numeracy Evidence Base website was launched. Education practitioners – including principals, jurisdictions, professional associations and academic institutions – were invited to submit literacy or numeracy strategies for consideration for inclusion on Teach Learn Share.
Teach Learn Share is aimed at supporting greater information sharing and transparency around which literacy and numeracy interventions demonstrate success and how that success can be built on and replicated. The website offers teachers the opportunity to learn about strategies that work and assists them to make informed and evidence-based decisions about how to improve literacy and numeracy outcomes for their students.
National Partnership on Youth Attainment and Transitions
Commonwealth funding of $708 million has been committed to this partnership over the life of the agreement, including up to $100 million in reward funding to be made available to jurisdictions on the achievement of agreed participation and attainment targets. This partnership includes the Compact with Young Australians and the implementation of a National Youth Participation Requirement which commenced on 1 January 2010. The partnership also clarifies the respective roles and responsibilities of the Commonwealth, States and Territories and promotes immediate, concerted action supported by broader long-term reform.
Many of the initiatives implemented by jurisdictions with funding under the partnership are delivering positive outcomes. The funding has enabled tailoring of initiatives to jurisdictional needs and enhancement of existing reforms designed to improve attainment and transition outcomes for young people.
Under the Compact with Young Australians, young people had an entitlement to a government-subsidised education or training place for 15 to 19-year-olds (from 1 July 2009) or to a government-subsidised place which would result in an individual attaining a higher qualification for 20 to 24-year-olds (from 1 January 2010).
For 2011, all States and Territories met their obligation through the Compact with Young Australians to require young people to complete at least Year 10 and then remain in full-time study or work, or a combination of these, until age 17.
Two programs implemented from 2010 to support the achievement of the National Partnership were School Business Community Partnership Brokers (Partnership Brokers) and Youth Connections.
National Partnership on Digital Education Revolution
This National Partnership Agreement has been established to facilitate the implementation of the Digital Education Revolution (DER). The DER is a $2.1 billion investment by the Commonwealth Government over six years, which aims to contribute sustainable and meaningful change to teaching and learning in Australian schools to prepare students for further education, training, jobs of the future and to live and work in a digital world.
The Digital Education Revolution National Partnership aims to deliver system-wide reforms in education to ensure that students are equipped for learning in a digital environment and to enable schools to better access the benefits of technology for their students.
Further information on the Digital Education Revolution is provided in Part 2.5: National initiatives and achievements – supporting senior years of schooling and youth transitions.
National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education
Through the National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education, Commonwealth and State and Territory governments have committed to ensuring that, by 2013, all children will have access to a quality early childhood education program in the year before full-time schooling. The Commonwealth has committed $970 million over five years towards the implementation of universal access to early childhood education, by 2013. Of this funding $955 million is being provided directly to State and Territory governments to support their implementation of universal access and $15 million is being spent over five years on the development of better data and performance information on early childhood education in Australia.
The National Partnership includes a specific focus on ensuring preschool education is available to Indigenous and disadvantaged children. The National Partnership is closely linked to other elements of the Australian Government’s early childhood reform agenda, including the early childhood education Closing the Gap target, the development of the national Early Years Learning Framework, workforce reforms and the development of a national quality framework for early childhood education and care.
Further information on the National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education, including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Universal Access Strategy, is available on the DEEWR website.
National Partnership on Indigenous Early Childhood Development
Through the National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Early Childhood Development the Australian Government is providing $292.62 million for the establishment of at least 35 Children and Family Centres across Australia by June 2014. The Children and Family Centres will deliver integrated services, including early learning, child care and family programs in areas where there is a demonstrated need for these services, high disadvantage and a high proportion of Indigenous children under five years of age.
National Partnership Agreement on the Nation Building and Jobs Plan – Building the Education Revolution
In 2009, COAG agreed to the National Partnership Agreement on the Nation Building and Jobs Plan: Building Prosperity for the Future and Supporting Jobs Now incorporating Building the Education Revolution (BER). This agreement provides Commonwealth funding for the BER program over four years and will expire on 31 December 2012. The $16.2 billion BER aims to provide economic stimulus through rapid construction and refurbishment of school infrastructure and build learning environments to help children, families and communities participate in activities that support achievement and develop learning potential. BER funding was allocated to nearly 24,000 projects in approximately 9,500 schools under the three elements of the BER¹.
Further information on this partnership and its implementation is included in Part 2.9: National initiatives and achievements – other national initiatives and on the DEEWR website.
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Today I'm going to show you how you can install the GNU Guix package manager on your existing Linux system so that you can start learning the basics of how to use it.
In the Guix manual this is called installing on a "foreign distribution", basically a Linux distribution that is not Guix itself.
Even if you don't intend to install Guix as a full distribution in the future, it can still be a very useful as an alternative package manager and development environment tool!
However, if you do want to try Guix as a system distribution in the future, one benefit of installing it as a package manager is that you can use it to build a custom installation image! This is really only necessary if your computer's hardware requires firmware blobs that don't come with the Linux Libre kernel.
The Guix installer supports distributions with the following init systems:
The installer will still work if you don't use one of these init systems but you will have to run the guix-daemon yourself!
It is necessary to run the guix-daemon service somehow because this service is used for building and installing packages from Guix into the /gnu/store path.
Let's install GNU Guix!
The installation process is simple, you just download guix-install.sh to the /tmp directory, make it executable, and run it:
cd /tmp wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh chmod +x guix-install.sh sudo ./guix-install.sh
It's not necessary to use wget for this, you can just download the script from this link using your browser.
Once you start running the script, it will likely prompt you to download and install a GPG key that the Guix binaries are signed with. Run this command to download and install the key (you must have gpg installed!):
wget 'https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145' -qO - | sudo -i gpg --import -
It will also ask you a question about downloading pre-built package binaries, answer YES to this unless you want to build all packages from source!
Now that Guix is installed, let's try installing a program to see if it works!
guix install emacs
Notice that we didn't use sudo on this command! Guix enables every user to install packages in a user profile in their home directory.
Guix will download the precompiled binary package for Emacs 27.1!
Other things to notice:
Now let's try to run Emacs:
It doesn't work!
To make sure you can easily access all the applications you install with Guix, you'll want to make sure that your Guix "profile" gets loaded as part of your shell environment!
Make sure these lines are in your ~/.bash_profile, ~/.zprofile or generally the file your preferred shell uses to configure the environment:
GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile" . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
Now once you log in your environment will be set up with all the paths needed to run applications from Guix!
For now, we can run these lines directly in the shell to activate the Guix profile and then try running emacs again.
Let's take a look at this folder briefly.
The first time you install Guix on your distribution, it actually won't have the latest package definitions since it comes bundled with an older set. At the time of this recording, Guix actually has the latest version of Emacs, 27.2, but we only got 27.1!
To bring things up to date you can run the following command:
It might take a while to run the first time, so be patient!
One very important message gets printed out at the end of this very first pull operation! We need to update our login profile (~/.bash_profile) to add another GUIX_PROFILE path:
GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.config/guix/current" . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
This is necessary because a new build of the guix command has been installed in this path!
Just to clarify, you are adding these lines in addition to the lines you already added before! We are now using two separate Guix "profiles", one for your installed applications and the other for your personal build of the guix command which gets updated with guix pull.
Now let's run guix pull one more time just to make sure things are up to date!
This command syncs the latest package definitions from all the channels you have configured and then prints out an abbreviated list of everything that is new or updated since your last pull.
To see the full list of updates, run:
guix pull --news
Keep in mind that this doesn't mean all of these packages are installed on your system! It is informing you about the packages that are added or updated to the package repositories that you are currently using (the main Guix channel by default).
After pulling, you can update all of the packages you have installed by running the following command:
Depending on when you watch this video, you might notice that Emacs is being upgraded from 27.1 to 27.2!
NOTE: I mentioned in the video that I wasn't sure if guix upgrade emacs would work. It does!
If you're itching to learn more, check out this section of the Guix manual for some other commands you can try:
As we saw while installing the emacs package, guix will repeatedly write out warnings about setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale. You can fix this issue by running this command (as sudo!):
sudo guix install glibc-locales sudo vim /root/.profile
Now edit the file /root/.profile with your preferred text editor (as sudo) and add the following line:
Now you shouldn't see the setlocale warning anymore when you install packages!
As we talked about before, Guix needs the guix-daemon to be running as a system service so that it can build and install all your packages correctly. Sometimes this daemon and the guix tools will need to be updated!
You might also be surprised to know that at this point, your user profile's guix and the system (root) guix are not the same version! You'll need to periodically update the root user's Guix profile to keep things in sync.
To do this, you can run the following command:
sudo -i guix pull
Once the pull operation is completed, you should restart the guix-daemon service using the appropriate command for your init system:
sudo systemctl restart guix-daemon.service
sudo rc-service guix-daemon restart
sudo herd restart guix-daemon
For other init systems, consult your documentation for instructions on how to restart a service!
In the next video, I'm going to teach you everything you need to know about using the Guix package manager so that you can use it for installing and managing your day to day programs. I'll also show you some of the special features of using Guix that you can't get from your distro's package manager! | <urn:uuid:766c7ee4-0fc1-4753-b86e-bd0e925d63f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://systemcrafters.cc/craft-your-system-with-guix/installing-the-package-manager/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.908981 | 1,591 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Leverage: What a sexy word, don’t you agree?
Of course you do, seeing as every other thread I read this week on the Forums was leverage this, leverage that. And what does everyone want to know? The question was first asked by Bill Shakespeare: to be, or not to be?
Answer: yes, no, maybe.
