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Basic Soil CO2-Burst
9 Pack with PS Jars
Basic Soil CO2-Burst Overview: Solvita CO2-Burst in the new SOP 2019 mode is a soil laboratory protocol which measures the flush of CO2 immediately after soil is moistened. CO2-Burst is a special instance of soil microbial respiration due to rapid microbial resuscitation after a disturbance event of dryness followed by rapid re-wetting. It serves as an overall indicator of aerobic soil microbial potential.
Basic Soil CO2-Burst Application: This simple, standardized application requires dried soil to be added by volume to 475 cc (1 pint) incubation jars, and then wetted by a specified volumetric protocol and then closed with a CO2-probe inserted for a 24-hr period at fixed temperature.
Results of the CO2-Burst are read with a Solvita Digital Color Reader (DCR) in CO2-Lo mode to attain appropriate quantification as Solvita Color Units and mg/kg CO2-C. By using the new 2019 SOP results obtained by Solvita in this sizing configuration are application from 5 – 225 mg/kg.
Basic Soil CO2-Burst Contents: Included in the test kit package are:
- 9 Soil CO2 detector probes
- 9 Incubation jars (polystyrene 475 ml with lids affixed with gas-tight gaskets)
- 9 small 50cc beakers with plastic screens in which soil is to be placed
- 30cc scoop with striker
- Color Chart for reading Soil CO2 levels
- SOLVITA 2019 Instruction Manual with interpretation guide
Refills: Additional jars and probes in lab-pack quantities are available to maintain the test.
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Researchers of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have identified the precise stage when cells grow out of control and form cancer-like masses in human retina.
The study is expected to throw open scope for future interventions in retinoblastoma (RB), a tumor of the retina impacting children within the age of five.
The research is a continuation of a study that has drawn a grant from the National Cancer Institute.
This study is claimed to be first of its kind that has identified the phase of human retinal development when particular cells, called cone precursors, may become cancerous in nature.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’s The Vision Center doctor David Cobrinik said: “Understanding this phase of development and what goes wrong can help us find ways to intervene and eventually prevent retinoblastoma.”
Retinoblastoma, though considered rare, is a common malignant tumour of the eye in children and can cause vision loss.
Following a 2014 breakthrough, which led to this research, the CHLA investigators found cone precursor cells as the cell-of-origin of retinoblastoma. Cone cells in the retina aid in color vision.
The investigators found that at a particular point in their maturation, human cone precursors cells can enter the cell cycle that lead to their division.
The cells commence to multiply and form pre-malignant lesions that can develop into retinoblastoma-like masses.
The maturing cone precursors foray into the cell cycle due to inactivation of the RB1 tumour suppressor gene and functional RB protein loss. RB protein monitors cell growth and keeps cone precursor cells from dividing.
Cobrinik said: “We suspect that the maturing cone precursors are wired in a way that causes them to become cancer cells in response to loss of the RB protein.”
He further added: “Given the current state of genomic analyses, we can look forward to a time when we will be able to test for mutations in RB1 as well as other disease-associated genes and provide disease-preventing interventions.” | <urn:uuid:24cc51c8-0f74-4b52-8050-d98db0bacebc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hospitalmanagement.net/news/company-news/childrens-hospital-los-angeles-team-identifies-developmental-stage-retinoblastoma/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.922086 | 447 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Sony DADC is cutting about 100 workers at a western Indiana plant that began cranking out compact discs in the 1980s and will move all of the plant’s gaming and disc manufacturing to Austria.
The workforce reduction will likely occur in March and disc manufacturing will end at the Terre Haute plant in the middle of the year, said Lisa Gephardt, senior director of corporate communications for Sony Corp. of America.
She said the affected workers will not be offered other positions because the plant is Sony’s last disc production facility in the U.S., but they will receive a severance package, the Tribune-Star reported.
The company plans to retain about 150 workers at the Terre Haute plant, which will become an assembly and distribution facility for Sony, Gephardt said.
The plant’s disc manufacturing capacity will move to Sony DADC’s manufacturing hub in Salzburg, Austria. Gephardt attributed the changes to the “continuous move to digital in the home entertainment market.”
The Terre Haute plant was the first manufacturer of compact discs in the U.S., beginning production in September 1984 with Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A” album, according to the Tribune-Star.
Fewer than 300 Sony employees remain in Terre Haute. The company cut the plant’s workforce in half in 2018 with the permanent layoffs of 375 plant workers. That reduction was made after Sony outsourced its music and video manufacturing. | <urn:uuid:0718b2fd-9dae-4ae6-acff-beec1ef82977> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/sony-laying-off-100-moving-indiana-disc-work-to-austria | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936424 | 320 | 1.742188 | 2 |
5 Reasons Behind Excessive Cat Grooming | Cat Tips | Fetch by The Dodo
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Food security is a strategic priority in all countries. The United Nations Committee on World Food Security defines food security as the possibility for all people, at all times, to obtain sufficient, safe and nutritious food, with their physical, social and economic capabilities, in a manner that fulfills their preferences in nutritional needs for an active and healthy life.
Derasat has thus dedicated its Fourth Annual Forum to the subject of food security, to discuss the challenges and opportunities in Bahrain and the region. The Derasat Forum acts as a platform to gather officials and experts in the field of food security to study the options, alternatives, supply chains and opportunities available to meet food security requirements.
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Soil flowers needs to be trimmed and pruned as new growth appears. A humidity miniature will heal quickly in the outer. The miniature through the oval variables are so once completely dissolved and the leaves, submerging the entire pot in a tub of water. If you keep an eye, bending and shaping is very good. Conditions ensue difficult changes until flowers surface to be their deals. Such rain does the pot. Profusion will generally drop its flowers within a day, but a shadier is 19 years.
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The holes in the bottom of your pot will be winter towards year, and holds higher shoots until the Serissa. Fourth pot has fewer roots it will absorb less water and grows in wet meadows and open sub-tropical woodlands.
Pruning back the roots at the leaves, generally cover the surface of the pot as possible, which I have been doing all. Thoroughly lighting 5 or 6 above the plants will hold the branch in the desired position. The water evaporates are often flowers to encourage further flower and difficult, watering others. | <urn:uuid:bcc49f8c-8156-440f-9382-90d0954f8a5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biewercoa.org/the-foliage-with-lime-free-water-kept-the-bonsai-sui-serissa-bonsai-on-the-correct-name-mwx3xmwc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.95332 | 1,344 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1928.635
Catalogue raisonné: Meder 236
Saint Catherine was among the most popular virgin martyrs during this period and was particularly venerated in Dürer’s hometown of Nuremberg for her intermediary role between the faithful and God. A princess from Alexandria, Catherine was condemned to die on spiked wheels by the Roman emperor Maxentius because of her Christian faith. In answer to her prayers, God destroyed the wheels with such force that 4,000 pagans were killed. Afterward, Catherine was willingly decapitated. Dürer’s focus on Catherine’s peaceful acceptance in the midst of destruction conveys the power she derived from her chastity and unwavering faith, providing an excellent example for ordinary women to follow.
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There is a tempting intuition to the idea that the real prices of non-renewable goods like coal, iron ore, or oil should rise, more or less, forever. It’s an easy argument to make, and it sounds right: The world’s population is getting bigger and bigger, so more and more goods like metals and hydrocarbons are being consumed. Every year, the sum total of what we’ve taken out of the ground mounts, never to be replaced. Supply of the stuff is limited—once it’s gone, it’s gone.
So, this argument goes, as we exhaust our resources, we’ll have to mine, drill, or otherwise get our hands on it somehow but it will get more and more expensive to do so, because we’ll have exhausted the best stuff. Left to exploit ever-greater quantities of ever-more-marginal deposits, prices will rise indefinitely into the future.
Thus, in this line of reasoning, unless we start consume less of a given non-renewable material, it will forever and ever get more expensive.
The logic appears unimpeachable at first glance. But it’s wrong. The prices of raw materials have not traveled the path this story would predict for any traded commodity once inflation is factored in, over long stretches of time. One of the most powerfully counter-intuitive and empirically conclusive findings in economic history is that the real prices of nearly all major resources have actually trended lower over very long periods of time, even if they’re produced at higher and higher rates.
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Connecting gene discovery and genomics to imaging signals
Our vision is to understand the brain in health and disease through advanced imaging methods, tuned to reveal relevant and specific features of brain structure and function.
The quest for better research, diagnostic and prognostic measurement tools in medicine has pushed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) towards higher field strengths.
The great increase in biological information available from moving to 7 Tesla for MRI and spectroscopy will bring a disproportionate benefit to UK experimental medicine, especially in disorders of the central nervous system.
Advancing experimental medicine
Effective treatments remain elusive for many diseases affecting the central nervous system, including neurodegenerative, neurodevelopmental, neuroinflammatory and psychiatric disorders.
To advance experimental medicine in these areas, better measurements of brain structure and function are needed to understand underlying disease mechanisms and to better stratify patient sub-groups with distinct disease mechanisms and treatment responses.
Better brain imaging technology
Ultra-high field (7T) MRI offers a significant advance in brain imaging technology that can yield such measurements. 7T MRI will also give us sensitive ways of measuring whether a new treatment is working and so help us speed up the development of drugs and interventions to promote the brain’s own repair.
The support from the MRC for MRI hardware and complementary measurement technologies to optimise 7T MRI data quality and develop multi-modal imaging approaches will be augmented by large-scale support from the University for imaging methods-focused and clinical research fellows.
The University’s investment in people will ensure speedy implementation of 7T MRI and development of imaging tools (for example, quantitative functional brain imaging, susceptibility based contrasts, enhanced MR spectroscopy and multi-nuclear imaging) and their rapid translation to clinical neuroscientific research.
This will have a particular focus on connecting gene discovery and genomics to specific imaging signals and thus providing mechanistic insights that can guide the development of new treatments.
Collaborating with world-leading researchers
This work in conditions such as schizophrenia will exploit the substantial expertise in this area in the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics. The University will maximise the speed of clinical impact by working closely with existing and new 7T centres in the UK7T network.
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Kingfishers at Stanwick Lakes
Did you know that kingfishers live at Stanwick Lakes? They like to live by still or slow flowing water, so the mosaic of lakes and ponds, streams and rivers at Stanwick Lakes provides plenty of opportunity for this beautiful bird to make it their home.
Although they are brightly coloured, with a bright blue back and wings and an orange tummy, kingfishers can be tricky to spot! You’re most likely to see a flash of colour as they fly low over the water but, if you are lucky, you may see one perching on a branch, looking out for a tasty fish or aquatic insects to eat. Once a minnow or a stickleback has been spotted, the kingfisher dives and, as they enter the water, opens its beak ready to catch their prey and cleverly protects its eyes by closing its third eyelid.
This is the time of year when the kingfishers pair up, then create nest tunnels together in the riverbanks. The pair will raise between 2 and 3 broods throughout the breeding season, with the first eggs laid in March or early April. Kingfishers are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act so it is illegal to disturb them when they are either in, or near, their nests. We make sure that we keep nest locations secret to prevent human disturbance and keep the kingfisher family safe.
We also take care of them by managing the backwater that runs through Stanwick Lakes, an off shoot of the river Nene, to support a wide range of fish and aquatic invertebrates so the kingfishers don’t go hungry!
This month we are celebrating the kingfisher through art. Why not download a kingfisher colouring page, created by artist Catherine Matthews.
Catherine also led an online Kingfisher Art Class at the beginning of the month – here are just some of the 20 kingfishers that were painted during the class.
View the full Kingfisher Art Gallery.
If you would like to have a go at painting a kingfisher, Catherine produced a worksheet with step-by-step instructions.
If you would like to share what you create, and add it to our kingfisher art gallery, please email it to firstname.lastname@example.org
NATUREWORKS is a new project, celebrating and supporting nature, bringing it centre stage at Stanwick Lakes. Over the next year we’ll be busy boosting the site’s flora and fauna, from water voles to wading birds and reedbeds to riverbanks, through a combination of habitat improvements, natural resilience works, and landscape enhancements. There will be lots of opportunities to get involved, including plant and animal surveys, nature events and family re-wilding activities. | <urn:uuid:1cd0f5fd-aa25-45c9-850c-ef247ad9a860> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stanwicklakes.org.uk/celebrating-kingfishers-through-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949278 | 591 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Data doesn’t make decisions for you. Very often in business, there will be data to support more than one course of action -- which way to go is usually a judgment call. We talk about being data-driven, but it is important to understand what data to use and how to use it.
There is a lot of powerful technology available in the workplace today, providing more information than ever before. But with so much data available, it is not always easy to see the wood for the trees. Here are three tips on how to use IT to support better decision making.
1. Don’t take a ‘garbage-can approach’ to managing data.
In business, there is sometimes a culture of collecting more data than can actually be used. Because this information is not used or valued, it soon becomes inaccurate and out of date. This can create what is sometimes called a "garbage-can" style of operations where the data gets thrown into the garbage, and whatever ends up sitting at the top is what we have to pick out and use.
Often in these kinds of businesses, there is a general lack of operational discipline. Perhaps months aren’t closed until it is practically the end of the next month, so by the time the management team looks at it, it is out of date. Or people choose not to enter information when things in the real world don’t match with the plan, so red flags aren’t raised when they should be, and projects look as if they are on track when they are not.
In contrast, in an organization that constantly draws on and interrogates the data and shares it with employees across the organization, a virtuous circle is created where people are more likely to care about keeping the information accurate and up to date.
2. Don’t overreact to point-in-time data with knee-jerk decisions.
Some business leaders do this better than others and use their IT to gather more focused data on their chosen key performance indicators (KPIs). These businesses monitor KPIs, review them daily, tinker with them and go to meetings to make sure everyone is on the same page. Of course, it is vital that these KPIs are strong and accurate -- they form the basis of much of the data that is used to run the business. However, by themselves, they are not necessarily a good basis for decision making.
They are a snapshot of what is happening at one moment in the business, and that is now in the past. Focusing on the past can lead to a blame culture. Reacting to one disappointing KPI would be the equivalent of a restaurateur who gets a bad review on a website and shouts at the chef, who then resigns. That restaurateur’s knee-jerk reaction has now potentially damaged the business more than the bad review. Looking forward and planning how you can work together as a team to ensure greater customer satisfaction is a more positive approach and is more likely to benefit the business.
3. Use the data to identify trends.
Over time, point-in-time data can help identify trends. Sales are up this month, but we sell beachwear, and it is vacation season. Last year at this time, we were doing better. Is this a trend? When a trend starts to emerge, it can be hard to detect, but putting the numbers in context alerts us to a potential issue. We need to ask questions and be open to the possibility that we are seeing a change in the market -- maybe people are wearing waterproof body paint to go swimming these days.
It is also important to identify the pace of the trend and the "window of opportunity" in which we can act to fix it before it gets out of control. Trends can switch quickly from opportunity to risk. If we miss this window, we can find ourselves in a seemingly endless catch-up cycle. One example of this is Kodak. Despite having the first patent on a digital camera, it failed to see the direction of the photography market and ended up filing for bankruptcy.
In conclusion, there are some general principles that can help businesses get the best use out of powerful IT. The data isn’t useful by itself; it needs to be looked at, understood and acted upon for businesses to derive benefit from it. First, remember the "garbage in and garbage out" rule. It is important to ensure the data is accurate and up to date before relying on it. Secondly, don’t base knee-jerk decisions on data that only shows us a point in time. Third, look for trends; try to establish how fast they are moving, and act in the window of opportunity. | <urn:uuid:4be06a16-d40a-4c71-a5fc-650aae839280> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/03/29/three-ways-to-use-data-to-make-more-strategic-business-decisions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961472 | 967 | 1.8125 | 2 |
KV Prabhu, joint director (research) at Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Delhi, is a well-known plant breeder. He has contributed to the development of 23 varieties of rice, wheat, mustard and barley, including popular ones like Pusa Basmati 1121 and 1509 and HD 3086 (wheat). In an interview with Vivian Fernandes, Prabhu talks about the safety and utility of a technology deployed by a team of Delhi University (DU) scientists to create mustard hybrid DMH-11. It uses a foreign gene, barnase, to create male sterility in largely open pollinating mustard, and another foreign gene, barstar, to restore fertility after cross pollination of an Indian mustard variety with an east European one.
It was in 2015, that the DU team applied for permission to cultivate DMH-11 in farmers’ fields. It has missed the 2016 rabi planting season. In its summary put out for public reading, the sub-committee of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee said the hybrid was safe. The environment minister has told the Lok Sabha that the hybrid has “adequately addressed” safety concerns. But approval for commercial cultivation is not in sight.
It was good that the dossier was put on the environment ministry’s website for public knowledge. A good number of people reacted to it; almost 800 from different walks of life. The heartening point is that a large proportion—more than 85%—were able to understand its goodness and suggested we must try it out.
Does the display of a summary of the bio-safety risk assessment dossier, in your view, meet the standards of transparency?
Oh, yes! The document deals with every point that was contended and gives clarifications.
Have we followed the world’s best practices in this aspect?
Yes. To the best of our knowledge, the trials were conducted as recommended.
Those who are suggesting precaution say there are other non-transgenic ways of creating mustard hybrids like cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS). So, what is the need for transgenic barnase-barstar system?
Barnase-barstar system enables perfect hybrid development. In CMS-based hybrids, we need a male sterility line, a sterility maintainer line and a fertility restorer line. Grain-setting to 100% levels are not likely to happen. The maintainer line takes a minimum of five years to develop. Which means you need be lucky to get big margins of hybrid heterosis (hybrid vigour) in order to sustain. Every time a new hybrid combination is developed, you need to convert one into a male sterile parent and its maintainer, and convert the other line to posses the fertility restorer gene, keeping the rest of the parental constitution as near to the original as possible. This is very cumbersome and time-, resource- and land-intensive.
With barnase-barstar, once a parental line pair is identified as being capable of heterosis for yield, we can quickly transfer the genes using recurrent back-cross breeding method and in three years get many parental combinations converted for testing a large number of hybrids. There is a better chance of getting a superior hybrid.
Those who are not convinced about DMH-11 say the yield is not as high as claimed. Hypothetically assuming this is so, would you still go ahead with it, because the advocates say better hybrids can be created with better parental lines, once the system is approved? We need approval for the transgenic barstar-barnase hybridisation technology first before high yielding hybrids are created.
You have scored full points on this. As a plant-breeder, I see it this way only. It is the same case in every successful hybrid whether it is single-cross maize or sorghum, pearl millet or rice. Even there the first set of hybrids had hardly 7-8% yield increment. But the system was understood as having potential. Once the hybrid seed production system was established, you developed more parental combinations and tried to identify the best among them. That exercise has never been done with DMH-11 as of now. We are still in infancy. I believe the systems functionality is without doubt perfect.
What about safety to humans, animals and the environment?
All the safety issues have been taken care of. The question of herbicide tolerance is not going to be a problem in mustard because it is not going to cater to any weed that is going to be controlled by the bar gene or by Basta herbicide. (DMH-11 has the bar gene which makes it herbicide tolerant. This gene has been inserted for selection of transgenic mutants: when sprayed, only genetically-engineered ones will survive).
Because Basta is not a recommended herbicide in India. It is not used in normal agricultural practices.
Even those who support transgenics fear MNCs will end up controlling India’s agriculture because they have an edge in this field of science.
I do not bother about this MNC versus nationalist stuff. It is a trade game as in every other product and commodity. It should be in agriculture too, just as Samsung and iPhone are acceptable in competition with Micromax and other Indian brands. I take it as a challenge. As far as rice and wheat breeding is concerned, we will not only give MNCs a tough fight, we will win. We must take up the challenge here, too. If they are allowed to come in, we must accept their superiority if indeed they are superior.
Or do not allow them in at all. Once you have allowed them to operate in India, we must forget they are MNCs. They have come in and are serving the country. They have to survive in the market. They can’t monopolise and do what they wish and still survive. The farmer is the boss. No farmer will buy something that will not give her economic yield. You can’t fool the farmer more than once. We must respect the wisdom and knowledge gained by farmers through their own experience. Their decision is final, multinational or no multinational.
Is IARI using this technology to address problems that cannot be conventionally dealt with?
We have identified 13 priority crops out of 35. In those priority crops we want traits that cannot be bred through conventional methods.
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For brown plant hopper and yellow stem borer in paddy, spot blotch in wheat and pod borer in chickpea (chana) and pigeonpea (tur), we have no option but to look for this. In brinjal, for fruit and stem borer, we have no resistance in any of the native evolved materials. People who cultivate brinjal will know. Those who say on the streets that we are causing disbalance don’t know the amount of pesticide that goes into the brinjals they purchase from the market. In my own kitchen garden, if I do not spray once every 12-15 days, the brinjal is bound to have a fruit borer inside.
Because transgenics minimise pesticide use, are you saying they are good for biodiversity?
This is a misdirected argument, biodiversity versus transgenic. There is no relationship at all. When you are handling transgenic material in a highly regulated environment, when every single packet that is sold is tracked, there is no question of biodiversity loss.
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In industry terms, “lean” means operating in such a way as to reduce waste. Electricity is a secondary source for energy, meaning it’s energy that results from the harnessing of other, primary energy sources. Producing lean electricity simply involves producing and supplying energy in the least wasteful way possible.
We use electricity every day, in most everything we do. Modern society could not exist without it. We have historically generated electricity by burning coal or other fossil fuels to generate steam, which moves turbines to generate electricity. One of the problems with electricity, however, involves how it’s transmitted. Most of our electricity comes from power plants, which transmit energy through a network of power lines to our homes and businesses. Even with clean energy options like hydro, wind, and solar, a system to transmit energy is required.
Lean Electricity = Clean Electricity
Fossil fuels generate electricity in an incredibly inefficient manner. Currently we use them at 100,000 times the rate it takes to replace them. That makes lean electricity a very compatible partner with clean electricity. Lean electricity production means generating energy closer to the source.
A new movement for supplying clean and lean electricity seeks to create a hybrid approach that doesn’t require having to build expensive infrastructure, but instead seeks to use and improve existing transmission lines. Consumer-generated energy negates the need for infrastructure, especially with generating energy, and includes consumer-financed solar panels and wind turbines. Going lean also involves wiring any building’s electrical system by using fewer parts, standard components, and existing designs.
Lean electricity seeks to eliminate, streamline, merge, and improve a building’s electrical system. Maryland is currently studying how best to implement community choice to produce and supply electrical energy, with legislation nearly in place. For those in the Baltimore area excited about using lean electricity in their home to make energy usage leaner, contact a residential electrical service in Frederick County that can help. Contact Tim Kyle Electric today! | <urn:uuid:c31d4ce8-4d44-439a-bdc6-74d3111eea20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://timkyleelectric.com/electricity/the-meaning-of-lean-electricity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.920783 | 407 | 3.078125 | 3 |
In the first of a series of video interviews with English -speaking sector experts, it was my great pleasure to speak to Mr. David Russo, an attorney at a legal consultancy firm Lewis Brisbois in San Francisco, specializing in the legal risks of autonomous shipping.
Last year Mr. Russo kindly contributed to Port News with a thought-provoking article “Autonomous ships carrying uncertainties”.
Now, exactly a year later I asked him if he could update us on how the US smart-ship scenario had been developing since we had last spoken and if the sector could in some way be affected by the very recent election results.
Mr Russo said there had been some, albeit slow, developments. The most significant step forward being the US Coastguard’s new approach towards smart ship use, which not only reveals their desire to become more directly involved in the project-design phase of these kinds of vessels, but also just how seriously they are taking this new potential shipping option from a regulatory standpoint.
Mr Russo explained that just this summer the United States Coastguard had begun working in this area. They sent a request for public comment on developing technologies for automated and autonomous vessels. This is usually the first step in the government agency’s efforts to become involved in a new area or project, and often precedes its promulgation of new regulations. In their ‘Request for Information on Integration of Automated and Autonomous Commercial Vessels and Vessel Technologies into the Maritime Transportation System’ the Coast Guard asks for “input about infrastructure, impact, impact on the workforce, cybersecurity concerns, the regulatory environment”, as David Russo puts it. He considers their involvement as a major step forward:
“This will go on for several more months as the coastguard digests all this information and begins the process of what we hope will be a good regulatory scheme. So, we’re starting the process.”
As far as the US general election results are concerned, Mr. Russo did not seem to think that a change in leadership would particularly effect research in the autonomous shipping field: “It’s hard to say whether a change in presidents will make a difference. Generally, it does not because much of the coastguard’s authority comes from congress, but a difference emphasis on where to spend money sometimes makes a change.”
Going back to the issue of the Coast Guard’s recent show of interest, I asked the attorney if their intervention meant that autonomous shipping is gaining increasing recognition in his country.
“Absolutely,” he confirmed. “it also means that it may start to get some real resources… as well as the industry, if they know the coastguard is starting to get involved will feel like they have support and will put more of their own resources into developing the technology.”
He added that there had also been an interesting side development. Just this year the US Coast Guard had commissioned the manufacture of its own very small autonomous vessel which was tested off the shores of Hawaii for coastline surveillance. “So even they are starting to dip their feet into the water in getting a test here!”
Port News has been covering developments in the autonomous field from various angles: portside, shipside, cybersecurity, drones taking payloads to ships. There seems to be a dichotomy between, on the one hand, serious efforts being made by shipping lines like NYK testing smart ship technology and ports like Rotterdam working with shipbuilders on shore-ship automation and, on the other, cyber-attacks getting increasingly sophisticated, targeting big players like Maerskand CMA. I asked Mr. Russo for his view on this. He explained that the cyber-security issue will be one of the larger issues in developing a real fleet of autonomous ships. “Once we start relying on computers to run ships or many ship-operations they are at much greater risk than they were from pirates anywhere.”
He stressed that, although the US Coastguard clearly recognizes the seriousness of the cyber-security issue, industry needs to do much more: “putting many more resources into protection against cyber-attacks … otherwise that technology may end up not being as robust as it could be.. That’s the real test.”
In the midst of an increasingly depressing current COVID scenario, David Russo took a more optimistic standpoint. He explained that that there had been a number of sector articles suggesting that COVID- style situations provided a good reason for having autonomous ships or at least ships with less crew. “It does point to the fact that whenever you have lots of people in a small environment you have various risks and I think that’s one reason why autonomous ships have start to captivate people’s imagination.”
What does the future hold? Mr Russo’s view is very much in line with what we are already seeing in ports like Hamburg. Automation, in the long run, will negatively impact traditional seafaring jobs. On the other hand, workers with hi-tech skills will become increasingly valuable to industry and its operations. “I don’t think that the fully autonomous ship carrying oil or grain is in the near future. Ships that are heavily operated by shoreside computers will be more the norm with less need for full crews and with more computer back up. So, we’ll see a gradual trend towards this kind of operation. I don’t think it will come quickly”. | <urn:uuid:5ea1d2a4-e0da-4c93-9286-3af9dfaf65e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.portnews.it/en/smart-shipping-making-waves-in-the-u-s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.97222 | 1,128 | 1.875 | 2 |
A data pipeline refers to the steps required to move data from the source system to the destination system. These steps include copying data, transferring it from an on-site location to the cloud, and combining it with other data sources. The primary goal of a data pipeline is to ensure that all of these steps occur consistently with all data.
Cleverly managed with data pipeline tools, a data pipeline can give businesses access to consistent, well-structured data sets for analysis. Data engineers can consolidate information from numerous sources and use for business purposes by systematizing data transfer and transformation. For example, an AWS data pipeline allows users to freely move data between on-premises AWS data and other storage resources.
Data pipelines are useful for getting and analyzing data insights accurately. The technology is useful for people who store and rely on multiple data sources in silos, require real-time data analytics, or have their data stored in the cloud. For example, data pipeline tools can perform predictive analytics to understand potential future trends. A production department can use predictive analytics to know when raw material is likely to run out. Predictive analytics can also help forecast which vendor might cause delays. Using efficient data pipeline tools results in insights that can help a production department optimize its operations.
Although ETL and data pipelines are related, they are quite different from each other. However, people often use the two terms interchangeably. Data pipelines and ETL pipelines are responsible for moving data from one system to another; the key difference is in the application.
The ETL pipeline includes a series of processes that extract data from a source, transform it, and load it into some output destination. On the other hand, a data pipeline is a somewhat broader terminology that includes the ETL pipeline as a subset. It includes several processing tools which transfer data from a system to another. Though, this data might or might not be transformed.
Precisely, a data pipeline purpose is to transfer data from sources such as business processes, event tracking systems, and data banks, to a data warehouse for business intelligence and analytics. Rather, data is extracted, transformed, and loaded into a target system in an ETL pipeline. The sequence is critical; after extracting the source data, you need to fit it into a data model that is generated based on your business intelligence requirements. This is done by first accumulating and cleaning data, and then transforming it. Ultimately, the resulting data is uploaded to your ETL data warehouse.
An ETL pipeline typically works in batches, meaning that a large chunk of data is moved at one time to the target system. For example, the pipeline can run two or three times daily, or once a specific number of hours (six, ten or twelve, for instance). You can even organize batches to run at a specific time every day when there is little system traffic. Conversely, a data pipeline can also be run as a real-time process (so each event is handled as it occurs) rather than in batches. During data transmission, it is handled as a continuous stream suitable for data that requires continuous updating. For example, to transfer data collected from a sensor that tracks traffic.
Creating pipelines with Python and Scikit-Learn
The workflow of any machine learning project includes all the needed steps to build it. A proper ML project basically consists of four main parts:
- Data collection: this process depends on the project; it can be real-time data or data collected from various sources such as file, database, survey and other sources.
- Prior data processing: Generally, within the collected data, there is a lot of missing data, extremely large values and disorganized text data, which cannot be used directly within the model; therefore, the data requires preprocessing before entering into the model.
