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SAN PEDRO TAPANATEPEC, Mexico — The boys had left their neighborhood in Honduras within hours of one another in search of the migrant caravan they had seen on the news. One told his mother he was going to soccer practice. The other sneaked out in the middle of the night.
Somehow, they said, they had found each other in the crowd and followed it here to this small town in southern Mexico. But after more than 600 miles, the two friends were at a crossroads.
Despite a throat infection that had turned into a fever, then a cough that rattled his small chest, Isaac Reyes Enamorado was undeterred.
“I’ve never thought of turning back,” the 12-year-old said as he rested Sunday in the shade of Tapanatepec’s central plaza.
Two blocks away, Javier Flores Maldonado lay on a dirty yoga mat, thinking just that. A few days earlier, the 16-year-old got word that his mother had fallen ill after learning that he wasn’t playing soccer but was walking to the United States. Now his family wanted him to come home.
The caravan has drawn the ire of President Trump, who has alleged without evidence that it includes terrorists and gang members and constitutes a potential “invasion.”
There is one prominent feature of the caravan the president has not mentioned: the children.
There were roughly 2,300 minors in the 9,300-member caravan when it entered Mexico on Oct. 19, according to UNICEF, although it appears to have shrunk to between 4,000 and 7,000.
These children are the most vulnerable of asylum seekers: some as young as a few months, many swaddled in blankets or asleep in strollers whose wheels were coming off after two weeks on the road. Others are traveling alone or with siblings.
Their vulnerability was underlined Saturday night when a man was attacked by fellow migrants after he was accused of trying to abduct a child — an accusation that activists assisting the caravan said was false — and again Monday morning when a child injured his head in a fall from a car on which he was trying to hitch a ride.
The danger is heightened for the children traveling without their parents, who — if they continue to the U.S.-Mexico border — will be part of a wave of more than 250,000 unaccompanied minors who have crossed into the United States in the past five years, mostly fleeing gang violence and poverty in Central America.
Javier now faced a choice: abandon his dreams of a better life in America or break his mother’s heart.
The misery back home
As the caravan rested Sunday in Tapanatepec, the normally sleepy town was transformed into a massive playground. A dozen children clambered atop a single slide. Some kicked crushed water bottles over the cobblestones, while others panhandled in hopes of buying a soccer ball. Everywhere there were small voices screaming and coughing and laughing.
Dozens of children were in the river, a murky stream whose brown water provided some relief from the scorching sun.
In the middle of the current splashed 17-year-old identical twins Jordy and Jonny Arguijo Gonzalez. They were almost gaunt from walking, and their feet were covered in sores. Their eyes were red from conjunctivitis picked up from dust on the road or from waters like these, which smelled of sewage. They shared a single pair of pink sandals — found on the road — with their father.
On the river bank, among families washing their clothes on the rocks, Denis Arguijo watched over his sons. He had sold fruit from a cart in Tegucigalpa, and when the twins were old enough, he had asked them to help. But then gang members pressed the teens to sell drugs instead, he said. And when the boys refused, the threats began. The caravan was their way to safety.
And yet, the teens said they felt like the danger had followed them here to Tapanatepec. Young men smoked marijuana on the river banks. Others openly sold it. One offered “polvo” or powder — cocaine.
“There are bad people here, too,” Jordy would say later.
“But we stay away from that,” added Jonny.
Now their father whistled and the boys, chest high in the water, whistled back to show they were all right.
Some children seemed to think of the caravan as an adventure, while others viewed it as punishment for something they didn’t realize they had done.
Angie Perdomo, 6, said she liked walking every day with her mother.
But as Doris Perdomo braided her daughter’s hair, Angie also recounted losing her notebook and crayons as she and her mother fled from tear gas fired by Mexican authorities at the border with Guatemala.
“There were police so we had to run away,” Angie said, adding that they didn’t ride in the back of trucks because “you can trip and fall and die.”
But the hardships on the road were outweighed by the misery back home.
In his hometown of Peña Blanca, Isaac, the 12-year-old who sneaked out in the middle of the night, said he had been one of eight children in a house with plastic tarps for its walls and ceiling. On Oct. 13, his neighbors began heading to San Pedro Sula to join the caravan massing at the bus station.
Isaac borrowed 200 Honduran lempiras — about $8 — from his boss, a vegetable vendor. When he told his mother he wanted to join the caravan so he could become an electrician in the United States and build her a proper house in Peña Blanca, she laughed.
But then, at 3 in the morning on Oct. 14, he stuffed five shirts and two pairs of pants into his backpack and slipped out the front door.
When she realized he’d gone, his mother sent his 19-year-old brother, Fernando, after him. He had found Isaac a week later in Guatemala near the Mexican border.
“I’m here to look after him,” Fernando said. “But it’s also a dream of mine to go to the United States.”
Isaac also found others from his hometown in the caravan, including Javier, the 16-year-old who’d lied to his mother about going to soccer practice. For much of the journey, the two traveled together.
Javier had followed his 23-year-old brother, Alex, to the caravan. Alex said he was deported from Mexico nine months ago and saw the caravan as a chance to get back to his pregnant wife in time for the birth.
But when Javier found his brother after several days on his own, Alex was angry that Javier — the youngest of seven — had left their mother. Then they called her from Mexico and heard about her heart problems.
“This has been hard for him,” Alex said. “He’s been depressed.”
In recent days, as the decision whether to go back weighed on Javier, he and Isaac had drifted apart. While Isaac was eager to jump on whatever truck slowed for them, Javier was not. It was as if something was pulling him back to Honduras.
By Sunday night, it was time to decide. He borrowed his brother’s phone and dialed his mother.
One boy's decision
On Monday, Isaac awoke at 2 a.m. inside a hedged garden in the plaza, roused by the sound of activists on loudspeakers. An hour later, the caravan was on the move, streaming out of Tapanatepec on its way to another town 30 miles away.
“Vámonos,” Isaac urged the stragglers, still sleeping on the sidewalk. “Let’s go.” When the caravan passed an outdoor gym on the way out of town, Isaac leaped onto the equipment, doing situps with a smile.
Two hours later, after several miles and a nap in a ditch, Isaac spotted an empty truck and jumped onto the back with two dozen other men and boys, disappearing into the distance just as dawn broke.
Back in Tapanatepec, Javier waited at the police station. He was No. 35 on a list of 80 migrants who had asked for “voluntary departure.”
For four hours he waited, bored and yet anxious to see his mother. When a bus arrived, Javier sprang to his feet.
An official handed him a packet of “oral electrolytes” and a pamphlet warning migrants that they could be attacked by cartels or abandoned by smugglers.
But Javier had already made up his mind. Once he had saved enough money, he was going to try again to make it to the United States — this time using a smuggler.
“That way my mother will know that I’m safe,” he said.
Then he boarded the bus back home.
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Tekst: Agnes Sire e.a.
Aantal pagina’s: 176
Illustraties: Kleur en zwart-wit
Uitgever: Schirmer Mosel, 2009
Staat: Als nieuw
Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling in Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 2009
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20 July 2021
|Basement type: Retrofit
||Building type: Residential
|Type of waterproofing: Type C
Member: Delta Membrane Systems
Delta Registered Installers delivered an effective and maintainable Type C waterproofing solution to a private dwelling on time and on budget. The scope of the project was to provide a structural waterproofing solution to an existing property with a new build extension. As the property was situated on a sloping site, this gave the opportunity for the waterproofing design to utilise the slope to allow for natural discharge of any potential water ingress.
The property is detached with retaining walls to the front and side elevations where the retained ground slopes down and away from the property to a garden that continues to descend to a small stream. The retaining walls on either elevation rise at their highest point to approximately 1500mm above the internal floor level.
The internal walls of the property were originally brick to the front and a new cavity was created with concrete blocks. The floor of the original house is of solid concrete construction joining on to a newer block and beam floor construction. When designing the most appropriate waterproofing system for any given situation, various design factors require addressing such as (but not limited to), final use of the building, the grade of waterproofing requirement under the British Standard, structural considerations based on the form of construction and in some cases, satisfying the requirements of building warranty providers.
Pre site inspections were carried out along with consultations with the homeowners, to ensure the waterproofing design not only meets BS 8102:2009 (Code of practice for protection of below ground structures against water from the ground) but also client expectations. The client sought to have a hands-on approach to the design which was warmly welcomed.
The CSSW qualified surveyor and Delta’s Technical Team discussed design approaches along with the correct height to waterproof, to ensure BS 8102:2009 requirements were met and the structure would be always kept dry (to Grade 3 habitable). The site was sloping, so to achieve a level floor the new build extension had to be recessed into the slope which made the structure part retaining. Therefore, only part of the new build required protection for water ingress. The WDS, CSSW and CSRT qualified specialist worked with Delta’s Technical Team to create a specification suitable for this unique new build.
There were no geology reports or soil analysis, therefore the recommendations and resultant specification were based upon a risk assessment during the pre-site visit. Slight moisture ingress had been noted within the newly formed stairwell area, but the area had no recorded history of flooding. The waterproofing contractor put together a cost effective and BS 8102:2009 compliant cavity membrane solution that utilised natural drainage to manage any potential water ingress.
This project is only part retaining as it is situated on a sloping site with an external ground level barely one metre tall at its highest point. Installing a waterproof membrane floor to ceiling was simply not required as water will never reach the highest points of the structure. Preceding the installation of the Type C Cavity Drainage System, the waterproofing contractor ensured the waterproofing design would be easily maintainable and repairable.
Completed in just three days and on budget. The homeowners were delighted and contacted Delta to give feedback: “I just wanted to inform you that from initial meeting with [the specialist] on site, to completion of the project, the whole process was conducted promptly and with complete professionalism. This service was complemented by the managing director becoming personally involved providing his assistance and expert input with additional work I wanted carried out. I would not hesitate to use their services again.”
Through using specialist contractors, the client was able to have a robust waterproofing system designed and installed quickly and efficiently to enable works to progress.
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After all that stocking up you may be figuring out how to freeze food, rather than keeping it all in the fridge. So you'll be pleased to learn that you can in fact store more in the freezer than first thought (we were anyway!). Owning one of the best fridge freezers is essential in any household – especially when you can't make frequent trips to the shops for fresh ingredients.
By taking foods out of the fridge and putting them into the freezer, you can extend their use-by dates for literally months. Take a whole chicken, for example. This can be kept in the fridge for a day or two, yet in a freezer it will maintain its freshness for up to 12 months. And eggs, when cracked in to a container, can be safely stored in a freezer for up to 12 months too – who knew?!
So it really is essential that you have a freezer for, well, those essential food items at this time. Do bare in mind though that the fridge-freezers, chest freezers, upright freezers and American-style freezers (all the freezers!) are selling out super fast, so it's worth checking out with one sooner rather than later.
Keep scrolling to see a guide from Tap Warehouse (opens in new tab) on how to freeze food for the optimum length of time (you'll be surprised at some of them!)
How to freeze food, and for how long
Recommended retailers (and still get it delivered!)
Once opened, how long can you store meat and fish?
|Bacon||7 days||1 month|
|Chicken or turkey (pieces)||1 day||9 months|
|Chicken or turkey (whole)||1 day||12 months|
|Deli meats||3 days||1 months|
|Fish (raw)||14 days||2 months|
|Mince||1 day||3 months|
|Shrimp||1 day||3 months|
Once opened, how long can you store dairy and eggs?
|Butter||90 days||9 months|
|Cheese (hard)||23 days||6 months|
|Cheese (soft)||7 days||6 months|
|Eggs (cracked into containers)||2 days||12 months|
|Milk||7 days||3 months|
|Yoghurt||14 days||1 month|
Once opened, how long can you store fruit and vegetables?
|Apples||2 days||21 days||8 months|
|Bannas||7 days||-||2 months|
|Berries||-||14 days||4 months|
|Carrots||-||12 days||12 months|
|Leeks||14 days||-||12 months|
|Mushrooms||-||3 days||12 months|
|Onions||21 days||60 days||12 months|
|Peppers||-||5 days||8 months|
|Potatoes||28 days||-||12 months|
|Spinach||-||2 days||12 months|
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stri·a·tion /straɪˈeʃən/ 名詞
1. The quality or condition of being striated.
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Bottle Assignment Help
Python is an outstanding language for web shows due to its versatility and top-level performance. Due to the fact that they link numerous of the parts essential for a robust web user interface, web structures can make shows web applications much easier. Bottle is a WSGI micro web-framework for thePython shows language. It is developed to be quickly, light-weight and easy, and is dispersed as a file module without any dependences besides the Python Standard Library. The exact same module keeps up Python 2.5+ and 3.x.
While some web structures try to offer whatever that a user may wish to utilize to establish an application, others aim to avoid of the method while looking after the crucial, tough to carry out issues.Bottle is a Python structure that falls under the 2nd classification. It is very light-weight, however makes it really simple to establish applications rapidly.
Due to the fact that Django tasks begin with a substantial quantity of boilerplate code, prototyping basic concepts is typically much easier with Bottle than a more opinionated web structure like Django. The Model-View-Templatestructure for Django apps within jobs makes preserving jobs much easier, however it can be troublesome on starter jobs where you're simply having fun with random concepts so you aren't stressed over your application's long-lasting code structure.
Finding out about structures
When discovering how WSGI web structures work, bottle is included within a single big source file called bottle.py so it supplies terrific reading. Whatever you have to learn more about how your web application's code gets in touch with the Bottle structure is consisted of within that single source code.
Setting up Python 3, Bottle and Gunicorn for Development on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is a fast tutorial for getting an out-of-the-box default Ubuntu 16.04 image all set for Bottle advancement withGreen Unicorn as the WSGI server.
Digital Ocean offers a comprehensive initial post on Bottle.
Steps with Python and Bottle is a fast 4 minute intro that I produced for designers so they can get the easiest possible Bottle web app running. There is likewise a buddy article with the code.
According to the Bottle site: "Bottle is a quick, light-weight and easy WSGI micro web-framework for Python". I'll be utilizing PyCharm and Python 2.7.1 on OS X to develop these examples however it ought to work similarly well on Windows and Linux with very little adjustments if any. It appears that Bottle edged out Flask due to the fact that of a greater count of source code lines in Flask. That discussion did not think about efficiency; Bottle appears to be faster than Flask, so if you require an actually quick structure, Bottle would win for that factor. Bottle is a minimalist Python web structure. In my own tests on the virtual servers offered from DigitalOcean, I discovered that the mix of the uWSGI server stack and Bottle might attain as low as a 140μs overhead per demand. Bottle.py makes it simple to expose your Python works as a web page or web service. And it achieves this with a mimimum quantity of overhead-- you cover a bottle.py designer around your Python function and get appropriate criteria off the url.
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The situation is terrifying – an explosion at a petrochemical plant has killed hundreds, wounded thousands, and left an enormous crater in the ground. The explosion has also destroyed the local fire hydrant system so there is no way to put out the fire. This was the simulated event handled by the Spanish Military Emergencies Unit and Xylem earlier this year.
Though it was just a simulation, the scene of the disaster looked real enough on March 10, 2015, with fake explosions, pyrotechnics and billowing black smoke. More than 4,000 people participated in the exercise, including the Spanish Military Emergencies Unit (UME), military units from France, the U.S. and Morocco, and technicians from Xylem.
Each year, UME conducts a disaster response simulation to help Spain prepare for worst-case scenarios. This year’s five-day exercise in the city of Daimiel was the largest to date and consisted of an industrial fire at an oil plant, an oil spill, and an evacuation and cleanup.
Photo: Xylem technicians help with the disaster simulation.
“In an emergency like the simulation, the hydrant system is useless, so it is important to have an alternative system to replace it,” says Commander Maximiliano Moliterni of UME, which helped organized the exercise. “An incident like this actually happened in San Juanico, Mexico, in 1984, and more recently in Brazil last April. You need to prepare in advance and have a system that can be deployed quickly.”
Building on a successful partnership
UME first started working with Xylem in 2014 when the company was called in to help with a flooding emergency on Spain’s high-speed AVE rail line in Girona. The success of this project led UME to consider how Xylem’s emergency pumping systems could help them achieve high flow over long distances for other situations.
Photo: UME used Xylem’s Flygt BIBO pump for the flooding emergency in Girona, Spain.
After studying the locations of major petrochemical and nuclear industries in Spain, UME asked Xylem to design a portable system of pipes and pumps for emergencies. The system had to be capable of pumping 1000 m3 of water per hour at a distance of 4,000 meters, with a pressure point that could vary between 3 -14 bars, depending on which types of trucks were available.
“We started work on this simulation in October 2014,” says Miguel Almodovar, Xylem’s Dewatering Manager in Spain. “As an international supplier of pumping equipment and services, Xylem has the expertise to design solutions to handle emergencies such as flooding or major fires, while maintaining the right water pressure and flow to get the job done.”
An efficient, effective solution
Xylem proposed a portable water supply system, consisting of diesel pumps – three of Xylem’s Godwin Dri-Prime HL250 pumps and one HL160 pump – connected by a series of high-strength, flexible hoses that could easily be transported anywhere. The system included 5,000 meters of hoses, 10 inches in diameter, capable of supplying 1,000 m3 of water an hour. For the simulation, water was transported from the Azuer River four kilometers away.
“The system was very efficient and effective,” says Carlos Novillo, President of the Association of Firefighters in Spain, which also attended the simulation. “We were impressed with the ability of the equipment and system to extinguish large fires –regardless of the distance to the water and the flow and pressure required.”
During the exercise, three Xylem engineers advised the First Battalion of the UME and wore the protective uniforms of the unit.
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Preparing for worst-case scenarios
Following the successful simulation, Xylem will continue to work with UME and the Association of Firefighters in Spain to develop solutions to disasters.
“We certainly expect to continue working with Xylem to improve the way we coordinate emergency responses,” says Commander Maximiliano Moliterni. “When it comes to flooding, the potential of the new system is enormous. Each Godwin Dri-Prime HL250 pump can transport more than 1000 m3 an hour, which is three times the current capacity of each battalion.”
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4 Fun Ways To Exercise Along With Your Dog
1. Take your dog to the park and have a game of fetch
2. Hike with your furry friend
3. Go for a walk around the neighborhood
4. Take your pup to a local dog park
What is the best way to exercise with my dog?
The best way to exercise with your dog is to take them for a walk. This can be anywhere from a 5-minute walk up to an hour. The key is that you're getting out and about, and that your dog is getting their exercise too.
If you are looking for an alternative, try playing fetch or tug-of-war with your pup at home.
Belles and Whistles of Doggy Daycare or Boarding Services
There are many benefits of dog daycare and boarding services. One of the main benefits is the socialization. Doggy daycare and boarding services provide a safe environment for your dog to play with other dogs, get exercise, and socialize with their human friends. Another benefit is the safety of your dog. Doggy daycare and boarding services have a lot more eyes on your dog than you do at home, so they are less likely to get into trouble or hurt themselves while they are there.
Doggy daycare and boarding services also offer a variety of activities that can be beneficial to your pup's mental health. Whether it's playing fetch in the yard or learning tricks from a professional trainer, there are plenty of opportunities for them to learn new things!
Benefits of Doggy Daycare or Boarding Services For Your Dog
There are many benefits of doggy daycare or boarding services for your dog. They include the following:
- Increased exercise - Dogs who stay at home often don't get enough exercise, which can lead to health problems. Boarding services offer a safe environment where your dog can run around and play all day long.
- Socialization - When dogs board, they are exposed to other dogs and people, which helps them become more socialized. This is especially important if you have a new dog that you want to introduce to the family.
- Reduced boredom - Dogs who stay at home often get bored and start chewing on furniture or digging in the backyard. Boarding services provide an outlet for their energy so they don't have to resort to destructive behavior at home.
5 Awesome Benefits To Get A New Pet For Your Kids While You're At It
Pets are great company for kids, and they provide a lot of benefits. Here are 5 awesome benefits to get a new pet for your kids while you're at it.
1) Pets help with the development of your child's social skills
2) Pets teach responsibility
3) Kids who have pets are less likely to develop allergies
4) Pets help children with their mental health
5) Pets can be a source of unconditional love
What Kinds Of Dogs Are The Most Hypoallergenic?
Some people are allergic to dogs, and some people are not. If you're one of the unlucky ones who has a dog allergy, you may be wondering what kind of dog is the most hypoallergenic.
There's no such thing as a "hypoallergenic" breed of dog. However, there are certain breeds that have hair instead of fur and may be less likely to trigger an allergic reaction in those who have an allergy to fur.
Allergies can sometimes be triggered by proteins in the animal’s saliva, urine or dander (dandruff). There are many different factors that contribute to whether or not someone will have an allergic reaction to a particular animal.
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The earliest recorded instances of ‘Indian summer’ and French ‘l’été sauvage’ are from texts written in the 1770s by St. John de Crèvecœur, pictured below after the portrait by Vallière, 1786.
These texts indicate that in ‘Indian summer’ and ‘l’été sauvage’, the adjectives ‘Indian’ and ‘sauvage’ merely denote something other than that normally denoted in Europe by the simple nouns ‘summer’ and ‘été’.
MEANING OF INDIAN SUMMER AND OF OBSOLETE FRENCH L’ÉTÉ SAUVAGE
– A period of unusually calm dry warm weather, often accompanied by a hazy atmosphere, occurring in late autumn in the northern United States and in Canada;
– Hence a similar period of unseasonably warm autumnal weather elsewhere.
—Cf. also squaw winter.
The earliest known instance of Indian summer occurs in an essay titled A Snow Storm as it Affects the American Farmer, the French version of which was dated 1774 by its author, a Frenchman named Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur (1735-1813). He took the anglicised name J. Hector St. John in his adult life as he travelled and worked in the American colonies after the Seven Years War. His American name and his original French name were ultimately fused together to render the cosmopolitan title J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur that is used for this writer.
He was the author of Letters of an American Farmer, published in London in 1782. But this edition did not include this particular essay, which was only made available in 1925 in Sketches of Eighteenth Century America: More “Letters from an American Farmer” by St. John de Crèvecœur, edited by Henri L. Bourdin, Ralph H. Gabriel and Stanley T. Williams. Crèvecœur writes during his ten-year residence (1769-78) on his farm at Pine Hill, in Orange County, New York; the manuscript bears no date:
Of all the scenes which this climate offers, none has struck me with a greater degree of admiration than the ushering in of our winters, and the vehemence with which their first rigour seizes and covers the earth.
Great rains at last replenish the springs, the brooks, the swamps, and impregnate the earth. Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian summer. This is in general the invariable rule: winter is not said properly to begin until these few moderate days and the rising of the waters have announced it to Man. This great mass of liquid once frozen spreads everywhere natural bridges; opens communications impassable before.
However, Crèvecœur translated or rather adapted a number of his manuscript notes into his native language and published them in Paris in 1784 as Lettres d’un Cultivateur Américain, écrites à W. S. Ecuyer, Depuis l’Année 1770, jusqu’à 1781 (= Letters of an American Farmer, written to W. S. Ecuyer, From the Year 1770, until 1781). The essay A Snow Storm as it Affects the American Farmer appeared under the title of Description d’une Chute de Neige, Dans le Pays des Mowhawks, sous le rapport qui intéresse le Cultivateur Américain, (= Description of a Snowfall, In the Country of the Mowhawks, as it affects the American Farmer), and the author specified that he had written this essay at Germanflats on 17th January 1774 (but, in the above-mentioned 1925 edition of Crèvecœur’s writings, Henri L. Bourdin points to “the well-known inaccuracy of the American Farmer in the matter of dates”):
Quelquefois après cette pluie, il arrive un intervalle de calme & de chaleur, appelé l’Eté Sauvage ; ce qui l’indique, c’est la tranquillité de l’atmosphère, & une apparence générale de fumée. — Les approches de l’hiver sont douteuses jusqu’à cette époque ; il vient vers la moitié de Novembre, quoique souvent des neiges & des gelées passagères arrivent long-tems auparavant.
Sometimes after this rain, occurs an interval of calm and mildness, called Indian Summer; what indicates it, is the stillness of the atmosphere, and a general appearance of smoke. — The approaches of winter are doubtful until that period; it comes around mid-November, although often snows and occasional frosts arrive long before.
The formulations in both the French and English versions of the ‘snowstorm’ essay seem to imply that l’été sauvage and Indian summer were already in usage when Crèvecœur was writing: “un intervalle … appelé l’été sauvage”, “a short interval … called the Indian summer”. Before getting married and settling down as a farmer in 1769, Crèvecœur had during about ten years travelled extensively, in particular as a surveyor, in a number of French and British territories of modern-day Canada and USA, where he might have picked up both l’été sauvage and Indian summer (the quotation, below, from C. F. de Chassebœuf’s Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d’Amérique seems to indicate that both these expressions were well established at the very beginning of the 19th century).
Now, more generally, in the texts that he wrote in French, Crèvecœur used sauvage (adjective and noun) where he used either Indian or wild in those that he wrote in English.
This is because:
– as an adjective, sauvage means either savage, i.e., uncivilised, or wild, i.e., undomesticated, uncultivated;
– as a noun, sauvage designates a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilised—Crèvecœur used the French noun Indien on one occasion only to designate an Indian, i.e., a Native American.
For example, Crèvecœur used éducation sauvage where he used Indian education, chien sauvage where he used Indian dog, and vigne sauvage where he used wild vine.
Since, in Crèvecœur’s English writings, it is Indian summer and not wild summer that corresponds to l’été sauvage in his French writings, my hypothesis is that, in Indian summer, the adjective Indian merely denotes something other than that denoted in Europe by the simple noun summer—as in other terms specific to the New World, such as Indian corn or Indian wheat (maize) 1, Indian sugar (maple sugar), Indian tobacco (applied to several American plants used in a similar way to tobacco), Indian lettuce (applied to various American plants), Indian hen (applied to various American birds), Indian currant (coralberry), which all date back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
1 However, Crèvecœur used bled d’Inde [i.e., blé d’Inde, literally wheat of India] where he used Indian corn.
In my opinion, therefore, in l’été sauvage, the adjective sauvage is nothing more than a “neutral” modifier, without any connotations, in particular of violence or savagery. In the same way, Crèvecœur wrote of nom 2 sauvage, of expression sauvage, and of la langue 3 sauvage—incidentally, Crèvecœur was a Rousseauist, and believed in the natural goodness of humankind.
2 Here, the French noun nom translates as name.
3 Here, the French noun langue translates as language.
It seems to me that the same applies to the adjective Indian in Indian summer: in my view, Indian is a “neutral” modifier, just as in Indian corn and in Indian tobacco.
I would say in conclusion that in order to explain sauvage and Indian in l’été sauvage and in Indian summer, language is perfectly adequate, and there is no need to invoke past Native-American customs or beliefs, or past encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, as has often been attempted without satisfactory evidence. In fact, it seems to me that the numerous explanations that refer to factors external to language are a posteriori rationalisations of Indian summer.
Constantin François de Chassebœuf (1757-1820), comte de Volney, used both French l’été sauvage and English Indian summer in Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d’Amérique (Paris, 1803), and likened these terms to French l’été de la Saint-Martin:
Vers novembre, reparaît une série de beaux jours, appelés l’été sauvage (Indian-summer) : c’est ce que nous appelons en France l’été de la Saint-Martin ; mais il est devenu si rare et si court, que nous n’en parlons plus que par tradition.
In the translation of C. F. de Chassebœuf’s book, View of the Climate and Soil of the United States of America (London, 1804), Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) used Indian summer only, not l’été sauvage, and equated St. Martin’s Summer to All-Hallown Summer—St. Martin’s Day is on 11th November:
Towards November a succession of fine days appears, which are styled the Indian summer. This is what is called in France a St. Martin’s summer*; but it is here [= in France] grown so rare, and so short, that it is now spoken of only traditionally.
[translator’s note:] * In England, an All-hallown summer.
Both those passages show therefore that, although the new names Indian summer and l’été sauvage reflected a new perception, similar phenomena were already known in the Old World by various names—cf. also 18th-century instances of ‘Indian summer’.
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It’s been a week of good news for hauling liquefied natural gas. On Tuesday, news broke that an expanded-capacity trailer rig successfully made the transit between Cook Inlet and Fairbanks, and on Wednesday, the first-ever transport of LNG containers by rail was completed by the Alaska Railroad Corp. The pair of developments are a strong positive for efforts to bring more natural gas to the Interior and to bring down costs for that gas to consumers.
For as long as local gas utility Fairbanks Natural Gas has been in operation, the delivery vector for natural gas to Fairbanks has been trucks. The trucks, whose gas containers carry 10,000 gallons of LNG, made regular transits from Port MacKenzie to the Interior, depositing the super cooled gas in local storage tanks and returning for another load. The tanks that made their first delivery this week, by comparison, have a 13,000-gallon capacity, a 30 percent increase per truck. That means more gas delivered per trip — three deliveries by the higher-capacity trucks will be roughly equivalent to four of the traditional model. The increase in capacity should reduce transportation costs while also making it easier to bring in more gas if and when it becomes available — without as much of a traffic increase on the Parks Highway.
The rail option also demonstrated its potential this week, as a pair of modular LNG containers made the first-ever trip for natural gas on a U.S. railway. The containers tip the scales at 7,000 gallons apiece, roughly half the size of the expanded-capacity truck tanks. But given the nature of trains, it’s relatively easy to add cars and transport as much gas as is needed if the economics of the transport method pencil out. And that’s good news not only for the Interior but also potentially for Interior communities on and off the road system — the modular containers shipped via rail this week are transportable via truck and barge, so they could one day be a fuel option for distant communities, provided transportation costs don’t make the gas more expensive than existing options (usually diesel fuel).
If rail transport proves cost effective, it could be a big step toward achieving the desired $15 per thousand cubic feet price point (the equivalent of $2 per gallon heating fuel) of the Interior Energy Project. Even if it doesn’t, the higher-capacity truck containers could bring down transport costs while increasing the quantity delivered per truck. While there’s still plenty of distance between where the Interior is today and a fully realized Interior Energy Project, positive news about the transport side of the gas equation is always welcome.
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Social metrics, much more than ROI
We have all heard that every action has a reaction, and that is something that Social Media Marketing professionals know very well, since they are very aware of the need to measure and analyze each and every one of the parcels that are play in this field, as well as to know the degree of effectiveness of the actions and tactics put in place.
For expert professionals, and of course, for the brand itself, it is important to know the level of participation of users in it and with it, what involvement customers have with us. We always have to look for and encourage users participate in our brand and feel comfortable and want to interact with it, so it is also important to know the degree of interaction they have with us, that is, it is not enough to know if the users participate, but we must go a step further go ahead and find out how they participate in it, if they comment, if they mention our brand, if they talk to us?
It should be one of our priorities to know how the users react to the content and the message that we provide them, if they like, if they are interested, what is the feeling that causes them. If we can create a positive feeling and link the audience emotionally with us, little by little we will be able to have influence among them, position ourselves as a referent in our field, which we have to analyze little by little.
The social ecosystem not only consists of Social Networks like Facebook or Twitter, but, there are many more, such as blogs, wikis, forums and a myriad of elements in addition to the ones we mention, even if blogs and social platforms are the most popular, most used, and therefore in which the action focuses more. That is why our analysis should focus more on them.
All the elements that we mentioned before can be analyzed in a blog.
Thus, we can analyze and measure the degree of Involvement by seeing the number of visits we achieve, both new and recurring. Users who enter a blog interact with content in a variety of ways, such as feedback provided, comments to different posts, subscriptions, or user questions, as well as measuring the influence we have on these platforms seeing how content is shared, with references to it, retweets, incoming links or derived traffic through social networks, being able to use tools like Postrank, Google Analytics, Feedburner or Add This.
In social networks, the metrics would be, for example to measure the involvement, connections and likes on Facebook, the number and quality of followers and users we follow on Twitter, or connections, followers and groups to which we belong on LinkedIn. Interactions can be more easily analyzed, since it is enough to see the number of updates, comments, mentions, responses, likes or retweets, in a word, how the user reacts to the content we provide, as well as the feeling that generates, positive or negative.
To see the influence we have, we need to look at the scope of our message, our hashtags, APM (activity per thousand) activity, relationships with influential users, lists where we appear or likes on fan pages .
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“As I look at my life, I might ask “Who is the person that represents the greatest threat to me?” And if I happen to have a mirror around somewhere, I can rather quickly answer that question.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
We are experts at many things, one of them being self-sabotage. I’ve written about this before, but it’s time we reflected on it once more.
“Self-sabotage is an action we take that is based on false beliefs about ourselves. It springs out of insecurities that we may not even be aware of. For example, you may have been raised to believe that it’s not ‘ladylike’ to excel at something, or that ‘good manners’ means holding back and letting others shine. Those beliefs don’t do you any favours, do they?”
I went on to say, “…our self-sabotaging behaviours are also self-fuelling. Each of these behaviours detracts from our credibility in the eyes of others and many of us tend to accept the valuations others make of us. When the valuation is poor, it reinforces our self-doubt and gives power to our self-sabotaging thoughts. It’s a cycle that we can repeat over and over again.”
What is it which makes us so good at self-sabotage?
It’s all in the brain. Our brain is designed to keep us safe and alive, so it’s constantly scanning the environment for potential threats.
If there’s one thing the brain loves, it’s certainty. It likes knowing everything is under control. When you’re striving to become successful, the brain feels the stress of not knowing what might happen, and not being able to control things or clearly see the future. It reacts to the ‘threat’ of the unknown.
Basically, your brain is trying to protect you from any hurt or damage by keeping you inside your comfort zone.
Your brain has learnt about fear during events or trauma you experienced as you grew up. The memory is stored in part of the amygdala which influences fear learning and memory. Neurons from this part of the brain translate a fear memory into the physical responses you experience.
Your brain keeps learning, too.
Every time you sabotage yourself, you reinforce the idea you’re a failure or that success is too risky. It’s a learned response. Over time that neural pathway strengthens, and the fear response becomes active and immediate.
Dr Bruce Kehr says self-sabotage is based on three repetitive behavioural patterns.
- “Narratives that we play in our heads (with thoughts and feelings) about why someone important is behaving in certain ways, which are often based upon past relationships, and may have nothing to do with the current relationship in question.
- Repertoires of behaviour that we enact, that is comfortable and familiar, and have been learned over the years, but may worsen our prospects in the present.
- Reflexive Responses to various emotional “triggers” that take place in our day-to-day lives.”
These are all learned responses and they happen without you being aware of it.
If your brain can learn one response, it can learn another.
Your brain uses the strongest neural pathway when it’s choosing a response. If your brain has learnt to use the fear response, it can learn to use a different one. This time make it a response which will work for you in the long term; the response which leads you to success.
Now, this is something you’ll have to work at and practice. You have years of the fear response to overcome.