It’s All About Cycles
The one thing that sets experienced investors apart from everyone else is that we’ve experienced cycles, both in the economy and in ourselves. The question of whether leverage is good or bad, and whether you should play that way or not, is a function of the cycle in which you operate.
Now, I am not breaking any new ground in saying that later in life you should use leverage very sparingly. You’ve heard this before, and you know this intuitively. Nonetheless, let’s spend a few moments on this…
A Great Benefit of Real Estate
I am infamous around here for saying that I do very few deals. In other words, I don’t feel like I have to do deals in order to feel accomplished. Indeed, I only want the deals that I want, and there is a very, very, very finite definition as to what I want in a real estate opportunity.
The logic goes like this:
The single greatest advantage of real estate is that it’s an inflation-protected security. Real estate appreciates as currency devaluates (monetary inflation), and it appreciates as the velocity of money increases due to organic economic drivers (economic growth). Naturally, there are cycles in real estate; we are, after all, based on a fractional reserve fiat banking system, lest we forget.
But over a long period of time, because real estate is very much a physical asset and because typically physical assets are denominated in units of currency, real estate grows in price as currency supply increases. (Or so it should, if you’ve bought the right thing – don’t get me started on that ’cause I could teach a course…)
What Does This Mean?
Well, I don’t want to get into the woods too much here ’cause I most definitely don’t get paid enough for that, but:
If you know that the currency will devaluate by 10% in the next 4 years, which will translate into price inflation of 10% in that same time, do you want to be in control of a $100,000 asset base, or $1,000,000, if your goal is to create wealth?
That’s right, the “largeness” of your footprint is crucially important in our economy. The same relatively low percentage change acting upon vastly different amounts of asset base will produce vastly different results. And while there are some in this audience who can handle a $100,000 cash purchase, there are likely very few who could come up with $1,000,000 in cash that wasn’t bridged via debt.
Leverage, my friends, is how we place ourselves in control of an outsized asset base. This is as simple as I can put it.
What About Risk and Age?
Simple — when you are older, you are no longer in the game of wealth creation. In fact, you should be in the game of wealth preservation, and leverage is not only proportionally more dangerous, but also unnecessary.
I am 40 years old, and to tell you the absolute truth, I cannot imagine starting from scratch at this age. It’s a damn good thing that my snowball is rolling, and all I have to do is just give it some momentum here and there.
One of my mentors told me when I was about 32:
By the time you’re 40, you need to have your stuff together; if you don’t, you most likely won’t…
Read that last line again…. ’cause he was right!
So yes, this is why I underwrite the way that I do; I do not lose money, and I don’t like to scramble like my good friend Brandon Turner. I’m 40, while he is a bearded baby… there’s not enough time to right the ship if I mess it up now, nor do I have the energy for all of the nonsense.
I am transitioning cycles in my life, and as much as I love leverage, and as much good as it has done, from here on out, the framework of requirements and limitations for the use of leverage looks quite different than it did 5 year ago.
Having said this, however, I repeat: I am a huge proponent of properly applied 100% financing, when it is appropriate!
Recognizing that devaluation of currency resulting in a certain amount of price inflation is a stated goal of our monetary policy, real estate is as well positioned as any asset class to protect and improve your buying power. If all you want is to retire with dignity, perhaps you can do this without leverage. But if you are getting into this sport to create an empire, you will not be able to do it without leverage.
In this case, do it while you can, acquire real estate at break-neck speed while you can, because there will come a time when you will necessarily have to back off…
Caveat: Just to make sure that we understand each other – what I described above is true in concept. However, it is important to comprehend that not just any old piece of real estate will accomplish these stated objectives. For many, many reasons — for which this is neither the time or place — PIGS won’t do!
What do you think? Is there a time and a place for leverage — and if so, when is that?
Leave your comments below!
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A lightweight object rushes
flapped its wing
in the mid-air hovering
a rocket thrusting
and fuels oxidising
But it is impractical and senseless
that its billionth energy
connected to its tender muscles be
compared to a big force of rocketry
a numerous of them maybe.
And how about this famous chaotic matter
that if all of them flapped their wings
in China or in Manila
could perhaps affect the weather
let’s say in North America
in ten or a hundred years from now
or ere the four great winds paw.
Anyway, forget about meteorology
for its skill is greater as Arachne
being an authorised weaver of its home
a genius that was why the ancient Sinos
were gathering its cylindrical cone
to make textiles of great renown.
And together with its versatility
from an early morning’s ride
prepares to gather grains for its hide –
a sound intelligence not capricious
being the monarchical queen of blossoms
parting the coloured monochromes.
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The Effect of Atenolol on QT Interval in Instrumented Beagle Dogs
Zionsville Community High School, Zionsville, USA
*Corresponding author: Charles Chiang, Zionsville Community High School, Zionsville, USA, E-mail: email@example.com
Received: December 3, 2018 Accepted: January 24, 2019 Published: February 4, 2019
Citation: Chiang C, Moser D. The Effect of Atenolol on QT Interval in Instrumented Beagle Dogs. Madridge J Nov Drug Res. 2019; 3(1): 106-113. doi: 10.18689/mjndr-1000116
Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In cardiology, the QT interval is a measurement of the heartʼs electrical cycle between the start of the Q-wave and end of the T-wave in electrocardiogram (ECG). Assessment of the QT interval is of clinical importance because prolongation of repolarization may be associated with malignant ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Atenolol, a beta-blocker, is an effective anti-hypertensive agent that its protective effect may reduce the QT interval in some patients. However, the data of atenolol in animals or patients with long-QT syndrome are limited. The goal of this paper was to evaluate the effect of atenolol on QT interval in beagle dogs. Two experiments conducted by the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute were used for the evaluation. In two Latin-square studies, beagles were given varying levels of atenolol on separating dosing days and their ECGs were measured telemetrically. As QT interval is correlated with heart rate, we investigated the relationship between heart rate and QT interval using the vehicle control group animals. In addition to QTcF, QT interval corrected based on Fridericiaʼs formula, QTcP, which was based on the study population, and QTcI, which was derived from each individual animal, were evaluated. QTcF, QTcP, and QTcI were analyzed for each dose group at each time point compared to the vehicle. The analyses suggest that atenolol does not affect QT interval in beagle dogs.
Keywords: QT Interval; Heart rate; Atenolol; Beagle dog; Latin square design.
In cardiology, the QT interval is a measurement of the heartʼs electrical cycle between the start of the Q-wave and end of the T-wave as seen on electrocardiograms (Figure 1). It measures the time interval between depolarization and repolarization of the ventricles in the heartʼs electrical cycle. The QT interval, when corrected for heart rate (QTc), is useful for detecting congenital and acquired heart diseases that can lead to fatal arrhythmias . Long-QT syndrome is a notable example that is characterized by chronic lengthening of the QT interval which can result in fainting, seizures, and ventricular fibrillation. This disease can be inherited or acquired when taking drugs that inadvertently block cardiac potassium channels. In extreme cases, long-QT syndrome can lead to Torsades des Pointes, a potentially fatal type of ventricular tachycardia.
As there is currently no drug approved for patients with long-QT syndrome, most treatment options have been limited to beta-blockers, therapeutic anti-hypertension drugs. Beta-blockers inhibit the binding of norepinephrine and adrenaline nerves, which subsequently lowers heart rate and reduces the risk for heart disease . Atenolol, a beta-1 adrenergic receptor blocker, is a prescription drug used in treating patients with cardiovascular disease and lowering blood pressure . Since its introduction in 1976, it has replaced propranolol in treating hypertension and has seen widespread use throughout the world. Adrenergic nerves stimulate the cardiac function and regulate cardiac outputs. Atenolol blocks specific receptor adrenergic nerves, decreasing cardiac stimulation. This allows the heart to beat at a slower rate, reducing the blood flow through arteries and decreasing blood pressure. Atenolol has also been used as an off-label treatment for long-QT syndrome [4,5].
Though atenolol has been frequently prescribed, there is a lack of conclusive data on its efficacy on the QT interval. We hypothesize that atenolol is an effective treatment for long-QT syndrome. To test this, we used animal data based on experiments conducted from two different laboratories. Each laboratory used eight beagle dogs in their experiment. The data, courtesy of Health and Environmental Sciences Institute, was taken continuously from each of the eight dogs using cardiac telemetry, with a small device implanted in the dogʼs heart, allowing researchers to monitor various aspects of each dogʼs heart function over a period of twenty-four hours . The implants transmitted data continuously, and averaged data of ten-minute intervals for twenty-four hours was made available to the public. As each experiment was conducted using a double 4 × 4 Latin-square design, data was organized by dosing group, vehicle control, low-dose, medium-dose, and high-dose of atenolol. Each animal was administered to a different dose group on four separate dosing days.
While other measurements of cardiac function and ECG were collected, our primary interest was the length of the QT and RR intervals, which has not been published previously. The RR interval is the length between one peak of an ECG wave and the peak of the next wave. The RR interval is inversely related to heart rate; in fact, RR in millisecond is equal to 60*1000 divided by heart rate in beats per minute. The QT interval can be affected directly by a drug or indirectly by the drug induced heart rate change, making it difficult to accurately measure the drugʼs direct effects on the QT interval (See figure 2) for an illustration. Therefore, the QT interval is often corrected for the change in heart rate or RR, denoted by QTc or corrected QT interval . Fredericaʼs correction formula, known as QTcF, is commonly used in human and is calculated using a correction constant of 1/3 to account for the length of the QT interval compared to the RR interval, i.e., . However, Fredericaʼs formula was derived from human it may not be suitable for beagle dogs. In The layout of this paper is as follows. In this paper, we attempted to derive and compare appropriate formulas for correcting the QT interval in beagle dogs. Treatment effects of atenolol were statistically evaluated using two-sided t-test for each dose level at each time point.