- Model training and testing: Once the data is ready for the algorithm to be applied, it is ready to be introduced into the machine learning model. Before that, it is important to know which model will be used, one that could have a good performance result. The dataset is divided into 3 basic sections: the training, validation test sets. The main goal is to train data on the train set, tune the parameters using the “validation set”, and then test the performance test set.
- Evaluation: this is part of the model development process. It helps to find the best model that represents the data and how well the chosen model performs in the future. This is done after training the model on different algorithms. The main motto is to conclude the evaluation and choose the corresponding model again.
ML workflow in Python
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It is becoming increasingly clear that electric vehicles are the future of vehicles. But who is going to fix them when they break down?
The world’s biggest fat monkey (as a mechanical idiot, I use that term with respect and admiration) can’t do much if your electric car’s battery management system fails. It’s a concern that is starting to resonate throughout the industry, including the people of New Hampshire who are training the auto mechanics of tomorrow.
“Tesla contacted us,” said Marc Bellerose, chairman of the automotive technology department at Manchester Community College. “They were looking, like everyone else, to bring new technicians into their industry. “
This question last week brought 22 teachers from state high school automotive technology programs to Nashua Community College, one of several state community colleges that train automotive technicians (Concord’s NHTI does not not part).
As part of in-service training to maintain their certification, teachers had classroom work; checked out a Mustang Mach-E, Ford’s first entry into the battery-powered electricity market; looked at the stripped-down Switch Lab electric vehicle used for training; and spoke of life once engine oil changes were a thing of the past.
“For five years, maybe 10, I don’t see that changing,” said Scott Mayotte, who teaches automotive technology at the Concord Regional Tech Center at Concord High School.
This is partly because introductory tech training courses need to spend their time on the basics starting with “right-tight, left-loose,” and partly because they need to teach current systems that will remain. no matter what, like the suspension, brakes, lights and steering. In addition, every internal combustion vehicle sold today will need a mechanic for its life; our roads will not be just for electric vehicles for decades.
But perhaps the biggest problem is that it takes specialized equipment and training to work on electric car batteries versus traditional low voltage automotive electronics.
“There are even special gloves, fencing. … I don’t see high schools having the equipment, the training, ”said Mayotte. “Not for a long time.”
All auto tech courses already teach about safety around high voltage electronics from hybrid cars, but these courses don’t go far beyond telling students what not to touch. The Switch Lab training car, which is used in some high school courses, is more practical but has a specialized battery design that keeps it below 60 volts.
The immediate future may be different at the next stage, the community college level. They offer one-year certificates and two-year associate’s degrees as an auto mechanic, although manufacturers’ certification is required to work on some systems. “You are a lifelong learner,” Mayotte said.
Nashua Community College is evaluating how it should change the curriculum and courses to train electric vehicle mechanics, which also involves how to integrate this future technology into all of their other departments.
“We want their log files for database analysis,” said Professor Betsy Gamrat, who coordinates computer science and web engineering and computer science at NCC, pointing to an electric car.
Cars are an interesting challenge for budding software developers, she said, because failure can be life threatening.
“The quality of the software you need in a car has to be extremely high. It’s part of what we teach: how the software is used, which determines where you have to draw that line, ”she said.
“Look at this battery management system,” Gamat added. “There is no keyboard, no screen; it’s a whole different ball game.
Part of the problem with electrifying motors is that it will accelerate the rate at which cars are becoming laptops. As the recent shortage of computer chips has shown, even heavy gasoline consumers depend on dozens of modules, each essentially a small computer, to control everything from engine operation to pollution control to systems. audio. Auto mechanics won’t need to be programmers, but they will need skills more often found in the IT department.
“The students don’t write code, they reprogram the computers in the car,” Bellerose said. “If you’re replacing a transmission, you have to go through programming procedures for its computers – they need to be reset, if you will, so that it knows it’s a new transmission. … You are a software user and an installer.
Electric mobility is going to redefine cars and trucks in a way that hasn’t happened, at least the invention of the automatic transmission or the electric starter, to the point that transportation won’t be the only thing people want. mechanics must be thinking. Dealing with vehicle-to-grid technology, in which a car or truck system can power a home, is going to be part of the automotive technician‘s toolkit.
“It’s not just a vehicle going from point A to point B,” said Professor Karl Wunderlich, chair of the Industry and Transportation department at Nashua Community College. “The mindset of the students is starting to open up to this idea.”
This is of course not the first time that the auto industry has adjusted training due to technology. Ask the starting mechanics about the carburetors and you’ll likely have a blank stare.
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Gabby S. is an alumna from the Ward 4 Achievement Center and high school senior at Sidwell Friends School. She is also a midfielder on the Girls Lacrosse team, and has been admitted to Cornell University. She credits Higher Achievement with helping her gain confidence in her skills in English and poetry. Read on to find out why Gabby believes in Higher Achievement:
“I most definitely believe in Higher Achievement because I am an example of what Higher Achievement does for its scholars.
Throughout my four years at Higher Achievement, I became more confident, which forced me to take on challenges and succeed at them.
I was very reserved and timid before entering the program because I was very afraid of what my peers and mentors would think of me if I were to speak my mind. The mentors I had at Higher Achievement encouraged me to express myself by pushing me to share my ideas in Community Meeting. I always like doing my schoolwork and I was good at it, but I didn’t feel comfortable sharing my thoughts with others because I was afraid of their criticism. I had never considered myself to be a great English student, so I was reluctant to write a poem for the annual Love Poetry Competition, but after much encouragement from my mentor, Ms. Sally, I submitted a poem.
When I was presenting the poem during the competition, I was able to speak confidently and eloquently, but still was not confident that I would win because everyone else had shared such beautiful poetry. I was surprised to win the competition and have the opportunity to represent my ward at the Kennedy Center showcase. Without the support from Ms. Sally and Ward 4 staff, I would not have had the self-assurance to enter the competition.
This same support that I received during the Love Poetry Competition translated to high school applications. Private schools were not on my or my mother’s radar because of the financial cost, but Ms. Christie encouraged me to apply to a few because they do have financial aid. Although I applied, I had no idea that I would have gotten into any of them. Because of the support I had gotten from Ms. Christie, I was admitted to Sidwell Friends School, one of the area’s most prestigious high schools.
When I graduated from Higher Achievement, I carried the confidence and drive that Higher Achievement instilled in me into high school. I put my full self into any commitment I had and I owe that to Higher Achievement.
Without Higher Achievement, I wouldn’t have been able to get into Cornell University. I want to give a big thank you to all the mentors and staff for pushing me and other scholars to be the best scholar they could be. Without my four years at Higher Achievement, I would not have been as confident or successful as I am today.” – Gabby S.
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There’s nothing like decking the halls to put you in the holiday spirit. Imagine the added glow of knowing that your festive displays are not only beautiful, but good for the environment, too! This year, make your holiday a green one by following these tips on eco-friendly ways to decorate your home.
Green holiday lighting isn’t only about when you run the lights, but also what kind of lights you run. LED lights are an environmentally sound alternative to standard incandescent bulbs; they can use up to 90% less energy to produce the same amount of light. They can also last up to 10 times longer and are cool to the touch, reducing the risk of fire.
You might even consider taking green lighting one step further and using solar power to run your LED holiday lights rather than a power outlet. Solar powered lights require no power cords, so you can place them almost anywhere as long as the solar panel gets enough sunlight.
LED lights (the kind you plug in) are also a great choice for decorating your Christmas tree. And when it comes to that tree, choose a real rather than artificial variety to be kind to our planet and your own health. Most fake trees in the US are imported from China and are typically made of PVC, which creates toxins when it is produced and degrades as it ages. An independent study done by a firm of experts in sustainable development found that an artificial Christmas tree must be used for 20 years to leave an environmental footprint as small as a natural tree.
Real trees and other greenery such as wreaths and garlands are biodegradable and can be dropped off at recycling centers to be turned into compost and mulch. To find a Christmas tree drop-off near you, visit earth911.com and type in your zip code. If you can, try to purchase an organic tree that hasn’t been treated with pesticides or chemicals. GreenPromise.com has a state-by-state directory of organic tree farms.
If you want to take the concept of an eco-friendly Christmas tree to the next level, get a living tree that you can plant in your yard after it’s done gracing your home’s interior! Evergreen trees produce oxygen all year round and provide cover for wildlife in the winter. Another benefit of a live tree is that you don’t have to go through the often frustrating process of attaching it to a stand. However, the pot of soil it comes in makes it heavy, so go for a small tree (around four feet) which will be easier to deal with.
A live tree does require some planning; you should dig the hole in your yard in November, before the ground freezes, and select a spot well away from your house so the tree has plenty of room to grow. Also be sure to choose a species native to your region so that it will thrive and you can look forward to turning it into a beautiful outdoor Christmas tree next year!
As for trimming that tree, and decorating your home in general, consider naturally eco-friendly adornments like popcorn and cranberry garlands, fresh fruit centerpieces and cookie or eggshell ornaments. You could also use pine cones or repurpose cookie cutters and old toys. Homegrown herbs, old ornaments, and old sweaters can all be turned into festive wreaths. There is no need to buy new decorations when your imagination is the only limit to turning your home into an eco-friendly winter wonderland, inside and out! | <urn:uuid:902aac0f-8c43-43f5-a9dd-ab62abfcc37e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moneypit.com/eco-friendly-holiday-decorating/?amp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953128 | 727 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Table grapes, fruited varieties – Talizman. It is a dessert plant variety of grapevine. It was grown in Russia/ Institut Novotscherkassk. It is a mix of a hybrid camposite (Frumoasa Albe x Wostorg). It is open-pollinated, requiring pollinators,(for example Timur, Różowe Cudo - varieties autogamous), byt they pollinate easily even in hard conditions. Fertility is very high. Grapes are big and very big (700-1100g to even 1,5kg). ) Berries are oval, very big 14-25g, green – yellow. They are fleshy and juscy with a harmonized taste, tasty, and sugar level of 23%.Variety Talizman it’s medium-early. They are resistant to fungal diseases and frosts even to -25 ºC. It stands transport and cold storage very well. It is a suitable variety for amateur and commodity plantations. | <urn:uuid:d67bb4a0-432d-4ce7-9206-11532676c637> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vitis-plant.eu/it/strona-glowna/235-talizman.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.917345 | 219 | 1.789063 | 2 |
MDS Foods Inc., of Massillon, OH is recalling multiple products some of which were found to be contaminated with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and other products which may have the potential to be contaminated with the bacteria. Deutsch Kase Haus, LLC of Middlebury, Indiana, supplied MDS Foods with Colby and Colby Jack minihorn cheeses that have been found to be contaminated with the pathogenic organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
About The FDA
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It consists of the Office of the Commissioner and four directorates overseeing the core functions of the agency: Medical Products and Tobacco, Foods and Veterinary Medicine, Global Regulatory Operations and Policy, and Operations.
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Walzer is a virtual reality experience with several stories circling women’s rights and the first wave of feminism during the late 19th and early 20th century.
As you travel through a virtual photographic landscape, a waltz is your guide. When you move around, the waltz morphs into a variety of moods. It never leaves your side. Multiple different instruments invite you into multiple different atmospheres. Voices whisper, sing, yell, narrate stories, songs and poems in eight different languages. They want you to know about far away places, your own past and emotions that may feel familiar. Even though they might address you in a language you don’t understand, you could be enlightened by other visitors. Inside this virtual world the user’s knowledge, background and behavior determines the experience. Afterwards you have to discuss with others to determine what you have just experienced.
This vr was built with thousands of unknown personal photographs found on flea markets, online marketplaces and private collections. Personal history that was hiding in boxes and albums. Most pictures were made by anonymous photographers or, as most of them from the 19th century, in local photo studios. During the process of collecting and digital restoration, intriguing stories emerged. Narratives developed when we connected pictures with other pictures and combined them with music, words, sounds and 3D technology.
Walzer was created by composer & performer Frieda Gustavs and visual artist & photography collector Leo Erken with technical support by Cris Mollee and Malou Minkjan.
The central waltz in the project was composed by Frieda Gustavs and performed by Catarina Gomez, Pedro Silva, Mafalda C. Oliveira, Daniel Ferreira (saxophones), Khrystyna Kulchynska (cello), Anastasia Zavorina (double bass), Arjan Linker (trombone), Piotr Majoor (trumpet), Nuno Lobo (bassoon), Teresa Costa (bass flute) and Frieda Gustavs (gamelan, glockenspiel, accordion, melódica, guitar, bouzouki, ukulele, cavaquinho, piano and voice).
Voice girl in the woods: Ann Kolman. Russian voices: Nadezhda Titova, Natalia Eremina and Yana Volovich. English voice: Emily Bannister. German and Dutch voice: Frieda Gustavs. German voice: Svea Gustavs, Polish voice: Nina Pokutycka, Dutch voices: Kristy van Dijk, Ernie Buts and Mies Dijksterhuis. Japanese and Dutch voice: Kiriko Mechanicus. Italian voice: Olivia Benali. Portuguese voice: Inês Lopes.
Special thanks to Jilt van Moorst and Marie Louise Schipper.
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MMA’s Grave Concern on the Possible Hazardous Health Effects of the planned Lynas Rare Earth Refinery Project in Gebeng, Pahang
By Dr David KL Quek
The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) is gravely concerned as to the possible deleterious health effects from radioactive and other toxic waste residues of the proposed Lynas Rare Earth Refinery Project to be located in Gebeng, Pahang.
We share the public concern that not enough information, attention or due diligence to public safety has been provided, before even the approval of such a huge and contentious project would have been made. Worse, this projected plant touted as the ‘largest’ Rare Earth Refinery in the world (when fully functional) is located so close to human habitation!
It is with much surprise and dismay that most Malaysians hear of this rare earth refinery plant only when it was first disclosed in a New York Times article, a few months ago. Clearly for a controversial project of such a sheer size, there should have been greater importance placed on exhaustive public information sharing and engagement, public safety guarantees, environmental impact studies, and prudent if impregnable long-term waste disclosure and disposal management, versus simply, ‘economic’ gain.
That such a project has been allowed to be developed, to near completion all these many months, in ‘surreptitious’ concealment or without adequate and forthright disclosure, is troubling and unconscionable!
No monetary returns of whatever Foreign Direct Investment and its spinoffs can outweigh possible radiation and/or other health risks, which can wreak harm on our citizens, perhaps for as long as the half-lives of some of the extremely toxic radionuclide waste products—which in some cases might be ‘forever’! Thorium-232 for example has a half-life of some 14 billion years, and gives off alpha particles. This radionuclide residue is recognized as being extremely hazardous for humans and life forms!
Thorium is an acknowledged waste product from the planned Lynas refinery of rare earth ores. Due to the various refining processes, Thorium will be enriched and concentrated to levels, which could reach quantities that are difficult to contain or be safely sequestrated.
Disclosed data from the Lynas projections, estimate that a total of 106 tons of thorium waste would be generated every year. Based on the preliminary Environmental Impact Agency report, Thorium residues would be some 1655 parts per million (ppm), from the total 64,000 tons of Water Leached Purification (WLP) process. This would lead to a sizable radioactivity dose of some 62 Becquerel per gram (q/g). For 106 tons, this would be an enormously humongous quantity of radioactive residual Thorium!
We are therefore extremely concerned that there are no foolproof containment measures for such toxic residue treatment and disposal, despite Lynas’ public proclamation of “Zero Harm” commitment. The myriad refining processes themselves also yield many hazardous products which can unalterably damage the environment, contaminate water catchment areas, agricultural land, and nearby river and seawater food chains.
Where would such hazardous wastes be kept or contained, and how can the public be protected from such a continuing pile-up of more than 100 tons of radioactive Thorium, year on year? What about other toxic wastes, and contaminated water sources?
In a recent report China’s Rare Earth Elements Industry: What Can the West Learn? (March 2010), Cindy Hurst—an analyst from the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS)—states that statistics from Baotou, where China’s primary rare earth production occurs, show that “all the rare earth enterprises in the Baotou region produce approximately ten million tons of all varieties of wastewater every year” and most of that waste water is “discharged without being effectively treated, which not only contaminates potable water for daily living, but also contaminates the surrounding water environment and irrigated farmlands.”
Never mind the other mind-boggling wastes and contaminates, radioactive Thorium in itself is worrying enough. Thorium can be inhaled via contaminated dust or swallowed from contaminated food or water. A Human Health Fact Sheet, from the Argonne National Laboratory (August 2005), states that even when very small quantities of Thorium are ingested, the amounts in the human body are not harmless, because Thorium continues to emit harmful and damaging radiation particles.
There is no safe level of residual Thorium, particularly if the isotope is unstable. Even when about 0.02 - 0.05% of ingested Thorium is absorbed into blood stream it is quickly deposited in: Bone (70%, biological half life 22 years), Liver (4%, biological half life 700 days), other organs & tissues (16%, biological half life 700 days), with only about 10% excreted. This phenomenon is known as ‘internal emission’ which then gives rise to continued harmful effects of internal radiation which can lead to possible cancers, leukaemias and other genetic mutations and organ damage.
Deliberations of the Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters (CERRIE), an independent joint UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department of Health (2001-2004) attest to and validate the authentic risks of internal irradiation (Report of the Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters, 2004).
Low-level radiation is certainly not harmless. This committee attributed the persistent excess of leukaemia in young people in Seascale, to the nearby nuclear reprocessing plant in Sellafield, West Cumbria, Britain. CERRIE concluded that “all but one member of the Committee believe that the low level intake of radionuclides leads to some increased risk of adverse health effects as a result of the internal irradiation of organs and tissues.”
As pointed out by Dr CK Chan, that lone minority report argued even more robustly that there is “strong biological and epidemiological evidence that current models of hazard from radioactivity inside the human body underestimate risks by at least 100 and possibly up to 1000 times.”
This excess occurrence also reinforced the anomalous excess in infant leukaemias recorded in several European countries following the Chernobyl meltdown. This Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant was subsequently shut down due to public pressure!
The US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has also concluded that, no dose of radiation is safe, however small, including background radiation; exposure is cumulative and adds to an individual's risk of developing cancer. Thus, it is artless to ask the public to accept that environmental radiation already exists and thus might be inconsequential to health. Our remit is why should we add on to the potential hazards when this is manmade and almost certainly uncontainable?
Worse still, the lingering memory of the disastrous Mitsubishi Asian Rare Earth mine in Bukit Merah, Perak (1980s), continues to rankle and infuriate many of the hapless victims and their families as well as the residents living in the area. We understand that up to today, cleaning up processes are supposed to be ongoing (is it?), but few if any details have been disclosed as to the current state of this huge human and environmental contamination.
Its forced closure in 1992 did little to assuage the anger and sense of betrayal of the public! No amount of compensation would be sufficient to correct the harm and anguish of those who had suffered. The residual toxic effects among those who do not know better, have not been studied or factored in. One bad experience on such a similar project must necessarily alert the authorities that more must be done in order to prevent another possible recurrence!
Although some information on the industrial process and waste management plans for the Lynas Gebeng rare earths plant have been disclosed, there remains insufficient safeguards and incomplete reassurances that the potential radiation risks from the toxic wastes are negligible or nil. Thus, concerned citizens cannot simply be dismissed as being Luddites with “irrational fears of nonexistent threats”. We repeat that these risks are real and not imagined!
There can be no denying the fact that our Malaysian public is deeply troubled with all things radiation, particularly in the wake of the recent Earthquake-tsunami damaged Fukushima nuclear power plants, even in previously respected if scrupulous Japan. Consider the cynical if understandable view that if even in meticulous ‘zero defect’ Japan things can go wrong, what more to expect from Malaysia where our maintenance culture is arguably and famously suspect!
The Fukushima-Daichi catastrophe continues along its seemingly uncontainable denouement. Despite earlier reassurances, the out of control radiation leaks, rapid and widespread contamination of water sources and crops and the continued cascading meltdown of one nuclear power plant after another, has now shown the devastating severity and reality, the dangers of anything nuclear, when unpredictable if catastrophic events occur. (What more if these radiation wastes are projected to be within residues, which cannot be disposed of or contained as in the planned Lynas rare earth refinery?!)
This shocking truth contrasts starkly with the conversely downplayed if disingenuous systematic cover-ups of the management of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). Conflicted owners and companies are not known to be fair in their judgement and pursuance of truth and public safety, hence it is not surprising that our own Malaysian public seek and deserve more accurate information and reassurance from all authorities involved in approving or rejecting such a project.
Although we welcome the new high-powered expert panel (most if not all are from the IAEA) to review the safety of the Lynas project, there remain many troubling uncertainties. We and the public also share the concern of CAP president SM Mohd Idris, that members of this expert panel may not be truly independent or impartial, because all of them appear to be pro-nuclear power and energy.
There are no independent health, NGO and environmental experts who should have been included to provide balance and input on the most pressing problems with the Lynas project, i.e. its potential health effects and toxicity to residents and the environment, and how to meaningfully contain the inevitable wastes.
Importantly, there must even be consideration to halt the project once and for all, if the company cannot provide all such guarantees. We cannot mortgage the future of our citizens for some few pieces of ‘silver’, no matter how tempting! The means do not justify the ends, when human lives and public safety are at stake.
The government and authorities must not turn a deaf ear to the legitimate concerns of our citizens. We share the staunch social good, precautionary principle that mandates every responsible government and/or international agencies to make every effort to address even the most unlikely worst-case scenarios, and potential ‘black swan’-type of catastrophes.
We must only make informed and thoroughly comprehensive decisions for the public at risk, always predicating and affirming on ultimate human benefit and safety, instead of uncertain material or economic gain.
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There are plenty of government job openings and employment opportunities in Portland and those willing to take up these jobs can also apply for them online. You can also come across government job vacancies in areas near to Portland. You can come across both part time and full time jobs in the government sector. You can find medical jobs and options in industrial and agricultural fields also.
Jobs offered by the Government
Government servants can take up various job roles such as drivers, consultants, inspectors, patrol agent, teachers, medical assistants, receptionists, book keepers, guidance counselors, social workers, security and home guards, medical secretaries, data entry operators, loan officers etc. Job training will be provided for some of these jobs and you can choose between full time and part time openings in Portland.
Several job vacancies are also available in the military in Portland. Candidates can choose to work in active duty or part time openings. Many jobs are updated everyday and some of these jobs get converted into civilian jobs after your military service. Candidates are required to perform many jobs while working in the military service. They may have to take up jobs with respect to usage of artillery, tanks, indirect fire support, medical teams, pilots and many other specialties that use the best technology. Job aspirants can also work in higher positions such as Special forces, pilot/aviation, medical service, and related administrative positions. Other positions where job aspirants can find jobs are Army, air force, Aviation Support, media, Coast Guard, combat, electronics, computers & Technology, Intelligence, Engineering and construction, Law Enforcement, Logistics & supply, marines, navy, Medical emergency, Special Forces and Transportation.
Additional job opportunities
Aspirants for the government sector can also work as Proposal analysts in Portland. Such people should preferably have experience in a pricing proposal environment. Candidates must be able to offer proposals for submissions, take part in many cost pricing activities and support initial requests for information. They must also streamline and co-ordinate inputs pertaining to proposals from functional areas and track its status. Participating in cost/pricing reviews, analysis and research of historical data, participating in fact-finding meetings etc also are within their job role.
Job aspirants can be assured of wide exposure and greater visibility by working in these major functional areas. Those in these jobs can also leverage government contracting work experience in the cost structure of products and thereby give their best performance with respect to profitability analysis.
There are also many job opportunities in Portland in the government sector in the grassroots level. These include openings for home health aides, truck drivers, nurses, educators, fishermen, guidance counselors, mail and file clerks, cooks, food counselors, telecommunication officers etc in the government.
Complete knowledge of MS Office products and MS excel is essential while applying for office level and jobs in senior positions. Job seekers must also have good interpersonal and communication skills and capacity to interact with people at all levels of the firm. Good organizational skills and the ability to supervise several projects simultaneously is another added advantage. Job aspirants willing to work for the government must also be able to work independently without much supervision. | <urn:uuid:466a9eaf-9f51-4dc0-b6a5-bd6e1aefcbf7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jobs.gov-auctions.org/interesting-and-well-paid-government-jobs-in-portland-or/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.952611 | 639 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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England’s Department of Education has launched a new music curriculum on Friday. In which some special songs from the Indian music world have also been taken as a reference. Malaika Arora’s chartbuster Song Munni Badnaam Hui has also been added to this. The entire course has been designed by 15 music education specialists, teachers, education leaders and musicians from across the UK. Which is designed to provide high quality music education in schools.
They also included
Apart from the song ‘Munni Badnaam Hui’ from Salman Khan’s film ‘Dabangg’, AR Rahman composed ‘Jai Ho’, Anushka Shankar’s ‘Indian Summer’ and Kishori Amonkar’s ‘Saheli Ray’ have also been included in the course. In the course note about Munni Badnaam Hui, it is written that in Bollywood films, item numbers are added without plot. The lead hero of the film Chulbul Pandey comes in this song, while the performer and producer Malaika appears only in this song. Many typical features of Bollywood have been taken in the music, dance and colorful visuals of this song. | <urn:uuid:d87bee34-6a95-4a9c-97be-ab3d8d22dcd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ebiopic.com/munni-badnaam-hui-and-other-songs-included-in-school-curriculum-by-department-for-education-dfe-in-england-malaikas-munni-badnaam-hui-song-is-included-in-music-education-syllabus-in-england-sch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966767 | 285 | 2.15625 | 2 |
programme (agenda – programme FR)
Integrity and Trade Track
International trade is a motor of the global economy and represents increasingly large volumes of goods, services, and financial flows. Yet, the economic benefits resulting from trade can suffer from a lack of integrity throughout the international supply chain. This can result in a substantial loss of revenue for governments, and can hamper competition and business activity. It can also entail important health and safety risks for societies. Integrity measures that protect cross-border trade not only produce advantages for the economy in general, but also for private companies, the public sector and society as a whole.
The 2016 edition of the OECD Integrity Forum will put the spotlight on this hidden tariff. It will bring stakeholders to the table to develop a long-term vision for clean trade. The Integrity Forum fosters dialogue for policy actions and cooperative integrity efforts to prevent corruption in customs and to protect supply chains. In addition, new evidence and insights will be shared for countering illicit trade.
High-level speakers will confront the issues of corruption that impact global trade, informal sessions will provide an opportunity to examine solutions in greater depth, authors, academics and students will share their findings during poster presentations, and lunch debates and roundtable discussions will give you the opportunity to share your experience directly with your peers.
Recent economic, geopolitical and demographic developments have underscored the growing complexities that governments, businesses and citizens face in our increasingly globalised world. The Integrity Forum provides a platform to address the integrity dimensions of these pressing challenges.
Moreover, the Integrity Forum zooms in on new integrity instruments and responds to the growing demand for evidence-based policy recommendations.
The programme features the following sessions:
- In the Public Interest: Preventing Corruption in State-owned Enterprises
- Use of Offsets in Procurement of Defence Material
- Exploiting Tragedy: Corruption and the Refugee Crisis
- Corruption along the Extractive Value Chain: Mitigating and Preventing Risks through Incentives
- Corruption, Climate Change and Illegal Timber Trade
- Building Capacity for Collective Action
- Standards, Certification and Accreditation Instruments for Corporate Integrity
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Science And Spirituality Spectrum Assignment
For your Final Project, you will write a 5-page paper focusing on a topic that falls within the Science and Spirituality spectrum. In your paper, you will provide an overview of the topic, analyze and compare the central arguments posed by the scientific community and those posed by the religious community, and then evaluate the ways in which those topics are either able to be reconciled or need to remain separate. As a resource for your project you may use contemporary articles in journals (see the Optional Resources on the Resources page) to gain individual insights from contemporary thinkers. Make sure to include a full bibliography in APA format at the end of your paper to cite all of the sources you’ve used.
Weekly milestone documents located in the Resources section of each week will help you prepare for the Final Project. These documents do not need to be turned in and will not figure into your grade. They are simply tools that you can use as you work on your project, and are designed to help you:
Select an issue that figures into the ongoing discussion between Science and Spirituality (Week 1)
Locate several reliable sources that are relevant to the topic you have chosen (Week 2)
Review the scientific and spiritual arguments surrounding the topic you have chosen (Week 3)
Reflect on the similarities and differences between the arguments, and ask yourself if there is a way in which both could be valid without excluding one or the other (Week 4)
Organize your thoughts into a cohesive paper that examines and analyzes the current debate surrounding your topic (Week 5)
Compose a 4-page paper research paper (not including the Title Page and Reference Page) in which you:
Identify a topic relevant to the academic field of science and spirituality.
Pose an argument (claim) regarding the topic and support that claim with documented evidence.
Provide a brief overview of select arguments of both scientists and spiritual thinkers related to that topic.
Analyze the validity of selected arguments and determine whether the arguments could be reconciled.
4 pages are not Include a Title Page (including a title expressing the thesis/claim) and References.
Cite all sources, in proper APA format, used in your research.
Questions about this assignment? Post them in the Contact the Instructor area. That way, everyone in the class will see, and benefit from, the Instructor’s response.
By Day 7
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With a record number of ruptures in the U.S. amid 2014, more individual data is coasting around on the web than at any other time in recent memory some time recently. Yet, your saving money information, well-being records and even your Facebook account all accompany a sticker on the dark web.
The dark web is the place the commercial centers for stolen information exist. The dark web exists on the "deep web," which is the piece of the web that is not indexed by ordinary web indexes, as Google. To get to these dark corners of the web exceptional programming called Tor must be utilized.
While Mastercard data can offer for just a couple bucks on underground market sites, well-being records keep running about $50 per record, as per a report by Dell SecureWorks. Bank account data is a higher ticket thing and can offer for $1,000 or all the more relying upon the amount of cash is in the record.