- First, pay attention to the things that trigger your self-sabotage. Are there specific events, places or people who affect it?
- Next, put these into perspective. Your logical brain can overcome the emotional side if you think clearly about the situation and consequences. Nothing is ever as bad as you fear.
- Choose a new behaviour which is practical and will benefit you then practice it!
The more you repeat the new behaviour, the sooner it will be embedded in your brain. Yes, you’ll fall into old habits sometimes, but now you understand and can deal with them. They are opportunities to learn more about yourself. Learn what you can and get back to practising your new habit and Self-sabotage will be a thing of the past. Looking for more ways to get out of your own way take a look at the video below. | <urn:uuid:ca55ea91-fb5c-4b68-a9dc-1735f29983f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.athenaleadershipacademy.com.au/making-self-sabotage-a-thing-of-the-past/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957294 | 987 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Nowadays most businesses need a dedicated social media manager to manage all aspects of their digital marketing campaigns. In fact, any online marketing campaign is likely to be a dismal failure without such a skilled professional.
Being a social media manager in a business entails having a keen eye for detail in absolutely everything digital. Hiring a social media manager ensures that your brand is placed centre stage online and stays there. In fact, employing a social media manager is the norm in 2019 and demand for this skill set continues to increase dramatically.
A competent social media manager will bring to the business a much-needed flair to enhance a business’ online presence. Qualifying as a social media manager by completing an accredited social media course means your business is set to be a contender in the online race of digital marketing.
The intricacies of social media management
The process of creating, crafting, scheduling, engaging and analysing social media marketing campaigns is what a social media manager does. This may seem pretty straight forward to those not well-versed in everything digital, but this role is challenging and demands a thorough understanding of social media trends and processes.
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They should be nice and thick now! Apples in apple pie and baked desserts should become tender when cooked but not mushy while providing good flavor. The problem with baking extra thick apple pies is that the apples shrink as they cook!
Let everything sit for an drain apples of much of their juice, then simmer the juice until thick before adding it back to the filling.
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[EDITORIALS]Let market forces do the jobThe government is designing measures to support restaurants, hotels, taxi and truck operators, wholesalers, retailers and dress makers. The government said that it intends to help those businesses survive their difficulties amid extremely sluggish domestic consumption.
The government’s intention to aid small businesses is good. But it will not be effective or desirable to provide funds only to businesses with chances to survive. First of all, the idea of providing tax money to restaurants, hotels, shops, taxi and truck operators and dress makers is problematic. However bad the economic conditions of the owners of those businesses may be, they chose to enter those businesses by their own judgment and are responsible for them.
If they can no longer maintain the businesses due to an economic downturn or their lack of competitiveness, they should bear the responsibility themselves. If we look into those business owners’ individual circumstances, each of them is pitiable and heartbreaking.
But it is the market principle that those who lack competitiveness should be driven out of the market. It is not an issue that the government should intervene in. Can public officials decide who is eligible for government support and who should be weeded out? Such a decision should be made by the market, not by the government.
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Service dogs of all types provide an honored service to not just its country but also to its fellow humans in need. All tasks performed by service dogs are essential actions. They are all, however, trained in different methods as each dog is provided a different job in the force. But, not every canine makes the cut to graduation due to its requirement of high demands for the job.
Dogs who are selected to be trained are sometimes too playful for the job as they just want love and to be cute. However, don’t panic, those dogs who don’t make it are not put aside for not being suitable for the job, but they are given away for adoption. As not every dog has it in them to be a service dog, they find their forever homes through adoption programs with maybe a bit of training they had learned.
BBC reported, that a pup was switched to a more perfect job for its personality and friendliness to strangers which was being too ‘nice’, from the Queensland Dog Squad in Australia to being the official Vice-Regal Dog at the Queensland Government House.
These adoption programs are not only in force in Australia but also in America for both trained or untrained dogs in squads.
TSA Canine Training Center Adoption Program allows you to adopt dogs without an adoption fee. However, there are some that do cost a certain amount for adopting a dog.
Mission K9 helps find older dogs their ever-loving homes, while FSD (Freedom Service Dogs of America) train shelter dogs to be service dogs but set up programs for dogs that don’t make the chase.
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There are a number of ways to get your daily dose of omega-3 fatty acids. One way is to include fish in your diet. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that breastfeeding women consume 200 to 300 milligrams of DHA daily. The study found that DHA supplementation resulted in improved visual motor skills and better health outcomes in children. It also helped improve infant development. The following are some common ways to get your recommended DHA intake:
First, you need to know how much DHA and EPA are in fish oil. DHA is essential for the development of the visual system in infants, so you should avoid consuming too much of it. Secondly, you should take fish oil for a period of time. Dosages of 2 grams a day should be sufficient for most adults. But higher doses can help lower your cholesterol and triglycerides.
Second, you should know how much DHA and EPA are in fish oil supplements. For infants, DHA is essential for the development of the visual system. Moreover, fish oil supplements rich in DHA help prevent the development of the visual system. Lastly, it is important for pregnant women to get enough DHA and EPA. By adding these nutrients to their diet, it will help you to overcome a wide range of conditions.
When it comes to dietary supplements, DHA and EPA are essential for brain development. It is necessary for infants to develop their visual system, as it contributes to the growth and development of their eyes. Taking fish oil can help you get the required amount. And remember, it is important to check with your doctor before beginning a new supplement. It’s also important to note that high-doses of fish oils can cause triglycerides to increase.
DHA is an essential fatty acid that is essential for normal brain development. However, most people don’t get enough omega-3 fatty acids through diet. This makes it crucial to get adequate amounts of DHA and EPA. Its use in food supplements adds up to 100 milligrams of DHA and EPA in fish. The amount of DHA in fish oil will vary depending on the source.
Fish oils contain DHA and EPA. The two are essential for brain health. DHA is a nutrient found in salmon. It is found in the brain. It can also be obtained from flax seeds and walnuts. These supplements also contain ALA, but they are not considered food sources of omega-3 fatty acids. So, if you’re considering taking fish oil, make sure it contains less than a milligram of vitamin A per serving.
Fish oil has many benefits. The World Health Organization suggests consuming 250 to 500 milligrams of DHA and EPA daily. This means that the recommended intake for most people is 300mg a day. That’s enough to get your recommended dose of DHA and EPA from fish. Even though it is not a complete protein, it’s a beneficial supplement for your health. With so many benefits, it’s no wonder so many people choose to eat fish, and it’s even safer to eat more.
The IOM has also suggested that LC omega-3s are associated with increased risk of prostate cancer. Although the association is not conclusive, it has been suggested that consuming more omega-3-rich fish is linked to a lower risk of prostate cancer. And that a higher intake is more dangerous than a lower amount. It’s important to note that the IOM doesn’t endorse any particular brand.
In general, fish oil supplements are safe to use and effective. It’s important to remember that natural fish oils contain a maximum of 30 percent DHA. Using a fish oil supplement in combination with a high-quality omega-3 product may not only reduce the risk of heart disease, but it can improve a patient’s overall health and well-being. A high-quality supplement should have a label that lists the percentage of EPA and DHA per serving.
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Global Spintronic Logic Devices Market By Type (Metal Based Devices and Semiconductor Based Devices) By End User (Industrial Motors, Electric Vehicles, Data Storage, Semiconductor Lasers, Magnetic Tunnel Transistor and Others) By Region, Industry Analysis and Forecast, 2020 - 2026
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Market Report Description
The Global Spintronic Logic Devices Market size is expected to reach $16.7 billion by 2026, rising at a market growth of 39.9% CAGR during the forecast period. Spintronics refers to spin-based electronics that can be used to research the intrinsic spin of electrons in many solid-state devices. The key purpose is to let the electrons spin rather than just their charge, and to use the magnetic moment associated with them. All devices of spintronic technology function as per the spin orientation according to the information stored in the spins. The spins, which are attached to mobile electrons, then carry the information along a wire, leading to a terminal which reads the information.
Global Spintronic Logic Devices Market Size
Information is traditionally collected, interpreted, and transmitted in electronic devices using a charge from an electron. This pattern is becoming increasingly energy-inefficient, owing to the fact that load movement within an information-processing system often leads to current flow and related dissipation. Replacing "charge" with an electron's "spin" to transform information can remove much of the power dissipation and lead to more energy-efficient "green electronics" being implemented. This has fueled demand for spintronic logic products, thereby increasing the growth in the market.
Spintronic Logic Devices Market Share
The growth of the global market for spintronic logic devices is motivated by a significant increase in demand for spin electronics in electronic devices due to its many advantages over traditional electronics as it has been commonly used in data storage devices due to its quicker data processing capability and improved storage space. In addition, the rise in electric car penetration, which continues to increase the need for lightweight construction and decreased battery working space & power consumption in electric vehicles, has accelerated the adoption of spintronic products.
Based on Type, the market is segmented into Metal Based Devices and Semiconductor Based Devices. Metal Based Devices are further segmented into Spin -Transfer Torque Device, Tunnel-Magneto Resistance, Giant-Magneto Resistance and Others. Semiconductor Based Devices are further bifurcated across Spin Diode and Spin Filter & Spin Field Effect Transistor. Based on End User, the market is segmented into Industrial Motors, Electric Vehicles, Data Storage, Semiconductor Lasers, Magnetic Tunnel Transistor and Others. Based on Regions, the market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, Middle East & Africa.
Free Valuable Insights: Global Spintronic Logic Devices Market to reach a market size of $16.7 billion by 2026
Spintronic Logic Devices Market Cardinal Matrix
The major strategies followed by the market participants are Product Launches and Acquisition. Based on the Analysis presented in the Cardinal matrix, Infineon Technologies AG and Spectris PLC are the forerunners in the Spintronic Logic Devices Market. Companies such as NVE Corporation, Crocus Technology, Inc., and Everspin Technologies, Inc., Kistler Group, MTS Systems Corporation, FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc., and Spin Memory, Inc. are some of the key innovators in Spintronic Logic Devices Market.
The market research report covers the analysis of key stake holders of the market. Key companies profiled in the report include Infineon Technologies AG, MTS Systems Corporation (PCB Piezotronics, Inc.), Kistler Group (Kistler Holding AG), Spectris PLC (HBM), Everspin Technologies, Inc., NVE Corporation, Crocus Technology, Inc., FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc., Spin Memory, Inc., Sensor Technology Ltd.
Recent Strategies Deployed in Spintronic Logic Devices Market
» Partnerships, Collaborations, and Agreements:
- Aug-2019: Everspin Technologies signed an IP cross-licensing agreement with Seagate Technology, a world leader in data storage solutions. Under this agreement, the latter company aimed to assigned and licensed its MRAM patents to Everspin. The agreement also includes the licensing of specific Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) patents from Everspin to Seagate.
- Aug-2019: Everspin Technologies collaborated with Cadence Design Systems, an electronic design automation software and engineering services company. With the help of Cadence, Everspin aimed to expand the ecosystem for its 1 Gb Spin-transfer Torque MRAM (STT-MRAM). Cadence provides DDR4 Design IP (DIP) and Verification IP (VIP) support for Everspin’s 1 Gb STT-MRAM memory.
- Jul-2019: Everspin Technologies came into partnership with Sage Microelectronics Corporation, a semiconductor company. Following the partnership, Sage’s new Enterprise Grade Flash memory controller would provide native support for Everspin’s 1 Gb STT-MRAM memory. Sage Microelectronics controllers with Everspin’s 1 Gb STT-MRAM allow storage system designers to increase the reliability and performance of systems where high-performance data persistence is critical by offering protection against power loss without the use of super capacitors or batteries.
- Jul-2019: Everspin Technologies partnered with Phison Electronics Corporation, a public electronics company. Under the partnership, the latter company aimed to provide native support for Everspin’s 1 Gb STT-MRAM memory in its next generation enterprise SSD controller lineup. Phison controllers with Everspin’s 1 Gb STT-MRAM helps the storage system designers in enhancing the reliability and performance of systems where high-performance data persistence is critical.
» Acquisition and Mergers:
- Nov-2019: MTS Systems signed a definitive agreement to acquire R&D, a leader in designing and manufacturing of test systems. The acquisition broadened the Test & Simulation technology base of MTS. It also expanded its market presence for wind energy and aerospace markets.
- Jun-2019: Infineon Technologies announced a definitive agreement to acquire Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. The acquisition would strengthen its business and help the company in providing the most comprehensive portfolio to its customers.
- Apr-2018: Spectris announced that its subsidiaries Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration (‘BKSV’) and HBM merged their activities. Both BKSV and HBM are operating companies under the Test and Measurement segment of Spectris. The combined company is named as HBK (Hottinger, Brüel & Kjær). Both the companies have combined their expertise and strengths for delivering differentiated customer value, for example, in the domains of propulsion, durability, safety and noise, vibration, and harshness.
- Oct-2017: Spectris completed the acquisition of The Omnicon Group, a company that provides a range of services for helping its customers in analyzing and improving product reliability and safety. The acquisition complemented the existing capability of the reliability and durability software and services portfolio within Spectris’ Test and Measurement segment. The acquisition enabled the company to expand its geographic growth opportunities across the US and in Europe.
- Aug-2017: Kistler Group acquired Vester Elektronik, a specialist in sensor technology and test automation. The acquisition added expertise to the field of automation and sensor technology and also facilitated the establishment of a centre of excellence for optical measurement in Germany.
» Product Launches and Product Expansions:
- Feb-2020: NVE Corporation launched the ASR012-10E Smart I²C TMR Angle Sensor. These new angle sensors provide a pulse-width modulated (PWM) output.
- Dec-2019: NVE Corporation introduced the AHK991-14E high-field, low voltage, low power, Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) magnetic switch. The new sensors have a 350 millitesla (3500 oersted) typical operate point, which is high enough for detecting the MRI fields or strong, rare-earth magnets in close proximity that disrupt lower-field sensors.
- Nov-2019: NVE Corporation extended its line of continuous-duty nanopower Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) magnetic switches by adding three new volt ADT-Series TMR switches. ADT sensors combine ultralow power and high speed and provide ultralow power, making these sensors ideal for battery applications.
- Jun-2019: NVE Corporation unveiled the ALT025 Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) analog bridge magnetic sensor. This sensor has an extraordinary amount of signal and a wide linear range.
- May-2019: FUTEK released the MBA500 torque and thrust bi-axial load cell. These solutions can be fixed into the motor's end for characterizing the torque and thrust generated from each motor and propeller.
- Mar-2019: Crocus Technology launched the CT100 device, an advanced, high-performance linear (1D) magnetic sensor based on Crocus’ TMR based technology. This device provides best-in-class performance across a wide temperature range together with an extremely low linearity error, low ysteresis, and low noise that allows it to address many consumers, industrial, and automotive applications and markets.
- Jan-2019: NVE Corporation launched the new ASR002-10E Smart Angle Sensor. The new sensor integrates a unique Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) sensor element with elegant digital signal processing.
Scope of the Spintronic Logic Devices Market Analysis
- Metal Based Devices
- Spin -Transfer Torque Device
- Tunnel-Magneto Resistance
- Giant-Magneto Resistance
- Semiconductor Based Devices
- Spin Diode
- Spin Filter & Spin Field Effect Transistor
By End User
- Industrial Motors
- Electric Vehicles
- Data Storage
- Semiconductor Lasers
- Magnetic Tunnel Transistor
- North America
- Rest of North America
- Rest of Europe
- Asia Pacific
- South Korea
- Rest of Asia Pacific
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- Rest of LAMEA
- Infineon Technologies AG
- MTS Systems Corporation (PCB Piezotronics, Inc.)
- Kistler Group (Kistler Holding AG)
- Spectris PLC (HBM)
- Everspin Technologies, Inc.
- NVE Corporation
- Crocus Technology, Inc.
- FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc.
- Spin Memory, Inc.
- Sensor Technology Ltd.
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Spintronic Logic Devices Market Related Reports:
What would be the value of global spintronic logic devices market in 2026?
The spintronic logic devices market is projected to reach USD 16.7 billion by 2026.
What factors are anticipated to drive spintronic logic devices market trends?
The major factors that are anticipated to drive the spintronic logic devices industry include increasing Demand for Spintronics in Electronic Devices, Due to Lesser Power Consumption and Shift from electronics to spintronics opens up possibilities of faster data.
Who are the top market players in the spintronic logic devices industry?
Infineon Technologies AG, MTS Systems Corporation (PCB Piezotronics, Inc.), Kistler Group (Kistler Holding AG), Spectris PLC (HBM), Everspin Technologies, Inc., NVE Corporation, Crocus Technology, Inc., FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc., Spin Memory, Inc., Sensor Technology Ltd.
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As fuel prices accelerate at a record pace, drivers dangerously risk breaking the law by stockpiling petrol in jerry cans and containers to stave off rising costs
- Price of petrol and diesel has grown by 2p and 3p-a-litre in a day respectively
- Both are at record highs of £1.58 and £1.65 per litre and predicted to keep rising
- Another 10p to 15p may be added the prices on the back of Russian oil sanctions
- Some drivers have taken matters into their own hands to avoid rising fuel costs
- Many are filling jerry cans to store fuel in the boot of cars or at home - but this is dangerous and they could risk breaking the law by stockpiling too much
With petrol prices at unprecedented highs, motorists may consider every measure possible to avoid the record cost of filling up - including hoarding fuel bought at lower prices.
But although the cost of filling a car is set to continue rising on the back of the war in Ukraine and sanctions against buying Russian oil, storing your own fuel is dangerous and rarely a wise idea.
Latest industry figures show that petrol prices in just 24 hours rose by almost 2p-a-lite to more than £1.58 on Tuesday and diesel increased above £1.65, up more than £3 on the day before. The biggest daily rise since records began in 2000.
With commentators predicting prices rising another 10p to 15p in coming weeks, drivers may be temped to build up their own reserves of lower-priced fuel by filling jerry cans and containers to store petrol at home and in their cars.
But how much are you legally allowed to transport and store? And what are the dangers and insurance risks of doing so?
Following the UK Government's announcement on Tuesday that it will phase out imports of Russian oil by the end of the year, MPs and insiders have warned drivers to expect pump prices to continue spiralling.
Already, the cost to fill a petrol family car with a 55-litre fuel tank is £87.01 - more than £19 more than a year ago - while a diesel equivalent will take an eye-watering £90.88 to brim, based on the latest UK average prices.
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Those driving into motorway service station forecourts this week are already seeing prices over £1.73-a-litre for unleaded and £1.76 for diesel on average.
The RAC Foundation has said today that motorists should expect average unleaded pump prices to breach £1.60 per litre before the end of the week and slip above £1.65 shortly after.
The prospect of paying £100 to fill-up is increasingly looking likely to become a reality.
Such is the drastic rate of price increases at the moment, the sight of drivers filling jerry cans with fuel in a bid to stave off rising prices is becoming more common.
But some could be inadvertently breaking rules by transporting excess fuel in their cars and storing too much at home...
How much fuel can you legally store at home?
While it is completely legal to fill jerry cans and fuel-specific containers with petrol at fuel stations, there are strict rules about how much can be kept at your private property.
According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), you can only legally store up to 30 litres of petrol at your home, or non-workplace premises without informing the correct authorities.
That's only around half a tank for the average family car (55 litres).
How much fuel can you legally store at home?
You can store up to 30 litres of petrol at home or at non-workplace premises without informing the local Petroleum Enforcement Authority.
The legislation allows you to store petrol in the following containers:
- Plastic containers storing up to 10L
- Metal containers storing up to 20L
- Demountable fuel tank up to 30L
Suitable portable containers are defined in Schedule 2 (para 6) and Schedule 3 of the regulations. UN approved containers are an example of such containers.
Source: Health and Safety Executive
For storage at your house - either in a shed or garage - the rules dictate that 20 litres of petrol can be stored in metal jerry cans, however this must be spread across at least two cans as you are not allowed to carry 20 litres in just one container.
For fuel-specific plastic containers, which hold up to 5 litres, the maximum total allowance to store at home is 10 litres (so two full containers in total).
Any more than this and it becomes a legal requirement to notify your local Petroleum Enforcement Authority (PEA) in writing, giving your name and address of storage location, official guidelines dictate.
The RAC warns that petrol only has a shelf-life of six months if kept in a sealed container at 20 degrees.
It expires three months earlier if kept at 30 degrees, with heat impacting how quickly it goes off.
Commenting on the storage of excess fuel at home, RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: 'Just because it’s legal to store up to 30 litres of petrol at home, doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.
'Those who need to should follow the law carefully to keep themselves, their families and neighbours safe.
'Petrol should always be kept in the proper containers in an outbuilding and never left outside.'
How much petrol can you legally transport in your car?
While up to 30 litres of fuel can be stored at your private residence, how you get it there is another story - and a bit of a legal grey area.
The HSE says you can store up to 30 litres of petrol in a maximum of two 'suitable containers' in your vehicle.
These containers must be kept in the boot and not the vehicle's cabin.
They must also be clearly marked with the words 'petrol' and 'highly flammable', be 'robust and not liable to break under the normal conditions of use' and also prevent the escape of petrol vapour, the HSE clarifies.
But even if you are transporting fuel within the guidance restrictions, you could still end up in hot water if you're pulled over by the police.
Rules stipulate that it is down to an officer to determine if the fuel being transported can be considered a 'dangerous load' or 'may be hazardous' - and there will likely be penalties for those that fail this review.
We asked the Department for Transport what this could mean in terms of fines and penalty points.
A spokesperson told us that under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Schedule 3A (the offence relates to anyone breaking health and safety regulations, not just employers), someone who is deemed to be transporting an illegal amount of fuel could face a 12-month conviction, a fine of up to £20,000, or both.
For more serious indictments, a conviction could be up to two years, or a fine, or both.
The AA stated during fuel shortages last year that it is 'desperately worried' about people storing petrol and diesel, which it describes as 'incredibly, incredibly dangerous'.
The motoring group recommends that people do not consider transporting excess fuel in their vehicles or storing it at home at all.
What impact does storing petrol in a car or at home have on insurance?
The insurance industry says it 'strongly advises' against stock piling petrol at home.
This is not only due to the unsociable aspect of conceivably driving prices higher, but also the 'potential danger to life and damage to property, including risk to third parties,' a spokesperson for the Association of British Insurers told us.
'However, if it is absolutely critical for some to store fuel at home, it is important that they follow the Health and Safety Executive's guidance and do not exceed the safe limit for domestic petrol storage, as well as following the appropriate guidance for storing it safely in approved containers and in a well ventilated area,' they added.
They also told us that motorists storing a legal volume of petrol at home will not need to notify their home insurance policy provider.
'Assuming anyone storing fuel within the legal limit have taken reasonable care to prevent loss, damage or liability, and there are no specific exclusions to your home insurance policy, then there should not be a risk of invalidating your home insurance policy,' the ABI adds.
'Individuals should check their insurance policy and if they are unsure of any implications, to speak with their insurer.'
The ABI says the similar rules apply for the transportation of fuel in cars and insurance policies.
'It is important that people follow the HSE guidance and do not exceed the safe limit for transporting domestic petrol in a private vehicle, as well as following the appropriate guidance for storing it safely in approved containers while transporting it.
'Assuming anyone transporting fuel within the legal limit have taken reasonable care to prevent loss, damage or liability, and there are no specific exclusions to your motor insurance policy, then there should not be a risk of invalidating your motor insurance policy.'
Insurer Aviva told us: 'Whilst we have no requirement for customers to tell us they are storing fuel at the home address, we would strongly discourage customers from storing large quantities of fuel and they should be aware of the legal requirements around this.
'If a customer is storing more than 30 litres of fuel, they must adhere to storage requirements set out in the legislation.
'In the event of a fire, if investigations suggested that the fuel was not being stored correctly, this could affect their claim.
'For motor insurance, we do not have an exclusion that would prevent a person carrying/storing excess fuel in their vehicle nor do we need to be made aware of it.'
TOP 10 TIPS TO DRIVE MORE EFFICIENTLY TO SAVE THE EQUIVALENT OF 9P-A-LITRE
There are ways to drive more efficiently that can help you to cut down on your fuel bills.
Using really simple eco-driving techniques - like those listed below - 'can easily save the equivalent of 9p-a-litre', says the AA.
For motorists desperately wanting to get the most out of the expensive fuel they're currently pumping into their cars, This is Money has compiled our top 10 best tips to drive as efficiently as possible...
1. Make sure the vehicle is in tip-top running order
If you drive an older car that hasn't been serviced for a few years, now might be the time to get it booked in to ensure it is running as efficiently as it possibly can be.
Sticking brakes, ageing tyres, faulty sensors, old oil and general poor engine maintenance are just some of the factors that could hit your car's optimum miles per gallon (mpg) performance.
2. Check tyre pressures
One of the easiest fixes to ensure your vehicle is running at peak efficiency is to regularly check that the tyres are inflated to the correct level.
Underinflated tyres are estimated to impact a car's fuel consumption by up to 10 per cent.
Check the car's owner's manual to find out what the optimum pressures are. Most models also have the tyre pressure info detailed on a sticker on the driver's door sill - while modern cars might also display the pressure in the instrument cluster, or alert you to pressure that is incorrect.
3. If your car has an 'eco' mode, use it
Many modern motors are now fitted with adjustable driving modes.
If yours does, it likely has an 'eco' setting. Using these mode will restrict how quickly the car accelerates.
Slower and smoothers acceleration will but will help reduce fuel consumption.
4. If your car doesn't have an eco setting, be gentle on the throttle
If you have a car that doesn't have adjustable driving modes, try to replicate what it does with your right foot. This means taking it easy on the throttle pedal when you can.
Excessive speed is the biggest fuel-guzzling factor so having a light right foot and ensuring all acceleration is gentle is very important to fuel-efficient driving.
When you set off from a standstill, such as at traffic lights and junctions, try not to react like you're on the starting grid at Silverstone.
5. Use the highest gear possible
The RAC says that the biggest secret to achieving high mpg is driving in the highest possible gear for your vehicle while keeping within the speed limit.
'The best advice in urban areas is to change up through the gears as quickly as you can with the lowest revs possible, probably at around 2000rpm,' it says.
6. Anticipate well ahead to preserve fuel when braking
Heavy acceleration will sap fuel economy, but braking too heavily also has the same impact, as you can use less fuel by coming to a standstill more gradually.
This requires a driver to anticipate traffic flow ahead, but is a great way of limiting fuel use.
7. Cruise control isn't your friend if you want to save fuel
While many will believe that using cruise control functionality will provide the lowest fuel use, this isn't always the case.
Cruise control is most likely to benefit mpg on motorways with a constant speed and a flat surface.
However, if you were to use your cruise control regularly and not on flat roads, you would see fuel consumption increase.
'This is because your cruise control would be slower to react to gradient changes, meaning when reaching the brow of a hill – at which point you would normally take your foot off the accelerator to maintain more of a constant speed when descending – your cruise control will keep the power on for a little longer as it's unable to see the gradient change in front of you.
'Driving in this way regularly would lead to worse fuel consumption,' says the RAC.
Don't use your air conditioning unless you really have to as it uses engine power and therefore increases fuel consumption.
8. Avoid using the air-con and heater
Don't use your air conditioning unless you really have to as it uses engine power and therefore increases fuel consumption by as much as 10 per cent on shorter journeys.
This shouldn't be an issue during the cooler months, though using a car's heater will have a similar impact, with it running off the engine power and therefore lowering fuel economy.
Dress accordingly for the weather, is the best advice.
9. A warm engine is more efficient, so run multiple errands in a single journey
Once an engine is warm it will operate most efficiently, whereas several cold starts will increase fuel consumption.
So if you have a number of errands or trips in a day, try to do all of them in one go.
The AA adds that the changing season from winter to spring should also help improve fuel economy.
Warmer temperatures should improve mpg 'significantly' with an extra three miles to the gallon 'almost guaranteed for most', it claims.
10. Lighten your car's load
While this isn't going to make the biggest difference to your mpg figures, emptying heavy clutter from your car will fractionally improve its fuel economy.
And if you're not using roof bars and a roof box, take them off as it could make your motor less drag efficient.
According to the Energy Saving Trust, an empty roof rack adds 16 per cent drag when driving at 75mph. At the same speed a roof box adds 39 per cent, making your vehicle much less fuel efficient.
Driving with a window fully open also has a similar effect.
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That the battle over the White House in the United States has erupted, there the news reports leave no doubt. But does email marketing play a big role here? We went to nose about in the campaigns and came to a disconcerting conclusion: no new American president without email marketing.
During the previous elections, president Obama has put up this email marketing tool with an almost unbelievable perfection. That is why the candidates of 2016 see email as an inseparable part of their campaign. But each with their own accents. We selected the two most prominent: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
This man combines complexity with simplicity. The complexity consists of getting to know the public very well. Demographically seen there are quite some differences in the big patch of land that’s called America. You can’t come up with the same message in the South as in the North. Like Trump adjusts his speeches to the region, he adjusts his email messages as well. He swears allegiance to the idea that context and expectations are strong principles to build up a lasting email relationship.
Opt-in form in Trumps way
That’s something you immediately see when you look at his opt-in form. He tries to collect as many information as possible. Name and email are mandatory. But he also wants to find out the state and the postal code. And in one go he also tries to get to know your address and telephone number. Not that this is useful for email marketing, but it is useful for the offline and telephone campaigns. Email marketing is put up at once to feed the general marketing.
Message in Trumps way
“Make America great again”, that is the baseline of his campaign. Simple, clear, not difficult to understand. Of course not every e-marketer has it so easy to tell a complete story in four words. But Trump keeps it simple in the inbox. Everything is one variation on these four words. Trump mostly uses email to implant an idea in the people’s minds. In the email they don’t make use of the possibility to launch real call to actions.
She handles a different approach. She proceeds on the experience that Obama built up in the final race to the presidency. The campaign of Obama focused among other things to personalised landing pages. They continually tested to create the most optimal forms. The bulk of 690 million dollar that Obama fetched with online donations, can be attributed to email marketing. For each mail, they tested with 18 versions against each other. And for Hillary Clinton, it’s no different. The subject line, the general content, the layout and the proposed amount for the donation.
Opt-in in Clintons way
There you immediately see the first difference with Trump. In her opt-in you only have to fill out two fields. The first is of course your email address, the second is your postal code. This last one will serve for the differentiation per region. Furthermore, nothing is being asked. Email marketing is clearly the primary goal. And that collecting donations is the main goal, you can see on the landing page that you get to see after confirming the opt-in. Trump welcomes you in the victory tour, Clinton suggests to immediately donate $10.
Content in Clintons way
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There is a time for peace and happiness. There is also a time for action and violence. Prepare yourself for some very involved stories not for the faint of heart. You’ll want to look away, but won’t be able to.
4. テラフォーマーズ (Terraformars)
Japanese Level: ☆☆☆☆
In the not too distant future, mankind has set its sights on finally terraforming Mars, making it habitable to human beings. The method? Send cockroaches and moss there. Through some scientific explanation that sounded somewhat silly to me, this apparently would set up Mars to be ripe for settlement.
The operation was deemed a success, and many decades later of that moss and cockroach combination altering the atmosphere, humans were finally ready to be sent over.
But what happens when you leave cockroaches unattended for decades in a highly volatile environment. They evolve. Fast. When the first humans arrive, they are in for a violent and disturbing encounter.
And the battle between cockroaches and humans begins. The solution to fight these newly evolved monstrosities? Experiment on humans giving them various insect super powers.
Sounds silly, but this manga is intense.
3. 進撃の巨人 (Attack on Titan)
Japanese Level: ☆☆☆
Giants rule the world. And they eat one thing: people. The last survivors of the world live in a massive city protected by colossal walls. They’ve been safe for 100 years. Until the day when a super giant, taller than the wall itself smashes an opening and allows all giants to make their attack on the last defense of humanity.
Seen the anime? You know how they cut the scenes usually where something grotesque was about to happen? The manga leaves everything in.
The opening images of the first few chapters will stick in your memory. Naked giants causing mass destruction and eating humans as they flee for their lives.
But the real heart of the story is about fighting back. Gaining your freedom. And not letting yourself be defeated no matter how “giant” the obstacle is.
The story runs deep. The further you go into this world, the more you realize the giants are not what they seem, as one mystery after another is revealed. It constantly leaves you wondering how everything will end.
In a land where demons rule, half demons (known as Claymore for their giant swords) keep them in check and protect humanity.
But the demons are getting stronger and are banding together. The Claymore organization has a dark and disturbing past, and members are starting to realize what they are actually a part of.
Who is going to come out on top? The demons? The Claymore? The humans? Or something else?
Limbs and body parts fly around constantly as one bloody battle after another continues. But the story is well thought out and intriguing, and as the plot progresses, so does your desire for answers.
1. 闇金ウシジマくん (Loan Shark Ushijima-kun)
Ever wondered about what the dark world of loan-sharking was like in Japan? Here is your chance to see how these underground organizations run, the lives they effect, and the chaos they create.
This spawned off into a popular J-drama with two seasons and movies, but those are tame compared to the manga. There’s a lot here that just isn’t appropriate for TV (even though it’s TV show that was broadcast in the middle of the night).
Drugs, sex, violence, prostitution, and more.
At times it tried to be a comedy (and was successful). I don’t really know what it was going for though. It’s a strange phenomenon, and one that will definitely pique your curiosity.
But it can be a bit hard to read this for too long, as it makes you sad seeing lives destroyed.
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According to the message which replaces the desktop's background upon execution, the files are encrypted with 256-bit AES encryption, and that "there's a 0% chance that you will be able to manually decrypt the files without the encryption key". However, this particular cybercriminal appears to be bluffing since the ransomware encrypts the data using the XOR cipher.
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Throughout the entire 2009, cybercriminals have indicated their long-term interest in the development of alternative extortion tactics in order to efficiently earn as much micro-payment revenue as possible. The most recent case of such an alternative extortion tactic, was the introduction of SMS ransomware variant that was displaying persistent inline ads within the browsers of infected victims, often showing disturbing adult content, while requiring a premium-rate SMS for removal.
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§ Order for Committee read.
§ Motion made and Question proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."