The layout of this paper is as follows. In Methods section, we describe the experimental designs, data collection, and methods to conduct the statistical analysis. We also discuss the statistical models to identify an appropriate heart rate correction formula for QT interval in beagle dogs. In Results section, we evaluate and summarize the performance of various heart rate correction formulas. The statistical analyses of atenolol effects on these QTc intervals are summarized. Discussion and concluding remarks are given in one section.
The data was obtained from studies performed by two independent laboratories through Health and Environmental Sciences Institute . The ECG data has not been published previously. Beagle dogs from Lab 1 were sourced from Marshall Farms, and Covance Research Products provided beagle dogs for Lab 2. All beagle dogs were examined to confirm their health and suitability according to local procedure. Each laboratory used DSI Physiotel™ D70-PCTP telemetry instrumentation. The telemetry system was surgically implanted into dogs under general anesthesia under procedures approved by each laboratoryʼs local internal review board. All animals were given sufficient recovery time from surgery prior to the beginning of the study. Each study was conducted using eight beagle dogs, all males, given three different doses of atenolol as well as a vehicle on four different dosing days with a minimum 72-hour washout period in between. This was done using a double 4 × 4 double Latin square design. Atenolol was administered orally, with deionized water as vehicle control. Group 1 administered vehicle control, Group 2 (low dose) 0.3 mg/kg, Group 3 (medium dose) 1 mg/kg, and Group 4 (high dose) 3 mg/kg of atenolol. See table 1 for an illustration of the design from Lab 2.
QT Correction for heart rate
Digital ECG signals were continuously acquired from at least one hour prior to dosing through 24 hours post dose on each dosing day. Derived data were calculated for every cardiac cycle and the results were collapsed into 10-minute mean values available for analysis. In order to investigate the relationship between QT and RR without the influence of treatment effect, we used only vehicle control group. Luo et al. shows that the relationship may be linear on a logarithmscale. Using only the vehicle control group data in each study, the relationship between log (QT) and log (RR) were plotted for each animal. A least-squares regression line was estimated using the following model,
where e was assumed to follow a Normal distribution. The lineʼs slope estimate ĉ and its standard error were summarized. The slope estimate ĉ is also known as the correction factor because if we let the intercept estimate â=log (QTcF), then from the above equation
Fridericia estimated that a factor of ĉ=1/3 is adequate in human. To confirm that Fridericiaʼs correction factor of 1/3 was adequate in beagle dogs, a 95% confidence interval for the slope was derived for each animal. If the 95% confidence interval did not contain 1/3, then Fridericiaʼs formula may not be adequate for beagle dogs. The slope estimates were averaged to derive the study-specific QT interval correction factor. The QTcP was calculated using the following formula: , where p is the average of the slope estimates from all animals in each study. The QTcI was calculated using , where ci is the slope estimate of i-the animal in each study. QTcP is the QT interval corrected with the population slope factor, and QTcI is the QT interval corrected with an individualʼs slope factor. The QTcP takes a more universal, applicable approach to the QT rate-correction; the QTcI is more individualized and animal-specific.
For each of the QTcF, QTcP, and QTcI interval, data were collapsed into hourly averages for each dog. The hourly intervals were derived based on the averages of six of the 10-minute mean values, resulting a baseline at time 0 (pre-dosing) and 24 hourly time points post-dosing. The purpose of this process was to reduce the amount of ambient noise from the background and hence reduce the unaccountable variability of the measurements.
For each post-dosing hourly time point, changes from baseline were derived for each animal in each dose group. Treatment effects of low dose, medium dose, and high dose of atenolol on QTcF, QTcP, or QTcI were compared to the control. For each QTc, a two-sided t-test with a significance level of 0.05 was employed for the comparison between each treatment group versus control. No multiplicity adjustment was made . The p-values generated by the t-test were plotted against 0.05 for each treatment group.
The data sets from Health an Environmental Sciences Institute contain QT, QTcF, and RR in 10-minute interval for 24 hours. Following the process of converting 10-minute intervals into hourly intervals as described in Statistical analysis section, figure 3 displays the derived hourly averaged QTcF over the 24-hour period for each of eight animals in lab 2 with different treatment groups. Preliminary analysis shows that there might not be any atenolol treatment effects over time. The QTcF seems to be similar across all treatment groups. This may indicate that atenolol does not have an effect on the QT interval in beagle dogs, or that Fredericaʼs correction formula is unfit for the QT interval in beagle dogs.
Figure 4 shows the vehicle control animal QT-RR relationship on a log-log scale along with the least-squares regression line for each animal. The slope estimate and its confidence interval for each animal are summarized in table 2, revealing that none of the intervals covers 1/3. This suggests that Fridericiaʼs correction factor is unsuitable for use in the correction of the QT interval in these two studies. Furthermore, the average of slope estimates in is 0.29 for Lab 1 and 0.23 for Lab 2, indicating that the Fridericiaʼs formula may be overcorrecting for the RR changes. The estimates of 0.29 and 0.23 are used to derive QTcP for animals in Lab 1 and Lab 2, respectively. The slope estimates listed in table 2 are used to derive QTcI for each animal.
Figure 5 shows the changes from baseline for QTcF, QTcP, and QTcI from both Lab 1 and Lab 2. While there appears to be some difference in time profile between Lab 1, where most changes are negative, and Lab 2, where most changes are positive, the treatment group difference within each study is minimal. In addition, QTc changes from baseline over time appear to be consistent among QTcF, QTcP, and QTcI in Lab 1. For Lab 2, the longitudinal QTcF changes from baseline are different from QTcP and QTcI, where small increases are observed during the initial hours after dosing. It is noted that none of the change from baseline is above 10 ms, an area of potential clinical concern [1,9].
Figure 6 shows the p-value plots for evaluating the treatment effects of atenolol on QTcF, QTcP, and QTcI. The results indicate that the effect of atenolol on QTcF is statistically significant only at one time point, 1-hour post-dosing in the high dose group, only in Lab 2. The p-value was 0.031 and the group means change in QTcF between high dose and control was -5.7 ms. The effects of atenolol on QTcF are not statistically significant at any other time points. The use of QTcF to evaluate the treatment effect of atenolol is questionable because Fridericiaʼs correction factor is not appropriate in this study. The magnitude of changes in QTcF is found to be very different from that in QTcP and QTcI as shown in figure 5. In addition, the effect of atenolol is not found to be significant in QTcP, or QTcI from either laboratory.
Discussion and Concluding Remarks
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of atenolol on the QT interval in beagle dogs. Literature regarding the atenolol effect on QT is limited and the clinical use of atenolol to treat patients with long-QT syndrome has been inconclusive. Using the data from Health and Environmental Sciences Institute, our analysis concludes that atenolol results in no statistically significant QT changes in beagle dogs. These results have not been reported previously.
As heart rate plays a key role on the assessment of QT interval, we investigated whether the conventional Fridericiaʼs correction factor is adequate for use in beagle dogs. The goal of any QT correction for heart rate procedure is to reduce QT measurement error by effectively dissociating the effects of heart rate or RR, yielding a more stable measure, QTc. While other approaches to model the QT-RR relationship might be employed , we found the linear regression model on a log-log scale to be appropriate in our studies. In addition to a study-specific population-based correction factor, we also derived the animal-specific correction factor, analogous to the approach proposed by Malik et al. for human. We concluded that Fredericaʼs formula was not adequate for beagle dogs in our studies as it tended to over-correct for RR.
The statistical evaluation of treatment effect was conducted by comparing the QTc changes from baseline from each atenolol group versus control. While there was a statistically significant QTcF difference at 1-hour post-dosing in Lab 2, it was clinically insignificant due to the very small difference between high dose atenolol and vehicle control (5.7 ms). Considering that there are no statistically significant changes from baseline in QTcP or QTcI, a plausible explanation for this outlier data point could be that Fredericaʼs correction may not be appropriate for beagle dogs, leading to inaccurate measurements and conclusions from the statistical analysis. The other possibility of this potential false positive finding is that there is no multiplicity adjustment made in the statistical analysis. If an underlined type I error is 0.05 and there are 24 independent hypothesis tests (24 hourly time points), the chance of observing a positive finding within the 24-hr period is 1-(1-0.05)24=0.708, i.e., there is an over 70% chance of having a statistically significant change at any time point even though the treatment effect is null. In practice, the 24 tests are not likely to be independent because of the time course dependent successive QT measurements. The significant finding in QTcF may also be attributed to the variability in heart rate, QT interval, animal handling or dosing procedure in Lab 2, or other sources of inherent error.
It is noted that the implications of this study may not be applicable to a human. Holzgrefe et al. examines cross-species and human translation of QT prolongation induced by moxifloxacin. They show that all preclinical QT/QTc results are consistent when accurately modeled and evaluated, and the outcomes can be transferrable across species including man. Accurate translation of other drug-induced QT results remains limited and problematic. As a receptor blocker, atenolol binds to specific proteins that may be present in humans but not beagle dogs due to a medley of other possibilities that could explain an efficacy in humans but not beagle dogs. Further studies of atenololʼs clinical use in treating patients with long-QT syndrome are needed . Finally, the study design with a sample size of eight in a Latin square design may be adequate for exploratory evaluation of atenolol effects on QT. The hope was that by repeating the experiments in two laboratories, inherent variability may be reduced and the conclusions are more conclusive. However, we recognize the data sets are limited and additional exploration is needed.
The authors wish to thank Health and Environmental Sciences Institute for the data, and Jack Knorr and Alan Chiang for their review and editorial comments of the manuscript.