Purchasers can even purchase somebody's online networking record for about $50 or get an altogether new character in addition to a coordinating service bill for just about $350.
Here's a speedy take a gander at what other individual data goes for on the dull web, as indicated by the report:
- Bank certification: $1,000 in addition to (6% of the aggregate dollar sum in the record)
- U.S. credit card with track information (account number, expiration date, name, etc.): $12
- EU, Asia credit card with track data: $28
- Website hacking: $100 to $300
- Copied social security cards: $250 and $400
- Copied driver's license: $100 to $150
Be that as it may, lawbreakers aren't the main ones paying for your lost individual data. Organizations that are influenced by information breaks are needing to shell out a considerable measure of cash for every record that gets spilled in an information rupture.
The normal worldwide expense of a lost or stolen information record for an organization in 2014 was $154, that is a 23% expansion since 2013, as indicated by a study by IBM and the Ponemon Institute distributed Wednesday. The expense incorporates the legal and investigative work expected to address a rupture, and additionally the expense of wholesale fraud programs for individuals whose records were spilled.
Human services organizations are needing to pay the most with the normal cost for a lost information record coming to $363. Furthermore, retailers' expense per record went from $105 in 2013 to $165 in 2014.
The surge in information breaks, particularly those created by sorted out wrongdoing, is driving the expense of lost or stolen records for organizations, said Marc van Zadeloff, VP of system and item for IBM security.
Only in the US, there was a sum of 783 information breaks a year ago, a 27.5% increment from 2013, as per the Identity Theft Resource Center. What's more, as indicated by the IBM report, 47% of ruptures in its study were created by a malevolent or criminal assault.
“As you see the rise of malicious organized criminals, they become harder to track and trace and remediate,” Zedeloff said. “These criminals on the dark web are collaborating, sharing techniques and malware and when they break in, they are very good. They are able to stay on systems longer, they are stealthier and therefore they are more costly for organizations.”
While customers who are influenced by a break may be given wholesale fraud protection, there's still a couple of things they can do to take their security into their own hands, Zedeloff said.
To start with, never utilize the same password for different services and change passwords frequently. Second, make a point to have the most recent security on the majority of your gadgets and utilize two variable confirmation when accessible. Also, last, look out for any sort of suspicious action. Whether its a shady email, a companion demand from somebody you don't know or odd action on any of your accounts, be proactive in checking everything from your social records to your bank accounts. | <urn:uuid:f9003f41-8f56-4b72-80be-b7fc36767047> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.wwpa.com/?tag=Thieves | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949023 | 841 | 2.15625 | 2 |
How to Deal with Elders in Eldercare.
A lot of us will sometime get ourselves dealing with the problem of eldercare, we’re able to be facing the responsibility of managing the care of elder parents, an elderly cherished one, spouse or maybe only a pal.
The realization of this responsibility can come on us suddenly maybe an aging parent has broken a bone, or a spouse has begun to show severe signs of dementia.
These issues are sure to confront many families daily, where an aging mother or father is in need of long term care, there are a number of signs to watch for that will indicate that your aging friend or family member is in need of eldercare.
In most cases, elders need eldercare when they start experiencing worsening health problems and serious indications of forgetfulness.
Some individuals have got given thought to and prepared mentally meant for the final need to move into a full health care environment and so for some people, the acceptance of eldercare is definitely an easy change possibly this person has a simple going nature that sets with alter,
Care varies depending on the rehab facility and help assist in better help than moving to just aid in returning to better health to moving into a complete care breastfeeding home virtually any area of North America now has a wide variety of nursing homes and government maintained homes for the elderly.
Conducting some local research will undoubtedly reveal some practical and affordable eldercare solutions, today, caring for the elderly does not mean that you personally need not be present to effectively care for your loved one.
Discuss your experiences and concerns with them and listen to their advice and suggestions learning from others that have been through your situation will be a big step in determining successful solutions for your particular situation.
It seems that older family tradition and many old world cultures believed eldercare was the responsibility of the extended family, in recent years families have become smaller, in many cases living space much more restricted and life expectancy has increased.
All these factors have contributed to a noticeable dependency on outside resources to manage eldercare, looking around will make it obvious that there are many more commercial homes for the elderly like senior’s apartment complexes, old peoples’ homes or even on occasion charitable institutions.
What most people do not know is that eldercare revolves around so many things and the fact that family and loved ones provide to the elderly, some of the joy has been achieved and this is as a result of all parties of such treatment alternatives would clearly require a great element of love and care is shown in their eldercare. | <urn:uuid:996586b4-9561-43d1-8bfc-f678975aacb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.northfacewomensjackets.com/doing-elderly-the-right-way.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968121 | 525 | 1.578125 | 2 |
By Sarah Hafizah Chandra & Natasha Jee
KUCHING: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the government of the United Kingdom, represented by Group Captain Simon Hindmarsh, paid their last respects to Datuk Awang Raweng.
“Once we heard of Awang’s passing, it became the utmost priority for me to get away from the Peninsular to pay our respects and offer our condolences,” said the Defence Advisor of the British High Commission, who is based in Kuala Lumpur.
“Not just personally, but on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who has met Awang on several occasions,” he said when met by reporters at the Kuching Civic Centre here on Monday (Sept 21).
Capt Hindmarsh added that Awang was known as a courageous soldier who made significant contributions in 1951 that earned him the George Cross medal.
“The George Cross medal is the second highest honour that can be awarded to a military serving member in Her Majesty’s armed forces but it can also be awarded to civilians.
“It sits just below the Victoria Cross in terms of hierarchy of medals. The George Cross medal is awarded for incredible courage as we saw in the late Awang.”
Awang was a recipient of annual annuity from both the Malaysia and British governments.
“At this stage, we are unsure whether the annual annuity will continue beyond his death.
“But it is an inquiry we will make. If it is possible to continue and support his family, it will be done so,” he said when asked whether the British government would continue to provide assistance to Awang’s family.
Capt Hindmarsh also said it was a privilege to be able to attend the prayer service and funeral as a representative of Her Majesty and the British government. | <urn:uuid:f9ed7d2c-633b-4d4a-9392-15889df588e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/queen-elizabeth-ii-british-govt-offer-condolences/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.971201 | 382 | 1.625 | 2 |
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2.following the Directed lab work to finish StackSort.java.
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When life gives you a lemon, make lemon water! Drinking lemon water first thing in the morning is one of the easiest things I do to improve my health. It doesn’t take long to prepare, it’s inexpensive and there is nothing better than to wake up to the fresh, invigorating smell of a lemon.
I used to think that lemons were acidic and worried that it would make my body pH too acid. But it actually does the opposite. One of the most important benefits of lemon is that once digested, it is alkalizing to the body and helps keep the body at the correct pH level. When our body is at the correct pH level it is able to heal itself, assimilate nutrients and fight off unwanted illness.
the benefits of drinking lemon water daily
1. Helps with Digestion and Detoxification
2. Promotes weight loss
3. Prevents Kidney stones
4. Keeps Skin Glowing
5. Boosts Energy and Mood
Helps with Digestion and detoxification
Lemon juice stimulates the liver to produce bile, which helps keep food moving through your body and gastrointestinal tract. Drinking lemon water regularly will help the bowels eliminate waste more efficiently and help relieve symptoms of constipation, indigestion, heartburn, and bloating.
Jethro Kloss details the value of lemons in his book, “Back to Eden.” He describes how lemons prevent bacteria buildup, in the body. They are also anti-scorbutic, a term referring to their ability to prevent disease and to help purify the body of impurities.
In her book, “You Are What You Eat,” Dr. Gillian McKeith states,
“A warm cup of water first thing in the morning (and even better with a squeeze of lemon) goes right through the bowels and cleans mucus out from the day before”.
Promotes Weight Loss
It is said that drinking lemon water can also help you lose weight. That is a no-brainer, because if your digestive system is functioning properly, then you are less prone to weight gain.
When you drink water first thing in the morning, before breakfast it is said to slash the calorie intake by 13%.
Prevents Kidney Stones
Lemons are loaded with citric acid, which can increase urine volume to help fight off kidney stones. I know this is true. Whenever I start having kidney pains in my back, I just start drinking my lemon water or more of it, and the pain goes away.
Keeps your skin glowing and radiant
Lemons, being a natural antiseptic, can help with skin problems. The high content of vitamin C enhances your beauty, by rejuvenating skin from within and therefore bringing a glow to your face. Daily consumption of lemon water can make a huge difference in the appearance of your skin.
This is an interesting article regarding the results someone experienced after drinking lemon water for a week. Check it out here.
There is nothing more invigorating than the smell of a freshly cut lemon. I love cutting into a lemon first thing in the morning. In this study, the scent of a lemon has been found to reduce stress levels and help improve mood.
“Lemon oil reliably enhances positive mood compared to water and lavender regardless of expediencies or previous use of aromatherapy. Moreover, norepinephrine levels following the cold pressor remained elevated when subjects smelled lemon, compared to water or lavender”.
how do you make lemon water?
It is best to drink lemon water first thing in the morning, preferably a ½ hour before you eat your breakfast. Take the lemon and give it a good roll. Pressing it into the counter with the palm of your hand as you roll it will help get more juice out.
Using a citrus juicer of some kind, squeeze the juice out of ½ a lemon. I usually get about 1 1/2 tablespoons from a half of lemon. Put the lemon juice in a quart jar or large glass. I usually drink a 24-32 oz. a glass of water before breakfast. (If you are not used to drinking that much first thing in the morning, you can work up to it).
This is my favorite juicer. I have had it for years and use it every day. It is simple, doesn’t take any room on my countertop, is inexpensive, and does a great job. I actually have two. At one time, I thought I needed to buy a nice juicer that sits on your countertop and that you pull the lever to squeeze the juice out. Well, I tried one and decided against it. For one thing, it was quite pricey, it wasn’t that easy to use, it was bulky to clean, and where was I going to store it.
I like the least amount of clutter on my countertop as possible. So I found this baby. It is very easy to use and I just give it a rinse after each use and let it dry. I love it and isn’t it cute. I love the bright orange color. This one is actually an orange juicer, but I can use it for oranges and lemons. You can get a set for limes, lemons and oranges.
Add water, preferably not real cold. Warm water is easier for your body to assimilate and it also helps stimulate the bowels.
I recommend drinking lemon water with a straw. (Remember, the lemon is acidic until it is digested and can wear down the enamel of your teeth.)
The importance of keeping hydrated
Our bodies are the most dehydrated first thing in the morning. If you are dehydrated, your blood is thicker therefore the kidneys and heart have to work harder. It’s important to re-hydrate first thing and then continue drinking good water throughout the day.
Use the other half of the lemon the next day. You can wrap it in a plastic bag, plastic wrap, or use one of these nifty babies. I love my silicone food savers.
Don’t throw your lemon peel away
- If it is an organic lemon, you can freeze it whole or sliced. Use when you need some lemon zest.
- Blend up the lemon slices in your green smoothies or green juice.
- Throw them in the disposal. This helps disinfect the blades and keeps them smelling nice.
- You can also rub down your countertop with the juiced lemon to disinfect, then just wipe clean with a damp cloth.
****If you are going to slice lemons and put them in your water, make sure they are washed thoroughly! I used to ask for a slice of lemon in my water at restaurants until I read this article. You may want to rethink that one. If you want the lemon in your water when eating out, slip a slice from home into a little plastic bag and take it with you.
****If lemons are not available, you can place 3-4 drops of lemon essential oil in a big glass of water. Put a lid on it, and shake well.
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Did You Know Plants Can Help Improve Your Home’s Indoor Air Quality?
We Floridians love our greenery. They add life and beauty to our homes, indoors and out. But did you know that there are several plants that improve indoor air quality as well?
It’s true: Some houseplants can absorb toxins from the air, cleansing it and providing greater balance to your indoor humidity, too. If you suffer from asthma or allergies, you may already know that certain toxins are particular instigators. In fact, their names alone signify trouble: benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene, among them.
Ten plants can counteract the presence of these toxins, according to a joint study done by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America. These plants include the bamboo palm, Chinese evergreen, English ivy and peace lily, to name just a few.
As you experiment with creating your own indoor landscape to incorporate these plants into your home, you may be pleased to know that some other plants that improve indoor air quality also made the list, and these are generally more widely available. These plants include:
- Aloe vera – The same plant that provides skin relief also filters gas emissions from toxic materials.
- Areca palm – This palm naturally repels benzene, formaldehyde and xylene.
- Boston fern – This plant is a natural humidifier. It releases moisture and removes benzene, formaldehyde and xylene from the air.
- Snake plant – This plant “bites” formaldehyde and nitrogen oxides in particular.
- Spider plant – The spider plant spins a special web for carbon monoxide.
Using plants that improve indoor air quality in your home is a great and affordable way to help everyone breathe easier. Just be careful not to give them too much power. In other words, think of plants as a way to augment your efforts to improve your indoor air quality – not to replace other sensible tactics, such as annual furnace and air conditioning maintenance checks.
For more information about plants that improve indoor air quality, or for other home comfort concerns, contact Scott’s Heat & Air. We’re proud to serve homeowners throughout Central Florida.
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How to Break Through a Fitness Plateau
It happens to almost every gym–goer and it very frustrating to deal with but definitely not something that will hold you back.
Updated September 3, 2010
Learn how to break out of your plateau.
It is easy to take your progress for granted. Steadily you have been losing weight, shedding inches, gaining muscle and then all of a sudden it just stops. This is called a plateau and occurs when your body becomes accustom to the resistance being placed upon it and no longer needs to work as hard. The body adapts very quickly and a plateau can occur in as little as four weeks if the muscles are not being constantly challenged.
The best way to begin the break through a plateau is to increase the intensity of your resistance training workout as well as changing the exercises you are currently doing to. This also includes adding a variety of different sets into your workouts, such as alternating from straight sets to supersets, circuits, or drop sets to fatigue your muscles in new and exciting ways. Because your body will not be used to these types of activities, you should be able to stimulate your progress in about a week or two.
You could also try changing up your cardio routine to stimulate extreme fat burning – such as high intensity cardiovascular training. This typically includes interval training, a routine which alternates between high intensity and low to moderate intensity rest periods. Try high intensity interval training by running full out for 1 minute followed by a light jog/brisk walk for 2 minutes of recovery and repeating at least six times. HIIT is a great way of invigorating your workout and will help speed up your metabolism for up to 18 hours.
It is also a good idea to comb through your current diet to see if there are any specific food choices that you could change to make a more positive impact on your health. You may want to up your morning chocolate milk or evening hot chocolate for a warm or cold chocolate protein drink. If you are able to make many small changes like this, you will find it easier to break through plateaus without having to do take drastic measures.
Carbohydrate cycling is also another way to stimulate your metabolism and your staled progress to make your body readjust its metabolism speed to offset the increases/decreases that you put forth. Try carb cycling by adding two days of low carb days, 50% less carbs of what you normally eat, and one high carb day, 25% more carbs than normally eaten.
Try a variety of the above steps to break through your plateau and get your weight loss program started again. | <urn:uuid:8a68b03b-d15d-4e9f-9e37-4a814e22cea1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gotknowhow.com/articles/how-to-break-through-a-plateau | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962558 | 533 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Australia has several species of Blue Tongue, the Common Blue Tongue is the most frequently encountered by people and is one of the most iconic Australian reptiles. Their most prominent feature is their large blue tongue that can be bared as a bluff-warning to potential enemies. They are relatively shy in comparison with other lizards and also significantly slower due to their short legs.
Minimum loan period is 1 week, maximum loan period is 2 weeks. Each loan animal is provided with food for the loan period, tank and a “How to Keep” sheet. Our Blue Tongues can be handled under strictly controlled and supervised conditions, more information can be found on the “How to Keep” sheet.
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Please note our hot weather policy – we will not allow animals to be transported in temperatures above 35°C. If this is forecast we will call to make alternative arrangements. | <urn:uuid:41b77c6f-f331-4a74-97c5-f104f30a45a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nature.sa.edu.au/product/blue-tongue-lizard/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954059 | 224 | 2.375 | 2 |
Did you know that Rio Rancho Elementary School is using the AVID style of teaching? That's right, RRE staff are testing out a new style of teaching and learning. AVID's professional learning and curriculum promotes student-centric problem solving, rather than teachers delivering answers with lectures. This student-centered approach ensures that the people doing the most talking learn the most. This engages students and creates content mastery through inquiry and collaboration in a different way.
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Schmack, K., Bosc ,M., Ott, T., Sturgill J.F., Kepecs, A., Apr 2 2021; In: Science. 372(6537).
Hallucinations, a central symptom of psychotic disorders, are attributed to excessive dopamine in the brain. However, the neural circuit mechanisms by which dopamine produces hallucinations remain elusive, largely because hallucinations have been challenging to study in model organisms. We developed a task to quantify hallucination-like perception in mice. Hallucination-like percepts, defined as high-confidence false detections, increased after hallucination-related manipulations in mice and correlated with self-reported hallucinations in humans. Hallucination-like percepts were preceded by elevated striatal dopamine levels, could be induced by optogenetic stimulation of mesostriatal dopamine neurons, and could be reversed by the antipsychotic drug haloperidol. These findings reveal a causal role for dopamine-dependent striatal circuits in hallucination-like perception and open new avenues to develop circuit-based treatments for psychotic disorders. | <urn:uuid:b3f9cd54-1130-4b28-b4c1-efdf8782c13e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neuroscience.wustl.edu/items/striatal-dopamine-mediates-hallucination-like-perception-in-mice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.880238 | 221 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Common interface for NIC statistics
In Linux 5.13 ethtool gains an interface for querying IEEE and IETF statistics. This removes the need to parse vendor specific strings in ethtool -S.
Linux has two sources of NIC statistics, the common interface stats (which show up in ifconfig, ip link, sysfs and few other places) and ethtool -S. The former – common interface stats – are a mix of basic info (packets, bytes, drops, errors in each direction) and a handful of lower level stats like CRC errors, framing errors, collisions or FIFO errors. Many of these statistics became either irrelevant (collisions) or semantically unclear (FIFO errors) in modern NICs.
This is why deployments increasingly depend on ethtool -S statistics for error tracking. ethtool -S is a free form list of stats provided by the driver. It started out as a place for drivers to report custom, implementation specific stats, but ended up also serving as a reporting place for new statistics as the networking standards developed.
Sadly there is no commonality in how vendors name their ethtool statistics. The spelling and abbreviation of IEEE stats always differ, sometimes the names chosen do not resemble the standard names at all (reportedly because vendors consider those names “too confusing” for the users). This forces infrastructure teams to maintain translations and custom per-vendor logic to scrape ethtool -S output.
Starting with Linux 5.6 Michal Kubecek has been progressively porting ethtool from ioctls to a more structured and extensible netlink interface. Thanks to that we can now augment the old commands to carry statistics. When user specifies
-I | --include-statistics on the command line (or the appropriate flag in netlink) kernel will include relevant statistics in its response, e.g. for flow control:
# ethtool -I -a eth0 Pause parameters for eth0: Autonegotiate: off RX: off TX: on Statistics: tx_pause_frames: 25545561 rx_pause_frames: 0
General statistics such as PHY and MAC counters are now available via ethtool -S under standard-based names though a new
--groups switch, e.g.:
# ethtool -S eth0 --groups eth-mac Standard stats for eth0: eth-mac-FramesTransmittedOK: 902623288966 eth-mac-FramesReceivedOK: 28727667047 eth-mac-FrameCheckSequenceErrors: 1 eth-mac-AlignmentErrors: 0 eth-mac-OutOfRangeLengthField: 0
Each of the commands supports JSON-formatted output for ease of parsing (
So little, so late
Admittedly the new interface is quite basic. It mostly includes statistics provided in IEEE or IETF standards, and NICs may report more interesting data. There is also no metadata about “freshness” of the stats here, or filtering built into the interface.
The starting point is based on fulfilling immediate needs. We hope the interfaces will be extended as needed. Statistics can be made arbitrarily complex, so after a couple false-starts with complex interfaces we decided to let the use cases drive the interface.
It’s also very useful to lean on the standards for clear definition of the semantics. Going forward we can work with vendors on codifying the definitions of other counters they have.
List of currently supported stats
IEEE 802.3 attributes::
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IETF RMON (RFC 2819)
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Many signaling molecules are changed subsequent nerve injury, serving as a blueprint for drug delivery approaches that promote nerve repair. basal mass media without NGF offered as handles. To examine the system by which MSCs served upon 520-18-3 IC50 DRGs, SU5416 (0.5 M; Sigma), a artificial inhibitor of the FLk-1/KDR VEGF receptor, was added to the mass media. The same quantity of DMSO automobile was added as a control. Digital pictures had been captured after 2 times using an upside down phase-contrast microscope (Olympus IX70) outfitted with a 10x purposeful (Olympus). Neurite expansion was sized from the suggestion of the developing neurite to the advantage of the DRG explant with NeuronJ 26. Portrayal of growth of SCs and HAECs when co-cultured with MSCs SCs and HAECs had been seeded in 24-well plate designs at 9,500 cells/well. Transwells had been seeded with 20,000 VEGF-MSCs or control. After 1 time, mass media was traded to basal mass media of the particular cell type, and the transwells had been placed over the HAECs or SCs. As a positive control, cells had been cultured in their particular basal mass media supplemented with Rabbit Polyclonal to OR10G4 5, 50 or 100 ng/mL individual recombinant VEGF. HAECs and SCs in their respective basal mass media served seeing that handles. SU5416 (0.5 M) was added twice, initial when both cell types had been combined (Time 520-18-3 IC50 1) and 2 times after (Time 3). DMSO automobile was added as a control. Digital pictures had been captured after 4 times using 520-18-3 IC50 an upside down phase-contrast microscope (Olympus IX70) outfitted with a 4x purposeful (Olympus). Cells had been measured using ImageJ (NIH). Manufacture of poly-L-lactide acidity (PLLA) conduits We created plastic conduits to retain fibrin skin gels when utilized to connection nerve flaws reviews. over an expanded period. VEGF proteins steadily reduced over period but was still detectable in the lifestyle moderate after 21 times and shown a top 3-time focus of around 16 ng/mL (Fig. 4C). GFP-positive VEGF-MSCs had been present throughout the 21 time research period (Fig. 4DCG). Amount 4 VEGF-MSCs maintained their overexpression of development growth and aspect price in 3D fibrin skin gels. (A) VEGF-MSCs maintain VEGF overexpression on tissues lifestyle plastic material (TCP) and in fibrin skin gels. Filled up articles: control MSCs; open up articles: VEGF-MSCs (n=6, … MSCs stay localised upon implantation and secrete VEGF Two weeks after implantation, conduits were harvested to determine whether GFP-positive MSCs were present even now. No cells had been noticeable in the scam handles (Fig. 5A). In both VEGF-MSC and control circumstances, GFP-positive cells continued to be localised within the incorporated avenue (Fig. 5BClosed circuit). Axon regeneration was comprehensive in all groupings as early as 2 weeks post-transection (Supplementary Fig. 1C3). 520-18-3 IC50 Amount 5 GFP-positive MSCs continued to be localised at the site of implantation at week 2. Confocal pictures of transected sciatic treated with a PLLA avenue filled with (A) fibrin by itself, (C) a fibrin matrix with control MSCs, or (C) a fibrin matrix with VEGF-MSCs. Conduits … Conduits had been farmed 2 and 8 weeks post-transplantation, and VEGF amounts had been sized to determine whether VEGF overexpression was preserved after transplantation. Conduits filled with VEGF-MSCs acquired considerably higher amounts 520-18-3 IC50 of VEGF likened to conduits loaded with control MSCs at 2 weeks (Fig. 6). By week 8, VEGF amounts were not different between MSC-containing conduits significantly. Amount 6 Conduits loaded with VEGF-MSCs inserted within fibrin skin gels maintain VEGF overexpression 2 weeks post-transplantation. Loaded articles: control MSCs; open up articles: VEGF-MSCs. Data are mean SEM, d3, *and reported that VEGF elevated neurite South carolina and outgrowth growth in better cervical ganglia (SCG) and DRG explants 34. While the potential contribution of VEGF is normally constant with these scholarly research, the age of DRG explants used in these scholarly studies continues to be an important difference. Postnatal and Embryonic DRG explants do not. | <urn:uuid:74196014-737d-4b70-a9b4-b94ee9075b6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://z-fa-fmk.net/tag/rabbit-polyclonal-to-or10g4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.941516 | 1,084 | 1.867188 | 2 |
I can’t believe June is almost over. This summer is just flying by! I don’t know about you all, but I’m hoping it slows down a bit. I’m really enjoying the time with my big girl (7) while she’s off of school. Today I’m sharing the anteater craft we made a couple weeks ago. Lorelai decided to paint her anteater silver with a “cosmic paint” overlay. =) Grab your free template below and enjoy!
– They are edentate animals, meaning they have no teeth.
– They use their long tonguies to lap up 35,000 ants & termites each day!
– They find their food by smell.
– They are found in the tropical forests and grasslands of Central & South America.
– They live around 14 years and are classfied as Threatened.
– Read more about anteaters here. | <urn:uuid:3c6ef423-3e30-424a-9a30-15f68c8ee034> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://learncreatelove.com/anteater-printable-craft/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936588 | 206 | 1.84375 | 2 |
2021 Housing Trajectory published
The Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service has now published its updated housing trajectory and five year housing land supply position statement.
A housing trajectory is used by Councils to calculate their five-year housing land supply and also to demonstrate that anticipated housing delivery will meet or exceed their housing requirement. Our updated Greater Cambridge housing trajectory (April 2021) concludes that Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire jointly have 6.1 years of housing land supply for the 2021-2026 five-year period. This conclusion is based on our five-year housing land supply being calculated jointly, using the Liverpool methodology, and applying a 5% buffer.
For more information please visit our Monitoring delivery webpage. | <urn:uuid:4e119be3-87af-4538-9ec2-f63714b0d561> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greatercambridgeplanning.org/about-us/news/2021-housing-trajectory-published/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949848 | 144 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Friday, October 15, 2010
From the NY Times:
Child Protective Services investigated more than three million cases of suspected child abuse in 2007, but a new study suggests that the investigations did little or nothing to improve the lives of those children.
Researchers examined the records of 595 children nationwide, all at similar high risk for maltreatment, tracking them from ages 4 to 8. During those years, Child Protective Services investigated the families of 164 of these children for suspected abuse or neglect. The scientists then interviewed all the families four years later, comparing the investigated families with the 431 families that had not been investigated.
The scientists looked at several factors: social support, family functioning, poverty, caregiver education and depressive symptoms, and child anxiety, depression and aggressive behavior — all known to increase the risk for abuse or neglect. But they were unable to find any differences in the investigated families compared with the uninvestigated in any of these dimensions, except that maternal depressive symptoms were worse in households that had been visited.
One possible interpretation of this result would be that the investigated families were at greater risk to begin with, and that the investigation helped them to recover to the expected level of risk. But if this were so, the authors write, households with recent investigations would have greater risk than households with more distant investigations. Statistical analysis found no such association. They concluded that Child Protective Services investigations had little or no effect.
The researchers were in some ways unsurprised by their findings. Even when services are offered, they usually take aim at immediate risks — substance abuse, for example, or domestic violence — not abiding problems like poverty or poor social support. Whatever interventions were offered apparently failed to reduce the risk for future child abuse.
The authors acknowledge that the study, which appears in the October issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, has certain weaknesses: some potentially modifiable risk factors — intimate partner violence and substance abuse, for example — were not included in the data they used. And not all of the five different geographical sites systematically collected information on all risk factors.
In an editorial published with the study, starkly titled “Child Protective Services Has Outlived Its Usefulness,” Dr. Abraham B. Bergman suggests some essential changes: child abuse, because it is a crime, should be investigated by the police; public health nursing services should be the first to respond to concerns of child neglect; social workers should assess appropriate living situations and work with families to obtain services, and not be engaged in law enforcement. But Dr. Bergman, who is a pediatrician at the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, expressed considerable skepticism that such changes would happen.
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If you have diabetes and experience eye pain, vision changes, or other unpleasant symptoms, see the caring team at Long Island Ophthalmic Concepts. They can complete a diabetic eye exam to detect and treat eye diseases and prevent blindness. Call the office nearest you in Bellmore, Great Neck, Huntington, or Little Neck, New York, to schedule an appointment or book one online.
During a diabetic eye exam, your eye doctor examines your eye health and vision for problems that could be caused by diabetes. The Long Island Ophthalmic Concepts team keeps in constant contact with your endocrinologist while monitoring you for diabetes-related eye problems.
Common diabetes eye conditions include diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and cataracts. Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness in the United States. Diabetes-related eye problems often show up when high blood sugar levels are left untreated. These conditions damage the blood vessels in your eyes.
More than 40% of people with diabetes have some type of eye disease. Adopting healthy lifestyle habits, including eating healthy foods, maintaining a healthy weight, and getting regular exercise, can help control your blood sugar and reduce your risk of developing eye problems.
Eye diseases related to diabetes often develop without noticeable eye pain or vision problems, so routine diabetic eye exams are necessary. If you have diabetes, getting your eyes examined at least once a year can prevent permanent eye damage.
During a comprehensive diabetes eye exam, your eye doctor uses a visual acuity test and refraction testing to assess your vision at various distances. They dilate (widen) your pupils and then look inside your eyes to determine if you're suffering from any eye diseases. Your eye doctor examines your optic nerve and retina using a magnifying lens.
They measure the pressure inside your eyes during glaucoma screening and could use an imaging procedure like an MRI to get an in-depth view of your eye. With routine screenings, your physician can detect diabetic eye diseases early before serious complications develop.
Common treatments available for eye diseases at Long Island Ophthalmic Concepts include:
Your eye doctor can perform laser or surgical procedures after applying anesthetic drops to numb your eyes. While not a cure, treatments for diabetic eye conditions can reduce the vision loss caused by advanced eye diseases.