§ SIR FRANCIS BARING
, in moving that the House should resolve itself into Committee on this Bill, said its sole object was to determine the law with regard to establishments calling themselves "savings banks." There were two classes of savings banks, those that had complied with the Government regulations and 655 those which had not. The beneficial operation of savings banks under proper management did not admit of dispute, but great hardships had been entailed on poor an unsuspecting persons, who, having entrusted their money to so-called "savings banks," under the impression that they were under Government regulations, discovered too late that they had been deceived by the assumed name, and had placed confidence in improper quarters. It had been proved before the Committee which investigated the subject that the monetary crisis in Glasgow was aggravated by the suspension of sixteen of these self-styled "savings banks," the law at present allowing any persons who though to do so to associate with a common object under that title. In Southampton there were three establishments of that class, one of which was next door to the real savings bank, and instances were adduced in which it had been mistaken for the bank under Government control. The Committee had also received evidence with regard to similar cases in Brighton, Birmingham, and Manchester, and a circular had been produced which the persons interested in promoting one of these fictitious savings banks had put forward, detailing the advantages of forming a connection with their particular banking agency. The object of the Bill was not to punish such persons for the past, but to prevent them for the future from adopting the name of savings bank. It did not prevent them from proceeding with their business as they pleased; but what it said was that if they adopted the name of savings bank they should come under the savings-banks law, and should not deceive depositors by assuming a title to which they had no claim. He had the sanction of the Government for the measure, which had been most favourably received in the other House of Parliament, and he did not anticipate any opposition to its provisions. He, therefore, begged to move that its consideration in Committee be entered upon.
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER
said, the House was naturally disposed to receive with favour any measure emanating from the right hon. Baronet, but he thought he had not fully considered the necessary consequences of his present Bill. It proposed to create a new offence, punishable as a misdemeanour, to meet exceptional cases. But the Bill would, likewise, affect a number of institutions which were not merely 656 harmless but positively beneficial; he referred to the "Penny Savings Banks," which had been established under somewhat varying regulations, with the greatest advantage to the working classes, and whose managers, if the Bill were to become law, would be guilty of misdemeanour. They were very numerous in the north of England. They were not started for personal profit, but purely from philanthropic motives. If there, were any public reason for compelling them to drop the term savings banks he should not object. But there was not, so far as he knew, any such reason. It must not be supposed that a change of name was a little matter with them. It was a serious thing; and what was more, to require them to remove that name was to cast a slur upon them. He should not have objected to the Bill if it had proposed to carry out all the recommendations of the Committee to which reference had been made. It was true the Committee in their Report referred to the inconvenience arising from institutions not under Government control assuming a similar appellation; but their attention was more especially directed to the advisability of giving guarantees to the present savings banks. When one of these failed, from any cause whatever, and it was found that the prevailing impression that the establishent enjoyed a Government guarantee was unfounded, public faith was shaken, and it was hard to induce them to place confidence in any savings banks whatever. His great objection to the Bill was that, by imposing this severe punishment on the conductors of establishments which were not under the Government regulations, the impression that these latter enjoyed a Government guarantee would be increased. But so far from having any such guarantee, the trusteees by recent Acts of Parliament had been relieved from all liability, even in cases of wilful neglect and default, and he regretted to say that flagrant cases of what he must call fraud had taken place in these very Government savings banks. At Rochdale, for instance, it was discovered upon the death of the actuary that he had abstracted some £50,000 or £60,000 from the savings of his neighbours. The principal savings bank in Kendal was conducted in the names of several gentlemen, and the directors for the time being were responsible. As the directorate would probably be good for £500,000 in the aggre- 657 gate, he would appeal to the House whether that bank was not safer than a Government savings bank, in which the only guarantee on the part of the Government was that they would be responsible for money after it got into their hands, they taking no steps whatever to insure that it ever would get into their possession? In a Welsh district there had been a Government savings bank in which a temporary defalcation took place. After that occurrence the people would not patronize the Government bank, and the proprietors of large iron works in the district established a savings bank in connection with their own concern, for the benefit of their work-people. Was the House of Commons prepared to make that philanthropic act a penal offence? He thought they ought to postpone legislation on the subject till they were prepared to meet the whole question, and carry out the recommendation of the Committee. Parliament had begun that year to give a Government guarantee by passing the Post Office Savings Bank Bill. Would it not be better to see how that Bill worked before introducing any measure of this kind? He was of opinion that the Bill would interfere with a number of banks which were doing a great deal of good; that it was uncalled for at that time, and that it would strengthen a false impression throughout the country, and thereby prevent that careful inspection and management of savings banks which would take place if it were not generally believed that there was a special guarantee for the money deposited in those establishments. He, therefore, moved as an Amendment that the Bill be committed that day three months.
To leave out from the word 'That' to the end of the Question, in order to add the words 'this House will, upon this day three months, resolve itself into the said Committee.'
§ —instead thereof.
§ Question proposed, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
§ MR. BAINES
said, he must oppose the Motion for going into Committee on the Bill, as the right hon. Baronet objected to an Amendment of which he had given notice, for the insertion of words which would limit the operation of the measure to banks other than Government established, "for the purpose of profit to the managers or shareholders." The right hon. Baronet said, that if that Amendment 658 were agreed to he would give up the Bill. Under these circumstances, he felt bound to second the Amendment of the hon. Member for Bradford. In its present shape the Bill would strike at hundreds and thousands of institutions which were arising throughout the country, and which he conceived to be attended with great usefulness—he meant the penny savings banks. They were on a small scale, and connected with almost every Sunday school, mechanics' institution, and evening class. They were managed by those who managed those benevolent institutions, by the committees of Sunday schools, and others whose object was purely and absolutely philanthropic. In many cases the object was to collect the pence of the children, and on the approach of winter or spring, to provide them with new clothing, the money was withdrawn. They got a much better interest than they could get if they invested in a Government savings bank. He held in his hand a letter from a friend in his own borough, who, with his wife and family, had established an evening class to teach mill girls to sow. He had established a penny bank in connection with that class, and he had written to him to say that he should give it up if the present Bill passed, as he did not choose to subject himself to be charged with an offence or to be visited by the penalties of the Bill. It might be said that they would only be required to take away the word "savings" from their title; but that word was the charm of the institution, and if they took away that they would be doing a great deal of mischief. The effect of the institutions to which he had referred was to induce children to acquire a habit of saving, which could not but be of the greatest possible value to them in after life. The evil which the right hon. Baronet wished to reach by his Bill was one which he (Mr. Baines) believed could be reached by the ordinary course of law against fraud; and as that Bill would demolish thousands of useful institutions, andas the right hon. Gentleman would not permit him to amend it, he had no course but to oppose the measure by seconding the Motion.
said, he was very sorry to hear that the right hon. Baronet the Member for Portsmouth would not consent to the modification of his Bill, because he agreed with the hon. Member for Leeds that the measure as now framed would injuriously affect an infinite number of 659 penny savings banks in connection with schools. Those banks had no rules, but the elergyman of a parish, a schoolmistress, or some other person said to the children, "Put in a penny a week and I will add so much, and at Christmas or Michaelmas the money will be distributed in a particular manner." Now, were they to declare the person who did that to be guilty of a misdemeanour. That was the real question. The right hon. Baronet said, "Why do you not change the name?' He had cast a good deal about for words, but he could not find a word that would express what "savings" did as well as that term itself. Every child understood it. He was very reluctant to vote against the Bill, but if the right hon. Baronet did not modify it he should feel bound to do so.
§ MR. BAXTER
said, he agreed very much with what had fallen from the last three speakers, but his object in rising was to explain the effect which the passing of the Bill would have in Scotland. In many towns in Scotland the only savings banks were those the deposits of which were guaranteed by the great chartered banks in that country. They were purely benevolent institutions, not conducted for profit, but for the benefit of the poor. Every day the money received was placed in the chartered banks with which they were associated, and was guaranteed by those banks the moment it was entered upon the depositors' pass-books. He would put it to the House whether that was not a better guarantee than that which the right hon. Baronet placed so highly? While they all knew that there had been several defalcations in connection with the Government savings banks, there had not been a single instance of defalcation in the banks which he had described. The effect then of passing the Bill in its present shape would be to deprive many of the towns of Scotland of the advantages which they enjoyed from the name of savings banks.
§ MR. HUBBARD
said, the truth was the object of the Bill was to protect those who from their position in society were unable to protect themselves; and what they had heard of the charm in the name savings banks only strengthened the case of those who wished to pass the Bill, because it showed that the very fact of the assumption of the name of savings bank secured confidence and attracted depositors. Some of the most extensive institutions, which had assumed the name were carrying on a most thriving trade so far as 660 regarded the acquisition of deposits, but an exceedingly losing trade so far as regarded their own profits and the security of the depositors. One of these institutions, established a few years back, promised high interest and undoubted security to depositors: while it promised large profits and limited liability to its shareholders. How those conditions were to be harmonized it was not easy to perceive. In the year ending June, 1859, that society by its own account alone made a deficiency for one year of £2,135. Up to September 1859 the liabilities amounted in the whole to £37,000 from the commencement, while the assets amounted to only £24,000, making a deficiency of £13,000. That was an illustration of the mischief which was going on. In one year thirty new branches had been opened, and £37,000 received, While those institutions were managed upon such principles, and since in a few years they must be eaten up by the expenditure, it was not for the Legislature to stand by and say, "Let the public take care of themselves." He submitted, then, that there was a case for the intervention of Parliament to prevent loss to persons who were unable to help themselves.
§ MR. DENT
said, he deprecated too much interference on the part of Parliament in affairs which people should manage for themselves; nor did he see why the Government should adopt the fascinating title of "savings banks" without incurring full responsibility for all money deposited in those institutions, and at the same time deny to others the right to call their banks by that name. In the borough which he represented (Scarborough), and which contained about 18,000 inhabitants, those banks were established since 1850. During that time there were something like 1,100 depositors, and of these about 1,000 were connected with the schools in the town, while the whole amount deposited was only about £500, although the banks were something like the money-boxes given to children, the object being to get them to put in their money and make it difficult for them to take it out again. He should like to see everything connected with the poor self-supporting, but that could not be the case if such security was given as was intended by the Bill. He, therefore, thought it would be safer to reject the Bill, and wait for a more comprehensive measure to carry out the recommendations of the Select Committee.
SIR GEORGE LEWIS
said, that it appeared to him that it would be going very far in the direction of penal legislation if, because the Government gave certain assistance to savings banks, but without giving an absolute guarantee, that House were to give them a sort of monopoly in the title "savings bank," and make it a misdemeanour, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any one else to establish a savings bank and call it by that name. If it would be shown that there was a fraudulent intent; that the object of the party was to create a misunderstanding and to produce an impression that a bank was a Government savings bank, when it was not, the case would be different. Some qualification of that sort might remove the objection which now existed to the Bill. He could not call to mind any instance of a similar prohibition to that contained in the Bill. With regard to any argument that might be drawn from the law relative to the assumption of trade marks, where a trader assumed the trade mark of another firm there was prima facie evidence of fraud; but the case under consideration was a mere assumption of a name which might accurately describe the nature of the business.
§ SIR FRANCIS BARING
said, he must have been labouring under a great delusion. Last year that or a similar Bill was brought into the House of Lords, and the Government expressed approbation of it in that House. That year it was brought into the House of Lords, and the noble Lords who represented the Government then expressed the Government then expressed their approbation of it. He had had the honour of communicating on the subject with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he understood that right hon. Gentleman to wish him to go on with the Bill. He had acted under the conviction that he was proceeding in concert with Her Majesty's Government. However, after the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary had declared against the Bill it was hopeless for him to go on with it; but he wished that the Government knew their own minds a little better, and that hon. Members should not be told by one Minister that what he was doing was sanctioned by them, and then, when he came down to the House, find himself thrown over by another. In pronouncing the funeral oration of the Bill, he wished to observe that he was as unwilling as any human being could be to interfere with the privileges of those 662 benevolent institutions which had been referred to in the course of the debate; but he could find no words which would really draw a distinction between what he wanted to stop and what he would allow to go on. He admitted that that was an argument against the Bill itself. He had received communications with respect to what were called penny banks, but these would not have been affected at all by the Bill. The right hon. Gentleman concluded by withdrawing his Motion.
§ MR. SOTHERON ESTCOURT
said, he thought the right hon. Member had exercised a sound discretion in determining not to press his Bill. What was really wanted was that every charitable and benevolent society should be obliged to submit its transactions to an efficient annual audit at the hands of a paid auditor. Frauds were as common in the case of friendly societies as in the case of savings banks. He hoped, therefore, that next year a Bill would be introduced insisting upon an efficient audit in the case of all societies in which the working classes invested their money.
SIR GEORGE LEWIS
said, he was not aware, before his right hon. Friend mentioned the Circumstance, that this was a Government measure. He never had heard the subject discussed by his Colleagues, and he had given his opinion as an individual Member of the House, without wishing to bring Government influence to bear upon it. He was not before aware of the circumstances to which his right hon. Friend had adverted.
§ SIR HENRY WILLOUGHBY
said, the Committee that sat on the subject only wished to interfere with institutions that were carried on for profit, and not those that were instituted only for benevolent purposes. He was certainly surprised when the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary rose and threw over the Bill, as he thought it might have been so amended in Committee as to render it a valuable measure.
§ LORD HARRY VANE
said, he considered that, in the case of the small institutions, anything like an efficient audit would be impracticable; and that, even if it were practicable, it would be most distasteful to the depositors.
§ SIR JERVOISE JERVOISE
expressed a hope that in a future Session a comprehensive measure would be introduced on the subject.
§ Amendment and Motion withdrawn
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The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 now exceeds the number of American service members who died in the First World War.
The tally for the United States from Johns Hopkins University reached more than 116,700 on Tuesday, just past the 116,516 Americans believed to have died in the war a century ago.
Both figures are far from precise, due to a lack of testing during the pandemic and the challenges of counting the war dead, though historians and the Congressional Research Service say 116,516 is the best figure for World War One battlefield deaths.
The U.S. has the most confirmed infections and deaths from COVID-19 in the world and, as parts of the economy have reopened in recent weeks, cases have surged in a number of states.
WATCH | Premature re-opening blamed for upward trend of COVID-19 cases in U.S:
Texas is among the states reporting spikes in cases, setting a single-day high with 2,622 new infections Tuesday and a record for COVID-19 hospitalizations for the eighth time in nine days, with 2,518.
“It does raise concerns, but there is no reason right now to be alarmed,” Gov. Greg Abbott said, urging people to wear masks and stay home as much as possible.
The Republican said Texas’ health-care system can handle the surge as the nation’s second-most-populated state pushes forward with reopening one of the world’s largest economies.
Florida’s confirmed cases also set a daily record, at almost 2,800. With hurricane season underway, the virus has spread to the team that operates the nation’s hurricane hunter planes. Five employees at the team’s Lakeland, Fla., base tested positive last week, forcing others into quarantine, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials said.
New cases in Arizona hit an alarming daily high of nearly 2,400 — almost double the previous record, health officials said. The state also reported 25 additional deaths, while hospital intensive care units were hovering around 80 per cent capacity.
In Tennessee, the number of infected patients in hospitals has reached its highest level, at more than 400, Vanderbilt University researchers said. A surge in new cases and hospitalizations has led Memphis and Nashville to delay plans to reopen more businesses and increase capacities for restaurants and retail stores.
Nevada, where casinos reopened almost two weeks ago, has reported 379 new cases, its largest daily increase since May 22. Health officials said it can be partially attributed to delayed reporting but is also part of an upward trend in the last three weeks.
Since the coronavirus emerged in China late last year and spread worldwide, more than 8.1 million people have contracted it, according to Johns Hopkins.The university has tallied more than 440,000 deaths from the disease it causes, COVID-19.
For most people, the virus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.
What’s happening in Canada
In Canada, the number of confirmed and presumptive coronavirus cases has surpassed 99,400. A CBC News tally of deaths based on provincial data, regional health information and CBC’s reporting stood at 8,270.
Here’s a look at some of CBC’s coverage from across the country:
WATCH | U.S.-Canada border to remain closed, says Trudeau:
What’s happening around the world
Brazil set a daily record for new confirmed cases with 34,918, while also tallying 1,282 more deaths.
Egypt’s Health Ministry reported 97 people had died of COVID-19 on Monday, the country’s highest for a single day.
China sharply ramped up restrictions on people leaving the capital in an effort to stop the most serious coronavirus flare-up since February from spreading to other cities and provinces.
Germany appealed to the public to download a new smartphone app to help break the chain of infections, one of several such apps that European governments hope will revive travel and tourism safely.
Mexico will stop sending temporary workers to Canadian farms that have registered an outbreak and that do not have proper worker protections, Mexico’s Labour Ministry said.
In India, Delhi’s local health minister checked into hospital and was being tested for the coronavirus as India reported more than 10,500 new infections.
Israel’s steady rise in infections since restrictions eased last month has increased fears of what a top Health Ministry official said looked like the “beginning of a wave,” with 200 new cases daily.
Nigeria’s commercial hub Lagos has suspended plans to reopen places of worship after a review of the new outbreak, the state governor said.
Turkey, which has seen an uptick in cases since it eased restrictions in early June, made masks mandatory in five more provinces Tuesday.
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If you are an amateur woodworker and you don’t have plans in front of you, how will you ever understand which plans to start with? With Do It Yourself projects, there is always a ready-made or pre-made package. If you are looking for something a bit more special and you do not know where to begin, why not look for complimentary Woodworking Plans?
There are a variety of various type of totally free Woodworking Plans to choose from. There are even some totally free patterns available online that you can download and print out. For instance, if you are thinking of making a small bench, you may wish to take a look at complimentary woodworking plans that come with instructions for developing an easy bench. You can likewise take a look at free pattern sites that offer totally free patterns for benches. If you have a bit more knowledge in woodworking, you can most likely figure out what type of bench you require to make with no problem.
If you aren’t rather as knowledgeable in woodworking, there are a variety of diy tasks you can discover on the internet. For example, there are woodworking plans for all sort of kitchen area tools, such as a small table saw for reducing the ends of wood boards, and a hand saw for the deal with and blade. There are also prepares for making birdhouses, furnishings, shelves, and so on. There are also plans for embellishing your home, such as plans for a good garden or outdoor patio.
If you have never ever tried to build your own Do It Yourself projects, I recommend you start with a free set of plans or a free pattern website. By utilizing complimentary strategies and patterns, you can conserve yourself a lot of cash on having to pay somebody to build it for you. If you do not know where to begin, you can simply look up free pattern websites or search for free plans online.
If you are not really into DIY tasks, you may want to look at the more specialized packages available. There are various kinds of woodworking strategies, so if you desire a distinct bench or an extremely particular kind of table, you might want to look at packages that use whatever.
Before purchasing any plans or a package, you should constantly make certain that they are safe to utilize for DIY tasks. There are certain kinds of wood that can not be utilized with specific Do It Yourself tasks. You require to check out the guidelines to ensure that the plan works with the sort of wood you are dealing with. For example, if you are using oak for your bench, you will not be able to utilize a prepare for a pine bench.
You also require to check out the guidelines of the plans prior to you start the task. Read all the guidelines thoroughly, especially the area on sanding and finishing the wood.
When trying to find a totally free woodworking plan, make sure to check out other individuals’s jobs first, particularly if you are brand-new to DIY tasks. These individuals may have developed the same kind of bench that you are thinking about. You might be able to take some useful information from them and then develop it from their strategies.
When planning your plans, you must also consider the material you will utilize for your Do It Yourself projects. Various kinds of wood will require different quantities of tools, depending upon what type of job you are building. The most expensive wood is frequently the hardest wood to deal with, and wood like oak can take a lot of abuse without breaking down.
You might likewise wish to look at the size of the projects before you buy the strategies. Some plans are big enough to include numerous tasks in a single book. The smaller plans might just consist of a few, so ensure you have a great idea of what size projects you want to make prior to buying the plans.
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A coal-fired electric power plant in China has ordered an indirect dry-cooling tower to reduce water consumption and improve energy efficiency.
The Huaneng Shaanxi Qinling Power Generation Co. Ltd. has awarded a $36 million contract to the Thermal Equipment and Services segment of SPX Corp., Charlotte, to design and supply the system. The 2 x 660 MW utility plant in Huayin City, Luofu County, Shaanxi province, has an early 2011 operational date.
SPX Cooling Technologies’ indirect dry cooling tower product with its Mega Delta technology utilizes a traditional steam surface or jet condenser and a circulating water system to transfer the waste heat to natural draft concrete cooling towers using air-cooled heat exchanger bundles. This type of system is an attractive option for large plants located in arid environments or in areas subject to water-use restrictions, according to the SPX.
China, in particular, has seen a strong demand for dry cooling technology, because its power generation market remains robust, and water conservation efforts and policies are top of mind, SPX says.
“The Mega Delta technology is a highly efficient solution and very effective in arid conditions,” says Drew Ladau, SPX segment president. “We view China, India and other parts of Southeast Asia, as well as Africa, as ideal markets for these products today.”
As the unit size of power plants continues to grow, modern plants require higher cooling performance, which in turn means larger cooling surfaces and tower sizes, SPX says.
SPX’s Thermal Equipment and Services segment provides wet, dry and hybrid cooling towers, heat exchangers, air and flue-gas systems, and filter systems.
Utility Using Indirect Dry Cooling Tower
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In some ways, Social Security is the simplest part of the retirement income equation. There’s no need to choose investments or even decide how much to set aside. But the closer you look, the more complex the Social Security system is. Among the surprises: The best age to claim your Social Security benefits might depend on the ages of your children…receiving Social Security benefits could undermine your Health Savings Account (HSA)…you could miss out on benefits if you fail to keep tabs on the spouse you divorced decades ago.
Five Social Security situations with easy-to-overlook twists…
Waiting to claim could be costly if you have young or disabled kids. The standard Social Security advice is to delay the start of benefits—potentially all the way to age 70—because by delaying you increase the size of future monthly benefits. But there’s an often-missed exception—if you have minor or disabled children, there’s a good chance it’s better to claim as soon as possible. Why? These children likely can receive dependent child benefits based on your earnings history, but they can’t do that until you start receiving benefits yourself. To be eligible, a child must be younger than 18…a full-time student and 19 or younger…or any age if disabled before age 22. The child also cannot be married.
Example: Sam retires at age 63 but intends to wait to start his benefits until 66. Based on Sam’s earnings history, this delay would increase his monthly benefit from $2,080 to $2,600. But Sam has children ages 15 and 16. If he starts his benefits at 63, each of those kids will be eligible for benefits of $1,040 per month until the older child reaches 18. When that child’s benefits stop, the younger child will receive an increase to $1,300 per month until age 18. If, however, Sam waits until age 66 to start collecting his benefit, both children will be too old to qualify for benefits. If Sam lives the typical life span of a 63-year-old man—that’s another 20½ years—waiting to age 66 to claim will have cost the family $48,480.
If you receive Social Security disability benefits, you are (or soon will be) eligible for Medicare, too. If you are deemed eligible for Social Security disability benefits, you will become eligible for Medicare as well, once you have received 24 months of Social Security benefits. That’s true even if you have not yet reached age 65, the usual age for Medicare eligibility. Similarly, if one of your children receives Social Security disability benefits based on your earnings, this child will be Medicare-eligible after 24 months of benefits. Medicare does not inform people that they are eligible, however, so many fail to apply.
Receiving Social Security benefits might mean that you can’t make HSA contributions. If your only health insurance is a “high-deductible health plan,” you typically can make contributions to an HSA—a savings account that lets you put aside pretax dollars to pay health-related expenses. But you cannot make these contributions if you’re 65 or older and receiving Social Security benefits. Why? Social Security recipients 65 and older are automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A, even if they have employer-provided health insurance and don’t yet need Medicare. Medicare Part A counts as health insurance but doesn’t qualify as a high-deductible health plan, so if you have Medicare Part A, you can’t make HSA contributions.
Not only is there no way to decline this Part A automatic enrollment, it’s retroactive for up to six months prior to the Social Security application, dating back as far as your 65th birthday, the age at which you become eligible for Medicare. Unfortunately, many people don’t realize this and later face both income taxes and a 6% penalty on these ineligible contributions.
Young families can be eligible for surprisingly generous benefits when wage earners die. The death of a young parent is a tragedy, but Social Security survivor benefits can at least help survivors pay their bills—if the survivors know to apply. Unfortunately, many widows and widowers don’t apply because they believe they won’t be eligible for Social Security until they reach retirement age. They’re only partially correct—a widowed spouse isn’t eligible for survivor benefits until age 60, but there still might be benefits available for the household.
Children in these households typically are eligible for survivor benefits if they are under age 18 (or up to 19
if still a full-time student…or any age if disabled before age 22). And although a young widow/widower won’t qualify for survivor benefits, he/she could be eligible for a caregiver benefit if raising one or more children younger than 16 and/or disabled. Each of these benefits can be up to 75% of what the wage earner’s estimated benefit would have reached had he worked until full retirement age.
Example: Joe and Mary are married with two young children, ages two and four, when Joe dies at age 30. Joe had only eight years in the work force, and his final salary was $50,000, but Mary and the children together are eligible for approximately $3,200 per month after Joe’s death. That’s more than three quarters of the income Joe earned in his final year.
An ex-spouse’s death could boost your benefits—even if you married someone else more recently. You already might know some of the basics of eligibility for spousal benefits. For instance, if you divorce after at least 10 years of marriage and currently are not remarried, you likely will be eligible for a spousal benefit based on that ex’s earnings starting as early as age 62. If you’re widowed, you likely will be eligible for a survivor benefit based on that late spouse’s earnings starting as early as age 60, as long as the marriage lasted at least nine months (under certain circumstances, even shorter marriages qualify) and you are not currently remarried to someone you wed before age 60. But many people don’t realize that if they were married multiple times, they could have the option of choosing which ex’s earnings record is used to calculate their benefit—and fewer still know that the death of an ex could affect which of these options is best.
Example: Rachel was married to Bennett for 12 years before the marriage ended in divorce. She later married Eric and remained with him until his death. When Eric died, Rachel began receiving a widow’s benefit based on Eric’s earnings in the amount of $1,800 per month. That was more than the benefit she could receive based on her marriage to Bennett even though Bennett earned significantly more during his career than Eric did during his. Why? Eric’s death meant Rachel was entitled to a survivor benefit equal to 100% of Eric’s $1,800 monthly benefit…but Bennett was alive, so Rachel was entitled to a spousal benefit of just 50% of Bennett’s $2,800 benefit, which comes to $1,400. (It’s one or the other—Rachel can’t claim both.) When Bennett died last year, Rachel became entitled to a survivor benefit equal to 100% of his $2,800 per month. Unfortunately, she was not in contact with Bennett and did not realize that he died. Had she periodically asked the Social Security Administration to check if she was eligible for a survivor benefit based on Bennett’s earnings, she could have received $1,000 more per month—but the Social Security Administration won’t tell her that if she doesn’t ask.
Caution: If you are not yet at full retirement age and still are working, survivor benefits may be reduced so much that it doesn’t make sense to claim the benefits until you do reach full retirement age or are no longer working.
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“Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.” – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I’ve been thinking recently about straws. As in, the one that broke the camel’s back. I was recently queried on the subject by a friend: What was that last straw, the one that pushed me over the edge, the one that transformed me from devout Christian and dedicated minister to…well…whatever I am now?
I say “whatever” because, beyond my general dislike of labels, I honestly don’t know which one to apply to myself these days. The straws make it so. I’m not comfortable with the term “atheist,” at least not in my particular case, not yet. I’m not sure what “agnostic” even means, again in my particular case. Does it mean I’m between choices, or that I choose to eschew choices as inconsequential, or that I simply acknowledge that some things are beyond understanding, and therefore beyond choosing? As Gandalf said to Bilbo, “Good morning” can mean any number of things…
So, back to that straw…
I’ll tell you what I told her: I don’t really think in terms of final straws, only present ones. Change is progressive, it is evolution on a personal, existential level. And life, rightly understood, is change. In other words, life is full of straws, and each one pushes me a little farther toward the true ME, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left, sometimes forward, sometimes back, but always toward my own full realization as an individual and a human being. Think of it this way: I am a ship, and life, experience, is my rudder.
Furthermore, there are no value judgments here–there are neither good straws nor bad–there are simply straws, lots of straws, everywhere and in everything. The value of the straw is determined not by its nature, but by what is done with it. Often, we assume a straw is bad because the outcome of our encounter with it is painful or traumatic, destructive even. Conversely, we judge a straw good because the upshot of meeting it is pleasurable, leading to happiness and joy, personal fulfillment…whatever. But this false dichotomy is rooted in a flawed understanding of happiness, joy, and fulfillment. It interprets each as feeling rather than as state of being.
True happiness requires passage through pain, as surely as light without darkness has no meaning, as certainly as good cannot be understood in the absence of evil. True happiness is found only in self-realization–happiness is fulfillment, and fulfillment is happiness–and both together are the source of real joy. Real joy comes not only with success, but with having overcome failure (which is a success in its own right); without failure, indeed, success itself has no meaning, no identity, no ultimate purpose. We must fail in order to succeed.
So, again, straws are value-neutral; straws are straws, nothing more. Sometimes they comfort and sustain; sometimes they hurt like hell; sometimes they even destroy. None of this is either inherently good or inherently bad. The straws are the forest fires of our souls, gutting as a means of rebirth, regrowth, rejuvenation; at the same time, they are the rains by which the flames are extinguished, offering relief and respite from the blaze. Life and death operate in tandem, symbiotically, within the straws. Structures are simultaneously demolished and rebuilt, razed and raised, as we encounter each successive straw that is thrown into our path.
Once we understand this about the straws, we begin to see the bigger picture of which we are but a tiny part, a pixel lost in a sea of pixels. Our lives, finite as they are, are both inconsequential and of the greatest consequence imaginable. Darwin, Locke, Aquinas, Augustine, Hitler, Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, Lucrezia Borgia: each of these individuals shared a common temporality–here for only a brief period, in cosmic terms. And yet, each one left behind an indelible legacy, for good or for ill, that in its turn has become part of the warp and woof of human experience. And these are only the great names. How many lesser known personages have wandered momentarily across the stage, unknown and unhailed, but still vital pieces in the jigsaw of past, present, and future? What about each of us, whose contribution may seem insignificant as we make it, but which, whether appreciated or not, inevitably becomes a part of the accumulated knowledge (not to say wisdom) of our race?
The straws are the basic ingredients of who we are and what we believe, the building blocks of philosophy, religion, social and political theory. But that in itself is not enough. It is not sufficient to select the cumulative results of another person’s journey through the straws, as if doing so offers a shortcut through our own. To do this is to fundamentally misunderstand the straws and their nature and purpose. It is not enough to look to the Bible and those who wrote it (or the Qu’ran, or the Bhagavad Gita, or The New York Times) and allow these thoughts to become an impenetrable frame encapsulating our existence; it is not enough to be socialist, capitalist, Christian, atheist, Jew, Muslim, Democrat or Republican, as a prearranged program for living. It is not enough to look to these systems for answers, because they are each themselves questions demanding to be asked. They are each themselves straws.
It is ours to take up these straws, examine them, evaluate them, listen to the questions they ask of us, and then pass them on to the next person through the filter of our experience. But even then, the process is not done, for not only do we walk among the straws, we are straws ourselves: our lives, our words, our actions, our thoughts, our particular way of viewing this complex web we call reality. We are straws; this is the most vital truth of all straw theory. We deal in straws, and by dealing in them, we become them. We become thoughts and opinions and deeds to be taken up and digested by succeeding generations, so that they might in their turn become straws for the next. We. Are. Straws.
Everything is a straw, and all things result from encounters with straws. And still, they are so easy to miss. Awareness is everything; one must be alert and awake in order to see and understand the straws for what they are. This requires attention to detail: the little things are often the most important and meaningful. Handshakes with strangers; a smile across a crowded room; words shot into cyberspace on Internet wings–relationships all, connections made almost subconsciously, quickly forgotten but never quite eradicated. A small bird on a high branch, swaying in the warm, summer breeze; a ray of sunshine, echoing in the fading light of day’s end, and catching the eye at just that angle, that cannot be ignored and cannot be erased. Memories built upon the smallest of foundations, and yet which, in the end, come together to make us who we are, and without which “we” would not (could not) be.
Straw theory, indeed! If it serves no other purpose than setting itself up in order to be knocked down; if it provokes nothing in the reader but ridicule and a growing conviction that my madness is progressive; if it sits, even, and is never read, but becomes only a persistent pothole on the information highway–even then, this post stands as the result of straws I have stumbled on along the way, and a new straw of my own making. It is one interpretation of the straws, and a straw in need of interpretation. And so the pathway winds and widens, each thought, expressed or unspoken, adding to its breadth and its length, and along its unfolding way, human consciousness grows and matures, indefinitely.
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Taking your child to a pediatric dentist in Arlington is the best decision you can make for your child’s first dentist visit. A pediatric dentist understands childhood behavior and growth better than a general dentist, and they may assist your child throughout their childhood and adolescent years. Children typically start seeing a dentist around their first birthday.
But what should you expect when at your first pediatric dental appointment? What are some questions you should be asking, and how can you prepare your child?
In this article, you’ll learn everything you need for your child’s first visit to the Arlington pediatric dentist.
1. Welcome and Waiting
When you arrive at the pediatric dentist in Arlington, you should be greeted and welcomed warmly by the staff. They will get you checked in when you notify them of the appointment, help you feel comfortable, and inform you of the reason for your visit. Checking in may occur at a reception desk or through a check-in system.
In a typical pediatric dental office, there are usually toys or other activities for your child to play with while they wait. The staff will direct you to where those are.
For your child to be seen by the dentist, they’ll need their medical history. This is personal information and insurance information, so they can correctly bill your insurance if you have it. Filling out this paperwork to the best of your ability is essential in your child’s care because the dentist will need to know their medical history.
It’s also important for record-keeping, so the dentist can refer to past treatments and examinations for later appointments.
When it’s time for the examination, the staff will call you back. For younger pediatric patients, parents are encouraged to stay with their children to avoid any anxiety. Some children may be able to withstand the separation for a time, but if you think your child needs you to be with them, then talk to the staff about how you feel.
During the examination, your child may have x-rays taken to view emerging teeth, count teeth, and ask questions about dental habits. To ease the nervousness for an anxious child, the dentist may show them all the dental tools, the moving chair, and anything else interesting to help the child make sense of the appointment.
4. Cleaning and Treatments
Depending on the age of your child, they will have a dental cleaning to remove any plaque and tartar build-up on their teeth. This may take about 30 minutes or so. Once the cleaning is finished, their teeth are polished and flossed.
They may also receive some extra brushing education. The dentist will talk to them about the importance of good dental care habits, like brushing twice a day, flossing, and eating healthy foods.
Most pediatric dentists recommend sealants, a type of dental treatment that covers the surface of the back teeth to prevent cavities. If your dentist recommends them for your child, you’ll be notified before they are the treatment.
After cleaning and x-rays, your child is ready to go! They might get a surprise prize from the dentist, like stickers, a small toy, or even a toothbrush and toothpaste, for all their hard work.
The dentist will talk to you about your child’s appointment and the growth and development of your child’s teeth. Depending on their age, and what treatments they may need, the dentist will discuss these with you and formulate a plan for the next visit to a Hurst pediatric dentist.