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Higher Achievement CEO, Lynsey Wood Jeffries will be sharing lessons learned during the i3 webinar on scaling up education innovations!
What can the Investing in Innovation (i3) grantees tell us about scaling innovative educational practices? The newly released white paper “Scaling Up Evidence-Based Practices: Strategies from Investing in Innovation (i3)” captures the experiences of nine grantees whose projects collectively have reached over 1.2 million students across the country. This webinar will discuss some of the key lessons they have learned about expanding the reach and impact of their work, including:
– What strategies are likely to be most successful in recruiting schools/districts to implement new education practices?
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Happy To Wander
Liechtenstein is a pocket-sized country wedged between Switzerland and Austria with glorious alpine scenery. The Rhine river creates a natural boundary with Switzerland in the west. The country’s entire area measures only 62 square miles, making it the 6th smallest in the world, and it has fewer than 40,000 total inhabitants.
The capital of Liechtenstein is the charming small town of Vaduz, nestled at the base of the mountains, with the royal family’s official residence, Vaduz Castle, perched high above. The largest city is Schaan, and the country is divided into 11 municipalities.
Key facts about Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein gained its independence in 1866 and is a constitutional monarchy that also has a democratic government headed by a prime minister.
The monarchy is ruled by the Prince of Liechtenstein, Hans Adam II, who has four children. Second son Prince Maximilian is married to Princess Angela of Liechtenstein, who is Panamanian born and bears the distinction of being one of only two women of African descent, along with Meghan, Duchess of Windsor, to marry into a reigning European family.
The Liechtenstein flag consists of two red and blue horizontal bands with a gold crown in the upper left representing the Princely Hat. The crown was added in 1937 to avoid confusion with the flag of Haiti.
Some other key facts important for travelers to know include:
-The official currency is the Swiss Franc.
-The official language is German.
-Driving is on the right.
-The official religion is Roman Catholic.
-The electrical current is 230 volts.
Getting to Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein does not have its own airport, with the closest being Zürich and AltenRhein in Switzerland or Friedrichshafen in Germany. Coming by train, the border stations are Buchs and Sargans in Switzerland, and Feldkirch in Austria. Buses connect with these border stations, as there is limited train service within the country itself. From Buchs, the bus trip to Vaduz takes only 10 minutes. An extensive bus network run by LIEMobil connects the country efficiently, and is the best way to get around unless you have your own rental car.
Holidays and events
The nation celebrates its National Day on August 15 with festivities and evening fireworks. Carnival celebrations are held in February.
Other festivals are tied to the seasons and the land, notably the autumn bringing down of the cattle after summer grazing in the higher altitude slopes, with the cattle adorned with bells and flowered headdresses. The fall also brings festivities surrounding the annual grape harvest, known as the Wimmlete. In December there is the Christmas Market in Vaduz. A curiously unique event is the Donkey Festival held in Malbun in August, pitting man against beast as locals try to coax their obstinate animals to finish the course first!
Food and drink
The cuisine draws from its Swiss and German neighbors, but with some uniquely local food such as Kaseknopfle, a pasta-like dumpling with cheese, and rebl, a side dish of cornmeal and semolina.
There are three restaurants currently listed in the prestigious Gault et Milleau Guide, the Restaurant Torkel at the Prince of Liechtenstein Winery just north of Vaduz, the Park Hotel Sonnenhof on a plateau overlooking the capital city, and the Berggasthaus Masescha in the mountains in Triesenberg.
Wine is produced in Liechtenstein, and the best place to visit a vineyard and taste the local wines is at the Prince of Liechtenstein Winery in Vaduz.
Top things to see in Liechtenstein
Despite its small size, Liechtenstein offers a variety of things to do and see.
In Vaduz, the places to look for include:
Vaduz Castle—though the interior is not open as it is the royal family’s residence, you can hike up to admire the castle exterior and its beautiful setting.
Städtle In Vaduz—wander the pedestrian area of the town, plus seek out the interesting and colorful architecture of the Government buildings, including the Parliament and Town Hall, or take a ride on the tourist train for a city overview.
Liechtenstein Art Museum—the country’s museum of modern and contemporary art.
Leichtenstein National Museum—a sweeping collection about the history and culture of Liechtenstein.
Treasure Chamber—a collection of jewels, weapons, and gifts presented to the Princes of Leichtenstein.
Cathedral of St. Florian—a neo-Gothic former parish church that became Vaduz’s cathedral in 1997.
Old Bridge over the Rhine—built in 1901, this is the only covered bridge over the Rhine.
Mitteldorf district with the Red House—explore the charming Mitteldorf quarter and look for the photogenic Red House overlooking vineyards.
Liechtenstein Tourism offers a valuable 24-hour Museum and Adventure Pass which gives you access to 30 attractions plus is valid for bus travel.
Elsewhere in the country, check out the following:
Triesenberg—a quant small alpine town that preserves its own dialect of Walser German, and its Heritage Museum provides insight into the local culture.
Gutenberg Castle—perched above Balzers in the south of the country, Gutenberg Castle allows visits of its chapel and rose garden amidst stunning mountain scenery.
Malbun—the country’s sole winter resort set in the mountains, it offers great skiing or hiking depending on the season.
Ruggeller Riet Nature Reserve—this reserve in the northeast of the country offers a look at the region’s flora and fauna, with opportunities to picnic, bike and take in the scenic surroundings.
Liechtenstein offers several unique outdoor activities, including:
Eagle walk–offered by the Galina Falconry Center in Malbun, the Eagle Walk Tour first takes guests by chairlift into the mountains, then the bird’s trainer lets visitors witness the majestic flight of the Golden Eagle in its home environment on the walk back.
Llama and alpaca trekking—Take a guided hike in the mountains of Triesenberg with your gear stowed on your llama or alpaca companion for the trip.
Top Liechtenstein hikes include the Prince’s Way Hike and the Eschnerberg Trail.
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Hot Girl Walk: Can This TikTok Trend Really Boost Your Mood and Fitness?
- The “Hot Girl Walk” exercise trend is gaining popularity on TikTok.
- He was influenced by the fitness of college student Mia Lind during the outbreak.
- Walking combines elements of exercise and positive thinking.
- Experts say it can be an effective way to improve physical and mental health.
If you’re looking for a way to improve your fitness and boost your self-esteem, the “Hot Girls Walk” trend on TikTok may be right for you.
This social media trend stemmed from the influence of TikTok Mia Lind, a communications student at the University of Southern California.
Lind explained in an interview with the Huff Post that he came up with the idea because he was looking for a way to play a game he didn’t mind playing. He chose to walk because he felt that there was a “meditation element” to walking long distances.
However, he realizes that walking is ugly because people consider it an illegal form of exercise. To fix this, she decided to do a “rebranding”, called “Hot Girl Walk”.
What is the “Hot Girl Walk?”
In her explanatory video, Lind shows before and after pictures of the incredible changes that have taken place in her body as she walks. He explained that what he did to achieve his great results was “very easy, and only one step”: “The Hot Girl Walk.”
The ride itself is very easy. You walk 2-4 miles an hour every day. Listen to podcasts or inspirational music on the go.
According to him, what you do during the walk is important. There are only three things you can think of:
- Things for which you are grateful.
- What are your goals and how will you achieve them?
- How hot are you
He further clarified that hot girl walk practitioners should refrain from thinking about relationship drama while walking. If you start thinking about it, he suggests increasing the volume on your music playlist to get rid of it.
However, the most important part of the journey is that it does not end with a walk.
“You take that energy and you keep it with you all day,” Lind said.
Potential physical and mental health benefits
Dr. John Higgins, a professor of medicine at the University of Texas McGovern School of Medicine, notes that “girl girl walking” has many potential physical health benefits.
“Walking 2 to 4 miles (4,000 to 8,000 steps) per hour is the best way to get close to 10,000 steps a day,” he added, adding that the remaining 2,000 steps are easy to do for the rest of the day. . ”
He also said that exercising outside would help strengthen bones by increasing vitamin D production.
In addition, listening to music during exercise is linked to better vascular function, which means it can help maintain healthy blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease, he said.
Roxana Ehsani, MS, RD, CSSD, LDN, a certified sports nutritionist and national spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, says there are many benefits to mental health.
“Exercise increases the levels of a good taste hormone called endorphins, which improves mood, reduces anxiety, stress and anxiety, and improves mental health in general,” says Ehsani. “In addition, engaging in positive self-talk will improve your mood and benefit your overall mental health.”
“There’s no question that Mia program elements will improve physical and mental health,” said Melissa L. Bates, MD, FAPS, associate professor of human health and physiology, internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Iowa. Said. Same score with your peers.
“Exercise is the foundation of good mental health, and programs like Mia’s can provide very positive mental health benefits.”
Why “Hot Girl Walk” is a “win-win” for health
Experts who spoke to about the Hot Girl Walk were very positive about the effects of exercise on overall health.
“It’s a win-win: a combination of physical (you’re exercising) and mental (you’re thinking positively with your mind),” Higgins said.
He also likes that this training is combined with what he calls “3G”: gratitude for goals and beauty / inner light.
Higgins said the “Hot Girl Walk” is an exercise she would recommend for young children as well.
“My 7-year-old daughter uses the Fitbit Ace 3 to measure her 10,000 steps a day and positive discussion and self-assessment will definitely help her at a young age,” he said.
Ehsani also praised her, noting that she encourages physical activity and educates people in a fun way, but does not promote any unhealthy or unrealistic ones.
“Running 2 to 4 miles is an achievable goal that can be done almost every day of the week. Anyone can start with just 1 mile and continue,” he said.