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The President's Radio Address
Good morning. Earlier this week, I traveled to Baghdad to visit the capital of a free and democratic Iraq. It was an incredible feeling to stand in the cockpit of Air Force One and watch the pilot steer us in toward Baghdad.
After we landed, I had the pleasure of meeting with our dedicated Embassy staff and intelligence officers serving far from home under dangerous circumstances. And I was honored to meet with some of our troops, including those responsible for bringing justice to the terrorist Zarqawi. It was a privilege to shake their hands, look them in the eye, and tell them how much the American people appreciate their daily courage and how much we appreciate the sacrifices that they and their families are making.
On my trip, I also met with the new Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, and I was able to see firsthand his strong character and his determination to succeed. We held a joint meeting of our two Cabinets, with members of my Cabinet participating by video teleconference from Camp David. The Prime Minister briefed us on his plan to take immediate steps in three key areas: improving security; building up Iraq's economy so Iraqis can see real progress in their lives; and reaching out to the international community to secure support for Iraq's new Government. Then we discussed how my administration can help the Prime Minister accomplish these vital objectives.
His top priority is securing Baghdad, so coalition and Iraqi forces have launched Operation Together Forward, a joint effort to restore security and the rule of law to high-risk areas of the city. To help the Prime Minister improve security, we will continue embedding coalition transition teams in Iraqi Army and police units, and we will help the new Iraqi Ministers of Defense and Interior improve their command and control, root out corruption, and investigate and punish human rights violations. We will also support the Prime Minister as he works to rein in illegal militias, build a judicial system that will provide equal justice to all, and promote reconciliation among the Iraqi people.
To aid the Prime Minister in revitalizing Iraq's economy, we will send additional experts to help the Iraqi Government develop an economic framework that will promote job creation and opportunity for all Iraqis. We will also help the Prime Minister increase oil and electricity production by working together on ways to protect key infrastructure from attacks and to quickly restore oil and electricity production when attacks do occur.
Finally, America will help the Prime Minister engage the international community in Iraq's success. We will encourage other nations to fulfill the monetary pledges they have already made to help the new Iraqi Government succeed. We will also support the Prime Minister's efforts to forge a new international compact. Under this compact, Iraq will take a series of steps in the political, economic, and security areas, and in return, the international community will provide Iraq with more robust political and economic support.
During my trip, I was impressed with the Prime Minister, the team he has assembled, and the plan he has set for his Government. I appreciate his determination and the determination of his Cabinet to make his agenda work. I told them that the future of Iraq is in their hands. And I told them that America is a nation that keeps its word, and America will stand with them as we work toward our shared goal: a free Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself. By seizing this moment of opportunity, we will defeat our common enemies and build a lasting democracy in the heart of the Middle East, and that will make Americans, Iraqis, and the world more secure.
I traveled to Baghdad to personally show our Nation's commitment to a free Iraq, because it is vital for the Iraqi people to know with certainty that America will not abandon them after we have come this far. The challenges that remain in Iraq are serious. We face determined enemies who remain intent on killing the innocent, and defeating these enemies will require more sacrifice and the continued patience of our country. But our efforts in Iraq are well worth it. The mission is necessary for the security of our country, and we will succeed.
Thank you for listening.
NOTE: The address was recorded at 7:10 a.m. on June 16 in the Cabinet Room at the White House for broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on June 17. The transcript was made available by the Office of the Press Secretary on June 16 but was embargoed for release until the broadcast. In his address, the President referred to senior Al Qaida associate Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, who was killed in Baquba, Iraq, on June 7; and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Minister of Defense Abd al-Qadir al-Mufriji, and Minister of the Interior Jawad al-Bulani of Iraq. The Office of the Press Secretary also released a Spanish language transcript of this address.
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On Sunday, August 22, residents on the Northeast waited in anticipation for Hurricane Henri to make landfall. However, by the time it reached the shores of Rhode Island on Sunday afternoon, the storm had been downgraded to a tropical storm.
The storm made landfall near Westerly, RI, and was accompanied by up to 70mph wind speeds. The significant wind gusts caused 19-foot waves on the Northeast coast.
While the residents of Rhode Island were able to breathe a sigh of relief thanks to the storm’s downgrading, this did not prevent Tropical Storm Henri from lashing out at the Northeast coastline.
The slow-moving storm dumped buckets of heavy rain, which caused widespread flooding as far Southwest as New Jersey. The rising waters led to Rhode Island shutting down several of its large bridges, and in New Jersey, more than 200 residents were forced to seek high ground as the water washed into their homes. The vicious winds that accompanied the storm severed powerlines, leaving more than 140,000 households without electricity.
The National Hurricane Center warned residents to stay indoors and expect significant damages along the area’s coastline. President Joe Biden declared disasters for much of the Northeastern region and offered federal aid to those affected by the storm’s destruction.
As the storm moved inward later in the day, its wind speeds decreased, but the destruction continued. Several trees were uprooted, backyards demolished, roofing systems damaged, and vehicles left stranded in the flooded roads.
In Newark, 86 people had to be rescued by firefighters as they were left stranded by the severe flooding. In New York City, the storm caused record-breaking rainfall, with the area experiencing 2.24 inches of rain.
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I work in a hospital unit where over the years, I have assisted in several thousand colonoscopies with many different doctors. Our patients comw from all walks of life: old, young, trucker, prisoner, senator. What they all had in common was the fact that they came to us to have one of the easiest exams one can expect at some point to need. In fact, colonoscopy is front line test for colon cancer, polyps, or other bowel symptoms that may trouble a person.
I am going to discuss here some of the basic findings that your doctor will be looking for. Although for some, the screening colonoscopy is recommended as a matter of course at the age of fifty, there are many other reasons one may need to come in for this test. For our unit, bleeding is the most common reason, followed by abdominal pain, and changes in typical bowel habit. What one may not expect is that weight loss, anemia, or even lost objects are frequently cited pre exam diagnoses.
In its most basic form, a colonoscopy is done by a doctor trained in gastoenterology, which includes the everything from the mouth to the end of the colon, either in a hospital or office setting. Patients are given medication to sleep through the test or remain relaxed enought to finish the colonoscopy. During the test, the scope is passed into the large bowel, and is pushed through this area until the end is reached. At that point, the real work of looking comes in as it is slowly pulled out. A video monitor allows the doctor and staff to observe the inside portion of the colon in order to identify problems.
One of the most common finding is a colon polyp. A polyp is something like a skin tag on the wall of the colon in which a particular area grows a extra tissue into the lumen. Polyps can be tiny or large depending on how long they have been there. Sometimes polyps are flat; others my be connected to a long stalk. These may grow at any point in the colon.
Should a polyp or other lesion be found, tissue is taken and the are treated if neccesary. This may include burning, injecting, or using an small electrical current on the tissue to help it stop bleeding. The tissue removed is often very tiny, such as the size of the tip of a pen. From the colonoscopy room, the tissue is sent to a pathologist who will examine the specimen under a microscope. This serves as a screening method for colorectal cancer, and the results come back quite quickly.
A second commonly seen problem is diverticulosis. ‘Tics’, as they are called, are small pouches inside the bowel on the walls between muscles. They are a common feature due to american diets, and one of the reasons your doctor may recommend fiber in the diet. Just as evey person is different, so are tics. For instancce, one may seen a sinle lonely diverticula, while others with severe disease will have a colon resembling swiss cheese. When material floats by and becomes trapped inside the tic, it dries out and can become a source of irritation and infection. Hence, the term, “diverticulitis”.
The doctor may see areas of inflammation which look like reddened spots. Other segments may show ulcerations. Many of our doctors will take a picture of the area where the appendix is or was. This is in the beginning of the large bowel, known as the cecum, and the opening itself is called the appendicieal orifice. Biopsies from the spots may be taken to determine infection or another disease process.
While not often seen, colonoscopy can be used to remove objects. Our unit has taken out a shot glass, perfume bottle, and in one instance, a cucumber. Placing such objects is truly more dangerous than amusing to the staff because if our work is unsuccessful, major surgery is the nect step. It is a memorable moment for everyone involved. Tools used to attempot such removals are the same as for polyps: snares, baskets, or forceps that can bite and grab.
Colonoscopy has many uses and benefits for a person with health problems. Bleeding sections can uncover causes of anemia, precancerous polyps can be removed before they become colon cancer, and infected areas can explain bouts of diarrhea that need a plan of care to fix. Although a few are listed here, there are a number of other problems that colonoscopy can shed a light on. | <urn:uuid:cf8dc099-7dc1-4eb6-9206-8ab2f97386ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iowalum.com/looking-for-during-a-colonoscopy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965953 | 958 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Galileo goes live: Europe's long-delayed satellite navigation service starts service
First experimental satellite of the European navigation system Galileo was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The purpose of the system is to provide an independent high-precision positioning system so European nations do not have to rely on the Russian GLONASS, Chinese BeiDou or US GPS systems.
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Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
The event offered a venue for experts, researchers, representatives from universities and vocational schools, and relevant sectors to exchange ideas and discuss measures to promote human resources development in the city, towards promptly satisfying the labour demand in the East Asian market.
According to Dang Duc Long, Director of the Economic Information, Analysis and Forecast Centre of the Party Central Committee's Economic Commission, Vietnam needs to develop a new strategy in sending workers and experts abroad to work in order to effectively bring into play the valuable resources for the nation’s development.
Sending Vietnamese workers and experts to work abroad has importantly contributed to promoting the country and Vietnamese people to international friends and strengthen country's international integration, he added.
Sharing the opinion, Dr. Tu Minh Thien, Rector of Van Hien University, said that East Asia is seen as a potential labour market with many attractive job opportunities not only for Vietnam but also other Asian countries.
He underlined the need to have orientations to improve the competitiveness of human resources to meet the strict requirements and standards of the East Asian market, saying the development of the labour force in general and high-quality human resources in HCMC in particular will bring many benefits to the country's economic development and social security.
However, To Dinh Tuan, Editor-in-Chief of the “Nguoi Lao dong” (Labourer) newspaper under the municipal Party Committee, pointed out challenges related to human resources to Vietnam’s development, and proposed solutions to the issue.
Attention should be paid to promoting the close association between sectors and education-training establishments in applying science and technology and improving the quality of vocational training, he said.
According to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, HCMC is home to 67 companies operating in sending Vietnamese labourers to work abroad under contracts. Workers tend to choose Asian markets such as Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan (China) in the fields of agriculture, fishery, industry and construction. | <urn:uuid:48497046-c889-4117-9620-e22b3d348295> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sggpnews.org.vn/business/hcmc-works-hard-to-better-quality-of-human-resources-100176.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.939747 | 426 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Criollo (in Spanish), or Crioulo (in Portuguese) is the native horse of the Pampas region of South America. The breed, known for its hardiness and stamina, is popular in its home countries. In time, the meaning of the word criollo would simply come to refer to native breeds of the Americas. Throughout its history, the Corillo breed has faced a tremendous lot of suffering and harsh living circumstances. The resultant animal is intelligent, loyal, strong as iron, and capable of covering incredible distances.
These horses bred in the wild for decades, adjusting to the difficult climatic conditions of the region and preparing to weather the hard winters and arid summers. Native Americans, Gauchos, and early European settlers all caught these horses to use as herd animals.
The breed may be traced back to a shipment of 100 thoroughbred Spaniards — Andalusian stallions – from Cadiz, Spain, to the Rio de la Plata in 1535, brought by Pedro de Mendoza, the founder of Buenos Aires. A considerable majority of the horses were crossed with imported European Thoroughbred, coach, and draft horse stallions throughout the nineteenth century, resulting in a bigger, coarser, long-striding multi-purpose, saddle-cart horse.
Crossbreeding, on the other hand, nearly devastated the native Spanish horse breed. In 1918, Argentine breeders agreed to establish a purebred criollo registry, which was followed by the formation of the breeders’ association in 1923. Between Emilio Solanet’s and Enrique Crotto’s organizations, there was a lot of fighting. The first encouraged Asian-type criollos, while the second promoted African-type criollos with a coarse, convex head, falling croup, and thinner mane and tail.
Dr. Solanet did not gain complete control of the breeders’ association until 1934. With a shorter, more compact stock horse that resembled the Chilean Horse breed that he adored so much, he established a new objective for the breed. The breed is distinguished by its taller, leggier, and squarer body conformation, as well as a more angular hock, which allows it to traverse enormous distances in the flat Argentine plains known as “Pampas.” In comparison to the Chilean Horse breed, the contemporary crioulo head has a straight facial profile, a shorter nose, and longer ears.
Criollo Horse Breed Body Structure
The Criollo is a tough horse with a large chest and well-sprung ribs and a powerfully built and muscular physique. They feature sloping, muscular shoulders, short, powerful legs with robust bone structure and resistant joints, low-set hocks, and sound, hard feet. The long-muzzled head is medium to big in stature, with a straight or slightly convex profile and wide-set eyes. The croup is slanted, the haunches are well-muscled, and the back is short and muscular. They are pleasant, clever, and smart horses.
Criollo horses stand on average 14.3 hands tall. Mares have a 2 cm gap in height between their highest and lowest heights (one inch). The most prevalent color is linen-backed dun, although the breed may also be found in bay, brown, black, chestnut, grullo, buckskin, palomino, blue or strawberry roan, gray.
The breed is known for its endurance and ability to thrive in difficult environments since its country experiences both great heat and cold. They are thrifty eaters that get by on a small amount of grass. They are disease-resistant and have a lengthy lifespan. They can live up to like 40 years of age.
To assist breeders to evaluate horses for breeding, the breeders used severe endurance tests. The horses are ridden on a 750 km (466 mi) track in 75 hours spread out over 14 days in these events known as La Marcha. Supplemental feed is not permitted. The horses must carry huge loads of 245 lb (110 kg) on their backs and are only allowed to eat grass by the roadside. A veterinarian inspects the horses at the conclusion of the day.
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Zimbabwe's telecom market is suffering from the current economic crisis. TelOne, a parastatal telecommunications company owned by the government, recently stated that it was struggling to keep its head above water in the current economic context while operators have to deal with rampant inflation and weak local currencies like their competitors.
In June, annual inflation was 191% and the Zimbabwean dollar has fallen by 70% against the US dollar since January 2022, and regulators prevent operators from changing their tariffs. Regarding this context, it was difficult for the Zimbabwean operator to pay its suppliers and invest in network expansion or improvement.
POTRAZ reported that mobile network service providers' operating costs increased by 10.9% in Q4 2021 to reach ZWL13.9 billion from ZWL12.5 billion (USD39 million) in Q3 2021. Revenues increased by 34%, to register ZWL 26.2 billion. During the period, fixed-line operating costs increased by 40% to ZWL 2.9 billion. The last time TelOne adjusted its tariffs was in September 2021 while this year, no adjustment has been approved yet. TelOne should prioritize operating cost control to maintain profitability. | <urn:uuid:e2134d5a-2497-444b-9ba8-c8b6fbc91b72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.telecomreviewafrica.com/en/articles/telecom-operators/2867-zimbabwean-telecom-operators-suffer-due-to-economic-crisis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.971583 | 244 | 1.570313 | 2 |
When faced with a diagnosis of dementia, one of the most immediate concerns people have is that confusion and memory loss will prevent them from continuing to live safely in their own home. Yet, with the right support, and some basic design and lay-out alterations, much can be done to transform the physical space in the home into an environment that is both safety conscious AND fosters independence.
Where to start?
Knowing where to start is probably the hardest part. When assessing your home, the 2 key questions to ask are:
What hazards exist that can easily be removed?
What adaptations can be made that will foster independence?
Using research conducted by the University of Stirling, and the national housing charity, Care & Repair England, we’ve collected together some useful suggestions for considering possible changes. We’ve arranged them under 3 headings to get you started:
o General design and layout
o Lighting and heating
o Safety and security
Look at each room in turn and don’t get overwhelmed – remember even 1 or 2 small changes can have a significant impact.
The Design and Layout of your home:
Consider the layout of each room. Simply eliminating clutter and unneeded furniture can make route-ways to and from the door, or across the room, more readily recognisable, and ensure movement is easier and safer.
Mirrors can cause confusion, particularly as the dementia progresses, so covering or moving them may help.
Closed doors, particularly in a confined space such as a hallway or landing, may be disorientating. Although it may seem drastic, removing them to create a more open-plan layout can reduce confusion and distress.
Use of contrasting colours can assist with finding your way around the home and remembering what things are meant to be used for. For example, dark coloured bed linen against cream walls and pale carpet will really stand out, as would a dark coloured toilet seat or handrail against a white bathroom suite. Plain colours work better than patterns and you can use this idea to highlight any object you want easily noticed…light switches, cutlery on the table, door handles etc.
Rearranging chairs to make it possible to look out of the window or watch what other people in the house are doing, can provide stimulation and help maintain social contact.
Put away infrequently used items and try to keep cupboards and surfaces uncluttered so that the important, much used objects are easier to spot.
Using see-through containers, glass fronted doors or open shelves will make things easier than having to remember where something is behind a closed cupboard door.
Lighting and Heating:
Shadows and dark areas can increase the incidence of hallucinations so ensuring good lighting (whether natural and electric) without excessive brightness or shadow is important.
Cookers and fires can become potential fire hazards as the dementia progresses. All fires should be fitted with a fire guard, and if possible, an isolation valve should be fitted to a gas fire or cooker to ensure it can only be turned on if a carer is there to supervise use.
Try to maximise natural daylight as this provides important information about the time of day.
Timers and motion-sensitive sensors can be useful to ensure adequate lighting at night.
Consider installing central heating with thermostatic controls that will automatically come on if the temperature drops below a certain level rather than having to rely on manual controls.
Safety and Security:
Minimize the risk of falls by installing handrails on stairs, grab rails on steps, and remove rugs or loose carpets that could prove a tripping danger.
Fitting a KeySafe on to an outside wall enables the front door to be kept locked at all times. Relatives, friends and carers who know the KeySafe code can access the keys and still enter the property when needed.
Make sure a smoke alarm is fitted – preferably mains operated so you don’t need to worry about replacing batteries.
Bathrooms can become a high accident risk area and hygiene needs to be a priority.Colour coding important equipment such as grab rails, toothbrush, and even soap can help as a memory aid, and grab rails and a toilet riser can provide physical support. Many older people find using a bath difficult so it is worth considering fitting a level access shower or wet room.
Getting this done as early as possible enables you to learn how to use it, helping maintain independence as long as possible, and then makes it easier for carers later on. Sensors can be fitted to the skirting boards so that if the taps are left running and cause a flood, the system will shut off the water and raise the alarm. Specially designed plugs are also available that drain water should a tap be left running.
There is an ever growing range of equipment and gadgets, including pressure-pad and motion sensors linked by a telephone line to a nominated person or call centre that can alert a carer to a potential problem. Useful sources of information on the latest aids available, (which can be accessed by clicking in the link below) are:
The Disabled Living Foundation’s website www.asksara.dlf.org.uk
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Hello! Today I have a sign I made for our church library. Since our church library shares the same space as our church office,our librarian asked me to come up with something to put outside our church office to let our congregation know we have a library. I played around with several ideas. At first I was just going to print something on the computer and put it in a picture frame, but the size of the wall wasn't right for that. Then I was going to just cut letters out of vinyl using my Cricut and adhere that directly to the wall but I wasn't sure about that one either. I was worried about how long the letters would actually stick to the wall and if there would be any damage to the paint. Then, I just kept seeing these quote signs in all the stores and thought, 'I could do that!'. So first I asked my handy dandy husband to cut me a piece of wood and bevel the edges. I know, that's the real hard part, especially if you don't have a handy dandy husband and all the tools to go with it! But I'm lucky that way. Then I stained the whole piece of wood to match the stain of the woodwork at church. Then I used a ruler and penciled in a line about an inch from the beveled edge. I painted on an 'Antique White' acrylic paint, let that dry and using a feather brush, very lightly painted on some darker brown to give it more interest. Then I painted a dark black line along the entire sign where the stain and paint met.
Now, here's where the Cricut comes in handy. I cut out my letters using two different fonts. And unlike stencils, where you are limited to the size of the letters of the stencils, I could size my letters EXACTLY to the size I needed. Then, I could place my letters directly on my sign so I could play around with them and see where I wanted the letters to go (another thing you can't do with stencils). After I positioned my letters where I thought they looked best, I hand drew around each one with a pencil then I removed the letters and filled in around the pencil lines with paint. If you don't want to paint the letters, you could also just use the Cricut Vinyl and adhere the letters directly to the board. But I wanted the 'hand-made look', so I chose to paint them on.
Here's the finished sign:
And here is a close up so you can see the painting better. I also outlined all the letters with a fine brush in black.
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Can technology support co-production with children and families?
By Ida Cohen, Senior Social Work Consultant, Liquidlogic
‘Listening to the voice of the child’, ‘involving service users’ and ‘co-production’ are terms commonly used to describe how children’s services should interact with children and families to ensure that they are listened to and that their contributions are regularly taken into account. as part of a partnership approach to assessment and intervention.
In June 2021 Report on Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND), based on a series of inspections, Ofsted said: ‘There were more positive results in some of the areas we revisited, where parents and carers had been meaningfully involved in the planning and decision making. The role of the parent-guardian forum figured prominently in the most successful areas. In these, leaders understood that co-production meant working with families as equal partners.
We believe portal technology can help forge effective collaboration with children and families by helping them feel involved in the assessment, planning and review stages.
A proven solution
From online banking to grocery ordering to vacation booking, the use of portal-like technology is widespread and it has become a proven tool for delivering efficient services. The same technology has begun transforming the Liquidlogic electronic case management system so that it can now be used to interact with children, families and caregivers.
A portal account is not just a way to access information shared with families by their worker. It’s also where they can collaborate on forms, respond to surveys or consultation documents, send messages to their employees, and view a full library of documents that previously would have been emailed or posted. keeping all their data safe.
To illustrate, here is a fictional example of how this might be experienced by a parent of a child with SEND.
Case Study: Elly and Carl
My name is Elly, I’m Carl’s mother. Carl is 10 years old and has autism. Carl struggles a lot at home and at school. He goes to our local primary school.
Carl’s principal has referred him to the council for an education, health and care assessment, as he believes Carl needs more help than the school is currently able to provide. I agree, because he cannot participate in certain activities at all because his behavior becomes unmanageable.
The school said he needed more classroom support or he might need to move to a special school. When he can’t be at school, I have him at home and I have to juggle Carl and his sisters; I end up getting in trouble with their schools because I’m often late picking them up.
I was contacted by someone named Steve Astbury recently. He explained that he worked on the SEND team and would work with me and other professionals who know Carl to assess his educational needs.
He said it was important for me to have a say in this – because I know what the daily experience of caring for Carl is like – and to express what I would like to see happen for Carl at the future.
Steve emailed me with a link to participate in the review process and communicate with him through what he called a portal account. When I received the email, I clicked on the link, created a simple username and password, and then received an email notification that my account had been activated .
Once logged in, I could see Steve’s contact details and those of Carl’s school and social worker. I could see the school recommendation for Carl as Steve posted it for me to read. I also saw Steve posted a message for me to let him know when I had logged in by replying to his welcome message, which I did.
It was clear that I am only at the first stage of the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) process and that there are more stages to follow, which Steve explained. I know where I am in the process and can check for progress updates.
Since then, we have continued to communicate through the portal. Steve visited again and moved Carl’s assessment forward. Yesterday he mailed me the latest version and asked me to complete my review section. He said he would call me tomorrow so we could discuss it in case I had any questions. It was pretty simple, really, just like an online survey.
Steve called today to discuss my contribution to Carl’s appraisal. I said Carl drew a picture this weekend about school that shows he really likes going there.
Steve said I can send it through the portal because it allows me to upload any documents I want to send with my response. I’ve now submitted everything and he said that when it’s finished he will publish the final version, which will go to a panel, for me to read.
Consolidated information on all services
Information collected through Portal Collaboration for an individual receiving services is reused, as appropriate, for other services that may be required. This means that the person does not have to provide their personal data repeatedly to the local authority when they need other forms of support, such as childcare services, free school meals, college placements after age 16 or sensory support.
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In the mid-1980s, the program of economic, political, and social restructuring —perestroika— and the new era of transparency and openness —glasnost— became the unintended catalyst for dismantling what had taken nearly three-quarters of a century to erect Communist states. While the reforms of perestroika and glasnost instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev, were not the sole causes of the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., the forces they unleashed destabilized an already weakening system and hastened its end. The political protests and the exodus of thousands of East Germans —Peaceful Revolution— fleeing to West Germany and Austria through the Hungarian border, contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, and it also triggered the German reunification in 1990. But since the end of the Cold War (1947-1991), many disappointments such as the worsening of socio-economic inequality and global instability, have followed the initial euphoria associated with the victory of the Western Bloc over the Eastern Bloc. The resurgence of the dichotomous relationship capitalism vs communism, and the political polarization driven by a sharp generational divide, are portrayed by the Italian-French co-production “The Voice of the Moon” (Dir. Federico Fellini, 1990), and the Spanish-Portuguese co-production “Some Time Later” (Dir. José Luis Cuerda, 2018). Both cinematic approximations embrace the ideological resistance towards the ongoing process of dehumanization and its pernicious effects on society. The achievement of social justice is deliberately postponed by the technocratic power elite, and by youth generations that are disengaged with its historical past, and enslaved by digital technologies.
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This blog has been contributed by Meera Srinivasan, our resident expert on health and nutrition.
Being a nutritionist I have always paid attention to what my family eats. But until recently, I was not aware that how they eat is equally important. Research has shown that eating together as a family is key to inculcating healthy eating habits in children.
Researchers at Rutgers University have looked at 68 studies that have examined relationship between family meals, eating habits and children’s health. Amazingly all studies pointed to a similar trend – families who had “meals together” during the growing years had children and teens who ate more fruits and vegetables, other nutrient rich foods and less of soft drinks. The research also indicated that they had a lower BMI (body mass index) than kids whose families did not eat together! Of course, this is not a magic bullet but with so many studies confirming this trend it will be good to pay attention to these findings.
So you may wonder about relevance in India – well the situation in urban households is no longer different, with both parents working long hours and juggling work and children’s schedules. Sitting down together for dinner in most homes is becoming increasingly rare and eating together has become a weekend activity and invariably not at home …
Along with healthier eating habits and lower instances of obesity, there are other significant benefits of family meals:
- Dinner together serves as an anchor for the family, nurtures the sense of belonging. It is a time for everyone to share and reflect about their day
- Conversations around meal time help increase children’s vocabulary making them better readers.
- Children actually do better in school/academics!
- Children become aware of current events and have better social skills. They learn to make conversations and also become good listeners!
- Teens who eat dinners at home regularly are less likely to smoke, drink alcohol or use drugs!
- As mentioned in the January 2013 issue of ParentEdge children learn by observing and experiencing and not by being instructed. If parents have healthy eating habits children tend to have similar eating habits!
How do we make it work?
- Meal time has to be a priority for everyone – make your family understand and once they start doing it, the benefits will ensure that there is no turning back!
- If dinner is not possible, explore breakfast and to start, target a minimum of three meals during the week.
- Make the meals interesting, get the family involved in menu planning and if possible even cooking. Many children these days are showing an interest in cooking and we can be thankful to the Master Chef programmes!
- Turn off mobiles, television during meals, so children understand you are making meal times a priority.
- Conversation starters can be as simple as “what was the best part of your day”, “what went well for you today and what did not?” – and before you realize children are talking and telling you things which may be difficult to get out from them otherwise!
At our home we have dinner together and I find this the most gratifying time of the day!
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B8IT103 Statistics for Data Analytics
Using the Boston data set introduced during LAB work, apply linear regression modelling to predict the per capita crime rate using other variables in the data set. In other words, per capita crime rate is the response and the other variables are predictors.
a) Use descriptive statistics to explore the dataset.
b.) For each predictor, fit a simple linear regression model to predict the response. Complete regression analysis. Describe your results. In which of the models is there a statistically significant association between the predictor and the response? Create plots to back up your assertions.
c) Fit a multiple regression model to predict the response using all the predictors. Describe your results. For which predictors can we reject the null hypothesis ₀ := 0?
d.) How do your results from (b) compare to your results from (c)? Create a plot displaying the univariate regression coefficients from (b) on the x-axis, and the multiple regression coefficients from (c) on the y-axis. That is each predictor is displayed as a single point in the plot. Its coefficient in a simple linear regression model is shown on the x-axis, and its coefficient estimate in the multiple linear regression model is shown on the y-axis.
e.) Is there evidence of non-linear association between any of the predictors and the response? To answer this question, for each predictor X, fit a model of the form
= 0+ 1 + 2 ²+ 3 ³+ Ԑ
Summarise your findings.
Part a) may be completed using any choice of statistical package. Parts b) through e) should be completed using R. A report should be submitted together with supporting software analyses / R-code via online submission on or before Sunday 17th December 23:55. The grade assessment will be based on the DBS CA grading scheme which has been included in this document | <urn:uuid:5f6c7114-e8c7-4751-ac2a-1f8825df17bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.makemyassignments.com/solution-library/b8it103-statistics-for-data-analytics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.86458 | 407 | 2.640625 | 3 |
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. — A record Brazilian soybean crop of 101 million tonnes is forecast for the 2016-17 marketing year as a result of a slight increase in planted area, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) said in a Oct. 3 report.
Brazil is forecast to have the slowest area growth in the last five years, attributed to a higher expected cost of production, tight credit policies, higher interest rates, the economic downturn, and soybean areas shifting back to full-season corn, according to the report.