Preparing Your Child
Going to the dentist is a new experience for children, and may seem a little scary at first. However, there are a few steps you can take to prepare your child for their trip to a pediatric dentist in Hurst.
First, schedule their appointment when they’re most alert. Bringing a child who is tired or grumpy to the dentist will only make it challenging for everyone involved.
When talking to your child about their first dentist visit, you may want to watch a video about characters going to the dentist, or count their teeth. Older children might enjoy role-playing, or taking turns to be the dentist and the patient. Role-playing helps them envision and be a part of the experience before it happens.
Talk to your child about why it’s important to care for their teeth, and how caring for your teeth means caring for your whole body. The dentist helps you do that, and that’s why it’s important to visit them.
Decide when you’re going to talk with your child. Discussing their trip to the dentist too early might cause anxiety to build up. It’s best to discuss as closest to the appointment as possible, to avoid anxiety or meltdowns, and tantrums.
Don’t forget to highlight the positives! When the appointment was over, help your child find the positive things that they enjoyed. For example, getting a prize, no shots, the dentist was nice, and things like that. Allow them to come up with as many positives as possible.
As a parent, it’s also important that you prepare yourself. While this may include emotional support, if your child is very anxious about the kids’ dentist in Arlington, you want to focus on more practical issues. These include having your child’s insurance information, medical history, medications, and other important elements that the dentist needs to know.
Seeing Your Arlington Pediatric Dentist
Visiting an Arlington pediatric dentist is one of the best choices you can make for your child. When you’re up-to-date on your child’s oral health, you set them up for healthy dental habits for the rest of their life.
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theater director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Take a look below for 30 more fascinating and interesting facts about Richard Wagner.
1. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionized opera through his concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, by which he sought to synthesize the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music being subsidiary to drama.
2. Wagner described his vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852.
3. He realized these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle called The Ring of the Nibelung.
4. His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs.
5. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centers, greatly influences the development of classical music.
6. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.
7. Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features.
8. The Ring and Parsifal were premiered at his Bayreuth Festspielhaus, and his most important stage works continue to be performed at the annual Bayreuth Festival, run by his descendants.
9. His thoughts on the relative contributions of music and drama in opera were to change again, and he reintroduced some traditional forms into his last few stage works, including The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
10. Until his final years, Wagner’s life was characterized by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors.
11. His controversial writings on music, drama and politics have attracted extensive comment, notably, since the late 20th century, where they express antisemitic sentiments.
12. The effect of his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century.
13. His influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theater.
14. Wagner was born on May 22nd, 1813, in the Jewish quarter of Leipzig.
15. He showed little aptitude or enthusiasm for music as a child, and was the only one of his siblings to not receive piano lessons.
16. When he was 13 years old, he wrote a play titled “Leubald” that he insisted should be set to music, which is when he started his music lessons.
17. He and his partner, Minna Planer, had a large Newfoundland named Robber.
18. Wagner’s first complete opera was never performed in his lifetime. “The Fairies” never really caught on in the world of German opera and didn’t receive its premiere until 1888.
19. While Wagner was in exile, due to the issue of his increased revolutionary activity in Dresden, he completed several key works, including his opera “Lohengrin.”
20. Unable to stage “Lohengrin” himself, he wrote to his friend Franz Liszt in the hope of getting it produced. Not only did Liszt get the work staged, he also conducted the premiere in Weimar.
21. Wagner was the first to introduce Leitmotif, which is a musical signature designed to represent a character or theme in an opera, and he uses it them throughout his operas.
22. Modern movie composers have since adopted the Leitmotif, and you can find many examples across many Hollywood scores.
23. One of the most famous pieces from Wagner was his “Flight of the Valkyries” from Die Walkure.
24. A lot of Wagner’s controversial reputation comes from his association with Nazism. In fact, Hitler allegedly said the following: “Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.”
25. Wagner’s writings on Jews, including Jewishness in Music, corresponded to some existing trends of thought in Germany during the 19th century, however, despite his very public views on these themes, throughout his life, Wagner had Jewish friends, colleagues and supporters.
26. There have been frequent suggestions that antisemitic stereotypes are represented in Wagner’s operas.
27. The topic of Wagner and the Jews is further complicated by allegations, which may have been credited by Wagner, that he himself was of Jewish ancestry, via his supposed father Geyer.
28. Some biographers have noted that Wagner, in his final years, developed interest in the racialist philosophy of Arthur de Gobineau, notably Gobineau’s belief that Western society was doomed because of miscegenation between “superior” and “inferior” races.
29. Adolf Hitler was an admirer of Wagner’s music and saw in his operas an embodiment of his own vision of the German nation.
30. While Bayreuth presented a useful front for Nazi culture, and Wagner’s music was used at many Nazi events, the Nazi hierarchy as a whole didn’t share Hitler’s enthusiasm for Wagner’s operas and resented attending the lengthy epics at Hitler’s insistence. | <urn:uuid:a810ed58-70e8-478b-a2f0-adcd84d2c058> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://tonsoffacts.com/30-fascinating-and-interesting-facts-about-richard-wagner/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.982203 | 1,164 | 3.640625 | 4 |
P-05-857 Create a national task force for children’s mental health
P-05-857 Create a National Task Force for Children's Mental Health
This petition was submitted by The National Organisation for Children's Mental Health having collected 91 signatures.
Text of Petition
We call on the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to create a National Task Force to investigate which cultural, societal, and political factors may be contributing to the number of children in Wales experiencing poor mental health; and that this National Task Force:
1) Include in its membership: children; representatives from organisations working with children; representatives from all political parties represented in the National Assembly for Wales; academics involved in researching social policy, political science, culture, society, and economics;
2) Is chaired by the Children's Commissioner for Wales in post when this task force is created and that they should remain the Chair of the task force for its duration, should they agree to do so (regardless of whether they remain the Children's Commissioner for Wales for the duration of the life of the task force - except in exceptional circumstances);
3) Should be tasked with producing a report based upon its investigations that includes recommendations for the Welsh Government based upon its findings;
4) Should have all of its recommendations examined by the Welsh Government in consultation with this National Task Force, the National Assembly for Wales, and the residents of Wales (including children).
The National Organisation for Children's Mental Health Ltd is a newly established social enterprise. Our objective is to support the development of a national culture that enables children to sustain excellent mental health by helping organisations working with and/or for them to create the best environment in which every child's mental health can flourish.
Assembly Constituency and Region
- Vale of Glamorgan
- South Wales Central
This petition is currently under consideration by the Petitions Committee.
Business type: Petition
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
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A. reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
B. Double utilities’ energy efficiency standards
C. Use 25 percent renewable energy by 2025
D. All of the above
7. What biomass could fuel ethanol plants?
A. Chicken feathers
B. Native prairie grass
C. Malting waste
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api chet su-durāchāro bhajate mām ananya-bhāk
sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ samyag vyavasito hi saḥ
api—even; chet—if; su-durāchāraḥ—the vilest sinners; bhajate—worship; mām—Me; ananya-bhāk—exclusive devotion; sādhuḥ—righteous; eva—certainly; saḥ—that person; mantavyaḥ—is to be considered; samyak—properly; vyavasitaḥ—resolve; hi—certainly; saḥ—that person
Even the most sinful man, if he worships Me with unswerving devotion, must be regarded as righteous; for he has formed the right resolution.
Though the most wicked of men, if he takes refuge in the Lord with faith and devotion, striving to give up his wickedness, he should be regarded as a righteous and holy person. The Lord uses the superlative term (sudurucharah) to indicate the worst forms of sin and evil. Even such a person should be known as holy by virtue of his absolute self-surrender to the Lord. The reason is that he has come to the right decision that Paramatma is the only Reality and he has obtained a glimpse of this ultimate truth. He has realised the illusory nature of the world, and so he has taken final refuge in the only Reality-Paramatma. His decision is right and his salvation is then assured by the Lord.
He is ceaselessly contemplating the Lord and does not touch anything other than Atma. The evil pertaining to such a person is burnt up in the flame of knowledge. A heap of straw lying for several years be reduced to ashes by fire. So the accumulated evil of past births is destroyed by the fire of knowledge. The darkness existing in a remote mountain-cave for thousands of years is destroyed immediately when a match is lighted. So the evil in man however ancient it might be is destroyed by the flash of knowledge. The asadhu becomes a sadhu, the demon becomes a God. What brings about this wonderful transformation? Pure devotion and the right knowledge.
Therefore, let no sinner be disheartened that the weight of sin is too much for him to bear. Let him decide right. Let him take refuge in the Lord, with faith and devotion. He is freed from all sin. He is then a righteous man (sadhu). Instead of condemning people as sinners, it is necessary to rouse the divinity in them and this is the greatest act of goodness which the realised man can do for humanity.
The point to remember is that nothing good can come out of dull contemplation of one’s own weaknesses, past and present. He should act positively and try to understand d what is true and what is false. He should surrender himself to God, and that very moment he transcends all evil.
Whatever evil clings to man in the state of ignorance, that is cleared off by right decision, and determination.
The path of God is the right path. The path of the world (drisya) is the wrong path.
The word ‘sadhu‘ refers to the righteous man who is leading a truly spiritual life.
Question: How can the wicked man become a sadhu?
Answer: By single-minded devotion to God.
Question: What is the right decision?
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Typical Criteria For A Septic Inspection
There are many things your septic inspector will be looking for when preforming a Title 5 septic inspection in Hingham, MA. The following are the most important criteria that can be the difference from your system passing, failing or needing a repair.
- Is there backup of sewage into the facility or system component due to overloaded or
clogged SAS or cesspool?
- Is there discharge or ponding of effluent to the surface of the ground or surface waters
due to an overloaded or clogged SAS or cesspool?
- Is the static liquid level in the distribution box above the outlet invert due to an overloaded
or clogged SAS or cesspool?
- Did the system require pumping more than 4 times in the last year NOT due to clogged or obstructed pipe(s)?
- Is any portion of the SAS, cesspool or privy below high ground water elevation?
- Is the septic tank metal and over 20 years old, and is the septic tank (whether metal or not) structurally unsound?
- Does the system have a septic tank and soil absorption system (SAS) and is the SAS within 100 feet of a surface water supply, tributary to a surface water supply, or a private supply well?
- Does one or more system components described as a “Conditional Pass” need to be replaced or repaired?
- Does the pump chamber have pumps and/or alarms, and are they operational?
Supplemental Inspection Regulations in Hingham
Title 5 of the Massachusetts Environmental Code, as administered by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) governs septic systems in Massachusetts. These regulations dictate the design, construction, operation and inspection of septic systems. The town of Hingham, Massachusetts requires several supplemental criteria in addition to these state-mandated regulations to pass Title 5 inspection.
- Disclose to the Buyer in writing the complete report of an inspection made of the Sewage Disposal System by an approved Department of Environmental Protection “System Inspector” made in accordance with the provisions of Title 5 310 CMR 15.301 – 15.303 of the State Environmental Code. As part of all system inspections in the Town of Hingham the following is required:(a) Septic tanks, distribution boxes, cesspools, overflow pits, pump chambers, sewer manholes must be located and shown on a plan by a minimum of two swing ties from permanent above ground structures. All cesspools and septic tanks must be pumped during the time of inspection in the presence of a System Inspector. Pumping should occur after all required effluent levels have been observed;(b) Maximum Groundwater elevations must be determined by an approved Soil Evaluator (as defined in Title 5 310 CMR 15.022 of the State Environmental Code) utilizing soil mottling criteria and other approved Title 5 methods and historical data.
- The approved Department of Environmental Protection “System Inspector” shall file with the Board of Health within 30 days of the inspection the approved D.E.P.
3. A Sewage Disposal System shall be inspected at or within twelve months prior to the time of transfer of title to the Structure served by the Sewage Disposal System.
Frequently Asked Questions:
When is a Title 5 Inspection Required in Hingham?
- Any transfer of property if the septic system is 2 or more years old
- Prior to changing the building footprint of an existing structure
What can I expect during a Title 5 inspection?
- Our licensed Title 5 inspector will contact the local Board of Health to obtain the necessary documents (permits, as-built plans, etc.) to complete the inspection
- If plans are incomplete or not available, the inspector is equipped with state of the art locating equipment and fiber optic pipe cameras. This technology allows the inspector to effectively and efficiently locate components without as-built plans
- The inspector will locate all system components, groundwater information and drinking water setbacks (well, reservoirs, etc.)
- If it is necessary to dig in the yard in order to access the components, the inspector will always use tarps and cut sod if possible. The inspectors at Title 5 specialists do their best to leave the yard as undisturbed as possible
- During the inspection, the tank is pumped to remove solids and check the interior tank structure
When will I get my Title 5 Inspection Report?
- The inspector will provide verbal results on site immediately following the inspection
- Your final Title 5 inspection report with be delivered via email with 24 hours of the on-site inspection
What if my Septic System Fails?
- Less than 10% of inspections performed fail
- Approximately 15% of inspections require small repairs that can be performed shortly after inspection
- Over 75% of inspections pass
If my system fails Title 5, do I need to repair it?
- State code requires a Title 5 inspection to sell a property, but does not require the system to be upgraded for 2 years. Therefore if you are able to negotiate with a potential buyer, the system can be upgraded after the sale of the property.
- If no sale occurs, we are allowed to categorize your inspection as voluntary. If this is the case, no report will be sent to the board of health.
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In the U.S. today, a person can purchase hearing aids from two types of dispensers: Audiologists and Hearing Instrument Specialists (formally known as hearing aid dealers). Both groups are licensed to dispense hearing aids, but come to this activity based on significantly different paths of formal education and training. There is no information that indicates that consumers as a whole favor either group of dispensers. Such decisions are uniquely personal and appear to have less to do with the dispenser’s professional association (i.e., audiologist vs. hearing instrument specialist) than the consumer’s past experiences with a particular dispenser or facility, the recommendation of a referring source, the influence of advertising, as well as such factors as convenience, cost, etc. Once involved with someone, consumers are likely to continue to patronize the same person or facility in the future, if they are satisfied with the quality of services previously obtained.
There are significant differences in the nature and scope of training between audiologists and hearing instrument specialists. Audiologists receive their specialized training in colleges and universities and currently require a minimum of a master’s degree in order to be eligible for professional certification (CCC-A) and to meet state licensing requirements. Before being certified, audiologists must also pass a standardized, national competency examination. In 2007, a clinical doctorate (the Au.D.) will be required of all audiologists entering the profession. This will add, at a minimum, a full year to their academic training. Audiologists work in a variety of medical, educational, industrial, clinical and private practice settings with all ages and types of populations. Much of their training and activities, however, is concerned with the medical and diagnostic aspects of hearing loss and not with hearing aids directly.
State licensure practices for hearing instrument specialists, on the other hand, are less standardized across the country. The general requirement typically specifies a high-school diploma or two-year degree as well as the passage of a written and practical examination. In addition, approximately 15 states require a training program or apprenticeship ranging from 6 to 12 months before a hearing aid dispensing license can be obtained. In order to become a board certified hearing instrument specialist, two years of additional experience as a hearing instrument specialist, and the passage of a national competency examination, is required. Rather than working in a variety of settings, as do audiologists, hearing instrument dispensers are primarily engaged in private practice. It is when hearing aids are dispensed to adults that roles of the hearing instrument specialists and the audiologists overlap (audiologists are the group that usually selects and fits children under the age of 18 with hearing aids).
These differences in training and background between the two groups beg the question whether such differences are relevant insofar as consumer perceptions of satisfaction are concerned. In other words, is there indeed a difference in satisfaction between those who purchased their hearing aids from audiologists or hearing instrument specialists? In order to answer this question, we constructed a questionnaire in which we sought to determine, if on average, consumers were generally more satisfied with the services they received from a member of one or the other group. While there have been studies that have compared audiologists and hearing aid dispensers in regards to their relative demographic make-up, referral sources, financial factors, number of client visits, binaural/monaural recommendation, etc. (Skafte, 2000; Strom 2001), none have, to our knowledge explicitly reported the relative satisfaction of consumers to the services provided by these two groups.
In addition to this basic objective, we also included other questions related to the hearing aid selection process. These includes such factors as the cost of the hearing aids, number of visits and hours spent, the nature of the services received, and the work location of the audiologists (private practice, ENT office, hospital, University or Speech and Hearing Center). In total, the two-page questionnaire consisted of 13 questions. In the analyses below, respondent ratings for all types of audiologists were averaged when compared to hearing instrument specialists.
A total of 942 hearing aid users completed the questionnaire. Respondents were drawn from a number of sources, including people who attended the Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. (SHHH) national convention in St. Paul, MN, in 2000, members of several local SHHH chapters, members of the “SayWhatClub,” plus a large number of hearing aid users who received the Massachusetts Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing newsletter. Respondents were mostly older folks (about 76% were age 60 years or older), with a wide range of educational levels (although half had either a bachelors or graduate degree). For the most part, these were experienced hearing aid users (about half had worn aids for 10 years or more).
Satisfaction with Services Received
It is important to emphasize that we did not ask whether people were satisfied with their hearing aids, but rather whether they were satisfied with the services they received from the person who dispensed the aids to them. We view this as much broader question than focusing just on the hearing aids themselves, encompassing as it does the totality of interactions consumers have with the person who sold them the hearing aids.
The results indicated that most consumers (76.6%), regardless from which type of dispenser they purchased their aids (i.e., audiologist or hearing instrument specialist), indicated that they were “definitely satisfied” or “satisfied” with the services they received. However, with regards to the key question comparing satisfaction between the two groups of hearing aid dispensers, we found that a significantly greater percentage of people who received hearing aids from audiologists reported higher levels of satisfaction compared to those who received their aids from hearing instrument dispensers (81.4% versus 66.8%).
On the flip side of this question, we wondered whether there would be a difference in the percentage of consumers who expressed dissatisfaction with the services they received from audiologists versus hearing instrument specialists. The results of this survey did show such a difference: more folks who purchased their aids from hearing instrument specialists expressed dissatisfaction than those people who obtained hearing aids from audiologists (21.5% versus 9.6%). In a related question, people were asked if they would recommend their hearing aid dispenser to friends or relatives. In response, more people who saw audiologists said, “yes” (8l.3%) compared to those who saw hearing instrument specialists (62.7%). According to our findings, therefore, while people are generally satisfied with the services they receive when purchasing hearing aids, they are generally more satisfied, and less dissatisfied, with the services provided by audiologists than by hearing instrument specialists. For both groups, the longer a person wore a hearing aid and the higher the education level, the more satisfied they tended to be with their hearing aids.
Referral Patterns to Hearing Aid Dispenser
We were interested in knowing more about how people are referred to a particular hearing aid dispenser and whether there are differences in referral patterns for people who purchase their hearing aids from audiologists compared to those who purchase their aids from hearing instrument specialists. The results of this survey indicated clear differences in referral patterns. We found physicians referring a much higher percentage of consumers to audiologists (32.5%) than to hearing instrument specialists (7.8%). On the other hand, survey results indicated that fewer people who saw audiologists (2.3%) were influenced by advertisements in the public media compared to those individuals who purchased their hearing aids from hearing instrument specialists (21.2%). This is the same pattern found in other studies (Skafte 2000; Strom, 2001). Apparently, hearing instrument specialists depend more upon advertising than do audiologists to acquire new clients, while audiologists benefit more than do hearing instrument specialists from professional networking. For other sources of potential referral (e.g., family or friends), the percentages were similar for audiologists and hearing instrument specialists.
Number of Visits and Hours Spent with the Hearing Aid Dispenser
We wanted to know whether audiologists spend more or less time with their clients than hearing instrument specialists. Based on the results of this study, no significant difference emerged between audiologists and hearing instrument specialists with respect to number of visits and hours spent with the consumer. When obtaining a hearing aid, consumers tended to make slightly more visits to the hearing instrument specialist (4.3 visits) than to audiologists (4.1 visits), but actually spent a bit more time with the audiologists (3.2 hours) than with hearing instrument specialists (2.6 hours). Evidently, people saw their audiologists for a longer period with each visit.
Cost of Hearing Aid
There were no significant differences between the groups in respect to the prices they charged for hearing aids. We asked respondents to indicate cost category (e.g. $501-1000, $1001-1500, $1501-2000) rather than the specific price. While both groups charged people a wide range of prices for hearing aids, neither group favored either the higher or lower category price hearing aids. For both groups, however, cost was significantly related to the number of visits and hours devoted to the selection process, as well as to the age of the hearing aid. The more a hearing aid costs, the more visits and hours spent on the selection process and the more recently it had been purchased. Nothing surprising about this. Probably, these relationships reflect the fact that the more expensive hearing aids were purchased more recently, that they contain more programming options to work through, and that they may require more remakes (in the case in completely-in-the canal hearing aids).
Interestingly, while for the hearing instrument specialists there was no significant relationship between the cost of the hearing aids and subsequent satisfaction, there was such a positive relationship for the audiologists. In other words, those people who purchased expensive hearing aids from audiologists tended to be more satisfied than those who purchased similar hearing aids from hearing instrument specialists. We hasten to point out that this does not imply that people who purchased expensive aids from hearing instrument specialists are dissatisfied, only that no significant statistical relationship existed between satisfaction and cost. At this point in time, the reason for such an asymmetrical relationship can only be speculative; possibly, it reflects the generally higher satisfaction ratings received by audiologists.
Services and Information Received
During the hearing aid dispensing process, prospective users must receive certain kinds of information and services if they are to be successful hearing aid users. Certainly information about the care and maintenance of the hearing aids is essential; however, people with hearing loss can also benefit from other types of information and services, such as group hearing aid orientation programs, information about various assistive listening technologies other than hearing aids, coping strategies for both the hearing aid wearer and hearing family members, and community and national resources. Indeed, several SHHH position papers are explicit on this point, emphasizing the benefits of consumer education and support services at the time of the hearing aid purchase. Because we too recognize the value of providing this type of information and services to hearing aid consumers, we asked people to indicate whether or not they received various services and information at the time of purchasing their hearing aid(s). The results are shown in Table 1.
Percentage of Respondents Indicating Information or Services were Provided by Hearing Aid Dispenser
(N = 651)
|Hearing Instrument Specialists
(N = 230)
|Provided clear explanation of my current audiogram||77.7%||66.8%|
|Provided reason for selecting my hearing aid||78.6%||71.6%|
|Discussed care of the hearing aid||79.2%||79.0%|
|Discussed care of the battery||66.6%||66.2%|
|Discussed earmold hygiene||59.8%||57.9%|
|Made certain I understood the T-switch||48.2%||42.4%|
|Explained use of directional microphones||25.7%||20.5%|
|Informed me about other hearing assistive technologies (e.g., for the TV and telephone, Personal FM system; signaling and warning devices)||33.7%||28.4%|
|Asked to complete a questionnaire to identify problems my hearing aid causes me||11.7%||9.6%|
|Asked to complete a follow-up questionnaire after wearing the hearing aid to determine improvement||10.1%||8.7%|
|Discussed coping and communication strategies||16.9%||9.2%|
|Discussed with my spouse and/or other family members the specifics of my hearing loss and communication strategies||20.8%||20.2%|
|Invited to participate in group meetings to help orient me to my new hearing aid(s)||7.7%||3.1%|
|Provided information about Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. (SHHH), Association for Late Deafened Adults (ALDA), or other consumer resources||19.1%||14.8%|
|Discussed communication strategies for dealing with my hearing loss at work||13.3%||7.9%|
As can be seen in Table 1, several patterns emerge with respect to services and information provided to hearing aid consumers. First, there is a slight, although not significant, greater frequency of services and information provided to consumers by audiologists than by hearing instrument specialists. Second, and certainly more striking, is the finding that services and information that directly impact upon the hearing aids themselves are provided more frequently by both groups than any which may appear to be secondary or ancillary to the hearing aid device itself. In other words, although the vast majority of respondents reported receiving information about the care of their new hearing aids, batteries, and earmold hygiene, fewer than fifty percent of the respondents noted that they received information about the use of the “T-switch” (telecoil), directional microphones, or other hearing assistive technology from either audiologists or hearing instrument specialists. Moreover, the number of respondents who reported receiving information about coping and communication strategies, support groups (e.g., SHHH, ALDA), or invitations to participate in group hearing aid orientation meetings drops precipitously to less than 20%.
A few points must be made clear when interpreting the results regarding services and information received. Respondents had three choices: “no,” “yes,” and “not needed.” This latter category was mostly appropriate for long-time hearing aid users, those who the dispenser “knew for certain” that the specified service or information was not needed. It is probable, therefore, that more hearing aid users actually received these services than these figures indicate.
It should also be noted that we were asking what people remembered, not what they actually received. It is probable that some people simply forgot that the information or services were provided. None of us can claim an infallible memory. Still, what people rated is what they recalled. If they did not remember receiving some service/information then it suggests a need for more extensive follow-up procedures for review and reinforcement.
While the results indicate that, on the average, consumers expressed a significant preference for the services provided by audiologists, it is important to note that there was a large overlap in the ratings between the two groups. These results represent average data and should not be applied to any individual. We do not recommend that consumers abandon any hearing instrument specialist whose services they were content with, just on the basis of the results of this study. On the other hand, however, it is apparent that consumers as a whole are generally more satisfied with the services they receive from audiologists than from hearing instrument specialists. This should hardly be a surprising observation. It conforms to every other professional activity that we are aware of. Given a condition of varying complexity, such as is presented by hearing loss, and “solutions” which likewise embody a range of possibilities, naturally that group with the most comprehensive training will, on the average, provide the more appropriate treatment. This is why schools were invented.
When we began this study, we were not certain how many people with hearing loss understood the background and training differences between audiologists and hearing instrument specialists, or understood that there were indeed two separate groups legally dispensing hearing aids. We are still not certain. We did try to get at this in several of our questions. In the very first question in the questionnaire, we specifically asked people to indicate the source from whom they purchased their last hearing aid. Choices included audiologists working in various settings, hearing instrument specialists and an “I don’t know” category. Only 2% of the respondents checked this latter option, which suggests that people did understand the differences between the two groups.
Still, when we tried to word several question to specifically make this determination, the responses we received are difficult to interpret. It was a challenging question to formulate without suggesting a preferred answer. We asked people to comment if they distinguished between the two groups when seeking professional help for their hearing loss needs. The majority of respondents (71%) reported distinguishing a hearing instrument specialist and an audiologist when purchasing hearing aids. But this doesn’t inform us whether a greater percentage actually knew the difference between the groups, but simply did not take that into consideration when they purchased hearing aids.
Written responses to this question suggested that people did sense that there was a “professional” difference, although they couldn’t specify exactly what that was. There were frequent comments that audiologists were trained in the medical aspects of hearing loss while hearing instrument specialists focused on the hearing aids themselves.
In our judgment, perhaps the most relevant information we obtained in this study is contained in Table 1. Frankly, from either group, the percentage of respondents who reported that they received some particular service or information was appallingly low. Perhaps, as we noted above, these items were actually conveyed to the hearing users; no matter, what they recall is the only information that can possibly be of assistance to them. Neither audiologists nor hearing instrument specialists did a very good job in conveying information about T-coils, directional microphones, and other types of hearing assistive devices. Very few conveyed information about coping and communication strategies generally, or on the job. Few also administered some sort of standardized self-report scale, either before or after the hearing aid was dispensed. Without this kind of information, it is not possible to develop quantitative accountability information or the content necessary for individualized counseling of the client and family. In a way, it matters little how many degrees a hearing aid dispenser has; if he/she does not incorporate the additional information obtained in routine clinical practice, it might as well be non-existent.
It is likely that people would express more satisfaction with the services they received from any hearing aid dispenser had more extensive and intensive services aural rehabilitation been provided them. For the most part, and for most people, we believe that this can be provided within a routine group hearing aid orientation program, as recommended by an SHHH position paper. There is no magic to this; we know that hearing aid users can benefit from additional counseling and a group A/R program (Kochkin, 1999; reviewed in Ross, 1999). Current marketing and clinical trends, however, suggest a future where even less follow-up services and information will be provided rather than more. Hearing aids purchased via the internet is one example of how the product and aural rehabilitation services can be disconnected (as reviewed in another SHHH position paper). Clearly, consumers will have to be both more knowledgeable and more assertive if they are to ensure that they receive the kinds of information and services necessary to help them reduce the total impact of a hearing loss on their lives.
Kochkin, S. Paper delivered at the World of Hearing Conference, Brussels, Belguim, May 29th l999.
Ross, M. (1999). Redefining the Hearing Aid Selection Process. Aural Rehabilitation and Its Instrumentation, ASHA Special Interest Division #7, 7(1), 3-7.
Skafte, M. D. (2000). The 1999 Hearing Instrument Market – The Dispensers’ Perspective. The Hearing Review, 7(6), 8-40.
Strom, K. E. (2001). The HR 2000 Dispenser Survey. The Hearing Review, 8(6), 20-42.
This project was a collaborative effort of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center RRTC) for Persons who are Hard of Hearing or Late Deafened, located in San Diego, and the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center Center (RERC), located at the Lexington School for the Deaf in NYC. The RRTC and RERC are funded by the US Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, to learn more about how individuals adjust to their hearing loss, including their use of assistive listening technology.
* Director of Research, Rehabilitation Research Training Center, San Diego
** Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center, Lexington School for the Deaf
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In July of last year, U.S. President Barack Obama gave a landmark speech at the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, criticizing leaders who undemocratically change their constitutions to stay in power and emphasizing that the United States would call out such behavior. He pointed to Burundi where a few months earlier, President Pierre Nkurunziza pressured the courts to change the constitution’s term limits so that he could run for a third time. Obama warned that such a tactic could trigger “instability and strife,” as well as hamper “Africa’s democratic progress.” But his words seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
A few months later, in October 2015, President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) held a referendum for extending the presidential term limits. Apparently over 92 percent of those who voted agreed. Two months later, Rwanda also called for a vote on term limits, resulting in a similar outcome. And in February 2016, Uganda’s election was marked by wide irregularities, multiple arrests of the leading opposition candidate, and social media blackouts, all of which helped President Yoweri Museveni extend his 30-year hold on power. In the most worrying case, Democratic Republic of the Congo President Joseph Kabila not only tried to remove term limits and undermine the country’s constitution, but also violently suppressed the demonstrations that followed. He has sought to delay elections scheduled for later this year and silence the opposition—issuing an arrest warrant for his main rival and hiring troublemakers to disrupt peaceful demonstrations. Another round of protests and repression could lead to the kind of violence that Burkina Faso experienced in the run up to its election last year.
But the greater risk with Congo is that any instability could trigger regional turmoil—Congo borders nine other countries. Africa’s “World War,” a messy conflict that erupted in 1998 along the Congo–Rwandan border, ended up engulfing the Great Lakes region and involving the armies of eight African countries. An estimated 5.4 million people died during the conflict, mostly in eastern Congo.
So far, the United States has failed to put the right sort of pressure on Kabila for his destructive behavior. Words are not enough. Congo, dubbed a “looting machine,” is estimated to lose up to $4 billion per year from government manipulation of mining contracts and budgets. The immense gravy train that results from shady deals between Kabila’s administration and its commercial partners, as well as the diplomatic immunity that comes with being in office, makes it very difficult for leaders to relinquish power. To get Kabila to hold elections on time and adhere to Congo’s constitution by stepping down at the end of the year, the Obama administration—led by its able envoy Tom Perriello—should target a number of Kabila’s financial vulnerabilities.
For one, Kabila and his cronies operate in U.S. dollars and use the U.S. banking system to make illicit transactions. They, along with their families, frequently travel to Europe and the United States. As recent resolutions in the U.S. Congress have called for, the West should enact asset freezes, travel bans, and other targeted sanctions against Kabila and high-level officials responsible for undermining Congo’s constitution and authorizing the killing of peaceful protestors. The U.S. Treasury Department should also target the broader business networks owned by these individuals or those that support them. This would help strengthen the initial rounds of sanctions since it would require identifying such companies and then working with the intelligence community, banks, and others to quickly identify and freeze assets.
Currently, corrupt regime officials have relatively unimpeded access to the international financial system, including U.S. banks, to launder the money they’ve received through corruption. To close this gap, the Treasury Department needs to crack down on illicit transactions and accounts. The Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network could issue an advisory explaining these concerns to U.S. financial institutions operating in Congo. It could also use Section 311 of the Patriot Act to issue another advisory listing specific financial institutions used by key Congolese officials in order to impede their access to the Western and U.S. financial system as a whole.
The U.S. Justice Department, as well as law enforcement agencies with the appropriate jurisdictions, should begin criminal and civil investigations into possible crimes committed by Congo’s kleptocrats. They can use the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to bring cases against companies involved in corruption and the Torture Victim Protection Act to bring civil lawsuits against officials responsible for torture or extrajudicial killings.
The international community should also get involved. Since the Congo recently requested $500 million in direct budget support from the World Bank, Western nations should condition those funds upon Kabila’s holding of timely, free, and fair elections, adherence to the constitution, and end to the brutal repression of opposition and civil society elements. The International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda should begin a preliminary examination of misconduct and note that grave crimes committed by state or non-state actors will be punished.
Of course, getting a kleptocrat with violent tendencies to follow the rule of law should never be a stick-only approach. Incentives should also be a key part of the policy package. Here, Washington could convince China to put pressure on Kabila to hold free and fair elections in order to maintain stability. China may be amenable to this, as it now controls virtually all of Congo’s critical copper and cobalt sectors, which could be disrupted by protests in mining areas or disruptions to the supply routes. After all, Beijing played a constructive role in the peace processes in both Sudan and South Sudan where it has significant oil interests.
Washington and European countries should also recognize that it costs roughly $500 to $800 million to put together free and fair elections in countries of this size. They should therefore expect to help Congo finance an election if and when the Kabila government commits to holding one.
Finally, Kabila would need an exit strategy. An African elder statesman would be best positioned to offer Kabila a retirement package and initiate talks over a viable future after he steps down. Such a deal would inevitably raise questions about the tradeoffs between maintaining peace and pursing justice, but negotiations would involve finding an appropriate compromise. In the case of Liberia’s Charles Taylor, he received sanctuary in a third country, but was arrested and sent to The Hague when he violated the conditions of his immunity deal.
Beyond these pressures and incentives, U.S. and European donors should bolster their support for pro-democracy and transparency activists and journalists to help them weather the storm of repression. For now, the United Nations should expand its Congo mission to provide protection for human rights defenders. Support for the documentation of human rights abuses and grand corruption would also be timely because it would aid any future prosecution efforts and ICC investigations, adding another level of leverage over the regime.
Obama’s rhetoric from last year’s speech to the AU could still have its intended impact if it is accompanied by the right amount of pressure. Some of the key policy tools, such as financial monitoring, are traditionally reserved for terrorism and international crime, but should be applied to Kabila and authoritarian kleptocrats like him. Congo presents a real opportunity to build a legacy in support of human rights and democracy, but as things currently stand, a major source of leverage is gathering dust on the policy shelf.