“I like your challenge not to focus on exercise, which can be scary and exciting for some people, and to include it as part of other healthy lifestyle patterns,” Bates said. Know that people exercise more when they do something. Have fun or are motivated to do it. Instead of committing, positive for commitment. ”
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A report from the Ontario Chamber of Commerce warns that Canada risks losing out on the brightest immigrants if it does not increase the speed of its 'Expression of Interest' (EOI) immigration system which is due to be introduced in 2015.
Former Canadian immigration minister Jason Kenney announced in 2012 that Canada would work towards the introduction of an EOI system once a backlog of applications for permanent residence by skilled immigrants had been eliminated.
Mr Kenney said that the new system would be more responsive and eliminate lengthy backlogs in future. Mr Kenney's successor Chris Alexander has said that he believes that the new EOI system will enable Canada to process applications from suitably skilled migrants in about six months but the Chamber of Commerce report says that this is still too long.
Australia processes EOIs in 58 daysThe report states that Australia can process its EOIs and issue visas in 58 days (under two months). The report states that 'the speed of the system is the single most important factor in determining whether employers will participate in the EOI system'.
It continues 'The government has signalled that the EOI system will process applications within approximately six months from Invitation to Apply to Arrival in Canada. That is too long'.
The Canadian EOI system is expected to be a kind of 'dating service' that puts suitable candidates in touch with businesses that might want to employ them. Those wanting to emigrate to Canada will submit an EOI giving their basic details. They will be assessed against a points grid. Government will choose candidatesCanadian businesses will then tell the Canadian federal government if they need a worker skilled in a certain occupation. The government will then present the business with the details of suitable candidates. If a business selects a certain candidate, that candidate will then be invited to apply for a permanent resident visa.
Providing he or she can prove that all the information originally provided is correct and meets all other Canadian immigration criteria (clean criminal record, in good health), a permanent resident visa will be issued.
Mr Kenney decided to move towards an EOI system because of a crisis in Canada's skilled immigration system. By 2012, Canada's primary skilled immigration programme, the Federal Skilled Worker Program, had developed a massive backlog. People were waiting for as much as eight years to have their applications processed.
Backlog should be cleared by 2015Mr Kenney, as immigration minister, took drastic action and terminated all applications made before March 2008. Since then, the backlog has been reduced steadily and should be eradicated by the end of 2014.
But Mr Hjartarson warns that the Canadian EOI system will still be too slow. He says that Australia allows potential employers of workers who have submitted an EOI to browse lists of suitable candidates. This, he says, makes the Australian system quicker and more responsive.
The Toronto Star reports that Mr Hjartarson also believes that this will make the Canadian system less useful for employers. Mr Hjartarson says it would be better for employers if they could browse a list of possible candidate. They could then pay attention to personal attributes of candidates besides their qualifications for the job.
Businesses need to assess all candidates' qualitiesMr Hjartarson says that employers would be able to consider non-academic qualities such as 'critical thinking, teamwork and analytical skills' when selecting their preferred candidate.
The Star reports that 30% of Ontario businesses had difficulty in filling a job vacancy in the last 18 months because no one suitably qualified was available.
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If you've never heard of incense sticks then let's introduce you to the most popular incense burner variant in the world. These sticks are found everywhere. There have been incensing sticks used in movies, tv shows, and even music videos. They are simple and the design makes them inconspicuous and easy to transport.
If you're a first-time user of incense then we'll advise you to start with incense sticks. They are not wide and of average length. You can carry them around easily and they are easy to use.
History of Incense
Incense is a critical part of the history of spirituality. Ever since Ancient Egypt, incense has been used for spiritual and religious reasons. The very first, incense sticks were used to repel evil spirits from the Egyptian royalty and the temples of Egyptian gods and goddesses.
In Ancient China, Cool Incense Burner was burnt in religious temples as a part of a tradition and for the religious significance, it held and continues to hold.
In modern times the use of incense has diversified. We now use incense for alternative therapy and aesthetic purposes. You've probably encountered incense aromas without realizing it. They are used in public spaces because they produce potent and prominent fragrances. The use of incense is popular and widespread and Incense sticks have been at the forefront of the popularity of incense.
This is not the only type of incense. We also have incense cones which are tightly packed cones on incense. We have incense coils as well as incense powder. They are by far the simplest and most popular of the incense varieties.
What Are Incense Sticks Made From?
Incense sticks are made from the incense solution and the stick. The stick used is usually a bamboo stick. This is because bamboos are surplus, lightweight, and just the perfect balance with dry and wet. They are soaked in the incense solution.
Incense is made from bark, seeds, flowers, root, resin, and a combustible base. These ingredients are used to create and make the incense solution. The bamboo sticks are then soaked in the incense solution for a few hours to absorb the fragrance and the solution into the wood. This is how incense sticks are made.
How to Use Incense Sticks
1. Before lighting up the incense Sticks you have to pick a good spot. The reason a good spot is necessary is because of the flow of air. The flow of air determines how potent or subtle your incense fragrance is.
If it is facing the flow of air then it'll probably drive the fragrance deeper into the room. If it is opposing the flow then the fragrance is driven out the window. You want to ensure that it is not in between two windows as well.
2. Once you select a spot, you will then pick a flat surface far away from fabric, paper, plastic, or any flammable objects. This is important because you don't want anything catching on fire.
Safety is extremely important which is why we recommend purchasing an incense holder. You can find incense holders on our site at very affordable prices. Your incense holder can be simple or it could be a fancy design depending on what catches your fancy. Incense holders are also an easier way to collect the ashes of the incense sticks.
3. The next step is to place your incense sticks correctly on your incense holder or flat surface. If it is on a flat surface ensure the tip you intend to light is on the edge of the flat surface.
4. You grab your lighter and then light the tip of the sticks. Do not light the middle of the stick, however, you can light either end.
5. Wait 5-7 seconds and then blow out the flame.
6. Your incense stick will begin to release your chosen fragrance a few minutes later.
Benefits of Incense Sticks
1. These sticks are easy to use and much easier to clean compared to other variants of incense.
2. Incense sticks are safer and better for beginners. They do not necessarily need equipment and can be burnt safely by beginners.
3. They are the perfect length for meditation. The average incense sticks burn for 25 to 30 minutes which is the recommended time for spiritual meditation.
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This essay analyzes Sino-Italian relations against the background of the increasing salience of the West Asia and North Africa region in Rome’s and Beijing’s strategic calculus. As China projects westward through its New Silk Road strategy, culminating at the intersection of the Mediterranean Sea and Europe’s core, the spectrum of Italy’s foreign policy options opens to innovative forms of cooperation with China to meet the challenges emanating from the European Union’s southern and southeastern neighborhoods. An integrated study of the dynamics of Sino-Italian bilateral relations and of the mounting strategic exposure both countries have across West Asia and North Africa underscores the urgency of consolidating the societal foundations of the strategic partnership ten years after its launch.
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Low-tech and high-touch, Courageous Pages is designed to maximize both children’s enjoyment and their learning through a series of fun games and interactive features, all pointing to one continuous theme: courage. The area is geared to show kids the Bible is packed with stories and people who dug deep and did what they believed was right, even in the face of fear or opposition. Children read, hear, see and experience stories in which small, courageous choices resulted in big victories, all while tired parents can catch a breather while their children play.
Size and Content
Courageous Pages has 2,176 square feet of exhibit space and 12 featured areas of interest.
Areas Within Courageous Pages
- The Book of Books: An elaborate centerpiece that ties the entire area together, this hand-fabricated marvel features a book on a pedestal with a whirlwind of pages emanating up and out of it, being “scattered” around the entire Courageous Pages area.
- Walking on Water: This is a mesmerizing illusion that uses high-end technology to project a watery surface in the middle of Courageous Pages. Kids marvel as they stand “atop” the water and inspect the animated marine life below them.
- From the Pit to the Palace: This pedestal game uses a maze and a rolling ball to tell the story of Joseph, from his coat of many colors to his various imprisonments to his ascent as second-in-command of all Egypt.
- Get the Fish in the Boat: This is another pedestal game that uses active gameplay to teach players the story of the miraculous catch of fish.
- Spies in the Land: This is a two-player cooperative game where players must work together as a team to escort spies out of the land of Jericho to safety.
- Samson Pillars: These clever illusions allow children to imagine themselves with super strength. Kids push against two columns and watch them safely buckle before springing back in time for the next player. A great photo opportunity!
- David and Goliath (game): This game puts players in the center of the action of this well-known story as they pitch soft “stones” at a mobile Goliath target.
- Daniel and the Lions’ Den (game): A Hebrew Bible version of the classic beanbag toss, this game lets players pitch soft objects into the mouths of some not-too-terrifying lions.
- Get Esther to the King (game): While skillfully rolling a ball down an extended platform without falling off, players take in the story of brave Queen Esther meeting King Xerxes.
- Fishes and Loaves (game): This creative take on skee ball switches out rolling balls for tossing “loaves” and “fish” to increase a player’s score, all while simultaneously telling the story of the time Jesus fed a multitude.
- Young People of the Bible: This interactive feature introduces kids to other kids found in the Bible. Guests have to solve a mystery with only a couple of clues, so they have to think sharply!
- Noah’s Ark Toddler Area: We cannot forget the little ones, so Courageous Pages features an entire area dedicated to toddlers with engaging animal artwork, a two-story playscape and four delightful games that are great for little hands and developing minds.
Outside the Walking on Water feature, the entirety of Courageous Pages was designed to use simple mechanics. It has rolling balls and levers, knobs and dials, pencils and paper—and all of it created specifically for Museum of the Bible with the input of child development and education specialists and built from scratch by JMC craftspeople and artisans. Children will be mesmerized by the variety of games and interactives, while exploring the stories of the Bible.