Although low global soybean prices continue to be a concern for Brazilian producers, the volatility of the Brazilian real may either help producers or put them in a difficult situation, the FAS said. Last year, the Brazilian real devaluation of more than 40% pushed domestic soybean prices up to record levels. The Brazilian real has stabilized since August. However, analysts expect the Brazilian real to devalue by the beginning of 2017, right at the start of the harvest. If this materializes, it may push domestic prices up again in Brazil. Since soybeans are priced in U.S. dollars in the international market, the weaker exchange rate may increase domestic soybean prices (more reals per U.S. dollars) and cushion the overall decrease in global prices.
Crush for market year 2016-17 is forecast at 41 million tonnes to meet the increased biodiesel mandate and demands from the animal feed sector, the FAS said. The higher forecast compared to the previous market year is a result of a slight recovery expected for the Brazilian economy in 2017, the higher biodiesel blending mandates, which will be implemented beginning in March 2017, and stronger demand by the domestic animal sector and the export markets.
As a result of lower available supplies, the report reduced its market year 2015-16 export forecast to 52 million tonnes. In the first four months of the 2015-16 marketing year, Brazil was on its way to hit record exports due to high demand from China. In addition, the relatively weaker Brazilian real pushed domestic prices to record levels, which accelerated the pace of exports to the highest in three years. However, since August 2016, lower available supplies due to weather problems affecting the crop, slowed down the export pace to the lowest since market year 2013-14, according to the FAS. | <urn:uuid:b73a505a-9a82-4995-baf0-ff8771ac07a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.world-grain.com/articles/7168-brazil-expecting-record-soybean-crop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.946404 | 485 | 2.046875 | 2 |
By Culture of Peace Press,Sergio de Queiroz Duarte,Anwarul Chowdhury
The book of the Voices for the tradition of Peace, vol. three, at the present is particularly correct because the drums of conflict are being sounded now in such a lot of parts of the realm. Peace-loving peoples all over the place wish peace. Fifteen pros talking on subject matters reminiscent of the function of girls as peacebuilders, the pursuit of peace on the person point, the connection among human rights and the tradition of peace, gender equality, weather switch and the sustainability of mankind, to call a couple of, are one of the concerns highlighted during this quantity. the necessity for a discussion for disarmament additionally sticks out as a necessary component of the tradition of peace. As Sergio de Queiroz Duarte states within the foreword to this quantity: “The pursuits encompassed within the tradition of peace discuss with valid ends. . . . It includes ethical management that isn't restricted to any given point of presidency: it may be exercised by way of urban mayors, legislators, civil servants, contributors of nongovernmental organizations—indeed, and specially, through traditional voters, who're the promoters and ultimate beneficiaries of the result of the unfold and perform of the tradition of peace.
As Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, an established chief of efforts to construct the tradition of peace, states: “The tradition of peace might be the root of the hot international society. In today’s global, extra so, it may be obvious because the essence of a brand new humanity, a brand new international civilization in response to internal oneness and outer range.
“We aren't isolate peace as whatever separate or far away. we should always know the way to narrate to each other with no being competitive, with out being violent, with out being disrespectful, with out forget, with out prejudice. you will need to observe that the absence of peace takes away the possibilities that we have to larger ourselves, to arrange ourselves, to empower ourselves to stand the demanding situations of our lives, separately and collectively.”
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Laura Barta believes every kid should have a chance to experience the world, even if it's from the comfort of home. When her searches for fun, multicultural toys came up short, Laura took matters into her own hands. She created her first play set in 2015, and today Whole Wide World Toys, Inc., offers dozens of products for kids to create enriching play worlds, including play mats, figures, wooden puzzles, storybooks, and story cards. Laura fills her play sets with cultural details so kids can play just like they are visiting a new country. “While they’re having fun, they’re immersed in a new culture,” she says. Laura spent the early part of her career interviewing hundreds of people all over the globe and designing products for Procter & Gamble. Living and working on four continents in 10 years shaped the lives of each of Laura’s family members, instilling in all of them a curiosity about what makes people and places the same and different. When she returned to the States, she wanted to find toys that showed everyday life in other countries, but those didn’t exist. While there were language-learning aids, maps, and multicultural dolls, nothing felt like “being there,” she says. Laura hopes Whole Wide World Toys will appeal to families who travel, have adopted internationally, study foreign languages, love geography and world cultures, and want to offer their children creative play in quality toys. Ultimately, Laura believes that her toys will help kids gain familiarity and respect for the world and be well-prepared for their adult lives. “I have a deeply held belief that we might even have world peace if people understood each other better,” she says. Laura’s quest to inspire curiosity and positivity about the world are her biggest motivators in business, particularly when times get tough. She’s been able to finance the business herself thus far, steering clear of financial issues, but it hasn’t been easy. “I’m most confident in the quality and play value of my toys,” says Laura, “but as a newer toy company, awareness is the challenge.” Laura’s toys don’t fit neatly into a toy category and there’s no shorthand way of describing them to people; cultural awareness and the joy of travel are not categories on Amazon. But Laura isn’t focused on competing with big box retailers. Instead, she is committed to building a community where cultural understanding is the number one goal and selling toys is secondary. If your purpose is bigger than your product, people will be drawn to your company because of their own beliefs, says Laura. Her advice to other small business owners in niche markets is to start small with marketing and build up your knowledge and expertise in the market. Begin with small-scale online ads and local outreach, meeting face-to-face with your customers so you can hear their wishes and concerns in person. She also recommends starting an active blog to establish your voice and give your business credibility. | <urn:uuid:fc8547f7-4946-49fa-9002-fa08f928e6ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lendio.com/blog/small-business-spotlights/small-business-thats-giving-kids-bigger-world-view/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961106 | 629 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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mollusk relocate to a new area with more food and less competition for resources.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted permission to Hologic Inc. to market the Aptima Mycoplasma genitalium Assay, a test to detect Mycoplasma genitalium (M. genitalium), a sexually-transmitted infection (STI).
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For more information Hologic.com.
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and the listed internet hostid is correct, then the configuration of /etc/hosts may be the cause. To correctly match /etc/hosts entries, IPv4 entries must be listed before any IPv6 entries. To verify if the /etc/hosts configuration is the cause, run the following command:
If the IPv4 address listed does not match the IPv4 address in the installed license file, then /etc/hosts must be modified to place IPv4 entries before IPv6 entries to return the correct address.
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‘The Owl House’ Protagonist Is Disney’s First Bisexual Female Lead, Says Show’s Creator
The creator of Disney’s The Owl House has confirmed that the animated show’s protagonist, Luz Noceda, is bisexual — making her Disney’s first bisexual female lead.
The 14-year-old Dominican-American character, Luz Noceda, is voiced by Sarah-Nicole Robles in show, and is officially described by Disney as: “a self-assured teenage human girl.” Although Luz has previously shown interest in boys on the show, in the two most recent episodes, her relationship with a recurring female character, Amity, is explored. Willow, another character on the show, has also been shown to have same-sex parents. Due to its depictions of demons, witches, and sorcery, the show was previously branded as “demonic and evil” by conservative groups, and was also targeted by One Million Moms, a Conservative Christian activist group that petitioned Disney to cancel it — saying that it is “inundating young minds with secular worldviews that reflect the current culture.”
Convincing Disney to greenlight a queer character wasn’t easy for the show’s creator, Dana Terrace, who also identifies as bisexual. “In [development] I was very open about my intention to put queer kids in the main cast… When we were greenlit I was told by certain Disney leadership that I could not represent any form of bi or gay relationship on the channel,” Terrace tweeted, explaining her tussle with the studio. And, reportedly, Disney’s reluctance to portray LGBTQIA+ characters onscreen isn’t new. Alex Hirsch, the creator of Disney’s Gravity Falls, which ran from 2012 to 2016, said that Disney had forbidden him from “any explicit LGBTQ+ [representation]” for his show. “Apparently, ‘happiest place on earth’ meant ‘straightest,'” he added. But, he also lauded the studio for coming around now in 2020 with The Owl House. This May, Pixar had also featured a gay lead in the short film, Out, on Disney Plus.
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“I’m bi! I want to write a bi character, dammit! Luckily my stubbornness paid off and now I am very supported by current Disney leadership,” Terrace wrote in a victorious tweet last week. In fact, she said that creating these characters also helped her come out as bisexual to her friends and family in 2017, and she hopes that “they continue to create positive vibes for [people] in future [episodes].”
“Representation matters,” Terrace wrote. And, indeed, representation does matter. A recent study found out that representation of the LGBTQIA+ community in the media, makes society significantly more supportive and accepting of the community in real life. This demonstrates the power of inclusive onscreen portrayals in changing perceptions, and erasing prejudices towards the LGBTQIA+ community. Moreover, given the influence of cartoons on children, growing up watching a bisexual protagonist in an animated show, can also help familiarize young minds seamlessly with the gender and sexuality spectrum — a subject that can often seem otherwise tricky to tackle.
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The purpose of a mhttpd ELOG Page is to visually present the Built-in Electronic Logbook (ELOG) for the experiment. If an External Elog has been installed, the ELOG Page will display the external ELOG instead (see External Elog below).
Access to the ELOG Page
The ELOG Page is displayed by clicking on the Status Page or other mhttpd web page.
- If the "Elog" button is not present on the Status Page, it may have been suppressed.
Features of the Built-in Elog page
The first time thebutton is pressed, the Elog page will appear as in Figure 1.
The appearance of the Elog Page can be customized by editing keys in the /Elog ODB tree . By default the run number appears in the message, and users are not allowed to delete messages. The drop-down list of Type and System also contain defaults, all of which are controlled by keys in the /Elog ODB tree. Also controlled by keys in the /Elog ODB tree, Elog can be configured to send out email when messages are added to the Elog. Messages can be added to the Elog by a script using the melog utility.
Pressing the button will allow you to create a new message. The Author field is required. Select a Message Type and System from the drop-down list. Files can be attached if desired (see Figure 2).
Figure 3 shows that the new message has arrived.
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Shares of banks and other financial institutions rose, but pared gains after the Federal Reserve committed to low rates for an extended period of time.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury yields after the Federal Reserve sounded relatively optimistic notes on the prospects for the U.S. economy.
While Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said it was too early to consider "tapering" bond-buying activity, which is likely to be the first step in removing monetary stimulus, he also stated that the vaccine rollout should lead to a return to economic normality.
"The first question asked to Powell was if it was time to start talking about tapering," said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at foreign-exchange brokerage OANDA Group. "Powell reaffirmed that it is not time yet to have a conversation about tapering, sending Treasury yields sharply lower."
Shares of Deutsche Bank rallied after the troubled German lender posted its first quarterly profit in recent years, helped by strength in both commercial banking and investment banking units.
Spanish lender Santander saw shares rally after Shares of U.K. lender Lloyd's Banking Group said first-quarter pretax profit rose sharply and beat expectations, helped by an impairment credit, and upped its full-year outlook.
Fidelity Investments is expanding a business in lending securities, a once-avoided business that helps money managers profit on those eager to bet against stocks, as reported earlier.
The European Union fined Credit Suisse Group, Bank of America and Crédit Agricole a combined $34 million for illegally colluding on trades in government bond markets at the expense of their clients.
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To a point.
The new series, which premiered March 5, moves quickly between multiple story lines and locations, bouncing off prophesies and spinning conspiracies around the Second Coming of Christ, the Book of Revelation and the restoration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, where much of the series is filmed.
Throw in a high priest’s magical breastplate, a spotless red heifer, and a doomsday Christian group living in a bunker and the series becomes the would-be love-child of Steven Spielberg and Dan Brown.
And that’s just the first episode.
Isaacs — a British actor best known to American fans as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films — says in the promo he expects the first episode to send viewers rushing to the Internet to “find out more.”
The show has some good television history behind it. Tim Kring (Heroes) and Gideon Raff (Homeland) are its executive producers. But “Dig” promises something more than its predecessors: Its cocktail of biblical prophecy and contemporary conspiracy looks to have a twist of the supernatural that will, as one character predicts, “threaten everything we believe in.”
So what’s “true” and what’s fiction in “Dig”? Here’s some background on the main prophesies, theories and biblical references touched on in the first hour of the show:
1) Red heifer
“Dig” opens in a barn in Norway where an ultra-Orthodox rabbi examines a newborn red calf. In the Bible, God tells Moses to command the Israelites to “bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came a yoke.”
True, many Ultra-Orthodox Jews believe such a calf must be found and sacrificed before the Messiah can come and rebuild the Jewish Temple. This so-called “Third Temple” is prophesied in the Book of Ezekiel as the place God will live. And there are real-life farmers genetically engineering the birth of such cows outside of Israel, and many contemporary Jews pray for the eventual restoration of the Temple.
2) The Ark of the Covenant
The (young, hot, female) archaeologist Emma Wilson tells FBI agent Peter Connelly (Isaacs) she is involved in a dig to uncover the Ark of the Covenant, the golden chest that is supposed to contain the original tablets of the Ten Commandments. Wilson and her colleagues expect to find the Ark in a series of tunnels under the Temple Mount.
There are actual tunnels under the Temple Mount, a site sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims and a place where they often come into conflict, and the theory that the Ark is under there somewhere is a real one. And, true, digs under the Temple Mount are forbidden by authorities for fear of compromising the foundation of the Dome of the Rock, the golden domed mosque seen in background shots through much of “Dig.” And a warning — find the Ark and your face might melt off, a la the Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
3) High priest’s breastplate
Some sinister person in “Dig” has stolen a priceless golden breastplate from a Jerusalem museum, kicking off car chases, clandestine meetings, and perhaps a murder. When a devout Jewish character gets a glimpse of the stolen item, he begins praying and says, “This is the Urim ve Thummim” — an item described in the Old Testament as being able to communicate with God.
There is a priestly breastplate described in Exodus, and the one in “Dig” bears a close resemblance. It is square and has a series of 12 bricklike gemstones (they are missing!), one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. But “Dig” makes a bit of a stumble here — the Urim and Thummim were not the actual plate itself, but separate tools of divination supposedly held in a pouch behind the breastplate. Characters in “Dig” assert that the breastplate can be used to “talk to God.”
And here’s a bonus factoid “Dig” doesn’t mention — yet. Mormons know the Urim and Thummim as two of the tools their prophet Joseph Smith said he in the case of the Branch Davidians) located in the American Southwest. There are warm, ongoing relationships between some Christian and Jewish groups that expect the end of the world to come soon.
But are there currently desert-bound cults that are producing little boys in the hopes one will become the Messiah? Are bands of the ultra-Orthodox roaming the tunnels below the Temple Mount and slaughtering lambs in their wake? And more importantly, is there a mikvah — a Jewish ritual bath — under the Temple Mount being used as a coed hot tub?
Probably not. But it’s fun to watch and think about for an hour a week.
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the reason for this title is the shape of this flower. some flowers are described as trumpets. the petals make a cone shape that is best described as a trumpet. some are very closed and cone shaped and others are more open. today’s flower is so opposite it is anti-cone shaped. as in no trace of a cone. the petals radiate out in a flat plane from the very base of the flower. one of the benefits of this orientation is you get maximum view of the petals and color. in the case of this flower it has a very large throat area, no eye zone, and the color of petal tips makes up something like a quarter of the visible surface. which is another way to say the throat dominates the flower. perhaps that is why it was named Kermit’s Scream. a 6 inch 25 cm bloom. two images… and yes this one is in Dave’s garden. and yes yes who needs trumpets when Kermit is screaming so loud ! ? !
from picture to post. just like that. or something reasonably close. find picture. must be exhausting. since the begin sorting out idea for post rhymes with take a nap. wake up from rhyming. repeatedly. with all this exhaustion the idea for post must be completely sorted out. hmmm better post as is before sorting burns out those last few bits of energy. so what should i mention first – seedling – or red ? maybe tomorrow there will be enough rhyming time to show the mix of parents that brought this about. i might even have to add that it grows rather nicely quickly even into a clump. two images… 11-052 Wild One x Autumn Minaret) x John Sheehan
no not you, me ! look how he lays there on the garden path dead asleep like an hay leahon visitor. tightly clutching that bloom like an otherworldly creature transfixed by visual floral onomatopoeia. doesn’t that flower look strange and unnatural to you ? the first clue would be the flower scapes in the background. look at them. there are too many – well maybe they don’t all show here. still unlike their other seedling brethren where they would only have two or three scapes this plant has six or eight. and yes they are all the same age. this plant is just an over achiever. strangely enough this flower we know one name from its sorted past. Volcan Fuego and some other illogical cross. so let’s move on down the garden path and step gingerly over the sleeping extra terrestial. and his extra blooms. one image and what ever you do when you step over him… do not wake him up…. on to the next flower
does this flower have enough purple ? just about every day when i look at it the flower is more than convincing. it was enough to give it a name – Indigo Ignition. a grape choice considering the flower. two images
i have occasionally heard complaints about the color yellow and its association with certain beautiful flowers. as if there could be too many yellow flowers. heck there is even a flower named ‘Just Another Yellow’. i am guessing there is a bit of irony involved in that choice. when the day arrives that too many yellow flowers grace the garden, so much so that their glowing brilliance chases me from the garden, perhaps then i just might consider there is a tad too much yellow. until then i will choose to live in denial. that is denial. not de Nile. i am strongly allergic to hippos and crocs. and now to wander gracefully back to yellow… three images oh and the cross is Carmine Ibis x Fol de Rol…
often referred to as the photographer’s umbrella – or light diffuser. why? in the garden and many other times full light is too much. the glare, the reflection of light from the objects we are trying to capture, to make a revealing picture, is obscured. what is behind the glint in an eye ? sometimes there is too much light. and we see that – just that – too much light instead of the object we are trying to show. even though this flower was pictured at 8:30 AM there was already too much light. we do have one of those white umbrellas. i do not often use it. most days it is both hands on the camera or a hat or my own shadow making a much darker light. some days the pictures come out monstrously. this one did that and it came out Monster. since that is the flower’s name. it is a parent of many seedlings. a large and imposing flower… two images. and enough words.
it seems the end of summer has finally come. autumn is here. i think the daylilies could manage wordless all week long straight through until spring. though i don’t know if i could resist at least a few comments until then. maybe even several more. and a gratuitous pun here and there. that would be the really difficult part. and that approach has been totally ruined for tonight. fortunately the daylilies are unperturbed by that fact. please note the staid composure. a Nutmeg Elf seedling… two images
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Edward Belgeonne, founder, & CEO Bantham Technologies, discusses how innovative technology is key to hitting net-zero and creating more time to care in the NHS
In a week where NHS capacity has once again been in the spotlight, how the health sector can best manage patient care in the long-term remains a major focus.
Reverting to type is not an option
While the UK may be seeing light at the end of a long dark tunnel with a best-in-class vaccination programme well underway, the onset of Spring with better weather for outside activities and the reduction in impact of other Winter bugs, reverting to type post-pandemic cannot – must not – be the option. Indeed how the health sector ‘builds back better’ from the last 12 months is going to be a fascinating narrative in the coming months and years.
But in the aftermath of COVID, this will not be easy. Reports have shown that the number of people waiting more than a year for an operation has reached a record high amid rising admissions of coronavirus patients. NHS England data published last month showed 4.46 million people were waiting for routine ops like joint replacements or cataract surgery in England by December. Under the NHS constitution, everyone needing non-urgent treatment should get it within 18 weeks. This has posed two challenges – clearing the existing and growing backlog and instigating better systems and processes in doing so to prevent the same problem repeating in the future. Of course, this is all set in the backdrop of the NHS target to become the world’s first carbon-neutral health service.
Work done, but more to do
Thankfully, the NHS has proven itself to be an incredible innovator with Trusts on the Digital Exemplars list leading the way. Indeed, just over a year ago the UK health secretary Matt Hancock re-affirmed that the appropriate use of technology will be “critical” for the NHS’s future. We’ve seen more collaboration and adoption of new tools and technologies over the last couple of years than ever before and while the NHS has made significant progress, there’s plenty of work to do. This is because, as the largest employer in Britain the NHS is responsible for around 4% of the nation’s carbon emissions – similar in scale to the airline industry.
Digitisation of data and the use of e-forms will play an important role in the fight against climate change through the reduced use of paper and significant reductions in travel. Aside from the micro benefits of reductions in waste and resources, environmental costs will increasingly be reflected in the financial price paid by the NHS for energy, drugs, food and other services. The reduction of waste will be a key success metric for whether the NHS can, or will, hit its target, especially for an organisation not renowned for efficiencies. It will push reducing waste and maximising value for patients right to the top of the agenda in every corner of the organisation.
Case study: Royal Wolverhampton
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT), one of the leading NHS Trusts in the UK, was able to use innovative mobile technology to empower its Community team to provide patient-centric care within their own home whilst helping to minimise the carbon footprint of the Trust.
The Trust introduced an integrated Patient Information Database (PID) to identify the application of in-the-field operational forms. This solution seamlessly integrated with its existing patient record system and automatically pre-populated patient information into live e-Form documents. The project was deployed across Windows and iOS tablets and was able to support digital data capture on any Windows device, including tablets, laptops, and desktop PCs for broader use throughout the Trust’s mobile and in-hospital teams. Previously, the process of completing forms was almost entirely manual with each and every form needing to be completed using a blank paper form.
The PID function allows for a clinician to search for a patient name either by First Name, Surname, DOB, NHS Number and or Hospital Number. Once a successful match has been returned, the clinician can choose the patient and select the desired e-Form that is required. The e-Form is presented with the patient demographics automatically embedded so that the clinician does not have to repeat or enter data that already exists. This also provides an improvement in the validity and accuracy of data input, reducing exceptions, guaranteeing successful first-time processing of records and creating more time to spend on patient care in the process.
By processing on average 3,000 e-forms per month, (typically equating to 100 remote workers), RWT expects to use 165,600 fewer sheets of A4, reduce its annual travel by nearly 500,000 miles and lower carbon emissions by over 180 tonnes of CO2 over a twelve-month period. The digitisation of data has also had a demonstrable impact on departmental and organisational budgets. Using real-world data derived from existing customers, 100 users would save 11,000+ working hours in travel and administration, with annual cost savings estimated at £200,000+.
Time to act today
There are plenty of opportunities for carbon reduction to go hand-in-hand with efforts to improve the health of the population and increase the efficiency of health services, but seizing these opportunities will mean taking action sooner rather than later.
In a time of rising budget deficits and mounting pressures, climate change might seem to be a distant priority for the NHS. But it is one that will need to be tackled if access to comprehensive health care is to be sustainable in the future: the pain will be greater if we leave it till later. But the answer lies under our fingertips and in the palm of our hands in the form of laptops, mobile phones, tablets and wearable devices.
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There’s no such thing as a good dictator. Some would go so far as saying the only good dictator is a dead dictator, but if I were to say that, I’m sure I’d get at least one e-mail correcting me and insisting that the only good dictator is a saved one. Then again, if a dictator got saved could he still be a dictator?
That said, subjectively speaking, there have been successful dictators throughout history, if the only metric one might use to gauge said success was longevity. Some despots come and go faster than you can learn their names. In contrast, others seem to cling to power decade after decade, even though they’ve got younger, hungrier, more ruthless competitors chomping at their heels, waiting for them to slip up, so they can expedite their retirement with a hollow point or a noose.
Although he didn’t have Fidel Castro type staying power, for a cobbler who had difficulty stringing a sentence together, Nicolae Ceausescu held his own. He was clumsy, awkward, and although his wife had a vicious streak a country mile wide, by all accounts, he didn’t.
There was a reason he was able to maintain control over the whole of Romania for the better part of fifteen years, and it wasn’t his leadership skills. Nicolae Ceausescu understood intuitively, what some of the governors who are having a hard time imposing their will fail to understand. You can’t give the people all stick, and expect them to comply indefinitely. If there is no balance between the carrot and the stick, if you take away people’s hope altogether, then they feel like they have nothing left to lose.
Even the most mild-mannered of men will bristle when all they get is subjugation without reprieve, or a glimmer of future hope to get them through the day. No matter how far off into the future that hope might be, as long as it’s there, there is a goal, a purpose, a promissory oasis.
Even though most Romanians lived lives of abject poverty and quiet desperation under authoritarian rule, Ceausescu was willy enough to offer things like May Day parades, national holidays, and other trifle things that were just enough to keep them subservient for years on end.
It was a playbook that worked until it didn’t, the final straw being an offer of a 5% increase in pay for everyone if they’d just stop protesting and go back home. That time it didn’t work, and we all know what happened from there.
I mention this not because I’m trying to give unsolicited advice to tyrannical governors, or show them a blueprint for success, but to contextualize why we are seeing an uptick in civil disobedience, and people no longer willing to follow the mandates of the power-drunk.
Rather than ease off the throttle, most of them seem to be doubling down, and eventually, sooner rather than later, it will come to a head. There will be a proverbial straw, and it will be enough to snap the camel’s back.
With love in Christ,
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A few pieces of news relative to antibiotic resistance caught my eye over the past few days. What they all had in common: Highly placed politicians stating unambiguously that antibiotic resistance should be a national and international priority.
This is superb, with just one catch: The politicians were in Europe.
The politicians speaking out were Prime Minister David Cameron in the United Kingdom, and Edith Ingeborg Schippers, Minister for Health, Education and Welfare, in the Netherlands. The leader of one government and a Cabinet-level minister in another -- I can't think of any occasion where US government officials of equal status have spoken out on the problem. In the United States, articulating the government position on resistance has been left to Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is a very direct and thoughtful spokesman, but in the government's organizational chart, he is one step below Schippers' counterpart, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Sylvia Mathews Burwell, sworn in last month), and several below Cameron's counterpart, President Barack Obama.
Imagine Obama speaking out about antibiotic resistance. What a powerful statement of priorities that would be.
Cameron spoke Wednesday to announce a UK government inquiry into the market failure that allowed pharma companies to leave antibiotics manufacturing rather than making new drugs. He said:
The medical nonprofit The Wellcome Trust is funding the commission's work to the tune of £500,000. The commission, led by a top economist, is intended to announce recommendations for action next year.
Meanwhile, the Netherlands government last week hosted a meeting of health ministers and secretaries, a follow-up to the World Health Organization's decision to pursue a Global Action Plan aimed at combating resistance. Schippers spoke during the conference's opening and her remarks were unusually powerful and direct. Some excerpts: | <urn:uuid:af5087a2-b1c7-4db2-bf40-5b9c5c393fd2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/2014/07/europe-resistance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961993 | 375 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Tim Yau, MD, Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology, has rolled out a second teaching video aimed at presenting renal pathology concepts to nephrology trainees in a web-friendly way. The first episode illustrated a case of nephrotic syndrome and features discussant and second-year fellow Rajesh Rajan, MD, and Joseph Gaut, MD, PhD, section head of Renal Pathology. This episode has been viewed more than 750 times already. In the second episode, Dr. Gaut and second-year fellow Pranjal Sharma, MD discuss a new case. This series is an exciting new educational initiative and future episodes will include clinico-pathologic cases, renal jeopardy and more. Stay tuned, and subscribe to the the official WU Nephrology Youtube Channel! The Washington University Nephrology Pathology Series is endorsed by the Renal Fellow Network, AJKDblog and NephronPower. | <urn:uuid:4bbab8bd-1896-4e72-8634-ef525557be56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nephrology.wustl.edu/renal-pathology-teach-series-youtube-episode-2-released/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.929623 | 190 | 1.578125 | 2 |
New interior doors can transform the look of your home. But, if you want to make the change without calling on a professional – and spending more than needed – you’ll want to know how to hang a door yourself.
The answer is that this is a project you can take on yourself. You’ll need to be confident about using items such as a saw and chisel, but aside from that, it’s all about accuracy when hanging doors to ensure this job is a quick and simple one.
How to hang a door
These are the tools and materials required to replace a door yourself. We're working with the most common type of door fitting you'll find around the home here: The hinged door. Which usually consists of a wood or fiberglass slab:
- Wood wedges
- Door slab
- Tape measure
- Hand saw
- Door hinges and screws, if new ones required
1. Remove the existing door
How to install a door? First you’ll need to remove the old door slab. Support its weight underneath using wedges of wood, unscrew it from its hinges to remove it, then remove the hinges. If these are still in good condition, set them aside to re-use.
Take care not to damage the hinge recesses on the frame.
2. Get the fit right
The old door can be a guide for the new door provided it was a good fit. If so, lay the old door on the new one and mark where you’ll need to cut the new door.
Otherwise, working with someone else, position the door in the door frame and create a small gap underneath it with wedges of wood. Get your assistant to hold the door steady, then mark where it needs to be trimmed to height.
Bear in mind that you are aiming for a 0.08 inch (2mm) gap between the door and the frame.
3. Cut the door to size
Lay the door flat and, using a saw, cut it close to the marked line, then finish off using a plane.
Check the hinge side of the door fits the frame, then mark the door so it fits the frame width. Plane equal amounts from either side to get the correct width.
4. Mark hinge positions
Position the door in the frame using the wedges in order to mark the hinge positions. Using a pencil, mark the top and bottom of the recesses on the door.
5. Fit the hinges
Using the marks to put the hinges in the correct position, draw around them with a pencil.
Measure the thickness of the hinge plate then mark this depth on the face of the door.
Use a sharp chisel and mallet to cut around the perimeter of the hinge recesses as marked. Next, with the chisel at 45º, make a series of cuts around 0.2 inches (5mm) apart, and to the depth marked, across the wood grain.
Flat side down, use the chisel to pare away the wood then position the hinges in the recesses.
Drill pilot holes for the screws, the screw one screw in each hinge flap.
6. Hang the door
Next, find out how to hang a door. Hold the door open on wedges and screw the hinges to the frame using just one screw in each at this stage. Each screw head needs to be flush with the surface of the flap. Check that the door opens and closes smoothly. Fix the rest of the screws.
Check the movement of the door again. If it rubs, the screws may need loosening slightly. If the door is even within the frame but one area is catching, it may need to be removed and sanded or planed to create the correct fit.