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Advertising has been part of our daily life for several years now, and throughout that time, it has suffered a lot of changes. Many of which were true marks in the history of humanity, and with the technological advances, some of these methods were left behind, to give the spotlight to new ones. However, they weren’t forgotten, but the necessity of staying relevant in the audience’s mind is more important, so if you are looking to know how advertising has been changing, then you came to the right place, and this is the article is your cup of tea.
From the Beginning
The first appearance of the printing ad, in 1472, in England, was the starting point to something that would change the advertising world forever and something that definitely has become incredibly important. The first printing projects not only gave people a way to communicate, but also brands a way to show their services, which quickly became extremely popular. The 19th century was the era of the newspaper and of the printing advertisement’s evolution, however, by the time we entered the 20th century, consumerism took over (thanks to the printing influence), and big companies and brands used it to their favor. Even to this day, famous posters and advertising prints, who had tremendous success and popularity, are still relevant and impossible to forget. In spite of that this mark in history met its rival not long after.
The Precious “Golden Age”
Printed advertising was unique, but like everything, it got outdated and overpassed by radio and television, as a new era of advertising had just started. If printed ads were already a hit, imagine the success this two innovations had, when they appeared. People felt a different connection to it, it was a different feeling than reading because someone was talking to them, causing even more empathy for it. A whole culture was created, celebrities began to be the face of many commercials, and characters were created for brands to promote their products. The main goal of these advertisements was to sell and attract more clients. Just like some of the mentioned posters, there are characters that, until this day, are loved by a lot of people! Television commercials were big, and even during some of the hardest times in history, brands were optimistic and kept selling. It was surely a time of big ideas and great innovations.
Into Digital Advances
Until today, radio and television still have a big impact on people’s lives. Advertising might have found different channels, by not being so oriented to television or posters, but these are still important and many brands still put their money on them. However, it’s the 21st century, and as soon as we entered the digital era, the whole game changed. The first appearance of the internet was another huge mark in history and when it comes to advertising, this one brought a completely new way to appeal to its audience. Internet evolution took measures out of this world, and these days it’s impossible to not be subjected to these advertising options.
After this, we were introduced to social media, the most incredible way to reach people from one point of the world to the other, through a click. What better way to reach people than social media? With this new channel, advertising took other strategies and started to get to people through a trust connection, instead of just trying to sell. There is a huge offer and ease in reaching a specific crowd, something that many years ago would never be possible.
Changes Never Stop
It’s impossible to predict the next move our world is going to make, and it’s hard to know what’s coming next in advertising, but just like we saw in the last decades, things are in a constant change and whatever the world throws next, advertising will keep adapting to it and finding new ways to reach us. One of the greatest things about humanity, nature, and evolution is that they never stop, and with the last one, it comes new channels, new ideas, and new necessities. For the good or the bad, this will always be a part of the universe, and it’s what makes the world go around.
Lastly, advertising has been extremely important throughout history and has created unique opportunities. Remember, it’s not only about selling products for a brand but it’s also making a difference, especially in this era. I hope this article made you understand a little bit more about the advertising business, and I appreciate the time you took to read. | <urn:uuid:88db7a4b-d9a5-471d-8151-3106792926b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cstadvertising.com/how-advertising-has-changed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.982425 | 923 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Rechargeable batteries are not clearly enough to power electric cars for a considerable period of time. Without reliable and capacious batteries, you lose the challenge of mass mobility. So the industry is working more actively to the problem of the sources of alternative energy to oil. And the direction of the most promising alternative to lithium batteries, are the fuel cells.
The basic principle of the functioning of these cells was discovered by British scientist Sir William Grove in 1839. It is known as the father of the fuel cell. William Grove It has generated electricity by changing the electrolysis of water to extract hydrogen and oxygen.
After disconnecting the battery from the electrolytic cell, Grove He was surprised to find that the electrodes began to absorb the released gas and generate power. The discovery of the cold combustion process “idrochimica” Hydrogen has become a significant event in the energy sector.
The term itself “Fuel cell” He appeared later was proposed in 1889 gives Ludwig Mond e Charles Langer, who they have tried to create a device for the generation of electricity from the air and from the coal gas.
During normal combustion, oxygen oxidizes fossil fuels and the fuel chemical energy is converted into thermal energy in an inefficient way. It has been discovered that it is possible to perform the oxidation reaction, for example, hydrogen with oxygen, in an electrolytic medium in the presence of electrodes for obtaining an electrical current. Eg, supplying hydrogen at an electrode located in an alkaline medium, we get electrons:
2H2 + 4OH- → 4H2O + 4e-
that, passing through the external circuit, ranging electrode opposite, to which oxygen enters and where the reaction takes place:
4e- + O2 + 2H2O → 4OH-
You can see that the resulting reaction 2H2 + O2 → H2O It is the same as the normal combustion, but in a fuel cell, or in an electrochemical generator, an electric current is generated with great efficiency and partially heat.
Note that carbone, carbon monoxide, alcohols, hydrazine and other organic substances may also be used as a fuel in fuel cells and air, hydrogen peroxide, chlorine, bromo, nitric acid, etc. They can be used as oxidizing agents.
In 1965 fuel cells were tested in the United States on the ship Gemini 5 e, subsequently, the Apollo ships for flights to the moon and in the Shuttle program.
The next phase of the rapid development of fuel cells began in the '90s and continues now. It is caused by the need for new and efficient energy sources in relation, on one side, the global environmental problem of the increase of greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels and, on the other, with the exhaustion of such fuels. Since water is the final product of hydrogen combustion in a fuel cell, They are considered the cleanest environmental impact point of view. The main problem is just finding a cost-effective way to produce hydrogen.
Billions of financial investments in the development of fuel cells and hydrogen generators should lead to a breakthrough technology and make their use in the life of every day a reality. Already automotive giants like Ballard, Honda, Daimler Chrysler and General Motors are already testing cars and buses with fuel cell 50 kW. Several companies have developed demonstration plants that use fuel cells with a solid oxide electrolyte with a capacity of up to 500 kW. Ma, despite a significant step forward in the improvement of fuel cell performance, you need to solve many more problems related to their cost, reliability and safety.
In a fuel cell, unlike batteries and accumulators, both fuel and the oxidant are supplied from the outside. The fuel cell is just a mediator in the reaction and in ideal conditions might work for almost always. The beauty of this technology is that, in fact, l’element burns fuel and directly converts the energy released into electricity. With the direct combustion of fuel, It is oxidized with oxygen and the heat generated in this process is used to perform useful work.
In a fuel cell, as in batteries, the oxidation reactions of the fuel and oxygen reduction are spatially separated and the process of “combustion” It proceeds only if the cell emits current to the load. It is like a diesel generator, only without a diesel engine, smokeless, noise, overheating and with much higher efficiency. The latter is explained by the fact that, in the first place, there are no intermediate mechanical devices and, secondly, the fuel cell is not a heat engine and therefore does not obey the law of Carnot (or, its efficiency is not determined by the temperature difference).
The oxygen is used as oxidizing agent in fuel cells. Furthermore, since the oxygen in the air is quite, you do not need to worry about the supply of an oxidizing agent. As for the fuel, it is hydrogen. Then, the reaction occurs in the fuel cell:
2H2 + O2 → H2O + electricity + heat.
Ithe result is useful energy and water vapor. The simplest design is a fuel cell with a proton exchange membrane (see Figure 1). It works as follows: the hydrogen that enters the element decomposes under the action of the catalyst into hydrogen ions and electrons H + positively charged. Then comes in a special membrane, which acts as an electrolyte in a conventional battery. Because of its chemical composition, the protons pass through itself, but traps electrons. Therefore, the electrons accumulated on the anode creates a negative charge in excess and hydrogen ions create a positive charge on the cathode (the element voltage is approximately 1 V).
To create high-power, a fuel cell is constituted by a plurality of cells. If you include an element in the load, the electrons will flow therethrough to the cathode, creating a current and completing the process of oxidation of hydrogen by oxygen. As a catalyst in said fuel cells, They are typically used microparticles of platinum deposited on a carbon fiber. Thanks to its structure, such a catalyst passes well gas and electricity. The membrane is typically made of a polymer Nafion sulfur-containing. The thickness of the membrane is of tenths of a millimeter. During the reaction,, naturally, Also heat is released, but it is not so much, then the operating temperature is maintained in the range 40-80 ° C.
Fig. 1 The principle of operation of the fuel cell
There are other types of fuel cells, that differ primarily in the type of electrolyte used. Almost all they require hydrogen as a fuel, so is a logical question: where to find it. Naturally, it would be possible to use compressed hydrogen in special containers, but then immediately arise problems associated with the transport and storage of this highly flammable gas at high pressure. Naturally, it is possible to use hydrogen in bound form as in the batteries to metal hydrides. But still remains the task of its extraction and transportation, because there is no infrastructure of hydrogen filling stations.
However, There is also a solution: the liquid fuel based on hydrocarbons can be used as a source of hydrogen. Eg, ethyl or methyl alcohol. It's true, here you are already need a special additional device: a fuel converter, which converts the alcohols in a mixture of gaseous H2 and CO2 at high temperature (for methanol will be somewhere around 240 ° C).
Fig.2 The principle of operation of a direct methanol fuel cell
The fundamental difference between the filling elements of hydrogen and methanol is the catalyst used. The catalyst in the direct methanol fuel cell removes the protons directly from a molecule of alcohol. Therefore, the fuel problem is solved: methyl alcohol is produced in series for the chemical industry, it is easy to store and transport and to load a fuel cell in methanol, it is sufficient to simply replace the cartridge with fuel. It's true, there is a downside: methanol is toxic. Furthermore, the efficiency of a direct methanol fuel cell is significantly lower than that of a hydrogen.
Fig.3. A fuel cell in methanol
The most attractive option is to use ethanol as fuel, since the production and distribution of alcoholic beverages of any composition and strength is well established around the world. However, the efficiency of fuel cells based on ethanol, unluckily, It is even lower than that of methanol.
As already noted in the field of fuel cells in many years of development, various types of fuel cells have been constructed. The fuel cells are classified by electrolyte and fuel type.
1. Electrolyte hydrogen-oxygen solid polymer.
2. Fuel Cells solid polymeric methanol.
3. Elements of alkaline electrolyte.
4. Fuel Cells phosphoric acid.
5. Fuel Cells of carbonates melted.
6. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.
Ideally, the efficiency of fuel cells is very high, but in real terms there are losses associated with non-equilibrium processes, as ohmic losses due to the conductivity of the electrolyte and the electrodes, activation polarization and concentration and diffusion losses. Consequently, part of the energy generated in the fuel cells is converted into heat. The efforts of specialists aim to reduce these losses.
The main source is the ohmic losses, and the reason for the high price of fuel cells, are the membranes for the exchange of ions. They are now looking for alternative proton conducting polymers cheaper. Since the conductivity of these membranes (solid electrolytes) It reaches an acceptable value (10 Ohm / cm) only in the presence of water, the gases supplied to the fuel cell need to be further moistened in a special device, which also makes the system more expensive. In the catalytic gas diffusion electrodes, Some are used mainly platinum and other noble metals, and so far, no replacement was found equally efficient. Although the platinum content in fuel cells is of different mg / cm2, for large batteries its quantity reaches tens of grams.
During the design of fuel cells, It is paid much attention to the heat removal system, since high current density (up to 1A / cm2) the system overheats alone. For cooling, is used the water that circulates in the fuel cell through special channels and, low capacity, is used ventilation.
Then, in addition to the fuel battery cells in the same, a modern system of an electrochemical generator “grow up” with many auxiliary devices, come: pump, a compressor for the air supply, a hydrogen inlet, a gas humidifier, a cooling unit, a gas leakage control system, a DC converter to AC and a control processor and other, all this leads to the fact that the cost of the fuel cell system during the period 2004-2005 was of 2-3 thousand $ / kW. According to experts, fuel cells will be available for use in transport and stationary electric power plants at the price of 50-100 $ / kW.
For the introduction of fuel cells in everyday life, along with cheaper components, We must wait for new ideas and original approaches. In particular, high hopes are associated with the use of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies. Eg, several companies have recently announced the creation of super efficient catalysts, in particular, for an oxygen electrode based on nanoparticles of various metals groups.
There have been reports of fuel cells projects devoid of membrane in which the fuel cell is supplied liquid fuel (such as methanol) along with an oxidizing agent. An interesting concept is the concept developed elements of biofuels that operate in polluted water and consume dissolved oxygen as an oxidizing agent and organic impurities as a fuel.
First of all, it is necessary to solve the problem of miniaturization of fuel cells. After all, smaller is the fuel cell, less will be the power that will be capable of delivering, then they are constantly being developed new catalysts and electrodes that allow, at small sizes, to maximize the work surface.
The latest developments in the field of nanotechnology and nanomaterials (for example nanotubes) they are useful.
The second important issue that needs to be addressed is the price. In fact, as a catalyst in the majority of fuel cells, It is used very expensive platinum. Once again, some manufacturers are trying to make the most of the silicon technology already well developed.
Researchers have demonstrated the possibility of producing hydrogen from water and store it right between the carbon atoms of the graphene. To achieve this “mini factory” hydrogen, They have used a nickel-coated surface of graphene. “Combining the properties of the two materials”, affirm, “the device works as a catalyst that breaks down the molecules of water and divides them into hydrogen atoms and hydroxyl groups (OH)”. The hydrogen produced is then absorbed on the same graphene, which then it provides a natural system of storage at room temperature. To release the hydrogen, just heat the graphene at temperatures of about 130 ° C.
News of the first of December of the year just ended, Bosch batteries will develop fuel cell in the city of Wuxi, in eastern China, in order to supply the local emerging market for fuel cell vehicles.
We should not have to go abroad to find this technology, in Piedmont are experimenting powered by fuel cells trains.
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UCVR Eye is a unique camera that can take
180-degree* 3D panoramic photos and can also be folded in half to take “360-degree” panoramas.
- Field of view of each lens: 120 degrees
- Field of view when folded: “360 degrees” (*panoramic; not fully spherical)
- Photo resolution: 16mp
- Video resolution: 4k @ 15fps or 1080p @ 30 fps.
- uses Micro SD cards up to 32GB
A seller explained to me that it can be folded in half, not just at a 90 degree angle. This seems to be supported by the drawing below.
However, because the field of view of each lens is only 120 degrees, I’m confused about how the image would look if it were indeed folded this way. It would seem to be as though there would be a super wide stitch line in a fully spherical 360 photo. I’m not sure how they can claim it to be 360-degrees. The little planet photo above does not seem possible for this camera (I believe there would be a giant blind spot in the middle, and the sky would have more limited outer perimeter).
Here is a sample 3D panoramic video in top-bottom format:
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Footwork Technique (1) Badminton Footwork Training - BackcourtTags: Footwork Beginner Intermediate Chen Weihua Chen Weihua Badminton Training
In this beginner/intermediate badminton footwork video, Coach Chen Weihua shows basic badminton footwork skills for reaching the two corners of the backcourt. Novice players often wonder why they have difficulties getting to the shuttle, why their steps are uncoordinated, and why their shots are not powerful, even though they swung hard. The answer is simply that have poor footwork.Good badminton footwork allows you to get to the shuttle with enough time to perform a good swing on a good contact point. Practicing badminton footwork drills and exercises also help with continuity, which means a smoother transition from one shot to the next.Mastery of badminton footwork techniques can improve your overall game. Therefore, badminton footwork training is an essential part of badminton.
As you watch the following badminton footwork video, take note of the steps that the player takes to reach the corners. Assuming a right-handed player, the steps for the forehand shot (right corner) and the overhead shot (left corner) is a little different, as the overhead shot requires a step to turn the body.When the player reaches the corner, an optional jump may be performed (jump smash). Novice badminton players and those who are not comfortable jumping may skip the jump and perform a swing instead.After the swing, return to the starting position and get ready for the next shot. Transitioning into the next set of footwork should be smooth and continuous."
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Are you naturally fair skinned? Have you had spray tans before thinking you would go dark quickly because of your fair skin, but instead you get little to no colour at all? Do you have to go the darkest shade of tan possible just to get a hint of colour?
If you answered “yes” to these questions, then it’s pretty safe to assume that your are DHA Resistant. You’re probably wondering – “what is DHA Resistance and what has it got to do with spray tanning my skin?!”.
Well, first of all, DHA (Dihydroxyacetone) is the active ingredient in spray tanning solutions. It’s the reason why your skin turns brown from a spray tan.
The scientific explanation according to Wikipedia is “DHA reacts chemically with the amino acids in the skin, which are part of the protein containing keratin layer on the skin surface. Different amino acids react to DHA in different ways, producing different tones of coloration from yellow to brown. The resulting pigments are called melanoidins. These are similar in coloration to melanin, the natural substance in the deeper skin layers which brown or “tan”, from exposure to UV rays.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydroxyacetone
Some people who are fair and cannot tan in the sun have a similar issue with DHA – it doesn’t have the same effect on them. Therefore DHA Resistant individuals often require a much higher dose of DHA just to get any colour whatsoever!
But never worry – I have dealt with a great number of clients with DHA Resistance with excellent results. Usually, it takes a few tans to know what colour suits you best anyway, and it’s no difference with DHA Resistance. Generally, I will give you a light tan to begin with (if you’ve never had a spray tan before) and assume you are NOT DHA Resistant…but then if no colour comes up, I will increase the strength of DHA to arrive at your perfect tan!
You should also know that it’s very common – and is not always just fair skinned people who are DHA Resistant… So you’re not the only one!!
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Why is my rabbit swaying back and forth?
He seems to have always done this, and he is definitely not shaking or frightened. But he just sits in his cage and sways at times. Why is that?
To my knowledge, this is quite normal. I've raised a few buns and seen this a lot. I have a bun who sits up and sways a bit before falling asleep. I would suggest letting him out of the cage, buns need lots and lots of exercise and can get really bored in cages.
Bunnies can really come to life outside of their cages, and when they feel safe are so affectionate, so if hes just sitting there most of the time, then he's probably very bored.
I'm not sure. Perhaps you can look up some books or articles that talk about bunnies. If you're really concerned, it might be worthwhile to take it to the vet.
Your rabbit is under stimulated. Do you ever take it outside on a leash? Let it play in the back yard? Studies have shown that caged animals will display unnatural behavior such as swaying or pacing when kept in a cage and not exercised enough.
I raised rabbits for 2 years. I love the babies, which they have tons of...they're SOOOO adorable.
Sounds to me like you should keep the liquor cabinet locked up!! LOL
No? OK, seriously then, this is a "self-soothing" activity, just like you and I might rock back & forth in a rocking chair....or a cat does the "kneading thing".......
Does he have pink eyes? Pink-eyed creatures (as well as others) often sway trying to get a fix on what they're looking at because their eyesight is so poor. It could be this, it could be he's really bored and showing signs of "zoonosis" (boredom in captivity) or he could have a medical issue like an ear infection. I would check out those ears either way, make sure there's nothing gushy or smelly or otherwise off inside them. Good luck.
by jackie1004 11 years ago
my new born bunny just died after 3 weeks. i can't figure it out how he died. do you know?how do you treat newborn bunny? do you give carrots and water, too?do you need to walk him regularly?
by swarnika pujari 6 years ago
How can I take good care of my baby rabbit? I lost my first baby pet rabbit and am thinking of getting another soon.....Kindly advise me about the points to remember of rabbit care for the first few days....
by Moonbaby2011 11 years ago
Can I put a wild 1 week old bunny in with 2 day old domestic bunnies?I have 2 baby rabbits I found outside and I was wondering if it would be ok to put them in with the 5 babies that were just born to my domestic rabbit? My doe has 3 open nipples and she is feeding her own babies very...
by Busterbabe 12 years ago
why does my rabbit *Buster run away in his cage when i go to take him out?when i go near my rabbits cage he does jump about but when i go to take him out he runs away! how could i take him out of the cage with out putting him in any stress of fear?! also do rabbits enjoy raisens?
by chkymonkey 12 years ago
Has my rabbit got a behavioural problem?My rabbit enjoys going out in the garden and she can be quite nosey if i am doing something out there. However i have to just let her out by opening the hutch door and shooing her along to get her back in as she hates being touched/stroke. She also hates...
by Manny 005 12 years ago
Why does my bunny keep nipping at her baby bunnies?Is it because she can't take care of it or is it because i got the wrong bedding (saw dust).
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5.7 million Contigo water bottles for children recalled over choking risk
Contigo is recalling 5.7 million of its cleanable water bottles for children because they pose a choking risk.
There have been 149 reports of spouts detaching from the water bottles, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. In 18 of those cases, the spouts were found in a child's mouth.
The recalled water bottles come in three sizes — 13-ounce, 14-ounce and 20-ounce — and were sold from April 2018 to June of this year at retailers throughout the country, including Costco, Target and Walmart. They were sold individually, as well as in packages of two and three. The bottles come in a variety of colors, but all have black spouts and bases. They were priced between $9 and $24.
Parents who have the water bottles should immediately inspect them. Inspection instructions can be found at gocontigo.com/recall.
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June 1, 2016 marks what would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 90th birthday. Her early death has frozen her in time, making it difficult to fathom the idea of Marilyn Monroe being 90 years old at all–and further, while it is confounding to think of Marilyn Monroe as a 90-year-old, 90 is young enough that she might still have been alive today, if that night on August 4, 1962 had gone differently.
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most intricate and complex personalities in all of film history. I have been fascinated by her story ever since I was old enough to comprehend it. Her psychological demons consumed her, but she put forth a million dollar smile that belied her internal struggles. She was a gifted actress, but was stuck in the sex symbol roles that would bring 20th Century Fox the most profit. Childhood memories of living in an orphanage and in foster care, reminding her that she had been an unwanted child named Norma Jeane Baker, haunted her as she lived the life as the most sought-after actress on the screen. Ultimately, these dualities destroyed her.
The child who became Marilyn Monroe was born to a 24-year-old film cutter named Gladys Baker on June 1, 1926. Gladys had severe mental illness, and was unable to care for her new daughter. After living in several foster homes, she was placed at the Los Angeles Orphan’s Home Society in 1935, near the corner of Vine and Melrose. There, she lived in a girls’ residence hall that overlooked Paramount Studio alongside several dozen other children, many of whose situations were similar to hers. She stayed for 2 years before going back into foster care, living long term with the aunt of her mother’s best friend. She returned for visits several times over the course of her life, signing the guest book as “Norma Jeane Baker” on her first visit, and “Marilyn Monroe” every time after that.
The mission of the orphanage began to shift in the years following Norma Jeane Baker’s stay there, and became known as the Hollygrove Home For Children. It began to focus less on children who had no parents, and more on children like Norma Jeane who had parents who were unable to care for them. Its goals became more family-driven, providing resources and support to families in need of help. The home itself closed in 2005, but the organization continues to do great and needed work in the Los Angeles area.
On the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s 90th birthday, EMQ FamiliesFirst Hollygrove is holding a fundraising drive in her honor. The modern Hollygrove is a nonprofit organization dedicated to “the social-emotional, behavioral and mental health needs of young children, teens and their families,” and aims to “heal the whole child-and the whole family – through a full range of behavioral and mental health services.” It has thought of a lovely and fun way to participate in the fundraising drive–using the hashtag #ModernMarilyn, participants are encouraged to post a picture inspired by Marilyn Monroe, along with the link to the fundraising page.
If you are so inclined, contributing to this fundraising drive would be a wonderful way to honor Marilyn Monroe’s memory this year, and a great contribution to a vital Los Angeles institution. Please follow this link to contribute or share the page with someone who can, and honor a legend while at the same time honoring Los Angeles children and families.
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Over the course of 40 years, J.W. Marriott Jr. took his family business to become the most well known name in the hospitality industry. The Marriott company employs more than 360,000 associates, who serve in 4100 hotels worldwide, this global giant has made a significant impact on the way we experience the world.
Wholeheartedness was a character quality instilled into J.W. Marriott, Jr. “Bill” from early on. Bill recalls how his father mentored him as a youngster, “My father gave me the responsibility of a man… He would tell me what he wanted done, but never said much about how to do it. It was up to me to find out for myself.” Bill came from a devout Mormon family, and followed in his father’s footsteps. Devotion was drilled into his character every step of the way from the family farm, to the restaurants, hotel businesses, and through the missionary work he did as a part of his faith tradition. His father was gregarious and outgoing, while Bill is more of a shy and private man. In the midst of being different, Bill was encouraged to be his own man, and to develop a deep sense of mission in life, and to be devoted to his work.
Bill grew up with a keen awareness of humble beginnings. He knew the value of being faithful in small things. The Marriott company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington D.C. in 1927 to a chain of family restaurants by 1932, to its first motel in 1957. He became the President of the family business in 1964 at the age of thirty-two, and eventually CEO in 1972, and through his leadership, took the Marriott family business to become the most recognized name in the hospitality industry. Bill emerged as a leader with an understanding that all good things start off small. Even after the company grew to include hundreds of restaurants and hotels, Bill and his father J. Willard Marriott traveled together often to personally inspect every establishment they operated, paying close attention to the smallest details.
His mother, Alice Marriott, remarked that her son always pushed himself to work doubly hard to prove himself. His father J. Willard Sr., created a solid foundation for him to build on, and neither of them wanted Bill to live under his father’s shadow. Bill certainly proved himself by taking the Marriott company to heights unimaginable by any standard of measure. Marriott encompasses 4,100 hotels around the world, and more than 360,000 associates, with $3.6 billion in revenue for 2014. Yet, in all of his success, he has always seen his life as serving a greater purpose. Bill has served actively in his church as a bishop, and his missionary work extends beyond his church leadership to his business. A Book of Mormon is placed in every Marriott Hotel room.
Bill has financially prospered and accumulated more than what most human beings have ever seen in life. And yet, he has said, “I can state without hesitation that material wealth has nothing to do with happiness, but is usually the case of great unhappiness. Happiness comes from the inner peace and spiritual strength we can build up within us, from serving the Lord, and obeying his commandments, from doing right, and from the love of our family. And it comes from serving and helping others.” In addition to tithing and volunteering in his church, Bill has given much time and money to many noteworthy causes, and has invested significantly in education. Bill was always a family man, he has said, “Family has always been number one in my life… Family over work. It’s how our family business has grown, how we keep our associates and why Marriott is recognized as ‘One of The Best Places to Work.’ Putting family first is good for business.”
For over four decades as CEO of the hotel chain that bears his family name, Bill Marriott was known for his hands on style of running the business that he called, “management by walking around.” He would say to his associates, “See and be seen. Get out of your office, walk the talk, make yourself visible and accessible.” He made it a point to demonstrate leadership by being present. He was a leader who cared for his people. He said, “Take good care of your associates, and they’ll take good care of your customers.” Whenever there was anything that he wanted his associates to emulate, he set the example by being the first to lead by action and not just by words. He believed in leading by listening. He has said, “I try to remember that as long as I’m talking, I can’t be learning about the problem, and if I don’t know about it, how can I help solve it?” | <urn:uuid:08338207-01e7-44cc-8c1e-8dfbba022caa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://keirseymagazine.com/guardian-protector-isfj.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.991235 | 998 | 1.835938 | 2 |
The festival called the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:26-32) is unique among the days God set before Israel to observe as holy days. The Day of Atonement, known as Yom Kippur, is considered the holiest day of the year in the Jewish faith. It falls in the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which is in September or October in the Gregorian calendar.
The Day of Atonement is a day of fasting, going without food and water, and deep self-examination before God. On this solemn day God accepts the sacrifices of the High Priest who enters the holiest part of the Temple. By that ritual God removed the sins from the nation. The record was wiped clean and a new beginning occurred.
Today, in the New Covenant enhancement of the day,
We look to Christ as our present High Priest before the throne of God in heaven. He mediates for us by His blood (Hebrews 9:11-15). Christ is the Mediator of the New Covenant assuring that all nations may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Observers of this solemn day also have an annual reminder that Satan’s deceptive power on mankind will only be broken by the intervention of Jesus Christ upon this world.
In conclusion, the Daily Bread email message sent on 7/20/2022 says,
Hebrews 4:16 – Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (NASB)
When we remember Christ’s role as our High Priest and Intercessor, and His sacrifice for us, we can draw nearer to God and receive mercy and grace. God’s annual festival, The Day Atonement, pictures the loving reconciliation all people can have with God’s grace through Christ’s sacrifice. The Day of Atonement also shows the remarkable truth that Satan’s deceptive power on mankind will only be broken by the intervention of Jesus Christ.
Pray, particularly in times of need, with thankfulness and confidence. Ask God to make you an instrument to alleviate suffering, hunger, and strife. Ask Him to guide you through doing your part of the commitment to the outcry, “Your Kingdom Come!” (Matthew 6:10)
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Don't feed us seaweed, Eskom
Don't feed us seaweed, Eskom
Reliable, timely information from Eskom is essential to restore public trust in this essential utility.
This was underlined by the incident at Koeberg this week, when one of the two nuclear reactor units went off after an incident involving a sea-water pump. The unit is expected to be back online on Sunday.
The incident was marred by confused messages from Eskom about what had happened.
When unit 1 went offline on Tuesday evening, resulting in stage 4 loadshedding, Eskom said it was due to a fault with the sea-water pump that cools the reactors and emphasised there was no risk as it had nothing to do with the reactor. There was no explanation for why the fault with a single pump would put the entire unit out of operation.
Koeberg is a nuclear power station, so we all get understandably edgy when something goes wrong.
Then on Thursday it emerged that there had been nothing wrong with the water pump and it did not have to be repaired.
The real situation was revealed by energy expert Chris Yelland, who now also acts as an energy advisor to OUTA.
Yelland said, in a series of tweets early on Thursday, that the pump did its job and cut out as a safety precaution. Eskom has not contradicted Yelland on this.
Yelland believed there had been an internal breakdown in communications in Eskom rather than deliberate misinformation to the public.
There has been confusion over why the unit is still offline, with no clear explanation from Eskom.
The NNR told OUTA late on Thursday that it has not issued any directive to Koeberg to keep the unit off.
This is what the NNR told OUTA: “The NNR was notified by Koeberg of the unit 1 trip. This is not a nuclear safety incident and therefore there are no safety concerns. The NNR inspectors are monitoring the situation closely. At this stage the NNR has not imposed any regulatory directives on this matter.”
The public needs to know what is happening. “We want to see the NNR report on this incident as soon as possible. We want to know why it happened and how it was addressed,” says Liz McDaid, OUTA’s Portfolio Manager for Energy.
“South Africa needs an NNR that can act without fear or favour. It needs to be well resourced to be able to respond quickly. In the past the NNR has had to step in to shut down the NTP facility at NECSA due to safety protocol breaches,” says McDaid.
“While it’s good that the NNR has responded, we believe that informing the public timeously is also critical. OUTA contacted the NNR on Tuesday and we received an update late on Thursday. The NNR has not issued any public statement and we have asked for the report which details the causes of the maintenance failure.”
Eskom has to be transparent and accountable and prove credible to the public. We are still waiting.
We want to be sure that information from Eskom to the public is reliable. This is particularly important when dealing with a nuclear reactor.
“The public must be able to trust Eskom information on nuclear power,” says McDaid. “A nuclear power station is very different from a coal-fired power station.”
We’d like to be sure that there is sufficient built-in redundancy in critical systems at Koeberg, so that if something like a pump goes off there’s a back-up that takes over immediately.
This incident also raises concerns about routine maintenance at Koeberg. Eskom has previously assured us that maintenance there is run according to a rigorous schedule, as it’s a nuclear power plant. We’d like to be sure of that.
Here’s what Chris Yelland has established about what happened at Koeberg
On 10 March, the 930MW Unit 1 nuclear reactor at the Koeberg power station was manually shut down by the operators, in line with the reactor operating procedure, as a result of the increasing temperature on the secondary side of the plant. This resulted in the Stage 2 loadshedding at the time increasing to Stage 4.
Each of the two 930MW Units at Koeberg has three sea-water circulating pumps for the tertiary cooling water circuits at the power station, which would normally ensure there is adequate redundancy.
Normally each reactor can operate at full rated output with two of the three sea-water circulating pumps in operation, and at 60% of rated output if only one of the three sea-water circulating pumps is in operation.
In this instance, one of the sea-water circulating pumps was undergoing maintenance, and the second had tripped due to the low water level in the suction inlet pit. The third sea-water circulating pump was operating normally.
The low water level in the suction inlet pit was caused by an ingress of excessive marine life and other debris to the inlet drum screen. The drum screen motor had tripped due to high torque caused by the detritus, which in turn resulted in the low suction pit water level.
As indicated above, the nuclear reactor should have been able to operate at 60% of rated output in these circumstances. However, due to degraded heat removal (or cooling) capability of the tertiary cooling circuit heat exchanger, temperatures did not stabilise sufficiently, even when operating at this reduced output. This then required the manual shut-down of the Unit 1 nuclear reactor.
The degraded heat exchanger in the tertiary cooling loop was in need of maintenance despite the recent extended shut-down of Unit 1 for refuelling and deep level maintenance in November 2019. Following this shut down, Unit 1 was returned to service on 6 January 2020.
The excess marine life and debris has since been cleared off the drum filter, and it is now back in service. The water level in the suction pit has sufficiently recovered, and the associated sea-water circulating pump has been put back in service, and no anomalies have been noted. This pump was not damaged as previously advised by Eskom.
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If asked the right way, toddlers will choose broccoli over cake, UCI-led study finds
- June 12, 2019
- Young children tend to respond to questions of choice with option presented last
“Would you like cake or broccoli?” If you ask a child under the age of 3, the answer – eight times out of 10 – will be...broccoli?
Parents, before applauding your efforts at successfully instilling a healthy diet, know that the child's decision has less to do with the type of food than it does the order in which the choices are presented. A study led by the University of California, Irvine and published in the online journal PLOS One has found that toddlers are highly subject to “recency bias” when faced with “or” questions: They tend to pick the last option, even if it’s not what they actually want.
“Adults are able to distinguish between choices and are oftentimes more likely to select the first one. This is called primacy bias,” said the study’s lead author, Emily Sumner, a UCI doctoral candidate in cognitive sciences. “But kids, particularly toddlers under 3, who may not know language as well, demonstrate a recency bias when responding to questions verbally, meaning the last choice presented is more often selected. This area hasn’t been studied in children before, so this is fascinating to pinpoint.”
Researchers asked 24 toddlers between 21 and 27 months old 20 questions in which they had to choose between option 1 and option 2. They then posed the same questions again, with the options in reverse order. After speaking each answer, the children were given a sticker depicting their selection. If they didn’t say which option they wanted, both stickers were shown when the question was asked, and they pointed to their choice.