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In the last decade, Robert Andrew has become known for his works combining technology and ochre, particularly his palimpsest pieces, which over the course of an exhibition reveal a Yawuru or site-specific, local Aboriginal word. It’s a revealing of language, culture and history, exhibiting everywhere from the National Gallery of Australia to the National Gallery of Victoria. Now Andrew is showing at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), responding to lutruwita’s (Tasmania’s) buried history and working with local pakana knowledge holders and speakers of palawa kani: the revived language of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Andrew talks about this collaboration, discovering his Aboriginal heritage, becoming an artist later in life, and the power dynamics of language.
Tiarney Miekus: Your most well-known works use machinery, ochre, oxides and water to reveal what’s often a Yawuru word on a gallery wall. The first was in 2013 and revealed Mimi, which is “mother’s mother”. It set a trajectory for the next 10 years, but how did that work come about?
Robert Andrew: It definitely has. It started when I had my studio at home, a little room, and the mechanism was built there for my Honours year. I was looking at language and education, particularly my own education, and the layers that have been built up within Australian history—the colonisers’ history that has been covered up. And going back to my own childhood at primary school, there were blackboards and chalk. I wasn’t very good at English subjects, but I started off in my studio with a blackboard and those ideas about writing and rewriting over and over again, which is the idea of palimpsest where you still have that imagery of what lays behind.
So, I had a chalkboard and I was trying to build up layers of chalk and I was using either the water pistol we used to spray the cats when they were doing bad things, or a squirty bottle—and it was spraying onto the blackboard to remove the buildup of a few layers of chalk that I’ve put on there. Even now, all the works have that black chalkboard layer underneath: you don’t see it, it just gives an added depth. And then bringing that idea of the reveal in, and the mechanics of how to do that.
TM: That process of revealing is so central.
RA: A lot of my work revolves around the idea of that slow reveal, of taking back layers, taking back this white facade which represents my own Western education and views—revealing, as I find out more on Indigenous history and my own family.
TM: That intent on revealing coupled with the blackboard is interesting, because you would have used blackboards as a child, and it was only later at the age of 13 you learnt of your Indigenous heritage. It would have been a huge moment.
RA: Yeah, it was. It was my grandmother showing us my great-great-grandmother Mimi—and that’s where I first came across the word. And Mimi’s partner was a Filipino man from Broome. It was a picture of both of them—although not together. But it was seeing Mimi who was from the Broome area, and her family and sisters. And I’d see all my rellies on my mum’s side, when we’d go up to Broome or Darwin in the school holidays, but I was never aware, really. It made sense once I knew we had Aboriginal heritage, where the variations within our family came from.
It was a little difficult, but I was proud to know that I had Aboriginal heritage. Even in those times when there was a lot of racism on TV and news about Aboriginal people. But for me it was hard to locate myself within my Indigeneity. My schooling was about the Aboriginals in the desert, so I didn’t know how to fit into that part of my heritage and where that belonged. I didn’t know the term ‘urban Aboriginal’. It’s obvious in retrospect because all my rellies were living within cities or country towns. But there was a huge, huge distance in time and place between my learnings of Aboriginal people and where I was. It took me a long time to actually locate myself within that.
TM: Art would eventually become central to that, but you attended art school later in life. What were you up to in your twenties and thirties?
RA: I started really late. It was mid-forties I started art. I grew up in Perth and stayed there until I was 21 and then worked with Telstra for seven years and lived up in Broome. My skill set comes from these different places that I’ve worked at along the way, which is really helpful. And when I was in Broome— I really liked living there, but there’s a song about people being young, unintelligent and inebriated. You know, that’s where I was. I didn’t follow up on anything. I visited a few rellies, but it was just about going out and enjoying myself.
From there I came over to Newcastle and was working with my older sister, Deb, for seven years in furniture making and manufacturing. And Deb, from a younger age, has had more of a connection with that side of family and her Indigeneity.
From Newcastle, I came to Brisbane to be with my partner and she introduced me to like-minded peers and mentors in the Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA) department at Queensland College of Art. And going back, it was my sister Deb who did a very similar course in Geelong where she learnt about our family, and that sparked my interest into our history, seeing what she got out of it. It was quite confronting for me to hear what she was relaying back to us—not just about our family, but also about other histories. At that time, I was also doing 3D modeling and animation work for architects and engineers, using my computer skills, and then took this opportunity to study more about family and history.
Looking back on it now, it was going from having a wage to no wage. I’m not exactly sure what I was thinking! But I’m glad I was thinking that way.
TM: I’ve seen a few of your palimpsest works and other mechanically based pieces, and I’m always struck by how captivating the works are not just visually, but how the audience becomes so attentive to engaging with the mechanics, the formalism, of the artwork. How do those pieces actually ‘work’?
RA: That’s nice to hear the way people engage with the work. It’s that slowing down of time for people, bringing people in. The whole mechanism operates on slow time, over a longer period of time. You’re getting such a small moment, but then you can project that forward: you can see the history of the work and anticipate it moving forward. With the palimpsest works, it’s layers of ochres and oxides built up and then white chalk—but it gets seen as ink going onto the surface, as opposed to the idea of the water spraying and taking little sections of that ochre and white chalk off, and having it bleeding down to reveal what’s behind.
There’s layers and layers in my process of programming, and I put the text on there as the space that doesn’t get eroded. There’s a different program for each day depending on the length of it: if there’s a hundred days, there’s a hundred days of programming. It takes off different sections on each day.
TM: Do you start with the technology first or the concept first? What gets a new artwork going?
RA: There’s a spark that triggers something that grows. For instance, there was a recent work at IMA and it was just three drips of water onto a book. It was A.O. Neville’s book, Australia’s Coloured Minority [Neville was a British bureaucrat in the early 1990s, officially titled as Chief Protector of Aborigines] and it was sitting on a rock on a large black plinth with ochres within the pages. And over time it’s eaten into the book, into the pages, and all the ochres dribbled out. Each day it flowed down the long plinth. It came from seeing that book—and being someone who explored Chernobyl in school—and seeing a book sitting there with knowledge, this text being slowly eaten away by water. It was this idea of time and the power of a drip of water.
Then seeing this movement and change within Indigenous culture, this constant movement of it. And also taking away the power of that [A.O. Neville’s] language too. It was a cathartic piece.
It’s this back and forth between them [the technology and concept] and I don’t just go, “Oh, I like lasers. I want to make work with lasers.” As much as I like lasers! Instead, I want to use the tool, the mechanism as well as design—and I make all the mechanisms myself, so I’ve got that control over the aesthetic to a degree. But people look at it and say, “Oh, where do you buy those from?” As if it’s off the shelf, which is good because I’m wanting to make a mechanism, but having that subversion of the mechanism not being the focus. And I have to have the idea of the mechanism because I’ve always got to know how to achieve something. I’ve got to start a work knowing that I can make it, rather than having these grand ideas of laser beams [laughs].
TM: Going back to what you said about the colonising effects of language—your works show this so clearly, even the font you choose, it has that impact of language being linked to power dynamics. Has language always been important to you in that way?
RA: It’s interesting, something I struggle with is language. There’s always been a disconnection for me with ideas and being able to articulate things or comprehend things without constantly going over them. At times it makes me frustrated, but I see some parallels with coming into someone’s culture and taking away something that has their whole knowledge system, their strength of ideas, and their place within the Country—and taking that away and forcing them to use another language.
This was strongly encouraged everywhere within Australia with all Indigenous speakers, and it’s something I’ve only got a little insight into with my own difficulties with language. This is a tangent, but I’ve seen A.O. Neville’s rejection letter to my great-grandmother for her application for citizenship, saying that she was ‘mixing’ and hanging around with other Aboriginal half-caste girls: there was implications of language within it. It’s this idea that you’ve got to speak the language and ‘do as we do’ to get the benefits that we get.
But still, there’s a revival language in a lot of places that have lost that connection. And Tasmania is one of those places that has lost that connection to their language and are reconstructing it from the words found in Western explorers who’ve gone through and written these down.
TM: How does it feel at the end of a palimpsest work when you see that Yawuru word on the gallery wall?
RA: I don’t like to talk about translation, but it’s like a translation of emotion. With the palimpsest works, sometimes I miss seeing the end of it. But when I do [see the end], it’s a moment. Definitely a moment. I don’t know whether I could put it into words because it’s something I can only imagine. I don’t have the luxury to have a work that goes for three months in my studio to see it. So then being there and seeing that word within that space—it lives. There’s an energy. The end is a critical point where it becomes cohesive as a whole, as that artwork. And knowing how well the oxides stain, even if they paint it over it’s still held within those walls. Also, that first spray onto the white surface is a moment as well.
TM: As we speak, you’re currently preparing for an exhibition at Mona, collaborating with Aboriginal linguistic consultant Theresa Sainty. How did that come about and what will you exhibit?
RA: I was made aware of Theresa and her work—she’s undertaking a PhD in looking into language and place names. I put my proposal towards Mona, wanting to collaborate with the traditional owners and knowledge holders of that area—and Theresa was brought to my attention as having that strong connection to language. Whenever I collaborate with language within the work, it’s always a different story of where the language is, and who’s speaking it. It gives a deeper insight into the places.
Theresa and I have been going back and forth, chatting about the works, and they’ve evolved over time to sit within the language, sit within the Country. Theresa’s gifted me a group of words for each work—there’s two main works, a video work and a soil work—but you won’t see or hear any of the words in parts of the work. It’s where a combination of different works have come together, and you’ll see how there’s also cutting into the rock, and revealing the sandstone and the layers within the sandstone. So it’s talking to Theresa and understanding the words of that place, then moving my work at the component level to talk about that Country and that language.