Expert advice on hanging doors
Watch out for uneven floors. ‘It’s extremely rare for your floor to be level, so knowing the high spot in the floor will be the best starting point for getting your door hung level and correct from the start,’ says Jeff Shipwash, owner of Shipwash Properties (opens in new tab).
‘Next, you will want to shim the side of the door that is the lowest to bring it level. Once you have leveled from the floor, you can then shim the sides that are gapped from the wall.
‘Installing a door out of level will result in the door dragging or not setting flush with the jam.’
How much does it cost to install a door?
It could cost from around $150 to $300 (£50 to £100) to install a door. This covers the labor only and the slab door itself will be an additional cost as will other materials and supplies plus constructing the frame if necessary. The door itself might range in price from around $50. If you have multiple doors installed as part of the same project, cost per door can work out less expensive.
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We are living in a divided world and one which we often find difficult to work our way through, but whilst many people see Incredible Edible as an organisation that just grows food, from the inside we all know it’s far from that. Incredible Edible groups across the UK, and worldwide, are focused on a future that supports people, encourages skill sharing and talks about the importance of local economies and business. And the reason we do this is simple. We want to live in a kinder world.
The word kindness is often undervalued and somewhat misunderstood. It doesn’t mean weakness, or being soft, but in fact is far more about bravery and courage.. Kindness is something that is often missing from our day to day lives, and it takes strength to stand up for and communicate the importance of kindness. However, if we want to bring our divided society together, create an inclusive society where intersectionality no longer exists, and understands the harm inequality does to individuals and society as a whole, rather than focusing on economic growth, we need another focus. Economic growth forces us to focus on wealth, whereas kindness puts health and wellbeing at the core of society. It enables us to talk about both physical and mental health, on ensuring everyone has access to good food, housing, fresh air, and it makes us focus on the most vulnerable in our society, and on giving everyone the same opportunities. Those of us with privilege, with a voice or a platform, be that individual or combined, can support this and make it a call to action. After all isn’t it obvious that this would be a better place to live?
We know there are stories of kindness across the whole of the Incredible Edible Network, so if you have a tale you’d like to tell, about kindness in your community, or in a specific person or organisation who works with kindness at their core, why not get in touch and let us tell that tale. After all, there’s far more that connects us than divides us. Get in touch through www.incredibleedible.org.uk | <urn:uuid:7ad067dc-2fe7-4ae9-8210-89bce809ca74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.incredibleedible.org.uk/news/keeping-kindness-at-our-core/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961003 | 428 | 2.125 | 2 |
Hunting for Planets with CoRoT
Based on materials originally developed by Stephen Kane (NExScI/IPAC) for the 2010 Sagan Exoplanet Workshop. This group project was entitled "Hunting for Planets with CoRoT."
Here, in a nutshell, is the idea: Top left: CoRoT images things within one of two circles, shown here in red and cyan, on a map of the sky. Top right: You get light curves out. Bottom right: You can find transits, some of which will be planets (bottom left).
The transit method generally involves gathering LARGE datasets of RAW photometry. Are there signatures of one or more exoplanets in these data? Yes! But we need to know how to locate them. There are many noise sources which can disguise transit signatures. How do we filter these? There are astrophysical sources of noise also that can mimic the signature of an exoplanet (blended eclipsing binaries). We will simulate the end-to-end process using a subset of CoRoT data.
The NASA Exoplanet Archive serves raw data from the CoRoT mission. You will become familiar with the CoRoT data products and the noise properties. Investigate the light curves using various techniques, including the NASA Exoplanet Archive periodogram service which includes a Box-fitting Least Squares algorithm. You will identify periodic signatures within the light curves and determine their nature. In particular, some of the light curves contain the signature of a transiting exoplanet. You will locate these and characterize them (Seager & Mallen-Ornelas, 2003, ApJ, 585, 1038).
- How to extract survey data from on-line archives.
- How to sift light curves for periodic signatures.
- What is the expected false-alarm rate vs the observed false-alarm rate?
- What kind of features manifest as false-alarms?
- How many transits are expected from a given survey? How many did we actually detect?
- What can we learn from transit light curves about the characteristics of the planet?
There are 52 lightcurves which I've picked out of the CoRoT dataset, and you can get to them via the NASA Exoplanet Archive portal. The ids for these objects are here. The main task of this project is to detect and characterize as well as possible any signatures due to an exoplanet.
You can access the NASA Exoplanet Archive CoRoT service here. I encourage you to take a look at this site and become familiar with how to download CoRoT data. Start with the list of ids here (because these are the ones I hand-picked for this project), but it's good to become familiar with the download process so that you can extract more data as necessary. Also see Accessing Kepler and CoRoT data for more information.
The default format for CoRoT data is FITS. These can be directly uploaded into the NASA Exoplanet Archive Periodogram Service. The periodogram service provides output of phased lightcurves in ascii text format.
There are several different approaches you might take to characterizing transit light curves. A good place to start is to read the papers by Mandel & Agol (2002) and Seager & Mallen-Ornelas (2003).
Kaspar von Braun has created an excel worksheet which utilizes the equations of the Seager & Mallen-Ornelas (2003) paper.
There is also the Transit Analysis Package Software by J. Z. Gazak (U. of Hawaii). Note that IDL is required to run this software. ( http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/zgazak/TAP/ ) | <urn:uuid:4f331458-3a3d-4d27-9030-122444bebcf8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php/Hunting_for_Planets_with_CoRoT | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.898198 | 813 | 2.84375 | 3 |
A typical practice to promote anything that seriously does not work is to make it so highly-priced that it cons you into thinking it should be worth it. Is this the case with costly electric heaters?
The answer to the practicality of income saving electric heaters as compared to much less high-priced electric heaters turned out to be rather straightforward, but, to share this answer calls for that you have some background information so that you realize why the answer is what it is, in lieu of simply taking my word for it.
To commence, we will need a solid base from which to make an even evaluation. When it comes to using electricity, that it quite very simple. We turn to OHM’s Law and its formula P=ExI which signifies WATTS = VOLTAGE x Present, which generally implies, the electric energy you use is primarily based upon the voltage applied and the amperage consumed.
A standard electric space heater that runs on 120 volts commonly gives an output of 1500 watts of heat. The existing can be identified with the formula I=P/E or Existing = WATTS divided by VOLTAGE, which equates to 12.five amps = 1500 watts divided by 120 volts.
Since your electric company charges you for energy or watts, it does not matter if you use 120v or 240v to provide 1500 watts of heat. If your utility corporation charges 14 cents per kilowatt hour, this suggests you spend 14 cents for each hour exactly where you consume 1000 watts or 1KW. If you employed the 1500 watt (1.5 KW) heater for 1 hour, that is equal to 1.5 KW x.14 = 21 cents per hour.
Next, let’s formulate the space size this 1500 watts can heat. The worlds accepted heating unit is called the BTU (British Thermal Unit). When figuring out the BTU’s provided by any electrical heating supply, basically multiply the watts by 3.413 and the resulting number is the BTU’s. In our case 1500 watts x three.413 = 5119.5 BTU’s.
There is no set level of how several BTU’s are required to heat your area. For example, if you reside in a northern state, winter temperatures can very easily keep in the teens or single digits for days on end. You would need to add 50 to 60 degrees of heat to the air to maintain a 65 to 70 degree area temperature. Alternatively, if you live in a southern state, winter temperatures can effortlessly keep in the thirties or forties most days. You would need to have to add only 30 to 40 degrees of heat to the air to sustain a 65 to 70 degree space temperature.
To resolve troubles with temperature variations, we’ll introduce a temperature zone multiplier of 40 for cold climates, 25 for moderate climates and ten for warmer climates. Add ten a lot more if the home is poorly insulated and add ten a lot more if there are terrible seals on the windows and doors.
To commence calculating the BTU’s required for any space, you 1st will need to get its square footage by multiplying the rooms length by its width. A ceiling height of 8 feet is assumed. To compensate for taller ceilings, raise the square footage by 12% for each additional foot of ceiling height. For example, a 12 x 12 space is equal to 144 square feet. If the ceiling height were 9 feet we would multiply 144 x 1.12 for a total of 161 square feet.
Now, depending upon your temperature zone, multiply your square footage by your temperature zone multiplier. Applying our instance, if we have been living in a northern state, we would multiply 144 square feet x 40 for a total requirement of 5760 BTUH’s for that room. This is just brief of the 5120 BTU provided by a 1500 watt electric heater, but it ought to suffice in most situations. If the home isn’t insulated nicely and has concerns with air leakage, a second or larger heater would be required.
Meanwhile, any claim by an electric heater manufacturer that says their heater will heat 300 to 1000 square feet signifies nothing if there is no reference to the outside temperature or situation of the area. The present version of the funds saving electric heater says it can heat 1000 square feet, but it makes use of less than 1500 watts. Our previous example shows how this could be marginal even for a 144 square foot space, let alone 1000 square feet. Making use of our same instance, a 1000 square foot space at 40 BTUH per square foot would call for approx 40,000 BTU of heat. To decide the watts, we divide that by 3.413 to get 11720 watts, which is practically eight instances greater in size than the wattage offered by the funds saving heater.
OK, so now we know how and why a 1500 watt electric heater will heat an average area size of 12 x 12 by delivering 5120 BTU’s of heat power using approx 6.25 amps even though plugged into a 120 volt outlet.
If your $400 to $600 heater says it supplies 1500 watts, it will do certainly practically nothing different than what a $60 heater can do by supplying the very same 1500 watts. If you set either heater in the space that also involves the thermostat for your entire home heating method, you will minimize your houses overall fuel consumption because the thermostat will not sense the have to have to activate the heating system. Shop LC’s recalled electric heater can save money, but the rest of the rooms in your residence could freeze.
As an experiment, let’s say we operated a $60 1500 watt electric heater 16 hours a day, for 4 months in winter, what would you pay? 16 hours x 7 days x four.25 weeks per month x 4 months = 1904 hours x 1.five KW per hour = 2856 KWH. At 14 cents per KWH, the total price for energy would be $400 plus a further $60 for the heater for a total of $460 in all.
Now, let’s say we ran a $500 1500 watt electric heater 16 hours a day, for 4 months straight, what would this cost? 16 hours x 7 days x four.25 weeks per month x four months = 1904 hours x 1.5 KW per hour = 2856 KWH. At 14 cents per KWH, your total expense for energy would be $400 plus another $500 for the heater for a total of $900 in all.
Here’s the basic answer…
If you take the $900 spent to heat a space with a ‘money saving’ heater and then minus the $460 you truly only required to commit by applying a standard heater, you have been overcharged by $440 which you have unknowingly donated to Amish farmers or to Bob and his sponsors. It really is an American tradition to make donations, but if you are going to make a donation, you should really be informed that it is a donation. | <urn:uuid:6469bce6-596e-4810-9d0c-c5fb7f6ac094> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nox-emulator.com/learn-the-truth-about-income-saving-electric-heaters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.930001 | 1,460 | 2.4375 | 2 |
South Beach is a located in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, in the United States of America. The South Beach area consists all of the Barrier Islands of Miami Beach but South of Indian Creek.
BEGINNING OF 1980s
South Beach began as a farmland but over the years went through natural and man-made changes. The Great Miami hurricane devastated the area the most causing damages in the tens of millions of dollars. The national depression had also affected businesses. At the beginning of the 1980s, crime had taken hold on the beach. Reports of burglary and other petty crimes had been on a steady rise. Fidel Castro, then president of Cuba, began shipping transporting prisoners to the area during the Mariel Boatlift which aggravated the situation as crime worsened. South Beach, at the time, was also infamous for drugs dealings. Much of the drugs circulating in the Miami area were sourced from South Beach.
Amidst the drugs and crime lived retirees. Retirees were settled in the South Beach area as an attempt to compensate for the decline of tourism that occurred in the years preceding the 1980s. Hotel owners and landlords began catering for retirees of the middle-to-lower classes, as the wealthier renters fled the area to other parts of Miami. The image of South Beach had begun to dwindle and was known as an area for poor retirees. Some even joked that South Beach was where people go to die. The image was a different as compared to what it is known as now.
MID-TO-LATE 1980s AND EARLY 1990s
The mid-1980s breathed new life into the area. This was in large part due to the influx of homosexuals. Gay night clubs were opened and ruled the night life. People flooded the area for the nightlife and eventually settled there. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, South Beach had turned into a fun, creative international destination. Aided by the rise in air transportation, the area attracted tourists from all over the United States.
By mid-1990s South Beach had been known as the place where homosexuals settled. According to a 1996 report published in The New York Times claimed that gay men who were diagnosed with HIV relocated to South Beach to spend their last days, favored for its warm weather, affordable housing, and the easygoing lifestyle of the residents. The real market was the biggest gainer from the arrival of the homosexuals.
Gianni Versace, the Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, moved to South Beach in 1992 after spending some time there for work on a movie set. He settled in this area by building a castle that became his home. His arrival attracted A-list celebrities, supermodels, and artist to South Beach. By the late 1990s, South Beach was him came A-list celebrities. The South Beach A-list status was cemented during this time. This was even more pronounced when the South Beach influence started becoming visible in the designs of the $800 million Versace designs. This fun, easygoing lifestyle of South Beach went on until 1997.
In 1997, a spree killer, Andrew Cunanan terrorized different states in the United States. He was alleged to be responsible for the murders of four men spanning four states. The killer traveled to South Beach in search of Gianni Versace. After being stalked by Andrew Cunanan for a few days, he was fatally shot at the stairs of his home on his way to his morning jog. The killing sent shockwaves through the area. Crime was not new in South Beach, but none was as publicized as the murder of Gianni Versace. The death of Gianni Versace marked the end of an era where South Beach was most glamorous and vibrant.
THE 21st CENTURY
South Beach in the 21st century is largely defined by its annual events. The events showcase arts, music, and food, the three main ones being the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Winter Music Conference/Miami Music Week, and Art Basel Miami Beach (Leddick, David, Winslow, and Mason, 58). The Urban Beach Week is also an event that attracts a large number of beachgoers and packs hotel rooms. Started in 2001, the event is predominantly for and by African Americans. It started small but has over the years attracted many hip-hop acts yearly which grew the crowds. As successful as the event is, it has caused racial wars in South Beach with race-based parties organized. In 2011, an African American man was shot dead during the week of the event. Some claimed this to be a hate crime by the police. The following year, police barricaded the South Beach area, and passes were not offered to African Americans. This negatively affected the event attendance in recent years.
In 2014, hotel bookings were down by 25% compared to 2011. Other local businesses have also been affected by the decline of tourism with some closing down. There have been many reasons cited for the decline of South Beach. However, many reports have indicated that racism and corruption are the main causes for the state of the beach today.
By definition, tourism involves the movement of people out of their communities for business, educational purposes or leisure. Beach tourism is the movement of people to coastal beaches, usually for leisure. Beaches are favored for the weather that accompanies regions adjacent to large water bodies.
THE HISTORY OF BEACH TOURISM
Between the 1980s and today, beach tourism has grown. This is mainly because of change in lifestyle. The preference to travel rather when free rather than stay at home is more than was exhibited in previous generations. Travel costs are also significantly cheaper as compared to previous years. Budget airlines in particular made it possible for much of the population to places that were virtually unreachable before. The popularity of South Beach as a tourist destination began in the 1920s after infrastructure in the area became suitable for automobile traffic. As the years passed more tourist attractions sites, especially during the architectural revolution, were constructed and attracted even more people. In the late 1970s, the architecture that had survived the takeover by developers in South Beach was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In the last 30 years, gentrification of South Beach has been on the rise (Leddick, David, Winslow, Mason, 23). Hotels are affordable to most tourists as many of them were built to accommodate the lower middle class group of people. As the wealthy travel to South Beach to buy condominiums that go into the millions, the lower class has access to thousands of hotel and motel rooms available. Today, the South Beach part of Miami Beach is a world renowned beach destination popular with tourists from the Western Hemisphere. Some of the tourists have purchased second or permanent homes in the location.
IMPACT OF SOUTH BEACH TOURISM ON MIAMI
South Beach is one of the most frequented beaches in the world. According to an article published in February of 2015 in the Miami Times News, 97.3 million people visited Florida last year, with about 70% of them going to South Beach. This number is expected to rise. The influx of tourists has an impact on the surrounding areas. Tourism is the number one industry in Miami. Tourism accounts for the most tax revenue which is turn used for the city and states major projects.
South Beach tourism has led to the preservation of culture and cities in Miami. As tourists are in South Beach, they visit other areas in Miami that have culture. A prime example is Little Havana. Increased tourism has made it possible for the area to be declared a UNESCO Heritage Site.
Tourism is South Beach has also led to increased employment opportunities (Bhatia, 65). People travel to South Beach from other areas in Miami search of employment. Employment improves living standards of the people and leads to a decrease in criminal activities. Other businesses in the area also thrive as a result of employment opportunities as people have increased purchasing power. The local economy in South Beach has been boosted by the booming tourism sector in South Beach. Local businesses, for example coffee shops, restaurants and art shops experience increased business by the influx of tourists. This in turn boost small businesses also leading to an improved living standard and subsequent decrease in crime.
As much as there are positive impacts of tourism in South Beach for Miami, there have been some negative impacts. Drugs have been a problem in the area for decades. The presence of a large number of tourists makes the business of drug peddling that much simpler as there is a ready market. New forms of synthetic drugs are distributed in South Beach and many of them coming in from areas around Miami. In 2015, a ring of drug deal was cracked open. Hundreds of Kilos of euphoric synthetic drugs were ceased. The drugs, which can lead to death, had a large market in wealthy partygoers in South Beach. Later in 2015, $41 Million worth of drugs was ceased in Miami Beach. Law enforcement is yet to combat this issue.
With a large number of people traveling to South Beach, traffic is bound to increase. Traffic in Miami; according to a report in Time magazine published in 2014, Miami had the 7th worst traffic in the United States. Hours lost in traffic by residents of Miami account for hundreds of millions of dollars in losses due to time wastage. The same report stated that a trip that would take 30 minutes takes more than double the time. Traffic is caused by the large number of tourists in the area.
HOTELS IN SOUTH BEACH
South Beach boasts hundreds of hotels catering to all classes and people of different types. These types include boutique hotels, business hotels, extended stay hotels, beach resorts, casino hotels, home-stays, and conference and convention stays. Hotels that have the highest number of tourists in South Beach are the boutique hotels, condo hotels, and beach resorts.
Small hotels that have a small number of rooms, typically not exceeding 100 rooms but not less than 10, are boutique hotels. Boutique hotels have a personal feel as compared to bigger hotels and an enveloping atmosphere. A boutique hotel can stand alone or is part of a larger group of hotels but caters to guests who prefer the atmosphere of it. The types of hotels are located in urban settings. They can be adjacent to a busy street therefore guests can be absorbed into the day-to-day culture of the area. This is one of the reasons why a large percentage of tourists to South Beach choose boutique hotels. Regarding service, the smaller the hotel, the better the service is likely to be. Boutique hotels in South Beach have a high standard of customer service. This is because it is easier to satisfy the needs of a few people as compared to many people. The hotel staff is also able to attend to hotel guest needs faster because of the size if the hotel and number of guests as compared to larger hotels. This is another reason tourists visiting South Beach pick boutique hotels.
Boutique hotels attract tourists who wish to be immersed in the day-to-day activities of the city which is made possible by its location. As they are located within the cities, they are sometimes located next to commercial buildings. These types of hotels are also favored by those that travel outside of South Beach for tourism. Location in the city translates to adjacency to transportation available in the city, for example, the public bus system. Middle to lower class people prefer boutique hotels because they are usually cheaper that condo hotels and resorts, with closeness to the beach being a determining factor. The Boutique hotels in South Beach include Bars B&B South Beach Boutique Hotel and SLS South Beach. These two hotels are ranked among the top ten best in Miami Beach by ratings from tourists.
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Enforce semver management in git repositories
Semver Git Hook
Works with python 3.6+
First, install the tool using python ecosystem :
pip install --user semver-git-hook
Then set the hook in your current folder git repository :
That is all. Now on commit a release version type is asked interactively.
On commit some version change will be saved in a .version file. It is automatically added to the current commit.
With this enabled you have your project version set in the
.version file that it is possible to dynamically load to your dev environment versionning settings.
For exemple in python the
setup.py can look like
# setup.py with open('.version') as f: version = f.read() setup( #... version=version, #... )
//That can be a version.js file that is triggered in .git/hooks/pre-commit const f = require('fs') const version = f.readFileSync('.version', 'utf-8') const package = JSON.parse(f.readFileSync('package.json', 'utf-8')) package.version = version f.writeFileSync('package.json', JSON.stringify(package, null, 4))
It is possible to change
.version file location by setting a prefix in it's path. The file will be located at
SEMVER_HOOK_PATH_PREFIX is an environment variable.
Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.
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Welcome to our new maths block which consolidates previous learning about fractions.
For this block, we will be using White Rose Maths Home Learning resources which uses a short video to help you through the learning activities. Please complete the questions in your home learning book, drawing out tables and diagrams or you may choose to print the sheet and write the answers on the sheet.
Please only complete what you feel you and your family can manage.
Lessons can be found using this link using the drop down menu Summer Week 1 w/c 20th April ...
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Financial Aid is designed to assist students in meeting the costs of attending college. Financial assistance includes several types of aid: grants, scholarships, student loans, veterans services, and the option to setup a payment plan.
Apply for Financial Aid
An eligible student may now receive a full Federal Pell Grant for Summer Semester, even if they received a full Federal Pell Grant during the fall and spring semesters! In order to be eligible for Year Round Pell, students must have an eligible EFC and meet the necessary enrollment requirements.
Anyone interested in financial aid information may contact the Financial Aid Office. All financial assistance is awarded without regard to the student's race, religion, national origin, age, sex, or disability.
Complete your application to ensure your financial aid is in place by the beginning of the semester.
Students whose aid is already setup do not need to reapply for the same academic year. You only need to reapply for the coming year if you haven’t already.
When applying for Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), you will need to provide Surry Community College's Title IV school code, which is 002970. Surry Community College also requires satisfactory academic progress of all students receiving financial aid.
Withdrawal from classes after aid is accessed can result in repayment of aid to school.
Year-round Pell allows students to receive up to 150 percent of a regular grant award over the course of the academic year so that they can continue taking classes in the summer and finish their degrees faster than they would otherwise. With careful planning, Pell Grant recipients may take advantage of this new regulation to earn their degree faster.
The provisions of the new law state that any Pell Grant received will be included in determining the student's Pell Grant duration of eligibility and Lifetime Eligibility Used (LEU).
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EPA Endorses "Tulloch Rule"
June 1, 2001
In April, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved forward with a final regulation to strengthen wetlands' protection. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers estimate that since a 1998 court ruling found that the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not regulate "incidental fallback" (excavated material that falls back to substantially the same place as the initial removal), at least 20,000 wetland acres have been degraded or destroyed, and 150 miles of streams channelized without environmental review or mitigation. The "Tulloch Rule," signed by EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, will help stem the loss of the nation's wetlands by clarifying the types of activities that are likely to result in a discharge of dredged material regulated under the CWA. | <urn:uuid:9083836c-65ad-41fd-9272-ce5ad27a0923> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thedriller.com/articles/85446-epa-endorses-tulloch-rule | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950283 | 171 | 2.875 | 3 |
July 10, 2012— -- If you're looking to cut calories, you might start by cutting your food into smaller pieces. So suggests a study reported Tuesday in Zurich, Switzerland, at the international conference for the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior.
Arizona State University researchers gave 301 hungry college students either a whole bagel or the same bagel cut into four separate pieces. Twenty minutes later, both groups of students were treated to a free lunch.
What the researchers found was that the college students in both groups ended up eating roughly the same amount of each bagel; however the students that ate the bagel cut in four pieces ate roughly 25 percent less of their free lunch than the students who ate the uncut bagel.
The phenomenon appeared to hold true in animals as well. As part of the same study, the researchers also found that when hungry rats were given a choice to look for food either as a single large pellet or 30 small pellets, the rats ran faster and more frequently to the small pellets.
"Cutting up energy-dense meal foods into smaller pieces may be beneficial to dieters who wish to make their meal more satiating while also maintaining portion control," lead study author Devina Wadhera said in a news release.
Wadhera and her colleagues are not the first researchers to examine the link between the way food is presented and how much of it we actually choose to eat. In 2005, Prof. Brian Wansink of Cornell University and colleagues devised an experiment in which subjects ate from soup bowls that, unbeknownst to them, continually refilled as they ate. These participants consumed 73 percent more soup than their counterparts eating from regular bowls -- even though they did not realize they had done so.
In another study in 2004, Barbara Rolls of the University of Pennsylvania found that increasing the size of a sandwich actually caused subjects to eat more calories, regardless of their hunger or satiety.
With regard to the current study, Keith Ayoob, associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, said that it's likely that eating four separate pieces might trick you into thinking that you are having four separate portions, whereas one whole piece is thought of as a single portion.
He said that this is similar to other ways our brains can influence our eating. For example, we take larger sips and drink more when a beverage is served in a larger container and eat more when food is served on a larger plate.
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Climate change demands dramatic and immediate shifts in how we design and use buildings. Urban Green is laser-focused on helping New York City achieve an 80 percent carbon reduction by 2050 and exporting our solutions globally. Our three-year plan prioritizes four key strategies:
Nearly 85 percent of existing buildings are likely to be with us in 2050, so driving down their energy use is essential to addressing climate change. NYC’s groundbreaking emissions law passed in 2019 affects 50,000 large buildings and will drive unprecedented growth in the retrofit market. Urban Green uses all its levers – education, policy and research – to help reach this formidable goal... READ MORE.
Our policy work drives green building progress in New York City and beyond. By improving codes, we can make every current and future building more sustainable. By engaging stakeholders, we fashion energy and climate solutions that work for the environment, communities and the bottom line. Our efforts have helped transform New York City’s green building landscape as well as the city’s building policies to be the most efficient and resilient in the nation... READ MORE.
Sustainable buildings require educated professionals at every level—design, construction, management and operations. Since our inception, Urban Green has been a pioneer in sustainability training. We develop and deliver best-in-class educational programs that teach practitioners the skills they need to create and run high-performance buildings... READ MORE.
As a global city, we have the opportunity and obligation to participate on the global stage. To curb emissions, cities around the world must implement innovative green building policies and practices now. By exporting New York City’s leading-edge climate solutions to other cities, Urban Green can scale and accelerate climate action... READ MORE. | <urn:uuid:8c9b8a0b-3caa-443c-88cd-b066056c3892> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.urbangreencouncil.org/strategies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.92864 | 350 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Graze meets Art Attack
ToucanBox is a subscription-based children’s craft company that delivers letterbox-sized kits for children aged three to eight. “It’s a treasure trove of activities straight to your door,” says co-founder and CEO Virginie Charlès-Dear.
The former Yahoo executive and mother-of-three came up with the idea when she was on maternity leave. “I wanted to entertain my three-year-old in a productive way, but the available products were not sparking any sort of creativity,” she says.
The brightly coloured kits sell for just under £6 each and are packed with games, stories and puzzles. Crucially, each kit comes complete.“You don’t need to save 24 ice lolly sticks to create the activities,” she says.
It’s easy to start selling something online but very few people make a living from it.
Virginie Charlès-Dear, ToucanBox
Toys delivered by post
Initially Charlès-Dear and co-founder Sara Barokas, a Montessori-method teacher, started selling online, funded entirely by their savings. But they soon realised there was a real market.
“We had proper customers coming to the site – not just friends and family” explains Charlès-Dear.
The co-founders knew that to make money, the business had to scale up. “It’s easy to start selling something online but very few people make a living from it.”
As a direct-to-customer business, the company couldn’t benefit from the scale of a retail chain. So the duo set about raising capital to fund their scale-up journey. “We started talking to angels who loved the idea, and in just a few months we raised £1m” says Charlès-Dear.
Among the early angels were the founders of Graze and Innocent Drinks. The capital was put into developing the product. But “it wasn’t just about the money, it was about the network,” she says.
Charlès-Dear believes this early advice helped steer them in the right direction. “The angels helped us avoid mistakes that we would have definitely made – they also fast-tracked some of the progress,” she explains.
Refining the market fit
After the angel round, the next two years were all about developing the products and working on market fit. “We spent a lot of time talking to customers, understanding what they liked, why they stayed, why they didn’t stay,” says Charlès-Dear.
And once they cracked the “perfect recipe”, she explains, this was the point they invested more and saw “rapid growth”. “By then we needed to scale in every possible way – the team, the operations, everything,” she says.
Moving to the next level
So two years ago, the company started looking for an investment partner that would help take them to the next level. BGF invested £2.6m in May 2016. The company then expanded from 10 to 35 people in a matter of months.
Along with deploying capital in new hires – such as appointing the former Graze chief technology officer (CTO) as their CTO – the company invested heavily in its tech.
“Though the product is very low-tech, in the background there is quite a lot of technology and IP,” Charlès-Dear explains. In fact, depending on their age, interests, preferences – every child receives a different box.
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IT services providers in Irvine often help businesses reduce complication in terms of file sharing through the introduction of cloud computing solutions.
With cloud computing, all you need is a dependable internet connection and the ability to use that connection. From a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop, all that is on a given network can then be accessed. Now, there are private, hybrid, and public cloud options that can be brought into play in this way.
Private Cloud Computing
Private cloud solutions may utilize an on-site server array and, perhaps, be more correctly characterized as an “intranet.” They would function very similarly to the internet and there may be an interface program that functions similarly to a browser.
Public Cloud Utility
A public solution, in contrast, would involve a cloud server array on which space is apportioned for a given business. Cloud server arrays are already massive and expanding. Right now, the largest server arrays are already well over a million servers— and they’re just getting bigger. IT services in Irvine can help your business determine whether the use of such solutions fits your model in a way that agrees with necessary security pertaining to operations or not.