When toddlers responded verbally, they picked the last option presented 85.2 percent of the time. When pointing rather than speaking, they chose the last option only 51.6 percent of the time. According to Sumner, this difference is related to the development of children’s working memory, which is concerned with immediate conscious perception and linguistic processing, along with something called the phonological loop.
“When a child is pointing, they can see the options and choose their actual preference,” she explained. “When they have no visual references and only hear ‘or,’ they’re able to hold onto the most recently mentioned option by depending on the phonological loop. The children understand how speech sounds but not necessarily what the words mean. So when speaking, they’re just parroting back the most recently mentioned choice.”
The researchers also reviewed the Child Language Data Exchange System, a computerized database of transcribed conversations between parents and their children to determine if the same bias applies in real-world interactions. They analyzed 534 “or” questions and discovered that the likelihood of responding with the second option decreased as children got older. It was selected 64 percent of the time by 2-year-olds, while 3- and 4-year-olds chose the second option 50 percent of the time. This suggests that recency bias is present until about the age of 3.
Additional experiments were conducted with 24 preschoolers to determine if working memory constraints, such as age and word length, drive recency bias. The children were asked to name toy cartoon characters by choosing between two nonsense words varying in syllable count – Stog or Meeb, for example, or Hootamawhirl or Haykidosi.
Researchers found that most preschoolers were apt to exhibit a recency bias throughout the entire process. Further results showed that with most of the children, the more syllables the words had, the stronger the recency bias. This suggests that when working memory is constrained, even older kids are more likely to revert back to recency bias.
“Our study demonstrates the importance of swapping the order of options when asking young children about their preferences, because they don’t always know what they’re saying,” Sumner said. “For experimental psychologists, research methods that require verbal responses should be carefully counterbalanced. Parents, however, may wish to use such a biased design when asking toddlers if they’d like cake or broccoli.”
The other team members were Erika DeAngelis of the University of Minnesota; Mara Hyatt of the University of Rochester; Noah Goodman of Stanford University; and Celeste Kidd of the University of California, Berkeley. The study was funded by the Jacobs Foundation and the University of Rochester Bilski-Mayer fellowship program.
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Apart from the Charge of the Light Brigade (the actual charge, but also the poem), the Crimean War (1853-1856) is best known as the first “modern” war, in that it was during the Crimean War when later military staples like rail, telegraphs, trenches, and rifled firearms and artillery first got tested in a major engagement. Oh, and it also led to the development of modern professional nursing, triage, and anesthetics, but who’s counting? The 1853 Battle of Sinop was the war’s first major battle, and it’s also notable for a technological innovation. On top of that, its outcome had a major impact on the conduct of the rest of the war.
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Anti-terror legislation in Poland
Two days ago new anti-terror legislation has been approved by the upper house of Polish parliament and the president. Based on the new laws are foreigners entering Polish soil are automatically being treated as suspects.
Intelligence agencies are automatically provided with the right to wire-tap phones, collect fingertips, photographs and even deport any foreign EU or other nationals from the country, without having to present evidence of what they’re suspected of, and without the need seek permission of the court for invigilation or even detention.
On top of new regulations, the governing party received the right to block any polish internet content or internet website without seeking court permission first. Also, all pre-paid mobile phones used by polish nationals need to be registered by proving identity of the owner in order to record location, collect meta-data and record conversations of any mobile phones used on the territory of Poland.
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Requirements for the liberal arts major in graphic design, B.A.
Admission to graphic design degree program
Incoming freshman earning a B.A. in graphic design should declare a pre-major in graphic design status upon registration, complete SA 102 and SA 104 with a minimum grade of 2.8, and then register for DES 130 - Foundations of Graphic Design. Admittance into the graphic design program is determined by this GPA standing.
All majors in graphic design are required to successfully complete core foundation courses (16 credits), art history courses (12 credits) and graphic design courses (36 credits). Only courses in which the student has earned a grade of at least 2.8 may be counted towards the graphic design major. Only 16 transfer credits may be counted towards the graphic design major. A minimum of 64 credits are required for the major, to be distributed as follows: | <urn:uuid:f5a607b4-4d60-4810-b811-f60ec1537b25> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catalog.oakland.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=15&poid=1866&returnto=864 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942045 | 179 | 1.710938 | 2 |
How to Get Your Child Back Against Child Protective Service (CPS)
Children are a gift from God, are a form of a mandate that must be cared for, educated, fostered because they are inherent in their dignity, dignity, and human rights that must be upheld. On the other hand, children as the next generation of families, communities who are also owners and managers of the future of the nation and the State, must be healthy, intelligent, educated, moral, and have a social spirit towards fellow human beings. Children’s rights are part of human rights.
From the point of view of national and state life, children are an integral part of a country, namely the younger generation of agents who are the successors of the realization of the ideals of a nation. So that every child has the right to survive, grow, develop and participate optimally and are entitled to protection from all forms of violence, threats, and discrimination.
However, the increase in various forms of violence and violations of children’s rights in Oklahoma shows that the State, Government, society, family, and parents have failed to carry out their duties and responsibilities in providing protection, fulfillment, and respect for children’s rights. Thus, an institution that covered these problems was established, namely the Child Protective Service (CPS).
The Child Protective Service (CPS) is an institution formed by the government to investigate reports of allegations of violence and neglect of children’s rights in a family.
If children are at great risk of being violated, hurt, and neglected in a family, the Child Protective Service (CPS) is working with the police to remove children from their homes or families. The Child Protective Service (CPS) seeks to protect children’s rights so that they are not hurt and neglected again, and this is important for their future.
When the family wants their child back
However, a new problem occurs when the family wants their child to return to their family life. Of course, the family will be faced with a process that is very complicated and takes a long time because it involves several bureaucracies.
Then, how to get a cps case dismissed? Families who want their children to return to their family households, of course, must complete several applicable legal procedures to prove that the place to live in the family is safe, comfortable, and suitable to live in for the survival of their children.
For some people, legal processes and procedures that feel so complicated will create stress, waste time, confusion about the legal procedures that apply, and sometimes also lead to harmful disappointments. And this is where the role of a lawyer is needed to solve all problems without adding new problems.
Attorney as a representative and family law advisor
The trial may be conducted alone without the presence of a lawyer as a representative. Starting from compiling a lawsuit, registering a lawsuit, waiting for a court summons, undergoing a trial of evidence, and waiting for a court decision. However, due to the complexity of a legal process, many use the services of lawyers professionally.
Some people naturally experience confusion when faced with legal problems with such complicated procedures. Especially when someone doesn’t know about the law and is busy with existing activities. Not to mention some of the bureaucracy involved in getting their children back, such as the Child Protective Service (CPS) and so on.
The role of a lawyer is certainly the right choice as a representative to solve legal problems with the expected results. The lawyer is the official representative of the family to have their child in the legal process. The attorney will explain any complex legal process and may explain steps that are difficult to understand.
Explain to your lawyer about any problems that occur and what expectations you want to achieve before the trial begins. This becomes very important for your lawyer to formulate the best strategy for solving existing legal problems.
As much as possible, attend the trial with your lawyer, of course. So that the Judge knows and becomes a consideration that the family is serious about responding to this problem and cares about their child. Make a statement showing that the family is serious about the matter, which your lawyer will read out in front of the court. Follow any legal procedures while the process is ongoing for your child and family.
Benefits of Using a Lawyer
• By using a lawyer who is more familiar with procedural law before the trial, it will be more practical for the client in terms of time and cost.
• By using a lawyer, you can avoid mistakes in making claims, answers, duplicates, replicas, and evidence, as well as things that the client asks for in the petite then the client makes a lawsuit without a lawyer.
• Lawyers are bound by a professional oath to the confidentiality of their clients so that clients can be open to the case at hand.
• Clients do not need to attend all hearings because they have been authorized by their lawyers.
• Lawyers can act as mediators or mediate problems that occur between the litigating parties.
• Clients can know transparently the costs involved in solving cases.
• Lawyers are obliged to explain the client’s legal rights so that clients become educated and better understand their rights.
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Capsule shaped L484 Pill is a regular painkiller with Acetaminophen 500 mg as an active ingredient. L484 Pill is used in the treatment and management of Fever, Backache, Headache and other mild to moderate pain condition.
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Key Facts of L484 Pill
L484 Pill will start its action after one hour of administration.
Consume L484 Pill after a meal to avoid any gastric side effects.
Acetaminophen is a choice of painkiller in pregnancy and breastfeeding mothers.
Do not take L484 Pill for more than 10 days unless it is recommended by the doctor.
Who can and cannot take L484 Pill
- L484 Pill is usually safe in the most of the people but still people with the following conditions should take precautions before start taking L484 Pill.
- People who had an allergic response to Acetaminophen in the past.
- People with history of alcohol or narcotic substance addiction.
- Kidney or Liver disorder patients should consult doctor before consuming L484 Pill.
- People who are on medications of Epilepsy & Tuberculosis.
Dosage of L484 Pill
Common dosage of L484 Pill is twice a day, with a maximum dosage of four doses of L484 Pill a day.
Always follow the dosing interval and instructions given by the prescriber as he is the right person for you to advise you on the use of L484 pill.
The recommended dosing interval for L484 Pill is minimum four hours, Considering the fact that effect of L484 Pill last for 6 to 8 hours, Maximum dosage interval for L848 Pill should be 8 hours.
What if i miss a dose of L484 Pill?
If you miss any dose of L484 Pill, Take it as soon as you remember it. However, If it is almost the time of the next dose then you should just skip the missed dose and continue with next dose.
Do not take a double dose to make up the missed dose as you might get overdose of L484 Pill.
If you forget doses often, Make a habit of taking pills on same time of the day so that you are less likely to miss any dose.
What happens in overdose of L484 Pill?
Contact emergency helpline or 911 immediately if you feel any severe symptoms of L484 Pill.
Symptoms of l484 pill
- Nausea and Vomiting,
- Abdominal pain,
- Metabolic acidosis,
- Glucose metabolism abnormalities,
- Cardiac arrhythmia.
Side effects of L484 Pill
Like other pills, L484 Pill also causes some common side effects in some percentage of people. Although they are very rare and may go on their own without any special treatment.
Common side effects of L484 Pill
- Rash and Swelling due to an allergic response,
- Low blood pressure,
- Fast heartbeat,
Talk to your local pharmacist or doctor if you feel any troublesome side effects after taking L484 Pill. Discontinue the use temporarily if you get severe side effects.
Breastfeeding & Pregnancy
This pill can be taken by Pregnant & Nursing Mothers safely, Pill does not passes its drug through the milk or cause any harmful effects on fetus.
For more information, Talk to your doctor and pharmacist.
Drug Interaction of L484 Pill
Drug interaction can change the way L484 Pill works and may produce serious harmful effects. Inform your doctor about your ongoing medication including your nutritional supplements to avoid any further drug interaction.
Following is the list of drug which interact with L484 Pill:
- What kind of pill is l484 pill?
Capsule shaped L484 Pill is a regular painkiller with Acetaminophen 500 mg as an active ingredient.
- What are the uses of l484 pill?
- Can i take l484 pill for longer duration?
Do not take l484 pill for more than 10 days, Unless it is recommended by the prescribing doctor.
- When to take l484 pill?
L484 pill should be taken after a meal to avoid severe gastric side effects.
- is it safe to consume l484 pill in pregnancy & breastfeeding?
L484 pill is safe to be consumed in pregnancy and breastfeeding. In Fact, it is one of the recommended painkiller in pregnancy and breastfeeding.
- Can i drink alcohol while taking l484 pill?
No, drinking alcohol along with l484 pill consumption is prohibited as it may make you more dizzi and makes you feel more tired.
- Can i drive a vehicle after taking l484 pill?
L484 pill can make you feel sleepy, dizzy & tired. In such cases driving of vehicle and operating any heavy machinery should be avoided until you feel normal. | <urn:uuid:a2c13049-c71b-400d-82b4-2ad65cf89365> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthpluscity.com/l484-pill-uses-side-effects-warning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.897494 | 1,091 | 1.875 | 2 |
What is Probiotics?
The health of your gut is important. It’s more important than the food you eat every day. What gut health refers to is the internal workings of your digestive system. It’s crucial because it impacts how you process food, and how it keeps its nutrients intact throughout your day. Probiotics can improve digestion and help maintain a healthy gut.
There are numerous methods to consume probiotics. The most convenient is to consume capsules. It’s like taking your supplements in the morning, however it does not alter the taste or the texture of your food. Probiotics will provide many benefits. Understanding them will help you take care of your digestive health.
People take probiotics because of their digestive benefits. Probiotics are essential for your body’s ability to absorb nutrients from food ingredients. When you look at what you eat each day, it is clear that not all foods are able to provide all nutrients. Only those who adhere to strict and natural diets can even attain this number. It isn’t feasible for everyone, and you do not need to change your lifestyle completely you eat in order to feel fantastic.
Although it is recommended to eat a balanced, low-in artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives diet but you should still try to consume foods that contain all of these ingredients. Probiotics aid your body in its ability to absorb whatever food you are eating, no matter what organic. Even if you don’t eat, probiotics help to keep your stomach happy. Your body might not have enough protection against the bacteria that persist and cause irritation if you suffer from sensitive stomachs or are experiencing frequent stomach discomforts. Both active and passive digestion can be beneficial for you.
Probiotics can help you get food into your system faster. Probiotics accelerate the digestion process that can aid in stomach discomfort. Probiotics can ease digestive issues, regardless of whether you eat fast or are feeling gassy after eating a certain food.
It is not necessary to experience stomach aches or have difficulty digesting certain foods. There’s no reason to avoid having probiotics. Because they function from the inside out, you’ll find your stomach adapts to the probiotics. It is not necessary to eliminate probiotics out of your body when they’re not used. Probiotics will continue to be beneficial to your health through staying in your stomach.
The immune system and the connection between eating and digestion is something that many people overlook when they think about it. You can take good care of your immunity health if you are diligent about hygiene and try to avoid anyone who may have symptoms. Probiotics are great for the immune system. They will assist you in avoiding illness and make it simpler to recuperate from illness. These are fantastic benefitssince probiotics work continuously within your body. Probiotics are able to treat only external influences.
There is a microbiome within your digestive tract. The microorganisms that are comprised of bacteria that live within your digestive system are called a microbiome. This type of bacteria is healthy because it acts as a filter that determines the best nutrition for your body and what can be eliminated and transformed into waste to expel. You are more likely than other people to fall ill when you don’t have a positive microbiome in your stomach. This is because the stomach’s filtration system isn’t performing optimally. To prevent you becoming sick, probiotics increase your gut microbiome.
Stress yourself out worrying about getting sick. This can lead to weakening the immune system. Your immune system is in good hands if you ensure that you take care of your gut microbiome every day with probiotics. Probiotics are potent and quiet as you’ve discovered. Even when you’re unaware of it, probiotics work silently to help your body. This is ideal for people who are busy and anyone with many things to accomplish in the course of a single week. It’s easy to forget about the immune system. Probiotics can maintain your immune system.
The stresses of daily life are numerous with some completely inexplicable. If you have trouble digesting when you are stress-related, it’s normal. Stress levels are naturally affecting the digestive system. Your body is comprised of psychological and physical components. Being aware of this can assist to maximize the benefits of probiotics for managing stress and helping to de-escalate stressful situations.
Another fascinating fact to keep in mind is that serotonin can actually be created by your gut (95%). This “happy” chemical is well-known to many, but not many people are aware of where it comes from and what it does to your mental health. With this knowledge, it’s obvious that ensuring your gut health is being well-maintained is taking care of your mental health simultaneously. If you are taking an anti-biotic to improve your gut health, your mental wellbeing will begin to improve. This is essential for feeling happy and balanced. It helps control your mood, and help make difficult events appear less overwhelming. You’ll feel like you’re able to handle them.
You are more likely to make wise decisions in your life if you are high in serotonin. This will help you to be more social and make you feel at ease with your peers. When you’re talking with your family or friends, or working with your colleagues, an elevated amount of serotonin makes you a more pleasant person to hang out with. You’ll be happier each day and more stable as you consume probiotics to improve the health of your gut. It is evident how everything within your body links in such a way that it influences your mind.
Probiotics are formulated to make you feel better. This is important to your personal development and the way you feel. Studies have also proven that less stress is linked to greater immune system. Probiotics help keep your health and safety. There are virtually no negative side effects from taking probiotic capsules on a daily basis. It is easy to use them due to their many health benefits.
Bloating can be uncomfortable and annoying. It can also cause you to be unable to concentrate on your day-to-day tasks. It’s difficult to get rid of this feeling quickly so it is recommended to make preventative steps. It can aid your stomach to prepare for digesting foods which cause you to feel full by taking probiotics before eating. Taking a simple preventative measure such as this is beneficial because it doesn’t require you to endure the discomfort throughout the day. It is possible to eliminate it. The stomach will be more accustomed to these meals due to probiotics.
It’s important to know what foods trigger you to feel uncomfortable and bloated. Some of the most common ones are as follows:
It is likely that you take in a couple of items listed on this list each daily. It is possible to avoid bloating by taking a probiotic into your system. The probiotic prepares your stomach for the digestion of the ingredients that will naturally cause your internal organs to expand. Certain foods and drinks can cause you to feel uncomfortable, as they are either gaseous or make you gassy. Bloating is a natural process by which your body works, but it could be dangerous if you experience it frequently.
Bloating can also be experienced in a manner that is not related to the food you consume. Bloating is a sign that your body reacts to constipation as well as other problems. It is important to be aware of the speed at which you take your food. Bloating is a possibility in the event that you eat fast or consume large amounts of food. This is because your stomach might not have the capacity to handle such a volume. Probiotics are designed to get your digestive system working even before you need to start digesting. The stomach will feel fuller, and you will experience less bloating. If you’ve already experienced the bloating problem, Probiotics can help alleviate it.
It is vital to have the energy needed to make it through the day. Whether you have a very full day planned or you have to complete errands or organize your home, having the energy to do so is very crucial. Your sleep is an important aspect, but digestion is an essential factor in how much you have energy during the day. If your stomach is in a state of upset or is not in a state of rest and your brain, as well as the rest of your body will be restless. Probiotics boost your performance by increasing your energy and making you more active. This is a great method to keep you energized throughout the day, without relying on high doses of caffeine.
We all know that your microbiome in your gut has an effect on your serotonin levels. It also influences the rest your brain chemical. You’ll experience better levels of mood, better memory and improved cognitive performance when you consume probiotics. It will make your life easier regardless of what activities you’re involved in. The capsule you’re taking can deliver all these wonderful benefits. Probiotics and its benefits can be beneficial for anyone who has any kind of lifestyle.
One of the best things about probiotics is their inherent nature and their ability to support healthy functions in the body. Many people who are interested in improving their health and wellbeing will look to natural remedies before looking for medical care or foreign entities. It is crucial to seek the assistance you require. But, it’s worthwhile to look into natural remedies to improve your body’s capability to perform its task. You could be amazed by the strength and resilience of your own body if you provide it with the proper tools.
Many people are concerned about their weight and maintaining an appropriate BMI. It can be hard to come up with alternatives to help maintain your weight. Individuals will naturally reduce their weight, which could result in problems with their metabolism. This is known as “yoyo dieting” which is not something your body likes. Your metabolism can slow if you restrict your food intake, then suddenly alter it. This could lead to you losing weight quicker. It can be a difficult cycle , and it’s easy for people to give up on their appearance.
If you supplement your diet with probiotics you’ll be able to control your weight in this way. It works by curbing the appetite, which keeps you from eating when you’re simply tired or bored. Probiotics can aid your stomach in recognizing hunger cues and will make you less likely to crave junk food. The microbes also help to break down food and increases your metabolism. When food items are broken down, you’ll be able digest it and move it through your body. This allows you to manage your weight effectively without having to limit or follow a strict diet.
Your bowel movements are important as they determine the way waste is eliminated from your system. The toxins that are left will stay within your body and could cause weight gain and make you feel tired. Regular bowel movements are vital for your body’s metabolism to shed excess weight. This will help you control your weight and shed excess fat.
It will be easier to move your colon faster when you are taking probiotics. Your digestive system is at its best. Since it aids in your workout routine, this will increase the rate of metabolism. It’s an easy method to shed excess weight and fat. If you are looking to experience lasting results, then taking probiotics is the best way to take.
Another way in which probiotics improve your appearance is by the appearance of your skin. Probiotics can make your skin glow and healthy. Probiotics that have the strain called L. paracasei are the component that helps to shield the skin from ageing, natural elements as well as the harmful effects of preservatives and additives in food items. This is a great way to boost self-confidence by helping you look and feel great.
The Bigger Picture
Even if you do not have a problem with indigestion, probiotics are beneficial. Probiotics help to restore the health of your gut, and can help you stay physically and mentally well. It’s like taking a daily probiotic. The probiotic can help enhance your digestion over time. They also help to stop infections as well as other harmful bacteria. Probiotics are a great option for anyone’s daily routine.
Probiology is an innovative capsule that can help you get started with probiotics, and to boost your mental and bodily health. Probiology has created a unique probiotic capsule that is unparalleled in its quality. It contains active, live strains of bacteria that are formulated to work with the body. The capsules can help improve your gut health. | <urn:uuid:96781a92-9196-494e-8a0c-ff8c33a09f2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adultfitnesstest.org/best-probiotic-drink-for-gut-health-in-albany/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959312 | 2,660 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Well, in answer to your question, several women actively participated in the Civil War.
The one that comes immediately to mind is Mary Walker.
She's important because she's the only woman ever to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
As you know, this medal is given to people who've served the United States with exceptional bravery.
In addition, she was the only female physician in either of the two armies that fought in that war.
Even though she had two medical degrees, many officers made her life difficult because they didn't believe that a woman should be a doctor.
However, she refused to back down and leave the army.
In fact, she risked her life several times during the war and was even captured at one point, but she was soon released.
Umm, after the war, she was arrested several times for wearing pants.
And although Congress eventually tried to take her medal away, she refused to give it back and continued to wear it wherever she went.
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Larval zebrafish possess several experimental advantages for investigating the molecular and neural bases of learning and memory. Despite this, neuroscientists have only recently begun to use these animals to study memory. However, in a relatively short period of time a number of forms of learning have been described in zebrafish larvae, and significant progress has been made toward their understanding. Here we provide a comprehensive review of this progress; we also describe several promising new experimental technologies currently being used in larval zebrafish that are likely to contribute major insights into the processes that underlie learning and memory.
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This is my writing task about why GI (Glen Innes) is the best community in NZ.
I had to list multiple reasons to prove this statement right and each reason is listed below.
I then made the reasons that I would actually use in italic before adding 3 bullet points underneath that reason to break the paragraph apart. We didn’t do any actual writing today, just planning.
– the general environment. (it’s bright and positive.)
• as mentioned above, it’s bright and positive and just generally gives off a good vibe.
• full of friendly people.
• nice plants.
– the many schools.
• many schools that teach students of different years etc.
• the free lunch that gets delivered to the schools.
• tons and tons of people for you to meet and possibly become friends with.
– tons of stores.
• there are many dairies and bakery’s, like, almost everywhere you go.
• many stores that vary in items and things that they sell, making it easy for you to find what you may be looking for.
• the staff/employees are friendly and most are easy to approach.
– interesting and cool artwork (spray) painted on walls.
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South Korea experiences its worse school incident yet as it was revealed that a western English teacher fed their elementary students kitchen detergent as punishment.
According to news reports, an English teacher teaching at a private school and originating from South Africa had punishment their students for speaking Korean instead of English while they were being taught. The students were given two options for their punishment, either taste the detergent or a chemical medicine that prevents toddlers from biting their nails. Unfortunately, not knowing any better, three students chose the detergent while another two chose the chemical medicine.
After the parents found out about the horrific incident, endless complaints and questions were brought up. In response, the teacher simply wrote an apology letter stating that she had “not told the students to eat them but just to taste them and nothing was forced.”
Not satisfied with her “apology” letter, parents continued their uproar in anger leading to the teacher getting fired on March 16th. But what is most disturbing is that the school had not even reported the incident to the school board as it believed the incident was not severe. Unlike public schools that are monitored by the school board, private schools manage their own system.
This appalling incident has definitely brought to attention the mistreatment of students in both public and private schools in Korea as well as their respective administration. The case should not end with just the teacher being fired, but should extend to the faulty system of management as well.
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In 2016/17, the Australian thoroughbred racing industry generated more than $6,294 million in direct expenditure. The calculation of direct expenditure is based on the sum of the spending made by racing industry participants, businesses and customers as a result of the racing industry’s existence.
The breeding sector, through its activities in producing foals, is directly responsible for creating an expenditure impact of more than $935.2 million. The large majority of this impact (97.9%) occurs in regional areas of Australia.
The training sector, through its activities in preparing horses for racing, is responsible for creating an expenditure impact of $1,150 million. More than 70% of this expenditure impact occurs in regional areas. The size of the training activity in metropolitan areas is largely driven by training activities surrounding major racecourses – in particular those with resident trainers operating on-course.
Racing & wagering activities generate more than $4,209 million in expenditure nationally. Net wagering revenues (including product fee payments to the industry) make up the largest proportion of this spending whilst also being the largest funding source for the industry. | <urn:uuid:e1bee693-2c9e-48a0-a9f7-e6fdd8331ead> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ier-study.racingaustralia.horse/direct-spending/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957244 | 232 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Those with dental anxiety and similar issues often choose to not go to the dentist at all.
Though they usually know that getting oral care is a smart idea, they decide to stay away. What frequently happens next is those people developing severe dental issues that require more cost and attention than regular maintenance would have. Here’s why employing this strategy will cost you in the long run.
Oral Health Maintenance
When you visit a dental office, the staff takes a look at your mouth and then goes to work. One of the crucial things they do is scrape plaque off of your teeth, but they conduct a variety of other maintenance tasks too. What these do is make your mouth healthier and more resistant to gum disease, tooth decay, and many other diseases. This treatment could save you from more pain and monetary costs later on.
Early Identification of Issues
One of the best things a dentist can do for you is to identify an issue that is developing. Whether that is a cavity coming in, sensitive gums, or any other complication, catching it right away is crucial. The reason is that you can then change your habits to stop the issue from becoming severe. Painful, expensive, and time-consuming treatments are the last thing you want, and getting a regular checkup can help you avoid them.
Dental Care Goes Beyond the Teeth and Gums
One thing that patients often don’t know about oral health is that it is linked to systemic issues like heart and lung disease. While the causal link between these problems is not apparent, the correlation between them is. Developing health complications in the heart or lungs can be disastrous, so you’ll want to do everything you can to avoid that.
Preventative Versus Reactive Care
What we’ve explained in the sections above actually has a financial concept behind it. It is the cost analysis between preventative and reactive care. The former refers to treatment you receive while healthy, and the latter describes
Long Visits and Procedures
The irony of people avoiding the dentist due to anxiety and other issues is that in the end, they often spend more time getting dental work than if they had gone to regular appointments. The reason is that severe complications take many hours of work to resolve, while cleanings and checkups are much quicker.
No matter how severe your issues are with going to the dentist, finding a way to make it happen will almost certainly be better for you. Not only will you have a healthier mouth, but you will likely save money and frustration in the long run. One way that people make dental visits easier is with dental sedation. In short, this process allows patients to be partially conscious and resistant to pain during their treatment. If you’re interested in this option, don’t hesitate to give our office a call and set up an appointment. Call (314) 862-7844. | <urn:uuid:e7fc83fa-ba9a-456e-a14b-bd6d3c0785bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dentalsleepstlouis.com/why-putting-off-going-to-the-dentist-will-cost-you-in-the-long-run.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960243 | 590 | 2.15625 | 2 |
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Federal Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin has said that petroleum prices in Pakistan are the lowest in the region.
From October 1, 2021 onward for the next fortnight, the government increased the price of petrol by Rs 4 per litre, high-speed diesel by Rs 2 per litre, light diesel oil Rs 8.82 per litre, and kerosene oil by Rs 7.05.
Currently, the government is charging Rs 5.62 petroleum levy and Rs 8.15 sales tax on petrol.
Talking to media in Islamabad on Friday, the finance minister said that Pakistan stands at 17th position in respect of oil prices in the world, and the Countries where prices are lower than Pakistan themselves produce oil.
The finance minister said that the increase in petroleum prices is caused by the higher oil prices in the international market.
Shaukat Tarin said that the government passed on a minimum increase in the prices to the consumers. He said that the government absorbed the pressure of a hike in prices in the international market by bearing the burden of Rs 2 billion. However, he added that Pakistan is also impacted by the global oil price hike because of COVID-19.
The minister said that the entire world has witnessed food inflation due to COVID-19, and being a food importer, Pakistan also had to face this impact.
However, he said that the government is taking steps to bring down the prices of essential items.
The minister said that direct subsidy will be provided to the deserving people on essential items like flour, ghee, sugar, and pulses. He said that agriculture is also being focused to grow food items locally to meet the demands.
Shaukat Tarin further said that the federal government would soon launch Kamyab Pakistan Program in line with Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision to make Pakistan a welfare state.
The finance minister said that under the Kamyab Pakistan Program, interest-free loans will be provided to farmers and urban citizens, a member of each deserving family will be provided skills, and Sehat Cards will be provided across the Country. | <urn:uuid:111d59fc-430a-4f3e-ba09-58e14c7f88ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dnd.com.pk/petroleum-prices-in-pakistan-lowest-in-the-region-minister/254921 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965841 | 436 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Cassini Captures Views of Saturn's Rings
Shortly after the Cassini spacecraft fired its rocket and entered orbit around Saturn late Wednesday night, the craft turned its cameras down to peer at Saturn's rings. The cameras snapped more than five dozen black-and-white images, which were beamed down to Earth Thursday. As NPR's Richard Harris reports, scientists are astonished, elated and puzzled by what they see.
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Before enrolling in a paramedic course in the summer of 2014, Taylor knew she wanted to work in pre hospital care, but felt she wasn’t smart enough. After chatting with the APC enrolment team she made the decision to jump in and complete her Certificate IV. Now the 29 year old couldn’t be more excited to wake up every day and go to work.
In her own words she is “living the dream.” As a Non-Emergency Patient Transport Officer, she is able to utilise the skills she has learnt, connect with all of her patients and make a huge contribution to her community. All of this because she followed her heart and took a paramedic course with the Australian Paramedical College.
After graduating from high school, Taylor felt like she has no direction in life. Her final grades at school weren’t good enough to secure a spot at University to complete a Bachelor of Paramedical Science, so she almost gave up on her dream career.
What followed was months of soul searching and days filled with feelings of failure, confusion and a quest for direction. But whilst she was trying to forget about becoming a Paramedic, Taylor just kept coming back to it. That’s when she called the Australian Paramedical College.
The challenge now was to find out how to become a paramedic? Questions like: What courses do I need take? Do I need to have a degree? Is it going to take me several years just finish my paramedic training?
After discovering that the Australian Paramedical College has no educational prerequisites, a weight felt like it lifted off her shoulders. This in addition to the advantage of online study with flexible schedules, made the decision to take a paramedic course a no-brainer.
After completing the paramedic course – Certificate IV in Healthcare (Ambulance) – and volunteering at the local St Johns, Taylor landed a great job in NEPT. Her high work ethic and dedication saw her gain responsibility in rapid time and it wasn’t long before she was offered a spot to complete a Bachelor in Paramedical Science.
In just a short couple of years Taylor has been able to gain a qualification, get work in the industry and get accepted into University. None of this Taylor thought was possible not long ago.
You too can have a success story like Taylor. You can study a paramedic course at a pace and level that suits you.
Call us now on (07) 5520 2522 to find out more or to enroll in a paramedic course that could change your life. It’s that easy!
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The average prices charged to commercial health plans by hospitals, as compared to what Medicare pays, remained relatively stable between 2012 and 2019, but there was a large amount of geographic variation in the trends, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Using national data capturing most U.S. hospitals, researchers found that the ratio of commercial-to-Medicare hospital prices increased by 7 percentage points during the period studied. However, when examining differences across defined health care markets, some regions saw large increases, while others saw significant declines.
The study estimated that restraining the growth rate of commercial-to-Medicare hospital price ratios in every region to the national average during the study period would have reduced national health spending by $39 billion in 2019. The findings are published in the April edition of the journal Health Affairs.
“The large variation in trends across different regions suggests that there may be opportunities to constrain the growth in hospital prices,” said Zachary Levinson, lead author of the study and an associate economist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.
Among areas with high initial price ratios, the study found that California had the largest number of hospital markets that had large price increases, with 11 of the top 19 regions, including eight in Northern California. Wisconsin had three of the regions with the largest increases. The 19 regions with the largest decreases were more geographically diverse, although four were in Indiana.
The study examined hospital prices in hospital referral regions, which are health care markets made up of zip code groupings based on the referral patterns of tertiary medical care.
In 2019, spending on hospital care in the U.S. totaled $1.2 trillion, accounting for 32% of all health care expenditures and more than 5% of the nation’s gross domestic product.
One factor underlying the high cost of hospital care is the prices paid by commercial health plans. These prices have increased substantially over time, as has the gap between them and the prices paid by public programs such as Medicare.
Policymakers seeking to increase the affordability of health care have considered options to reduce commercial hospital prices, such as by regulating prices directly or increasing the competitiveness of hospital markets.
RAND researchers analyzed estimates of commercial-to-Medicare payment rate ratios for 2012 to 2019 using RAND Hospital Data, which is a cleaned and processed version of annual cost report information submitted by hospitals to the federal Healthcare Cost Report Information System.
The study found that on average, hospital prices for commercial health plans averaged 173% of Medicare payment rates in 2012. The national commercial-to-Medicare price ratio increased to 180% in 2019.
Researchers found that among the regions that had high price ratios in 2012, there was a large divergence in growth over time. The commercial-to-Medicare price ratios increased by 38 percentage points, on average, in higher-cost regions with large increases, while decreasing by 38 percentage points, on average, in higher-cost regions with large decreases.
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By Robby MacBain
Nurse, Activist, and Politician: Alumna Brings the Change We Need
If a general referendum was held to determine the most popular buzzword of 2008, chances are that “change” would win by a landslide victory. But for a nurse like Irma Silverstein Rochlin ’45, who has been a first-hand witness to some of the most important events in recent American history, change is the only thing you can rely on over a lifetime.
Rochlin came to Johns Hopkins as a nursing student in the midst of World War II. She recalls the class of 1945 as “idealistic. We all expected to help with the war effort.” After graduating, Rochlin went directly into the Army Nurse Corps. She served in Alabama and North Carolina, caring for returned servicemen too ill to be discharged.
Conservation was a vital part of the war effort and played a central role in clinical nursing practice. “We would wash surgical gloves, powder them, and put them up for autoclaving. All syringes were glass then, and we reused them. We went through the needles after they were sterilized and sharpened them,” recalls Rochlin.