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Black Lotus Labs® releases threat intelligence report showing newly discovered watering hole attack that targeted Ukrainian, Canadian organizations
Attackers' tradecraft mimics that of recent hack of San Francisco International Airport websites
DENVER, April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Lotus Labs, the threat intelligence arm of Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), today announced it has uncovered a cluster of compromised websites previously used in a series of watering hole attacks. Any visitors who browsed to one of the sites would unknowingly be infected and vulnerable to the threat actor stealing a copy of their Windows authentication credentials, which could be used to impersonate them. The activity, which was only recently discovered, was identified on several Ukrainian websites and one Canadian website in 2019 and 2020.
Watering hole attacks target websites by injecting a malicious function into the site's code, which the victims' machine then executes. These types of attacks have been used for years, including in a high-profile compromise that was detected on the San Francisco International Airport's (SFO) website in April 2020.
In its analysis of the attacks in Ukraine and Canada, Black Lotus Labs observed malicious activity that appeared to exhibit the same tradecraft as the San Francisco airport attack. As a result, the team has clustered the activity to the same actor.
To disrupt the attacks in Ukraine and Canada, Black Lotus Labs notified the owners of the compromised websites of these findings.
How the Attacks Were Executed
"Our mission is to leverage our network visibility to help protect our customers and keep the internet clean, so we will continue to monitor this actor and this type of watering hole activity," said Mike Benjamin, head of Black Lotus Labs. "To protect against this type of attack, organizations should configure their firewalls to prevent outbound SMB-based communications from leaving the network, or consider turning off or limiting SMB in the corporate environment."
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Prepare your student for college life.
Your student is about to take a huge step forward, and we know that you want to make sure they are as prepared as possible. Students heading off to their first year in college need to be given space, but they must know that they still have a support system at home.
Here are some tried-and-true tips to help you prepare your student for life at UNC Charlotte.
Starting College Life Off Right!
Our studies also suggest that students who live on campus, work on campus and work less than 20 hours per week, as well as those who become moderately involved in campus clubs and organizations, have a significant advantage over those who do not. It all comes down to connecting with, and ultimately feeling that you are a part of, your university family while allowing enough time to be successful academically. Remember, a 15-hour course load (about five courses) will require approximately 45 hours of class time and study time per week. As family members and support systems, you have a big part in guiding and advising and encouraging your college student in areas that will help promote success.
Academic Differences Between High School and College
Students quickly learn that expectations in college are higher than in high school. Professors expect absolute diligence. Students must prepare for class by reviewing all assigned material. The standard rule is that a student should prepare two hours for every hour in class. College is a full-time job. Whether you have attended college, raised children or built a career, you understand the value of work. Your student can learn from your experiences.
Communicating With Faculty
Please encourage your student to communicate directly with University faculty and staff and take responsibility for their own school relationships. They should know which department to call if a problem arises and feel comfortable asking for help. It's important that you resist the natural urge to come to the rescue and instead, show your student that you are confident that they can handle their own business by encouraging them to do so. Empower your student to strive for self-reliance and independence, but to also reach out for help when appropriate.
Keeping in Touch
It is essential to maintain an active relationship with your student. Whether you live across the country or across town, we recommend that you initiate a conversation with your new college student about how to keep in touch (e-mail, letters or phone), how often (daily, weekly or monthly), and at what time of day (morning, evening or just on the weekends).
Visiting campus is an excellent idea, but surprise visits are not recommended. As new college students adjust to their schedules, they will know which weekends or evenings will work best for them. For example, a Sunday visit the day before midterm exams may not be a good time. Your student can help you choose the right time. You may plan a visit around an event such as the international festival, a basketball game or a theatre performance.
Care packages are great! Students love to receive packages no matter what they contain. Even if you send a bar of soap, new toothbrush and a couple of snacks, it will be appreciated. Some of the best items in care packages are favorites from home.
Practicing basic skills like doing laundry can help your student feel less stressed in a new situation. Make sure they know how to operate machines, understand clothing labels and symbols and can separate laundry as needed.
Maybe your student is used to having their own bedroom at home. You can help by teaching respect for a roommate's personal space, property and unique differences, and how to communicate effectively in new relationships. Your student will need to know how to set ground rules with a roommate and how to ask for help if necessary.
Money & Finances
Many new college students have not been responsible for their day-to-day expenses. Once they arrive on campus they will need money for notebooks, snacks, personal items and recreation. UNC Charlotte has ATM machines from several banks on campus. You may want to select a bank that is convenient for students and family members.
College students need financial guidance and practice. It's a good idea to make sure your student is comfortable with working within a set spending budget, knows how to balance a checkbook and can pay his or her own bills. They can also utilize Niner Finances once on campus to learn more about these important life skills.
Health Appointments & Prescriptions
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You can’t eat a meal without Instagramming it. You’re the Foursquare mayor of every room in your apartment. Once—a day you will remember forever—@shaq retweeted you.
Yep, you’re pretty much addicted to social media. Wouldn’t it be great if you not only got to use social media endlessly but also had the opportunity to design and implement creative campaigns and strategies—and get paid to do it?
It doesn’t hurt that “social media” is a buzzword in, well, pretty much every industry. That means the job market is full of companies looking to hire someone for their social media. It could be you. However, there are a few things you need to know first.
As the social media strategist at iAcquire, I’m going to dish some inside information on what you need to know about having a career in social media.
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Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011 is an outstanding free online resource.[PubMed Abstract] [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF] MMWR Recomm Rep. 2012 Jan 13;61(RR-1):1-20.
The purpose of these guidelines (2) are to provide a protocol to help prehospital providers decide the appropriate hospital for the injured patient. But all physicians and nurses will find this document worth reviewing.
A review of these excellent guidelines is useful for any physician or nurse. Injured patients may not have called the life-squad but instead gone inappropriately to a physician’s office or urgent care center. This is especially possible for the type of patients in Step 3 and Step 4 of the algorithm below.
Thus this document can be helpful for any physician in any setting seeing an acutely injured patient, again especially the types of patients described in Steps 3 and 4.
Seriously injured patients need to be taken to a Level 1 (1) trauma center, a specialized hospital that can rapidly provide definitive treatment for any kind of life-threatening injury.
So in any accident or injury, the EMT or paramedic must decide whether to transport the patient to a regular hospital or to a trauma center hospital.
The decision process that the EMT/paramedic goes through to decide where the patient needs to go is called “field triage”.
The Centers for Disease Control and the American College of Surgery have produced a guide to help prehospital providers decide which hospital to transport a seriously injured patient. (2) These “field triage” guidelines are for individual injured patients. These guidelines are not for mass casualty events with many injured patients who need to be evaluated simultaneously.
The first step is to measure the vital signs and level of consciousness. This is done by determing the systolic blood pressure, the respiratory rate, and the Glasgow Coma Scale.
The injured patient is taken to the highest level trauma center available if the answer to any of the following questions is yes:
The Glasgow Coma Scale is less than or equal to 13.
The systolic blood pressure is less than 90 mm Hg.
The respiratory rate is less than 10 or greater than 29 breaths per minute. (3)
(the respiratory rate is less than 20 in infant less than 1 year).
The patient needs ventilatory support
If the answers to all of the above questions are no, then the EMT/paramedic proceeds to Step 2.
The second step is to assess the anatomy of the injury.
The injured patient is taken to the highest level trauma center available if the answer is yes to any of the following:
All penetrating injuries to the head, neck, torso, and extremities proximal to elbow or knee.
Chest wall instability or deformity (e.g., flail chest).
Two or more long bone fractures.
Crushed, degloved, mangled or pulseless extremities.
Amputation proximal to wrist or ankle.
Open or depressed skull fractures.
If none of the above are present, then the EMT/paramedic proceeds to Step 3.
Step 3 (4)
The third step is to assess the mechanism of injury and evidence of high-energy impact.
The injured patient is taken to a trauma center (the level of the trauma center depends on trauma system) (4) if any of the following apply:
–Adults greater than 20 feet (one story equals ten feet).
–Children (age < 15 years) greater than 10 feet or two or three times the height of the child.
High-risk auto crash
–Intrusion, (5) including roof: > 12 inches occupant site; > 18 inches any site.
–Ejection (partial or complete) from automobile.
–Death in same passenger compartment.
–Vehicle telemetry data consistent with high risk of energy.
Auto versus pedestrian/bicyclist, thrown, run over, or with significant (> 20 mph) impact. (6)
Motorcycle crash > 20 mph.
If none of the above apply, then the EMT/paramedic proceeds to Step 4.
The fourth step is to assess for special patient or system considerations.
If any of the the following apply, then “Transport to a trauma center or hospital capable of timely and thorough evaluation and initial management of potentially serious injuries.”
Older adults (age greater than age 55 years)
–Risk of injury/death increases after age 55 years.
–SBP < 110 might represent shock after age 65 years.
–Low impact mechanisms (e.g. ground level falls) might result in severe injury.
–Should be triaged preferentially to pediatric capable trauma center.
Anticoagulation and bleeding disorders
–Patients with head injury are at high risk for rapid deterioration.
–Without other trauma mechanisms: triage to burn center. (7)
–With trauma mechanism: triage to trauma center. (7)
Pregnancy > 20 weeks
EMS provider judgment
“Patients who do not meet any of the triage criteria in Steps One through Four should be transported to the most appropriate medical facility as outlined in local EMS protocols.”
But when in doubt, transport to a trauma center.
* All footnotes are sourced from document of footnote 2.