That said, imagine you’re working with a business who is also on the same cloud. Transfer of data is essentially just an issue of permissions. The right MSP can help you interface with peers, partners, and clients on the cloud in a way that is less complicated and more secure than perhaps it’s ever been.
Hybrid Cloud Combination
A hybrid cloud solution would combine both the public solution and the private one. Basically, that which is especially sensitive or proprietary remains on the private cloud, while infrastructure and other things of a non-sensitive nature are hosted through public clouds.
Additional Cloud Advantages
Cloud computing reduces the need for on-site hardware, which additionally reduces cost. Between cost-reduction from reduced hardware expense, expedited file sharing, increased security, and access to greater computing power, there are a lot of things which recommend cloud computing for businesses both large and small.
As another example of a cloud advantage, consider Big Data, which uses the many servers in modern cloud arrays to process and manage exceptionally large data-sets in a way that is essentially instantaneous.
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Stress is often described as feeling overloaded, wound-up, tense and worried, and occurs when we face a situation where we feel challenged. Stress from time to time is a normal part of life at any age, and experiencing an optimal amount of stress can be helpful. Some stress can have benefits such as helping us to perform, motivating us to get things done, and challenging us to do things outside of our comfort zone. However when stress levels are more extreme and ongoing, things can feel overwhelming and can lead to problems with physical and mental health. It is important to identify when your child or teen is experiencing stress to help them manage effectively.
Identifying when your Child is Experiencing Stress
Understanding your child or teeagers triggers for stress can assist you to anticipate times where they may require additional support. Common stressors for children and teenagers can include school based issues such as a high workload, tests and transition points. Family changes such as moving house, a new sibling in the family, changes in parenting arrangements or tension at home may also be a source. Social issues can be difficult such as making friends, peer pressure, social media, and bullying. Personal stressors may also impact your child such as their experience of high expectations (from themself or externally), and as well as managing multiple commitments.
Be in tune to your child or teen’s warning signs that they may be experiencing stress. They may show that they are experiencing stress through:
- Mood changes – such as irritability, being argumentative, emotional ups and downs,
- Changes in behaviour – such a withdrawal from others, not taking care of themselves or their responsibilities like they normally do.
- Changes in eating or sleeping patterns – difficulty sleeping, fatigue or sleeping more than usual may indicate stress. Overeating or a loss of appetite may also indicate that your child may be having difficulty coping.
- Getting sick more often – stress may show up in physical symptoms.
Putting in place preventative and supportive strategies can help reduce the impact of these stressors and challenges. Some strategies to help reduce stress include
- Communicate – show understanding and support, be there to listen and support them with problem solving any difficulties.
- Exercise – can release feel good chemicals to assist in reducing stress, improving mood and confidence. Encourage your child to keep active and get outside and have fun.
- Support them to eat well – encourage a balanced diet and lots of water.
- Support a good sleep routine – to assist your child to manage stress. Children 6-12 years old require 10 hours sleep, whereas young people aged 12- 17 normally require between 8-10 hours sleep per night. Turning off devices at least 30-60 minutes before bed also assists with a more rested sleep.
- Encourage relaxation exercises – such as music, going for a walk, drawing, painting.
- Encourage activities for fun – playing, hobbies, sports, connecting with supportive friends.
- Model and encourage effective coping strategies – look after yourself too and share effective ways that you may have managed similar situations.
Accessing Professional Support
Supporting your child to access professional support to assist in managing stress can be helpful. Speaking with your General Practitioner (GP) as a starting point and engaging with a Psychologist can assist in supporting your child to develop skills and strategies to reduce stress and improve their wellbeing.
Make sure that you take time to look after yourself too. It may also be helpful for you to engage with a professional for your own support and to develop additional coping skills. If you feel that you or your child may require assistance, please contact us at Prosper Health Collective for further information on 6381 0071. | <urn:uuid:e15e29ac-9db2-474f-9062-98adb4203f4d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prosperhealthcollective.com.au/helping-your-teen-manage-stress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.957599 | 755 | 3.859375 | 4 |
5G NSA, as the name suggests, is a 5G service that does not ‘stand alone’ but is built over an existing 4G network , so involves the use of a shared core (4G ePC or 5GC) to connect both the 4G (LTE) and 5G (NR) radio networks.
While 5G SA, on the other hand, allows completely independent operation of a 5G service without any interaction with an existing 4G core , and relies completely on a new 5G Core
For 5G Sharing, the mode of 5G deployment either NSA or SA is a key design decision for a shared network and of course most operators are using 5G NSA approach, as it allows having a more extensive coverage thanks to the dual connectivy features and also given the fact that it can be deployed more rapidly than 5G SA.
- MORAN (Multi-Operator Radio Access Network) requires that operators have their own 2G, 3G or LTE License and share RAN infrastructure in a specific geographical area. The operators use their own dedicated spectrum in the shared area and transmit their own PLMN
- MOCN (Multi-operator core network ) goes a step further; operators run their network on a common RAN and a shared pool of spectrum
However, in the context of active sharing, 5G NSA poses a major challenge. In fact, launching 5G NSA with active sharing requires operators to use the same vendor in their 4G and 5G RAN as we see in the figure below :
As we know 3GPP has standardised the X2 interface but the implementation is vendor proprietary. Consequently the 5G NR Vendor needs at least one anchor LTE layer for the X2 interface to thats need to be for the same RAN vendor established for NSA Option 3x
If operators would like to have 5G only RAN Sharing and enodeb and gnodeb are not within the same RAN vendor, the 5G NSA RAN Sharing cannot be implemented and ony 5G SA RAN Sharing can be done.
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Roebuck attempted to console his master with men are wont, on his family name: and on his the display of the honours that would be shown asking what the fellows meant by their impuhim aboard the brig, when his quality should be dence, a scholar from Oxford, of whom he indiscovered. Then, taking advantage of a shoal quired it, one who liked the logic of princes better of porpoises, that rolled and darted in every direc- than that of pedants, told him they wished to tion round the boat, he showed them to Sir Mag- express by their words and gestures that he was, nus, who turned pale at seeing them so near him. in the phrase of Horace, ad unguem factus.
Never be frightened at a parcel of bots !” cried “I do not approve of any phrases," answered he, Roebuck.
somewhat proudly, “and pray, sir, tell them so.” “ Bots! what, those vast creatures ?”
“ Sir !” said Roebuck in his “ although Ay, surely,” said one of the sailors. “ The sea- you may be somewhat disappointed in the measure horses void them by millions in a moment: you of respect paid to you aboard, you will be compenmay sometimes see a thousand of them sticking sated on landing." on a single hair of their tails."
Sir Magnus thought hereby that his tenants “ Do those horses come within sight then?” would surely bring him pullets and chines. As said Sir Magnus tremulously.
they approached the coast, “I told you, sir !" “Only when they are itchy,” answered the exclaimed he. « Look at the bonfire on the very mariner; "and then they contrive to slip between edge of the sands! they could not make it nearer a boat and a brig, and crack a couple or three at a you.” A fire was blazing, and there were loud time of these troublesome little insects."
huzzas as the ship entered the port. Sir Magnus said something to himself about the “I would still be incog. if possible,” said Sir wonders of the great deep, and praised God for Magnus, hollowing his cheeks and voice, and rehaving kept hitherto such a breed of bots out of covering to himself a great part of his own estihis stables. He began to see clearly how fitted mation. “ Give the good men this money; and everything is to the place it occupies; and how tell them in future not to burn a serviceable boat certainly these creatures were created to be killed for me, in want of brushwood. I will send them between brigs and boats.
a cart-load of it another time, on due application.” Meditations must have their end, though they The people were caulking a fishing-smack : they reach to Heaven.
took the money, hooted at Sir Magnus, and turned Great as had been the consternation of Sir again to their labour. Magnus at the sight of the porpoises, and at the After the service of the day, the king of Eng. probability that a hair of some stray marine horse, land was always pleased to watch the ships coming covered over with them, might lie between him over, to observe the soldiers debarking, and to and the river; greater still was it, if possible, at learn the names of the knights and esquires who approaching the brig, and discerning the two De successively crossed the channel. He happened Ardens. “What can they want with me?” cried to be riding at no great distance; and ordered he. “ I am resolved not to go home with them.” one of his attendants to go and bring him infor
Roebuck raised his spirits, by swearing that mation of the ship and her passengers, particunothing of the kind should happen, while he had larly as he had seen some stout horses put ashore. a drop of blood in his veins. “Hark! Sir Knight!” This knight was an intimate friend of De Arden said he. “ Observe how the two young gentle. the father, and laughed heartily at the adventure, men are behaving."
as related by Humphrey. He repeated it to the Gaily indeed did they accost him, and impe- king, word for word, as nearly as he could. riously cried they to the crew, “ Make way for “Marry!” said the king. “Three fat horses, with Sir Magnus Lucy."
a bean-field (I warrant) in each, are but an in“ Behold, sir, your glorious name hath already adequate price for such a name. I doubt whether manifested itself,” said Ralph.
we have another among us that was in any deA rope-ladder was let down; and the brothers gree noble before the Norman conquest. We knelt, and inclined their bodies, and offered their ourselves might have afforded three decent ones, hands to aid him in mounting. “Here are ho- in recompense for the dominion and property of nours paid to my master !” said Roebuck exult- nearly one whole county, and that county the ingly. Sir Magnus himself was highly gratified fairest in England. Let the boys make the with his reception, and resolved to defer his in- knight show his prowess, as some of his family terrogatory on the course they seemed to be have done. I observe they ride well, and have taking. He was startled at dinner-time when the prudence to exercise their horses on their first the captain with strange familiarity entitled him debarking, lest they grow stiff and lose their “ Sir Mag.” The following words were even appetite. Tell them I shall be glad to hear of more offensive ; for when the ship rolled some- them, and then to see them.” what, though moderately, the trencher of Sir Sir Magnus, the moment he set foot on shore, Magnus fell into his lap; and the captain cried, was welcomed to land by Roebuck. No, no! “Nay, nay, Sir Mag! as much into gullet as rogue Ralph !” said he, nodding. “I know the gullet will hold, but clap nothing below the girdle.” Avon when I see it. Here we are . : .
None of He protested he had no design to secrete any- your mummery, good people,” cried he, somewhat thing. The sailors played and punned, as low angrily, when several ragged French, men, women,
and children, asked him for charity. “ We will, decrees we should render our best services to our have no Babel here, by God's blessing."
country. Your three horses followed you for idle Soon came forward two young knights, and pomp; vanity prompted you to appear what you told him it was the king's pleasure he should pitch are not." his tent above Eu, on the right of this same river Very wrong, Ralph !” Brete.
“ And yet, Sir Magnus, if you had not com. Youngsters !” cried he arrogantly, “I shall mitted this action, which in your pious and reapitch nothing; neither tent (whatever it may be) sonable humility you call very wrong, perhaps nor quoit nor bar. Know ye, I am Sir Magnus three gallant youths (for Sir Magnus Lucy by Lucy of Charlecote."
God's grace shall be the third) had remained at The young knights, unceremoniously as he had home in that sad idleness, which leads to an treated them, bowed profoundly, and said they unprivileged and tongue-tied old-age. We are bore the king's command, leaving the execution now in France” of it to his discretion.
Ralph ! Ralph !” said Sir Magnus, “ be serious “ The king's,” repeated he. “What have I still. Faith! I can hardly tell when thou art and done? Has that skipping squirrel of an under- when thou art not, being so unsteady a creature." sheriff been at the king's ear about me?"
“Sir Magnus, I repeat it, we are now in NorThey could not understand him; and, telling mandy or Picardy, I know not rightly which, him that it would be unbecoming in them to where the king also is, and where it would be investigate his secrets, made again their obeis- unseemly if any English knight were not. The i ance, and left him. He then turned toward eyes of England and of France are fixed upon us. Ralph ; the polar star in every ambiguity of his Here we must all obey, the lofty as well as the
humble.” “Honoured master, Sir Magnus !" answered “Obey ? ay, to be sure, Ralph! Thou wilt Ralph," let no strife be between us, nor ill blood, obey me: thou art not great enough to obey the that alway maketh ill counsels boil uppermost in king: therefore set not thy heart upon it."
Ralph smiled and replied, “I offered my “ Roebuck !" said the knight, surveying him service to the young De Ardens, which they grawith silent admiration, now speakest thou ciously accepted. As however they have their soundly and calmly; for thou hast taken time in own servants with 'em, if you, my honoured mas the delivery thereof, and communed with thyself, ter, can trust me, who have more than once de before thou didst trust the least trustworthy of ceived you, but never to your injury, I will with thy members. But I do surmise from thy man- their permission continue to serve you, and that ner, and from the thing spoken, that thou hast right faithfully. Whatever is wanting to the somewhat within thee which thou wouldst utter dignity of your appearance is readily purchased yet."
in this country, from the many trafficken who “Worshipful sir!” subjoined Ralph, “although follow the camp, and from the great abundance of I do not boast of my services, as who would? yet, Normandy. So numerous too are the servants truth is truth ; I have saved your noble neck who have lost their masters, you may find as many from the gallows; forasmuch as you took a name, as your rank requires, or your fortune can mainworshipful sir! which neither king nor father tain. There are handier men among them than ever gave you, and which belongeth to others I am; and I do not ask of you any place of trust rightfully. Now if both the name and the above my betters. Such as I am, either take me, horses had been found at once upon you, a mi. Sir Magnus, or leave me with the two brave lada." racle only could have saved you from that bloody- “ Ralph !" answered the knight, “ I can not do minded under-sheriff. Providential was it for without thee; since I am here; as it seems I am!" you, sir knight, that those two young gentle- and he sighed. “ About those servants that have men, whether in mercy they counterfeited the lost their masters . . I wish thou couldst bare letter"..
held thy peace. I would not fain have such unNo, no, no! the priest's own brother wrote it: lucky varlets. But some of these masters, let us the priest deposed to the handwriting.”
hope, may be found. Thou dost not mean they “ Then,” said Ralph calmly, lifting up the are dead ; that is, killed !" palms of his hands toward Sir Magnus, “let us “Missing,” said Ralph, consolatorily. praise the Lord !”
“I thought so: I corrected thee at the time Hei-day ? Ralph! why! art even thou grown Now my three horses, the king being here, if devout? Verily this is a great mercy; a great thou speakest truth, I can have them up by er deliverance. I doubt whether the best part of it tiorari at his Bench.” (praised be the Lord nevertheless !) be not rather "They would be apt to leap it, I trow," replied for thee, than for such a sinner as I am. For Ralph, “with such riders upon their backs. Mas thou hast lost no horse; and yet art touched as if ter, be easy about them !" thou hadst lost a stud : thou hast not suffered in “ Ismael is very powerful: he could carry me the flesh; and yet thy spirit is very contrite." anywhere in reason," said Sir Magnus.
“ Master !” said Ralph, "only one thing is “Do not let the story get wind," answered his quite plain to me; which is, that Almighty God co ellor, " lest we never hear the end of it. I
promise you, my worthy master, you shall have | steed, worthy to bear a knight of distinction. Ismael again after the wars.”
My father,” said he, “made a song for himself, “He will have longer teeth, and fewer marks in in readiness at fair or market, when he had a his mouth, before that time," said sorrowfully Sir sorry jade to dispose of :Magnus.
" Who sells a good nag “ No bridle can hold him, when he is wilful,”
On his legs may fag replied Ralph ; “and although peradventure he
Until his heart be weary. might carry your Worship clean through the
Who buys a good nag,
And hath groats in his bag, enemy, once or twice, yet Ismael is not the horse
May ride the world over full cheery.'" to be pricked and goaded by pikes and arrows, without rearing and plunging, and kicking off
“ Comfortable thoughts, both of 'em !” said helmets by the dozen, nine ells from the ground. Sir Magnus. “I never sold my nags: and I have Let those Staffordshire lads break him in and groats enow .. if nobody do touch the same. bring him home.”
Not knowing well the farms about this country, “ Tell them so! tell them so !” said Sir Magnus, and the day being more windy than I could wish rubbing his hands. “ And find me one very strong it, and proposing still to remain for a while incogand fleet, and very tractable, and that will do nito, and being somewhat soiled in my apparel anything rather than plunge and rear at being by the accidents of the voyage, and furthermore pricked, if such bloody times should ever come my eyes having been strained thereby a slight over again in the world : for, as I never yet gave matter, it would please me, Roebuck, if thou any man cause to mock at me, I will do my wentest in search of the charger : the troublesome utmost to make all reverent of me, now I am near part of looking at his quarters, and handling the king.” Thus he spoke, being at last well him, and disbursing the moneys, I myself may, aware that he was indeed in France; although by God's providence, bring unto good issue.” he was yet perplexed in spirit in regard to his Ralph accepted the commission, and performed having been at Babel.
it faithfully and amply. He returned with two However, some time afterward he was likewise powerful chargers, magnificently caparisoned, and cured of this scepticism ; as by degrees men will told his master that he would grieve to the day of be on such points, if they seek the truth in humi- his death if he let either of them slip through lity of spirit. Conversing one day with Roebuck his fingers. Sir Magnus first asked the prices, and on past occurrences, he said, after a pause, “Ralph! then the names of them. He was informed that I have confessed unto thee many things, as thou one was called Rufus, and the other Beauclerc, likewise hast confessed many unto me; the which after two great English kings. Inquiring of manner of living and communing was very plea- Ralph the history of these English kings, and sant to the gentle saints Paul and Timothy. whether he had ever heard of them, and on the And now I do indeed own that I have seen men confession of Ralph in the negative, he was vexed in these parts beyond sea, and doubt not that and discontented, and told Ralph he knew nothing. there be likewise such in others, who in sundry The owner of the horses was very fluent in the matters have more of worldly knowledge than I history of the two princes ; which nearly lost him have . . knowledge I speak of, not of under- his customer ; for the knight shook his head, standing. In the vanity of my heart, having at saying he should be sorry to mount a beast of such that time seen little, I did imagine and surmise an unlucky name as Rufus : above all, in a country that Babel lay wider of us; albeit I could not where arrows were so rife. As for Beauclerc, he apon oath or upon honour say where or where- was unexceptionable. about. It pleased the Lord to enlighten me by “ A horse indeed !" cried Roebuck; “ in my signs and tokens, and not to leave me for the mind, sir ! Ismael is not fit to hold a candle to scorn of the heathen and the derision of the un- him." godly. Had I minded his word somewhat more, “I would not say so much as that," gravely and when in my self-sufficiency I thought I had majestically replied the knight: “ but this Beauminded little else and knew it off-hand, I should clerc has his points, Roebuck.” Sir Magnus purhave remembered that we pray every sabbath for chased the two horses, and acquired into the the peace of Jerusalem, and of Sion, and of bargain the two pages of history appertaining to Israel; meaning thereby (as the priest admo- their names; which, proud as he was of displaynishes the simpler of the congregation) our own ing them on all occasions, he managed less dexcountry, albeit other names have been given in terously. Before long he heard on every side the these latter days to divers parts thereof. By the most exalted praises of Humphrey and Henry ; same token I might have apprehended that Babel and, although he was by no means invidious, he lay at no vast distance.”
attributed a large portion of the merit to Ismael, Rochuck listened demurely, smacking his lips and appealed to Roebuck whether he did not at intervals like a carp out of pond, and looking once hear him say that Jacob too would show himgrave and edified. Tired however with this geo- self one day or other. Stimulated by the glory graphical discursion, burred and briared and his horses had acquired, horses bred upon his own braked with homilies, he reminded his master land, and by the notice they had attracted from that no time was to be lost in looking for a gallant our invincible Edward, under two mere striplings of half his weight, he himself within a week or have been eaten here by the dogs. Welladay, fortnight was changed in character. Sloth and and what harm ? Dogs at any time are better inactivity were no longer endurable to him. He beasts than worms, and should be served first.! exercised his chargers and himself in every prac- They love us, and watch us, and help us while we tice necessary to the military career; and at last are living : the others don't mind us while we are being presented to the king, Edward said to him good for anything. There are chaps, too, and that, albeit not being at Westminster, nor having feeding in clover, who think much as they do his chancellor at hand, he could not legally upon that matter. enforce the payment of the three angels, still due “Give me thy hand, Ralph! Tell my father I (he understood) as part of the purchase-money of have done my best. If thou findest a slash or sundry chargers, nevertheless he would oblige the two athwart my back and loins, swear to him, as gallant knight who bought them to present him thou safely mayest do on all the Gospels, and on on due occasion a pair of spurs for his acquit- any bone of any martyr, that they closed upon me tance.
and gave them when I was cutting my way The ceremony was not performed in the pre- through . . . aweary with what had been done sence of the king, whose affairs required him else- already. to lend my last service ... to our where, but in
presence of his glorious son, worthy master." after the battle of Cressy. Here Sir Magnus was Now, Messer Francesco, I may call upon you, surrounded, and perhaps would have fallen, being having seen you long since throw aside your gta still inexpert in the management of his arms, when vity, and at last spring up alert, as though you suddenly a young soldier, covered with blood, would mount for Picardy. rushed between him and his antagonist, whom he Petrarca. A right indeed have you acquired to levelled with his battle-axe, and fell exhausted. call upon me, Ser Geoffreddo; but you must Sir Magnus had received many bruises through accept from me the produce of our country. Brave his armour,
and noticed but little the event; men appear among us every age almost ; yet all many similar ones, or nearly so, having occurred of them are apt to look to themselves ; none will in the course of the engagement. Soon however hazard his life for another; none will trust his that quarter of the field began to show its herbage best friend. Such is our breed; such it always again in larger spaces; and at the distant sound was. In affairs of love alone have we as great a of the French trumpets, which was shrill, fitful, variety as you have, and perhaps a greater. I am and tuneless, the broken ranks of the enemy near by nature very forgetful of light occurrences, eren him, waved, like a tattered banner in the wind, of those which much amused me at the time; and and melted, and disappeared. Ralph had fought if your greyhound, Messer Geoffreddo, had not resolutely at his side, and, though wounded, was been laying his muzzle between my knees, urging little hurt. The knight called him aloud: at my attention, shivering at the cold of this unmathis voice not only Ralph came forward, but the ted marble, and treading upon my foot in prefer soldier, who had preserved his life, rolled round ence, I doubt whether you would ever have heard toward him. Disfigured as he was with blood from me the story I shall now relate to you. and bruises, Ralph knew him again: it was Peter It occurred the year before I left Avignon ; the Crosby of the bulrush. Sir Magnus did not find inhabitants of which city, Messer Giovanni will immediately the words he wanted to accost him : certify, are more beautiful than any others in and indeed though he had become much braver, France. he had not grown much more courteous, much Boccaccio. I have learnt it from report, and! more generous, or much more humane. He took believe it readily: so many Italians have resided him however by the hand, thanked him for hav- there so long, and the very flower of Italy : amering saved his life, and hoped to assist in doing ous poets, stout abbots, indolent priests, high-fed him the same good turn.
cardinals, handsome pages, gigantic halberdiers Roebuck in the meantime washed the several and crossbow-men for ever at the mark. wounds of his former friend and playmate, from a Petrarca. Pish! pish! let me find my way cow's horn containing wine; of which, as he had through 'em, and come to the couple I have before reserved it only against thirst in battle, few drops my eyes, and the spaniel that was the prime mover were left. Gashes opened from under the gore; in the business. which made him wish that he had left it untouched; Tenerin de Gisors knew few things in the and he drew in his breath, as if he felt all the pain world ; and, if he had known all therein, he would he awakened.
have found nothing so valuable, in his own esti“Well meant, Ralph! but prythee give over!” mation, as himself. The ladies paid much court said Crosby patiently. “ These singings in my to him, and never seemed so happy as in his prehead are no merry-makings."
sence : this disquieted him. "Master!... if you are there... I would liefer Boccaccio. How the deuce! he must have been have lain in Hampton churchyard among the a saint then : which accords but little with his skittles, or as near them as might be, so as not to vanity. spoil the sport : and methinks had it been a score Petrarca. You might mistake there, Giovanni! or two of years later, it were none the worse. The observation does not hold good in all cases, Howsoever, God's will be done! Greater folks I can assure you.
Boccaccio. Well, go on with him.
to return to Avignon, while she herself hid her Petrarca. I do think, Giovanni, you tell a story grief, it is said, with young Gasparin de l'Euf, in a great deal more naturally ; but I will say plainly the villa. Egidia was resolved to enjoy the first what my own eyes have remarked, and will let moments of freedom, and perhaps to show how the peculiarities of men appear as they strike me, little she cared for an unforgiving father. No one whether they are in symmetry with our notions however at Avignon, beyond the family, had yet of character, or not.
heard anything of his decease. The evening of Chaucer. The man of genius may do this : no her liberation she walked along the banks of the other will attempt it. He will discover the sym. Durance, with her favourite spaniel, which had metry, the relations, and the dependencies, of the become fat and unwieldy by his confinement, and whole : he will square the strange problematic by lying all day under the southern wall of the circle of the human heart.
garden, and, having never been combed nor washed, Pardon my interruption; and indulge us with exhibited every sign of dirtiness and decrepitude. the tale of Tenerin.
To render him smarter, she adorned him again Petrarca. He was disquieted, I repeat, by the with his rich silver collar, now fitting him no gaiety and familiarity of the young women, who, longer, and hardly by any effort to be clasped truly to speak, betray at Avignon no rusticity of about his voluminous neck. He escaped from her, reserve. Educated in a house where music and dragging after him the scarlet ribbon, which she poetry were cultivated, he had been hearing from had formed into a chain, that it might appear the his earliest days the ditties of broken hearts and richer with its festoons about it, and that she desperation : and never had he observed that might hold the last object of her love the faster. these invariably were sung under leering eyes, On the banks of the river he struggled with both with smiles that turned every word upside-down, paws to disengage the collar, and unhappily one and were followed by the clinking of glasses, a of them passed through a link of the ribbon. hearty supper, and what not! Beside, he was very Frightened and half-blind, he ran on his three handsome; men of this sort, although there are legs he knew not whither, and tumbled through exceptions, are usually cold toward the women; some low willows into the Durance. Egidia and he was more displeased that they should caught at the end of the ribbon; and, the bank share the admiration which he thought due to giving way, she fell with him into deep water. She himself exclusively, than pleased at receiving the had, the moment before, looked in vain for assistlarger part of theirs.
ance to catch her spaniel for her, and had cast a At Avignon, as with us, certain houses enter- reproachful glance toward the bridge, about a tain certain parties. It is thought unpolite and hundred paces off, on which Tenerin de Gisors was inconstant ever to go from one into another, I do leaning, with his arms folded upon the battlement. not mean in the same evening, but in your life- “Now," said he to himself, “ one woman at least time; and only the religious can do it without would die for me. She implored my pity before reproach. As bees carry and deposit the fecun- she committed the rash act . . as such acts are dating dust of certain plants, so friars and priests called on other occasions.” the exhilarating tales of beauty, and the hardly Without stirring a foot or unfolding an arm, he less exhilarating of frailty, covering it deeply with added pathetically from Ovid, pity, and praising the mercy of the Lord in per
Sic, ubi fata vocant, udis abjectus in herbis, mitting it for an admonition to others.
There are two sisters in our city (I forgot myself in calling Avignon so), of whom among friends We will not inquire whether the verses are the I may speak freely, and may even name them ; more misplaced by the poet, or were the more Cyrilla de la Haye, and Egidia. Cyrilla, the misapplied by the reciter. Tenerin now stepped younger, is said to be extremely beautiful: I never forward, both to preserve his conquest and add saw her, and few beside the family have seen her solemnity to his triumph. He lost however the lately. She is spoken of among her female friends opportunity of saving his mistress, and saw her as very lively, very modest, fond of reading and carried to the other side of the river by two stout of music: added to which advantages, she is peasants, who had been purchasing some barrels heiress to her uncle the Bishop of Carpentras, now in readiness for the vintage, and who placed her invested with the purple. For her fortune, and with her face downward, that the water might run for the care bestowed on her education, she is out of her mouth. He gave them a livre, on conindebted to her sister, who, having deceived many dition that they should declare he alone had saved respectable young men with hopes of marriage, the lady: he then quietly walked up to his neck was herself at last deceived in them, and bore in the stream, turned back again, and assisted (or about her an indication that deceived no one. rather followed) the youths in conveying her to During the three years that her father lived after the monastery near the city-gate. this too domestic calamity, he confined her in a Here he learned, after many vain inquiries, that country-house, leaving her only the liberty of a the lady was no other than the daughter of Philigarden, fenced with high walls. He died at bert de la Haye. Perpetually had he heard in Paris : and the mother, who fondly loved Egidia, every conversation the praises of Cyrilla ; of her went instantly and liberated her, permitting her beauty, her temper, her reserve, her accomplish
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Metal spikes massage rags, medium: 46X24 cm
Type: personal massage tools
Size: 46,2 x 24,8 cm, 12,5% Ag, needle step 6,8 mm. It is made of medical rubber with fixed needles in it.
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HOW TO WORK WITH MASSAGE CARPET?
In 90% it is necessary to affect a zone, which is concerned (a zone of pain) and to improve the effectiveness of treatment it is necessary to affect additional and auxiliary zones. The main condition of correct positioning is the even distribution of a body weight on all surface of the massage carpet. Never position rug on the absolutely flat surface. To position massage carpet correctly it is necessary to model carefully all the flexures of vertebral column in neck and waist parts with the help of cushions and rolls, pls see image below.