One of Rochlin’s most important acts of political activism occurred in 1969. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Rochlin volunteered as a nurse to care for marchers participating in the People’s Park demonstrations, which came to symbolize the radical political differences that divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
In the 1970s, Rochlin moved to Florida and delved into local politics. She was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1984, where she was asked to lead the charge on some of the most important health care initiatives of the day. Many proposals brought out to air in Florida during Rochlin’s tenure as a state representative are now being played out in the national political arena. “Florida was a bellwether state, and we came out with the most advanced legislation of the time,” says Rochlin.
She looks back with particular pride on a bill she sponsored that rescinded the licenses of doctors who prescribed steroids to high school athletes, which set the bar for similar legislation around the country. She drove through legislation enabling nurses in public health settings to prescribe medication without a doctor’s visit, saving the state of Florida $900,000 in the first nine months after it was passed. Other accomplishments include improved medical care for prisoners, funding for treatment of HIV and multiple sclerosis, and increased insurance rights of the developmentally disabled.
In 1945, says Rochlin, “I felt like I was seeing the birth pangs of nursing.” Despite all the advancements and improvements in nursing, however, there is something that Rochlin believes should never change-the motivation at the root of all nursing practice. It is the same driving force that led her to become such an effective politician: the simple desire to serve and care for another person.
On the Cutting Edge: Jeff Baldwin Discovers the Impact of Research
Jeff Baldwin ’94 says his initial motivation to enter the field of clinical trials research wasn’t particularly complicated. He wanted to help people – as many as he could. At the time, he was working as a pediatric nurse in Florida, a job he fondly recalls as his “first love.” However, when Baldwin began working as a nurse for clinical pharmaceutical trials, he was struck by the potential benefits that cutting edge research held for patients. “In some cases, we were seeing very dramatic impacts… using treatments that were not yet approved by the FDA.”
Since his first exposure to clinical trials, Baldwin has steadily progressed into more supervisory positions. After several years overseeing Amgen’s clinical trial monitors in the Southeastern US and Western Canada, Jeff was promoted to a position as Supplier Governance Senior Manager with the company last year. While his early work in research consisted largely of one-on-one contact with individuals, Baldwin’s more recent positions have brought increased perspective on the large-scale impact that research can have.
From a managerial standpoint, he is able to watch the progress of new treatments as they move from the experimental stage toward becoming important elements of widespread therapies. Looking back at his early clinical trial days in Florida, Baldwin says that “out of those trials came some of the treatments that are now commonly prescribed as part of HIV therapies. There’s a lot of satisfaction that I’ve derived from my career path. The work I do now is impacting thousands of people every day.”
Working in clinical trials has brought Baldwin into contact with thousands of participants, each with their own unique reasons for involvement. “Some are motivated out of pure altruism,” says Baldwin. “Some have gone through other therapies that weren’t working and are looking for new options. There are some who can’t get health insurance coverage.” What is understood by everyone, though, is that their participation could lead to discoveries which will positively impact the lives of thousands.
Baldwin looks back on his days at Hopkins with pride and a sense of gratitude. “Hopkins,” he says, “gives you insight into the research side of nursing – it shows you that there’s so much more than you think that goes into meeting the challenge of health care every day.” Without this early awareness for the breadth of health care research, Baldwin says his career path could well have been different.
Hopkins Nurse is Flying High
“I just love taking care of patients no matter what’s wrong with them. The more challenges that are presented to me, the more interested I get,” says Sandra MontagueWinfield ’70, who had always dreamed of becoming a nurse. “My first nursing paycheck seemed unreal to me since I was actually doing something I wanted to do!” Whether in her nursing career, hobbies, or her personal life, Winfield seems to have a knack for turning her dreams into a soaring success.
Winfield arrived at Hopkins in 1966, “almost 17 years old and green.” Her first instructor was Martha N. Hill, now the Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, who guided Winfield through the basics of nursing, from making a bed correctly to taking vital signs. Her first nursing positions were at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, working in a surgical recovery unit and later in a pediatric ICU.
One of her first nursing challenges came in April 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., when civil order disintegrated in Baltimore as riots swept across the city. The Hopkins medical campus was locked down and Winfield and her classmates were called upon to relieve the exhausted nursing staff in the hospital. Although she was horrified at the spectacle unfolding right below her dorm window, she had little time to reflect on its significance. “We simply responded to the need to staff the hospital for relief without question,” she remembers.
In the 1970s, Winfield relocated to Houston, Texas, where she worked at the Houston Methodist Cardiac Catheterization Research Lab and was introduced to two of the loves of her life. The first was her husband, Jerry, and it was Jerry who introduced her to the second passion, flying. The couple was married in 1973, but Winfield’s love for flying didn’t take off until 1997. She learned to fly in an aerobatic tail-wheel aircraft -a plane that rests on a small rear wheel, meaning that it tilts upward while on the ground. “Steering it is kind of like pushing a backwards shopping cart down the runway,” explains Winfield.
Today, Winfield lives in the Fort Worth area and serves as the chief of her community’s EMS crew. An EMT’s work is very different from a nurse’s, but after many years in hospitals, she says, “I have a much better idea what I’m preparing the patient for.” With her background in nursing, Winfield makes sure that her team’s pre-hospital assessments are as timely and accurate as possible.
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Above and Beyond specializes in helping grieving families with an approach that will focus on everyday life. We offer a variety of therapies, including youth/children grieving, family grieving, and coping techniques to help make life better for you and your family.
Helping Grieving Families Work Through the Process
There is no shame in seeking professional help after losing someone you love; no matter what the circumstances of their death may have been. There are a number of ways that professional therapies can help how to cope with family grief.
- Support Groups – Many people find that talking with others who are dealing with the loss of a loved one can be extremely helpful. Our free, monthly adult grief support meeting offers a valuable resource for those in the Monticello, IA area.
- Privacy – One on one counseling can be beneficial because you have a line of communication that is open and private with just you and your family and counselor. You may also find that the feelings and thoughts you are having are similar among other families and individuals who have lost someone you love.
- Coping Skills – As professionals, our counselors/therapists are taught and continuously learning a variety of coping skills. These skills will help you with not only dealing with the absence of your loved one on special days and holidays, but in everyday life and in moments when your grief seems stronger.
- Understanding – There are times when simply understanding why you are having particular feelings, where your grief stems from, and most of all how to continue to function as a family in a healthy environment with the feelings of grief can be the key to making your family able to accept your loss and move forward.
The Importance of Moving on with Your Life
The goal, after losing your loved one, is usually quite similar to what everyone wants in life; happiness. There are a number of benefits from professional counseling that can help your family move forward with life after the loss of a loved one.
- Functioning as a Family – Above and Beyond focuses on functioning as a family again. We will work with you, offering suggestions and coping techniques to move on and function together as a family.
- Access to Resources – We are here for you and your family during the early times of coping with your grief and later when certain dates, functions, and holidays can trigger feelings. We will lead you to resources, including books, DVDs, work pages that can help you cope.
- Acceptance – Professional counseling services will help you understand the feelings and actions you may be experiencing as a family. Accepting your loss and learning how to deal with it is important.
The death of a loved one is never easy. We specialize in helping grieving families find peace within themselves and function once again as a family unit.
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The Federal Reserve has warned that in all likelihood, the US economy will shrink in this final quarter of what has been a tumultuous year, setting the scene for gold to surge as a safe haven asset heading into the New Year.
In comments made yesterday (Thursday), Robert Kaplan, who is the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President, said that the second wave of the pandemic will trigger a decline in economic activity and a pause in consumer spending in what would traditionally be one of the busiest times of the year. He said that this scenario is already playing out in some areas of the country, with productivity already falling in some of the worst hit areas such as El Paso and Chicago.
“It will most likely have negative growth if this resurgence gets bad enough and mobility falls off enough. The next couple of quarters are going to be very challenging.” A key take away from this is that Kaplan expects that emergency lending programs which would expire on New Year’s Eve would then need to be extended; something which favours higher gold prices. He said, “If we needed to, if this got bad enough, we could extend maturities.” He described new lending program measures as being “critical”, which suggests that the start of 2021 could be extremely tough for many.
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Walmart, America's favorite purveyor of affordable clothing and military-grade weaponry, is currently struggling with a handful of troubling labor disputes. On Tuesday, a trio of women filed the latest of several sexual discrimination lawsuits against the Arkansas-based conglomerate claiming that they had been overlooked for promotions and received lower pay because of their gender. The plaintiffs, all of whom are from Tennessee, say that they were denied management training, and one of them even says her manager told her that "men needed to earn more." And they're not alone.
A cadre of female Walmart employees are currently trying to assemble a class action lawsuit against the company for gender discrimination. Along with the Tennessee trio, workers from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Mississippi have joined together and are working with the Barrett Johnson law firm to move the case through the courts. This isn't the first time that something like this has happened to Walmart either. In fact, it's the third. In the past year.
Last year, a case involving female Walmart worker made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Walmart vs. Dukes began with a 2001 class action suit in San Francisco involving 1.6 million women who claimed that the big box store systematically discriminated against women. After the court ruled against Walmart, the case bounced around in appeals court for a decade, inspiring a book in the process, before finally making it to the high court who ultimately ruled in Walmart's favor. The women's allegations "were too varied to show the company engaged in a specific nationwide pattern and practice of gender bias," to quote the Associated Press.
But this time around, Walmart's labor issues go much further than gender discrimination. In addition to the Tennessee case, the company has been dealing with a particularly determined group of workers, hundreds of them, who have been striking outside of a Walmart warehouse in Elwood, Illinois since mid-September. The list of grievances runs from unsafe working conditions to widespread sexual harassment. "I told the supervisors about it, but they definitely don't listen. One supervisor I had tried to tell said, 'I didn't see that.' Just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it didn't happen," former Elwood warehouse employee Samantha Rodriguez told The Nation. "When I went to another supervisor about the harassment, he asked me out on a date. I said no, and eventually I got fired."
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A U.S. official briefed on the potential military strike on Syria said the White House is playing a difficult balancing act, seeking to launch a firm attack on President Bashar Assad's government forces without it being so devastating it would prompt a response from Syria's allies, according to The Los Angles Times.
"They are looking at what is just enough to mean something, just enough to be more than symbolic," the U.S. official reportedly told the Times.
The official added the White House was probing a strike with a level of intensity "just muscular enough not to get mocked."
The Los Angles Times added that "the apparent poison gas attack that killed hundreds of Syrian civilians last week is testing President Obama's views on military intervention, international law and the United Nations as no previous crisis has done."
Russia and China have continued to warn against a military attack on Syria, reportedly saying it will have "catastrophic consequences" for the region.
Alexander Lukashevich, a spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry, has called for the U.S. to show "prudence" over the crisis and observe international law.
"Attempts to bypass the Security Council, once again to create artificial groundless excuses for a military intervention in the region are fraught with new suffering in Syria and catastrophic consequences for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa," he said in a statement, according to the BBC.
In a scathing set of remarks on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry that it is “undeniable” chemical weapons were used in Syria last week and said President Obama believes there must be "accountability."
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Granite is a common material used for countertops in your kitchen and bathroom. Unfortunately, these areas are prone to toothpaste and oil stains. Learn how to remove stains from granite using a few simple materials in your pantry.
How to Remove Stains From Granite
Granite countertops are beautiful in your home. However, when it comes to how to clean natural stone like granite, it's important to follow the proper care routine for granite. Thankfully, with the right treatment, you can get just about any stain out of your granite. To get started on the road to glistening granite, you need to have:
- Hydrogen peroxide
- Dawn dish detergent
- Baking soda
- Sponge or cloth
- Steel wool/Brillo pad
- Plastic wrap
- Old toothbrush
Assessing a Stain vs. Etching
Before you can treat the stain on your granite, you need to assess what caused the stain and if it is, in fact, a stain. If you spilled coffee, then you know it's a stain, but if you've noticed an odd ring on your granite, it could be damaged, called etching. Therefore, you want to assess if something is absorbed into the granite or damage to the stone or sealant. When making an assessment, there are a few things to look for.
Some granite stains are easy to assess. For example, if you spill coffee. However, others aren't so easy. For others, here's a quick list:
- Stains are the same color as the material spilled
- Cleaning lifts stains
Etching is damage to the actual material or sealant. Therefore, it presents itself slightly differently.
- Etching has a light whitish look, including rings and water spots.
- It does not come up when cleaning.
How to Remove Oil Stains From Granite
After looking over the stain, you know you have an oil stain on your hands. For this type of stain, reach for the dish soap and baking soda.
- Create a paste of Dawn and baking soda.
- Apply it to the stained area.
- Put a bit of plastic wrap over top and tape it down.
- Allow it to sit for 30 minutes to an hour. You can let this sit on the stain overnight if it's not lifting.
- Wet a sponge and wipe the area off.
- Repeat as needed.
- Some stains take multiple attempts to remove the stain completely.
You can also create a paste of baking soda and acetone for oil stains on granite. Follow the same instructions.
Remove Organic Stains From Granite
If you have an organic stain, like coffee, juice, etc., you need to use a different stain removal method. In this instance, reach for hydrogen peroxide.
- Wipe up the liquid if it remains.
- Create a thick paste of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide.
- Spoon it on to the stain.
- Put the plastic wrap over it.
- Tape it down.
- Let it sit overnight on the stain.
- Rinse with a damp sponge.
- Repeat as needed.
You can also use a commercial poultice cleaner sold specifically for cleaning granite countertops.
How to Remove Water Stains From Granite
Most of the time, you can get rid of water stains on granite with a bit of soap and water. Simply wash the stain down with a soapy cloth. However, if that isn't cutting it, then grab the Dawn and a toothbrush.
- Add a bit of Dawn and water to a toothbrush.
- Scrub at the stain gently.
- Rinse and dry.
- If the stain remains, try the peroxide and water paste instructions.
- You can gently buff them with fine steel wool or a brillo pad for extremely tough hard water stains.
Don'ts of Cleaning Granite Countertops
Granite countertops can be amazing. However, there are a few don'ts you want to pay attention to when it comes to cleaning them.
- Don't use all-purpose or harsh cleaners.
- Steer clear of ammonia, lemon, and white vinegar.
- Avoid storing kitchen liquids on your countertops.
- Don't use abrasive or powder cleaners like Comet.
Beautifully Brilliant Granite Countertops
When it comes to granite countertops, they have a protective coating on them. After a while, this seal can break down. When this happens, you need to reseal the granite. However, most of the time, stains are easy to remove at home with a bit of baking soda and detergent. Now that you have the tools, it's time to get cleaning. | <urn:uuid:f1a6f24b-cacf-40a7-a987-3a6d2f7253ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cleaning.lovetoknow.com/house-cleaning-tips-tricks/how-remove-stains-from-granite-easy-solutions-common-marks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.922845 | 1,001 | 1.523438 | 2 |
1. Are there government solar incentives in VIC?
Many people in Victoria are now thinking about installing solar panels because incentives and rebates have made it more affordable than ever. There are numerous government solar incentives that make it a cost effective investment.
In August 2018, the Victorian government announced their own state-level rebate scheme: the ‘Solar Homes Package‘.
The value of this Victorian rebate from July 2021 is ‘up to’ a value of $1,400 or 50% of the price; whichever is lowest. So:
- if you buy a solar system for $2,500, you can apply for a $1,250 rebate
- if you purchase a system for $4,450 you can apply for the maximum $1,400 rebate
- if you buy a system for $6,000 you can only apply for a $1,400 rebate – because it’s capped.
You are eligible if you live in a home worth under $3 million with a household income under $180,000. That’s 9 out of 10 Victorian homeowners.
The Victorian government’s rebate is on top of the Federal scheme.
So if you buy a 6.6kW solar system for $5,200 you are are actually getting a system worth $9,500; taking into account Federal subsidy value of approximately $2,900 and the Victorian rebate (subsidy) value of $1,400.
2. Who is eligible for the rebate/subsidy, specifically?
According to information from the State Government’s Solar Victoria website:
Victorian households are eligible to receive a rebate for installing a solar PV system if they meet the following criteria:
- They are the owner-occupier of the property
- The owners have a combined household taxable income of less than $180,000 per year (based on an Australian Tax Office Notice of Assessment from the last two years. Where there is more one applicant, both documents have to be from the same financial year.)
- It is an existing property, valued at under $3 million
- They do not have an existing solar PV system
On the last point, early adopters who installed a solar power system prior to 1 November 2009 are eligible to replace or expand their existing system.
3. How do I claim the VIC solar rebate?
- Contact your chosen solar provider for a quote.
- The provider will upload your quote to the Solar Victoria Portal, which starts the online process for your eligibility assessment.
- Once this is complete, upload proof of income and a council rates notice to confirm your details.
- When eligibility is confirmed, you will receive an eligibility number
- Give the eligibility number to your solar provider, who will then be able to proceed with the installation
- The provider will claim the subsidy on your behalf and deduct the subsidy amount from the total cost of your system.
- You pay the outstanding balance directly to your provider once your solar power system is installed
4. Can I ‘double up’ and claim both the Victorian rebate as well as the federal rebate?
Yes. However, be aware you can only claim the Victorian rebate once, but can claim the federal solar rebate as many times as you like (for multiple properties, or new installations, etc).You are also not allowed to claim the Victorian government’s rebate to upgrade an existing system – if you already have solar panels on your roof, you’re only eligible for the federal rebate (except in the example provided above).
5. Should I be in a rush to claim it?
The first phase of Victorian rebate was fully funded until June the 30th 2019 or until 24,000 households took it up; whichever came first. On April 12, 2019, Solar Victoria announced the program for 2018-19 was fully subscribed.
The scheme kicked off again on July 1, with a set number of rebates available each month, accompanied by an option for no-interest loans to cover some/all of the unsubsidised balance of a system.
In the first 24 hours after the rebate was originally announced, there was a massive rush on solar panels in Victoria. So let no one say that Victorians aren’t swayed by free money!
Our honest opinion is that while there’s never a better time to buy a system than the present and people are always welcome to request quotes for solar, please, please…
Look before you leap!
You only get one shot at this generous rebate so use it to invest in a system that will do the job you need it to; producing heaps of solar energy all year round to get your electricity bills as low as possible.
6. What is the minimum feed in tariff？
The minimum feed in tariff is the amount in cents that your electricity retailer will pay your for any excess solar generation that your property does not use.
7. How much does it cost?
The cost of solar panels varies, depending on the package you go for. However, Solar Today offers no deposit and interest-free options, we make it easy to switch to clean energy without burning a hole in your pocket. Our cash flow positive package means that your savings from electricity bills more than cover the solar panel costs.
8. Do you have interest free payment plans?
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Debian 11 provides so many options for choosing a desktop environment. One of the many great desktop options is Xfce which is light, simple, fast, and a very resource-friendly DE that works very well in almost any system.
Whether you have already installed the default GNOME desktop that comes with Debian and would like to experience Xfce while keeping the GNOME DE or install Debian 11 along with Xfce, we will show you both the methods in this article today.
There are so many use cases for installing Xfce DE on Debian 11. You can do a fair bit of customization to your liking and run so many utilities. The desktop is intuitive and highly resource-friendly. You can run it quite well on old hardware, and due to that reason, you can utilize any old PC lying around and set it up and running with the help of this desktop.
Xfce DE comes with a modular design and excellent plugin support so you can customize it to fit your needs. We have also put together the top 10 reasons to use Xfce as your desktop environment, and you can check them out by clicking here.
If you are already running another DE on your Debian installation and looking to add Xfce DE, then there are a few things to consider.
Installing multiple DEs on Debian 11
It is not difficult to install multiple desktop environments on Debian 11. However, complications can arise if you are looking to use various DEs or want to check out Xfce after installing another DE. Therefore, before we begin the installation, it is vital to note some of these issues that can occur, which may include any of the following ones:
- Multiple instances of the same applications
- Settings and packages might get mixed up with each other.
- Configuration files can also get mixed up, causing some issues with themes.
- Multiple managers cause problems, and it requires some fiddling for a single manager to work with two or more DEs.
Having mentioned these possible issues, it is imperative to use different user accounts for every DE to mitigate the risk of the above problems. You would have to be willing to play around with various bugs and resolve such issues if you want to install multiple DEs. If you have a knack for different troubleshooting bugs, then go right ahead, but if the sight of an unexpected error seems daunting to you, then you should instead do a fresh install or avoid keeping multiple DEs.
Without further ado, we will install Xfce on Debian 11 using the ‘tasksel’ tool.
1. Install Xfce on Debian 11 using Tasksel
Tasksel is a Debian utility that makes installing any supported software and desktop environment like Xfce, GNOME, Cinnamon, etc. It retrieves all the required packages and files associated with the DE, and the whole process is entirely automated. Furthermore, it coordinates the installation of multiple packages on your system. The following steps will allow you to install Xfce and any other DE you want, which Debian supports with the help of Tasksel.
- If you do not already have the Tasksel installed on your system, then you can do so by running the following command:
sudo apt install tasksel
Once that is done, you can now execute the following command to run the program.
- This will open the Tasksel UI, and here you can choose to select your desired DE, which is Xfce in this case. Tasksel will start after the above command is executed within the terminal, and now you can install any DE you want. However, do note that Tasksel requires a sudo command to run if installing a DE. The UI that will pop up after executing the above command is as follows:
- To install Xfce, you have to select ‘Xfce’ and ‘Debian desktop environment.’ Once selected, and then press ENTER to let the installation begin.
- Depending upon your internet speed, the installation will take some time to retrieve the packages from the web. Don’t worry, though, while the packages are downloading. You can check out ‘our picks for the best Debian desktop environments,’ We also included Xfce as the best DE for light users and find out what makes Xfce special.
After the files are retrieved, you will be prompted to select the display manager.
- This is required when more than one DEs are selected to be installed. You may choose the default ‘gdm’ option as it works just fine. After selecting, the installation will be resumed.
- Now let the installation finish, and once that is done, you will be prompted to reboot your system.
- This means that Xfce has been successfully installed, and now you need to reboot your system by pressing ENTER.
- Now you will see the option to select any of the installed desktop environments in the bottom right corner. Next, choose Xfce from the GUI and enter your password to login into the DE.
Congratulations! You have now successfully installed Xfce on your Debian 11 using the tasksel tool.
2. Do a fresh Debian 11 installation along with Xfce DE
If you would like to avoid running into any potential errors, then doing a new installation of Debian 11 with your choice of DE is the best option as the process is relatively easy to follow.
You can have a detailed look at installing Debian 11 Minimal by clicking here or keep reading for a short overview of the installation as it is pretty much a straightforward process.
- You can download the ‘netinst’ (Net Install) version of Debian 11 from the official website. We recommend this method of installing Debian 11 as the ‘netinst’ version downloads all the required files automatically from the internet during installation, and it gets the most stable and updated packages. Here is the link for the latest stable 64-bit version of Debian 11 netinst version.
- After downloading the ISO image file, you need to create a bootable USB storage device. Then, you can use an ISO burning tool like balenaEtcher to burn the ISO image file onto the USB device.
- Once that is done, you need to boot from that USB, and you will get the Debian 11 Installation page as shown above. As you start the installation, it will prompt you to set up all the standard settings like your region, language, time zone, root and user accounts, passwords, etcetera. Next, you set up the root account, user account, and passwords and select the other options as you would during a default installation.
- Now you will be prompted to partition your drive(s).
- You can choose the default option, automatically allocating the drive space to all the needed volumes.
- It will automatically allocate the available free space and create the partitions required by default.
As you can see above, the disk has been partitioned.
- Once all that is done, the base system installation of Debian 11 will start.
- After the base installation, the system will automatically switch to the Tasksel interface and prompt you to choose your desktop environment(s) to install.
- The rest of the procedure is the same as the first installation method detailed above. Therefore, you may follow the steps exactly as mentioned in that method, and you will have a successful installation of Debian 11 along with Xfce.
- Now, after rebooting, you will be directed to the login page.
You can see all installed DEs by clicking on the settings icon on the bottom right corner. Once again, congratulations!
3. Install Xfce through the apt package manager
The default apt package manager is a capable tool. It also makes it very easy to install Xfce. To install Xfce via the apt package manager, the following command needs to be executed:
sudo apt -y install task-xfce-desktop
This will retrieve the relevant packages and required files, and once the process is complete, Xfce DE will be installed. Now you need to reboot your system using the following command:
Now you will be rebooted into the Xfce login page.
You have now learned to install Xfce on Debian 11 using three different methods. You can finally put your old hardware to use and set up your server, VPN, ad-blocker, or even a security monitoring system. Let us know if this article did help you out or if there is anything further we can guide you on. What do you think of the Xfce desktop? | <urn:uuid:11719a34-5b5e-43c1-89e1-6fecc7fff350> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fosslinux.com/49948/install-xfce-desktop-on-debian.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.911908 | 1,779 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Managing finances can be overwhelming. There are monthly bills, credit card receipts, account statements, essential paperwork and automated payments. It’s not easy managing the information and tracking of all the details of how we use our funds. When we are most organized, we have a good system and routines to review our finances. These weekly, monthly and ongoing routines give you guideposts for your finances, adding up to fifteen important finance routines to help you stay organized and track where your money goes.
- Go through your mail weekly and shred credit card offers and other papers that have account numbers.
- Read email and text alerts from your bank and credit card company. Act on these immediately with a call directly to the company, not responding to the alert directly in case of further fraud.
- Set up payment systems that work for you. Automated bill pay is an option for your ongoing payments. If you pay by check, set a time each week or every other week to pay bills. Consistently reviewing and paying bills keeps you aware and in control of your spending and bill payments.
- Review your bank and credit card statements online or on paper. Check all purchases, especially looking for fraud charges big or small the fraud.
- Use a list to review automated payments. Record the day of the month, the transaction company, how it is payed and the amount.
- Organize your financial papers by big categories and drop in paper each month. Categories include Banks and Credit Unions, Credit Cards, Investment and Retirement and Utilities and Bills. That’s correct – you only need one very large file for utilities and bills. Big categories make it easier to file.
- Set saving goals and monitor your monthly progress. Automate your savings as income comes in so it is easier to reach your goals. Monitor this progress with a monthly meeting to review your monthly spending on your own or with your partner. See where multiple small purchases or large purchases are derailing your savings goals.
- Set up reminders to pay big quarterly payments such as property taxes, estimated taxes and Home Owner Association bills.
- Set up online access to all your accounts.
- Consolidate when possible. Keep accounts to two banks or credit unions at most. Consolidate credit to credit cards to two cards from different companies and keep only two investment and retirement accounts.
- Keep up with your passwords securely. Change your passwords regularly. Keep a log of your passwords.
- Make a copy of all contents of your wallet and other cards. Carry only the credit and bank cards you need to use routinely. Keep the remainder, such as debit cards, at home in your safe.
- Keep a list of all financial accounts. List the name of the location (bank), account name (checking), account number and password.
- Keep a list of closed accounts, paid off accounts for any type of loan, mortgage or credit card. If something goes wonky, you have the account to check.
- In case of emergency, keep a solid amount of cash in your home safe. During a local emergency, you can only get $300 from an ATM.
Managing financial routines
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The NEMS messaging architecture means that publishers of events publish without knowing which subscribers are going to receive the event message and subscribers subscribe without knowing who will be publishing the events they are subscribed to. This could make it difficult for subscribers to know who and how to contact the published when an event message they receive contains invalid or incorrect information which needs to be corrected. To address this the NEMS is mandating that contact details are included in the event message by the publisher, which can be used to raise issue relating to that specific event message.
If a publisher or subscriber experience an issues with the NEMS un-related to a specific event message, such as issues connecting to the publish or subscription API, then these issues would follow the same issue processes as other Spine services where an issue would need to be raised with the National Service Desk.
- The publisher constructs the event message include contact information that should be used if a subscriber wishes to raise an issue for that specific event message and publishes the event to the NEMS.
- The NEMS will forward the event message on to any subscribers with matching subscriptions.
- If the subscriber has an issue processing the event message this needs to be investigated to identify if this is an internal issue with the system or if it is an issue with the published event message. If the investigation identifies the issue is with the event message the subscriber may contact the publisher using the contact details in the event message to raise an issue for the event message that was published.
- If the message can be processed correctly but the subscriber believes there is an issue with the content of the event message the subscriber may use the contact details in the event message to contact the publisher and raise an issue for the event message so that the publish can make necessary corrections and publish and update or delete message where appropriate.
- If an issue is identified by a subscriber as relating to the NEMS rather than the content or event message structure create by the publisher then this should be raised as an issue with the National Service Desk.
The publisher MUST include either an email address or telephone number, within the following
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In recent decades, adolescent pregnancy has become an important health issue in a great number of both developed and developing countries.We have investigated the official statistics database of the National Ministry of the Health (MoH) and their #13 Statutory Form (SF) and found the total number of abortions between 2007-2011 in Kazakhstan decreased by 28%. The total number of adolescent (?15 and 15-18 years of age) abortions decreased by 52.7%. Contrary to this decrease in the total number of adolescent abortions, spontaneous abortions have increased from 23.2% to 45.0%. We found a tendency towards a decrease in the number of adolescents with the first pregnancy among adolescents 15-18 who had abortion between 2007-2011, from 51.3% to 35.8%. This clearly reflects the success of prevention activities among adolescents who have already had an abortion or birth. During the analyzed period, there were two lethal outcomes from abortions among girls 15-18 years old. There are some limitations in the assessment levels and dynamic changes of abortions among adolescents due to the division of age in the official statistical database.
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Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948. (http://www.who.int/about/definition/en/print.html)
Convention on the Rights of the Child. London: Child Rights International Network, 1989. (http://www.crin.org/resources/treaties/CRC.asp)
Adolescent Growth and Development. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, World Health Organization Collaborative Centre for Community Health Services. (http://www.youthnet.org.hk/jobaid/Module%201.pdf)
Women’s Health Fact Sheet. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2009. (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs334/en/)
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These pipes serve as a mechanical sheath for power cables, electrical wires, telecommunications cables, traction signalling, cable television and other cables and wires.
Description Purpose: They are designed to protect cables laid in the ground. The properties of the pipes allow them to be laid in different soils and with different slopes. High flexibility allows avoiding obstacles along the pipeline route and mitigating the effects of land subsidence. Pipes can be laid in irrigated and chemically aggressive soils.
Assortment: Casing pipes for cables by InstalPlast Łask are manufactured in accordance with PN-EN 61386-24 regarding “Installation pipe systems for conducting cables “. It defines the conditions of pipe resistance to deflection and impact loads. According to the current standard, casing pipes laid in the ground must have compression and impact resistance classes – 450N for installation pipes classified as type 450. Casing pipes for cables by InstalPlast Łask are manufactured according to the classification:
DK/G – corrugated double-walled with fittings and ropes, flexible DK/P – corrugated double-walled with fittings and ropes, in straight sections DKU/G – corrugated double-walled with fittings, ropes and seals, flexible DKU/P – corrugated double-walled with fittings, ropes and seals, in straight sections JK/G – corrugated single-walled with fittings and ropes, flexible
On request, we offer pipes with gaskets and stabilized with increased resistance to UV radiation. Pipes are offered in coils with a length of 50m ( DN 50, 75, 110 ) and 25m ( DN 125, 160 ) or in straight sections with a length of 6m.
Resistant to sagging
Available in coils or barbells
Colours: Casing pipes for cables by InstalPlast Łask are produced in blue and red as standard. Custom colours are available to order.
High density polyethylene PE-HD is used for the production of pipes and fittings. It is a raw material with excellent chemical resistance, which means that it is not attacked by strong acids or strong alkali and is also resistant to mild oxidizing and reducing agents. It is also characterized by high resistance to shock loads that may appear at the stage of system design and a large range of operating temperatures (from -30 ° C to + 75 ° C) allowing work at any time of the year.
Pipes connection is made in a simple and convenient way using fittings. The rope placed inside the pipe facilitates pulling the cables and the gasket ensures tightness of the laid pipeline.
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This text is for anybody who desires to create an internet site. After studying it, it is possible for you to to decide on the best hosting on your mission and your funds. Which internet hosting do you have to select on your first web site? What are dependable net hosts? What’s the distinction between shared internet hosting, a devoted server, or perhaps a VPS? You’ll know all the pieces!
Now that you recognize what sort of internet hosting you want, it’s time to decide on an online host. Because the latter will deal with your internet hosting infrastructure and handle your area identify, it’s important to decide on a dependable and extreme firm over the long run.
What sort of lodging ought to I select?
If that is your first ever web site, I like to recommend selecting shared internet hosting. This obscure time period implies that your server’s assets (the processor and the reminiscence) might be shared with tons of of Web websites, together with yours. Based on websites and hosts, this sort of internet hosting is greater than sufficient, and you’ll by no means must improve it to a extra sturdy resolution.
Suppose you have already got an internet site on shared internet hosting and your host usually invitations you to optimize your web site below the penalty of suspending it. In that case, it’s time emigrate to a extra highly effective internet hosting with assets completely devoted to your web site. Two options can be found to you:
- The digital personal server (VPS)
- The cloud server
The large distinction amongst these two options is that the VPS is a server whose assets are allotted completely to a restricted variety of web sites in a digital manner. In distinction, the cloud server attracts its assets in a decentralized method within the cloud. In different phrases, the assistance of a VPS is restricted to a bodily server, whereas these of a cloud server can improve with none restrict in line with the evolution of your wants! Subsequently, to decide on, you’ve gotten a greater time choosing a cloud server, particularly since this resolution is extra economical than a VPS or perhaps a devoted server.
Relying on the success and optimization of your web site, there could also be occasions while you want much more highly effective internet hosting than a VPS or cloud server. On this case, the 2 options can be found to you:
- The ultra-vitamin devoted server
- Very excessive availability of internet hosting
What are the important differentiation standards?
There are such a lot of totally different hosts and costs that selecting your host can grow to be an actual headache, particularly since it’s simple to doubt the objectivity of well-established host checks and comparisons within the area. That is why we are going to endeavor to provide the most crucial indicators with the intention to additionally make your personal selection with out having to blindly comply with the suggestions of gamers who are sometimes paid to place one host fairly than one other within the first place. Internet hosting a web site includes costly infrastructure in addition to sturdy technical abilities.
Opposite to what you would possibly assume, the next standards will not be decisive as a result of virtually all internet hosting suppliers embrace them of their supply or will supply them within the brief time period:
- Free SSL certificates
- DDoS Safety
- Free disk house dimension
- SSD expertise for recordsdata and databases
- Every day backup of recordsdata and databases
- Help for applied sciences resembling Node.js, Ruby, Litespeed, or MariaDB
Alternatively, the next 4 standards don’t change over time and are decisive:
The effectivity and availability of help
You’ll eventually must contact your host: to activate a expertise required by a Net utility, for a technical query, or to grasp why your web site is sluggish or not works. Regardless of the motive, it’s important to have the ability to contact your host and obtain precious and sensible assist rapidly.