(1) “Trauma centers are designated Level I-IV. A Level I center has the greatest amount of resources and personnel for care of the injured patient and provides regional leadership in education, research, and prevention programs. A Level II facility offers similar resources to a Level I facility, possibly differing only in continuous availability of certain subspecialties or sufficient prevention, education, and research activities for Level I designation; Level II facilities are not required to be resident or fellow education centers. A Level III center is capable of assessment, resuscitation, and emergency surgery, with severely injured patients being transferred to a Level I or II facility. A Level IV trauma center is capable of providing 24-hour physician coverage, resuscitation, and stabilization to injured patients before transfer to a facility that provides a higher level of trauma care.”
(2) Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients: Recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. MMWR, Jan 13, 2012. Vol 61, no 1 available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr6101.pdf.
(3) The experienced provider should know that the purpose of the rate of greater than 29 applied to infants is to make sure they are over-triaged after an injury the guideline explains. No harm is done if the infant goes to a trauma center for evaluation but if taken to a hospital without the resources to treat injured infants, a preventable death might result.
(4) “Local or regional protocols should be used to determine the most appropriate level of trauma center within the defined trauma system; need not be the highest-level trauma center.”
(5) “Intrusion refers to interior compartment intrusion, as opposed to deformation which refers to exterior damage.”
(6) “Includes pedestrians or bicyclists thrown or run over by a motor vehicle or those with estimated impact >20 mph with a motor vehicle.”
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If you’re thinking about launching a new business or a side hustle, one of the first things to consider is purchasing a domain name and launching a website.
Not only is building a website a stellar way to build your brand, but a website also helps you:
- Build credibility as a business owner
- Attract the attention of consumers looking for businesses like yours online
- Sell products online
- Market your products effectively
- Capture customer insights
- Beat your less tech-savvy competitors
- Capture online reviews
- List your contact information
- Take advantage of local search results
- And more!
While having a domain name and a website is a must when building a new business, it’s shocking to learn that stats show that less than two-thirds (64%) of small businesses have a website.
What these business owners might not know, besides that a website is integral to the success of your business, is that it’s affordable and easy to build a website. Additionally, it’s possible to get a domain name for free if you sign up for a hosting account with HostGator.
This post will cover the steps you need to take to get a domain name for free with a HostGator hosting account.
What do you need to get a website up and running?
Before learning how to get a free domain name, it’s important to understand the behind-the-scene basics of a working website.
When a new website owner aims to launch a new website, this is what they need:
- A domain name – A domain name is like the internet version of a home address. Your domain name is 100% unique to your website, and when an internet user types in that specific sequence of letters into their browser, they will get to your website and only your website. For example, if you type in www.hostgator.com into the URL box of your browser, you’ll get to HostGator. If you type in www.nike.com, you’ll get to Nike. Every website owner rents a domain name for a yearly fee, and these fees vary depending on the domain name.
- Web hosting – Web hosting is a service that offers dedicated space on a huge server for a website to store its files. If a domain name is like an address, then web hosting servers are like the actual home. Web hosting makes it possible for websites to exist on the internet, and load quickly and securely whenever an internet searcher types in your domain name.
- Design – Websites also need a design, so something gorgeous shows up when an internet searcher types in your domain name. You can design a site using a pre-built theme from a content management system like WordPress or a website builder like the Gator Website Builder.
How to get a free domain name with HostGator
Now that you know the basics of what you need to start a website, let’s talk about how to get a free domain name and why you should pick HostGator.
The HostGator platform is also built to accommodate larger businesses or businesses that want to scale. For these larger companies, HostGator offers PRO hosting plans, including dedicated hosting, VPS, and reseller hosting.
Regardless of what hosting plan you need, you can rely on HostGator to offer:
- 99.9% uptime
- Unmetered bandwidth
- One-click installs
- Free site transfers
- Free SSL certificate
- A free domain name!
Now, here are the steps to getting a free domain name with your hosting account.
Step 1: Start with buying your hosting package
When you first navigate to HostGator.com, you’ll probably first notice the menu. On the menu, you’ll see “Hosting,” “PRO Hosting,” “Domains,” “Support,” and “Affiliates.”
While securing your domain name is one of the most important pieces of the website building puzzle, don’t start by clicking on “domain.”
The “domain” section of the HostGator website is a great place to search and see if a domain name is available. However, if you purchase your domain name before purchasing hosting, you won’t get your domain name for free.
Instead of starting by clicking on “domain,” start by clicking on “Get Started” on the HostGator main page.
Clicking “Get started” will direct you to the page where you can select your hosting plan.
As a quick side note, there are two exceptions where it’s worth it to buy your domain name before your hosting account.
- If you want to reserve a domain name and are afraid someone else may snag the domain name before you’re ready to buy a hosting plan, it’s sometimes worth it to go ahead and purchase the domain name in advance.
- Another time you may want to buy a domain name is if you already have a website up and running and want to buy additional domain names to point to your current website.
For example, you may have a website www.yourwebsite.com and may want to buy the same domain name with all the top-level domain name options. In this case, you could navigate to the “domain” section of the website and buy www.yourwebsite.co, www.yourwebsite.biz, www.yourwebsite.inc, etc.
If this is your first time buying a domain name, click on “Get started,” and move to step two.
Step 2: Pick your hosting plan
Once you’ve clicked on “Get started,” HostGator will direct you to a page with the three main shared hosting options.
If you’re a novice website owner and are looking to get a new website up and running, you’ll want to select one of these three basic shared hosting plans: Hatchling Plan, Baby Plan, or Business Plan.
If you look at the different shared hosting plans, you’ll notice that all of them come with a free domain name.
To help you decide which plan is best for you, click on “Compare all plans” at the bottom of the screen and you’ll see all the different features included in the three different plans.
The main difference between the Hatchling Plan and the Baby Plan is the number of domains you can host under your account. If you opt for the Hatchling Plan, you can host only one domain under this plan.
If you pay slightly more with the Baby Plan (our recommended plan), you can host an unlimited number of domains. In other words, if you plan on starting more than one website, you can host all of them under the same account, instead of having to open up and pay for hosting for each different website. This is a steal of a deal and a great way to streamline the management of your websites.
Once you’ve selected the hosting plan you want, click on “Buy Now.”
Step 3: Select your domain name
Once you’ve hit “Buy Now,” HostGator will direct you to the next page where you can select your domain name, confirm your plan selection, and enter your account details.
The first step in the process is the fun part. This is where you get to choose your free domain name.
To select your free domain, search for your desired domain name. It’s important to keep in mind that there are over 1.74 billion websites, so your first .com choice may not be available.
If your first choice isn’t available, you can pick another domain name. If you are set on your main domain, then you can choose a different top-level domain, which is the part that comes after the dot. For example, top-level domains include .com, .biz, .inc, .store, .online, and more.
Once you type in your desired domain name, HostGator will conduct a quick search and let you know whether or not it is available.
Here are examples of a domain name that is already taken and unavailable, and a domain name that is available with the corresponding prices.
You’ll notice that the primary domain name is free and included with your hosting plan. If you want to add additional domain names to your plan, then you can click on the corresponding domain name and add it to your cart.
Next, you can choose whether or not you want to add privacy protection to your domain names.
We recommend adding domain privacy protection because it hides your personal contact information from public view.
Step 4: Select your plan and billing cycle
The next step in the process of securing your free domain name is to solidify the plan you want and pick your billing cycle.
Again, we recommend the Baby Plan for most users. You’ll also notice that if you pick a longer billing cycle, HostGator offers you a discount.
A longer billing cycle also ensures you run into fewer hiccups when it’s time to renew your domain name and hosting plan.
Step 5: Create your hosting account
Next, you’ll create your hosting account by entering your email address, password, and 4-digit security pin.
The information you enter here will be your account login information, so make sure to remember it.
Step 6: Enter your billing information
The next step in the sign-up process is to enter your billing information.
HostGator offers several payment options including credit cards and PayPal. You’ll also notice there is a box to enter your tax exemption ID, if applicable.
Step 7: Add additional services
During the sign-up process, you can also opt for additional services, including:
- Positive SSL (Free SSL is included)
- SiteLock Essentials
- Professional Email
- Site Backup
- HostGator SEO Tools
These services are helpful but optional. Two we highly recommend adding are SiteLock, because it helps protect your site from malware and malicious attacks, and CodeGuard, which ensures you always have a backup of your website in place.
Step 8: Enter any coupon codes, review your order details, and check-out
The next steps include entering any relevant coupon codes, reviewing your order details to make sure they are correct, and checking out.
Once you press check-out and your payment is confirmed, your new free domain name will be secured, and you can start taking additional steps to build your website.
Get a free domain name with HostGator today!
Building a new website is the best way to get your new business or side hustle off the ground.
Remember with every new hosting account, HostGator offers a free domain name. We can’t wait to see you get your website up and running. Check out our hosting plans today and reserve your free domain name now.
Ashley R. Cummings is a professional freelance writer specializing in SaaS, tech, and advertising/marketing. In a previous life, she was a Russian teacher at Brigham Young University, a corporate trainer, and a grad student—all at the same time. When she’s not writing, you can find her traveling the world with her 2 kids and husband, reading poetry or taking a deep dive into the fabulous world of comedy. Connect with her on Twitter at @ashleyrcummings. | <urn:uuid:0b295ff1-305b-421d-8460-a2d484dbf220> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hostgator.com/blog/how-get-free-domain-name/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.907009 | 2,422 | 1.8125 | 2 |
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Basics of Intellectual Property for Computational Scientists
Presented at the Applied Mathematics Perspectives workshop, "Reproducible Research: Tools and Strategies for Scientific Computing," Vancouver, B.C., July 13-16, 2011.
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