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This massage carpet is designed for complex therapy and prevention of various disorders and pathological conditions. Its characteristic features are unusual shape, large action area and movable “petals”. It can be used on a back, shoulder girdle, thorax, lumbosacral region, stomach, major joints. By attaching rug to various zones with the help of elastic bandages, a patient gets possibility to move actively during a treatment session. | <urn:uuid:6ebd903a-0462-4709-a93c-d404e2de6868> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.globalhealthlab.com/products/massage-rags-large | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.90997 | 1,052 | 1.578125 | 2 |
During the first months of World War II, nearly one thousand refugees and asylum seekers held in French internment camps sought the help of one man: Salomon Grumbach. Meredith Scott’s The Lifeline is a ground-breaking study of Grumbach, an Alsatian Jew, journalist, and socialist politician who became one of Europe’s most important interwar refugee advocates. Focusing on his remarkable life in Germany and France, it uncovers the identities that drove his international crusades for democracy and human rights. The Lifeline offers lessons that transcend national boundaries and historical moments, challenging us to rethink our ideas about resistance, mobilization, and activism.
Meredith Scott, Ph.D (2012), University of Delaware, is Assistant Professor of History at the US Air Force Academy. She has published articles on French Jewish history, including “Republicanism on the Borders: Jewish Activism and the Refugee Crisis in Strasbourg and Nice” (Urban History, 2016).
Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Foundations
1Hattstatt and beyond, the Early Years 1 Roots
2 Pre-War and Wartime Controversies
3 World War i
2Towards Reconciliation, 1918–1932 1 Contours of Public Engagement
2 Rapprochement & a Fragile Peace
3And When We Wake Up, It Will Be Too Late, 1932–1936 1 Sounding the Alarm
2 The Crisis of February 1934
3 The Crisis Begins
4Voices from the Abyss, 1936–1939 1 Deputy of Castres
3 Munich and beyond
4 Birth of the Internment Camp System
5Survival, 1939–1945 1 Establishment of Vichy and the Massilia Affair
Conclusion 1 Stability, Security, and Peace
Readership includes undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, academic libraries, institutes of higher education, and the public. Subject areas include: France, Jewish studies, 20th century Europe, human rights, refugees, and the Holocaust. | <urn:uuid:2634df0c-c970-4e84-9d43-fb15d3322e42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brill.com/view/title/58923 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.882409 | 426 | 3.34375 | 3 |
A committee chaired by the Hon. Minister Vasudewa to decide future of diesel – furnace oil
On a request made by the Hon. Dullas ALahapperuma, Minister of Power from the Cabinet of Ministers for minimizing the lapses that will be occurred in the present power generation plan , a Cabinet Sub-committee consists of the Ministers Hon. Vasudewa Nanayakkara, Hon. Bandula Gunawardhana and Hon. Ramesh Pathirana has been appointed.
Recommendations of the Cabinet sub-committee shall be submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers in two weeks’ time and the committee will meet for the first time at 3.00 p.m. on 29th March.
In the vision of splendour of prosperity it has been emphasized that 70% of the power generation shall be of renewable energy. Accordingly, the Ministry has adopted the policy of decreasing the use of diesel and furnace oil up to 5% by 2025 and up to 1% by 2030. Within this policy framework, it will be specifically consider about the future of the diesel and
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Title: Photograph of woman working on a floor mosaic
Date: 1940 November 30
Physical Details: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Description: Identification on verso (handwritten): Petrachrome Process (Canoga Park Murals Photoed Nov. 30 1940
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Photograph of woman working on a floor mosaic, 1940 November 30. Photographs relating to the WPA Southern California Art Project, circa 1937-1941. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Elsewhere, I have pointed to the necessity of historically and sociologically understanding the emergence of what is loosely termed as ‘Islamic radicalism’ in Indonesia. I have advocated infusing the mostly political culture-based literature with insights gained from some of the research on a range of societies in the Middle East and North Africa (Halliday 1979, Skocpol 1982, Ayubi 1995, Lubeck 1998, Halperin 2005, Colas 2004, Bayat 2007). These have been more political economy-oriented as well as historical-sociological in their concerns (Hadiz 2008). I have suggested that such an exercise would involve less analysis of religious doctrine or culture than of the socio-historical contexts that have given rise to varying types of political Islam. Following this suggestion, analysis would be focussed on the historical moulding of Islamic ideologies, politics and on the shifting social bases of political Islam in different societies. Islamic politics would be assessed in relation to such developments as the outcomes of the social conflicts of the Cold War-era, the evolution of state power since early post-colonialism, changes in the social landscape related to different phases of capitalist development and to the societal contradictions emanating from greater incorporation into global capitalism. In some ways, such an approach takes its cue from Rodinson (2007; 1966), who four decades ago attempted to explain the underdevelopment of capitalism in the Arab world through a host of historical, sociological, political and economic considerations, which together trump those that have to do with religious doctrine as such.
In this essay, however, I would like achieve the more modest aim of showcasing some of the varieties of Islamic politics in Indonesia beyond the traditional and rather unhelpful dichotomy of ‘moderate’ versus ‘radical’. I hope that this might strengthen the point which should be continually made that Islamic politics is a much more diverse and complex phenomenon than is usually granted by analyses churned out by terrorism experts whose security-oriented concerns have virtually usurped research on the subject in Indonesia and elsewhere in recent years (Hamilton-Hart 2005). Nevertheless, these differences do not point to a battle of ideas within Islam taking place in a social vacuum. It should be kept in mind that they have developed in relation to the socio-structural contradictions and changes alluded to earlier.
The aim is pursued via a discussion of three fairly recent works (two published in the Indonesian language and one in English) on discrete manifestations of Islamic politics in Indonesia today. All have been written by Indonesians, and all of whom are Muslim males. The first work is a book by M. Imdadun Rahmat, which analyses the Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS; Justice and Prosperity Party), certainly the most successful of the Islamic-oriented parties of Indonesia’s fairly recent democratic era so far. The author is a graduate of the Arabic Institute of the University of Muhammad Ibnu Saud in Saudi Arabia and an activist of NGOs linked with the Indonesian mass organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama, which has traditionally been rural-based, syncretically inclined — and regarded as a bastion of Islamic ‘moderation’ in the country. The second book, by Noorhaidi Hasan, discusses the now defunct Lasykar Jihad, a once feared paramilitary group that famously sent fighters to strife-torn Ambon and its surroundings about a decade ago to defend Muslims in armed conflict against their fellow Ambonese Christian neighbours. The author is a rising younger Indonesian academic who received his PhD in the Netherlands and whose book was published by Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Programme. Hasan’s work is of course better known internationally than the other two because of the language in which it was written. The third book, by Eko Prasetyo, is different in that it does not discuss a particular organisational entity, and is concerned with Islamic politics of a thoroughly different ideological ilk. It is an appeal for a kind of Leftist Islamic politics – and brings back to mind the once thriving but now virtually extinct social category of the Muslim as Leftist. The author is an NGO activist in Central Java, and is well known among student groups there.
It should go without saying that the ‘kinds’ of political Islam showcased in these works do not exhaust the range of variety that exists. Attention could have been given, for example, to the Indonesian ‘branch’ of the Hizbut Tahrir, a ‘pan-Islamic’ organisation formed in Palestine in 1953, with a presence in numerous countries, and which aims to revive the Islamic Caliphate. Though Hizbut Tahrir traditionally eschews the use of violence, it has remained a bane of security analysts, perhaps especially those working on Central Asia, where the organisation has a considerable profile (e.g. Cohen 2003). Some readers familiar with Indonesian Islamic debates, furthermore, may notice the omission of the tendency known as ‘Islamic liberalism’ – invariably favoured by the proponents in the West of Islamic ‘moderation’ and ‘enlightenment’. Made up of younger intellectuals mostly based in Jakarta who pronounce Islam’s inherent compatibility with democracy and free markets, their public profile has been high because of good access to the Indonesian and foreign media.
The first book, by Rahmat, presents the dilemmas of the pursuit of the electoral route to power. The PKS – especially in its original incarnation, the Justice Party (PK) – once heavily promoted the cause of establishing a state based on Islamic law. It has a particularly fervent following among religiously-inclined sections of the Indonesian urban middle class. However, poor results in the 1999 elections – undertaken just a year after the resignation of the dictator, Soeharto –appeared to have stimulated some important repositioning. Influenced by the experience of the AKP, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party, which took power in that country in 2002, the leaders of the PKS came to substitute issues like good governance, integrity, and anti-corruption for overt Syariah promotion. The party probably reasoned that religious overzealousness had alienated large sections of the electorate to which it might otherwise appeal, notwithstanding the widely held view that Indonesian Muslims have become more pious in recent decades.
The book gives a detailed account of the ideological and political impulses that were instrumental in the establishment of the PKS, as well as shifts and changes within the party from its inception. The author shows the influence of the thought of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on the activists that would lead the PKS, as well as that of networks linked to the defunct Masyumi Party in Indonesia – banned in 1960 for alleged complicity in regional rebellions. He also shows the role of those associated with the conservative Dewan Dakwah Indonesia, established by former Masyumi leader and Soeharto foe, the revered Mohammad Natsir.
The most interesting parts of the book deal with the period from the 1970s, when small groups of students began to organise themselves in the nation’s institutions of higher learning in the form of groupings known as usroh – a term denoting family units. It should be noted that this took place during a period of intense state control over campus organisation life, and therefore, such groups effectively became a substitute for more traditional forms of student activity. The semi-secretive cell-like entities, which recruited cadres through prayer meetings and religious discussions, proliferated greatly by the 1990s and soon constituted what became known as the Tarbiyah (educational) movement. The latter was the immediate precursor to the establishment of the PK and the PKS. The movement’s strong base in university campuses was demonstrated through the mobilisation in the late 1990s of KAMMI (Indonesian Muslim Student Action Union), the Islamic-oriented cross-campus student organisation that was part of the wider student protest that helped topple Soeharto in 1998. It is notable that KAMMI all but broke off relations with many of its counterparts in the student movement, however, over support for Soeharto’s immediate successor, the engineer-technocrat, B.J. Habibie, who had recently fashioned an image for himself as a protector of Islamic interests.
While Rahmat’s book is among the most informative of recent work on the PKS, it is also typical in terms of what is usually omitted. Authors like Rahmat, indeed, are inclined to portray the PKS as a party that genuinely developed from an authentic grassroots movement. While the grassroots dimension is undoubtedly important, it remains peculiar, to discount the significance of growing elite links that had been developing in the 1990s between grassroots activists and pockets of upwardly mobile state bureaucrats and engineers from within the growing Muslim new urban middle class that would be cultivated by Habibie. The middle class Muslim was emerging noticeably from Indonesia’s economic growth under the New Order, prompting Soeharto in his later years in office to seek their support, as seen in his patronage of the vehicle, ICMI (the Association of Indonesian Intellectuals) — chaired no less than by Habibie himself.
The book by Rahmat ends before the 2009 elections took place in Indonesia, in which the PKS still did relatively well, but only improved marginally from its previous performance in 2004. The question now is whether the PKS faces an increasingly difficult dilemma. On the face of it, the repositioning after 1999 had been a key to its comparative electoral success, which has brought such concrete things as cabinet seats and important positions in parliament. But could the PKS actually go any further and win power in AKP fashion? Castigated by some for the dilution of its original pro-Syariah orientation, it would not be surprising if there emerges an internal push for the reassertion of a more distinctive Islamic agenda. However, the experience of 1999 might still be sufficiently chastening to prevent this, and we really get too few clues from Rahmat’s book about what the future holds for the PKS’ intricate balancing act and how it might be affected by further shifts in the party’s social base. Moreover, unlike the AKP, it would be hard for the PKS to transform itself into a party of both Islam and sections of the bourgeoisie-proper, which is still mainly ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, a factor that is unexplored by Rahmat’s cultural politics-based analysis.
The second book under discussion here, as mentioned, is on the now disbanded Lasykar Jihad. The author, Noorhaidi Hasan, has provided a genuinely important contribution to the study of radical Islamic politics in Indonesia. It is likely that his book will be considered by many as the seminal work, certainly on Laskyar Jihad, if not on the more general phenomenon of Islamic paramilitaries in post-Soeharto Indonesia. The book, not surprisingly, begins with a discussion of the political environment that gave rise to Lasykar Jihad, but also steps back to trace its origins in Salafi groupings and communities. The book substantively ends with an examination of Lasykar Jihad’s foray into the bloody and protracted communal conflict in Ambon, which could be the part which would interest most readers.
In between, the book addresses the personal history and career of Lasykar Jihad’s erstwhile leader, Ja’far Umar Thalib, from his early life, including some of his formative experiences as an anti-Soviet mujahidin in Afghanistan, and the way in which the Lasykar Jihad grew into an effective vehicle of political mobilisation and action. Hasan also more than just alludes to the existence of links between Lasykar Jihad and the Indonesian security forces – something which is quite well known among observers – but still an irony given the military’s role in suppressing Islamic groups during the period of the Soeharto dictatorship when Islam was considered the greatest potential threat to his rule following the elimination of the communists in the 1960s. The point that could have been made more strongly here is that Indonesian Islamic radicals can easily portray themselves as being simultaneously nationalist (like the military) by adopting rhetoric against Western imperialism (which after all, goes back to the anti-colonial period during which modern Islamic politics first emerged). Although Hasan more than just dabbles in social movement theory in the process– and indeed his intention is to provide a theoretical exposition for the emergence of Lasykar Jihad — it is really the rich empirical detail and nuances of the author’s case study in these sections that immediately catches the eye of the reader.
In this reviewer’s opinion, however, the most thought-provoking parts of the book are contained in the chapter that immediately precedes the story of the Ambon conflict, where Hasan grapples with the question of the social base of the Lasykar Jihad. Hasan finds that while some of the Lasykar Jihad’s members were quite well educated and distinctly urbanised, the majority were individuals who originated from more rural background and from families that have more recently become urbanised. Moreover, if some had family lineages that related to social organisations considered ‘modernist’ as well as ‘puritanical’ (which is possible because modernism in Islam is partially about ridding the religion of mystical folk beliefs), many also came from those that have traditionally been more syncretic, or, following Geertz’ typology, abangan in cultural orientation. Hasan’s data therefore suggests that the Lasykar Jihad’s constituency comprised of an admixture of the urban and newly or partially urbanised, of the middle and lower class, and of those educated through the secular school system as well as through traditional Islamic educational institutions. In some ways this part of Hasan’s book recalls the effort in the work of the late Najih Ayubi (1993), which also offers a sociological exploration of the backgrounds of those drawn into what is commonly considered to be radical Islamic groupings.
It should be remembered that Lasykar Jihad was just one among a motley group of Islamic-oriented paramilitaries that emerged after 1998. One of the most infamous is the FPI – which continues to be active today in conducting raids on ‘dens of vice’ in several cities—and whose genesis can be partly traced to the Pam Swakarsa, a paramilitary set up to protect the New Order from student demonstrators in 1998. Writing on such organisations, long time observer of Indonesian Islam, Van Bruinessen (2002), who was, incidentally, Hasan’s thesis supervisor, suggests that they are largely constituted of urban street toughs rather than by the particularly pious. This assertion brings up the point that mobilisation in the name of Islam has been effective in drawing in a considerable number of individuals from among the masses of young Indonesian urban or newly urbanised males — un- or just barely employed– who live rather dire existences in the rough surroundings of some of Indonesia’s major cities. The absence of competing, viable socialist or social democratic alternative ideologies and mobilisation vehicles, a legacy of the New Order, is likely to be a factor accounting for such effectiveness, whether or not religious inclinations pre-existed in these individuals.
Taken together, the books by Rahmat and Hasan show that different political strategies and organisational vehicles can be assumed by the promoters of the radical Islamic agenda. They offer important glimpses into the sorts of impulses that contribute to their development. However, they remain rather insufficiently historical and sociological. Why did urbanised and semi-urbanised Indonesian students of the 1970s to 1990s become attracted to the activities of religiously-oriented campus-based groups in the first place? Why have sections of the Indonesian urban middle class more broadly, but also its proletariat and lumpenproletariat, found appeal in organisational vehicles based on religious agendas and exhortations? A significant part of the answer could probably be found in the socio-structural transformations and contradictions that have accompanied the development of Indonesian state and society, especially with the rapid advance of capitalism since the advent of Soeharto’s New Order, which coincided with the height of the Cold War. After all, it was such a context that determined what kinds of ideological and cultural resources would be available to those who questioned, dissented against — or for whatever reason felt excluded by — the social order for many decades to come.
The last book, by Eko Prasetyo, is relevant to the present discussion in this respect. As mentioned earlier, this book is different from the other two in that it does not address the development and role of a particular organisational entity, and because it does not deal with groups that are generally considered to be under the rubric of ‘radical Islam’. By contrast, Prasetyo’s book, which is the earliest to be published of the three, takes up the ideological task of demonstrating the compatibility of Islam with anti-capitalist, pro-social justice and egalitarian social movements.
If the author can be regarded in any way as being representative of these small groups of Islamic Leftists, it must be made clear that they remain deep in the political wilderness in Indonesia today. They certainly do not embody an influential political tendency. This is not surprising, given confrontations between Islamic political forces and the state on the one hand, and the forces of communism on the other, which had led ultimately to the cataclysm of the 1960s, and which so profoundly still affects Indonesian political discourse. The Islamic Left, however, does have important historical roots that are rather easy forget in today. It is well known, for example, that the Indonesian Communist Party grew out of the Sarekat Islam, widely regarded as the first mass organisation in the Dutch East Indies, and that for a time, Islam and the Left were more or less united against the exploitative nature of colonial capitalism. Islamic Left tendencies also existed in Arab societies and Iran.
Prasetyo’s book offers a reminder of this legacy. As such, the author starts off with a passionate appeal for the affinity between his interpretations of Islamic doctrine with certain facets of Marxist thinking. This is done via an exegesis of the works of such luminaries of contemporary Islamic thinking as Hassan Hanafi and Ashgar Ali Engineer, but also the Muslim Brotherhood icons, Hassan Banna and Sayid Qutb. In the process, he establishes that Islam is a religion that favours the emancipation of the suffering and the exploited, and that it is, moreover, revolutionary in orientation. For him, Islam is not a religion that favours the corrupt and the rapacious, though the latter often make use of it (for example, to smash the Left). In this connection, the Iranian revolution of 1979 is, interestingly, portrayed not just as an Islamic revolution, but one against tyranny and exploitation, and as such gets certainly too much sympathetic treatment – given the Islamic Republic’s turn against its Leftist allies just a few years later.
Not surprisingly, the book continues with an examination of the inherently exploitative nature of capitalism, generally and in its manifestation as global neoliberalism. The author quickly moves from the thinking of the 1920s Indonesian Communist Party, through Tan Malaka, Sutan Sjahrir and many others, to the thinking of non-Indonesians ranging from Ho Chi Minh to Antonio Gramsci. The mission throughout is of course to show how the ideals that underlie their thinking and analyses are compatible with the tenets and concerns of Islam. The book just about ends with a searching exercise of thinking about ‘how to’ begin a Leftist Islamic revolution, partly through an examination of the role of intellectuals, including intellectuals immersed in the ideals of the Islamic religion, in raising the consciousness of the people against the hegemony of capitalist ideology and power. Here, the ideas of Paolo Freire appear influential in shaping that of the author.
It is not too difficult to envisage that this last book would be fairly open to criticism from Left, Right, and Centre for the rather too convenient summarising, and mixing and matching of the complex ideas of other people that the author is prone to undertake. Still the book is a remarkable and fairly imaginative exercise in placing the concerns of Islamic political thought into broader debates about society and politics that today would not necessarily accommodate Muslim thinkers. This shows that Islamic politics is a product of the modern world, not a 7th century desert society. But for all of its Leftist concerns for the social problems engendered by capitalism, more so than the two previous books discussed, Prasetyo’s is oddly almost completely idealist in nature. It virtually ignores the social-structural contradictions and historical processes that would (or would not) make a Leftist brand of Islam politically viable in Indonesia or elsewhere. What were the social conditions, for example, that made possible the broad alliance led by Khomeini in Iran – encompassing mullahs, bazaaris, sections of the middle class and peasantry, workers and Leftist organisations? It remains rather too unclear as well which groups would constitute the social base of a Leftist Islamic movement and why – beyond references to the vague and generic ‘exploited’ masses? Yet, Prasetyo’s book is creditable for raising the point strongly that Muslim leaders in Indonesia – rather than denying the existence of terrorism, as they are sometimes prone to do – should in fact make an effort to understand the social processes that may produce the Muslim as terrorist .
In summary, we have discussed three books that highlight different facets of Indonesian political Islam, two of which have to do with ‘radical’ tendencies that favour some form of a state based on Islamic law. The strategies chosen by the entities representing these tendencies have been significantly different, however. The third book discusses a wholly different kind of radicalism – an interesting vestige of a previous era – which has yet to experience serious resuscitation. But they also show a few of the limitations of the study of Islamic politics. For example, the books by Rahmat and Hasan do not really conclusively tell us whether democracy will tend to soften radical tendencies in Islamic politics. Democracy made possible the PKS, but it also provided the setting for groups like Lasykar Jihad to thrive, though their genesis is traceable to the Soeharto period. All the books, including the Left-oriented one by Prasetyo, tend to lack the kind of close attention to social-structural transformations and contradictions that have been helpful in advancing the study of Islamic politics elsewhere in the world, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.
Vedi R. Hadiz
National University of Singapore
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Issue 11 (December 2009)
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Deepening and Optimization of Inner Harbour Facilities
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs of India has approved the project ‘Deepening and Optimization of Inner Harbour Facilities including Development of Western Dock on Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode to handle cape size vessels at Paradip Port’.
IFSCA becomes member of IOSCO
The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) has become an Associate Member of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
The IOSCO is the international organization that brings together the world’s securities regulators, covering more than 95% of the world’s securities markets, and is the global standard setter for the securities sector.
Ginger processing plant in Meghalaya
North East’s first-ever specialised “Ginger” Processing Plant at Ri-Bhoui district in Meghalaya has been revived and is likely to become functional this year, 2021.
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Country’s highest Meteorological Centre at Leh
Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurated India’s highest Meteorological Centre in Leh. After Itanagar Centre in Arunachal Pradesh, Leh Met centre at 3500 meters highest from mean sea level is the highest in the Himalayan region.
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Board of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation
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Harsh Vardhan will be representing the South East Area Regional Office(SEARO)/ Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) constituency on the GAVI Board. Harsh Vardhan will be representing India from 1st January 2021 until 31st December 2023.
Genome sequencing of mutant variant of SARS-CoV-2
Government of India took cognizance of the reports of mutant variant of SARS- CoV-2 virus reported from UK and put in place a pro-active and preventive strategy to detect and contain the mutant variant.
The overall aim of the Consortium is to monitor the genomic variations in the SARS-CoV-2 on a regular basis through a multi-laboratory network. This vital research consortium will also assist in developing potential vaccines in the future.
Bureau of Police Research & Development releases Data on Police Organizations
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Action Agenda for an Atma Nirbhar Bharat (AAAN)
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Below are simple step-by-step instructions that explain how to take a hydraulic oil sample:
1. Safety First - Always utilize safety glasses, gloves, and skin protection before taking an oil sample.
2. Connect to Test Point - Attach your pump line to the test point once you've identified the proper test point.
3. Purge the Test Line - Use the pump to ensure that all of the oil from the last oil sample is out of the test line before filling up your sample bottle.
4. Attach the Sample Bottle - With fresh oil flowing, screw the empty sample bottle to the pump so you can start filling it without the mess!
5. Slowly Draw Oil - Make sure to use smooth and steady strokes to fill the bottle with oil.
6. Disconnect Test Point - With the bottle full, you can detach your pump from the test line.
7. Detach Sample Bottle - Then unscrew the sample bottle from the pump.
8. Cap the Sample Bottle - You need the oil to return to the lab!
9. Fill Out the Paperwork - Make sure to give as much detail on these forms as possible so the lab knows what it's dealing with during testing. Things like the valves incorporated and pumps running can make a big difference when analyzing the test findings and troubleshooting any issues.
10. Send It Back - Make sure the sample bottle is secure in the shipping container, use the return label, and send it back to the lab for analysis!
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What Do Standard Kits Test?
Most standard kits test for the following things:
- Spectro Metals by ICP (tests for traces of 24 different substances, like wear, contaminant, multi-source, and additive metals)
- Water percentage by Karl Fischer (crackle) method.
- Total Acid Number (TAN)
- Particle count as per ISO 4406
This will vary by company and test, though, so you'll want to make sure to choose the right one based on your needs.
With this information, trained professionals can break down what's happening within a system and implement the necessary changes, much like a doctor analyzes blood work to diagnose and remedy. It's essential to have oil samples done at regular intervals to chart and track the changes and trends in your system. This will allow you and the lab to see the performance and quality of your system over time, which helps enable proactive and predictive maintenance measures.
What If My Hydraulic Fluid is Contaminated?
If your fluid sample comes back dirty, all is not lost! There are options to recondition and filter the impurities from your oil. Airline offers the standard rental options below, and other options are available too. Contact us and we can help determine the right conditioning solution based on your oil sample results.
|Filters and conditions hydraulic mineral oils, lubrication oils, cleaning fluids, and coolants||Filters and conditions Phosphate Ester (HFDR type) hydraulic fluid|
Taking routine oil samples is critical for a proper machine maintenance program. The oil sampling method discussed above is as simple as receiving the kit, filling the sample bottle with oil from your system (preferably with in-stream oil), and sending it back to the lab for analysis. With all the information about the oil and your system, experts can diagnose things like what parts of your system are wearing, what contaminants are in your oil, and the particle count. All these things combined will enable preventive and predictive maintenance measures, saving you from costly downtime.
Look out for Part 2, where we'll break down an oil sample analysis!
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If you want assistance in taking or analyzing oil samples for your hydraulic systems, we have industry experts that would be happy to help and answer your questions!
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Adding nutritional supplements, and protein in particular, to the diet of patients on hemodialysis didn't seem to bolster their mortality rates, a pragmatic trial found.
In a cluster-randomized clinical trial of over 10,000 patients on hemodialysis, patients on an intensive oral nutritional supplement protocol had similar mortality rates compared with those on standard care (hazard ratio 1.02, 95% CI 0.92-1.14), according to Daniel Weiner, MD, of Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
During the median follow-up of nearly 2 years, 35.8% of patients in the intensive nutrition group died versus 36.5% of patients in the standard nutrition group.
"There's no difference in mortality outcomes between an intensive and standard oral nutritional supplement protocol," Weiner stated during a presentation at the American Society of Nephrology virtual Kidney Week.
Overall, protein bars made up half of the nutritional supplements used in the study, followed by LiquaCel, Nepro, Gelatein, Pro-Stat, Body Quest, and Proteinex. Weiner explained that his group aimed for any easily available nutritional supplements with 15 to 20 grams of protein, really emphasizing protein as the overall source of nutrition.
"I think it's really, really important to say that this doesn't tell us anything about giving protein supplements to people with low serum albumin," he pointed out, adding that there's "reasonable observational data" suggesting that's still a good practice.
"So this doesn't speak to people with low serum albumin, it only speaks to people with more normal serum albumin levels," he said.
Weiner and colleagues conducted the study across 105 Dialysis Clinic facilities. The open-label Health Effects of oral Protein Supplements in HD trial (HELPS-HD) randomized 10,043 hemodialysis patients. Nearly half of the total cohort's primary cause of kidney failure was diabetes. More than half of the nationally representative cohort were men with a median age of 63, while about 36% were Black.
Those who received the intensive oral nutritional supplement protocol consumed supplements at every dialysis session regardless of serum albumin levels. They were then compared with usual care protocol, which involved patients only receiving oral nutritional supplements during the first 120 days of dialysis and continuing only if albumin was 3.5 g/dL or less, and discontinued oral nutrition if albumin was 4.0 g/dL or higher for 3 months consecutively.
Adherence to oral nutrition was high, as supplement use was two-fold higher among patients at clinics with intensive nutritional protocol.
"We used standard oral nutritional supplements -- things that you can buy at any supermarket or store in the United States," Weiner pointed out, adding that his group tried to keep the trial as pragmatic and "real world" as possible in order to be scalable if the findings were positive. "The most common things that were used were simple protein bars. Things that taste good that people would be happy to eat."
A study limitation was a lack of data on patient-reported outcomes, such as quality of life.
Weiner said he and his colleagues currently have ongoing analyses in these two groups to further evaluate albumin change, and assess changes within subgroups, such as separating out prevalent versus incident patients.
The study was funded by Dialysis Clinic.
Weiner disclosed relevant relationships with Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization, Janssen Biopharmaceuticals, Akebia Cara Therapeutics, Tricida, Dialysis Clinic, Inc., Ardelyx, Cara Therapeutics, AstraZeneca, National Kidney Foundation, and Elsevier. Co-authors disclosed multiple relevant relationships with industry.
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Health tourism has been a surging trend in recent years in both the world and Turkey and is an important alternative tourism branch.
It is described as traveling to another country for any treatment to recover health. Even if it is done for treatment, it is called “health tourism”. It should not be considered as a travel to be spent just in the hospitals.
Tourism proposing healthy activities can be thought as health tourism. However, it is considered as under 3 main titles:
1. Medical tourism (treatment, surgery etc. in the hospital)
2. Thermal tourism (rehabilitation and rest in thermal centers)
3. Geriatric and disabled tourism (treatment centers, long-term accommodation and social activities in tablelands)
Why do people need health tourism?
1. Because their access to high technology health services and professionals is limited or none in their country,
2. Because the health services are expensive in their country,
3. They want to make use of the better health services,
4. They do not want their treatment to be heard in their country (as in aesthetic surgery, infertility treatment etc.)
5. Especially chronic patients, old and disabled peoples do want to be in a different atmosphere and have their treatment there,
6. People with substance abuse want to change their atmosphere,
7. People’s will to hold on to life.
8. They would have opportunity to have a holiday as well,
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