The fame of a number’s help is essentially the most essential level in making your selection! That is why the large established hosts like HostingLelo will not be essentially the perfect decisions as a result of their help is usually overwhelmed by the mass of shoppers to handle.
The scalability of lodging
Expertise and growth languages are altering an increasing number of quickly, and it’s important to interact with a number that’s invested within the analysis and growth of its merchandise. So observe the weblog and the publications of the hosts on social networks to test that issues are shifting usually. For this criterion, distinguished gamers will have a tendency to profit from extra assets than small hosts for analysis and innovation, however they may also be held again by the scale of their server park to take care of and replace.
The assets allotted to your internet hosting
For shared internet hosting, the quantity of RAM ( memory_limit ) and the execution time ( max_execution_time ) allotted to your scripts reveal the facility you should have at your disposal. Sadly, this data is never highlighted, and you’ll usually should go to the host’s data base or help to get it.
As a information, the next values are wonderful:
- 300 seconds (execution time)
- 1280 MB of RAM (reminiscence)
This comparability can assist you evaluate these two variables.
The efficiency and reliability of the infrastructure
No host is proof against extreme failures in its infrastructure, no matter its expertise or dimension. It’s, furthermore, powerful to guage this criterion as a result of the hosts don’t essentially spotlight the checklist of their failures over time. Alternatively, an online host that suffers outages that have an effect on many repeat clients won’t be able to include the unfavourable fallout for lengthy on communities like Twitter, Reddit, and Quora, the place it’s powerful to censor suggestions from actual exasperated clients.
How do you you should definitely select a great host?
Strive as a lot as doable to base your self on goal data:
- The assets allotted to hosting (reminiscence and execution time)
- The host’s weblog (is it shifting?)
- The host’s Twitter account (breakdowns, annoyed clients, responsiveness, and so on.)
- The help (attempt to contact it a number of occasions and choose for your self)
- Fb critiques (they can’t be censored)
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If you are interested in finding cheap vehicles for sale, then you likely already feel like this isn’t possible. If you visit car dealerships, then you won’t likely find the type of prices you are looking for. Vehicles aren’t usually cheap, and that may mean transportation seems out of your budget. A better option to consider would be car salvage auctions. You can log on to your computer, go to an auction website, and bid on cars of pennies on the dollar. It is an excellent way to get a vehicle for a much lower price than you would ever be able to find otherwise.
Often, auto auctions online let you shop for vehicles from the comfort of your own home. You don’t have to travel anywhere in California to find the right car. And, many auction houses will even set up delivery for you. That means you make a bid, win a car, pay for it, and have it delivered right to you.
Of course, there are some things that you need to know about buying a salvage car. You can’t just drive one as soon as you get it. There are steps you will need to take as per the state of California to get the vehicle licensed and insured.
Understanding a Salvage Car
Some states define salvage vehicles based on a percentage of the car’s value compared to repair costs. In California, however, the state has a specific definition: the car must be “either totally destroyed or damaged beyond what the insurance company is willing to pay to fix it.” In those cases, when the owner makes a claim, the insurance coverage will simply replace the car and then apply for a salvage title for the original, damaged model. This will be done through the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Unlike other states, California doesn’t issue an actual salvage title. They issue, instead, a salvage certificate. The salvaged vehicle doesn’t actually ever have a real title again.
A vehicle can be damaged by a number of different things, like a collision, flooding, theft, vandalism, fire, and hail. Obviously, this means that not every salvaged vehicle is damaged beyond repair. If it is, then the car is “junked”, meaning it will be dismantled and sold for parts. However, if it is repairable, it actually can be legally driven again through a series of steps.
Since it is illegal to sell a salvage car without disclosing the damage information, this is why the state of California takes away the title and replaces it with a salvage certificate. In this state, you cannot get a license plate for the car and you will not be able to get insurance coverage. That doesn’t mean you are stuck with a piece of junk, though.
Getting a Revived Title
If you purchase a salvage car and you want to get it to the point that it is legal once more, then you will need to repair any damage that made it unsafe or not drivable. These repairs can range from minor to very extensive depending on the type of damage done to the vehicle. Once you have repaired the damage, you will need to follow these steps:
- Get an inspection through the California Highway Patrol. This is done by appointment at our local DMV office
- Get a Brake and Lights Inspection Certificate. Service stations and repair shops can be licensed to do these inspections, so look locally for a place to go.
- Get the salvage certificate reactivated if needed. This is only needed if the vehicle has been out of the state’s system for a few years.
There are a few other things you may be required to do depending on the vehicle and the year it was made. You may need to get:
- A weight certificate
- A smog certificate
- A Statement of Facts explaining what was done on the vehicle.
- A vehicle Transfer or Reassignment
- A Declaration of Gross Vehicle Weight
- A detailed vehicle history
Once all of this is done and the car has been deemed drivable and safe, then you will be given a revived title. This is an actual title, not a certificate. And, that means your car can be legally registered. After you have gone through the registration process and you have license plates, your last step before driving the car will be to get insurance coverage.
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In many cases, that coverage will be limited to liability. That’s the minimum you need to drive your car legally because it protects other drivers if you cause an accident. However, if you do look around, you may actually find companies that will offer comprehensive coverage. Those may be few and far between. Additionally, you may have to pay a higher premium based on the type of damage that happened to the car in the first place.
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A little while ago William Lam published a little python script called extract_vsphere_deployment_topology.py that basically lets you export your current vSphere PSC topology as a DOT (graph description language) file. Great stuff, and in itself useful as is, especially if you run it through webgraphviz.com as William suggests.
The thing is, you might want to edit the topology map, change colours and fonts, and even move the boxes around, after you get the output. If you have a large environment, you might want to combine all your PSC topologies into a single document? It turns out, that’s pretty easy to do!
Omnigraffle Pro imports the DOT files natively, and lets you play around with the objects as if they were drawn in Omnigraffle from the beginning. Save the output from the script somewhere as a .dot file. Then open Omnigraffle and go to File -> Open and select the file.
Now, select the Hierarchical option, and you’ll get a nicely formatted canvas with your PSC components already laid out inside of Omnigraffle. Now you can edit it at will!
As far as I can tell, this isn’t possible with Microsoft Visio, as it doesn’t support the DOT format, but you could always save it as a Visio file with Omnigraffle if you need to sent it to your more Microsoft inclined friends.
I’m sure there are more fun to be had with these DOT files, it’s just text files after all, perhaps someone can even code up a script that converts them to Visio .vdx files or some other format that Visio can import natively.
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This tour covers sixteen points of interest in the history of African Americans in Oak Bluffs. It is three miles in length and visits a range of 19th and 20th century sites where African Americans lived.
The first Methodist meeting was held on August 24,1835. Nine revivalists pitched their tents on the shore of what later became Oak Bluffs harbor. They listened to preachers, prayed and sang throughout the week. Each year the Methodist Campground grew in popularity, with more and more revivalists joining the throngs. Tents proliferated. The concept of […]
Come take a walk through the nooks and crannies of local history! Join Mark NP, owner and tour guide of Bordentown Walking Tours, as he leads you through Bordentown's unique and charming history from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans through colonial times and the Revolutionary War, all the way up to the King of Spain […]
Chapel Hill is a university town that is filled with haunted stories and legends. Spirits of the deceased are said to walk among us, especially after dark. This tour shares an unlucky 13 of the locations associated with the most notorious of haunts. Dr. Kemp P. Battle, University President from 1876-1891, was quoted as saying […]
Historic Murfreesboro is a very old town going back to the Meherrin, Chowanoke, and Notttaway tribes who populated the area before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s. Settled around 1707, the first recorded land grant was to Henry Wheeler in 1714 for a tract of land along the Meherrin River. Early landowners included names such […]
Historic Murfreesboro is a very old town going back to the Meherrin, Chowanoke, and Notttaway tribes who populated the area before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s. The first recorded land grant was to Henry Wheeler in 1714 for a tract of land along the Meherrin River. In 1746, Irish Immigrant William Hardy Murfree purchased […]
13 new murals by world-class artists that will change the skyline of the Flagler district forever, are featured in this free, self-guided walking tour. This tour, launched especially for the Miami Mural Festival, features works from acclaimed artists Hoxxoh, Magnus Sodamin, Case Maclaim, and more. The Miami Mural Festival supports community initiatives, leading to more […] | <urn:uuid:e4c0df31-22d6-4500-acb9-900d0d051830> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://events.builtstory.com/tours/category/tour/walking-tour/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962716 | 496 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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If any business expenses arise from having to entertain clients, make sure that you deduct this expense from your taxes. These meetings you can record as business expenses. Make sure that these business meetings are with potential clients or ones who have already paid, as the IRS doesn’t look too favorably on claiming pleasure as business.
You can start your own network or find one that exists locally. Even though these people may own a business in a different field, other people that are home business enterprise owners too will have a lot in common with you.
A separate business checking account is a way to keep accurate records for your company’s financial transactions. All business-related transactions should be made through your business account. This enables you to easily analyze all of how your business is making. It also important to obtain a credit card that you can use solely for your business.
Affiliates can be used to help a lot when starting a online business. You could even join affiliate program that is already in existence and promote products common to yours. This lets you to increase your own revenue without much effort.
Create a business plan.You can change this or scrap it at any time. It is important to revisit and adjust your business plan from time to time.
Taking risks is a big part of achieving success. Trying out new things will attract the attention of new customers and improve profit. You don’t know how good something else potentially is if you only use one or two all the same thing every day.
Make certain that your online business fits in with your entire family. If it starts to be a problem for your family, you might want to consider another online business.
You must be sure to take advantage of every opportunity that you possibly can. You should bring up your business to promote it.
Beginning a home based business is not need to be an insurmountable challenge. There are many options in business models that will save you tons of overhead on office locations or store.
People like to buy items that solve common problems or needs they have on an every day basis. If it is a product that solves your problem, your product will succeed.
Do you want to sell used books? There are a plethora of successful websites that will allow you sell used books there easily. You will probably want to use two or more than one. Rank the sites by how reliable and easy to use they are, usability and responsiveness. The prices of books on the site do not necessarily lead to sales. A site that offers better service may have somewhat higher costs.
You need a solid business plan before putting it into action. He or she is able to provide you a realistic analysis.If your plan is workable, you can get started. After you get your new business up and running, the details can be ironed out.
You can build a strong mailing list by adding an opt-in email addresses.
Shopping online is very popular these days and is important for a business to incorporate this facility.
Make sure you show customers who visit your website where they can buy your products. If you are selling products in stores, make it clear what stores they are sold in. This will build respect and trust in your business.
Taking out a loan to start a bad idea.Is the chance worth risking your relationship? Is your home as collateral?
Branch out on your home based business product. Try to brainstorm about other products or services that you are already selling. For example, if you’re working in landscaping, you could sell maintenance products under your own brand name, or become an affiliate for a company that is relative to your niche.
Make your work from home business is equipped to sell. Many home based businesses only sell from the premises – to give you a boost on the competition, but websites can also be an incredibly effective way to reach a broader audience and generate more sales. There are several different websites that provide ready-made storefronts.
Keep your most used reference books within easy to access. Maybe a thesaurus or dictionary when you use often for writing.Maybe you tend to order often from a particular company’s catalogs. Any reference books you use on a regular basis should be within easy reach.
Membership fees can be a profit.
Social media is a great way to market a business, but you should use it for marketing instead of socializing. These sites can cause you to waste lots of time. You can socialize on Facebook for socializing once your work is done for the day.
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Brain Changes the Occur During Pregnancy
February 11, 2017
Many expecting and new moms use the term “pregnancy brain” to explain their little bouts of forgetfulness. It turns out they may be describing a very real but temporary condition. A recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience found that pregnancy creates brain alterations that can last for up to two years.1
The team of scientists who worked on the study compared brain scans of women before they conceived and after they gave birth for the first time. Their findings revealed that after pregnancy, these women experienced a loss of gray matter in the areas of the brain that process social cognition. Gray matter is the darker tissue of the brain, consisting of nerve cells, synapses and capillaries. Our perceptions of the world and relationships are shaped by social cognition.
The women who participated in the study received repeated brain scans after delivering their babies. The research team found that the brain changes remained for up to two years post- pregnancy. In addition, the women who lost more gray matter appeared to have stronger emotional attachments to their babies.
While there was a decline in gray matter postpartum, some scientists speculate that brain changes can enhance a woman’s maternal instincts.2 The team noted that additional research is needed to further assess the social cognition of women to see whether the brain changes have any effect on mothering.
Support Brain Health Throughout Pregnancy
It’s important to note that the study did not identify at what point during pregnancy that changes occurred to the brains studied or the exact cause of those changes. Loss of gray matter during pregnancy may be unavoidable. But supporting brain health is important before, during and after pregnancy.
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is a major structural fat in the human brain and eyes, and plays important roles in their functioning.3 Researchers are currently looking at DHA’s impact on diseases of the brain and nervous system, including cognitive decline.
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In part three of our three-part introduction series, Steve Corbin, my step-father joins me to share some of the lessons he has learned from his years in the music industry and as an entrepreneur.
Born in Germany into a military family, Steve spent his young life moving around. After starting in a record store during a not so impressive college experience, Steve worked hard, applied himself, and eventually worked his way through the roles and ranks of the music industry to become Sr. VP of Sales, Council, and Culture at Warner Music. He is also the CEO of Lupo Entertainment, a consulting firm that works with up and coming artists.
Everyone walks a different path, but the greatest Standouts, in any industry, have a few things in common. They can learn and go beyond the boundary of their position. Whether it is an artist like P-Diddy who has a work ethic determined to outwork everyone else in the room or like Steve himself, committed to understanding every aspect that touches his role, however remote, a true standout isn’t tethered by the boundaries of a title. Working hard, learning everything you can, and teaching others along the way are the cornerstones a Standout life is built on.
Find your path, explore, and cast a wide net in the industry you are interested in, and learn everything you can. It is what will set you apart. Work smart, work hard, and be strategic about how you pursue growth. Seek to understand and to make those around you successful. Always do a little more than is expected of you. Be humble, be confident, and never stop asking questions.
In parting, Steve has some invaluable advice: Focus on what is important now. You take the lessons you learn from others – incorporate them or do them differently. Empower people to make decisions and understand that you can give advice, and they may not take it right away, but it may have an impact down the road. Never stop learning and always take it one step further than you have to.
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It's not the darkness itself that we must understand. It's the force behind the darkness and within the darkness ... the force moving through life that we must know. This is the great passage: to see deep into our own nature by meeting its reflection in everything around us. To swim with something very big. To allow the Universe to love us and to love deeply in return … to allow this story to trace itself through the chapters of our life. To live within the miracle.
—from the book Stars at Night by Paula D'Arcy
✞ "Is it not a wonderful thing, that he that is the Lord and author of all liberty, would thus be bound with ropes and nailed hand and foot unto the Cross?" — St. John Fisher
✞ MEDITATION OF THE DAY "We frequently need other people's help to figure out what God wants of us. It is relatively easy to sort out what is bad from what is good, but it is much more difficult to sort out what is good from what is better and what is bad from what is worse. The Holy Spirit gives us the counsel we need through external and internal signs of grace." — Rev. Jude Winkler, p. 35 AN EXCERPT FROM Daily Meditations Holy Spirit
✞ VERSE OF THE DAY "Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." 2 Timothy 3:12-15
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Saint John of Capistrano
(June 24, 1386 – October 23, 1456)
It has been said the Christian saints are the world's greatest optimists. Not blind to the existence and consequences of evil, they base their confidence on the power of Christ's redemption. The power of conversion through Christ extends not only to sinful people but also to calamitous events.
Imagine being born in the 14th century. One-third of the population and nearly 40 percent of the clergy were wiped out by the bubonic plague. The Western Schism split the Church with two or three claimants to the Holy See at one time. England and France were at war. The city-states of Italy were constantly in conflict. No wonder that gloom dominated the spirit of the culture and the times.
John Capistrano was born in 1386. His education was thorough. His talents and success were great. When he was 26 he was made governor of Perugia. Imprisoned after a battle against the Malatestas, he resolved to change his way of life completely. At the age of 30 he entered the Franciscan novitiate and was ordained a priest four years later.
John's preaching attracted great throngs at a time of religious apathy and confusion. He and 12 Franciscan brethren were received in the countries of central Europe as angels of God. They were instrumental in reviving a dying faith and devotion.
The Franciscan Order itself was in turmoil over the interpretation and observance of the Rule of St. Francis. Through John's tireless efforts and his expertise in law, the heretical Fraticelli were suppressed and the "Spirituals" were freed from interference in their stricter observance.
John of Capistrano helped bring about a brief reunion with the Greek and Armenian Churches.
When the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453, John was commissioned to preach a crusade for the defense of Europe. Gaining little response in Bavaria and Austria, he decided to concentrate his efforts in Hungary. He led the army to Belgrade. Under the great General John Hunyadi, they gained an overwhelming victory, and the siege of Belgrade was lifted. Worn out by his superhuman efforts, Capistrano was an easy prey to an infection after the battle. He died on October 23, 1456.
John Hofer, a biographer of John Capistrano, recalls a Brussels organization named after the saint. Seeking to solve life problems in a fully Christian spirit, its motto was: "Initiative, Organization, Activity." These three words characterized John's life. He was not one to sit around. His deep Christian optimism drove him to battle problems at all levels with the confidence engendered by a deep faith in Christ.
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Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Rom 4:20-25
Brothers and sisters: Abraham did not doubt God's promise in unbelief; rather, he was empowered by faith and gave glory to God and was fully convinced that what God had promised he was also able to do. That is why it was credited to him as righteousness. But it was not for him alone that it was written that it was credited to him; it was also for us, to whom it will be credited, who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over for our transgressions and was raised for our justification.
Responsorial Psalm Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 R. (see 68) Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people. He has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty savior, born of the house of his servant David. R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people. Through his holy prophets he promised of old that he would save us from our enemies, from the hands of all who hate us. He promised to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant. R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people. This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to set us free from the hands of our enemies, free to worship him without fear, holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life. R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people.
Alleluia Mt 5:3 R. Alleluia, alleluia. Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel Lk 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me." He replied to him, "Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?" Then he said to the crowd, "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions."
Then he told them a parable. "There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, 'What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?' And he said, 'This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!"' But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?' Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God."
Meditation: Luke 12:13-21
Tell my brother to share the inheritance with me. (Luke 12:13)
Every parent of more than one child has heard pleas like this one. "Tell him to stop teasing me." "Make her share that toy." Many parents know better than to step into the middle of a conflict like this. Instead, they might ask a few questions to help the child to think or examine his motives. They help the child find ways to handle the conflict without their direct intervention. They help build his confidence so that he can find a better way to resolve conflict than complaining.
This is not so different from what Jesus does in today's Gospel. Instead of involving himself in a financial dispute between two brothers, Jesus exposes the greed that lurks behind the demand. The parable that he tells in response raises a more important question than the division of goods. What riches really matter in the long run—the contents of the man's bank account or his relationship with his brother?
For Jesus, the man's motives matter more than the outcome of his dispute. It wasn't Jesus' role to make the problem disappear; he wanted to teach the man how to work through it himself according to God's ways. The solution he offered was meant to go deeper and have more permanent effects than settling this one argument. Essentially, he was teaching this man how to love his brother.
God wants to do the same for us. He wants to show us how to resolve conflicts by examining the motives and values in our own hearts. So if you're having a hard time with someone, come to Jesus before you approach the other person. Let Jesus shine his light on your heart so that you can see what lies under the surface. Let him offer you his compassion and understanding toward the other person. Let him assure you that you are capable of working things out together as long as you respect each other and leave room for the Holy Spirit to help.
The work of mending relationships starts with each one of us. And Jesus will be right there to help us through it.
"Holy Spirit, help me to build more loving relationships with the people you have put in my life."
Romans 4:20-25 (Psalm) Luke 1:69-75
my2cents: "...he was empowered by faith and gave glory to God and was fully convinced that what God had promised". God has made promises. Have you entered into one with Him as He has offered? It's not all about what I got to offer Him you know...
We pray today "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people. This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to set us free from the hands of our enemies, free to worship him without fear, holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life." Who are your enemies? Let me tell you, if you thought of someone in particular, you are wrong. We are not fighting people, we are in a spiritual battle. I have seen face to face evil within the last couple of weeks, and it was through dearly beloved people. Spirits try to take root and talk through people. I have to reject them, not listen to them. Easier said than done when someone you love is accusing you and belittling you. But, grace comes as a shield. I had just confessed, and here comes the tests...will evil enter and take over? No, not with Jesus involved...and the more, the better.
In the Holy Gospel, our Lord speaks to us: ""Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions." Greed is a twisted need and it is rooted in pride. Full of oneself. It becomes a story of "ME" and me this and my feelings that and my ego, and "my self esteem" and me me me. It is the battlefront we soldiers of Christ must attack. My mom is not the oldest of 9 kids, not the youngest, but somewhere in the middle. They lost their dad at an early age, she was perhaps 9 or 11. The brothers were oldest, 2 of them, one youngest paralyzed from polio and had to be changed and carried around everywhere. The dad had died when a tractor crushed him in the field and no one had seen it since he worked alone, until hours or a day later. Months later, the mom died of a brain tumor. After this tragedy, the children, on their own, began bickering and fighting, even years later about who got what, the cattle, the house, the farmlands. It was to the point that guns were pulled out in death threats. You don't need the story of Adam and Eve in God's creation to see soon Abel and Cain. When God leaves us to our own whims, it is a deadly world. The paralyzed uncle of mine, was a burden...for about 33 years. They would take turns taking care of him and once he was thrown on the street when one of the siblings said she had done her part for the time said and agreed. My mom was seemingly religious. She took no part in any of the inheritance. We took care of "Jilo" my paralyzed uncle for quite a long time, even bringing him from Mexico to do so. It was a heavy cross, he yelled, he stank because he used pampers all his life, and he would pinch us kids as we walked by him if he was moody. But everyone went to his funeral back in Mexico. I remember my younger cousin look at me at the funeral with the biggest tear drops I'd ever seen on someone. The family seemed to have healed from then on, and joined together. To this day, it is closer. I think most see my mom as the mother, as she had been most constant in faith. I remember my anti-catholic ex brother in law saying to me once "I like your faith because it is constant".
Indeed, there has to be an anchor in your life, let it be Christ. When you are centered and living a life of grace, you will see how the "Meek will inherit the earth". Christ gives us a cross to cherish, to hold, and to carry with great care. The burden you have is the key.
Everyone knows that where we live and what we got is temporary. Or do we? Because we live as if this was it. We just had another young teenager commit suicide this weekend. My children, this is not it! We can't focus on just what we see and feel, we must focus on CHRIST JESUS. Yesterday, we practiced for choir before Mass and it sounded really good. First entrance song starts and little girl keeps fussing with a microphone and with the corner of my eye I can see them messing with it, and another choir lady goes to help her and it is a distraction, I see others just staring to see what's going on. I was joyfully laughing inside but when I saw the distraction I said "No, we must focus on God" and I began to sing stronger and refocus everyone to Jesus, what was about to happen....on that cross, and in that bread, and in this gathering of Heaven and Earth....... | <urn:uuid:9ecdac88-55e9-4880-84dc-7fb856371515> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://4thdayforum.blogspot.com/2017_10_23_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.985774 | 3,104 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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As expected, President Bush’s plan for a moon base and eventual trip to Mars failed to ignite. MR readers have some better ideas.
Honorable mention goes to Roger Meiners for suggesting that a moon base is a good idea so long as Congress and the President must occupy it. Now I am inspired!
Third place goes to Chris Rasch for brain freezing. Chris Rasch writes “I believe that reversible cryopreservation of the human brain could be developed. Remarkable advances have already been made on a shoestring budget. Such a technology would allow people dying today to halt the dying process until technology can advance to the point that we can cure their disease or repair their injuries. I would wager that, for a mere billion dollars, which is far more than has probably been spent on cryobiology during the entire existence of the field, we could have effectively unbounded lifespans. We could then use those extra years to pursue all of the other goals that other submitters may send to you.”
I like the cryonics idea and have thought seriously about signing up (believe it or not, one of my colleagues (not Tyler) has already done so). The reason the idea takes third place is that we don’t see a big private demand for cryonics and the public is more likely to think this idea crazy than inspiring.
Second place goes to Nick Shultz for suggesting that we “provide potable water for everyone on the planet.” A number of other ideas were also motivated by the goal of alleviating abject third-world poverty. I think these ideas are inspiring but am unsure whether we can deliver on them given that so many of the problems of the third world have to do with poor governance. My suggestion would be to work on something related but more under our own control. We could do far worse, for example, than following Bill Gates’s lead and put a billion or so into the Malaria Vaccine Initiative.
First place goes to David Wood and Robin Hanson both of whom suggested a space elevator. At first, the space elevator idea seems impossible, even absurd. The idea is to string a cable some 62,000 miles long from a spot on the equator up into outerspace. Wouldn’t it fall down? No, recall that a sateillite some 22,000 miles up is in geosynchronous orbit. The space elevator would extend enough past this point so that gravity at the lower end and centripetal acceleration at the far end would keep the cable under tension. Once the cable is strung, reaching outerspace is as simple as Jack climbing the beanstock.
The most difficult part of the space elevator is finding a material strong enough to carry a load yet light enough not to collapse under its own weight – a short time ago there was no such material but today it’s believed that carbon nanotubes could do the job (nano-technology more generally was another favourite of MR readers and this proposal would advance that cause.)
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As such, drivers are now able to leave their physical driving licences at home when using their vehicle, provided they have a device with them which can display the digital version.
A new driving licence app, launched on Tuesday, can be downloaded on to smart phones with either Android or iOS operating systems.
The digital licence can be used as a valid form of ID, as well as a driving licence, making it completely equivalent to the physical version, the Ministry of Housing and Transport said in a statement.
The app, ‘Kørekort’, must be downloaded and the user is required to login using NemID, Denmark’s secure digital signature system.
The digital driving licence is activated by scanning one’s own passport into the app, which uses the passport photo for the digital ID while allowing it to remain stored remotely via the user’s device.
Foreign passports are not compatible with the app, even if the holder has a Danish driving licence. That appears to be because the app uses Danish personal registry information which is only included in Danish passports.
The Local has contacted the Agency for Digitisation to ask whether there are plans to make the app compatible with foreign passports, but has not received a response.
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When one weighs up his giving with the one hand and taking with the other, it’s difficult to assess whether South Africans will benefit overall from tax changes announced by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in his Budget Speech last week. However, at least he didn’t seek to increase the tax burden on financially-stressed South Africans for the 2022/23 tax year.Story continues below Advertisment
On the relief side, the personal income tax brackets, medical tax credits, rebates and tax thresholds will be adjusted by an “inflation-related” 4.5%. There will be no increase in the fuel levy, as many analysts predicted. However, sin taxes – excise duties on alcohol and tobacco products – will increase by between 5.5% and 6.5%, a more substantial hike. There are also no inflation-linked increases to such things as annual contributions to tax-free savings accounts and exemptions on interest income.
The adjustments to the tax brackets are 4.5%, based on Treasury’s inflation projections of 4.8% this year, dropping to 4.4% next year. But are these projections realistic, considering the steep rise in global inflation over the past few months and the January year-on-year Consumer Price Index inflation figure coming in at 5.7%?
Hannes van den Berg, chief executive at Consult by Momentum, believes that when everything is taken into consideration, the relief may be less than one thinks. “Citizens in general perceive inflation to be much higher than the basket used to measure inflation, and although the government did announce relief in the personal tax scales, I think there is a certain amount of ‘creep’ in there where the full extent of inflation is not going through to consumers. So although the amount going back to consumers is in the billions (see below), it doesn’t fully match real inflation given a forward-looking view. Coupled with that are the lack of inflation-linked adjustments to, say, the maximum deductible retirement fund contributions of R350 000 a year or to the exemptions on interest. Those things, if you take everything into consideration, will result in an overall benefit much lower than the inflation rate,” he says.
Van den Berg also notes that tax concessions for working from home were not really addressed in the Budget. “That’s an added expense that people are incurring,” he says.
In the past, the government has on occasion allowed for a certain amount of bracket creep (also known as “fiscal drag”) by not adjusting the tax brackets. This is advantageous to the government. In this scenario if your salary increases by the inflation rate but the tax brackets remain the same, you end up paying a slightly higher percentage of your salary to the taxman.
So by increasing the brackets by the inflation rate, the percentage of your salary going to the taxman ‒ if it also increases by the inflation rate ‒ will be roughly the same. If you did not receive a salary increase this year ‒ which applies to many employees owing to the adverse economic climate ‒d your income tax will decrease slightly.
In fact, in its 2022 Budget Review document, which accompanied the Minister’s Budget presentation, the government estimates that adjusting the tax brackets will cost it about R13.5 billion in revenue, which translates into money in your pocket.
You are a salaried employee who earned R240 000 in taxable income in the 2021/22 tax year. On that amount, you paid tax of R45 104, less the primary rebate of R15 714 = R29 390 (12.25% of your income).
If your salary stays the same, for the 2022/23 tax year you will pay R44 320, less the primary rebate of R16 425 = R27 895 (11.62% of your income).
If your salary increases by 4.5% in line with the government’s projected inflation rate, you will earn R250 800. On this amount you will pay R47 128, less the primary rebate of R16 425 = R30 703 (12.24% of your income).Story continues below Advertisment
What is not changing
No mention was made, in Minister Godongwana’s Budget Speech or the accompanying Budget Review document of any changes to the following taxes or exemptions, which will remain at their present levels:
- Interest income exemptions: These remain at R23 800 a year for individuals under 65 years of age and at R34 500 a year for individuals of 65 and older.
- Capital gains tax: The inclusion rate (the percentage of the gain taxed as income) remains at 40% for individuals, with a R40 000 annual exclusion.
- Dividend withholding tax: This remains at 20% on dividends from South African companies (withheld by the company concerned, not the responsibility of the shareholder).
- Donations tax: This remains at 20% on amounts over R100 000, taxed in the hands of the donor, except when the donations are to a spouse or to an approved public benefit organisation. Amounts over R30 million are taxed at 25%.
- Tax-free savings accounts: The annual contribution limit remains R36 000 and the lifetime limit R500 000.
- Estate duty: The rate remains at 20% on the first R30 million and 25% on amounts over that. The first R3.5 million is not taxed, and for the second-dying spouse the threshold is R7 million less any exemption used by the first-dying spouse.
- Retirement fund contributions: The limit for deductible contributions to retirement funds remains at 27.5% of the greater of remuneration or taxable income, to a maximum of R350 000 a year.
- Tax on trusts: for trusts other than special trusts, the flat rate of 45% of income remains.
- Transfer duty on property: Rates remain the same according to the SARS
- Tax on retirement fund lump-sum withdrawals: Rates remain the same for pre-retirement withdrawals and for withdrawals at retirement, according to the SARS
No mention was made in the Budget about a mooted Basic Income Grant for South Africans. Carmen Nel, economist and macro strategist at Matrix Fund Managers, says: “The Budget does not allow for a Basic Income Grant, as the finance minister rightly notes that a structural increase in spending would require a structural increase in revenues, which would mean a personal income tax or VAT rate hike. This would be a notable risk to spending in the medium term, given socio-economic and political pressures.”
However, the Budget has provisioned R44 billion in 2022/23 to continue the special Covid-19 social relief of distress grant (R350 per beneficiary per month) for another 12 months.
The existing social grants will all be increased by 5% except for the foster care grant (1.9% increase) and the child support grant (4.3% increase).
Hannes van den Berg, chief executive at Consult by Momentum, says that while tackling inequality is necessary, it will become increasingly challenging considering that South Africa already spends 3.3% of its GDP on social expenditure. “Social grants are going to 46% of South African citizens! The ruling party is creating a dependency on social grants among their voters – as opposed to creating meaningful employment opportunities,” Van den Berg says.
Targeting the wealthy
The Budget re-emphasised the government’s intention to ensure that wealthy South Africans pay Caesar what is due to Caesar. To this end, provisional taxpayers with assets over R50 million will be required to declare specified assets and liabilities at market values in their 2023 tax returns.
In a Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr presentation on the Budget on Wednesday, Emil Brincker, director and head of the firm’s tax and exchange control practice, pointed out that there was already a heavy tax burden on upper-middle-class and wealthy citizens.
Brincker said that, as a portion of total revenue, personal income tax is increasing each year, from 37.2% in 2016/17 to 39.1% this year. “When you look at who is actually paying the taxes, 20% of taxpayers ‒ those with an annual income of over R500 000 ‒ contribute over 70% of personal income tax.”
Brincker said that SARS were expecting to collect more from high-net-worth (HNW) individuals, “but I am not sure that will be the case”. He said many of these individuals were emigrating, with SARS ‒ and the country ‒ losing out as a result.
Pension fund reform
The Budget speech touched on the government’s proposed “two-pot” system for retirement savings, saying more work needed to be done.
Michelle Acton, key account manager at Old Mutual Corporate Consultants, says the fact that the Minister has given the green light to the restructuring of the retirement system for individuals to allow for greater preservation and partial access to funds via the two-pot system is welcome.
“More detail is required in terms of understanding the parameters that would allow for early access. This will need to be provided in the draft legislation that will be published for comment towards the middle of the year,” she says.
Acton says more information on how National Treasury plans to tax contributions is also critical to reform. “Our current retirement fund tax dispensation is a significant incentive to encourage retirement savings, so we do not believe that this should be amended due to the proposed two-pot system.”
A change welcomed by the investment industry was the “harmonisation” of offshore investment limits across investment products.
Andrew Davison, head of advice at Old Mutual Corporate Consultants, says: “One of the unexpected but welcome changes in the Budget was the announcement that the offshore limit for all insurance, retirement and savings funds will be harmonised at 45%, inclusive of the 10% African allowance. This implies that the current Regulation 28 offshore limit of 30% will increase to 35% with a further 10% in Africa outside South Africa. This will provide greater flexibility for retirement funds to access a wider set of opportunities for growth as well as diversification.
“The Minister also provided an update on the changes to Regulation 28 to enable greater investment in infrastructure by retirement funds with this expected to be gazetted into law by March.”
Implications for investors
Casey Delport, investment analyst at Anchor Capital, says that, overall, the Budget was largely neutral but somewhat positive for bonds and the rand. “Investors will likely be pleased with deficits that are moderately smaller over the medium term than the consensus economist forecasts had expected, though they may still be concerned about downside risks to growth and the inevitable end to the current strong commodity cycle and what that will mean for tax revenues going forward.
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